Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-08 | Page 11 | Red Lucas Proves Iron Man of Major Pitchers

Red Lucas Proves IronMan IronMan Iron IronMan Man of Major Pitchers Finishes 27 of 29 Starts With Weak Cincinnati Club Hurls Fair Ball but hut Loses to Giants Pirates Cubs in Race I i I By HUGH S. S FULLERTON JR Associated Press Sports Writer Even though the Cubs and the Pirates Pi rates are keeping the National league pennant race steamed up UD so that thal they almost monopolize the he fans' fans attention there here still is timeo time to o consider the case of Fred Red Lucas of Cincinnati i In his seventh s season with the Reds Lucas appears appears appears ap ap- pears to have reverted reverted re re- to the days f when a pitcher J was expected to tol to play almost as as often as an out out out-I f fielder Helder and ald there thele therel was no big corps N of or relief J waiting a around r 0 u n d Lucas ready to go in th the minute he showed signs of faltering The husky redhead who has fallen below the mark in games won and lost only once in his six seasons with a usually weak club club- may repeat in hi that respect again this year buthe buthe but buthe he sc med certain to lead them allin all allin allIn in the matter of finishing what he starts 18 STRAIGHT GAMES Lucas has started 29 games carnes so farand farand far farand and he has been in there at the end of 27 of ot them He ran up tip a string of 18 complete games in a row failed twice in a short time in mid-July mid and since then has made a new s string tring of eight eihl Unfortunately for his record he h has s won only 13 games and lost 15 Lucas took it O on the chin again yes yes- yesterday although he hurled a fairly good game against the Giants He i had a 5 3 margin in the thc seventh inning inning in in- ning then ran into a home run assault that brought three runs and cost him the decision The woes that usually greet the leading clubs of the west when they start their final trip of the season turned up on schedule Um time Chicago's Chicago's Chica Chica- gos go's league leading Cubs ran ran into into griefin Boston and took a double defeat defeat de do- feat from the Brav to 0 O. I BUCS BUGS GAIN The Pirates tes clipped one game off I Chicago's lead by splitting a two ply program with Brooklyn They The had no trouble winning their eleventh straight game came 8 to 3 as they drove Van Mungo to cover in the first Inning inning in In- ning of the opener Freddy Heimach's portside hurling proved a bit too much in the nightcap and Brooklyn I won 4 to 2 Heimach gave only seven hits Dizzy Dean who had won his last lastour four our games garner for St. St Louis also felt the effects of going on the road and lost a aG aa G a to 5 encounter to the Phillies There were no American league games scheduled