Evening star., 1937-05-24
TOO WEAK T0LEAD,
BUT AS MAKEPACE
Trim Browns as Yanks Stop
,Tribe-Giants Get Four
in Ninth, Beat BUGS.
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Eress Sports Writer.


)ONN1E MACK, who's been
I pulling rabbits out of hats
for years to the astonlhment
OF his American League enc
mics, is doing it with mirrors now.
After looking over, under and
around those amazing Athletics, their
batting averages, fielding frolics and
likely looking set Of young pitchers.
there doesn't appear any other answer
to what's holding them up there.
AS team, they're hitting last in
the league, now that the Yankees
have started pounding that apple.
They're fielding 1868, sixth in the loop.
Until this week end, Wally Moses was
the only .300-hitting regular in the
lineup. Now Bob johnson has joined
him, Only one other Is over 29o.
Yet, there they are, up front in the
American League drivers seat-a coll
lection of 100-to-l shots that weren't
supposed to bat in the same league
with such powerhouses as the Yanks,
Tigers and Indians. 1t just doesn't
add up, unless that old magician Mack
is weaving his spell again.
Hayes Homer Starts As.
THERE may be some sort Of ex-
planauon in the fact that they've
demonstrated an uncanny ability to
make their own breaks. Inning after
inning they'll go along behind. Then
| things start to pop-and out come
the AS Cast year they were called
bush leaguers) or top. But that Ger.
tainly doesn't account for the fact
that they've won is OF "a games to
date
Yesterday, however, they didn't fool
around. Frankie Hayes (batting aver
age, .255) stepped up to the plate in
| the third inning with two mates
aboard and slapped one of Oral Hill
debrands slants out Of the lot, paw
ing the way for 60 win over the
sinking st. Louis Browns, to cash in
on Harry Kelleys six-hit pitching Job.
The victory left them just a per.
centage shade over the Yankees, who
Walloped Cleveland's Indians, 7-3,
with George Selkirk scoring his
seventh homer, as 59,492 fans, biggest
crowd OF the season, looked on. The
Is hits the Yanks collected, added to
their 16 Of Saturday and l3 OF Fri
day, left little doubt that the swat
squad Is once more teeing OF. II the
Athletics pitching lasts, therefore,
the A'sYanks series in Yankee Sta
dunn next week end, shapes up as the
t1p-of on just how far Mack's phAn-
tom Philadelphians are going.
Giants Win in Ninth.
NEW YORK'S Giants pulled one
out Of the fire in their opener
at Pittsburgh in topping the Bucs,
SIS. For eight innings Cy Blanton
had them buffaloed In the ninth
they connected for four runs and the
ball game.
Dizzy Dean, making his first start
since last weeks battle of st. Louis"
gave up II hits, but still was good
enough to top the Phillies. So, there
by dropping the Quaker City sluggers
into the National League cellar. since
the Cincinnati Reds whipped Brook.
lyn, So, to pull up to seventh.
Detroit downed Washington to take
over third place in the American
League. The Chicago White Sox went
10 innings before betting the Boston
Red Sox, GA, with a three-run splurge
in the extreme frame.
Charley Root turned in the days
best pitching effort, handcufing the
Boston Bees with five hits and seven
strikeouts for an ILL win for the
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