Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-09-20 | Page 15 | Pirates near Strangle Hold on National League Bunting

Pirates Near Strangle Hold HoldOn HoldOn On National League Bunting NEW YORK Sept 20 INS INS Barring Barring continuance of the east's soup pea-soup fogs cloudbursts cloudbursts' and frigid blasts the National leagues league's hectic pennant fight will resume today with the Pittsburgh Pirates ra rapidly i ly approaching a strangle hold hol on the prized bunting True a three and a halt half game lead ead is not insurmountable even a at this his late stage of the baseball campaign cam cam- but with only 14 games left lefto to o play the Bucs have lave a tremendous tremendous ei dous edge over he the panting Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Bruins and the he almost r- r Cincinnati Reds OMI The Pirates to today to- to day open a four four- game set with the Brooklyn Dodgers and then wind up the he season with seven even g games a m e s b i against the Reds and three with the Hartnett Cubs The Cubs who have played a fa fair r brand of ball under Manager Gabby Hartnett meet the Phillies four times the St St. Louis Cardinals in six contests and of course the Pirates in three Yesterdays Yesterday's rain gave the Pirates a nudge for doubleheaders doubleheaders doubleheaders double- double headers involving all the National league clubs except possibly the Cubs were washed right off the schedule due duo to inability to fit Inthe in inthe inthe the postponements Tho The Brooklyn Dodgers offered the Cubs a chance to make up yesterdays yesterday's rained-out rained doubleheader doubleheader double double- header Friday at Ebbets Ebbe field Al- Al though League President Ford Frick Friel has agreed Manager Hartnett Hartnett Hartnett Hart Hart- nett is in doubt whether to accept If the Cubs now three and one- one half games behind the Bucs do agree they will get an awful shaking shaking shaking shak shak- ing up rushing from Philadelphia where they will play Thursday to Brooklyn for a Friday twin bill and then to Chicago where they meet the Cardinals Saturday Gabby will decide late late today While the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox were rained out again in Chicago the Washington Senators banged out 17 11 hits including including including ing a home run by Zeke Bonura to defeat the Detroit Tigers 12 to 2 Hank Greenberg lost ground in his home run derby as Pete Appleton muffled the with five safeties Jeff Heaths Heath's homer with two vo teammates on base aided the Cleveland Indians in their 4 to 3 triumph over o the Philadelphia Athletics George Caster and D. D Smith gave gae up only four hits while the touched Mel lUel Harder and Johnny Humphries for 12 2 With their third straight pennant sewed up the New York Yankees dropped their third successive decision decision decision de de- de- de to the St. St Louis Browns 13 to 1 as George McQuinn and Billy Sullivan hit for the circuit and Howard Mills pitched six-hit six ball