Evening star., 1940-08-01
Desperate Flag
Chasers Stage
Hot Rallies
Bengols Behind Four
Times; Tribe Whips
Yankees in 11th
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
The Cleveland Indians and De-
troit Tigers still are deadlocked for
the American League lead today,
proving that miracles do happen.
They won two of the strangest
struggles yesterday that ever went
into the records in their desperate
efforts to elbow each other of the
top rung.
The Indians squeezed past the
Boston Red Sox, 1911, in one Of the
nightmares, The Tribe was trail
ing, TO, when it came to bat in the
fourth and even after Ken Keltner
hit a home run with the bases
loaded Cleveland continued to lag
behind until the eighth inning.
Finally Rookie Russ Peters de-
livered pinch single with the sacks
filled to score the Indians tying and
winning runs.
Detroit had to come from behind
four times to beat the New York
Yankees, 7-6, in II innings. The
situation didn't get critical until the
eighth inning, when the Tigers came
to bat trailing, AZ. Pinky Higgins
tripled with the bases loaded to put
the Tigers in front. But George
Selkirk clouted pinch home run
with one on in New York's half Of
the ninth.
Gomez Fails in Relief Job.
Detroit, undaunted, tied up the
score with three singles and finally,
in the eleventh, with Lefty Gomez
doing relief chore for the champs,
scored the winning run on two walks
and Hank Greenberg's single.
These games, as a matter of fact,
sounded the keynote for all the
major league activity on Wednesday.
Nothing could have been whackier
than the double header the st. Louis
Cardinals swept from the pitlful
Boston Bees, 81 and 1913. The
first game went II innings. with
Clyde Shoun and Dick Erickson
wrapped in pitching duel. Then
Boston blew up and let in two runs.
The Cards collected "a hits in the
batting practice that passed for the
second game. Johnny Mize hit a
homer in each contest to make his
total 30 for the year.
Boston's losing streak was ex-
tended to nine games. And, men
tioning streaks, Joe Di Maggie of the
Yankees in that sideshow at Detroit
went hitless for the first time in "a
games.
Homers Beat Walters.
The New York Giants put on one
of the seasons most dramatic fin
ishes to beat the Cincinnati Reds in
a night game that attracted 1884
fans to the Polo Grounds. Bucky
Walters was on the Threshold of his
18th victory when Burgess White
head and Hank Danning each hit
homers with a man on base in the
ninth inning to beat him, 5-4.
Walters had two out and two
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batters, but he walked two and gave
homers to the two others.
The Chicago Cubs were whipped,
7-3, by the Phillies and lost the
services of Augie Galan probably for
the remainder of the race because of
a broken knee suffered when he
crashed into a wall while chasing
foul. Manager Gabby Hartnett was
hit on the head by a bat. but not
seriously hurt. The big blast in the
Phillies' triumph was a three-run
homer by John Rizzo.
The Philadelphia Athletics edged
out the Chicago White Sox, 4-3, in
a night game with Bill Beckman
pitching 4-hit ball and Wally Moses
helping out with a 2-run homer.
This victory kept the Sox away from
the first division and boosted the
AS out of the cellar as st. Louis
dropped a 1876 decision to WASH
ingtOn.