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inelude Wednesday’s games. Williams 1s tied with Tris Speaker, HOME RUN SLUGGER OF BROWNS TIES SPEAKER IN PERCENTAGE Six Circuit Clouts Give Williams Advantage in parison; Kelly, Meusel and Cy Williams Have Three Homers Each in National CHICAGO, April 29,—Kenneth Williams, the hard-hit- ting outfielder with the St. Louis Browns who startled the baseball world by cracking Babe for the first two weeks of the season when he smashed out| Philadelphia his sixth circuit drive, is at the top of the batters in the Ameri-| Boston can league, according to averages released today and which the veteran leader of the Cleveland In- dians. Each has an average of .449. ‘Willtanis is not only topping the hit- ters, but is showing the way to the dase stealers with eight thefts. His six home runs is a dig advantage over his rivals, and if he maintaina his presert stride, Ruth will have a big| ated handicap to overcome when he returns to the game on May 20. The St. Louis slugger also is out in front in total bases with a total of 42. Getrge Sisler, another star of the Browns, has been wielding the willow cago, .380; Scott, New York .378; with telling effect since the curtain rose, and is trailing the leaders with B. Smith, Boston, 429; KE. Collins, Chi- ‘Wood, Cleveland .375; Jamieson, Cleve Jand 370; Blue, Detroit 364; rete 34 man, who last season led the National iéague home run hitters, is out to repeat this season, but appears te have #orme keen competition in his tear- mate, Meuscl, ancl Cy Wiliams, the Philadelphia outfielter. This trio has clouted out three homers apiece. Kelly, is topping the batters with an average of .445, while Tierney, the Pittsburgh second . sacker, is three fbehind with a mark of .452., Ys batting honors last sea- son, 1s down in the lst with a mark f 368. Rabbit ManrnvMe of ths Pirates and nip an¢ tuck race for the honors timong. the bese stealers. Hach has pilfered four. Other Iea/ling batters for five . or more games ate: Tierney, Pittsburgh (429; Harper, Cincinnati .421; Holloch- er, Chicago "388; Wiliams, Philadel- aes asad apie. Sr earns » Phil 5 by, St. Louis .368; Bigbee, Pittsburgh 362; Heptine, Philadelphia 362. A ON. ASSOCIATION. tial ayerages of the American as- jpelntion show Gossett, the Milwaukee catcher, basking *~ ci, ‘~dership with an average of .419. Mayer, a catcher with Minneapolis, is runner-up with 405, Seven play2rs are fm the scramble for home run honors, each having col- lected two. ’They are: Gossett, Mil- waukee; Mayer, Minneapcelis; Lamar, , Minneapolis; Todt, ‘Yoledo; Burrus, Columbus, and Brief, ‘Kansas City. Catchers bar» been on the alert for thefts as the leading base stealers have been hell down to three apiece. They are. Mathews, Milweu- kee; Rech, Indianapolis; Christensen, ‘St. Paul. Other leading batters for ten or more games: Kirke, Louisville .400; Krueger, Indianapolis, .400; Lamar, ‘Toledo 2: Russell, Minneapolis Murphy, Columbus .392; Hartley, Col- umbus .390; Sicking, Indianapolis .390; Lear, Milwaukeo « ———— FRISCO INFIELDER 1s WEW COAST SENSATION SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.—Gene ‘Valla, a quiet, smiling 19-year-old San Francisco boy, slipped into the lineup of the Pacific coast league baseball team here a month ago without much noise but today he {s being talked * about by all the fuus and is described by some as the greatest prospect in the Coast league in years. And gener ally San Francisco fans need to be shown before they praise a recruit. In the opening game against Seattle ‘Valla fanned three times, Not dis- couraged he was given another chance and by the first part of this week his hitting ability and his marvelous speéd have given him a batting percentage of .396: Jack Miller, manageer of the Seals says Valla is one of the smartest boys 4m baseball and Jack McCarthy, for- mer American league umpire, thinks ‘Yala looks better than Ty Cobb did when he broke into the American league in 1905, Arnold Statz, the fast Tos Angeles player. was the league sensation last year, but this year lo- * ‘Cal people think Valla will prove the sensation. “ Recess Taken In Trial of Burch LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 29.