The Giants take a 2 – 1 lead against the Cubs, but when Hal Schumacher injures his arm in the 5th inning, the Cubs jump on reliever Allyn Stout to win, 5 – 3. Larry French is the victor.
With Terry Moore sidelined after fracturing his foot yesterday, the Cards top Brooklyn, 4 – 2, behind Jesse Haines. Paul Dean saves the game in relief. In the second game of the doubleheader in St. Louis, a tired Dizzy Dean again fails in relief, giving up three runs as Brooklyn wins, 8 – 7. The Cards are now trailing the Cubs by 2 1/2 games.
Dodger OF Len Koenecke, dropped by the team, and put off an American Airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him to Buffalo, where he had played previously. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with the pilot. He dies after the co-pilot hits him over the head with a fire extinguisher.
In the opener of a critical four-game series in Chicago, the Giants lose, 8 – 3, to Lon Warneke. The Cubs have now won 12 straight.
Pittsburgh reliever Mace Brown pitches five innings of shutout relief to beat Boston, 5 – 3. Wally Berger’s third double of the game in the 9th is the only hit he allows. The Bucs’ Gus Suhr plays 1B in the last inning to run his streak of consecutive games played to 619, a new National League record. The old mark was set by Eddie Brown from 1924 to 1928.
1935 – Before an overflow crowd of 41,284 in St. Louis, the Giants’ Carl Hubbell outpitches Dizzy Dean to give New York a 7 – 3 win. It is the second time in four days the two aces have matched up. The Giants, winners of 14 out of their last 22 games, are now just 1 1/2 games behind the Cardinals.
The Yankees split with the American League-leading Tigers, winning 2 – 1 and losing 5 – 1. Hank Greenberg, leading the AL in hitting at .346, is 0 for the afternoon, with five strikeouts. “The hooting and jeering which some of the fans turned loose against Hank wasn’t much of a tribute to the sportsmanship of his home town” (New York American).
Frank Crosetti returns to New York after an operation at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital to remove floating cartilage in his right knee. He’ll soon return to his home in California.
The Braves snap their 14-game losing streak by tipping the Reds, 6 – 4. The Braves drive Tony Freitas from the mound in the 6th inning with seven hits, four for extra bases.
The Cubs outlast the Dodgers, 18 – 14, for their 11th straight win and go into first place. In winning, the Cubs use a relief pitcher for the first time in 11 games. Chicago scores five in the 2nd and eight in the 6th in outhitting Brooklyn 18 hits to 15. Johnny Babich starts and goes a third of an inning to take the loss. Starter Charlie Root is the Chicago winner.