The Williamsport Grays captured the 1934 New York-Pennsylvania League pennant last night in Binghamton by taking their fourth game in the post-season title season with the Binghamton Triplets, winning 7-2.
Six hits bunched in the first two frames off Kemp Wicker and Floyd Olds, including homers by George Miner and Bill Baker, were sufficient to win. Bill Thomas relieved Bunn Hearn in the fifth with none out, although Hearn retired with the lead. It was too soon for him to be credited with the win.
The Grays added three more in the eighth on three singles, a sacrifice and an error off of Bob Miller.
Binghamton won the second and fifth games of the series with Hormidas Aube getting credit for both wins.
The title returns to Williamsport on the 10th anniversary of the town’s last pennant in 1924, also winning it in 1923.
George Miner was the hero for the Grays in last night’s contest.
Filling in for Joe Bonoowitz, who was absent from the line-up due to his observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Miner, the former Johnson City schoolboy star became the hero of the series when he drove in three of the Grays’ seven runs with a home over the right field barrier in the second inning and a timely single that capped Williamsport’s biggest rally in the sixth.
Miner had done his share in pitching the Grays into a respectable lead earlier in the series but nothing like this was expected of a pitcher who volunteered to play the outfield when no one else was available.
The Grays held at bay without a hit by Aube on Monday night made the amends last night. From the time Bill Bake smashed a solid blow over dead center in the first inning until Red McBride chased Chief Koy back to the wall for his drive in the ninth, they were intent on slugging their way to victory.