Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
WIN L OF IS GAMES
TO PASS DODGERS
Ruffing Hangs Up His Sixth
Straight Victory Since
Joining Yankees.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR
Associated Press Sports Writer.

A SOMEWHAT crippled Cub
IN team, lacking Rogers Horns
by and occasionally a few
other regulars, has been
battling its way upward through
the National League, and finally
has wrested first place from the
Brooklyn Robins.
The Cubs have refused to be
downed, and even losing the first
game of their series to the Robins
failed to daunt them. They came
back to win the next three, finally
capturing the league lead yester-
day by beating Brooklyn, S to /.
The Cubs now have won IL Of their
last 13 games, starting when they played
their last game in New York before re-
turning home for a long stand. These
victories have placed them a full game
ahead OF the Robins. Their lead is only
nine percentage points, due to the fact
that they have played four more games
than the Robins. In addition, they set
record for attendance in the series
with Brooklyn, drawing $4,000 fans yes
terday to make total of $4,000 for
the series.
Has Sad Birthday.
Brooklyn made 1t a sad celebration
Of Manager Wilbert Roblnson's sixty
sixth birthday by getting only seven
hits of Charley Root and failing to take
advantage of the few opportunities the
Cubs offered. Chicago got to Hollis
Thurston in the fourth for three runs
to win the game.
The st. Louis Cardinals and Boston
Braves had almost as much cause for
yaCtardaU al
though they could not alter the stand
ing The Cards picked up two full
games on the New York Giants, wind
| ing up only one game out Of third
| place, by winning a pair Of close de-
| cisions. The scores we're 3 to and s
to 4. Sylvester johnson and Bill Halla-
han held the Giants to a total Of IL
hits in the two games. The Braves.
| likewise, won both ends of a double-
header from the Cincinnati Reds. They
| took the first to 3, although outhit
is to 6, and slugged out a 10-to-3 trt-
umph in the second.
In the American League, the New
| York Yankees and st. Louis Browns
registered the big gains, as the Yanks
downed the Cleveland Indians, Z to 8,
and St. Louis trounced Washington,
to 3. The Yanks. benefting by the
power of Charley Rufing, gained tie
1 WIN washington Tor second place ana
the Browns tied Detroit for nth, each
| gaining a game on its rival
Rulings Sixth in Row.
Rufing finished the game for the
Yanks and scored the deciding run him
self to make 1t six straight victories
since he came to New York. The
Browns had five extra-base hits and
as many singles behind the effective
| pitching of Walter Stewart.
The Philadelphia Athletics kept first
place safe from any assaults by taking
a single game in Detroit from the Tigers
by a 6-to-5 count. Jimmy Foxx's
twenty-second home run of the year.
which kept him just ahead of Lou
! Gehrig, who hit his twenty-flrst for the
Yankees, was the big feature, with the
final decision at the plate adding more
excitement. The Tigers scored two runs
in the ninth and the fans thought they
had q third but Umpire Guthrie said
out instead of safe when Jimmy Shev-
lin tried to score.
The leagues tail-enders, Boston and
Chicago, divided a double-header. The
| Red Sox made it eight straight over
their Chicago rivals by taking the first,
| 10 to 6. but the White Hose reversed
the decision, to /, in the second game,
as Ted Lyons bested Jack Russell to
gain his eleventh victory Of the season.