Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-23
New York Gains
Third-P|ace Tie,
Best This Year
Detroits' Hutchinson
Conquers Red Sox;;
Werber Reds Hero
By BILL WHITE.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
The epitaphs have been written,
the decline and the fall Of the YAM
kee empire have been explained
fully. the mourners have headed for
home-but the Yankees refuse to
stay dead.
Certainly they looked anything
but hopelessly beaten ex-champlons
yesterday as they smashed the first
place Cleveland Indians. 1872. in as
brutal an assault the American
League has seen all year. They
hit a new high in seasonal effective
ness in that nightmarish second
inning when they scored nine runs,
of which four were produced by Joe
Di Maggio's 26th homer with the
bases full.
Raking AL Milnar, Eisenstate and
Zuber for II lusty blows-six OF
them for extra bases-the Yanks
ran their victory string to IL out
of their last Is tries and to four
straight over the leagues top two
teams. That sent them scooting
into third place Gust eight games
off the pace. which represents the
dizziest heights to which they've
climbed since the seasons earliest
days
Hutchinson Stops BOsOx.
The Yankee triumph, plus a 9-6
Detroit victory over the Boston Red
Sox, brought about largely by the
remarkable relief hurting Of Fred
Hutchinson and his timely hitting,
cut the Indians lead over the Tigers
to Az games.
Hutchinson BANKED the Sox after
replacing Buck Newsom in the sec
ond inning and drove Dutch Meyers
home in the 10th with a cracking
single to plummet the Sox into
fourth place.
In the leagues only other offer
ing-a night game-Johnny Berar-
dino. with five blows in five tries,
led an 18-hit ST Louis Brown as
sault on the Athletics that netted
the Brownies an ga victory.
The National League also has a
team that refuses to admit it started
too late-the cocky Cardinals. They
won their seventh straight by whal-
ing Philadelphia, 80, to jump into
third-place tie with the New York
Giants. busy splitting q double
header with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Mort Cooper limited the Phils to
six hits. while the Cards banged out
IL. including Johnny Mics 36th
homer.
The Giants won the first game
from the Pirates, 5-4, as Mickey
Witek singled home Mel OFT in the
twelfth inning, after the BUGS had
booted the contest away in the
eleventh by filling the bases with
none out and failing to score. The
second game went to the Pirates.
40, as Truett Sewell racked up his
third win over the Terrymen with
a five-hit job. Elbie Fletcher helped
him out with a sixth-inning homer
with two on.
Bill Werber was the toast Of Gin
cinnati for his ninth inning home
run that beat the Boston Bees, 80,
and gave Bucky Walters his Oft
delayed 18th victory. The Reds
scored two in the first and the Bees
tied it up in the sixth when Max
West hit his fourth homer Of the
year with Gene Moore on base. The
victory, plus Brooklyn's loss to the
Cubs, extended the Reds lead to 6h
games.
Olsen Checks Dodgers.
Vern Olsen almost had a no-hitter
as the Cubs ,whaled the Brooks, SO,
the fourth straight Western loss for
the invaders. He finally was touched
for singles by Ducky Medwick and
Joe Vosmik In the seventh, but these
were the only two the Durocher
Dandies could get OF his puzzling
slants.
Two Cub hits and two Brook er-
rors gave Chicago an early 20 lead,
then the Cubs knocked Whit Wyatt
of the mound in the fourth with q
four-hit, three-run blast.