The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-24
DOUBLE HEADERS
 TICHTENED UP RACE IN AMERICAN LOOP
Senators Creep Up on As as Mackmen Split Braves Flopped By Cel= lar Tenants - Grove Gave Two Hits
BY LEO HI. PETERSEN

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 United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, June 24.-(UP).-It
 takes the Boston Braves to bear out
 that old refrain of baseball players,
 Heroes one day and hoboes the next"
 The Braves have been heroes of their games against St. Louis, Chi
 cago and Brooklyn, rated as three of
 the most formidable teams in the Ma
 tional League. But they have been hoboes, too, for when they meet
 Philadelphia or Cincinnati, it doesn't seem to be in the books for them to
 win. Particularly have the Reds,
 holders of last place in the stand
 ings, been annopying to Boss Me-
 Kechnie's men this season. Two On the Nose
 | Cincinnati made the Braves look like hoboes yesterday and captured both ends of a double header | The first game 3 to 0. Red Lucas allowed but three hits while Sherdel
 wasn't much of puzzle for the Reds. But the Reds weren't satisfied
 with orD victory so they scored an-
 other, this one 8 to 4 in a contest i that was called at the end of the sxith inning because of rain. Larry beHIOH HldSLGT0u lHTe0 IoOSIOl
 CTS in the aftermath.
 | The defeats dropped the Braves to
 within a half game of second di- vision as the other National League teams were idle. The double headers scheduled between New York and Chicago and Brooklyn and Pitts
 burgh and the single game carded
 for St. Louis and Philadelphia were ] rained out.
 Senators Gain
 Double headers were the order of l the day in hte American League and I the second place Washington Sena- tors took advantage of the twi bills | by gaining a full game on the pace setting Athletics. The Senators de- 1 feated Detroit twice while the Ath- letics were dividing a bargain pro- gram with the St. Louis Browns to advance to within two and one-half
 games of first place.
 Three Detroit pitchers wilted be- fore Washington's 13 hit attack in the first game as Burke coasted to | a 10 to 3 decision. The second game
 was a hurling duel between Mar berry and Uhle with the vetern Fig err hurler weakening in the tenth in- ming when Washington scored all of
 it's runs to win, to O.
 Two Hit ShutOut
 Lefty Grove was sent to the hill | by Connie Mack for the first game
 against the Browns and the star left
 handler celebrated the occasion by
 registering his 18th victory in shut
 ting out St. Louis, to o. Grove al- lowed only two hits. The Browns
 came back to win the aftermath, ]
 to 4 in 12 innings after the Athletics
 had come from behind to tie the
 count at 4-all at the end of the reg
 ulation play. Schultes single scored
 Storti with the deciding tally. Cleveland shut out Boston twice
 13 to and 10 to 0. Brown allowed
 the Red Sox only five hits in the first game while in the second Hudlin
 permitted but one safe blow. It
 was Webb's single in the second in-
 ming. The Indians had field day at
 bat, rapping out 31 hits in the two
 contests.
 The New York Yankees came out of their slump and bumped off the Chicago White SoX twice, to and 9 to 4. Babe Ruth hit his 14th home run of thes eason in the first game which was won by four run rally in the final inning. The Yankees sewed up the second contest when they scored five runs off Pat Caraway in the fourth inning. Ben Chapman,