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LIFTS SAINTS FROM 7TH TO 1ST
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OSTER GANZEL, manager of the St. Paul Saints, is the envy of the other pilots in the American Association— and in his freshman year! . . . He came up from the Class B Southeastern League, directed the reorganization of the - 1937 seventh place Apostles and now is riding out in front of the Class AA pack with room to spare. At this stage of a campaign baseball managers seldom get a sound sleep and their appetites are sour. ... It’s just
the opposite with Ganzel. . . .
He snoozes without tearing
the sheets and mauling the pillows, gets up refreshed, eats a hearty breakfast and leisurely passes the day until it’s
time to go to the ball park.
FOSTER used to play -with
the Louisville Colonels and
Minneapolis Millers and saw more than one manager grow batty, lose weight and wish that baseball had never been invented. . . . With this in mind, Ganzel determined to keep both feet on the ground when he took over the St.
Paul reins and he’s still serene Ganzel spent a lot of time with
and happy. his pitching staff, rounded it out
n superb fashion and it’s been a long time now since he’s had to worry
about having a good starting hurler ready . .
. And on top of that, Foster
is an optimist . . . He said the other day, “We ought to finish on top
if we play .500 ball from here on out.
getting we ought to do at least that
And with the pitching we're well.
“Of course, some other club may get in one of those streaks, but that’s what it will take to beat us now provided we can hold our own. “I'm banking on our pitching. It’s been great. It’s meant everything to us. I made up my mind early this season that if we expected to get any place our pitching would have to carry us. With that in mind I determined I'd risk losing some games in order to keep this
pitching at its highest efficiency.
ADOPTED a policy of ‘burning’ one game a week. I mean by that I'd let a pitcher ‘take it’ rather than use up one or two others. I wanted to keep those veterans taking regular turns and giving them
enough rest between games.
“It’s worked great so far. The regulars have come through and whenever your pitchers deliver you're tough. Why? Because you've
got a chance to win every game.
You're never outclassed. We- figure
if we can sneak in a few runs we'll win. Without this pitching we wouldn’t have a chance because we don’t hit well enough.”
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IGHT double-headers get you down . . . American Association
magnates moved in the right
direction when they limited the
second half of twin bills to seven innings . . . Now for a second move . « « Limit both games to seven stanzas and shorten the intermission . « « Playing baseball after midnight is the bunk . . . Maybe a 11:30 p. m. curfew would ease the situation, or go back to the twilight-
moonlight split double bills Whith fancy in the past.
struck many Indianapolis fans’
Anything to get away from the Midnight Madness when the action lasts until after 12 o’clock. . . . Milwaukee clamped on a 11:30 o’clock
curfew and is getting along all right. . .
more than four hours is too hard to to roll out early to get on the job.
. Night entertainment lasting take for the customers who have
EORGE TRAUTMAN, American Association president, wants to see an American Legion Night celebrated once a season in every park in the league. ... Since St. Paul's Legion Night drew more than
12,000.
The action of the New York Yankees in recalling pitcher Joe
Vance caused Kansas City fans to droves. . .
Lexington Park attendance record is
remain away from the park in
. He was a consistent winner and a big favorite in Kawtown. So far the St. Paul team has played to 192,000 at home. . .
. The 242,000 and there is a chance for
this year’s club to better that mark.
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LAYERS consider the National League Park in Boston the tough-
est for batters in the senior circuit . . .
. The background is poor.
« «« Winds blow in from the outfield... . The infield is slow, and has the thickest mat of grass in the majors. It is said that the grass is purposely kept high because the Bee
pitchers throw more low curves than anything else . ..
to hit into the dirt.
. force batters
It is little wonder that Casey Stengel’s lads bring up the tailend of
the batting averages in the senior big
league loop.
