Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-01 | Page 17 | Tigers, Cubs and Dodgers in Spotlight

tigers, eyes O DODGERS IN SPDTLIGHT1 Detroit in American and Chicago and Brooklyn in National Show Bursts of Speed. ! NEW YORK. April SO. With the ! weathe" improving and th clus gen- i erally playing in good form for so early in the season, the past week furnished some important changes in the standings ; of the National and American leagues. ' The onward rush of Brooklyn and Chi- ! cago in the National and of Detroit in the American featured the third week of the pennant race. During the seven days Cincinnati in the National league and St. Louis in the American fell behind rap- 1 Idly. Although not playing aa good baseball as it did earlier in the season, Philadelphia Phil-adelphia maintained Its lead In the National Na-tional league. Alexander, pitching two games, broke even, and the veteran Chief Bender lust his first game of the year to his old teammate. Jack Coombs. Brooklyn made the most spirited advance ad-vance of the week. Manager Robinson's reconstructed field appears to be a good combination and his pitchers have improved. im-proved. The team batting was better, Daubert leading In this respect. Cubs Going Fast. With the pitchers in good form and the batting power increased, Chicago was able to win seven straight games until defeated by KL Louis Saturday. Mc-Connell Mc-Connell and Hendrix showed good form in the box and Zimmerman's batting was a feature. Boston, St. Louis and Pittsburg played in-and-out baseball, but managed to retain re-tain their appro imate positions. Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, despite improved batting, especially espe-cially by Chase, failed to keep up its former fast pace. New York is still unable to get started, and did not win a game during the week. Detroit, with Cobb and Crawford both out for several days, won four games and lost one and gained the American league leadership Saturday. The hitting of Heilmann and Veach filled the void made by the absence of Cobb and Crawford. The series between New York and Boston Bos-ton gave the American league followers some excitement- The Red Sox were returned re-turned winners, but the two clubs are still almost ne'k and neck. The Red "Sox victories went to extra Innings. Yanks Are Hopeful. New York was weakened hy the illness of Gilhooley and Magee, but managed to keep up a good pace. The batting of N unama.lt er and Baker gave encouragement encourage-ment to the Yankee followers. Washington and Cleveland showed improved im-proved form and are makin? opposing teams hustle hard to win. Walter Johnson John-son won two games for the Senators. The hatting and fielding of Graney featured Cleveland's playing. Although Chicago's heavy hitters showed flashes of better batting form, the White Sox dropped slightly. The club's pitching staff appears weak. St. Louis failed woefully to m tain tain Its winning gait, and dropped five consecutive con-secutive gnmes. Fielder Jones's men seemingly have dropped off both in batting bat-ting and pitching simultaneously. Philadelphia still brings up the rear in the American lertgne. Louisville's .grrat winning streak put the Colonels far in front in tho American association and the rare is now strung out over a longer distance than at tho end of the first week. Kxcept, however, for the tall-enders and tho Colonels, the teams In tile middle section are pretty well bunched.