New Britain herald., 1929-05-31

Baseball advances from early sea- son toward the outposts of mid season with the Athletics and the Pirates holding the lead and most sf'the II remaining entries clutching nething but the bag. The margin or tha Mackmen is tremendous, that or thu Pirates satisfactory to buccaneer hoesters. And the standing of the elsabs no longer can be scoffed at as meaningless.
 The most hopeful expression which now may be made of clubs down in the running is that any po- tential contender owning percent aae of 300 can possibly rally sharp ly~enough to win in the stretch, thls stItement just does include the Giants, the Yankees and the Tigers
 The Athletics seized the oppor- tunity presented in the Decoration Div double header to increase their margin over the Yankees to seven and one-half games. Bob Grove ana ola Jack Quinn performed in front of Boston spectators. leading the AZ to victory by scores of 9 to and 9 to as the Senators trimmed t.+. Yankees twice. Washington .s.sed Herb Pennock from the box 10. take the opener by s to 5. and hurled a ninth round rally at Henry Johnson, Wicy Moore and Tom Zach ary to ease out ahead by to Tn the nightcap. Three runs were scored in the gala finish.
 On the western front pitchers were bsing manhandled by the Browns and Tigers, who divided their double bill to the profit of Connie Mack. Detroit took the morning game by l< to 6, but the St. Louis contend ert' came back in the afternoon to win by 13 to g. This division of the speils enabled the Macks to increase their lead over both. The leaders A6w top the Brownies by four games and the Tigers by seven and one- Aslf.
 The remaining action in the vest err half of the Barnard circuit saw Cleveland and Chicago swap vic tories, the Indians winning the first same by 6 to and the White Sox the second by to ?. Willies Hudlin and Red Faber were the successful pitchers.
 The Pirates retained the National lAague lead by turning back the Cubs, { to 0, in the afternoon after the Bruins had romped of with the opener, 5 to l. Remy Kremer was note quite equal to matching arms with the, veteran Artie Nehf in the morning. but Burleish Grimes had . wide margin over Charlie Root in the afternoon. winning his ninth successive victory.
 The lead of the Pirates is only in percentage points. as the Cardinals entered into . virtual tie for the top by defeating the Reds, to and ts 2, in an afternoon bargain. Old Alex cutpitched Red Lucas in the first game and the second was case of too much Haines. Ths National league champions remained to the rear of tho Corsairs only because Of having played more games and. con sequently. of having lost more than tho Forbes field defenders.
 John J. McGraw won his first double victory of the season when the Giants rallied to defeat the Robins by to in the first game and damned the ball all over the lot to take the second. 5 to 6. The first was | see-saw thriller won with two runs in the ninth. It met with tn, vociferous approval of S5,00o fans, the largest baseball assemblage ever accommodated at the Polo Grounds.
 The dual victory gave the Giants the Brooklyn series by three games to one, and increased their string to eight out of nine. The only fauI; that can be found with this spur' is the admittedly weak opposition against which it was made.
 The Braves turned on the Phillies, { te I, in the morning clash at Baker Bowl, but the home team resumed it's spell in the afternoon to win by ii to s. The Phillies thus open their invasion of the west one game above the 800 mark, which is at least some improvement over recent years.
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