SPORTS/ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1927.' /SPORTS/ 51 Braxton Great Prop for GriffHurlers : Pirates Sailing Smoothly to Pennant KLOZA HOMER KING | SAVED IN THE NINTH BUCS, GIANTS, CARDS WORLD SERIES TICKETS SOUTHPAW RELIEF STAR BUCS LEAD WITH 4 GAMES SOUGHT BY PIRATE FANS DETROIT. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. IN SOUTHEAST LOOP Blur. Ib ? « « « } IN 18 MORE GAMES PITTSBURGH, September 15 Wnrnrr, Sh 1 0 J} jj * 2 Pa.. Ruble, rs 4 « « 3 « 2 (4I).—With 18 more games to play BIG HELP TO NATIONALS firhrincrr, 2b 4 O I 3 3 O2 AFTER ANOTHER DUAL WIN 3 t 1 O A O By with Pirates four games in For the real names of new players Hrilmiinn. rs the Associated Press. and the Kotherclll, If 4 O 1 3 0 0 NEW National League, bought for the Nationals one has to 3b-lb 4 YORK, September 15.—Defi- the lead. In the McManus. 0^321« ask others than Clark Griffith, presi- Tnvrner, 4 O 1 4 O nite settlement of the National League scores of checks for world series May Well Be Rated as Player Most to the develops that Russlrr. e 3 0 1 0 0 0 championship promises to hang fire Topple Braves Twice, While Runner-Up Giants and tickets have been received by Barney Valuable dent of the club. It now WhUrhlll. « O O O 3 1 Kloza. outfielder recently purchased Carroll, O O O O I O right up to the eleventh hour, judging Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh * ® the first name Mniltish* ........... I I I O from the closely huddled positions of club. This from Birmingham, bears 1 O Cards Homer Defeats Club Year—Performance as Tigers Are However, Win tot 2 2 2 2 the contenders. Again Split—Carey’s He’s confident, but Is making no of Clarence instead of John. Dfvlvflro»t 0 O 0 0 0 0 yet. Jack, 0 0 O O O O Pittsburgh, New York and St. Louis advance sales he is known in base ball as so Woodnll» 0 Typical of Griff’s poor. Nruni? O O 0 O O have 18 games remaining on their 99th Beaten Season’s Work. guess was not so Shea 3 I 0 O Cubs—Yankees Take Tilt. by way, home- °_2_^ schedules, while Chicago has 15 left. Kloza, the was the Here’s king of Southeastern League. Total* 34 3 8 24 17 4 how the card shapes out for run the the season, Farmed the Albany, Ga.. club by WASHINGTON. AB. R. 11. PO. A. E. rest of the including post- BY JOHN B. KELLER. early round while Hadley was to Rlrr, rs 4 I 1 3 1 ponements: By the Associated Press. again, 10-6. Percy Jones, the Bruins' Birmingham, grabbed from 2 value chocking the Tigers with regularity. which him Hurrl*. 2b 4 I 2 3 3 O black flag of the Pittsburgh star southpaw, was the victim of a the player of most to last 4 1 I 1 Pittsburgh—Boston, 2: Brooklyn, 5; The Harris horde was rather fortu- the sandlots near the end of sea- Sneaker. rs 2 2 New Pirates was more secure at six-run attack in the third, but Brill- the Nationals this year, Gar- him 28 Gnslln. If 4 O 1 A O O York, 4. all at Pittsburgh; nate to get its runs off its arch- son, Kloza's slugging brought 0 I 7 I Chicago, the National League masthead heart, who succeeded him, pitched land Braxton can be named of .400, judcr. Ib 3 2 4, at Chicago; Cincinnati, 3, enemy, the left-handed Earl White- home runs, a batting average Onslow. Ib I O 0 1 at Cincinnati. today. Coming down the good ball. The defeat set Joe Mc- without arousing any consider- 3 0 I 3 O2 A2 This big league hill. Only one of three tallies regis- the attention of scouts and Rurl. 3 New York-St. 3; Pittsburgh. THEhomestretch Pirates have Carthy’s team back to six and one- AS able amount of adverse 3b O O I Louis, at the criti- Itlurtr. 2 third a telegram from Manager Johnny O 3 02 half in the cism. This portside pitcher, frail in tered by the home crowd in its Hayes. ** 3 O O 4: at Cincinnati. 5; at Philadelphia. 3; a lead of four full games on their games rear of the Pirates. of Hadley. 3 O O heart, inning was earned, even though four Dobbs the Barons. p I 1 2 at Brooklyn, 2; 1; New closest rivals, the New- York Giants Rube Dressler’s triple in the hinth Stature but stout of more than The Birmingham in the thick Braxton, p O O O 0 O O Philadelphia, at any member of the Washing- successive hits came then. Two team York. and the St. Louis Cardinals, who are with the bases loaded and two away other of the Southern Association pennant ton aggregation seems to deserve the erratic throws by Lu Blue. Tiger Total* 30 3 7 27 10 0 St. Louis—New York. 8; Philadelphia, still deadlocked In second place. gave Cincinnati a 7-6 victory over honor. first sacker. paved the way to a brace fight, felt that it could use this hard- ?Batted for Whltrhill In the eithth. 