Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 13 | Cards Get 19th Win in 21 Tilts

ARDS GET ET 1 WIN WI N IN 21 2 1 TILTS TI fize Blasts Two Homers il f To fo Help Trim Reds' Reds Lead 5 f t To fo 2 3 3 Games By GEORGE KIRKSEY by Twin Win t I YORK Aug 21 tIPI UP- UP I I beating a pennant torn tom toy cardinals of St. St Louis y J 1 I te e j d ago there was a hue huek JA k abOut out moving the CardiS Cardi- Cardi S k kS and from St. St Louis The 11 S dub f kI an d th e I lrI seemed fA k s Today SS I J cards were 3 games j o y t e It bt ld leading e e l cloSIng e three 7 t t S Si Cards ets e i rt behind tS I To present i S S e t S. S t. t J. J league ague aguele le leader g turned Eric l was 1 by hy the Reds after a look V to 1935 struck the vital blows 1 as th the the Red ed Birds trounced I 5 ll 1 and 7 7 It was St. St t Luis uis' uis nineteenth victory in 21 J g anes mes and their seventh menth straight S. S barring a tie j th the R Reds Reds' infield had exand ex- ex ded and tossed ted the first game the Cards In Jn a horrendous ex- ex lion in the eighth Mize peri Per per- i y escorted the Red Birds to in the nightcap with two his Ers twenty-first twenty and I st i Altogether the Georgia I jj drinks butt buttermilk e r milk iID din six of ot l his is teams team's seven i Ij Reds Beds Blow Up I Jtb He the first game score tied ua 11 eighth and Bucky Wal- Wal Mud Bob Weiland locked in Jn a aj j duel the Red infield blew I Ii L. L I Cornick misplayed two bunts missed up on an attempt I Zi i trick double play and Billi Bill i late in covering third a play The Cards made im before Lefty Shoffner f. f jr got the side out I. I nightcap Mize hit his first leith nth ith two mates on base off I Moore in the third Thene Then the i e score tied 5 he hit his rol off oft Lefty Grissom wi with h It er who had walked on I Si i ji h contenders moved into the they ther r Joday ay y the Reds opening in and the Cards InThe in inThe The Reds have lost 11 ir last 20 games and look dub bent on blowing their u 11 swiftly as they can Even I they are hitting as they were second nd game making 15 biney binley bin- bin hey ley ey cant can't win finally broke its lost losI los los- os- os I I t alter after setting the years year's I fid with 12 straight The Cubs EM c d d the Pirates setback No 12 e opener 9 5 with Claude Wall horn staggering through In Jn InS S inning ya-inning nightcap called beE beof be- be E of oi the Sunday blue law the theS S ml won 5 50 Max Butcher ted only two hits S Giants Phils Split 1 Giants and Phillies split i Mew York winning the open- open f 8 4 on 15 hits and the Phils ng the nightcap 3 2 Hugh bested Carr Carl Hubbell Hubben in inS S rt each pitching a f five five- ivea r. r I J a as tit for tor tat in the AmerIan Amen Amerl- an ague gue with the leading leading- Yanks I kd Sox each dividing twin foe Athletics beat the Yanks S 11 on oft homers by Seibert and sOn In but the tile Bronx Bombers J a TO we second game 5 1 on a M pitching performance by J Sundra Sundra who won von his sev- sev gL decision i Leonard scored his four- four h VIctOry as he pitched Wash- Wash to a 2 0 victory over Bos- Bos the opener Joe Cronin's I roV rolV in the first with two ed Jack t Wilsons Wilson's down- down may Iny ny Foxx hit homer No 32 W Red Sox won the nightcap e single with two two Iwo on in the tenth scored oo runs which enabled theto the 10 Sox ox to beat the Indians 5 6 seventh seventh se straight win Ver- Ver Ji jennedy Kennedy ennedy Buck to give gi the Browns a 6 2 he Tigers The big mace o of Johnny Mize to- to tom for the Red Birds the Birds the un- un I