In St. Louis, an overflow Sunday crowd of 30,000 watch the Indians top the Browns, 7 – 5, behind seven innings of strong relief by George Uhle. Joe Sewell knocks home four runs and Steve O’Neill contributes a drive that hits a mounted policeman’s horse for a ground rule double.

Behind Shoeless Joe Jackson’s homer and two doubles and the pitching of Claude Williams, the White Sox beat host Cleveland, 5 – 1, to shave the Indians’ lead down to a half game. Jackson is hitting .387.

The A’s lose their 100th game, falling to the Red Sox, 4 – 2. Joe Dugan has three doubles, and finishes the series with seven two-base hits.

At League Park, Duster Mails pitches Cleveland to a Friday afternoon 2 – 0 victory over the White Sox, dropping them to 1 1/2 games back. In the 5th, Mails walks three straight batters on 12 pitches, but stays in and strikes out the side. No Sox reach base after that.

1920 – First-place Cleveland routs the Red Sox, 12 – 1, and have a day off before meeting the 2nd-place White Sox, winners of their last six games.

In New York, Babe Ruth’s movie opens at Madison Square Garden. It has been retitled Headin Home.

1920 – National League directors meet in New York, NY, joined by Jacob Ruppert, Cap Huston, Charles Comiskey, and Harry Frazee of the American League. They name a committee to draw up an agreement along the lines of Albert Lasker’s proposal, and give the five AL clubs still backing Ban Johnson an ultimatum: come in by November 1st or the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox will pull out of the AL and join a 12-team National League (with a team in Detroit, MI to complete the roster). The AL five turn it down, and bluff and counterbluff blow through the autumn air.