Show CUBS DEfEAT BROOKLYN IN HECTIC GAME DAME I Chicago Advances ltd Ad ances alwes in Race I for Pennant Yankees Yin Win Over O Sox By r The Th Associated Press Chicago Cubs Cub were three and anda TItS THE a half games ahead of ot Pitts- Pitts Pittsburg burg today for leadership lead of ot the Na Na- National National National league While the Pirates were idle the Cubs won on another of ot their usual victories over o the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday but the windy city team had to struggle 11 Innings to take the long end of a 6 5 score Brooklyn has won only one one game from the Cubs this season It was Chicago's eighth consecutive victory and Charlie Roots Root's twentieth pitching triumph of ot the season Hack Wilsons Wilson's single scored Adams with the winning run Wattle Wattie Holms Holm's homer In the eighth with one man on base enabled the St. St Louis Cardinals to beat the Bos Boo Boston Boston ton Braves Bra 6 4 Fournier also hit for tor the circuit Two brilliant pitching perform perform- performances performances performances ances gave the Cincinnati Reds a header double-header from Philadelphia Jakie May fanned 11 batters In the opener and won 6 61 Red Lucas let the Phillies down with six hits in the second game for a 2 1 victory Sweet- Sweet Sweetland Sweetland Sweetland land the Phils' Phils recruit pitcher made madea a a. battle of It The Yankees ripped the White Sox for a 4 3 victory at New York Babe Ruth went hitless and Gehrig got only a single In three attempts Erin Ward a former Yankee pounded out outa a home run In the second misjudged the ball and It bounded into the left field stands Blanken- Blanken Blankenship Blankenship Blankenship ship held New York to 7 hits while the Chicagoans were tapping Shock Shock- Shocker er and Moore for 11 11 but a bad fourth Inning In which the Yankees scored all their runs proved pro his undoing Irving Hadley held Cleveland safe sare while Washington was pounding Hud Hud- liu lIn and grant for a 3 12 win Tate was the only player In the Washing Washing- Washington ton lineup who failed to get at least one safe hit Other American league teams did not play |