Show lAll- lAll Western Series Seems Certain Now GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK Sept 17 UP UP- UP You dont don't need crystal balls t tea ta a leaves or ouija boards tod tod today to to- d day y to figure out that the 1940 World series will be an west all em ern affair The he Cincinnati Reds are as asgood mern good god as in Any combination of ot l four ur Cincinnati victories and Brooklyn Bi defeats will clinch the I National league pennant for the theR R Reds ds If the Reds win four more games they'll clinch the pennant r regardless of ot what the Dodgers fro do S The American leagues league's in the World series be either cither Cleveland or De De- De- De troit barring a catastrophe The dong ding battle balUe between the Indiana Indians In In- diana and Tigers is likely to last right down to the very finish The Yanks have shot their bolt The White Sox's rocket also has about reached its peak Leaving for Philadelphia today the Reds held a game 10 lead over the Dodgers Unless the u I I ff WW f Buck Newsom Wins Vins game No 19 for Tigers Reds cool off after sweeping through the east with seven straight victories Including one tie they should clinch the flag Wednesday or Thursday at the latest The Reds are finishing up like champions They polished off the Dodgers yesterday 4 3 in 10 Innings to make it three straight over their closest rivals in the final payoff series between them It was a playoff game of Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sunday's Sun Sun- days day's 1 tie As have been most of the Cincinnati-Brooklyn Cincinnati games this season yesterdays yesterday's game was wasa a bitter battle which ended in lit ina lita a near riot The American league results were notable for two things things- the tightening of the race between between between be be- tween the Indians and Tigers and the slaughter of the Yanks Cleveland divided a doubleheader doublehead- doublehead er with the Athletics and saw its lead narrowed to half a game over Detroit A run 7 rally Inthe in inthe inthe the third featured the Tribes Tribe's 8 3 victory in the opener Ninth inning doubles by Sam Chapman and Bob Johnson gave the Athletics Athletics Athletics Ath Ath- a 3 2 win in the nightcap snapping a game 9 Philadelphia losing streak Johnny Babich a rookie draftee from Kansas City hung up his thirteenth vie vic vic vic- tory for the As A's allowing only six hits With Buck Newsom winning his nineteenth nth game and Hank Greenberg hitting his thirty-fifth thirty homer the Tigers pummeled the Senators 9 Greenberg's blow tied him with Jimmy Foxx for forthe forthe forthe the American league home run lead The Browns cut the Yanks to 3 f i S 5 5 S' S jj S S SHank hrs Hank Greenberg His Soth homer helps TI Tigers ers win ribbons 4 16 and left the bedraggled bedraggled bedraggled be be- draggled New Yorkers four games out of first place The Browns Bro hit five homers among their fifteen hits of off Russo Hadley Hadley Had Had- ley Icy Gomez and Sundra Vernon Kennedy won his eleventh game yielding six hits The Red Sox stopped the White Sox's game 8 winning streak with a 6 2 setback Jack Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- Vilson son pitched a hitter 5 while the White Sox committed five errors afield In the other National league games the Cardinals split spilt with t the e Phillies winning the nightcap nightcap night nIght- cap cap 7 1 after losing the th opener 3 the Pirates nosed out the Giants 7 |