Evening star., 1941-08-31
Pass in Seventh,
Two Miscues
Mar Classic
Faces Only 28 Hitters,
But Is Hard Pressed
By linked Riddle
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Aug. 3O.-Lean Lon
Warneke. 31-year-old veteran Of
many campaigns, threw "a little OF
everything" today and pitched him.
self into baseball's Hall of Fame
with a crucial no-hit. 20 victory
over the Cincinnati Reds.
Giving all he had to the st. Louis
Cardinals fight to overhaul the
Brooklyn Dodgers and go ahead to a
pennant, Lon faced only 28 batters
for the only no-hitter of the 1941
season in either major league.
Giants Give Helping Hand.
His feat put the Cards in front by
two points as the Dodgers lost two
games to their hated rivals the
| Giants.
All that spoiled Warneke's mag
nif1cent work under hazy. warm skies
was walk in the seventh to Lonnie
Frey. a high throw by Creepy Crespi
on Frank McCormick's grounder in
the fifth, and Jimmy Browns muff
of Jimmy Gleeson's short fly in the
eighth.
| trying to steal second as Gleeson
struck out, and Gleeson was caught
in double play on Ernie Lombardi's
bounder, making Frey the only Red
leg left stranded all day.
Riddle Is Worthy Rival.
The Cards themselves were having
no bed of roses. Young Elmer
Riddle moved them down almost
with the same ease as did Warneke
the Reds. He allowed five hits. two
of them scratches, and the game
still might be going if Harry Craft
had been able to hold Don Padgetts
Whistling liner Harry had to make
long run. but he got both hands on
! the ball and had to be charged with
/ an error.
/ Johnny Hopp had singled and
Brown walked preceding the error
and both scored Riddle never was
in trouble at anv other time.
The crowd OF nearly 10000 was
pulling for Warneke from the sixth
inning on, when it appeared he
might make it.
They cheered practically every
pitch that the Red batters missed
or hit to no good purpose. and they
gave Lon an ovation when he came
to bat.
This is Ions 18th year in the
majors and his pitching effective
ness. like Tennyson's brook, appar-
emily goes on forever
Pitches Four 1-Hitters.
Four times the tobacco-chewing
Arkansas humming bird has been
deprived Of perfect game by just
one hit.
Against the Phillies this spring he
hurled a 1-hitter, Emmett Mueller's
single as the first man up in the
first inning being the only safety.
On the other hand, however, he
is noted for his home run pitches"
Three consecutive homers in one
inning were clouted off Warneke
BY the Chicago Cubs early this
month.
His best season was 1882 when he
won % and lost only with the
Cubs. Two other seasons he won
20 or more games. In the World
Series of 1885 he won the two games
Chicago took from Detroit. Last
year he won Is and lost 10.
Warneke came to the Cards IN
the fall of 1887, all of his previous
major league experience having
been with the Cubs
Makes Error on Heroic Try.
Warneke labored on as the ten
sion rose. Occasionally some Red
got long drive-but the Cards were
doing and dying that Lon might
grab his first no-hitter. They
stopped almost everything and some
balls were tagged for green pas
lures. 80.
Jimmy Browns error was ball
that might have gone for hit with
less at stake. The ball was coming
down far behind him. Be backed
steadily, jumped and got it. But
Jimmy fell and the ball bounced
out of his glove. Jimmy didn't care.
(See WARNEKE, Page A-12)