The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-02
BROOKLYN WINS. LONGEST GAME. |OF 1889 SEASON
Chicago Cubs Lose 3=2 Night ShOw-Sub Catch-
 CTS Hit Wins for Reds
BY GEORGE KrRKsEY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, June 2.-(UP)-Brook- 1yn's rot-so-funny Dodgers spoiled one of baseball's rarest occurrences early today when they squeezed through to 3-2 triumph over the Chicago Cubs in 14-inning battle
 longest major league night game yet to be played.
 By that triumph the Dodgers pre- vented blanket loss by all the home teams in both major leagues. Gene Moore stole home in the 14th to break up the game played before nearly 35,O00 fans at Ebbets field. Until that steal about 12:45 a. m., not a single home club had won.
 The eastern American league clubs blasted out 63 hits and 42 runs on western soil. Oddly enough, the Tanks made only eight runs, lowest of the winning contingent.
 The Cubs, tied the Brooklyn game, 2-2, with two-run rally in the 9th. Claude Passeau, making his first start for the Cubs, and Van Mungo, waged a pitchers battle until the seventh when the Dodgers scored twice. Mungo weakened in the 9th and had to be taken out. PaSSeau gave way to Charlie Root in the eighth.
 Bil Brubaker's home run in the eighth proved the deciding wallop as Pittsburgh downed the Phils, 5-2, in the other National league night game before 5000 at Philadel- phia. Walter Higbe, new Philly pitcher obtained in the Passeau deal, let the Pirates down with seven hits but walked eight men and hit one. The victory enabled the Pir- ates to move into third place ahead of the Cubs.
 Overtime
 Cincinnati held its two-game lead in the National league with a 13- inning decision from the Bees, 9-4. Johnny Wander Nicer and Danny MacF'ayden waged a pitchers battle until the seventh when the Reds pushed over three tallies. Wander Nicer then blew up in the eighth, and the Bees tied it up. Both scored in the 10th. Then the Reds staged five-run raly in the 18th, cli- maxed by Harry Crafts homer with two men on.
 Fiddler Bill McGee pitched the Cardinals to a To triumph over the Giants for his fourth straight vic- tory. Manuel Salvo lost his own game with a wild throw to first on Don Gutteridge's bunt in the ninth, which allowed the winning run to score.
 Lefty Gomez returned to form to quiet Joe McCarthy's jitters over the serious" state of the Yankee pitching staff and let the Indians down with seven hits as the world champions began their second vest ern invasion with an 8-3 victory. The Tanks made Il bingles off Mill mar and zuber.
 Slugger Doerr
 An 18-hit attack led by Bobby Doerr, who hit homer, triple and double, gave the Red Sox a 14-5 tri- umph over the Tigers. Elden Aux CT, starting his first game against his former mates, held Detroit to eight hits, one of them Hank Green berg's 10th homer. The Red Sox spotted Buck Newsom a three run lead and then routed him in the seventh.
 In a slugging carnival Washington trimmed the White Sox, 10-7. The Senators made IS hits and the Sox Is. Bobby Estalella hit a double and three singles to place the Sena- tors. Mary Owen of the White Sox had "4 for 4.
 The Athletics made 1t a clean sweep for the east by beating the Browns, 10-7, before the years smallest crowd-487 paid customers. Lynn Nelson won his own game by getting a double. and scoring the winning run on Wave Ambler's single in the sixth. Doe Miles led the As 1s-hit barrage with four singles in five trips.