Evening star., 1940-08-08
SetsFastestP Pace
With 6 in Row,
Is Out Of 70
Streak of Derrinqer
Cracked by Bruins;
Tigers Hold On
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, famous
August foldups, are unfolding finally
into some semblance of the flower
everybody expected from frankie
FriSch.
The club is no marvellous ma
chine, but it's going places faster
than any other outfit in the major
leagues at the moment.
In two days it has swept three
games from the st. Louis Cardinals,
who up until this week were some
hot shakes themselves, and right
now must be considered as a pos
sible first division finisher.
1t took long time for the Pirates
to find themselves under Frisch's
frantic experimentation. Early in
the season they sank practically out
of sight by losing 16 out of 18
games. But now they have won
seven straight and Is out of their
last 20 to get a grip on fifth place,
just one game out of the upper
strata
Bucs Vary Their Methods.
Some days they win with good
pitching and some days with good
hitting, but mostly they just win.
For instance, they nosed out the
Cardinals, 1919, in the first game
yesterday, although they were out
hit, 1873. Frisch kept up a stream
OF substitutions and Spud Davis
delivered a pinch single, scoring
two runs in the eighth to win the
game. In the nightcap the bold
Buccos made a dozen runs on 13
hits to win, 1876. Pitcher Max
Butcher batted in four of the tallies
himself.
The Cincinnati Reds gave more
ground as they dropped SO
l0-inning battle to the Chicago
Cubs, who thus broke Paul Der
ringers winning string at seven
games. Jim Gleeson and Bill
Nicholson hit homers for the Cubs
only runs in the regular route, but
in the tenth Chicago grouped four
SAASACS lOl &C lullS.
The Brooklyn Dodgers made the
most of this opportunity by over
whelming the New York Giants,
81, in a night game that was in
tended to honor Mel OFT and drew a
crowd of 53,997 to the Polo Grounds.
For six innings the affair followed
the pattern planned by the Commit
tee on Arrangements, with Carl
Hubbeu hurling masterfully and the
Giants leading, 81 Then Brooklyn
blasted out five runs in the seventh
and kept right on rolling.
Perfect on Enemy's Field.
1t was the Dodgers sixth win in
six games on the Giants grounds
and was credited as Fred Fitzsim-
mons 18th victory against 2 de-
feats.
The Boston Bees continued to
plague the poor Phillies, taking a
night game, 6-3, with Eddie Miller
and Carvel Rowell each hitting
homers with mate aboard.
The American League race re-
mained unchanged. The pace setting
Detroit Tigers outlasted the St.
Louis Browns to win, Us. The IT.
gers Tailed five of their runs in
the third, and the Browns got four
of theirs in the last three frames
but were finally set down by Relief
Pitcher AL Benton with the bases
loaded.
The Cleveland Indians crushed
the Chicago White Sox, 9-3, with
Lou Boudreau staging a one-man
show. He hit two home runs and q
single, batting in six scores. The
White Sox made four errors.
New York's tottering Yankees di-
vided doubleheader at Boston. but
1t took three-run rally in the ninth
inning of the nightcap to end their
five-game losing streak. The Red
Sox won the opener, 1917, with a
16-hit offensive concentrated in the
middle innings, but in the second
game were slowed down to eight
hits by Lefty Marius Russo. In
the final frame Tom Heinrich bat
ted across two Yankee runs with
triple and then scored on a single.