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Show l MAJOR LEAGUES- 1 MATBQNAL LEAGUE 1 Won. Lost. P. C. New Tork 75 45 .02n Pittsburg 75 48 .610 Chicago 75 13 .COo Philadelphia 05 nt ' .541 Cincinnati 50 61 .480 Boston 52 72 .419 Brooklyn 44 7S .301 St Louis 43 7S .300 GIANTS ARE DRAWING AWAY FROM OPPONENTS PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5. A batting rnlly by Now York In tho sixth lnnlnfr today gave New York a victory over Philadelphia. 5 to 1. Tho visitors took rather kindly to McQullIen's curves, but a triple play saved him In tho second Inning In-ning ami Nov York scored a run In the third on a douhle by McCormlck and a plngle by Brldwel!. In tho sixth Inning New York hammered McQullIen's delivery deliv-ery hard and tho latter becamo very wild. Doylo opened thin inning with a single and steal and scored on Bresnahan's double. dou-ble. An error by Branrulold on Donlln's bunt was followed . by singles by Devlin and Brldwell and two force outo. With throe runs In. McQulllen made a wild I pltrh and gave two banes on balls, both forcing another run. Foxen, who pitched tho last threo Innings for Philadelphia, hold New York in chock, only ten bata-mcn bata-mcn facing him. Tho triplo play avas tho feature of the content. With Donlln on ficcond and Seymour on first. Devlin hit to Dooln, who tossed tho ball to Knabe, forcing out Seymour. Donlln rounded third and niarted for home, but Knabo headed him off. Donlln ran up and down tho lino and was finally put out by Dooln, Thc latter then snapped the ball to Grant and retired Dovlln at third baso. R.II.E. New York 5 11 2 Philadelphia 1. C 1 Batteries Mathowpon nnd Xlresnahan; Foxen, McQulllon and Dooln. Umpiros Klcm and Emslle. CHICAGO CHAMPIONS WALK ALL OYER PIRATES PITTSBURG. Sopt. 5. Over 11.000 ppoctators seemed to enjoy th affair at Exposition park this afternoon, when the Chicago champions walked away with Iho game from Pittsburg by a score of 11 to 0. Thc fourth and fifth innings ro-semblod ro-semblod a comedy of" errors, the homo tealn suceoodlhg In placing live errors to their credit." Theso. with sovon hits so-cured so-cured by tho visitors,' gave Chicago four runs In tho fourth Inning and-fivo in the fifth. The batting streak cropped out again in tho ninth Inning, when Chicago added three hits to their effort to score after lh? llfth Inning. Ruelbaeh pitched a splendid game for Chicago, allowing but four hit?. R.H.E. Pittsburg : 0 4 5 Chicago , ..; 11 11 2 Batteries Vail, Young. Loever, Sully and Gibson; Ruelbaeh and KUng. Umpire Um-pire O'Day. Ganzoll Put Off Field. CINCINNATI, Sept. 5. St. Louis gave Cincinnati a scare by scoring -four runs In tho ninth Inning, a misjudged fly and an error assisting tho visitors. Manager Gnn;:cl was put off the field for disputing disput-ing a decision. Iloblltzell and Bescher, new men. made a good impression with the local team. R.H.E. Cincinnati C 9 3 St. Louis 5 11 1 Batterlee Spade and McLean; Hlggln9, Salleo and Ludwlg. Ruckor Establishes Record. BROOKLYN. Sept. 5. Pitcher Ruckor of tho Brooklyn loam established a record for the National league season In tho second sec-ond game against Boston today. IIo struck out fourteen men and allowed no hits. Only three of the. visiting team reached first base, and they got there on errors. R.H.E. Boston 4 S '1 Brooklyn 3 5 '3 Batteries Ferguson and Smith; V"ll-hclm V"ll-hclm and Borger. Umpire Johnstone. Second game R.H.E. Boston 0 0 4 Brooklyn 6 S 3 Batteries Flaherty, and Graham, Ruckor Ruck-or and Bergen. Umpire Johnstone. I WESTERN LEAGUE Burlesque Game. SIOUX CITY, Sept. 5. Denver today put up another burlesque on baseball on tho statistician, who figured tip 14 scores for thc locals to 1 for thc visitors. R.H.E. Sioux City 14 15 1 Denver 1 i C Batteries Froeman and Shea; Corbctl and Zalusky. Locals Beat Visitors. LINCOLN, Sept'. 