Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 4 | Yankees Need Two More Wins to Take American League Title

Yankees Need Two More Wins to T Take alre American Le League gue Title St. St Louis Cardinals Make Best Record for the I Week in Senior League I. I NEW NEWYORK YORK Sept 12 AP De t to clinch the J leagUe pennant as QUickly as s possible pos pos- sible sibie the New York Yant Yankees eS swept through second divIsion opposition last laet week for six victorieS out or of eight games games played and now have only two games to win to settle the issue beyond any mathematical un- un certaInty While the American league race was closing ii in there was considerable consIder consider- able shifting In the fIrst division of the tho National league The New NewYork NewYork York Giants closed a remarkable home stand In second place and started on or a lon g road trIp with their fn n the balance Tia Giants pull d up to within one gan banie of tile leading Pirates only to lose groUnd agaInst the ChIcago Cubs Cubs- who ho began theIr own home stand pone none too auspiciouslY but came camf back valiantly against the theNey New Ney York ch challenge T Tile e St St. Louis Louls Cardinals had the best record for the week in the National l league ngue winning six gam games s' s sand and losing three The worlds world's t champions toPPed the circuit with eight forty runs on five eighty hits The Cubs who hammered out nine hits w were re able to scOre only three thirty runs and c captured tour out of nine contests Pitts burg held on to first place by winnIn win win- winning nIn ning four out of seven The Yankees Yankees' six fifty runs were more than any other American league total but the Boston Red Sox Sex In winning fIve out of nIne nino put across one fIfty runs on n ninety five hIts The Red Sox hitting was r the heavIest in either league WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- Ington continuing its disastrous S slump th that lt has jolted the he club from troma froma a secure grip on second place to fourth position cloute four eighty hIts during th the week yet was able t to take only two games out of nine starts The Detroit Tig Tigers rs c contin in a pac and l lost st five five out ot of seven contests Th The Philadelphia Athletics having hay hav- ing shot up to second place In the junior cIrcuit strengthened strengthen d their thell hold wIth five fhe wins out of s ven games