New Britain herald., 1919-08-11
CINCINNATI HAS 4
 COMFORTABLE LEAD
5 1-2 Games Between Reds and
 Their Giants Rivals

New York, Aug. 11.-Cincinnati i gained considerable ground on New ] York in the National league pennant l race last week, and yesterday enjoyed a lead of 1-2 games. The Chicago
 Americans, continuing their losing 1 battle, are threatened by the, rapid 1 advance of Detroit, now 1-2 games ] to the rear.
 Barnes of New York and Cadore of Brooklyn held the Cincinnati batsmen | in check, but in the other four con- 1 tests the Reds pounded the ball hard while their pitchers allowed few runs Eller bianked Brooklyn Thursday
 with two hits. Saturday Cincinnati 1 scored three runs in the first inning off Meadows of Philadelphia, who in six straight victories was scored upon only three times. Meadows was victim again yesterday in 13-inning affair, Cincinnati making it three | straight.
 New York, which will have an op-
 portunity this week to redeem itself l in a sX-game series with Cincinnati, | dropped a series to St. Louis and bat l ted weakly against the pitchers of 1 it's ancient rival, Chicago. Hendrix al- 1 lowed New York three hits and no runs Friday, and Vaughn five hits and one run Sa turday. Alexander yielded four hits and no runs yester- 1 day when Robertson, obtained from New York in exchange, made home
 run that scored the only runs of the
 game.
 Before meeting, New York the Cubs shared two games with Phila- delphia and lost two games out of ! three to Boston. which had it's best week of the season. Heating of the Braves outpitched Alexander, five hits to three, and won the game with home run.
 Brooklyn won twice in three games
 with St. Louis and took turns with Pittsburgh with shutout victories Cooper holding the Superbas to one hit Friday and Pfeffer whitewashing the Pirates Saturday for his fourth consecutive victory Yesterday Pitts burgh batted Cadore hard.
 Braves Take Three in a Row. Boston won it's third straight game from St. Louis yesterday. The Car dinals, who batted hard all week, lost three consecutive games in which their hits totaled 40.
 In the American league Chicago
 lost a close battle to Boston in which
 Ruth passed four times. Phila-
 de1phia, tail-enders, held the lea que
 leaders even in four games, one con-
 test lasting 13 innings. Washington
 batted' out Mayer of Chicago yester-
 day. Gicotte won his 21st victory
 yesterday in a 12-inning 10 pitchers
 battle with Shaw.
 After losing to New York last Sun
 day, Detroit won four straight games,
 taking three from Washington and
 one from Philadelphia. Steady pitch ing featured the winning contests. Tanks in Third.
 Cleveland was only a step behind Detroit, winning three out of it's five games. Covelesl<ie did not allow Washington to score last Sunday Cleveland outbatted Boston in a series
 marred by only one error but the 1918 world champions took two out of the three Saturday. Jasper was a successful relief twirlcr against New York Saturday. Mays, the much-dis- cussed pitcher, was batted hard yes terday, but New York won through an early start because of Meyers wildness. By the victory New York took third place from Cleveland by
 one point. Mays won his first start
 for New York Thursday after an in-
 junction had been obtained to pre- Boston divided double header with St. Louis Saturday, Waite Hoyt the young pitcher of the Red Sox,
 getting his third straight win.