Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 9 | White Sox are Streaking Out

HIE SOX USE STREAKING BIT Six Games to Good; Yanks Fall Further; Reds on Giants' Heels. NEW YORK, July 27. No change in leadership took place in either major league last week. In the American, Chicago gained a half game on Cleveland, increasing its lead to six games, and re- 1 ' tained this iead today, as both teams lost. New York dropped further to the rear. In the National the pace set by New , York was met by both Cincinnati and Chicago. The Reds crept up to within I one game of the lead with a double victory vic-tory today over Pittsburg while New 1 York was defeating Boston. Through the addition of their pitching staff of Phil j Douglas, obtained from Chicago for Out-! Out-! fielder Robertson, the Giants hope to outdistance out-distance their rivals. In the intersectional series, ended last week, the western teams of the American league overwhelmed their easterji visitors by winning forty-seven games and losing only eighteen. Rain reduced the National schedule to forty-one games, of which the easterners, playing at home, won twenty-one. The week's record In each league, including in-cluding ,games of Saturday, July 26, follows: NATIONAL. P. W. L. B. H. E. LB. OR. New York 4 3 1 24 35 5 17 13 i Cincinnati 4 3 1 12 30 2 10 9 Chicago 4 3 1 10 28 6 2tJ S Pittsburg 5 1 4 5 31 5 20 1 Brooklyn 6 2 4 22 M 12 31 23 Boston . 4 2 2 19 37 K 27 24 I Bl. Louis 3 1 2 0 22 ft 17 B : Philadelphia C 3 3 20 48 8 33 21 AMERICAN. I T. W. L. R. H. E. LB. on. Chicniro 7 5 2 24 G2 6 48 26 ; rieveiand 6 4 2 30 55 0 3ft 22 ' New York 7 2 5 34 74 60 32 -troit 7 4 3 20 f!) 11 48 3ft St. Louis 7 4 3 32 00 10 5ft 31 I Jtoston 7, 4 3 30 74 11 70 20 Washington .. .. S 3 5 42 S3 12 (M 3ft I I'hiludelphia ... 7 2 5 18 49 6 42 34