Show I Pirates Finally Get Ideas By ED KIELY NEW YORK July 29 It INS INS It took an iron rule a few trades and plenty of juggling but today the Pittsburgh Pirates were living up to Manager Frankie FrIsch's early season prediction that We may not win any medals but wel well cause plenty of trouble After a poor start the Buccaneers Buccaneers Buccaneers Bucca Bucca- are making a fast comeback comeback comeback come come- back and at present are t as torrId torrid torrid tor tor- rid as the weather having won won 16 of their last 22 games Yesterday the Pirates beat the Boston Bees twice 5 2 7 3 to slip into fifth place in the National league and to move within three games of the thc first division At the same time the double loss forced the Bees into last place replacing the Philadelphia Phillies Meanwhile the Brooklyn Dodgers ers picked up a game on the league-leading league Cincinnati Reds by crushing the Cardinals in a twin bill 3 0 and 7 Whitlow Wyatt i shut out the Red Birds with three I hits in the opener and fat Freddie Fitzsimmons celebrated his thirty- thirty ninth birthday anniversary by chalking up his tenth victory against one loss this season in the The Reds with Jim Turner on the mound defeated the Phillies 7 2 in the first game gam of a doubleheader doubleheader doubleheader double- double header but failed to hit behind their ace pitcher Bucky Walters who was after his sixteenth triumph triumph tri tri- in the nightcap and lost 4 The crippled New York Giants with two regulars on the sidelines cemented themselves in third place by belting the Chicago Cubs 8 4 for the second consecutive consecutive consecutive tive day I The big news in the American league was that Louis Call Me Bobo Newsom broke his string of 13 straight pitching victories by dropping a tough 11 inning contest to th the Philadelphia Athletics 9 Hurling for the thc first time since he fractured his thumb in a game a fortnight ago the big Detroit right-hander right blew up in the elev elev- t th allowing three runs and three hits before being relieved by Archie McKain The Tigers however maintained a lJ game Ph-game game lead in the league standings i as the Cleveland In Indians Indians Indians In- In split two games with the Senators The Tribe won on the opener 6 3 and dropped the nightcap 9 l. Before the largest crowd of the day day fans the fans the New York Yankees halved a header double-header with the Chicago White Sox but set a new record when they walloped walloped walloped wal- wal loped six homers in the first game These gave the New Yorkers a total of 17 circuit clouts in their last five games beating the old mark for a similar number of contests contests contests con con- tests by one The Yanks won the first game 9 10 and lost the second second second sec sec- ond 8 Charley Chancy Keller and Joe DiMaggio led New Yorks York's bombardment bombardment bom born the former collecting three homers and the latter two The Boston Red Sox crushed the St. St Louis Browns twice 3 1 and 13 |