100 YEARS AGO AT THE POLO GROUNDS 9/19/1921: Yanks Sink Back to Second After Loss to Tigers; Fading Pirates Salvage Finale Against Giants

From the desk: WHEN THE POLO GROUNDS WAS THE WORLD

100 Years Ago Today at the Polo Grounds: 

New York Giants & New York Yankees 

1921 Season Revisited

In their last season at Hilltop Park, the now formerly known New York Highlanders lose 102 games.  Rebranded in 1913 as the Yankees, they move just a few blocks away into the Polo Grounds as tenants of the Senior Circuit's New York Giants.  To the chagrin of Giants manager John McGraw, the Americans proceed to lose another 94 games.  

Known to hold a grudge, McGraw two full decades later still harbors much animosity not only towards Ban Johnson and his rebel circuit (unkept promises included) but more so towards the Yankees.  As they were founded at the expense of his rendered defunct Baltimore Orioles.  

As long as the Yankees paid their rent, the tenant/landlord relationship with the Giants remains amicably strained.  Mainly because the middling Americans, except for one season in 1916, never elevated themselves above the ranks of Junior Circuit also-rans.  But that changed in 1919 when they briefly vied for the pennant but tuckered out down the stretch to finish third.  A franchise record of 619,164 fans showed up to root for the American League contenders.  However, the Yankees' burgeoning success was not yet a pressing issue, per se, for the Giants, who were coming off a second-place finish and their best season at the turnstile in a decade.

Then, in 1920, baseball's tectonic plates shifted along the New York/New England fault.  The Yankees' purchase of George Herman "Babe" Ruth from the Boston Red Sox sends seismic waves reverberating throughout the baseball world but none more intense than in Washington Heights.  

Ruth's earth-shattering record of 54 home runs was something never experienced before in the history of baseball.  However, it was an accomplishment for which John McGraw had little appreciation.  He believes players work too hard and earnestly to have their skills disrespected by some miscreant's lone swing of the bat.

Gotham's citizenry never before descended from Coogan's Bluff in such quantity and spectacle as in 1920 as the Giants would set a franchise record with 929,609 reported attendance.  However, the New York Nationals faced an economic dilemma of Ruthian proportions.  McGraw's disdain for his tenants was heightened when the Yankees outdrew the host Giants in their own home for the first time in each franchise's history.  Headlined by Babe Ruth, the Yankees seized the city's attention, evidenced by an all-time major league record of 1,289,422 in attendance.

In 1921, over two million fans would again pack the Polo Grounds.  Babe Ruth would continue accomplishing the unimaginable - if the preceding season wasn't surreal enough, he proceeds to top it.  All the while, with each passing day, John McGraw grows more incensed.  Lest we forget, New York City is still Little Napoleon's empire.  

Sharing a ballpark is becoming an insufferable condition—the Giants attempt to evict the Yankees before the 1921 season to no avail.  But a solution lies not too far away ...  

Until then, two major league titans charge headlong into a season-ending October clash at the Polo Grounds.  It is New York City's first-ever World's Championship Subway Series.  All games are played at the Polo Grounds, making Coogan's Bluff the center of the baseball universe. 

This is my replay of that season. Of course, I'll be exercising my creative license whenever and wherever ever possible. But, more than anything, this is about having fun and celebrating New York City's baseball history.  

• Stats: BASEBALL REFERENCE

Enjoy the games ... PLAY BALL!

GAME #142

BOXSCORE: Monday, September 19, 1921 - BR

Detroit Tigers @ NEW YORK YANKEES

POLO GROUNDS

The Hugmen Suffer Late Round Knockout; Cleveland Moves Back Into First

Back into second place, they go.  With the Yankees leading 4-0 after three, a Monday crowd of 12,000 is left jaw-dropped when the Tigers pounce all over starter Carl Mays, then Bob Shawkey, and then Waite Hoyt in an eighth-inning eight-run debacle.  Phil Douglas yields another two-run single in the ninth.  The Yankees managed single runs in the eighth and ninth for naught.  Detroit left fielder Bobby Veach and first baseman Lu Blue join together for eight hits and four runs batted in, while manager Ty Cobb

and right fielder Harry Heilmann join for six hits.  The idle Cleveland Indians move back into first place by one half-game ahead of the Yankees.

