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ROBINS TAKE NATIONAL LEAGUE LEAD

PHILLIES ARE HIT BY 8 TO 4 SCORE AT EBBETS FIELD

By CHARLES HOERTER.

The Dodgers accomplished three big things at Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon. They defeated Art Fletcher’s despised Phillies 8 to 4; they increased their winning to six straight games and they took undisputed possession of first place in the National League.

Uncle Robbie’s boys got some excellent pitching by Burleigh Grimes. Grimes hit the ball hard and timely and fielded well, even if they did commit four errors, only one of which proved injurious.

To Grimes and Rabbit Maranville must go yesterday’s major honors.

Grimes was hit freely at times, but when trouble loomed he bore down and kept the Phillies at bay. In the fifth inning, Grimes was wabbling and it seemed that the Phillies were about to start a serious uprising.

Rabbit Maranville’s exhibition at short and at bat was no less noteworthy. The Rabbit lined out a triple, a double and a single. It was the Rabbit’s robust triple in the eighth inning, sending Felix and Butler home, which really clinched the game.

After Wheat had grounded out in the eighth, Fournier walked. A single by Gus Felix sent Jack to third. Johnny Butler singled, chasing Fournier home, and Felix to second. A double steal was attempted and when Kimmick dropped Catcher Wilson’s throw at third, Felix was safe at the hot corner and Butler at second.

It was at this point that Maranville slammed out his mighty triple, scoring Felix and Butler. Then Charlie Hargreaves rapped out another single, which scored Maranville.

Zach Wheat and Dick Cox did their share by slamming out homers, each coming with the bases unoccupied.

Line Score & Box (as printed)

BROOKLYN
Cox, rf … 5 1 1 1
Fewster, 2b … 4 0 1 0
Wheat, lf … 3 2 1 3
Fournier, 1b … 2 1 0 0
Felix, cf … 4 2 2 2
Butler, 3b … 4 1 3 1
M’Neville, ss … 4 1 1 0
Hargreaves, c … 4 0 1 1
Grimes, p … 4 0 0 0

PHILADELPHIA
Sand, ss … 4 1 1 0
Nixon, cf … 3 0 0 0
Williams, rf … 5 0 1 0
Leach, lf … 5 1 2 0
Harper, 1b … 3 0 1 0
Henley, 1b … 4 0 1 0
Huber, 3b … 4 0 0 0
Kimmick, c … 3 0 1 1
Wilson, c … 1 0 0 0
Pierce, p … 3 0 0 0
Maun, p … 0 0 0 0
Heunline … 1 0 1 0

Totals
Brooklyn … 33 8 11 4
Philadelphia … 36 4 10 3

Philadelphia … 100 020 001—4
Brooklyn … 031 100 30x—8

Two-base hits—Maranville, Wilson.
Three-base hits—Bentley, Maranville.
Home runs—Cox, Wheat.
Stolen bases—Felix.
Double plays—Huber, Wrightstone, Bentley, Fournier.
Struck out—By Maun 6; Grimes 2.
Bases on balls—Off Pierce 2; Grimes 2; Maun 2.
Hits—Off Pierce 3 in 1-3 inning.
Umpires—Klem and Hart.
Time—2:10.
Attendance—3,000.

Source: New York Daily News, May 1, 1926

WHO’LL STOP YANKS?

THEY WIN AGAIN, 7 TO 2

Babe’s Homer Makes It Seven Straight.

By MARSHALL HUNT.

If George Herman Ruth cannot indulge in the dramatic he prefers not to indulge at all. Mr. Ruth’s dogma on the field of sport is, after all, something to be commended.

Just at the moment yesterday afternoon when the Yankees needed a home run to put the Washington Senators to a convincing rout and extend the New York winning streak to seven games, Mr. Ruth stepped nonchalantly to the plate and caressed a ball thrown to him by Stanislaus Coveleskie, smote the ball, so to speak, with such vigor and force as to cause it to find a repository in the right field bleachers.

That masculine sock, his fourth this year, helped the Yankees to defeat the Senators, 7 to 2, and make the New York march of triumphs something even more resplendent than it had been the past several days.

Seven straight!

Samuel Rice had hit a home run in the first inning for the Senators, and Joe Judge, that menacing figure from Washington, had also hit one in the first half of the seventh which fetched the Senators one run behind the Yankees. A larger gallery than the weather merited began to view matters with considerable alarm.

Were the Yanks to refuse succor to Comrade Urban Shocker? By the width of our blue suspenders, they would not!

Mark Koenig opened the Yanks’ half of the seventh with a single. Earl Combs sacrificed, Lou Gehrig doubled and the Bambino knocked every vestige of alarm-viewing out of the customers by making his home run. But hold! Meusel walked, stole, and Jumping Dugan singled. There were four very convincing runs, and what happened after that was of little moment.

Two very lugubrious errors by the Senators aided the Yanks to score two runs in the first inning, and Meusel’s double and Dugan’s single scored the Yanks’ third in the sixth.

Moral—Never view the Yankees with alarm until there’s no chance for them to win.

