Show Cu Cubs s Still Battling Ba A As Yanks Breeze In Old Theory of Close Race Making laking Trouble for Senior Loop Winners Heard Once More lore Pirates Buried by Dodgers Dodgers' By fly Associated Press Back in the long lean years tho those e four tour seasons from 1927 through 1930 when the National league champions couldn't win a world series series' and seldom seldom sel sel seldom dom could win In a game In lathe the great October cl classic ic the explanation often was advanced ad that the close races in inthe the senior circuit took too much out of the winners and left them easy prey for the American leaguers The same contrast comes up again this year as s the National league race goes down the home stretch with seven teams still mathematically Inthe in inthe the he running while only three are arc left leftIn leftin In n the American two of them with only the slimmest kind of a chance to overtake the New York Yankees ON GAME FOUR-GAME BASIS After checking in with fourteen fourteen- inning nning victory and a seven-inning seven tie tien in n a long duel with Detroit yesterday the he Yanks reached the point where they hey need only four victories victories' for themselves four defeats for Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia hla and Washington or any combination tion ion within that figure to clinch the pennant At the same time the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Cubs leading Pittsburgh by five and one-half one games with eighteen togo to togo togo go have to work on a a. a thirteen game basis to make it a certainty The perils of the seasons season's last road trip rip affected the leaders in both circuits circuits cir cir- cults yesterday The Yanks had to togo togo too go o five extra innings In the first game before they put over two runs to defeat defeat de- de feat eat the Tigers 6 to 4 and darkness stopped them In the seventh inning of the he second clash with the score tied at 7 all Philadelphia's Athletics lost a precious precious previous pre pre- cious game to Cleveland as Clint Brown Brawn held them to four hits to get a 2 to 1 decision over Lefty Grove Another Another Anther An- An other ther hit four performance with Monte Weaver doing the flinging to ring up his twentieth victory of the season enabled Washington to turn turnback turnback turnback back the St. St Louis Browns 3 to 1 1 and keep pace with the Yanks In Inthe the fourth American league contest contest con cou- test Ted Lyons Chicago veteran pitched a fine ten inning game and then scored the winning run himself for tor a 4 3 4 victory over Red Sox ROOT IS VICTOR VICTORA A divided header double-header with Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton added a half game to the Cubs' Cubs lead as Pittsburgh took another one on the chin from Brooklyn Charley Roots Root's six-hit six hurling and a big eighth inning gave Chicago a 4 1 victory in inthe inthe inthe the opener but Bob Brown duplicated duplicated the six hit feat for Boston Inthe in inthe inthe the nightcap and a homer by Wally Berger led to a 3 2 triumph Pittsburgh couldn't approach Brooklyn's hitting and was burled buried under a 12 to 2 score A circuit drive by Don Hurst with two on base h in the first Inning gave the Phillies a 3 to 0 victory over the Cardinals in the only other National league game as Ray Benge limited the 1931 champions to three hits hun |