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Show TV COBB TWELVE POINTS IN LEAD Enters Home Stretch For Batting Bat-ting Championship of American League. JOE JACKSON RIVAL Tris Speaker Falls Behind After Af-ter Rally That Threatened the Top. Chicago. Sept. 27. Twelve points 10 the good. Ty Cobb has entereG the home stretch In the race for the baiting championship of the American Amer-ican league. His chief rival, Joe Jackson, is hitting at the rate of 373 to Cobb's .385. Tris Speaker apparently appar-ently is out of it alter a rally that threatened at oue time to put him on top. He has fallen behind Hen-riksen Hen-riksen of Boston batting .364 to the latter's average of .368 and established establish-ed In 26 games. Other American leaguers batting .300 or better are: Collins. Philadelphia. 342; Baker, Philadelphia, .357; Gllhooley. New York. .337; Lajoe. Cleveland. .326; MclnniS, Philadelphia, ..2G Gandil. Washington,, .322; D. Murphy. Philadelphia. Phil-adelphia. .315; Lellvletj tie eland. 314, Bautnan, Detroit. J13; Craw-iord, Craw-iord, Detroit. .312; Stovall. St. Louis, 303; Williams, Washington, -300. Topped only by Karl Yingling, the Brooklyn pitcher and prnch hitter. Jake Daubert of the same club is l ractlcaliy leader In the National league with an average of .359, five points behind the mark se: by Yingling Yingl-ing in 38 games. Ham Hyatt, 1'itts-hurg 1'itts-hurg pinch hitter, is next with 357 and Cravath, the Philadelphia &iug-ger, &iug-ger, fourth with .881; The .300 class in he National league includes In rddilion : K. Miller. Philadelphia. .329, Becker. Beck-er. Philadelphia. .325; Hess. Boston, 38S; Walsh; Philadelphia. 320. Yio.x Pittsburg, .309; Myers New York, 808; Titus. Boston. .306; Zimmerman, Zimmer-man, Chicago, 804; Hauser. St. Louis. .304; Tinker. Cincinnati, 3o4; Wagner, Pittsburg. .303; Magee. Philadelphia, .301; Wheat, Brooklyn, .300. . ' Cravath is still leading home run hitlera with 18 Luderus of Phlladel ! phia being next with 17 and Saler ot Chicago, third with H. Baker Is I ahead In the American with 12 and 1 Veach, of Detroit next with nine. Bodle. Chicago, and Crawford are tied lor third with eight each. Milan, Washington, is ahead among the American league base stealers with 66. and Moellcr. Washington, next with ."S. Carrey. Pittsburg, is best In the National league with 04. and Myers. Boston, next with 49. New York Lead In the Flag Chase. While Philadelphia leads in batting and fielding as well as in the rac4 for the pennant in the American league, New York leads in the Na- lonal only in the chase for the flaK. , St Louis being on top In fielding and Brooklyn in batting. The late rally of the Chicago Nationals Na-tionals placed three of their pitchers among the first five slab men in the National, who are: Demaree, Now York. ..15 3 .833 ' Vaughn, Chicago 4 1 .8u0 I Humphries, Chicago ..14 4 .778 Alexander, Phil .21 7 .750 Pierce, Chicago 12 4 .750 Johnson Is leading in the American. Ameri-can. The first five are: Johnson. Washington .34 7 .820 ; Houck, Philadelphia ..13 4 .765 Walsh. Chicago ... 8 3 .727 KaJkenberg, Clave. 1? 5 .716 Wood, Boston II 6 ,716 |