Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-25

Chicago held ner place straight
through the week as leader of the Ma
tional League, while in the New Eng
land League there was lively struggle
between Lawrence and Fall River Tor
the leadership. with the former on top.
This New England race has thus lar
been the most interesting of any or the
three mentioned and the best, perhaps,
OF any of the leagues. except possibly
the Southern where there is an excep-
tionally warm race between unusually
well balanced teams for pennant hon
Ors.
At the beginning of the week Cleve-
land was at the head of the American
League, with a margin over the High
landers that was far too small to be
comfortable. Mondays playing brought
no change in the relative positions OF
the leaCing teams. Cleveland met de-
feat in a warmly contested game with
Philadelphia and the New York contin-
gent was beaten 9 to by Detroit Col
Inns men got away with Chicago by
score of to 3 in hard fought bin
ming game.
Tuesdays playing brought about
change in the league standing. Phila-
dclphia shut out Cleveland to 0 on
grounds of the latter. while New YORK
at Detroit defeated the home team to
l. Philadelphia jumped into the lead,
leaving Cleveland in second place and
the Highlanders third. The relative p0-
sitions of the other clubs remained un-
changed.
Cleveland took the lead again
Wednesday by defeating Philadelphia :.
to 8. Detroit gave New York another
taste of defeat. 3 to l. These defeats
left New York and Philadelphia tied
for second place, with the positions OF
the other teams still unchanged and all
of them too far behind the leaders to De
any serious factor In the weeks race.
Chicago took Wednesdays game from
the Boston club in n . to ] game.
Cleveland took two games from De-
troit Thursday and again jumped into
first place. Rain put an end to the
Washington-Ph Philadelphia game at the
end of the seventh inning, with the
: score tied to l. and New York did not
play, thus leaving the relative stand
ings of New York and Philadelphia un-
changed. Friday the Boston Americans
CAPTURED a Thinning game from Phiia-
delphia by to 4. Chicago shut out De-
and Cleveland won from St. Louis
Chicago took fourth place. this being
the first change of the week in the
standing of any except the three lead
ing clubs of the league.
Saturday Philadelphia shut out Bos-
ton, New York defeated Washington
3 to 2, st. Louis shut out Cleveland ana
Chicago defeated Detroit 3 to Ill Il
inning game. Thus the week closed
with Cleveland in first place, Philadel-
phia second and New York third.
In the National League three of Mon
DAYS games were postponed because OF
the rain and Tuesday wet grounds
caused the pOstponement OF games at
New York and Brooklyn. The week
started out with six of the teams hold
ing a percentage of 500 or better. but
by the end of the week two OF these
had fallen below that mark.
The Boston Nationals won the only
game played i'm the league Monday
from Chicago. 9 to /. Chicago took am
ple revenge Tuesday. shutting out Ten
ney's men and piling up five runs. st.
Louis defeated Philadelphia to !.
These were the only National League
games played Tuesday.
Most of Wednesdays National
League games were won by big mar
gins, that of the Cincinnati Brooklyn
game to l, being the smallest. The
Windy City players had their own way
with Tenney's delegates from the Huh.
defeating them IL to l. Philadelphia
beat st. Louis to 3 and the Pirates
nut Il all over the champion Giants de-
fcating them Is to 2. The relative stand
ines of the teams were not changed by
the days playing, though, and re
mained unchanged throughout the
week.
The Bostons won another game from
Chicago Thursday, 10 to l. The Giants
defeated Pittsburg and Philadelphia
beat st. Louis.
The BOSTON team opened home Sc
ries with brooklyn Friday. defeating
the visitors to l. The Pirates beat st.
Louis 2 to / and the Giants scored
victory over Philadelphia. to !. Satur-
day Boston defeated Brooklyn again
TO l, the Giants shut out Philadelphia.
the Pirates shut out ST. Louis and Chi
cago won from Cincinnati to l. This
left Chicago in the lead. with the Pr
rates second and the Giants third.
In the New England League last
week there were more shutouts than in
both the big leagues together. At the
end Of the week the relative positions
of most of the clubs was unchanged.
Lawrence was in the lead, with Fall
River a close second and Worcester
third, the latter team having little
lighter grip on the position than at the
beginning of the week.
In Mondays game Lynn shut Man.