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Show Wit. ; SWATTING RACE I ! Sislsr Tops Americans; Griffith of Brooklyn Lead Nationals CHICAGO. May 20 Tv Cobb one of the greatest swatters t, the American Amer-ican league, is knocking at tho door for the batting honors of the junior league circuit, according to averages announced today, lnclu ling games up to Wednesday The TUjer was hitting hit-ting .3-17 a week ago and boosted his average to .413. and finds himself safely repovlnp In second place, I George Siier, the St. Louis star, who was hitting .402 a week ago. stepped to tho top of the batting with a mark of .442. He also Is showing himself to be the best run getter in the league. LautOXl Witt, the Yankee outfield - ' er who was topping the list of lead' ing batters a week aco, lost three points and has dropped to third place With an average of .4 07. Other Hading batters- Ed Miller, Philadelphia, .898; O'Neill. Cleveland, 1.394, Clark. Detroit," .391; Speaker, Cleveland. .37; . Jaraleson, Cleeiand. 3S3; William", St. Louis. 33D; Pratt, Boston, .330. IN NATIONAL LEAGUE. Griffith of Brooklyn and Hank Gowdy of Boston are topping Topor-cer. Topor-cer. of St. louis, for batting honors of the National league, with marks of .417 and .400. Toporcer is hitting .398 However. Griffith and Gowdy played In only 16 games, while Toporcer Top-orcer participated In 22. Claude Rohwer of Pittsburg, with an average of .303 Is pressing Toporcer, Topor-cer, whlye Roger Hornsby, Cardinal star, has been having a tough timw getting his batting eye sharpened. Hornsby, however, Is leading in total bases with 67, which Include seven home runs, one triple and half a dozen doz-en two-baae hits. His batting average is .3S. OTHER LEADERS. Other leading batters: T. Griffith. Brooklyn, .377; Blgbee. Pittsburg. .369, J Smith, St Louis, .360; Kelloy, New York, ,358; Grimes, Chicago. 1.357; Maranvillo, Plttf-burnr. 3T.4; Hnr-I Hnr-I por, Cincinnati, .352; O'Farrell. Chl-I Chl-I cago, .343; Hargravo, Clncinnatll, .340. M I 3UOAN ASSOCI ATION W. U Pet. Minneapolis 20 9 .690 Indianapolis 16 11 .592 St. Paul 15 13 .530 Kansas City 15 17 .531 Milwaukee 15 14 517 Columbus 14 11 .500 Louisville 13 LB 4(1 Toledo 4 22 .154 Yesterday's Results At St. Paul: R. H. E. Minneapolis 10 16 0 St Paul 2 6 3 Batteries Smallwood and Maver; Martin Hall and Allen. All other games postponed, rain COLI.KGF RASFB ALL DENVER. Colo. University of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, 3; Denver university. 8. NORTHFIELD. Minn Cornell. Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 0. Carleton 3. I'RRANA. Ill The University of Illinois Illi-nois defeated Notre Dame, 11 to 3. MOSCOW, Idaho. May 20 Behind tho perfect pitching of Bung Snow, the Vandals played straight to a 3-to-2 victory over tho University of Washington Wash-ington hero yesterday. With bettor mipport. Snow would have pitched a shut-out gamo, allowing but 2 hits both of which were singles. Five Idaho errors were responsible for the Washington runs. Idaho scored in the second, fifth and eighth. A Washington rally In the ninth threatened threat-ened to upset the Vandal lead, and Snow walked one man and hit another, but tightened and sent back three Pinch hitters thrown in as a last resort re-sort Tho score. R. H. E. Tdaho . 3 4 5 Washington 2 2 2 Batteries Snow and Fox; Setzler and Maloney. i |