Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-21
.HUGMEN DEFEATED
AS MACKMEN WIN
Athletics Climb to Within One
Game of Top Place in
American League.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER.


BY the Associated Press.
HERE'S not much to choose be-
tween the two ajOr league
pennant races, but the fact re-
mains that most Of the drama
is being enacted in the Amerl-
can League.
The st. Louis Cardinals have made
the National League battle more or less
of cut-and-dried proposition by the
simple process of matching anything
their closest competitors may or may
not achieve. If the New York Giants
lose the Cardinals manage to do the
same thing. If they win, Bill McKech-
MES boys see to it that John McGraw
doesn't profit in the standings thereby
But in the American League. Miller
Higgins champion New York YAM
KEGS have given their supporters more
alternate moments of ecStatic joy and
dismal gloom than is good for the con-
stitution. even of a r-lunged
Bronx fan.
Bronx i'm Mourning Today.
From good to bad and Back again
Yankee fortunes have gone this year
The Bronx was in deep mourning to-
day. for the Yankees. losing 12-inning
battle to the Chicago White Sox yes
terday, saw the Philadelphia Athletics
creep to within one game of the lead
again.
Meanwhile the National League re-
NAMED unchanged, as the Cardinals
and the Giants tangled in double bill
and emerged with one victory apiece as
home runs flew thick and fast at the
Polo Grounds. What advantage there
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of two more games from his schedule
without losing any ground to his CHIEF
rival.
Pitchers got none of the glory at the
Polo Grounds. George Harper, who
once patroled right field for McGraw
took things in his own hands in the
first game, crashing out three home
runs, and the Cardinals coasted to an
8-to-5 victory. Larry Benton was the
victim of two of Harper's drives, and re-
tired in the eighth with his eighth de-
feat of the season as company. just to
show he was playing no favOrites Harper
hit another home run off Jack Scott in
the eighth, just after Chick Hafey had
sailed one into the right-field bleachers
Most of the damage the Giants did to
Wee Willie Sherdel was the result OF
two more home runs-one by Andy
Cohen and the other by Frank Hogan.
The boys Gained down bit in the
second game until the eighth inning
when The Giants, fighting to overcome
two-run lead, sailed into old Pete
Alexander for five runs, four of them
on Hogan's second home run of the
day-a mammoth drive into the left
field bleachers. That left the score
7 to and there it remained. UP to
that time Alexander had outpitched
the youthful left handler for II hits
one of them a four base drive by Hafey
Leaves Giants Heavy Losers.
Despite the even split. the Giants
we're heavy losers. They were pre-.
sented with wonderful opportunity to
tie for the lead and ended exactly
where they started-two games out OF
first place. They meet the Cards again
tomorrow and for the last time on
September 80
In the other National League games,
the Pittsburgh Pirates trounced the
Phillies. to 4, while the Cincinnati
Reds were splitting even in two games
with the Boston Braves. The Reds won
the first game, to 2, but went down
in the nightcap. to 5, when the Braves
scored eight runs in the first inning.
Urban Faber was the master OF the
situation at Chicago, where the Yankee
ship struck reef and went down with
all hands aboard. The veteran spit
baller held the champions to eight hits
in II innings and walked off with a
4-to-3 decision. The Sox tied the score
in the eighth, knocking George
Pipgras out of the box, and won out in
the twelfth on a single. stolen base
and two sacrifices off Waite Hoyt.
Before the Yankees finally had gone
down at Chicago, the Athletics. thanks
to Jack Quinn, had turned back Detroit,
to l. The Tigers got only six hits of
Quinn and would have suffered shut
out but for a tumble by Jimmy Dykes.
Bunched hits by the AS were Earl
Whitehill'S undoing.
The st. Louis Browns clinched third
place in the standing by defeating the
Boston Red Sox, to 2. Alvin Crowder
pitched his nineteenth victory Of the
season against only five defeats.