The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-01
PITCHERS ARE
LOOSE DURING
FOURTH GAME
Waite Hoyt and Wiley Moore
Pounded Out: Herb Pen.
mock Is Little Better
ATHLETICS WIN, TOO
st. Louis Cardinals Stretch
Lead in National TO Five
Full Games
(By the Associated Press)

Groggy and reelng from Il sue
| cession of rude blows suffered since
. they invaded the west, the Yank;
temporarily at least have checked a
+ promising losing streak promising,
that is, to the res. Of the American
| League.
After taking three straight on the
| chin at Cleveland, the champions
turned on their tormentors yesterday
and beat the Indians, - % Q, in "A
wild battle. This victory prof:ted
the Yanks nothing. however, except
to keep the Philadelphia Athletics,
riding the crest Of an eight game
winning streak. five and half
games away from them in the stand
ings.
Pitchers Are Weak
Miller Higgins pitchers did
everything in their power to hand
| the Indians their fourth straight
but Cleveland. out Of pure generos-
| ity. declined the gift. Waite Hoyt
and Wiley Moore both were pounded
out of the oox and Herb Pennock
was not specially effective. On the
other hand. five Cleveland hurlers
| performed even worse and four
| Indian infield errors did no good, so
| far as could be noticed from the
grand stands. Johnny Miljus. motor
ious for having wild-pitched away
the last game Of the 1927 Worlds
series. was one of Cleveland's five
moundsmen and was the best of the
. lot.
The Athle .ics apparently have the
St. Louis Browns number. For the
| fourth straight day and the ninth
straight time, the AS beat the
Browns, this time by s to 4. Six
home runs featured the battle. two
by Haas of the Mackmen. Lefty
Grove, who can beat every team in
| the league but the Yankees, was
effective enough in the pinches, al
| though the Browns hit him fire.
quently.
Tigers Win Seventh
Taking over the Boston Rcd Sox.
Z to 2, the Detroit Tigers registered
their seventh victory in their last
eight games. Vic Sorrell held Car
rigan's crew to four hits. one of
them a home run by Charlie Ruffing.
Ted Blankenship blew up in the
eighth inning when the Washington
Senators scored four runs but the
Chicago V'hitesox already had piled
up a six run lead and eventually
came out on the long end of to
5 score.
The st. Louis Cardinals stretched
their National league lead to five
games by pounding the Phillies into
submission, 1S to 5. getting Is of
their runs in four successive in
nings. Sand, Phil shortstop. pulled
one of the prize "boners" of tn.
season when, thinking there were
three out in the fifth ming, he threw
the ball into the diamond, Hafcy
scoring all the way from first base.
This incident seemed to cause the
Pills to go to pieces and the rout
was on. Douthit got five hits dur
ing the day.
Jake May Weakens
Jake May weakened in the late
innings and Brooklyn beat the sec
ond place Reds, 3 to 2, and moved
back into fifth place in the standing
as the Pittsburgh Pirates were losing
to Boston. Vance allowed seven hits
and struck out eight.
The New York Giants and Chi
cago Cubs divided two at the Polo
Grounds. The Giants won the first,
8 to Z, by scoring five runs in the
ninth inning. Charley Root set
down the Giants in the nightcap, 10
to 4.
Meadows and Brame were hit hard
at Boston where the Braves downed
the corsairs, II to 5. Meadows was
rocked for five runs in the first in
ming and Brame for four in the
third.