Baseball at a Glance
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
W. L. St. Paul .......... 67 Kansas City ...... 61 INDIANAPOLIS ie S Milwaukee ........ 519 Minneapolis S514 Toledo ..... 495 Columbus ........ 4 422 Louisville ......... «333
Pct. 609 560 545
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Ww. Pct. New York ........ 62 667 Cleveland ........ 55 611 Boston ....cc00000¢ 54 587 ‘Washington ....... 51 510 Detroit ......co0.. 43 485 Chicago’ .......... 39 443 Philadelphia ...... 34 370 St. “Louis 31 330
NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct Pittsburgh srsesass G1 35 635 New York ........ 56 43 . .566
Cincinnati ........ 54 44 551 551
Boston ......co00vs 43 50 A474 Biegkim ceisrenes 30 52 469 St. Pul . 42 55
Philadelphia ...... 20 65 316
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
INDIANAPOLIS at Toledo (to be played at later date). Columbus at Louisville, St. Paul at Milwaukee. Minneapolis at Kansas City.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at St. Louis. Only game scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE No games scheduled.
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YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First Game) 100 020 100— 3 3 1 000 060 30x— 2
Cain, Chélini, Taylor and a sires; (Second Game) . 001 114 0— 712 0 Siw a 200 000 0— 2 6 1
Phelps and Pasek; Zuber, T. Reis and Hankins.
(First Game) it ves. 000 000 010— Mianeavole 300 002 2gx— 7 13 1 Parmelee, ain a | Cohen and Grace; Bonham an
ny A ) s Minn HE cccocccces 000 200 0— 2 Einsas’ city 400 - = ¢ 1 5 dexter, Al Cohen an race; Piechore and MeCulloug
(First Game) .. 000 001 040— 5 10 1 000 105 10x— 7 11 1 ba and Schultz; Shaffer, + Andrews ny Ringhof fer. (Second Game) Columbia 500 000 4— 9 13 uisville LA and Ryba; Puens, Winis, Car-
, Thompson and pene All Association second games seven
; league rule. ereami—— NATIONAL LEAGUE
(First Game)
001 100 003— 5 11 8 Fittsbureh 010 000 000— 1
Tobin and Todd; Gumbert, Coffman ey 4 (Second Game)
New Blanton, Brandt and Toad: a Hubbell
(First rst Game)
(Second Game) 000 000 000— 0 5 2 . 120 002 00x— 5 9 © Lee, Carleton and Hartnett, = O’Dea; Turner and Mueller.
(First Game) 010 000 101— 3 6 4 002 003 01x— 6 8 1 Shoun, Macon and Owen; Passeau and V. Davis.
St. Louis Philadelphia
Serens Game; 7 Innings; Rain) 003 0101—5 6 0 Panlagelpnia 001 000 0—1 6 ©
McGee ad Bremer; Hallahan, Sivess and Atwood
(First Game) Cincinnati . 520 000 111—10 0) 2 Brooklyn 031 100 033—11 0 Vander Meer, Walters, Grissom, Cascarella and Lombardi; Posedel, Mungo and Shea, Campbell.
(Second Game) Cincinnati 000 200 010— 3 6 © Brooklyn 011 000 04x— 6 11 1
R. Davis and Hershberger; Fitzsimmons and Shea, Campbell, - ell.
AMERICAN [CAN LEAGUE (First Game) 010.001 012— 5 12 4 251 011 22x—14 17 2
ne Ferrell, Appleton and R. Ferrell, Giuliani; pi Po gg Sewell, Rensa. Tre
Washingtan
(Second Game) Fasuington 340 101 012—12 17 2 cago 111 001 001— 5 13 ©
Weaver and R. Ferrell; T. Lee, Ford and ensa.
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(Second Game) 032 200 100— 8 13 © St. Louis 000 200 012— 5
Caster, E. Smith py Brucker; Newsom, Van Atta, Liebhardt and Heath, Sullivan.
Boston ........ esse 010 101 000— 3 2 Detroit 300 011 11x— 7 10 1 Wilson and Desautels; Gill and York. New ork 000 200 032— 7 3 2 Clevelan
000 000 000— 0 Eutfing a and Dickey; Harder, belo and P
MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS
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Brucker, Athletics Weintraub, Phillies Foxx, 0X... Lombardi, Travis, Senators Home Runs Greenberg, Tigers Foxx, Red Sox Goodman, Reds 3 Ott, Gia: . Jornson. Ashitics sweeesnels York, Tiger
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C2 Leads Popularity Poll
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P).—
; Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit
Tigers was voted the most popular second baseman in baseball in a poll conducted by a cereal manufacturing company, it was an-
nounced today. Leaguer chosen in the popularity
Gehrig of the New York Yankees. The veteran Detroit player’s chief rival was Billy Herman of the ChiC third and
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Gehringer is the second American poll, following First Baseman Lou|.
