Arizona republican., 1916-05-22
GIANTS MAKE NEW MARK IF
 ELEVEN WINS
Muggsy's Pitchers Round Into Shape and Load is Taken off Eaters: Wash ington Creeps up Next to Cleveland.
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 NEW YORK, May 21-Setting major league record for the season for straight victories. the New York National league team had on Saturday pushed it's way from last place to the top of the second division. and only a few games now separate the Giants from the league leadership.
 For the week just ended the Giants made an average of 10 hits and runs a game for six games. / Ander- son, Benton. Perritt and Mathewson have apparently rounded into shape. thNs lifting a load from the shoulders of !he Giant batters. Robertson. Doyle. Fletcher and McKechnie hit hard and opportunely during the week.
 Brooklyn did little better than break even on the weeks work but remained in first place. although threatened by Boston in mid week. The league leaders lost two ten inning games during the week and won an eleven inning contest.
 The work of Philadelphia has i'm proved and the league champions moved from fifth place to second The injury to Bancroft apparently did not break mp the winning combiGa- ton. Boston played poorly. winning only one game St Louis dropped six out of seven and fell from fourth place to seventh.
 American League
 In the American league Cleveland and Washington kept up their previ- ous good work The Indians made it and then broke Washington's winning streak by defeating Waiter Johnson and his team mates on Thursday.
 Washington took the entire series of four games from Detroit New ! York broke even in two games and ! played a sensational sixteen inning to tie with Detroit on Friday. Harry ! Coveleskie pitched the sixteen innings i for Detroit while Cullop and Shawkey 1 divided the box work for New York i Splendid fielding marked the contest The tie game with New York was the nearest the Tigers approached to vic tory. The injury te Fritz Malsel. who : suffered broken collar bone Mon day, which will keep him out of tho game for a month. is a blow to thu | Yankees.
 Philadelphia and St Louis played better. thus lessening the points be. tween first and last place in th' l American league. Myers and Busi again pitched good games for Connie ! Mack's men.
 As in the previous week the east. ern teams won majority of thu games in the inter-sectional clashes In the National the weeks tally was East Is west s. Tn the American was east 9. west '
 Some good individual batting va done during the week. X perfect ia, at bat was turned in by Williams ant Mann. Chicago Nationals. and Nc Keehnie New York Nationals cac' of wtom made four hits out of fou tines at bat HoblitZell. Bostol Americans: Milan. Washington Amer jeans. and Claude Cooper Philadelphia Nationals. made three hits out 0 three times at hat. Cobb of the De troit Americans and Shotton of tn St. Louis Americans each made fou hits out of five times at bat
 The increase of the player limit Wa feature of the week in the America
 Association. The public according [
 the magnates. is taking renewe
 interest in the game. and as the con
 tests of last week serve to tighten u
 the race. prosperity is expected h
 tho club owners.