The Archive · 1941

Yankees Increase Their Lead

New York, July 20.

New York E hectic National League race, in which the lead has changed Cleveland hands several times, return: ed to a neck-and-neck affair today Boston Chicago when the St. Louis Cards took a double-header to move up to Detroit within 1% games of the Brooklyn Dodgers. While the Cards were Philadelphia St. Louis stealing the limelight in the senior circuit, the New York Yanks Washington szeressea F OTT] increased their American League lead to seven games by downing the Detroit Tigers in a 17-inning thriller.

Playing at Boston, the St. Louis club took the hard-fought 12-inning opener from the Brayes by a 4 to 2 score and then pushed

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