The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-19
TELLER FAILS IN FOURTH START AS BIG LEAGUER
Home Run By Di Maggie with Bases Loaded Won
 for Yanks
By. LESLIE AVERY

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 New York, July 19.--(UP)-Base- balls two most famous sophomores, Bob Teller and Joe DiMaggio, stood 60 feet apart and eyed each other. Bob let the ball go with sweep of his powerful right arm. Joe swung with all the power in his broad shoulders. The game was over.
 The ball sailed into the left field bleachers of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium where 6s,ss4 fans had sat tensely, and Joe trotted around the bases behind three mates who had been on the sacks to give the New York Yankees a 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
 It was the American League strike. out kings fourth loss in as many starts this season. It was the 24th four-bagger for the California boy who seems destined to succeed Babe Ruth as home run kign.
 It was @ dramatic battle, with Teller frequently in trouble because of his wildness. He walked eight men, hit one, and made one wild pitch.
 Extra Base Hits
 DiMaggio already had connected for Q double and a triple, driving in one run. He came to bat in the ninth with the score tied 1-1 and the sacks crowded as @ result of Rufilng's sin- gle, Feller's wild throw of Crosetti's bunt and a walk to Rolfe. The cir- cult smash gave Joe a total of four more than any other major leaguer.
 Teller, was the first pitcher to go the route against the Yankees in their last 16 games. He gave up sev- en hits and famed seven. It was the 18th straight game in which Di- Magigo had hit safely. Rufflng was solved for eight hits in scoring, his i2th victory.
 The runner-up Chicago White Sox picked up 8 half game on the Yankees when they collared both ends of a doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox. A 10th inning sim gle by Radcliff drove in the winning tally in the 6-5 opener. When Gaffke fumbled Walkers single Kreevich came home with the only run in the l-0 nightcap, in which Monty Strat- ton stopped the Boston batsmen with three hits.
 The Detroit Tigers got only two hits of Monty Weaver, but two walks. a single by Walker and a pair of errors in the first inning gave them all of their runs in Q 3-1 deci- sion over the Washington Senators. The St. Louis Browns walloped the Philadelphia Athletics, l0-6, then succumbed 7-6 when Russ Peters seventh inning home run broke 6 6-6 deadlock.
 Cubs By Shade
 The battle for first place in the National League continued with the Chicago Cubs maintaining their .003 point advantage over the New York Giants. Both won twin bills. The Cubs stopped a rally after two runs had been scored in the ninth to de- feat the Brooklyn Dodgers 7-6. Then Curt Davis distributed 12 hits to win the second 9-4. Carl Hubbell regis tered his i4th win of the season 6-5 over the St. Louis Cardinals who were blanked li-0 in the nightcap by Hal Schumacher.
 Lefty Grissom of the Cincinnati Reds turned in the best performance of the day, when he doled out two hits to blank the Boston Bees, To, after Ray Davis had pitched e five- hitter to win the opener, Al. Pitts bugh and Philadelphia split, the Phillies winning the curtain raiser. 5.2, behind the six-hit fiinging of Passeau, and the Pirates taking the finale 6-5 when Jensen's long fly brought Lloyd Waner home from third with the winning run in the ilth.
 YESTERDAYS HERO: Joe Di- fast-flelding sophomore of the New York Yankees, who smacked a home run in the ninth with the bases loaded to break Q l-i IL A -