San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-29
SHOW
NO SIGNS Of
APPROVING
Breaks Give Senators Close
Game, While Macks
Lose.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug, 29.-Washing-
ton and Philadelphia are full game
further apart today in the fight for
the American League pennant but
there is still no encouraging evidence
of recovery of championship form
by either club.
Although the champion Senator's
yesterday stretched their slim adyan-
tage to a game and half by snap
ping a losing streak of four straight
with a 80 decision over the White
Sox, favorable breaks accomplished
for the leaders with a paucity of hits
would otherwise have made impossi-
Bile. Ted Blankenship allowed the
victors only five scattered blows but
errors at crucial periods aided Wash
lngton in securing two of tree runs.
The winning counter in the ninth was
posted without the aid of a single safe
stroke. Ferguson allowed Chicago
eight hits and kept them well scat
tered.
ATHLETICS HELPLESS
Philadelphia, continuing to show
signs of having cracked both on the
offense and defense, ran up its second
western losing streak of four games at
Tigertown. The Detroit steam-roller
flattened out the Mackmen, s to /,
chasing four pitchers with II hits,
six of which were divided by the vet,
eran leader Ty Cobb and Red Wing4.
Three safeties off Hoyt was enough
Off the st. Louis Browns to shade the
Yankees, l to 0, New York failing TO
use eight bingles permitted by Giard.
In another Junior league mound
duel, between Zahniser Of Boston and
Miller of Cleveland. the Indians were
scalped, 2 to !, by First baseman
Phil Todt, who toted home both tai
lies.
Terrific hitting tanned an uprising
against the Pirates in Philadelphia,
100. after five pitchers had failed to
check the Quaker attack. Two homers
and a pair of singles by Cuyler set,
the Pittsburgh pace.
REDS HELD BACK
The Cincinnati Reds redoubled their
efforts to crowd the Giants out of Sec
ond place by besting the Robins, IL
to z, in another National League
clouting bee, but Irish Meusel saved
the Giants advantage of two and one
half games by driving Southworth
home with a double in the ninth to
win over st. Louis by a single tally,
4 to 3. Fred F'itzsimmons, on the
mound for the champions, limited the
Cardinals to six hits.
The Braves, fighting desperately to
leap-frog the Cubs in seventh place,
were beaten by the wind. Long hits,
waited by the Hub breezes, went for
extra base hits to give Chicago a G.
tod decision over Bancroft's out
fit.
Shortstop Jackson of the Giants,
is having a tough time trying 70
Keep in the game. Just when he was
going good again, he threw out hisj
knee and had to be assisted off the
field against the Cardinals.
The Browns did the seemingly inn
possible which they BANKED the YAM
KEGS, although outhit and outfieldedl
The only score of the game, which
was sufficient for st. Louis win,
came when Jacobus crossed the mark
ing station on Benefits single in tho
second stanza.
Cincinnati unlimbered the heavy
artillery against Burleigh Grimes as
soon as the fracas started in Brook
lyn and Ehrhardt went to the rescue
after five runs scored. The clout-
ing Reds were unable to solve him
until the sixth when they put across
two more markers and he followed
crimes to the showers. HubbelT and
Lloyd Brown, who succeeded on the
hill for the Dodgers, met with scant
respect in the eighth, when five more
tallies were socked across.
The Giants have % games to play.
In order to tie Pittsburgh, 20 would
have to be victorious IL the Pirates
won half their remaining "a games.
One reason why Johnny Gooch
didn't catch for the Pittsburgh Pirates
at Philadelphia yesterday was new
son. Johnny started back to Philadel-
phia early today after flying trip to
Pittsburgh to greet Gooch Jr., who ar
rived last night.
L It's a safe bet