The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-27
DIZZY DEAN AT
 CROSSROADS OF DIAMOND CAREER
Sore Arm Develops as Cards Make Last Bid for
 Pennant ; Piet Hero
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 New York, Aug. 27.-(UP)-Dizzy Deans baseball career was definitely at the crossroads today. The one- time great Cardinals pitcher has a sore arm and may be useless to St. Louis in it's desperate drive to overtalSe the Chicago Cubs.
 Manager Frankie Frisch started Dean yesterday against the Phillies, and he pitched to only one man, Leo Norris, who ripped off double. Dizzy said his arm was too sore to continue and left the game. The Phillies won 8-5, and heightened the gap between the Cards and the idle Cubs to six games.
 Dean has pitched only 34 innings since the All-Star game at WaSh- ington July 2. In more than three weeks he has scored only two vic- tories, and one of those was a free- hitting affair in which he just pulled through. Deans troubles statred when Lou Gehrig smacked a home run off Dizzy in the All-star game.
 Earl Averill hit him on the big toe with 6 line drive. Some say dehrig's hit hurt Dizzys pride more than Averili's drive did his toe. Anyway, Dizzy didn't return to the mound until July 2l when he beat the Bees, 2-l, allowing six hits.
 His next start was against Brook lyn. The game ended In . tie, 7-7, in l2 innings after the Dodgers pounded Dean from the box with 12 hits in 10 frames. He retired after pitching six innings against the Phillies Aug. and again the game ened in @ tie, 6-6. Then on Aug. 9 he pitched against the Pirates and beat them, 9-7, but gave up Il hits.
 Paul Waner, Pirates outfielder made two hits in four times at bat against Dean in that game. and said he never saw Dizzy with less stuff.
 Giants Busy
 The Cards loss yesterday helped both the Cubs and Giants who were idle because of rain. The Giants have double headers scheduled against Pittsburgh today and to- morrow while the Cubs are battling the Bees.
 The Phillies made l2 hits off Dean, Haines, Blake and Sunkel, in. cluding @ homer by Chuck Klein. The Cards made IS hits and drove Bucky Walters out of the box but couldn't hold their lead.
 Lefty Gomez scored his 18th vic- tory as the New York Yankees beat the st. Louis Browns, 6-i. The Browns led To until the sixth when successive homers by Joe DiMaggio (No. 37 and Bill Dickey (No. 26) put the Yanks ahead. Until then Jack Knott had held New York to three hits. Lawson Is Hero
 Detroit iiosed out the Boston Red Sox, 6-5, when Roxie Lawson ex- ecuted a successful squeeze play in the ninth. It was Lawson's 18th victory. Hank Greenberg hit homer No. % with two on. Eric McNair hit c homer witht wo on for the Red sox.
 Tony Piet's double in the ninth drove in the run which enabled the White Sox to defeat Washington, 4-3. Mike Kreevich made three of Chicago,s nine hits, including Q homer. Piet also hit a homer.
 Cleveland rapped Edgar Smith, who twice has beat the Tanks, and George Turbeville for l4 hits and c i0-6 victory over the Athletics. Hal Trosky. who's been laid Up with an injured arm, returned to the lineup and drove in four runs with c double and single.
 Yesterdays' Hero Tony Piet, who hit 6 single, double and homer and drove in two runs, including the winning tally, in the White eox's victory over Washing. ton,