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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING STANDING OF THE CLUBS American League W. L. Pet W. L". Pet Chicago 9 2 .818St.Louis 5 6 .455J N.York. 6 3 .G67Wasun. 1 Boston, 6 4 .600 Phila .. 4 Clevl'd. 5 6 .455Detroit. 3 National League W. L. PcL W. N.York 7 2 .728Cinc'ti.. 7 St.Louis9 4 .6l52Phila... 3 Boston. 5 4 .556!Br'klyn 3 Chicago 7 6 .538Pittsb'h 410 6 .400 7 .364 8 .273 L. Pet. 7 .500 6 .333 6 .333 :0 .286 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS ' American League. Chicago 1, Cleveland 0; St. Louis 7, Detroit 2; New York 2, Boston 1; Washington 3, Philadelphia 5. National League. ChicagOx8, Cin cinnati 4; SL Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1 (10- innings) ; New York 8, Boston 2. The Univ. of Illinois interscholastic track and field meet, which has been held annually for a quarter of a cen tury) has been called off because of war conditions, according to word from Urbana. This action -was fa vored by the Illinois High. School ass'n. A person entitled Chick Simfer is given credit for a newspaper decision over Fred Welsh in ten rounds at Scranton. Fred, however, got the large end of the purse. Ani still they refuse to let Les Darcy fight, while Welsh goes ahead with his financial clean-up. Johnny Harvey knocked out Joe Rivers in the seventh round at New York. Until the final blow the fight, had been an even affair, with Rivers giving as good as he took. Knockout Brown is training dili gently for his bout In Gary Friday night with Joe Herrick. The Greek says he will be an easy winner. The Univ. of Iowa has canceled its trapk schedule, with the exception of the state meeting at Des Moines. RISBERG HAS NERVE DOESN'T FALTER IN PINCH v By Mark Shields During yesterday's game with Cleveland, during which the White , Sox fielding was porous on numer ous occasions, there were some cries from the stand for Zeb Terry when Swede RIsberg, the new shortstop, was in difficulty. These, of course, were changed to yelps of adulation for the new short fielder when he opened the ninth in- " ning with a screaming triple and scored the only run of the game on Eddie Collins' sacrifice fly. The hit -made Swede a hero and his fieldng mistakes were-' forgotten. Such is the humor of a baseball crowd. But previous to this hit Risberg had showed his fitness to hold down" his job. In the seventh inning a ball went through him with a man on second. It was scored a hit, but could have been as fairly labeled a boot. Then in the eighth Risberg booted another with Speaker on first with two out and gave the Indians a big opening. But on the very hext pitch Guisto hit sharply and deep to short. The ball require'd quick and accurate . handling. All of which Risberg did, retiring .the side with a rifll-llke throw to Gandil. He had forgotten all about the previous boots. They didn't weigh on his riiind and affect his playing. This is one of the true tests of courage and Risberg stood it as well as a veteran of tnany campaigns. f. Cleveland has a good ball team this season and one that will make its power felt before the end of the flag hunt. Jim Scott had them puz zled at the bat, even though his sup port was slipshod, but the Cleveland people were in no mood to quit. They battle with confidence and make con siderable noise on the field.