Evening star., 1941-05-12
No Wins Scored
By McCaythy's
New Pitchers
Lack Of Punch Also
Handieopping Club;
Dodgers Nip PhiIs
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press SPORTS Writer.

While the Brooklyn Dodgers, two
full games out in front in the Ma
tional League. head west. and the
Cleveland Indians, pacing the Amer
lean League by three, are bound for
their first swing through the East.
the New York Yankees finish up
their first road trip in Boston.
This temporary stationary posi-
ton making them fit subjects for
study, it develops that the Yanks.
10 and behold, are in fourth place.
This would seem a surprising level
for team which the experts thought
would battle the Indians for PEN
nant neck-and-neck, tooth-and-nail,
hammer -and-tongs, and perhaps
even bacon-and-eggs.
But the figures back Of the
Yankees performance for the sea-
sons first four weeks leave little
doubt WHY their status is so humble.
They have, at present, only two
regulars batting over 300 bill
Dickey, 371. and Joe Di Maggie,
.320) and, what is more important,
have yet to get winning pitching
Job from one of their highly-touted
rockies.
YankS Plumb Seasons Low.
They plumbed the seasons low
yesterday, when the Boston Red Sox
dropped them out of second place
with 1876 shellacking in which
four Yankee hurlers were clubbed
for II hits.
Spud Chandler started the game,
his third, and for the third time
finished it in the showers. Steve
Peek, Charley Stanceu and Norm
Branch followed him to the mound,
which might just as well have been
in front of a firing squad The erst-
while sluggers really had the tables
turned on them in the second, when
the Sox sent u men to the plate
and seven across it.
OF the IA contests the Yanks have
won, three regulars-Marius Russo,
Red Rufing and Lefty Gomez-have
accounted for nine; Ernie Bonhsm,
a regular after he joined the club
last August, has turned in three
more. But Stanceu, Peek. Branch
and George Washburn, whose total
of 81 wins last year In the minors
looked great on paper, haven't con-
tributed anything. having been used
mostly in relief in games already
lost.
Indians, Browns Split.
While the Yanks were being
thumped yesterday, the Indians.
aided by home runs by Ray Mack
and Hal Trosky, won the opener Of
double-header from the st. Louis
Browns, rs. but then were nosed
out in the nightcap, 6-5. The Tribe
seemed to have put this one on ice
by scoring run in the ninth for
So lead. but the Brownies punched
four singles to tie 1t in their half
and triumphed in the 10th with a
triple and single.
In Chicago, meanwhile. 40-year-
old Ted Lyons, with nine days rest.
pitched a seven-hitter to best the
Detroit Tigers and Tommy Bridges.
81. The White Sox veteran famed
five and walked six.
The Dodgers and st. Louis
Cardinals kept their two-game dis
tance at the head of the National
League parade, Brooklyn by shading
the Phillies, 6-5, and the Redbirds
with IA conquest of the Pittsburgh
Pirates. Kirby Higbe got into lot
of tight spots against his former
Philadelphia teammates, but gave
up only six hits. For the Cards,
Lawyer Sam Nahem needed help
/ from Ira Hutchinson in the eighth
to quell the Pirates.
Melton Stars in Relief.
Another nice job of relief pitching.
three-hit ball for eight innings by
lanky southpaw Cliff Melton. gavs
the New York Giants an 8-3 de-
cision over the Boston Braves Billy
Jurges' triple with the bases loaded
! featured the Giants four run sec
ond inning.
For the Chicago Cubs, the man
of the day was Claude Passeau. The
towering right-hander shackled the
Cincinnati Reds except during one
inning, the sixth, when they put to-
gether their only three hits, all
singles, for their lone run. The
Cubs meanwhile made a dozen
safeties good for a 9-1 verdict.
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