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Show BROWNS TAKE I CLOSE BATTLE I Two Run Rally in Ninth Gives St. Louis Edge j Over the Tigers AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. Pot. New York S4 BS .613 Si Louis 83 55 . 601 Detroit 72 67 .518 Chicago 69 68 .504 Cleveland 67 70 ,.489 Washington 61 74 .452 Philadelphia .. . .57 79 .419 Boston ......... 65 82 .402 Yesterday's Results. At Chicago Cleveland-Chicago game postponed; rain. ' At Philadelphia New York 9. Philadelphia 4 At Washington Boston 3. Washington Wash-ington 12. At St. I5uls Detroit 4. St Leni 5. Today's Scheduler No games scheduled. ST. LOUIS, Mr., Sept. 12. Mc-Manus Mc-Manus single .a the ninth, with the I j bases full and two outs, enabled St. Louis to take Monday's game from j Detroit, 5 to 4. thus holding the mar- I gin between tho Yanks and the locals to one and, one-half gamos McManus' ! single followed Slsler's triple enfl I passes to Williams and Jacobson after i Sisler had tied the score with his threo-hase hit to right center. 8t Louts took the lead ln the second sec-ond Inning by scoring one run and I adding another ln the fourth. The I visitors, however, Jumped ahead ln the 1 fifth by adding three runs to their I lone tallv. made ln the fourth ln- ! nlng The Browns would have tied the 1 sor in the eighth but ground rules 1 held their rally to one run. Sisler got two out of five tries making mak-ing thirty-nine consecutive games ln which hi- has hit safely, or only one game behind the major league record establl&hed by Ty Cobb in 1911. He further Increased his lead for the season's hitting honors over Cobb, who was held to one hit ln five times at the plate Davis was replaced by ft Pruett after the fifth who allowed the TIrers only one hit ln tho last four innings. j R.H. E Detroit 4 7 1 St. Louis 510 I Eatterlcs Ehmke and Bassler, Davis. Pruett and Severeld. : PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 12 Babs Ruth's thirtieth and thirty-first home runs of the season featured New H York's 6 to 4 victory' over Philadelphia Philadel-phia Monday. Ruth made his first circuit drive, I off Naylor ln the fifm and his second j off Schilling, a Texas league recruit. In the eighth. Ruth also had a pair of doubles. Bhawkey held the Athletics safe all I the way until the eighth inning, when they scored two runs on three hits I and a walk. Wolrfi hit a home run In the sixth I inning. R HE. I New York 9 l ft j Philadelphia . 492 Batteries: Shawkev and Hoffman. j Hasty, Naylor. Schilling. Ketchum and Perkins J WASHINGTON. 8ept. 12 Washington Wash-ington batted Boston pitchers hard Monday and won handllv, 12 to 3 j R. H. E Boston s 5 o Washington ...12 17 1 Batteries Plorcev. Knrr and RueP BrlUheart, Johnson and Plrinlch |