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Show 'ALEXANDER WINS EIGHTH STRAIGHT GAME1 INDIANS RALLY IN NINTH. WINNING 10 TO 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE f Club. w. L- Pet. I Cincinnati 17 11 .625 Pittsburg I 15 10 ,600 Philadelphia 13 12 .515 Chicago 15 11 .515 Brooklyn n n ,500 Boston 11 11 .500 New York 10 13 .465 SL Louis 11 15 .445 1 Yesterday's Rc3Ultc. Cincinnati 7, Brooklyn 0. St Louis C, Philadelphia 4. Boston 1, Pittsburg 5. New York 2, Chicago 4. CHICAGO, May 20. Alexander won his eighth consecutive game today when Chicago defeated New York, 4 to 2. The visitors outhit tho localB, but Chicago's hits were more timely. Fletcher, Flet-cher, Giants shortstop, was ordered from the game by Umpire Rigler for discoloring tho ball, after ho had argued ar-gued with the umpire when called out on Btrlkcs. Score: R. H. E. New York . ... 1 2 10 1 Chicago ..4 6 0 Batteries: Nehf and Smith; Alexander Alex-ander and Killifer. TWO STRAIGHT. ST. LOUIS, Mo May 20. St Louis made It two straight by defeating Philadelphia Phil-adelphia today, C to 4. Gallia made his first appearance in the National league and "was removed, after thd fourth because be-cause of wildness. Sherdel, who relieved re-lieved Jacobs and Betts, who displaced Gallia, did not allow a runner to reach first base. Score: R, H. E. Philadelphia 4 7 1 St. Louis 6 6 1 Batteries: Gallia, Bolts and Tra-gesser;' Tra-gesser;' Jacobs, Sherdel and Dllhoefer. RUETHER BtANKS DODGERS. CINCINNATI, May 20 Ruether held the Brooklyn batters safe and with perfect per-fect support shut out Brooklyn, 7 to 0. Smith was hit freely In the first six Innings and In tho seventh gave way to Marquard, who was wild and Ineffective. Inef-fective. The Reds hit safely In every Inning and every man on the team got at least one hit. Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 0 '6 5 Cincinnati 7 15 0 Batteries: Smith, Marquard and Kruegor; Ruether and Rarlden. PIRATES WINNERS. PITTSBURG, May 20. Pittsburg defeated de-feated BoHton today, 5 to 1. The visitors' vis-itors' run was tho result of an error by Caton, followed by Maranvlllo's three-bagger. Tho locals bunched their hits with Boston's mlsplay3 in tho first, second and fourth innings, Big-bee's Big-bee's home run in the second scored three runs. Score: R. H. E. Boston 1 5 3 Pittsburg 5 9 1 Batteries: Fillingim and O'Neill; Adams and Schmidt 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Club. W. L. Pet. Cleveland 19 S .765 Boston 17 'J .675 Chicago 14 10 .595 New York 14 13 .510 Washington 13 14 .475 St Louis 12 14 .460 Philadelphia 9 16 .350 Detroit 7 20 .240 Yesterday's Results. St Louis 3, New York 8. Cleveland 10, Philadelphia 4. Boston 6, Detroit 0. PHILADELPHIA, May 20. Cleveland Cleve-land turned what had been a close battle bat-tle into a walk-over by scoring five runB In tho ninth today, making tho final score 10 to 4. Griffin's fielding featured. Score: R. H. E. Cleveland 10 14 1 Philadelphia 4 10 2 Batteries: Bagby and O'Neill; Kinney Kin-ney and Perkins. ERRORS CAUSE DEFEAT., NEW YORK, Mjiy 20. New York defeated de-feated St Louis, 8 to 3. hero today in the first game of tho series. Five New Yrk run6 were directly trace able to St Loula errors. Quinn pitched pitch-ed a strong game for the Yankees, with the exception of tho fourth inning when St. Louis bunched threo hits for two earned runB. Score: R. H. E. St Louis 3 9 5 New York 8 11 1 1 Batteries: Sothorn and Billings; Qulnn and Hannah. DETROIT BtANKED. BOSTON, May 20. Boston hit Leonard Leon-ard often und hard today, winning from Detroit, 6 to 0. Pennock held Detroit to six hits, two In the first inning being be-ing discounted by a fast double play on Veachos' grounder, McNally to Scott to Mclnnis, which retired the side. Score: R. H. E. Detroit 0 0 1 Boston 6 11 0 Batteries: Leonard, Glasler and Woodall; Pennock and Walters. HOSE STAGE MARATHON. WASHINGTON, May 20. Chicago defeated Washington, 13 to 5, in a 16-innlng 16-innlng game today. Both teams scored twice in the fifteenth. Tho visitors registered eight runs In tho final inning in-ning on two triples, a double, two singles sin-gles and four errors. Score: R. H. E. Chicago 13 17 1 Washington , . . . 5 18 9 Batteries: Faber and Schalk; P'ort-ney, P'ort-ney, Erlckson, Johnson and Gharrlty. 00 |