The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-19
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Baseball Battles for Third
Place Feature Show
in Big Leagues
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

United Press staff Corresponding
New York, Sept. 10. (UP)-With
the Yankees already In and the
Reds getting nearer the promised
land" every day, the two hottest
races In the majors today were TOR
third place.
BY q brilliant eastern campaign
perhaps the greatest In Cleveland
history--the Indians are deadlocked
with the White Sox for third place
In the American league. From now
on the White Sox-Indians battle Is
going to be @ dog-fght and the only
real competition left for the last
II days OF the season.
In the National league the Dodg-
ers, with five straight In the west,
are driving hard to overtake the
third-place Cubs whom they now
trail by one game. The Cubs had
won six out OF seven until the
Dodgers dropped In Sunday and
knocked them of twice. Gabby
Hartnett, Cub boss, Is still hustling
to keep his Job, and II the Bruins
should quit altogether In the last
few days Of the season, p. K. Wrig.
ley might take cognizance Of that
fact when he turns his attention TO
hiring Chicagos 1910 pilot.
Money Men
Not O small item squirting on the
four clubs In their third place bat
ties Is the fact that the players on
the No. 3 clubs will get about $500
more In World Series spells than
the blokes on the fourth place clubs.
Oscar Witt deserves O vote OF con-
fdence from the hardly ever-satis-
fed Cleveland fans for the way he
has kept the Indians hustling in
September. With O free hand in
Cleveland, Witt might develop q real
contender for the Yanks. To show
you what he has TO contend with,
the front office" out there still
contends II didn't pull boner when
Tommy Heinrich got away 70 the
Yanks.
The Indians climbed into q tic
with the White Sox yesterday by
defeating the Athletics, %, the
Tribes seventh victory In eight
games In the east. The only game
they lost was when they made five
errors and enabled the AS TO beat
Bob Teller, Az. It's been q long
time since the Indians, notoriously
weak In the east, have played the
kind OF ball they're exhibiting along
the seaboard this trip. Johnny Allen
had the AS blanked until the eighth
when he eased up behind 0 seven
run lead.
In the other two American league
games the Yankees beat the Browns,
Ga, behind Bump Hadley's five-hit
pitching, and Dutch Leonard OUT
twirled Tommy Bridges 10 score his
10th victory as Washington downed
Detroit, az.
Reds Hold Lead
For the second straight day the
Reds and the Cards divided dou-
bleheaders TO leave Cincinnatis
l3 la game lead intact.
The Reds defeated the Bees, 4-i,
behind Whitley Moore's six-hit
pitching but lost the nightcap, 90.
when Shoffner and Grissom gave
I'D five runs In the first two frames.
Ival Goodman's homer In the ninth
Just missed tying the nightcap.
Cliff Melton pitched the Giants TO
q To triumph over the Cards IN the
opener. Tom Hafey's homer with
two on was the big punch. Led by
Johnny Mize, who garnered IS for
5" the Cards slammed out ~ hits
to win the nightcap, 1875.
Homers by Arky Vaughan and
Rookie Van Robays, each with q
mate on, enabled the Pirates TO
come from behind In the seventh
and defeat the Phillies, ia.
YESTERDAYS HERO - Dutch
Leonard, Washington's knuckle ball.
err who bested Tomm Bridges TO win
his 10th game as the Senators tri-
umphed over the Tigers.