Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-07
FIGHT FOR PLACES
RAGING IN MAJORS
Giants Threat Against Car
dinaIs About Ended-Cubs'
Slump Is Continued.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated PreSS Sports writer.
" HE belated rushes of contend
ers" who were making their last
desperate efforts to get some
where in the majcr league pen
nant campaigns have added a bit Of
interest to base ball in the past few
days, but 1t seems that their efforts
are not marked for success.
Last week, while Pittsburgh was tax
ing a series from the st. Louis Cardi-
mails. the New York Giants won eight
straight games to place themselves only
flve and one-half games behind the
National League leaders. About the
same. time the New York Yankees took
doubleheader from Washington and
were only half game behind the Sec
ond-place club of the American League.
Yet most of the good works Of these
spurts was undone yesterday in one aft
ernoon.
The Giants encountered the Boston
Braves when they were fed up on losing
nine straight and came out On the short
end of a 5-to-0 score. The Cards sent
a pair of their best hurlers against
Cincinnati, which had clouted the Chi
cago Cubs six times in row and came
And the margin between first and sec
ond place again was seven games.
Ben Cantwell turned in a real mound
performance against the Giants, limit
ing them to four hits, while the Braves
found Clarence Mitchell for four runs
in the second inning. Flint Rhem shut
out the Reds with three hits in the first
game and st. Louis won over Silas
johnson, to 0. Sylvester Johnson's
nine-hit pitching was just as good in
the second clash, as the Cards slammed
Larry Benton for five counters in the
eighth and won, 10.
The Yankees wound up Just where
they had started in their series with
the Senators. one and one-half games
back of second place, as Washington
took the final encounter, to /. Six
hit pitching by AL Crowder stopped the
Yankees completely.
Cub Slump Continues.
The slump Of the Chicago Cubs went
right on when they hooked up with
Pittsburgh and their seventh straight
loss left them lettering on the edge of
fourth place and mathematical elm
nation from the race for the top. A
two-run rally behind Glenn Spencer in
the eighth gave the Pirates a 54
triumph and put the Cubs 1872 games
behind st. Louis. Xith II to play.
The Phillies, with the former Brook
Ignite Jim Elliott, cost Brooklyn's
Robins a chance to take third. Elliott
stopped the Robins for the sixth time
this year and with the aid of a 6-run
rally in the second, won the first game
of a double-header, "a. Brooklyn
came back against another southpaw
Stuart Bolen, and took the second
game, 7-2, and finished only half
game behind the Cubs.
Cleveland made a change in the
American League standing by walloping
the St. Louis Browns twice while De-
troit lost only one game to Chicago, and
went into fifth place. The Indians
slugged out IS victory in the first
game as Bob Cooney made his first
start for the Browns. then continued
with 20 hits off four hurlers to win
the second, Is to 2. Vic Sorrell of De-
troit had only one bad inning in
duel with Vic Frasier, but Chicagos
White SoX scored four runs in the sew
enth and won, 4 to /.
The Philadelphia Athletics, looking
more like themselves with AL Simmons
back in the lineup and Mickey Coch-
rane hitting at a great clip, downed
the Boston Red Sox. 5 to 3. Cochrane
drove in 4 runs with homer and
double, while DID Williams four-bagger
accounted for the other tally.