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GIANTS BLAST DODGERS FROM LEAGUE LEAD Brooklyn Drops Double Header Am Cardinals Down Cubs K<*« York. Aug. 13.-tl’Pi—Th* Mow York Giant* have suffered <>no of tho moat uninspiring season* In tho* club's colorful history but that waa forgot ton today for two very rood reasons a pair of victoria* over the Brooklyn Dodger* Loaded down with more veter , ana than any club in the major league*. the Glanta have (daggered . intn f*e National league a second division and face a long, detailed rebuilding before they can improve , their statu* Their only marked success ha* hem over the futile. | last-place Philadelphia Philliea who have li»t nine game* to the Giant* > while winning only three Hut something happen* when the flianta and lanlger* meet, some *purk ia art off that pitta both cluba on their mettle. At Kldtel* held yraterday the spark lout tied off an egpltwion that gave the Giant* twin will*. 9-5 and 2-0. and blew the Dodger* out of Aral place. Mr) Oft clouted bi* 2<»th and 21a* home run* of the year. ea< h with two men on ba*e. leading a in hit Giant attack on five pit. hers in the first game H* drove in ail run* and acorrd two. Carl Hubbell •tattered II Brooklyn hit* tot hi* loth victory Cliff Melton, ineffet live for moat of the season. completed the Brooklyn rout In the nightcap by holding the Dodger* to three hit*. The •econd largest crowd In Kbbeta field history 39.145 — groaned almoat In uni*on a* the Giant* acorrd two unearned run* in the second to win the game. Hartnett doubled and then with two out. Herman booted Whitehead * grounder. Hart- - nett m uritig Melton walked and Bartell singled home Whitehead Herman injured hl* hand on Whitehead* grounder and left the game. I The St laiul* Cardinal* *wut 11,I 1 , gamer ahead of Brooklyn by stag-1 Ing an uphill battle to defeat the Chicago Cub*. fi-7. Creepy Creapl 1 cracked out three single and a ■ “Wigglitus” ■ Is not in ''Webater*" ■ but M It often shows up ■ in speed* ear* B and B b generally B called shimmy ■ and ■ If your car doe* B it—we can Mop it. I RIVERSIDE 1 SUPER SERVICE B East Monros St. Phon* 741 « “Whan you think of W Brake*, think of ua"

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I double for the Curd*, his single in the eighth driving home the tying und winning run* The Cub* made IC bits to the Card*’ 15 and each •ide u«ed four pitcher*. , Mickey l.lvingeton* lltb-lnning I double gave the Phil* a 2-1 decision over the Boston Brave* Jim Tobin held the Phil* until the 13th when Merrill May's single, a sacrifice and Livingston's blow ended the battle • The New York Yankee*, after goln g*< <»relese for 37 straight inning* in the stadium, blanked the Boston Bed Sos 4>i behind Spud Chandler’s nit-hit pitching It was Chandler's fifth win of the year und put the New Yorker* 14 game* ahead of the Cleveland Indian* who divided a doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers. Al H'-nton, former relief pitcher, gave up four hit* and out pitched | Hobby Feller to bring Detroit a 2-d I victory over the Indiana hi the first I game but Cleveland snapped their i losing streak at sit games with a 4 I victory in the nightcap. Feller ’ fanned seven to bring hi* season total to 2<*S. making It the fourth consecutive year he has gone over 200 Al Mlinar allowed five hit* for his fiiut win *in< e July I In the I nightcap Washington clipped Philadelphia, 94. Dutch i-eouard winning his seventh straight and 13th of the season He allowed si* hits while Buddy la-wls pu<ed the Senators at the plate with two homers to drive in five runs. The Chicago White So* and St. la»ub> Browns tied 4-4 over 14 innings. The game was called because of darkness after each club had used three pitchers. The Rrowns blew a 4-0 lead going into the fifth When the White So* scored four and then tied in the sixth Yesterday** hero: Creepy Crespi. Cardinale* youthful second baseman. who hammered out three singles and a double, drove in two runs and scored two to lead bis club into the National league lead as they beat the Chicago Cubs. 9-7. o ♦—- — « Rotarians. Lions Meet Tonight In Second Os Series The Itecatur Lion*. roaring over I their extra-inning defeat at the hands of the Rotarian* last week in the first game of their annual i softball series. will he battling to : even the series wh'*n the service I club team* meet tonight at Worth- : man Field The -Rotarian*, who won the initial tilt by a 24 to 17 margin after two extra inning* of niay. will seek to make It two In a row to end (hr series without undergoing any further agony of sore muscles. The Lion* expect to have a stronger lineup tonight, with some of their expected star* back from vacation trips. As an added attraction tonight, the Ikecatur G. E girls team will play In the preliminary against the all-star girls team from Van Wert. Ohio The preliminary Is schdeuled to get underway at 7:30 o'clock, to be followed immediately iby the Ro-tary-Lion* clash. There will lie no admission charge 1 w Trade In a Good Town — Decatm

