Show TIGERS STILL DANGEROUS Rowe Shows Great Form FormIn In Triumph By LESLIE AVERY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Juno June 26 Theres There's There's Theres life In the old Tiger yet but the baseball world is beginning to doubt fT whether whether the De Dc- Detroit troit world champions cham cham- 11 have enough vigor stored up to toL I out on a drive for L 5 third successive sive American league pennant k ii The Tigers oc- oc fourth place in the standings I today the same I I j SO spot as this is time i 1 e eI I last year but they I trailed railed the leading New York Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees by only five Rowe Ro games then They are just twice that far behind now They have von won five out of the tho last seven games The Tigers have gone through enough misfortunes to break the spirit of ot any team First slugging Hank Greenberg broke his wrist Manager Mickey Cochrane successively successively successively had trouble with his eyes a split spilt finger then a nervous break break- down Pitching has been very er erratic er- er Strangely enough the Tigers are hitting better as a team than they did last year They arc are batting at ata a rate of now compared to at it this time last year and they are leading the tho league In fielding Johnson Homers Schoolboy Rowe Detroit's big hander right returned to form torm yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- and hurled a two hit game against the Philadelphia Athletics Bob Johnsons Johnson's home run was the only tally taUy scored by the As A's as the tho Tigers pounded out 19 hits for tor a 13 12 to o 1 decision The win enabled them to take fourth place The Cleveland Indians were shunted back into fifth as they ware beaten 9 0 to 4 by the Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx jumped ahead in the home run race by smacking No 20 and 21 Yanks Hold Margin The Tho New York Yankees held hold their five and a half halt game leadership margIn with a series of long range blasts to take a 7 to 6 decision over the he Chicago White Sox Rolfe RoHe Dickey and Gehrig It was the latter's seventeenth Washington's Senators held third place half halt a game in front of the Tigers by walloping the St. St Louis Browns 12 to 5 |