New Britain herald., 1929-06-08
ST, LOUIS BROWNS HAND
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Club Five Pitchers for IS Hits and Win, IS to c. Yankees Turned Back by Cleveland for Second Successive Nme-Tgers Rally to Defeat Senators Giants Continue Spurt at Expense of Cardinals Cubs Continue to Feast on Brooklyn Team.

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 The proceeding at Shibe Park yes terday fell far short of being any part of an Athletic holiday. but the antics of the Browns did enable sev- eral of the bench hands among the pitchers to get q few moment in the sun. The St. Louisans clubbed Ehmke. Orwoll, Quinn. Rommell andYerkes for IS hits to win by the neat score of Is to 6, but as the Yankees obligingly lost. the cost to the Athletics was negligible. The champions are the boys upon whim Connie Mack has his willy eye fixed -the champions and that string of eight games he must play against them later this month.
 Turned back by Cleveland for the second successive afternoon, the Yankees dropped to third place be. hind the victorious Browns. The Hugmen remained seven and one. half games from the lead as the Brownies reduced their own deficit to six and one-half contests.
 Heinie Manush and Frank O'Rourke provided the greatest problem for Philadelphia pitchers yesterday. Manush with a homer and three singles and O'Rourke with two triples and two singles. Schulte also hit for the circuit.
 The Indians defeated the Yankees by tho effective process of running up big early lead and holding it 10 win by to 3. Joe Sewell and Morgan raked Ed Wells for home runs in the first. when four runs were scored, and another furry for three markers ended the reign of the wild southpaw in the fifth. Will lis Hudlin held the ruthless Hugmen to one blow in five innings. but gave ground toward the finish. Two Yam kee singles in the ninth finally caused Roger Peckinpaugh to send for Jimmy Finn.
 The Yankees have won but one of their five games against the Indians this season, and the suspicion xrows in the east that Peckinpaugh's team was greatly under-rated at the start of the season.
 Washington fans saw a colla pse of two pitching staffs in the same park yesterday when the Tigers rallied Tor nine runs in the last two innings to defeat the senators by IT to II. Detroit required :s hits for its IT runs. but the home forces scored ii times on only 10 safeties.
 The White Sox-Red Sox game at Boston was postponed on account of rain.
 The Giants continued their spurt at the expense of the Cardinals, win- Ring the final game by g to 1 behinS Carl Hubbell's fine pitching to clean np tho series of three engagements This triumph extended the Giant streak to fourteen out of sixteen and slx out of seven in the west.
 Travis Jackson contributed to the misery of Willie Sherdel with his eleventh homer. The defeat dropped the Cardinals to third place as the Cubs continued 10 feast upon the Robins. winning the third and last or the series by Il to 2. Charlie Root pitched in as fine form as he has displayed this season. holding Brooklyn to four hits. Babe Herman got three of these. while Harvey Hendrick hit q homer with one on base"
 The Pirates prevented the Giants from cutting down the margin be- tween first place and fourth, win. ming again from the Braves by 6 to 2. This gave the Bucs . clean.un of the series of two.
 Donald Hurst hit his tenth hom. CT at Cincinnati. but his wild throw m the eleventh with . double play in sight permitted Ford to score from second. and the Red Legs eased home in front, ' to6