Finishing poll were two other | Bobby Doerr of
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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1938
Injury Paves Way to Cochrane’ s Exit
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Mickey Says He’s Through
His Farewell, ‘That Kind of Job Is Not for Me.’
DETROIT, Aug. 8 (U. P)-—If Mickey Cochrane ever returns to baseball, he hopes it will not be as manager. He said today, as he prepared to take his family for a vacation in Wyoming, that he has lost interest in being a major league pilot. “If those things can happen to you,” he said, “then that kind of a job is not for me.” He referred to his surprise removal as manager of the Detroit Tigers Saturday night after his club had dropped four games in a row. Black Mike, leader of the Bengals since 1934, was succeeded by his coach, Del Baker. In a quick visit to Briggs Stadium yesterday, Cochrane packed ' his uniform, cleared his desk for his successor and said goodby to Baker and the Tigers. Then, unhampered by baseball rules, he went over to the dressing room of the Boston Red Sox for a brief chat with Manager Joe Cronin and members of his club. There has been talk that Mickey has his eyes on a job with the Red Sox. It is known that he is wellliked by Cwner Tom Yawkey, and hailing from Massachusetts, Cochrane is.a favorite with Boston fans. It was not likely, however, that
Joe has kept the gold-plated Red Sox well up in ‘the American League race this season and still has another year to go on the five-year contract he signed in 1935. As Mickey shook hands with the Tigers he led to league pennants in 1934 and 1935 and to the World Series championship in 1935, his eyes were moist. With a half grin, he spoke few words. He said there would be no baseball for him for some time.
Cochrane would succeed Cronin for”
Mickey Cochrane’s brilliant playing career ended as he was felled by a pitched ball in New York last year. His life hung in the balance for days and he spent most of the 1937 season on the retired list. It
the end for Blank Mie as a man- ®
friend in one of the field boxes. . . -slid silently into the box. . . . To “That’s probably shadow No. 1.”
for weeks.” . . . old hand at baseball, commented later: “Whenever the club owners start using snoopers that can mean only one thing—the manager is through. Just the same, the release of the popular Mike still came as a stunning blow to millions who judged he was set for life in the Motor City. Blow to Cleveland:
One thing. about the Yankees, they beat the teams they have to beat. . .. They practically settled the American League race by taking three straight from Cleveland. . . . It will be a long time before the Vittmen recover their morale. . . . This was the series which was to decide whether they belonged in the race. . . . The result would seem to indicate they don’t. Around town they are referring to the Yankees as the Varsity . . . This is by way of saying all the other teams are the Jayvees .-. . When the Varsity takes the field it's all over . . . A significant fact in connection with the Yankees is that they haven't lost an important series in three years . « . When the chips are down they are at their best. Usually the Giants perform along similar lines, but they didn’t in the so-called crucial series which ended yesterday with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the team that is supposed to fold up like a trick opera hat at the faintest suggestion of opposition . . . They took two out of three against
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Baseball
was featured by the hurling of Heg-
a double. Write Carl Rowleti, 119 N. Illinois St., for games on Aug. 14 and 21.
