The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-13
RUSSO CARRIES YANKEE FLAG
 HOPES TODAY
Rowe Beats New Workers; :; Giants Out=YOrk Hero;
 Casey Wins Twin Bill
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondentl

NeW YorK, Sept. 13 = CUP. De- troit's Tigers, the patchwork club nobody dreamed last spring had 8 chance to win the pennant, occupied the drivers seat in the American League today and were making menacing gestures at spelling the Yankees glorious August drive.
 By knocking of the Tanks yes- terday, the Tigers held their 1-2 game lead over the Indians and in- creased their margin over the New Workers to two full games. With ' victories in their last 8 games, the Tigers are now turning on the heat in the hottest September campaign the American League has witnessed since the mad scramble of 1908. For the hunch players, it might be men, toned that the Tigers won the flag that year on the very last day of the season.
 The key game of the Tiger-Yan- kee series is likely to be played to- day with the Bronx Bombers en- trusting the job of ending their g. game slump to Marius (Rube) Rus so, winner of seven straight who was held over from yesterday by Man ager Joe Mccarthy. If the Tigers can win today with Tommy Bridges, who's beaten the Yanks only once this season, they'll be looking up Easy Street. They have Buck (Bo- bo) Newsom ready for the morrow. Newsom has won IS games and lost only three and twice he's beaten the Tanks and never lost to them.
 That the pace the Tanks have been travelling is beginning to take its toll was evidenced yesterday when the Tigers put on four-run rally in the eighth to win, 6-3. The Tanks had the game won, 3-2, when Joe Gordon threw away double play ball after making the pivot.
 Schoolboy Rowe again proved his mastery over the Tanks. Although rapped for II hits he pitched smart ly in the clutches and left Il Tanks on base. It was his 14th triumph against three defeats. Hank Green berg tapped homer No. 32 in the sixth to tie the score, 2-2.
 Humbled By Harder
 Cleveland showed spark of life by battering out an 8-1 victory over the Red Sox. A 7-run rally in the fourth clinched the game. Mel Har- der let the, hardeSt-hitting club in the league down with three hits.
 The White Sox scored double victory over the Athletics, To and 4-3, and moved into fourth place tie with the Red Sox., Bill Dietrich pitched a 4-hitter in the opener while Pinch Hitter Ken Silvestri hit a homer with mate on base in the ninth to win the nightcap.
 Rookie Arnold Anderson twirled a 6-hitter to pace Washington to a 7-2 triumph over the Browns.
 With Gene Thompson coasting to his 18th victory, the Reds trimmed the Giants, 9-4 and eliminated Bill Terry's club from all mathematical chance at the pennant. Thompson blanked the Giants until the ninth when he eased up and let in four runs.
 Same Pitcher Wins Two
 Brooklyn trimmed the Reds lead to 8 1-2 games by scoring a twin triumph over Pittsburgh, TO and "A. Hugh Casey won both games, hurling 3-hitter in the opener and came out of the bull-pen in the seventh to win the nightcap. Dixie Walker, who started the day as the National Leagues leading hitter, went 10 for 0 and dropped out of the first i've.
 The Bees throttled the Cardinals twice, 17-7 and 6-1, clubbing out 21 hits in the opener and staging a A. run rally in the eighth to nail down the nightcap.
 Larry French pitched 5-hitter to win his 18th game, 5-1 deci- sion over the futile PhillieS.
 YESTERDAYS HERO - Rudy York, Tigers, ugly duckling who came through with single in the clutch to tie up the Yankee game |