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Show AMERICANLEAGUEj YESTERDAY'S GAMES. At Chicago Chicago 5, St. Lonis 0. ; At Cleveland Cleveland 6, Detroit o At Washington Washington -New York postponed, wet grounds. At Boston Boston -Philadelphia postponed, rain. OLAF ERICKSON WILD. CLEVELAND, ., April 18 Cleveland Cleve-land inaugurated the American league season here by defeating Detroit 6 to 2. The opening game, which was twice postponed on account of rain, was played today through the shew ! ers. Cleveland batted Boland hard, but luck was with him and nine hits yielded only one rnn. Erickson, who relieved him, was wild and his passes and Bush's error brought about Detroit's De-troit's defeat, Roth hitting a triple with the bases full. Speaker trapped a fly in the ninth Inning and, dashing in to second base, executed a double play unassisted, tagged Vitt, while Ellison was forced. Cobb has recovered from his illness and probably will play tomorrow. Score by innings Detroit 002 000 0002 Cleveland 000 001 50 6 Summary: Errors Bush, Coveleskie Two-base hits Boland, Coveleskie. Three -base hits Dressen. Roth. Stolen Stol-en bases Miller, Vitt, Ellison. Sacrifice Sacri-fice flies Kavanaugh, Wambsganss. Double plays Bush to Young to Dressen; Dres-sen; O'Neill to Wambs-ganss; 1 Speaker (unassisted). Left on bases Detroit 5, Cleveland 8. First base on errors-Cleveland errors-Cleveland L Bases on balls Off Enckson 3, off Coveleskie 5. Hits Off Boland. 9 in 6 innings; off Erickson. Erick-son. 3 m 2 innings. Struck out By Coveleskie 4. IOiyng pitcher Erickson. CLAUDE WILLIAMS RIGHT. CHICAGO, April 18. ClSUde Williams, Wil-liams, backed by perfect support, held St. Louis to four scattered hits, while his teammates bunched hits off Shocker and shut out the visitors, 5 to 0. Jimmy Aoertin played third for SL Louis today7 because Maisel left for the east, where his brother died. The base running of Chicago stealing steal-ing seven bases was a feature. Score bv innings Chicago 001 000 4005 SL Louis 000 000 000-0 Summary-: Two-base hits Gandll, Felsch. Stolen bases Weaver, Jackson Jack-son 2, Gandil. E. Collins, Felsch, Ria-berg. Ria-berg. Sacrifice hits Demmitt. Williams. Wil-liams. Double plays Gedeon to Ger-ber. Ger-ber. Left on bases St. Louis 6. Chicago Chi-cago S. Bases on balls Off Williams 4, off Shocker 3. Hits Off Shocker. 10 in 7 innings: off Sothoron 1 in 1 inning; off Williams, 4 in 9 innings. Struck out By Williams 3, by Shocker 2. Winning pitcher illiams. Los-iag Los-iag pitcher Shocker. SOX CAN TWO. CHICAGO. April 18. Two pitchers, Musser and Roberson. were cut off the roster of the Chicago Americans today, both having been released to the Minneapolis club of the American association. 00 Canada's new parliament ha? 39 farmer far-mer members. |