The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-19
BAD WEATHER GIVES INDIANS
 4 GOOD BREAK
Browns Ahead 6-z When Rain Halted Game; Ham-
 lin Tops Bees
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Aug. 19.-UP)-Good ball clubs are lucky and lucky ball clubs win pennants. Cleveland seems to fit that description.
 The Indians were licked, 6-2, yes- terday by the Browns when rain washed out the game in the tenth inning. The score was tied, 2-2, go- ing into the tenth. The Browns made four runs but they didn't count because the rain halted the game before the Indians could bat in their half of the tenth.
 Thus the Indians gained half a game on day when they made only four hits and would have been beat en except for the kindly rain. The Tigers lost to the White Sox, 7-5, and slipped to 31z games behind the Indians.
 The Dodgers have been unlucky all season as far as injuries go but they keep getting reprieve from the Reds in the pennant race. Every time the Reds look like they are go- ing to run away with the race, they stub their toes and the Dodgers are back in the picture once more.
 For the second straight Sunday the Reds lost doubleheader to the Cardinals yesterday, 3-1 and 5-4. This double dose really hurt the Reds as the Dodgers won their twin bill from the Bees, 7-2 and 3-1, en- abling Brooklyn to pick up two full games and trim Cincinnati's lead to Az games.
 The Cardinals severely jolted the Reds, beating Bucky Walters in the first game and coming from behind to nose out the league leaders in the nightcap after they had hung up a 80 lead. The double win elevated the Cardinals from sixth to fourth place, only a game and a half be- hind the third-place Giants. In losing the opener on eight hits, Walters suffered his fifth reverse in his last six games. The Reds simply won't make any runs for him. Mize's single, Hoops triple and Gutter idge's single produced the two win ming runs in the eighth inning of the afterpiece.
 Vernon Kennedy was having one of his better days against the In- 6ians when rain spoiled his fun. He allowed the tribe only four hits, one of them a homer by Ray Mack, in nine innings. Johnny Berardino's single tied the game in the ninth ana then four hits and a walk pro- duced the four runs that didn't count in the tenth.
 Whit wyatt and Luke Hamlin, each pitching 7-hitter, twirled the Dodgers double triumph. It was No. B for Wyatt. Hamlin would have had a shutout but for Man. ager Durocher's error in the fifth which led to the Bees only tally.
 Phils Take Two.
 The last-place Phillies swept doubleheader from the Giants, 6-3 and 8-6, making 12 hits in each game. Johnny Rizzo and Joe Marty led the Phils' attack, batting in Il runs between them. Rizzo hit a homer and two singles in each game while Marty collected three triples, a homer and two singles.
 Larry French hung up victory No. 12 by pitching the Cubs to a 9-1 triumph oyer the Pirates, allowing only six hits. The win put the Cubs in a fifth place tie with the Pirates.
 The Tanks and Athletics split twin bill, with the McCarthymen taking the opener, 9-1, and the Mackmen grabbing the nightcaps. 7-3. Buddy Rosar drove in four runs in the first game. Johnny Babich won his tenth game in holding the Tanks to seven hits in the after piece.
 A 3-run rally in the ninth enabled the White Sox to come from behind ard trim the Tigers, 7-5, after De- troit had gone ahead in the eighth on Birdie Tibbetts' homer. Ted Lyons went all the way to win his ninth game.
 Earl Johnson, Red Sox rookie. turned in his fourth victory as Bos- ton beat Washington. Az. Success sive homers by Bobby Deer and Dom DiMaggio in the seventh pro- vided the Red Sox's margin of tri- umph.