July, 1920 Hilldale Top Club In Eastern League

10 days into July and two more batters have collected 3 homers, Ben Taylor of the ABCs and Bullet Rogan of the Monarchs. Rogan is batting .276 with 3 homers while holding a 8-0 pitching record and a 1.16 era.

July 17, 1920 Association Park, Kansas City, MO. Indianapolis ABCs 7, Kansas Monarchs 5. Over the last 4 games the ABCs Oscar Charleston has gone 10 for 17 with 1 hr, 2 2b.

July 20, 1920, Association Park, Kansas City, MO. Monarchs 9, ABCs 4. Sam Crawford pitched 5 innings and picked up the win: 5 IP, 3 hits, 0 bb, 1 K. He's now 7-5 on the year. Ed Rile pitched 7 inning and took the loss: 5 ER, 10 hits, 4 bb, 3 K. He goes to 0-2 on the year.

July 24, Schorling Park, Chicago, IL. ABCs top the Chicago Giants 12-10 with 29 hits total. Oscar Charleston of the ABCs was 3 for 5, hr, 8 RBI and scored 2 runs. Bullet Rogan collects his 4^th dinger on the season.

With three months recorded in the season. The Chicago American Giants hold the top spot in the national league at 30-14, 2.5 games over the Detroit Stars. The Hilldale club are on top of the independent eastern league at 6-1, 1 game over Brooklyn and 1.5 on top of Atlantic City Bacharach Giants. Blackwell and Lloyd are still on top of the bating board. Rogan is joined by team mate McNair atop the HR board at 4. Oscar Charleston has come on as of late and is all alone on top of the RBI boat at 43. Tom Williams of the American Giants has 10 wins now. Followed by Bill Drake SLG, and Dizzy Dismukes IA with 9. Dave Brown of the American Giants is leading the league in striking out apposing batters at 68. We have now played over half of the season.

Looking at team vs team report the Kansas City Monarchs and the Chicago American Giants have faced each other the most at 10 games. So far the Monarchs have won 6 games. The first place American Giants are; 5-0 Cuban Stars West, 11-2 against the St. Louis Giants, 7-2 vs Indianapolis, and have only won 2 of 6 vs the Dayton Marcos.