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Show September Dash Likely As Cubs Start Slipping NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (L'.K) Another thrilling: September dash to the wire seemed in prospect today for the National league. The Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants were certain to be in it and the St. Louis Cardinals Cardin-als and Pittsburgh Pirates also might crowd in. The Cubs have the wabbles and are rapidly squandering their lead. They've lost eight out of their last 14 games and their lead has been trimmed to four games. They hit the road today for 16 days and many a Cub team of the past has gone to pieces playing abroad with a pennant in sight. The Giants have perked up. Mel Ott has made the infield. The return of Dandy Dick Bartell at shortstop has put life in the club. Without him the Giants are dead. New York's starting hurlers have completed 13 out of their last 18 games. Only two Cub pitchers 'have gone the route in the last 10 games. Even the Yanks have hit the skids. They did the unheard of by losing three in a row to the last-place Athletics the first three game series they've lost all season. One fan, playing a hunch, won $560 by betting $10 the A's would sweep the series. To bolster the Yanks' wobbling wob-bling pitching staff Ivy Paul Andrews has been landed via the tvaiver route from Cleveland. He's the only pitcher to shut out the Yanks this season. With yesterday an off-day t'he only development was the signing of Jimmy Dykes to a two-year contract to manage the Chicago White Sox in 1933 and 1939. Dykes took over a last-place outfit out-fit and by constantly instilling the will-to-win into a gang of mediocre players accomplished miracles with them. More than half his team were castoffs. |