IN THE NEWS: The National League lead seesaws. Beaten by Brooklyn 6–2 while the Braves win twice, the Giants drop out of first place for the first time since May 30. Tomorrow they sweep two from Brooklyn and retake the top spot.
IN THE NEWS: Pitching for visiting Providence (IL) 19-year-old Babe Ruth beats Toronto 9–0 with a one-hitter, and hits his only minor league home run, a 3-run blast off Ellis Johnson.
IN THE NEWS: The Braves and Giants play an A.M.-P.M. twin bill in Boston on Labor Day. To accommodate the crowds, the Braves have moved their home games to Fenway Park, courtesy of owner Joe Lannin: Fenway has triple the seating capacity of South End Grounds. The two contests draw 74,163 on the day. The Braves, down 4–3 to Christy Mathewson in the 9th, storm back for two runs to win the opener. Josh Devore scratches a single, Herb Moran doubles into the crowd ringing the outfield, and Johnny Evers slaps a single that eludes George Burns to drive home the tying and winning runs. Jeff Tesreau wins the nitecap, 10–1, and the Giants pile on Lefty Tyler. In the Giants' 4-run sixth, Fred Snodgrass takes a pitch on the sleeve to reach 1B, thumbing his nose at Tyler along the way. Lefty retaliates by acting out Fred's 1912 muff. When Snodgrass returns to CF, the crowd is merciless to the point that Boston Mayor Curley rushes on the field and demands the umpires eject the Giant player. McGraw, worried that Snodgrass might incur an injury, replaces Snodgrass.
Floods severely damage the Kansas City Packers' (FL) ballpark, washing away fences and demolishing the clubhouse.
IN THE NEWS: In the opener at Boston, the Phils win their only game in the series, 10–3, behind Pete Alexander. In game two of a doubleheader, George A. Davis, a Harvard law student, pitches the only shutout of his brief career, a 7–0 no-hitter for the first-place Braves over the Phils. The spitballer walks the bases loaded with no outs in the 5th, but "he rose to the occasion to prove his perfect candidacy to a niche in the hall of stars," writes the Boston Post. Released by the Highlanders in 1912, Davis will be 3–3 this year and next, then hang up his glove to start a law practice.
IN THE NEWS: Yankee SS Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, replaces Frank Chance and becomes the all-time youngest manager, and the 7th in the club's 12-year existence. He will win nine of 17 games and will manage next at Cleveland in 1928.
In Philadelphia, Grover Cleveland Alexander is awarded an automobile before the game as the Phillies' most popular player, then drives over the Giants Rube Marquard for a 1–0 win.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland's Nap Lajoie strokes his 3,000th hit, a single off Detroit's Pug Cavet, joining Honus Wagner and Cap Anson as the only players to reach that mark.
IN THE NEWS: Ed Lafitte pitches a 6–2 no-hitter for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops (FL) over the Kansas City Packers. Wildness costs him the two runs. He will lead the FL with 127 walks.
Before the Phils-Cards game, Alexander is presented with a check for $1,000 for winning 25 games. Alex proceeds to win his 25th, allowing just two hits while fanning 11.
IN THE NEWS: John Lush of Portland (PCL) pitches a 9-inning no-hitter against Venice, losing 1–0. It is the 2nd no-hit loss in the PCL in five years (Frank Arellanes, Sacramento, October 17, 1910, loses 2–0).
IN THE NEWS: The White Sox score in the 4th inning on a Walter Johnson wild pitch, one of four that Johnson uncorks in the game. But he strikes out 12 batters in 13 innings as the Nats finally break through against Chicago's Red Faber for a 6–1 win. The record book gives Johnson all four wild pitches in the 4th inning, but it appears that Eddie Collins, who opened with a single, stole 2nd and advanced on a grounder to 3rd, scored the Pale Hose's only tally on a just one wild pitch.
IN THE NEWS: Boston (American League) P Ray Collins hurls two complete-game victories over the Tigers, winning by scores of 5–3 and 5–0.
At the Polo Grounds, the Cubs score five runs in the 1st inning against Christy Mathewson. It is all Larry Cheney needs, as he tosses a 3-hitter to win, 5–0. The Giants now trail the Braves by five games.
IN THE NEWS: After losing Game One to Boston, 3–2, the last-place Reds come back in game two to break the longest losing streak in the club's history (and 3rd longest in the National League and tying the 20th C. mark of the 1906 Bston Nationals) at 19 straight. Charles "King" Lear wins his only game of the year and pitches his only shutout ever, 3–0. The Reds wait till the 9th to score their three runs.
Rube Marquard loses his 12th in a row, as the Cards sink the Giants twice, but the Cards fall short of overtaking New York in 2nd place by two 1/2 games.
Pete Alexander coasts to a 9–4 win over the Cubs as Gavvy Cravath bangs two homers to lead the Phils' offense.
IN THE NEWS: At New York, the Cardinals win their 3rd game in a row over the stumbling Giants, 4–3. Cozy Dolan's 9th inning double off reliever Christy Mathewson drives home the winning score.
At Fenway Park, the Braves roll over the Cubs, 6–2 and 12–2. Lefty Tyler tops Hippo Vaughn in the opener, and Otto Hess beats Larry Chaney in the 2nd game. The red hot Braves will sweep the four-game series with the Cubs.
Meanwhile, the Giants split with the Pirates, winning and losing by 4–2 scores. Babe Adams wins the nitecap for the Bucs, shutting out the Giants in the last eight innings.
IN THE NEWS: At St. Louis, the Athletics clinch the AL pennant behind Chief Bender's 6–0 shutout as the Red Sox split a doubleheader. Bender allows 4 hits, two by Gus Williams, and he strikes out 5. Williams will end the year with 120 strikeouts, the first batter to K more than 100 since Sam Wise set the ML record in 1884 with 104.
In the opener of a doubleheader in Cleveland, Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit as his Cleveland team defeats the Yankees, 5–3. Lajoie is 2-for-2 with two doubles. He is given the ball after his double. The
star is not expected to play the rest of the year and he does not play in game 2, which the Yankees win, 5-2.
At Detroit, CF Ty Cobb misplays a bases-loaded single in the 10th by Ray Morgan and four runs score. The Senators win, 6-2.
After losing four in Boston, the Cubs play an exhibition game against the Providence Grays and lose again, 8-7, in 8 innings. By prior arrangement, the Cubs skip the 9th to make a train. The game at Rocky Point features two splash homers hit into Narragansett bay, one by Wilbur Good and another by Grays pitcher Babe Ruth. Ruth adds a triple
and on the slab he walks 7 and strikes out 3. The Cubs pocket $400 for their showdown with the Babe.
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