New Britain herald., 1929-05-08
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
 The Yankees are back home again. but only by the skin Of their teeth. The champions regained their old stamping ground at the head of the league standing with just half a game to spare late yes terday as they shaded the Browns by 6 to at St. Louis while the White Sox were tumbling the Attn letics by { to 2 in a surprising bat tie on the Chicago front. This com- bination of events left the Macks and the Browns in a virtual tie. but for second place rather than first.
 The Ruppert rifles fired an even dozen vollcy at young Alvin Crow- der. the hardest was Babe Ruth's home run with two aboard in the fourth. but the most effective was Rob Meusel's pinch double in the ninth after the Babe had walked and GehriE had singled. Both scored. carrying the runs which drove Crowder to cover and decided the game. Ruth's homer was his fifth. which placed him only one behind his pal Gehrig. Bill Dickey also combed MT. Crowder for all the bases, in the fifth.
 The other side of the picture, from a Yankee point of view, was Herbert Pennock's third failure in the box this season. Leading by 1 to ? after Ruth and Dickey had hit homers. the noted fox farmer cracked up in the sixth when four Brownie blows netted three runs and brought Will cy Moore to the rescue. Wiley gave way to . pinch batsman just in time for the veteran Tom Zachary to get credit for the garrison finish which won.
 No team ever gained anything by losing . left arm like Pennock's, but the Yankees apparently will re- main at or near the top 90 long as they continue the fierce cannonad- ing which has marked their last five games. They have clubbed opposing pitchers for S3 hits in these games all of which have been won. And after all. they didn't win last year or the year before on any excessive amount of fancy pitching.
 The defeat of the Athletics at Chi caso was brought about largely by Alphonse Thomas. the hard-luck champion of the American league. Alphonse was some better than Bob Grove in . pitchers battle which finished with the Athletics in pos session of only i've small hits.
 Boston nosed out Cleveland by 5 to [ and Detroit shaded Washington by , to {: in minor raids along the American league front.
 The Giants once more had. to hit for four bases to score. and as con- sequence the Pirates rushed of with the decision by , to 2 in their first engagement of the season at the Polo Grounds. The Bucs tied in the eighth and won in the tenth when Lloyd Waner doubled and Pie Tray nor singled.
 Larry Benton was the victim. Ray schalk, managing the Giants in the absence of John McGraw, permitted Benton to bat for himself with two out and the bases filled in the ninth, with the result that the Sorrel top raised . foul to Sheely. Still. some other pitcher might have given the Pirates half | dozen runs in the ex- tra inning.
 Young Larry French. the Port land. Ore, southpaw. made his first big league start. and showed no timidity whatever in the face of Giant bats. The clan McGraw had few chances other than those furnished by early home runs from the bats of Andy Cohen and Chuck Fullis.
 The Braves remained at the top by shellacking the Cardinals, 8 to 5, in an eighth inning rally. Billy Southworth tried to slip past the Bostonese with his second pitching string. but this was insufficient.
 The Cubs had no trouble with the Robins. winning by to { and hold ing on within striking distance Of Judge Fuchs amazing team. Char lie Grimm backed up Art Nehf's fine pitching with two home runs, and Riggs Stephenson hit one.
 Frank O'Doul, the reformed pitch- CT. hit his fifth home run at Phila delphia. enabling the home team to defeat the Reds by 6 to 1. Two were on base in the eighth when Frankie's drive against Rixey scaled the right field wall.