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Show MS SUFFER THEIR SEVENTH STRAIGHT LOSS Dodgers Win in Twelfth; Merkle Gets Automobile for Hitting Sign in Left Field. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. PC PhHaJlphi 7- 3 .700 Brooklyn 5 3 .625 Bonon 5 4 .SSfi ciitmo : e .633 Pittsburg , 7 6 .6.1 Bt Loula 7 7 .MO CincinrmM 8 ,i2i Kew Tor 1 8 .111 Yesterday's Results. At Pittsburg Cincinnati 1, Pit tabu rg 2. At Chicago St. Louis 8, Chicago 4. At New York Brooklyn 5, New York 4 (twalv tuning). ' it Batoa Philadelphia 5. Boston 2. Today's Schedule. St. Loaia at Chicago. PttUburg- at Clucionat.f Only two ganma scheduled. NEW YORK, ApHl 29. The " New Toiks lost their seventh straight same Lere today when they were defeated by Brooklyn in a twelve-Inning game, 6 to 4, )fore the largest crowd of the season. After a see-saw contest. In which the Iad changed several times, brooklyn won in the twelfth Inning on successive singles hi' Daubert, Stengel and Wheat. Fred Merkle of the New York team won an automobile in the eighth Inning when his two-base hit struck a sign on the left field fence, the advertiser having offered a car to the first player who bit the sign with a fly ball. The sign has h-en up since the opening of last season. sea-son. T an a ge r McO raw of New Y ork mad e radical change In his lineup, sending i , veteran first baseman JVlerkle to 1 hlrd base, while Kelly, a North western league recruit, went to first base. BROOKLYN-NEW YORK, BROOKLYN. 1 NEW YORK. AB.R.H.O.A. AB.R.H.O.A. l vera, fit... 8 0 0 1 Q Burns. If 6 0 11 rnubPrt,lb. 8 -M16 0i Roberuon.rf 6 0 8 1 1 Stcngel.rf... 6 0 2 3 0) Dojl,itt.. .. 8 12 6 5 "Wheat.!".... 6 13 2 Oj Kauff.cf 6 0 10 0 Mowrer.Sb. 5 0 11. Flctehr,sN. . 61J6 inshav,-.:t. 4 0 13 2! Merkle.Sb Olnon.ea 6 110 3 and lb..,. 6 114 2 M" er.c. . .. 4 0 2 6 ol Kol ly. Jb. . . , A 0 1 14 0 O'Mara..., 0 10 0 0i'"!louoh 10 0 0 0 Millr.c... 2 0 0 4 0! MeKchnleSb 10 0 10 Smith, p S 0 1 0 o! Rridn.c... a 0 0 6 3 Jo!iaalon... 1 0 0 ft 0 7raJrtno.. 0 0 0 0 0 Muni'iani.p. 0 0 0 0 " 1 1 Slmml, p S 0 0 0" 1 t'iitmcy.p... 1 0 0 0 0 t Wendell. . 1 0 0 0 0 I Anderson, p, . 2 0 0 0 2 I Hunter.... 1 0 0 0 0 Truais.. 49 5 15?35 isj Totals... 5') 4 15 56 18 .rBurrif out , hit fy o baucd ball, f "Kan for MevfF in rhe nlmb. fHattej for tmith in the ninth. BaLUi for Kelly In the tenth, liRftn for IEarldit In thr twelfth. ilDattcil for Ptrcmd In the cfxth. "tBatte.l for AudfiGOD io th twelfth. dt'ore hj Innlrips: r.roolviyn 0 f 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 C fi 1 5 New York 0 2000001100 0 4 Summary: Frrorr--Wheal. Cutstaaw, Kelly", Ax Morkle 3, Fletcher, Olson, Mejern:. Two-baae hits Merkte 8, Merons, Stengel , Thre-bae hits Kplly. What. Stolen ba. Vojle. Double playa -Fletcher to l)oyl to Kelly; Cufehaw to Dau-lu-ri. ftaF"1!" o'i balis Off Andcrhon '-, off Smith L'. off rhenpy t. Hits and earned rune Off Stroud 7 hits ntH 1 njn In .ix innings; off Audtrsou S i'r and 1 run tn nix inninfie: off Smith 10 hita iind S runs In fight Innings; off Marquard 4 hita jnfl 1 nin In t-wo-ihlrds of an Inning; off Cheney 1 hh an-1 no runs in threw an! one-third Innings. Stnu-k out By Stroud 8. by Anderson t, by Smith i!. Lrj Cheney i. Umpires Klein and Emails, |