The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-27
PALMY DAYS OF
 GASHOUSE GANG ARE RECALLED
Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Put on Great Hitting
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Ay GEORGE KYRKsEY

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 New York, May Sa-tUpl-The st. L00is Oardinals are showing the stun oe which champions arc made these dayg. They get tough breaks but keep right oA going. They never know when they're licked.
 vietogy No. 2 in the Cardinals current winning streak showed how tough the 9t. Looeys are to lick. They had the Cubs beaten, %, but blew the lead end went into the last oe thN ninth trailing 10-s. They tied the count and sent the game into extra innings. Then Dlll Nlchols son hoznerOd for the Cubs in the iith but the Cards still refused to quit.
 Jimmy Brown hit q homer to tic the scoFN ia the @t. Louis 11th and then Don Padeett blasted another round. .tSippef which won tho game. Nest clubs, after blowing . nine.run Iced. would have gone to pieces end never had enonueh drive left to stage c winning surge.
 In the last eight days the Car. dinals have lest two regulars 9eeond Haseman Creepy Crespi with c fractured finger Sunday and Catcher Morton Cooper with . dls- located shoulder . week before. Dess pite those breaks the Cards have run of seven victories an their last eight games.
 The oasds. Cubs game yesterday was enc of the seasons wierdest, Stanley Hacks wild throw set the stage for the Cards two runs In the second, Then st. Louis scored seven times an the third, six of the runs being unNAyned. Then the Cuts blasted out six runs on seven straight hits In their fourth and kept peeking away until they went ahead, l0--0. Lou Novikof4's homer with two mates on ln the seventh of Lon WASneHe was the blow that nearly sunk the Cards. But pAdgettS double aster Terry Moore had been hit ey . pitched ball in the ninth Ned At up.
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 The American league leading In" diAns weren't as lucky as the Cards. They folded !n the ninth and lost Co the Tigers, 6-S. Trailing by one run an the ninth, Detroit staged . ,thsee.Fln rally. Frankie OToucher doubled and scored on an inlaeld cut. Then Bruce Campbell doubled with the bases loaded, driving in two more runs. Buck Newsom, al- though relieved for . pinch. hitter in the ninth, was credited with his third victory. No allowed eight hits ln eight things. The loss trimmed tho Indiana lead to four games over the Idle White sox.
 The phillies made the Dodgers Q gift oe a 6-A victory. With the bases loaded and two out in the fifth, Joe Marty made . two.base nun of Joe Medwlck's easy fly and three Brooklyn runs scored. Tn addition the Phils cost themselves two runs by sloppy base running. Pitcher Cy @lanton tried to score an the fourth on an overthrow at first and was out at the plate by 90 feet. Lit. whiier tried to stretch c single into . double and was nipped. Nick Etten followed with . homer. Freddy Ntxsimmons. who made his first start oS the season, received credit for the victory although he was hit hard end needed relief from Kirby Aighbe,
 Cincinnati climbed to within c half game of the first division by defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, v--s, in c night game played before 2o.o67 at Crosley field. Homer by Harry Craft, with one on in the sour.run nth, and Ernoe Roy with none on. paced the Reds l3.hit at- tack. Koy also contributed double and single and drove home three runs. Dueky Walters gave up 70 hits for victory No. s.
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