New Britain herald., 1930-07-30
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 The Pittsburgh Pirates had their full share Of grief and more al the start Of the 1t30 season and as the result they are pretty well out of The National league pennant race. But inc Pirates now at full strength. are right or the top Of the second division and the least little slip on The part Of their leading rivals will place them among the first four clubs before the baseball year ends
 Since Lloyd Waner got back into form. the Pittsburgh club has been locking better right along. The Pi rates have won nine Of their last IS games. equaling the records of the league leading Brooklyn Robins and Of the New York Giants, The Chi llgo Cubs have hettered that IS game mark by one victory,
 The Pirates placed themselves only two games out Of the first di- vision yesterday with q rather i'm pressiye 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. They piled up an early lead. lost it when Kenny Kre- mars pitching vabbled a bit. then came through with two runs in the ninth inning 70 win, The younger Waner drove them in, singling when Suhr and Bool were on base to com plete a string which included another single and a double, two runs scored and one batted In. Big brother Paul hit q double and a homer and sacrificed once, scoring two runs and driving home one more, while the teams lesser hitters, Suhr and Comorosky each contributed an eX- tra base hit.
 Although the Pirates gained a game on St. Louis by this slugging performance. they could not pull ahead Of Boston and St, Louis. their second division rivals. The Braves found an easy solution to the puzzle Of Dazzy Eance's pitching after 1t had baffled them for six innings and gained a tie score. Then with Ray Phelps on the mound, they bunch cd three more hits in the tenth in- ming to beat the league leading Brooklyn Robins. 1 10 g. The de feat broke Brooklyn's six game win ming streak which had endured since Vance's last start.
 The Reds continued 10 display their mastery over the Chicago Cubs. and kept Chicago from gaining on Brooklyn by winning the series final. to 3. Old Eppa Rixey had fairly easy time Of II except for Hack Wilson's 33rd home run of the year, which put the Cubs into the running, It was the ninth time the Reds have beaten Chicag go ln 15 games this sea son.
 This double defeat Of the leaders worked in favor of the third place New York Giants. who trounced the PhiIlies by an Il to , score. Carl Hubbell gave the PhiIs 10 hits but half of them were divided aSong O'Doul, Klein and Sherlock anN did comparatively little damage The Giants got eleven effective blows.
 With Washington idle and Phila- delphia Athletics held in subjection by Henry Johnson the New York Yankees, made the day's big gain in the American league race with the Cleveland Indians trailing in their wake. The Yankees humbled the worlds champions by q r to 3 count as Lou Gehrig's hitting ably seconded Johnson's pitching. The Athletics made only seven hits while Gehrig alone made four, including his 30th and 3Ist home runs of the season. The other two blows were a triple and a double and Lou was credited with batting in six runs.
 The Indians combined 3 hits with burst of wIldness on the part of Guy Cantrel while the Detroit Tigers failed to find many effective com binations for the same number of blows. The final count was Cleve- land IA, Detroit :. The Indians scored Q of their runs in the second and third innings. The Chicago White Sox failed 10 equal such bursts. but they put over four runs in the fifth inning and defeated the St. Louis Browns. to .,