Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-06
AS AGAIN VICTOR
AS HUGMEN LOSE
Philadelphia Now Only 3 IL
Games Behind Leading
New York Team.

By the Associated Press.
T%HE uncanny antics Of fast ball
as served up by a young right
handler and not-so-young
4 sOuthpaw have chopped another
full gam" out Of the once inpoS-
ing American League lead Of Miller
Higgins high-priced New York YAM
KEGS.
Staggering and stumbling about in
hostile Western territory, the Yankees
were hum5led yesterday by the speed
and courage of Young Ed Walsh and
the Chicago White Sox.
Taking full advantage Of this oppor-
tunity. Connie Mack's Athletics, with
pennant fever racing through their
veins, trounced Detroit 5 to /, as Lefty
Grove, 28-year-old southpaw. fired the
ball past Tiger batsmen with bewilder-
ing speed.
As a consequence the Yanks' once
proud lead of 10 games has been re-
duced to 312 and unless the cham
pions pull themselves together there's
them before another week has passed.
Only month or so out Of Notre
Dame, Walsh, son Of a father famous in
White Sox history, stood the Yankees
on their heads and won a we'll earned
5to-4 victory. He famed men, set
ting down among others Ruth, Gehrig
and Meusel. The champions threat
ened in the ninth, scoring 2 rims. but
Walsh bore down and induced Koenig
to raise pop fly, retiring the side.
Walsh gave 6 passes, made 2 wild
pitches and hit batsman, but coura-
geously pitched his way out Of every
difficulty.
Grove was the whole show at De-
EIaJ-af1 oil r;c%f
strikes to the lean, but powerful left
handlers dazzling speed. Harry Rice
whitfield three times. Harry Heilmann
got two of Detroits three hits and
scored the only Tiger run when he
crashed out homer in the second in
ming.
Ruffing Outpitches BlaehOlder.
Pitchers dominated the other Amer
lean League battle in which the Boston
Red Sox trimmed the st. Louis Browns,
to l. Charlie Rufing struck out seven
and granted only four hits, Manush and
Schultz each getting a pair. Blae-
holder was touched for eight safeties,
which. with the aid of six sacrifices,
were turned into three runs. enough to
win for the Red Sox behind Rulings
great hurting.
In the first game of one of those
well known crucial series, the ST.
Louis Cardinals stretched their National
League lead to six and half games by
turning back their closest rivals, the
New York Giants, to 4. in Is in
nirgs Singles by Bottomley and
Blades and doubles by Holm and Hafey
in the fifteenth gave the Cardinals the
game. Clarence Mitchell. who boasts of
one of the Slowest laft-handed balls in
the majors. pitched the first IA in
nings for the Cards, but &as replaced
| by Haid with one on and none out in
| the last half of the final frame. Carl
Hubbell. young Texas League recruit,
suffered a Misunderstanding defeat after
he had pitched IL 2-3 innings and
granted only seven hits. -Four of these.
| however, came IN the fifteenth. where
they hurt most. Hafey hit his eight
eenth homer of the year in the first in
ming with two on and Travis Jackson his
eighth with one on the paths in the
fourth.
Behind DaZZy Vance'S great pitching,
the Brooklyn Robins salvaged one game
out Of the four-game series with the
Chicago Cubs. TO q the Robins knocked
Percy Jones out of the box in the first
inning. Vance Strucs out seven men.