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Show DWOMWATD BUY 2 SL-2 (BARflES MOEAE) Reds' Bunting Drive Bogs Down as Phils Win, 13-1; Cards Move Toward Top By GEORGE KIRKSEY I nited Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 20 The Cincinnati Reds' pennant drive today bogged down to its lowest depths since June 1. With their lead trimmed to two and one-half games, the Reds cannot fford to dilly-dally from now on. with a mate on In the ninth. Washington clubbed out a 10-9 victory over Cleveland. The Senators Sen-ators slammed out 17 hits off Eis-enstat, Eis-enstat, Broaca, Stromme, Dobson and Hudlin. In their most ludicrous exhibition exhibi-tion of the season, the league-leading league-leading Reds were humbled yesterday yester-day by the last-place Phillies, 13-1. Until yesterday, the Pbils hadn't won a game from the Reds In Cincinnati and had won only two out of their 19 games. Hi-be Mystifies Reds But Kirby Higbe, the prize the Cubs let slip through their fingers to the Phils, had the Reds eating out of his big right hand. He let them down with six Mis and didn't allow a run until the eighth, when he had an 11-run lead. The Reds' lead melted to two and one - half games, the Cardinals Cardi-nals moving closer clos-er .to the lop than at any time since June 1. itank iu, when they trailed by only two games. With Southpaw Max Lanier, recently called in from the minors, hurling a five-hit game, the Cards stopped the Dodgers' rush, 6-1. St. Louis drove Vito Tamulis to cover in the fourth with a three-run rally started by Owen's double. Lelber's 1st Homer Hank Leiber's 21st homer with a mate on base featured the Cubs' 3-2 victory over the Giants. Billy Herman's single after Larry French had reached first on Dan-ning's Dan-ning's failure to hold a third strike produced the winning run. French went to second on a balk and counted on Herman's hit. French was credited with victory No. 14. Rookie Bob Elliott's homer with a mate on base gave Pittsburgh a 5-3 victory over the Bees. Edgar Smith was powerless to stop the Bronx Bombers, who rapped out a 6-2 triumph. Charley Keller's tenth homer featured the Yankee attack. The Red Sox further entrenched themselves in second place by scoring a 9-2 win over the Browns. Jack . Wilson scattered nine hits while the Red Sox made 11 off Trotter and Gill. Tinch Single Rudy York's pinch single with the bases loaded In the eighth enabled en-abled the Tigers to come from behind to beat the Athletics, 8-4. Buck Newsom held the A s scoreless score-less behind a 3-0 lead until the seventh, when he blew up and the Mackmen - scored all their runs. Hank Greenberg hit homer No. 30 |