Show TRIS SPEAKER HAS ST STARTED TO CLOUT THE HIE BALL AGAIN FOR 1918 HONORS V Cleveland Star Has Left r Others Behind During We Week k Gandil on List c idio o May 4 Tris Tris Speaker Speak r is over the top with a comfortable lead in 1 thrace the he race for the 1918 batting honors of the American league Averages A. released toV today to- to V day dav show him blazing the trail with a amark amark mark maik of for eleven games Gandil of Chicago o his nearest rival i is 62 points behind him The averages include games I of ot Wednesday In thirty-eight thirty trips to the plate drove out twenty hits five hits five of them I doubles and two triples lIe He also leads I Ithe the base stealers with seven Chapman his teammate and and Gilhooley of New York are tied for honors In runs I cored each having haying registered a dozen Jackson of Chicago Gedeon of ot St St. Louis i iI Burns of Philadelphia 11 1 Baker e of New NewYork fd I Iman York I s Shanks n of Washington and C Chapman Chapman Chap Chap- man Ilave havo a home run mu apiece to their I credit Dave Shean of Boston is leading in sacrifice hitting with sixTy six V V Ty Cobb the 1917 i batting champion does floes not appear in today's averages as V illness Kept him out of the early season V games ames and the Detroit club was idle severa sev- sev V era oral 1 days das due to weather conditions V Cleveland Is leading the club batting i with an average of 01 and fc St Ht t Louis Louisin in team fielding with The Tho ten leading batters Speaker aler Cleveland Gandil Gandi Chicago Jackson Chicago 48 s Cleveland 43 41 Ruth Huth V Boston McMullin Chicago O Neill Cleveland Strunk Boston L Lavan Washington Bal Baker cr V New cw York Tork V V Members of the V championship Ne Nw w V York club are in possession of virtually alt all of the early arb son season honors in the V National league with Lew Low McCarty the ther r V V catcher catch r showing t the Hie wa way av to the batters V V with v an average of itO for eight ht games ames The averages include Th games ames of Wednesday Wednes V 4 r da day Th There re are four New Yorkers among V 0 V the ten leading hitters V George c Burns Bums the Giants Giants' left fielder V ia il Is leading the base stealers with seven V and is Ia tied with Young his teammate scored fifteen V for honors In runs with Kauff of New Kew York and Roush of Cincinnati Cino Cin Cm- o V V each have made five sacrifice hits jilts Fred Tred Luderus of Philadelphia is topping the list of run home-run hitters with two in twelve games gamel New York Is leading in club batting with an average of and St St. Louis In flub dub fielding with no The ten leading batters V McCarty New York Smith Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton toil Doyle New York 40 Paulette Pau- Pau lette St St. Louis George Burns New Nev NewYork V V York Bancroft Philadelphia Mollwitz Pittsburg Kauff New NewYork NewYork V York Carey Pittsburg 67 67 Stock Philadelphia |