The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-30
INDIANS WHIP
CREW IN WILD
GAME "a TO 6
While Philadelphia Athletics
Are Coping from st. Louis
Ballchasers
FOUR YANKEES PITCH
Lead of More Than a Dozen
Games Is Cut Down Finally
to Six and q Half
(By the Associated Press)

Something has struck the proud
Yankee craft, bow, stern and amid
ships. She's still afloat but leaking
badly and may 60 down at any
minute.
A month ago the champions were
leading the American League pro-
cession by more than dozen games.
Today that lead had dwindled to six
and q half games. Taking heart at
this unexpected collapse upon the
part of the naughty New Workers,
Connie Mack has pushed his Phil
adelphia Athletics along at whirl-
wind pace and again has hopes of
realizing his long-deferred ambition
Of plotting another league pennant
winner.
At Cleveland yesterday, before
$4,000 fans, the largest crowd Of
the season there, the Yankees suf-
fered the most humiliating defeat
they have taken since 1925 when
they ended the season in seventh
place. They were annihilated by the
Cleveland Indians, "a to 6, in the
widest major league game of the
year. The Indians started out with
SlkuO runs Ill JNC XIISt NC
cided that wouldn't be enough AND
scored nine more in the second. BY
this time the tribe was more tired
running bases than the Yankees who
were chasing singles that hoped all
over the lot. One run was the best
| the Indians could do in the third and
they waited until the sixth inning
| to score the last six.
Pipgras Is Victim
| As near as could be determined,
the pitching victims were, in order,
George Pipgras, Wiley Moore, Myles
Thomas, Henry johnson and Archie
Campbell. For some reason or
other Miller Higgins didn't pitch
nor did he call Babe Ruth to the
mound either in an attempt to stop
the carnage. The Indians pounded out
q hits and batted aroun1 twice in
each of the first two innings. It
was on June II, 1925, that the Yanzs
last were defeated by an Is run mar
gin, the Detroit Tigers turning the
trick by q score Of 10 to /.
While all this was going on, the
Athletics were chalking up another
win at St. Louis, taking over the
Browns for the seventh straight
time, s to 3. The Browns dropped
five straight at Philadelphia at the
end of their recent eastern invasion.
George Earnshaw was wild but
} effective enough to down the Browns
behind heavy batting by his team
mates, particularly Jimmy Foxx,
. who pounded out q home run, q
double and q single and drove in
four runs.
II After losing six in a row, the Bos-
, ton Redsox pil-d into Lii Stoner fol
four runs in the second inning
enough to beat the Detroit Tigers
4 5 to 2.
Chicago Comes Back
After losing their seventh straight
contest in the first game, the Chi
4 cago Whitesox came back to bea'
the Washington Senators in the las
half Of 4 double bill. Ted Lyon!
0 was ineffective in the opener and tn,
Senators pounded out an 8 to vic
/ tory. Adkins was in form in tn
0 nightcap and the Sox ended thei
0 long string Of reverses with 5 t.
0 l triumph.
/ In the National League, the Gin
0 cinnati Reds strengthened their hol'
/ on second place by turning back tn
4 Brooklyn Dodgers, 6 to S. Zitzn,ann'
3 fourth hit of the game scoring Jaki
E May with the winning run in tn
4 ninth.
3 The New York Giants and Chicag
= Cubs fought each other to a stand
/. still in q double bill at the Pol
l. Grounds. The Giants took the frs
l. game, 4 to 8 in ten innings, LAIR
= Benton gaining his 18th victory o
r the year. Guy Bush outpitched vi
o Aldridge in the nightcap and til
E, Cubs came out on the long end Of
Re- 3 to / score.