Evening star., 1940-07-30
Vaughan,Ph ps
Mix as Pirate
lead Fades
Reds Lead Shaved by
Loss to Gionts;; As
Again Nick Tigers
BY JUDSON BAILEY,

heSOClateO fIeSS SpOfS writer.
Baseball still is a bruising battle
In Brooklyn and the Dodgers have
only three clubs to 60 to accumulate
perfect record of at least one fist
fight with every team in the Ma
tional League.
The latest fiare-up involved
Catcher Babe Phelps of the dauntless
Dodgers and Shortstop Arky
Vaughan of the once phlegmatic
Pirates. 1t came in the final breath
less moments of one of the whackiest
ball games seasoned spectators at
Ebbets Field ever have seen.
For eight innings yesterday, Curt
Davis held the Pirates helpless with
four scattered hits and the only ex-
citement, aside from the steady
tattoo Of his teammates in humping
up six-run lead, was the banish-
ment of Manager Frank Frisch of
the Pirates for protesting a play at
second base in the sixth stanza. It
was the sixth time this season he
had been chased by an umpire.
Vaughan, Phelps Mix 1t.
But in the ninth the Pirates set
of dynamite display under Davis.
scoring six runs before Tot Pressnell
could stop them. Then when the
Dodgers, came to bat, Phelps was
thrown but at first and Vaughan
hustled over to the bag, apparently
to ask Elbie Fletcher, Pirate first
haseman, if Phelps had tried to
spike him. Whatever the answer,
Vaughan and Phelps waded into
each other and were hard at 1t
before teammates could intervene.
Thus the Pirates lined up behind
the st. Louis Cardinals, Chicago
Cubs and Cincinnati Reds as f1stic
foes Of the Dodgers this season.
Mace Brown nullified the fine
comeback of the Pirates by issuing
two walks ahead of a single to Pete
Coscarart in the last half of the
ninth and was charged with the loss.
This was the first came in which
the Dodgers have had fight and
a victory at the same time and it
enabled them to cut another notch
of Cincinnati's apparently ample
lead as the Reds dropped a 4-3 de-
cision to the New York Giants.
The Reds gave Rookie Johnny
Hutchings a 80 lead in the first
flve innings, but he and three other
Cincinnati pitchers couldn't hold
1t. Finally, in the ninth inning
Babe Young, who twic: had bounced
into double plays, slasLed out a
double to score Harry Danning from
f1rst base with the winning run.
Bob Bowman pitched seven-hit
ball as the ut. Louis Cards whipped
the Boston Bees, 8-3, and climbed
back to fifth. place. 1t was the 18th
loss in II games for the Bees, who
couldn't silence Johnny Mize. He
hit a triple, double and a single
for hslf of the Cards runs.
Another seven-hit pitching per-
.formance was turned in by Claude
Passeau of the Chicago Cubs in
beating the Phillies, 7-3. Passeau
gave up four of the hits in the
first inning, one of them a single
by Joe Marty with the bases load
ed. Marty also hit homer In the
seventh.
AS Again Step Tigers
In the only game in the Ameri-
can League the Philadelphia Ath-
letics again exercised their ink
over the pace-setting Detroit IT,
gers, getting a 81 verdict that
shaved Detroit's lead over Cieve-
land to one game.
1t was the 10th time in II con-
tests the AS have tanned the Tigers,
who are the only club in the
league over which the last place
AS hold the edge in a seasonal
series.
Rookie Fred Hutchinson had Phil
adelphia checked without a run
until the fifth yesterday, but then
the AS broke loose for four tallies,
and in the seventh they clustered
five more. Rudy York and Hank
Greenberg accounted for five De-
troit runs with two homers.