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Show PDESATESp nMYg (5)M mW XIEELll Bucs Reveal Hit Barrage In ll Games Br SID FF.DF.R Associated Preaa Sport Writer Don't sell thai Pirate ihort. Pi Trynor' lcepwlkera aren't aomnambulating any more. The idea may finally have penetrated that you hav to keep punching to win ball tame, or maybe Pi hinuelf 1 t laat getting tough with the boy. Whatever it ia, the Buc from Pittsburgh hav suddenly become a hot a the weather. And, with the Cub faltering, they're joining the Giant in making a strictly two-fitd two-fitd brawl of It for the National league flag. As thing stood today, the .Cubs War only two game In front of the aa-aaa-s- ." I -- ' Pie Traynor . . . Hia Pirate ball club finally wakea up and I now a definite title threat In the Aational league. galloping Giants, while the Pirate, in fourth place and only half a game behind St. Louis, were some five game back of Mis New Yorkers. The momentary breathing spell the Cubs enjoyed after Thursday's victory didn't laat nearly long enough for them, for they dropped a 4-4 decision to the Red last night In Cincinnati. This setback, eoupled with the Giants' 21-hit, 13-6 win ever the Phillies and the Pirates' 7-4 edge over the Cardinals Cardi-nals on yesterday's bill, made it a horse from a different garage, as they say on Delancey atreet. The Pirate' particular need at the moment is pitching prowess. If those throwers ever return to the form they displayed earlier in the season, and hook up with the hitting hit-ting dynamite the Bucs are exploding explod-ing all over the place these days, the Pirates will be about the toughest But to crack in the league. They've been coming back with th apeed of a rubber check since they began their current drive 11 day ago. In that stretch they've taken eight decisions in 11 games, relying strictly on a batting bombardment bom-bardment that has netl-ed 126 hits, an average of better than 11 per game. They wer given their best pitching pitch-ing in a week yesterday, when Cy Blanton turned in a six-hitter and fanned seven in muffling the Cards, although a 15-hic attack on th part cf his mate didn't exactly do him any harm. For the one day, however, the blast set off by the galloping Ciiant against the faltering Phillies Phil-lies topped everything In sight. Rill Terry' Terrier turned loose their biggest offensive of the season sea-son In running up 13 runs en 21 hits, deaplte the breaks that aide-lined aide-lined Dick Kartell with an ailing ankle, Cyde Caatleman because of the heat and Dick Coffman with spiked foot. Psul Derringer personally accounted ac-counted for th arc light decision ever th Cub by driving in five run, thereby making th Chicago lead as slim as a reducing diet. Th Ysnkees stretched their American leagu margin to 12' games when Bill Dickey's tenth inning in-ning homer gave them an 4-7 edge ever, the Athletics. The second place Tigers received a thorough going ever and lost to th Browns, 11-4. Th Indiana topped th Whit Sox, 7-4. on Earl AveriU'a homer. The Senators socked the Red Sox. 1-1, and th Bee nosed out th Brooklyn Brook-lyn Dodger. 6-5. |