The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-26
IN
 SAD SLUMP AS
 RIVALS MOVE UP
Yankees Less Than Six Games Off Lead-Reds
 Take Two By 1 Run
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY

CTuSQlIlg QeIedUS IIlG I dIlkccS du- ministered to them last week.
 Rookie Sid Hudson handed the h. dians their fourth straight setback yesterday when he pitched Wash ington to a 5-4 triumph over Cleve- land. It was the second straight game the tribe has lost by one run.
 It was Hudson's 18th triumph and trimmed the Indians lead to 2 1-2 games over the second place Tigers. Buddy Myer struck the blow whihc ruined the Indians. He tripled off Johnny Allen with the bases loaded in the first inning and then scored himself on Rick Ferrelrs single. Those four runs gave the Senators lea they never lost.
 The Tigers, who seemed out of the race after their three thrashings by the Tanks last week, perked up behind Buck Newsom and beat the Athletics, 7-3. Newsom gained his 18th triumph, allowing the As nine hits. The Tigers whacked out 13 hits off Ross, Beckman and Heus- ser.
 The Yankee pennant express was derailed by Ted Lycns, 39-year-old White Sox pitcher. but not for lonf. After Lyons had pitched the White Sox to 10 victory over the Tanks in the opener before a bowling throng of 70,740 fans at the Yankee Stadium, the Bronx bomberS got got back on the winning track with 3-1 triumph in the nightcap. Lyons allowed only three hits in snap ping the Tanks 6-game winning streak. Rookie Ernie Bonham pitch ed a 5-hitter to best Thornton Lee, old Yankee Jinx, in the nightcap. The split enabled the Tanks to pick up a half game and move with in 5 1-2 games of the slumping h. dians.
 The Red Sox continued to go nowhere, dividing pair with the Browns. John Niggerling and his butterfly ball pulled the Browns through to 7-2 victory in the opener. But the Red Sox hammered out 17-3 win in the nightcap. Jim my Foxx's 34th homer with the bases loaded featured an 11-run rally in the sixth.
 Cincinnati got back on the pen nant trail with a bang by winning a doubleheader from the Phillies, 3-2 and 6-5. Combined with the Dodgers split, the Reds increased their Ma tional League lead to ' 1-2 games Errors helped the Reds win both games. Bob Bragan's on Lombardl's double play grounder in the ninth allowing the winning run to score in the ninth inning of the first game. Frank Mccormick hit hom- CT with two on in the first inning of the nightcap, increasing his runs batted in to an even 100. The double win made the Reds Sunday record g won, lost.
 Fitz Wins Again
 Dick Lanahan handed the Dodg- CTS their sixth defeat in the West this trip when he pitched the Pi- rates to a 4-3 victory in the opener Homers by Arky Vaughan and Vince ] DiMaggio helped rout Whit Wyatt Freddy Fitzsimmons saved the day for the Dodgers by winning his 13tf victory in the nightcap, S-1. It was his 2O5th in the majors and the tlftf time this year he's beaten the Pl- rates.
 The Cubs ano Giants divided with Chicago winning the tirs' game. 5-4, in 10 innings and New York taking the nightcap, 12-8. Don Dallessandros double with tht bases loaded in the tenth won tht opener. The Giants slapped out 1' hits. including homers by Ott ane Young, each with two men on, II routing Lee, Root, Raffensberger ane Page in the afterpiece. Sailor Bill Posedel stopped th' Cards 9-game winning streak D! nitching the Bees to a Al triumph in the opener. He allowed only fiv' hits, with Slaughter's homer tn' onlv run made off him. In th' ,, nightcap the Cardinals came iron behind to win, 8-5. Johnny Mlzef 37th homer iwth one on was the oil blow.
 YESTERDAYS HERO-Ted Ly ons, 39-year-old White Sox pitcher who blanked the Yankees on thre' hits and snapped their e-game win ming streak with 10 triumph