| Show IPIRA FES ES WIN WN- TO TOu INCREASE LEAGUE LEAD SUB INFIELDER HELPS BUCS BUGS IN INAGE'S f AGES ACES ABSENCE J evenow Hits Ball in Timely Fashion While Traynor Nurses Injury j 8 By Bi Associated Tress a Baseball holds scarcely any job more imore thankless than the t task isk of filling fill ing the third base sho shoes s of Harold T Pie Traynor but Tommy r is js making an excellent stab at it iL lost Jost his place at shortstop short stop in the Pittsburgh Pirate infield earl early in the season because of his puny puny batting average and rode the thc bench bc ch day after day until last week when Traynor went out with a finger injury EMERGES FROM 1 SLUMP Since then he not only has fielded well Veil but has shown distinct signs of emerging from his long batting slump His average for the last four games 1 I stood at today and he has been getting his hits hils where they would ido do the Pirates the most good t Yesterday it was his hitting that enabled enabled en- en the Pirates to trim Brooklyn 3 53 give Steve his tenth victory vie vie- tory tory of the season and increase Pittsburgh's Pitts Pitis burghs burgh's lead over the second place Chicago Cubs to two and one-half one cames Tommy drove in two runs with a 3 single in the fifth and then lcd led off with a triple in the eighth and scored the last run on Lloyd Wafers Wafer's Waner's Waner's Wa Wa- ners ner's third single It was Pittsburgh's ninth victory in 11 g games mes Since May 19 the Pirates have won 34 games i and rand lost only 14 for an average of I IL The Cubs bowed to Huck Belts Betts and the Boston Braves 8 2 although the the Braves got only six hits The They bunched three of ot these with a pass I fand rand a wild throw by Stanley Hack to score five runs in the first inning and drive Pat Malone to cover t In the American league the Yankees Yank Yank- ees ees pounded Hadley and Cooney for 15 hits including homers by Jo Joe J I Sewell and Arndt Jor Jorgens ens buried the SL St Louis Browns under a 4 15 score I and stretched their lead to seven and J one half games over the second place Philadelphia Athletics AS A'S UPSET TWICE f The m Athletics dropped two to Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land as the two clubs picked up where they had left off oU in their inning 18 game at Cleveland Sunda SundayS Sunday Together they scored 36 runs on 62 hits as Cleveland won 9 8 and 12 1207 Earl Averill clouted three homers and Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Foxx got his thirty Al Thomas stopped the thc Chicago t White Sox with seven hits hils as Washington Wash Wash- ington bunched safeties for a 5 1 de do- ision Detroit clung to third place by beating the Boston Red Sox Sax 5 3 behind behind be be- hind the effective pit pitching hing of George Uhle and the heavy batting of Davis and nd Webb Box scores BOSTON f CHICAGO lb 4 0 3 Hrrman b 4 1 1 2 U IS 4 0 2 1 ss as 3 3 1 0 3 Berter cf 5 3 1 cZ 4 0 3 0 J g g lt H if 4 1 1 g n n ji U 4 0 3 0 Leath Lach rt rf 4 2 1 0 Harton rf rC 4 4 0 3 0 Shirts Shires lb Ib 4 0 30 Grimm lb Ib 4 4 2 2160 15 0 Akers Aken 4 0 2 1 H c 4 2 2 0 c 2 0 3 0 Hack 4 4 1 0 7 Betts J 4 0 0 p 0 0 0 0 p 20 0 2 71 Moore 1 0 0 0 Tinnin p 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 35 6 27 9 91 Totals Tota's 3 35 7 1 27 21 14 for tor Grimes In se In ninth a Chicago gf o gg 2 Error Hack 2 Runs In- In Huger In-Huger errer 2 2 Leach 4 Two Two- bue hits Three base hit Basel on b Malone lb 1 Grimes 3 Beth Betti L 1 Struck out Grimes 1 Betts 2 Hits Ma lone lote 3 In none nODe pitched to five men ien Grimes S SO in iii 7 1 TInning none In 2 2 Wild pitch pitch- Ories Losing pitCher BROOKLYN I PITTSBURGH OA OA Slade Slide lb 4 II I 0 1 1 I L. 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A Schulte cf d 4 1 0 0 Combs cf lf 5 3 0 0 Burns Ib lb 4 2 6 6 3 0 1 C Campbell r rf 4 0 2 0 Ruth rf rt 4 1 2 0 Goslin l If 2 2 0 1 0 Byrd cf 1 1000 1 0 0 0 Fisher 1 1 If l 10 1010 0 1 10 Gehrie Ib lb 3 3 1100 Ferrell c 2 1 4 0 3 1 5 6 c 1 0 2 1 Farrell lb 0 0 0 1 lb 3 1 2 1 2 Chapmn f. f If rf 2 2130 1 3 0 lb 2 1 1 0 ss as 5 3 1 4 4 1 3 0 Jorgens c 4 2 6 60 0 Levey is as S 4 0 1 1 MACFaden p 5 0 0 0 Hadley p 1 0 1 1 Cooney p 1 o 0 o 0 0 Totals 32 7 24 6 Totals 38 15 27 12 i St St. Louis 4 I New York 40 15 15 Errors Campb Campbell lI Goslin Runs bailee batte In n 4 4 Chapman U o 4 Jorens 2 2 Lazzeri 2 3 Ruth Tv 1 base hits hits Chapman Chapman Crosetti Three bake hits hits Comb Lazzeri Home runs runs Jor Jorgens Double plays plays and Il and Levey Laz- Laz zen zerl r zei and Gehrig Bengough U and b fe Bases on balls balls Hadley Hadley 6 8 3 Cooney 3 3 Struck out out out-MacFayden MacFayden I 4 Hadley Had Had- ley Icy 3 Cooney 3 2 Hits Rits-Hadley Rits 11 In 5 3 1 Coon Cooney 4 In Jn 2 1 2 3 Hit by pitcher pitcher Hadley Losing pitcher pitcher Hadley |
