Show Iy YANKS ANKS CONTINUE TI E PENNANT PENNANT DRIVE New Yorkers Down Detroit it itIn In Two Tilts I IBy By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Sports Spurts Writer NEW YORK Juno June 20 20 The Tho New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Yankees' Yankees triumphant swing wing through the west is turning the American league st pennant race into t a rout The Yanks have won Von five In Ina a row rowAnd end And eight of nine nin niner r games Barnes ames pl played on on r 4 their western trip i 1 By twice conquering conquering conquer conquer- l ing the Detroit f Tigers the Tigers the team t- t 4 j they figure they f have to beat to Y A win vin the pennant pennant- the he Yanks Wednesday Wed Wed- u f Fr increased i g their lr lead to 5 5 j games sames the same Gehrig margin the Giants enjoy in the National league Lefty Gomez back in winning form after a dismal start subdued the Tigers in the opener 13 A three-run three rally in the twelfth inning won von the second game 7 76 The two defeats dropped Detroit to fourth place 61 6 games behind the league leaders Continuing their vicious hitting on the he western front the Yanks shelled their heir old nemesis Alvin Crowder from rom the box in the opening game and snapped Tommy Bridges' Bridges 9 game winning streak in the night- night cap jap New York made 27 21 hits in the two wo games Lou Gehrig led the attack in the opener with a n single triple and homer lomer driving in four runs Bill BiU Dickeys Dickey's single with the bases filled in n the twelfth inning of the second game jame and an infield out gave the Yanks their winning runs Detroit put on a desperate rail rally in n their half with Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg hitting successive successive suc- suc homers but the uprising fell ell one run short It was Greenberg's Greenberg's Green Green- bergs berg's seventeenth homer of the sea sea- son on Pat Malone who relieved Vito In the tenth received credit creditor for or the victory NEW YORK DETROIT AB H O A A. AB HO A. A Combs If It 6 2 3 O Fox rf rr Rolle RoUe 4 2 1 3 White cf cr cf 4 0 4 0 Chapman c ct Cf 4 2 3 I 1 4 1 4 4 lb 6 3 12 1 Greenberg Ib lb 2 0 6 2 5 S 1 4 4 O 0 O. O Walker II If 4 2 2 0 Dickey Dicker c. c 5 2 1 0 Resell Rosell ss ss is 4 1 3 2 Selkirk rf d. 5 3 1 0 Hayworth c c. c 4 1 5 0 Crosetti ss as 3 1 1 3 Clifton 4 2 0 2 Gomez Comer p. p 4 40 0 1 4 Crowder p. p 2 2011 0 1 1 Hatter p p. p 1 1001 a 0 0 1 1 1000 0 0 0 Totals 42 16 27 2716 Totals Totos 34 9 2712 12 PInt First I came rame ame for lor Hatter latter In ninth New few York 13 13 Detroit 3 I |