• FINAL: DET 10; NYY 6
• RECORD: 89-53 (.627); second place, 0.5 GB of Cleveland

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GAME #145

BOXSCORE: Monday, September 19, 1921 - BR

New York Giants @ PITTSBURGH PIRATES

Forbes Field

The Everlong Crafty Babe Adams Hurls a Gem; Bucs Salvage Series Finale

The wily lifelong corsair and two-time twenty-game winner Babe Adams salvages the series finale for Pittsburgh near single-handed.  A first-inning error by second baseman George Cutshaw clears the way for Frankie Frisch to score the game's opening run.  But the Giants do not score again.  Babe Adams holds the McGrawmen scoreless on just four more hits and no walks over the final eight innings for the win.  Babe Adams also leads off the sixth inning with a triple and scores the tying run.  Starter Phil Douglas pitches well, just not well enough, allowing two runs (one earned) on just four hits and three walks through seven innings for the loss.  Nevertheless, the Giants depart Pittsburgh with a 3.5 game lead over the Pirates with only nine games left to play.

• FINAL: NYG 1; PITT 2
• RECORD: 90-55 (.621); First Place, 3.5 GA of Pittsburgh

100 YEARS AGO AT THE POLO GROUNDS 8/4/1921: Ty Cobb Schools Yankees; Giants Bow Again at Sportsman's Park

From the desk: WHEN THE POLO GROUNDS WAS THE WORLD

100 Years Ago Today at the Polo Grounds: 

New York Giants & New York Yankees 

1921 Season Revisited

In their last season at Hilltop Park, the now formerly known New York Highlanders lose 102 games.  Rebranded in 1913 as the Yankees, they move just a few blocks away into the Polo Grounds as tenants of the Senior Circuit's New York Giants.  To the chagrin of Giants manager John McGraw, the Americans proceed to lose another 94 games.  

Known to hold a grudge, McGraw two full decades later still harbors much animosity not only towards Ban Johnson and his rebel circuit (unkept promises included) but more so towards the Yankees.  As they were founded at the expense of his rendered defunct Baltimore Orioles.  

As long as the Yankees paid their rent, the tenant/landlord relationship with the Giants remains amicably strained.  Mainly because the middling Americans, except for one season in 1916, never elevated themselves above the ranks of Junior Circuit also-rans.  But that changed in 1919 when they briefly vied for the pennant but tuckered out down the stretch to finish third.  A franchise record of 619,164 fans showed up to root for the American League contenders.  However, the Yankees' burgeoning success was not yet a pressing issue, per se, for the Giants, who were coming off a second-place finish and their best season at the turnstile in a decade.

Then, in 1920, baseball's tectonic plates shift along the New York/New England fault.  The Yankees' purchase of George Herman "Babe" Ruth from the Boston Red Sox sends seismic waves reverberating throughout the baseball world but none more intense than in Washington Heights.  

Ruth's earth-shattering record of 54 home runs was something never experienced before in the history of baseball.  However, it was an accomplishment for which John McGraw had little appreciation.  He believes players work too hard and earnestly to have their skills disrespected by some miscreant's lone swing of the bat.

Gotham's citizenry never before descended from Coogan's Bluff in such quantity and spectacle as in 1920 as the Giants would set a franchise record with 929,609 reported attendance.  However, the New York Nationals faced an economic dilemma of Ruthian proportions.  McGraw's disdain for his tenants was heightened when the Yankees outdrew the host Giants in their own home for the first time in each franchise's history.  Headlined by Babe Ruth, the Yankees seized the city's attention, evidenced by an all-time major league record of 1,289,422 in attendance.

In 1921, over two million fans would again pack the Polo Grounds.  Babe Ruth would continue accomplishing the unimaginable - if the preceding season wasn't surreal enough, he proceeds to top it.  All the while, with each passing day, John McGraw grows more incensed.  Lest we forget, New York City is still Little Napoleon's empire.  

Sharing a ballpark is becoming an insufferable condition—the Giants attempt to evict the Yankees before the 1921 season to no avail.  But a solution lies not too far away ...  

Until then, two major league titans charge headlong into a season-ending October clash at the Polo Grounds.  It is New York City's first-ever World's Championship Subway Series.  All games are played at the Polo Grounds, making Coogan's Bluff the center of the baseball universe. 

This is my replay of that season. Of course, I'll be exercising my creative license whenever and wherever ever possible. But, more than anything, this is about having fun and celebrating New York City's baseball history.  

• Stats: BASEBALL REFERENCE

Enjoy the games ... PLAY BALL!

