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Show PHILLIES AND RED SOX STILL MAINTAIN PACE Outcome of Flag Races in Major Leagues Depends on Result of Sectional Sec-tional Series. N B w YORK. Sept 13, Wit h the last interhertioiiRl series of the season in their early Mages, the outcome of the races in both of the major baseball base-ball leagues remains in doubt.. The chances appear to favor Phi lariciphia in the National and Boston in the American league, the present leaders in their respective races, hut everything every-thing depends on the showing each ma ken in the struggle with the clubs of the western divisions now in progress. In the National league the Phillies made the best show ing of th week and retainol their lead by a good ma rgin. Many baseball observers favor the Quakers ' chance?, because of t he steadiness they have displayed during practically the whole season and the strength they have shown on the road. The question had arisen whether their limited pitching staff would be able to stand the M rain of the drive to the finish, a nri much w as made of Alexander's failure to stop the Brooklyn in his Labor day game, thp opinion being expressed that the great t wirier had been overworked and that the Phillies ' chances had gone glimmering because of the mound king's collapse. Alexander 0. K. Three dn s la It, however, Alexander Alex-ander had recovered sufficiently to hold the Giants to three hits in a game on the home grounds, and the idea that he had gone to pieces had to be abandoned. Boston and Brooklyn are having a hot fight for the second position, each honing to make good its hold and then advance at the expense of the present leaders. Boston in the American league Jost ground duriug the week, but Detroit, De-troit, by failing t" make the most of its opportunities, failed to gain much. Meanwhile Chicago has been booming along with a siring of victories vic-tories and again is threatening to become be-come a contender, but has much ground to make up. A seventy point, lead at this stage of the race ip almost al-most an impossible one to overcome. Pittsburg and St. Louis are fighting fight-ing it out for first place in the Federal Fed-eral league, with the latter having had decidedly the better of the week's play, although the Pennsylvania's had the ad va ntagn of position when the playing period ended. Tn the America 11 assoeiat inn pennant race Minneapolis and St. Paul still are close together in the order named. Tbfi other two clubs in the first di vision, Indianapolis and Louisville, arc third and f ourth, with only a few more points separating them than are between the leaders. |