Show CUBS BUCS BUGS CLOSE CLOE GAP ON CARD Pirates Drub Dodger Team Win B By SID FEDER I Associated Press Sports Writer Any way you look at it the buckIng buckIng buck- buck I Ing fn Buccaneers from Pittsburgh and the thc Champion Cubs of Chicago seem to be the boys to supply whatever headaches come to Mr Frankie Franki FrIsch and his St. St Louis Cardinals Cardinal in the current National league race They're chasing each other othel rIght tip up the ladder resting in second anc and third place respectively today now that what Is generally regarded a athe as I the New York Giants' Giants predict long ed cd blowup has come to pass The Pirates drubbed the Dodgers 6 3 yesterday for a clean sweep in their game four-game series and the Cubs took their third in a row v from the Phillies 4 3 in a major league program program program pro pro- gram gram that found the weather man getting most of the laughs by rainIng raining rain rain- ing lag out half of the scheduled bill in each loop Tribe Takes Their victories al along ng with the surprise walk walkout of Van LIngle Mungo ungo the Dodgers' Dodgers No 1 speed speed- ball pitcher from the camp at Pittsburgh fea featured featured fea- fea I fea-I the shortened program in which Cleveland's 2 10 triumph over th the Senators and the Boston Red Sox's 4 3 3 win over Detroit furnished fur- fur rushed the only other competition The Cubs waited until the last of the ninth to polish off the Phillies with Catcher Ken ODea in the heros hero's role by singling in the t tying ing arid and winning runs with the bases loaded The Pirates meantime had easy sailing through Red Lucas' Lucas hit five pitching for the first eight innings and Guy Bushs Bush's ninth in ning fling relief job to stem a Dodger rally Although Mungo left the Dodgers without giving a reason the talk popped up again that he isn't keen about the support of his his' teammates this year and that hes he's still down downin in the mouth over the failure of recent trade winds which might have bave blown him across the river to the Giants Red Sox Gain Over in the American league while the leading Yanks were idle the Red Sox pulled up to 2 games back of the pace with their win over the Tigers while Cleveland again became a threat for third place in taking the Senators Blaeholder's victory over Washington Wash Wash- ington gave that veteran another of the laughs he is piling up up his sleeve thi this season season for Yi with h five w wins ns and two losses h he has bec become m the No 2 hurler on the Cleveland staff af after after af- af fter f- f ter being tossed into the discard ard both b by the cellar holding St. St Louis Browns and the Seventh-place Seventh Ath Ath- |