GAME #95

BOXSCORE: Thursday, August 4, 1921 - BR

Detroit Tigers @ NEW YORK YANKEES

POLO GROUNDS

Ty Cobb Leads Tigers Hitting Attack Versus Yankees

After yesterday's series-opening postponement, the Tigers pounce all over Bob Shawkey and the Yanks.  Shawkey yields a leadoff double to first baseman Lu Blue then loses his touch.  Perhaps the home plate umpire didn't rub enough baseball's new white powder on the ball because Shawkey walks Ty Cobb to load the bases, then walks Bobby Veach to force home the Tigers' first run.  Right fielder Harry Heilmann's fly center scores Donnie Bush, and Bob Jones' fly to right scores Cobb for a 3-0 first-inning lead.  Ty Cobb in the fifth gives Babe Ruth a glimpse of his own home run capabilities, with his tenth clout this season giving Detroit a 4-0 lead.  The Yankees finally score off Dutch Leonard in the fourth when Wally Pipp's sacrifice fly to center field scores Ruth from third.  The score remains unchanged through the seventh.  Manager Ty Cobb again leads by example in the eighth tripling home Donnie Bush and scoring on Bobby Veach's fly ball to right.  Home Run Baker drives home Roger Peckinpaugh and Ruth in the visiting eighth, but third baseman Bobby Jones takes exception with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the frame, after which Dutch Leonard helps himself with a hit and run batted in.  Dutch Leonard limits the Yankees to three runs on seven hits and four walks for the win.  Bob Shawkey allows all eight runs on eight hits, including two home runs and three walks for the loss.  However, there's good news out of the nation's capital, where the Senators swept both games of a twin bill against the Cleveland Indians.  Thus, despite today's loss against Detroit, the Yankees actually gain a half-game on the Indians.

• FINAL: DET 8; NYY 3
• RECORD: 59-36 (.621); second place, 0.5 GB of Cleveland

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GAME #101

BOXSCORE: Thursday, August 4, 1921 - BR

New York Giants @ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS

Sportsman's Park

Giants Befuddled by Rookie Bill Pertica; Cards Win Third Straight 

In one of the more ponderous losses this season, the Giants bow to the Cardinals for a third consecutive game at Sportsman's Park.  St. Louis right-hander Bill Pertica, who as a rookie pitched just one game in 1918, then completely missed the last two seasons, making his 24th appearance this season, limits New York to just six hits and no walks with a season-high six strikeouts over nine scoreless innings for a complete-game shutout victory.  Ross Youngs accounts for half of Gotham's hits including a triple.  Art Nehf, who pitches very effectively, is the hard-luck loser.  He allows seven hits and one walk but eventually yields.  Second baseman Rogers Hornsby with a hit in the sixth drives him the only run of the game.  Don't look now, but the Boston Braves trail the Giants by three games.

• FINAL: NYG 0; STL 1
• RECORD: 61-40 (.604); second place, 3.5 GB of Pittsburgh

100 YEARS AGO AT THE POLO GROUNDS 6/12/1921: Roger Peckinpaugh Home Run In Ninth Defeats Tigers; Giants Skid Hits Five

From the desk: WHEN THE POLO GROUNDS WAS THE WORLD

100 Years Ago Today at the Polo Grounds: 

New York Giants & New York Yankees 

1921 Seasons Revisited

In their last season at Hilltop Park, the now formerly known New York Highlanders lost 102 games.  Rebranded as the Yankees, in 1913, they moved just a few blocks away into the Polo Grounds as tenants of the Senior Circuit's New York Giants.  To the chagrin of Giants manager John McGraw, the Americans proceeded to lose another 94 games.  

Known to hold a grudge, McGraw still harbored much animosity two full decades later, not only towards Ban Johnson and his rebel circuit (unkept promises included) but more so towards the Yankees.  As they were founded at the expense of his rendered defunct Baltimore Orioles.  

For as long as the Yankees paid their rent, the tenant/landlord relationship with the Giants remained amicably strained.  Mainly because the middling Americans, except for one season in 1916, never elevated themselves above the ranks of Junior Circuit also-rans.  But that changed in 1919 when they briefly vied for the pennant but tuckered out down the stretch to finish third.  A franchise record of 619,164 fans showed up to root for the American League contenders.  However, the Yankees' burgeoning success was not yet a pressing issue, per se, for the Giants, who were coming off a second-place finish and their best season in a decade at the turnstile.

