Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-19
GIANTS DROP
ONE AT HOME
East West Test Swings Into
Full Action With
Today's Games

To a d~isinterested observer it
would appear that the scene of a
ball game should not make much
difference in the result where such
seasoned campaigners as major
league players are concerned, but 1t
does not always work out that way.
The National League clubs of the
east. which are just opening their
second western tour. found surpris-
ING success at home. but il is rather
doubtful whether they will continue
1t on the road.
The New York Giants, who rout-
ed their i~ntersectional opponents to
the tune of nine victories i'm II
games at the Polo Grounds. had
a large amount Of trouble yesterday
in taking their first game OF the
tour from the Pittsburgh Pirates,
who won four out of Is away from
home. The final count was 4 to 3
for New York. and it took a spark
ling unassisted double play by
Hughy Critz to end the game before
the Pirates had tied the score.
Shoe Pinches
An injury to Bill Walker. Giant
southpaw. and a sudden weaken
ing Of Heinie Meme broke up a
pitching duel in which the Giants
led 1-e for six innings. Meme let
down in the seventh and rave three
runs on four hits. Pittsburgh
promptly replied by collecting a run
an inning II the last three frames.
They had the tying counter on
second, when Critz grabbed Paul
WanerS liner and doubled Grant
ham off the keystone sack.
Other national league clubs do
not start the second half of the
east-west test until today, but on
the basis of form shown in the
games since June /. the eastern
clubs have all the advantage. They
won "a contests while the west took
but Is. with only the hard-fighting
chicago Cubs getting better than a
800 average. Every eastern club
won more games than 1t lost.
In the American League. the
struggle was somewhat closer. as the
casts leading pennant contenders
held their own although they were
pulled down from the heights they
had reached before they invaded
the western half of the circuit. The
east came out ahead, 26 Games to
p, due principally to the activities
q the New York Yankees, who won
nine and lost three. The other
eastern clubs came out lust below
the 500 mark, but their western
rivals. with the exception of the
Cleveland Indians, h re in the same
vicinity, Cleveland won, 8 out Of u
games.
Indians Learn
The Indians, after pushing up 10
within striking distance Of the
league lead. found when they came
east again yesterday that the Phila-
delphia Athletics have a real cham
pionship team despite eight defeats
II "a games. Cleveland had a
chance 70 Gust the worlds champ
ions from first place, but even their
pitching ace. Yves Terrell. could not
stop the Athletics in a crucial NOM
ent. The AS made a oozen hits.
most OF them in two big innings,
and equalled. an American League
record for home-run hitting in win
ming a z to 2 decision.
Al Simmons. Jimmy Foxx AMI
Bing Miller connected with Ferrell's
delivery IN the fifth inning for
three successive home runs, a feat
that had been performed only twice
before in the American League
history. drove Terrell from the
mound and put the game and the
league lead in a safe place. The AS
had scored three runs in the first
on a bunch Of three hits. while
Roy Speed" Mahaffey, youthful
right handler, pitched effectively all
the way.