The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-19
ROOKIE HEAVY CLUB WON LAST
 TWO IN NINTH.
Chandler, Ex-GeOrgia Grid Star, Blanks White SOx;
 Pirates, Cards Won
By GEORGE KIRKSEY Tinted Press Staff C0rresnondeI

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 New York, May 19-(UP)-The Philadelphia Athletics have ceased to be joke. The team that lost 100 games last season and finished in the cellar, hangs on to the Amer ican league lead with grim serious ness.
 Twice in the past two days the Athletics were licked going into the ninth. On Monday they came from behind to score two runs and whip the world champion Yankees, 3-2. Yesterday they staged another eighth inning uprising to score three runs and pluck an 8-7 vic- tory from Detroit. It was the fourth straight victory for the As over the Tigers.
 One of "A year old Connie Mack's rockies yelled at Manager Mickey Cochrane from the dugout: Hey, Mickey, don't you wish you were back catching for Philadelphia" That crack seems to have sized up the situation from all angles. The As are clicking on all cylinders and making the most of their opportu- mites. The Tigers are laundering badly playing only at 800 gait.
 Detroit led 7-5 when the As came to bat in the eighth. Eldon Auker walked Marty Peters, hit Wally Moses with a pitched ball and then he famed Bob Johnson. But Alfred Lovill (Chubby) Dean Ono relation to Dizzy) hit home run over the right field fence, and that punch decided the game. Frank Hayes, As catcher, hit homer with one man on in the fourth. Harry Kelly went the route, win ming his third game.
 Spud Chandler, former Univer- sity of Georgia football star, kept the Yankees at the As heels-half a game separating them-by blank ing the Chicago White Sox, 40. It was the sixth shutout of the American league season, the others being pitched by Stratton @, Gill, Pearson and Andrews. Lou Gehrig hit his second homer of the season. Ted Lyons pitched seven innings for the White Sox, allowing seven hits and being charged with the defeat.
 Errors by Domenic Dallasandro, midget rookie outfielder, and Eric McNair, in the ninth started four run rally enabling Cleveland to trim the Boston Red Sox, "A. The Indians used four pitchers in the ninth to head off Red Sox rally. Bob Teller made his first. ap- pearance since he injured his arm, as relief man, but was yanked after walking a man. Lyn Lary had a perfect day at bat, getting A for A." Jimmy Foxx hit homer with one man on.
 Washington climbed from the cellar to sixth place by nosing out the St. Louis Browns, 7-6. After scoring the tying run in the eighth, Stone opened the ninth with a sim gle, was sacrificed to second by Al Simons and tallied the winner on Millies' one-base blow.
 The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals remained three and half games apart when both won yesterday in the only two National league games not rained out. The leading Buccaneers trounced the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, behind Cy Blanton's six hit pitching. It was Blanton's fourth win, and Lon Warneke scored his fifth victory of the season by scattering eight hits to defeat the New York Giants, 43.
 YESTERDAYS HERO = Lowell (Chubby) Dean who hit a home run with two men aboard in the eighth to give the Athletics a 8-7 victory over the Tigers and retain their A