New Britain herald., 1930-07-09
By the Associated Press,

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 One Of several good reasons why the Boston Braves are still in the thick of the National league battle is to be found in 150 odd pounds of unadulterated shortstop bearing the imposing name of Walter James Vincent Maranvllle, otherwise known as Rabbit This little baseball an- cient, who has spend IS of his 37 summers playing major league ball, is having one Of the best seasons Of his long career.
 When the Rabbit was one Of the main cogs of Boston's amazing team Of 1914, his batting average was only PAS and his mark for his 1S major league years is .262 but this season he is hitting above the BOO mark and is fielding right along with the leagues best. When the Braves stepped out yesterday 10 trounce the league leading Brooklyn Robins. 10 1, Maranville merely made two Of Boston's nine hits, scored once. handled eight fielding chances with out an error and started three of . Boston's four double plays.
 The shortstop had some assistance in stopping the Robins and leaving them only a half game ahead of the idle Chicago Cubs. Tom Zachary, who was considered too old for the American league this season. pitch ed a great game. shutting out the Robins except for JOhny Frederick's homer, while Wally Berger came through with his 24th circuit blow of the year, gaining lie with Hack Wilson and Chuck Klein for the Ma tional league lead.
 Completing the National leagues day Pittsburgh and Philadelphia made it a bad day for the first divi- sion. The PhilNes, with Phil Collins on the mound, humbled the New York Giants. 10 l. pounding three pitchers for hits while "Shufflin Phil" held the Giants 10 i c thor oughly scattered blows. The Pirates kept the St. Louis Cardinals a game and one half back Of rhe third place Giants by slaming out a 10 to 5 vic tory.
 Washington continued 70 lead the American league parade with it's ninth straight victory. The Sena- tors, already in first place by several percentage points. beat out the Bos- ton Red SoX, { to ,. and finally gained 2 tie with the Athletics for the top where games are concern ed. The worlds champions lost half game by dividing their double header with the New York Yankees.
 Fred Marberry won his fifth game in Washington streak Of 17 victor les in 18 games and made it Is Sen ator pitchers 10 go the route in that time. Heinie Manush aided him with a homer that produced the deciding runs. George Walberg proved his sore arm something Of a myth against the Yankees in the first game, holding them to three hits for a to triumph. Red Ruffing kept pacing him for the last 5 1-3 innings after the Athletics had driven Henry Johnson 10 cover. The second con- test was something of a slugging match with George Pipgras outlast- ing four Athletic hurIers for a to 1 victory.
 Chicago's White Sox rose a notch in the American league standing. going from seventh 10 sixth as Ted Lyons gave them a to ? victory over Detroit while the St. Louis Browns were taking a F to $ beat ing at the hands of the Cleveland Indians. Lyons not only pitched ef- fectively against Detroit but drove in two Of the runs with a triple in the second inning. The Indians showed q considerable recovery from their slump by hammering three Brownie pitchers for 14 hits. including two homers while young Mel Harder pitched with sufficient effectiveness to score his seventh victory Of the year.