Evening star., 1938-04-29
GROVE IS MASTER
Of DIAMOND KINGS
Yields Only Five Hits as
Bosox Win-Terrymen Cop
With Leiber's Homer.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Robert Moses Grove is getting gray
around the temples and he no longer
can rear back and fog his fast ball
past the batters for inning after
inning, but the tall southpaw at SO
still is one of baseball's master
craftsmen.
It's treat to watch him work now.
particularly if you happen to have
been away from the big league ball
yards for five years. The last time
you saw him he was with the Athletics,
binding the batters with his speed.
Now he is with the Boston Red Sox,
his phenomenal smoke ball all but
thing of the past, yet he is in some
ways greater figure on the mound.
Watching him throttle the Yankees
yesterday, 6 to l, with five hits, it
occurred that he had been forced to
learn to pitch all over again. Only
a half-dozen times die he cut loose
with the remnant of his fast one. The
rest of the time Lefty was battling the
Yanks with a sweeping curve. i'm
maculate control and change of
pace he would have spurned in the
days when he was blowing men down.
Gehrig Again Helpless.
He held Lou Gehrig hitless in three
official times at bat. running the
highest-salaried players total to three
hits in "a times at the plate. Lou
perhaps for the first time in his
life is getting chorus of Bronx cheers
(the authentic Variety every time he
shows at the rubber.
While the veteran Grove was doing
all this to the Yanks and knocking
them out of the first division, his
teammates piled into Lefty Gomez
for all their runs in the first four in
nings. Roger Cramer led the at
tack with three solid smacks. When
the Yanks finally did threaten Grove
in the last of the ninth, getting two
on with none out, they were stopped
by triple play, FoxX to Cronin to
Foxx. that ended the contest. 1t was
a beauty
Hank Leiber, the seasons outstand-
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into undisputed possession of the Ma
tional League lead with a first-inning
home run at Boston that scored two
ahead of him. The Giants won by
to 2 Hal Schumacher, who barely
missed no-hitter his last time out,
limited the Bees to five hits.
Medwick Checks Pirates.
Ducky Medwick returned to the ST.
Louis Cardinals lineup. after having
loosed stinging vocal blast at his
former teammate, Dizzy Dean, and
drove across two runs with a triple
to help give the Pittsburgh Pirates
their second setback, 5 to 3.
That dropped the Pirates into Sec
ond notch, and the Chicago Cubs took
over third place by blasting the Gin
cinnatl Reds, II to 5, as Bill Lee held
the Reds helpless until the ninth It
hasn't taken the National League long
to get down to cases.
Although outhit. Brooklyn was able
to bunch its blows and shove the
Phillies little deeper into the cellar,
6 to g. Max Butcher. who was sus-
pended the other day for breaking
training, returned to the Dodgers
lineup to spellbind the Phils for the
last four frames and hit a home run
in the eighth.
Indians Maintain Pace.
With their victory over the Ath-
letics, the Nationals kept hot on the
trail of Cleveland for the American
League top, only half-game behind.
Home runs by Ken Keltner, Lyn Larry
and Godfrey Heath helped the In
dians beat the st. Louis Browns, II
to 6, in free-hitting game
Detroit was leading the Chicago
White Sox, to 0, when rain caused
their game to be postponed in the
fourth.