Show I Yanks Limp Home Again am On Crutches I Hold Tiny Lead After Tough Trip in West Sector Pirates Win One NEW YORK July 28 UP The UP-The The Yankees came home in first place Saturday after one of the most death defying road trips of at their career Battered and wounded their outfield outfield out out- field stripped of ot three regulars- regulars Ruth Combs and Chapman Chapman they went through h the gamut of despair until with half haIr the club laid out with will injuries they unexpectedly started winning In the closing series the they got back bad to the top and hold it now by two vo percentage points Hold Their Own Detroit and Cleveland more than tha held their own against the eastern invaders the Tigers winning ten ant and losing six the Indians winning 11 ou out of ot 16 Washington produced th the most dismal showing th the champions their chance for th the pennant when they dropped 12 ou out of 16 games Boston failed to break broa winning eight and losing nine The west vest outplayed the east on th the invasion capturing 37 and losing 2 27 for tor an average of ot Friday the New York Giants stretched their lead over the National league to three games whipping the Phillies in the series opener 6 63 Hal Ha Schumacher did the trick allowing o only ly s seven sen en hits walking on one and fanning fan fanning ning six I Swift In Form i Bill Swift of Pittsburgh shut ou out the St SL Louis Cardinals 4 to 0 O. O tangling tangling tangling tan tan- gling with Jesse Haines for six innIngs innings innings in in- after w Jesse weakened the Pirates getting a triple and three singles to score core three in the sev seve eath No other games were played I In the American lea league ue Cleveland and St. St Louis were rained out and andI I Detroit and Chicago postponed their heir game for a Sunday doubleheader |