New Britain herald., 1929-08-09
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
 The Yankees are on thelr way | west for their final invasion pos sessed of whatever satisfaction there | may be gleaned from having taken ! two out of three from the leading ! Athletics while themselves languish- ! Ing almost a dozen games to the , rear The $ to 4 victory of the ! champions in Philadelphia yesterday | carried with it the edge in the three | game series and reduced the margin | of the Mackmen to a mere ten and 1 one-half games. Ten and one half games with about eight weeks to go and still there are some who insist that the race is not yet over. Such die-hard Yankee fans as cling to hope that tke Macks may repeat the artistic blow-up the Hugmen put on through the final third of the 1928 campaign may well take stock of the situation. The Yankees of last season, over due two years for a slump, wer" about eight games out front at this period of the race. A batting de- cline of serious proportions was in the offing and Herbert Pennock was preparing 10 pitch what no one then realized would be his last victory until long after the 1929 race had been started.
 a With Pennock out, with their big guns spiked. the Yankees did blow inh 1t time had been 13 and one-half games, but they also recovered in time to crush the Athletics three times in that memorable four-game series on the banks of the Harlem last September. II seems tn these same Yankees began hitting agaln m the final series at Detroit, and reck- lessly continued the practice at the Yankee stadium and at St. Louis in a certain set of four game against the Cardinals.
 Can Connie Mack's young club of 1929 do any worse? Fired with will to win which a two or three time victor can never possess. the young Macks face none of the pit falls which beset the Hugmen last year. Cochrane, Simmons and Foxx owe no percentage to the law or averages, face no probability of slump to make up for having played over too long a stretch at an eXces- sve clip. And although Grove and Walberg and Earnshaw may be a bit fatigued from a long run Of double headers and Hard work, there is yet no indication that any one of them will cease firing as Pen mock was forced to cease last year.
 The one faint glcam of Ganke" hope lies in the fact that Connie Mack's first line pitchers do show signs of fatigue; but what Of Hug gins's tosser? Hoyt, out of the game with blood poisoning; Pen nook still uncertain Pipgras, unable to pitch two strong games in sue cession. With the first string thus buckling, the veteran Tor Zachary and Eddie Wells have worked nobly to keep the team in the fight. For the season to date they have won ( games between them while losing only three.
 Fitted against George Walberg in the getaway game at Philadelphia yesterday. Herb Pennock so toyed with what at one time was a to 1 lead that Wiley Moore was called from the bun pen with none out in the fifth. Mule Haas had just hit a ei, ryI pitching five official innings, allowed just one hit, and in the National league would have received credit for the victory. The American league rules. however, require a starting pitcher to go only four in- nings to win.
 The battle of the leaders and the champions looked something like the married men versus the single men at q church picnic with Wal berg and Pennock in the box, but with Jack Quinn and Moode in res. cue roles the boys finished as theS might have behind Matty and Plank Sam Byrd's homer with one on 1T the second did the Yankees no harm Some 25,000 fans turned out for tho melee.
 ninth inning rally for four run! enabled Detroit to nose out the In. dians at Cleveland by to and pre-, vent Peckinpaugh's ambitious boy. from stepping into third place. Tht Browns obligingly lost two games tt the White Sox at Chicago by score. of 5 to 4 and to ?. and fell haci into tie with Cleveland for thirt even in the face of the Indian de eat.
 Washington again defeated tn, Ned SoX at fenway park, The SCOT was 10 3.
 The only action along the Nationa league front again took place a Pittsburgh where the Pirates vol over the Cardinals by to 1 bchin, Erwin Brame's three hit pitching.
 The game was notable chiefly fo the failure of Grover C1evclan
 Alexander to register his %73rd Na tional league victory which woul
 have bettcred the league rccor
 now shared by Old Pete and the Iat Christy Mathewson. A poor throw b
 Gelbert in the fourth paved The wa
 for four Pirates runs which wrockc
 Old Alex.
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