Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-24 | Page 21 | Bombers Need One Game to Grab Pennant

I f r Need 1 i I One ilOne Game to Grab Pennant I Sf Y Judson Bailey Associated Associate I Press Sports Writer I I 1 f The ion long delayed day on which II 1 fth th lies lies' York Yankees can clinch I the tha American league pennant Under under under un- un der der their own power In one game I I has has arrived i t All jui the Bombers need now to tail nail up P their seventh flag in eight yews yeas ears and in history is to beat the Detroit Tigers this after- after 1 soon root I They smothered the Tigers for forthe second straight time yesterday yester- yester the day with Lefty Marius Russo a showing shrug world series form in a two hit 1 0 shutout The only run of cf the game came on three singles 4 in n the first inning and caused Rufus Gentry his second 1 0 defeat defeat defeat de- de feat since joining the Tigers earL earlier earlier ear- ear L lier her this month Remove Remore Contenders 1 This success and Cleveland's I split plit of ot a a. doubleheader at Boston Eliminated the Indians mathematically mathematically t cally and the Washington Senators Senators Sena Sena- b tors who had held on stubbornly to a remote pennant possibility collapsed before the St St. Louis Browns 3 12 for the second hr straight time tune in a ft night game The Browns made 16 hits and knocked out Buck Newsom with nine of them in the first five innings innings innings in- in for his first defeat since St. St Louis traded him to Washington Cleveland eland was overpowered by bythe bythe the Red Sox 7 13 with Ford Garrison Garrison Garrison Gar Gar- rison getting a homer a double and two singles to bat in four runs In the first game but the Tribe took the nightcap 6 4 with a 15 hit tit attack of its own In the other American league game gme Orval Grove pitched the Chicago White Sox to a 5 2 verdict verdict verdict ver- ver dict dict over the Philadelphia Ath Ath- While Russo was making his spectacular bid for a starting as- as assignment as as- for the Yankees in the world Orld series two of the whom om the St St. Louis Cardinals are counting on to stop the American leaguers were traveling a rocky road mad against the Brooklyn ers era