Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-17
YANKS STILL LEAD
AS HALF A GAME
Cards Advantage Increased
to Two Games When Pr
rates Down Giants.
BY the Associated Press.

~ OWN the home stretch race go
base balls battalions and it
now Is short shrift for those
- that slip, even lnomentarily.
Two months ago game lost
was accompanied by no particularly
disastrous after-effects, but with only
two weeks to go, defeat for con-
tender calls for tearing of hair in the
home camp and loud and prolonged
cheers from pennant rivals.
Both races are as far from being de-
cided as they we're on the opening
day of the season. Sundays games
left the Yankees half game ahead of
their bitter American League rivals, the
Philadelphia Athletics, while the idle
st. Louis Cardinals stretched their Ma
games when the Second-place New
York Giants bowed to Pittsburgh.
That Giant defeat by to 0, was
bitter pill for Larry Benton, right-hand
redhead of John McGraws twirling
staff. Larry held the battling Pirates
to two hits in the eight innings he
worked and walked only two men, and
yet had only himself to blame for his
defeat. Both Pirate hits and both of
Benton's walks came in the third in
ming, when the only run Of the game
was scored.
In that frame singles by Wright and
Freddy Russell and pass to Sparky
Adams filled the bases with one out.
Wright was forced at the plate on
Lloyd Waner's bounder to Lindstrom.
This brought Paul Waner to the plate
with two out and the bases full.
Forces in Winning Run.
Benton pitched three wide ones and
then put over two strikes, big Poison"
taking them with his bat on his shoul-
der Benton could not afford to give
Paul one too good, and as consequence
his next pitch failed to find the plate
sell home with the run that eventually
won the game.
Russell pitched great ball for the Cor
sairs, especially in the pinches. Twice
the Giants filled the bases with only
one out, but could not score. In the
second this situation came up, but
neither Andy Cohen nor Benton him
self could come through. Again in the
ninth the Giants filled the bases. but
Bill Terry popped to Wright and Cohen
lined to the same player for the final
out
Dazzy Vance saw well-pitched game
go by the boards as the Cincinnati Reds
trimmed the Brooklyn Robins, to 3, in
10 innings. The Reds scored single runs
in the fourth and sixth with the aid OF
errors by Bissonette and Hank Deberry.
and APPARENTLY had the game won as
the Robins came to bat in the ninth.
Johnny Gooch's pinch double, however,
scored two runs and forced the game
into extra innings. Vance and DoIf
Luque, who had twirled brilliantly,
were no longer on the mound when the
Reds won the game with a two-run
rally in the tenth. The Robins came
back with one, but that wasn't enough.
Luque famed nine men, Bissonette four
times
Yanks Lead All the Way.
The Yankees made sure of staying
on top of the American League stand
ing for another day when they beat
st. Louis, to S. and evened the series.
The Yankees we're off to an early lead
and saw to it that the Browns never
caught up Lou Gehrig smacked out
his twenty-fourth homer of the year in
the fifth, but Babe Ruth went hitless.
Back of Lefty Groves great pitching
the Athletics coasted to victory over
the down-trodden Cleveland Indians,
to l. It was Groves twenty-third VIC
tory of the season against seven defeats
and the Indians eleventh successive re-
verse. The Indians scored their only
run in the sixth on Montagues triple.
first of the four hits Grove allowed, and
an infield out.
Good pitching by Alphonse Thomas
and Slim Harriss gave Chicago and Bos-
ton an even break in double-header
Thomas allowed four hits in the first
game, which went to the White Sox, Z to
1, while Harriss allowed the same num-
Der in twirling Boston to 2-to-0 shut
out in the nightcap.