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IN it, typical spring squeeze.
tighter than the cover .on q
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The Brooklyn Dodgers climb
ed into first place Monday by
winning their seventh straight
eanae. Tuesday they won their
eighth and clipped into . tie.
Yesterday they won their ninth
In succession and dropped into
second place.
This would seem 20 b going
full speed forward In reverse
-snd that may b just % clear -
trying 70 explain the actual jam
|,now involving the Dodgers and
the st. Louis Cardinals.
Brooklyn has won - games
and lost I for . .765 percentage
while st. Louis has q record Of
|. 10 and 8 for .76o. Actually. on
the basis Of games won and
/ lost, the Dodgers are In front
Of the Redbirds by . full game,
but because the Cardinals have
played fewer games, and lost
less, they have m advantage In
percentage.
This edge will continue TO
accrue to st. Louis - long. ~
Il wins, even though the Dodgers
extend their streak.
Yesterdays ninth victory at
BROOKLYN came on the annivers-
ary Of their ninth straight last
spring In Cincinnati, the day
Tex Carleton pitched his no.
hitter. What has the flatbush
4anS jittery today il the memo
~ that Brooklyn was beaten q
year ago today by Bucky Walt
err, who was slated to try to
stop the Dodger onrush again
this afternoon.
Johnny Wander Nicer put the
brakes on Brooklyn for seven
innings yesterday, scattering
three singles and striking out
eight while his teammates rout-
cd Kirby Higbe for q 80 lead.
But In the eighth inning Dixie
Walker and Joe Medwick hit
homo runs, sandwiched around
. walk, to tie the score and In
the ninth Mickey Owen and
Peewee Reese ,stnackeds q pair
Of doubles for . run to win 4-3.
The Cardinals hoped on Hal
: Schumacher for q dozen hits,
including homers by Country
Slaughter and Johnny Mize, to
whip the New York Giants again
~. Young Sam Nahem kept
out Of trouble till the eighth,
when Babe Young homered with
two on. The Giants got only
nix hits.
The Chicago Cubs clustered
four runs In the first and four
more In the eighth to blast the
Boston Bees (beg pohdon, the
Dr1ves) o., with the help Of
four Boston errors. II was the
first victory for veteran Larry
French, although he had to have
help.
Cy Blanton, q castoff Of the
,pittsbursh Pirates, kept ten hits
scattered and struck out six %
the Phillies pummeled the Pr
rates 81.
The Cleveland Indians extend
ed their winning string to six by
overtakins the Philadelphia
Athletics 6-5 on Ken Keltner's
two-run homer with two out
b the ninth inning. jeff Heath
and Roy weatherly also hit for
The circuit for Cleveland and
Que Of the As seven safeties
was . round-tripper. by Benny
Mccoy.
The Chicago White Sox held
onto second place In the Junior
circuit by beating the Washing-
ton Senators 81, scoring four
runs In the eighth inning when
Ken Chase blew up and walked
three. Altogether during the
game the southpaw passed ten
men and made two wild pitches
and m error.
Joe Gordon and Marius Rus
20 led the New York Yankees
70 vengeance against the St.Louis
0owuS, III. Russo scattered
eight hits and shutout his foes
loc, six stanxas. Joe Gordon
made four Of the Yanks' Il
blows, including . homer, and
drove In four runs.
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