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Show Witt Climbs to Fourth Place in American Battint m OUTFIELDER OF YANKEES CLOSE BDffOLEAOERS Sisler Holds Batting Title and Adds to Other Marks CHICAGO. July 1. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press) Iviwton Witt, the V.in-H V.in-H keo's outfielder, today Is nn the heela nf the batting leaders of the Amei 1' an imgue, with the prospects of becoming becom-ing a dancerous contender for first place honors. In seventh place a week aro, Witt, connected with 10 hlLs In his last six camfs, and batted his way Into fourth H place, with an average of 37 1 com pared with .360 for t lie previous week George Sieiei, the St. Loiris Browns' star, continues to lead the race with an I average of .429, compared with .484 1 last week. Harry Hellman of Detroit) displaced Trls Speakor of Cleveland for tho runnerup honors, with an average av-erage of .381 Speaker Is three points ahead of watt, his average being :t?j These figure include games of Wed-I nesday. bISLER CI. 1MB s mourn Sisler continues to add to his record of runs scored, hits and total bases, .having scored 68 times and made 124 hits for a total of 182 bnos Hla base stealing performance of 2 6 remains un-. un-. be nged Ken Williams, a teammate, who :s leading both leagues for the home run nonors, Bma&hed out another circuit drive, bringing his total for tho season sea-son to 19. Other leading batters for 46 or more O'Neill. Cleveland, .380; Cobb, Detroit, De-troit, .367; Blue, Detroit, .363. Ed. Miller, Mil-ler, Philadelphia, .862; Schang, New York, .360; Baasler. I Dtarolt, 349; Hooper. Chicago. .326, McMnnue. St. J..ouLs, .325. Lawrence ("Hack") Miller, the . . ' O v un' ' ilitif." . ill 1U I1M I 3 and former slugger of the Pacific Coast leairue, has started a climb among the Natlon.il league batters that is attracting considerable attention atten-tion Miller sLammed out 22 hits! in his last 18 games. This boosted bis average from .330 to 358 and land-1 ed him In third place among the players play-ers who havi participated in 4 5 ames or more, according to figures which include games of Wednesday. Rogers Hornsby of St. Louis, continues contin-ues to top the batters with an average of .393 He run his string of homo runs to 16. which is far in front of his rivals Hank Gowdy of Boston Is the runner up with a mark of 383. KKY GROWS FL.EETKR M ix Carey, tho fleet footed outfleld-ot outfleld-ot the Pittsburg Pirates, stole three bases during the past week, s-lvinc- I him a suing of 17 for the season. Hla speed was in a great wav responsible for catching up to J. Johnston of BrookKn for the honors In runs scored. scor-ed. Each has registered G8 times. Other leading batters for 45 games or more; Blgbee, Pittsburg, .366; Daubert ' inclnnatl. .354; Kelley, Kew York SBX', J Smith. St. Louis. .350- Ban-Croft, Ban-Croft, Men York. .343, Grimes. Chicago. Chica-go. .342. Duncan, Cincinnati, 340. |
