Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1940 — Page 26

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merican 1 League Leaders Race Down the June Stretch,

Tied Up in the

Lost Column

Only Numbers of Games Played Gives Cleveland The Lead—Yanks Break’ Losing Streak

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YOEK, June 27.—The American League today had one of those National League touches to it as the three leaders came galloping down the June stretch all tied in the

lost column. Cleveland is still in the van, with a 2l4-game|

}'ad. over the Tigers and a three-game lead over the Red

. ‘but only because in the “rence of the number of :38 played. +o standing of the three lead-

Games Pet. Behind 625 24 593 2% 24 58 3

Not only are the three leaders engaged in the closest struggle the American League has known at this stage of the race in years but all down the line the junior circuit is putting on the tightest kind of a fight. . From the first-place Vittmen

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to the last-place Senators, the gap

is only 14% games. In a week's play a last-place club could climb

‘all the way to fourth place and a

fourth-place club could drop into the cellar. | N. L. Close, Too

The National League has a dingdong race on also, but it isn’t quite as close as the American League affair, There's a 17-game gap between the league-leading Reds and the last-place Phillies. The three leaders, the Reds, Dodgers and Giants, are bunched in the usual National League fashion. Red Ruffing brought the Yanks out of their four-game losing streak by quelling Cleveland in a 3-1 game as the World's Champions closed their disastrous Western trip with four victories against nine setbacks. Ruffing pitched a six-hitter to win

“his second game of the trip, and

bring his record to six and six. Joe

DiMaggio’s single in the fourth drove in two runs and another single accounted for the final Yank run in the ninth. Red Sox Whip Tigers

Held scoreless for eight innings

. {by Rookie Johnny Gorsica, the Red

Sox batted him from the box in the ninth and scored three runs to beat the Tigers, 3-1. Until the ninth the Red Sox had made only three hits. Hits by Finney, Foxx, Tabor and Cronin and a passed ball by Tebbetts did the damage. Rookie Herb Hash, who relieved Jim Bagby in the eighth, was credited with his seventh victory. The Browns’ taste of first division

ple was brief as the Athletics]

knocked them back to fifth place with a 9-4 defeat. ' The Yanks moved back _into fourth place. George Caster, who leads the American League in defeats with 11, held the Browns to seven hits, winning his second game. Sam Chapman hit a homer with the bases loaded. A two-run rally in the ninth enabled the White Sox to come from behind and beat the Senators, 7-6.

Pirates, Phillies Split

The Pirates and - Phillies got a standoff in a twin bill. Two exPirates, Johnny Rizzo and .y Blanton, starred in the Phils’ 4-2 victory in the opener. Rizzo drove in all his club’s runs with a homer, double and single. Blanton held the Pirates to seven hits, besting Joe Bowman. The Pirates slugged four Phil pitchers for 14 hits in winning the nightcap, 11-6. Spud Davis hit

NO | RETURNS

Quells Vitimen

Red Ruffing . he pitched a six-hitter and lifted the Yanks out of a slump.

two homers and Vince DiMaggio one in the second game. Truet Sewell was the winning pitcher, but had to be relieved by Mace Brown in the sixth.

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Time, they say, doth change all things. And for the proof of this you have only to look at the American League standings as of today

and as of June 27, 1939.

Leading by 14% games a year ago, the World Champion Yankees, the Murderers’ Row the anything-you-might-want-to-call-them in 1939 as long as it meant tough, now that outfit is in fourth place. And to top that the Yanks are only a game ahead of the nobody-else-but-the St. Louis Browns. The Browns, you know, are the team about which a St. Louis paper felt it inadvisable and impertinent to cover in spring training. The sheet didn’t even send a reporter around to see what

was up.

In fourth last year like the Yanks are this year, the Cleveland Cry-Babies are now atop the heap, two and one-half ahead of Detroit. Emerging from their worst Western trip in 10 years, the Yanks, however, did manage to beat the bleating Vittmen yesterday, 3 to 1. But who's afraid of the big bad, Yanks?

Pro Pointers:

By ART KRENZ NEA Service Golf Writer Samuel Jackson Snead points out that a few waggles loosen a golfer up: . . . gets him into the flow of

the swing without a jerk, and therefore are im-

A single by pinch-hitter Johnny |portant.

McCarthy with the bases loaded ir the 10th inning gave the New York Giants a 10-9 win over the St. Lo '3 Cardinals last night. The Giar's hammered out 18 hits, including homers by Danning, Joe Moore and Cuccinello. Ernie Xoy and Johnny Mize hit four-baggers for the Cards. Mize’'s homer was his 20th. ‘A single and two walks, one intentional, set the stage for McCarthy's hit. ;

Gridiron Goodby?

Bill DeCorrevont may never play football again. Bill hit .406 for the Northwestern baseball team and the

big leagues are courting him.

“A lift of the left heel starts | the hips rotating away from the ball,” explains the Virginian. “No effort should be made to lift the clubhead from the ground. should be kept low. - “Guard against tightening during the initial stage of the swing. “The right leg strengthens as the left knee bends toward the ball, but there should be no feeling of the right leg locking.”

Sam Snead

Binghamton Holds

Eastern Lead

By, UNITED PRESS Eastern Baseball League standings’ remained unchanged today after the pace-setting Binghamton Triplets split a twin bill with the Elmira Pioneers while rain forced postponement of the other scheduled games. Binghamton dropped the opener to the fourth place Pioneers, 4-2, but came back for an 11-3 triumph

Did They Break Up the Yanks?/viaror Loaders

LEADING BATTERS National League

Danning, New York Su 5 Be Walker, Brooklyn ... 46 176 26 Gustine, Pittsburgh.. 45 171 22 Moore, New York.... 51

203 40 Nicholson, Chicago .. 50 173 28

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‘RUNS BATTED IN

Foxx, Red Sox 58| Walker, Senators. 48 Greenberg, Tigers 50|Da Fletcher, Pirates . 49 Mize, Ee: i

: RUNS Cosky, Tj ors. 52 Boudreau, Indians 48

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Rochester Ups Is: Lead to 4%

By UNITED PRESS The Rochester Red Wings increased their International League lead to 4% games over idle Jersey City last night by walloping the Newark Bears, 7-4. ‘Baltimore's

3 ;| fourth-place Orioles defeated the 61 Frome: Maple Leafs twice, 8-3 and

: Askin’ for It? Cowboy Luttrell, the fat, oldish wrestler who is meeting Jack Demp-|{

sey in that charity fight in Atlanta

47|July 1, is demanding that they wear

10-ounce gloves and that the affair be scheduled for 10 instead of six

Wiliams Re Cate, a: Red Sox 50/Gebringer, Tigers. 48

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RSDAY, JUNE Zi, 1840 Barred by War

Warfare on the Mediterranean probably will keep Mike Jacobs from seeing Robert Belkeir, North African champion heavyweight, who wrote asking for a match.

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