The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-09
VANCE HANGS UP
 HIS 25TH VICTORY
Deberry's Homer With One On
 Puts Dodgers In Front
BY WESTBROOK PELGER. Especial Leased Wire to Age-Herald.)

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 NEW YORK, Sept. S.-Dazzy Vance, the one-time weary Willie of organized baseball who trudged from tank to tank in the horse-and- buggy circuit for eight years before he came to the Brooklyn Dodgers, won his thirteenth consecutive victory in Monday afternoons only ball game in the National league. Vance held the Giants to half dozen we'll spaced hits, beat them to 2 and al most closed up the aperture between the Giants and the Dodgers which had been widened- considerably in the riot ous Sunday game on the Brooklyn lot which the Giants won to '.
 The Dodgers are still astern of the Giants in the wild drive to the end of the season and the title of the league but they have played, three more games than the Giants and have only 10 to play, whereas the Giants must take their chances in IS skirmishes, all of which are likely to be more or less desperate in character, with prizes of about $5,000 a man depending on the outcome.
 The collison of the Dodgers and Giants on the historiic lot in the shade of Coogan's Bluff brought more than 30,000 customers through the turn stiles, the largest washday crowd seen at a l. ball game in New York since washing was invented. The Army fiiers,. returning from their hop around the world, Tapped into view under con voy of the reception planes as the game began. Some of the clientele thought they were the movie cruisers, sniping long-shots at the terrific battle for a few yards to flannel to Haunt from a flag-pole and straightened their neckties so as to look nice in the pictures.
 Travis Jackson, the juvenile short stop for the Giants, cracked q triple to left and was sent home on sacri- flee swipe by Hank Gowdy, the ven erable catcher, in the last half of the third inning, the first run of the game ute later, in the first half of the fourth Zack Wheat doubled to right, went to third on a sacrifice by Jacques Four nier, and went home on Browns single
 The Giants went out in front, scor- ing their second and ultimate run when Ross Young, the outfielder, doubled took third on Bill Terry's single and loped home on Wilson's sacrifice fly
 In the Dodgers next turn at bat, Griffith singled and rambled around with hours to spare on Hank DeBerry' s home run, giving the Dodgers two runs in the fifth and a. one-run lead. In the seventh the Dodgers scored two more. In the eighth they made another and in the ninth still another while Vance held the Giants tightly under control.
 This was Vance's 25th victory of the season. He has lost only four games.
 The Giants figure is now .603 and the Dodgers .597.
 Walter Johnson, pitching for the Washington Senators, and rounding out one of the greatest seasons of his career IS years after his introduction to a major league payroll, beat the Athletics in Philadelphia, to 4, and the Washington club thus maintained it's lead of two games over the New York Yankees. Joe Bush, pitching for the Yankees against his old club, the Boston Red Sox. gave only two slaps and recorded shut out, 2 to o.
 These were the only games played in the American league. The Browns and White Sox were to have played in Chicago but rain fell.