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Show CHICAGO AND BOSTON LEAD NEW YORK, July 21. Chicago and Boston hold tho lead in the National and American leagues, respectively. Chicago slumped badly, losing five games out of seven. Splendid pitching pitch-ing enabled the American league leader lead-er to gain ground, winning six games out of seven. Tho Chicago Nationals split four games with Philadelphia. A season's record was mado Wednesday when tho teams battled twenty-one innings beforo Chicago won. In tho American league, Boston's defenso was penetrated only once in seven games, when St. Louis won ono out of four games. The week's record in each league of games played, won and lost, with runs, hits, errors, men left on bases and runs scored by opponents, including includ-ing games of Saturday, July 20, is as follows: NATIONAL LEAGUE. It. II. E. Chicago 25 6S J3 New York 28 68 6 1 Pittsburg 24 53 9 1 Philadelphia 23 76 9 Cincinnati ,22 54 12 ' Boston 33 66 12 Brooklyn 26 62 13 St. Louis 32 73 14 AMERICAN LEAGUE. R. H. E. Boston 29 53 2 Cleveland 37 78 17 New York 17 49 1 Washington 22 5C 12 St. Louis 22 64 1G Chicago 16 44 7 Detroit 30 59 9 Philadelphia 32 63 10 |