New Britain herald., 1919-08-25
REDS AND WHITE SOX
 GOING AT FAST PACE
Leaders Show No Signs Of Crack
 ing With End in Sight <

New York, Aug. 25.-Extra speed was put on by the Cincinnati Nationals and Chicago Americans, at the head of their respective leagues last week. the Reds losing only one game out of eight and the White SoX winning alf~ of their seven games and increasing their winning streak to 10 games yesterday. Both teams batted well, Cincinnati especially showing fighting spirit by coming from behind to win in the late innings of three contests. Including yesterdays contests, Cincin- natl is seven and one.half games ahead of New York, while the Chica go Americans have six games advantage over Detroit, with Cleveland two games further back. The four West ern clubs of the American league are in the first division.
 After being held to three hits and no runs Sunday by Smith, of Brook lyn, Cincinnati was invincible. II Tuesdays dOuble-header Ring blanked the Superbas and ElIer yielded one run.
 Boston dropped three straight to the Reds who pounded out 37 hits and 24 runs in the series. Saturday the league leaders took two games from Philadelphia, winning the first contest by scorning eight runs in the ninth inning.
 New York did not improve at the bat, but succeeded in getting five vic tories in seven tries. With Alexander twirling, Chicago obtained it's first bracket in New York Tuesday, but lost the second game when Barnes won his goth game of the season. St. Louis was unable to hit the Giant pitchers effectively and lost four straight. Cooper, of Pittsburgh, out pitched Barnes Saturday, and yester- day Toney did not allow Pittsburgh to score in 10 innings. Chicago averaged almost ? hits a
 game last week. The Cubs won three and lost one with Philadelphia and
 defeated Boston twice Saturday. Vaughn blanked the Braves.
 Pittsburgh went into fourth place
 by winning four games out of five
 while Brooklyn was breaking even in
 six. Boston, St. Louis and Philadel-
 pha each lost all of their games ex-
 cept one' Brooklyn made 21 hiIse yesterday off two St. Louis pitchers. In the American. In the American, hits and runs were, plentiful with the Chicago batsmen,
 who also played well in the field
 Cicotte pitched two victories anI
 James, the newly acquired pitche&
 shut out Washington, with five hits, l Philadelphia and Washington each lost three straight to the White Sox. Shawkey, of New York, was easy for Chicago Saturday.
 ! Steady pitching enabled Detroit to win last week Although batted hard Leonard lost Sunday, to Washington.
 only after II innings. The Tigers won i the next two from the Senators and ! like Chicago, defeated Philadelphia 1 three times, Ayers and Leonard 1 pitching shutoutS. Boston's boy pitch -s. ! CT, Hoyt, was hammered Saturday. 1 Yesterday the Tigers lost full gamss | in the pennant race, as Chicago won Cleveland won two out of three from both New York and Boston. CovelesIie took the rubber gamo after losing in his first try against i the Yankees. Mays suffered his HrSt defeat Monday sinco joining New
 York, although he held the Indians to two hits. Coveleskie administered Philadelphia's seventh straight defeat , Saturday and yesterday the Athletics lost again although Naylor allowed only three hits.
 New York dropped its second series of the week to St. Louis, one contca: going 14 innings, and the Browns ad- vanced to fourth place, which they retained yesterday, as both teams lost
 Babe" Ruth, Boston American slugging outfelder- pitcher, chose moment when the bases were filled to
 make his goth home run of the season
 Saturday, but the runs were vested, as Detroit won.