Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-30
WIN NINE OF LAST
FIFTEEN BATTLES
Gehrig'S Two Home Runs Aid
Yanks to Humiliate AS.
Cleveland SIugs.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ASSOClabeQ EEeSS Sports WIlbeE.
THE Pittsburgh Pirates had
their full share of grief and
more at the start of the
1880 season and are pretty
we'll out of the National League
pennant race. But they are on
top of the second division, and the
least slip on the part of their
leading rivals will place them
among the first four clubs before
the season ends.
Since Lloyd Waner got back into
form, the Pittsburgh club has been
looking better right along. The Pirates
have won of their last Is games,
equaling the records of the league-lead-
ing Brooklyn Robins and of the New
York Gil, nts. The Chicago Cubs have
bettered that 15-game mark by one VIC
tory.
The Pirates placed themselves only
two games out of the first division yes
terday with a rather impressive 6-5 VIC
tory over the st. Louis Cardinals. They
piled UP an early lead, lost it when Kre-
mer's pitching wabbled a bit, then came
through with two runs in the ninth in
ming to win. The younger Waner drove
them. in, singing when Suhr and Bool
were on base to complete string which
included another single and double,
two runs scored and one batted in. Big
Brother Paul hit double and homer
and sacrificed once, scoring two runs
and driving home one more, while the
teams lesser hitters, Suhr and Como
rosky, each contributed an extra base
hit.
Rivals Keep 1t Up.
Although the Pirates gained game
on st. Louis by this smuggling perform
ance, they could not pull ahead of Bos-
ton and st. Louis, their standardization
rivals. The Braves found an easy Solu-
ton to the puzzle of Dazzy Vance's
pitching after it had baffled them for
six innings and gained tie score. Then
with Ray Phelps on the mound, they
punched three more hits in the ninth
inning to beat the league-leading Brook
lyn Robins, 4 to 8. The defeat broke
Brooklyn's six-game winning streak,
which had endured since Vance's last
start.
The Reds continued to display their
mastery over the Chicago Cubs and
kept Chicago from gaining on Brooklyn
by winning the series final to 8. Old
Eppa RiXey had a fairly easy time of it
except for Hack Wilson's thirty-third
home run of the year, which put the
Cubs into the running. 1t was the ninth
time the Reds have beaten Chicago in
is games this season.
This double defeat of the leaders
worked in favor of the third-place New
York Giants, who trounced the Phillies
by an 11-to-5 score. Carl Hubbel gave
the Phils 10 hits, but half of them were
divided among O'Doul, Klein and Sher-
lock and did comparatively little dam
age. The Giants got II effective blows.
vouLan~ NKabn Gate
With Washington idle and the Phila-
delphia Athletics held in subsection by
Henry johnson, IL to 8, the Yankees
made a big gain in the American
League race, with the Cleveland Indians
trailing in their wake. The Yankees
humbled the world champions by a H.
to-3 count as Lou Gehrig's hitting ably
seconded Johnson's pitching. The Ath-
leticS made only seven hits, while Geh-
rig alone made four, including his THU
tieth and thirty-first home runs of the
season. The other two blows were
triple and double, and Lou was cred
tied with batting in six runs.
The Indians combined 13 hits with a
burst of wildness on the part of Guy
Cantrell while the Detroit Tigers failed
to find many effective combinations for
the same number of blows. The final
count was: Cleveland, IA; Detroit, 4.
The Indians scored IL of their runs in
the second and third innings. The Chi
cago White Sox failed to equal such
bursts, but they put over four runs in
the fifth inning and defeated the ST.
Louis Browns, to /.