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Show St. Louis First Baseman ! Startles Fandom With . ' Stick Work 1 CHICAGO. May 23. Jack Fournier; the former American leaguer now 1 playing first base with the St. Louis t Nationals, is on a batting rampage . which promises to rush him to the , front In tho National league race. The f big first baseman boosted his batting ; mark from .293 last week to .336 this T week, according to averages released ' today and which Include games of ' - Wednesdaj'. Fournier participated in 32 games ' and in 119 times at bat hit out fortv 0 '' 1 times for a total of 48 bases. . Cy Williams, the Philadelphia out- ;,v . fielder, also has made a spurt toward "-.-i ' the top. Williams acquired an aver-I aver-I age of .320 as compared with .276 a h week ago. In addition to his batting dash, Williams- baggod his fourth cir- t ' cult drive. His 41 hits include 11 ; ' doubles and threo triples. I Last week's three batting. leaders I switched positions, each suffering a f slump. Hornsby of SL Louis went to the top with 403, Groh of Cincinnati Is runner-up with .398 and Nicholson of Pittsburg, third, Avith .380. Lebour-veau Lebour-veau of Philadelphia, who had been making a spirited showing, dropned r from .361 to .300. ? Mas Carey, the speedy outfielder with Pittsburg, added three more bases to his credit and Is out in front among the base stealers with an even Hi dozen. Other batters: Daubert, Cincinnati, H .339; Fournier, SL Louis, .336; Twom- bly, Chicago, .333; Duncan. Cincln- 1 nati, 323; WilllamB, Philadelphia, .320; E. Smith. New York, 320- H Stock, SL Louis, .319; Young, New H ork, .318; Robertson, 'Chicago, .315- ! Neale, Cincinnati. ,314; Roush, Cin- 1 clnnati, .312; Janvrin. SL Louis 31 |