New York, July 6.
A GOING Ted Lyons, who for years has been' the toast of Chicago's sports fans, today won his 241st major league victory, trimming the Cleveland Indians, 9 to 4, as the Yankees took a double-header from the Philadelphia Athletics to stretch out their hold on the American League leadership.
Lyons held the Indians to nine hits and four runs as his mates collected 13 hits off four Cleveland hurlers.
Tne Cleveland loss shoved them back behind the high-riding Yankees by 4% games, The Chicago attack was spear-headed by Taft Wright, who collected a triple atid two singles. The White Sox collected four runs iti the first innifig, and added two more in the third to give them enough to win.
Lyons held the Indians to single runs in each of the first, sixth, eighth and ninth inbings.
The Yankees iroünced the Athletics, 8 to 4, in the first game behind the superior pitching of Alley Donald and Ernie Bonham. The two Yankee hurlers allowed seven hits between them, while their mates were collecting a similar number, but kept the Philadelphia blows well scattered.
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