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Show Lefty Grove I Pitches His 15thWinner ! By reran- bailey asssiaaasd Ttmm tpsrts Writer While- the Ctnetnnat! Reds and -St. Leuls Cardinals have been msry deciding the National learoe pennant, pen-nant, some of baseball's old-tt era have been occupied tn establishing establish-ing platforms tor their 1940 eon-tract eon-tract negotiations. Wtna Ne. U The eves of the world may have been on that daasle at Ctncin-naU Ctncin-naU which the Reds won yester-day. yester-day. 5-3, to clinch the National league pennant but there were other fish to fry on the baseball front. For one thing, old man Mose contrary to the legend of song writers ain't dead. The fellow who has been pitching 19 years with great success In the American Amer-ican league and has bean a main-stay main-stay of the second-place Boston Red Sox an season won his 15th game yesterday. 4-2, from the Washington Senators with a six-hit six-hit pitching Job. Leonard Caps Ne. M For another, Leonard, the knucklebaU specialist whose name was never so much as breathed In early season calculations, took the second game of the double-header, double-header, 6-1, lor Washington on a similar six-hit performance. It was. his 20th victory of the season. sea-son. Oral Hlldebrand. discounted as a probable world series starter for the world champion Yankees, came up with a six-hit hurling chore yesterday to beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 8-4, In the first game of a doubleneader. Sam Chapman hit a home run In the ninth to win the second fame for the A s, 9-4. Rookie Babe Young hit a two-run two-run homer and later scored the run that won the first game of a bargain biU for the New York Giants from the Philadelphia Phillies. Phil-lies. 4-3. BIU J urges batted In five runs with a pair of doubles to take the nightcap, S-3, for the Giants. The Boston Bees and the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Dodgers divided a pair of tight pitching spectacles, Dick Errick-son's Errick-son's four-hit work taking the first for the Bees, S-L and Lefty Vito Tamulis shutting out Boston in the second, 3-0, on three hits. |