Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-21
|THREE-GAME LEAD
FOR BOSTON TEAM
Giants Lost Ground Early
Last Week, But Now are
Playing Better Ball.
ASSOCIATION RIGHT
CONTINUES ONE WEEK
Louisville and Milwaukee in
Merry Fight For Rag
Close in the Feds.

New York. Sept. 21.-Five victories
for Boston and Ave winning games
and two defeats for New York tells
the story of the struggle Of the past
week between the rivals for the Ma
tional league pennant. The Braves
forged. further ahead early in the
week, while the Giants were. winding
adelphia, where they. lost three out
Of i've games. Since then, however,
the race has been virtually even, Nc
Graw's mel gained a half game BY
outplaying Cincinnati while the
Braves were involved in a tie en-
counter with st. Louis.
Three-game Gap.
A th~ree-garne gap now separates
the two clubs-a decided advantage
for Boston at this stage when little
more than a fortnight Of play re-
mains before the season closes.
Starting in with the Cincinnati Sc
ries. the Giants began to play better
ball than they have shown for
set by superior pitching and lively
batting. It looks. however. az II the
champions reversal Of form had come
too late, their only apparent saliva
ton now being the chance that the
Bostons will strike a snag either in
the remainder of the series with the
westerners or in the clash with the
Giants beginning September 80.
In the American league, Boston has
made little progress against Philadel-
phia, although the latter team has
been playing below its. mid-season
form. The Red sox lost a good
chance to gain Saturday by taking a
beating from Cleveland while the Ath-
letics were losing to Detroit. Yester-
day, with an exchange of opponents.
both Athletics and Red Sox won, but
the victory of. the Bostons was a dou-
BILE n and the lead Of the Mackmen
was reduced to 8 1-2 games.
Week Left. in Association.
There is one weeks campaign left
in the American association, and what
is virtually a tie between Louisville
and Milwaukee to be settled in the
few remaining games. Louisville still
has eight games to play, meeting In
d%ianapolis On its home grounds Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, and Cleveland at home Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. a double-head-
or winding up the season. Milwaukee
has nine games remaining, five in the
next four days with Minneapolis, ac-
cording to- figures given out in Presi-
dent Chivington's office, and four with
st. Paul, like Louisville, the Brewers
finishing their season at home with a
double-header.' '@sl.-
Results Of yesterdays games left
Louisville in front with 81 Victories
and 50 defeats, and Milwaukee second
with 80 games won and IS lost. If
Louisville wins all it's games, Its rec
ora will include 80 wins and 50 losses.
II Milwaukee then wins all it's games,
its ecord will be % won and 6s lost,
and by a small margin in percentage
will take the 'pennant. Two of Mil
waukee's games-one postponed at
Columbus and another stopped before
completion by rain at Indianapolis
can never be played off, so the cham
pions' total will not be more than 166
games, while Louisville may play out
it's full quota, 1913.
Indianapolis Leads Feds.
In the Federal league, Chicago and
Indianapolis'ra neck and neck from
the first Of the week to the last ended
with Indianapolis half a game ahead.
The small advantage which Chicago
gained last Sunday it lost Monday
when Tinker's men were beaten by
Pittsburgh. and Indianapolis won, tie
ing the two. Tuesday and Wednesday
both won. and on Thursday did the
same. but Friday Chicago fell a vic
tim to Pittsburgh again and Indian
.apolis, taking q close game from
Brooklyn, took the lead once more.
Saturday, Chicago won from Balti-
more, and Indianapolis finally lost.
Buffalo downing the HOLSTERS, SO that
the teams once more were nut on even
terms. BY winning from Buffalo