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PORTLAND WINS SOFTBALL TITLE TUESDAY NIGHT Defeat* Pennville, 7 To 4. In Final Game Os Sectional Jellison Western Auto nt Portland won the sectional softball tournament Tu<--day night, defeating the Pennville Merchant* by a 7 to 4 score at Worthman Field In the final game of the tournament. Pennville kicked away the ball game in the sixth inning, allowing Portland to tally five run* on only one hit. a single by W. Hartsell. Three error*, a pair of base* on trail*, a passed ball, and two fielder's choices gave the winner* their big inning. In the preliminary game, the Hob Inn girl* team of Fort Wayne defeated the Herne All-Star girls team. 4 to 2. Portland AB R II E W H ntrell. c (It* Btlbp. 3I» ...... ..... 3 2 4 0 Hush. lb 4 2 2 1 F Hart tell. cf ! o n n Bond p 3 I o of la-e ss 2 1 0 »l Border*, sf 3 » 0 «| Compton. ?!• .. .... 3fio 11 Hhotip. rs .... 3 0 0 0 Tindall. If 3 0 0 0 Totals 29 7 5 2 Pennville Misner. 2b ........... 4 # 1 o Jone*, c 3 0 0 1 Davis. If 3 0 10 Walts. rs 3 0 1 0 Know. to ... 2000 Croeby. lb ........... 1000 F. Paxson, cf ........ 3 2 3 0 W Paxson, ss ...... 110 1 Hilton, p 3 10 1 Whitacre, sf 3 0 0 • L. Paxson. 3b 3 0 13 Total* 29 4 « « Score by inning* Portland «®0 205 t> 7 Pennville 000 030 1- 4 R H E Bob Inn Dm 011 I—4 5 4 Berne Girls .. 000 000 3—2 4 7 I Eioenacher and Kaser: H. Mo*er 1 and Laichty. THE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GB. Rt Louis 71 33 .451 Brooklyn «9 V 439 1 Pittsburgh 54 44 .55* 10U Cincinnati . 54 4* .53k 12’» New York - 51 52 .495 17 Chicago 44 42 424 24*j Boston 44 42 .415 25Afc Philadelphia 29 77 .274 404, AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York 71 37 .470 Cleveland -59 49 544 14 Boston 57 52 523 MH Chicago 54 54 509 IS Detroit ........... .... 50 5A .443 23 Philadelphia 49 59 454 24 Washington 44 41 .419 27H Rt. Loafs 43 44 402 29'k YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National Lsague New York S-2. Brooklyn 5-0. Rt. lamis 3. Chicago 7. Philadelphia 2. Boston 1 113 Inning*!. Only game* scheduled. American League New York 4. Boston 0. Detroit 3-1. Cleveland 0-4 Washington 9. Philadelphia 3. Chicago 4, Bt. Louia 4 (tie. called end 14th. darkness ! ■ -o —— Today*! Sports Parade (Re«. U. S. Put OMee) By Harry Fer«ueon • 4 New Yorh. Aug IS.—(UP!—That mobile Held hospital known as the Bt. Louis Cardinals may not win the National league pennant, but It looks like the boys are willing to kill themselves trying. Well equipped with splint* and bandage* and trailing an aroma of arnica behind them, the Cardinal* start swinging eastward today Tonight they play the Red* in Cincinnati. and if manager Billy Routhworth should decide that it would be a good idea for the Cardinal* to butt down the center field wall of Croaley field with helir bead*, the carpenter* might a* well be *ummonod. The days of the gae house gang are back. Once more the Cardinals sre playing hell-for-leatber baseball, ramming Into fence* while chasing Sy ball*, sliding like wild men. blocking the plate and sneering at runners with high riding spikes. They're rongh and tough and anybody who gets In their way had better be ready to take IL The records of Cardinal injuries this season road like those of tho accident ward of a boepltal: May IS—Walker Cooper dislocated shoulder blocking tke piste. May 35—Creepy Creapl fractured Anger diving for grpunder. May 27—Johnny Mlse, out with a

