The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-06
WHITEHEAD GETS
BEST OF TIGERS
WITH HITTER
Game Called in Six Inn
ings-Red SOx Gain
With OstermuelIer
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
New York. Aug. 6.-UP)-The
third no-hit game everyone was
looking for has finally been pitched
but it turned out to be a fluke.
Johnny Whitehead, whose appetite
and thirst caused him to be traded
down the river by Jimmy Dykes a
couple of years ago, was the author
of the majors third no-hitter but
he won't get credit for it.
After blanking the Tigers for six
innings the rains came and washed
out Whitehead's opportunity to join
Bobby Teller and Tex Carleton in
the hall of fame this season. White
heads two-thirds of a perfect game
came as surprise as he was just
hanging on with the Browns after
being recalled from the minors. He
had lost three games and hadn't
hung up win.
But he was right yesterday in
the second game and pitched the
Browns to 40 victory in the alb
breviated affair. And the defeat was
costly for the Tigers, because it
knocked them out of the American
League lead by the margin of .002.
A few years ago Whitehead looked
like one of the most promising
pitchers in baseball. He ran off sew
en- straight in his rookie year with
the White Sox, but the high and
fast life in the big time was too at
tractive to Johnny. Dykes finally
lost his patience with Whitehead
and traded him to the Browns for
Johnny Marcum. II was one of
those nothing-for nothing deals.
But Whitehead's brilliant show
ing yesterday may spur him to get
q new hold on his pitching life and
if it does the Browns may profit in
/ the long run. Only two Tigers
reached first-Metha on a walk and
Greenberg on Berardino's error.
In the first game of the double
header the Tigers won over the
Browns, 90, with Schoolboy Rowe
annexing his fourth straight game.
Rowe gave up only six hits in scor-
ing his 10th triumph against two
losses. Ruddy York hit homer No
10. Dick Bartell also hit one. The
bases were empty each time. The
Tigers dubbed Mig Fling, Lawson
and Mills for IL hits.
Mel Harder frightened Cleve1and's
pennant hopes by showing fash
of his oldtime form as. he pitched
the Indians into first place with g
1O-1 triumph over the White Sox
Harder gave up only five hits anc
the lone run made off him was ar
inside the = park homer by Mike
Krevich. The Tribe knocked Ed
Smith to cover in the sixth after hi
had given up six runs and continued
their assault on his successor, Pete
Appleton. Lou Boudreau, with 6
double and two singles, pacec
Cleveland's 12-hit attack.
Fritz Comes Through
Joe Cronin's pitching pain wa!
relieved briefly when Fritz Oster'
mueller went the route and pitchet
the Red SoX to Al victory owe
the Yankees. 1t was the secont
straight time Ostermueller has gon
the route and won. He was both
cred by sinus trouble at the star
of the season and has just recent,
recovered. If he can keep winning
the Red SoX can't be counted gu
Of the pennant race. The Red So.
raped Ernie Bonham, the Yanke
rookie making his first start, for 1
hits. Jimmy FoxX hit homer No. 2
with Cronin on base in the fifth
The Yanks made only seven hits OF
; Ostermueller and DIDN'T score unit
the eighth when Joe DiMaggio's sin
gle drove in a tally.
Whit Wyatt won his 18th victor
"a major league high for him :
when he pitched Brooklyn to a g.
victory over the Giants last nigh
} in the first arc light game in his
\ tory between the two Gotham club!
He gave up only six hits and wa
never in trouble. Dixie Walker, wit
four hits paced the Dodgers l1-h1
;, attack on Gumbert, Paul Dean an
Lynn. The victory trimmed the i'd
;. Reds lead to six games.
YESTERDAYS HERO - Johnn
). Whitehead, Browns hanger-on, VIII
!, pitched two thirds of a no-hit, nc
= run game against the Tigers an
yanked Detroit out of the leagu
lead in a contest halted by rain.