New Britain herald., 1930-09-27
By the 4 ssociatad Press

The St. Louis Cardinals have climaxed a rise that brings more than one memory of the famous rise of the 1914 Boston Braves from the bottom to the top of the Natinal league by clinching the 1880 cham pionship just two days before the end of the season. The Cards, a bad fourth on August l, slammed out a 10 to victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday to finish the hot struggle for the flag and to gain the right to meet the Philadelphia Ath- letics in the world series.
 Yesterdays triumph of the Cards : left the Chicago Cubs in second place three games behind with only ; two to play. The Cards produced ] new miracle man" in their tri- umph, Charles "Gabby" S. cot. who is serving his first year as St. Louis manager and who has defied tradi- ton by holding his job for another - season.
 In scoring their final victory yes terday, the Cards gave an all-around exhibition of the brand of baseball that carried them to the top. Jess Haines pitched fair game although not as good as many turned in by his younger mates, and the Red Birds backed him up with a hard and timely batting attack that produced s hits off the delivery Of Erwin Brame, one of the leagues leading pitchers. The high point of the at tack was reached in the fourth in ming when young George Watkins sent them off with a home run with two on base and the Cards batted clear around the lineup to score seven runs.
 Tn Chicago Cubs, champions Of 1929, fought to the last ditch to re- gain the pennant and went down still battling Although they could not halt the St. Louis rush, the Cubs clinched second place in the standing yesterday as Hack Wilson's 54th home run of the season gave them a ' to victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds. troubl makers for Chicago all season. put up another good fight and took the lead for a brief period. But Larry Benton weakened in the seventh inning just after his mates had gone ahead and a triple by "Foots" Blair and Red error tied the score. Then with Cuyler on base, Wilson slammed his homer into the stands and decided the game. The Cubs now are three games ahead of the third place New York Giants and 1-2 ahead of the Brooklyn Robins, both idle yester- day. and are safe so far. as second place is concerned.
 With it's race long over. the Amer ican league again failed to produce any particularly exciting develop ments and the loss of $500 by Bump Hadley of Washington was the days big news. Hadley has an agreement with the Senators management for a $500 bonus for every victory he turns in over the mark of IS he all ready has reached. He failed to collect yesterday as the Boston Red Sox reached him for ten hits i1 seven innings and defeated the Sen ators, to 1.
 The champion Philadelphia Ath- letics gave the New York Yankees a. double dose of bitter de" 'Nt as Al Simmons hit double in the ninth inning. The hit drove in Wally Schang from second with the run that gave the As ' to victory and it also put Simmons ahead of the Tanks Lou Gehrig in the race for the American league batting championship.
 Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox, held the Detroit Tigers to five hits in the one remaining game to Min by