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Show 00 ANDERSON MEETS CROSS TODAY Los Angeles. Cal., July 4 Leach Cross, li I k h i-t rung and as restive as a trad lous race horse, started a twenty-round twenty-round battle at Vernon this afternoon With phlegmatic, deliberate Bud Anderson, An-derson, the Oregon lightweight. For Cross, it was one of the few Important Import-ant battles he has had outside of his beloved New York East Side As for Anderson, he admitted he was going against the highest class of his short bovlng career. But tho bettors, pinning faith upon the Bedford Bed-ford lads tremendous hitting power, believed he could finis the New York dentist inside the limit and at ring time were offering as high as 2 to 1 on Anderson. Cross said the fact that the odds were against him and that many were predicting his defeat in less than fifteen fif-teen rounds had not made him anxious. anx-ious. "1 am always nervous until the first gong," be said "and l expect to win." Anderson's manager predicted a knockout Inside of fifteen rounds. Pirates Shut Out Cards Pittsburg, July 3. St. Louis waB shut out by the score of 4 to 0 here today by Pittsburg. The visitors bunched two hits in the sixth and three in the seventh but brilliant fielding prevented theni from scoring. Pittsburg presented a changed line up with Hyatt playing first base and Miller in short field in place of Butler, But-ler, who K to be chen a brief rest Hendrix was Invincible when the bases were occupied. The home reached Harmon in the first Inning for three singles and a triple that j settled the game. R. H. E St Ixmls 0 lo 0 I Pittsburg 4 9 0 I Batteries Harmon and Wlngo; I Hendrix and Simon White Sok Beat Brown. St Louis Inly 3 Chicago won the 1 opening game of the series at St Louis, score 4 to 2 In the tenth in- nlug. Beall's single, a sacrifice by , Rath and Lord's long single, was the 1 visitor's winning combination Clootie Cl-ootie who relieved Scott In the sixth inning held St. Louis to three scattered scat-tered hits St Louis tallied Its runs on bunched hits. In tho sixth Inning Bodle drove the ball over the left field fence for a home run, scoring Chase ahead of himself It was one of the longest hits made on the local grounds. Both games tomorro wwill bo played in the afternoon. Athletics Take Series. New York. July ?,.- Philadelphia made a elean sweep of the series when New York won-todav b the score of 8 to 4 The Athletics hit Keating hard in tho early Innings. while Brown held Now York safe all the way. Four fast double plays, of which each team worked two and the baiting of Oldring were the features Oldring got a home run hit Into the left field stand and three singles In five times at bat. Giants Beat Quakers. Philadelphia, July3 New Y'ork won today's game here in 11 Innings by 4 to 2. thereby making a clean sweep of the series of four games. It was the best game of the week between the two teams, ooth Dcmares 1 and Fromme of New- York and Alex ander of Philadelphia doing excellent twirling, and especially with men on ' the bases, and being backed up in nlmoKt faultless style by their team-1 team-1 mates Burns' double. Shafer's out I and Fletcher's sacrifice fly scored a run for the visitors in the third Inning. In-ning. Philadelphia took the lead in the fourth by scoring twice on M j gee's single. Luderus double. Meyer -I error and Doolan's sacrlfiee fly. Doyle I was sent m the clUbhOUM In this In nlng bv Umpire Rigler for arguing after being detected soiling a new ball. I A pass lo Murray, two outs and an infield single by MeCormlck who batted bat-ted for Demaree, tied tho score in the seventh. New York won In the eleventh With one out, Hfnog doubled dou-bled and scored on Merkle s simile Murray walked and Merkle came homo when Dolan, who had succeeded Luderus Lu-derus at flrat base in th tenth, got Snodgrnss grounder and threw wild to Alexander Naps 3, Tigers 1 Clevelnnd, July 3. Cleveland defeated de-feated Detroit '. to 1. Kaiiler outpltch-Ing outpltch-Ing Dattss and recelvlnc perfect support sup-port Two of Detroit's three hlt were bunched In the eighth and brought in their only tally. Although Cleveland got II hits on DauBS. Detroit's De-troit's two errors were chiefly respon slble for Cleveland s Tirst two runs. In the eighth Cleveland scored again, when DaUM made a wild pitch with the bases full. Braves Beat Doogers. Brooklyn, July 3 Boston made 2" hits for a total of 2!i liases off Stacl: and Wagner today anc Deat Brooklyn by 17 to 4. It was the worst drubbing drub-bing the locals have experienced this season, the team fielding badly behind be-hind poor pitching Mann had an especially profitable day at the bat. gettlug a homer, a double, three singles sin-gles and a pass in six times up. BrookUn got to Dickson for four hits and a pass In the fifth, when it did all its scoring for the day Perdue finished fin-ished the game, holding Brooklyn to four scattered hits. Cubs Beat Reds. Chicago. July 8 Chicago bunched hits off SuggB today and defeated Cincinnati Cin-cinnati " to 1 Lavender held the is itors to Beattered hits, received good support. Devore, baiting for Sugg5 in the eighth inning, tripled and scored on Reseller's out. thereby saving sav-ing the visitors a shutout Third Baseman Zimmerman of Chicago today to-day received the other half of a $100 bill, half of which he received two weeks ago from a "fan" who said ne would give the player tne other half today If he was good for two weeks and did not get chased y the umpires. The time expired yesterday and Umpire Um-pire Brennan Ud the compliments o: money when the men took the field. R. H. E. Cincinnati l 6 2 Chicago 5 1 11 Batteries Suggs. Packard and Clarke; Lavender and Archer. Senators Take Game Boston, July 3 A pair ot t o-baar hits coming in the fifteenth Inning to dav ended the longest game of the season here with n scoie of 1 to 0 lu Washington's favor. Collins had the better of Johnson In the matter of hits, hut the latter did some fine fielding and was given brilliant support Boston v. .is in a position to score on many occasions, but the Washington pitcher lightened up every time In the ninth Inning, victory seemed almost certain for the home team is the iillncl the bases with no one em on two Infield hits, and the only pass Issued by Johnson Gardner struck out Kngel forced Hooper at the plat on a grounder to McBrlde and B ner's grounder to Foster retired Speaker at home Washington began bluing Collins with more frequency after the eighth inning. In the final inning after Milan Mi-lan had filed to Lewis. Gandll hit to deep left for two bases Morgan filed to Speaker ant) then Shrinks brought Gandll home with a double to left. The game was played rapidly, nine Innings requiring only 711 iiimutes The outfielders captured many flies! and 27 batters were retired In thai way, Speaker getting s and Lewie 9 ' Gandil left second base before Speak er look Shanks' fly during the tenth inning and a throw to Gardner suited in an unusual double pla Manager Griffith was put off the I field for making protest ol the tun pire's decision |