The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
|TRAYN0R'S TEAM
 PROVIDE SHOCK
 OF BIG LEAGUES
Pirates on Top as Brook lyn Belts Giants Out of
 Lead-Reds Win
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

(United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, July la.-(UP)-Five years ago Bill Terry facetiously asked a sports writer, "Is Brooklyn still in the league"
 The answer today is the same as 1t was that September when the hated Dodgers rose in their wrath and knocked the Giants out of the 1884 pennant race. In fact the answer today is-"Yes" doubled in spades.
 Ten straight times this season the Giants kicked the Dodgers around, licked them, humiliated them, laughed at them, and scorned them.
 But the worm turned yesterday, and how it turned. Poor, bedraggled, hated, laughed at, humble Brooklyn knocked the lordly Giants off their National league perch. All the in- suits the Dodgers have had to take this season were revenged in one cyclonic first inning in which Brooklyn smashed out eight runs. The Dodgers then went on to win 13-5 and send the Giants tumbling to second place.
 Pittsburgh, climbing at the most terrific pace any major league club has achieved this season, scared into the National league lead by winning its 18th straight game-a l4-6 victory over the fading Chi- cago Cubs. It was the Cubs sixth straight defeat.
 The Pirates plugged out 17 hits off five Chicago pitchers to batter their way past the Giants. Catcher Al Todd, who yesterday was fined $50 for abusive conduct toward Um- pire George Barr, led the Pirates attack, with single, double with the bases loaded and a homer, to drive in five runs. Paul Waner con- nected for four singles.
 The Giants were so jittery in de- feat that they committed five er- TOTS, four of them in one inning. HI Schumacher, who had blanked Brooklyn twice this season, didn't last out the first inning. Goody Rosen led Brooklyn's attack with two triples, driving in four runs. The Giants IA hits were mostly squandered as they had 10 men left on base.
 Continuing to move up in the pennant race, the Cincinnati Reds knocked off the St. Louis Cardin- als, 6-5, for their fifth straight vic- tory. The Reds are now AZ games behnid the Pirates, Walls Berger's single and Clyde Shoun's wild throw were the big factors in the Reds winning two run rally in the eighth
 The New York Yankees slugged their way to within half a game of the American league lead by winning twice from the St. Louis Browns, 7-3 and 10-5, while the pace-setting Cleveland Indians fell before Washington, 9-8. Red Ruffing scored his 18th victory in the opened, holding the Browns to eight hits and driving in three runs himself. Lou Gehrig hit homer No IA in the opener and Joe DiMaggio kept pace with him by hitting his 14th in the nightcap.
 Despite Sammy Hale's clouting the Indians lost the first game of their eastern invasion, to the Sen- ators. Hale made four hits, includ- ing a ninth inning homer that tied the score, only to have the Senators win in their half when an outfield allowed the winning run to score.
 Scoring six runs in the first in- ming the Chicago White Sox beat the Athletics, 8-6. Mike KreevichJ and ole Kuhel hit homers as the White Sox drove Lynn Nelson to cover. Monty Stratton scored his seventh victory.
 No other games were played.