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Show Detroit In Stride Detroit has been coming fast in the last month, and is regarded regard-ed as the team to beat in the American League race. Schoolboy School-boy Rowe has bolstered the pitching pitch-ing staff by winning his last two games, allowing only nine hits in beating the Red Sox. 4-1, and the Athletics, 13-3. Tommy Bridges, only major leaguer with ten victories, has won nine consecu- , tive games. With three straight .victories over the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, the New York j Giants hope to increase their National Na-tional League lead by halting the rush of the second-place Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Pirates. TIGERS PURSUE LEADINGYANKS Detroit Regarded Now As Teams to Beat In American Ameri-can League NEW YORK, June 10 l'.H Baseball attention today was focused fo-cused on Navin field, Detroit, where the New York Yankees hope to beat back the challenge of the Tigers in the American League pennant race. They play 4 games in" three days with a doubleheader today. The Yanks hold a 4Vj game lead over the White tiox. Tigers and Indians, virtually tied for second place. The White Sox have a .005 per cent advantage because of the difference in the number of games played. The Yankees have won six of seven games on their western trip, taking five of six from the St. Louis Browns and winning one game from the White Sox. When they went west the Yanks had .only one .300 hitter. Notf they have three, Ben Chapman, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey. i |