The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-12
.LOSS,BY LEADERS REVIVES FIGHT FOR
 BIG LEAGUE FLAGS
Athletics, Cardinals Defeat Brings Hope for Runners Up in Majors - Herbert, SiebOld Starred
By LEO H. PETERSEN

 Limited Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, June 12-- CUP )-The pennant hopes of the Washington Senators, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants were revived to- day.
 Continuing their. winning streak the heels Of Philadelphia, the Sem ators gained full game on the Athletics yesterday in the 1891 American league race while the Giants and Cubs also won back lost ground in their pursuit of the St Louis Cardinals, current pace setters in the National circuit. N
 The Big Shock.
 With the Cardinals and Athletics each holding four and one half game margins and meeting reputed- ly weak clubs, the championship hopes of the Senators, Cubs and Giants were at low ebb before yesterdays contests were played. But when the St Louis Browns beat out the Athletics, 8 to ?; and the Boston Braves shut out the cardin- als, to 0, the pennant hopes of the three teams began running high again.
 The defeat of the Athletics, con- vincing because Rube Walberg, who had been pitching. away as if he never would lose, was knocked from the mound, cut Philadelphia's lead over the second place Washington club to three and one half games St Louis setback also cut the mar gin of the Cardinals over Chicago and New York, who are tied for second, to the same number of. con tests.
 Beautiful, Beautiful!
 Wallace Hebert, a rookie, held the Athletics to seven scattered hits as the Browns were pounding Walberg and Krausse for IA blows, including Four Philadelphia errors also helped the Browns in their run manufact- uring. M
 The Senators ran their winning streak to six straight at the expense of the Cleveland Indians, 12 to 5. Bump Hadley pitched effective ball after relieving Lloyd Brown in the third. The Indians used three pitch CTS but none were effective and the Senators collected 15 hits
 Four Hits For Champs.
 Socks Seibold allowed the Car dinals only four hits in registering Boston's shutout. Three of the hits went to Collins, first baseman who is subbing for Jim Bottomley. Rab- bit Maranville's single in third brought in two runs for the Braves off Sylvester Johnson while Berger's double in the ninth brought in the third tally.
 Steady pitching by Bob Smith featured the Chicago Cubs to ? decision over Philadelphia. The Philly runs were made on Chuck Klein's Fifteenth home run of the season and a four bagger by Hurst.
 New Workers Came Through.
 The Giants Kept pace with Chi cago by trimming Pittsburg, to 6 in Il innings. Pittsburg had come from behind in the eighth to tie the score but in the eleventh singles by Terry. Javkson and O'Farrell were instrumental in scoring three runs. The Pirates came back, and tallfed once before John Berly, who had relieved Hubbell in the ninth, re- tired the side.
 Cincinnati won it's second straight from Brooklyn, to 1. in II in- nings, as Si Johnson bested Dazzy Vance and sJack Quinn in pitch ing duel. The Reds scored a. run off Vance in the fourth but Brook lyn tied it up in the ninth on, Her mans infield hit and O'DouPs triple. In the eleventh, Cuccinello's single scored the winning run with one man out and the bases filled.