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.

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.

Rube Marquard pitches his final victory as a Robin, a 4 – 2 win over his former team, the Giants, and allows just five hits. The Giants will lose tomorrow to Boston and the Robins will clinch the pennant.

Rube Marquard pitches his final victory as a Robin, a 4 – 2 win over his former team, the Giants, and allows just five hits. The Giants will lose tomorrow to Boston and the Robins will clinch the pennant.

Rube Marquard pitches his final victory as a Robin, a 4 – 2 win over his former team, the Giants, and allows just five hits. The Giants will lose tomorrow to Boston and the Robins will clinch the pennant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns in the World Series scandal

The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns in the World Series scandal

1920 – The Chicago grand jury indictment adds the names of former featherweight boxing champ Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in the World Series scandal. Confessions, later repudiated, are signed by Ed Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Lefty Williams, and Happy Felsch.

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.

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.

Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 2 – 0, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby’s 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians 1 1/2 games ahead of Chicago.

Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 2 – 0, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby’s 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians 1 1/2 games ahead of Chicago.

Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 2 – 0, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby’s 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians 1 1/2 games ahead of Chicago.

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.

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.