The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-30

mains to be seen how much of their
advance was due to intrinsic merit
Cheney, Vaughn, HUMPHREYS and La
vender appear to be in I'M form,
however, and such a quartet of
tWirlers working steadily gives much
to build upon. Pittsburgh wound up
its eastern trip poorly, but did better
after reaching home. The team Is
hitting better and fielding superbly.
st. Louis shaded Philadelphia in the
weeks work, but the Cardinals ap-
parently will have to go better If they
are to keep ahead Of the Quakers and
the BroOklyns. Both the last named
clubs are doing powerful execution,
with the bat. Wilbert Robinson's
men in particular are showing better
form in all departments than in many
weeks. They dropped to the cellar
one day during the week, only to
CraWl out the next. Boston advanced
temporarily 1t ~Brooklyn's expense. If
It keeps up its pace the distance be-
tween first and last clubs in the Ma
tional league, much less than usual at
this stage OF the race, may be still
further shortened.
The plummet- Xix drop Of Detroit,
the hard fought series of anne be-
tween Washington and Philadelphia
and the rise of st. Louis Wcro fea-
lures Of the week in the American
league race. Ty Cobb put himself
out Of the game in an unusual fashion
a week ago and the moment he step
ped from the lineup the Tigers began
their slump, which went the length OF
six games before it was checked Sat-
urday.
Considerable bitterness has been in
jected into the rivalry Of the Athletics
q nj 4hn IUochin CfnnS G q TpC11t of he
forfeiture Of a game by the former
club in Philadelphia on Friday. Up
to that time the series had gone
Washington's way, but the tide turned
with the forfeiture and the Athletics
had the better of it, three games to 2
when the battling ended Saturday.
Each club, however won u lost the
same number Of games during the
week and their relative standing is I'M
changed.
st. Louis picked up ground on both
clubs by winning five games in s and
advanced to second place. The Browns
have not been fielding n too well.
but their batting had been hard and
frequently timely and their fine staff
Of bOXmen has kept up its good work.
There are experts who are beginning
to figure Rickey's men as pennant con-
tenders. The athletics have not play
ed up to form all season and recently
let down in their hitting.
Topping the second division the
Bostons are coming strong. with Joe
Wood pitching his Smoke BALI again
with deadly effect. Close behind are
the Chicagos, who won their seventh
straight game Friday. The New
Yorks and the Clevelands, are still bat
Ting for last notch occupancy with
the Maps crawling a little lcoser to the
chance men during the week.
Indianapolis winning streak was
stopped in time to keep the Federal
league race close. While Kansas City
was beating the Hoosiers on Thursday
after the latter had won IS straight
victories. Chicago was downing ST.
Louis and the result put men
back within a short distance Of the
top.
Baltimore recovered some Of its lost
ground in the series at st. Louis, but
Chicago also took advantage OF the
slump of the Mound City team and
edged forward a little. Buffalo and
Chicago split even on their series on
the ~latter's grounds and meantime In
dianapolis was fortunate in having to
PLAY off a group of postponed games
with Brooklyn while the ward squad
was not going at it's best pace. ,
War" developments included as
principal feature Wal Chase's part1ci-
patton in OUTLAW BALI as a member
of the Buffalo Federals n his being
enjoined against further alleged viola
ton of his contract with the Chicago
Americans. The Federals also lost in
the first clash for the services of
Marsans, the Cincinnati outfielder en-
joined from playing with the st. Louis
federals.
In the American association Mil
waukee fought it's way back towards
first place, passing Cleveland but still
trailing Louisville. The Brewers took
three out of five from the Colonels at
the Cream City, gaining n whole
game. Louisville was idle Thursday
n the champions celebrated the
raising of the 1913 pennant by trounc-
ing st. Paul. thereby reducing by an
other half game the distance between
them and the leaders. |
A thirteen inning game resulted
from the first set-to of the clubs,
Young of Milwaukee having a little
the better of a duel with Loudermilk,
whose work has been an important
factor in the success of Louisville.
Rain nreveoted the Monday game and