The bigs news this fortnight was the no-hitter thrown by Chicago's Ray Nester against the New York Giants on July 15. Nester was faced 31 batters, and none was able to get a base hit. The lefty thrilled the crowd at West Side Park with his five-walk, five-strikeout performance in a 3-0 win for the Cubs.
The Giants remain in third place in the standings with Boston sitting in the top spot and Cincinnati in second. Only two games separates the first place Beaneaters from the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals as the National League's tight pennant race has now reached, and passed, the half-way point of the season, with no club asserting itself over the others.
In the American League, the big news is that the Washington Senators are not currently in first-place. The Cleveland Blues have been stalking the defending AL champs all season and have passed them, albeit by just one game, to take the lead with a 55-28 record. Washington added Silas Songer from the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles club. Songer made one start for the Senators, and was roughly treated by Cleveland in a 7-5 win for the Blues, allowing 10 hits and 7 runs (5 earned) in eight innings of work on July 4th.
RAY NESTER, CHICAGO (NL)