Evening star., 1928-06-21
PH|LL|ES ANNEX9
OF LAST Il GAMES
Cards, However, Are Doing
Even Better and Boost
Margin of Leadership.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The ferocious Phils, hungry for
games, remain at large. They have de-
veloped an unaccountable tendency to
slam their betters on the chin. Other
teams may be fighting for mere pen
nantS, but when the Phillies so far
forget themselves as to win seven out OF
nine, they are news.
Not satisfied with Walter Lerian's
triple which outraged Dazzy Vance on
Tuesday, the Phils jumped on Jumbo
Jim Elliott and Doug McWeeny for
enough hits to win the second game
OF the Brooklyn series yesterday, 6 to
2. Hub Pruett, whose chief claim to
times one season, turned in a neat
game for the Baker boys, and Don
Hurst helped with his eighth home run.
The Cardinals made 1t 10 out of IL
and increased their lead over the Reds
TO four full games by taking the series
opener from the Cubs in Chicago. 6 to
2. Jess Haines outpitched both Percy
Lee Jones and Guy Bush. and a ma
JeStlc home run by Grimm, the Chi
cago first baseman, was purely deco
rative.
Reds Slip Further.
The Reds slipped farther back to-
ward the Giants as the Pirates made up
a bit of ground by shading Eppa Rixey
z TO /. More heartening to Pirate
rams than the victory itself was the
form Remy Kremer flashed in achiev-
ing it. After numbering through an un-
steady Spring. Kremer won from the
Reds. Traynor dashed home from first
on single to score the winning
marker.
The Giants. scheduled in Boston.
probably did not expect to play. They
CID not play, at any event--for the
NTH time in six scheduled days in the
Hub. The clan McGraw now faces
eight games in four days at Braves
Field in September.
After the first two SkirmiShes of what
has been facetiouSly referred to as a
crucial series. the Yankees and the
Athletics are just where they were
before 1t started-which the Yankees
can very we'll afford to be, but which
the Athletics can not. Connie Mack
astounded the burghers by permitting
Old Jack Quinn to remain in the box
through 5-run fusillade by the cham-
pions in the third round of the opener
at the Yankee Stadium and Old Jack
rewarded his master by coming through
to 10-to-5 victory. The veteran spit
baller himself drove in the ultimate
winning run with single in the sixth.
The Athletics reached Herb Pennock
for Is hits in five and one-third in
nings, but just were ahead. to 5. until
Wiley Moore crumbled in the ninth.
Old Man Quinn, who once was ierked
from a two-hit game by the impatient
Connie, was strong in the pinches after
the one Yankpp furry
Twelfth Win for Pipgras.
George Pipgras and Ossie Orwell
made as If to go through with a pitch
ers' battle in the second game. bur
the stadium was saved from this in
dignity when the batterS finally came
to life. Grabowski slapped home run
for the Yanks in the seventh after
Lazzeri and Robertson had singled, and
Al Simmons repeated the process IN
behalf OF the Athletics after pass to
Cobb in the eighth.
The Yankees put the game complete
ly on the loose in the home eighth
when Orwoll was knocked out by
5-run splurge. which clinched the de-
cision. Q to 3, The victory was Pip
gras' twelfth this season, but the first
Of his career over the Athletics. He
gave the AS only four hits.
The tail-end White Sox divided a
pair with the slipping Indians in Cleve-
land, winning the first. 6 to 4, and
lapsing back into normalcy in the sec
ond, 4 to 3.