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Show j COBB MAINTAINS ! Ty Hitting .385 for 105 Barnes Holds American League Lead. CHICAGO, Aug. 11. Tyrus Cobb has added another point to his batting average .and now is fifteen points from the .400 mark, according to averages published today and which include Wednesday's games. Cobb is hitting! .385 for 105 games. Ho has made 155 ;' hits, including thirty doubles, twenty- one triples and five homo runs. This! slugging has given him the American league lead in total bases, his total being 242. The Georgian also is leading the league in runs scored with eighty and is creeping up on Chapman and Roth of Cleveland for stolen base honors. I Cobb has pilfered thirty-two baser, I while tho Cleveland pair have stolen I thirty-four and thirty-three, respectively. respec-tively. Chapman, with fifty-five, is far in front of other sacrifice hitters. Pipp of New York went into a 110 with Veach of Detroit for home run honors, each having seven. "Happy" i-elsch made the best show ing among tho leading battors. He jumped from .291 last week t6 .301 and is the only hitter on the leading White Sox toam in the select .300 class. Detroit continued to lead in I toam batting with 259. with the last place Phlladelphians pushing in second sec-ond place with .253. Leading batters who have participated partici-pated In half of their club's games are: Cobb, Detroit, .385; Speaker. Cleveland, Cleve-land, .351; SIsler, St. Louis, .342; Veach, Detroit, .311; Mclnnis, Phila delphla, .306; Felsch, Chicago, .304. |