IN THE NEWS: In the second twinbill whitewash in the National League in two weeks, the Reds shut out the Cardinals, 50 and 90. Carl Mays submarines the Birds in the opener and Rube Benton coasts in the nitecap.
IN THE NEWS: Dazzy Vance chalks up his 12th straight win, and 24th on the year, beating the Braves, 41. it's also the Robins' 12th straight win. Dutch Ruether then wins the nitecap, 91, giving Brooklyn a National League-record four doubleheader sweeps in four days. The Phils were swept for six straight on September 1, 2, and 3.
IN THE NEWS: In Philadelphia, the Giants sweep two from the Phils, winning 65 and 153. Harry Baldwin and Hugh McQuillan are the winners. Travis Jackson hits a grand slam in the game two rout.
IN THE NEWS: Spitball hurler Bill Doak pitches the Robins into first place with a 10 win over Boston. It is Brooklyn's 15th win in a row. The streak ends in a 54 Braves win in the 2nd game, and Brooklyn falls back to 3rd place behind the Giants and Pirates.
Travis Jackson hits his 2nd grand slam in two days as the Giants and Phils slug their way to a split. The Phils win the opener, 87 and the Giants come back to win, 1614. Harry Baldwin, in relief, wins his 2nd in two days.
Urban Shocker of the Browns hurls two completegame victories over the White Sox, winning each contest by a score of 62. He fans only one batter in the two games.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants bring a half-game lead into Ebbets Field. With the park already packed, some 7,000 fans batter down the LF exit gate with a telephone pole and break into the field. The Giants win the thriller, 87, despite three Robin runs in the 9th.
Behind Carl Mays and Dolf Luque, the Reds sweep a pair from the visiting Pirates, 41 and 43. The two teams combine for a major-league record as only one walk is issued in the twinbill.
IN THE NEWS: Washington, with a 2-game lead in the American League, beats the A's 84. Despite giving up solo home runs by Joe Hauser and Bing Miller, Walter Johnson's wins his 10th straight and his 20th of the year, For Hauser, trailing Babe Ruth in the home run race, it's his 3rd four bagger of the year off Johnson.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.
IN THE NEWS: Hours after beating the Tigers in Detroit, Walter Johnson receives word he's been elected American League MVP with 55 points. White Sox 2B Eddie Collins is a distant 2nd. He was runner-up to Ruth last year.
IN THE NEWS: At Ebbets Field, Cards 1B Jim Bottomley's three singles, a double, and two home runs produce a major-league record 12 RBI in the St. Louis 173 win over the pennant-chasing Robins. Willie Sherdel coasts home for the win. Bottomley starts the rampage with a 2-run single in the 1st, doubles home a run in the 2nd, hits a 4th inning grand slam off Art Decatur, and a 2-run home run off Decatur in the 6th. He follows with a 2-run single in the 7th, off Tex Wilson, and a run-scoring single in the 9th, after which he's removed for a pinch runner. Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson, watching from the dugout, set the previous record with the Orioles in 1892.
IN THE NEWS: With the Senators and Yankees deadlocked at 8359, Walter Johnson edges the Indians 32. Washington will win tomorrow to sweep the three game series.
IN THE NEWS: Pete Alexander slows the pennant-bound Giants and earns his 300th career victory in the process. The Cubs top the Giants in 12 innings at the Polo Grounds, 73.
Pitching on two days rest in St. Louis, Walter Johnson is pounded out of the box by the Browns and pinch hit for in the 2nd. Each team collects 18 hits as the Browns prevail 1514. Goslin gives the Nats a 1413 lead in the 10th with his 2nd home run of the game, but a wild throw to 2nd by reliever Firpo Marberry gives the win to the Browns.
Eager Beavers. Portland, scoring in every inning except the 1st, beats visiting Salt Lake City, 18-8. Emmett McCann of Portland sets a PCL record collecting seven hits, all singles, as Portland has 34 hits.
IN THE NEWS: The Senators open a 2-game lead as Walter Johnson wins his 13th in a row, 83 over Chicago. It's his 23rd win of the year. Washington will take the next two games in Chicago to sweep.
IN THE NEWS: Brooklyn's Burleigh Grimes dusts six batters in the first two innings and bests the Cubs, 65. Reliever Rip Wheeler takes the loss. 30,000 Brooklyn fans celebrate the team's showing at the 160th Street Regiment Armory where each player receives a gold watch. Manager Robinson predicts that the Robins will overtake the Giants in the next few days.
Carl Mays wins his 20th for the Reds 96 over the hosts Phils, becoming the first pitcher to win 20 for three different teams in his career. Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander's 21 wins for the Cards in 1927 will make him the 2nd; Gaylord Perry will be 3rd in 1978.
IN THE NEWS: With the Yankees beating the A's, Boston tightens the race by edging the Senators 21. September call-up Wade Lefler drives in Nemo Leibold in the 8th with a pinch double for the Nats only run. Washington now leads by a game. For the Senators, the loss stops Walter Johnson's 13-game win streak and Sam Rice's 31-game hit streak.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Jack Bentley's 4-hitter the Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating the Phils 51, while Brooklyn is losing 32 to Boston.
Down 40 in the first, the Senators rally to top the Red Sox 75, as the Fenway crowd of 20,000 cheers the Washington win. Rookie pinch hitter Wade Lefler, who had one at-bat with the Braves previously, drives in three runs with a bases loaded double to win it. Lefler drove in Washington's only run in Friday's loss, but his five games with Washington (5-for-9 with three doubles) and one with Boston will sum up his ML career. In Philadelphia, the A's beat the Yankees 43 to give the Senators a 2-game lead with two to play.
Rookie Pedro Dibut (30) hurls the Reds to a 101 win over the Cardinals. Except for a brief relief appearance next year, that's it in the majors for the chunky Cuban, who played in the Negro Leagues for the Cuban Giants (West) before the Reds. He sets a oft-tied National League record for most wins without a loss in a career, a mark that will be eclipsed by Ben Shields (40 in two leagues).
IN THE NEWS: Dazzy Vance fires a 5-hitter at the Phillies, beating them 51, for his 28th win. He strikes out 9, including five in a row, to run his season total to 277. Vance will win the MVP over Rogers Hornsby and his .424 average. One sportswriter, Jack Ryder, will leave the cranky Hornsby off all 10 spots on his ballot. Vance also wins a preseason bet with Brooklyn teammate Jack Fournier. He bet that he would win more games than Fournier would hit home runs; the first sacker tops the National League in round trippers with 27.
IN THE NEWS: With the blue law preventing any games yesterday in Boston or Philadelphia, the Senators clinch the pennant by beating the Red Sox 42, finishing two games in front of the Yankees, rained out in Philley. The win goes to Walter Johnson.
In the next-to-last game of the Western League season, Lyman Lamb of Tulsa hits his 100th double of the year. It is 25 doubles higher than any other season total in organized baseball.
IN THE NEWS: In the only game scheduled, the Series-bound Senators lose a laugher 131 to the Red Sox. Coach Nick Altrock, 48, pitches the last two innings for the Nats and gives up a run, while driving in the lone tally with a triple. With the Red Sox outfielders making little attempt to run the ball down, Altrock is the oldest player in ML history to hit a triple. Howard Ehmke is the winning pitcher but still leads the American League in losses with 17, the same number of losses he's had the previous two years.