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~ yUDSON BAILEY

~ JUDsON BAILEY
Associated Press sports Writer
oThe tangle in the National
League Is rs hopeless Of an early
solution Is q six-day bicycle race
on the first day.
The st. Louis Cardinals and
the Brooklyn Dodgers simply
keep whirling round and round
till one or the other spills Oft.
Then they get up and do it all
over again while everybody gets
dizzy.
HALF-GAME MARGIN
Last night the Cardinals
crashed 81 in 10 innings at Gin
cinnati as the Dodgers drummed
out q 7-2 triumph over the Phil
lies to narrow Cards. margin to
half a game-where the matter
Is bound to rest today because
neither team is scheduled.
The Cardinals collected a doz-
en- hits off Bucky Walters but
they didn't get them close
enough together. They gave
young Mort Cooper a 10 lead
In the fifth inning but Ernie
lombard took it away from him
with Z two-run homer in tie
seventh. Then Johnny Mize, an
other well known slugger, slap
ped out . circuit blow in the
eighth to tie the score.
In the tenth, right.ielder john
ny Hopp missed q shoestring
catch and let q liner by Eddie
Joost get by him for . triple.
Then after 'wo intentional pass
o loaded the bases, Frank Nc
Cormick singled the winning run
across.
CAMILLE GETS 23rd
The Dodgers had no such
trouble. Dolph Camilli, the cur
rent homer king of the senior
circuit, notched his 23rd with
two on in the third inning and
Curt Davis coasted to victory on
six-hit pitching.
In another National League
night game the Chicago Cubs
sent the Pittsburgh Pirates
sprawling to their third straight
defeat, Ga, fo- their longest los
ing streak in seven weeks. John
ny Lanning rolled up to the
ninth inning with q Al lead, but
Giants to q five-run lead In the
game wide open and the Bruins
scored five runs, two on . pinch
single by Charley Gilbert with
tie bases loaded.
The New York Giants and
Boston Braves divided ;. double
header. Babe Young spanked the
Giants to . five-run lead in the
first three frames of the opener
by getting two doubles, one WI
the bases loaded, and New York
made it last for rs victory. Then
Lefty Art johnson pitched q
steady seventh. affair for q 81
triumph II the nightcap.
YANK3 SPLIT
In the American League the
New York Yankees also split a
bargain bill with the Washing
ton Senator's, but even so man.
aged to gain another l.alf game
on the futile Cleveland Indians,
who fell into Jeopardy o. losir :
even their second piece ranking.
vThe Yanks were w, tipped in
their first game So by George
Arches two-run homer in the
18th inning, but had r. trouble
taking the second session 81 on
the five-hit hurting Of Marvin
Breuer.
The Indians were walloped
% by the st. Louis Browns.
Dennis Galehouse held the Tribe
to seven hits and contributed
three singles himself in st.
Louis 1o-hit bombardment of
four Cleveland hurlers. Seven of
the Browns runs were punched
IN . rollicking third inning that
took all the fight out of the In
dams.
BOSTON MOVES UP
This spurred the Boston Red
Sox 70 . 40 contest of the Phil
adelphia Athletics in night
game .h-t lifted Boston within
Z game and q half of second
place. Charley broadway Wag-
ner kept Philadelphia's eight
hits scattered while the Red
Seekers pecked away at Phil
MArchildon for single runs in
the third, fourth, seventh and
ninth innings.
Ted williams was given only
one official turn at bat and de-
liyered . double to score Bos-
tons first run and raise his
gtratospheric batting average to
.ll3.
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