Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24

Cincinnati Club Shows
Spirit Of Champion
In Beating Cubs
Cords Nip BUGS, Brooks
Idle; indians Triumph
Over Browns at Night
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


The world champion Cincinnati
Reds have given a tremendous adj
vantage to their pennant rivals in
the National League, but with four
fifths of the season still ahead, it is
too early to count them out.
They apparently are on the up
grade after striking bottom last week
with a siX-game losing streak.
Since then, they have won five
out of six contests ana yesterday
conquered the Chicago Cubs, ga,
with a proper show OF authority
Johnny Wander Nicer and Elmer
Riddle combined to pitch four-hit
ball.
In the third inning, however,
Vandy walked three men and hit
another and these gifts, linked with
an infield out and an error, per-
mitted Chicago to score three times.
The Reds popped Claude Passeau
for two runs in the first and added
four more in the third. They made
10 hits, four of them singles by
Ernie lombard.
The victory left the Reds a half
game out H the first division and
8l2 behind the pace-setting st. Louis
Cardinals.
Cards Nip BUGS at Night.
The Cards clipped the Pittsburgh
Pirates, 81, in the first night tilt
of the year in St. Louis to take
two-game margin over the idle
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Mort Cooper pitched five-hit ball,
famed nine and singled in one of
the Redbirds' runs 1t was the fifth
triumph against one defeat for the
young highlander. Max Butcher
hurled tight ball for Pittsburgh, but
received little help from his mates.
The Cleveland Indians, leaders in
the American League. also opened
their night-game schedule by treat
ing 10000 fans to a Al victory over
the st. Louis Browns.
The encounter was decided in the
first inning when Ken Keltner
tripled with the bases loaded and
Ray Mack singled him home. Al
Mllnar and Dennis Galehouse each
gave five hits and each had spells
of wildness. Galehouse. who had
won three without a setback, walked
three men in the first inning ahead
of Keltners blow. In the third
frame Milnar loaded the bases on
single and two walks. A wild
pitch let in one run and an error
the other 1t was Milnars sixth
win.
Lyons Topples Tigers.
The second place Chicago White
Sox split double-header with the
Tigers at Detroit. Old Ted Lyons
pitched Chicago to a II victory in
the opener and Paul Dizzy Trout
retahated with 90 shutout on
seventh hurting.
Lyons, 40 years old. kept II hits
so well spaced that Detroit didn't
score until the ninth. On the other
hand, the Sox loaded the bases on
Tommy Bridges in the first and
tailed five times on an error and
two doubles. Trout was backed by
a 14-hit offensive that included two
home runs by Bruce Campbell.
The New York Yankees and Boston
Red Sox wound up in SO tie when
darkness and a duStstorm stopped
play at the end of nine innings.
With Charley Keller getting a triple,
two doubles and two walks, and Tom
Heinrich hitting a two-run homer,
the Yanks moved into the ninth
inning leading 81 But Oscar Judd,
a pitcher who was called in as a
pinch-hitter, delivered a two-run
single to knot the score. Nine hurl-
ers gave up 23 hits and 10 bases on
balls in the hour and so minute
struggle.