The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-09
YANKS GET SECOND
STRAIGHT BEATING
FROM WASHINGTON
Athletics Succumb to Red Sox
Despite Foxx's Homerun
With Bases Loaded
CUBS CUT GIANTS LEAD
dizzy Dean Gets Credit for
21st Victory as Cards
Beat Reds in 18th
by The Associated Press

Mickey Cochrane not only has turn
ed out to be fine illspirational leader
who has piloted the Detroit Tigers In
to the American League lead, but II
the occasion demands it. Mike" can
do a lot of the actual work Of winning
ball games.
Cochrane demonstrated that We'd
nesday when he struck the blow that
defeated the Browns to In a ten
inning struggle and gave the Tigers
one Of the longest leads they have en-.
joyed this season, 2k games over the
second place Yankees.
Trailing by three runs at one time,
the Tigers staged one Of their last
minute rallies and tied the score in
the ninth by nicking Ed Wells for a
pass and three singles that Melted two
runs. Going into the tenth at 6-6. Bill
Rogell started things with q single.
Hank Greenberg sacrificed and Mar
win Owen walked. That brought
Cochrane up and he smacked q base
hit that brought in Rogell with the
winning run.
The Yankees suffered their second
straight setback at the hands of Joe
Cronin and his Washington club, 9 to
2. A six run squirt against Charley
Ruffing in the first settled the dis
pute in short order although Russ
Van Alta did some fine relief fling
ing for New York. Like Cochrane,
Manager Cronin was q leading figure,
hitting two triples and single.
Foxx Bags 35th Homer
Jimmie Fpxx smashed his 35th four
Dagger for the Athletics in the course
Of their 11-9 defeat at the hands Of
the Red Sox. The blow, which came
with the bases full, left Foxx only one
behind Gehrig. It couldn't win the
game as Boston already had piled up
a 10-l lead.
The Indians completed q day Of
Hefty hitting in the American League
by downing Chicago II to 1 with the
aid Of four homers, two Of them by
Hal Trosky.
While the gap in the American
League widened to ~ games, 1t mar
rowed to the same margin In the Ma
tional when the league leading Giants
took q to 0 shellacking from Brook
Ign and the second place Cubs swept
doubleheader with Pittsburgh.
A six run rally in the third. fea-
tured by Manager Charley Grimm's
home run with two aboard, won the
opener for Chicago to 1 while the
combination of seventh flinging by
Guy Bush and q 16-hit assault on Bill
Swift and Burleigh Grimes. brought
an easy II to 3 decision in the after
piece. Grimes. recently released by
the Yankees, signed a Pirate contract
just in time to get into the game.
The third-place Cardinals cut loose
suddenly, in the 18th inning to score
six runs and beat the Reds 10 to 4.
Dizzy Dean. who went to work In the
tenth, was credited with his second
victory in two days and his 2lst OF the
season.
The Braves and Phillies waged one
Of the days keenest battles. Boston
winning out 80 on q ninth inning
run that came when Phil Collins
passed Marty McManus with the
bases loaded Collins took the hill
after Curt Davis was spiked In the
hand in the sixth.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Van Mungo Blanks Giants
Score by innnings- r H e
Brooklyn ...... 900 600 10l-2 3 l
New York. -. 900 600 600
Mungo and Lopez: Ftzsimmons,
Bowman and Mancuso, banning.
Braves Beat Philies
/ Score by innings r H z
Philadelphia 900 10l 00O-2 8
Boston ........ 200 COZ O0l-3 8
G. Davis. Collins and Wilson; Cant
well and Hogan, Spohrer.
Cubs Take Doubleheader
(FirSt Game)
Score by innings r H Z
Chicago ....... .106 600 000-7 3
Pittsburgh ..... POI 600 00l-4 II
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