| Show Gehrig Hurts Leg as asHe asHe He Crashes Into Box Sturdy Yankee First Sacker Expected to St Stay y in Game Gunning for Endurance Record Has Played Steadily for Eight Years By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK M May 27 2 Chalk Chalk up another narrow escape for hungry Lou Gehrig the Gehrig-the the chap who's called the luckiest man manIn mansur In baseball not because he survives survives survives sur sur- vives repasts on pickled eels but because he sheds heds injuries like an armoured cruiser Coincidental ac accidents c yest yesterday to Gehrig and Jimm Jimmy Jim Jim- m my Foxx the other ace first baseman of the mla major j 0 r r. r leagues emph A N Ns s sized i z zed e d Gehrig's Gehrig s f I 1 charmed career 0 4 One of the marvels jD of modern baseball baseball baseball base base- ball he has Lou G pied pled the dangerous first corner on the Yankees' Yankees diamond for slightly more than eight seasons without missing a single game Lou will viII continue his marathon at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to break Deacon Scotts Scott's all- all time record of 1307 games desp despite te yesterdays yesterday's close snave Shave when he crashed into a box at Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee kec stadium almost breaking his light right leg Foxx of the Athletics the 1932 home run king of the majors will I be beidle beidle beidle idle for a few days das because he twisted his ankle seriously sliding home HAS PLAYED 1229 STRAIGHT If the luck of these two great first basemen had been reversed Gehrig's Gehris's string of successive games would have been snapped at No 1229 just when he needed only 79 more a mark he will achieve this season if Madame Fortune continues to simper at him Gehrig's crash came in the third inning against the Chicago White Sox when he was vas chasing Lou Fonsecas Fonseca's foul The leg was vas so badly bruised he was forced to retire in the eighth Inning The Yanks lost to the 8 to 6 and the victory gave Chicago undisputed command of third place in the American league leacue standing CHICAGO NEW YORK B H O 0 A B H O A Hayes Huu 4 3 3 9 Combs 9 cf ef 5 S 2 20 1 0 0 Haas ilass d. d 4 2 2 4 2 1 S 2 Swanson i rZ rf t 5 S 0 i 1 g 0 Ruth fi Irr rl at 5 0 2 01 Simmons ll It if 6 5 2 o. o lb Ib 4 2 5 0 ES ga S 5 i 2 3 GLan Ib lb 0 0 2 0 Fonseca lb Ib S SOU 0 14 If K 2 2011 0 1 I 1 Dykes Dyke 3 I 2 I 1 1 I Lazzeri lb 4 0 02 2 1 c 4 I 5 1 2 1 Dicker DIcke c c. c 3 0 1 C 6 0 Gregory p P. 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ST LO LOUIS I WASHINGTON AI B BHO HO O A AI B H OA A 3 1 4 1 i 1 0 4 0 8 0 4 1 3 0 t ii 3 Y 1 2 0 gIN P lf 4 2 3 g 0 3 0 01 2 2 1 0 4 2 0 2 I 3 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 3 IJ 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 2 Levu 3 I 1 0 2 I 3 i 1 5 0 Crouche 3 1 3 3 0 0 0 r fi 0 0 0 0 1 1001 0 0 1 Knott 0 1 1000 0 0 0 23 25 4 Totals 29 11 M 7 out when hen game amo called for raIn for tor Gray In se st. st Louis Louis 2 2 w S 0 Summary r Errors r rR y l Slyer Myer Stolen base bue Left St. Louis 6 Washington on 6 Bases 1 on Gray balls I. I 4 struck out out- Blaeholder 1 t. Gray 1 5 Hits HIts HIts- Blaeholder 5 S in In 3 2 Gray 5 6 In 5 Ii 3 1 Knott 1 In 1 13 Wild pitch pitch pitch-Ora Gray Losing pitches pitcher Blaeholder Tigers Crush Athletics 10 to 1 I Philadelphia dropped out of ot a third place tie when crushed 10 to 1 I by Detroit breaking the Athletics Athletics' win winning ning streak at seven straight games Rookie Schoolboy Rowe held the theA's theAs theAs theA's theAs theA's As A's to six hits The score DET DETROIT O I PHILADELPHIA HOAI B W M O A A b Fox cf ti 6 4 2 0 Bishop wco lb 2 2021 02 1 r. r trl r. r 4 1 l 1 i 1 Ib lb 2 y 1 4 0 Stone rf rt 5 2 1 cf d. 4 1 l 3 0 Walker If 5 0 1 l If 3 soil 0 1 1 t r Ib lb 4 2 72 0 coleman Iii If 4 g gOen 0 2 0 Owen Oen 4 2 1 Ib lb I 1 1110 1 1 0 ss n. 4 1 1 3 1 3 1 5 2 Hay worth c. c 5 A 1 I 8 o c. c 1 1031 0 3 1 Rowe Howe p p. p S 5 1 0 3 c c. c 3 I 1 2 0 higgins 3 0 3 3 as ss IS 3 1 1 3 V p 0 0 0 0 U Donald p. p 0 0 0 0 Finney I 1 1000 0 0 0 Peterson p P. P 2002 2 0 0 2 I Totals 42 14 27 IS' IS 32 6 27 I 13 nl i d for t McDonald in third rd Detroit 23 1 SO 10 10 Philadelphia 1 Summary Errors Error Errors Johnson 2 Williams Runs batted In In Green Green Green- b berg bent 2 Fox Rowe Ro Hay Hayworth worth 2 O Owen Oen Ro Ro- cell 2 Two base hits Fox hits Fox 2 Rowe Stone Home Homo runs runs Greenberg Hay Hay- worth Stolen bases bases bues Foxx Fox Pox Hayworth Hay- Hay worth Bases B on balls Rowe balls Rowe 1 W 1 1 Peterson 3 Struck out Rowe out Rowe 7 Peterson Peter Peler- son fon on 2 Hits 4 In 2 3 In I. 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