The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-11
YankS Heave
Sigh as Mats
Crush Tigers
Detroit Streak Snapped at
10 Victories; Pace Makers
EntrenChed al Home.
BY GEORGE KIRSEY
United Press stan Correspondent

United Press stan correspondent
NEW YORK. July 18-With De-
troit,s IO-game winning streak
snapped, the New York Yankees
hreathed a bit easier today and laid
plans 20 build up their American
League lead during a three-week
home stand against western clubs.
Washington halted D%etroit's not
pursuit of the Yankees yesterday
with a 12-11 triumph which ended
the years longest string of victories
and increased the idle New York
ers' lead 10 n and One-half games.
A desperate hve-run rally in the
ninth Just failed TO pull the game
out of the fire for the fighting
Tigers. Buck Newsom finally halted
Detroit's uprising after Earl White
hill and Ed Linke had been driven
to cover during a six-hit barrage.
Tommy Bridges, Detroit'S leading
pitcher I'm games won, was blasted
out of the box in the first inning
by the Senators who scored seven
runs.
There's No Place Like Home
With a record of 20 victories in
b games played at Yankee Sta
dunn, the Yankees confidently ex-
pect not only to beat the Tigers
challenge but to increase their lead
before they leave home again July
%. The Yanks haven't lost a series
at home this season. During the
first invasion Of the western clubs
they won nine out of Is games.
Wesley Terrell joined the select
circle Of pitchers who have won Is
games by pitching the Boston Red
Sox TO a TO victory over the Chi
cago White Sox. Terrell held the
White SOX to two hits, a brace of
singles by Tony Pet, and drove out
a homer and a single himself.
The St. Louis Browns ended a
nina-game losing streak when Dick
COfman southpawed the Philadel-
phia Athletics to a To defeat. Har-
Ian Cliff led the Browns attack
with four singles in five times at
DdL. oIOllllB JAIGC lullo-
Hal Schumacher scored his 18th
straight victory and his 18th of the
season by pitching the New York
Giants to a 1913 win over the Pitts
burgh Pirates. He allowed only S
hits and did not issue a pass. Fer
rell, Schumacher and Dizzy Dean of
the Cardinals are the only three
major league pitchers with Is vic
tories.
Demaree Hits for Cubs
Hughie Critz, who drove in four
runs, and Hank Leiber, who drove
in three when he doubled with the
bases filled, were the big guns in
the New York attack. The victory
increased the Giants lead to seven
and one-half games over the idle
Cardinals.
Frank Demaree's timely hitting
featured the Chicago Cubs ga vic
tory over the Boston Braves. He
singled with the bases filled to drive
In two runs, and delivered another
single which led to the winning
tally. Charlie Root, who relieved
Lon Warneke, was the winning
pitcher.
The Cincinnati Reds hammered
out a 1872 win over the Brooklyn
Dodgers before a crowd of 1928 in
the fourth night major league game
at Cincinnati. Leroy Hermann
limited the Dodgers to six hits. The
Reds made 13 hits off Babich,
MunnS and Leonard, with Billy
Myers getting four of them. Babe
Herman hit a homer.
Yesterdays HerO-Edmund (Bing)
Miller. 30-year-Old Boston Red SOX
outfielder, who banged out four hits
three singles and a double-in
four times at bat for a perfect day
as his team beat the White SOx, 10.