New Britain herald., 1928-09-10
By the Associated Press.

By tne asSOclateu TIess
 The New York Yankees have been sternly tested and certainly not found wanting.
 While the biggest crowd in base ball history looked on, the worlds champions, fighting desperately for every advantage. ripped two victor ies from Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics yesterday, and bounced back into the American league lead.
 Nearly S6000 persons packed the Yankee stadium. Most of them came to jeer their one-time favorites They remained instead to go wild while the Yankees tore into their only pennant rivals and downed them by scores of 5 to 0 and to 3.
 It was a stunning reverse for the Mackmen. They came to the Yankee lair expecting to confront the pale shadow of once-mighty baseball club. They grappled. instead, with a giant. rejoicing in his strength.
 For the day at least, the Athletics were overmatched. Against the heads up baseball the champions played the As could make no prog ress. The double defeat sent the Yankees back into the lead with a game and a half to spare and a rec ord of victories over the Athletics in the % games the two teams have played thus far.
 To New York fandom, the dou- N.yu To series Two hundred thousand sought to get into the stadium. and S5.26o succeeded. Of these. Sl,622 were paid admissions. The former record total attendance at baseball game was set at the Yankee stadium July {. 1927. when 72.624 saw the Rup- pert rifles meet Washington in a double header.
 George Pipgras. young right hand CT who seems to rise to the heights in a crisis, and Bob Meusel. the somewhat nonchalant left fielder, were the Yankee\heroes of the day.
 Pipgras gave the As no chance in the opener. scattering nine hits in such . manner that the As could not fashion a single run out of their collection.
 Meusel won the second game when he clouted home run into the left field seats with the bases filled in the eighth.
 Old Jack Quinn pitched along on even terms with Pipgras until the sixth inning of the first game when the Yankees fell on him for three runs. Rommell stopped the carnage but yielded to pinch hitter, allow ing Ossie Orwoll to step into the box in tims-to be greeted by a tworun Yankee furry in the eighth. The As had only one real chance. but Jimmy Foxx failed in the pinch. lp that frame, Max Bishops single and two walks filled the bases with two out, but Pipgras. calm as ever. got Foxx on strikes.
 The real drama of the day came in the second game. After the Tanks had scored one in the first inning. Al Simmons put the As into the lead with . home run with Cochrane on base in the sixth. Another filtered across in the seventh. giving the Mackmen d two run margin that looked good since Rube Walberg was turning back the champions with ease. But the last of the seventh saw the Yankees tie the score and Walberg gave way to Ed die Rommell after he had forced the tying run in with a walk. Rommeli stopped the rally but it broke out again in the eighth with disastrous results. In this frame. a single by Koenig, Gehrig's double and an 1n- tentional pass to Ruth. filled the bases. Rommell worked the count to ! and , on Meusel before Lanky Bob parked the ball in the stands. The rest was anti-c'imactic. Waite Hoyt, third Yankee pitcher. stopped the As dead in the ninth and the game was over.
 Meanwhile the National league race was tightening up. The Card inals, lowing to Pittsburgh again. to [, saw the Chicago Cubs, who beat Cincinnati. to 0. dra" to within two and half games of them and that's not far enough away to please Bill McKechnie.
 The Pirates sank the league lead CTS by scoring five runs in the eighth inning. Guy Bush allowed the Reds only two hits in the Cubs triumph before 42,00o persons.
 The New York Giants suffered an other rude shock to their pennan' ambitions when Dazzy Vance and the Brooklyn Dodgers beat them, , to 2. Vance, allowing seven hits and striking out 10 men, outpitched Lar ry Benton by a slight margin.
 The rest of the field in the Arnerl- can league continued their battle for the berths below the Yankees and the Athletics.
 The Chicago White SoX, beating Cleveland, 10 10 ], reached the .3oe class for the first time this season Tlc St. Louis Browns, sure Of. thirG place. scored four runs ill the ninth to beat the Detroit Tigers, to 6 il the last game of the season betwee the two teams. Al Washingt on, the Senators were held to an even break by the Boston Red Sox Uho won th, first game 10 and dropped the second i fo 2