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m msmsmmmuu - n ; 'BASEBALL PICKUPS Yesterday's Results, c 'American League Chicago 9 0, Philadelphia 1-12; Washington 2-8, St. Louis 0-2; Detroit 7-4, New York 4-2. National League Pittsburgh 9-0, Boston 1-OSt. Louis 7, Phil adelphia 3. t There was no argument about the Sox-Athletic double-header. Each team won a game by a lop sided score. Bill Lange showed city series form in the first battle. He checked the Macks with eight Kits and would have scored a fhut-out but for a pair of mis cues. f Covaleskie, who had a brdther 'who killed the Giants, was han dled roughly by the White. Sox. They paddled him for 13 hits. Rath, Mattick, Collins,, Zeider and Lange each banged two hits. Maffick poled a triple and Lange a1 double. Eleven of the Sox hits were bunched in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Prank Baker secured three of the eight Athletic hits, i The second fight was a sad af fair. One of Mack's youngsters, Carl Brown, strangled! the Sox with a single hit, a one-pot by iMattick. . Doc White started for the South Siders, but retired after he had been prodded for six hits and four runs in six rounds. " Lamline, a young gent from Gary, then gave the. Macks seven hits, passed two and fired off three wild pitches in the seventh. Result, seven Athletic runs. Lamline is the only piece of phi lanthropy ever originated in the Steel Trust town. We stifle a desire to wheeze about lamming line hits. Eddie Collins-went hitless dur ing the afternoon, Bill Lange fan ning him twice. Every timeOthe Cubs have an off day Ring Lardner of the Examiner breaks into poetry. For the sake "of the public the Cubs should never have an off day.1 Rain kept the Dodgers and West Siders idie yesterday, mean ing pair of games today and one tomorrow. r Washington edged into second place by beating St. Louis twice. The Browns were trailers both games. Bob Groom outpitched Allison in a hurlers' battle m the forepart. Cashion mastered the Browns in the second, while Washington hit Powell and Adams safely 13 times. Williams, the National catch er, whaled a double and two sin gles in each game. Milan made three hits in the second game. Clyde also swiped four bases. Jennings used two pitching re cruits, Wheatley and Jensen, each beating the" Highlanders. Wheatley, who worked the sec ond engagement, was the better of the two He held New York to seven hits, beating Russell Ford. In the first game New York whaled 14 hits off Jensen, but scored only four times. fi.HtM. -Xs-- '-