The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-25

The last day Of the crucial ser
les found the Giants and Yankees
clinging to first place. but it was
possible for last years world series
rivals, the Cards and Tigers, TO
gain the lead by nightfall.
The Giants position was the
more secure. They were a game and
half in front of the Cardinals.
After seeing their lead melt away
as a result of a six-game losing
streak, the Giants have turned on
the Cardinals and knocked them
back to second place with two
smashing defeats.
The Cardinals must sweep today's
double-header to gain the Natioral
League lead. An even break viii
send the Giants home a game and
a half ahead A clean sweep for
the Giants VIII temporarily halt the
Cardinals pennant rush.
COchrane CANDLES on Auker
On the outcome of the single
game between the Yankees and
Tigers hangs the American League
lead. The Yankees held 0004 Of a
percentage point lead over the Tigers
as they began today's game.
The Tigers drive. which started
in the cellar. has seen them climb
game by game. place by place, all
the way up the American League
standing until today they we're on
the threshold of first place.
Gambling with his pitchers as if
they were chips in a poker game,
Mickey Cochrane twice in succession
has come up with winning aces,
Vic Sorren and General Alvin
Crowder. Today he gambled again
on Eldon Auker, the underhand
pitcher who hasn't beaten the
Yankees this year. Joe McCarthy's
choice to retain first place for the
Yanks was Johnny Broaca, the be-
specialized Yale graduate.
Behind the heroic hurting of
Crowder, the Tigers yesterday
battled up to almost even terms
with the YankS by scoring a 40
triumph. Jo-Jo Whites homer on
the fourth ball pitched-the first
circuit clout of his major league
career-was enough to decide the
game, but the Tigers added three
more runs of Red Ruffing for good
Martins Error Costly
Carl Hubbell stepped into the
breach for the Giants and out
pitched Dizzy Dean to give New
York a Az triumph over st. Louis.
The Giants put on a decisive 4-run
rally in the seventh inning. OFT
singled, an6 Leiber doubled. Pep
per Martin threw Jackson's roller
into right field-his fifth error in
two days-and OFT and Leiber
scored. banning walked. Hubbell
and Joe Moore singled and two more
runs came in.
The threatening spectre of the
Chicago Cubs crept nearer the two
leaders when Charlie Grimm's team
won its second straight double
header from Brooklyn, 9-3 and TO.
The last game went IL innings and
the Cubs had to score two runs in
the ninth to tie the count. Then
Jimmy ODea's homer won the game
in the eleventh. Billy urges
double with the bases loaded and
Chuck Klein'S eighteenth homer
with a man on base were the vital
punches in the first game. Klein
drove in the tieing run in the second
game.
Cleveland Displaces Red Sox
Pittsburgh ran as winning streak
to seven straight by defeating the
'PhillieS twice, 8-6 and 4-3. Paul
.Waner drove in three runs in the
first game and Woody Jensen hit a
homer in each game.
Emmett Nelson won his third
straight major league game by
pitching the Cincinnati Reds to
5-4 victory over the Boston Braves
in a night game.
Cleveland regained fourth place
in the American League by winning
twice from Washington, 1915 and
1873.
The st. Louis Browns defeated
the Boston Red Sox, 6-3, and
dropped Joe Cronin's team into
second division.