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Show JAKE DAUBERT IS CHAMPION BATSMAN New York, Nov 29. Jake Daubert first baseman for the Brooklyn Super-bas, Super-bas, Is the champion batsman of the National league for the 1914 season. Daubert hit .329 for 12G games, while his next best rial for honors Is Beals Pecker of the Philadelphia team, who played in 138 games and hit for an average of .325. Seven other regulars regu-lars batted above the .300 mark Bos ton, the world's champions, had only one man in the favored class. Fielder Field-er Connolly, who batted .306 in 120 games George Wiltse. pitcher of the Giants is the nominal leading bale man with an average of .667 for 21 games In club batting Brooklyn led with I 2G9. and New York second with 265. ! Philadelphia third with .263 and Boston Bos-ton fourth with .261. Tho Giants I scored the greatest number of runs j against opponents with a total of 672. j while Philadelphia Bcored the greatest great-est number of runs of any team for the season, crossing the plate 687 times Philadelphia had the premier long distance swatters In Mageo and Cra-vath, Cra-vath, the former hitting 15 home runr, and the latter 19 Cravath's average aver-age for the season is .298. The other .300 hitters outside of Daubert and Becker with their aver ages are: Wheat. Brooklyn, 319: Dal-ton, Dal-ton, Brooklyn, .319; Stengel, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, .316; Magee. Philadelphia. 314; Connolly Boston. .306; Burns, New York. .303. Leaders in other departments: Most runs. George Burns, 100; stolon sto-lon bases, Burns, 62; sacrifice hits, Lee Magoe. 35; home runs, Cravath, 39; three-base hits. Carey, 17; two-base two-base hits, Sherwood Magee, 39. |