New Britain herald., 1930-09-26
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 The St. Louis Cardinals got back into action at home yesterday and disposed of the last possibility of a defeat for the National league pen- nant without a playoff. by trounc- ing the Pittsburgh Pirates. g to O.
 Chicago, now managed by Rogers Hornsby. was victorious over the Cincinnati Reds to 8, but the Cubs battle. The two leaders now are only three games away from the end of the season and the Cubs re- mained three games behind. One more St. Louis victory or one de- feat for the Cubs will settle the struggle for good. If Chicago meets with success in it's remaining games against the troublesome Reds and the Cards lose three to Pittsburgh. the season will end in tie with a three game play-off to decide the pennant winner.
 The Cards went about their busi- ness of winning the flag yesterday in an expert manner, combining all the virtues of a good baseball team to win with a minimum of trouble. As the veteran spitballer Burleigh Grimes held the Pirate hitters in check. shutting them out with seven hits, the St. Louis batters pounded the pellet from beginning to end, collecting a dozen effective blows.
 The first inning was enough to de- eide the game. Taylor Douthit opened the action with a double and scored the first run on Frisch's sim gle. Then with Adams and Frisch still on base, Jim Bottomley ham, mered a home run over the right field pavilion to give the Cards to lead. Ray Kremer, Pittsburghs s starting pitcher, was driven to cov- CT in the second inning as the Cards continued to score and Glenn Spen- cer was called in to finish the game.
 The Cubs likewise got off on the right foot against Cincinnati. but the Reds proved very troublesome before the end. Hornsby, who became ac- tive manager just before the game as Joe Mccarthy asked to be re- lieved immediately, sent young Bud Teachout to the mound. and the youthful southpaw did very we'll for eight frames. Home runs by Woody English and Gabby Hartnett in the first two innings started the Cubs off ahead and few more timely blows gave Chicago a Al lead going into the ninth. But Tony Cucinello evil sdently remembered that the Reds were supposed to be Chicago's jinx and drove his second home run of the day over the left field wall. liar ry Heilmann duplicated the wallop and Ford singled before Pat Ma lone was hurried in to save the game by retiring the last two batsmen.
 The American league champions, the Philadelphia Athletics. played six innings against the New York Yankees before rain halted the game and got in some very good batting practice for the coming world series. They had piled up IT hits off Ruffing and Johnson and had 13 to 3 score when a sudden storm stopped the slaughter Lou Gehrig's fist home run, made in the first in ming, accounted for all the Yankee runs.
 The second place Washington Senators, directed by First Baseman Joe Judge, found the going some- what tougher against the Boston Red Sox. They finally came out ahead, to 2, as a few timely blows put over two runs in the seventh inning while Ad Liska gave six of Boston's eight hits to Scarritt and Rothrock. The Chicago-Detroit game was rain ed out, bringing a double header