Evening star., 1940-07-05
Top Is Regained
By Tribe After
Tigers Reign
Bitter Rivals Beot
Giants Twice; Yonks'
Homers Rout Bosox
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

ASSOClhteQ fTeSS 6pOIt6 WflGets
1t was a safe and sane Fourth Of
July in the major leagues.
All the prospective fireworks
flzzled out, leaving the Brooklyn
Dodgers and Cleveland Indians un-
scathed at the top of the National
and American Leagues and eager to
prove the truth of that old saying
about the independence Day leaders
winning the pennants.
All they have to do now is stay
where they are.
The two games that involved the
leaders yesterday brought out Ill ,939
fans confident they were going to
see some of the greatest fighting
since Caesar divided all Gaul into
three parts. They weren't disap-
pointed.
The largest baseball turnout in
Detroit's history, 81 ,633, filled Briggs
Stadium to whoop and groan as the
Indians and Tigers divided a double
header.
Tribe Evens in Overtime.
Tommy Bridges pitched the Tigers
temporarily into first place in the
first game with So triumph on
flve hits. Rudy York helped him
with a two-run homer of Lefty AL
Smith, who had won nine and lost
one up until that time.
But in the second game the
Indians squeezed out thrilling 81
victory in II innings to regain the
lead. Until the ninth this was a
southpaw struggle between AL Milnar
and Rookie Hal Newhouser. Cleve-
land collected an unearned run off
the freshman in the fourth on an
error and a double by Ben Chapman.
who had homered in the first game
Then the Tigers loaded the bases
and got the tying run in the ninth.
In the 11th, two singles sandwiched
around sacrifice scored the win
ming run.
The Brooklyn Dodgers romped
like champions over the New York
Giants 81 and 6-1 in a double
feature for 54,306 fans at the Polo
Grounds.
Reds Yield No Ground.
Curt Davis parceled out seven
safeties to the Giants in winning
the opener. Joe Medwick hit his
third home run in three days and
Catcher Babe Phelps hit two.
In the second game Vito Tamulis.
generally in the background at
Brooklyn, came to the front with
Shit performance. He had a
perfect game for seven innings and
by the time he gave up three hits
and a run in the eighth the Dodgers
already had hammered out IS hits
and all their runs.
This gave Brooklyn a sweep of
the 3-game series with New York
and showed the Giants five games
behind the lead.
The champion Cincinnati Reds
refused to yield any ground. Bucky
Walters stepped to the mound in
the first game against the Pitts
burgh Pirates and ripped off his
eleventh victory 81. He gave only
seven hits and made two himself
scoring two runs. Then Gene
Thompson did even better in the
nightcap with a shit show that
submerged the Pirates 81.
The other National League double
headers were divided. The Chicago
Cubs stopped the Cardinals 4-3 in
the first game, principally through
3-run rally in the sixth, when
Bill Nicholson doubled two tallies
across. Clyde Shoun evened the
score for st. Louis with a shit So
success in the afterpiece. He
famed nine.
Joe Marty's pinch single with the
bases loaded and the score tied in
the ninth inning gave the Phillies
4-3 verdict over Boston, but the
Bees battled back in the second
game to win, 5-4, with Sibbi Sisti
hitting a homer for what turned
out to be the deciding run.
The New York Yankees paraded
back into the American League pen
nant picture again by blasting out
a double victory over the Boston
Red Sox, 1874 and 7-3. They are
a game and half behind the third
place Red Sox and five and a half
behind Cleveland
Yanks in Homer Mood.
In the first game the Yankees
packed five home runs into their
total of II hits and in the second
game they got three more. Charley
Keller, Joe Gordon and Buddy
Rosar each had two for the day.
The squirt of the st. Louis Browns
was shut off at Chicago, where the
White Sox took two games, 7-3 and
8-5. Lefty Thornton Lee kept seven
hits scattered, while his mates
rolled up II in the first game and
Ed Smith and Clint Brown collab-
GRATED in similar seven-hit dole
in the nightcap, when the Sox
scored all their eight runs in the
first two innings and coasted.
The total attendance in the
ma iorS for the dav was 21l7A3