Show I 1 CALLIES AGAIN SUBDUE VIKING 4 TO 2 IN REPLAYED TILT TIL T I t MACKS MACK'S BIG FIVE RETURNS TO CHAMPIONSHIP CONDITION Grove Grote Foxx bo Si Simmons 1 lons Cochrane Star as As A's Take Lead Over Oyer Yanks By Br Leo Petersen NEW YORK My 13 UP The UP-The ThC The Philadelphia Athletics whose early the season slump caused fear that world champions of 1929 and 1930 had finally cracked crack ed cd ed were back bac In 4 their familiar familial pod j I flea tion of first lace lacen In n the American league toda today k 4 Q margin I Although their margin over o the the I second place New NewYork 1 I York Yankees is I only a few percentage percent percent- age points It Is Is- Is j enough to indicate f that the Athletics arc are far from t r through as cham tr cham-tr l cont contend contend- contend nd t CIS ern C It has been a slow and gradual ris rise for tor Connie Macks Mack's men ever since sine they looked so helpless In dropping three contests of their four game four series eries with the Washington Senators to start off the 1931 campaign The reason for the Athletics' Athletics poor showing showIng show show- Ing then was apparent the apparent the big five wasn't clicking PITCHERS SLOW IN REACHING CONDITION CONDITIO Lefty Grove Gro and George Georgc Earnshaw were slow to round into form Jimmy Fo Foxx X was injured Mickey Cochrane had lost his pepper behind the plate and was falling down in his hitting and Al AI Simmons was Just another batter balter until two weeks ago But the big five Is In form now or at least four of or them arc are Ask Pat Caraway and his teammates of the Chicago White Sox If U you ou dont don't believe belle it Grove Foxx Simmons and Coch Cochrane rane ranc combined yesterday yest to elevate Philadelphia to the top of ot the league by trimming Chicago 5 to 2 Grove Gro allowed but four hl hits Simmons hit his fifth home run of ot the year car Fo Foxx X got three singles driving In two runs and Cochrane was his old self behind the pIa plate tee TIGERS WHIP RED SOX BY 2 TO 0 I Only one other American league game was pla played cd the Detroit Tigers besting the Boston Red Sox 2 to 0 O. I I I I It was Boston's first defeat In Intersectional Inter Inter- lIt sectional competition this year ear the Red Sox previously preciously having won three In a row from Cleveland Vic Sorrell allowed nine scattered hits hilts while the Tigers received but six ot off Ru Russell ell elland and Lisenbee They combined three I II of these to score core the on only l runs of the I game In the fourth Inning Owen I and Stone singled and Ha Hayworth's double brought them horn hom home Rain and wet grounds caused the postponement of the Washington Washington- lon Cleveland and aud the New Y York York-St ork St St. Louis Louls contests Three National league contests were vere called off off St St Philadelphia Louis Brooklyn Brooklyn Pitts Pitts Pittsburgh burgh and New York cago In the only games played In the senior circuit the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds broke even in a header double the Braves winning the first 4 to 2 and the Reds the sec second second ond 3 to 2 |