Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-25 | Page 13 | Tigers Win to Improve Hold on Top

Tigers Win To Improve Hold Holdon Holdon- on Top Iop Up Upset et Predictions by Taking Nine of 13 Games Yanks L Lose se at St. St Louis i iDy By Dy EON WRIGHT United Tress Sports Writer NEW YORK July 25 For 25 For a club scheduled to crack wide open a month ag ago the Detroit Tigers are hol holding ing up very well weB They lead t the e eAn An American loop by two games Baseball who go into a huddle with a ream ream of or paper and come out with a pennant winner fig figured Ig out before the start of the current current cur cur- rent invasion of the west by eastern clubs that Detroit Detroit Detroit-couldn't couldn't last the month out Detroit couldn't stand the pace they said Yankee spokesmen announced was the club they feared It appears they forgot to show these calculations to Mr Mickey Co Cochrane e foreman of the Tigers Anyway Detroit Detroit De De- troit trait managed to win nine games while losing four since the forecast was made while Washington has lost ten and won only one The Yankees have only broken even winning sev seven n and losing seven on their western western west west- em ern raid Tuesday Detroit Increased its clutch on the lead belting out the Boston Red Sox 6 3 while the Yanks were losing Red Phillips Texas rookie relieved Carl Fischer in the fifth with the t tying ing runs aboard and retired the side on one pitched ball i He gave only four hits after that New York suffered a double loss in St St. Louis losing both the ball ban game and the services of Left Fielder Earl Combs for the season Combs raced back for r Harlan Cliffs ClUts fly crashed headlong into the concrete left field wall and the hit went for a triple scoring the winning runs Combs was carried of off the field with a fractured skull a broken shoulder and blood streaming from his nose and mouth He will be out for tor the season The Browns took the game 4 42 Lou Gehrig hit his twenty twenty- eighth homer Washington lost to Chicago 4 1 and dropped into sixth place again St St. Louis moving back to fifth Les Tietje gave the Senators only six hits Cleveland hammered Johnny Marcum Marcum Mar Mar- cum for 12 hits in four lour innings beating beating beat beat- ing ing- the Athletics I 0 Ed Coleman led the thc attack with two homers