Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-27
BRAVES JOLT
BRUINS BACK
TO3RDPLACE
Alex Hurls Card To
Win Over Brooklyn;
Yankees Split Two
With Tiger Crew
BY HERBERT w. BARKER
Associated Press Sports Writer

Back home, the Boston Braves are
suffering form the same acute malady
that made them so feared last year
a disease that impels them to rise
from the depths of the second d.
vision and smite pennant contenders
loose from their pr~etensions to the
National league crown.
II has been a disastrous year for
Rogers Hornsby and the Braves,
they've been no further than a short
step ahead Of the Phillies, who hold
a lease on the cellar, most of the
year.
Now that it's too late to do n
pennant chasing on their own hook,
the Braves apparently have decided to
get what melancholy satisfaction they
can out of taking down first division
clubs a peg or two.
They chose the Chicago Cubs as
their first victims, smote them high,
wide and handsome on Wednesday
and repeated the dose Thursday.
Richbourg's single in the 14th scored
Farrell with the run that beat the
Cubs, z to 6 and sent the Bruins down
TO third place in the standing, one
notch below the Cincinnati Reds who
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A four rally in the ninth en-
abled the Reds to trim the Phils, s
to 4, Jack Hendricks throwing 10
men into the fray to pull it but of the
fire.
While the Cubs and the Reds were
exchanging places, the St. Louis
Cardinals were strengthening their
league lead to five full games by
taking over the Brooklyn Robins. s
70 !. "Old Pete" Alexander held the
Robins to seven hits while Petty.
] Koupal and Ehrhardt were pounded
for IS including a home run and a
triple by frankie Frisch.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and the
New York Giants did all their
scoring in the second inning, Bush's
crew counting seven times to five for
thee Ian Of McGraw. Burleigh
Grimes, aside from that one bad in
ming, had the giants in control. Carl
Hubbell, rookie from Beaumont.
started his first major league game
and was pounded out of the box in
the Pirates seven run splurge in the
second.
In the American league, the New
York Yankees divided a twin bill with
the Detroit Tigers. The champions
won the first game. II to 1, by the
simple process Of scoring IL runs on
~ hits in the twelfth inning. Meusel
got four hits including a homer and
a triple. The Tigers batted four
Yankee pitchers hard in. the second
encounter and finished on the long
end of a - to 10 score.
The Red Sox for the second straight
day lost both ends Of a double header
to the Cleveland Indians, 4 to 2 and
I TO 3. Billy Bayne and George
Grant were the winning pitchers.
Their third straight win, 5 to I.
over the Chicago White Sox put the
Philadelphia Athletics eight and a
half games back Of the league leading
Yankees.
After dropping their seventh
straight to the st. Louis Browns in
the first game Of a double header,
the Washington Senators came back
to win the nightcap, s to &. Sam
Gray pitched the Browns to a z TO s
victory in the first game and regis
tered his 18th victory against seven
defeats.
, CHICAGO.-Walking unclothed in
the street, Vincent W. Harris was
pursued by policemen for a mile be-
fore he was caught.