The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-28
FRISCH MAY SEE CHARGES GET IN
 SEPTEMBER RAGE.
Dodgers Lose Two at Critic cal Time; Lee Snaps
 Yankee Win Streak
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, July 28-(UP)-There was no joy in Flatbush today Dodg- CT fans were wearing a hang dog look and inquiring of their neigh bors, What happened to our glori- ous, bumS?"
 To tel lthe awful truth the swaSh- bllckling Pirates slapped the Dodg- CTS down twice Sunday in Pitts burgh just when 1t hurt most With an overflow throng of 40,903 look ing on, the Pirates kept up their blazing July drive by beating Brook lyn 4-3 and so (called end 9th, Sunday curfew).
 It was a disastrous day for the Dodgers, who lost their 9th game in their last 12 starts and dropped two full games behind the pace-setting Cardinals. Tn addition, the Dodgers lost their 'sparkplug, Dixie Walker, for 8 few days. He collapsed twice in the nightcap with a cramped leg muscle and had to be helped of the field.
 For the Pirates 1t kept alive a smoledring hope that Frankie Frisch will yet get his club up in the pen- llant race. The Pirates have won g out of their last ten games and g out of 3l and are virtually tied for third place, 10 1-2 games of the pace.
 Double Defeat
 The bases filled in the ninth and the Dodgers leading, 3-2, when Maurice Van Robays doubled into the overflow crowd of Relief Pitch- CT Curt Davis to give the Pirates the first game. An eight-run rally in the fifth drove Hugh Casey to cover and clinched the second game. Rip Sewell held the Dodgers to five hits in winning his tenth game. Vince DiMaggio homered with two on in the nightcap.
 The Cardinals had to struggle to get an even break with the hustling Braves who pounded out a 12-1O victory in the opener and threw a scare into the Redbirds before los- ing the nightcap, 8-6. Boston she'll ed Lon Warneke for four runs be- fore he could get a man out. Phil Mast hit two homers and Frank Demaree one. Morton Cooper, Card pitcher operated on June IT, made a brief appearance in a relief role in the opener. How1e Krist needed help from Harry Gumbert to stem a ninth-inning Boston rally at two runs and was credited with his eighth victory against no defeats.
 The Tanks rode roughshod over the White Sox, 9-5, to win the open. CT of a doubleheader and run their winning streak to nine but Thornton Lee stopped them in the nightcap, 7-3. Red Ruffing turned in his 18th victory in the opener while Ted Lyons was pounded to cover. Joe Gordon hit homer No. IT and Joe DtMaggio No. g. DiMaggio, hit ting safely in both games, ran his new hitting streak to II straight games.
 Cleveland snapped its 5-game los- ing streak when Joe Heving beat the Red Sox, 40, holding his former teammates to six scattered hits. It was his first start since June 17th and his fourth triumph. Only three men reached second of him, all on doubles. Ray Mack, restored 10 the Tribes lineup, hit a homer and double.
 Macks Move Up
 The red-hot Athletics moved into a fourth place tie with the White Sox by grabbing a twin bill from the Tigers. 8-1 and To. Jack Knott and Lester McCrabb, allowing seven hits in each game, notched their ninth victories. Bob Johnson hit homer No. 1e with one on in the first game and Sam Chapman hit No. 10 in the nightcap with none on.
 Washington battled its way out of the cellar by winning a pair from the Browns, 4-3 and 5-3. Jake Early's homer provided the Senator's winning tally in the opener. Cecil rTraviS had a perfesct day, 8 for B." In the nightcap. Sid Hudson and Dutch eLonard were the wnring pitchers.
 Even with their two aces. Der- ringer and Walters, on the mound the best the Reds could do with the Philnes was get an even break. Paul Derringer celebrated Derringer dav' at Cincinnati by shutting out the tailenderS, 20, but Bucky Walters lost the second game, 8-1. The Reds made only one earned run ali day, as the two runs in the first game came on a wild pitch by Boom Boom Beck. The feeble Cincinnati attack generated only eight hits. four in each game. Johnny Pod gajny handcuffed the Reds for his 9th win.
 Vern Olsen, Cubs southpaw who lasted only one inning two days ago against the GiarSs, came back to plaster 9-2 defeat on the Terry- men. It was OlSen's eight triumph. Babe Dahlgren,S single With the eases loaded featured a 4-run third inning.
 YESTERDAYS HERO = Thorn Lee, White Sox southpaw, who stopped the Yankee winning streak at nine straight in the second game before 53,305 at Yankee stadium. Major League Leaders