IN THE NEWS: The Cubs beat the Phillies, 21, when OF Possum Whited misses a shoestring catch on a line drive by Heinie Zimmerman, Zim circles the bases for a homer to beat Alexander.
IN THE NEWS: On the 8th anniversary of Walter Johnson's debut, the Big Train tops the Browns, 51. The losing pitcher is George Sisler, who has a single off Johnson.
IN THE NEWS: On a cold and damp day in St. Louis, the Giants sweep the Cardinals. In the opener, New York pounds Red Ames and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 100 lead after six innings, but the Cards come back to make it close, losing 119. Jeff Tesreau saves Matty's 6th win of the year. New York takes the nitecap, 70.
IN THE NEWS: Against Pittsburgh, the Phillies lose, 10, when Quaker backstop Bill Killefer throws wildly past 3B in the 9th. Alexander is saddled with the loss.
IN THE NEWS: At Fenway, Smoky Joe Wood fires a one-hitter, beating Cleveland, 20. Bill Wambsganss single is the only Cleveland hit. For Wood, it is his 5th one-hitter, and the 3rd over regulation distance.
In Chicago, the White Sox top the Senators 62. Relieving for the losing pitcher Jim Shaw is future Hall of Famer Sam Rice, who will pitch only eight more times before going to the outfield for two decades. Playing RF in the game for Washington is Walter Johnson, filling in for the injured Danny Moeller.
Another Hall of Famer takes a turn on the mound, as George Sisler pitches to two Yankees in the 6th inning, hitting one and walking the other. The Browns-Yankees game is called at the end of 10 innings with the score tied 44.
For the 2nd time in six weeks, Pirate hurler Al Mamaux combines to throw a doubleheader shut out. This time his partner is Bob Harmon, as Mamaux stops the Phils 60 and Harmon follows with a 90 win.
As Brooklyn's rookie pitcher steps to the mound, St. Louis manager Miller Huggins, coaching at 3B, calls for the ball. The rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and the Cardinal runner scores. A change in the rules will prevent such trickery in the future.
IN THE NEWS: Phils OF Gavvy Cravath drives home a club-record-tying (Bransfield, 1910) eight runs on four doubles as Philadelphia wins 147 in Cincinnati. Two of Gavvy's doubles come with the bases loaded, a ML record, and the only time this century that someone has doubled with the sacks full twice in a game. Alexander coasts home to the win.
Hank O'Day, who managed the Cubs in 1914, returns to umpiring.
IN THE NEWS: George Cutshaw goes 6for6 to lead Brooklyn to a 130 pasting of the Cubs. He's the first player in 14 years to collect six hits in a game.
IN THE NEWS: In Washington, Detroit 3B Ossie Vitt is hit by a Walter Johnson fastball and, after being knocked out for five minutes, leaves the game with a concussion. A rattled Johnson then allows four runs in the first inning, two runs on a 2-run homer by George Burns, and another four through the 6th inning to lose (he will be 172 at home this year). Ty Cobb, observing Johnson's fear of hitting a batter, will begin crowd the plate on the Washington ace from here on. Cobb will average .435 for the rest of his career against Walter, after topping .222 only once in the previous eight years.
Babe Ruth is 2-for-4 while pitching the Red Sox to 103 win over the Browns in the 2nd of two. Ruth strikes out seven in winning his 10th.
IN THE NEWS: In the first matchup of Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson, the Babe comes away the winner, 43. He also goes 2-for-3 and scores a Boston run in the come from behind victory. Ruth is hitting .370, 2nd in the American League behind Ty Cobb.
IN THE NEWS: The Browns George Sisler pitches a complete game against the Indians, losing 10 to Guy Morton.
Hub Perdue of the Cardinals picks up a win with two 1/3 innings of relief in the opener with the Giants, then pitches another seven innings of relief in the nitecap to win his 2nd game of the day.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 10 shutout over Washington. The Nationals have lost all 11 games at Fenway this year.
In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Tiger rookie Bernie Boland no hits Cleveland through 26 batters before Ben Paschal singles, his first and only hit of the year. Boland wins, 31.
Miles Main of Kansas City (FL) pitches a 50 no-hitter versus Buffalo.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Rube Benton pitches a 32 win for Pittsburgh over Chicago, but both the Cubs and Giants protest the win, claiming Rube belongs to New York. A week later, National League directors agree with them, upholding his purchase by the Giants from the Reds.
IN THE NEWS: The new Braves Field opens in Boston. An estimated 46,500 jam the park to see the Braves and Dick Rudolph beat the Cards, 31.
Good job. Wilbur Good becomes the only Cub ever to steal 2B, 3B, and home in the same inning. He does it in the 6th frame of a 90 beating of Brooklyn.
Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, sponsors the first National High School baseball tournament. It is an instant success and will continue every August (except during W W II) to the present. It will often be called the Koshien Tournament, after the stadium near Osaka where the games will be played starting in 1924.
IN THE NEWS: Red Faber pitches the White Sox to a 21 win over the Red Sox, beating Rube Foster. With the Tigers' win over the A's, Boston and Detroit are virtually tied for 1st.
The Giants purchase the contract of George "High Pockets" Kelly from Victoria for $1200. Kelly is the nephew of Bill Lange, 1890s star of the Chicago Nationals.
IN THE NEWS: In the 2nd inning of Game One of a doubleheader versus Detroit, the crowd sees the Senators score a run with no times at bat., the only time its ever happened. Chick Gandil and Merito Acosta walk; Buff Williams sacrifices, and George McBride hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Gandil, and the Tigers catch Acosta off 2B when OF Bobby Veach throws to Ossie Vitt. Washington's Walter Johnson goes on to win, 81, and snap the Tigers' 9-game win streak.
In the FL, Newark takes two from Pittsburgh, winning the opener on Edd Roush's 10th inning inside the park homer. Newark leads by one percentage point over Kansas City, with Pittsburgh 3rd and Chicago 4th, only one 1/2 games separating the teams. The race is so close by season's end Newark will be 5th, six games out. Chicago will win it by one game with 86-66 to St. Louis 87-67 and Pittsburgh's 86-67. There will be nine 20-game winners, led by George McConnell's 25-10 for the Whales, the only year McConnell wins more than eight games.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, the Cardinals sweep two from the Giants, winning 54 and 43. New York is in 7th place, eight 1/2 games in back of the leading Phillies.
IN THE NEWS: The Browns bring George Sisler in to pitch five innings of relief. Sisler gives up one run and earns the win, a 107 victory over the A's Rube Bressler.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants release Rube Marquard to Toronto (IL) but the veteran pitcher refuses to go to the minors. He works out his own deal and is signed by Wilbert Robinson and the Dodgers. Rube will post a 136 record next season for Uncle Robby.
The Red Sox win 21 in 13 innings to sweep the Tigers and solidify their hold on 1st place. Boston has now won seven straight and 19 of 21.
IN THE NEWS: George Sisler again pitches against Walter Johnson and this time wins, 21. He will be 44 for the Browns and 12 next year before moving permanently to 1B. Sisler is helped in the 8th inning when Brownie 2B Del Pratt nabs pinch runner Horace Milan, in his ML debut, with a hidden ball trick. Horace is the brother of teammate Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan.
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