The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-06-24
CINCINNATI REDS BOUND BACK TO
 TOP OF LEAGUE.
HubbeIl, Dean Beaten By Reds and Thompson; NewsOm Halts Yanks
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press StaA Correspondent

New York, June 24.-tUP)-Bill Terry, In an early season comment on the National League pennant race, remarked, "When the double- headers roll around that'll be our gravy because we have the best bal- anced pitching in the league"
 Terry also is the fellow who asked: "1s Brooklyn still in the league9"
 The glum leader of the Giants has often wished, in the past six years, he could have withdrawn his Brooklyn crack, and before tho l940 season ends he may rue the day he voiced the opinion that the Giants pitching staff was geared Just right for the heavy doublehead- or schedule.
 Yesterday Terry sat in the dark corner of the Giants dugout and saw his prediction play him false The Rels slapped the Giants down twice before 62,857 fans, 7-4 and 20, and climbed back Into the National League lead over the beaten Dcdg- CTS.
 It was Cincinnati's superior pitch- Ing which gave them the twin tri- umph. Bucky Walters, who hasn't won 0 game since his nine-game winning streak, was snapped be- came unnerved after hitting Billy Jurges, Giants shortstop, on tho head in the seventh and was unable to finish. But the Reds relief pitchers stood of the Giants while the Reds rapped Carl 9Iubbell out of the box in the ninth and scored five runs to take the opener.
 The score was deadlocked at 2-2 when Walters hit Jurges. Then he couldn't do anything right and the Giants slammed over two runs. But in the ninth Pinch h-hitter Bill Hersh. berger tripled with two mates aboard to tio the score and the Giants fell apart.
 Junior Thompson made Cincin- natis conquest complete when he held the Giants to three singles in tho nightcap. Paul Dean, after win- ming two straight, stubbed his too in his third start. The Reds made seven hits off Dean in eight inn- ings, including Frank McCormicks triple followed by Hershberger,s fly which accounted for the winning run.
 Dodgers Down. The Pirates knocked the Dodgers of the top by beating them, 8-b, and then hodlng them to 0 4-4 tie In a i3-inning nightcap called by dark ness. Pittsburgh slammed out 18 hits in the opener, driving Whit Wyatt to cover in the fifth. Spud Davis homer with two out in the ninth inning of the second game enabled the Pirates to get 0 standoff.
 The Cubs beat the Phillies, twice, 3-2 and 7-2, with Jake Mooty, rookie righthander shading Hugh Mulcahy in the opener and Ken Raffensber- ger, rookie Southpaw, doing tho hon. ors in the nightcap. It was Mooty's fourth straight victory
 The Bees vacated tho cellar by handing the Cardinals Q double de- feat, 7-6 and i0-5. Manuel Salyo was the winner in the first game in which Bob Bowman, who recently hit Joe Medwick on the head with n pitched ball, was badly spiked by Sibby Sisti in Q play at first base. Al Smith pitched Q slx-hitter as the Cleveland Indians stretched their winning streak to eight with q 4.l win over the Boston Red Sox in the first game of c double header but Rookie Herb Hash brought the Box an even break with q 20, eight- hit shutout in the nighteap.
 Home runs by Ken Keltner and Ray Mack were the big punch for the tribe in the first game while a pair of four-baggers by Jim Tabor accounted for both Sox runs in the nightcap victory which snapped Q geven-gafne losing streak. Sox out- ficder, Ted Williams, was injured and forced to leave the first game in the eighth when he collided with Doc Cramer going after Mack's long fly, which went for home run in- side the park. Williams was revived but was taken 10 Q hospital. Buck Stops Tanks. 1SWVAVb AibGfb dGiGutVu bIlB NVW York Yankees, 9-2, aS Buck NeWsom held the McCarthymen to four hits and won his ninth straight victory Rudy York's homer accounted for two Detroit runs. The win moved the Tigers within 1 leg games of first place.
 Aided by 6 l0-hit barrage, Dutch Leonard won his eighth game as the Washington Senators scored 1925 win over the St. Louis Browns in the first game Of Q double bill. The Browns won the nightcap, called by darkness at the end of the seventh, 2-3.
 Both games of the Phlladelphia- Chicago doubleheader were rained out.
 YESTERDAYS HERO-"Junior Thompson, Cincinnati righthander who stopped the Giants with three hits in the nightcap for a 20 vic- tory which gave the Reds a clean axraot1 and kant fhat1, in firef y,ianp