IN THE NEWS: In game 1 of a Giants' doubleheader, Christy Mathewson gives up 10 hits but beats the Phils 32. In game 2, Rube Marquard one-hits the Phils 20, walks none, and fans 10. The Phils "Smoke" Stack and Marquard match zeros for seven innings, but a walk, single and two errors bring home two Giant runs.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs' Frank Schulte hits his 21st home run and brings in RBI No. 121 as the Cubs sweep the Reds, 30 and 42; he will lead the National League in both home runs and ribbies. He is the first player to have more than 20 doubles, triples, and home runs in one season. In the American League, Frank Baker's nine home runs will be tops. Ty Cobb hits eight home runs but leads in BA, RBI, hits, doubles, triples, total bases, and stolen bases.
Grover Alexander (24 years old), winning a rookie record 28 games, pitches the Phils to a 10 win over Boston's 44-year-old Cy Young. Alex gives up just one hit. Alexander's 31 CG, 367 IP, and seven shutouts lead the NL. The AL has its own rookie sensation, lefty Vean Gregg, who breaks in for Cleveland with a 237 record and miserly 1.81 ERA. Gregg will win 20 his first three years, then win just 28 in the next 12 years.
The Giants lose a heartbreaker to Brooklyn in the 9th inning when, with Bert Tooley on 1B, Jake Daubert lofts a high fly for the apparent 3rd out. But Fred Snodgrass drops the ball and Tooley scores the final run in the Superbas, 43 win. The Giants are virtually tied with the Cubs, winners of two today.
IN THE NEWS: In the nitecap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 90 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 112. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on 1B in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a DP (8-4-1-3). New York wins the 1st game, 93, and now lead the Cubs by two games.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, the Giants pound the Rustlers 139, scoring six runs in the 9th inning for a 134 lead. The winner is Hooks Wiltse with little relief from Doc Crandall in the 9th: Doc allows seven hits and five runs.
IN THE NEWS: Washington manager Jimmy McAleer announces his resignation. Ban Johnson then arranges for McAleer and Robert R. McRoy buy a half-interest in the Red Sox for $150,000. Clark Griffith will take over as manager and, by purchasing 10% of the team, its largest single stock holder.
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood and rookie Buck O'Brien toss back-to-back shutouts to beat Cleveland. Wood wins 60 and O'Brien follow with a 30 win. O'Brien, who relieved in his last appearance, will finish all of his five starts going, 51.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants beat Pittsburgh 72, as the Giants steal eight bases with Larry Doyle swiping home twice. New York ties a ML mark with the three steals. Christy Mathewson is the winner on a 4-hitter over Howie Camnitz, increasing the Giants lead to five games.
With a triple steal on, the Highlanders Cozy Dolan singles in three runs in a 94 loss at Detroit. The 3 RBIs are half of Cozy's season total.
IN THE NEWS: In St. Louis, Hooks Wiltse wins the opener to extend the Giants win streak to 12 games. The Cards stop the skein in game two with an 87 win.
In Chicago, the Phils Grover Alexander fires his 4th straight shutout, beating the Cubs Ed Reulbach, 40. Alex also had shutouts on the 7th, 13th, and 17th.
IN THE NEWS: Boston Rustlers Cy Young shuts out Pittsburgh and Babe Adams 10 for his final career victory, number 511. It is Young's 2nd shutout against the Pirates, who lost just three of 22 games to Boston in 1911.
Jim Scott and Frank Lange apply whitewashes to the Browns as the White Sox win, 50 and 10.
IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson gives up a 2-run homer in the 6th inning to Joe Jackson, the 8th four-bagger the Big Train has allowed this year. Johnson had given up just two in the previous four seasons. Cleveland whips the Senators 61.
Christy Mathewson pitches the Giants to a 62 win over the Reds. New York now leads Chicago by eight games.
IN THE NEWS: Washington's Wid Conroy, in his final season, sets an American League record for total chances by a 3B with 13 in a 32 loss to Cleveland.
John C. Bender, brother of Philadelphia great Chief Bender, dies on the mound during a game played in Edmonton, Alberta.
IN THE NEWS: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their 2nd straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 115. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.
IN THE NEWS: A scant few hundred fans see the worst game in American League history as the Highlanders trounce the Browns 1812. The teams accumulate 29 hits, 20 walks, and 12 errors. New York scores in each of seven innings, steals a record 15 bases7 off C Jim Stephens in two innings, eight off Nig Clarke. Hal Chase and Birdie Cree lead the thieves with four steals each. Five Highlanders runners are thrown out.
In Chicago, Joe Tinker doubles in two runs in the 3rd inning off Christy Mathewson, and the Cubs make it hold up, winning 21.
Behind righty Jack Coombs, the Athletics clinch the AL pennant with an 115 victory over the Tigers.
IN THE NEWS: In a field day at Chicago, Ed Walsh hits a fungo 419 feet and one-half inch, beating a 413 foot eight and one-half inch drive by Cincinnati's Mike Mitchell on September 11, 1907.
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