Nationals 7, Browns 6: Sam Rice had four hits and knocked in five runs to carry Washington to a win that salvaged a split of the doubleheader in St. Louis. The Browns had looked intent on sweeping the pair of games when they plated three men in the bottom of the 1st behind a pair of walks and an Earl Smith triple, but Eric Erickson (3-4) found his legs on the hill and his teammates. led by Rice, set to work. Joe Judge reached on an error to start the 3rd and Rasty Wright (2-2) then walked the next two men to begin Rice to the plate with three men aboard. A few deliveries later, there were none aboard as Rice drove a ball into the seats for a grand slam that jumped the visitors into the lead. In the 7th, Rice was at it again as he capped an eight-batter rally with an RBI single that pushed the WAS advantage to 7-3. All the work was not done, however, as Jack Tobin and Ken Williams hit home runs in home half of the 8th to close the game to within a run, and Molly Craft had to be summoned to take the ball from Erickson and record the final four outs. [box]
| Sam Rice, WAS |
Browns 14, Nationals 3: Herman Bronkie and Ken Williams each scored three times and Earl Smith drove in three as St. Louis pummeled Washington in front of an appreciative assemblage at Sportsman's Park. Matters were settled fairly early as the Browns scored three times in the 1st and five times in the 3rd against Ed Gill (1-1) while Allen Sothoron went largely untroubled on the slab until the Nats scored a couple of consolation runs in the late innings. Smith and Jack Tobin each had three hits, and Williams drew three walks. and reached base five times. Howie Shanks had two hits and two RBI for the visitors. [box]
Red Sox 5, Tigers 2: Red Shannon had four hits and three RBI, and Herb Pennock cruised to a complete-game road victory at Detroit. Thirteen-game winner Bernie Boland (13-3) was no mystery to the Sox in the early going, as he loaded the bases on a hit and two walks in the 2nd before Shannon drove a bases-clearing triple into the left-centerfield gap, and Babe Ruth tripled and scored in the following inning to put Boston ahead by a count of 4 to 0. Pennock (5-7), meanwhile, was scattering nine hits and a walk and allowing just single runs in the 5th and 8th. Ben Dyer had three hits in the losing cause for the Tigers. [box]
White Sox 5, Yankees 4: An 8th-inning wild pitch scored the winning run as Chicago overcame a late New York rush to win at Comiskey Park. The Sox led 4-1 on the strength of a four-run 4th inning built on two Yankee fielding errors and a two-run single from Nemo Leibold, but the Gothams scratched their way back into the contest with the help of three walks in the 7th (Roger Peckinpaugh driving home two of them) and a Del Pratt triple in the 8th (scoring on Ping Bodie's sac fly). But, as soon as they'd drawn level, New York gave the lead right back - Peckinpaugh muffed Hap Felsch's ground ball to start the inning, and Walt Smallwood () walked Fred McMullin with one out. After a grounder moved the runners to second and third with two out, Smallwood just needed to retire pitcher Eddie Cicotte to escape but he bounced one past catcher Truck Hannah and Swede Risberg scampered home with the lead run. Cicotte (13-7) retired the Yankees in order in the 9th to finish the game despite unusual issues with his control (four walks), [box]
Indians 6, Athletics 2: The right arm of Jim Bagby and indifferent glove work were enough to doom the Athletics to their eight straight defeat. Cleveland got off to a quick start against Scott Perry (3-13), scoring three times in the 1st and once again in the 3rd, but Perry then settled in and the A's tried to make a game of it against Bagby (9-9). Three straight hits to begin the 7th led to two Philadelphia runs, and there were some nervous glances amongst the League Park gathering, but the Athletic defense let them down immediately in the home half of the inning. After Perry had retired Tris Speaker on a fly ball, he induced ground balls from Elmer Smith and Larry Gardner, neither of which were fielded cleanly. Bill Wambsganss then brought one of those runners home with a base hit, and Doc Johnston the other with a sacrifice fly, and the Philadelphians went meekly after that. Wambsganss and Gardner had three hits each for Cleveland. [box]
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