5. The locals broke their losing streak today and won a closely contested gamo from Des Moines. R.H.E. Lincoln 4 B 'i Dos Moines 3 S 1 Batteries .Tones. Johnson and Hendry; Bomar and Hecklnger. Austin's Hitting Feature. OMA1JA. Sept. 6 Rhoades's pitching and Austin's uattlng contributed principally princi-pally to Omaha's victory today. Austin has mado seven lilts out of eight times up for the past two games. R. H. E. Omaha 5 S. 1 Pueblo 3 G 1 Batteries Rhoades and Lc Brand; Gal-gano Gal-gano and .Smith- Games Transferred. CniCAGO, Sept. 5. President O'Neill of tho Western league announces today that thc Labor day games, which were scheduled for Lincoln, Neb., have been transferred to Sioux City. 1 NORTHWEST LEAGUE 1 Seattle Wins. SEATTLE, Sept. 5, Seattle won In the "'"V': R.H.E. oattlo 7 S 1 Spokane ' 6 g 7 Batteries Allen and . Fortler; KIlHluv Boyle and Jonsen and Rogers. Umpires Gale and Ehret. Slugging Match. TACOMA. Sept.' 5. Tacoma and Butte Indulged In a slugging match todav. Tacoma Ta-coma winning easily. i h E Tacoma 7 11 6 Butte .- 10 1 BatteriesButler and Shea; Thomas and Bender. License for Aeronauts. WASHINGTON. Sept. '5. Actuated by the death or Charley Oliver Jones at Watorville. Me., on Wednesday by falling from his airship, tho Boomerang, leading aoronuuts. gathered ut Fort Mcvor to witness tlie aeroplane tests, aro seriously discussing the advisability of thu enactment enact-ment of a law which wojild tend to pro-vent pro-vent accidents of this character. It Is proposed pro-posed to make. It illegal for any one not holding an aeronauts' license from a recognized rec-ognized aero club to make an ascension. New "Lids" for Lobsters. Special, to Tho Tribune. OGDEN, Sept. 5. Each of tho members of thc Ogdon Stato League baseball team and Manager Bosspor havo been presented present-ed with 51 now hat, with the compllmouts of the Kuhn Brothers Modern Clothes shop of this city, and congratulations for wlnnlhir tho uennant in tho statu league. 1 ; ; I AMERICAN LEAGUE . Won- Lost. 1C. Detroit 70 51 .578 St. Louia 70 52 .574 Chicago .70 53 .580 Cleveland 67. 57 540 Philadelphia . 00 ei f,t; Boston 50. r,4 .430 Washington b'i B7 .437 Now York 40 S3 .325 BROWNS ARE CLOSING IN ON THE TIGERS ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5. St. Louis won tho second gamo of tho series from Detroit In a ten-lnnlng battle. Onjy half a game separrttos tho St. Louis team from first place In tho pennant race. It la estimated esti-mated that 22,000 people tilled the grandstand grand-stand and overflowed on to the field when thc gamo was called' ,.Nelthrcr sld5 scored In the first nine Innings, but In the tenth Detroit cored on three singles in succession suc-cession by Schmidt, Cdughlln and Downw. A" fumble by Schaefer and a wild throw to second by Summers on Tom Jones Eaved tho way for tho scoring by St. ouls. Hartsel batted for Stephens and sacrlllcod. Then Crlss baited for Howell, and the first St.- Loii'.s run camo In, while Schnefer wan throwing him out at llrst. Schweitzer's slnglo scored T. Jones with tho winning run. R-IT.E. St. Louis 2 7 1 Detroit 1 fi 2 Batteries Howell and Stephens; Summers Sum-mers and Schmidt. Exciting Contest. BOSTON, Sent. 5. Philadelphia won from Boston today, 3 -to 2, In nn exciting game. Hansel's homo' run was the feature. fea-ture. R.H.E. Philadelphia 3 6 1 Boston 2 t 0 Batteries Coombs and Powers; Steele and Donohuo. Sox Nearlng Top. CHICAGO. Sept. 5. Chicago put Itself within one game of the American league leadership today by defeating Cleveland 7 to 0. Walsh, pitching his fifty-first go mo of the neaBon, was practically un-hlttablo, un-hlttablo, allowing only live singles and striking out t4ght men. Joss