Then, in 1920, baseball's tectonic plates along the New York/New England fault shift.  The Yankees' purchase of George Herman "Babe" Ruth from the Boston Red Sox sends seismic waves reverberating throughout the baseball world but none more intense than in Washington Heights.  

Ruth's earth-shattering record of 54 home runs was something never experienced before in the history of baseball.  However, it was an accomplishment for which John McGraw had little appreciation.  He believes players work too hard and earnestly to have their skills disrespected by some miscreant's lone swing of the bat.

Gotham's citizenry never before descended from Coogan's Bluff in such quantity and spectacle as in 1920 as the Giants would set a franchise record with 929,609 reported attendance.  However, the New York Nationals faced an economic dilemma of Ruthian proportions.  McGraw's disdain for his tenants was further heightened when the Yankees outdrew the host Giants in their own home for the first time in each franchise's history.  Headlined by Babe Ruth, the Yankees seized the city's attention, evidenced by an all-time major league record of 1,289,422 in attendance.

In 1921, over two million fans would again pack the Polo Grounds.  Babe Ruth would continue accomplishing the unimaginable, and if that wasn't surreal enough, he proceeds to top it.  All the while, with each passing day, John McGraw grows more incensed.  Lest we forget, New York City is still Little Napoleon's empire.  

Sharing a ballpark for both teams is becoming an insufferable condition—the Giants attempt to evict the Yankees before the start of 1921 to no avail.  But a solution lies not too far away ...  

Until then, two major league titans charge headlong into a season-ending October clash at the Polo Grounds.  It is New York City's first-ever World's Championship Subway Series.  All games are played at the Polo Grounds, making Coogan's Bluff the center of the baseball universe. 

This is my replay of that season. Of course, I'll be exercising my creative license whenever and wherever ever possible. But, more than anything, this is about having fun and celebrating New York City's baseball history.  

• Stats: BASEBALL REFERENCE

Enjoy the games ... PLAY BALL!

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GAME #52

BOXSCORE: Sunday, June 12, 1921 - BR

Detroit Tigers @ NEW YORK YANKEES

POLO GROUNDS

Ruth Hits Number 19, But Roger Peckinpaugh Strikes Decisive Blow

If you were a pitching and defense enthusiast, this was not the game for you.  There were 31 total hits struck in this game, but fans and scribes only talked about one.  A robust crowd of 34,000 fans packs the Polo Grounds in witness of Babe Ruth's 19th home run this season as part of a fifth-inning seven-run outburst.  Detroit starter Suds Sutherland and Yankees hurler Bob Shawkey both experience early exits.  Sutherland allows eight runs on 14 hits and a walk through six innings pitched.  Meanwhile, Bob Shawkey likewise surrenders eight runs through seven innings, but only two are earned.  Detroit rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth, highlighted by Harry Heilmann's triple.  Now facing reliever Dutch Leonard in the bottom half of the eight and the game tied at eight, Roger Peckinpaugh connects for a two-run home run, Wally Pipp drives home Ruth, and Aaron Ward plates Pipp for a 12-8 Yankees lead, and the final margin of victory.  Winning pitcher Jack Quinn retires the Tigers in a scoreless ninth.  This is New York's second straight defeat of the Tigers and their fifth win in six contests against Detroit.

• FINAL: DET 8; NYY 12
• RECORD: 31-21 (.596); second place, 1.5 GB of Cleveland

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GAME #51

BOXSCORE: Sunday, June 12, 1921 - BR

New York Giants @ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS

Sportsman's Park

Cardinals' Ninth Inning Heroics Send Giants to Fifth Straight Loss

Game two against the Cardinals is a tightly contested affair pitting Jesse Barnes against Cardinals' rookie Bill Pertica.  In the first, Frankie Frisch drives home Dave Bancroft for the first run of the game.  Jesse Barnes keeps St. Louis scoreless through the fifth.  In the sixth, Rogers Hornsby triples home a run and scores, giving the Cardinals a 2-1 lead.  In the top of the ninth, John Monroe's two-run home run off Pertica gives the Giants a 3-2 lead.  But it does not last.  Third baseman Milt Stock's two-run home run off Fred Toney in the bottom half of the ninth gives the Cardinals the win in a theatrical fashion. Meanwhile, the Giants are sent to their fifth straight defeat.  Slim Salle takes the loss.

