Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-03
LEAGUES
DISBANDINC;
ST.LOUIS2ND
Cards Defeat Cubs in
Final To Lead New
York; Heilmann Has
Batting Honors
NV The Associated Press)

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Fourteen major league baseball
teams were disbsnding today and
more than $50 players were starting
for their homes, barring the few who
live where they play or who will wit
ness the worlds series, starting
Wednesday az Pittsburgh.
The curtain dropped on the 1927
season Sunday with only j con
test on for position. The st. Louis
Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs
6 to 4 and gained second place in the
National league. The New York
Giants, who had aspired for the
runner-up position. best out Phila.
deiphia, S TO 4, in 10 innings, but
landed in third place, one half game
behind the worlds champions. The
Cardinals were booked for a double
header against the Cubs but rain
act in during the eighth inning and
the second game was cancelled.
Pittsburgh closed the season one
and one half games ahead Of ST
Louis. The National league cham
pions lost their final game TO Gin
cinnati / to 0. Chicago ended In
fourth place, six and n half games
behind the Giants. Cincinnati was
fifth, and the Brooklyn Dodgers, won
their closing game, from Boston ; 70
3, finished sixth. Boston was sew
enth and Philadelphia last.
Yanks Far Ahead
The Yankees were not scheduled
yesterday, but they won the Amer
lean league pennant with eighteen
and one half game 10 spare over
Philadelphia. Washington beat Phila-
delphia 8 10 5. in the last game
and placed third. Detroit took q
double-header from Cleveland, IL 70
5 and 5 to 4, and ended in fourth
place, two and one-half games be-
hind Washington. Chicago finished
fifth, Cleveland sixth, and the ST
Louis Browns, who closed with an
s TO. 3 win over Chicago, were sew
enth. The Boston Red Sox brought
up the rear Of the procession.
The Red Sox and the Philadelphia
Nationals finished last in their re-
spective leagues with the same PEE
centage, each having won 81 games
and lost l01. Philadelphia was 43
games from Pittsburgh and first
place, while the Red Sox were SO
games behind the Yankees.
New batting leaders were crowned
in both circuits. Harry Heilmann OF
Detroit snatched the American
league honor away from Al Simmons
Of Philadelphia by getting seven
hits in nine times at bat in yester-
DAYS double-header ut Detroit. He'll
mann closed with q mark of 1886,
Simmons being second with 1872.
Heilmann succeeds Heinie Manush
Of Detroit, who set the pace last
yea with $50.
Waner Leads Batters
Paul Waner of Pittsburgh carried
off the individual batting honor in
the National, his final average OF
$40 being 20 points better than his
closest rival. Rogers Hornsby OF New
York. Waner succeeds Bubbles Har-
grave, Cincinnati catcher, who led
the circuit last season with 1858.
Babe Ruth, with his record break
Ing total of sixty home runs for the
season, finished Is home runs ahead
Of Lou Gehrig. his closest rival. but
Gehrig led the Babe in extra base
hits. lie to Ruth's 81. Ruth vas the
leading run scorer with l58 tallies.
and was followed in order by Geh-
zig, with i49; Combs of the Yanks
with 1877; Hornsby with 134, and
Lloyd Waner of the Pirates with
1913.
frankie Frisch was away ahead Of
all competitors in both major
leagues in stolen bases with 4s.
George Sisler of the St. Louis
Browns topped the American league
base stealers with 2S thefts.
Jess Haines Of the st. Louis Card
inals topped the National league
pitchers with "a victories and 10 de-
feats. and Waite Hoyt Of the YAM
KEGS led the American league with
% wins and seven defeats.