Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-22
BEATEN BY TIGERS
AS YANKS NIP SQX
Mackmen Now Two Full
Games Behind Hugmen
in Flag Scramble.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ PROFESSORS Cornelius McGilli-
- cuddy and Miller James Hug
gins are taking turns in juggling
1 the big American League PEN
nant ball.
Both have made lot of slips in re-
cent weeks, but so far they've escaped
serious injury. It won't be long now,
though, when their next slip will be
fatal That applies particularly to Mr..
McGillicuddy II was his turn to do the
slipping yesterday and he did so at De-
troit while Mller'S act went over at
Chicago without mishap.
The net result was that the New
York Yankees again are in a compare
lively safe spot at the top of the Amer
lean League standing, while Comics
Philadelphia Athletics languish two full
games to the rear
The AS defeat at Detroit was all the
more surprising because Connie sent
his ace of aces TO the mound-Robert
Moses Grove. But Lefty. who has
weaved strange spells over The swat
smiths of every team in the league
but the Yankees this year, found the
Tigers in ferocious mood. They clOUt-
ed him for two runs in the fourth
inning and drove him out Of the box
N the next when Harry Rice hit home
run with the bases filled. Decidedly
it was not Groves day. Ossie Orwell.
who pitches when he's not playing some
other position, relieved Lefty and suf-
fered with Spartan fortitude another
Furnishing Tiger attack in the eighth
when Jonathan Stone, rookie out
fielder, Smack ed another home run with
two men on. With this savage hitting to
brace him, Elan VG1 Glider, Athletic
inv vfra q
TO breeze to an cosy = victory.
Zach Wins rn'ls.
While Connie IVES ing put to this
humiliation, old Tom Zachary oiled up
his aged left hand at the command Of
Mr.. Higgins and summarily pitched
the Yankees to a 5-to-2 triumph over
Lena Blackburne's much-improved Chi
cago White Sox. This victory gave Mil
Ter some satisfaction for the affront
the Sox put on him THURSDAY
when they beat George Pipgras and
Waite Hoyt in Thinning game Zach
airy gave the Sox eight scattered
hits and drove in the last two YANKEE
runs in the eighth with home run
with one on. Lazzeri and Ruth botli
were injured during the game and har
to retire.
Charley Ruffin took things in his ovr
hands at st. Louis. hitting home II.
with two on in the seventh to gAy
the Boston Red Sox a 5-to-3 victo,
over the Browns. After the Browns had
assaulted him for four hits and three
runs in the first inning. Ruling set
them down. without trouble the rest Of
the way.
While the st. Louis Cardinals and
New York Giants were having an Of,
day before resuming their crucial series
at the Polo Grounds the Chicago Cubs
took advantage of this idlenesS by bow
ing to DazZy Vance and the BROOKLYN
| Dodgers. 2 and /. and thereby all but
| dropped out of the struggle for the
National League pennant. DazZy. who
has made most of his best strikeout
| records against the Cubs, gave them
only 2 hits and famed IL men. Artie
| Nehf, one time ace of the Giants. also
was in great form. giving up only six
! hits. but gave the Robins the WIN
ming run in the sixth when he walked
Dave Bancroft with the bases filled.
Vance struck out every Cub but Freddy
Macguire. and made up for that by
tanning Webb, who batted for Mcguire
in the ninth.
Reds Set a Record.
The Cincinnati Reds established a
new major league record for double
plays at Boston. where they divided a
double header with the Braves. Boston
took the first game. 5 to 3, but the
Reds had the consolation of CONFLICT
ing their 1880 double killing, beating
the old record of 1872 set by Washington
in 1923. They added two more to their
StIng IN the second game, which they
The Pittsburgh Pirates made it two
IN a row from the Phillies. 6 to S. it
being the Phils ninth straight defeat
Alter the Pirates had scored four in
the first inning the Pills tied the score
IN their half with the aid of home runs
by Leach and Whitney. Remy Kremer
decided he had had enough and Joe
Dawson relieved him and held the
phllS pretty we'll in hand the rest of
The way. Wright's home run with two
on IN the first was the Pirates battir
feature.