Evening star., 1938-05-30
DESERTS
LEADING INDIANS
Temporary Loss Of Fe|Ier
and Hems|ey Is 0minous.
Terrymen Gain.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ASSOClatcQ FTcSS SpOrLS WrlLer.
You can look for trouble around the
Cleveland Indians wigwam almost
any day now.
The Tribe has benefited by good
luck as well as good baseball in its
march to the top Of the American
League standing Barring a couple Of
headaches when rollicking Rollie
Hemsley strayed of the reservation.
Manager Oscar Witt has escaped the
injuries and other difficulties that
have beset his rivals. But now it looks
as if hard luck finally has reached
Cleveland's doorstep.
Hemsley suffered a broken finger or
his right hand yesterday at st. Louis
and will be out of action 10 days or
more. Bob Feller. to whom Rollie
has been a great help this season. has
been troubled by strained back for
more than a week. And the question
seems to be who or what next?"
The schedule shows one next" to
be two-week tour of the East, where
the next three teams in the standing
are lurking, after today's holiday
double-header against Chicagos hard
luck champs. the White Sox A
healthy Feller -Hemsley battery would
come in very handy on that jaunt.
Griffs Helpful to Tribe.
To make it just little tougher, the
Indians lost yesterdays game to the
Browns and Buck Newsom, 8-6. They
preserved their ~ game lead only
because the Boston Red Sox took
5-3 setback from Washingtons fast
climbing Senators. Newsom, though
in difficulties in the third, gave up
only eight hits and whitfield seven
while the cellar dwellers hammered
four Cleveland fingers. Homers by
jeff Heath and Earl Averill brought
in three Indian tallies
Washington, ringing up its 10th
victory in 81 home games, moved into
third place as Wes Ferrell pitched
expertly to gain his seventh victory
of the year. The Senators moved a
half game ahead Of the New York
Yankee. who dropped an ll-9 slugfest
to the Philadelphia Athletics. The AS
put together rallies of six runs in the
third and four in the seventh to over
come the steady Yank slugging.
The fourth American League game
saw Boots Poffenberger. hurting four
hit ball, shade Monty Stratton in q
mound duel to give Detroit its third
straight over Chicago, 2-l.
Giants Gain on Cubs.
In the National League things were
calmer as the New York Giants,
matching winning streaks with the
Chicago Cubs in their two-club race,
pushed their lead to 31a games.
Scoring four times of Bucky
Walters in the first, the Giants beat
out the Phillies. rs. to gain their
fifth straight triumph. An eight
inning homer by Substitute Mickey
Haslin was the winning run.
The Cubs lost. 81. to Pittsburgh's
Pirates as Arky vaughan's homer and
double accounted for both Buccaneef
tallies in an elbowing argument be-
tween Red Lucas and Larry French.
1t was only the second loss in IL
games for Chicago.
Fred Fitzsimmons outpitched Lou
Fette to give Brooklyn l3-inning
1-to-0 triumph over the Boston Bees.
who lost their first extra -inning game
on their home grounds this season.
Fitz gave up only three hits before
he went out for a pinch hitter in the
18th.
Another fine flinging job enabled
the st. Louis Cardinals to whip Cln-
cinnati, 80, as Bob Weiland gave up
only two blows and didn't let q runner
reach second.