Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-15
EAST HAS BEST
Of ARGUMENT IN
BOTH CIRCUITS
First InterSectionaI Games OF
Present Season Give Inter
esting Line on the Relative
Strength Of Teams,
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New York, May 14--The first In
ter-scctional clash Of the 1916 season
in the National and American leagues
resulted in favor of the eastern clubs.
Including Saturday, the eastern teams
last week won twenty games from the
west and lost fifteen to them. In the
National league the east won nine and
the west six; in the American the
east won eleven and the west nine.
There were no changes of import
ance in the league standings during
! the week Cleveland and Washington
continued their winning gait in the
American league. Brooklyn and Bos-
ton the National league leaders, did
not do as well but managed to retain
their places.
The feature of the week in the Ma
tionai league was the winning Of four
straight games by New York from
Pittsburgh. The Giants had won only
two games up to the time Of their in
vasion Of the west. The pitching of
McGraw's corps was better and the
| fielding improved but the batting OF
Burns, Robertson and Doyle was the
| biggest factor in the four victories
from the Pirates.
Brooklyn lost two of its four games
! by one run and one of them after
thirteen innings. The batting Of Rob-
insons men was not as timely as pre-
ylously. Boston Kept up its good
work, due TO some steady work on the
mound and opportune hitting.
The heavy hitting Of Zimmerman
and Williams was the outstanding
point OF Chicagos play. Philadelphia
faltered in the field and failed to inn
prove its standing. The champions
seemed to have lost their scoring
power. Cincinnati showed "A complete
reversal Of the previous weeks form,
New York and st. Louis each won
four games and lost one The Giants
and the Cardinals braced in all de-
partments. Anderson the former
Federal star, with. the Giants, held
Pittsburgh to thtase iiits on Friday
second appearance.
In the American league Philadel-
phia and Detroit IN their series at
Philadelphia gave an unusual exhibit
ton of baseball Tuesday three Ath-
letic pitchers and two Tiger baxmen
gave a total Of thirty bases on balls,
a new major league record. The pre-
vious record was twenty-four in one
game, ON Friday twenty-five bases
on balls were given but still the teams
battled for, eleven innings, Detroit
winning s to 6. During the series
elghty-five bases on balls were given.
Cleveland did not crumple before
the eastern teams. The Indians broke
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 straight
games the latter part Of the week
Good pitching alone gave New York
its three victories. Mogrldge. a new
conner. held Boston to three hits Mon
day and held Chicago to two hits Fri +,
day. Nick cullop gained the other I,
victory by allowing Chicago only three !
hits Thursday.
Detroit and Philadelphia improved !
on the previous weeks work. The I
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
displayed few signs of Improvement.
Thursday saw six games won by one
run in the major leagues, divided even
" between the National and Ameri-
can organizations.
In the American association Toledo
showed a reversal Of the early season
form which kept Manager Bresna-
hans men in the ruck and won three
out of four games from Milwaukee,
scoring forty-nine hits In the series
Louisville, after a poor start on its
road series, began a successful streak
by stopping St Paul's winning streak
at four straight.
Kansas City and the Brewers suf-
fered most of the teams playing on :
their home grounds Minneapolis
hammered out wins in two games of
the three with Indianapolis ColuW-
bus made fair showing.
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