The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-23
MOUND STAR HAS. LEADING RECORD.
 AMONG MATES
St. Louis Club Now Tied For Lead-Yanks Beat
 Teller With Donald
By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 New York, July 23.-(UP)--It would be difficult to designate one player as the handspring of the St. Louis Cardinals inspiring bid for the 194l National league pennant but if that honor is to go to an ir- dividual today let 1t be veteran pitcher Lon Warneke.
 This lanky, 32-year-old Arkansas righthander Is the only veteran in Manager Billy Southworth's mound corps and not only tops the bunch with 12 victories against five defeats, but exerts the best kind of infiu- ence on the pitching "greenies"
 st. Louis shares the National league lead with the Brooklyn Dodg- CTS today and while the Cards have more 300 hitters than any other club in the loop, speed, power and a fine infield and out1elG, it's been pitching of the sort turned in by Warneke that has contributed to much of their success
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 Warneke is 4n his I2th year in the majors and his fifth with the Cards. He came to St. Louis from the Cubs in 1886 for Ripper Collins and Roy Parmelee. Collins is bench-warmer with Pittsburgh and Parmelee has disappeared into the minors. Lon won IS games in his first year with the Cards but has never since approached closer to the1 20-games-won Standard-a total he reached three times for Chicago. Barring injury, he seems headed for that circle this year.
 The Cards climbed into tie with the Dodgers yesterday by shading the New York Giants, 7-6 while Cincinnati edged out Brooklyn, 5-4 Enos Slaughter'S homer featured six-run rally in the fourth that pro- vided St. Louis with the winning margin and dropped the Giants into fourth place behind the Reds. Four pitchers rave the Cards Ii hits while Ernie White and Howie Krist mari- aged to space Il Giants safeties ef- Actively.
 Blanked by Luke Hamlin for eight innings, the Reds came to life with five runs in the ninth to de- feat Brooklyn as Bucky Walters won his 18th victory. Chuck Aleno's fiuke pinch-hit triple with loaded bases featured the spree. Aleno ducked away from Hugh Casey's first pitch which his his bat, looped over first and landed just inside the right field line. Walters brought home the winning run with a long fly.
 The Pittsburgh Pirates scored all their runs in the first two innings and then hung on to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3. Triples by Elbie Fletcher and Vince Di- Maggie featured the Pirates three runs in the opening inning.
 A 16-hit assault on five pitchers brought the Cubs home in front of the Boston Braves, 1922. Bill Nichol- son and Lou Stringer homered for the Cubs.
 The New York Yankees continued to run away from the rest of the American league with a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians that ran the Bronx sluggers' lead to eight games and their victory string to four straight and wins out of their last 4l.
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 A walk to Johnny Sturm, Red Rolfe'S sacrifice and Joe DiMaggio's double scored the winning run in the fourth and handed Bobby Fel- Ter his fifth defeat of the season. Teller, trying for his 2oth win, al- lowed seven hits but issued six bases on balls. Alley Donald held the Tribe to six safeties, famed seven and walked five.
 The Boston Red Sox, their sights set on second place, belted the Chi cago White Sox, 6-2 to move within six games of replacing the Indians. Ted Williams, back in the lineup for the first time since July l2, Jimmy FoXx and Jim Tabor homered to account for all but one of the Boston runs. Dick Newsome held the White Sox to II blows for his llth victory.
 Mickey Vernon, Washington first baseman, slammed out three singles in three trips to pace the Senators to 5-4 triumph over the Detroit Tigers. Vernon drove in four runs and scored the other as Sid Huoson stopped the Tigers with eight hits for his sixth win.
 The Philadelphia Athletics made live of their eight hits good for four runs in the second inning and coast ed to 8 Al conquest of the St. Louis Browns behind Jack Knott,s fiye-hit pitching.
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