Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
AGAIN LICK BROWNS
FOR 9TH STRAIGHT
AS, However, Keeping Pace
With Leaders-CubS and
Cards Boost Lead.
BY WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ASSCCldleQ FEeSS 6poTtS "TlLSE.
z ABIT is powerful force, as
may be seen from the standing
of the clubs in the American
Il A League today. The Yankees
lead with a percentage of $50
just when everybody had agreed that
they were plunging into the midst Of
batting slump overdue for almost
three years.
At the precise moment when the
other seven clubs began to take hope
the Yankees began to hit. Eight solid
blows of Sammy Gray in eight rounds
and two more of Ed Strelecki in the
ninth Melted the champions enough
margin for 7-to-3 victory over the
Browns at Sportsman's Park yester-
day. cleanup of three games in ST.
Louis, six straight in the West and
seven straight, East and West.
The death blow yesterday was dealt
lessly drove one of Gray's choice bend
ers into the left field seats in the
sixth after Koenig had doubled and
Ruth and Gehrig had singled. The big
inning not only broke a 1-to-1 tie be-
yond repair, but also placed the game
beyond the reach of any generosity py
Henry Johnson, who celebrated his re-
turn to duty as a starting pitcher by
| ranking nine Browns to first base
The wildness of Mr.. johnson Gid lit
tie or no damage, as the Browns we're
too busy ducking Yankee blows to do
any substantial hitting on their own
account. They did get seven hits from
| time to time, but not in the pinches
Eleven of. the Howley troops died on
base.
Mackmen Hanging On.
The. position Of the Yankees is little
different today from what it was this
! time last year, except that the Athletics
are holding TO the pace of the cham
pions. The Browns, ambitious before
the Yankees began to hit, already are
| four losing games behind the Hugmen
and three to the rear of the second
place Athletics. Again habit figures
The Yankees have a traditional habit
! OF knocking off in person any club
which seems dangerous, and it appears
that the Browns unWittingly advertised
themselves as something of ball team
by cleaning up the West before the
champions arrived.
The Athletics matched strides with
the Yanks yesterday by winning their
final clash in Chicago by 9 to 2, behind
the steady pitching of George Earn
shaw. The Macks now have only Cleve-
land and Detroit to face. but so have
the Yankees, which makes it unreaSon-
able to suppose that the McGillicuddy
troops will register any marked gain
through the rest of the invasion. The
Yankee lead over the AS, nevertheless,
remains Just hai game and almost
anything can happen to half game
Washington broke up Detroit's siX-
game winning streak yesterday, to 3,
! perhaps to ease the shock of the Yankee
arrival at Navin Field today Cleveland
nosed out the Red Sox by to in a
well played game.
| The reaction from a no-hit party
| found the Giants cracking up under the
| impact of Earl Sheely's eight-inninT
home run at the Polo Grounds yester-
day. Two Pirates we're aboard when
Earfs nave descended and BurIeigh
| Grimes pulled out his sixth straight
! triumph over the clan McCraW since he
was traded down the river to Pittsburgh
before the start of the 1928 season. The
score was 4 to 8, including beautiful
homer within the field by Bill Terry in
the fourth.
Cubs and Cards Keep Pace.
| Meanwhile the Cubs and the Cardi-
mails were marching step for step with
each other into a more substantial
lead. With Old Alex the Great at his
best, the Cards trimmed Harry Seibold
| and the Braves by to / in Boston,
while the Cubs were gorging on milk
| and honey in Flatbush. The Robins were
subdued by IL to 2, and even the two
| eluded drill-master Robinson until the
flnal round, when Jake Flowers hit q
homer with Hendrick on base. Hack
| Wilson helped the Cubs with his fifth
home run and Xxi Cuyler got three
hits as Perez Malone registered his
| fifth straight of the season.
The Cub-Cardinal dual triumph left
| Gems. Mccarthy and Southworth run
ming one-two in that order with lust
game between them Boston still is
only slightly to the rear.
| The Cincinnati Reds broke up a three
| game winning streak for the Phillies
when jake May came to the rescue of
Kenneth Ash and pulled the Hendricks
troops through to 7-to-5 victory in
the last game of the series.