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Show 1 i i i MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUES - 5 I NATIONAL , , Won. Lost. PC Chicago ?:i nr. .6715 Pittsburg GO IL .017 .ew Yo,'k 6- -nSS Philadelphia 54 T.5 .19." Cincinnati f,. f.7 .180 Brooklyn -it i;,V .-KM St. Louis -fit fis ,.'!87 uoston it 72 ,yG3 Wagner la Star. PITTSnUliG. Aug. Pittsburg to day won two games from Philadelphia by timely hitting, in tho socond game Pittsburg made three home runs In one inning. The featuro was the baiting I of Wagner, who made seven hits In tho Iwo games for a total of sixteen bases. Ills feat of a total of ten bases in the socond game equaled the record of the season In Individual batting. First game R. IT. E. Pittsburg , 1; VI 1 Philadelphia 5 9 0 Baltcries White. Lecvcr. PhilllpI and Gibson, hihcltlor; .Moron and Moran. Tlmp.rcs -O'Day and Brennan. Second game R. TT. R. Pittsburg S IV: 1 Philadelphia A C 0 Batteries Camnit7, and Gibson; Stack, Urennan and Dooin. Umpires O'Day and Prcnnun. Woak Pitching. ST LOUIS, Aug. 2L Weak pitching turned the game today between New York and St. Louis into a farce. New York walked away with the game. 11 to A. R. IL E. St. Louis 4 0 5 New York 11 Jt 1 Batteries Zmlch. Harmon, Patlon, Bresnahan and Bliss; Drucke. Crandcll, Meyers and Wilson. Umpires Johnstone and Eason. Errors Aro Costly. CINCINNATI, Ohio. Aug. 22. Costly errors by Cincinnati, 'wilh opportune hitting hit-ting by Brooklyn, gave tho laLter an 8 to 5 victory today. Kenlzer had two fingers ,of Ids pitching hand injured in the fourth and was forced to retire, R. H. E. Brooklyn 8 115 1 Cincinnati 5 0 fi Batteries ICnetzor, Dessau and Bergen; Ber-gen; Burns, Rowan and McLean. Umpires Rlgler and Umsllc. Cubs Are Strong. CHICAGO. Aug. 22. Chicago drove Mattcrn from tho box In the second inning today, winning tho opening game from Boston. 7 to 0. Mclntyro had the visitors at his mercy. R. IT. 15. Chicago 7 11 2 Boston 0 8 2 Batteries Mclntyro, and Kllng; Mat-tern, Mat-tern, Burke, Smith and Rarldan. Umpires Idem and Kane. Goes to Pocatello. Gene McGovern, the clever lltllo featherweight feath-erweight who has been In" Salt Lake for several weeks, left Monday night for Pocatello Po-catello to begin training for his fight in that cily on Labor day with Frankic Harden. McGovern lias been doing light training in Salt Lake and will finish up with hard training at rocatello. "Cyclone" "Cy-clone" Lefty, the local bantam, left with McGovern, and wlii act as his sparring partner during his training. McGovern is confident of winning over Harden and says that he doesn't think that the scheduled sched-uled twenty-round contest will last more than six rounds. A victory over Harden will give McGovern a chance to meet the winner of the bout to be hold at Ogdcn on Labor da5r between "Peanuts" Sinclair and Jimmy Reagan. 1 AMERICAN Won. Lost. PC Philadelphia 77 31 .601 Boston U5 I.S .T75 Detroit Gl I'J .".60 New York 6 f.O .f:'S Cleveland SO lil .-ISO Washington f.O fii .-138 Chicago 11 06 .100 St. Louis 31 70 Win in Ninth. NEW YORK. Aug, 22. Detroit scored four runs in tho ninth inning today on one hit, an error, four pnssos, a hit batsman bats-man and a balk and defeated New York, S to 5. Scoro; R. II. E. Detroit : S 10 :i Naw York 5 8 5 Batteries Summers, Willctt and Schmidt; Warhop, Manning, Fisher and Sweeney. Boston Wins. BOSTON, Aug. 22. Hooper's batting was directly responsible for Boston's victory vic-tory over St. Louis today. S to 2. Tho local right fielder made- a. home run, two three-baggors and a single In as many times at baL Score: R. IL E. St. Louis 2 R 1 Boston 8 12 0 natlorles ljike and Kllllfor, Slophcns; Cicotte and Carrlgan. White Sox Lose. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Washington defeated Chicago today by driving' Harry White out of tho box. the first tlmo In three years. Tho Chlcngo pitchor retired in tho seventh and Washington won, 1 to 3. Second Baseman McConnell turned his ankle and had to retire. Score: R. II. E. Washington 4 11 4 Cldcago .'1 2 .". Batteries. Walker and Bcckondorf; White, Olmstcad and Payne. Twelve Innings. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 22. It. look twelve innings for Philadelphia to heat. Cleveland today, 7 lo 6. A$ pass and two Hlngles netted the victory." Scoro: R. II. E- Cleveland 6 16 3 Philadelphia 7 IS 1 Batteries Harkncss. Koestner and Land; Morgan, Dygerl, Atkins ann Thomas |