The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-07
Slidin In

k,rhe Memphis Chiekasaws chunkeds ss q snrag into the sp0kes of the Barofi's high tension baseball machine and clogged the works Sunday. The count was 5 to g..
 It was case of team which has been on Q long winning streak meeting a team which has been en- toying a short winning streak and the former won by it's greater mo- mentum. 'The better the day the better the deed" may be all true, but it would not work for Messrs. Clake & Jones. The latter started the game for the Barons and sought shelter in the second after three counters had been scored. Clarke took the hill and the two scored off him in the fifth finished the work.
 Down in the romantic bay section the New Orleans Pelicans and Little Rock Travellers pulled off a picturesque bat tie. In the rifle pitt of the Pelicans stood old Pug Cavet, aged left-hand finger, while on the mound for the Travellers ancient Rubt Robinson, vet eran southpaw of many battles, lined up for opposition. The two flung a pretty pitchers duel, Cavet winning i to 0. The Pelicans got seven hits while the Travellers only got six. D
 
 Mobile snapped out of it" after losing four straights to the Barons here this week and walloped the Vols unmercifully, 14 to 4. Long did the mound work for the Bears, while Keenan was knocked from the box by his teammates. gE, Washington's grip on first place in the American league is slowly relaxing. The Yankees, recuperating from a period of weaknesses, are making Q desperate effort to regain that upper most berth.
 Sunday the Senators lost to the Yankees at the capital. After lead ing for seven innings they weak ened in the late stages of the con- test and permitted the Yankees to gather five runs in the last two in- nings for a to victory. Among the Yankees late scores was Babe Ruths twenty-second homer of the season. It came in the eighth in- ming with no one on base. It proved to be an inspirational blow for his teammates, who got busy in the next stanza and hammered out four runs.
 The victory drew the Tanks up to one game from the top.
 The Tigers, who are in third place and who, for time. threatened the leading Senators, took a long slide backward, when they were beaten in Detroit by the St. Louis Browns, B to 1. Pitcher Dave Danforth of the Browns, whose pitching tactics have been the subject to severe criticism by opposing teams, gave the Tigers some thing more to howl about when he yielded but three hits.
 The White Box pushed the Cleve- land Indians into seventh place by defeating them in Chicago, 9 to 6. The Indians had been tied for sixth place with the Red Sox and the de- feat gave the Boston club full possession of that position.
 The Athletics and Red sox were idle. Positions in the National league re- mained practically stagnant. The Giants who are heading the procession with a fairly comfortable lead, divided a dou- hle-hsaler with the Phillles at the Polo Grounds. The leaders eopped the first match, 6 to 1, and were shut.out for the first time this season, in the other event, 2 to 0.
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 The second-plaee Cubs received a severe walloping from the Cardi- nals in St. Louis, 13 to 4. '- The Dodgers shared a Sunday double-healer with the Boston Braves in Brooklyn. Boston won the opener, 4 to 1, and lost the sec ond, to o.
 Wilbur Cooper had successful pitching day ili Cincinnati, where tke Pirates beat fhe Reds Q to z.