The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-01
BIG LEAGUE review
FOR THE PAST week

NEW YORK. Sept Sn.-W'tth the PEN
nants in the National and American
leagues olinched the attention Of the
baseball world has turned to the ar-
preaching worlds series in when teams
representing the. two largest cities OF
the country will meet for the first time.
The champion White SoN have only one
more game to play. the contest tomor-
row ut the Polo grounds with the
Yankees bringing their schedule 70 COM
pletion. The Giants have series with
Philadelphia Mt Philadelphia. which will
close on Thursday. Meanwhile the
champion clubs are taking things easy
in preparation for the big battle TO
come.
On Monday against St. Louis. New
York clinched the national league PEN
nant Sallee. formerly Of St. Louis.
pitching the Giants to a to victory.
by winning the championship Manager
Mct;raw brought his total Of such VIC
tories to six. 4 mark heretofore I'M
paralleled in the history Of the national
sport. With the pcnnant safe McGrew
took his regulars from the lineup and
ST. Louis succeeded in taking the other
two games Of the series from the New
York substitutes. although It took
twelve innings for them to win on
Wednesday. Saturday. Cincinnati fell
before the Giants irregulars. but today
the latter dropped two to, Cincinnati.
Philadelphia won four out Of six In
the final full week Of the season.
Moran's men finished the series with
Chicago with two victories and against
Pittsburgh won TWO out Of three. clinch-
ing second p,n-c in the rae" by their
victory over the Pirates on Wednesday.
Moving to st. Louis on Saturday. Phila-
delphia lost. st. Louis made sure of
third place when it heat. the New York
substitutes on Tuesday. and for the
week won four out Of six.
IN the first three games Of their con-
GLIDING series. Cincinnati and Boston
played two extra inning ties. Monday
the Reds and Braves battles ~ innings
to to tie. Boston won the first
game Of Tuesdays double header. 13 to
0. but the second contest went eleven
innings to no decision with the score
? to ?. Wednesday. the Braves took two
from Cincinnati and passed Brooklyn.
the 1916 champions. In the race. Sat-
urday the SuperbaS went into Il tie for
sixth place by beating Pittsburgh twice
while Boston was winning only one.
Boston won from Chicago today in the
last National league game of the season.
In the American league there was no
change last week. the play being list
less for the greater part of the week.
Chicago concluded It's series in Boston
with 4 defeat and then took two out
of three from Washington. In the
double header against New York Satur-
day the new champions broke even.
Boston won four out Of six for the
week. After defeating Chicago the Red
SoX stopped ClcrClauds winning streak
at ten straight on Tuesday by defeating
the Indians to 3 in 13 innings Clevc-
land won on Wednesday and In tho
series with Washington the Indians lost
two and won only one.
The final Saturday Of the major league
season saw four double headers in the
American. in which 108 runs were
scored on 176 hits. For the twenty-five
games played during the week. the total
runs scored was I'll. nearly half being
scored In the eight games on Saturday.
The weekly record in each league Of
games played. won and lost. with runs.
hits. errors. men left on bases and runs
scored by opponents. including the
games Of Saturday. September 80. Is as
follows: