Evening star., 1939-07-18
Chiozza Is Lost,
Danning's Leg
Now Infected
These, Bon on urges,
Reds 7-Gume Leud,
Make Going Tough
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer

HSoSSAoeCA ACoo opoA 70 "lIlCI.
If the experts begin reading the
New York Giants out of the National
League pennant race today, grant
them ample justification.
At time when the team should
be at full strength to cut in on the
Cincinnati Reds seven-game lead
and protect its own half game bulge
over the Chicago Cubs. Inf1elder Lou
Chiozza is out for the rest of the
season with broken l,g: Shortstop
Bill Jurges is doing time" for row.
ing with an umpire, First-string
Catcher Harry Danning, the teams
third best hitter, is hospitalized with
a leg infection, and Manager Bill
Terry is running out of possible in
field combinations.
Chiozza Fractures Leg.
With Chiozza, both bones in his
left leg fractured, definitely lost,
Terry is down to bed rock. Already
he has Mel OFT, a natural outfielder.
playing third base: Burgess White
head, a fragile second baseman,
shifted over to shortstop, and Alex
Kampouris, less than sensational,
doing full-time duty on the vital
second-base patrol. If anything
more goes wrong, Terry may be
forced against his will to adopt the
old Brooklyn Dodger slogan of wait
till next year"
1t remains to be seen what the
Giant master mind can or will do.
George Myatt, the Jersey City flash,
would come in handy in a spot like
this, but Myatt may need an opera
ton to get loose knee cartilage in
place and certainly is in no condition
to play regularly Tom Hafey is 60
ing along handsomely on the Jersey
City farm" but the Little Giants
are Leading their league and it hardly
would please the Jersey customers
10 nave the parent club draft one
OF their star performers at a time
like this.
Meanwhile, the Reds are drawing
away and the Cubs are creeping up
on the Terrymen. The combina-
ton of the Giants 4-3 defeat bv
st. Louis yesterday with the Cubs
liz shellacking of the Dodgers and
the Reds 40 shutout of the Boston
Bees left Cincinnati 7 games in
front OF the Giants, the Cubs onlv
half a game behind. and the Dodgers
and Cardinals only a game out of
second place.
Day of Many Injuries.
1t was a "black and blue" Mon
day all around. In addition to the
Chiozza collision with Teammate
Joe Moore, from which the latter
luckily escaped without injury, Jim
Ripple of the Giants took a header
and Ducky Medwick of the Cards
was winged by a pitched ball in the
same game; the Reds Ernie Lom-
bardl was put out with a split
tingernail halfway through the neat
4-hlt shutout Battery Mate Bucky
Walters pinned on the Bees: Man.
ager Joe Cronin of the Red SoX was
Knocked unconscious as his bows
came to the end of a 12-game win
ming streak in a 1876 shellacking bv
tne Detroit Tigers. and even the
Yankees Joe Di Maggie was hit
with a pitched ball by Bobby Feller
Of the Indians.
That wasn't the only ball Feller
didn't control, though. He hit Just
enough bats for the Yanks to beat
him, 80, behind Bump Hadley's
nve-hlt f1inging. Together, with the
Red Sox defeat. that upped the
champions margin to games again.
In the days other games Chuck
Klein ran his hitting streak to is
straight games as he weighed in
with two homers that helped Pitts
burgh to IA defeat of the Phillies
in the National League, and the
Athletics outslugged the Browns,
11-8, in the American League. The
Senators and White Sox were rained
out.