Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-19
|CUBS ARE FINALLY
EASED into FLAG
Pirates Loss to- Braves
Enables Chicago to CIinch
Old League Pennant.
BY WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ Y defeating the Robins at Wrig-
- ley Field last Sunday the Cubs
reached point where one more
IL victory would give them the
National League pennant be-
yond the last mathematical doubt. The
energetic Bruins are still shopping here
and there in search Of the victory, but
they nevertheless have become cham
pions, almost without knowing 1t. The
coronet was clamped upon the brow OF
Joseph v. Mccarthy just before game
time in Chicago yesterday when the
Braves tossed the Pirates by S to at
Forbes Field in the first half OF o
double header.
The new champions Of the elder
major circuit were allowed to enter
their game against the Giants without
the knowledge that the Braves had
ended the struggle Tor them. Otherwise
they might have done better against the
Giants, who opened the series with a
7-to-3 triumph behind earl HubbelPs
fine pitching.
The clan McGraw pounded Sheriff
Fred Blake and Art Nehf with the same
| vigor that has marked many recent as
saults upon the peaceable young men
who earn their money serving them up
for Joe Mccarthy. If these unprovoked
outrages continue, experts and inexperts
alike will have to place some credence
In Mr. McCarthys plea that his pitching
defense consists of so many paper hoops.
Bush, Grove Both Falter.
Guy Bush, it is true, has been hitting
the bumps, but so has Bob Grove. With
more than two weeks to get ready for
the ordeal, the rival pitching corps may
be depended upon to make base hits
dear on and after october 8. Many q
wrecked" hurting staff in the past has
suddenly reassembled itself upon reach
ing the world series, with the scent Of
important money heavy in the air.
Presenting that the Cubs twelfth
pennant long had been taken for grant,
ed-aS Chicago fans took 1.-THE most
interesting development at Wrigley
Field yesterday was Rogers HornSby's
feat in scoring al three of the Bruin
beyond the modern National League rec
ord, set by Kiki Cuyler in Pittsburgh
in 1925.
After Kremer andM Swetonic had
dropped the pennant deciding first game
to the Braves at Pittsburgh. the Pirates
came back behind Henry Meme to take
the nightcap by to 2.
Jim Frey, Nashville recruit, gave the
Phillies Is hits In his Cincinnati debut,
test was notable for the fielding per-
Torrance Of Horace Ford, Cincinnati
shortstop, who cut in with II put-outs
and three assists. He fell short of the
major league mark of 10 chances ac-
cepted by a shortstop, but equaled the
put-out mark established by William
Fuller of Andy Freedman's Giants in
! 1895. Danny Richardson of Washing
| ton made the mark for total chances
accepted in 1892.
Under the pounding Of Yankee home
run bats, the Indians just escaped from
New York with their lives yesterday. all
visions of second money vanished from
their minds. Led appropriately enough
by the home run twins, Ruth and Geh-
rig, who got two apiece, the Yanks
bombarded the Indians out of two
games by 9 to and IL to 2. Tony
Lazzeri added q circuit blow for good
measure and the Sewen brothers per-
formed for Cleveland.
Terrell Has on Day.
Ruth ran his total to 46, by far the
highest in either circuit, and Gehrig
mounted to "a, second best in the
American League. The least said about
the pitching in the first game, the bet
ter, but there was nothing wrong with
| Roy Sherid in the nightcap. Wesley
Terrell in this contest slumped far be-
low his usual form.
The Browns batted Bob Grove from