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Show HORNSBY LOSES ' BATTINGHQNORS Nicholson. Pittsburg Slugger, Tops National Leaguers; i Speaker Leads A. L. I Chicago, Sept. 4. Outfielder I Nicholson, the Pittsburg slugger ha. I taken the lead anions th National i.mcik batters, from Roger Kornsby i of St. Louip NlcholBon experienced a greal period at b'al during the week and is topping the list with an aver-ago aver-ago of ,881, mmiip players who have. rpartlclpated In or more games The I averages released today include game?! ', of last Wednesday. Honnby did not , do so Well With the willow and dropped to .165 However, he is well ahead of i .i.ri . of Boston who is in third piece with .888. Kornsby. however. in- creased his lead in total bases to 2T4 Cy Williams of Philadelphia, seems 'to have struck a hoodoo In 1" as he has not added Id this, number of cir- cult drives In the last two weeks hut still he Is three in front of his leam-tnnte leam-tnnte Meusel, who has cracked out ten hom r Max Pare Pittsburg stole thre' bases In the past week and l; showing show-ing the wa to the base stealers with 48. BurnCfl of NSW York h.?s takn the lead from Bancroft, a tl i minute as the best run getter Ruins registered regis-tered ST times to Bancroft's 81. OTHEH LEADERS Other leading hatters Voung. New York. .330; Roush. Cincinnati 31. 'Stock. St. Louis. .327; J Smith. St. Louis. .124; King. New York. .323. Hollocher, Chicago. .318; Myers, Brooklyn, .316; EConetOhy, Brooklyn. BIS; I'ournler, Bt. Louis, 313 Myeis, Brooklvn .511; Williams. Philadelphia. .311 Ooorgc Busier, ft. Loul8 star who was topping bitters in the American I . igue ran Into a batting slump when the Mound City club Invaded the east on the last Jaunt nnd as a result Trls Speaker, manager of Cleveland, Is heading th procession with an ever-ige ever-ige of .896. Sisler is the runner up. hOWever( only one point behind with .264. Bddle Colllr..-. captain of the- Chicago White Sox. has greatly Improved Im-proved his batting mark and is press-In press-In .laekson. teammate, and Ruth of New York. Jackson is batting .377,; Ruth 374. and Eddie Collins .367. Babe Rutn lias played only one game ninco the last averages were i nipilod nnd in that contest he crackled crack-led out his 41th home run His total I base record was brought up to . 3 1 C I and his scoring record to .134 Ruth l out of the game because of an infection infec-tion on his arm. but is expected to bf back In the lineup next week. Rico of the Washington team was not able to steal any bases during the last week but his 43 thefts give him a big lead over his nearest rival, Sisler, ! who'stole 2. Other loading batters Meusel, New fork, 34S; .Murphy, Chicago, .347. Jaoobson, Bt. Louis. 311 Hendryx, Boston, 341; Rice. Washington, .340: Judge. Washington, .2292 weaver, Chicago, 126; FslSCh, Chicago. 329.' Cobb Detroit. .226. MERR1 RACE Benny Brief of Kansas City and Bubbles Hargrave of St Paul are hav-1 Ing a merry race in the American association. as-sociation. They went Into a tie last week for home run honors and for to-j tal bases and each has been keeping up the pace. They are tied this week) with homers each anil r.irh h:iq a 1 to;. 1 1 base record of .2SU bases Thov J also in- tied in doubles with thirty ijce. . Hargrave leads in triplets with 11 to Brief's 7. hut In total number ; hits Hrirf bas B shade With .154 to his rival's 146. the former bavins played In 129 gimes to the tatter's 126 Hargrave has passed the century mark In runs scored, having registered 101 talll. B. QrovCr Hartley of Columbus with an c tge r 3il la topping batters who pi. '.veil in fifty or more game; While Hargrave Is runner up with .336 ir.d Wlckland of Toledo third with .:;34 Lapp of St. Paul with 41 thefts is showing the Way to the base steal-r steal-r rj Other luadlng Uatters Rondeau, Minneapolis. .33? Tincup; Louisville. ''.29; Good. Kansas City 328, Wade, Minneapolis. 326; Rehg. Indianapolis, .325. Hyatt. Toledo. ':22; James. Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, ,221; Rapp St. Paul, .320; Kirk, Louisville. 317; Brief. Kansas cit. in;. Berg hammer, si Paul, .315 Bogart of Joplln went back to h's( place In runner up to Kast of Wichita for hatting honors in the Western I. ensue and Faryan, home run king Of W ichita dropped back to third place j among players who hav- participated' i" 50 or more games. - , Last is topping the list with an average av-erage of 370 while Bogaffa mark ISI 3 47, and Varyan's 342 Yarvan has! hit out 26 circuit drives and Is far' in front In this department while Lei nf Omaha, is lending Pitt "f Oklahoma Cltj by one theft for stolen bane honors hon-ors Lee stole 32. Yaran in addition to le tdlng in homers is ahead in total bases with -'ST ther leading batters; Sbestak, H , Joseph. ,126; Pitt, Oklahoma Citv :t26 Platte, Omaha, 323, Beck. Wichita. Wich-ita. ,882; Lellvelt maha 322, Tb r-ney r-ney i ilea 121; Lindemore, iklnlio-ma iklnlio-ma City .324. no |