Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-15
FLOWERS, COLLINS
ARE GOING STRONG
Both Aid as League Leaders
Defeat Robins, Though Hit
by Frisch Decides.
BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR..
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ UE largely to the efforts
OF cast-off shortstop
~ and a rookie first base
man, neither of whom fig
ured in Gabby Streets preseason
plans, the st. Louis Cardinals ap-
pear to have shaken off the lat
est threat to their supremacy in
the National League.
Jake Flowers obtained recently from
the Brooklyn Robins, and Jim Collins,
the walloping young first sacker who
LOOK over Jim Bottomley's post. con-
tlnue to play bang-up ball for the
champions. Flowers. batting in the
lead-off positionS hit a home run, q
double and single and scored two
runs 10 help beat his former team
mates. the Robins. 3 TO 2. in yesterdays
opener at st. Louis. Collins, batting at
cleanup, got one Of the seven hits the
Cards managed of DaZzy Vance.
A veteran. frankie Frisch, was the
ultimate hero OF the game, however. 1t
was his double in the eighth that scored
Watkins with the winning run. The
victory placed the champions five and
a half games in front of the second
place New York Giants and seven ahead
of Brooklyn.
Cubs Trim Giants.
Guy Bush. young Chicago Cub right
handler. turned back the Giants, to T.
In the first game of the series at
Wrigley Field. Bush allowed only
eight hits, four OF which came in the
ninth inning, and produced all the
Giant runs.
Pittsburgh scored a pair of victories
over the Phillies, to 4 and to 3.
the second engagement going 10 innings
before the Pirates beat out Phil Collins.
Heine Meme held the Phils n the first
bout, while Paul Waner and Pie Traynor
led an assault on three Phillie pitchers.
Between them the pair drove in seven
runs
Errors by Tony Cuccinello, youthful
second baSeman. cost the Cincinnati
Reds 3-to-2 defeat at the hands of
the Boston Braves. Old Tom Zachary
went the route to get the decision. even
though he allowed two more hits than
81 johnson.
Tigers Slam Maeks.
The Detroit Tigers, not at all I'M
pressed with the fact that they were
facing Georeg Earnshaw. dubbed out
a 12-to-3 victory over the Philadelphia
Athletics in the first of a five-Rams 4
series. They fell on the Athletic Ac@
for IL Of their Is hits. including a
home run by Jonathan Stone, before
he was relieved in the ninth. Herring
kept the Champions IL hits well
scattered.
Bill Killifer's freshman infield again
was very much in evidence as the ST.
Louis Browns scored a 5-to-3 triumph
over the Boston Red Sox Singles by
Terrell, Storti and Burns after Melillo
had walked accounted for three runs
in the xsith. Burns blow drove In
the last tNo. The same infield cut
down the Red Sox last threat with a
double play in the ninth.
The veteran Urban Faber displayed
a bit Of his old time form in pitching
the Chicago White Sox 10 a 9-to-1
victory over Washington.
Earl Averill and Lou Gehrig hit two
home runs apiece as the Cleveland
Indians and New York Yankees divided
a pair. Gehrig hit his twenty-fourth
and twenty-flfth homers TO help the
Yanks win the first, 19 to 2 Averill's
eighteenth four-bagger provided the
winning runs as the Indians won the
nlghtcap, to !. Lyn Larry. Yankee
shortStop. celebrated his marriage ear
lier in the day by hitting a home run.
double and single in the first game