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Show I HAL CHASE LEADS I !N BATTING It Jake Daubert Has Dropped to Third Place Tris Speaker I ; Heads in American l . League. I i Chicago, Sept 16. Hal .Chase has lr taken the lead In the race for the II National League hatting champion-II champion-II 1 ship acordlng to figures published It hero today which Include the records l of last "Wednesday's games. Jake It r Daubert, long the leader, has dropped II : to third place, Into a tie with Horns-II Horns-II by, while Wheat went into second II ' place. Carey, Pittsburg, leader In stol-l stol-l ! en bases, now has -fifty; Flack, Chica-II Chica-II go, in sacrifice hits with 35; Willi: Wil-li: : Hams, In home runs with 12; Wheat, II Brooklyn, In total bases with 238; II Burns, New York, in runs scored with It 86, and Brooklyn in team hitting with If Leading batters who have played in II Jialf or more of their club's games: Chase, Cincinnati, .322; Wheat, II Brooklyn, .320; Daubert, Brooklyn, I .317; Hornsby, St. Louis. .317; Wag-II Wag-II ner, Pittsburgh, .312; Hinchman, Pitts-It Pitts-It burgh, .309; Robertson, New York, .305; Stock, Philadelphia, .296; Whit-I Whit-I ted, Philadelphia, .291; Long, St. I Louis, .291. If In the American League Tris Speak- II er ran his margin over Ccbb to thir- II-, ty points, a gain of eight in the week. IT Rumler, the Southern League slugger It; now with the Browns. Is out hitting lr Cobb, with .360, but has taken part HI in only fifteen games, hence, does Hf not appear in the records. Cobb leads K in stolen bases with 55, and In runs H scored with an even 100. Weaver, Chicago, is ahead in sacrifice hits MM with 38; Pipp, New York, in home- If runs with ten; Jackson, ChlcagOj In II total bases with 271. and Detroit in II club batting with .263, Leading bat- II Speakor, Cleveland, .3S9; Cobb, II Detroit, .359: Jackson, Chicago, .348; II Strunk, Philadelphia, .314 ; Gardner. Boston, .SOS; Veach, Detroit. .303; Sis- I lcr, St. Louis, .300; E. Collins, Chica- Igo, .299; Nunamaker, New York, ,292-Felcb, ,292-Felcb, Chicaeo, .292. Butcher, Denver, leads in tho Western West-ern T.pnpno wlfli ico - j t. j .uu.., tiuu is inieaa in total bases with 276 and In runs scored with 104. Shields, Denver, led with stolen bases with 47; Krug, Omaha, in sacrifice hits with 34; Dyer, Denver, in home runs with sixteen and Denver in club batting with .295. Leading batters Including Tuesday's games: Butcher, Denver, 362; Oakes, Denver, Den-ver, .342; Miller, Omaha, .342; Gil-more, Gil-more, Sioux City, .335; Johnson, Lincoln, Lin-coln, .334; Klrkham, St. Joseph, .333; Coy, Wichita, .328; Krueger, Omaha, 324; Shestak, Denver, .320; Gray. Wichita. .318. |