The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-14
GIANTS SPLIT
DOUBLE BILL
Divide Sunday Honors With
Cards to Retain 3 IL
Game Lead a- .

NEW YORK, Sept. IA. (UP(-
The New York Giants yesterday
maintained their 8 1-2 game Ma
tional league lead by splitting a
twin bill with the st. Louis CARDS
before 64,417 spectators, a record
crowd for the league.
The Giants stopped the Cards,
8 TO a. in the opener behind Fred
die Fitzsimmons' seventh twlrl,
inc. Mel OFT hit two homers and
Joe Moore got double and three
SINGLES to lead the 12-hit Giant at
tack off four st. Louis hurlers.
Fine relief pitching by Dizzy
Dean gave the Cards a a to 3
decision in the nightcap. Hurting
the last two innings, Dean held
the Giants scoreless to retain the
one run margin the Cards had
held since the third when Johnny
Mics 18th homer of the year
with two men on base topped a
four-run burst. Credit for the
victory went to Leroy Parmelee
who held the Giants to six hits
during his tenure. -
The third place Chicago Cubs
failed to gain as they divided with
the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ed Brandt
threw eight-hit ball as the Dodgers
took the curtain-raiser, 6 to 8. A
five-run rally in the 9Th brought
the Cubs from behind to win the
second, 9 to 7, with the victory
going to Curt Davis, third Chicago
hurler.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh also
halved a double header with the
Phillies coming back to win the
finale. 4 TO 3, after taking 1T ON
tn echin, 5 to 3. Young Pete ST.
vcss blew up in the 9Th inning OF
the opener and the Pirates scored
three runs to win. The Pills put
on a three run burst in the 7th,
knocking out Mace Brown who
had only permitted three hits un-
til then, for their nightcap victory.
After the Cincinnati Reds had
whipped them 2 to |, the Boston
Bees came back to annex the sec
ond game, to L Successive sim
giles by Cuyler, Scarsella and Lom-
bardi in the Sth, sent home the
winning run and gave the first
game victory to Erne Schott who
permitted only three hits. The
Bees pounded Benny Frey and
Lee Slime for II hits to chalk up
the 10th win Of the year for Dan
nv MacFayden.
Two records went into the dis
card yesterday as Bob Teller, IT,
year-old Cleveland Indian rookie
sensation, struck out II men, and
the New York Yankees dubbed
out eight home runs to run their
season total to 175.
Teller moved down II Phila-
delphia Athletics to win the first
game Of a double header, 5 to 2,
which bettered the American
league mark of Is set by RUDE
Waddell in 1908 and tied the ma
jor league record Of II set by
Dizzy Dean in 1888. The Indians
had to come from behind to win
the second, 5 to 4. Hal Trosky
hit his 38th homer in the seventh
with two mates aboard to give
Cleveland the winning margin.
The double win sent the Indians
into a fourth place tie with the
Detroit Tigers, who lost.
The Yankees home run blast
came against the st. Louis Browns
who were licked twice, 10 to 7
and Is to /. The four-bagger total
of IT'S breaks the major league
mark of 173 set by the Philadel-.
phia Athletics in 1882. Rookie
Joe Di Maggie led the assault with
three. Lou Gehrig smashed two,
his 47th and 48th, lake Powell
annexed a pair, and Bob Seeds
got the other.
In the only other American