Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 10 | New Low for Title Winner Seen

Ji i NEW LOW FOR Ic TITLE WINNER ER SEEN Bucs Bues Watch i Big Margin Grow Small J By Dy GEORGE KIRKSEY 4 United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Aug 27 UP tIP Tt I begins to look as if the 1938 NaS Na Na- S tonal league championship will vIll go t to toa a a team with the fewest number of cf f victories any winner has had hac Ince the game schedule was adopted In 1904 y The rec record rd was set at 89 games l won on and 65 lost by the St. St Louis u i Cardinals in 1926 r With the exception of o the Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- j ft burgh Pirates whose hose lead is getting getting get- get I j ting slimmer sUmmer and slimmer sUmmer first t division clubs must play at a ak k much faster clIp if they hope to take the pennant with a higher l figure than the Cards had 12 years ogo ago The Pirates with 39 games left to play could maintain a clip 7 21 21 victories and 18 losses losses and and ovoid avoid equaling the Cardinal Cardnal mark J Their Their average for the season with 69 9 victories and nd 46 losses is an even The second place Giants with an average today of will have bave to function at to make it he Chicago Cubs five and a half games off the pace would have to their speed from baseball baseball baseball base base- ball to while the Cincinnati Reds eds in fourth place would have to togo go up from to The Pirates have 39 games to tolay lay the Giants 38 Chicago and Cincinnati 36 each j Yesterday the Pirates lost their third straight to th the Phillies 6 4 r although Manager Pie Traynor had benched b benched Rizzo and Handley in an effort to get a new winning combination com com- That defeat didn't affect the Pirates' Pirates four and a half-game half lead over the Giants Gants however because because because be- be cause St. St Louis Lous took care of the New Yorkers 7 Chicago crept up another game to within live five and ana anda anaa anoa a a half halt of the top with a 7 3 victory over Brooklyn Cincinnati fell out of of ef its third place tie with the Cubs by by losing 6 1 to Boston AI Al Smith former Giant and Pete held the Pirates to seven hits Traynor call called d on Rizzo in the ninth as a pinch hitter hitter hitter hit hit- ter but he failed to deliver The Phils Pulls clinched the game with a aI at t I run live burst in the fifth Don Gutteridge's second triple ofT of T- T the day drove in J Johnny ol Mize In Inthe inthe the ninth with the run which enabled enabled en- en Cabled 1 the Cards to lick the Giants