Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-22
WILSON'S z HOMERS
HELP DOWN GIANTS
Circuit SWatS Also Prominent
as Cards, Robins Split
DoubIeheader.
BY ORLO ROBERTSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n N ANAGER JOE MCCARTHY,
M the minor Lacquer who made
VI good in the big time" with
out previous major league ex-
perience, today had the Chicago Cubs
again out in front, setting the pace in
the hectic National League pennant
scramble.
The Cubs moved into the ruling seat
yesterday by blanking the Giants.
to 0, while the Robins were breaking
even with the st. Louis Cardinals,
Brooklyn taking the first encounter, 9
to 8, and the Cards the closing contest,
II to TO- The Cubs victory and the
Robins even break sent the champions
to the front by one-half game. Here
is how the standing looks today: Chi
cago won So, lost 81 for .584; Brooklyn,
won so, lost SO, for .581.
Hack Wilson, the National Leagues
home-run king, played an important
role in the Cubs victory. He pounded
out his twenty-eighth and twenty
ninth homer, which, coupled with Ed
die Farrell's hit of the same nature,
accounted for five runs. The other was
a gift from Roy Parmalee, who relieved
Tiny Chaplin in the seventh.
Pinch home runs were almost as
common as base hits in the Robins
Cardinal fracas. Bottomley and Puc-
cinelli were called in from the Car
dinalS' dugout in the first game and
they made good Nth home runs, which,
coupled with homers by Frisch and
Mancuso, totaled st. Louis eight runs
naught, however, when Manager Rob-
inson sent Harvey Hendrick in to bat
for Finn in the ninth with two men on
base, two out and the Robins trailing
by two runs. Harvey sent the ball
sailing over the fence, three runs cross
ed the plate and the game was over.
Second Homer for Frisch.
The second contest was all Cardinals,
however, as they pounded old Adolfo
Luque rom the mound and then fell on
Elliott, Dudley and Clark just as fero-
ciously Frisel1 connected with his sec
ond home run of the day and Lee hit
one for Brooklyn as pinch hitter in
the first inning.
Lester Sweetland had one of his good
days as the Phillies trimmed the Pr
rates, to 2. Home runs by Sothern
and Whitney featured the attack that
conferred in the fl st and fifth rounds.
The leaders in the American League
found the going tough, the Athletics
losing to the Tigers, to s, and the
Senators dropping their second success
sive game to the Browns, to 4. "a
George Earnshaw was the victim of
the Tigers 11-hit attack, which in
cluded seven extra-base hits, The
champions managed to stay in the
running until the ninth, when Charlie
Gehringer, who had tripled and stole
home in the fifth, led off rally with
a double.
Babe Ruth poled out his thirty-fifth
home run and Lou Gehrig his twenty
eighth as Ed Wills won his eighth game
when the Yankees defeated the In
dians, to 8. Harry Rice also hit the
ball over the fence for the Yankees.
Boston broke up the White Soy
three-game winning streak by taking
the final of the series. to /. behind
Horace Lisenbee's fine pitching. The
Sox total hits numbered five. three of
which were made by Carl Reynolds.
The game was the fastest of the season
at Comiskey Park, being played In l
hour and "a minutes.