The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-03
YANKEES WIN SIX OF SEVEN PLAYED
 DURING PAST WEEK
Browns Take Third Place in American-Cubs Get Four of Five, While Giants
 Break Even

New York. June 2-The winning , drive of the New York Americans was
 the feature of the majof leagues play
 during the last week Wita team
 batting average for the wseK of .sIG,
 and cutscoring IheiI opponents 45 runs
 t' I5, the Yankees won six games and lest one. Boston retained it's lead of
 one game. however, as both Boston and New York lost t,day to Detroit and Chicago, respectively. The St. Louis Americans went into third place ahead Of Cleveland. because of the Indians poor fielding and ineffective Q, though heavy batting
 Chicago cut New Yorlx's lead in the National league to one and half games. The Cubs won tour games out of five while the Giants broke even in six games. Boston continued it's good play, winning five and losing two and Philadelphia braced, getting four vic- tories in six games.
 GIANT TRIP DISASTROUS se New York endel it's disastrous west ern trip in which it won only five games ill 14, by losing to Chicago last sunday and Monday, New York then took two out Of three from Philadel- phia. Perritt shut out Pittsharg Sat urday with thrae hits. III luck at sec ond base still Dursues the Giants, Me- hof breaking leg in Fridays game.
 Rain interfered with the Cincinnati Chicago series. The tA,ms divided the holiday double header Thursday Chi cago opened it's eastern series Satur- day by defeating Boston.
 Cincinnati had poor weaI< d-onnino three games to Philadelphia and diyid- ing two with Chicago. In the only Ma tional league game played today, Phil adelphia ended Toney's winning streak. his first defeat of the season. Pitts burg lost two to Boston, giving the Braves a clean sweep game series. and won two out of three with St. Louis. Boston took three out of four from Brooklyn, which went into last place. Ames, of St. Louis, pitched the two vic tories over Brooklyn, while Grimes blanked the Cardinals Monday with two hits.
 RED SOX DOWN CHAMPS
 In the American league Chicago de- feated Boston Monday, hut the Red Sox won Tuesday, when Bush pitched a one hit, no-run game, giving Boston the se- ries, three games to one. Washington could take only one of it's four games with Boston. Saturday Detroit won l3-inning game from Boston
 4CaldWeIl and Ihormanlen each won two victories for New York during the week. The Yankees took two out of three from Cleveland, three straight from Philadelphia and defeated Chicago Saturday, triple play saving the game St Louis broke even in two games with Detroit and won two out of three from Philadelphia The Athletics dropped into last place today by losing to the Browns.
 INDIANS SLUMP
 Cleveland had it's worst week of the season, losing five games in eight played Seventy-three men were left on bases by Cleveland in eight games. The Chi cago champions broken even in six games. Washington won two out of three from Detroit Washington out slugged Cleveland yesterday, but Bagby took an Thinning pitchers battle from today, 1 to 0.
 The first east versus west clash re- suited in favor of the west in the Ma !. .ional league by 30 games to 26 and the east in the American league by 31 to D. In the National Boston, the only east ,rn team successful in the west won 10 and lost 5, while Cincinnati. with the same record, led the westcrners, with Chicago a close second with nine games won and six lost.
 Boston made the best showing in the A1nerlcdn league, winning lV games out of IA, while St. Louis, the only western cam with a winning record in the east, won nine games and lost six. New York won eight games out of IA. Philadelphia divided each series evenly.
 The weeks record in each league of games played, won and lost, with runs, its, errors, men left on bases and runs scored by opponents including the games f Saturday. June 1, is as follows:
 NATIONAL LEAGUE