Evening star., 1941-04-26
New Slab Strenqth,
Diekey's C|outing
Boost New York
Tigers, Tribe Get Wins
In Last Rounds; Late
Giant Rally Tells
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

It's just the same as trying to
make one and two add lip to three,
but the fact remains that the New
York Yankees are bouncing along
up there in the American League
drivers seat and Joe Di Maggie
hasn't had much more to do with
the streak that put them there than
your Aunt Kate.
The Bronx Bombers pulled them
selves into their old stamping
grounds just as Joe tapered off his
fence busting. Yesterdays 60
whitewashing of Washington, fash
ioned with nifty Shit pitching by
tiny Ernie Bonham, left the Yanks
with a three-game winning string
and one full game in the lead.
Yet, in those three games, dy-
manic Di Mag, the pitchers poison,
collected the grand total of one hit
IN II batting chances, drove in eX-
actly two runs and fell out of the
No. spot among the leagues apple
knockers. Which is close to sud-
denly discovering your car is going
along very nicely with the main
bearing back home in the kitchen
closet.
Pitching Staff Improved.
II you're trying to figure it out,
you can blame lot of this sudden
return of happy days to the Bronx
on Cd the pitching staff, which
boasts q completely new set of "bell
cows" and (2) Wee Willie Dickey,
long regarded as the chief cog in
the Yankee machine, who has
started to carry the mail again.
For the last couple of years the
Yanks' elbowing ensemble was
largely Rufus the Red Ruffing. But
Rufus the Red opened on a sour
note this season, while your old
pal Lefty Gomez once more has
blossomed out. And a couple of
comparative eWcOmerS-Bonham
who's called Tiny because he weighs
q mere 205, and Marius Russo,
southpaw pride of Long Island
are stepping right along with him.
Each of these three has two vic
tories against no defeats, and each
did some fancy f1inging to win one
game in the current streak. They've
given up only 81 hits and runs in
27 innings.
Dickey, meantime, has hit for 1893
In the last four games and has
driven in four runs.
Red S0x Rookie Wins.
The Yanks now are looking back
at two deadlocked rivals in second
place-the Boston Red Sox and the
Cleveland Indians. Young Heber
Dick Newsome made his first start
for the Sox and chalked up a five
hitter to whip the Athletics, 81,
with the help of Jimmy Foxx's first
homer this season. The Indians
went all out with a three-run rally
In the ninth to knock off the Chi
cago White Sox, 5-3.
Rudy York's two-run single in the
ninth inning gave the defending
champion Detroit Tigers 12-11 de-
cision over the st. Louis Browns in
circus performance that saw eight
errors committed.
For doing it the hard way, how
ever, the days bouquet went to
sweet william Terry's National
League leading New York Giants
who had to score five runs in the
ninth to fail the Phillies IA Chief
damage in the rally was done by
Morrie Arnovich, fugitive" from
the Phils, who pinch-tripled with
the bases loaded.
Another Phillies graduate, Kirby
Higbe, finally won for the Dodgers
by pitching a four hitter to beat the
Boston Bees, SO, in game marked
by Dolph Camilli's fifth homer-his
fourth in five days.
Like the Giants, the Chicago Cubs
pulled one out of the hat with
four-run outburst in the ninth in
ming to nip the Pittsburgh Pirates,
81. Simply by getting their runs in
patches of twos, the st. Louis Car
dinals cuffed the Cincinnati Reds
around, s-4.