Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Reds Cut String
Of Wins Cards
Had Run 10 II
Chisox Better Tribe
Twice; Dodgers Take
Two From Giants
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


Memorial Day once again proved
that lot of fans like their baseball
in double doses. 2298 800 spectators
jamming the parks in eight major
league cities for the traditional hoh-
day double-headers
1t also uncovered the almost for
gotten fact that the St. Louis Car
dinals can be beaten, even though
this point was proved only with diff
flculty.
The Cardinals captured their first
game, Al, to extend their winning
streak to IL, but they finally were
nosed out by the Cincinnati Reds,
80, in l3-inning nightcap.
Harry Gumbert won his fourth
straight contest as a Cardinal in the
opener, pitching four-hit ball and
ciouting tWO-run homer.
This caused the Reds TO call on
their expert streak-buster, Bucky
Walters, in the second encounter.
He held the Cardinals helpless for
eight innings While his mates manu-
featured 20 lead.
Mccormick Double Decides.
Then in the ninth the Cardinals
broke out with one of their famous
rallies and tied the score. In the
overtime, Elmer Riddle outpitched
Ira Hutchinson till Frank McCor-
mick knocked home the winning run
with a double in the 18th.
Riddle allowed just one hit in the
four and two-thirds innings he
worked and obtained his third VIC
tory without a defeat
The second-place Brooklyn Dodg-
ers, who previously had winning
streaks of nine and seven games,
ran another string to seven by crush
ing the New York Giants. 80 and
60. before the days biggest crowd,
59487 at the Polo Grounds.
Whitlow Wyatt pitched fve-hit
ball for his eighth victory and third
Shutout in the opener and the
Dodgers exploded five-run rally in
the ninth inning to bag the second
game.
Cliff Melton of the Giants allowed
no hits between the first and ninth
innings Of the nightcap, and Luke
Hamlln OF the Dodgers pitched
hitleSs ball until the sixth. Dolph
Camilli hit his 18th homer as part
of the Brooklyn uprising in the
ninth, although the big blow was
Joe Vosmik's single with the bases
loaded.
The Boston Braves and Philadel-
phla Phillies broke their losing
strings at the expense of each other.
After losing six straight, the Pills
took the first game, 6-5, and in
creased Boston's chain of losses to
eight. The Braves put stop to this
by taking the second game, Al. with
Lefty Art johnson pitching fiive-hit
ball and tanning eight in his first
major league start.
The Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh
Pirates also divided in their party.
Triples by Phil Cavarretta and Bob
Sturgeon, each with two on. helped
the Cubs win the first game, 7-6
Then Rip Seweu, who had been
oelted out of the box in the opener
came back in relief to win the night
cap, Sd, hitting a double and scor-
ing the deciding run himself in the
ninth.
Chicago's miraculous White So,
cut down the American League lead
ing Cleveland Indians twice, IL anc
So, to reduce the margin between
them to two games. Old Ted LYONS
pitched f1ve-hit ball for his fifth
win against one defeat in the first
game and Lefty Thornton Lee pro-
duced six-hitter in the second
session.
Tigers Top Browns Twice.
The Detroit Tigers swept two from
| the st. Louis Browns. 6-5 and 1915.
with a free-hitting attack topped
by Rudy York's 18th and 18th
homers of the year. one in each
game. Pinky Higgins made four
hits in the first affair, a single in
the ninth knocking in the deciding
run. In the afterpiece, the Tigers
rolled up Is hits.
Two young pitchers dazzled a
SCHouG IlOWu VI of-OuO dI reHWdy
Park in Boston with fine permorm-
ances, but the Red Sox came out
with nothing better than an even
break against the New York Yankees.
Earl johnson allowed only five hits
in the first game. but one was a
homer by Red Rolfe in the fourth
and another a single by Frank
Crosetti with the bases loaded in the
ninth. So the Yanks won. 4-3.
In the second game Mickey Harris
shut out the Bronx bombers, 1870,
on two hits.