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Show : AMERICAN LEAGUE Won. Lost. I'cL Chicago i CI 45 .575 Boston 59 44 .oTi Cleveland ... 58 45 .5G3 New York 1 56 47 .544 St. Louis ' 55 51 .519 Detroit 51 50 .505 Washington 52 52 .500 i Philadelphia . . 19 80 .192 Yesterday's Results. Npw York 4. Cleveland 9. Philadelphia 0, Detroit 9. Boston C, Chicago 4. Washington 0, St. Louis 2 .(firot game); Washington 1, St. Louis 9 (second game). -V- f Today'c Schedule. Boston at Chicago. -Washington at St. Louis. ' Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at Cleveland. Chicago, Aug. S. Boston crept one game nearer to the top today when they defeated Chicago C to 4. But one-half a game separates the two leading teams. The standing is: Chicago, Chi-cago, won 61, lost 45, percentage .575; Bofton, won' 59, lost 44, percentage .573. The world's champion won today's contest by heavy and timely hitting, accumulating fifteen hits, which routed rout-ed Fabor, Williams and Cicotte from the mound. Olaf Hendriksen. outfielder of the Red Sox, suffered an Injury to his throwing hand in the practice preceding preced-ing the game. It will be necessary to have an X-ray made of the finger to ascertain whether it Is broken. Score by innings Eoston 001 013 1006 Chicago 000 002 1014 TIGERS WHITEWASH MACKMEN; SCORE 9-0 Detroit. Aug. 8. By losing today's to-day's game to Detroit, 9 to 0, the defeat de-feat being the 20th consecutive beating beat-ing that they have taken, the 'Athletics 'Ath-letics tied the American league record rec-ord that was established by Boston in 1900. Boland shut out the Mackmen without with-out eflort, tho only inning in which they bunched two hits off him being the seventh. Nabors was hit hard and the hits were well bunched. Cobb and Vcach did the feature work, getting seven safeties, between them. Score jby innings Philadelphia G00 000 000 Detroit 120 010 32x 9 LOVE INEFFECTIVE AND YANKS LOSE, 9-4 , Cleveland, Aug. 8. Neither Love f nor Russell could puzzle the Indians. :, and Cleveland defeated New York, i 9 to 4, as Gould kept New York's hits scattered one to an rnning except in . tho ninth, when a single and a dou- r bio were bunched with a pass. Score by innings i Now York 001 010 0024 ; Cleveland 104 021 01x 9 BROWNS TAKE BOTH GAMES OF TWIN MENU ?t. Louis, Aug. 8. Plank and Groon- wero Invincible while Washington's Wash-ington's pitchers were hit hard, almost al-most at will, and St. Louis won both games today, the first 2 to 0, and 'the second 9 to 1. A double by Foster in the ninth inning in-ning of the second game, after Williams Wil-liams had walked and stolen second, spoiled a no-hit game for Plank ana sent over Washington's only run of tho day. In this game up to the ninth, not a Washington player reached second, while St. Louis pounded Ayres for seven runs In the two innings he worked. Sisler got a home run in the seventh sev-enth nnd drove in Groom with a two-baggc-r in the fourth for St. Louis' other run. First Game. Score by innings-Washington innings-Washington .'. 000 000 0000 SL Louis 000 100 lOx 2 Second Game. Score by innings: Washington 000 000 0011 ' St Louis 612 000 OOx 9 |