Show I j Yesterdays Results B A S E B A AL L T L Jj Standing Teams of J I i NATIONAL LEAGUE i Pittsburg this morning is In the lead Iad in inthe inthe the National league pennant race the two victories won by b that club In St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis breaking br the tie with Chicago and increasing verc mark by hy five fin points New York and Chicago both won th their ir games but hut playing single games each gained but two points New NewYork NewYork NewYork York dropping to second and Chicago to third place The standing as it has been figured is left Eft unaffected by hy President decision dt of last night declaring declarIng declaring ing the New game of Sept rt 22 a tie and finding that Chicago has no claim to a forfeited game on oti the day following President Pulliam rules that the Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago club had no claim in equity for a forfeited game on Sept 24 when Chi Chicago Chicago hl cago holds that the tie game gamp of the day da should have been played off The whole dispute comes down to a question of whether the umpires should be he upheld or not Mr Pulliam declares In conclusion he says s Much as I deplore the unfortunate end ending endIng ending ing of a brilliantly played game as well as the subsequent controversies I have no alternative than to be guided by I the law I believe in sportsmanship and will go as us far as any anyone one to achieve its ends but would it be good sportsmanship on my m part as president of the league to re repudiate repudiate repudiate my m umpires simply to condone the undisputed blunder of a player The Thie playing rules say sa that the decision decision ion of the umpire on a n question of fact is final This whole on un a simple question Was Vas Merkle forced out nut at second base Umpire In Chief ODay ODa ays s he was ODay ODa is no now nov novice no noIce ice and is no reason to doubt his Ills accuracy in his decision I rule that this game ended in a atie atie atie tie and ana that for reasons stated state above aboe I Ithe the Chicago club has no claim in equity equit for a forfeited game This ruling is subject to appeal to the board of directors and in that event a meeting of the board will be called for Monday Oct 5 the hour and place to be determined later S The standing Fridays s games Included ed follows Won on Lost Pet Pittsburg 97 li 55 5 Gs New York M 54 4 Chicago 96 Tw 53 r In the American league Detroit and Cleveland both won their games the lat hat latter latter hatter ter club retaining second place by h virtue of its defeat of Chicago which is now thirteen points behind Cleveland The standing Won on Lost Pet Pct Detroit SS 61 Gl Cleveland SS S tc t Chicago 85 63 62 o HI 4 Won on Lost Pet Pct Pittsburg Pitts burg 0 97 li 55 5 G New York 95 54 G 7 Chicago 06 96 55 5 Philadelphia 79 9 70 0 Cincinnati 72 SO 81 44 41 Boston 63 3 Si 87 10 1 Brooklyn 51 OS iS 42 St Louis 49 43 3 Philadelphia Oct 2 New ew York easily won game ame by b scoring seven seen runs in the first They were unable to score after that while the home team could only get two runs in the entire con contESt contest tESt Philadelphia used three pitchers in the first inning during which New York made mall I Ion only on three hits two errors and six bases on halls balls being thrown in Tenny opened with a pax pa I and scored when Herzog sin and an went to third on Osbornes fum fumble fumble ble We single scored Herzog A double play pia followed on grounder Seymour Semour walked and Knabe fumbled Dev Devlins DevlIns lins uns grounder Bresnahan and Bridwell each walked forcing In Seymour Semour lens place was then taken by Foxen who gave two tV passes forcing in two runs Moren next went In to pitch and a single by Herzog sent in two more auns ins The in inning Inning ning fling ended by Dorns throwing out Mc McCormick Cormick Barring the fifth Inning Ames was wa ef effective effective especially with men on baseS base T In Inthe Inthe Intile the tile fifth Philadelphia rot got only one run on four singles and an error a double pIa play shutting off chances for several runs Score R H E New York 7 9 2 Philadelphia 2 9 2 Batteries Ames and Bresnahan Mc Ic Quillen Foxen Moren and Doom Um Urn Umpires pires Klem and Johnstone St Louis Oct 2 As the result of a double victory over St Louis here today Pittsburg is now in the lead in the Na National National National league pennant race by half a point The first game was practically a walk walkover walkover walkover over for the Pittsburg team which won 7 to 4 Leifield pitched good ball bail while Beebe was hit freely freel In the second game It looked for f r a time as though Pittsburg might lose hose St Louis scored in the till third Inning but in the tile seventh Gibson tied the score with a home run In the ninth In Inning Inning Inning ning Wagner agner also made a home run thus winning the game for the visitors by the score of 2 to 1 I Camnitz and Rhoades were in good form Scores First game m R H R E B ESt ESt St Louis 4 7 6 Pittsburg 7 13 1 Batteries Beebe and Ludwig Leifield and Gibson Second game R It H E ESt ESt ESt St Louis 1 i 7 2 Pittsburg 2 6 2 Batteries Rhoades and Bliss Camnitz and Gibson Umpire ODay Brooklyn n Oct 2 Donovans men won again today by b an extra effort in the eighth inning which places them more se securely Securely ahead of St Louis the in the th race for the pennant Score ScoreR R H E Boston 2 7 C O Brooklyn 3 7 2 Batteries Flaherty and Gramm Pasto rius and Dunn Umpire Cincinnati Oct 2 Brown held the Cia safe at all al times today toda not a single runner reaching third base and only onh one reaching second Score R 11 H E Cincinnati Cincinnat 0 o 4 1 Chicago 5 7 0 Batteries Rowan Savidge and McLean Owen Brown and Kling Umpires and |