September 2, 2010

190 years ago
1820

Died on this date
Jiaqing, 59. Emperor of China, 1796-1820. Jiaqing, born Yongyan, was the seventh emperor of the Qing dynasty, and acceded to the throne upon the abdication of his father Qianlong. He opposed Christianity, and curbed the smuggling of opium into China. Emperor Jiaqing was very fat, and may have died of a stroke. He was succeeded by his son Daoguang.

180 years ago
1830

Born on this date
William P. Frye. U.S. politician. Mr. Frye, a Republican, sat in the Maine House of Representatives (1861-1862, 1867), and was the state's Attorney General (1867-1871). He represented Maine's 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives (1871-1881), and represented Maine in the U.S. Senate from 1881 until his death on August 8, 1911, 25 days before his 81st birthday. Senator Frye supported American annexation of Hawaii and acquisition of the Philippines; he was appointed by President William McKinley to the peace commission it negotiated the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898.

160 years ago
1850

Born on this date
Eugene Field. U.S. journalist and poet. Mr. Field wrote for various newspapers in the Midwestern United States, but was best known as the "poet of childhood," with poems such as Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1889) and The Duel. Mr. Field died of a heart attack on November 4, 1895 at the age of 45.

140 years ago
1870

War
The Battle of Sedan concluded in a victory for Prussian forces and the capture of French Emperor Napoleon III.

130 years ago
1880

Technology
The first night baseball game was played in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts between teams from the Jordan Marsh and R.H. White department stores. The game ended in a 16-16 tie. The Boston Post reported the next day that "A clear‚ pure‚ bright light was produced‚ very strong and yet very pleasant to the sight" by the 12 carbon-arc electric lamps.

125 years ago
1885

Labour
A mob of white miners employed by the Union Pacific Coal Company attacked their Chinese co-workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, in a dispute over who had the right to work in a particularly lucrative area of the mine. 28 Chinese workers were killed, 15 were wounded, and 79 homes were set ablaze. Several hundred Chinese workers were chased out of town or into the hills. Damage was set at $150,000.

100 years ago
1910

Died on this date
Henri Rousseau, 66. French artist. Mr. Rousseau was a post-Impressionist painter who was known for his many paintings of jungle scenes. He died from a gangrene infection.

75 years ago
1935

Music
George Gershwin completed the 700-page score of his opera Porgy and Bess.

Baseball
St. Louis Browns’ pitcher Dick Coffman got into a shoving match with manager Rogers Hornsby shortly after the team’s train had left St. Louis to begin a road trip. Mr. Coffman was put off the train at Edwardsville, Illinois, and didn’t play again for the rest of the season.

The St. Louis Cardinals swept a doubleheader from the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 and 4-1 at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis as Daffy Dean earned his 16th win of the season in the opener and his brother Dizzy got his 23rd win in the second game. The sweep gave the Cardinals a 2-game lead over the New York Giants for first place in the National League.

80 years ago
1940

War
The British Air Ministry estimated that Germany had used 700 planes in attacks upon London on this day.

Diplomacy
French Governor General Jean Decoux rejected a Japanese ultimatum demanding concessions in Indonesia.

World events
General Juan Andreu Allmazan, unsuccessful candidate for the Mexican presidency, was reported to be organizing a junta to overthrow the administration of President Manuel Avila Camacho.

Politics and government
The Egyptian cabinet of Prime Minister Hassan Sabry Pasha was shuffled, but the Sadist and independent parties continued to dominate the government.

Labour
U.S. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins announced an increase of more than one million workers in non-agricultural employment during the past year.

Golf
Byron Nelson rallied to defeat Sam Snead 1 up to win the PGA Championship at Hershey Country Club in Hershey, Pennsylvania. First prize money was $1,100.



