IN THE NEWS: Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in four days and his 6th home run in consecutive games when he connects in a 51 2nd game win over the Red Sox. The blast, his 40th of the year, comes in the 3rd inning of Ed Morris. Gehrig connects in the opening 113 win against Milt Gaston, belting his 39th homer in the 7th inning. Lou finishes the day with six RBI and has knocked in 21 runs in the past six games. With the A's losing to Washington, New York is a half-game out of 2nd place.
IN THE NEWS: The Cardinals lead drops to five 1/2 as the 2nd-place Giants whip Brooklyn, 51 and 101. New York's Fred Fitzsimmons wins the opener, pitching seven innings, giving up three hits and stroking a home run. In the 7th inning, Fitzsimmons is struck on the head by a pitch from Austin Moore, which ruptures a blood vessel and keeps the knuckleballer from making his next start.
In Cincinnati, the Cubs lose, 43, in 10 innings. Hack Wilson, in the Cubs dog house for drinking and not hitting, is left in the bull pen to warm up pitchers when manager Hornsby, short of outfielders, inserts pitcher Bud Teachout in LF. On the train back to Chicago that night, Wilson starts arguing with two writers. When Pat Malone wanders by, he joins in the argument and, with his encouragement, Wilson punches out both writers. Malone will be fined $500 for his actions while club president Bill L. Veeck will suspend Wilson without pay for the rest of the season. In 112 games, Wilson hit just .261 with 13 home runs, and the Cubs will send the slumping slugger to St. Louis over the winter.
At Boston, George Earnshaw loses a no-hitter in the 8th inning when Marty McManus's roller gets away from SS Williams. Earnshaw ends with a 80 one-hitter. The A's lose the nitecap, 63, to Wilcey Moore.
IN THE NEWS: The visiting Cardinals tighten their hold on first place by shutting out the Reds twice, winning 30 and 70. Flint Rhem allows three hits in the opener to beat Si Johnson, then Syl Johnson wins the nitecap over Larry Benton. The Reds are credited with a triple play in the 2nd inning of game 2, going from LF Nick Cullop to C Lena Styles to 3B Joe Stripp to 2B Tony Cuccinello. Cooch's last out is a hidden ball trick and since the ball is never returned to the pitcher, a triple play is recorded.
Homestead Grays ace Smokey Joe Williams fashions a 2-hit, 62 win over the St. Louis Stars in the Negro NL Championship Series. The Grays will win in six games.
IN THE NEWS: Van Lingle Mungo, Uncle Robby's last find as a pitcher, reports to Brooklyn from Hartford and shuts out Boston 20 in his first start. He fans seven and hits a triple and a single to drive in both runs. Ancient Tom Zachary takes the loss. Brooklyn also took the opener, 54, in 10 innings on Fresco Thompson's RBI single.
In the morning game of a doubleheader in Philadelphia, the Yankees begin with eight walks and score eight times in the first inning on only two hits. Rommel, the 4th pitcher in the frame, retires Ruth, Gehrig, and Chapman on strikes. The Yanks win 153. In the 2nd game, Ruth and Gehrig bang 6th-inning homers off Waite Hoyt, and Ruth adds another Hoyt blow in the 9th, his 40th. The Yanks roll 94 over the first-place A's.
The Pirates sweep a holiday pair from the Reds, 61 and 43, scoring three in the 8th of the p.m. game. The Bucs lose SS Tommy Thevenow when he fractures his ankle in two places sliding in the 6th inning of the opener.
IN THE NEWS: Bill Harris, 31, who last pitched in the majors for the Reds, in 1924, makes his first appearance for Pittsburgh and shuts out Cincinnati, 30.
IN THE NEWS: To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first matchup, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 72.
IN THE NEWS: Yankee Tony Lazzeri steals 2B, reaches 3B, then steal home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 21 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 43, in nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a 2-run home run by Gehrig in the 6th.
After the Giants lose 10 to Larry Benton in the opener, Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons pitches New York to a 94 nitecap win over the Reds. Bill Terry contributes two doubles and two home runs in the win.
Cardinal P Paul Derringer has his scoreless inning streak stopped at 33, but manages to beat the Phils, 62, on six hits.
At Wrigley, the Cubs win 117 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th inning pinch grand slam. According to historian David Vincent, this is the first extra inning pinch grand slam in ML history. The Cubs take the second game, 81, behind Guy Bush's one-hitter, his 2nd of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
IN THE NEWS: The Philadelphia Athletics clinch the pennant, beating Cleveland at home, 143. Every starter for the A's has a hit and RBI. Eddie Rommel, veteran knuckleball pitcher for the A's, is the winning hurler, as Connie Mack wins his 3rd successive pennant. It is Mack's 9th, and last, AL championship. The A's went into first place for good on May 5th, when they started a win streak of 17 straight games and 20 of their next 21. In mid-July they won 13 straight.
