Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-30
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Pirates Show Good Form To
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BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.
Associated Press Snorts Writer

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The Pittsburgh Pirates had their
full share OF grief and more at the
start of the 1880 campaign and are
pretty well cat Of the National
league pennant race. But they are
on top of the second division and
the least slip on the part Of the
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 Pr
rates have won nine out Of their
last is games, equalling the record
Of the league leading Robins and
OF the New York Giants. The Chi
cago Cubs have bettered that Is
game mark by one victory.
The Pirates placed themselves only
two games out OF the first division
yesterday with a rather Impressive
6-5 victory over the st. Louis Car
dinals. They piled UP an early lead,
lost il when Remy Kremer's pitch
ing wabbled a bit, then came back
with two runs in the ninth inning
TO win. The younger Waner drove
them in, singing when Suhr and
Bool were on base TO complete a
string which included another sin
gle and a double, two runs scored
and one batted in. Big brother Paul
hit a double and a homer and sac
rificed once. scoring two runs and
driving home one more, while the
teams lesser hitters. Suhr and Com
orosky. each contributed an extra
base hit.
BUGS Gain
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 puz-
zle Of Dazzy Vance's pitching after
it had baffled them for six innings
and gained a tie score. Then with
Ray Phelps on the mound, they
bunc G1ed three more hits in the
ninth inning 70 beat the league
leading Brooklyn Robins 4 TO 3. 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 fin
al, I to 3. Old Eppa Rixey had a
fairly easy time Of il except for
Hack Wilson's 33rd home run OF the
wear. which put the Cubs into the
running. 1t was the ninth time the
Reds have beaten Chicago in 10
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 IL TO 5 score. Carl
Hubbel gave the Pills 10 hits but
half Of them were divided among
ODoul, Klein and Sherlock and did
comparatively little damage. The
Giants got eleven effective blows.
With washington idle and the
Philadelphia Athletics held IN sub
lection by Henry johnson, the New
York Yankees made the days big
gain in the American league race
with the Cleveland Indians trailing
in their wake. The Yankees hum
bled the worlds champions BY a II
TO 3 count as Lou Gehrig's hitting
ably seconded Johnson's pitching.
The Athletics made only seven hits
while Gehrig alone made four. in
GLIDING his 30th and 3lst home runs
of the season. The other two blows
were : triple and a double and Lou
was credited with batting in six
runs.
The Indians combined IS 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 Cleve-
land IA. Detroit 7. The Indians
scored u Of their runs in the Sec
ond and third innings. The Chi
capo White S. failed to equal such
bursts, but they put over four runs
in the fifth inning and defeated
the St. Louis Browns, 6 to 2.