The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
P0SEDEL PINS 6 HIT SETBACK
 ON NN.L.LEADERS
Reds Routed Twice, Once By ErrOrs-Giants Also
 Lose; Yanks Take 2
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press Staff COrresponder

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 New York, July 17.-(UP.-Every time the Cincinnati Reds feel proud of themselves and start strutting, some other club pins their ears back.
 The oston Bees gave the Reds a double dose of anti-pennant tonic yesterday. The Rhinelanders had been growing about taking two out of three from the Giants in the tur- bulent Polo grounds series. Funny thing about this Cincinnati club, every time they take 1t on the chin, they pull themselves together and get back to their job with neatness and dispatch.
 The Reds lost only half game in the pennant race as the Car dinals took over the Giants, 3-l. Thus Cincinnati is in no immediate danger with a six-game lead. In losing to the Bees, 80 and 4-3, the Reds have themselves largely to blame. They couldn't hit Sailor Bill Posedels chucking in the opener, and they made disastrous errors in both games.
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 Posedel allowed six hits in the opener, scoring his ninth victory and his third shutout. Lee Grissom help ed lose his own game by throwing Al Lopez's tap so far and high over Frank McCormick's head that Eddie Miller scored all the way rom first. Later Lopez scored on a sacrifice fly.
 In the second game, Whitey Moore contributed to his own downfall by f.nging Jim Turner's bunt past Bill Werber, which allowed the tying run to score. Turned was credited with hig second victory of the year al- though he had to be relieved in the ninth with one out and runners on second and third. Fred Frankhouse did the fireman's act, retiring Frey and Bngiovanni In this spot to end the game. Billy Werber connected for four of the seven hits the Reds made of Turner. :.
 The twin triumph ran the Bees winning streak to five straight and brought them to within 9k games of the top, even though they are still in seventh place. Eddie Miller, Bees shortstop, suffered a fracture of the left ankle when he collided with Al Simmons in the nightcap, and he will be out of the lineup for at least month.
 Young Morton Cooper tabbed as one of tke rising stars of the Na- tional League, let the Giants down with eight hits to snap the Cards losing streak.
 The Cubs en Dodgers broke even, Chicago winning the opener, 9-2, and Brooklyn taking the nightcap, 40. Claude Passeau and Larry French combined to beat the Dodg- CTS in the opener, French taking over after Passeua was tossed out by the u:.lpires for protesting de- cision at first. Brooklyn made only four hits. Van Mungo and Red Evans let the Cubs down with four hits in winning the afterpiece.
 Hugh Mulcahy pitched the Phil lies to 3-2 victory over the Pirates in the first game, but the Corsairs put on a six run rally in the seventh frame to gram the nightcap, 7-3.
 On the Ball
 The Yankees, all over their shakes, put on a grand show before 63,064 persons in Cleveland as they won from the Indians twice, 5-2 and 8-3. Lefty Gomez pitched seven-hitter in the opener, and Marius Russo won his first major league game, letting the tribe down with six hits in the nightca..
 The Red Sox pennant bee kept buzzing as they triumphed over the Tigers twice. 9-2 and 80 to run their winning streak to l2 straight. Lefty Grove gave up only six hits in the first game and Denny Galehouse dished out only four in the night cap. The Tigers made eight errors in the opener and four in the sec ond game for total of 2l errors Tn the last three days.
 1Uc WHltc OoA toVh q AAMSA 6AAP on third place by beating the Sena- tors twice, 3-2 and 6-3. Ted Lyons outdueled Dutch Leonard to win the opener in which each allowed nine hits. Thornton Lee rave up Il hits but kept them scattered to cop the second. ......
 The Browns slugged out 18 hits for a l3-7 victory over the Athletics in the opener. George MacQuinn ami Harlond Gift hit homers. In the second game the Brown and the O's battled 12 innings to 5-5 tie, the game being called because of dark ness.
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