The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-30
NEW WORKERS IN
 STRETCH DRIVE FOR 's7 TENANT
Cubs Lead By .OO2: Brooklyn Out of Cellar;
 Bob Johnson Hero

NOutteu EtesS SSaW C0rreSponuemSD New York, Aug. S0.-(UP)- Rookie Cliff Melton goes gunning for his lHth victory Of the season today against Cincinnati at the Polo Grounds, and if he bags 1t the New York Giants win lead the National league tonight.
 Today's game will climax c drive started hy Memphis Bill Terrys gang on Aug. lc. Since then, they have won i2 out of l5 games and gained six games on the Chicago Cubs who held tho top perch today by .oo2 percentage points, On thc Sklds
 By dropping five out of the;r last six stnrte, beth tho St. Louis Car dinals and the pistseurg Pirates an- pear to he out of the race. The Cards are ' Ia games behind the CasS, and the BucS are 10 games from the top.
 New York held the lesS tor . eou- pie O. hours yesterday after they had beaten the Cincinnati Reds, "a, while the Cubs dropped the first end of Q double-heRder to the Philadel. phia phillles, l0-3. But the Cubs came back to win the second, 2~l, and thus moved back in front by a half game.
 Mulcahy scattered eight safeties to beat the Cubs in the curtain raiser, while Larry French distrih- uted a hAlf-doen to win the nlght~ cap. Frank Demaree's homer with a mate aboard gave Chicago Its winning margin.
 0ne-Hltter for Harrell
 A double by Roy Johnson, Q three- Mgger by Gene Moore, and Ray Mueller's single for two runs in the ninth gave the Boston Bees the first game against St. Louis, S-2 Ray Harrell missed the Hall Of Fame when he blanked the Bees so in the second. Mueller's single in the sixth was the only hit
 Brooklyn climbed out of the eel- lar-above Cineinna-ithy handing Pittsburg double defeat, Waite Hoyt scattered Il hits to take the opener, 6-3, and Luke Hamlin dis- tributed 10 for Q e-S decision in the windup. Oddly, the Dodgers gott he same number of hits as the Pirates in each contest.
 The Yankees increased their American league lead to "a la games. Red Rufilng ehalked up his i7th victory of the year, 7-S, against khA RAApatt VNAoAus neA nAA ANamna singles and dehrig and klogg elout- ed homers for New York; 0reen- berg and Laabs soeked Q pair for Detroit,
 All the other clubs divided double headers. Philadelphia walloped Chicago i6-0, In the opener. They scored l2 runs in the first inning, for Q new high in the initial frame of any American league champion ship game. Bob Johnson hatted in six runs with c homer and 0 single, most any junior circuit hatsman ever elouted across the plate in one stana, 1t also tied the major league record Fred MeFkel set with the New York Giants May lS, 1911. John sons batting ordy did not stop there. He smaeked Q double in the fifth, another homer in the seventh and Q single in the ninth for five hits In six trips. The White sox came back to win the nighteap 6.3.
 Boston blanked the st, Louis Browns a-0 behind the four-hit hurling of ex.Brownie Buck New- som, then sueeumhed s.S in the finale. The Cleveland Indians sunk Washington il-&, but the Senators came back to beat Bob Teller e-2 in the windup.
 YESTERDAYS HERO - Bob Johnson, Philadelphia Athletic left fielder, who drove in siX runs with n hAnnAR and staalA t.a aaA 1aaA,a a.