The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-27
CARDS, GIANTS
ARE DEFEATED
Formers Chance at Pen
nant Wanes in Home
Stretch Battle
BY JACK CUDDY
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by JAIN SOINA
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. p. (UP)-
Chances of the st. Louis Cardinals
wrestling the National league pen
nant from the New York Giants
were lessened considerably We'd
nesday when both clubs suffered
setbacks in the hair-raiSing stretch
battle of the third hottest flag
race the circuit ever knew.
Bill Terry's world champion
Giants maintained their One-game
lead over the Cardinals when the
Giants lost to the PhillieS. 5-4, and
the Cards muffed a golden OppOr-
tunity to forge ahead by losing to
the Pittsburgh Pirates 3 to o.
These twin reverSalS left the
pennant-hungry Cardinals in the
unhappy position of being forced
10 win twice as many games as
the Giants in order to tie New
York for the flag. The Cards must
sweep their four remaining games
with Cincinnati i'm order TO dead
lock the Giants in the final stand
ing, if New York takes its two
remaining games with Brooklyn.
In that case the final standing
would be:
New York $1,000. 30 % .bZl
81. Louis . 50 So .62l
If the Cards now lose out in the
pennant race, and the percentage
is very much against them, veter-
an Waite HOyt, who was cast off
by four major league clubs be
fore landing with the Pirates on
January 81, 1888, will be regard
ed as the man who hammered the
final nail in their coffin. The for
mer "Schoolboy wonder" blanked
Frankie Frisch's SluggerS with two
hits.
The man who wasn't good
enough for the Yankees, Tigers,
Athletics and Dodgers, Out-pitch-
ed Paul (NO-Hit) Dean and Wild
Bill Hallahan who allowed the Pr
rates six SafetieS. Hoyt came home
with the first Pirate run in the
third inning. He obtained a walk
from Dean and scored on Jensen'S
single. Two more Pirate tallieS
were registered in the sixth when
Floyd Vaughan made a home run
with Paul Waner aboard. Vaughan
smashed one of Deans fast balls
onto the roof of the right field
pavilion.
The only hits the Red Birds
garnered off Hoyt were singles by
Rothrock in the first and fourth.
1t was the Cards fifth defeat in
their q games.
Meanwhile at New York the
Phillies won their second straight
contest from the Giants. They out
hit the champions Is to 8. and
won in the ninth when, with the
bases loaded, Sylvester Johnson
scored on a passed ball. The
Giants filled the bags in their half
of the ninth, but the rally died
when Jackson fOuled to Camilh,
ending the game.
Fuel Moore and Johnson bested
three Giant fingers on the
mound; Hal Schumacher, Carl
Hubbell and ancient AdOlfO
Luque. George Davis made four
hits in five attempts for the Phils,
and his mates, Bartell and ChiOz-
"a collected three each. Gus Man
cuso headed the unsuccessful
Giant attack with two home runs,
one in the fifth and one in the
seventh with Watkins aboard. 1t
was New YOrk's eleventh defeat
in q games.
With the fate of the National
league pennant apparently at
stake during these two games, the
contests provided one of the most
thrilling high spots of the 1884
major league season. After the
Giants lost to the Phillies, the
Cards had their splendid oppOr-
tunity of taking over the league
lead for the first time since June
6. They were at the top from May
2S to June 6, the only time during
the campaign.
Only twice before have Nation
flag races presented such 4 hectic
situation in the final week. They
occurred in 1908 and 1928. In
1908 the Chicago Cubs and Giants
, ran a dead heat, except for a game
which the Cubs protested because
. Merkle failed to touch a base.
They played off the protested
game, and the Cubs won, taking
the pennant. In 1928, the Cards
smashed through in the final week
: by two games over the Giants.
No official tie ever has been
played off in the circuit, although
the National league constitution
provides for a three-game series
to decide a final deadlock.
In the only other National
league contest scheduled, Brook
lyn dOwned BoSton's Braves, 81,
behind rookie Johnny Babich'S
seventh pitching. 1t was the sea-
sons final meeting for the two
clubs. The Dodgers collected eight
safeties off Rhem and Smith.
They scored once in the first when
Leslie tripled after Frey's single,
and added two more TALES in the
second on singles by Strip and
Babich, a double b yBoyle and
wild pitch.
In the American league, De-
troit's Tigers, brand new custo-
dians of the pennant, took both
ends of a double-header from Chi
cagO's tail-end White Sox. They
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