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Show iMROTfl k MEffl! PACE Speaker, Wambsganss and Chapman Leading Tris Ahead With 339. CHICAGO, May 26. Cleveland batters bat-ters are setting a merry pace for .300 hitters in the American league. Unofficial Un-official averages released today show three of the team Speaker, Wambsganss Wambs-ganss and Chapman in that class, Speaker leading tho league with .339. Tho figures include games of last Wednesday. Chapman also is showing the way to base stealers and sacrifice hitters. He has stolen thirteen bases, as against seven for Cobb, and has made nineteen sacrifices. St. Louis leads In club batting with .250. Leading bat-tors bat-tors who nave played in fifteen or more games are: Speaker, Cleveland, .339; Wambsganss, Wambs-ganss, Cleveland, .32S; Hendrix, New York, .327; Miller. St. Louis. .320: Walker, Boston, .318; SIsler, St. Louis, .317; Cobb. Detroit, .315; Chapman. Cleveland, ,314; Mclnnis, Philadelphia, .300. i Leading pitchers who have served in eight or more games, rated according accord-ing to earned runs per game, follow: Player G. W. L. E.R. Ticotto, Chicago 11 7 8 0.90 , Cunningham, Detroit. 10 ' 1 0 1.50 E A.Russel, Chicago. 10 3 2 1,54 Bush, Philadelphia ..9 3 6 1.57 Tanforth, Chicago ..12 1 1 1.58 J Scott, Chicago 10 4 4 1.59 Ruth, Boston, has won eight of the nine games In which he has pitched, but has been found for 2.54 earned runs per game. National League. In the National league Burns of New York, with an average of .381, has displaced Jack Smith, St Louis, as the leading hitter among the regulars regu-lars Wilhoit, Boston, Is a point ahead of Burns, but he has participated in only fiften games, as against twenty-seven twenty-seven for the New Yorker. Burns also leads in runs scored with twenty-one twenty-one and is tied with Balrd, Pittsburg, for stolen baso honors, each having seven. Philadelphia has batted its way to a tie at .273 with New York for team hitting. "Three hundred" batters who have participated in fifteen fif-teen or more games are: Wilhoit, BoBton. .382; Burns, New York, .381; Roush, Cincinnati, .360; Fischer, Pittsburg, 360; Jack Smith, St. Louis, .353,; Reuther, Chicago, .345; Griffith, Cincinnati, .342; Crav-ath, Crav-ath, Philadelphia, .337; Kauff, New York, .333; Killifer. Philadelphia, .326; McCarty, New York, .324; Cruise, St. Louis, .311; Zimmerman, New York, .310; Wheat, Brooklyn, .305; Whitted, Philadelphia. .302; Miller, Brooklyn, .300. T.ftarJInc: nltchers who have aDneared In eight or more games are: Player G. W. L. E.R. Ames, St. Louis 10 4 1 0.68 Anderson, New York. 8 4 2 1.36 Meadows, St. Louis.. 8 3 2 1.64 Prendergast, Chicago 8 1 1 1.69 Cadore, Brooklyn ... 8 3 2 1.80 Carlson, Pittsburg .. S 2 2 2.13 Alexander, Philadelphia, in nine games has given 2.34 earned runs per game; Schupp, Now York, is undefeated unde-feated and has allowed only 1.09 runs per game, but he has appeared in only sbc contests. |