—No session of the trial of Arthur c Sar for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy was held today, ‘adjournment until Monday having been taken yesterday. 2h EE From tho Senators’ wobbly showing in the opening games it looks as if Nick Altrock was slowing up. e » Rawlings «f the Giants are having. a i Cub. New York ..,......... li St. Louis Cleveland ....._____ . Chicago * +... Ruth’s home run record | Washington Detroit Indiana Loses To Japs Again TOKIO, April Last Scores FINALS. League. New York 10, Boston 5. Philadelphia 10, Brooklyn 7. St. Louis 11, Chicago 3. Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 3. FRIDAY National —(By the Associ Press).—Kelo university again defeated the University of Indiana baseball team hore today 3 to 1. The Boston 3, New York 10. Cleveland 2, St. Louis 3. ee Close of spring meeting at Havre de Grace, Md. Bowling. a Annua] tournament of Pacific coast bowling congress opens at Los An- geles. Spring meeting of Kentucky Racing opens at Lexington. Bowlin; 3 First annual tournament of Amert- cam Railway Bowling association op- ens at Chicago. Bench: Show, } Show of Bulldog club of Canada, at| Montreai. Sport Notes Joe Wood's hitting for the Indians make it appear that Joo still retains consklerable “smoke.” Track. Annual relay carnival at University of Pennsylvania. Annual relay carnival at Drake unt- versity. Annual relay carnival at University of Washington. Pacific A. A. U. track and field championships, at Berkeley. Georgia state intercollegiate cham- Pionships, at Atlanta. Mississippi state high school cham- Pionships, at University, Miss. Rowing. Pennsylvania ys. Harvard, at Bos ton. Columbia vs. Yale, at New York. usetts Tech vs. Navy, Annapolis. The Pirates’ pastimtng of Irate has Proved a keen disappointment—to the Cubs, Cards and Reds. After the first series in Detroit you can’t make the Indians believe the Tigers are a lovely set-up this season. Fifty home runs hit by big leaguers so far this season, and Babe Ruth has at Bil eg Maybe daylight saviny has confused | of Boston fans looks right this season, the Cincinnati Reds as to the correctieven if Bill has been time of opening the season. several years. YOMIN -THEATER-- Continuous 1 to 11 P. M. LAST TIMES TODAY . THE LID IS OFF! 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The triple killing by the Red Sox came in the second in- ae ae eee eed ning with Yankees on first and third An infield drive was relayed to second and first for a double Play and Chick Fewster was nipped at the plate after @ delayed start from third. St. Louis nos t Cleveland, 3 to 2 Shocker and ams won the me with his seventh homer in six days, giving him a margin of two ove: Babe Ruth's mark at this time a year aga Outhit 15 to 10 by the Boston Braves but making their bingles count for as many runs, the Glants jumped ahead of the Chicago Cubs, who were put to rout by the slugging St. Louis Car. dinals, 11 to 3. Rogers Hornsby con- nected for two of the Cards’ four home run drives. In another free for all swatfest, the Phillies emerged victor 10 to 7, over Brooklyn. Cincinnati bunched its clouts and administered a setback to the Pirates, 5 to 3, with Couch, a re- cruit, turning in the victory. Washington pummelied the Ath letics behind Mogridge’s steady twirl. ing while the White Sox downed De troit 9 to 6, New batting leaders took their place today at the top, George Kelly of ‘the Giants leading the Nationals while Stephenson of the Cleveland Indians AT 462 CLIP Last Year’s Midwest League Star Near Top of List in Western. The class of timber which made up the Midwest league last season is re- flected in the performance of