New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
BROOKLYN TOPS NATIONAL
 LEAGUE WzTH CINCINNATI
Zachary Holds Yankees in Check and Senators Win Athletics Take Their Second Straight-0ther Baseball Dope.

New York, April l6. -- East and | west shared the major league peaks ! today after the second days con- flicts in both Inc National and . American circuits
 Brooklyn divided the pinnacle in | the senior loop with Cincinnati. each l having two consecutive victories, while Boston hung at the edge by the thread of its triumph of Tues ! day, as the result of an incomplete game yesterday ending in the fourth under welcome raindrops with the Giants leading 2-O By another display of heavy bat taing artillery Connie Mack's Athle- tics stepped away to their second success of the campaign and margin on the entire field. but Iris Speakers Indians, forced into idle ness by showers had single victory Of the opening day by which to maintain a percentage tie at the pin nacle.
 Much Hard Hitting
 Although the champion run mak- sns of the inaugural games, the Cleveland and St. Louis teams, were given a vacation by the weather man, the American league continued to produce the more prolific hitting. Chicago and Detroit collaborated in a carnival of couting with 21 safe ties, and the Tygers with majority Of one could not win because the six pitchers they called to the slab fail ed to check the base-hit fire of their foes. The Sox took the game at 10 with Pitcher Robertson remaining effective until the seventh.
 Athletics Win
 The Athletics wasted most of their fifteen hits off Fullerton and Rufi1n, leaving eleven base-runners starnd cd, but the five men they brought home were enough to defeat the Red sox , to 3.
 The Washington Senators in an abbreviated game of six innings evened their series with the Yankees by shelling thegcurves of Sam Jones , for five runs in the second. The de- feat increased Babe Ruth's restless ness in the hospital, where he IS fretting to leave and get Into the thick of the fight. Doctors said it might be possible for him to return 10 the Yankee line up during the weekend.
 I.uQue and Donoiluc
 Another superb pitching per formance accounted for Cincinnati's second straight victory over St. Louis, 4 to ?. Luques effective hurl- ing being hardly less brilliant than that of Donohue on the opening day The game also marked the first hits Of the season for the National league champion, Rogers Hornsby, who in- serted single and triple.
 Seventeen free tickets to first basr were issued by opposing pitchers 1T the game between Pittsburgh an( Chicago, featured by consecutive home runs off the bats of Ems anc Wright of the Pirates. Meadows 0 the winning Pittsburgh club was th' chief offender, giving eight bases ol balls. He allowed only four hits however, up to the ninth, whcl Manager McKcchnie was forced t bench him in favor of Morrison,
 Brooklyn Hits Hard
 Brooklyn batted Philadclphi pitchers for fifteen hits. but had on| . two run margin, to 4, for whic Jimmy Johpstons triple in tn eighth, with two one, was rcsponsi ble. Jacques Tournier added extra hit or two not recorded in th box score during a fstic encounto with Coach Benny Myers of th Pbillies at first base, for whic Fournier was banishcd from tn field
 There was decided falling 0 in home runs, only five being turne in, hut good hitting was done | Cuyler and Weight by Pittsburgh Flagstead of Boston. who secured h second homer of the season, Sin mons of the Athletics, who also hat eed four-bagger, and Taylor Brooklyn,