Evening star., 1941-06-03
Skinny Margins
All Tribe, Cards
Need for Leads
Both Return to Top
As Yonks, Dodgers
Are Nosed Out
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr.,


1t was the talk of the major
leagues last year that the Cincinnati
Reds won AZ games by 1-run mar
gins and in doing it won the Ma
tional League pennant and the
world championship.
But the way things are going this
season, that record may look puny
before the finish. 1t took a total
of 3 runs to return the St. Louis
Cardinals and Cleveland Indians to
first place in their respective leagues
yesterday and that's just a sample
Of what's been going on.
To date, 81 of the Cardinals "A
contests have been decided by single
runs, with the Redbirds winning IS
of them, mostly in the late innings
The Indians have found 2 runs a
more comfortable margin, either
winning or losing, but they've had
seven 1-run decisions in their favor
and six against them in 49 games.
Cards, Indians Bounce Back.
The Cards broke their tie with
Brooklyn yesterday by beating the
Dodgers, 5-4. The Indians, after
losing two games to the Yankees,
bounced back the way they usually
do when Bob Feller is pitching,
whipped the Yanks, rs, and moved
back to the top after spending a
day behind the Chicago White Sox.
Some distance behind these
leaders, the Reds and Boston Red
Sox also moved up. The world
champions turned back the New
York Giants 4-3 and took fourth
place in the National League by a
few percentage points over the
Chicago Cubs. The Red SoX, taking
advantage of Philadelphia rain
enforced idleness in ST Louis, moved
half game ahead of the AS into
fourth with 81 triumph over De-
troit.
1t was a typical Cardinal finish
that put Billy SouthWorth's boys
back on top and ended Brooklyn's
nine-game winning streak. After
the Dodgers recovered from an at
tack of jitters that cost them three
runs in the fifth and tied the score
with pair in the eighth. the Cards
needed run to win and they got it,
1t was as easy as that
Johnny (On the Spot Hopp,
whose double was the KEY hit of the
fifth-inning rally, banged out
triple and then loped home after
Jim Brown flied out.
The Yankees didn't show much
respect for Feller's shutout record,
breaking it off at 80 innings in the
second when they scored twice to
knot the count. But from there on
their only scores came on two
homers by Tommy Heinrich Mean
while, Southpaw Marius Russo
walked two runs across in the fifth
and Ken Keltner's triple and Tommy
Heath's homer finished the job in
the next inning.
The White SoX, after reaching the
top for the first time since 1921, sue
cumbed to Steve Sundra and
seventh-place Washington.
Bostons Red Sox belted over the
Tigers behind four-hit hurting job
by Joe Dobson. Jimmy Foxx hit a
homer with two aboard off Bobo
Newsom's delivery in the first in
ming, and Dobson socked the first
round-tripper of his career in the
second to clinch the argument.
Passes Big Help to Reds.
Fiddler Bill MCGEE, who has yet
to win a game for the Giants. gave
the Reds only four hits in 62s in
nings. but they were enough. Home
runs by Eddie Joost and Ernie Lom-
bardi accounted for three tallies,
and two walks followed by clean
single by Elmer Riddle, the Reds
pitcher, scored the winning run.