The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1938-09-16
BOSTON'S BEES
STAND Between
PIRATES, FLAG.
DOubIeheader Today Is ALI
Important After Win
Over Giants
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent


UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Sept. 16.-(UP).-The
most nervous man in Boston today
Is Harold j. (Pie) Traynor and the
reason is because his Pittsburgh Pr
rates are playing doubleheader.
Doubleheaders are poison to the Pr
rates.
Traynor ordinarily is the most
nervous man in any city he's in but
when his ball club is playing a twin
bill nowadays the Pirates boss Is
positively a combination of a man
with st. Vitus dance, a jitterbug
listening to Benny Goodman and q
whirling dervish.
The strain of the fantastic Ma
tional League pennant race is telling
heavily on Traynor but it's the dou-
bleheader D. It's Of the Pirates
which may land soft-spoken popular
Pie in a padded cell over the win
ter. if he doesn't win the pennant.
In their last six doubleheaders the
Pirates have won only two games,
blowing both games on four &C.
casions and splitting even in the
other two. The Cubs have won two
doubleheaders from the Pirates, the
Giants one and the Phillies one. The
Pirates broke even with the Giants
and the Bees.
Pittsburgh's pitching staff is in
such plight that Traynor has to call
on his ace relief man, Mace Brown,
to pitch one of today's games against
the Bees. Russ Bauers, the Wiscon-
sin lumberjack who's money in the
bank when's right, but 1t too seldom
in that way, was expected to twirl
the other games. The Bees have NOM
mated Danny MacFayden and John
Lanning.
There was a slight sigh of relief
in the Pirates camp yesterday when
they bounced back from Wednesdays
double defeat to polish off the
Giants, To- The victory increased
the Pirates lead over the Cubs to
three games and droppd the Giants
to fourth place, four and a half
games off the race. Jim Tobin turn
ed in a well-pitched SEVENTH game
and the Pirates supported him with
l4-hit attack, including homrs by
Paul Waner (2), Lloyd Waner, Pep
Young and Johnny Rizzo. The Pr
rates drove Cliff Melton to cover in
the fifth with the score tied and two
out, scoring three runs before Dick
Coffman put out the fire.
Even though they lost to Detroit,
the New York Yankees moved near
er the American League pennant as
the Red Sox and Indians divided a
doubleheader. The Yanks now need
any combination of three victories
or Red Sox defeats to clinch the
pennant.
A two-run rally In tn seventh en-
abled the Tigers to trim the Yanks,
GA. Roy Cullenbine tripled and
scored on Chef Morgans single.
Walker sacrificed and Gehringer and
Greenberg walked to load the bases
York's single scored Morgan.
JEFF Heath's homer with mate on
base gave Cleveland a 80 victory
over the Red Sox in the opener. Mel
Harder allowed only nine hits in
scoring his 10 victory. Fritz Oster-
muller held the Indians to six hits
In pitching tn Red Sox to a 80
triumph in the nightcap. Bob Fels
ler's wildness led to his defeat
though he permitted only three hits
in eight frames.
The White Sox and Athletics d.
vided a twin bill, with Johnny
Whitehead just lasting to win the
first game for Chicago, ga, and
George Caster twirling a four-hitter
to give the AS the nightcap, 10.
Duncan Rigney walked in the AS
winning run with the bases loaded.
Washington defeated the st. Louis
Brown. Ga, as Emil Leonard pitched
six-hit game. Don Heffner hit a
homer for the Brown with two men
on base.
YESTERDAYS HERO - Paul
Waner. Pirates tiny veteran who
slashed out two homers 10 help lift