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Show YANKEES TIED FOR TOP PLACE NBv YOHK, July 5 il'.lli- The champion New York win i" ' , , . , , v nkt'cs were back on funulhir : : .iiiiipii'K 8'mi1 today ut the of the American league pen- X niiit race. True, they had to .share the top ; ,t with the Cleveland Indians, ' hut it W11S '"ie c"mmK bncl b"nie (,r the Yanks who have held a '. Jj'rtiwl monopoly on first position (or the last two seasons. " until today, the Yanks hadn't boon in first place but once this u, TCar and tlwt wlls 011 Ml,y 11 when they held a half game lend '' over Washington. The Senators took over the lead the next day ,iid Boston came to the top two davs later tp hold it until the jpt'li when the Indians moved in. Tribe U'ad Dwindles '; At times the Tribe's margin 1" dwindled to a half-game and at other times was up as much as 44. It began to go down steadily on June 25th when the Yankees began a nine-game winning streak that wasn't broken until yesterday when they were held to j 13-inning 4-4 tic by the Washington Wash-ington Senators in the second ame of a doubleheader. The Yankees had taken the first game 10-5 although Red Ruffing had to be relieved in the seventh. It was the first time a Yankee pitcher had failed to go the route since their winning streak began. It looked like Bump Hadley was going to pitch the Yanks into undisputed lead of the league when he went into the last bait of the ninth with a 4-2 lead, but the Senators put on a two-run uprising to create a 4-4 deadlock dead-lock that never was broken. The game had to be called on account of darkness. The single victory allowed the Yankees to gain 1V games on the Indians who were knocked over twice by the Detroit Tigers, victims vic-tims of three straight losses to the last place St. Louis Browns before the Cleveland series began. be-gan. The Tigers won yesterday V-3 and 5-2. Elden Auker out-pitched out-pitched Bob Feller in the opener, limiting the Indians to six hits, and Harry Eisenstat turned in a five-hit performance for the nightcap victory. |