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•pllt finger. insbuM nn going ml bat a* film h hitter In nmth with bawe* tilled Hlammrd out a single ' and won the tame June 11-Jimmy llrown fractured finger mtiking lon g*lld» into third !m*e June 23 Mort Coofw-r operated . on for bone growth on hl* pit.-hlng ■ elbow Everybody figured he wa* ' out for the *ea*on. but he's bu< k ' and w nnlng. July 19—Terry Moore injured ■ shoulder diving for a fly. Aug 4 - Crespi Ghat man * bat k again! hit in the face by a batted ball Aug. 10—Eno* Slaughter broke left clavicle when he < ra*hed him the wall tryhig to inske a tough cait-h. t>own in Rt. Petersburg. Fla., where the Cardinal* did their spring training, there wa* nothing to indicate in March that Rt. IxMiis wa* going to have that kind of ball club. Everything wa* ifusineiwlike. Including the doling out of vitamin B l tablet*, which owner Ram Brea dun thinks are partly re«p<>n*ible for the Auccoas of the team. Manager Routh worth roarn-d the Aeld with a clip-board loaded with data about the young player* the boy* who are burning up the league now. It looked more like a factory than a spring training < amp Hut after the Cardinal made their Brat swing around the circuit, they began to see the faint, far-off green color of world aerie* money Inasmuch as the Cardinal manage mem never ha* been known to loss money carelessly to the hired hands, the Iroyw figured they could u*e some of that world series let-

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CRABTREE STAR AT37 YEARS I——. 1 ——. Outlielder, Back From Minor*. Starring For Cardinal* I I Rt. IxMiis, Aug 13.-(VP! —“X" I usually murks the spot where the lualy was found but E*te| Crabtree. 37-year-old outff.-lder who Is located behind an "X" in th'* Rt. Uruiw Cardinals' bn* score* on moat of I hl* playing day*, refuses tn play dead Crabtree, nicknamed “Eek*" by baseball wags, should not Im* playing baseball today according to all the hiwe of nature but he I* and that's the *toty- and It's a good one, It ha* to tie when it concern* a batter who la pacing a team, that include* eight 3un hitter* Estel wa* a frail looking guy to begin with when he became a major league outfielder 10 year! ago and wa* aent back tn the minor* ture. All hell then began breaking loose around the National league The Cardinal* broke their bon<-a and smashed tbelr head* joyously In giving everything the old college try. No player would think of stayla* out of a game with lens than aculV appendicitis complicate.) by gout and a sprained ankle. It's quite a show the new gas house gang ia putting on Get u I load of It if || comes your way.

»ecuu*e he could not bat It seem-1 .•d the *kinny guy with the hlg but ’ wa* through but he limin' ed aiound the hushes for a while and landed with Rochester where last year he cllmavrd a sl«-year stand with a I butting uverage of 314. laist winter prmtdwnt Ram Brea-. I don. In one of the unusual tnu. hmlatlona sot which the t'urdlnal* have Ih-i iitne fumuu*. okayed th- trail* fer of Crabtree who wa* manager of the Wing* and doubled a* the club’s centerflelder to the Cards and it's turned out to be one nf the best move* Hreadon ever made Red Bird fan* smiled at manager Hilly Southworth's assertion that Crabtree wa* better now than when h.- Arat tried out with Bt. louis in 1933, It wa* hard to understand how an old man who had just undergone an operation for the removal of a kidney could hold his own with u Are-eatlng band nt youngsters who were ready to set the .National league ablate Gabby seldom stay* urotmd for the full nine Inning* and Is u«ed chiefly a* a pinch-hitter. He once turned in a lame at third bate , that had the fan* talking for days. He'a ■con*lder*'d the best judge of < fly balls among all the Cards and I that tnc hides Terry Moore, one of J the most efficient ball hawks In the ! business. Hl* speed in the field and on the bases la second only to young Johnny Hopp's and that ulso la fast moving, for the Red Birds are considered the fastest outfit in either league And as for hi* batting, it's ntlll hard to believe At the start of thia we.-k he waa Iw-lting the ball nl u -475 dip He ha* been al bat

<l2 time* rind hit safely 29 limes, making six iilU iu hl* last II Hme* | al bat Crabtree is experte*! <o help All the vacancy c-au«ad by th- Injury lo cegulur outfielder Enos Hlnughter. who » out for the seawn with’ u broke ncollarlume LEADING BATTERS American League Player Club GAH II II P. t , Williams. Boston 9* 31 fl 94 Lift 411 1

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