Evening star., 1940-05-07
Hank Is General
Attack Leader
In Old Loop
Shines in Win Over
PhiIs;; Lineup Mark
Set; Yonks JoIted
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


It takes more than one man to
make baseball team-a timely ex-
planation considering total Of 2O7
players were used in yesterdays
eight major league games-but
Henry E. Leiber of the Chicago
Cubs Is as near a one-man team as
the big show has at the moment.
If your favorite newspaper has a
little tabulation of the major
league leaders" in these pages from
day to day, you may be aware al
ready of Leiber's unprecedented
goings-on.
Today, for instance, Leiber is
leading the National League Cd in
batting with a .418 mark, ca in
runs, 90 in runs batted in, "a in
hits and (5) in doubles.
Hanks honors have been won
squarely. He has hit safely in the
last IL consecutive games of the
Cubs and yesterday he collected
double and two singles to bat in
three of his teams runs in a 5-4
eleven-inning victory over the
Phillies.
Leiber Cubs Sparkplug.
He unquestionably is the spark
plug that has carried the Cubs into
third place in the senior circuit and
kept them there. Yet even Leiber
isn't one-man ball club. The win
ming run yesterday was Billy Her
mans homer in the eleventh and 1t
offset the efforts of the Phils in bat
ting Dizzy Dean out of the box in
the fifth. Larry French made
relief appearance for his fourth
victory.
Brother Paul" Dean also was in
action yesterday. his 1910 debut
coming in relief stint for the New
York Giants against the Cincinnati
Reds. He worked two innings and
didn't show much In giving up two
hits and no runs.
The game already had been cap
tured by the National League cham
pions on seven-run spree in the
sixth and the five-hit hurting of
Gene Thompson, who chadked up
his third victory by a 81 count.
The Boston Bees plastered the
sixth straight defeat on the Pitts
burgh Pirates, 10-7 in IL innings.
New Lineup Record Set.
Manager Frank Frisch made a
desperate shake-up In his. line-up,
but al the Pirates got out Of it was
q new record for using the most
players in q game. Frisch put "a
Of his 20 men into the contest and
Boston used 16-the total of 40 beat
Ing by one the record number the
st. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn
Dodgers had manipulated the day
before. Eleven pitchers saw service.
Brooklyn needed only II men yes
terday to whip the Cards 6-2 for
their 18th victory in IL games. Luke
Hamlin hurled shutout ball after the
first inning while Manager Ray
Blades reversed his custom and let
Curt Davis stay on the hill until the
eighth although he was thumped for
II blows.
The Boston Red Sox bounced
back on top of the American League
in their see-saw rivalry with the
Cleveland Indians, rallying for six
runs in the fourth inning to top the
Tribe, 8-5. Each team made II hits,
but the Indians also made three
errors.
Yanks Again Bow to Lefty.
The world champion Yankees
were victims of another left-hander
and an outburst of slugging by the
Detroit Tigers, Ga. Riding along
on the careful pitching of Red Ruff
fling, the Yanks suddenly were POM
barded for three runs on homers by
Hank Greenberg and Pinch Hitter
Billy Sullivan in the eighth. Then
in the ninth Greenberg doubled two
other runs across. Southpaw Tom
Seats received credit for the victory,
pitching three scoreless innings
after Tommy Bridges went out for
pinch hitter.
The Chicago White Sox, still floun-
dering in last place, were edged out,
30, by the Philadelphia Athletics,
with Sam Chapman hitting a homer
and Nelson Potter doing some good
pitching for the AS.