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As the season swings into the home stretch, the National League appears to be all but sewn up. The New York Giants are 84-31 and well on their way to an early pennant celebration with a commanding 22.5 game lead over the second-place Brooklyn Superbas. The Giants have the National's top winning pitcher and the league's stingiest as well - and they're not the same pitcher. Aidan O'Day has 23 victories while team mate Bernard Berry has a 1.82 earned run mark (with a "mere" 19 wins). Lest you think New York is all pitching and no hitting, the club also sports a .282 collective average, tops in the National League.

Over in the so-called "Junior Circuit" the Cleveland Blues continues to set the pace, holding the St. Louis Browns at arm's length with a four-game lead. Cleveland's ageless wonder, playing-manager Tom Ewart, leads all of baseball in circuit clouts with 11 and also has 79 runs batted in to lead his club. His .330 average shows that even at age 40, the Hit King is still defending his kingdom.

Washington's Harvey Cart, flirting with a .400 average (he's at .393) is also trying to fend off Detroit's Jack "Sweets" Honeywell, who hit .444 in July and has raised his average to .388 for the year. Milt Cumberledge of the St. Louis Cardinals continues to lead the National League with a .374 average.