Show MAJOR LEAGUE FLAG RACE VIRTUALLY AT AN END All Clubs Except Yanks and At Athletics leti 5 Have Finished Finished Fin Fin Fin- Finished I Schedules I EW YORK Sept 29 The 21 The major NEW league pennant races virtually closed dosed yesterday all an of the teams 11 having played out their schedules schedules sched sched- ules except the New York and Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Americans A defeat in this I contest today would drop tho the Y Yankees from third place as Detroit's victory I yesterday put the Tigers a point beI behind behind be be- hind New York The two pennant pennant I winners the Cincinnati Nationals an anthe andI and the Chicago Americans had respective I leads of nine and three and a half games I The Boston Americans 1918 worl worlds world's champions finished in tn sixth place jus just behind St St. Louis The Red Sox's loss loss' yesterday while S St. St Louis was s winning s I made their final Inal percentages a as follows follow 1 I St St. Louis 67 won 72 lost percentage Boston 66 won 71 lost percentage percent percent- age After clinching the American league pennant Wednesday Chicago eased up and lost the next four games I By scoring five runs in the ninth InI Inning In Inning In- In I ning last Sunday Cleveland won its I tenth straight game but Detroit interi interrupted inter- inter i I its successful streak winning W Wednesday s and Thursday u I 1 New York I ar forged g ahead of oC Detroit by winning six games out of oC seven while I the Tigers were winning four out of oC five Ruth the Boston slugger made two I home runs during the week bringing his season total to twenty In the National league Cincinnati with I three regulars in the lineup lost to Brooklyn last Sunday The Reds won three straight from Chicago Chicago took the fourth I game ame yesterday Alexander Alexander Alexande Alexan Alexan- de der dea blanking a g the tho champions h I t New e York gh h hit Oth the ball hard d last wee week getting twenty-four twenty hits in Thursdays Thursday's first gamp game with Boston Nehf of ot the Giants won his ninth straight contest Saturday shutting out Philadelphia Home runs were prominent In the Philadelphia Brooklyn game Thursday I Krueger of the tied the score i with a home run and in the next inning I gave his team the lead with another i With the core score tied again Manager Cravath Cravath Cra Cra- I vath pinch pinh h hitting won the game for I four-base four hit I Philadelphia with a i I 1 Weeks Week's record in each league of games played won and lost with runs hits errors men left on bases and runs scored I by opponents including games of at Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day September 27 Is as ag follows I I NATIONAL LEAGUE P W L ft nIlE j H E Cincinnati 4 3 l' l 22 37 4 New York or 6 4 2 37 I 74 8 Chicago a 7 2 5 2267 1 12 Pittsburg t 2 0 2 4 18 0 u Brooklyn l l 6 4 i J 2 4 49 66 1 11 Boston 7 3 34 14 31 70 12 St St. Louis 5 4 1 21 t 50 7 6 Philadelphia I e hl 5 1 t 4 21 54 1 11 I I AMERICAN LEAGUE LEAGUE P W L R II H B E Chicago 4 1 3 19 1948 48 4 4 Cleveland 4 2 2 25 43 8 I New York 7 6 1 31 6 60 8 Detroit 5 4 1 33 69 11 Boston 4 1 3 11 30 21 I St. St Louis 3 1 2 11 34 3 Washington 3 2 1 15 26 3 Philadelphia 4 4 0 4 6 5 27 6 |