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Show U . YANKS LOOM AS WINNERS IN FLAG RACE ST LOUIS. Sept. 21. By the Associated As-sociated Press; Barring an upset of the most sensational order, the ! New York Yankees have clinched the American league pennant. By ' taking the second game of the scries sc-ries from Detroit, 0 to 6, while j Washington blanked the St. Louis Browns, 5 to 0, the Hugmen Increased In-creased their lead to three and a half games They can split even In their eight games and still fin-1 fin-1 Ish no worse than In a tic for first plac e- Victory In five more games will'givo tho title to the Yanks, regardless re-gardless of what, the Browns do. St. Louis fandom today s-cc-mlng-I ly had resigned Itself to the fact j that the St. Louis team put forth every effort to win the American league pennant, but failed, flght-, flght-, ing to tho last ditch. It. action of the talis and the j players on the downfall of its team , since Its disastrous series with the 1 I Y'ankees, had been noted, dropping' I away of attendance to a mere handful of spectators, compared with overflowing crowds of just a I ; few days ago, when the game was j in tho thickest of the pennant fight. Coming on the heels of the Van- . ! kee debacle, two defeats the hands of the- Washington team evidently evi-dently have been tho cause of the ciub being Jeered In Wednesday's game-, compared with the wild enthusiastic en-thusiastic cheers of a tew days ago. Tho players, too, have apparently become; dejected by their misfortune, misfor-tune, the fans believe judging from the scores of the last two games. In comparison with the 30.000 I attendance each day at the Y'ankees Y'an-kees series, the crowd at Wednesday', Wednes-day', was estimated at barely bare-ly 2000. |