ex-Mid- sest players now in organized ball. Roy Elsh, one of Denver's mainstays last season and now a member of the Sioux City club, is rated second in the list of batters in the Western league with a score™of .462, according to averages announced today from Chicago. Only a few of the Midwest leaguers are with the Western. Carl East, Wichita outfielder, is leading Western league batters with an average of 512. In his first 12 games, East collected 22 hits, three of them being homers and four going for doubles: First in News QUAL MEETTO ~-BE REPEATED Stanford and University of California Will Attempt to Settle Tie. SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.—On the Harvard stadfum oval, two Cali : fornia track teams, one representing | immatl, won a techni: Sy Ray Conley, San Francisco, in their|rofind draw here last night with Johu Stanford university and the other the tant 10 round bout when the latter's sec-|ny Trambilas, of Portland, University of California, next month ; will settle thelr Tent for coer eeenth | onds turew = sponge into the ring in i their dual meet at Berkeley last Sat. %¢ clghth round. They are middie-| | DANNY FRUSH MATCHED. arday Daving coecttes ey ast Sati weights. Church Lambert, &. Paak| AT’ CLEV ELAND, Ohio—Danny beatae . cutpointed Homer Sheridan, Sioux | Frush, Cleveland, has been matched to The Harvard meet, which both wit! . , - City, welterweizht, in eight rounds. -|bog Johnny Reisler, of New York, 2 enter, will be the national champion vp tee teal : ship affair of the Intercollegiate Agso-| See pe eecaien heut at Detroit, class, having lost the title to Eklund less than a month ago. BELGIAN CHAMP WINS. NEW YORK—Edouard Horemans i- defeated Edgar T. Appleby, national 1 amateur billiard title-hoider in a 18.2 balkline match. |ly outpo waukee in 1 RYAN STOPS CONLEY. ly Ryan, Cin. I knockout over co, BACCO GIVEN DRAW. AT PORTLAND, Ore.—Jimmy Sac- Boston lightweight, boxed a ten MINNEAPOLIS—E elation of Amateur Athictes of Amer- GIBBONS OUTPOINTS FITZ. May 12, it was armounced here today Last year California won thi OKLAHOMA CITY—™M Gibbons, They are to weigh 128 pounds, __ __ t and brought the nattonal title St , Dn << ER over city West. This year it is expected to re- main in the west. “I expect Stanford to win the I. C. A. A. A. meet,” “Dink” Templeton, Cardinal coach, said recently. Tem Pleton believes that the Stanford stars. who took ten first places in the Cali fornia meet, will repeat at the eastern affair. The absence of second and tnird place men prevented Stanford| from winning from Callfornia. | —— Likely as not Brooklyn would whale the Giants if McGraw’s team was dec- ted with “New York” instead of DERN PINS KETONEN. ants” on their shirts. Look what NSALT LAKE ra Dorn, Salt the Superbas do to the Yankees. mwah aa OS SATB Ay NIGHT middleweight championship of the Tues., Wed. and Thurs. In world. MYRE ALBERT LEA—t! The Cartinals are making a fight|bert Lea, leht heay for the pennant. Three of them were/defeated Cla fined and set Sown for a row in Pitts-| Wyoming. F burgh. ‘the champion: stepped ahead of Sisler and Williams in the Ameri ——__—_ Davis of Tulsa ts carving a name for himself in the home run hall of fame. In thirteen games, he poled six circuit drives, Bennett and Thomp- son of Tulsa are following him with four homers apiece. Conlon of Wich- ita is leading the league in base steal- ing with five. Other leading batters for ten or Manager Jack Mack says that since Worcester doesn’t like his ball team he will move the outfit elsewhere. If this rule was followed in some of the bix league towns, not mentioning any yames, many fans would again become regular sane folks. SATURDAY NIGHT Tues., Wed. and Thurs. Omaha City 404. eee Pitcher Dave Danforth is watched closely when he works for the Browns. Dave seems to have had wished on hin a reputation of being a tricky critter in the box. 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