60 years ago
1950

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): My Foolish Heart--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra; The Joe Loss Orchestra (4th week at #1)

#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Goodnight Irene--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra and the Weavers (Best Seller--3rd week at #1; Disc Jockey--1st week at #1; Jukebox--2nd week at #1)

U.S.A. Top 10 (Cash Box)
1 Goodnight Irene--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra and the Weavers
--Frank Sinatra
2 Mona Lisa--Nat "King" Cole
--Victor Young and his Orchestra (Don Cherry, vocal)
--Art Lund
3 Sam’s Song--Gary Crosby and Friend
--Joe "Fingers" Carr and the Carr-Hops
4 Tzena Tzena Tzena--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra and the Weavers
--Mitch Miller and his Orchestra
--Vic Damone
5 Play a Simple Melody--Gary Crosby and Friend
--Jo Stafford
6 I Wanna Be Loved--The Andrews Sisters
--Billy Eckstine
7 Count Every Star--Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra
--Ray Anthony and his Orchestra
--Dick Haymes and Artie Shaw
8 La Vie en Rose--Tony Martin
--Bing Crosby
--Edith Piaf
9 Bewitched--Bill Snyder and his Orchestra
--Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra
--Doris Day
--Larry Green and his Orchestra
--Jan August & Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats
10 "The Third Man" Theme--Anton Karas
--Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

Singles entering the chart the chart were Our Little Ranch House by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (#25); Friendly Star by Margaret Whiting (#35); Home (When Shadows Fall) by Nat "King" Cole (#36); Can't We Talk it Over by the Andrews Sisters (#37); and Daddy's Little Boy, with versions by Eddy Howard and his Orchestra; and Dick Todd (#38).

War
Greece announced that it would send an infantry brigade (5,000 men) to Korea. In a report to the United Nations Security Council, Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command General Douglas MacArthur charged that Koreans in Manchuria were being recruited to bolster the North Korean army.

Politics and government
U.S. Senator Harley Kilgore (Democrat--West Virginia) proposed that Congress grant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation "properly safeguarded" war emergency powers to throw all Communists into concentration camps.

Football
CRU
IRFU
Hamilton (1-0) 26 @ Ottawa (0-2) 17
Montreal (1-1) 6 @ Toronto (1-0) 26

WIFU
Edmonton (2-1) 19 @ Calgary (0-3) 13

Hamilton’s win came in their first game under the name Tiger-Cats, an amalgamation of the Tigers--who had spent the 1948 and 1949 seasons in the Ontario Rugby Football Union after being a member of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union since the IRFU’s creation in 1907--and the Wildcats, who had been in the IRFU in 1948 and 1949 after years in the ORFU. The game marked a successful Hamilton head coaching debut for Carl Voyles.

16,000 fans at Varsity Stadium saw the Argonauts defeat the Grey Cup champion Alouettes.

Edmonton quarterback Lindy Berry passed for 490 yards, including a 100-yard touchdown to Doug Pyzer. Morris Bailey caught 13 of Mr. Berry’s passes for 245 yards and 2 touchdowns. Annis Stukus added 3 converts and a single in front of a Mewata Stadium crowd of 8,500.

50 years ago
1960

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): Apache--The Shadows (3rd week at #1)

Died on this date
Billy Maloney, 82. U.S. baseball player. Mr. Maloney was an outfielder with the Milwaukee Brewers (1901); St. Louis Browns (1902); Cincinnati Reds (1902); Chicago Cubs (1905); and Brooklyn Superbas (1906-1908), batting .236 with 6 home runs and 177 runs batted in in 696 games. He stole 155 bases, 59 in 1905, when he led the National League.

Politics and government
The first election took place for the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, with 13 members elected. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.

Olympics
Wilma Rudolph of the United States, who as a child had worn leg braces because of polio, became the world's fastest woman by winning the women’s 100-metre dash at the Rome Olympics (her semi-final heat of 11.3 seconds had tied the world record). She also won gold medals in the 200 meters and the 4 x 100-metre relay.



