San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-27
PITCHERS BLOW
FOR LEAGUE
LEADERS
Both Philade lphia and
Washington Without
Dependable Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. II
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-The West
is giving trouble in equal portions 10
the American League leading cham
pionship Observation-Disclosures and
Philadelphia.
Victims Of three straight defeats,
the Athletics and Senators find them
selves apparently without a single de-
pendable pitcher. Neither club has
been able to bring forth a single hurler
this week to stop the blast of blows
from the West.
The st. Louis Browns, whose blud
geons stopped the Philadelphia pen
nant drive last week, turned the bat
ting thunder on Washington yester-
day. Five of the champions hurting
corps were used but not one of them
lasted longer than two innings as the
home team won, IL TO s.
BEST MEN BEATEN.
The Athletics have dropped seven
of their nine Western games but are
still only one game behind Washing
ton. At Cleveland yesterday Harriss
and Rommel. two Of Mack's best pitch
ing bets, were driven from the slab.
Twelve hits gave the Indians victory,
to 1.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, now gener-
ally considered as the next National
League champions, won back half of
the full game which they lost Tues
day to the Giants. With John Raw
lings making a timely single and a
homer, the Corsairs evened the count
against the Braves, to 0, as the
Giants split twin bill with the Reds.
Irish Meusers eighteenth circuit
clout Of the season in the eighth gave
the Giants the opener, 6 TO 8, while
the second game went Is frames before
the visitors could put over the win
ming run, , to /.
ROBINS MOVE UP.
The Robins regained fourth place
from the Cardinals by beating them,
TO q.
Philadelphia's 20 hits defeated the
Cubs, IL to ?. and Chicago dropped
to seventh place.
Whitehiil put over his fourth
straight mound victory for Detroit at
the expense of the Red Sox, 10 TO y.
Urban Faber of the White Sox shut
out the Yankees, to O.
Fred Lindstrom, Giants youthful
third-baseman, was added to john
McGraw's list Of injured players when
he got in the way of Hugh Critz's
spikes during the second game of
double-header with the Reds.
Recruit Outfielder Leach of ths
Phillies, from Beaumont, continues to
pound the ball hard. The youngster
smashed out four blows during the
slaughter Of the Cubs pitchers. Leach
handles himself we'll in the field and
has a good whip, although he hasn's
had much opportunity yet to use it.
Rogers Hornsby and his Cardinals
were showed out Of fourth place by
the Dodgers, who trimmed them nicely
and stepped up into the first division
themselves. Jack Fournier's triple
with couple of mates on the bags
produced the tickets for the change
in position.
Stanley Harris, manager Of the Sen
ators, got bounced out of the game
at st. Louis by Umpire Brick Owens
when he attempted to tell Brick his
decision was not right. Buck tried
to emphasize his disapproval of the ar
biter's Judgment by throwing his bat
disgustedly as he left the field. "Brick
doesn't like bat-throwing, as was DEM
onstrated the other day in Chicago
when he baniShed Bill Lamar of the
Athletics for throwing a bat which al
most hit the jumps. Nick Altrock, coach
| of the Senators who gets Daid TO be
funny at the games, along with his
coaching duties. must have cut up a
little too much for Brick, who waved
Altrock to follow his boss to the show
ers. -.. ..a