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Show BROWNS HOPEFUL OF RAPIDLY OVERTAKING" -LEAGUE LEADING YANKS St. Louis-New York Series Will Draw Greatest Crowds - Outside of World's Scries Yankee Face Terrific Task in Western Territory, While Brown Have It Easy at Home; Result Doubtful in Period of Tremendous Upset ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept 12. Though the Browns are trailing the Yank by a game and a half, St. Louia was hopeful today that ;the team would reduce thia margin by defeating Detroit in the final game of the scried, while the league leader were having an open Idate. In the event the Brown win today' game the difference between the two teams will b cut to one .ime. STILL IN IIACst. Th hard fight waged yesterday by the . Browns has convinced th fans that they will stand the strain of th last stretch In their fight tor Ilia asnnsnl, and -bring to this city th first pennant sine life. Th fans are also expecting Oeorge Sister, th hitting champion of th ma-' ma-' Joe leagues, to equal th major lengu record of hitting tn consecutive gamea, stabllshod by t'ohb In 111 by hitting safely In forty consecutive games. Sialer has alrady bit safely In thirty-nine contests. con-tests. . ItLEft SUPERB. It was Blsler's work with th bat that gtartad tha locals on their way to victory vic-tory yesterday and turned an apparent 4rat Into a 4 tf 4 victory for the locate. " Hecord orowde ar expected at th thre games with the New York Club, beginning be-ginning neat tfalurday. fBreaksAIl .Favor Browns f KBW YORK. Sept. 11 Th re'spertlv Knnant chances of ths New York Yan-e Yan-e and the Bt. Louis Browns from this dat may be summed up In th following follow-ing manner, to wit; The Browns must beat one ball elub, tha Yankees, two out of three games, starting September 14 and ending Hep-tern Hep-tern her IB. The Yankees must beat every--thing weet of the Alleghenlea. Tb win a pennant on the road In an ordinary year la generally regarded as a ' harrowing undertaking. Thia is no ordinary or-dinary year. The west plus the Yankees represent about ail thr la to the American Amer-ican leagu race Th Yankees, to all 'appearance, will have to go It alone after they get through with th Red Boa gjid th Athletic this week. Their final aupoaraneo In th East tm-ttL.th tm-ttL.th laet four days of th seaeon will be mad In Philadelphia, September 11. Tnan they far Into th Wat which Juat now bears a singular reeemWane to a aeotlom oX lead, pipeno soft spots. iMOWN'l CHANCE. "The first thre game are with th 'Whit Sox. Aftr th Yankeea get 'through With th Box, or th Bog get "through with th Yankee, th Athlete repair to Bt. Louts, Th fact of th ' matter is, that if th browns win thre straight ball games In that series, the Yankees can proceed through th re-Bnsender-of the gchedul with an easy, consjcleace, ' They then will have nothing noth-ing on their mind save their cap and th matter of coUecUng second plac oey. , im th othsr Rand, tha Browns must rev their on by taking at least two out Of thr. Tb lO of th aeries. In ,no, would Rot mean th omm of th wmmant, as would probably follow with th Itinerant Yankee, but since thing quel to th am thing ar equal to ch other, th Fohl entry would not feel ect)y joouiar about th situation, TIGERS DANGEROUS Tb next stop Is Detroit. Th Tigers bar knocked th Yankeea off in nearly very rla they have played this sea- jKm. and. although Cobb s ball club is aping while the Yanks have plnyed .?&0 since July SO, there are pitchers on the Ietro(t payroll who, seeminsly. can win from Nw York bfor the announcer Sjrets through with th batteries. Th final stand of th trip hi to b man in Cleveland. Th Indians ar still dangerous, particularly against a ball tdiub that may look a bit careworn at the end of a long journey. " Th opportunity of a Itfetlm Is slipping away from th Yanks. They hoped and expected to conclude their Eastern game with a fairly reapectabie lead. Instead, they ar la front by a atnkt game, I'ni they can tmprov their posl-' tlon by next Monday they will find thl fmnn of but alight consequence In taking' on four hard exla la a row, while thel |
