Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
MACKS WIDEN GAP
BY ANOTHER GAME
Grove Beats Tribe for 18th
Victory as Yanks Bow
to Tigers, 1913.
BY WILLIAM ]. CHAPMAN,

A MOIST afternoon along the
~ major league trail, where three
"a of. the nine scheduled skir-
4 4 mfshes were postponed, was
hardly enough for the Yankees,
but just right for the Athletics. The
leaders turned the day to account by
wrestling a 5-to-3 decision from the In
dams in II innings behind Nose Grove
as the Tigers outpunched the YankS by
II to 10, and the Philadelphia lead in
creased to 1872 games.
This margin is the greatest the AS
have had at any time this season and
is the exact distance by which the
Yankees led for two days or so when
the 1928 race was at its loosest stage,
around the Fourth of July
Jimmy FoXx's twenty-eighth homer,
which gave him second place in the
American League, decided the long bat
tie in favor of the MackS, but the lead
ers cashed in another run of Willis
Hudlin before the end of the inning
just to remove the last doubt. Hudlin
had relieved Walter Miller after the
latter's retirement in favor Of q pinch
batSman in the eighth, when the In
dams were raking Grove for one run to
tie the score.
Grove Comes Through.
The victor marked Groves attempt
to bring home his eighteenth decision
of the season and was his first triumph
since July Is, when he pitched part of
a game to gain an easy verdict over the
Indians at Philadelphia. 81 to 8. He
has not met defeat since that time,
however, as the AS have either won or
tied his every start, but with winning
credit going to some other pitcher.
The less said about the lacing Of the
Yankees in Detroit the kinder it will be
to both teams. The game began just
as it ended. with the batterS swing
ing from the floor and the pitchers
ducking after each toss. Between them
the teams scored Is runs in the first
finish Owen Carroll held the YankS
to the comparatively safe quota. of nine
hits and six runs. while the various
Yankee tossers continued their queer
capers, with the result that the Bengals
won rather handsomely.
Hoyt Also Fails.
After the failure of George Pipgras,
Waite Hoyt made his first appearance
on the mound since his recent attack
of blood poisoning. It was brief and
disastrous. three hits and one pass
helping the Tigers to seven runs be-
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uprising. Zachary departed from the
game just in time to escape charge for
the defeat. The BengalS broke q 12-to-
IL tie with Wiley Moore by lacing out
five runs lin the eighth.
The Red Sox defeated st. Louis by
4 to /, and the Senator's slammed
the White Sox by II to 3, In remaining
American League games.
With all activity halted in the New
York metropolitan district. where the
Cubs were scheduled to meet the Robins
and the Cardinals the Giants, National
League proceedings fsr the day we're
limited to Boston and Philadelphia.
Jess Petty turned in a flve-hit game
at Braves Field to defeat the home
team by to 0, and the Pirates reduced
the margin of the Cubs half a game to
eight contests. Percy Lee Jones pitched
well enough to win any ordinary game.
At Philadelphia the home~team shaded
the Reds by 2 to in the first game
of O. double-header, cut short at the
end of the seventh by rain. The second
game, Of course, was postponed.
The Cubs and the Robins will play
of their postponement In d double
header today, and the Giants and the
Cards will double on Saturday.