Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-24
DUELS NOW EXIST
IN BOTH CIRCUITS
Yanks Heavy Favorites to
Beat Out AS, but Giants
Are Pressing Cards.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
Esq.,! !: $s IS 4;
gallop gamely down the
major league homeStretch In drlvmg
finish so hot and furious that even az
this late stage the naked eye cannot
with certainty, discern the uitlmaIe
winners.
Of the field of 16 that started SO
confidently in the Spring. only four real
contenders, two in each league, remain
The rest are also-rans, more or less
content to finish this race without un,
due effort and wait for the next to roll
around.
with only week to go, the pennant
struggle in each league has developed
into a duel rather than a generai, Tree
for all engagement.
In the National the fight lies be-
tween the st. Louis Cardinals ana Jonn
McGraw's New York Giants, with the
Chicago Cubs still mathematical con
tenders. Only a game separates BIZ NC
Kechnie's club, in first place, from tn !;
runner-up Giants, while the CUPS trali
New York by three and a hali games;
Two games ahead OF the Pnl!auel-
phia Athletics, their sole rivals, Miiier
Higgins New York YANKEES are oou C;
on favorites to win their tnlro Alneli-
can League pennant in row. over
whelming choices have lost before,
however.
No Gains Made in Races.
The Giants had the closest escape.
They were carried to IA innings before
thew could nose out the Cincinnati
Reds. 2 to 1, in one of the finest games
of the season at the Polo Grounds.
Toe Genewich, who came to the
Giants from Boston with the reputation
of being an in-and-outer, was very
much ''in" yesterday. He held the
Reds to S hits during the entire game
and strangely enough, was lucky TO
win. The Reds entered the first half
of the ninth with the score tied at l.
all. Wally Pipp led off with triple,
and it appeared that nothing could
prevent the big first baseman from
Scoring. But Jimmy Welsh came to
CeneWich's rescue, his rif1e-throw
catching Pipp at the plate when ne
tried to score on Aliens fly to center
field. The game finally was won on
Jackson's line single in the fourteenth
scoring Lindstrom, who had singled:
The Cardinals met this Giant victory
| with one of their own over Brooklyn
| 7 to /. Jess Haines held the ROBINS te
three hits and the game really was de-
cided as early as the third inning wher
Jim Bottomley sailed his THIRTEEN
home run of the season over the right
field wall with two men on base. Tha'
blow tied Sunny Jim" with Hack
Wilson of Chicago for the league:
home run leadership, and gave the
| Cards a 5-to-0 lead.
The Yanks and Athletics kept ster
| in the American League, the cnam'
pions defeating Cleveland, to 0, while
| the AS were defeating Dan Howley':
st. Louis Browns, IL to z.
Hoyt's Twentieth Victory.
Waite Hoyt pitched his twentieth
victory of the year for the. Yankees
giving the Indians only four hits. The
Yanks, on the other hand. pounded Joe
/ Shaute for II, two of which went to the
well-known George Herman Ruth, VINO
has been in terrible slump Tor a week
Ruth pulled up lame after running OUT
single in the eighth inning and had
to retire.
A four-run rally in the ninth gave
the AS their victory over the Browns
three of them riding home on home
run by Jimmy Dykes. Heinie Manush
took advantage Of some ineffective
pitching by George Walberg and Eddie
Rommel to get four hits out OF flve
times up.
At Detroit, Phil Page, Eastern League
| recruit, won his second major league
victory in as many starts when the
| Tigers beat Boston, 4 to l. Page al.
lowed seven hits, four of which went tc
Buddy Myer. Six double plays ano
seven errors showed in the box score.