Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-11

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- cracking seem to have been ex-
X aggerated or distorted. Fresh
i from two larrupings by the
Braves In three games, the
Chicago contenders stepped into the
Polo Grounds yesterday and cracked
curves and fast ones up against the
walls with such abandon that the Giant
outer patrol ran itself dizzy in no time
at all. The Bruins won the opener of
the five-game series by the modest score
Of to 2. but 1t seemed like an Irish
mile.
Turned back in the first assault, the
ming all four of the remaining games
II they are to displace the Cubs in
second position in this series. A double
header Is on the card beneath Coogan'S
Bluff today. With single games sched-
uled for tomorrow and Saturday. Mean
while the Pirates will be gambling in
Baker Bowl with the PhillieS, whom
they defeated yesterday by IS to Q in
home-run orgy.
The Buccaneers now lead Chicago by
one ar4 one-half games, and the
Cubs to gain in the immediate future
are slim. The four remaining Cub
Giant games at the Polo Grounds are
likely to be divided evenly, and the
Phillies are poor hands to depend upon
to stop a team like the Pirates under
the circumstances.
Bruins Have Big Edge.
. The Cubs not only outfought the
Giants on the of1ense yesterday, with
IL hits to New York's 7, but also had
a wide margin on the firing line where
Guy Bush presided. Bush seemed to
delight IN putting Giants on the paths
for the sheer JOY Of leaving them there.
The Cubs had 10 runners stranded to
8 for the Giants, but the Cubs could
afford it.
The Giants were under a nervous
strain in the field, overanxious. Bushs
support gobbled up every chance that
could be fielded, but Cohen and Hogan
cut in with errors which left Carl
Hnbbell in the hole in the NTH inning,
necesSitating his removal for q pinch
batSman when Jackson and Hogan
opened the home half of the round
with singles. If Hubbell had been trail
ing only by the one run the Cubs had
earned he would have remained in the
game. and this might well have made
q vast difference in the ultimate result
Randolph Judd and Dutch Henry, in
turn, succeeded Hubbell. The Bruins
chiseled run on Judd In the seventh
and Henry presented them with one in
Wilson closed out the scoring with q
homer In the ninth.
The Ptrtes hit five home runs In Phil
adelphia and the Phillies four. This to-
tai was within one of the record of 10
Tor Two clubs In game, set at the same
Baker bowl in 1922 when the Pills hit
six and the Cardinals four. Grantham
led with two, and Traynor, Lloyd Waner
and Fussel. of Pirates, and Klein,
ODoul, Hurst and Southern OF the
pills got one apiece.
William Watson Clark outpitced Jess
Haines and Fred Farmhouse by just
enough to enable Brooklyn to win the
opener Of its series against the Card
inalS by 8 to 8. This victory again
pulled the Robins within three games
OF the sagging champions and the FIRST
division.
The Reds punched the Braves by 10
to at Boston in the opening of Jack
Hendricks personal campaign to escape
from the cellar.
A. L. Leaders Disappointed.
The days maneusers in the Ameri-
can League were disappointing to all
three contenderS. AlphonSe Thomas de-
feated the Yankees for the second time
In his major league career, plunging
the Higgins camp into gloom. The
score was to 3.
The Athletics started with . rush,
winning the opener at st. Louis by 10
!, when Howard Ehmke turned in a
two-hit game against Sammy Gray,
but the Browns got even In the night
cap. George Walberg and Eddie ROM
mel failed to hold Howley's boys, and
the home team won nv 7 In Alvin
Crowder finished the game for the
Browns, fractured wrist and all. It is
not his pitching arm, of course
The days campaign added a techni-
cal half-game to the Mackian lead,
which now is eight games. The Yanks
are only one and one-half contests
ahead of the Browns.
Cleveland rallied sharply to defeat
Washington by to Z, climbing one
notch above the 500 mark. Marty Nc
Manus hit another home run with the
bases filled, and the Tigers defeated
the Red Sox by Just that margin, 10
to g.