Show Washington Tur Turns Pennant Chase Into Sure Victory Athletics Now Nine Games Gaines in Rear of Leading Senators Pittsburg Eight Games to Good I NEW YORK Sept 8 AP om Fi From Froma a sprint for the tile championship the American league pennant race ace within with wIth- in lb two weeks has turned turned- Int into a tri triumphant triumphant tri tri- Washington on march The dazed Athletics now trail in the d dust st of twelve straight defeats nl nine e full games behind the leaders Macks team on n Its home field yesterday yes yes- y lost to Washington twi twice e 2 to 1 and 7 1 to 6 After a masterfully pitched opening game by Walter WaIte Johnson the Senators measured blows with the Athletics In a slugging slugging slug slug- ging bee and came out on top when the Quaker infield crumpled The Pirates riding in front of the Giants with a lead lad of eight and arid one- one half games maintained their advantage advantage advantage tage by splitting with the Cubs The Corsairs o their foes In the morning hit fest test 8 to 5 a total of two thirty-two safeties being amassed by the the- two clubs but In the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon the Cubs made sixteen more hits and won 9 to to- 8 S. The Tigers obtained a toehold on fourth place In hi Inthe the American league by clawing the Browns 7 to 6 6 Inthe in ine inthe the e morning brush but club I in the lile afternoon drove Detroit back Into the second division again after eleven Innings 4 to 3 Tho The defeat snapped Detroit's string of oJ ten straight victories The White Sox and Cleveland also halved their double header Jim Edwards Ed- Ed wards Awards blanked the Sp Speaker aker entry In Inthe Inthe inthe the final contest with four hits 5 6 to 0 after a Cleveland rally In the ninth had decided the opening clash by 6 to 5 Rain reduced th the Red Yankee Sox-Yankee bill at the Hub to a single conflict in which Babe Ruth suspended and fined during the New York clubs club's road t trip reinstated dt wash wast- a Babe f fanned d twice kew ad d made one error in the field but he got one of oJ the Yankees' Yankees five hits off Ehmke who hurled the Hub to a 5 1 tri tn- Double headers between the Giants and Braves and the Robins and Phillies in th the National were washed out by rain St. St Louis St.-Louis Louis held Its own In a three-cornered three fight Brooklyn n and Boston for fourth place by trouncing Cincinnati 5 to 1 1 after taking the short end of a exchange 8 to 6 |