Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
CINCINNATI is
FLAG winner IN
SENIOR LEAGUE
Cinches Right to Play In
Worlds Series Next
Month Against
Chicago.

cincinnati, sept. lO.-by OedtnS
New York today before a crowd
of $4,000 people, the Cincinnati club
cinched the bennant in the Nation
al league. the first which it has
ever wor in that organization. The
Reds have seven more games to
play and even if they should lose
all of them while the Giants won
all of the II games remaining on
their schedule, the local club would
finish one game ahead. The score
TODAY was 4 to 3. Ruether pitched
the full game for the Reds and was
hit hard, being frequently saved by
sensational support. Toney pitched
we'll for New York after the first
inning, but his support was faulty.
He was taken out in the seventh
and Nehf finished the game without
allowing a hit.
New York scored twice in the
first inning on pass to Burns and
singles by Kauif and Statz. In the
last half of the same round the Reds
scored three runs on Fletcher's wild
throw on Rath's grounder and hits
by Roush, Kopf and Neale. New
York tied it in the fourth on sue
cessive hits by Burns, kauff and
Frisch. The Reds won the seventh,
which Schneider opened with a
double over first base. Rariden
hunted fly toward first base which
Kelly muffed and then threw to third
in an attempt to get Schneider, but
was too late. Toney was then re-
lieved by Nehf and Schneider scored
the winning run on Ruether S
grounder to Doyle. on which Rari-
den was forced at second.
1t was announced by Chairman
Hermann today that the National
commission will meet here at 10
o'clock next Monday morning to
complete the arrangements for the
worlds series. Score:
S Ssw YSrf 1870 > 9 : Q % :
Batteries Toney, Nehf and Gonzales :;
Ruether and Rariden.
Cards and Braves Split.
St Louis. Sept 16-Extra base hitting
featured today's double header between
Boston and st. Louis. which the two
teams divided. Boston easily won the
first s to 4.
The locals took the second game, TO ?.
triple by McHenry tying the score In
the sixth, and his second triple and a
single by Lavan winning the game in the
ninth. Scores:
First game: r. Fl. f.
St. Louis .....0 0 o 0 / s--4 9 /
Batteries-Fillingim and ONeill; Jacobs,
Tuero. Parker and Clemens
Second game: r. Fl, e.
Boston ........1 o / 0 Q 0 0 o o. 0
St. Louis .0 0 0 0 2 0 0 ID 9 0
Batteries--seott and oNe>ll; sherdel
and Dilhoefer.
Pirates Win.
Pittsburgh. Sept. ls.-Pittsbursh de-
feated Brooklyn today, 4 to 3, in II in,
at times but it was schmandts. error
that permitted the Pirates to tie the
score in the sixth. In the eleventh. Big
bee. the first man up. beat out hit
to second on Carey's sacrifice. South
worth singled to right, sending Bigbee
over the plate with the winning run.
Score: r. II. E.
Pittsburgh 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 IA I
Batteries: Pfeffer and NJ Wheat: Mil
Ter and Blackwell
Cubs Win Again.
Chicago. Sept 16,-Chicago made it
three straight from Philadelphia today by
defeating the visitors. Z to 2, in an In
teresting game. in which Alexander out
pitched the veteran Ames, who recently
Joined the Philadelphia club. Chicago
made It's runs by punching hits Score:
r. H. E.
Philadelphia E. 0 0 0 0 o 1 1-2 10 o
Chicago ..... 0 - IL
Batteries Ames and Clarke; Alexan-
der and Killefer.