Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-30 | Page 10 | Phils and Red Sox Still Hold the Top

PIS II RED SOX " STILL HOLD THE TOP ' Two Boston Clubs Have Made Best Showing During Dur-ing Week's Play NEW OEK Au oqThe begin Ding of another week of plav a the two major leagues f ndi the f rst d ms on clubs in ea h cir t n the same relati e pos tion &s tney were a veek ago The Boston Brakes ui the Nat onal league and the Boston Red Sox n the Vmenean have respect velj made the best showings in their circu ts w th the difference that the An ericas leame representatives already were at the top and have maintained the r pos tion I while the world s ehampions are play ing an uphill game and still have some d stance to go before reaching the alti tudfl of their ambitions While it must be conceded that Stall ings s men are making a f me f f&t of it ground they gained on the Philadelphia leaders during the seven day nenod was so small that it will nave "to be bettered in the weeks to come if the Bostomang are to go ahead of Pat Moran s team Dodgers Break Even Less impressive than for some weeks j was the showing of the equally ambi , tious Brooklyn. Their even break n eight games eos them a few percent age points and today they are farther sway from the leaders than they were ' last Sunday while the Bostons in third I e. ij lace are appreciably nearer to the ly? second position holders , "-Tb Phillies, with five games won and two lout made their chief gain at the expense of the Cincinnatis from jj whpm they took four straight games ir These more than made np for the two lout of three which they dropped to Chi tpso early is the week ! In the American league the Bostons bearded the Detroit Tigers in their den and took the honors in an exciting three game series one of the contests running to twelve and another to thir teen innings Moving on to Cleveland the Bed Sox met with a setback on Pridaj but more than made this good : Saturday by taking a doable header '' ' frorn the Indians, and topped off the series with a 8un(iay victory b3 1 to 0 Tigers Are Battling The Tigers partly made up for their reversal at the hands of the Bed Sox try taking four ont of five games from f the New Yorks They lost instead of ' gaining ground during the week, but ; still are well ahead of the Chicago team ' which found the Yankees easy bat I bad a hard straggle with the Washing I tons who won two ont of three games from Bowland s men Pittsburg Newark Chicago St Louis and Kansas City are still, in the hunt with the Federal league race with hardly more than thirty percentage points separating the first club from the fifth Pittsburg although defeated by Chicago in one of Sunday s games and going to a nothing to nothing tie in the other still holds the lead by a nar row margin Minneapolis having taken the Amer lean association pennant lead from St Paul at the beginning of last week continued to play well and n seven days gained an advantage of four games over the former leaders