Evening star., 1941-06-23
Dodgers, Giants
Nip Chief Rivals
With Twin Wins
Di Mag Runs String TO
IS as Yunk Homers
Mark 18th in Row
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

There was a happy hangover to-
day among the baseball-batty boys
and girls of Pa Knickerbocker's vii
lage-like nothing that has been
seen in the neighborhood since the
Indians sold Manhattan for "a bucks
worth of fire-water and went to
work on it.
From the shores of the Harlem
all the way to the banks of the
gorgeous Gowanus in Brooklyn, the
folk who go in for the sport OF
nit-and-run were giving out with
hoopla and hurrah over the jobs
their heroes did yesterday.
The fans were singing the praises
of Joe Di Maggie and company OF
Yankee Stadium for smashing a
major league home run record; they
were even thinking of naming a
street after not-so-SWeet William
Terry for the way his Giants
knocked off the St. Louis Cardinals
in both ends of doubleheader, and,
as for Brooklyn, we'll, Larry Mac
Phail could be elected mayor by
landslide and have Leo the Lip
Durocher for his police chief as
reward for the double job the daft
ness boys did on Cincinnati.
Trio Is Close to Top.
There were the Yanks ami
Dodgers breathing down the neck
of the pace-setters in their league,
And there were your Giants. better
known this year as the humpty
dumpties of Harlem, in third place
by a twin win over the top outfit III
the National League.
/ The YankS were two games aWar
from the Cleveland Indians in the
American loop as a result Of the
5-4 beating they handed Detroit
Tigers. But the big thing was thai
Joe Di Maggie and Red Role
homered, and this made 1t IS
straight tits in which the BronX
Bombers have exploded one or more
of their subtle socks, thereby wiping
out the record of II in row which
the Tigers chalked up as an all
time high only year ago. What's
more, Di Maggio's poke marked the
35th straight contest in which he
has hit safely. leaving him ONLY
six away from George Sisler
modern major league record.
! The Dodgers took two one-run
margin victories in Cincinnati, ant
since the Cards blew a pair, it left
Brooklyn only one game away from
the senior loops top spot.
r.
of 35,792 fans on hand, the frs
game against the Rhinelanders wen
16 innings before Brooklyn grabbed
it, 2-1, on Dixie Walkers squeeze
bunt. Paul Derringer pitched the
whole way, but, as usual, the Red
couldn't hit the size of their dime"
checks for him. Kirby Higbe found
holes in the Reds bats in the night
cap. served up three-hitter and
waltZed in. 80.
Meanwhile, King Carl Hubbell
oiled up his left, or business, arm
and knocked off the Cards for the
Giants, 4-3, in the first encounter
in st. Louis, on the strength of a
three-run ninth-inning rally, and
young Johnny Wittig threw in a
flve-hitter to take the nightcap,
80. 1t marked the second time
in two weeks that Terry's mystery
club-the mystery is what holds
them up-swept twin bill from
the Cards.
Chisox, AS Trade ShutOuts.
The White Sox and Philadelphia
Athletics traded shutouts. Chicago
won the first, 14-0, behind Ted
Lyons, and the Quaker City set cap
tured the second, 80, back of Phil
Marchildon.
Jimmy Fox's 18th homer led the
way to 7-5 Red SoX victory in the
Boston opener, while the st. Louis
Browns banged out 13 hits for 1873
edge in the afterpiece. Chet Laabs
hit two homers and drove in nine
runs during the afternoon.
Boston's Braves whipped the Chi
cago Cubs, 6-5, on a two-run ninth
inning rally, and 30 on Alva Jaw
ery's six-hit hurting.
Pittsburgh downed the Phillies,
Al, in their opener behind Truett
Sewells steady tossing, and the Phils
took the nightcap, IA.