The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-17
REDLECS DEFEAT
BROOKLYN TWICE;
TANKS LOST TWO
CINCINNATI EYENS CURRENT
SERIES WITH DOUBLE WIN
YESTERDAY; BoSoX TAKE
TWO FROM cHISox

NEW YORK, June, 17-Cin-
cinnati Reds squared accounts
with the Dodgers yesterday, at
least in the current series, by
taking two games yesterday and
moving up to within a few
points of the leading Brook
lynites. Scores were to 0 and
5 to 2 Paul Derringer pitched
six-hit ball in the opener and
Lonny's Frey's scratch homerun in
the ninth inning decided the
contest. Whitlow Wyatt allowed
only two hits. In the second game
the Reds opened with two runs
and never were headed through
out the balance of the game.
st. Louis Cardinals, showing
revived spirit under their new
manager, Billy Southworth,
swarmed over the Philadelphia
Phillis twice yesterday, 9 to 3
and 3 TO l. The Cards collected
IA hits in the opener, and staged
a five=run rally in the eighth to
sew the game up Lon Warneke
was the winning pitcher in the
nightcap. -o~.e-.
Chicago Cubs and Boston Bees
divided a twin-bill yesterday,
the Bees taking the first game in
the eleventh inning, 5 to 4, and
the Cubs turning on steam to
capture the nightcap handily by
a 9 to 1 score. Claude Passeau held
the Bees to five hits in the
second game.
Pittsburgh Pirates thumped the
New York Giants twice yester-
day. and the latter team skidded
back into third place in view of
the Reds twin victory. BUGS
shutout the Giants in the opener,
5 to 0 behind excellent pitching
by Joe Butcher and the second
game ended to 8, as the Pirates
punched hits for a two-run and
d three-run rally in the fifth and
ninth innings respectively.
Red Sox trimmed the White
Sox yesterday, thereby holding a
firm grasp on first position in the
American League Boston pushed
across a run in the twelfth inning
of the first game TO defeat Chi
cago, 4 to 3, and opened up hit
ting barrage in the second game
to collect 20 safeties and the
lOng-end of the IA to 5 score.
Veteran Ted Lyons saw his
masterful pitching go for naught
as a teammate erred in the ninth
inning of the first game to allow
the tying runs to cross the plate
Cleveland Indians defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics twice, and
crowded the Detroit Tigers for
second place honors in the league.
The first games score was to
2, Bob Feller giving up only
three hits. In the second game,
the Indians had one big inning,
the fourth, in which they scored
four runs, sufficient to make the
score at the end of the game, 4
to g.
New York Yankees pulled the
surprise of the day in allowing
the St. Louis Browns to defeat
them twice, II to 6 and 6 to 5.
The Browns had been previously
beaten seven straight times by
the Yanks. In the opener, the
Browns collected I35hits off three
Yankee pitchers and seWed the
game up with a four-ruE1 seventh
inning. In the second game. a two
run rally in the ninth inning pro-
vided the winning markers.
Detroit Tigers defeated the
Washington Senators for the
fourth straight time yesterday by
a score of 8 to z. Late Senator
rallies, two runs in the sixth.
three in the eighth and one in
the ninth, had the Detroit pitch
ing staff in a case of jitters.
Results of the games follow:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
First Game
II - TT -