Box Score (as printed)

WASHINGTON
Tobin, rf … 4 0 1 0
S. Harris, 2b … 3 0 0 0
Rice, cf … 4 1 2 1
Goslin, lf … 3 0 1 0
Judge, 1b … 4 1 2 0
Bluege, 3b … 4 0 0 0
Myer, ss … 4 0 0 0
Tate, c … 3 0 1 0
Coveleskie, p … 2 0 0 0
Marberry, p … 1 0 0 0

NEW YORK
Koenig, ss … 4 1 1 0
Combs, cf … 4 1 0 0
Gehrig, 1b … 5 2 2 0
Ruth, rf … 4 1 2 4
Meusel, lf … 3 2 2 0
Lazzeri, 2b … 4 0 0 0
Dugan, 3b … 4 0 2 0
Collins, c … 4 0 1 0
Shocker, p … 3 0 0 0

Totals
Washington … 32 2 7 4
New York … 33 7 10 0

Washington … 100 000 100—2
New York … 200 004 40x—7

Two-base hits—Meusel, Gehrig.
Home runs—Rice, Judge, Ruth.
Stolen bases—Meusel.
Sacrifices—Shocker, Combs.
Bases on balls—Off Coveleskie, 3.
Struck out—By Shocker, 2.
Hits—Off Coveleskie, 10 in 7 innings.
Wild pitch—Coveleskie.
Time—1:48.
Attendance—12,000.

OUR GIANTS LOSE ANOTHER; BRAVES TAKE 10 INNING FIGHT

Local Boys Play Somewhat Messy Brand of Ball.

By WILL MURPHY.

Boston, Mass., April 30.—The Braves beat the Giants for the second time in a row here this afternoon. The score was 5 to 4 and the winning run was scored in the tenth inning on hits by Welsh and Burrus, an error by Jackson, his third boot of the day, and a sacrifice fly by Bernie Neis.

Fred Fitzsimmons, who took the pitching job for the Giants in the seventh inning, was in trouble all the way. The New Yorkers had come from behind to gain a 4 to 3 lead just before Fred relieved Hughie McQuillan, but Fitz was finally reached for the tying run in the ninth.

Neis opened the ninth with a double and was run down when he tried to make third on Wilson’s infield tap. Wilson got to third on Gibson’s double and scored on an extravagant wild pitch.

The early part of the game was a pitchers’ struggle between Hughie McQuillan and Henry Wertz. Both sides scored in the first. The Braves were helpless until the sixth, but scored twice then on a walk, a sacrifice and hits by Burrus and Brown.

The Giants took the lead in the seventh on hits by George Kelly and Tyson and Travis Jackson’s three-bagger and a single by Red Southworth. The Jackson drive was a legitimate home run to deep right center, but Jax turned his ankle rounding first and could only hobble to third.

Jackson had an adventurous day. His first two errors were bunched in the second inning.

Box Score (as printed)

NEW YORK
Groh, 3b … 5 1 0 0
Frisch, 2b … 4 1 0 0
Young, rf … 4 0 1 0
Meusel, lf … 3 0 0 0
Kelly, 1b … 4 1 1 0
Tyson, cf … 4 1 2 0
Jackson, ss … 4 1 1 0
Snyder, c … 4 0 1 0
McQuillan, p … 2 0 0 0
Fitzsimmons, p … 1 0 0 0
*Smith … 1 0 0 0

BOSTON
Gautreau, 2b … 4 1 2 0
Bancroft, ss … 4 1 1 0
Welsh, rf … 3 1 2 0
Burrus, 1b … 5 1 3 1
Brown, lf … 5 0 1 0
Neis, cf … 5 0 2 0
Taylor, 3b … 4 0 1 0
Gibson, c … 2 1 1 0
Wilson, c … 1 0 0 0
Wertz, p … 2 0 0 0
*Graham … 0 0 0 0

Totals
New York … 36 4 8 5
Boston … 37 5 12 4

New York … 100 000 300 0—4
Boston … 100 002 001 1—5

Two-base hits—Gautreau, Brown, Tyson, Neis, Gibson.
Stolen base—Taylor.
Sacrifices—Meusel, Welsh, Neis.
Base on balls—Off McQuillan 2; Struck out—By Wertz 2; McQuillan 2; Fitzsimmons 2.
Hits—Off Wertz, 6 in 6 innings (none out in 7th); McQuillan, 4 in 6; Wertz, none in 1; Hearn, none in 2.
Wild pitch—Fitzsimmons.
Umpires—McLaughlin, McCormick and Rigler.
Time—2:06.

A Note from the Press Box

It seems a feller can't be a Yankee fan in public without rousing the ire of the Giant and Brooklyn fans. I maintain that I am already a Brooklyn rooter. The next time the Giants come to town, I hereby agree to cover some of the games and make every effort to become goofy over them. We aim to please on this newspaper.

— Likely Paul Gallico, New York Daily News

The Inquiring Photographer

Battery Park — Fans weigh in

The Question: Of the three, Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants, which is your favorite ball team, and why?

Walter D. Whitaker
“Of the three teams I like the Giants best because I can always be sure of seeing a good baseball game when that team is in action. Sloppy baseball is seldom shown by any one wearing a Giant uniform.”

Charles O’Hagen
“The Dodgers, Petty, Fournier, old Zach Wheat, and Vance will give any fan a run for his money. Who wouldn’t like to see them in action? Watch the Dodgers step on the Giants this year. They have already made a good beginning.”

Helen Wenkmuller
“The Yankees are my favorites. I have always been rooting for them ever since I won my first bet on that team. I like to see Babe Ruth slam the ball over the fence a couple of times a day.”

Anna Braun
“For the Dodgers, of course. I have to be loyal, you know. It wouldn’t do for a girl who lives in Brooklyn to root for the Giants or Yankees in preference to her own home club.”

Edward D. Schwartz
“The Giants. I’ve been a Giant fan ever since I was a youngster. Likes or dislikes formed when young are not easily changed. The Giants are consistent. They are never licked until the game is over or the season finished.”

Joseph A. McCarthy
“The Yankees. Years ago the Giants were always in the limelight, and when the Yankees started coming I was with them. You can’t get more for your money than to see murderers’ row in action.”

Baseball Summary

Source: New York Daily News, May 1, 1926