Evening star., 1939-07-14
Chan1pionsDr
9Th. in Row as
bosox Win
National Pucemukers
Blank Giants, Go
6h Games Up
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

A week or two ago it would have
been almost too fantastic to believe,
but today the National League lead
er has a bigger margin than the
first place team in the American
League.
The Cincinnati Reds, opening
their Eastern assault with TO
shutout of the second-place New
York Giants yesterday, expanded
their lead to 61a games while the
collapsing New York Yankees saw
theirs dwindle to 51a over Boston
in the American League.
There was a time late in June
when the world champions had q
margin of more games between
them and second place than they
had lost, but this is a circumstance
which never will be repeated this
season. They fell apart at Detroit
yesterday for their sixth straight
trimming, 1915.
The Boston Red Sox took ad-
vantage of this opportunity by
downing the Cleveland Indians, 6-5,
in 10 innings.
Play Ragged In American.
The whole program in the Amer
ican League yesterday presented
some of the sloppiest baseball OF
the season.
There were 18 bases on ball and
81 hits in the Yankees melee
With the Yankees leading, Al,
going into the last half of the eighth,
Alley Donald, the undefeated rookie
ace of the champions, walked three
men and was yanked. Then, with
two out, three relief hurlers let in
nine runs and let out the ball game.
Boston belted Bobby Feller out Of
the box with 5-run furry in the
fourth inning of their night game,
then gave all five runs back to the
Indians in the ninth. The Indians
refused to accept the proposition,
however, and in the tenth Mel
Harder walked three men and then
gave single to Lou Finney.
The game at Cleveland drew IS 900
and the one at Detroit Is 1000.
The Chicago White Sox ripped out
an 8-run lead in the first three
innings against the Philadelphia
Athletics and then lost, 1910, to
a belated 22-hit bombardment by
the AS.
Hot Games in Senior Circuit.
There were no such monkeyshines
in the staid senior circuit.
Cincinnati's important victory was
achieved on the f1ve-hit pitching of
Bucky Walters, the sinker specialist
who once was an infielder for the
Phillies. Walters, receiving heavy
hitting and f1awless fielding support,
never gave the Giants a chance
allowing only one hit in the first
seven innings.
1t was the fourteenth victory of
season for Walters, against six de-
feats, and the sixteenth time he had
finished the game he started. This
is the best record this season for
complete games.
The Phillies made it plain to
Gabby Hartnett and his Chicago
Cubs they didn't like the slight he
gave Morrie Arnovich In the ALL
Star game, when the National
Leagues leading hitter was not used.
Every time Hartnett moved out of
the dugout last night at Philadelphia
10000 fans hooted and early in the
game Claude Passeau and Hugh
Mulcahy got into a fight which
caused their banishment.
With Billy Herman hitting a
homer and triple, however, the
Cubs finally forged from behind to
win Us.
The st. Louis Cardinals and Bos-
ton Bees divided a double header,
the Redbirds snatching the first,
5-3, and the Bees bagging the sec
ond, 81, on the six-hit pitching of
Danny Macfayden.
Brooklyn and Pittsburgh were idle.