New Britain herald., 1929-06-24
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 The hysteria in and about the Yankee stadium now is recent rather than current, and tho boys are busy checking up the net result. artistic Ana financial. Tho Athletics nipped the champions by to | before some es.ooo in the fifth and rubber game sssterday. but the really important ;ransaction took place in tho count ,ns house. Exactly 1S4.096 fans paid .heiF way at the gate in three days, making the series a complete victory :or Edward Grant Barrow regard ess of what happened to Higgins.
 The attendance set n new record tor single series. beating the mark N l71.lS: made by the same teams 1t the same park last September n three afternoons.
 The only fly in Mr. Barrow's cof- see was the necessity of rendering Mr. McGillicuddy check for $46,0e4 be- Ore tho armored vans escaped to q downtown bank with the loot.
 Although the victory of the Ath- cities by three games to two was. f itself, hardly decisive, the lead Of hs Mackmen was stretched to eight lnd one-half games, and the im- Sressicn spread among the metro- politan fans that here. indeed, were he coming champions. The current Athletics have in the face Of Yankee fire confidence lacked by their im- mediate predecessors, and ability to ttand up before the Hugmen is all hat was missing in the Mackmen ast year.
 The final game was q triumph for doward Ehmke. the veteran right lander although George Earnshaw laA to be called in the eighth to put }own . Yankee uprising which hrsstened to assume serious propor- aens. The series ended without the tppearancs of Eddie Rommel. the knuckfe ball expert who never seem- d to fool the Yankees.
 The defeated pitcher yesterday ras another left handler and the Aird Yankes southpaw victim of the eries-Eddie Wells. The Birmins- l tam boys customary wildness was ,issins, but the Messrs. simmon tnd Foxx made up for this little ,vsrsight with successive home runs h the fourth. MT. Mule Haas 50 taught the spirit that he hammered EAils' rescuer, Tom Zachary, for bur baser inside the lot in the aghth.
 It was Simmons's 18th. Foxx's s3th and Haas's ninth. Simmons night have had an earlier home run h the second when he limped salpably on . triple because of his Nd ankles. Now that the Yankee sFiss is over, Simmons may remain ut of the game to rest hts neither tmha, but the real misfortune for Ae Rapport Higgins combination esms to be that Simmons did not lrriva at this decision earlier. Here . what he did to tho champions in Aree days: Games. 5: at bat. el: .uns, 10; hits. Is: total base. 30; sws base hits. ,; three base hits, 1: Asns runs. {: runs batted in. 3: iverase. .61s.
 Lou Gehris inserted his goth home Nn into the proceedings yesterday, MecinS himself in tic with Mel Ott k the Giants for the major league aadership. The defeat. coupled ktth the : to 5 victory of the Browns lver the White Sox, dropped the thsmptsns into tie with St. Louis or third place, but this hardly will ast. The Tanks may not be as good n the Athletics, but they remain ,0rns better than the rest of the lock. Detroit nosed out Cleveland by to ', advancing to within one tame of the Tanks and the Browns, end Washington won from Boston 3y to in other American league engagements yesterday.
 The National league campaign on .he sabbath witnessed the third sratght victory of the Pirates over he Cubs. $ to I. The Reds shaded he champion Cardinals by to 2 tnd the Brooklyn Robins nosed out :hs Giants by 3 to ! in 14 innings. sivthe the day | pronounced Pirate .rend. The Buccaneers led the Cubs Sy two and one-half games. the Cardinals by three and the Giants ey three and one-half.
 The Braves completed the Ma ,tonal league program by taking two from the Phillies, 5 to 1 and to 5.
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