was hit fairly hard nnd his support was dlscdur-aglng. dlscdur-aglng. Bemls and SiovbII put Joss out of thc running with costly errors. Land, tho Cleveland's now catcher, was no Improvement Improve-ment over Bemls, and Chicago continued to run tlio. bases at will. Perry played a romarkabUj game at short, handling fourteen four-teen chances, .out of fifteen offered. R.H.E. Chicago 7 10 1 Cleveland 0 5 6 Baiterles Walsh. Sullivan and Shaw; lo-. Falkenberg. Bemls and Land. Johnson Invincible. NEW YORK. Sopt. 5. Walter Johnson, plchr of the visiting Washington team, again showed-that he had the New York players well under control by shutting thorn out today. R.H.E. Washington 6 12 0 New York 0 4 1 Batteries Johnson and Street; Manning. Man-ning. Lako and Sweeney. ! PACIFIC LEAGUE Home Run Saves Shutout. SAN FKANCISC'O, Sept. 5, Eagan's homo run In th; fourth kept Oakland from being shut out by San Francisco today. R.H.E. San Francisco 2 S 1 Oakland . .: 1 10 1 Batteries Jones and Berry; .Nelson and La Longc. International Tennis. Tribune Special Sporting Service. BOSTON. Sept. 5. Announcement of tho condition for the" preliminary contests con-tests for the Davis cup, to dccldo whether an American or an. English team shall go to Australia to challenge iho holders of tho premier tennis cup, are announced by the Longwood Cricket club. The tournament tourna-ment will bo held on the club grounds In Boston. September 17. IS and 19. The team of Great Britain will be M. j. G. Kiicnie. me uiympic cnampion. iao;; .1. G. Parke, tho Irish champion, and probably prob-ably one other. Tho toam of the United States will bo F. B. Alexander. B. C. Wright, W. A. Lamed and H. H, Kackett. The conditions of tho competition do not require that thc players In tho different contests shall bo designated . until S o'clock of the evening preceding each contest. con-test. Thero will bo five matchos, and the ordor of play will probably be two single matches the first day, one doublo match the second day, and two slnglo matches tho third day. Tho single matches will begin at 2:30 p. m. nnd 3 p. m. dally; thc doublo match at 2:30 p. m. Portland Wins on Single. PORTLAND, Sept. 5. Portland broko Its losing streak today and won from Los Angeles, although thc locals made but a single, hit. R.II.E. Portland 1 1 0 Los Angeles 0 3 4 Batteries Groom, Madden and Whalen; Brlswaltcr and Easterly. Sluggers Add Fnmikin Scalp. The Z. C.'I. 1. Sluggors added another scalp to their now already long list of victories' by taking the Frumkin Smokers Smok-ers into camp at Wandamere to. the tuno of 7 to 4. The game was a good and interesting in-teresting one to look at, as both teams pulled off some fast and snappy plays. Barber and Ash, who did slab work, wero both effective, holding tho Smokers to live scattered hits, while Anderson, who started to pitch for tho Frumklns was touched up freely In the first three Innings In-nings and retlrod In favor of Hanson, who was found for quite a number of good safe ones by thc Sluggers. Z. C. M. 1. Frumkin. Knickerbocker c Hanson Barber-Ash p.. Anderson-Hanson Margetts lb Tllman Brain .2b Mays Romnev 3b Peacock Blomtiulst. . . .ss Tllman Fitzgerald . . cf Towner Williams cf Merickel Iverson rf Striker Giants Will Take Trip. Manager Campbell "of the Occidental baseball team lifts arranged for a schedule j of games to be plaved In Idaho, commenc- ing Tuesday of- this week. The first game , will be played at Pocatello aga(nst the crack team .from Idaho Falls, followed by. a sccopd game on Wednesday. The team j will then go to Twin Falls for a double- 1 heador on tho 12th and 13th, and return- I lng will play In BrJgham City on the loth. ' The Occidentals have two open dates, tho 14th and 15th, which they hope to flu j on tho. trip. |