New Britain herald., 1927-10-03
CURTAIN IS DROPPED ON
 1927 BASEBALL SEASON
Teams Start to Disband-Cards Defeat Cubs and Take Second Place In National League-Giants Land In Third Position With Win Over Phillies - Pirates Lose Last Contest of Year to Cincies - Dodgers Down Braves-Detroit Downs Cleveland.
By the AssocLated rras..

By the Associated Press.
 Fourteen major league baseball teams were disbanding today and more than $50 players were starting for their homes. barring the few nho will witness the world series starting Wednesday. at Pittsburgh.
 The curtain dropped on the 1927 season yesterday with only one con- test on for positions The St Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs. 6-4. and gained second place in the National league. The New York Giants, who had aspired for the runner-up post beat out Phila- delphia, 5-4, in 10 innings, but land ed in third place, one half game be- hind the worlds champions. The Cardinals were booked for q double header against the Cubs but rain set in during the eighth inning and the second game had to be cancelled,
 Pittsburgh closed the season one and one half games ahead of St. Louis. The National league cham pions lost their final game to C1n- Cinnati. o. Chicago ended in fourth place, six and half games be- hind the Giants Cincinnati was fifth, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. who won their closing game from Boston 5-S. finished sixth. Boston was seventh and Philadelphia last.
 The Yankees were not scheduled yesterday. but they won the Amerl- can league pC0nant with eighteen and half games to spare over Philadelphia. Washington beat Phil a delphia 9-5 in the last game and placed third. Detroit took double header from Cleveland, 11-5 and 5-4, and ended in fourth place, two and half gar IS behind Wash ingtou. Chicago finished fifth. Cleve- land sixth and the St. Louis Browns who closed with an S-S win over Chicago, were seventh. The Boston Red Sox brought up the rear of the procession. A cincidence of the final standing shows that the Red SoX and the Philadelphia Nationals fin ished last in their respective leagues with the same percentage, each hay ing won 51 games and lost lol. Philadelphia was 43 games from Pittsburgh and first place, while the Red Sox were 59 games behind the Yankees.
 New batting leaders were crowned in both circuits. Harry Heilman 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 doubleheader at Detroit. Hell- man closed with a mark Of .S'6, Simmons being down with .332' Heilmann succeeds Heinie Manush of Detroit, who set the pace last year with .3S0.
 Paul Wancr of Pittsburgh carried off the individual batting honor Tn the National. his final average ot .379 being 20 points better than his closest rival, Rogers Hornsby oi New York. Waner succeeds "Buh- bles" Hargrave. Cincinnati catcher, who led the circuit last season with .353.
 Babe Ruth, with his record break ing total of 50 home runs for the season, finished 13 homers ahead or Lou Gehrig, his closest rival, but Gehrig led the Babe in extra base hits, l16 to Ruth's 97. Ruth was the leading run scorer with 15S tallies and was followed in order by Geh- rig. with 149; Combs of the Tanks with l37; Hornsby with 134 and Lloyd Waner of the Pirates, with 133.
 Frankie Frisch was away ahead of all competitors in both major leagues in stolen bases with AS. George Sisler of the St. Lotus 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 Yankees led the American league with p wins and seven defeats.