| Show I r LAIN AIN GIVING BUCCANEERS PENNANT 1 ate Pack bout Cinch t o Win Flag i By SID FEDER FEDERated Jated Tress Press Sports Writer oah Traynor chosen of ot the ball baIl KII gods eods sent his doves out My today day 7 to see if t the floods had hadJ p J u b sid e d. d But frankly he didn't much care His Pittsburgh Pirates Pirates ark was was' hc one boat afloat V he rains couldn't hurt Even if it it kept raining the v figurative 40 days and 40 nights unS un- un S S iI the October 2 S 5 finale and then ed continued right on S through h r 0 ugh the thew theS w S month after that tha that S S S Dont Don't forget aft- aft jr r the pennant hase chase is over his G Greenberg re enberg win boys if they j till un have the Yankees coming up ct scows and barges as Con S O which the Chicago Cubs leb 5 h fa L se Cincinnati Reds are riding have haveE E knocked into them huge huze holes boles the downpour Every game first division this ned tied out in the and Lk-and there has been a record I ber of I 14 of them them can can be ked down in the Bucs Bucs' column unit It jf if they dont don't play they cant can't cantre cante J re t e. e the second-place second Subs and l When hen 11 e third place Reds 3 3 and 5 s back respectively are the they cant can't win win and and so soS S k t ire Te ve no chance to catch up with withe ij L e jS pirates Remember too that j BUCS ha had two of their toughest I 11 a tem stem games washed off the theS 5 S t edale bedole entirely with entirely with the OYt f. Dodgers who have raised S I ct i e hob bob with the setters pace-setters jj i season leason than any other out- out hij matters now stand the Pirates 14 ball ban in their 12 re- re I. I ning joing games and still be fairly of grabbing the pennant for he th that t case the Cubs would have to toi 1 i for over per cent in 13 re reining reining re- re ining starts Even if it the Cubs t those tose lose another game the Bucs Buca still afford to drop three of 12 ve f J the picture i ab d dC O 00 Q i g oI W WUl r n IJ hb 81 57 7 12 I 78 61 3 34 13 ilu 76 62 5 12 5 prk 75 64 6 64 12 Alithe Ul the folks concerned kept their crossed today in the hope hopeS f djupe Pluvius would finally be beS bep S S p jd d guy again and let them get r gi ie or two out of the way S been only one National tie tilt since Sunday and that jaw Paul the Daffy Dean in comeback start for the I pitch a seven hitter to toc toni ni sk the Boston Bees 4 0 yester- yester c Ducky Medwick drove in all alle e runs W. W The Yankees who have been tore chumps than champs since ey sewed up the American i pennant stretched their Dg streak to six games gaines in kick kick- ig away a 5 2 decision to the Chi Chi- S ago White Sox Three errors 1 ve the Sox Sex their runs all un- un arned i Hank ank Greenberg remained three mes in front of Babe Ruths Ruth's rec- rec 1927 home run pace by clouting 54 for the year as the Tigers S the Athletics twice 8 6 3 1 Jimmy Foxx's forty sev h bagger paced the Boston Red ox to an 8 4 margin over the in the only other game that aunt mt drowned out |
