Evening star., 1941-08-18
Redbirds Tackle
Easy Eastern
Foes 10 Tune
Perfect Pitching Job
Spoiled for Wyatt
By Single in 9th
BY SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


The National League serves the
dessert course this week.
Up to now, it's been a little of this
and little of that in Ford Frick's
fiesta, and some of the boys got
ham sandwich and some came up
with juicy steak. The Brooklyn
Dodgers found a choice tid-bit yes
terday in the Boston Braves and
are resting, at the moment, at the
head of the table by a half game.
The st. Louis Cardinals picked a
tough order of beef in the Pittsburgh
Pirates and sank out of first place
with double-header split.
But beginning today, the tables
cleared again and the pennant pie
is trotted out to be cut up. The
Cardinals lead the Eastern charge
of the Western invaders for the last
time this year. And by a week from
tomorrow, when the new Gas-House
Gang and the rebuilt Dodgers wind
up four-game series, you'll prob
ably have a fair-to-middlin' idea
just who is going to have the pleas
ure of being offered up to the New
York Yankees in the World Series.
No Happy Prospect.
This is an event which the Ma
tional League winner probably won't
look forward to with whole-hearted
hilarity. AS usual, the Yanks are
going to have their American League
duties done up early and will have
plenty lead up to II games. with
only IS to go. It's all downhill now,
especially since Cleveland has
dropped out of second place.
But over in the other boys yard,
they're doing it the hard way, as
usual The Cards move in for six
games with the soft touches in BoS-
ton and Philadelphia as warmup
work for the start of the Dodger
series next Sunday. The Brooklyns,
meanwhile. entertain the Pirates
and the Chicago Cubs and it's every
man for theirself"
Off the most recent activities,
topped off by yesterdays proceed
ings, the whole business appears to
rest on the righthand elbowing
equipment of Kirby Higbe and
Whitley Wyatt so far as Brooklyn is
concerned, while the Cards have to
do their riding on the left wing
of Ernie White and the right arm
of Mort Cooper.
Wyatt Nearly Perfect.
Brooklyn's front-line fingers per-
formed yesterday. First Higbe
served up a five-hitter to scalp the
Braves, 81. Then Wyatt went out
there and for eight one-third inn
ings he had the first perfect game
in nearly 20 years. But, with one
gone in the ninth, Phil Masi, a fear
full batsman with an average cur
rently soaring in the -230's, poked a
pitch over second base for a single.
Wyatt wound up with that one
hitter for a 80 job:
The Cards, meanwhile sailed into
Pittsburgh in the first game as
though they owned the Bucs.
Sparked by a four-run f1rst-inning
rally, the coasted to a IL decision
behind Mort Cooper's seven-hit
throwing. In the nightcap, the
Pirates piled up an 80 edge, largely
through 6-run second-inning party.
Long Lon Warneke was belted out of
the box for the third straight time.
The Phillies drew 6,587 to Shibe
Park-their biggest crowd since June
6-to watch the local boys larrup
Bill Terry's Humpty-Dumpty Giants
twice, 6-2 and 1872.
Reds Win Sixth in Row.
The Cincinnati Reds ran their
winning streak to six games in the
opener of their twin bill with the
Cubs by clicking for a 6-3 victory
behind Bucky Walters steady toss
! ing. But in the nightcap old Charley
Root finally won the 199th game of
his career by taking a Al decision.
Cleveland's collapSible Indians lost
two games to the charging Chicago
White Sox and sank into a third
place deadlock with Boston's Red
Sox. Bob Feller dropped his
fourth straight decision as he was
outpitched by old Ted Lyons in the
opener for an 30 setback, his 10th
of the year. Moose Solters scratched
a hit with the bags loaded in the
10th inning of the nightcap for a
4-3 win which boosted the sox into
second place.
Buck Newsom and George Caster
exchanged grade-A pitching per-
formances in st. Louis as the Tigers
and Browns split pair.