The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-11
PIRATES MAKING
 M OvE OUT OF LOOP CELLAR.
Traynor Best Bos s in Baseball Giants Share
 Last Place With Phils
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, May 11.--tUP).-Pic Traynor, boss of the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, is the Caspar Milquetoast ef- baseball. He is modest, mild-mall- nered and nft-spoken. Somebody is always blaming him for something he has nothing to do with, but he never squawka.
 When the Pirates lose, they blame him. He's been fired" in print moce often than any manager still III the saddle. The Pirates dropped eight out Of .lieir first nine games, and fiopped into the cellar, but Traynof didn't rant or rave CT read any riot acts. He just called his cluo to-,' gether every day, right down to the day they lost their eighth straight and said: "I'm going to be the last guy to quit on you. You're losing but you're not playing bad baseball. Just keep on going the way you are and we'll. get few breaks and start wia-'' ming"
 Today the Pirates are playing the best baseball in the National !, League. They've won three straight. eight out of their last nine, and if they beat the Giants today they will have finished one of their most. successful eastern trips in history. They've lost only one game Tn the east-a To defeat by the Phiuies which was lost in the 9th. :, Pittsburgh moved out of the cel- lar yesterday for the first time since the day after opening day by blank ing the Giants, so. They climbed only to sixth place, but they are so close-2h games-to first place that they'll be banging at the door in a few days if they keep up their present pace,
 Sewell Beats Giants ,e
 Rip Sewell, the red-headed Ala bama boy who is 8 third cousin to Joe and Luke, mastered the Terry men with six hits. It was SeWells third win, and it marked him as one of the years most improved pitchers. He didn't win a game last year. The defeat dropped the Giants l into a last-place tie with the Phl- lies. Terry is moaning plenty.
 The St. Louis Cardinals climbed~ into a first-place tie with Cincin- natl by nosing out the Phll!les, 4 3, while the Reds bowed to the Dodgers, 10-5. Joe Medwick slashed out three hits and. drove ill two runs to lead the Cards attack on Claude Passeau. Lon Warneke won 2, No. 4 but had to have Bob Bowman get the last man out for him in the ninth with the tying run on third. l..
 The crippled Reds curled up in the seventh with @ 5-3 lead ana Brooklyn scored seven runs on Whitey Moore and Gene Thomp- son. Ira Hutchinson pitched one hit ball the last three innings TOT the Dodgers to get credit for the victory. Babe Phelps hit B for 3
 Lou Fette held the Cubs to three hits as the Boston Bees snapped their five-game losing streak ana beat Chicago, 6-2. Tonny Cuccinello Bees second baseman, suffered wrenched knee when Dick Barteli collided with him, and will be laid up indefinitely.
 The Tanks kept up their trl- umphant tour of the west by lick ing the St. Louis Brown, 7-l. Lefty Gomez had to retire after pitching to one man because of cold which affected his pitching arm. Bump Hadley relieved him and yielded only eight hits. Dickey and SelEiri; hit homers. ..
 Tommy Bridges returned to the mound after nine days ana pro&e Deroit's seven-gams lesirg stre.E by pitching the Tigers to 8 5-l vic- tory over Washington. He allowed orly five hts for his fourth trl- umph.
 i Although shelled hard, Bob Teller scored lis fifth victory ss Cleve- land defeated the Athletics, 7-4' Fellef walked four, famed elghi and gave up F hits. Hal TrosSy' with four hits, and Rollie Remsley, with three, led the Trise's 12-ht attack.
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