Baseball
Jim Lemon hit a home run in each game to help the Washington Senators sweep a doubleheader from the Boston Red Sox 5-1 and 3-2 before 26,817 fans at Fenway Park in Boston. Boston left fielder Ted Williams hit a home run off Don Lee (7-4) in the first game; 20 years earlier, Mr. Williams had homered off Mr. Lee’s father Thornton. Ted Sadowski (1-0) pitched 3 scoreless innings in relief of Pedro Ramos to get the win in the second game, allowing 2 hits, walking 1 batter, striking out 2, and batting 0 for 1 in his first major league game. Marlin Coughtry of the Red Sox also made his major league debut in the second game, running for Vic Wertz in the 8th inning and playing the 9th at second base, with no fielding chances. Frank Sullivan (5-15) and Mike Fornieles (9-4) were the respective losing pitchers.

Milt Pappas (13-8) pitched a 3-hitter, outduelling Whitey Ford (9-8) to give the Baltimore Orioles a 5-0 win before 44,518 fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in the first game of a crucial series with the New York Yankees. The win moved the Orioles within 3 percentage points of the Yankees for the lead in the American League.



Earl Averill, Jr. singled home Al Smith and Minnie Minoso with 1 out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th inning to break a 5-5 tie as the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 before 33,617 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

Don Cardwell (7-12) pitched an 8-hit complete game and batted 3 for 5 with 2 home runs, 3 runs, and 3 runs batted in to lead the Chicago Cubs over the St. Louis Cardinals 10-4 before 11,007 fans at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

40 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.K. (New Musical Express): The Tears of a Clown--Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (2nd week at #1)

Died on this date
Herbert Hill, 79. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Hill played in 1 game with the Cleveland Indians on July 17, 1915, allowing 1 hit and no runs in 2 innings, walking 2 batters and striking out none. He was 38-40 in 96 games in 4 seasons in the minor leagues (1913-1916).

Space
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in an economy move, cancelled the Apollo 18 and 19 lunar landing missions.

Terrorism
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation began a hunt for four young men charged with the August 24 bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which had killed scientist Robert Fassnacht and injured four others. David Fine, 18; Leo Burt, 32; Karleton Armstrong, 22; and his brother Dwight, 18, were all described as admirers of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird told a news conference that because campuses had become targets of student radicals, government research centres might not be established on college campuses in the future.

Disasters
As rising wasters flooded the presidential palace in Manila and killed 24 people on Luzon, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of national emergency. Thousands of Manilans were evacuated.

Football
CFL
Montreal (3-1) 7 @ Ottawa (2-3) 31
Calgary (4-3) 29 @ Winnipeg (1-5) 8

26,996 fans at Lansdowne Park saw the Rough Riders earn their first home win of the season. It was the final game for Ottawa tight end Jay Roberts, who had been with the team since 1964 and had scored one of the Rough Riders’ touchdowns in their 1969 Grey Cup win.

Jerry Keeling completed 24 of 43 passes, with 11 of the completions--4 for touchdowns--going to tight end Herm Harrison, as the Stampeders beat the Blue Bombers before 23,553 fans at Winnipeg Stadium.

Baseball
The Detroit Tigers scored 2 unearned runs in the 8th inning to beat the Boston Red Sox 6-4 before 14,704 fans in the first of 2 games at Fenway Park in Boston, but the Red Sox won the second game 10-1 before 18,938 fans. The only Detroit run in the second game came from catcher Gene Lamont, who made his major league debt, and led off the 3rd inning with a home run in his first plate appearance; he finished 2 for 3 with a base on balls, making 10 putouts and 2 assists, while allowing a passed ball. Cal Koonce (3-3) pitched a 3-hitter to win the second game, while batting 1 for 3 with a base on balls, run, and 2 runs batted in; it was the 44th and last win of his major league career.

