Evening star., 1941-08-29
Shaves Dodger Edge
To One Game While
Banking Giants
Holds Sparkling Pace
In Bietime He Made
In Texas League
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


Howard Pollett is a young fellow
with whom baseball fans might as
we'll get acquainted, because he is
going to be a great star and may
help squeeze the st. Louis Cardinals
into this years National League
championship.
Pollett is the 20-year-old SOUTH
paw who turned the Texas League
upside down for Houston before the
Cards promoted him couple OF
weeks ago. Down there he won 20
and lost four had an earned-run
average Of LOG and pitched five shut
outs, including no-hitter.
He is a slim. swarthy kid with q
businesslike look in his dark eyes.
He is ready, willing and able to do
a mans work in the major leagues.
Yesterday he shut out the New
York Giants. SO, on three scat
tered singles. Previously he had
beaten the Boston Braves, 80, on
four hits, and had lost to the
Brooklyn Dodgers, 80, while giving
seven safeties.
His triumph over the Giants came
while the Dodgers had an open
day and shaved Brooklyn's first
place margin to one game.
Two Of Three Hits Scratches.
Two Of the hits of Pollett were
Of the infield variety. and all three
were made after he had two out.
The Cardinals clustered five singles
and a double-error by Pitcher Cliff
Me!.on to score all their five runs
in a rowdy fourth inning.
The National League had another
spectacular pitching show as Boston
downed the Chicago Cubs. 81. Tom
Farley held the Cubs to two hits,
one of them a homer by Phil
Cavarretta in the ninth. Vallle
Eaves pitched four-hit ball, but
forced in a run in the first with
walk and gave another on Max
Vests homer in the fourth.
Pittsburgh edged out the Phillies,
80. with three runs in the ninth,
two Of them on double by little Lee
Handley.
The New York Yankees main
tanned their l7-game lead in the
American League by hopping the
ST. Louis Browns, 8-5. in 10 innings.
The Yankees punched over Ave runs
in the first three innings and then
settled down to coast home. But
George McQuinn, who had knocked
in a run with a double in the first
inning, tied the score with two
Dagger in the ninth.
Yanks Make 1t Decisive.
This forced the Yankees to turn
on the scoring switch again and
they blasted across three tallies in
the extra frame, Tom Heinrich
knocked in two Of them with a
double He had hit his 26th homer
with one on in the third.
- Thornton Lee, the years outStand-
ing lefthander in the American
League, chalked up his 18th victory
by holding the Washington Senators
to-four singles while the Chicago
White Sox rolled to a 40 shutout.
Taft Wright had perfect day at
bat with a double and two singles
and Luke Appling hit two singles.
Each player drove in two runs
Rudy York hit a homer with the
bases loaded In the seventh inning
to give the Detroit Tigers an 81
triumph over the Boston Red Sox
after homers by Ted Williams and
Joe Cronin had headed the Sox
into an early lead.
Dick Siebert singled with the bases
loaded to score three runs in the
seventh and propel the Philadelphia
Athletics to So victory over the
staggering Cleveland Indians. The
AS opened with a pair of runs of
AL Milnar in the first, but Cleveland
clawed back with three tallies in the
same frame. However. Bill Beckman,
who replaced Johnny Babich with
one out in the first inning, held the
Indians to four hits the rest Of the
way.