Show Brooklyn Robs Robins Making National League Pennant Drive Merry Race Second Division Team Proves Nemesis for Top Place Nines Pirates Cubs and Giants Suffer NEW YORK July 25 UP UP-Tho UP The are doing their bit toward making th tho 1929 National league pennant race a thrilling af nt- nt fair taIr i 1 Brooklyn Is headed nowhere It In particular but from their station In second division the Robins haVe bat succeeded In making their presence pre pres ence enco keenly felt by tho pennant con con- Twice In tho past wc week k the Robins Rob Rob- ins int have booted a league leader Into second place pace and anI they are Just enough strength at the tho present to make the managers of contend contending ing teams learns admit a hearty respect for o their ability Last Sunday the Chicago Cubs hold a slim lead In lii th tho battle battlo for supremacy before they called to face Vance and hla delivery In the final of their four four- same game series at Brooklyn After nine innings of futile endeavor they found themselves beaten 3 to 1 li liand and down in second place again agarn ACCLAIM ROBINS The Robins went to for or ora a a. series with the Pirates and were acclaimed as the team that made possible the return of first place If D Vance succeeds in stopping stop atop pIn ping ping- the Pirates t s this afternoon the tho Robins will be lucky to get out pf pt Pittsburg alive In three games played thus thu far In that city In the tho thoresent resent present series Brooklyn n has won o and the victory scores j yesterday yester- yester esterday ester ester- day tumbled th Pirates out of first place opec more Nor are e the Cubs and Pirates the only teams to be directly affected b by the R Robins attack The Tho Ne New NewYork York Giants are practically out our of th tho race today because they have lost ten games gaines to Brooklyn On form the Giants should have taken at least half thc games without un untoward untoward un- un toward effort But the games gaines went to Brooklyn and the Giants a a result are deep in third placer place faced with the tho problem lem of down a lead of eight full games IN 4 SPOTLIGHT Aside from their killing champion activities the tho Robins have managed man man- aged t Id keep themselves before the te public eye with great success this year They reaped columns when Vance sought and gained a contract for and became the tho highest paid pitcher In baseball his his- tory They r reaped other columns when Glenn Wright was obtained from Pittsburg In a deal that was expected ex cx- to solve n's ns eternal shortstop problem reaped still stillmore stillmore more when Wright reported with a abad a abad bad arm that has kept him out of play all year and which won for him his voluntary for the remainder of the season Add to those features a few striking in ing- ing ailments boasted by y several of leading stars the collapse collapse col col- lapse of Doug and more happily the sudden ascent to stardom star star- dom doin of Babe Herman and you vou have reasons aplenty why the American baseball fans have been confronted by such abundant news from Flat Flat- bush |