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Show SHUCKS PRUETT I j DOWNS YANKEES IN CLOSE GAME 1 1 j Phenomenal Young Pitcher I Allows But Five Hits and Whiffs Eight Batsmen AMUKICAN UULGtJE. pNeW York . -V' c,0 St Loula . . I 8 Detroit . . II 1 I Chicago :'o8 r-1 'lev-land . AS -i Wawhlngton II Philadelphia J Jl ?f? 67 R 401 s A. St LoUhV-rfcw York 1, St Louls t At Pefrolt Waahlnfton I netreli a! Mhna"1"JroSton 2' ChlcBgo 2. ad;ipnlnn:a',H,'hlS-C,t"u!nJ ''h;1- . , , 1 vjay-v Schetlule. waahlnajton at 1 - ir.it riiliadelphla ai Cleveland New York at Ft. Ixiuis Boston at Chicago ST LOl IS, 8ept 18. (By the As-soclated As-soclated 1 ress Hubert 'Shucke'' Pruett. phenomefnai young pitcher for the St. L-ouls Browns, held the ,,v rork Yanl-.es -o : ve sratterd hits tnjok out Blvht man and the Brown, Bund i ,1 ., h ,, wlthln Rall ga:.ie ol the leading fankeai by de-featlng de-featlng the vimtura , to 1 in the aec-;,' aec-;,' 1 ,f-" u-' riea of three, which, it Ih believed, will determine th chain-plon chain-plon teat.M ot Hie American league Bj wlnninp ioda-. tho Browha evened I up the eerlee w york haing v.n ihe flrn game y s,tcrdav. The pitching of Pruett was wenaa-tlonal. wenaa-tlonal. Babe Ruth's home run over th" rlfbl fle!d bleachers w5 the on!'-solid on!'-solid Mt mode hy the Tank. Pruett Pru-ett e control m v. ell-nlph perfect, in-sulnjr in-sulnjr only one baae on ball OOHB'8 RECORD BROKEN , ICennlh Williams took thQ Irod among; r-.-tjr lcapu- homo-run hit-1 tors by clammlner out bin thirty-. ilghUl plrctlit drive In )h eighth InnlnR. 01b-1 ler, who had walked, waa on baie . Slsler cracked out n Knflrle in the I sixth lnnlnK, rraklnp it the forty-first coneecutive game in which he has bit afcly 'I he s'.nglo broke the reoord -reated by Ty Cobb of Ietrolt In 1311 a han 1 lobb hit in fohty etraight game Lawton "Whltey" Witt renter field-cr field-cr for New York, who was knocked unoonacloi when atruck b a pop bo- tl, pretumbly thrown hy a fan la . aterday1! gar-.- u back In ih.. line-UP line-UP today. The (-roni wa a pltrhcrn' battle be- j twon T"-utt nnd Wlt Hoyt for five; Innlnajs The Browns managed to gather eeveral hits, but not oppor-1 tunely arhilc Pruotl held the Yan-; la".' helpleai Hoyt was touched for three runs In' even Innlrigr and Jonea. who took', up 'he hur'lnp- lut.- fter McMillan batted for Hcvf In the clfrhth. allowed two more markers. Kl TM swats BOXER. In the alxt;i lnulnr. Ruth, Who In I Vila flrt two times ct bt hTd alk i and fanned, connected with hii thirty- third hOBli run. I But 'be locals came right back and took the lead by georlog thret runs Foster wslk- d, pitsl.-r elngled nud Totter Tot-ter scored on William' single, Jacob' I son popped to Scot. .1 nd MeMaiins fan ne 1 w 11 llama stole second an i he .anil flelcr arORBgd the plate on Hever-I Hever-I eld's burning liner over ttecond ba '. The Browne added two more OOUnt I era In th eighth on Bieler's has on 1 bol'n and WllllamK' four-base hit, 1 New York threatened to score In I the ninth when Dugan and Uuth vingled in auecesslon vlth nono out. ' but Pipp forced Ruth B imnn fanned, land Hipp was thrown out by Severeld ns he was trying to steal second. I Another capacity attendance was on hand. Wildly enthusiastic, tb crowd seem' ' i to forget yeaterday'g incident when Wltl was struck b a pop bottle. The umpires walked r" -hi center field 1 crowd and bad policemen. vtop a group j nf funs from waving handkerchief. ' which, it was said, bothered the hatters hat-ters NBW FORK AB. R II P( A E. I Witt. c 1 1 0 0 I niK-un 3b 4 0 1 1 1 o i Ruth. If 3 1 2 I 0 0 Pipp. lb 0 I 0 1 0 Schang, c 4 0 n 0 4 0 MeuaeT, rf 3 0 0 1 v 1 Ward. 2b 3 0 0 4 1 n Scott, se... ..3 0 0 5 1 n Moyt. p 2 0 0 0 1 0 Jonea- p 0 0 0 0 1 0 xM.Mlllan 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totala 31 1 C 24 10 0 xBatted for Hoyt In eighth. ST LOUIS A. R. H PI B. Tobin, rf 0 1 0 0 0 Koster, b I 1 1 " 3 0 Blsler, lb 3 2 1 1 1 Williams, If 2 2 3 0 0, Jacobson. cf 4 0 1 3 0 01 McManut, 2b 4 0 1 0 J Jl Revereid. 0 0 S I I 0 Gerber, ea 4 0 2 4 4 1 Pruett p 3 0 Totals .11 1 2 :7 11 1 I Score by Innings: New York .00000100 01 St. Loul 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 x -5 Summary Home runs Ruth. Williams. Wil-liams. Stolen baae Williams. Double Dou-ble olay Bevereld to Gerber Left on baseJ New York 4. at. Ixmie 6 I Baet-s on ball Off Hoyt I, Off Jones 2. off Pruett 1. W ruck outBy Hoy 5. bv Jones 1, by Pruett S Mil.- off Hoyt 9 In 7 Innings off Jones 3 in Inning Losing pitcher Hoyt , m-ptrea m-ptrea rlneen Gutherle nnd Rans. Time 1:53. CH1CAG( Sept. 16. A batting ral-i ly in the elxth inning netted two runs, rind Victory for Boston over' Chicago BundM 3 to 2 Singles by Menosky and O'Rouke and a double by Burns drove home the deciding runs. The game was a burling duel between Robertson Rob-ertson and W Collins Boston - 1g q ChBCatterte. ' Colllna and Ruef; Robertson Rob-ertson and Schalk CLEVELAND. Ncpt 18 . 3un;f recruit from the Texaa league atur- ed Sunday's Cleveland to I viotory over Philadelphia by driving In Cleye-land-a first run and atartlng the winning win-ning rally 1n the eighth. r Philadelphia j J kin Boone, and I Sewell. DETBOTT. Sept. 1 8. .aabinjrton found Dauss eav Sunday and defeated tho Tigers 6 to 2. while Motrrldgo held Detroit's hits well scattered and received re-ceived good support. R. H. E. Washington 6 11 2 Detroit 2 10 2 Batteries: Mogrldge and Lapan; Dnuss, f Meson and Baasler, Woodall 00 |