IN THE NEWS: Boston sidearmer George Tyler spins a one-hitter over the Giants to win, 2–1. The Braves reach Christy Mathewson for eight hits and two runs.
IN THE NEWS: The Phils score the only run this afternoon in a doubleheader in Boston. The visitors win the opener, 1–0, then the two play 10 innings of scoreless baseball before the game is called. Grover Cleveland Alexander misses his 20th win, but will reach the mark in three days.
IN THE NEWS: Ed Reulbach pitches Brooklyn to a 2–0 whitewash of the Giants, allowing just two hits. Christy Mathewson takes the loss, his 9th of the year. John McGraw, frustrated with his team's lack of hitting, losses an argument with ump Mal Eason and is tossed.
Athletics 2B Eddie Collins steals home twice in a game against the Red Sox to tie the ML mark.
IN THE NEWS: Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry's flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years before.
IN THE NEWS: In front of the largest crowd of the season (22,000), Cubs hurler Larry Cheney hurls a 14-hit shutout against the visiting Giants, defeating them 7–0 while setting a major-league record for most hits allowed in a 9-inning whitewashing. Milt Gaston of Washington will duplicate the feat on July 10, 1928. Cheney wins his 20th over Rube Marquard, also seeking his 20th.
IN THE NEWS: Frank L. Hough, sports editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and one of two writers who owned 25 percent of the Athletics when the team was founded, dies.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants continue to both lead the league and sport cold bats, barely holding on to split with the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson drops the opener, 1–0, in 10 innings when Fred Snodgrass misplays a fly ball into a triple. New York takes the nitecap, 2–0.
IN THE NEWS: In the opener of a doubleheader, the A's Joe Bush tops Detroit, 4–0. In game 2, Herb Pennock, 19, aided by Eddie Plank, blanks the Tigers 1–0 to clinch the AL pennant for the A's. Plank gets the win in relief.
The Phils' Pete Alexander shuts out the Cubs, 2–0, in the first of two games with Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Christy Mathewson scatters 11 Brooklyn safeties, walks none, to beat Ed Reulbach, 2–1. It is Matty's 25th win. He will finish the year with 25 victories and 21 walks.
IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson wins his 36th game and 11th shutout of the year, defeating the league champion Athletics 1–0 on George McBride Day, a day honoring the Nationals' captain and SS.
IN THE NEWS: Washington shuts out the A's again, winning 3–0, as 17-year-old outfielder Merito Acosta collects two hits and swipes 3B in the 4th inning. Yesterday, the Cuban teenager was caught trying in his steal attempt.
The Phillies are 2–1 for the day, finishing the game of August 30th with the Giants, and splitting two more. The Phils win, 8–6, with the loss going to Christy Mathewson, in the disputed game. Mathewson and Rube Marquard then combine to beat the Phils, 8–3 before the Quakers return the favor, 4–3.
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