The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-23
Cubs Need 2
Wins at Most
for Pennant
Remain Idle While Cardinals
Battle Pirates in Two
Crucial Tits.
BY HENRY SUPER
United Press stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 23-Two more
victories-and the National League
pennant Will be property Of the Chi
cago Cubs.
The kid team which boasts ls
straight triumphs has only five
games left, all with the world
champion St. Louis Cardinals. The
Cards will finish in the runner-up
position if they drop two games OF
that showdown series which opens
Wednesday in St. Louis.
The Cubs are idle today and to-
morrow while the Cards, who have
seven games remaining. play Pitts
burgh. Perhaps. by Wednesday. the
Chicagoans may be in even a more
favorable spot than they are today
The worst they can do is enter the
St. Louis series two games to the
good. They have three-game lead
and the Cards can chop 1t at best
to two by winning today and tomor-
row.
Single Loss VIII Hurt
The Cardinals need those VIC
tories in order TO have fighting
chance for the pennant. Loss of one
game will mean they'll have TO
sweep the Cub series TO win and
take four out of five to tie. Two
defeats will put the Cubs in a
spot where only one more victory
will be needed to send them into a
world series against Detroit.
No matter how the race is figured
automatically, the cold playing
facts point to Chicago victory.
The st. Louis pitching is weak and
the Cubs are hitting tremendous
clip. The Dean brothers have
shared the major pitching burden
for ST. Louis for weeks.
Ryba Stars for Cards
The Cubs, on the other hand,
have used relief pitchers only twice
in winning 10 of their last 20 home
games. They Will meet ST. Louis
after two days of rest, while the
Cards will be fighting tooth and nail
today and tomorrow to stay in the
race.
Chicago extended its streak to 10
yesterday by subduing the Pirates.
20, closing their home season. Al
though out-hit. 81, the Cubs
punched their blows for single runs
in the first and eighth innings. The
Cards cut the Cubs lead to three
games by defeating Cincinnati, 14-4
and 81. Dizzy Dean won his 18th
victory in the nightcap. Mike Ryba.
recruit from Columbus, relieved Bill
Hallahan in the third inning of the
opening game and yielded only two
hits in seven innings. The New
York Giants were eliminated from
the race yesterday, despite the fact
that they defeated Brooklyn's Dodg-
ers, So Philadelphia defeated
Boston, rs and 4-3, enabling the
Braves to set a modern league
record, 10 games lost. The former
mark. 100, was set by the Phillies
in 1928 The modern major-league
record, 1T, was set by the Phila-
delphia Athletics in 1916.
Browns Blank Tigers
In the American League, the De-
troit Tigers, who clinched the pen
nant Saturday, were defeated, 10,
by the st. Louis Browns. New York
defeated Boston. Ga and go, before
1887 spectators-the largest crowd
ever to see an American League
game in Boston. Chicago and Cleve-
land split, Cleveland winning the
opener, 6-3, and losing the nightcsp
go. Washington defeated Philadel-
phia, 1912 and 11-1.
Yesterdays HerO-JOhnny Moore
of the Philadelphia PhiIIies whose
eighteenth homer of the season with
a man on base in the ninth broke a
SIS tie and defeated the Boston
Braves in the opener.