The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-14
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Major League Teams Thunder
on Toward What Looks Like
Memorable Season
CARDINALS LOS Frs
Hard Campaigning in the Next
Two Weeks May Loosen the
1928 Races
e AR DINALS Los ERS
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
Echoes of 1908 are heard along
the baseball stretch as major league
teams thunder on toward what now
looks like the greatest dual finish
since the memorable season of
Merkle's failure to touch second. De-
troit won Ban Johnson's pennant by
half q game twenty years ago while
the Cubs broke q tie in the stand
ing with the Giants only by defeat
ing the Clan McGraw, 4 to 2, in a
play-off the day after the regular
season closed.
Hard campaigning in the next two
weeks may loosen the 1923 races,
but for the moment, John Heydler's
three contenders are more closely
punched than were the Giants, the
Cubs and the Pirates at q CORE
spending stage of the 1908 struggle.
The American League today has only
two teams in the running against
the four Which battled twenty years
ago, but the Yankees and the Ath-
letics promise to make up in drama
what they lack in numbers.
The National League situation be-
came even more tense yesterday
when Sheriff Fred Blake led the
Cubs to 6 to l triumph over the
pace-setting Cardinals as the Giants
swept q third straight double-head-
er from under the nose of Rogers
Hornsby at Boston. The Clan Nc
Graw's team took the opener, eased
up behind Larry Benton's fine pitch
ing, IL to 2, and then fought to the
finish for the second, Z to 6.
Giants Are Close
This turn Of events hauled the
Giants up to within. one and one
half games Of the Cardinals, with
the Cubs only half game further
down the list in third place. The
American League situation remained
unchanged, the Yankees ON top by
= margin of one and one-half games.
Blake not only held the Cardinals
to four hits, but collected half that
number with his own bat as Cuyler,
English and Hartnett led a vicious
assault upon old Clarence Mitchell
and Sylvester johnson. The Cub
toll was fourteen safe drives for
twenty bases before Fred Frank
house appeared on the scene in the
eighth to retire the last Chicago
batter.
The game, specially arranged
play-off Of 4 tostponement At Chi
cago on August 20, was started at
1880 o'clock before $4,000 fans, the
record National. League. .mid-week
gathering. The victory gave the
Cubs an even division Of their twen-
ty-two games against the Cardinals.
Immediately after the game both
teams rushed to . special train which
bore them east for their final inva-
sion.
The Giants continued their hard
hitting at Boston, getting sixteen
safe drives in the opener and fifteen
in tho nightcap. Leslie Mann and
Travis Jackson punched out homers
early in the first clash, making Ben
tons road all the more easy to his
twenty-fourth victory and his twen-
ty-sixth complete game. Joe Gene
witch, Jim Faulkner and Carl Hub
bell were called upon before the Sec
ond victory was tossed into the
Giant bat bag.
The Robins closed out their sea-
sons business in Philadelphia by
winning, 10 to 0. Jim elliott dupli-
Gated Watson Clark,,s feat. Of enter
ing the box with only 4S hours rest
to give the Phils six hits. The two
teams have one more game against
each other. the final day Of the sea-
son in Brooklyn.
II the Giants can sweep their re-
manning double header against the
Braves today they not only will have
set Z new major league record for all
time in winning four consecutive
bargain bills, but will have exacted
their full toll from the two tail end
ers after . rather poor start against
Boston in particular. John McCraw
already has closed out his seasons
series against the Phillies with sew
enteen victories and two defeats and
to date has won fourteen and lost
only six in competition against Bos-
ton.
The Cardinals now face the pleas
ant prospect, Of five games in Phil
Adelphia. and will invade the Polo
grounds for ble-header on Sep
TENDER 20 and single game two
days later. After. meeting Brook
lyn and Boston in seven battles, the
Red Birds then will return to the
Polo grounds for q single. contest on
September 80 closing the season.
The Giants have won eleven out of
eighteen from McKechnie's club to
date. -.
Action ia. the American League
yesterday. was. confined to the 6. to
z victory Of the Browns over the
White Sox At Sc. Louis. The game
was notable chiefly for Heinie Man
ush's batting spree, which netted him
: psrfect afternoon Of . home run,
! double and two singles. His aver
age jumped four points to .37l, one
port above Gehri9 and three behind
Gdolin. the leader.