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Consistent Hitting
Keeps Speaker Up
Remains in Batting Lead of, American League By
Getting a Hit a Day Widens Gap Between
Himself and George Sisler Hornsby Still
Tops National League.
Chicago, July 31 A hit a day is
keeping Tris Speaker on top of the
heap in the race for the American
League batting championship.
According to averages including
Wednesday's games he widened the
gap between himself and George Sis
ler. Speaker is batting .411 while
Sisler, in second place, fell off to .396.
Joe Jackson of Chicago is trailing in
third place with .395, while Babe
Ruth is fourth with .393.
In his last seven games Speaker
crashed out eight hits, while the best
Sisler could do was four in five
games. Speaker excells Sisler in ex
tra base hitfting, having seven homers,
seven triples and 3 0 doubles to his
credit.
In home run hitting Puth continues
to be the sensation Of the league with
a total of 3 6 up to teday. Rice of
Washington continues to show the
way to the base stealers with a total
of 40. Sisler is next in the list with
2 6, while Bobby Roth of Washington
is third with 2L
Other leading bat-
ters are: Rce
Washington, .369; E. i
Collins, Chicago, .351; Meusel, New
York, .347; Jamieson, Cleveland,
.343; Weaver, Chicago, .342; Hendryx,
Boston, .333; Milan, Washington,
.333; Judge, Washington, .331.
