Evening star., 1933-08-08
AGING GOTHAM|TES
REVEL IN HOT RACE
lROvtine Losses Made Up 10
Scraps With Big Rivals.
GehFig Near Mark.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n JEW YORK, August 8-Every
time the Yankees skid,
i y swerve and knock off a.
wheel or two IN tangle
with some routine opponent,
chuckles sweep the base ball lands
and the boys nod wisely at the
indisputable signs of an aged.
hard-to-inSpire machine about to
fly apart all at once like the tabled
one-horse shay.
Every one chuckles but the base ball
men who have to tackle the Yankees
next. 1t has long been their adage, and
1t stood forth truer than ever TODAY.
that when the checks are down and the
issue Is man to man with the title at
stake, Babe Ruth and his "doddering"
brethren are the grimmest, toughest
foes in all base ball
Perfect as to detail in every point.
this very scene was pictured in the
Yankee Stadium yesterday, with 45.OO0
roostlng in the great horseshoe stands,
the hlgh-rldlng Senators, three games
IN the lead. opening a four-ga series
with doubleheader. The Athletics had
LETT town only Saturday with three
straight victories and the Red Sox
Emight have made It four Sunday but
Efor a jittery infeld defense The
checks We're down, the pressure was on.
Margin to One Game
90 the Yankees climbed right up out
y of the resin like hurt Dempsey,
Babe Ruth belted one, Lou Gehrig
hit another The pitchers pitched as
they're capable of pitching. Red Ruffng,
Herb Pennock, Russell Van Alta. old
Wiley Moore; the hitters hit, the de-
fense was tight. The Yanks swept
both games, 6 to and S to 4, and the
Senators lead was shaved to a single
game
With two more games left in this
series, one today and another tomor-
row, it is possible for the Yanks to
swing into the final third of the season
this week with a one-game lead. If
| they don't, and the odds are all against
even SO opportune club as the world
champions, there's still a chance for
| one of the most dramatic of modern
flnaleS in the closing days Of the season.
Both the Yanks and the Senators
| have played 102 of the 154 games on
the schedule with 50 to go apiece.
After two more here they travel their
separate ways until August 13, when
| they meet again in a single game in
Washington. Then they are apart
again until September %, 90 and 80.
when they collide on the Stadium turf
in a final three-game series. The sea-
son ends October l.
So it is possible that the two-team
feud may carry on into the shadows of
the approaching world series, with the
pressure on, the checks down again, and
the championship hanging on every
play. Ruth and the old men shiver
with glee at the prospect.
| Gehrig Plays No. 1900.
THE battle of the Yanks and the
Senators overshadowed the major
league battlefrontS Yesterday with
action totally suspended along the Ma
tional League front.
Ruth and Gehrig hit their homers,
26th and Goth, respectively, in the Sec
consecutive games, within seven of
Everett Scott'S record
The Browns won their first series for
Manager Rogers Hornsby as Lena Stiles
shut out the White SoX to for 81
edge. A flve-run assault in the fourth
| gave the Tigers enough runs to beat
Cleveland to despite six errors The
home folks gave Bucky Walters. Red
Sox third baseman. a chest of silver
and loving cup at Philadelphia. and
he in turn gave the Athletics a head
ache by driving in five runs with
homer and triple as Boston won to 5.