The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-20
DODGERS TAKE FIVE STRAIGHT
 FROM LEADERS
Indians May Tumble Yanks From Top in Twin Bill
 Today
By GEORGE KIRKSEY

(Un1tcd FreSS SLan COrreSpOn0enL)
 New York, July 20-(UP)-The naughty Yankees had better come down off their high horse and quick. They've been saying all season that the Cleveland Indians were a fold up club" But they haven't been able to prove it.
 Instead, the evidence at hand in- dicated that the Tanks are more inclined to fold than the Indians. In Il games between the pennant rivals the Indians have won seven; {; the Tanks only four.
 And today the Indians can humble the Tanks right out or first place by sweeping both ends of a double header at Yankee stadium. That seems fantastic but remember how the White Sox did it earlier this l season.
 10000 Fans Expected Manager Oscar Witt has selected Johnny Allen, who has won 12 straight games and had rather beat the Tanks than all the other six clubs combined, and rookie Johnny Humphries who has been red-hot lately. The Tanks pitchers will be Lefty Gomez and Red Ruff1ng. With this array of pitching talent on dis play and first place at stake, some 10000 fans are expected to jam Yankee stadium.
 After squandering the league lead with their loose defensive tactics and ragged pitching, the Indians have settled down again and ap- parently are far from through. The way they beat the Tanks yesterday behind the steady pitching of Mel Harder indicated that Witt has kept his club from getting panicky over losing the leaG. With Harder pitch ing a six-hitter the Indians con- quered the Tanks, 513, and trimmed their lead to half a game. The defeat snapped the Yanks' seven-game winning streak and marked their first loss in r straight games at home.
 Rick Ferrell's double in the 10th inning scored Buddy Myer with the run by which Washington defeated Detroit, 4-3. The Senators rapped Vernon Kennedy for IA hits, with George Case leading the attack with three singles.
 Brandt Blanks Phils Pittsburgh held its half game lead in the National league by banking the Phillies, 80, behind the five-hit pitching of Edw Brandt Johnny Rizzo, with A for 4" and Arky Vaughan, with 8 for 3" had perfect days at bat. Two of Vaughan's hits were triples.
 The New York Giants put on a desperate ninth inning rally to score three runs and nose out the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-6. Hank Leiber drove in five runs, hitting a homer in the eighth and then winning the game with ninth inning single.
 The Cincinnati Reds broke a four-game losing streak by scoring double victory over the Boston Bees, 3-1 and 7-2, and climbed back into third place one percent age point ahead of the Cubs. Whitey Moore, making his first start of the season, held the Bees to two hits in the opener. He held the Bees hitless until pinch-hitter Harl Mag gert singled in the eighth. Homers by Lombardi, Craft and Berger fea- tured the second game, in which Bucky Walters allowed only eight hits to win his fourth straight.
 Vito Tamulis stopped the Chicago Cubs seven-game winning spurt as Brooklyn downed them, 8-3. It was the Dodgers fifth straight victory and their seventh in eight games against first division clubs. Cookie Lvgaaetto and Tamulis each drove in three Dodger runs.
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