The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-06
Nine RED SOX
Wins NET End
RUNC PLACE
Cubs Margin Clipped as
They Lose to Phillies,
Giants Win

boston ldSN HlONHlS NNN ~
scored their ninth straight victory
Yesterday and dislodged the Chi
cago White SOx from second place
in American league standings.
The Sox edged the Cleveland
Indians. Sd, 10 sweep the four
game series. Buck Newsom went
the distance, distributing eight
hits, while Boston batSmen nicked
Hudlin for II. The Tribe rallied
in the ninth and scored one run,
but failed to push the tying tally
across when Pytlak, on an at
tempted squeeze play, popped TO
Foxx, who threw Campbell out
for q double play. Boston scored
the winning run in their hall
when Melillo's single scored FoXX.
Pytlak hit q freak homer for
Cleveland-a high fly that Chap
man and Cramer missed and let
roll between them.
The White SoX fell TO third
when they lost their fourth
straight 10 the New York Yam
KEGS. 1873. The YankS were out
hit. 1914. but five of their wal
lops were for extra baseS-in-
GLIDING home runs, "a and 20 by
Lou Gehrig, who drove in five
runs. DiMaggio hit a triple and
two baggers were clouted by
Dickey and Heinrich. Monty STRAIT
ton started for Chicago and had
the Yankees we'll in hand until
he beaned Jake Powell in the
fourth inning. Powell did not lose
consciousness, but was sent TO st.
Elizabeth's hospital to be x-rayed.
Stratton was Shaky after the in
cident and was removed in the
fifth. Brown, who succeeded him,
was charged with the loss.
The Detroit Tigers beSted the
Philadelphia Athletics, 5-3, to
climb within a game and a half
of Chicago. Eden Auker scatter
ed nine hits to the AS. Hank
Greenberg's timely home run in
the eighth inning with FoXx and
Gehringer aboard, clinched the
game. FoXX also hit four-bag-
ger for Detroit, and Johnson got
one for Philadelphia.
St. Louis Browns made 1t two
out of three over the Washing
ton Senators, IA. Four singles,
IA walk and a sacrifice in the sec
ond inning sent the Browns away
to 4 four-run lead and they were
never headed. Koupal who pitch
ed the first seven innings for st.
Louis, was the winner, and Apple
ton, who started for Washington,
the loser.
Chicago's Cubs had another
game Topped off their National
league lead when they dropped
their second straight TO the Phila-
delphia Phillies, 4-2. Bucky Wal
tiers turned the Cubs back with
four hits and the Phils got to
Shoun, Bryant and Root for 10,
clinching the game with a three
run burst in the first inning. A
double, two singles and a pair of
walks off Shoun spelled defeat
for the pace-setters. Martin later
homered for the Pills and DEM
aree hit one for Chicago.
The defeat trimmed their mar
gin TO FIVE games over the New
York Giants who BANKED the
Cincinnati Reds, 20, in a 12-in-
ming struggle. 1t was a duel be-
tween Lefty Lee Grissom and
Clydell Castleman. The latter
scattered eight hits to the Reds,
while the Giants got to GrisSom
for 10, punching four of them in |
the 18th for the decision. A two
Dagger by Leslie and singles by
banning, Ryan and Whitehead
furnished the margin. 1t was Cas-
tleman's first appearance since an
injury July 81, and he still wore
an abdominal brace.
Brooklyn gained an even break
in their four-game series with
Pittsburgh when the Dodgers cap
tured the windup, 90, today. The
Pirates outhit Brooklyn, 1911,
but they made six errors afeld,
three of them coming in the sew
enth which the Dodgers coupled
with three hits that gave them
lead they never relinquished.
Blanton, Brandt and Weaver
worked on the Pirate mound, with
Blanton charged with the loss.
Waite Hoyt went the distance IN
beating his former mates.
Timely hitting and two SC,
Louis Cardinal errors gave the
Boston Bees a Al decision. The
Bees took the lead when Vince
DiMaggio homered in the fourth,
then scored what proved to be
the winning run in the sixth on
singles by. DiMaggio, Cuccinello
and English. Danny MacFayden
went the route for Boston and
tn eancient Jesse Pop Haines who
started for st. Louis and was re-
moved in the seventh for a pinch
hitter, was charged with the loss.