New Britain herald., 1930-07-21
By the Associated Press.


 It usually is only in the realm of baseball fiction that the hero wins a game by hitting a home run in the ninth inning, but every once in a while such a feat turns up in the world Of fact in the major leagues. And yesterday there were several aspirants for such a heroic role ln the American leagues games.
 Eddie Morgan of Cleveland was the only player who actually gained d victory by a home run hitting feat at the final moment. Eddie slammed his 18th circuit blow of the season with one out and one on base in the ninth inning yesterday 10 defeat the New York Yankees, 2 10 s, and to undo the work ol those more tam ous home run hitters. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Ruth poled his 54th homer off Milburn Shofner. a perennial victim of the Ruthian drives In the fourth inning. Geh- rig hit his 26th and another in the next inning Bib Falk gave Nor gan something of a race for the place in the spotlight by hitting for tse circuit when he appeared as a pinch batsman in the sixth.
 . Jimmy FoXx also had the satisfac- ton Of winning a ball game by the home run route. FoXX connected with Guy Cantrell's delivery for No. 26 with one mate on base in the eighth and enabled the Philadelphia a Athletics to defeat the Detroit Tigers, , to 8. Other results of this homer were to give Lefty Grove his 18th victory Of the year. to hand Cantrell his first American league defeat the day after the Tigers acquired him from Toronto, and to put the Ath- letics four game ahead of the Wash ington Senators, defeated at St. Louis
 The Senators produced q pinch homer by Joe Judge in the ninth in- ming followed by a similar clout by Art Shires, who supplanted Judge at first base, but they only produced three runs, not enough to overcome - the St. Louis lead and the Browns Won, to $.
 COll4 E'ltbC L4lV -A4IACL II tAli 4CE@ NS i7 cycle, Bob Reeves of Boston hit d homer with two on base in his one tiKe at bat in the Red SoX second game, but it only served 10 prolong the agony. Chicago's White Sox : pulled out a 10 victory in the ninth inning of the second game after pounding out a 16 10 f deci- IT, scored his 14th victory of the sea- son
 'Fhe National league produced no - last minute homers, but there were plenty of them and an even more plenteous supply of hits as Brooklyn and Chicago suffered sharp letdowns after the finish of theIr crucial series. The St. Louis Cardinals handed the league leaders a 15 tof6 trouncing, driving Bill Clark from the mound with seven runs in the second in- ming. The Cards made five errors but attoned for them by pounding out r hits, two of them homers.
 Chicago went down with hardly murmur under the assaults Of the Ne" OL h GIdllLS, " no IIht"lSe Il2Qe r blows and won by a 13 to , count. The Cubs led only in the first two innings, when they scored four of their runs. Hack Wilson hit his 18th home run of the year as the final Cub gesture of the game. The result of these two games put Chi cago one point closer to Brooklyn and left the teams in their virtual tie for first place.
 Boston and Cincinnati. battling for sixth pltce, failed to reach q decision in their attempts to break the cur rent tie. The Reds won the first game to 5 with a home run bar rage behind the effective pitching of Red Lucas but Boston reversed the result in the second, pounding three pitchers for a B to l triumph as Tom Zachary held the Reds.