BASEBALL LEAGUES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 13

BASEBALL LEAGUES.

LATEST MATCH RESULTS.

POSITIONS OF LEADING TEAMS. Australian anil N.Z. Cablo. Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 10. Following is a summary of tho results of to-day's baseball matches : —■ National League.—Brooklyn, 7, defeated Cincinnati, 3 (first game); Brooklyn, 13, defeated Cincinnati, 7 (second game); New York, 2, defeated Pittsburgh, 1; Boston, 5, defeated Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 5, defeated Philadelphia, 3. American League.—Detroit, 8, defeated Boston, 7 (ten innings); Philadelphia, 6, defeated St. Louis, 4; Washington, 3, defeated Cleveland, 2. The positions of the leading teams arc:— NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburgh - .. . . 603 New York .. . • «• 571 Cincinnati . .. .. 533 Brooklyn t i. .. 495 St. Louis 486 Philadelphia .. . • . - 465 Chicago 443 Boston 404 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia 660 Washington .. .. .. 638 Chicago 537 Detroit 505 St. Louis .. . i .. 491 Cleveland .. .. .. 455 New York 429 Boston . . . . .. 292 LATEST LOCOMOTIVE.

HENRY FORD'S RAILWAY. IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION. A. and N.Z. NEW YOKE. Aug. 10. A locomotive which Mr. Henry Ford believes will bo the next step in world railroad transportation is ready to make its trial test over Ford's Detroit-Toledo-Ironton railroad. The locomotive is tho longest ever built (117 ft.). It is electrically driven, and can develop a maximum of 5000 horse-power, sufficient to pull a train of freight cars a mile and a-half long at a maximum speed of 35 miles an hour. Each of tho 16 axles is driven by a separate motor tho current for which is obtained from an electrified line.

Tho cab has 42 plate-glass windows, and elaborato precautions against shocks have been taken.

MURDERER'S SUICIDE. EVASION OF ARREST. SAN FRANCISCO SENSATION. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Aug. 10 As police officers surrounded tho apartments in San Francisco of Charles Schwartz, professor of chemistry, who is wanted for the " scientific " murder of G. E. Barbo, an itinerant missionary, Schwartz committed suicide. Schwartz had mutilated Barbo" b body to make it appear as if he himself had been killed while experimenting with an artificial silk formula. The object of tho crimo was to collect an insurance of £30,000; also to avoid a suit for breach of promiso of marriago.

FILM STAR'S PROBLEM. MARRIAGE TO A GREEK. NO VOTE THOUGH DIVORCED. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1. In her youthful days Miss Constance Talmadge, tho film star, eloped with, a Greek, John Pailoglu. She divorced him in 1923, bub still sho cannot vote becauso sho is of Greek nationality. Miss Talmadge has now filed papers applying for naturalisation.