New York, May 4.
"Bucky" Harris' hustling Washington Senators looked today like the "team to watch" in the American League baseball pennant race.
With five straight victories behind them, the Senators were only half a game behind the league leading New York Yankees. Their last two victories were over the St. Louis Browns, who once seemed to hold a jinx over the Washington Club.
The Senators yesterday beat St. Louis, 11-10, hammering out eighteen hits.
The Yanks yesterday took their second straight triumph over Detroit, 10-6.
Steve Sundra and Johnny Murphy kept eleven Detroit hits well scattered.
Thirty-year-old George Caster turned in a three-hit pitching performance as Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics defeated the White Sox in Chicago, 3-1, Eldon Auker, the "submarine hurler" obtained from Detroit in a trade last December, turned in his first victory for the Boston Red Sox yesterday.
Rollie Hemsley, the reformed "bad boy" of the Cleveland catching staff, returned to the line-up yesterday, virtually recovered from last Week's injury. He failed to finish the game, however, and was replaced by Frank Pytlak behind the plate.
Lyn Larry Sold The Indians' management simultaneously announced the sale of Lyn Lary, 38-year-old shortstop, to Brooklyn in a straight cash deal. The price was not revealed. Work with the Dodgers will be the frst National League experience for Lary, who has played with the Yankees, Red Sox Senators, Browns and Indians in the American League.
In the National League, the New York Giants took their second straight game from Cincinnati, 6-4 driving pitcher Johnny Vander Meet to the showers.
Hugh Mulcahy pitched the Philadelphia Phillies to their second straight win over Chicago, 4-1, holding the Cubs to five hits. This left the Dodgers, Cubs and Phillies in a three-way tie for fourth place.
The Pirates-Dodgers and Cardinals-Bees games were postponed.
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