Show MUST IMPROVE I ROAD PLAY un ee e Pitches Over Boston Bees I t D-t By Dy y LESLIE A AVERY RY United United Press Sports Writer NEW Ew v YORK June The 12 CM- CM ra c Cubs were out to win their th 1 straight baseball game gamo Fri- Fri W but bat Manager Charley Grimm Grimmm m wll have e to spur his club toward better better tetter showing on the road if i b hopes hopes to be a contender for the onal league ague pennant U it f the Cubs win Friday they will B bathe ethe the season eason record of or nine con- con victories compiled by the jants ts last month month month-In In turn the wrest agest since tho the ran oc off straight last fall Grimm has hass 41 s pitching staff in m fine shape now Ith six starters winning regularly ti te Warneke Henshaw French avis Carleton Lee and Warneke the order In which Cub hurlers lye Lva started and finished In win- win ng their last eight games at y field There hero ere Is 15 an old baseball axiom hat fist a team has to pla play or eiter ball on the tho road if it hopes o o. o win the championship p. p The ThO bbs bs played at a 5 8 clip awa away rom rem home homo in winning the tho na naI flap flag I ut t year but their showing thi this es son i Is not nearly so ire ike The They have o won only seven en ut of 18 road games for an nn averie aver er I fc ie C of I Vins Wins In 21 out of 31 at home In own backyard have put them place just three and one- one lf If games behind the league leady lead- lead j y c. Cardinals Is famous for their abil- abil to win away from St St. Louis Bill Lee chalked up his fifth win winf f the year as the the Cubs turned ck the Boston Bees 6 to 4 Thursy Thurs- Thurs y 1 to gain a full game on the thc who were walloped 12 4 by the Philadelphia Phillies l IB ie Cincinnati Reds won their seed see sec d night game of oC the season 4 J 3 over o the Brooklyn Dodgers 10 to n now have lost eight straight l le New York Giants and Pitts- Pitts gh Pirates were rained out In the tho American league the ding New York Yankees ees dented de de- Iud ted the thc Detroit Tigers 10 to 9 i i a result of Red Rolfe's two two- driving In ht two runs in the nth ith The Tho second place Boston led d Sox kept pace with a n to 7 over the tho St. St Louis if owns I Timmy Jimmy DeShong pitch pitched d a two- two masterpiece as the Washington won a tight game 2 to 0 in tin the Chicago White Sox Five Five- pitching by Harry Kelly gave Philadelphia Athletics a to 5 a 11 i over the Cleveland Indians Wolfe's Wolfes winning blow for New rk Irk was his fourth extra-base extra hit hite the e game and kept tho the Yankees o rand and a half games ahead of the thed d Rox e i I |