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Show INDIANS WALTZ ON TO GONFALON Speaker's Gang Saps Ball Hard Winning From St. Louis 9 to 5 1 E Pet. , Cleveland . . . . IB 5 1 ,631s1 i Chicago S5 56 ,629 New York 03 59 .618 St. Eouis 7 1 75 . -J 7 Boston 72 81 .471 Washington 65 S3 .439 Detroit 59 91 .393 Philadelphia 47 101 31: Yesterday's Results, At St. Eouis Cleveland 9. St. Louis 5. At I'hiladclphia New York game! postponed; rain. At Boston Klrst game- Washington Washing-ton 3. Boston 5. Second gauii Boa-ton Boa-ton 6. Washington 7. (Ten inning! No other games scheduled. Today's Schedule. Cleveland at St. Eouis. N'. w York at Philadelphia No other games scheduled. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29 Cleveland got a step nearer the American league pennant yesterday, defeating St. Louis. to 5, and increasing Che lead o r Chicago, the runner-up, to a full game It wa. the third consecutive defeat, administered to Si Louis by the contends con-tends rs, who launched their attack against P.ayniE m the second Inning and, drove blm from the box in the sev-' enth. Bagby put his club In front In the. second Inning with a double to right after two were out. driving In two runs and Cleveland maintained the lejd thereafter. RSvans, Speaker Gardner and Bagby led the assault, the Cleveland leader! scoring three runs and drlviiig in two. It was the thirtieth victorv Bag$) has turned in this year. and. although i. it freely, he managed to keep them (scattered with the exception of two Innings. Iax.il fans presented George Sislet j with a silver service as a mark of ap-j preclation for his work, and the popu- lar Brown responded in the sixth with' a homer to the pavilion in rl?hl field tor his 249th hit of the campaign, establishing es-tablishing a new Amtilcan league record rec-ord to supplant that of Ty Cobb, who made 248 safeties In Hjll in the eighth Inning Sister made It 260 uith; a long triple. R H. E. CI eland 9 12 st i.'tuis 5 1 0 Mattel ie: P.agb and U'Nelll; . Payne. BuVwel and Severeld i;i).ST)V. Se.i.L i.t Unxlnn atnuH the American league season here us-terday us-terday by breaking even in q double-header double-header with Washington Tin Redi Sox won the flrt. .". to 3, while the enatOrs were compelled to-go ten Innings In-nings to earn the decialon 7 to 6, in, the second. The Bed Sox finished the Season in fifth place, with seventy-two games won and eighty-ope lost, for a pereentago of 471. First game j; j. E. ashington .. .. 3 s 1 ' Boston f, j j j Batteries- Sha. Shirley ..nd Ghar-iii: Ghar-iii: Pennock and Schang. Si eond game ;. y Washington 7 r; 1 Boston ' 0 u , Batteries'. Courtney, Acoata and PicinJcl); Myers. Hot and Schanig. |