Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ROCKIES SPARKLE
Season Notable for Number
of Regulars Produced.
Cubs Pass Giants.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR-
Associated Press Sports Writer.

- VERY base ball season brings a
- certain number OF experiments
with new players for old teams,
and the 1891 National League
campaign is perhaps notable for the
trials which have proved successful
lust a bit too late to help the teams
into the pennant race.
The Boston Braves and Pittsburgh
Pirates, apparently doomed to the Sec
ond division, furnish a couple of out
standing examples of such experiments.
Boston started out with a good many
doubtful players this season and found
after q month or so that there still
was a weak spot at third base. More
PLAYERS were tried and found wanting
until finally Billy Urbanski was OBJ
tanned from Montreal to cover the
sack. Pittsburgh needed, among other
| things, another Waner for the outfield.
None was available and the Pirates
limped along until they got Forrest
Jensen from Newark. He apparently
fills the bill
Wins in 10 Innings.
The success of these experiments was
illustrated in yesterdays games. Ur-
banski scored the run that broke up
| l3-inning duel between the Braves
and the New York Giants. He came
home on a double by Red Worthington,
another Of the seasons experiments, "
who also contributed a homer to the
! 4-to-2 triumph. Socks Seibold did the
rest for Boston, limiting the Giants to
six hits.
Jensen led Pittsburgh's hitting behind
the six-hit hurting of Remy Kremer ss
the Pirates defeated the Cincinnati
Reds, S to 0. He cracked out a double
and two singles in four times at bat
and drove in three counters.
Brooklyn and Chicago, yesterdays
other National League winners, also
had to use the trial method in getting
their line-upS settled this season. The
Robins began climbing into the pennant
fight just about the time they settled
on Gordon Slade and Neal Finn for
| their shortStop-Second base combina-
ton. Finn Joined in the parade yes
terday with three hits, but it was the
old reliables, Frederick, Bissonette and
Herman who cut loose in the ninth in
ming and produced the runs that beat
the PhillieS, to 4.
Cubs DislOdge Giants.
Chicago started the season with
Danny Taylor on the bench, but he
has proved an important cog in their
attack in recent games. Danny cracked
out two triples and single in three
official times at bat and scored four
runs yesterday as the Cubs treunced
the Cardinals 10 to 3 to- even their
series in st. Louis. The victory put
Chicago into second place once more,
half game ahead of the defeated
Giants and eight and one-haf games
behind St. Louis.
Only one game was on the American
League schedule yesterday and it had
little bearing upon the pennant race.
The New York Yankees clipped half
game off the margin Philadelphia and
Washington held over them by taking
a 4-to-1 decision from the Boston Red
Sox, but they remained is games be-
hind the league-leading Athletics and
three games back Of the Senators. Babe
Ruth and Lefty Gomez divided the
honors in the victory, the latter hold
ing the Red SoX to five hits and
tanning nine and the Babe by clouting
two doubles which accounted for three
runs.