Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-18
ROUGH ROAD AHEAD
FOR RACE LEADERS
Hugmen Increase Margin
Over Idle A's-AII N. L.
Contenders Win.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
w Y1TH their closest rivals hang
IA ing on like grim death itself,
wv dreams of dire disaster
haunt the managerial bed
| chambers of Bill McKechnie
and Miller Higgins.
Bill has his st. Louis Cardinals at
the top of the National League standing,
and Miller, If he keeps his eyes on the
level or slanted upward, can see no.h-
ing to rival his New York Yankees in
vantage is so small as to make un-
| troubled sleep a thing impossible.
| It looks now as though neither is
to get any peace of mind until Septem-
Der 80, when the big league season
closes.
Taking advantage of the idleness yes
terday Of their only rival, the Athletics
of Cornelius McGillicuddy, the Yankees
bounced on four st. Louis pitchers for
is hits. enough it would seem, to &C.
count for the 12-to-2 score the cham
pions piled up. Thus the half-game
margin the Yankees enjoyed before the
SLAUGHTER at st. Louis began. grew to
full game by the time 1t was over.
Ogden Is Ineffective.
Jack Ogden started for the Browns,
but what with allowing IL hits, 9 runs
and walking men, while his team
mates were helping along the good
cause with six errors, Jack came to the
conclusion In the seventh inning that
he was not exactly in his most effective
| form. It was a bit late, for the game
already was won and lost Waite Hoyt
shut out the Browns until the ninth.
when, for no apparent reason, Ralph
Kress hit home run with l on. It was
Hoyt's nineteenth victory, against SIX
defeats.
gagements saw washington trim De-
troit, to 3, and move into fourth
place, when the Chicago White Sox
could do nothing with Jack RusseH ana
lost, 6 to 3, to the Boston Red Sox.
But the National League situation
remained unchanged. when the Car
dinals, New York Giants and Chicago
Cubs turned in victories.
Jim Bottcmley's twenty-ninth home
run with two on In the seventh gave
the Cards a 5-to-2 triumph over the
lowly Phils. Clarence Mitchell, aged
southpaw, held the Phils safe except
| in the sixth, when two singles. pass
and a force out gave the tailenders
two runs.
The Giants remained only two games
distant from st. Louis by lacing the
Pittsburgh Pirates, 9 to 2, in the Sec
ond game of the series. Brame and
Homer Blankenship were easy meat for
the battling Giants, who pounded out
IA hits, including home runs by Welsh
and OFT. The Pirates two runs off
Karl Hubbell were scored in the sixth
when Pie Traynor hit for the circuit
with Paul Waner on base.
Cubs Trounce Braves.
The Cubs trcunced Boston, IS to s.
to retain their third place position, a
game and half behind the Giants
Five pitchers saw service for the
Braves and wild and woolly game be-
came somewhat lidicrous when Ray
Lefty" Boggs, last Boston hurler. ep-
peared on the scene in the ninth !.
ming. He allowed one hit, walkeS one
man, hit three more and M e two
wild pitches during his ter e of Of
fee.
A five-run rally 81 .de eighth gave
Brooklyn a T. victory over the
Cincinnati LIS, evening the series al
one vi~.sry apiece. Although touched
fr---.y. Pete Donohue went the route
4 for the Reds. 1t might have been Just
as well II he had left at the end OF
the sixth.