Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-23 | Page 16 | Browns Hammer Champs in Return to Character

Browns Hammer Champs In Return to Character By HENRY SUI SUPER ER United Press Sports Write NEW YORK April 23 The 23 The St. St Louis Browns have stepped steppe d ba back k into character again After losing five games in a row t to o start the season the Browns have suddenly knocked off the world worl d cha champion pion I Detroit tr t Tigers two in in a row j- j iasi year use were going no 10 no place but at a 8 critical time inthe in inthe the he pennant race raco they came camo to New York and sounded a a. funeral dirge over the Yankees Yankees' I pennant hop hopes i o p e s s. s T The 11 C Browns may not iW s go any p place lac 0 again this year r Kf A 7 but ut they 11 help keep the American Ameri AmerI- 0 j can league eague race lively ively I The Tho Browns demonstrated real J t 47 punch yesterday fl t when they pound- pound l 1 r P M j je e ed d out 18 hits off off 1 four Detroit pitchers Crow Crow- Harland Clift ClEft der Lawson Sullivan Wade to Wade to beat the Tigers 12 Two castoffs Sultan Julian and Jim Bottomley and nd two youngsters Beau Bean Bell and nd Harlan Clift cUtt led th the attack attack attack at at- tack with three hits each Clift in with three thre sin sin sin- Tho The defeat further entrenched the Tigers in sixth place the same spot occupied by their world series victims s tho the Chicago Cubs The Tigers have won two games and lost ost four and the Cubs have won three and lost four tour Neither club has shown more than a brief sparkle of the play which brought them pennants last Jast year The Boston Red Sox Sex strengthened their hold on cn second place in the American by nosing out the Washington senators 4 43 Lefty halted a Washington rally in the ninth after ho tho Senators had scored two runs on on Estalella's triple Hills Hill's single and Lewis Lewis' triple Bill Werber's single o dro in Manush with the winning run in the sixth