Show r Defensive Leaks Leals H Hurt urn Favored First Four Swat Ball But Tumble NATIONAL LEAGUE Won Ln Lost r ret t. t St. St I. I L ul 2 Est 0 look 1000 New Nw Nework York ork 2 0 O 1000 Chit Chicago 1 0 1000 Philadelphia 1 1 OO Boston orn 1 1 SOO t 0 1 ono Brooklyn Cincinnati U. U O 0 g 0 2 2 Wednesday Insults 10 New York ork 3 Brooklyn 1 Boston 4 Philadelphia 1 ft at t. t Louts loul 4 4 Cincinnati 2 at Chicago postponed wet AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 2 0 1000 Boston 2 0 1000 se St Louts Loul 1 0 O 1000 1 i 1 i noo Cleveland 1 1 OO New ew fork Vork 1 2 Detroit 0 1 a 0 0 3 s Remits Philadelphia 10 New Nework York ork 7 Chicago 0 Cle Cleveland Cleeland eland 0 G. Detroit 1 St. St 8 I Washington 7 Boston 8 12 Innings Inninge By GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK April 17 UP UPA uPA uP- uP A Bro Brooklyn klyn fan leaving Ebbets field after his beloved Dodgers the bums had lost their second straight to the hated Giants said himself a mouthful You cant can't believe a thing dese experts write nowadays he mum mum- bled I 1 thought our Dodgers gonna run off wid the pennant The Dodger fans fan's sentiments probably were echoed at Yankee stadium Cincinnati and Detroit after the second day of the baseball baseball base- base ball jail season The Yanks dropped their heir second straight to the Athletics Ath- Ath l tics picked to wind up in the cellar The World Champion Reds tripped over the Cardinals for the second straight day The American Ameri Ameri- can league Champion Tigers with their heir ace of aces 01 Ol Bobo Newsom Newsom New- New som om himself on the mound were routed by the Browns in their ini initial start The Th Dodgers Yanks Reds and Tigers rated as four of baseballs baseball's strongest clubs have won only one game among them in eight starts Class Will Tell To be frank about it they all have looked horrible But its it's a along along long ong season and class will tell over the he route Giving a once aver over lightly treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment to the cause of the big fours four's defeats we find The Dodgers are showing defensive defensive sive ive flaws that must be remedied The Reds got one sloppily pitched game ame and developed a defensive leak eak in the other The Yankees' Yankees pitching leaves much to be desired The Tigers' Tigers loss is easily explained ex ex- Buck Buck Newsom is not in shape to go nine Innings and may not be until May So much for the early downfall of the betting favorites and champs champs and and they are not to be beaken betaken betaken taken aken too seriously seriously lets lets let's look at athe atthe atthe the he leaders In the National league eague t the h e maligned Giants and the hustling Cardinals are away winging and in the American league the Boston Red Sox who are in form having used seven pitchers in two games ames and Philadelphia Athletics are setting the pace with a pair of victories each Sloppy Pitching Sloppy Yankee pitching paved the he way for the Athletics' Athletics second straight win at Yankee stadium yesterday 10 7 Dick Seibert hit two wo homers and Bob Johnson one onen in n a hit 13 attack on Breuer Murphy Murphy Mur- Mur phy hy Peek and Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio Di- Di Maggio clouted a foot homer two wo doubles and a single Little Phil shil Rizzuto smacked a double and two wo singles Cleveland annexed its first wih win winy by y defeating the White Sox 6 0 behind Al two-hit two pitching pitch- pitch ing ng Hal Trosky hit a homer with two on and Roy Weatherly hit one with one on The Browns drove Newsom who tired ired badly after seven innings to cov cover r in the eighth scoring eight runs off Buck and Trout to beat the Tigers 8 8 81 1 Rudy York hit a foot homer for Detroit's Detroit's De De- De- De troit's only run Bobby Doerr's homer with one on and Jim Tabors Tabor's with none on enabled the Red Sox Sax to score three runs In the ninth The Sox then went ent on to beat Washington 8 7 in m the twelfth Pete Foxs Fox's single drove in the winning run The Giants beat the Dodgers for the second straight day 3 1 with Harry Gumbert Brooklyn's Brook Brook- lyns lyn's Kirby Higbe r rS S S 5 5 Y A I I I Y b F 4 i 55 ei y tl Fc 1 w Dick Siebert His lIis two home runs help Athletics score second straight win over Yankees |