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Show BASEBALL Cleveland 6, Boston 2 Roston, Aug 1. Several hundrod member of the Roston Lodge of Elks, who attended today's gnmo u the guests of President McAleer of the local team, saw Cleveland defeat Roston 6 to 2 It was known as "Elks Day" at the ball park and the guests brought a band with them. The visitors batted Leonard hard and in the third Inning he was taken out. Errors by Gardner and Manager Carrigan were responsible indirectly for three of the visitors runs ( ullop allowed but three local players to reach first base after thi third inning R H E Cleveland fi 9 2 Boston . 2 5 3 Ratterios Cullop and o Nell I.oon ard, Mosley and Carrigan, Cad Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 5 Philadelphia, Aug. 1 St Ixuis won its second successive game from Philadelphia today 5 to 8, by a batting bat-ting rally In the six'h Inning. Pla7 was stopped In the eighth owing to darkness In the sixth the visitors scored four runs on doubles DJ Bal-enti Bal-enti and Pratt, Williams single. Brief being hit by a pitched ball and errors er-rors by Barry and Collins, the lat-ters lat-ters mlsplay being a wild throw to the plate which permitted Williams and Brief to score on an attempted double steal The visitors scored another an-other run In the seventh on a pans to Lavan. Mitchell's sacrifice, Shot- i ton's single and a wild throw by Schang when Shotten stole second. Mitchell was very effective, except In the fourth inning, when the home team bunched three hits with three error and scored three runs The start of the game was delayed owing to a light shower and Umpire Fvans was obliged to call a halt In j St. Louis half of the eighth owing to darkness In this Inning Houck suc-i ceeded Bender and gave Williams a pass before play was stopped Shaw-key Shaw-key who started the game for Phila delphia pitched to onlv one batsman This was Shotten who singled. Bender Ben-der then took his place As Hamilton Ham-ilton has not been successful in games against Bender this season, Manager Stovall sent Mitchell to the mound in the Becond inning R H E St. Louis 5 6 4 Philadelphia 3 7 3 Batteries Hamilton, Mitchell and Alexander Shawkey, Bender. Houck and Schang t Called eighth Inning, darkness i Giants Defeat Cubs Chicago, Aug 1. Christy Mathew son. the Idol of the N-w orkers. went to Manager McGrnw s assistance today and checked the slump of the league leaders by defeating Chicago 6 to 2. Mathewson held the locals to five hits, only two of which were bunched In the first inning and he did not Issue a base on balls When ever Manager Eers men threatened threaten-ed to score, the New Yorker would tighten up and the runs would not mature. The visitors were playing like fiends behind Matty, and spoiled many a hit by startling plays Mathewson Math-ewson also fielded his position to tlv Queen's taste In the pinches. Chicago Chi-cago tied New York when Shafer! fumbled Saler's grounder and Math ewson's wild pitch put Saier on third ' Miller got a scratch single and Zacher scored. Fletcher's steal or second base, following his single, virtually vir-tually gave McGraw's men the game.. After he had pilfered the base. Mer-kle Mer-kle tripled and Fletcher scored. The visitors added two more runs in the ninth when they bunched hits behind be-hind BridweM's error. Humphries re-1 tired in favor of Moore after Fletch-r Fletch-r scored New York's third run R H BJ New York 5 9 2 Ch lcago . . 2 5 1 j Batteries Mathewson and Meyors; ! Humphries, Moore and Bresnahan. (Continued on Page Nina) ' uu BASEBALL (Continued From Pago Eight) Quakers Defeat Reds. Cincinnati. Aug 1 Cincinnati played wtcrdly in the field in the early Innings of today's game aud Philadelphia won easily 5 to 1. Alexander Alex-ander was master ol the situation a( all times, while the poor work of the locals placed Johnson In the hole frequently. Bgan was tho forst of-fender of-fender for the day. making erors on every chance that be had. Kllng played poor ball from a fielding stand-point Packard relieved Johnson John-son In the seventh to allow Bates to bat for him after Cincinnati bad t man on base. Paskert, Lobert. Lud-erus Lud-erus and Deorc led in the batting Pirates Defeat Dodger. Pittsburg. Aug. 1 Jack Millers, double, Wilson's sacrifice and Si- I mon's single gave Pittsburg the winning win-ning run over the Dodgers in the tenth inning today. Miller's single ' and Wilson's home run gave the ! Pirates their other two runs ni the j fourth. Both Allen and Adams pitched pitch-ed beautiful ball, though Adams was bit rather hard In the early innings ! From the third inning to the finish i the world's series hero of 1909 was I Invincible W heat's double and Dau-1 Dau-1 bert's single cave Rrooklyn a run In the second and Allen's three bagger and Cutshaw s sacrifice fly gave them another In the third. R H.E Brooklyn ... 6 - 7 2 Pittsburg 3 6 1 Batteries Allen and O Miller. Ad ams and Gibson. Simon. (10 innings t Baves Defeat Cardinals. St Louis, Aug. 1. Otto Hess pitched pitch-ed one of his best games here this afternoon, holding the home team to two hits, singles by Oakes and father in the fourth and as a result Boston took the third game of the series from St. Louis, by 8 to 0. Willie Doak. who pitched a good game against New York this week, worked for the home team today and was hit hard while bis support was weird, his teammates making three errors of commission and numerous of thy omission sort Hess hit a home run over the right field seats with a man on base Detroit 9, Washington 3. Waahintgon, Aug. 1 Detroit batted bat-ted Groom hard In one Inning toda . and with Lake pitching air-tight ball the result was never in doubt, netro.t 'winning easil) 9 to 8 Washington used three pitchers in an effort to Utop the visitors but only one ol ih,m, Harper, a recruit, met with any success He allowed only one hit in the four Innings that he was on the mound, struck out four and gave one base on balls. Groom started for Washington, but was forced to retire with one man out' in the third inning after Detroit had scorod four runs. Gallia then took up the pitching with two men on and Moriarty scored both with a single Ho lasted until the opening of the sixth when Harper went in. R. H. E. Detroit " i Washington ' Batteries -Lake and McKee, Groom. Gallia. Harper and Henry, Ainsmlth. |