New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
CLAN McCRAW IS SADLY
 IN NEED OF VICTORIES
Cards and Cubs are Making the Race in National Out Front Together - Giants Hope to Fatten on Reds for Next Three Days - Tie Game Broken Up by Rain - Tigers Win Second Straight Game From
 Yankees-Browns Take It Out on Poor Boston Sox.

By the Associated Press.
 With the first western invasion of tho Polo Grounds drifting into it's final phase, the Giants remain in sad need of victories as the Cards and the Cubs make the race out front together. While the clan Me- Graw can exhibit but three victories against five defeats and one tie for the western stand. the Red Birds have won seven out of nine and the Cubs six out of nine with one tied on their eastern trip.
 The Giants hope to fatten on the Reds for the next three days. but they can hardly hope to gain on the two western contenders. The Braves and the Phils will do little to check the march of the Messrs. Mccarthy and Southworth.
 The Giants ended the more diff cult part of their stand against the west by playing $ to tie with the g Cubs yesterday before capacity crowd of 5o,oo0. The game was broken up at the end of the 1lth by sudden rain storm. It was 9 home run battle between Cuyler. Wilson and Hartnett for the Cubs and Ott and Lindstrom for the home forces.
 Art Nehf started against the Polo Grounders, his former mates, but was knocked out in the sixth. Jon- nard and Bush both succumbed to managerial strategy and Mike Cven- gros fired the last two rounds. Carl Hubbell. the no-hit hero. had to have help from Carl Mays
 The Cardinals, of course. defeated Brooklyn. The score this time was 13 to '. giving them a sweep Of three games in Brooklyn and rum ming the Robin losing streak to six. The Reds had little more difficulty in subduing the Braves at Boston by g to ! behind the fine left handing of Eppa Rixey.
 The Phils and the Pirates got the day off because no Sunday ball is played in either city.
 The American league race was plunged into a deadloc..,, as the Tigers won their second straight from the Yankees while the Ath- letics met rain in Cleveland. The Tigers were unduly familiar with the offerings of Waite Hoyt all along. and Leo Durocher helped to gum things up by fumbling double play ball in the second. The final ball ancing showed the Tigers in the lead by 3 to '. It was Hoyt's first de- feat of the season.
 Some 5000 persons crowded into Navin field despite stormy morn- ing. They overfiowed onto the play ing space. making ground rules nec- essary, but neither team profited a great deal more than it's rival from this condition. The Tanks got seven ground-rule doubles against six for the Tigers.
 The Browns are taking it out on the poor Red sox after being man. handled by the Athletics and the Yankees. The score yesterday was IS to ! in game broken up in the seventh by rain. This victory put the St. Louis contingent within one and one-half games of the top. but all of the margin was in the losing column. which makes it not quite so close.
 The White Sox rallied sharply in the ninth to pull out victory over the Senators for old Red Faber by , 10 ;. Urban the Red gave the Wash iHgton invaders just four hits.
 While rain cost the Indians a fat Sunday intake at Cleveland. 50 city fans received the news that Roger Peckinpaush had been set down for five days by E. s. Barnard. Presi- dent of the American league. for the part the Cleveland manager played in Saturdays disturbance. Peck protested a decision, which fans also resented with such vigor that Em- met Ormsby, the umpire. was severely injured by being struck on the head by a. flying bottle.