The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-05
CARDINALSSTART
ANOTHER CHASE
AFTER GIANTS
Terry Team Has Nine
Game Hop on Nearest
League Competitors
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

TUnited Press Staff Correspondent
New York, July 5-(UP)-The
New York Giants cast an ominous
Bye behind them today and found
HE o.. Louis Cardinals in second
place IN the National league race.
There's q S-game chasm between
Ehem, but with SO games left to
play the Cardinals have q fighting
bhance to yet get back in the race.
fifteen games remain between the
two leaders, and the Cards can
but heavily into the Giants lead
BY taking a majority OF these bat
Ties. Another factor in favor of
the Cardinals is that they have
only one eastern trip left while the
Giants have two western junkets
ahead Of them.
with three straight victories
bver their second-place rivals, the
Cardinals at last seem to have de-
cided to make their belated bid. In
true Cardinal style the World
champions yesterday beat the cubs
twice in the last inning, 5-3 in IL
innings and ga. Each time st.
Louis made fewer hits but more
runs. Durocher's single, Martins
double and Orsatti's single won
the first game. Four Cub errors
helped the Cards take the second
game, in which Dizzy Dean scored
his 18th triumph of the season.
Slick Work
The Giants slugged out 10-S and
1873 triumphs over the Boston
Braves. Mark Koenig's single drove
in the two winning runs in the
opener. Hal Schumacher held the
Braves to hits in winning his 10th
straight victory and his 18th of the
season in the nightcap. Hank Lei
Der hit two homers, and drove in z
runs in the two games.
After defeating Cincinnati, 9-5,
the Pirates dropped the second
game to the Reds, ga. Waite Hoyt
helped win his own game in the
opener by driving in three runs.
Ernie Lombardis single, which
drove in two runs, and Billy Myers
homer with mate on base won
the afterpiece. Arky Vaughan, Ma
tional league batting leader, made
three singles and double in 4
times UP in the nightcap.
The Phillies twice beat Brooklyn
By one run, 80 and ST, the last
game going 10 innings. Johnny
Moore's homer with a man on base
won the first game. George Wat
kins, with two homers, and Dolf
Camilli, with a homer and two
triples, led the Phils to victory in
the second game.
Detroit closed in on New York
In the American League race by
winning a double-header while the
Yankees broke even. reducing the
gap between them to 2 games.
Great Finish
The Tigers scored their seventh
straight victory and their fifth in
a row over Cleveland, 6-5. and 10-4.
Hank Greenberg's single in the
18th won the first game after
Mickey Cochrane's homer with
two out in the ninth had tied the
score Schoolboy Rowe, who start
ed the second game, had to retire
with a wrenched shoulder but re-
ceived credit for the victory.
Lefty Grove halted the Yankees
as the Boston Red Sox triumphed,
4-S. Grove BANKED New York at
ter the first ming, allowing only
hits the entire route. Red Rolfe's
bad throw on Cronin's grounder
permitted the winning run. Lefty
Gomez pitched 4-hit game as the
Yanks grabbed the nightcap, IL.
The Chictga White Sox won
their fourth straight from the st.
Louis Browns by taking double
header, lit and 40 and moved
back into third place. Johnny
Whitehead broke his 6-game los
ing streak by winning the first
game, his 9th victory. Les Tietje
held the Braowns to 5 hits in the
afterpiece.
The Philadelphia Athletics
climbed to sixth place by defeating
Washington, Ga and 2-1. Whitley
Wiltshire, AS Rookie Southpaw,
scored his Sth triumph in the
opener. Rabbit Warstler's triple
and Lamar Newsome's single drove
in the deciding run in the ninth
inning of the second game.
YESTERDAYS HERO - Lefty
Gomez, who pitched a 4-hit game,