• FINAL: NYG 3; STL 4
• RECORD: 32-19 (.627); second place, 3.0 GB of Pittsburgh

100 YEARS AGO AT THE POLO GROUNDS 5/12/1921: Kelly's Grand Slam Powers Giants; Yankees Win Slugfest at Navin Field

From the desk: WHEN THE POLO GROUNDS WAS THE WORLD

100 Years Ago Today at the Polo Grounds: 

New York Giants & New York Yankees 

1921 Seasons Revisited

In their last season at Hilltop Park, the now formerly known New York Highlanders lost 102 games.  Rebranded as the Yankees, in 1913, they moved just a few blocks away into the Polo Grounds as tenants of the Senior Circuit's New York Giants.  To the chagrin of Giants manager John McGraw, the Americans proceeded to lose another 94 games.  

Known to hold a grudge, McGraw still harbored much animosity two full decades later, not only towards Ban Johnson and his rebel circuit (unkept promises included) but more so towards the Yankees.  As they were founded at the expense of his rendered defunct Baltimore Orioles.  

For as long as the Yankees paid their rent, the tenant/landlord relationship with the Giants remained amicably strained.  Mainly because the middling Americans, except for one season in 1916, never elevated themselves above the ranks of Junior Circuit also-rans.  But that changed in 1919 when they briefly vied for the pennant but tuckered out down the stretch to finish third.  A franchise-record 619,164 fans showed up to root for the American League contenders.  However, the Yankees' burgeoning success was not yet a pressing issue, per se, for the Giants, who were coming off a second-place finish and their best season in a decade at the turnstile.

Then, in 1920, baseball's tectonic plates along the New York/New England fault shift.  The Yankees' purchase of George Herman "Babe" Ruth from the Boston Red Sox sends seismic waves reverberating throughout the baseball world but none more intense than in Washington Heights.  

Ruth's earth-shattering record of 54 home runs was something never experienced before in the history of baseball.  However, it was an accomplishment for which John McGraw had little appreciation.  He believes players work too hard and earnestly only to have their skills disrespected by some miscreant's lone swing of the bat.

Gotham's citizenry never before descended from Coogan's Bluff in such quantity and spectacle than in 1920 as the Giants would set a franchise record with 929,609 reported attendance.  However, the New York Nationals faced an economic dilemma of Ruthian proportions.  McGraw's disdain for his tenants was further heightened when the Yankees outdrew the host Giants in their own home for the first time in each franchise's history.  Headlined by Babe Ruth, the Yankees seized the city's attention, evidenced by an all-time major league record of 1,289,422 in attendance.

In 1921, over two million fans would again pack the Polo Grounds.  Babe Ruth would continue accomplishing the unimaginable, and if that wasn't surreal enough, he proceeds to top it.  All the while, with each passing day, John McGraw grows more incensed.  Lest we forget, New York City is still Little Napoleon's empire.  

Sharing a ballpark for both teams is becoming an insufferable condition—the Giants attempt to evict the Yankees before the start of 1921 to no avail.  But a solution lies not too far away ...  

Until then, two major league titans charge headlong into a season-ending October clash at the Polo Grounds.  It is New York City's first-ever World's Championship Subway Series.  All games are played at the Polo Grounds, making Coogan's Bluff the center of the baseball universe. 

This is my replay of that season.  I'll be exercising my creative license whenever and wherever ever possible.  More than anything, this is about having fun and celebrating New York City's baseball history.  

• Stats: BASEBALL REFERENCE

Enjoy the games ... PLAY BALL!

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GAME #22

BOXSCORE: Thursday, May 12, 1921 - BR

St. Louis Cardinals @ NEW YORK GIANTS

POLO GROUNDS

George Kelly Powers Giants Over Cardinals; Slim Salle Finishes What Jesse Barnes Starts

The Giants stake Jesse Barnes to a four-run lead on High Pockets Kelly's grand slam home run in the first.  But St. Louis left fielder Autin McHenry homers in the fourth, and with the bases loaded, center fielder Heinie Mueller singles home two runs reducing the Cardinals deficit to one.  At once, Mister McGraw makes his way to the mound, and into the game comes Slim Salle, who ends the Cardinals' threat.  Catcher Frank Snyder provides the Giants some insurance with a two-run triple in the sixth, and Dave Bancroft scores in the seventh when Ross Youngs bounces into a fielder's choice.  St. Louis scores two unearned runs in the ninth to no avail.  Salle earns the victory evening his record to 1-1 with an unsightly 4.25 earned run average.  With eight home runs to date, George Kelly is two behind the major league leader, Babe Ruth.  The Giants failed to gain ground on the second-place Brooklyn Robins, who defeated the Reds a third straight day at Ebbets Field.

