Evening star., 1940-06-08
Brooklyn Now in Role
Originally Seen for
Fading ST. Louis
Southworth Is Elevated
To Manager as Blades
Gets the Heuve-Ho
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
associated Press Sports Writer

Ray Blades is out and the Brook
lyn Dodgers are in.
The responsibility for the major
leagues first managerial crackup of
1910 should be spread in a lot of
directions, but the Dodgers will have
to shoulder their share of the blame,
because they are doing everything
the st. Louis Cardinals were sup
posed to do this season.
1t was more than a coincidence
that yesterday as the Cards fired
Blades and hired Billy Southworth,
the indomitable Dodgers drove back
into first place in the National
League with Al 1lth-inning con-
quest of the Cincinnati Reds.
This was the sixth straight in q
new winning streak for Brooklyn
and the two Immediately preceding
triumphs had come at the expense
Of the Cardinals. One of them, 1O-1,
Tuesday night, probably caused Sam
Breadon to decide to swap managers
IN ST. Louis, because he left the next
day for New York to meet South
worth, pilot of the Cards Rochester
farm in the International League.
"Glamour Team" of 1889.
The Cards were the glamour
team" of last season, soaring from
sixth to second place under Blades
guidance, and were labeled as the
team that could rout the Reds this
year. Instead, the Dodgers have be-
come baseball's bright boys.
They gave stirring show at
Cincinnati yesterday, winning on a
tWo-run homer by Dolph Camiln
in the eleventh and stopping Bucky
Walters undefeated streak at nine
games.
Hugh Casey, the hurler the Reds
whipped May l to end the Dodgers
sensational string of nine victories
dating from the start of the season,
pitched five scoreless innings in re-
lief and got credit for the victory
and taste of sweet revenge.
The Cardinals, under the tenn
porary handling of Coach Mike
Gonzales, squeezed past the New
York Giants, 3-2, with the help of
hive double plays and advanced into
fifth place. Southworth will take
charge of the club Monday. He
ought to know the magnitude of
the task ahead because he replaced
another miracle manager" of the
Cards, Bill McKechnie, in 1929. the
year after McKechnie won the pen
nant. SouthWorth lasted till July
and then the Cards brought back
Mckechnie, who had been at Roch-
ester.
Pirates Get Out of Cellar.
Another swap in positions in yes
terday's general upheaval in the
National League saw the Pittsburgh
Pirates finally get out of the cellar
and the Boston Bees drop in. The
Pirates pounded out 18 hits to crush
the Phlllies, 1914. The Chicago
Cubs beat the Bees, 5-3, with Bill
Nicholson hitting his third homer in
two days and Claude Passeau
pitching eight-hit ball.
The New York Yankees handed
Cleveland and Bob Feller a So
beating, punching four singles for
two runs in the ninth. The Tribe
was held to five hits, one of them
Hal Trosky's 14th home run.
Cleveland's setback preserved the
Boston Red Sox's half-game lead
IN the American League, although
Hal NeWhouser baff1ed the Bostons
with seven-hit pitching that en-
aoled the Detroit Tigers to win, IL.
Rookie Al Brancato took care of
the Philadelphia Athletics, beating
the st. Louis Browns. 80, by driv-
ing IN all the AS runs on triple,
a double and single Nelson Pot
ter kept six hits scattered.