Baseball alibis drift as league leaders stay in reach
In a busy day of action Major League teams chased leaders. Washington beat Cleveland 7 4 as Philadelphia topped Chicago 7 6. Meusel hit his seventeenth homer for the Giants in a 7 1 win over the Cubs. Ruth launched his twelfth homer as the Yankees won 5 2. Ted Lyons won for the White Sox 4 2 over the Red Sox.
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Athletics
Browns
Walter Johnson
Indians
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McGraw
Ander
Emil Meusel
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Cubs
Pirates
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New York Pilot
Chicago
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Robins
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston
Genewich
Graham
Cincinnati
Phillies
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Walker
Babe Ruth
Yankees
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Bantamweight Tremaine Falls Short of Milton in Three Rounds
In Cleveland Carl Tremaine edged near Tommy Milton of Boston in a three round stint. In New York Leo Flynn, manager of Dave Shade, wired a $10 000 claim for Walkers signing to meet Shade by August 15 for the welterweight title.
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New York
John McGraw
Associated Press
Cleveland
Carl Tremaine
Tommy Milton
Boston
Leo Flynn
Dave Shade
California
Mickey Walker
Shade
Stribling Defeats Delaney in Ten Round Victory
Vernon California reports Young Stribling the Georgia school boy defeated Jimmy Delaney of St Paul in a ten round main event. Stribling used strong lefts to the head and rapid hammer blows while Delaney won only one round, the eighth, with the fifth being even.
Carmen Moves Into Second Place In Twilight League
After four innings Carmen edged ahead on errors and timely hits to secure second place while the Eagles drop to third. McMillan started for the Eagles, Garvin pitched for Carmen, and the game ended at dusk with Carmen ahead 9 to 7 and a later note on a prize awarded to an elderly English farm hand after seventy two years on the same farm.
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Yesterday's Games Postponed and Meetings Across Regions
Yesterday's sports brief notes the Vernon Los Angeles game postponed while multiple racing meetings proceed or are listed across Saratoga Windsor Chicago Cleveland Calgary Edinburgh Rome New York Newport Forest Hills and Lake Geneva. The items cover horse racing golf tennis chess and yachting events with associations and venues named.
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Saratoga Springs
Windsor
Jockey Club
Out
Business Men's Racing Association
Chicago
Cleveland
Edinburgh
Calgary
Forest Hills
Newport
R. I
National Archery Association
Rome
N. Y
Brit.ie
Stratford-onyon
Inland Lakes Yachting Association
Lake Geneva
Wis
Fragmentary Note on Bones and Muscles
A damaged text fragment references bones and muscles and mentions numbers and ages, though details are unclear. The readable portion implies anatomical topics without a complete context or identifiable individuals or institutions.
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