Show Athletics Win Ninth Straight as Indians Drop Ninth Game in Row Eastern Clubs Hold Edge Over Westerners V in iii American Amer ican Loop Even in National B By Dixon Stewart NEW NEV YORK May 18 UP- UP Strength In the National lea league ll app appears appears ap ap- ap- ap p pears ars to 10 be evenly divided dl this season sea sea- son Ion between n cast east and ands s west but At- At t- t lantic coast teems teAms teAms' j hold a a. wide vide margin mar mar- mar 1 O- O gin gln of 01 superiority l over o their western rivals in hl the American Amer- Amer f t Ican lean league V r With four dayS days lor of play remaining JT in the opening in intersectional in J ff j series riesi itY of the year ear eastern eastern- j 1 and western estern n Na Na- r I clubs clubs' r league v arc on an even cn ba- ba ba 1 v i. i p sis with ten vie vIc X r. r tories lories each In the the A American league 1 eMt eastern rn clubs have ha Y c d dwon won 23 games with Gray the western teams winning only eight The world champion Philadelphia Athletics kept their slate clean yesterday by defeating the Cleveland eland Indians 15 to 10 It was the ninth straight victory for Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia and the ninth consecutive defeat for Cleveland Home runs b by Foxx Simmons and Cochrane featured featured featured fea fea- 18 hit attack SHATTER STREAK Washington's six game winning streak was shattered shatter d in hi the first game gamo of a double header with St. St Louis the Browns winning ng 7 to 1 but the Senators came back to take the second game 4 to 2 2 Sam Gray held the Senators to eight scattered hits In Jn the opener and George Blaeholder Blaeholder Blae- Blae holder was in a a. fair way to duplicate the fe feat t In the thc sec second nd game until homers by West Vest and Bluege gave Washington three runs and one vIctOry victory vic vie tory in the ninth Inning The New York Yankees won an 8 S Sto to 5 slugging bee from Detroit to give the east the advantage for the da day with Chicago scoring the west's second second sec see ond end victory defeating Boston 2 to 1 Tommy Thomas allowed Boston on only five lve scattered hits one of them them them-a a ahome home run b by Webbs tying Webbs-tying tying the score In the ninth Singles by and Jolley gave the White Sox Sex the winning winning winning win win- ning run in the last half hal of or the same Inning Vestern Western teams made mad a clean sweep of Dr the days day's play in the National league St. St Louis drubbing the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Giants 6 to 1 Cincinnati de defeating defeating de- de Brooklyn 7 to 5 and Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh beating Boston 5 to 3 HOMERS Burleigh Grimes held New York scoreless except for a homer b by Johnny while the Cards drove Fred FitzsImmons from front the mound with four home runs to give him the first defeat of the year Cincinnati bombarded five Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn yn pitchers for 13 hits and clinched the game with a five nm attack Inthe in inthe inthe the f first The Robins rallied to drive Rixey from the game with four runs in the eighth but were unable to overcome the early lead Pittsburgh piled plIed up a run live lead leadoff leadoff leadoff off Seibold in the first five fhe Innings and pulled through with a victory victor despite Boston's three-run three rally Inthe Inthe in inthe the seventh Chicago and Philadelphia a were not scheduled |