Dick Bosman (15-9) pitched a 4-hitter and batted 2 for 4 with a run batted in to lead the Washington Senators to a 4-1 win over the Cleveland Indians before 10,509 fans at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington. Sam McDowell (19-9) allowed 10 hits and 4 earned runs in trying to earn his 20th win of the seaoson. With 1 out and runners on first and second bases in the 6th inning, Mr. McDowell moved to first base, and was relieved on the mound by Dean Chance, who promptly allowed Frank Howard to hit an infield single to load the bases. Rick Reichardt then grounded to second baseman Eddie Leon, who threw to shortstop Jack Heidemann at second base to force out Mr. Howard. However, Mr. Reichardt was safe at first base to prevent the double play, and had the unusual achievement of driving in 2 runs, as Ed Brinkman and Wayne Comer both scored on the play, with the runs being charged to Mr. McDowell, who returned to the mound to begin the 7th. John Lowenstein made his major league debut with the Indians, entering the game in left field in the 7th, and striking out in the 9th in his only plate appearance, with no fielding chances. The Indians broke up Mr. Bosman's bid for a shutout when Ted Uhlaender singled with 1 out in the 9th and scored on a 2-out triple by Vada Pinson. Mr. Bosman then struck out Ray Fosse to end the game; it was Mr. Bosman's third strikeout of the inning and eighth of the game. Mr. McDowell issued 5 intentional walks, 3 to Mr. Howard.

Milt Pappas (11-6) allowed 5 hits and 1 run--earned--in 8 innings and hit his second home run of the season as part of an 8-run 4th inning for the Chicago Cubs as they routed the Philadelphia Phillies 17-2 before 16,234 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Terry Hughes made his major league debut with the Cubs, relieving Billy Williams in left field in the 5th inning and moving to third base in place of Ron Santo in the 8th, batting 0 for 2 with no fielding chances.

Gary Nolan (16-5) allowed 3 hits in 8.2 innings and drove in both runs as the Cincinnati Reds shut out the San Francisco Giants 2-0 before 23,282 fans at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Mr. Nolan singled home Tommy Helms in the 2nd inning and scored Bernie Carbo in the 4th with a sacrifice fly. Juan Marichal (9-10) allowed 5 hits and 1 earned run in 7 innings to take the loss.

John Boccabella's 3-run home run with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning gave the Montreal Expos a 10-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates before 15,461 fans at Jarry Park in Montreal in the Wednesday night Expos Baseball telecast on CBC. Pittsburgh shortstop Gene Alley hit an inside-the-park grand slam to climax a 6-run 6th inning as the Pirates took a 6-1 lead. Rich Nye, normally a pitcher, entered the game for Montreal as a pinch runner in the 8th inning and scored the last of 4 runs in the inning in the 117th and last game of his 5-year major league career.



30 years ago
1980

Journalism
The Edmonton Journal began publishing a morning edition as well as the regular evening edition.

Diplomacy
U.S. envoy Sol Linowitz concluded two days of meetings in Israel with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Baseball
Tom Brookens batted 4 for 4 with a double, run, and run batted in to help the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 11-2 in the first game of a doubleheader before 13,651 fans at Tiger Stadium. Mark Fidrych (1-2) pitched his last career major league complete game, allowing no earned runs, 7 hits and 1 base on balls, striking out 1. His former minor league manager, Jim Leyland, was at the game, and The Bird handed the game ball to Mr. Leyland's mother. Mike Proly (3-8) took the loss. Mr. Brookens drove in 2 runs with a solo home run and a sacrifice fly to help the Tigers win the second game 6-1 to complete the sweep, with winning pitcher Milt Wilcox (13-9) and loser Rich Dotson (10-9) each pitching 8-hit complete games.

Manny Trillo led of the top of the 13th inning with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Keith Moreland to break a 1-1 tie as the Philadelphia Phillies edged the San Francisco Giants 2-1 before 6,135 fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Neither starting pitcher got a decision, with Philadelphia's Larry Christenson allowing just 1 hit and no runs in 8 innings and San Francisco's Vida Blue allowing 2 hits and 1 run--unearned--in 10 innings. Jay Loviglio made his major league debut with the Phillies, running for Bob Boone at first base in the 9th and scoring the game's first run from second on a single by Lonnie Smith. Guy Sularz made his major league debut with the Giants, playing the last 2 innings at third base, with no plate appearances or fielding chances.

