Evening star., 1940-07-27
Score g Runs
In Five Games
To Bag -Four
Humble Mucks Whock
Tiger Margin; Yonks'
Chandler q Bombino
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer.
If the class in baseball history
will please come to order, the pro-
lessons lecture today will have to do
with those Laughing Boys from
Wrigley Field
1t takes only very small din
into recent records to show that in
the last five years or so, just about
the time a club figured it had the
National League flag all polished up
and nailed to its mast, those Chicago
Laughing Boys got hot in the
stretch to make trouble
There was that time in '38. for in
stance, when the Pittsburgh Pirates
had all arrangements made for the
World Series at Forbes Field. even
to the extra hot-dog stands. Along
came the Laughing Boys with 20 out
OF Is In August, a dozen more in
September-and the ,Buc balloon
was busted, like the bag full of egg,
you dropped.
Then, in '36, they sizzled in Sep
tember to finish a fast looming sec
ond to the Giants. And who in tn.
class forgets '35, when the Cubs
poured it on at the end with q
straight to take the flag?
Cubs Slaughter Giants.
Now, this hardly is the spot to
bring up that gag about history re-
peating, what with the Cincinnati
Reds riding along there 3D. games
In front of the pack. after yester-
days 9-5 decision over the Phillies.
And it's still much too early for the
Cubs to be beginning their regular
stretch drive, if that's what thev
have in mind. However. since there
doesn't seem to be any other club
around ready to give the Rhine
landers a tussle for the title. VOL
might read between the lines of the
handwriting on the wall in the Cubs
doings of late.
They've just finished taking four
out OF their last five. They've scored
SO runs in that stretch. topping the
whole thing off with a gaudv 14-1
decision over the New York Giants
Yesterday, an explosion that left
sweet William Terry's Terrible Ter
Tlers somewhat shellshocked. Nand
| with only a one-game hold on third
place in front of Gabby Hartnett's
crew.
one OF the most hilarious Of the
Laughing Boys. Lefty Larry French.
was the big noise. Lefty Larry and
Gabby seem to have made up their
little fuss of year or so ago. It
appeared like it yesterday. anyway,
for Lefty Larry tossed a neat seven
hitter at the Terriers and banged
four runs home himself with three
singles.
Detroit's Margin Shaved.
The Reds. meantime. were doing
that thing to the poor Phillies again.
Kirby Higbe had the champions
standing on their ears for six
frames, but they lit the fuse under
him in the seventh, scored four runs
and coasted in with Pious Paul Der
ringers 14th win fthe year.
Terry Moore belted two homers a,
the high light Of the get-together
between the st. Louis Cardinals and
the Brooklyn Dodgers, but rain
forced halt in the 10th, and they
wound up in a Sail deadlock. Ken
HeintZelman left-handed the Boston
Bees silly and tossed the Pittsburgh
Pirates to 90 whitewash win with
a flve-hit performance
Detroit's American League lead
was shaved to half a game, by (of all
folks, the Philadelphia Athletics.
George Caster was hot when he had
to be and pitched an Shit, IA vic
tory.
The New York Yankees, invading
Chicago for night game before a
roaring crowd of 48,104, seemed like
the real thing for a change as they
whipped the White Sox, 1872 Spud
Chandler not only pitched Shit ball
in this one, but hit pair of homers
himself-one with the bases loaded.
The Boston Red Sox also broke out
their hitting bats and climbed all
over the st. Louis Browns, 14-7. Ted
Williams hit two homers and Joe
Cronin and Jim Tabor one apiece.