New Britain herald., 1928-08-28
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees at last can take time out for a breath without endanger- ing their hold on the leadership po- sitions in the two major leagues.
 Bolstered by the return of Sun ny Jim" Bottomley, who totes a mighty powerful bat to the plate, the Cards have won four straight games, their last triumph coming at the expense of the contending Chi cago Cubs yesterday, II to 3.
 The Cards now lead the National procession by four games but that advantage may dwindle considerably or disappear entirely during the next IS days, when St. Louis opposition comes not only from the Cubs but from the other two western con tenders as well-the Pittsburgh Pi- rates and the Cincinnati Reds.
 While the Cards thus were con- solidating their position at the top of the junior circuit. the Yankees were doing exactly the same thing in the American. A double -barreled triumph over the Detroit Tigers sent the worlds champions four full games ahead of the Athletics who were forced to sit idle at Philadel- phia and listen to the batter of the rain drops.
 With Bottomley again in the line up. the powerful punch of a month NH Sn Chnws cipnS nf It was manifest in the last game of the Cardinal series with the Phillies on Sunday when Sunny Jim" first got back into the game. Yesterday Sheriff Blake and Charities Root were pounded for IS lusty>drives in- cluding a sack-cleaning double by Bottomley himself. This blow-in the seventh inning the game for the Cardinals. Flint Rhem and Sylvester Johnson were cuffed about by the Cubs but McCarthy's men could not bunch their l i hits to any advantage.
 In the only other National league battle, the Pittsburgh Pirates down. ed the Cincinnati Reds in easy fash ion, to 4. gained an even break in the two day series and advanced to within one game of the Reds who hold fourth place in the standings. The Cubs, in turn, lead the Reds by only one game and trail the second place Giants by half a game. In other words, the Pirates, who have won 36 of their last 50 games, are in fifth place butbonly two and a half games behind the Giants and six and half behind the Cardinals.
 The Corsairs beat the Reds by punching their ten hits in effective fashion. Fred Russell, young south paw, gave Cincinnati 14 hits but was practically unhittable in the pinches. Tn addition he received air tight sup port from his mates who have com mitted only two errors in their last eight games.
 The double triumph of the Yankees was featured by the first appearance of the veteran left hand CT, Tom Zachary, in Yankee uni form. Fitted against him in the opener was Earl Whitehill, another
 
 Whitehill might have bested Zachary but four walks in the fourth inning rave the champions two runs anl put them in a position to win, to 3 with one run splurges in the sixth and eighth innings George Pipgra' showed a return to form when ht pitched the Tanks to a 5 to victor! in the nightcap. Pipgras gave III eight scattered hits while the cham pions punched ten off Owen Car roll.
 At Boston, the St. Louis Brown beat the Red Sox twice, $ to and to 0. The opener was a free-hittin! battle which the Browns won b, scoring seven runs in the sixth ant seventh innings Jack ogden. forme Baltimore ace, held the Red Sox t four hits in the nightcap while Mac Fayden was touched for nine. Thre of these, one a home run. went L Schulte, Brown center iieldcrs.
 George Uhle's effective pitchin gave the Cleveland Indians q tri umph over Washington, } to 3, an an even break in the four gam series. Hudlin had to relieve thl in the ninth with two on and non out and got out of the difficulty D forcing Rice 10 line out and Coos Goslin to hit into a double play.