New York, Sept. 3
Standings remained unchanged in the major leagues to-day as teams went through an abbreviated sche-due of but four games.
The New York Giants tottered perilously close to the brink by dropping.a 15-7 decision to the Brooklyn Dodgers in a slugfest. The defeat places the Terrymen, in. a games won and lost tie with the Chicago Cubs for the leadership of the National League, although the Giants still. retain a two point percentage lead over their rivals.
Victory over the White Sox while the Yankees were succumbing to the Senators enabled the Detroit Tigers to cut the lead of the American League pace setters to 8% games, the slimmest margin enjoyed by the Ruppert Rifles since early in August.
e hits rattled as the Cleveland us hammered the St. Louis Browns into submission, 15-3. The Tribe gave a marvellous exhibition of hit-bunching, converting only 12 hits—just three more than gathered by the Browns—into 15 runs, aided abetted by two Brownie erro®s udal moments, Scores:
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