The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
GIANTS ALONE.
|UNDEFEATEDIN
MAJOR LOOPS
Chicago Sox Drop Game
And Lose Lead Also Q.
on Sunday

NE " lONia' IL.
The New York Giants, the only
indicated major league team OF
tho 1886 campaign, strengthened
their grip on the National league
leadership Sunday as they scored
their fifth straight triumph:
With Hal Schumacher yielding
only four hits, the Giants whipped
tho BOSTON Bees Al while Chicago
and St. Louis, the other teams
figuring in the three-way tight Tor
tho pennant, also triumphed. pc.
The Cardinals, idle for two days
because of cold weather, defeated
tho Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 while
the Cubs halted Cincinnati 1915.
In the other National league
pame. Brooklyn whipped Philadel-
phia 2-l.. q =, .,o,
rms in the first and second m
ninrs and Hal responded by hold
;nm the Bees hitless until the 9th;
In the 9th inning; Boston scored
it's run on a pair Of singles and
double, play -.
Whitehead was the batting star
with, three singles and double.
Mel, Otis long flies brought in a
pair of Giant runs. :, -,
The Cards won with heavy hit
ting because Pitcher Bill Halla-
han welded IL hits and six passes,
TO the Pirates. The Cards scored
three runs in the End and added
.pair in the 9Th and 9th innings
Moore homered in the 9Th with >.
Martin aboard.
Chuck Klein, with a PAIR OF
homers-his second and third OF
the season-was~ the hero of the
Cub-Red. encounter. With Hal Lee
setting the Reds down. with nine
hits Klein batted in three runs
Billy Herman, aided by a double
which cleared the bases in the
7th,. drove insfve runs as the CUBS
hit safely in each of the firSt
seven innings for a total OF ~
bases. =. -. F@
Lombardi,, Riggs and Goodman
homcred for the losers. :, =, -
Van Mungo held the 'PhlilleS TO
six hits as the Dodgers climbed
out of the cellar. Errors enabled
BROOKLYN to score both, it's runs
Ben Geraghy, youthful Dodger
&c, scnred the winning run.
Errors by Davis and Haslin en-,
abled, him. to- score after ne nau
s cHSisox DROP FIRST +.
CAME, LOSING LEAD 49,;
In the American league, the
Chicago White Sox~ dropped out gu,
of the, lead when they lost Their
first game. of the season. School
how Rowe held the Sox to five hits
as the Detroit Tigers defeated
them,: so. -, -.
:" The Cleveland Indians and Dos,
ton Red, Sox went into tie 1oI
The. lead with. four victories and
one defeat each. The Indians
whippcd the St. louis Browns ID
6 While. the Red Sox halted the
Philadelphia Athletics. 2-l: The
New York Yankees defeated the
Washington Senators 81 in the
other game. ., 49,. -,
The Tigers picked up nine hits
off Stratton and Brown. All. OF
the big guns of the Detroit at
tack drove in a run eachTCoch-
rane, Goslin, Gehringer, Simmons
and Owen. Gehringer accounted
for a run in the ~7th with a single
Greenberg TT i.pl I'd and Goslln
homered in the sixth: H-,'- ! I'D
The Indians made a clean sweep
of their series AS the Browns lost
their fifth straight game of the
season, The Indians scored SIX
runs in the 9Th inning and added
three in the 9th when Hale hit a
homer. ....' -
Yves Terrell Of Boston and Cor
don Rhodes of Philadelphia waged
a stirring pitching duel in their
game. Each yielded five hits. The
Red Sox, trailing 10, won in the
7th when they capitalized on err
rors and scored two runs. Rhodes
walked Rick Terrell; Finney boot
ed Melillo's grounder and single
by Mel Armada brought home the
tieing run. Roger Cramer's out
sold fly brought in the. winning
score,&t -. 80,
The Yankees broke loose with
a. Is hit attack on Earl Whitehill
and Monte Weaver to. whip the
Senator'S. Included among the
Yank hits were homers by Roy
johnson and Bill Dickey. Lou
Gehrig hit three. singles. 49, T.
Monte Pearson yielded seven
L;te in scoring his first victo,,y IF