Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-08
BUGS WIN z, LOSE
BUT I, IN A MONTH
Corsairs May Become Con-
tenders if Their Recent
Pace Is Held.

BY the Associated Press.
IF they're wise first division clubs
in the National League will keep a
wary eye on the Pittsburgh Pr
i rates.
DOME Bush's Corsairs languished
in sixth place for so long that they
we're counted out, not only as possible
1923 champions, but also as factor
that the leaders would have TO worry
very much about.
But the last month or so has changed
the situation completely. On July
the 1927 champions we're locked deep
i'll sixth place, with apparently no pros
pect of getting any higher. Then Bur-
leigh Grimes, who had carried the COM
plete burden Of pitching winning bail
for Bush, began to get some assistance
from his mates The result was that
in the month from, July Z to August
Z, inclusive. the Corsairs won % games
and lost only 4, better than $50 base
ball
This streak has raised the Pirates
only one notch, to the head of the sec
ond division, but the interesting part Is
that Cincinnati and Chicago, in vir-
tual tie for third place, lead the de-
Tending champions by only three games.
In losing games, the most important
factor, the Pirates trail the Reds by
only one and lead the Cubs by the
same margin, but Joe McCarthy's Chi
cagoans have won seven more contests
than Pittsburgh.
Six Straight for BUGS
Beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in
both ends of a double header, 4 to 3
and to 2, in IL innings. the Pirates
ran their latest winning streak to six
in row. Grimes registered his twen-
tieth victory in the opener, the first
pitcher in the majors to reach so high
total. The Pirates scored all their
runs off McWeeny in the first four in
nings while Grimes was holding the
Dodgers, his former teammates, to seven
hits. The nightcap was pitching duel
between Fred RUSSELL and Bill Doak
until the eighth, when both retired for
pinch hitters, the Robins entered the
ninth with a 2-to-1 lead, but the in
vaders tied it and then won In the
twelfth on a single by Sparky Adams.
Lloyd Waner's sacrifice and Brother
Paul's one-base blow. which sent Adams
over.
The New York Giants cut . fun
game from the st. Louis Cardinals lead
by trouncing the league leaders, 10 to
!. Larry Benton was too much for the
were shut out until the ninth. The
Giants confined their scoring to the
first and eighth innings. eight runs
coming across in the latter frame. The
Cards lead was shaved to five and
half games.
The Pills again trimmed the Cubs.
to 2, behind the effective pitching Of
Willoughby. 1t was the Cubs third
straight defeat at the hands of the
cellar jewellers.
Yanks Regain a Game.
The New York Yankees gained back
game of their lead in the American
League race by trimming the Chicago
White Sox, 6 to 3. while Connie Mack's
Philadelphia Athletics were bowling to
Detroit. to l.. Herb Pennock held the
Sox safe at all stages while his team
lead in the first inning, Ted Lyons
being the pitching casual.
The AS defeat left them four Q half
games back OF the leaders. Owen Car
roll, former Holy Cross star, pitched
his thirteenth victory of the season for
the Tigers, allowing only i've hits and
driving In what proved to be the win
ming run with triple In the seventh.
Two home runs by Lu Blue enabled
the st. Louis Browns to make it three
out of four from the Boston Red Sex,
6 to 5. Blues second homer broke
tie in the last half of the ninth. Sam
Gray chalked up his seventeenth win
of the campaign. Ed Morris pitched
sci in the ninth. but was charged with
the defeat since the second batsman
was none other than Blue.