New Britain herald., 1930-07-31
LIVELY BALL IS STILL
 USED IN MAJOR LEAGUES
Five Players, Led by Eminent Babe Ruth Have Reached Mark of 29 Homers-Gehrigs Circuit Cout Wins for Yankees Over Red Sox in 10th Inning - Ath- letics Defeat Senators-Tgers Down Indians, to 5-Brovns Take Two From Chicago White SoX.
8. he AssaaLates Pres.

5" -he Ass0rlateG Press.
 Only decade has passed since that memorable 19I9 season when Babe Ruth opened the era Of the lively baseball by hitting I home runs and regardless Of the still dis pured question as 10 the llvelness Of the ball, It IS pell worth the fans while 10 compare the s!uggIns Of the present and past days
 Five players. still led by the eminent Babe, already have reached that mark Of 24 homers this year with only about tvo-thirds Of the season past. Ruth IS even ahead of hls greatest year, 1927, when he raised the home run record to 50. while Lou Gehrig and Hack Wilson are only a game or two behind that pace Where only six major Ieaguers hir ten homers n tf19. thirty have done that well thus far while eight four haggers III dull day yesterday brought rhe major league total up 10 1.05O, more than double 1he mum bar hlt hv the two leagues ln~ the whole Of the -41H season
 Gehris was the only leader Tn the slugging brigade TO hut a homer yes- tarday and he picked T highly appro- prIate moment to connect. l. came n the tenth inning of the Yankees first game against the Boston Red SoX and turned --g pitching battle herveen Herb PennoCk and Milton Gaston into q rout Lous clout ac- counted for three runs and with the aid Of a homer by Harry Rice. the Yankees made slX runs ln that ln- ming for an < 10 . victory They con- tInued their sIugEinE through the second game while George Pipgras held the Sox 1T check 10 win by a n 10 count
 The double victory gave the Yan- kees 2 bit ot an edge on ther lead ing rivals as the Philadelphia Ath- letics defeated Washington. 10 f, The Tanks now are only . 1-2 games behind the second place Senator's. who in turn are seven games back Of the As. Pitching figured largely in tnIs game as m the other American league contests. Bob Grove held the Senators II check, while four Wash lhgton hurlerz proved ineffective al- though the teams got the same num- ber of hts, ten Al Cleveland, Earl WhltehlI's relief hurhng kept the Irclans from overcoming an early Detroit lead. although they had 14-9 margin in the hitting. and the Tigers won, { to 5.
 Wally Stewart and George Blae- holder each pitched a nice game for St. Louis against Chicago, and the Browns won the first by means Of unearned runs. 10 ln ten innings and the second, $ to l. The SoX made seven errors in the first contest,
 The Brooklyn Robins showed the way 10 National leaguers in home run hitting q we'll as Tn the standing yesterday as tnet proved&helr po- sitlon with 2 double victory over Philadelphia Glen Wright and liar vey Hendrick hit four baggers in the second game. which Brooklyn won. 10 4, after taking the first. to 5, while Frank O'Doul. another Of the many who have cloured more than n homers this season. h1t his 18th n the first game By winning two contests. the Robins placed them selves 9 1-g games ahead of the Chl- Cago Cubs, who had day of idle ness.
 Fred FItzslnmons also hit 2 home run and 1t made 9 hero Of hlm des- pite the frequency with which pitch CTS have heen clouung homers this season The homer clinched q rather doubtful dispute between the New York Giants and Boston Braves. giving New York a , 70 victory. Fitzsimmons also hurled the full game and gave only eight hits. A timely single was all that was need . cd to give Pittsburgh its second s to victory oyer g. Louis Ernie Bar tell made the hir in the eighth in- ming to complete the Pirates late rush which brought five runs in the seven q 1 C iehth +rar7ee