• FINAL: STL 5; NYG 7
• RECORD: 14-8 (.636); third place; 3.5 GB of Pittsburgh

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GAME #20

BOXSCORE: Thursday, May 12, 1921 - BR

New York Yankees @ DETROIT TIGERS

Navin Field

Babe Ruth Has First and Final Say; Yanks Climb Back Into Third

With Roger Peckingpaugh on base, Babe Ruth's first-inning home run into the left-field bleachers (#) gives New York a prompt 2-0 lead.  But it does not last.  In the bottom half of the frame, Detroit's three-run rally overtakes the visitors.  Or so they thought.  New York strikes back with three runs in the third and two more in the fourth.  The Tigers answered with single runs in the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings.  But the Yankees regain separation with two more runs in the top of the sixth for a 9-5 lead. Facing Rip Collins pitching in relief of starter Tom Sheehan, Detroit erupts for five runs in the bottom half of the frame to seize a 10-9 lead.  

Miller Huggins hands the ball to Jack Quinn, who twirls a scoreless seventh, and Alex Ferguson follows with a scoreless eighth.  Facing Detroit's Dutch Leonard with two runners on base in the top of the ninth, Babe Ruth triples, giving the Yankees an 11-10 lead.  Carl Mays then retires the Tigers to end the game.  Ferguson earns the win.  Braggo Roth goes 3 for 5 with a home run and three runs batted in.  Roger Peckinpaugh is 3 for 4 with a double, three runs scored, and four runs batted in.  Listed among Babe Ruth's three hits, his major league-leading tenth home run.  New York moves up into third place, one-half game ahead of Boston and one-half game behind Washington.  Detroit right fielder Harry Heilmann finishes 2 for 4 with a triple and two runs batted in.  Center fielder Ty Cobb is held to one hit in four plate appearances.

• FINAL: NYY 11; DET 10
• RECORD: 11-9 (.550); third place, 3.0 GB of Cleveland
• # Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 13, 1921, p25, c3

100 Years Ago Today 9/12/1920: First Place Brooklyn Robins Pulling Away From Reds and Giants

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS
1920 National League Champions

Game #139: Sunday, September 12, 1920

Chicago Cubs vs. Brooklyn Robins

Ebbets Field

Burleigh Grimes Whitewashes Cubs for #21; Robins Win Eighth Straight

Chicago great Hippo Vaughn's bid for an eighteenth victory dies on the bats of Jimmy Johnston, Hi Myers, Ray Schmandt and Pete Kilduff who account for all Brooklyn's runs batted in.  Hi Myers now leads the team with 75 runs batted in.  Schmandt giving Konetchy a spell at first base is 2 for 4 with a triple.  The Robins generate twelve hits in all.  Ace Burleigh Grimes handles the rest.  The spitballer limits the Cubs to just four hits and one walk with three strikeout over nine scoreless innings.  It's Burleigh's 21st victory of the season against ten losses with a 2.07 ERA.  It's also Brooklyn's second straight shutout following Sherry Smith's effort the previous day.  The Robins are 5-0 since returning home and have now won eight straight marking their longest win streak of the season.  The idle Reds are now three full games out of first.  The New York Giants bow to the Cardinals at the Polo Grounds, placing them 4.5 games out of the lead.  They were within 1.5 games as recently as four days ago.

• RECORD: 81-57 (.587)
• 1st Place; 3.5 GA

EXTRA: AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE

The Yankees roll to a 13-6 victory over the Tigers at Detroit.  Wally Pip is 2 for 4, with his tenth home run and five runs batted in.  Right fielder Bob Meusel and left fielder Duffy Lewis each drive in three runs apiece.  Tigers pitchers want nothing to do with Babe Ruth (.375) whom receives four bases on balls.  Starter Carl Mays yields three runs on five hits in the first forcing a quick hook from Miller Huggins.  Rip Collins allows three runs on nine hits and four walks but manages his 13th victory of the season.  Ty Cobb (.334). gets the best of both pitcher going 3 for 5 with a run scored and two runs batted in.  First baseman Harry Heilmann goes 2 for 3 with a double, three runs batted in and a run scored.  Cleveland defeats the A's at Philadelphia to remain one-half game out of first.