Evening star., 1940-06-20
Dodgers Reveal
Pennant Punch
In Comeback
Fists Fly as Cards
Are Beaten; Bosox,
Yunks Are Upset
BY JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer,


In rough-and-tumble fight for
the National League pennant there
Is no club better fitted to triumph
than the Brooklyn Dodgers.
That's why they're right back In
virtual tie with the Cincinnati
Reds today for first place in the
senior circuit.
The 8-3 trouncing they gave the
st. Louis Cardinals last night gave
them a percentage of 800. The Reds,
who were idle yesterday, have a
mark of 1903, If carried into the
realm of higher mathematics. and
still are technically half a game in
front.
The final fracas of the DODGERS
Cards series was as wild and whoopee
AS any vaudeville ever staged on
Broadway and practically as little
like baseball
The shadow of Ducky Medwick's
unfortunate "beaning" hovered over
the game, and the players of both
teams had trouble keeping their
minds on the play of the moment.
There were nine errors in the game.
seven by St. Louis. four by Short
stop Martin Marion, and three of his
in one inning-tying major league
record.
Durocher, Owen Battle.
Manager Billy Southworth of the
Cards kept Pitcher Bob Bowman.
who threw the ball that struck
Medwick, away from the park last
night to avert trouble, but in the
third inning Catcher Mickey Owen
OF st. Louis and Manager -Shortstop
Leo Durocher of the Dodgers got
into fist fight, and the going was
tense from start to finish.
But that's the kind of track that
the hard-running Dodgers take to
best, and they ended their own
four-game losing streak and the
CARDS slx-game winning string in
one swift swoop. They pounded Fid-
dler Bill MCGEE for nine hits in seven
and tWo-thirds innings, and these
linked with the errors and two (2)
double steals that worked. easily
brought Whitlow Wyatt his sixth
victory.
The only other National League
engagement was at Boston. where
the Pittsburgh Pirates battered the
Bees, 5-1. behind Joe Bowmans
effective hurting.
In the American League the st.
Louis Browns again rose up with a
great display of lese majeste and
bumped the Boston Red Sox, Ga
The league leaders took a four-run
lead in the first three frames. only
to have the Browns whittle it away
TWO runs at a time. Walt Judnlch
the former Yankee chattel. hit a
two-run homer and a single with
the bases loaded.
Yanks Drop Fourth In Row.
The Yankees might very well have
used him, because they were held to
seven widely spaced hits by Lefty
Thornton Lee and shut out. 10
in Chicago. 1t was the world cham
plons' fourth straight loss and their
second successive setback by a
White Sox southpaw. Marius Russo
matched Lee with four-hit pitching
for seven stanzas, but finally gave
up four blows and the ball game in
the eighth.
The Detroit Tigers assumed ex-
elusive possession of second place
by whipping the Philadelphia Ath-
letics in both ends of double head
er, while the Cleveland Indians were
doing all they had a chance to do
IN stopping washington, Al.
The tandem triumphs by Detroit
gave Buck Newsom bis eighth victory
against one defeat and Schoolboy
Rowe his fifth without scar. Hank
Greenberg singled across the deciding
run in the 10th inning for the 5-4 de-
cision in the first game for Newsom,
who hasn't been beaten since open
ing day. In the nightcap Rowe
pitched shutout ball until the
eighth, by which time Detroit had
the 81 victory salted away,