New Britain herald., 1930-07-07
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By the Ass0c.ata1 Press
 4 large part Of the first half of the major league baseball season has been spent in strenuous efforts on the parts Of various managers to strengthen their clubs for the latter part of the year and the success of their efforts is quite evident in the current standings of the clubs.
 Washington's big deals with the St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox turned out 10 he important fac tors in making the American league campaign 8 duel between the Sena- tors and the Philadelphia Athletics. The acquisition of Heinie Manush gave them some batting punch where 1t was needed while Al Crowder has turned out to be an effective pitcher in Washington. Art Shires and Dave Harris, formerly of Chicago, also have helped improve the Senators batting average.
 The result is that the Senators and the Athletics today are tied for the league lead although the deadlock may not last long in the quick shifts of the standing brought about by the fact that Philadelphia has played more games. II was Shires who brought about the tie, coming through with a pinch single with the bases full in the 10th inning to beat the New York Yankees, 3 to ..
 Washington now has won i , out of Is games. showing the Tanks 5 + games into third place by sweeping the series. And by pitching all Of yesterdays game Bump Hadley made it14 out Of $ pitchers who have finished the games they started.
 The Athletics kept their place in the sun by winning their third close decision in a row from the Boston Red Sox, to 3. George Earnshaw scored his 11th victory of the year, gaining a slight edge over Dan Mac Fayden.
 The fourth place Cleveland h. dlans. who have kept out of the sec ond division during their recent slump only because the rest of the league is so far behind the leaders, showed signs of improvement as they opened against their western rivals at home. Clint Brown pitch ed a good game for them and they shut out the St. Louis Browns, 7 to Q. Waite Hoyt also pitched well and led Detroit to q , to victory over the Chicago White Sox
 The Brooklyn Robins, who chose to add strength to their team by ob- taining Ike Boone from the Pacific coast league, found good reason to he pleased with their new acqusi- ton. Boone made his debut yester- day and played the principal role as the Robins regained first place in the National league by beating the Boston Braves, 10 to 4. He hit a great catch of a fly, diving into the bIeachers to grab the ball.
 Cincinnati helped bring about this latest disturbance in the standing, which put Brooklyn ahead although tied with the Chicago Cubs in games. The Reds took both games Of double header from Chicago by scores or to ana to f, DledklnS 2 losing streak Of five games. Brook lyn's second games, which might have sent the Robins down again, was rained out in the third inning.
 The third place struggle between the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals remained unchanged as both teams won double headers. The Giants trounced Philadelphia, n to s and $ to ?. Standing of a ninth inning rally which brought the Phil lies five runs al the end Of the first game. The Cards made it 12 vic tories In their last IS games by win ming 2-1 decision over Pittsburgh in the first game although they made only two hits of Spencer and follow ing it up with 3 , 10 4 victory in q slugging match. Douthit's ninth inning home run won the first game after Spencers wild pitch had pro- vlded the other Cardinal run.