Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-12 | Page 13 | Phils Break Card's Eight -Game Victory Streak with 2-1 Win

PHILS BREAK REAK CARDS CARD'S EIGHT EIGHT- GAME EIGHT VICTORY STREAK WITH 2 1 WIN 1 c c f k jc 5 4 t it j KLEIN MATES REVERSE 30 POLICY OF WASTING BLOWS Giants Rest One Game Behind Top St. St Louis Club Pirates Beat Robins By GAYLE TALBOT JR I Associated Press Sports Writer r Mana Manager cr Burt Shot Shotton ton has his Ills Philadelphia Phillies using an entirely entirely en en- different s system stem this season j and they arc are Getting Get get- 1 ting Ung surprisingly i. i good results re r Last year ear the Phils went In for bushels of hits In Including in- in eluding doubles 1 triples and homers hom horn horners ers erSt but the they y I didn't score in I proportion The result was that if they led the National National Na- Na Na Na- league in in l hitting and were ere a strong stroD eighth in inthe inthe the final club I i f J standing f This year ear however how how- how pj f feer ever er Shotton has his boys going atit at atIt atit it differently With such sluggers as ns s Lefty ODoul and Fresco Thompson Thomp Thomp- son on gone the 1931 Phils are not getting getting get get- ting as many hits but they are getting getting get set ting them where they count learing leaving leaving leav lear ing fewer men on base and winning more ball games COLLECT FIVE HITS lilTS BUT WIN BALL GAME For instance they collected only five hits yesterday but they cut aUthe off aU the game eight-game winning streak of the St. St Louis Cardinals 2 to 1 Chuck Klein hit lilt his sixth homer of the year to tie the score In the sixth inning Then big bg Buzz Arlett Arett got goton goton goton on f second cond and Les Mallon rookie Infielder In- In fielder brought him in with a n. lusty double With Phil Collins turning the Cards back round after round that was all the Phillies needed Wild Bill Hallahan was the victim of the winners' winners concerted attack Their loss to the re reduced reduced re- re the Cardinals' Cardinals lead over o the New York Giants to a single game Cold weather at New York kept the theand Giants and Chicago Cubs Indoors and anti gae gaie Manager Rogers Hornsby of the J 1 team an opportunity to speculate on what had happened to his hitters He admitted that being held to eight hits itt In two games sames with the Giants was bad business but de denIed denied de- de nied a a. rumor that he planned to bench Hack Wilson the hard hitting outfielder I Braving the chill chili winds on the opposite bank of the East river the Pittsburg Pirates and Brooklyn Robins got in the days day's only other I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f I 1 1 1 I National league contest Heine Helne Memo let the Robins down l with five Uve hits to give ghe the Pirates their second straight victory 4 to 2 The invaders bunched four hits of off Vance to score ECore three runs and sew it up In the tha fourth Only one American league tilt lilt survived the epidemic of rain min and c cold ld the Washington Senators burying buryIn burying bury bury- In ing Detroit under an avalanche of ot hl hits 14 to 4 Ossle Ossie Bluege led tho the hit 13 assault on four tour Tiger pitchers pitch pitch- ers era with a homer double and ond two singles Kuhel had a a. double and two singles and Joe Cronin a homer and single Carl Fischer went the route for the Senators to score core his third victory