5; Boston, 5; Chicago. 2, all at St. At or near the top all season, the Philadelphia. It was the eighth vic- of the markers. hitting outfielder, so Jack was re- +Batted for Blur In the eithth. Louis; 3, Cincinnati. Pirates, nevertheless, had been falter- tory in succession for the Reds. Braxton has won no laurels as a In the ninth. Cincinnati. at famous All told, the Nationals got but seven called. but it wras not loath to sell him than for Ba**ler Chicago—Brooklyn, 1; Boston, 5; ing in the crises, and at one time The New York Yankees, with the regular pitcher, for he has had few Whitehill SBatteri for Cnrroll In the ninth. starts, but in a relief role this year safeties and one pass off to the Nationals before the draft ilKan for Woodall In the ninth. Philadelphia. 3; Pittsburgh. 4; all at were in second place, five games be- American League pennant already in innings toil. Out- get a for in the ninth. their possession, their ninety- he has eclipsed even the sturdy Fred during his seven of robbed it of a chance to big 'Batted Ruble Chicago; St. Louis. 2, at St. Louis. hind the Chicago Cubs. Yesterday won of four-hit round, Detroit O O O O 1 O O 1 o—2 game of scalp- Marberry. who in several seasons past side their third price. Donie Bush’s Buccaneers registered ninth the season in their three swats spread Washington 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 x—3 ing the Cleveland Indians, 6-1. Dutch was regarded as the most remarkable were over their seventh straight victory. They as many innings. With the Tigers Birmingham now serins to be out of Two-bane hit*—Speaker. Pothertlll. Mn- Ruether gave seven hits and kept worker of the modern game. nunli. Tliree-hase hit—Hire. Stolen base— double-header from the Boston rescue bending every effort to overhaul the the running for the pennant, so Griff won a them scattered. Ruth Gehrig To the efforts of the courageous port- Gehrintrr. Sarrlflre— Bluege. Double play* SPUTIETWEEiTBAN Braves for the second time in suc- and gave got cigar Harris horde, Whitehill way to may ask that Kloza tie sent here for —Hayes to to Judge. Tavener to Blue. both singles, but the contest was side-pitching Braxton the llarri* #. Nationals Henie Manush at the the finish of the Nationals’ season. Left on Imses—Detroit, 9: Washington. cessive days. devoid of home this certainly many of Binch-batter on Whltrhill. 1: off held Bancroft’s six runs. season owe outset of the eighth so that Owen The proxy already has requested Bir- First ha*e bail*—Off AND Kremer men to Boston’s Red Sox won their third the victories that have kept them in Hadley, 4. Strurk out—By Hadley. 2: by OWNERS WIDENS hits and tpok the opener, 6-2, while Carroll got a chance to hurl a hitless mingham to ship Outfielders Foster, Braxton. 1. Hit*—Off Wbltehlll. 7 In 7 ln- straight from the St. Louis Browns, the first division of the American a off Hadley. 8 In innings; his mates again routed Kent Green- round. Ganzel and Emil Barnes North for nint*: BVh In- 9-6. Boston pounded Stewart for League through the greater part of roll. 0 In 1 Innlnt: off Braxton. 0 In By field, heretofore a pitching nemesis Hadley looked unbeatable in his first once over. Griff also has asked that Losing the Associated Press. three runs in the first inning and the campaign. nlnt. Wlnnlnt pltrher—Hadley. the Corsairs, for the second time comes four innings against the Bengals. All Pitchers Ralph Judd, bought from pltrher—Whltrhill.. I moire*—Me«*r». Mr- CHICAGO, September for never relinquished the lead. On a won-and-lost basis Braxton’s game—- 15.—The many days. Johnny Miljus, they gleaned off him in that time was Peoria of the Three-Eye League, and Gownn. Kvnnn, Hildebrand. Time of breach between the club owners of the in as Philadelphia rallied in the ninth to record is not so impressive. It cred- Hopkins, New -2 hour*. American Coast League product, pitched the tie its a pass to John Bassler in the third, Paul purchased from League and their president the score and then won in the him with only six victories, and and John bit later was snared in a Haven of the Eastern League, he for 27 years, Byron Bancroft leaders to a 3-0 triumph In the second eleventh Chicago White Sox.