Charlie Lea (5-5) allowed 4 hits and 1 earned run in 7 innings, and Woodie Fryman pitched 2 hitless innings to get his 16th save of the season as the Montreal Expos edged the San Diego Padres 2-1 before 6,082 fans at San Diego Stadium to remain in a virtual tie for first place with the Phillies in the National League East Division. Andre Dawson led off the 4th inning with a single, stole second base, and scored the first Montreal run on a 2-out double by Ken Macha. Ron LeFlore led off the 5th with a base on balls, stole second, and scored the winning run on a ground out by Mr. Dawson. Eric Rasmussen (3-10) allowed 8 hits and 2 earned runs in 7 innings to take the loss.

25 years ago
1985

Football
CFL
Edmonton (4-4) 34 @ Calgary (1-7) 28
Montreal (5-3) 16 @ Hamilton (2-6) 19

Matt Dunigan completed 22 of 32 passes for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns and rushed 8 times for 56 yards and a touchdown as the Eskimos came back from a 17-1 1st-quarter deficit to post their first road win of the season. Larry Hogue returned a Neil Lumsden fumble 35 yards for a touchdown to give the Stampeders, after J.T. Hay’s convert, a 7-0 lead just 1:48 into the game. Larry Mason, who carried 8 times for 31 yards in his first CFL game, rushed 2 yards for another converted touchdown later in the quarter to extend the lead. The Eskimos settled down, and Milson Jones rushed 11 yards for a touchdown midway through the 2nd quarter. The Stampeders led 20-11 at halftime and 22-19 after 3 quarters, as Mr. Dunigan scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak to further reduce the deficit. The Eskimos, who had made several lineup changes on defense and had switched from a 3-4 front seven to a more traditional 4-3 set, made 3 interceptions and recovered a Calgary fumble, and eventually translated the turnovers into points. In the 4th quarter, Mr. Dunigan threw touchdown passes of 11 yards to Marco Cyncar and 31 yards to Chris Skinner. Tom Dixon converted both and punted for a single to give the Eskimos a 34-21 lead. Just when it seemed the game was in hand, Ron Hopkins of the Stampeders blocked a punt and linebacker Knox Culpepper, playing his first CFL game, returned it 16 yards for a converted touchdown, pulling the Stampeders within 6 points with 1:17 remaining. The Stampeders got the ball back, and quarterback Joe Barnes found former Eskimo Tag Rome for a 44-yard completion to the Edmonton 54-yard line, although Mr. Barnes had crossed the line of scrimmage, and the play should have been called back. However, Mr. Barnes then threw 2 incomplete passes and was sacked on third down. Eskimo running back Larry Cowan played perhaps his finest CFL game, rushing 15 times for 83 yards and catching 7 passes for 88. Mr. Rome led all receivers with 104 yards on 3 receptions. Gary Thompson, who had failed to make the Eskimos in 1983, played his first regular season game in the CFL and made an interception, with other key interceptions coming from rookie linebacker John Dailey and safety Lou DesLauriers. Former Montreal Alouette and Concorde James Zachery played his first game as an Eskimo at defensive tackle and recovered a Calgary fumble. Jack Williams, who had been cut from the Eskimos and the Stampeders during the pre-season of 1982 before playing with the Ottawa Rough Riders, played his only regular season game as an Eskimo at defensive end. Edmonton slotback Rick House suffered a season-ending shoulder separation when he was tackled at the end of a 38-yard completion. Oddly, it was in about the same place in the field that Edmonton receiver Pete Ribbins had suffered a shoulder separation during the 1977 Labour Day game. Meanwhile, former Eskimo slotback Dan Runge played his first game as a Stampeder. 18,253, the largest crowd of the season thus far, attended the game on a beautiful sunny afternoon at McMahon Stadium.



