The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-02
MCCARTHY SEEKS 20 GAME EDGE. FOR 1888 TANKS
Boss of World Champs Hopes to Set New Rec-
 ord; Detroit Wins
BY CHOICE KIRKsEY

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, Sept. 2.-(UP)-Can you imagine a baseball manager worrying with 13-game lead in the pennant race and only 30 games to go? Well, that's what Joseph Vincent Mccarthy, dugout genius of the New York Yankees, was do- ing today.
 He isn't fretting over the slight possibility that the Tanks could blow the pennant, but over lost op- portunities of the past two days to achieve one of his pet ambitions. When the Tanks dropped two straight to the Detroit Tigers and had their prodigious lead clipped from Is to 13 games, they put a small crimper in McCarthy's big aspiration to win the pennant by more than 19a games for a new American league record.
 McCarthy's 1887 team finished 1912 games ahead to eclipse by half game the previous record set by Miller Huggins' great Yankee team of 1927. The major league record for the widest victorious margin is 271s games, set by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1902 National league race.
 New Chance
 With the second-piace Boston Red Sox moving into Yankee sta- dium today the Tanks get a fresh opportunity to satisfy McCarthy's keen yen. One of Joe's motives is to increase the prestige of the 1888 Yankees in their comparisons with great teams of the past. Already the chatter in the press box draws parallels between this Yankee ag- and the Tanks of 1927, the Athletics of 1929 and 30, the Tanks of 1923, and other outstand- ing clubs.
 With three Yankee regulars-Sel- kirk, Rolfe and Dickey-nursing in- juries, the world champions fell be- fore the Tigers yesterday, 6-3. It was a rather humiliating defeat in- as Relief Pitcher George Coffman, who hadn't started a game this year, shackled the Yam kee thunder until the ninth. Nerv- ous over his approaching conquest Coffman grew wild and Harry Eis- enstat had to rescue him.
 Monte Pearson, who had won ten straight and pitched a Ilo-hit, mo- run game in his last start, was thumped for ten hits and his first defeat since June 9. One bright ray for the Yankees was the con- unued slugging of young Tommy Heinrich, who belted homer No. q, his seventh in six days.
 The Boston Red Sox beat Buck Newsom and the St. Louis Browns, S-3. Cleveland shellacked the Ath- letics, 11-4, as Bob Teller won No. l3. Chicago's White Sox lambast- ed Washington 11-6, and their manager, Jimmy Dykes announced he would retire as an active play CT at the close of the season.
 Pirates Roll On
 Pittsburgh rolled on toward the National league pennant by blank ing the New York Giants, 60, for 8 seven game lead. The defeat dumped the Giants into fourth place. Bob Klinger, who was out nine days with an ailing arm, held the fading Giants to seven hits to score his ninth win. The brothers Waner made six of the Pirates 12 hits.
 The Chicago Cubs beat the Bos- ton Bees "A. and moved into a tie with the idle Cincinnati Reds for second place. Clay Bryant hung up win No. 14. In the other National league game the Cardinals won from the Phillies, 6-5. It was the fourth straight day they have scored the tally in the final innig.