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Show AMERICAN LEAGUE. . Won Lost Pet 5?S0?. 69 08 .657 S?i,oIt 71 39 ,643 iLvi ! 05 42 .607 New York 51 51 .500 Cleveland 42 66 ,389 St. Louis -.41 63 .376 Philadelphia' . '..'...,34 72 .321 Chicago, Aug. IS. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, in the first game of the series here today. The locals won despite the fact that they were out-hit out-hit nearly two to one. Russell, who pitched for Chicago, was effective with men on bases. Fournier's arm was fractured in the eighth inning by a ball thrown by Blackburne. Eostou 000 001 0203 Chicago 020 030 OOx 5 CLEVELAND-WASHINGTON. Cleveland, Aug. 18. Collamorc, recalled re-called from the Cleveland American association team, shut out Washington, Washing-ton, 3 to 0, today. Johnson held Cleveland to five hits and struck out twelve men in eight innings. Every hit counted in the scoring. Cleveland 011 000 lOx 3 Washington 000 000 0000 DETROIT-PHItADELPHIA. Detroit, Aug. 18. Sheehan's wild-nes wild-nes and fast work on the bases by Detroit runners gave the Tigers the opening game with Philadelphia today, to-day, 4 to 1. Philadelphia 000 100 000 1 Detroit 200 001 lOx 4 more bunched theirs on Black and Hendrix. Chicago 0 9 0 Baltimore 6 12 0 Batteries Black, Hendrix and Fischer; Leclalr and Owens. |