New Britain herald., 1929-08-16
CUBS DEVELOP KNACK OF
 GAINING WHILE LOSING
Cubs Split Double Header With Robins But Pirates Obligingy Drop Game to Braves-Polce Stop Pop Bottle Shower at Empires in Brooklyn - Phils Down Reds-Gants Nose Out Cards-Ya Yankees Are Banked By Detroit-Browns Beat Red Sox.
By the Associated Press.


 The Athletics apparently have de- yeloped the knack of advancing while standing still, but the Cubs have gone them one better by find ing a way to gain ground while los Ing. The Mackians margin was stretched 10 fourteen games yester- day when the Yankees lost to De- troit as the leaders sat idle in Cleveland; the Cubs won and lost in a Brooklyn double header but the Pirates obligingly dropped a ? to 1 decision at Braves Field, tossing a half game into the lap of Joseph Mccarthy. The Chicago lead now is eight and one-half engagements.
 Real pitching duels were on tap yesterday at Braves Field, Navin Field and the home of the Browns The most noteworthy mound per formance was turned in at Detroit by Earl Whitehill, who limited the savage Yankees 10 two small hits to win by 8 to 0. The champions went hitless until the seventh when Bob . by outracing Westling's throw and getting credit for a single. Roy Sherid, Whitehill's pitching oppo- nent, got clean blow in the next round, and that was all
 Sherid himself turned in a smart game. which is becoming something of habit with him, bUt he vas not prepared to meet sucn extraordinary work as the Detroit southpaw flasft- ed. Harry Rice placed the game beyond sacrifice m the very first inning with a home run.
 George Blaeholdcr allowed the Boston Red Sox just three hits at St. Louis yesterday 10 wi1 over Jack Russell by to while Fred Mar berry and Garland l}ravton collabor- ated upon a four hit performance which sent the White Sox dowr to to at Chicago. Marberry was forced out at the end of the sixth inning because of sudden illness, but credit for the victory remained with him.
 As intimated earlier, rain kept the Athletics and the Indians indoors in Cleveland. They meet in d single game today, an open date on both schedules.
 Guy Bush trimmed Brooklyn by g to in the first game of the Flat bush double-header 10 gain his seventeenth victory of the season, but Dazzy Vance evened things up by downing the Cubs by to 4 in the second half of the program. The end of the first game was en- livened by a shower of Flatbush confetti from spectators around third base in the ninth inning when Bressier was ruled out for being hit by batted ball.
 Umpire Mclaughlin was the tar get of the bottle throwers. Their disposition was not improved when Johnny Frederick followed with a home run which would have put the Robins almost in the game had Bressler been on base Another shower of soft-drink glassware was aimed at all three umpires as they marched off the field in the escort of patrolmen at the end of the first game, The incident was apparently soon forgotten as Vance won the nightcap.
 Rogers Hornsby collected his twenty-sixth homer in the first game, and Xxi Cuyler hit for the circuit in the second. Bush's victory In the opener broke the tie which had existed between him and Bur leigh Grimes for the league leader ship. Each had won sixteen and lost two until Bush pulled ahead yesterday
 Ed Brandt turned back the Pirates with two hits at Braves Field to win by to 1 from Remy Kremer who yielded eight blows Lloyd Waner collected both of the safeties off the Boston hurler. Brandt was scored upon solely because of his wildness. Comorosky smashing sacrifice fly in the sixth after three men had been passed.
 Frank O'Doul's twenty-third hom- CT with two on base enabled the Phils to win from the Reds by to 4, and the Giants just outlasted the Cardinals, to '. Ott hit his thirty first.