Evening star., 1940-07-15
'sSurge
Offset as Hurt.
Curbs Star
Fitz's Record Stunt
Keeps Dodgers Near
Driving Leaders
BY JUDSON BAILEY,

acooCihlcu rIeS6 SpOEL 10 Wrlter.
Freddy Fitzsimmons,, old and fat,
but still doing tricks with his
knuckleball, lined up behind the
great pitchers Of baseball today
with the 2o0th victory of his 16-
year major league career.
The annals of the game show only
IS hurlers, fellows like Cy Young,
Walter johnson, Grover Alexander,
Christy Mathewson and similar all
time heroes, who have won 200 or
more contests. Only four besides
Fitzsimmons now are active in the
big show-Lefty Grove, Red Ruffing,
Ted Lyons and Carl Hubbell.
Fitz made a fighting entrance into
this select group by pitching Brook
lyn to 4-hit 20 shoutout over the
Pittsburgh Pirates after the Dodgers
had dropped the first game of a
double-header, 6-2, and were in
danger of falling farther behind the
pace of the Cincinnati Reds.
Leaders in A. L. Fare Poorly.
Truett (Rip) Sewell set the
Dodgers back on their heels in the
first game with shit flinging plus a
personal home run with a man on
base. But father" saved the day
with his eighth victory of the year
against one defeat.
Ruf11ng kept Fitz company in the
1000" by shutting out the Chicago
White Sox, 40, on four hits. The
New York Yankees got II hits of
Lefty Thornton Lee and eight of
them went to three players, Red
Rolfe, Buster Mills and Babe Dahl
gren. This was Rufus the Reds
222d victory and eighth of the
season.
1t was a rough day for the leaders
in the American League. The Cleve-
land Indians lost one game, the
Detroit Tigers two ond the Boston
Red Sox lost Jimmy Foxx.
Double K was bumped by John
Berardino of the st. Louis Browns
in the first inning of the first game
and even though the Red Seekers
went on to sweep the double -header,
Sd and 7-3. they could Ill afford
the wrenched knee that Foxx re-
ceived. He will be out of the lineup
for several days.
Dom Di Magic Stars.
Thst first game went III Innings
before Doc Cramer doubled home
the winning run. Grove had sought
to- make this his 292d victory, but
was removed for pinchhitter and
Emerson Dickman got the credit.
Dominic Di Maggie starred in the
seven-inning nightcap, abbreviated
by Boston's curfew law. He hit his
first major league homer and flelded
spectacularly.
Detroit wasn't able to take ad-
vantage of the chance to regain the
lead. The combination of Sam
Chapman's two home runs and
Rookie Porter Vaughan's effective
southpaw pitching won the first
game for the Philadelphia Athletics,
80, and Chapman hit another
homer in the second game to pave
the way for So decision. Short
stop Dick Bartell, keyman Of the
Tigers, hurt his back and had to
withdraw from the lineup.
The Reds continued to rage in the
National League, plastering pair
Of defeats on the Phillies, 80 and
II. Bill McKechnie used his 'sec-
ondary" pitchers, Jim Turner and
Lloyd (Whitey) Moore.
Reds Moore Is Stingy.
Turner was touched for 10 hits in
the first game, three more than
Kirby Higbe of the Phils gave, but
had the help of first inning home
runs by Lonnie Frey and Ernie
Lombardi. In the nightcap Moore
allowed only four hits. Pitcher
Boom Boom Beck of the Phils was
injured by a batted ball.
The St. Louis Cardinals swept
their double session with the Boston
Bees, 81 and 81. Johnny Mize's
23d home run and a round-tripper
by Country Slaughter stood out in
the first victory while Fiddler Bill
McGee's Shit hurting decided the
second game.
Bill Nicholson hit homer in the
18th inning to give the Chicago
Cubs 6-5 decision over the New
York Giants in the days longest
struggle, but Bill Lohrman Of the
Giants came right back with 7-hit
shutout pitching to take the after
piece, 20. Mel Otis homer account
ed for one of New York's runs.