Show History Repeats as Pirate Chucker Shines in 3 2 3 Victory Over Giants Athletics ics Gain Game in American ican League by Blanking Tribe While Yanks Lose I 1 n By Hugh Fuller Fullerton ton Jr Larry French Pittsburgh left left- t I hander bander has a little repetition of histo history his his- I tory lory to talk about I I TV Two years jears cars ago age French faced laced th thc thc- the New Yo York l' l k Giants in his debut de de- delbut but as a major A. A ti J league pit pitcher e her Y After a great reat 7 Pi Pi-P struggle the rates won in th the N n tenth 3 to 2 when t Pie Traynor sin sin sin-j F Z sled to drive inthe the r l t winning run Yes Yesterday Larry made his first New York 1 l appearance of the fl St 1931 season and battled Clarence I IMitchell Mitchell of t the the is e French Giants t to a 2 standstill in the regular nine innings Then in the tenth George Granthams Grantham's grounder hit first base and bounded away for fora a double and Tra Traynor rapped a single to center bringing In a run that spelled a 3 2 vIeto victory The Phillies also did a little duplicating eating cating but for them it meant only a double loss to the Cincinnati Reds in ina a double Chuck Klein hit hita a pair pah of homers In the second game and the Phils scored five runs in each clash but the final scores cores were 10 to 5 and 7 to 5 in favor of Cin Cin- The double victory made it three straight for the Reds and live five victories in irs all BROOKLYN RECOVERS In Brooklyn Pea Ridge Day Daj started started start start- ed pitching In the first inning Imling after the Chicago Cubs had knocked Babe Phelps from the mound and pitched nine good innings The Robins re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered when Del Bissonette hit a homer in the fourth and scored four runs for a 6 4 triumph The St. St Louis-Boston Louis series became a total when the third straight game was postponed II All AU but one of the numerous winning winning win win- ning and losing streaks In the American American Ameri Amen can league continued unchanged The New York Yankees were halted after five victories when George Uhle making his first start of the year shut them out with live five hits to give Detroit a to 2 victory AS A'S GAIN GAME The league leading Athletics won their seventh in a row beating Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land 4 to 0 behind Ed Rommel's fine pit pitching Clint Brown kept pace with Romel for six Innings but the theA's theAs theAs theA's theAs theA's As A's came through to score all their runs in the last three It was Cleveland's Cleveland's Cleveland's Cleve Cleve- lands land's seventh se straight defeat The Chicago White Sox scored eight runs against Boston but made an equal number of errors and also lost their seventh in succession The Boston Red Sox Box took the lead In the thIrd with the aid of or three errors and finIshed finIshed finished fin fin- ahead b by a 8 12 count Stewart of the St. St Louis Browns who stopped Vas Washington h i n g to n five live straight times last season found this this' years year's Senators a different tion The Browns gave save him a good lead but he lost it suddenly in the eighth when Washington scored five runs to win 8 to 5 5 Go Goose sc Goslin came out of a hitting slump to get the only American league homer of the day dale |