The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-10
Babe Hits Three HomerS,
YankS Win Two: Chi
Cago Beats Giants.
BY JACK CUDDY
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK. July 10.-Three
baseball champions faced the world
confidently today and demanded.
Who said we were through?" They
had their reasons.
Babe Ruth, the all-time home
run king who is fighting with his
back to the wall against the burden
of 80 years and the washed up"
predictions Of many observers, rost
up Sunday and smashed out three
home runs.
The world champion New York
Yankees, the club that was sup
posed to have cracked up. picked
itself off the floor after four
straight knockdownS and walloped
Detroit twice.
The Chicago Cubs, champions Of
the National League, but almost
forgotten in the current pennant
chase, completed a four game sweep
over the leading New York Giants,
who threatened to walk off with
their flag.
Yank Trail Four Games
Ruth drove in six of the eighteen
runs the YankS scored in beating
Detroit twice, IL to 7, and 7 to g..
His four-baggerS in the second and
Nth innings of the opener, inspired
Bill Dickey to pole one out in the
sixth frame. In the second contest.
the Babe drove out his third homer
in the sixth, bringing his home run
total to twenty-five, just two less
than the league leader, Jimmy Foxx.
This double victory evened the
series with the Tigers at two each
and boosted the YankS half a game
in the American League standing,
leaving them four games behind the
leading Washington Senators. while
Detroit dropped from fourth-place
tie with Chicago into second divi-
sion.
Washington made it three straight
over Cleveland by downing the In
dams, 3 to 2, after pushing over
three runs in the first as the result
OF two singles, a walk and two
Cleveland errors. Rookie Monte
Pearson frightened up after that and
held the Senators scorelesS.
OuUS sweep SERIES
Boston won one game from st.
Louis, q to 0, when Dusty Cookies
three doubles and a single in four
tries accounted for the four TALES.
and George Pipgras held the
Browns to five hits, but the Browns
took the nightcap, to 2, aided by
homers from Carl Reynolds and
Bruce Campbell
In the National circuit. the Cubs
rose to third place by beating the
Giants, 4 to and to l, complet-
ing four game sweep over New
York and giving Chicago five
straight wins 1t brought the
Giants total OF consecutive defeats
to six, and left them only three and
a half games above second-place
St. Louis.
Lon Warneke shut out New York
with six hits in the opener for his
tenth win, and Bud Timing held
them to four in the nightcap and
drove in the winning run with
single in the ninth to gain his sew
enth consecutive triumph.
Cards, Giants Divide
st. Louis gained a full game on
the Giants by splitting two games
with Brooklyn. The Dodgers won
the first, to 6, when Ralph Boyle's
triple in the eleventh scored two
mates. Hack Wilson and Sam
Leslie contributed Brooklyn homers.
But the Cards took the night cap,
2 to 0, combining a single and two
doubles for two runs in the sixth.
Tex Carleton BANKED the Dodgers
with seven hits.
Boston beat Cincinnati twice, 3
to 2, when hit batsman and sin
giles by Berger and Moore in the
tenth accounted for the winning
tally. The Braves took the second
contest, 3 to l, when Farmhouse
held the Reds virtually helpless
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