Evening star., 1940-07-22
Red Hot Detroit
In Dizzy Whir|
As Yanks Pay
Fans Riot as Champs
Lose Two; Reds Ruin
Day for Giants
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

| hSSOclateO PreSS Sports writer.
The Detroit Tigers may not be
a perfect ball club, but they're
red hot one, and that's what 1t
looks as II the American League is
going to pay off on.
It's still long haul to the finish
line, but the Tigers have just sue
ceeded in winning five consecutive
contests from the world champion
New York Yankees and the rich
Red Sox of Boston, both of them
contenders in this whacky merry
go-round.
The Yankees themselves were as
warm as the weather until the
Tigers came to town and turned
on some real heat. Detroit scored
4 runs in the ninth inning to win
the first game of double-header
yesterday, 4-3, and then battled back
again to take the nightcap, 80.
1t was stirring show in which
$3.50 fans participated, staging one
OF the worst exhibitions of rowdyism
the grim, gray walls Of Yankee
Stadium ever have witnessed. They
threw pop bottles, fruit and an
assortment of other missiles at Um-
pire Joe Rue in the second game
after he ruled liner by Tom Hen
rich landed foul and they didn't
stop the demonstration until a de-
tachment of city police stationed
themselves at strategic spots
throughout the stands.
Fox's Homer Decides.
When the Tigers came to bat
again Pete Fox hit a home run
that decided the game in their favor.
A pinch homer by Bruce Campbell
with one on climaxed the rally that
won the first game. Joe Di Mag
glo remained out of both games,
complaining of sore back.
The Cleveland Indians, who were
crushed in their series at New York.
completed sweep of a three-game
stand in Boston by whipping the
Red Sox, 80 and 20, in a twin
bill. The first triumph was the
flve-hit achievement of Bob Feller,
who might have had a shutout ex-
cep that he served home-run ball
to Joe Cronin with one on. In the
second game Joe Dobson and Fritz
Ostermueller tangled in a hurting
duel and Dobson won, although he
gave seven hits to Fritz's four. Three
double-plays helped Dobson get
/ shutout for his first victory of the
year. Two of the hits of Oster-
mueller were linked with a walk
and long fly for two runs in the
seventh.
In the National League the Gin
clnnati Reds mopped up the New
York Giants, 81 and 4-2, to make
their score 20 victories in the last
25 games, certainly a championship
pace.
Paul Derringer pitched a two
hitter in the first fracas, having a
perfect game (no hits and no man
reaching f1rsD until the eighth in
ming when Babe Young homered.
Jim Turner kept eight hits we'll
spread in winning the second ses-
sion.
The Brooklyn Dodgers gave ground
again by dividing double-header
with the st. Louis Cardinals. The
Dodgers captured the opener, 81.
with Fred Fitzsimmons pitching
seven-hit ball and Joe Medwick and
Joe Gallagher nicking Clyde Shoun
for home runs. But in the second
affair Enos Country Slaughter
punched out two round trip tickets
of Luke Hamlin, one with two on,
to lead the way to So triumph,
The Pittsburgh Pirates again de-
moralized the Boston Bees, sweep
ing bargain bill, So and 1862, on
top of Saturdays It's bombard-
ment. The rout was so complete
that Manager Frank Frisch took a
leaf out of the football coaching
book and substituted second
team" midway the second game.
The Chicago Cubs and the Phil
adelphia Phillies split two games,
the tail-enders coping the first,
80, on Hugh Mulcahy's six-hit
hurting, and Chicago coming back
to win the second, 8-5 with a 15-hit
offensive topped by Hank Leiber's
two home runs. Bennie Warren of
the Phils also hit two and John
Rizzo one.
The Chicago White Sox finished
off sweep of their series with the
Philadelphia Athletics with 1913 and
To verdicts in couple of free
swinging affairs.