Evening star., 1941-07-23
Fe||er rFavorite
Hill Victim in
Three Wins
Lead Boosted to Eight
Games; Cards Catch
Whiting Dodgers
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Sometimes in baseball a pitcher
gets the number" of a rival ball
club-and the one Alley Donald of
the New York Yankees has on the
Cleveland Indians has proved i'm
mensely important.
Donald is 28-year-old Southern
boy who never is mentioned in the
same breath with the better pitchers
of the American League although in
1889 he set major league record
for rockies by winning IL consecu-
tive games. A sore arm stopped
him and he has been a $3.50 pitcher
ever since against everybody, that
is. but the Indians.
He has won five contests this year,
three of them from Cleveland. Two
of the three were against Bob
Feller, the leagues ace hurler.
Yesterday Donald led the Yanks
to 4-3 decision that turned the
pennant race into a virtual run
away, giving the Yanks their 35th
victory in Al tilts and an 8-game
grip on first place
The sturdy highlander held the
Indians to six hits. The score
wouldn't have been close except for
Clarence Soup Campbell, a Cleve-
land rookie, who hit a double and
nome run.
Bunch Hits Against Feller.
Feller, trying for his goth victory
before $4,000 fans, held the Yanks
to seven hits. But six of these were
punched in the first four frames and
were interspersed with walks. The
blows included a home run by Joe
Gordon and timely doubles by
Charley Keller and Joe Di Maggie.
who now has hit in five straight
games since his 56-game streak was
snapped.
While the Yanks were blowing the
lid off the American League COM
petition, leaders in the National
League managed to tie themselves
INTO another knot.
The Brooklyn Dodgers carried a
40 lead into the ninth inning and
then lost 5-4 decision to the Gin
cinnati Reds in big rally centered
around Chuck Aleno's pinch-triple
with the bases loaded. Bucky WAL
ters, who had held the Dodgers to
eight hits, drove in the deciding run
with fly to center.
1t was the fifth defeat in six con-
tests for the skidding Dodgers. and
when the st. Louis Cardinals downed
the New York Giants, is, the Ma
tional League lead reverted to a tie
between Brooklyn and St. Louis.
The Cards crowded six runs into
one rollicking inning. the fourth. to
beat the Giants. Enos Slaughter hit
home run. Estel Crabtre singled
with the bases loaded and Johnny
Hopp tripled with two on. The de-
feat also dropped the Giants out of
third place and let in Cincinnati.
All Home Teams Win.
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won by the home teams. five of them
by one run.
Pittsburgh beat the Phillies, 4-3,
in a tilt in which both starting
pitchers lasted only one inning and
in which all the scoring was COM
pleted by the third.
The Chicago Cubs crushed the
Boston Braves, 1872. with a l6-hit
bombardment. Bill Nicholson drove
in three runs with his 18th home
run and double and Dom Dalles-
sandro batted in four with a double
and two singles. BY the ninth Man.
ager Jim Wilson took out his pitcher,
Bill Lee, Just to let him rest. He
had been on base four times.
The Boston Red SoX licked the
Chicago White Sox, 60, with Heber
Oick) Newsome outpitching John
Rlgney for his 11th victory. Among
Boston's seven hits were homes
by Ted Williams. Jim Tabor and
Jim Foxx Newsome allowed six hits
The Philadelphia Athletics easily
whipped the st. Louis Browns. Al.
with Jack Knott pitching five-hit
ball.