New Britain herald., 1929-08-15
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
 A moist afternoon along the major league trail, where three of the nine scheduled skirmishes were post poned, was hardly enough for the Yankees but just about right for the Athletics. The leaders turned the day to account by wrestling a to ] decision from the Indians in 1T in- nings behind Nose Grove as the Tig- CTS outpunched the Tanks by IT to 13 and the Philadelphia lead in- creased to 13 and one-half games.
 This margin is the greatest the As have had at any time this sea- son and is the exact distance by which the Yankees led for two days or so when the 1928 race was at it's Ioosest stage around the Fourth of July.
 Jimmy Foxxs 2Sth homer, which gave him second place in the Ameri- can league, decided the long battle in favor of the Macks, but the lead CTS cashed in another run off Willis Hudlin before the end of the inning just to remove the last doubt. Hudlin had relieved Walter Miller after the latter's retirement in favor of pinch batsman in the eighth when the Indians were raking Grove for one run to tie the score.
 The victory marked Groves fifth attempt to bring home his 18th de- cision of the season, and was his first triumph since July 25 when he pitched part of a game to gain an easy verdict over the Indians at Philadelphia, 21 to 3. He has not met defeat since that time, however as the As have either won or tied his every start, but with winning credit going to some other pitcher.
 The less said about the facing of Z the Yankees in Detroit, the kinder it will be to both teams. The game began just as it ended. with the bat ters swinging from the floor and the pitchers ducking after each toss. Be tween them the teams scored 16 runs in the first three innings. From that point to the finish Owen Car roll held the Tanks to the compara- lively safe quota of nine hits and six runs while the various Yankees tossers continued their queen-c pers with the result that the Bengals won rather handsomely.
 After the failure of George Pip gras, Waite Hoyt made his first ap- pearance on the mound since his re- cent attack of blood poisoning. It iof pJ s+r and one pass helping the Tigers to seven runs before Tom Zachary could put down the uprising. Zach ary departed from the game just in time to escape charge for the defeat. The Bengals broke , to F tie with Wiley Moore by lacing out five runs in the eighth.
 The Red Sox deefated St. Louis by to 1 and the Senators slammed the White Sox by to in remain ing American league games.
 @ With all activity halted in the New York metropolitan district where the Cubs were scheduled to meet the Robins and the Cardinals. the Giants National league proceed lnsS TOT the day were limited to BoS- ton and Philadelphia. Jess Petty turned in a five hit game at Braves field to defeat the home team by to 0, and the Pirates reduced the margin of the Cubs half a game to eight contests. Percy Lee Jones pitched well enough to win any ordi- nary. game.
 At Philadelphia the home team shaded the Reds by to 1 in the first game of double header cut short at the end of the seventh by rain. The second game, of course, was post pc1cd.
 The Cubs and the Robins will play off their postponement in a double header today, and the Giants and the Cards will double on Saturday.