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Show Keen Competition in American League Cincinnati Blanked by New York Club AMERICAN LEAGUE I I : Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. Cleveland 16 6 .727 Boston 14 7 . 667 Chicago 11 9 .550 New York 11 11 .500 Washington 10 11 .476 St. Louis 10 11 .476 Philadelphia 7 13 .350 Detroit ." 5 16 .23S All games postponed yesterday; rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. Boston . . 10 6 ,625 Cincinnati . . 14 10 .533 Pittsburg li o .550 Chicago 11 12 .478 Philadelphia 10 11 .476 Brooklyn $ 10 .474 St. Louis 9 12 .424 New York 7 12 .36S Yesterday's Results. Boston 3 at St. Louis 9. ' Brooklyn 1 at Chicago 2. ,Now York 6 at Cincinnati 0. Philadelphia at Pittsburg, rain. ST. LOUIS WINS. ST. LOUIS, May 13. St. Louis broke Boston's winning streak by winning win-ning today's game, 9 to 3. Smith put the locals in the lead In the fifth inning in-ning when he drove the ball into the right field bleachers, scoring Hains, who had singled ahead of him. McHenry was put out of the game by Umpire Moran in the sixth inning for arguing when he was called out after grounding to Boeckel. while attempting at-tempting to get out of the way of a pitched ball. SIXTH STRAIGHT. CHICAGO, May 13. Grover Alexander Alexan-der won his sixth straight game of the season today when Chicago defeated Brooklyn, 2 to 1, although oulhlt by the visitors. Elliott's double, Hollo-Cher's Hollo-Cher's error and Johnson's single gave tho visitors their lone run. Chicdgo tied the count when Beal 6truck 'out and Elliott, who dropped the ball, threw wild to first. Terry walked, Dean stole third and scored on Kllle-fer's Kllle-fer's hit. Two ha9es on h.ills with a hit between Rnd a sacrifice fly gave Chicago the winning run. GIANTS BLANK CHAMPS. CINCINNATI, O., May 13. Benton was strong with runners on the bases and the ohamplous were shut out by the Giants, 6 to U. Fisher was wild in the first inning, but pitched well after that, although hampered by wrotched BupporL Luque was hit hard in the last two rounds. The fielding of Burns was a feature. |