Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-05 | Page 15 | Rajah Works Miracles to Put Browns in Race

RAJAH WORKS MIRACLES TO PUT BROWNS IN RACE Produces Scoring Punch to Trail Leaders by Three cc Games Gaines Makes lakes Play Boy Into Regular By Dy HERBERT W. W BARKER Associated Press Sports Writer The miracle man of the major league campaign is none other than your old friend Rogers Horns Hornsby y baseballs baseball's stormy petrel extraordinary He started the American league i season with a bunch of oC fellows fellows' named lamed Joe Today perhaps b by sheer force orce of the Rajahs Rajah's indomitable spirit the St. St Louis Browns are the big ig league sensations of the year ear Upset Dope A complete lull luU in activities Monday Monday Mon Ion day gave baseball observers an excellent ex cx chance to check up on Hornsby's Horns Horns- bys by's y's ys accomplishments with a team almost universally consigned to the lower ower regions of ot the standing in preseason preseason pre pie season for forecasts casts The hitless Browns of a year ago are arc walloping the ball to fine ine effect the fielding has held up remarkably well despite some infield tinkering necessitated by the failure of young oung Alan Strange to hit and the presence of an untried rookie Harland Clift Chit at third and the pitching has been good enough to allow the club to cash in on its increased power a at t the pIa plate te Perhaps the Rajahs Rajah's greatest single teat feat has been his handling of Rollie Hemsley who himself out of jobs with Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincin Cincin- nati naU and Chicago in the National league eague He Hc has been bean n the Browns' Browns regular catcher from the start and now is leading the league in hitting with his healthy average The last batch of oC averages showed three other members of ot the club over the he mark Deb Garms who recently recently re re- has supplanted Bruce Camp Camp- bell Jell in the outfield was around and ind Ray Pepper slugging fly chaser and ind Frank Bejma now Installed at shortstop in the Plenty of lilts lifts As a 1 team the Browns are hitting compared with their mark of a year ago when Sam West at led lcd the regulars More Important important tant however has been the teams team's scoring run ability The They have tallied tal tal- tal lied Hed runs in 39 games If that sort of run production continues the Browns will score around runs this year as against only last year ear Today Hornsby's men are in hi fourth place only three games out of the thc lead Since Ma May 8 when they had won only five of ot their first 16 games the they have captured 15 d decisions in 23 games ames just under a gait The rise of ot the Browns and the fine tine showing so far made by both Detroit and Cleveland eland incidentally calls at at- to the fact that for the thc first time in years ears the American league apparently will enjoy a wide open race such as has come to be the cus tom lorn in the National