New Britain herald., 1930-09-03
.PENNANT RACES WILL BE
 DECIDED IN THIS MONTH
Teams in Two Major Leagues On the "Home Stretch" During September - Chicago Cubs Pull Out With an Sto 2 Victory Over Cincinnati Reds - Giants Slam Out an 1S-5 Win Over Phlies-Braves Blank Robins-Indians Down St. Louis Browns.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 The month of September is appro- priately called the home stretch" of the baseball season. The teams of the two major leagues have, rough ly speaking, one complete round of and that round probably will decide the two pennant races this season.
 With the National league struggle in its present state, it appears that the decision will be reached during the final intersectional series which starts next week. The Chicago Cubs, who lead by the rather slim margin of four games, have won AZ of their 7S victories so far at the expense of Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia and the coming series brings them II more games against these easy victims, in addition to three against the second place New York Giants The Cubs play five games against the Pittsburgh Pirates, starting today and four against their "jinx' team. the Cincinnati Reds.
 If the Chicago hoodoo continues to perform as it has all season, the Cubs should add enough victories there to make up for any ordinary deficiencies they may suf- fer in the east.
 When they pulled out an S to ? triumph at Redland field yesterday, the Cubs defeated the Reds in their home town for the first time since April 21 and for the third time this year. But to make up for this su- premacy at home, the Reds took al- most as bad a beating in Chicago, losing five of seven games played there. And the remaining four games are to be played in Chicago.
 It took some great pitching by Charley Root to break the Cincin- nati jinX yesterday. It was Roots last chance to turn the trick and he did it by holding the Reds to three hits one a homer by Cuccinello, and keeping them away from first base for five innings. With Taylor's triple as the only hit, the Cubs got off to a three run lead in the first inning and never were threatened. Gabby Hartnett clouted his 29th home run in the fifth to make the victory more complete.
 The New York Giants didn't even have a jinx working against them at Philadelphia and they displayed the supremacy that has given them IA victories over the Phillies in 20 games by slamming out an IS to 5 victory. The Giants rung up 25 hits, including home runs by Hogan and Terry, a triple and six doubles The Phils added seven more doubles, just half the number of hits they made off Fitzsimmons. And the total of 13 fell one short of tying the Ma tional league record.
 The Brooklyn Robins found enough bad luck in Ed Brandt, Bos- ton southpaw. He shut them out completely, giving only four scatter ed singles, while the Braves made the most of six blows, five of them of the scratch variety, combined with ie DloohiyH lapSeS, 10 win by C to count. The defeat cost them a half game in their relation to the third place St, Louis Cardinals, who were idle, and a full game where the victorious leaders were concerned,
 The one game on the American league schedule was of little import ance except that it gave the Cleye- land Indians their fourth straight victory over St. Louis, 4-3. Cleveland hao to go II innings for this final triumph after gaining a tie in the eighth. Lu Blues home run and tommy Hodapp's single which drove m Porter with the winning run were the high spots of the game.