Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-21
EASTERN MAJOR
 LEAGUE CLUBS
 LEAD WESTERNS
Cleveland and Washington, in American, Brooklyn ar Boston in Nationals Are Romping Away.

NEW YORK, May Z0.-Ine nrSt m ter-sectional clash of the 1916 season in the National and American leagu IS resulted in favor of the eastern clut S.. The eastern teams week before last won twenty games from the west and lost fifteen to them. In the National
 Haoue the east won nine and the west six; in the American the east won II and the west g.
 There were no changes of import ence in the league standings. Cleve- land and Washington continued their winning gait in the American league. Brooklyn and Boston, the National league leaders, did not do so well but managed to retain their places.
 The feature of the week in the Ma iional league was the winning of four straight. games by New York fro n oittsburg. The Giants had won only
 wo games up to the time of their in -n-ion of the west. The pitching of NcG-aw's corps was better and the fielding improved but the batting of Burns, Robertson and Doyle was the hiegest factor in the four victorie ies fro-' the Pirates.
 Brooklyn lost two of it's four games hy one run and one of them after 13 -r'ngs The batting of Robertson's
 " wac not as timely as previously Boston kept up it's good work, due 10 -o~"o steady work on the mound ard --'o-tune hitting.
 The heavy hitting of Zimmerman nd Willia ~s was the outstanding oOint of Chicago's play. Philadelphia r~l'ored in Ire field and failed to i'm prove it's standing The champions Aeerned to have lost their scoring pow CT Cincinnati showed a complete re- verral of the previous weeks form.
 New York and St. Louis each won rcur games and lost one. The Giants rud the Cardinals braced in ali de- partments Anderson, the former Federal star, with the Giants, held Pittsburg to three hits on Friday.
 In the American league Philadel- phia and Detroit in their series at Philadelphia gave an unusual exhibi ton of baseball. Tuesday three Ath- letic pitchers and two Tiger boxmen rave a total of thirty bases on balls, 2 new major league record.> The pre- vious record was "A in one game. On Friday. 25 bases on balls were given fut still the teams battled for II inn ings, Detroit winning 8 to 6. During the series S5 bases on balls were giY- en.
 Cleveland did not crumble before eastern teams. The Indians brOse even with the Red Sox and took one game from the Yankees. Cleveland had won eight straight games when defeated by Boston Monday The hit ting of Speaker was big help to the Indians. Washington recovered from its losing streak and won four stralg'i 1t gamessthe latter part of the week.
 Good pitching alone gave New York its three victories. Mogridge. new conner, held Boston to three hits Mo1- day and held Chicago to two hits Fri day Nick Cullop gained the other victory by allowing Chicago only .A-ee hits Thursday.
 Detroit and Philadelphia improved on the previous weeks work. The Mackmen moved out of last place Saturday by defeating St. Louis, the Browns taking the cellar position. Pitcher Myers, of the Athletics, was credited with the three victories for his team. Boston broke even on the week while Chicago and St. Louis dis played few signs of improvement.
 Thursday saw six games won by one -ur in the major leagues, divided evenly between the National and An erican organizations.
 In the American Association, Toledo showed a reversal of the early season form which kept Manager Bresna- hans men in the rack and won three out of four games from Milwaukee, scoring 49 hits in the series.
 Louisville, after a poor start on it's road series, began another successful streak by stopping St. Paul's winning streak at four straight.
 Kansas City and the Brewers sui fered most of the teams playing on their home grounds. inneapolis ham out wins in two games of the three with Indianapolis. Columbus made a fair showing