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Show w BIGJMPROVEMENT IS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES I ?3 BASEBALL TEAMS' Ijf iODJMING JhationalsWin Nineteen and I fl K i Americans Eighteen in (J S Pre-Season Games. ONE TIE CONTEST h But II lv; American League Shows Big I Improvement Over Last Year. -Port. scorlSg J NEW YORK, April 21. American 13 "Was i league baseball teams made a much rs "Kith J tetter showing in the recent ante sea- 0 nien I jon intcrleague games against the Na- r baIIs I lonal clubs than wns the case a year 3 thus J igo. Out of the fifty-odd contests ccheduled during the preliminary and toning iralmng season just closed, thirty- furphy 1 i2ht were plajed, of which the Na- bags, uonal league teams won nineteen, the culd AmerJcans eighteen and one ended in ed out 3 tia Last spring thirty-nine games ore played, of which the senior eagiie clubs captured twenty-four and the Ban Johnson clansmon ftfteen The improvement of the American league combinations In these early season contests Ib shown in other ways aside from the winning of games. A year ago the Nationals scored twenty-nine more runs than their rivals; this spring the margin was but three. In the batting the Junior Ju-nior league players outhit their opponents op-ponents by a total of fifteen hits while twelve months ago the Nationals had piled up a lead of nineteen safeties safe-ties at the end of the play. In the error er-ror column the final figures show that the Americans made seventy-seven to the Nationals seventy-five. In 1916 the total was Americans 58, Nationals 61. The results of all the games played this spring, together with hits, runs and errors per game, with totals for the past two years follow: March 18 R. H. E. Brooklyn Nationals 7 12 2 Boston Americans 2 5 2 March 22 Boston Nationals 9 H i Philadelphia Americans 4 102 March 23 Boston Nationals 2 5 0 Philadelphia Americans l 6 5 March 24 Boston Nationals 5 9 5 Philadelphia Americans 8 9 3 March 25 Cincinnati Nationals 1 3 5 Washington Americans 5 7 2 Brooklyn Nationals 1114 0 Boston Americans 2 8 1 March 28 Boston Nationals 3 4 0 New Vork Americans 0 4 2 Brooklyn Nationals 5 11 4 Boston Americans 7 8 1 March 29 Brooklyn Nationals 1 4 1 Boston Americans 0 8 0 Boston Nationals 5 6 3 New York Americans 7 10 2 Cincinnati Nationals 5 9 2 Washington Americans 4 7 3 March 30 Cincinnati Nationals 5 8 3 Washington Americans 4 9 4 Boston Nationals 3 9 0 New York Americans 1 5 2 New York Nationals 1 6 6 Detroit Americans 4 7 1 Brooklyn Nationals 4 4 2 Boston Americans 10 13 1 March 31 Cincinnati Nationals 4 5 2 Washington Americans 5 10 2 Brooklyn Nationals 1 9 1 Boston Americans 7 12 2 Boston Nationals 0 4 2 New York Americans 1 6 1 St. Louis Nationals 8 10 1 SL Louis Americans 2 7 3 New York Nationals 5 8 0 Detroit Americans 3 8 2 April 1 St. Louis Nationals ;.0 1 0 St. Louis Americans '. .0 2 1 Pittsburgh Nationals 1 7 1 Cleveland Americans 4 4 3 New York Nationals 8 12 1 Detroit Americans 6 9 1 April 2 Boston Nationals 4 9 1 New York Americans 3 11 1 Brooklyn Nationals 1 4 5 Boston Americans 5 9 2 New York Nationals 6 11 1 Detroit Americans 8 12 0 April 3 Brooklyn Nationals 13 20 2 Boston Americans 5 10 3 SL Louis Nationals 5 8 2 St. Louis Americans 3 6 3 Boston Nationals 6 8 2 New York Americans .-5 10 6 April 4 Boston Nationals 3 5 6 New York Americans -8 16 2 Brooklyn Nationals 5 9 2 Bosion Americans 8 9 2 New York Nationals 8 12 2 Detroit Americans 4 11 1 April 5 New York Nationals 5 9 3 Detroit Americans 6 8 2 April 6 St. Louis Nationals - -1- SL Louis Americans 1 4 3 New York Nationals 3 6 2 Detroit Americans 1 5 2 April 7 n A , Philadelphia Nationals 2 4 1 Washington Americans 3 7 l Cincinnati Nationals 15 2 Cleveland Americans "13 l April 8 New York Nationals -J j- Detroit Americans 6 1 1 1916. G.P. W. L. R. H. B. National ...39 24 15 154 309 61 American ..39 15 24 125 290 58 1917. G.P. W. L. R. H. E. National ...3819 18 163 300 75 American ..38 18 19 160 315 77 One tie gamo. Two Yearo' Total. G.P. W. L. R. H. E. National ...7743 33 317 609 136 Aer?can "77 -33 43 285 605 136 One tie game. |