LOCAL NINE LOSES
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8.— lost to the St. Louis team, 2 to 1,
—Johnson. : piige—sis avin, Dunn and
The Bohemian All-Stars, Negro nine, won their fifth straight game yesterday by defeating the Kokomo Advertisers, 9 to 8. The game
ley and the hitting of Johnson, who connected for a homer, triple and
IN PRINTERS’ MEET
—Indianapolis in the opening game of the Union
Tribe Box Scores
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Runs batted in—Fausett, Latshaw, Johnson (2), Gelbert, abs. Two-Base its—Chapman, Johnson, Archie. ThreeBe Hits Run—Latshaw. Sacrifice—Pofahl Left’ =, dianapolis, 3: Toledo, 8. off SE ‘3. Struck ony po eg 2. Hits—Off Nelson. 8 in 4innings; McLaughlin, 0 in 2; Miller, 0 in 1. H Pitc her—By Nelson (Latshaw). Wild pitch: Losing Pitcher—Nelson. U: Veater. Time—
AT TOLEDO SATURDAY
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Hour. Firs In Best
day had the best time posted in the motorcycle hill climb at Plummer’s farm, having been clocked yester= day in .8:25 for the 200-foot course which has a 70-degree incline, Moore turned in his fast time in winning the Class B professional event. Bernie Peters of Green Bay, Wis., captured the Class A expert event and another climb Io i feeslana)s;
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ager, since he was not the same dynamic leader in the role of bench pilot. He was released by Owner Walter Briggs of the Detroit Tigers Saturday night and Del Baker (right) Veteran Bengal coach, was ap-
pointed to take over the reins. 8 = 8
He Suspected Something When Shadows Appeared
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Putting one little word after another: To one man at least the release of Mickey Cochrane was not a sur- |. prise . . . and that man was Mr. Cochrane himself. . . . The last time the Detroit Tigers were in New York Mr. Cochrane was talking to a
. During the conversation a stranger "his friend Mr. Cochrane remarked,
The remark mystified his friend . . . and by way of explanation Mr. Cochrane said, “Oh, hadn't you heard? They've had detectives on us
The friend, being an &
Hasty on /
2| Marion Miley favored to a her fourth straight r Los: title as the annual 72-hole Derby
Time in Hill Climb
Ralph Moore of Indianapolis to-
the Giants on their home grounds when the pressure was tightest . . . and at no time did they look like a club which had any confirmed notion of cracking. Gabby Harnett of the Cubs says Dizzy Dean is the best pitcher he ever saw . .. “next to Carl Hubbell,” he adds, “because Hubbell has stayed there and is still good” . . . The Yankees and the Dodgers are
going to play a spring series coming |
back from the training camps next year. . ... This will give Babe Ruth a chance to mingle with his old teammates again. The Giants are counting on George Myatt, of Jersey City, for third base next year . . . The scouts say all he can do is run. Branch Rickey was in town over the week-end and looking plenty worried . .. “I'm scouting ball players now for the first time in seven years,” he said . . . Somebody asked
him if Frank Frisch was going to be returned as manager of the St.
Louis Cardinals . . . “I never discuss matters of that sort,” he said.
is left to him he will not be back. Bob Quinn who runs the Boston
Bees admits that no matter how
great the pitchers are the customers still want to see the hitters . . . and Mr. Quinn should know . . . He has been giving them a flock of pitchers’ battles and drawing scant gathergs.
Kingan Nine Out To Clinch Hide
Times Special . TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 8—The Kingan Reliables of Indianapolis today looked forward to winning the state semipro championship here tonight when they meet the Brazil Eagles in the third game - the series. The Reliables won thelr second in the three-out-of-five series yesterday, 7 to 4. The Reliables scored two runs without a hit in the opening session when the Eagles made three errors. In the second inning the Indianapolis team scored four more runs off two hits and one error. These and Allison’s homer in the third inning added the final run. Brazil made but one hit until the
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Western Women Open Golf Meet
HINSDALE, Ill, Aug. 8 (U. P)— , Lexington, Ky.,
tournament, most important event on the women’s Western Golf Association calendar, which began at the Butterfield course today. Miss Miley won the tournament the first time in 1935 and has repeated every year since then, last
year setting a new record with a
score of 309 for 72 holes. Other favorites were Patty Berg.
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day until Friday.
"AUTO AND DIAMOND |
LOANS
Henry Steady
Ring Favorite
Armstrong Rules 3 to 1 Over Lou in Title Go.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P)— Promoter Mike Jacobs predicted today that at least 20,000 persons would pay $100,000 or more to see Henry Armstrong, feather-welter champion of the world, go after Lou Ambers’ lightweight crown at the
Polo Grounds Wednesday night.
