New Britain herald., 1916-07-17
BASEBALL REVIEW
 OF PENNANT RACES
Fast Play in American-Dodgers'
 Lead Decreased

The race for the pennant in the American league grows more exclung as the season advances, and the end of the last week found New YorK III first place and Detroit in fifth place. separated by less than 45 points Ae the end of the previous week New York was more than go points ahead of Detroit, then in sixth place. . f.#
 The Polo Grounds last week was the scene of some bitterly contested baseball games, as New York played both Cleveland and Detroit. The Yankees slipped back as the result oi the visits of the Indians and Tigers, losing six out of nine games CleVe- land took four out of siv from New York, and went into the lead for one day only, to lose it Thursday, when ! the Yankees beat them to 3. Frt' day New York and Detroit played two tWelve-inning games, each team vim ming one.
 CuIIop Beaten Finally. Cullop, the winning pitcher for | Manager Donovan, lost his first game of the season to Detroit on Friday. In | the same double-header Home Run" Baker was injured, and probably will | be out of the game for several weeks. This may be a serious blow to Dona- van, as he is also without the servieet- of Maisel and Gilhooley, outf1eldersl because of injuries.
 Despite the victories over New York, Cleveland did not better its position greatly. Detroit had little trouble beating Washington, and for time threatened to enter the first. division again, winning five and losing TWO games for the week. Boston and Chicago staged a pretty contest for third place They played double4 headers on three consecutive days and the Red Sox won four of the six i contests.
 On Friday the Red Sox played St 1 Louis to a seVenteen-inning to tie, the second long no-score tie the Sox have taken part in this season. The Browns used one pitcher Koob and it was his failure to touch third in the fifteenth inning that prevented St Louis from scoring and probably winning the game. Boston used tws pitchers. St. Louis made ten hits and Boston fourteen
 | Dodgers Margin Decreased.
 Tn the National league, Brookiyn held the lead by a decreased margia ; over the previous week. Philadelphia and Boston continued their fight for second place, and the Giants crept back into the first division Brooklya net unexpectedly strong opposition in both Cincinnati and St. Louis Bos- Ion 11-;,, oiyorr f1ro T 1o-s 30 points behind Brooklyn and piayv ing very good baseball. The Braves made only three errors during the week.
 The Giants, after breaking even in Pittsburgh, had better success in Cin- c1nnati, and took two extra-innine games, both of ten innings, from the Reds The Phillies went back slightly not being able to do better than break even in eight games. The team hit ting of the Giants, mainly through the ability of Burns, Kauff and Robertson vas one of the features of the week The Giants had the best week since their return from the f1rsttrip to the West, winning five and losing two.
 The sectional results were as fei- lows: National-East IT. West, is. American-East, II; West, IS.
 Cutshaw, of rooklyn, was the lead- ing batter, with a perfect average out Of six times at bat tn a double header at Cincinnati Sunday
 Russell led the American pitchers with a one-hit win over Boston. Alexander, Philadelphia Nationals. and Johnson, Washington, turned ln tEree-hit games. There were also several four-hit contests