Evening star., 1938-08-26
HUMBLE HURLERS
STOP BUGS TWICE
Wilson Pulls Rabbits Out
of Hat to Halt Leaders.
Yanks Rumble On.
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer

When all the returns are in from this
years business, you're going to find
that your old pals, Jimmy Wilson and
Casey Stengel have pulled the biggest
rabbits out of the hat again.
Reading from left to right, you have
Jimmy and his side-kick, Gerry Nu-
gent, pulling their yearly fast one on
the open trading market, and Casey
riding herd on bunch of bees who
may yet land in the first division, al
though they haven't any more kick
than a bottle of sarsaparilla.
Wilson and Nugent have been the
two smartest buyers and sellers of ivory
for the past five years or so. What
ever they get rid of promptly falls
apart in new surroundings remember
Chuck Klein?), and whatever they buy
up for next to nothing just as promptly
turns to gold.
In the latest example of their hoss-
trading, Wilson came up a few weeks
ago with Max Butcher, big fellow
out OF Man (W. Va), who had been
f1ddllng around with the Dodgers and
getting nowhere for some three years.
The Phils sent chunky Lefty Lancaster
to Brooklyn for him.
Butcher Surprises Bucs.
Max reported to Wilson that his pre-
vlous managers had tried to change
his pitching and tell him this and
that until he didn't know for sure
which end was up. Why, Max, if
mats the case, you just go ahead and
throw 'em the way you want to-"
Jimmy told him.
So Max did, and in less than two
weeks he's gone the route four times
whipped the Giants neatly twice. lost
tough shutout to Boston, and yester-
day he stopped the Pirates, 81. with
seven hits in one end of double head
er. both sides of which the Phils took
from the league leaders. In the other
half, Wild Bill Hallahan turned in
with his first win of the year, five
hitter, for another 81 decision. there
by slicing the Bucs' first-place margin
in the National League race to four
and one-half games.
Getting along to Stengel. you re-
call that when he succeeded Miracle
Man Will McKechnie at Boston this
season every one predicted he'd be
lucky to wind up somewhere between
sixth place and Siam But Casey.
whose clow'nish ways cover a multi
tude OF neat baseball tricks, has those
still stingless Bees with a three
and-a-half-game hold on fifth place
right this minute, and, from the
way they tore into Cincinnati's rude
Reds in both ends of a twin bill
yesterday, Ga Gin II innings) and
80, it would appear they have seri-
Gus designs on a money spot.
Cubs Tie for Third.
The Reds double defeat coupled
with the Cubs twin win over the
Dodgers, 80 and 5-4, boosted the Cubs
into third-place tie with Cincinnati.
The secondplace Giants outlasted the
Cardinals for an 81 edge in ii
frames, to pick up a game and a half
on the Pirates, getting the deciding
run without hit, on a walk, error
and fly.
Over in the American League the
Yankees rolled merrily along to a
twin win over the Indians, making
16 hits good for 20 runs to score
at So and 1873. The Red Sox
stayed II games back in second place
by Whipping the White Sox twice.
Jack Wilson taking the opener. 10,
and Joe Heving the nightcap. s-5.
The Nationals tightened their hold
on fourth place with an 3D. margin
over Detroit, and the Athletics hung
onto seventh place by splitting with
the Browns. Buck Newson going 13
frames to win the opener, 8-5. and
Buck Ross flve-hitter taking the
afterpece, Al.