Evening star., 1939-07-13
Hands Brooklyn Star
First Slab Defeat
OF Campaign
fons Wonder if Yankee
Losing Streak Will
Continue in West
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

1t is pleasure to report that Fire
man Mace Brown still is as good as
ever at putting out those four alarm
blazes.
The Pittsburgh smoke-eater didn't
have a chance to run his hook-and-
ladder curve and control out on the
all-star field at Yankee Stadium
Tuesday, like he did in Cincinnati
last year, but he made up for it last
night as the Pirates knocked off the
Brooklyn Dodgers with 80 coat of
whitewash before crowd of 29,481
in the only game on the major league
program.
Fireman Browns latest job of
answering the alarm was to put the
chill. convincingly and completely,
on Whitley Wyatt, who has been just
about the hottest newcomer to step
down the National League pike since
Johnny Wander Nicer was dishing out
goose eggs last year.
Had Won Eight in Row.
Wyatt had won eight straight UP
to last night and hadn't been beaten
in the National League campaigning
So it was time to turn in the alarm
to cool him off. And the Fireman,
who, you may recall, was famous for
that sort of thing in 81 games, or
about one third of the entire sched-
ule, last year, came a-running. He
started the game last night, gave up
just six hits, ran into trouble only
twice and when he did he just ran
right out of it again. The victory
boosted the Bucs into a fifth-place
tie with the Dizziness Boys in the
National League standings.
Both sides of the big leagues got
down to the serious work today of
getting the second half of the sched-
ule under way. The boys were all
rested from the three-day all-star
holiday and ready to take a crack at
the world series cash.
At the moment, the matters of
most Importance were, reading from
left to right. % whether that un-
believable losing streak of five
straight the Yankees suffered over
last week end was going to continue
on their current invasion of the
West. and 90 just how much the
Cincinnati Reds, fighting to hang
onto their shaky National League
lead, are going to miss Ival Good
man in the next 10 days until he re-
covers from the injury he suffered in
the all-star party.
Yankees Down to Earth.
The Boston Red Sox over the week
end sliced the nce-stratospheric
American League lead of the cham
pions down to somewhat earth
bound six and half games. The
thing to be seen now is whether the
rest of the league, particularly those
tough Detroit boys, can catch some
OF the git-up-and-go Manager Gro
min injected into the Sox.
The an-star game seems to be de-
veloplng a playful habit of betting
around an important member of a
flrst-division outfit. Johnny Allen
and Dizzy Dean and Earl Averill all
were slightly shopworn in one game
or another and Dean hasn't yet come
completely out of drydock from that
81 game. This year, the fates picked
on Deacon Will McKechnie and the
Cincinnati outfit. Goodman, 1926
hitter. is a vital part of the Red
machinery, particularly in the series
opening today in New York. Unless
some of McKechnies spare outfield
parts-Nino Bongiovanni or Wally
Berger or Frenchy Bordagaray-can
improve lot in hurry, the Rhine
landers may be feeling the all-star
game should be given back to the
Indians.