The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-28
REDS HOLD FOUR GAME LEAD IN
 NATIONAL LOOP
Derringer, Mccormick, Comeback Strongly;
 Teller Wins With 1 Hit
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

New York, June r28.-(UP).-Paul Derringer, Frank Mccormick and the Cincinnati Reds all came out of the ether with a bang, ending three slumps which had the Rhine flanders looking worse than Tony Galento giving ball room dancing lessons.
 The Giants brought back tales from the west that the Reds didn't have any heart and were quitters, but the men of Bill McKechnie made those yarns seem questionable by the way they ended their four game losing streak. They knocked the Pirates off, 6-0, and held their four-game National League lead in- tact.
 Derringer, about whom many stories have been circulated since he lost lawsuit for 5000, proved his recent lapse of form was only temporary. Some were saying Der ringer was worrying himself sick over the debt hanging over him when he was batted out of the box three times in a row. But yesterdays four-hit performance gave the lie to that assertion. It was No. g. for Der ringer.
 Mccormick, cleanup man in the Reds attack, had made only one hit during Cincinnati's four-game losing streak and only three hits in his last 26 times at bat. But the big first baseman proved his slump was only temporary when he got A for 4" driving in four runs with his 18th homer and three singles.
 The Cardinals and the Giants kept their distance behind the Reds by winning. Lon Warneke held his ex-teammates to seven hits for his ninth triumph as the Cards licked the Cubs, 5-2 Enos Slaughter hit his first homer of the season, with mate on base. The Cubs only two runs were homers by Hack and GleeSon.
 The Giants won a ragged game from the Phils, 1895, although out hit 13 blows to 12. The Philly pitch CTS allowed 12 walks. Ott. Banura and Ripple hit Giant homers. Hal Schumacher staged through to win his sixth.
 Brooklyn battled the Bees g in- nings and hours and 15 rinuptes to 2-2 deadlock. The Bees scored two runs off Whit Wyatt on hits by West, Cucci.ello and Majeski and Miller's sacrifice fly. and then went scoreless for 21 frames. The Dodgers picked up a run off Lou Fette in the third and tied it in the 9th on singles by Parks, Camilli and Roy. Each side used four pitchers, Wyatt going the farthest, 16 innings.
 A crowd of 55,00c in Municipal stadium for the first night game ever played in Cleveland saw the Indians blank the Detroit Tigers, 50, behind Bob Feller's one-hit pitched Earl Averill, a teammate of Feller's until a few weeks ago, robbed Bob of place in the hall of fame when he hit clean single in the sixth. It was Feller's second one- hit game of the season, and the | third of his career. He famed 13 | men to bring his strikeout total to 113, and walked six It was his 18th victory against three defeats, and the triumph CdTTleQ tIlc 1uuldIlS | into thdird place, half game ahead O. the Tigers. Buck Newsom was belted for pair of runs in the first two innings and retired.
 Ted Lyons, who is going on 39 and is one of the marvels of the season. scored his eighth consecutive victory by pitching the White Sox to an H. 2 win over the Browns. Lyons re- tired the Browns in order in seven frames, didn't walk man, famed four and gave up only hits.
 Eldon Auker blanked Washington | as the Red Sox made it two straight | shutouts over the Senators, 80. Lou Finney, subbing for Jimmy Foxx, laid up with a temperature of 102, rapped out three hits, as did Joe Cronin. Ted Williams made two hits to continue his batting spree.
 YESTERDAYS HERO: Bob Eel Ter, Cleveland's kid fireballer. who pitched the Indians into third place