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Show RUTH SAPS OUT CIRCUIT CLOUT Yankee Star Now Has Fifty-four Fifty-four Home Runs to His Credit: Indians Gain Lap AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. j Cleveland 5i 54 .040 Chicago 95 5C .61' 9 New York .. . .95 59 61"! St. Louis 7 1 7t VJ2 Boston 72 SI 471 1 Washington 65 .S3 IJ! Detroit 59 &1 393 Philadelphia . .. ... -17 1U3 .J14 Yesterday's Results At St. Louis Cleveland 10, St. Louis At Philadelphia i First amei Xcw York 7, Philadelphia 3. (Second game) New- York 9. Philadelphia 4 No other games 5chedulcL Today's liedulc. Cleveland at Detroit. Washington at Philadelphia, So other games scheduled. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 30 Six I home runs featured New York's doU' Sis victory over Philadelphia yestr-iay yestr-iay by score of 7 to 3 and 9 to -I. "I he-second he-second contest went eleven innings; I lusty weakening iite;- shutting out1 I New York for nine Innings He re- llleved Nulor after Lewis' homer into! , the left field bleachers came with two) on bases in the first inning C. Walker j i had one home run In each p.nn-. I Ruth's fifty-fourth hom run c im inj the ninth Inning uf the nrst gum.- with I I Ward on base. It was n ilrhc over the right field wall. Scores: ! First game It n. EL i New York 7 11 3 Philadelphia 3 L0 3i riSi Jveefe and Perkins. Second gume j; . K. ; New York 9 H o Philadelphia 4 10 3 Batteries: Shawkey and Hoffman; McCammon, M Naylor, Hasty and Walker. ST. LUL'IS, Sept. 30 Cleveland pained another lap on Chicago in the struggle for the American leune championship j rsterday, winning from St Louis. 10 to J. and making a clean sweep of the four-game series. The victory puts the Indians a game and a half ahead of the White 8o and In a position to clinch tho pennant Ly winning three more contests. Today's gamu was a virtual walk-away walk-away for Cleveland. Wellman. who was knocked out of th box by Cleveland Cleve-land Sunday, started again, and in addition ad-dition to being hit freely, issued five passes, finally leaving the SJBOie after the seventh InnliiK with the visitors1 holding a five-run lead Yangilder, -a ho succeeded him. also' was wild and caadc two error that' allowed three more runs to score. Coveleikle was master of the altUA-tlon. altUA-tlon. :. 'ping his hits weti tca;ierea and wnld have had a shutout but for errors by Gardner and Sow ell Speaker, Woorl and ' ' v.-iii ii i the rtsfton he -iti lh,e k for -ndlj C.ecelandeofralllea0(J'-- and , Mjjtfm m Ratterlea: J?'ftviV, w' I 1 |