New Britain herald., 1930-05-07
BOSTON RED SOX STILL
 LEAGUE HARD LUCK TEAM
Hub City Combination Has Already Lost Seven of Is Games Played-White Sox Nose Out to Victory Yankees Drop to Decision to Cleyeland-Ath letics Win Sixth Successive Contest - Brooklyn Winning Streak Is Brought to An Abrupt End
R. Ina Assn. za Press

The Boston Red Sox already have gone Ions way toward taking the role Of hard leA' tean Of the major leagues for the clrrent sea son. The ezac- distance they have travelled IS seven games out o5 the total oT 13 they have played
 The Red so>. rtta some fine r.tch- lng and often with good playing be- hind 1t. have lost these seven er- counters by rne marErr 0f one run esch. Tro went 10 Washington. tno 10 Cleveland and one each 10 New York. Phlladelpala and Chicago, And added 10 rh.s grief. there have been few more games 'n winch they have lost after seemingly having the vic tory saved up when their opponents suddenly came to lie and pounded out biz rallies f- the late innings.
 The Chicago White Sox comhlned the tno variety O. trouble yesterday 10 nose out 2 I to victory. Boston had three run lead with Ed Nor ris dong q me pitching job, then came the nth inning and a Chicago rally that drove Morris from lhe mound and produced four tallles. Eddie Durham finished the game without -lvlng another h-r, but f vas TOO late for Ted Lyons kept the Red Sox from scoring agaln.
 h ar effort 10 prevent such de- feats, Manager Helrie Wagner en- gineere5 Q player trade with -he New York Yankees that sent Pitcher Charley RuAln1 10 Nc7 York in an even exchange for Ou-Aeldor Cedric DursF. Euf5ns has not u on q game in his three starts thls season al though he has come very close 0 t on two occasions, losing 2 pair Of Boston S heart breakers Durst IS ez- pected 10 replace Earl Webb. whose fielding has been rather unsteady
 The YanAee-s gave g good imrra- ton Of the Red Sox yesterday ln los ing 2 ! 10 5 decision 10 Cleveland. They lost 2 three run lead t7 the sixth inning and then 1ust kept pace with the runs, 2 par Of homers pro- duced for the Indians. Earl Avsrill Cleveland center fielder, pulled the days best fielding stunt by star-ng two double plays.
 The Philadelphia Athletics ~on their sixth successre game. defeat TIE the S. Louls Bronns I 70 ] be- hind the me pitching Of Rube Wal berg, to hold their tie with Cleveland for the league leadership IL vas Walberg's fourth victory IT as many games. Washington, held second place 2 half game behind by scoring three runs of Vic So-reu m the first inning to beat out Detroit 5 tc
 The abrupt end of Brooklyn s seven game -lrn.nz streak ~as the feature Of the National leagues aft ernon. The Robins could not score against Fred Blake rhlle the ChIcz- SO Cubs dId 2 little better aGalnst Dazzy Vance to ryIn 5v q . to 1 score. All the runs came l1 the Trst inning with homers by Hack Wilson and Babe Herman providing the impetus
 IHe Ne" ACFh Cldll-a "E--- ID 6-- extreme Of long distance h}tlng 10 take their second successlve game from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Il 10 T. Four home runs In the first eight innings gave them lead long enough 10 withstand Pittsburgh s six run rally in the eighth.
 4 pitching battle of veterans .. Cincinnati sa7 Harry seIhold Of the Boston Braves get the decision over Pete Donoh1e by 10 count. Philadelphia and S- Louis 1a~e pt idle by rain.