Ron Ingram made a spectacular diving end zone catch of a 43-yard pass from Ken Hobart with 2:17 remaining in the game to lift the Tiger-Cats to victory before an Ivor Wynne Stadium crowd of 15,549. It was the only Hamilton touchdown of the game, and came about 8½ minutes after Mark Stevens, Montreal’s third quarterback to see action during the game, had completed a 75-yard pass to Dwaine Wilson for the Concordes’ only touchdown. Bernie Ruoff kicked 4 field goals and a convert for the Tiger-Cats, while Roy Kurtz kicked 3 field goals and a convert for the Concordes. Turner Gill started at quarterback for Montreal and Gerry Dattilio briefly relieved him, but they each surrendered 2 interceptions. Mr. Hobart was relieved for a time by Jeff Tedford, who was ineffective.

20 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Vision of Love--Mariah Carey

#1 single in Switzerland: Verdammt - ich lieb' dich--Matthias Reim (9th week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Verdammt - ich lieb' dich--Matthias Reim (8th week at #1)
2 Samurai--Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung
3 Ooops Up--Snap!
4 It Must Have Been Love--Roxette
5 Naked in the Rain--Black Pearl
6 Kingston Town--UB40
7 What's a Woman?--Vaya Con Dios
8 U Can't Touch This--MC Hammer
9 I Promised Myself--Nick Kamen
10 I Can't Stand It!--Twenty 4 Seven featuring Capt. Hollywood

Singles entering the chart were It's on You by M.C. Sar & the Real McCoy (#18); and I am From Austria by Rainhard Fendrich (#24).

Europeana
Transnistria was unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev declared the decision null and void.

Football
CFL
Winnipeg (6-3) 11 @ Saskatchewan (5-4) 55

Kent Austin completed 18 of 27 passes for 390 yards and 4 touchdowns, and rushed for a touchdown of his own to lead the Roughriders to victory in their annual Labour Day weekend game before 31,121 fans at Taylor Field in Regina. The big blow was a team record 107-yard bomb from Mr. Austin to Jeff Fairholm at 9:50 of the first quarter, giving the Roughriders a 10-3 lead after Dave Ridgway’s convert. Saskatchewan led 41-10 at halftime and coasted from there. Don Narcisse caught 2 of Mr. Austin’s scoring passes and Mark Guy had the other. Orville Lee rushed for touchdown in the 4th quarter, and backup quarterback Jeff Bentrim completed the rout by throwing a touchdown pass to Lucius Floyd. Robert Mimbs scored the lone Blue Bomber touchdown on a 1-yard rush in the 2nd quarter. The Roughriders rolled up 639 yards net offense against the CFL’s best defense. Ray Elgaard of Saskatchewan led all receivers with 146 yards on 6 receptions.



Baseball
Dave Stieb, who had previously had three bids for no-hitters ended in the 9th inning, finally got one, as the Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Cleveland Indians 3-0 before 23,640 fans at Cleveland Stadium. Mr. Stieb struck out 9 batters in outduelling Bud Black.







10 years ago
2000

Died on this date
Curt Siodmak, 98. German-born U.S. author and screenwriter. Mr. Siodmak, the younger brother of film director Robert Siodmak, fled Germany after the Nazis took power, and moved to Hollywood in 1937. He was best known for the novel Donovan's Brain (1942) and its subsequent adaptation into a movie (1944). Mr. Siodmak wrote screenplays for several Universal Pictures horror movies in the 1940s.

Diplomacy
South Korea repatriated 63 spies and guerrillas to North Korea who, though previously released from prison, had not been allowed to return to North Korea.

Football
CIAU
Saskatchewan (1-0) 8 @ Alberta (0-1) 0

Baseball
Charles Johnson drove in 7 runs with a 3-run home run, a 3-run double, and a single to lead the Chicago White Sox past the Anaheim Angels 13-6 before 29,785 fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

J.D. Drew doubled to lead off the bottom of the 9th inning and scored on a 2-out single by Fernando Vina to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 2-1 win over the New York Mets before 41,483 fans at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. Darryl Kile (16-9) pitched a 5-hit complete game to outduel Mike Hampton (13-8), who allowed 8 hits in 8.1 innings.

Jeff Branson doubled with 1 out in the bottom of the 13th inning and scored on a 2-out single by Tom Goodwin to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies before 37,244 fans at Dodger Stadium.