Conservative estimates, however,
‘pared those figures down to 16,000 lor 17,000 atendance and $75,000 to 1$80,000 gate. Armstrong is a steady
3-1 favorite to beat Ambers and became the first man in pugilistic history to hold three recognized titles. Eddie Mead, Armstrong's manager, and Al Jolson, his sponsor,
‘have bet $1,100 to $1,000 that Lou
will not go the 15-round distance. This was a complete reversal: of Armstrong's attitude several days ago. He said then that he was training to go the full route. Mead said that- word from Ambers’ camp had caused the change in opinion. “Friends of mine watched Ambers work out Saturday and yesterday,” he said. “They tell me that he has tried to change his style. He is trying to be a slugger instead of a jumping jack. He has been i ing his sparring partners and punching like a wild man. He cut his boys up a bit, and that’s what he’s going to try to do to Henry. He is going to try to slug it out, and
| he’ll et kn Ki hid But insiders know Rickey has no g ocked out
deep enduring fondness for the Fordham Flash, and if the decision
LOCAL BOY WINS SNIPE BOAT RACE
LAKE WAWASEE, Ind. Aug. 8 (U. P.)—Frank Levinson Jr., 17, of Indianapolis, won the snipe class boat race here yesterday, bringing his craft in ahead of seven other entries. The race was one of a series of warmup events preceding the International Snipe Class Races here Aug. 24 to 28.
Instruction began todey in the sixth annual Butler University coaching school as late registrations brought the enrollment to approxi-
mately 100. The morning's session was devoted to football instruction given by Frank Leahy, line coach at Fordham University. The afternoon classes dealt with basketball technic as explained by Tony Hinkle, Butler athletic director. Kurt Lenser of Stratton High School, Stratton, Neb, exponent of
Where to Go
TODAY— Tomnis—City parks tournament, Fall Creek courts, 9 a. Midwestern tuornament, Douglas S Park, 3 . m. MORROW— . TO OW outs Thesz vs. Frank Sexton, Juan Humberto vs. Joe 8 rr A a SOD: ons “stout, Belmont, Softhan | 11 and Rel oad
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Tegnie—Public parks Journament, western tournameit. Douglas Park, WEDNESDAY — ft] series gious. Belmont: Sefipall Fa Broad
Rinple di T Sto barks tournament. Fall Creek Courter 9 a. m. Midwe tourn Douglas deste 10
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Both Ambers land Armstrong have been okayed by the boxing com- . mission, but Mike Jacobs is still wait-
ing for the customers to give him a 2% office okay.
YANKEES AND BUCS SURVIVE VITAL T EST S
| Major Leaders Roll Over Their Toughest Opponents; Indians Split Double Bill
Johnson Subdues Mud Hens In Series Finale; Tribe Has Day’s Vacation.
Times Special TOLEDO, Aug. 8—Having lost two games and won one daring skirmishes with the Mud Hens over the week-end, the Indianapolis Indians slipped a peg in the American
Association race and were supplanted in second place by the Kansas City Biues. The K. C. pastimers picked. up ground and are now trailing the league leading St. Paul Saints by five and a half games. The Redskins are seven behind the Apostles and a game and a half behind the Blues. Milwaukee occupies the other first division berth, three games behind Indianapolis, 10 away from St. Paul and a half a game ahead of fifth place Minneapolis. Toledo annexed yesterday's first tilt, 13 to 7, by pulverizing Tribe pitching in "the first, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The Hoosiers deadlocked the contest at 7-all in the first half of the seventh, but the Hens went back to work immediately and rallied for three markers in their half and then chalked up a second cluster of three in the eighth,
Three for Chapman
Four runs tallied off Don French in the first stanza put Toledo off to a flying start and the Indians were lucky to get back in the game in the later sessions. Pete Chapman collected three blows for the Redskins and Archie and McCoy led the Hen attack, the former with four safeties and the latter with a triple and home run. A pair of two-run rallies in the third and fourth stanzas accounted for the Tribe's 4-to-2 victory in the seven-inning nightcap in which Lloyd Johnson kept seven Toledo hits fairly well scattered. Bob Latshaw belted a home run for the Indians and Johnson helped win his own game by cracking out two hits and batting in two runs.
Pilney Is Benched
The Hens used Nelson, McLaughlin and Miller on the firing line and the first named was charged with the setback. Manager Schalk shook up his batting order-in both games. He benched Andy Pilney and sent Rookie Carl Jorgensen to the outfield. Steve Mesner was injured in the first game after getting two blows and was replaced by Jimmy Pofahl. Steve. was spiked in the leg on a play at second base and was carried from the field and rushed to a hospital for treatment. He left with the Indians for Indianapolis where they will spend an off day. Mesner has been doing timely batting and his absence will be a blow. He joins Outfielder Myron McCormick, out indefinitely, on the Tribe hospital list. A home run by Ed Coleman with one on in the fifth beat the Indians here Saturday in which Epperly was the Tribe’s starting hurler. The score was 6 to 5. The Tribe-Hen game scheduled here tonight was postponed by agreement and will be played on a later date. The Hens meet the Detroit Tigers in an exhibition at Swayne Field today. The Redskins will battle the Colonels in Louisville tomorrow when Southern Indiana Night will
be celebrated at Parkway Field.
