Evening star., 1932-09-26
NEAR HIGH AND LOW
RECORDS FOR WINS
A. L. Champs Set Mark for
Avoiding Shutouts-Foxx's
Homers HighIight.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,

Associated Press Sports Writer.
TINE records of the New York
Yankees and the Chicago
i Cubs for the 1882 season
furnish study in marked
contrasts as the teams await the
signal that will send them against
each other Wednesday in the
world series.
The Yankees ran away with the
American League flag, finishing with
the second-higheSt percentage ever
recorded by pennant winner in the
junior circuit, .692. The Cubs won only
after terrific battle and then were
only one game ahead of the lowest
mark that ever won National League
flag. The Yankees won 107 games and
lost At and might have done better
II they had been pressed in the latter
part of the race. The Cubs recorded
80 victories and "a defeats for a .584
average.
THE league records they approached
L are TIA by the 1927 Yankee team
and .578 by the st. Louis Cardinals in
1926.
The Yankees likewise knocked the
dayights out of the major league record
for consecutive games without being
shut out by scoring in every one of
the 156 games they played This came
on top of 55 games at the end of 1881
and gave them total of 2lI in a row
and completely eclipsed the mark of
l52 established by the Boston and
Philadelphia Nationals in 1894. The
Cubs were BANKED eight times this year.
One point of similarity cropped up
yesterday when each team lost its final
game OF the season to last-place club,
the Yanks succumbing to the Boston
Red SoA, S-3, and the Cubs going down
before the Cincinnati Reds, So.
IN keeping with the tightness of the
National League race all through
the season, two places in the final
standing were not decided until the
final day. Philadelphia took fourth by
winning the second game of a double
header from the New York Giants. 6-3.
after losing the first. 5-3. The single
victory kept Boston out of a tie even
though the Braves trounced Brooklyn,
l3 to 7. New York and st. Louis tied
Tor sixth as each split twin bill. The
Cardinals lost the first to Pittsburgh
to l, and won the second. to i.
The runaway race in the American
League did serious damage to attend
ance figures. but as a whole It was a
fair season financially for most of the
club owners.
OUTSIDE of the games. the real
~ fans found plenty Of excitement in
Babe Ruths physical condition and
in the sudden upset cf the Cubs at the
end of July when Rogers Hornsbv was
dropped from the managerial post and
Charler Grimm vas given the ich of
leading the charge to the championship.
Ruth was out twice with injuries. a
torn leg muscle end a threatened an
pendicitiS attack but still MANAGED TO
stay within shouting distance Of jimmie
Foxx Of the Athletics in the home run
race.
Foyy fell trif1e short of eoualing
Ruth's major league home run record
! Of 60, but his fifty eighth circuit wallop
furnished one of the high spots of the
closing dav. 1t came in the ninth inning
as the Athletics lost a 2-1 decision to
washington. IN other American League
games yesterday Detroit took a 5-4
decision from st. Louis and Cleveland
and Chicago played a SIS tie in the
second game of a double-header after
the Indians had won the irst ga.
Darkness stopped the game after the
fifth inning