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Fade-Away Leaders, French and Hdbbeli, Battle It Out As Giants SplitIncreased use of the baflUusr screwball is the outstanding feature ofuitching this season in the National League.The screw ball, one of old Grover Cleveland Alexander’s favorite deliveries. twists suddenly down and away from the batter like a fast-breaking out-droo. Grover tried one of ’em on Paddy Smith. Grays’ backstop, here two weeks aco in thatlast House.of David frame.Even Daazy Vance.. Brooklyn's veteran speed ball king, is following the crowd and using the screw ball It seems that Ditchers in ..John Heydler’s circuit have realized overnight that the National League ball, with its raised seams, is an ideal projectile for this fade-away.Carl Hubbell, screw ball chain-cion of the Majors, beat his outstanding fade-away rival. Larry French, in a twisting duel yesterday when he pitched the Nev.' York Giants to a 7 to 3 victory over the first-place Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of a doubleheader. Chae-non replaced French in. the sixth, and Spencer followed in the .eighth.The Pirates came back in the night-csp and beat the Giants, 7 to 5, after a ten-inning struggle. Earl iGrace, pinch hitting fdr'Padacn m the tenth, singled to score Comor-osky and Suhr with the winning runs? Bill Terry drove out a home run in each game for New York.Dave Barbee, Pittsburgh left fielder, spiked his right leg and was carried from the field in the fourth inning of the first game.The Pirates suffered a half-game loss to their lead by splitting the double header, and now are four games ahead of the runner-up Chicago Cubs, who downed, the third-place Boston Braves, 7 to 2. Hetns-ley. Chicago's catcher, had a perfect day at bat with four hits in four tries.The fourth-place Phillies rose to within one percentage point of the Braves by overwhelming the Cincinnati Reds, 10 to 5. Brooklyn took both ends of a twin bill from the St. Louis Cardinals, 12 to G and 5 to 4. In the opener, the Dodgers registered 11 runs in the seventh inning, a record for the season..In the American League, the St. Louis Browns beat Washington, 'J to 2, by scoring three runs in thesecond inning. Hchiie Mauush of the Senators connected for three singles and a double In four tries.The tail-end Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox, 6 to 1. John Welch, formerly of the Newark Bears, made a good debut by limiting the Chisox to nine hits.New York at Cleveland and Philadelphia at Detroit were rained out.i1xczc11ckosvn0s
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Wed, Jul 27, 1932
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