| Show 1 Yanks Need Clincher I Today Against jy By B Bailey a I I ey I Associated Press Sports Writer I Just to show v that adages are re j J I not jot not always true opportunity 1 knocked a a. second time at the door I Lf f nf the New hew York Yankees today I I I 0 The Bombers had a chance to tol American league championship cham cham- flinch clinch l the m it V yest yesterday and muffed it I Lt but ut nothing thing was lost except a day sad and j a ball game because they I f had hadan another Other ther crack at the same goal this afternoon I I 1 i The odds were against the Yankees Yankees Yant Yan Yan- t kees yesterday esterday They had taken 1 two t in a a. row from the Detroit Tigers and they were up against one one of the best pitchers in the I league Paul Dizzy Trout He beat teat them 2 to 1 with hit five-hit pitching a. a and d his his own home run in to the eighth inning I l Today the percentages favored the Yanks After being held to toone tos' tos s' s one run nm in two consecutive games L r. r they seemed certain to do more 5 lone scoring and in addition their pitcher pitch pitch- J er was to be Spurgeon Spud I I Chandler seeking his twentieth victory U 0 Charley End Dead-End tl pitched a good game yesterday y holding the Tigers scoreless for the k i first six innings and permitting t k only five hits in the eight frames he worked 4 f I i The Washington Senators were t Idle and will rest again today leaving leave leav leav- e t ing the field clear to the Yanks a to clinch the championship under i their own awn power When they get 1 1 it the pennant will be their fourteenth fourteenth fourteenth four four- as well as their seventh D In is eight years Both the other games in the thep p American league went into extra r innings The Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Athletics battled 16 innings to a 3 33 ti tie with neither team scoring after the llie sixth Jesse Flores went the route for the As A's At Boston Joe Dobson and Ed Klieman making his major league debut staged a spectacular mound duel in which Dobson gave only two hits as the Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 1 0 in 10 innings in in- It was not until the seventh seventh seventh sev sev- Inning that Lou Boudreau singled for the first hit off the Red Sox southpaw Boston made eight safeties off Klieman but none counted until Tom McBride and Tony Lupien put together a pair of doubles doubles in in the tenth In the National league the St. St Louis Cardinals cracked the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Dodgers 5 1 with Lefty Max Lanier pitching seven-hit seven ball and Walker Cooper making four hits in a a. game for the third time in eight days Lanier pitched shutout shutout shutout shut shut- out ball till the eighth by which time the Redbirds had completed all aU their scoring against Curtis Davis I The defeat dropped the Dodgers into third place as the Cincinnati Reds nosed out the New York Giants 5 4 The Giants scored all their runs in a second-inning second uprising uprising uprising up up- rising against Ray Starr but were stopped thereafter by Ed Heusser while the Reds rallied for three runs in the eighth to win The Chicago Cubs spotted the tM Phillies four runs in the first inning inning inning in in- ning and then battled back to win 7 4 with a three-run three rally in thelast the thelast thelast last half of the fifth before weather er halted play Paul Derringer appearing in relief received credit for the victory of his career Pittsburgh and Boston were idle |
