New Britain herald., 1919-08-04
EVERYBODY HAPPY IN CINCINNATI, Q.
Showing Of National League Ball Produces Near-Hysteria

New York. Aug. 4.-Cincinn;ati Aousted New York from the National league leadership last Friday and by winning the series two games to one mad lead of one and one-half games over It's rival today. In the Ameri- gan league, Chicago faltered, losing lour games out of seven, but retas ed It's lead. The St. Louis Browns ad- Vanced to engage in a close four-t 4cornered fight for second place with I Cleveland, Detroit and New York; Il The Indians had second place to Themselves after todays victory over Washington.
 Efforts to strengthen their forces were made last week by three lead Ing National league teams and the New York Americans. The Giants ac- uuired from the Boston Nationals Pitcher Arthur Nehf, who held Pitts burg to two hits Friday and was the
 only pitcher to defeat Cincinnati in
 10 games last week. Cincinnati ob- tained from Rochester Internationafs Outfelder See, who has been batting j well. Chicago bolstered up both de- fense and offense by getting Infield- CT Herzog from the Boston Nationals. The New York Yankees, however, have been unable to use pitcher Carl \ Mays, obtained from the Bostor. I Americans.
 Reds Go Strong. In the National league before
 meeting New York, Cincinnati took
 three straight games from Pittsburgh, j one the completion of a six inning contest begun July 6 and ordered finished after protest by New York l A@N@ out of five, being shut out twice Thursday by Fisher and Luque Sal lee, a former Giant, blanked New York with five hits Saturday. Cin- cinnati was unable to score on Barnes today, who allowed five hits New York won single contests from Boston and Brooklyn and took three games out of five from Pittsburgh. Toney and Barnes each shut out the Pirates with three hits.
 Chicago, with Alexander pitching. shut out St. Louis. Two games with Brooklyn were divided but two extra inning contests Saturday went to Phil .adelphia, which advanced from last to sixth position. Alexander famed 15
 men in a 14-inning affair but lost
 to Meadows, who won his fifth
 Straight since joining the Quakers. Vaughn defeated the Quakers yes- terday, forcing them back into sev- enth place.
 Tanks Break Cicotte's Streak. In the American league, Chicago's pitchers were batted hard early in the week but became more effective later. New York administered Ci cotte's first defeat after seven straight victories. The White Sox evened up the series Thursday after sharing two l0-inning games Wednesday, Boston broke even Saturday.
 Three of Clevelands four defeats were by one-run margins. After los- ing a close contest to Detroit the In- dians dropped two in three to Phil Rdelphia and won the rubber game yesterday of three game series with Washington, Coveleskie preventing the Senators from scoring.
 Detroit shared four games with
 Boston, but lost to New York yes-
 terday, in the deciding game of the
 series. The Tigers lost @ 12-inning
 contest to Boston Thursday
 Sothoron pitched three victories for
 St. Louis last week, defeating Chicago,
 Washington and Philadelphia. Shaw
 of Washington shut out the Browns
 with four hits. their only defeat