The Archive · 1938

Batting Leaders Unchanged

Averill, Foxx At Head of Major League Averages At Latest Count

New. York, July 3.

There were no changes of ieadership in any of the individual batting feats and Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians and Jimmy Foxx of the boston Red Sox remained the pace setters among the major league baseball players through last Friday, it as officially announced today.

Although Averill failed to improve his average, maintaining.384, Omi Lombardi, star catcher of the Cincinnati Reds, dropped to 362, Foxx, champion first baseman of the Deantowners, topped the home run parade with 23 four-ply hits, and was well ahead in runs batted in, having Pictures From the First Test Match at Nottingham during the first Test match between England and Aus-making the hit by which he scored his century in the first Verity is seen clean bowled by Fleetwood-Smith.

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