New Britain herald., 1930-07-18
SENATOR'S MEET DISASTER
 PLAYING WESTERN TEAMS
Washington Clubs Losing Streak Most Profitable to Rest of American League-Now Three and Half Games Behind Athletics - Philadelphia Wins An other From White SoX - Yankees Hammer Out
 Victory Over BroVns-Cubs Finally Beat Robins.

By the Ass7Cated Press.
 ~ The current western trip Of the < eastern clubs Of the American league sss proving rather painful 10 the r Washington Senators but most ,- profitable to the rest. The Senators started a losing streak when they
 started west and the result has s dropped them clear out Of first place ~and into a somewhat precarious sec @ ond
 \ The Senators left home as league Headers and nov are 3 1-2 games be- "hind drst place and only four ahead - Of the rhlrd place New York Yam askees. They split series with De O-troit and so far have dropped two out Of three to Cleveland while their rivals have been sweeping through rin Q steady stream Of victories Washington dropped another close encounter yesterday. going down 4 4to before the Indians as Eddie ~Morgans batting gave the home @team the edge in a mound duel be- .-rTeen Willis HudlIn and Sam Jones. .Morgan drove in three runs with q Ehome run and single.
 The champions and leaders, the Philadelphia Athletics. made it "soven straight wins. six in the west, shy slugging out another victory over @1he Chicago White SoX. 12 10 \. The asSox again had a bit the better Of the hitting getting Is blows 10 Philadel- ~phia's "A, but made few serious threats until the ninth. when they scored five runs. The Yankees aided themselves and the Boston Red SoX -as well by hammering the ST. Louis Browns for q hits and a 16 10 vic tory, making it four straight wins @forrhe Tanks and seven successive -defeats for the Browns.
 & Besides improving their position, the Yankees showed St. Louis into Hast place as Boston trounced the mDetroit Tigers, F to .. Hod Lisen- ~bee pitched q fine game to earn the 1shonor Of moving Boston out Of the cellar and his mates backed him with r18 hits five by Earl Webb. The SoX now are full game ahead of ST. Louis and only half game behind Chicago
 A. Chicago and Brooklyn in the Ma sicnal league agaIn tore al each other for 13 innings before the Cubs finally gained a to decision that reduced Brooklyn's lead from three games to two games. The final blow of came when Dazzy Vance. essaying Q rc1Tas t--r7y--r i- battle, gave four singles. three of them of the scratch variety. and the Cubs converted them into three runs. Guy Bush did a great finishing job, giving the Robins only three hits in , 2-3 innings after home runs by Phelps and Finn had enabled Brook lyn to make 1t an overtime game. '~ New York and St. Louis. staging their own crucial series with third place at stake played second divi- sion baseball. committing nine errors between them. The Giants won out. 12 to 2, although they were outhit. 20 to Is. The victory gave New York a margin of two games.
 The first three clubs Of the second division drew 9 bit closer together in their private race as Pittsburgh gained a S to ? decision over the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds played havoc with Philadel- phia pitching for a fl to 2 victory. The Pirates now are only q half game behind the fifth place Braves with the Reds another game back. Larry French's effective hurling when the bases were populated won the game for Pittsburgh as the Braves had IS men left stranded. The Phillies provided the big thrill of their game. scoring eight runs in the eighth inning, but the Reds al- ready had 3 II mn lead