The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-21
CARDINAL STAR BEST BATTER IN MAJOR LEAGUES
Yanks Win on Flock of HOmers-A's in Cellar;
 Red SOx, Pirates Split
By GEORGE KIRKsEY

United Press Stan COrrspOndent)
 New York, June 21-(UP)-The first candidate to throw his hat in the National lague ring for the most valuable player award this season was Joseph M. (Ducky) Medwick whose slugging feats carried his name to the top of the list in five different departments today.
 Medwick, the 26 year old St. Louis Cardinal outfilder and cleanup bat ter, leads the circuit in percentage, home runs, runs, runs batted in, and hits. He has been the main cog in the Cards drive to second place a game away from the top.
 All Alone
 Joe leads the batSmen of both major leagues with 8 mark of .426. He has hit safely 86 times in 202 at- tempts. His 86 hits ties him with Gerry Walker of Detroit in the American league who has walloped out the same number of safeties.
 Medwick has made IS home runs to tie Hank Greenberg of Detroit and Joe DiMaggio of New York for leadership in both leagues. His GA runs batted in top all players of both circuits, and the 51 runs he has scored, are topped only by Green berg who has 54.
 The Cards beat the Boston Bees twice yesterday, and Medwick was the big gun in each game. He got two doubles and a single, and scored two runs as the Cards won the open CT, 6-2. Lon Warneke allowed four hits and registered his eighth win. In the night cap which St. Louis won, 9-1, behond the five hit fling ing of Dizzy Dean, Medwick rapped home run and 8 double, scored three runs, and drove in three more It was Deans 10th victory.
 Although the New York Giants won, 4-3, over the Cincinnati Reds they fell into third place behind the Cards by four percentage points, because of the difference in number of total games played. Both are just one game behind the Chicago Cubs who were beaten, 6-5, by the Phil adelphia Phillies. The fourth place Pittsburgh Pirates split a double header with the Brooklyn Dodgers by identical scores, 4-2.
 The largest crowd of the major league season turned out to see the New York Yankes take the Chicago White Sox twice, 8-4 and "A. Paid attendance was 68,939. Every run in the first Yankee triumph was the result of circuit clout. Selkirk hit a pair, driving in five runs. Di- Maggie hit another with one mate aboard, and Gehrig's came with the bags empty. It was Gomez eighth win. Monte Pearson, making his first start scince an injury to his elbow May 2l, was the victor in the nightcap.
 As in Cellar
 The Detroit Tigers kept within a game and half of the Tanks with a twin triumph over the Philadel- phia Athletics. Elden Auker scat tered eight hits to win the first, 6-3, and Tommy Bridges turned in a six-hitter in the second for an 8-l triumph, his eighth of the year. The double defeat dropped the As into a cellar tie with the St. Louis Browns who were bested, 5--3, by Washington. Wes Terrell distributed eight safeties for his third straight victory since abandoning the Bos- ton Red Sox uniform.
 The Red Sox ran their winning streak to six games by taking the first end of 8 double offering from the Cleveland Indians, 5-2, but | succumbed, 8-7, in the finale when | tribe put on a two run rally in the ninth.
 STERDA Y'S HERO: Bill Dickey of the New York Yankees who had a perfect day" in the sec ond game of a double header with | Chicago, getting four for four-a home run and three singles that | drove in four runs.