The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-24
BASEBALL NC|ENTS
PROVE FALLACY IN
ADAGE ABOUT YOUTH
Old George UhIe and Herb Pen
mock, Youngster Of So,
Run Into Snags
TRAYNOR HITS TWO HOMERS
Robins Win as Cubs Lose to
Giant Pack; Athletics and
!. Senators Cop
TRAYNOR HITS TWO HOMERS
(By the Associated Press)

Whoever it was that said youth
must prevail" probably would be in
clined to retract that statement If he
should look at the Major league box
score these days. The ancients OF
the pitching brigade have done just
about as much prevailing as the
youngsters and often in a more con-
vincing manner.
Five moundsmen whose combined
ages total approximately 200 years,
were sent out to toll yesterday and
while only one pitched a complete
game, nearly all of them turned in
good pitching performances. Adolfo
Luque, Cuba's leading baseball hero.
age 80, did a great Job as he made
first place in the National league safe
for the Brooklyn Robins. Luque held
the st. Louis Cardinals \to five hits
through a trying duel with Sylvester
johnson while Brooklyn slowly gath
cred enough momentum to win, 4 to l.
Nine Pitchers Used
The Robins gain was made possible
by their neighbors, the New York
Giants, who downed the Chicago
Cubs, 8 to 6, to put Brooklyn a full
game plus a few odd points IN the
lead. The pitching in this contest
was a matter of numbers rather than
skill, Chicago using five hurlers and
New York four.
Ancient Jack Quinn, of the Phila-
delphia Athletics, whose years number
somewhere near As, gave the younger
pitchers a lesson. Quinn, in eight
innings allowed only five hits.
Urban Red" Faber," second In age
to Quinn in this quintet, did not fig
ure as a winner or loser for the Chi
cago White Sox. After holding a 10
lead for five frames, Faber weakened
and allowed the Boston Red Sox three
runs in the sixth. Hal McKain re-
lieved him and got credit for the VIC
tory as Chicago gained q 5 to 3 de-
cision. Washington came back after
three straight defeats and pulled out
a 10 to 9 victory over the st. Louis
Browns In II innings.
Another youngster Of 80 years, Eppa
Rixey, trying to put the Cincinnati
Reds into sixth place In the National
league had a bad inning and was be-
hind when taken out for q pinch hit
ter in the eighth. Silas Johnson was
credited with the victory as Cincin-
natl rallied in the ninth to beat BoS-
ton, 8 to Z.
In the second game BOston'S
eleventh inning run gave the Braves
the decision. 6 to S. Harry Seibold,
not much younger than the ancients
OF the select group. pitched the entire
game and drove in the winning run
himself.
Pennock Has Bad Day
Herb Pennock, the youngster OF the
quintet, age SO, had q rough time OF
it against Cleveland and was the
principal victim of the Indians eighth
inning rally which netted five runs
and q 10 to S victory over the New
York Yankees. But 1t was Ownie
Carroll who was charged with the de-
feat.
The Phillies and Pittsburgh used
pitchers of almost every kind as the
Pirates won two games through Pie
Traynor's two home runs. Traynor's
first four Dagger gave Heinie Meme
q 2 to / decision over Roy Hansen In
the first, while his second. coming
with two on base in the thirteenth
inning, put the Pirates on the long
end of a 1915 count. Ten pitchers
worked In this game and between
them they yielded so hits.