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National League. American League. W. L. Pet W. U Pet Chicago.1 01.000 Boston .1 01.000 Boston. .1 0 1.000 Detroit .1 01.000 Phila . . .1 0 1.000 St Loiflsl 0 1.000 SLLouis.l 0 1.000 Wash'n 1 01.000 Brookl'nO 1 .000 Chicago 0 1 .000 Cinc'natiO 1 .000 Cleve'd 0 1 .000 N.York. .0 1 .000 N.York .0 1 .000 Pittsb'ghO 1 .000 Phila ..0 1 .000 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS American League. Detroit 4, Chicago 0; St Louis 6, Cleveland 1; Boston 2, Philadelphia 1; Washing ton 3, New York 2. National League. Chicago 7, Cin cinnati 1; St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1; Philadelphia 5, New York 4; Boston 5, Brooklyn 1. BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTSBOXING STANDING OF THE CLUBS I Both of these athletes did every thing that could be expected defen sively, but joined their mates in fail ure at the bat To Terry, co-operating with Eddie Collins, went honors for the best sin gle play of the afternoon, a piece of teamwork which was remarkable in the light of the fact that the two have been playing together less than a month. It happened in the second inning, with Bush on third, Vitt on first and Cobb at bat, with two out. Faber had taken up the game after Russell quit On the first pitch Vitt dug for sec and base. Schalk whipped the ball toward the bag. Collins bluffed a catch, but when he saw Bush stick to ' third base, let the ball go on to Ter ry, who was standing on second. Zeb grabbed the ball near the ground, dived for Vitt and tagged him out Collins had stood about twenty feet in front of second base. So de ceptive was the play that for an in stant it looked as though Collins had made the catch. It is a fine defensive play, the best possible method of breaking up the double steal, and will fool many enemy athletes before the season is over. Collins used to work It to perfection with Jack Barry when the Athletics were at the top of their game. Defensively Terry looks like a grand ballplayer. He covered sec ond base in the sixth inning after Crawford bad reached that bag and tagged the Wahoo slugger out when Wolfgang whirled and made a. quick throw. Terry inserted his legs be tween the spikes of the Tiger and the sack and blocked perfectly. He ex hibited nerve. He also handled a pair of grounders perfectly. At bftt he didn't hit, but exhibited a. good eye, walking once. Jack Fournier is being macf chief goat for the defeat because of an in vv usable muff in $he firgt Inning When peace was first proposed last winter between the Federal league and organized baseball the organized people declared there were only half a dozen men in the third circuit who "were worthy of Jobs in a big league. But yesterday 21 ex-Federals took part in the eight opening games. Three Fed pitchers opened and two of them were victors. The third was, taken out with his game a tie. Pretty fair showing for one after noon, When they don't hit they all look bad, but there ins't much gloom around the South Side over the Joss of the opening game. When Murphy, Fournier, Eddie Collins and Felsch fail to bingle with frequency there isn't mqch hope for a winning bat tle, especially against a team which packs such a punch as the Tigers. Of course, it isn't reasonable to ex pect such a failing day after day, and the department that bore the closest scrutiny in the opener was the left side of the infield, where Terry was dbuttfng and Weaver was getting his first big league trial as a thira gj