The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-01
CARDS AGAIN
ON TOP RUNC
Giants Fall to Fifth Place;
Yanks Lick Red
Sox Twice
By LESLIE AVERY
United Press Staff Correspondent

| NEW YORK, July l. (UP).-
i st. Louis rough n ready Cardi
| nails drove back into the Nationa
league lead yesterday by nosine
out the Pittsburgh Pirates twice
in two of the hardest played
games of the season.
The Cards, although outhit il
both ends of the twin bill, scrapec
out a one-run margin over the
Pirates twice to break the dead,
lock with the idle Chicago Cubs
for first place, and take the lead
, by a full game.
The scores were 2 to /, and 4
to 3.
Mace Brown was at his best in
the opener and gave up but three
hits, but the Cards punched two
of them with a long fly in the
seventh for both of their tallies,
"Stu" Martin who had singled,
scored on money1player Pepper
Martins triple, and the Wild
Horse of the Usage bounced
across the plate with the winning
run on Joe Medwick's long out
field drive to Paul Waner. Old
Jess Haines, dean of the st. Louis
pitching staff, went the route,
keeping the eight hits he issued
well distributed.
1t was the irrepressible Pepper
Martin who also drove the Win
ming run home in the nightcap.
After letting the Pirates get away
to a three-run lead, the Gashouse
Gangsters came back to tie it up
in the 9th, blasting Birkofer from
the mound. In the 9th Terry
Moore opened the frame with a
single and reached second in a
cloud of dust when Paul Waner
fumbled the ball for an instant.
"Stu" Martin was an easy out,
but Pepper produced long single
that scored Moore. Manager
frankie Frisch then threw Dizzy
Dean in to pitch the 9th, and he
turned the Pirates back scoreless.
In another change in National
league standings the New York
Giants fell back into fifth place,
one percentage point behind the
idle Cincinnati Reds. Mickey Has
Inns fourth single of the day gave
the Boston Bees 7 to victory
over the Giants. After coming
from behind twice to deadlock the
score, the Bees pushed the winner
over in the 9th inning. Cuccinello
smacked a single. went to second
on a sacrifice and came home on
Haslin's one-bagger. Hal Schu-
macher, who was found for IL
hits, was the loser and Refs, who
relieved Tiny" Chaplin in the
9th, was the winner.
The Cincinnati Chicago contest
scheduled for yesterday was play
ed at former date, and the Phiia-
delphia- Brooklyn game was post
poned because of wet grounds.
In the American league, it be-
gan to look as though the New
York Yankees were going to make
a runaway of the pennant race.
They licked the Boston Red Sox
twice, 10 to 5, and 6 to 8, to in
crease their league leadership to
nine and a half games and lessen
the Sox's second place margin to
meagre game over the Detroit
Tigers and the Cleveland Indians
who are tied for third.
The Yanks pounded four hurl-
ers, including Lefty Grove, the
starter, for IA hits to win the
opener. Credit for the victory
went to Lefty Gomez, who gave
way to Pat Malone in the seventh
when the Red Sox began an up
rising. The dark Senior hasn't fin
ished a game for the Yanks since
June 10.
Bump Hadley went the route
for New York in the finale and
was touched for ten hits, but
hurled tight ball in the clinches
to win out. Marcum held the Yam
KEGS to three runs for seven in
nings, then weakened in the 9th
when the New Workers got three
runs across. Rookie Joe Di Mag
gio began the splurge with a tri-
pie. Gehrig, who had homered in
the first game and again in the
second to bring his total to 20 for
the year, was purposely walked,
and Dickey's two-bagger and Sell
kinks single did the rest of the
damage. They were the only
games played in the junior cir
cult, all other contests being called
off because of cold and wet
grounds.