Evening star., 1941-05-08
Dodgers Blast Legend
That Cards Are LOT
Of Supermen
Tribe Bows to Yankees
In Mud; Reds Triumph
As Lombard n ,mers
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


There are no miracle teams in
the major leagues this year and
the pennant races today are as wide
open as the day the season started.
After soaring along on Spectacu-
lar winning StreakS until their fol-
lowers were famed into a danger
Gus state of excitement the Cleve-
land Indians and st. Louis Cardi-
nails now have lost two games in a
row and both the American and
National Leagues are in as much
confusion as when their first inter-
sectional strife began 10 days ago.
The first five clubs in the Ameri-
can are separated by total of
only 4l2 games in the biggest jam
since the last international bike
races. The National again is in
It's hard-to-eXplain predicament of
having the Cards in first place by
percentage, although the Brooklyn
Dodgers lead in games won and lost.
Dodgers Triumph in Ninth.
The Dodgers, in fact, yesterday
destroyed the legend that St. Louis
had a collection of supermen. They
wrung out a 4-3 decision in grip
ping drama as Manager Billy South
worth switched his pitchers four
times. for six batterS in the last two
innings and in spite of this intense
strategy let Brooklyn load the bases
without a hit and with none out
In the ninth.
The Cardinals are clever and they
are almost unbelievably fast. In
the seventh inning. with runners on
first and second, Pitcher Lon
Warneke sacrificed and both men
scored-juSt to give you a gauge
OF their speed.
This gave Warneke a 81 lead
going into the last of the eighth
and he had given only three hits.
But as soon as he gave up two sin
giles in succession SouthWorth, who
had used four hurlers to pitch los
Ing siX-hit game at Boston Tuesday,
began shuffiing his staff and COM
pletely emptied his bull pen before
PeeWee Reese singled home the
winning run in the ninth.
The Indians, who had great pitch
Ing and timely hitting during their
1l-game winning streak, got neither
against the New York Yankees as
they mired down, rs, on a rain
soaked diamond. The Yankees
ralded Al Milnar and two other
pitchers for Is hits and, even
though the tribe touched Lefty
Marius Russo for 10 themselves, they
never shook him out of control
This victory bounced the Yanks
from fourth to second place in one
hop and the Boston Red Sox leaped
trom fifth to third with an thinning.
4-3 decision over the Chicago White
SoX. The margin between John
Rigney and Charley broadway
Wagner in their pitching duel was
Ted Williams. who hit two home
runs, one of them in the 18th to
win for Wagner
The Detroit Tigers, after a day in
second place and minus Hank Green
berg for the first time, were whipped
AZ by Washington and slipped to
fourth.
Browns Take Marathon.
The st. Louis Browns captured a
marathon 14-inning affair from the
Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 with Roy
Cullenbine starring. He hit three
run homer in the fifth and singled
home the winning run in the 14th.
A homer by Ernie lombard was
the only run of the game as the
Cincinnati Reds squeezed the New
York Giants 10. Hal Schumacher,
one of baseballs unluckiest hurlers,
gave five hits to Bucky Walters
seven. But the Reds made four
double-plays in the first four in
nings and Eddie Joost set a major
league record for shortstopS by
handling l9 fielding chances.
The Chicago Cubs climbed out of
the cellar by lambasting the Phillies
11-2. Big Bill Lee not only pitched
five-hit ball, but supplied two home
runs.
Jim Tobin also pitched and bat
ted his way to TO victory for the
Boston Braves against the Pitts
burgh Pirates. He spread 10 hits
and singled to open winning rally
in the ninth.