Evening star., 1941-08-14
Cardinals Edge
Now Is Only
Half Game
Red Sox Crowd Tribe
For Runnerup Spot;
Pirates Bow Again
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Press Snnrts Writer

Associated Press sports Writer.
The tangle in the National League
is as hopeless of an early solution
as a six-day bicycle race on. the
first day.
The ST. Louis Cardinals and
the Brooklyn Dodgers simply keep
whirling round and round till one
or the other spills off. Then they
get up and do it all over again
while everybody gets dizzy.
Last night the Cardinals crashed.
80, in 10 innings at Cincinnati as
the Dodgers drummed out a 7-2
triumph over the Phillies to narrow
the Cards margin to half a game
where the matter is bound to rest
today because neither team is
scheduled.
The Cardinals collected a dozen
hits off Bucky Walters. but they
didn't get them close enough to-
gether. They gave young Mort
Cooper a 10 lead in the fifth in
ming, but Ernie lombard took it
away from him with a two-run
homer in the seventh. Then Johnny
Mize, another well-known slugger,
slapped out circuit blow in the
eighth to tie the score
In the 10th Rightfielder Johnny
Hopp missed shoestring catch and
let a liner by Eddie Joost get by
him for a triple. Then after two
intentional passes loaded the bases,
Frank Mccormick singled the VIM
ming run across.
Camilli Hits 23d Homer.
The Dodgers had not such trouble.
Dolph Camilli, the current homer
king of the senior circuit, notched
his 23d with two on in the third
inning and Curt Davis coasted to
victory on six-hit pitching.
In another National League night
game the Chicago Cubs sent the
Pittsburgh Pirates spraWling to
their third straight defeat, GA. for
their longest losing streak in seven
weeks. Johnny Lanning rolled up
to the ninth inning with Al lead,
but a walk and two errors blew
the game wide open and the Bruins
scored five runs, two on pinch
single by Charley Gilbert with the
bases loaded.
The New York Giants and Boston
Braves divided a double-header.
Babe Young sparked the Giants to
flve-run lead in the first three
frames of the. opener by getting two
doubles, one with the bases loaded.
and New York made it last for a
TO victory Then Lefty Art john
son pitched a steady seven-hit af-
fair for 81 triumph in the night
cap.
In the American League the New
York Yankees split bargain bill
with the Washington Senators. 3-5
and 81, but even so managed to
gain another half game on the futile
Cleveland Indians, who fell INTO
jeopardy of losing even their Sec
ond-place ranking.
Browns Wallop Indians.
The Indians were walloped, 9-3,
by the St. Louis Browns. Dennis
Galehouse held the Tribe to seven
hits and contributed three singles
himself in St. Louis 16-hit bonn
bardment of four Cleveland hurlers.
Seven of the Browns runs were
punched in rollicking third in
ming that took all the fight out of
the Indians.
This spurred the Boston Red Sox
to a 40 conquest of the Philadel-
phia Athletics in a night game that
lifted Boston within game and
half of second place. Charley
broadway Wagner kept Philadel-
phia's eight hits scattered while the
Red Seekers pecked away at Phil
Marchildon for single runs in the
third, fourth, seventh and ninth
innings.
Ted Williams was given only one
official turn at bat and delivered a
double to score Boston's first run
and raise his stratospheric batting
average to Alb.
Buck NeWSome came through with
six-hit pitching performance to
steer the Detroit Tigers to a Al
victory over the Chicago White Sox.
The Tigers were helped by three
Chicago errors, all in the third in
ming, when Detroit made three of
its runs.