Arizona republican., 1915-08-04
EAST AND WEST
 BOTH INVADED
Big League Teams in Major Organizations Take Hike for Hostile Territory, All Prepared for Hard Siege of It

NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-CBaseball Re view)-Western teams moved to east .ru playing fields in the American league last week and the National league teams of the east began an other western invasion. The new re- suit of these shifts thus far has been almost negligible. the American race tightening by percentage points dur ing the seven days ending Saturday with no change in the final standing of The clubs.
 Tn the National league Philadelphia, in first place. gained one point and Cincinnati in the cellar. lost five points although this widening be- tween top and bottom positions was narrowed bv Cincinnati's double vic tory over Brooklyn and Philadelphia's lost to Chicago Sunday The only changes in the league table were the displacement If Chicago and New York by Pittsburg and Boston in the first division. West against East it virtually was a draw battle.
 or the two clubs which did climb closer 10 the worlds series honors- Pi1tSnurg and Boston-the StalHngs clan claimed the chief attention of the fans Tn last place early in July an other sensational spurt as the one which took the BostonS from the bot tom To the championship last summer seemed visionary to the average fol- lower cf the game And yet the Braves began exactly such a climb. Fifteen games won out of nineteen played was the record of the world s champions ED to Thursday night when they were in the third place. There they were checked on Friday and Saturday by Cincinnati and dropped one position. PittsbUrg moving ahead ,f them by virtue of winning a double header over Brooklyn yesterday
 To the Brooklyn fans the weeks work If the SuperbaS was a keen dis appointment Brooklyn won only two s-aueS out of six played and the teams advantage over third place was pnIv two full games Saturday night. with the leading Philhes fully three games in front of Brooklyn. The su- VerIras hold on second pIAre was fur there weakened by their loss of two games today. Defeats in three out of four to the Pirates started Brooklyn's western invasion disastrously.
 The weeks close in the American league found Washington and St. Louis with the best showing. each with four victories and two defeats Aided by the indifferent games put llr, by the New Works. Griffith's Sen atorS made more secure their hold on a place in the first division, the Tanks dropping three games out of five played and falling below the 800 mark. where they have been lowering most of the season.
 As for the three leaders. Boston failed to hold its own. winning only two out of five and Chicago and De troit broke even and all three fell of in percentage points This loss they ,..vId afford. however. Detroit in third place being ten full games ahead of Washington in fourth. Two games is the difference between the Tigers and the leading Red Sox today-with the Chicago White Sox in between them as against two and one-half games as the margin one week ago.
 Connie Aiack's squad continued it's poor playing. losing five games out of seven during the week. Of the last twenty attempts Philadelphia has been successful only in four and the gap between last place held by the Ath- letics and Cleveland in seventh place now has widened to represent four full games.
 Another week of playing ending yes ra-dav in the Federal league brought only one change in the relative posi- tfoss of the teams-Pittsburg. by win ming TWO. took third place away from the Missouri club Kansas City took the lead in the Federal league.