Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-23 | Page 16 | Giants down Phillie Nine to Keep Top

Giants Down Phillie Nine rw vr rr To lo Keep Top B By SCOTTY RESTON Associated l Tress Sports Sport Titer Scrambling from one shaky vIctory vic vie tory to another th the tho New York Slants Giants are oro doing their level worst in the National league these days das but buttor for tor all their staggering they cant can't fall faU oft off the top of the pile In fact tact they keep climbing They have havo lavo been charged with 15 errors in eight games their pitchers have squandered long leads their team teams is s riddled by injuries but in meetIng meetIng meet- meet Ing ng every emergency Manager Bill BIU Terry has been so superbly right that hat the substitute in every case has hu done better than the nal Right Selection First he picked Rookie Harry Gumbert to pitch the second game of ot the season Gumbert pitched a hit four game and won Then Dick Bartell fell ill Terry put pul in Joe Martin This rookie has hM batted 66 so 50 far Next Sam L Leslie lio reported with a fever and Terry put in Terry I His first day out Substitute Terry got three three- hits hit In JIl three times out yesterday against the Phils ho he got three more In spite of ot these forced shirt shifts t the tho c Giants did as lJ well as M the Browns Brownsand Brownsand and the Reds who topped the days day's slugging performances or the thc Dodgers who saw sa big George Earnshaw Earnshaw Earn Earn- shaw stage a a. sudden return to hi his I season prea-season pitching form to white- white wash vash Boston Tho won woe I their heir second straight from Jimmy Wilsons Wilson's Phillies 7 It also was Carl Hubbells Hubbell's second victory of the season and just to add to the general gen gen- eral inconsistency of ot the New York scene Carl hit three singles in four times up There were two home run In the thc game ame Leiber smashing one in ill the first with two on and Jimmy WIson Wilson Wil WI- son hitting one In the tho seventh Reds Beat Cards The only other home runs in the majors yesterday were hit in the eighth inning of ot the tho Reds-Cards Reds game fame at Cincinnati b by Utility Outfielder Out- Out fielder lelder Calvin Chapman and Lew Riggs both of the tho Reds These hits scoring three runs enabled the he Reds to defeat the Cards 7 Earnshaw turned in tho the best pitching job of the tho season leason for the Dodgers Ld er a hitter five which shut out me Hees 5 u. Every very man in the Brooklyn Infield Hassett Frey Geraghty Geraghty Ger- Ger and Bucher hit safely twice out of four our times up lip The Tho Dodgers DOdger had only two other hits I