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Show Indians Triumph Over A's To Tie Third-Spot Chisox As Reds Jiplit Twin Bill By GEORGE KIRKS EY NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (UP) With the Yankees already in and the Reds getting nearer the "promised land" every day, the two hottest races in the majors today were for third place. By a brilliant eastern campaign perhaps the greatest In Cleveland Cleve-land history the Indians are dead- ' jocKCHi wun in White Sox for third place in the American league. From now on the White Sox-Indians battle is going to be a dogfight dog-fight and the only real competition compe-tition left for the last 11 days of the season. In the National league the Dodgers, Dodg-ers, with five raioht in the awpV" "ariar?'-' of that fact when he turns his attention at-tention to hiring Chicago's 1940 pilot. . The Indians climbed into a tie with the White Sox yesterday by defeating the Athletics, 9-4, the Tribe's seventh victory in eight games in the east. Johnny Allen had the A's blanked until the eighth, when he eased up behind a. seven-run lead. In the other two American league games the Yankees beat the Browns, 8-2, behind Bump Hadley's five-hit pitching, and Dutch Leonard Leon-ard outtwirled Tommy Bridges to score his nineteenth victory as Washington downed Detroit, 4-2. For the second straight day the Reds and the Cards divided double-headers, double-headers, to leave Cincinnati's 3-game 3-game lead Intact. The Reds defeated the Bees. 4-1, behind Whitey Moore's six-hit pitching, but lost the nightcap, 5-4, ahfn Shnffnar and flrissnm gave, up five runs in the first two frames. Ival Goodman's homer In the ninth Just missed tying the nightcap. - west, are driving Bomp Hdlry hard to overtake the third-place Cubs, whom they now trail by one game. The Cubs i had won six out of seven until the Dodgers dropped in Sunday and knocked them off twice. ' , r.nhhv Hirinrtl, Pun, K. I. atlll hustling to keep his Job, and if the Bruins should quit altogether in the last few days of the season P. K. Wrlgley might take cognizance |