IN THE NEWS: World Series tickets can now be printed as the St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions. They beat the Phillies 63 behind Bill Hallahan's 18th win of the year, and prepare for a rematch of the 1930 World Series. Earlier in the day, The Reds clinched it for the Birds by sweeping the Giants, 73 and 43.
IN THE NEWS: On his 32nd birthday, OF Earl Webb of the Red Sox ties and then sets the still-standing major-league record for 2-base hits at 65. Earl doubles in the lidlifter, a 92 win over the visiting Indians, to tie George Burns' double record at 64. Burns set his record in 1926. In game 2, a 21 Sox loss, Webb doubles off Jablonowksi to set the record. He double tomorrow and will finish the season with 67. He would have had 68, but on August 4th the league corrected a May 1st box score, turning what had been credited as a double into a single.
In the first of two, the Yankees and Red Ruffing rough up the Browns and George Blaeholder, 170. Bill Dickey's grand slam is the big blow. The Yanks take the nitecap, 61 behind Lefty Gomez's three hitter and Babe Ruth's 41st and 42nd homers of the year.
IN THE NEWS: In a 43 loss to the Cardinals, the Giants' Mel Ott is beaned by Burleigh Grimes in the 5th inning. Ott suffers a brain concussion and, with the Cardinals clinching the pennant, he sits out the rest of the season.
Lefty Grove wins his 30th game, beating the White Sox, 31, on five hits. He is the first to win 30 since Jim Bagby of Cleveland in 1920 and will be the last AL hurler to do so until Denny McLain in 1968.
IN THE NEWS: The Yanks run their win streak to 10 in a row, beating the Indians 71 and 104 in seven innings. Lou Gehrig hits his 45th homer in game one and drives in four runs for the afternoon to break his old RBI mark of 175, set in 1927. By the season's end he will have a total of 184. Ruth also drives home four runs and hits his 44th in game 2.
Before a game with Brooklyn, Sparky Adams, Cards 3B, injures his ankle. He can see only limited action in the World Series, leaving a chance for Andy High to shine as his substitute. Gabby Street, 48-year-old Cardinal manager, catches the last three innings of the 61 win against the Robins. Street, who last played in 1912, throws out Babe Herman, the only Brooklyn runner who tries to steal. Street is 0-for-1 at the plate.
IN THE NEWS: In a 13-inning game at Forbes Field, Hal Finney, Pirates C, has no putouts in a 32 win over Philadelphia. Paul Waner draws five walks, and 20 runners are left on base, as Heine Meine wins his 19th game to tie for the lead in the NL.
At Philadelphia, the A's set a new franchise record as they win their 105th, beating the Tigers, 86. Jimmie Foxx belts a three run homer in the first to pave the way for George Earnshaw's 21st win. Tiger infielder Mark Koenig makes his 5th mound appearance of the season, walks six while pitching two runless innings. The A's complete their season series with Detroit at 184.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Grove wins his 31st, beating the Red Sox, 94, his 11th straight win over the Red Sox stretching back to May 26, 1930. Since July 25, 1930, Grove's record is 464, the best 50 decision streak in the century, as noted by Jim Kaplan.
The round-robin playoff among New York City's three ML teams, to raise money for the unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both the Giants and the Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Again, a near capacity crowd turns out and adds $48,000 to bring the fund to $108,000. In field events held between games, Babe Ruth, normally a left-handed hitter, bats right and wins the fungo hitting contest. He breaks the old distance record held by Big Ed Walsh. Ruth's drive lands in deep center field, 421 feet away. The old record, set 20 years earlier, was 4191/2 feet.
IN THE NEWS: The A's 19-year-old rookie Lew Krausse makes his ML debut a dandy one, twirling a 4-hitter to beat Boston, 71.
Sam Rice drops a fly ball and the Yankees rally for five runs in the 8th to beat the Senators, 83. Ruth has two solo homers to help in the win. The 3rd place Yanks now trail the Nats by a 1/2 game.
IN THE NEWS: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove, 131, and deny him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the warmup for the Series.. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history. Dickey has four hits and ends the year with no passed balls, the only AL catcherand the Yankees are the only AL teamto ever accomplish the feat.
The most desperately contested battle for individual honors takes place in the race for the NL batting title. Chick Hafey, who reported late due to a contract dispute, goes into the final doubleheader with the Reds batting .353, four points over Bill Terry, last year's champ. Hafey gets only two hits in eight times at bat to drop to .349. Bill Terry's Giants are playing archenemy Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn, in their last game as the Robins, wins 123, behind Clark. Terry gets only one hit in four times at bat. The title goes to Hafey, who batted .3488 to Terry's .3486. Jim Bottomley, Hafey's Cardinal teammate, goes 4-for-8 and finishes at .3481. The Cards win 62 and 53, to win 20 of 22 with the Reds.
In a scheduled doubleheader at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers beat the Giants 123 in the opener. The nitecap, called on account of darkness after three innings with no score, will turn out to be the final contest between managers Wilbert Robinson and John McGraw, one-time friends and business partners, but now bitter enemies. McGraw has the edge, 197190, with five ties.
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