At the Polo Grounds, the Braves eliminate the 2nd-place Giants in game two by a 3 – 2 score on Tony Boeckel’s homer in the 9th. The Giants win the opener, 2 – 1. The loss clinches the pennant for Brooklyn.

Chicago’s Eddie Cicotte tosses a seven-hitter in beating the Tigers, 8 – 1. The Sox stay a half-game in back of the Tribe.

In his last game of the season, Pittsburgh’s Babe Adams walks one in an 8 – 0 loss to the Reds. He has walked 18 in 263 innings pitched, making him the stingiest pitcher ever for one season.

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.