The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-26
BRUINS LEAD
GAMES now
Shutout By Giants; Yanks,
Chisox Split Twin Bill
,.'. Sunday H-n

The New York Giants salvaged
their last game Of the series
against the Chicago Cubs yester-
day and scored a SO shutout to
trim the Bruins National league
lead to two games.
Harry Gumbert, working in his
first complete game in 10 starts,
turned the Cubs back with six
hits, all singles. Harry Danning's
home run off Bill Lee and Wally
Bcrger's eight inning circuit
clout with two mates aboard off
Lefty Shoun featured the Giants
nine hit attack.
The third place Pittsburgh Pr
rates dropped both ends of Il dou-
blc-header to the Boston Bees,
So and rs. Guy Bush held the
Bucs to five hits in the opener,
and Lou Fcttc received credit for
nightcap triumph although he was
relieved for "A pinch-hitter in
Boston's big sixth inning assault
in which they scored four runs to
90 out ahead Of the Pirates. 1t
was Fctte's 18th triumph of the
wear and Boston's seventh
straight. :,
The St. Louis Cardinals and
Brooklyn Dodgers played a pair
of extra inning struggles, the
Dodgers winning the opener, 6-5,
in Trimmings, the finale ending
up in a TT tie, called at the end
'of the 18th because of darkness.
After the Cards had scored two
runs i'm the ninth to tic the first
game, and tally another pair in
the 18th to go ahead, Tom Win
sett pied a homerun with two
mates aboard to give Brooklyn
the decision. 81 johnson, third
Card pitcher, was the loser; Ham
lin, who relieved Fitzsimmons in
the ninth, the winner. In the
nightcap, it was the Dodgers who
scored a pair in the ninth to
force the game into overtime.
Cincinnati and Philadelphia di-
vided twin bill, the eds polling
out - hits to swamp the Pills,
1873 in the opener, then succumb-
ing 7-3 to Lamastcr's siX-hit pitch
ing in the nightcap.
In the American league, the
leading Yankees and Chicago
White Sox divided. The Yanks
snapped three game losing
streak by taking the opener l2-ll,
then the Sox came back to take
the second, rs, behind the eight
hit pitching of Monty Stratton.
Bill Dickey hit two home runs in
the first game and DiMaggio and
Crosetti each got one. Rookie
outfielder Tom Heinrich, clouted
for the circuit with a mate aboard
in the sixth inning Of the night
cap to tie the score for the
YankS, then blasted another with
two on in the eighth to send New
York ahead. But the SoX match
ed those three, then Tailed again
in the ninth to win.
The split left Chicago five
games behind New York and one
tilt ahead of the Detroit Tigers
who licked the Philadelphia Athle-
tics, 1919. Play in this scheduled
doubleheader was halted by rain
after six innings of the opener.
The Tigers collected 13 hits. in
GLIDING homers by Greenbcrg,
Walker and Bolton. Peters hon.
er was one of the II hits garner
ed off Poffenberger and Gill by
the AS.
Rain also interrupted the dou-
ble-header at Cleveland. The
first game was halted at the end
of the fifth with the Boston Red
Sox leading, Al, and the second
was abandoned. Lefty Grove al
lowed but two hits to win. He
retired the first 10 men to face
him before Manager Joe Cronin
fumbled Julius Solters grounder
in the fifth. Bruce Campbell and
Sammy Halle followed the misplay
with singles to produce Cleve-
lands only run. Chapman and
Higgins hit home runs for Bos-
ton.
The Washington Senators went
on a field day and walloped the
st. Louis Browns, 1910, and Is
5, for their second doubleheader
victory in two days. They beat
the Browns 6-5, 6-5 Saturday.
Yves Terrell coasted to victory
in the opener allowing Ia hits
while the Senators raked four st.
Louis hurlers for % including
homers by Kukel and Armada.
Jimmy Deshong scattered IL safe
ties in the finals, in which the
Senator's collected II. including a