Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-24 | Page 21 | Heat off Major Leaders as Yankees and Reds Win

eat Off Major Leaders AS Yankees and Reds Win JURIS KIRKSEY Y GEORGE EORGE 31 Aug jg 24 UP I on off of both major I. I t e beat t Ka today The l k e tIled spelled par out a double ff victory s Sox 7 2 and 4 16 Wh pith te in 2 t rho Thus in three games es Chicago the Yanks tf d against a third- third runs that had d run off f seven dub nat The Yank lead is t ins es l playing with two rege reg- reg f handed the thees 0 tt e th the bench i o n 3 0 ij defeat feat and increased I ies es a nal league lead to 5 1 Cards who had been r P The the league dropped up the Dodgers hird y straight to f 7 r I fi fight Looms Cards off their form F Po L the p they'll have to fight from wresting I 1 q vr he from Cubs them during the place astern trip t pa paul scattered Derringer the the Reds Reds keeping with with- with with- his tt Werber and Bill rr Frey rey od seventeenth game in fn 19 19 e the pJ Harry Crafts Craft's Frank it 5 k a doI sn in his lOOth run In ln the he q I Paul Derringer scatters 10 hits as Reds down Phils eighth Al AI Hollingsworth re rescued cued from the minors by the Dodgers won his first National league game this season by checking the Cards on eight hits The Cubs moved up within 3 games of the Cards when they bumped the Giants 8 Gabby Hartnett and Rip Russell each drove in three runs as Harry Gumbert Gumbert Gumbert Gum- Gum bert and Jim Lynn were routed Leiber and Herman hit homers Near No Hitter The Bees grabbed two from the Pirates 1 0 and 3 Bill barely missed pitching a no-hit no run no-run game Danny MacFayden scattered nine hits to win the nightcap Rookie Atley Donald held the White Sox to three hits in the Yanks' Yanks opening victory It was his No 13 win The yanks collected 19 hits in the nightcap off Lee and Boyles with Joe Gordon hitting a homer with the bases jammed Red Ruffing coasted to his nineteenth nine nine- th victory With Jimmy Foxx and Bobby Doerr getting 4 for 4 each the Red Sox blasted the Browns 9 Fritz allowed only four hits The Athletics beat the Tigers 7 6 in 11 innings Seibert hit a homer in the eleventh then Chapman Chapman Chapman Chap Chap- man singled and Lodigiani doubled to score the two deciding runs I IFred Fred Hutchinson was the loser