Show Weak Sister Red Sox Win Four of Six Games With Western Outfits Athletics Yanks Continue Neck to Neck Race With Victory Gehrig Swats 2 Homers i By B Leo Petersen NEW YORK YORK ORK I May ay 15 UP UP The The Boston Red Sox Sos considered the weak sister of the American league are more than holding their own against the western clubs In their circuit Boston after losIng losing losing los los- ing 11 of or 17 games against a g a ins t eastern clubs opened its i intersectional intersect n t e r see t ional h. h competition b by y giving the championship championship cham chim- aspirations aspirations it of the Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- Cleveland land Indians a se severe severe se- se vere setback The 3 Indians who had piled up a t i Lou Vi Gehrig tia lead against western rn teams dropped three in a arow arow arow row to the Reel Red Sox and slipped sUpped into the second division After Arter their success at Cleveland the he Red Sox Sax moved mo on to th Detroit where they lost the first two contests contests con con- tests 2 to 0 and 2 to 1 They came back and walloped the Tigers 4 to 3 3 yesterday however to give them themI thema a I record of four victories against two defeats in competition with western ag aggregations Boston bunched five hits or off Waite Ho Hoyt t for its four runs in ill the sixth in- in ing ning Durham Lisenbee and Moore held the Tigers to 11 scattered hits STRUGGLE FOR LEAD The Philadelphia Athletics and andew New ew York Yankees continued their struggle for the league leadership by turning burning in victories the Athletics de debating defeating de- de eating bating the Chicago White Sox Sax 5 to 2 while the Yankees overwhelmed the I St Louis Browns 14 to 2 Although both clubs have won six nore more games cames than they have lost the hold the leadership by percentage points because they have ayed fewer contests than the New Yorkers Al Simmons' Simmons sixth home run of the season eason with one man on base fea- fea featured the Athletics Athletics' nine-hit nine attack in on VIe Vic Frasier and Ted Lyons W Wal- Wal lberg l- l berg held the White Sox to seven ills hUs SOCKS TWO HOMERS lERS Lou Gehrig was the dynamite In inthe he the Yankee 13 hit bombardment of ofray Gray ray Stiles Coffman Cofman and hit two home runs and a a. a sin sin- gle le Ruffing held the Browns BroIls hitless until the eighth and arid until the ninth when three St. St Louis hits shoved two runs across the plate Sad Sam Joncs Jones pitched and bated bat- bat cd ted the Washington Senators to a 5 to o 0 4 victory over Cleveland Cleeland It was he the Indians' Indians fifth firth consecutive defeat Tones Jones double in the second Inning accounted for two Senator runs while he le held Cleveland to two hits after he the Indians had counted three times In n their half hall of the third frame For the second consecutive day all games ames scheduled in the National eague league were postponed because of aln rafn am and cold weather |