Football Classes Open Schooldays for Coaches
the new six-man football, was to lecture to the evening classes. Tomorrow morning Hinkle, Leahy and Lenser will continue their instructions and the second annual women’s coaching school will get under way with Louise M. Schulmeyer, head of Butler's women’s athletic department, in charge. Approximately 50 are expected to enroll.
Kipke Is Anxious. To Direct Stars
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (U. P.) —Harry Kipke, ousted as football coach at Michigan, may have his chance to prove the old gridiron axiom that “a coach is only as good as his material.” Now leading the coaches’ poll for the 1938 all-star game against
‘Washington’s professional champ-
fons, Kipke, longs for the opportun=ity to handle the collegiate squad and show he is just as good a coach now as he was back in Michigan's boom days. :
McCarthymen Sweep Play at Cleveland, and Pace Race By bl, Games.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Aug. 8—The true test of a champion is what he does to his toughest challenger. Lat est return on that score label the Pittsburgh Pirates and New ' York Yankees the coming champions of their respective leagues. . All doubt about the greatness of the 1938 Yankees was removed by the way in which they cleaned up in their crucial series against Cleve= land. Until Friday the Yanks had won just one ball game in Cleveland. But the Yanks moved out of Cl land last night with three s ht triumphs over the Vittmen—three smashing victories that may have broken the heart of the Cleveland team as far as pennant aspirations are concerned. The Yanks hammered down the Vittmen’s - three aces—Bob Feller, Johnny Allen. and Mel Harder—in Sweeping the most important American League series this season. The triple triumph lengthened the Yanks’ lead to 5% games.
Two-Hitter by Ruffing
Red Ruffing limited the Vittmen to two hits as the Yanks scored a
Pittsburgh delivered a crushing blow to the New York Giants’ pene nant hopes by sweeping a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, 5-1 and 13-3. By knocking the Giants down twice the Pirates stretched their National League lead to 6% games. Jim Tobin pitched and batted the Pirates to victory in the opener. He allowed only four hits and hit two singles which figured in runs. A seven-run rally in the seventh in which Carl Hubbell was driven from the box featured Pittsburgh's victory in the second tilt. Pep Young, Lee Handley and Al Todd
| hit homers in the Corsairs’ 15-hit attack. Ott hit homer No. 27 in
the nightcap. Reds Have Trouble
Cincinnati’s upward climb hit a snag when the rs took a pair from the Reds, 11-10 and 6-3. late inning rallies decided both games. The Chicago Cubs regained a third place tie with the Reds by dividing a Souble hokder with the Boston 1 ay - Bryant . pitched the Cubs to a 7-4 win in the opener. Jim Turner blanked the Cubs in the second game, 5-0, allowing only five hits. ; St. Louis and Philadelphia broke even, the Phillies winning the opener, 6-3, behind Claude Passeau’s six-hit pitching and the Cards taking the second game, 5-1, behind Fiddler McGee's six-hit tossing. Detroit won its first game under its new pilot, Del Baker, by trime ming the Boston Red Sox, 7-3. ‘George Gill pitched a nine-hit game and Hank Greenberg hit homer No. 38. Washington divided a pair with Chicago White Sox. Monte Stratton win the opener, 14-5, with the aid of 17-hit attack. In the nightcap the Senators made 17 hits to win, 12-5. Buck Newsom's attempt to pers form an iron man stunt failed when the Athletics drove him from the box in the second game after he had beaten the A's, 5-3, in the opener. Philadelphia drove him to cover in the second inning of the afterpiece and went on to win, 8-5.
Dodgers Buy Hoosier Southpaw
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (U. P.)—The Brooklyn Dodgers today announced the purchase of Wayne LaMaster, left-handed pitcher, from the Phila= delphia Phillies. No price was an=
nounced. LaMaster, whose home is at Sellersburg, Ind, was developed by the Louisville club of the Amer= ican Association.
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