Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-25 | Page 11 | Yanks Face Chicago, Then Meet Red Sox

Yanks Face Chicago Then Meet Red Sox By SID FEDER FEDEE Associated Press Sports Writer Its It's do or dise disc for murderers row in the next nine days Starting Saturday against the red-hot red White Sox and winding up with the also sizzling Indians the New York Yankees either may make or break their pennant hopes in that period t With their lead cut to seven and a half halt games through the Indians' Indians tremendous hit 22 barrage and 3 16 i iwin win over the Athletics yesterday the Yankees meet the Sox in the three- three game series take on the always always' troublesome Tigers next and then come up against the clubbing Cleve- Cleve landers An even break or better In those nine games will give them a comfortable comfortable com corn working margin and a breathing spell until they snap out of their current hitting letdown Begin Hit Hitting ing The Yankees enjo enjoyed ed a holiday Friday along with the White S Sox Sax x while rain gave every club in the National league a day off The Indians tightened their grip gripon on the American league second place while the Boston Red Sox pulled out of the fire ag against the Tigers The Sox Sax won a 7 7 4 decision deci sion slon in 10 innings with Jimmy Foxx I deci-I belting his twenty-seventh twenty homer The Senators came from way back to trounce the Browns 4 10 behind Monte Weavers Weaver's hit four-hit pitching The Red Sox Sax win boosted the plated gold-plated into a tie for fourth place with the Tigers and ande the he e White Sox Sax took over third place without raising a bat or pitching a ball Fo Foxx in Form orm I The Red Sox Sax are making trouble I again now that Foxx is back on the I firing line and out of his hitting doldrums Like just about every other club in the time big-time the Sox have a spark plug plug and and Jimmy is it Since hes he's recovered his batting eye the whole outfit is right and has won seven of the last 11 games The Sox weren't in the game at all yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- until Jolting Jimmy started them off oft with his homer in the eighth Then they went to town tied up in the ninth and pushed over three runs in the extra frame The 22 hits against the Athletics comprised the Indians' Indians largest total in one game for the season Earl Averill Hal Trosky and the sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- Roy Weatherly have their eyes on the long-distance long hitting record Averill stretched his consecutive consecutive consecutive con con- game batting streak to 19 yesterday while Trosky boosted his histo histo histo to 18 and Weatherly to 16 The modern mark is 41 produced b by the great George In his hey-day hey with the Browns