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Show AMERICAN LEAGUE. Won Lost Pet Boston ' 65 35 -650 Detroit 64 39 .621 Chibago 62 -40 .608 Washington 54 49 .524 New York 49 49 .500 St. Louis 40 63 .38S Cleveland ' 38 61 .384 Philadelphia 33 69 .321 BOSTON TAKES DOUBLE-HEADER Boston, Aug. 11. Winning two games from St. Louis while Detroit lost to Washington today, the Red Sox improved their lead In the American Ameri-can league race. They won the first game 11 to 3 by hard hitting, St Lou-Is Lou-Is using five pitchers, ono an in-fielder. in-fielder. Leonard outpitched James In the second game, which was decided by a 2 to 1 score Speaker's triple and James' wild pitch counted Boston's first run and singles by Carrigan and Leonard, Hooper's sacrifice and Scott's sacriflco fly, produced the winning win-ning tally. Pratt's double and JIow-ard's JIow-ard's hit scored for St. Louis. First Game. St. Louis 000 010 2003 BoBton. 200 400 50 11 Second Game. St. Louis 000 100 0001 Boston 001 010 00 2 CARROLL BROWN WINS HIS FIRST START. New York, Aug. 11. Carroll Brown, starting his first homo game of the season, pitched a strong game here today, and New York defeated Cleveland Cleve-land 2 to Morton was hit hard in tho third inning and the Yankees scored twice on a double by Boone, Nunamaker's triple and a single by High. i Cleveland 000 000 0101 New York 002 000 00 2 GALLIA HOLDS TIGERS-TO FOUR LONE SWATS. Washington, Aug. 11. Gallia let Detroit De-troit down with four hits today, Washington winning by 3 to 0. Errors Er-rors by Young and Crawford figured in the scoring of two of Washington's runs, the other being tho result of McBride's single and Gallia's double. Jennings used three pinch hitters, none of whom delivered. Detroit 000 '000 0000 Washington 010 100 01 3 ERRORS LOSE GAME FOR MACK-IAN MACK-IAN CREW. Philadelphia, Aug. 11. Errors by Sheehan and Schang, which cost two runs, gave Chicago the victory over Philadelphia today, 3 to 2. Bentz kept the home team's hits scattered except in the fifth and ninth Innings. Benz did 'not Issue apass and he was given splendid support. Chicago played without an error for the third successive game here. Chicago 001 000 2003 Philadelphia 000 010 0012 |