New Britain herald., 1929-07-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
 Events over the weekend were not exactly beer and skittles for Mir 1 Cornelius McGilhcuddy, what with the loss of Mickey Cochrane and two ball games, but even so. the Ath- letics can not yet be said to be in any need of wall against which 10 place their backs. The Yankees were able to get only an even break in their first two skirmishes at St Louis, and the Mackmen were left with a lead of eight and one-half games.
 The Macks were more concerned over the return of Cochrane 10 the lineup than with the immediate fight at hand. The loss of a .365 batter who also is one Of the lead ing catchers in either league never did any team a bit of good, not even one like the Athletics. Cochrane is suffering from a fractured rib, in- jured by pitched ball in the Wash ington series. The fracture, at first mistaken for a bruise. was not dis covered until the Philadelphia club reached Chicago.
 Physicians with the ball team promised an early return of Mickey to the lineup, but declined to speci- fly any particular date.
 Having shaded the Athletics by , to 4 Saturday, the White Sox did q more thorough job yesterday to win by 9 to 3. Ted Lyons halted the Mackian attack while the Sox climbed upon Earnshaw, Yerkes, Shores and Rommel for 1 safe hits.
 At St. Louis Hoyt was failing for the Tanks after the champions had stretched a winpi~S streak to eight games by taking the opener on Sat urday. Fitted against Alvin Crow der, the former Brooklyn school boy put on neat pitching battle for six rounds, only to crumple in the 7th after the Hugmen had put Crowder out of action with a fractured left forearm. The St. Louis pitcher suf- fered the injury in the sev nth when Stl uSh Dy Dlil .(hSy Ildlu LII lN ..
 The Browns hammered Hoyt for two markers in the 7th and three more in the Sth to win at the finish by to 2. Wiley Moore was called into action after it was too late for him to do any good, but young Kimsey held the Tanks in check after Crowder's departure.
 Statisticians, browsing through the record made by the Yankees since June 1, have rushed to bat with the observation that the Hug men in that time have won A games and lost only II, .6S6 gait which, maintained to the finish. might easi- ly save Huggins's fourth flag. Delivers into the dope have neglected to mention that in the same period the Athletics have won A and lost only g, some better than the Yankee record by any system of mathe- matics. No imagination is needed to picture the result of a possible prolongation of this .727 pace to the finish.
 An even break from this point to October would send Mir. McGilli- cuddy home with S4 victories. To beat even so poor a record by the Athletics. the Tanks would have to win 5l and lose only 32 of their re- maining S3 games. That pace is a shade below the Yankee record to date, but who thinks the As are going to break even?
 Earl Whitehill pitched four hit ball to give Detroit 9 to 1 victory over Washington yesterday, and the Indians divided pair with the Red Sox in Cleveland. The home team won the opener by 4 to ?, but Ed Morris pitched the Bostonese to 3 to 0 victory in the nightcap, halted at the end of the fifth by rain.
 The three foremost contenders in the National league maintained the tension by winning simultaneously yesterday. but the Giants gained a paper advantage by taking two games from the Reds while the Pi- rates and the Cubs were limited to one victory each by the schedule. ic NoluS anu llic IllllitS ltSltu, and probably need it after that 2S to St. Louis victory in the second game on Saturday. This orgy not only broke the Cardinal losing streak at II, but set a new modern major league record 10. total runs by one club in a game.
 Fred Fitzsimmons ran his string of scoreless innings against the Reds to 27 by shutting out Jack Hen- drick's boys again yesterday as the western invasion of the Polo Grounds began with double head CT. Fitz won the first and last games of the series in Cincinnati last month, each by the whitewash route, and repeated in the opener yester- day by to 0. Both Luque and Genewich were knocked from the box in the second game, but Ralph Judd did some fine undertaking at the finish, and the Giants just lasted to win by s to :.
 Home runs by Grantham, Brame, Russell and Comorosky helped the Pirates to defeat Brooklyn by 17 10 yesterday and so maintain their lead of half a. game over the Cubs, who won in Boston hy | to