The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-25
BRAVES SLICE
GIANTS LEAD
Stage Sixth Straight Vic,
tory in Win Over
St. Louis

NEW YORK, Aug. 25. CUP
The Boston Braves yeSterda!
sliced the New York Giants Ma
tional league lead to six games
by registering their sixth straight
victory, a 1 to 3 win over the st
Louis Cardinals.
Boston made its winning run
in the fifth when Pinkey whit
news single drove in Randy
Moore, who had doubled. Ed
Brandt allowed the Cards seven
hits, including Joe MedwlcE 5
homer in the first with a mate
aboard, while Hallahan yielded
the Braves six Safeties but allow
ed seven walks. Leo DurOcher'S
game knee suffered a slipped
cartridge again and ne retired in
the second.
The Chicago Cubs replaced
Pittsburgh at third position by
winning a dOuble-header from
the Phillies. 5 to 0, and 9 to 8,
Guy Bush shut out the QuakerS
with three hits in the opener
while Xxi Cuyler led the Chi
cago eight-hit attack on Ed HOl-
lev with a homer accounting for
two runs. In the free-hlttlng
second contest, the Cubs ham,
mered four Phillie pitchers for
16 hits, while the Pills collected
IL off Timing and Hermann.
Brooklyn and Cincinnati split
a twin bill, the Dodgers winning
the first, 2 to 0, but dropping
the second, 3 to ,. Van Mungo
BANKED the Reds in the opener
with seven scattered hits, as the
Dodgers made eight off Derring-
err and KOlp, scoring in the first
and second innings. Larry Ben
ton allowed the Dodgers eight
hits in the second game, one
more than the Reds made off
Ray Benge. Chick Hafey's single
scoring Adams. accounted for the
winning run in the eighth.
Pittsburgh's double-header at
New York was washed out.
SENATORS MAINTAIN
S-GAME LEAD
In the American league, Wash
ington maintained it's eight-game
lead over the second-place New
York Yankees by trOunclng De-
troit, Is to 6, while the 1ankS
crushed Cleveland, 10 to l.
The Senators hammered Flsch-
err, Auker and Frazier for II
hits including two home runs by
Goose Goslin, to even the cur
rent series with the Tigers at
two-all. Washington scored five
runs in the big seven. Heinie
Manush made it 81 consecutive
games in which ne hit safely by
collecting three hits. Whitehlll
and Russell allowed the Tigers
IA hits, but four double plays
held down the Tige rscoring.
Johnny Allen held Cleveland to
seven hits and struck out eight
while his Yankee mates hammer
ed four Indian pitchers for 10
hits, scoring eight runs in the
third and fourth innings. Frank
Crosetti contributed a homer in
the fourth. The Indians made
three errors.
The Boston Red Sox broke n
nine-game losing streak to win
the first game of a dOublehead-
er from Chicago, 6 to |, but lost
the second engagement, Z to 8
in 10 innings. Johnny Welch
held the Chisox to eight hits in
the opener, struck out 10 and
was not scored upon until the
ninth. Boston collected 10 hits
off Wyatt, Kimsey and Haid. In
the second game, a triple by
Luke Appling, after Al Simmons
had walked, brought in Chicago's
winning run in the 10th, al
though Boston out-hit Chicago,
10 to II. Charley Berry made
a White Sox homer in the second
inning. . tWa
Philadelphia and st. Louis also
split a twin bill, the Browns
winning the first game, 7 to s,
after overcoming a six-run lead
by clicking off six tallies in the
sixth and winning in the 18th
when the marginal run came
home on Burns single. The Ath-
leticS took the second contest, 4
to 3, by virtue of two runs in
the eight when Frank Higgins
double brought in a run, and M
scored on Williams single
Campbell made a Brownie homer
in the eighth,