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First Four Teams Are Beaten Toronto Team Beaten at Riclv Jennings’s Wen Hold Lead in BLUE INDEED WERE PEPS by the Trailing mond in Slugging Game Be* American League by Defeat- Clubs. fore 7,000 Fans. ing Browns. General Color Scheme of Third Game in PEPS HOLD FIRST PLACE GRAYS TO OPEN TODAY NEW YORK IS RUNNER-LP Buffalo Series Is of a Decided

By a freak turn of fate the first Richmond defeated Toronto in the Hughey Jennings’s Detroit team division teams—Newark's nearest first and International League continues to show the way tn the Hue. rivals—in the only Indigo were result of its game played yesterday. Buffalo and American League, as a beaten yesterday, and so while the are victory yesterday the St. Louis Peps lost a game they really lost not Providence opening in Providence are The New an Inch in the race. The Newark today, while two openings will take^ Browns, who last. fandom THE BALL banner is still out in front. Balti- place tomorrow, Montreal at Newark York Yankees are surprising BOTH TEAMS SLUGGED the win more, like worm of old, turned and Rochester at with the manner in which they and trounced Jersey City. Brooklyn, while St. games. The Yanks, who are second, Louis downed Pittsburgh and Kan- standing of tile League. the Boston Red who have sas shut-out Sox, Baseball machines, like all other contrivances with which humans City defeated . W. L. P<. W. L. Pc. are topping the second division. The to do, askew. Now and then they backfire, kick Standing of the League. Rlohrnond. 1 0 1.000] Providence. 0 0 .000 anything occasionally go in third W. L. Pc. W. Newark.... 0 0 .000 Rochester.. 0 0 .000 . place, up a lot of dust and perform generally in a topsy-turvy manner. Such was L. Pc. Newark ...10 6 .625Kan. City.. 7 7 .300 Jersey C*y. 0 0 .0001 Montreal... 0 o .000 bested Cleveland, which Is sixth, the case yesterday with ’s Newark Peps. Their performance In 0 o Toronto.... 0 1 .000 Chicago.... 7 5 .583 Buffalo.« 9 .400 Buffalo.... .oouj went down before of art. while the Athletics the third game of the series with Buffalo was far from being a work Brooklyn,. 8 a .571 Baltimore.. 6 9 .400 lMterda.v’n Reanlt. 8 0 the Senators, who are in fourth place. The team smudged the canvas with unsightly errors—mental, physical and Pittsburg.. .571 St. Louis... 4 8 .333 Richmond, 31; Toronto, 8. Yesterday's Results. mechanical. The picture they painted was not a pleasant one to behold. Game Today. of the l-tague. Buffalo, 14; Newark, 8. Mantling Their were the colors ran in blotches and Buffalo at Providence. pigments badly chosen, together Baltimore. 7; Brooklyn, ft. W. L. PC. W L. Jr t. blurs, and-Lwell, it was an off day all the way around, and Newark got St. Louis. 5; Pittsburg, 2. Games Tomorrow. Detroit ...10 4 .734 Boston.5 5 .300 beaten 14-8. Kansan City, 7; Chicago, 6. Montreal at Newark. New York. 7 4 < ’lev** land.. 6 S .420 Phil 7 .800 (iunei Rochester at Jersey City. Chicago.... 8 0 .571 a.3 Blue predominated as the principal color tone all through the game. Today. 4 10 .286 Buffalo at Newark. Wasbrton.. « 5 -MG St. Louis... •Twas a blue day, a victory for the Blues, and enough to cause some fans Yesterday » Reruns. Baltimore at Brooklyn. Dunn’s Team Starts Well. to feel blue. But in baseball always look forward and at the prospective, St. Louis at. New York, 2: Bouton. 0. Pittsburg. 1. not the Kansas City at RICHMOND, Va.t April 28.^-More Washington, 2; Philadelphia, retrospective. Chicago. Kt. Boats. 2. Games Tomorrow. Detroit. 3: Neither Reulbach nor Bedient, the two twirlers who started the game, than seven thousand fans saw Rich- Cleveland, 4. Baltimore at Brooklyn. hii-ugo, 7; were the failed to accord their usual mond make its debut in the Interna- at their best, but Peps good support to St. Louis at Pittsburg. (mines Today. big Ed. A couple of misjudged drives put him into the pit, proved a pitfall, tional League yesterday and defeat New Yon* at Boston. Terrapins Defeat at and he was struggling in the quicksands caused by errors of commission and Tip Tops. the Toronto team, 31 to 8. 'The game Philadelphia Washington. LID St. Bonis at Detroit, NEW LOCAL LIFTING from the start of the YORK, omission almost game. April 28.—Brooklyn was preceded by a street parade and Cleveland at lost an Chicago. -* today in interesting The greatest fallacy of the Peps (•--—-— engage- ceremonies at the park. Governor ment which was marked by free - but two was of their Ray Keating handed out the — yesterday Inability -> ting on both Henry C. Stuart, of Virginia: Mayor < sides. The home team hits to the Red Sox players yester- outfielders to judge long files. Allen out batted the of Richmond, and visitors but lost out i* George Ainslie, day, and the Yankees won 2 to 8. the Seheer in left field was the principal THE OFFICIAL BOX SCORE end. TVte score: President Edward G. Barrow, of the George Foster Btarted for the Sox offender, though he did make one BALTIMORE. league, attended the contest. The and went eight inningB. while Ray A.B. R. H. P.O. E. dervish catch of a long drive A. Collins pitched the ninth. Pipp’a whirling Meyer, rf.. 4 3 2 3 0 0 score: triple and an infield out gave the from 'Bedient'B stick. He dashed far Duncun, If. 0 12 10 0 Montreal to With New* RICHMOND. TORONTO. BUFFALO. Open Y'anks a in the seventh session. would show on Zinn, cf. 4 1 3 2 0 0 ab.r. b. nb.r. b. out to a point which A.B. H. H. P.O. A. E. Swaclnu, lb. 4 1 1 10 0 I) Arragon. 8b.. 4 12 IBraokett. cf... 3 2 0 Though they obtained but three hits as "1a Dalton, cf.. ark the mariner’s compass about 501200 Walsh, 3b. 2 0 0 ] 30 Tigers—Rochester at *ri 1 2 Hollander, 3b. % 1 2 from the delivery of Shaw- Downey, 2b. 5 2 2 3 4 0 Rr’kenridge.lf Ia C." is to a baseball Kirkpatrick, 3b.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rates,

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