The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-07-14
7O07H HOMER
BY babe PUTS
YANKS ON TOP
Giants Protect Their One
Game Lead Narrowly
Beating Pittsburgh

NEW YORK. July 14.-(UP)
poba Ruth ana the New York
Yankees moved back into the
cad of .baseball's procession last
r;rht topping the Detroit Tigers
for the American league lead al
Tor 4 one-day displacement.
Il was the BAN who cut the
Errk ut both ends. In the third
;nr;nq. he lOfted one of his longest
snme runs 500 feet over the right
5rIb wall at Navin field, Detroit.
The blow was the Bambino's
moth homer. and drove one ahead
- D,ovide the margin of a AZ
yiytofy If anything more was
raedsd 10 make it. Babes day. ne
,rnre6 the winning run on Bill
n;rtey's double in the eighth. .
-Iou Gemig was forced out Of
NAV in the second inning with a
bot knee. but as he started the
.,,ma. mis- 1.426th consecutive
contest. the string remains I'M
broken. unless he is unable TO
nIav tomorrow. Red Ruffing was
'.reGited with the win.
The New York Giants mean
while protected their game lead
IN the National by beating Pitts
burgh, 7-6. and stretched it to two
Min the collaboration of the Bos-
,,r Braves. who beat Chicago.
Freddy FitzSmmOns handled
the situation nicely until the
ninth cruising along ahead of a
fyr-run lead largely compiled by
I,a Moore who hit two homers,
9 double and single. Lefty
O'pourS homer in the first started
2 ,hree-run rally after Moore sim
gIrd and Critz doubled. Al Smith
came to FitzSimmons' rescue in
The ninth after a tumble by Blon-
6v RYAN started the Pirates to n
f6ur-run spree, one short of tie
inc the score. Grace and p. Wa
ner singled. Jensen doubled and
Arkv Vaughan singled before
Smith came in TO stop it.
Boston staged an uprising in
the seventh inning which robbed
Cbicago'S Cubs of a fourth
straight victory. Bill Lee, who
started for the Cubs. coasted with
comfortable lead until Berger's
homer blasted him from the hum
mock in the seventh. Boston cor
ed four, won TO. Goody English
and Babe Herman hit homers for
Chicago.
A barrage of late hitting gave
the Cincinnati Reds their second
straight over Brooklyn. Chick
Hafey's homer in the sixth put
ting them ahead after Al Lopez
had smacked round tripper 10
tie the score in the fifth. A nine
inning rally, which scored two,
was teamed by the RedlegS as
Tony Cucinello bounced out with
Dodgers on al sacks. The Reds
Won Sc.
Washington reversed the ver-
diet on Cleveland when Wally
Stewart, Senator Southpaw, who
has beaten Cleveland in three
straight starts, added fourth
win to the list, 80. Washington
took a twO-run lead in the first
chukker. when Schultz singled off
Oral Hildebrand's delivery with
mates on second and third. They
Sewed up the game in the third,
closing the gap between them and
the fOurth-place Indians.
Jonathan Stone. Washington
ou-ielder, suffered a possible an
kle fracture overrunning second
in the third inning, and probably
will be out of play the rest of the
year.
Wes Terrell not only pitched
the Boston Red Sox to a 7-2 win
in St. Louis, but homered twice,
driving in four runs, one in the
third and three in the fifth. Max
Bishops homer and Morgan's
triple in the seventh compiled the
last two tallies. The Browns filled
the bags in the ninth and Camp
bell. pinch-hitting for Newsom,
scored both their runs.