The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
GAME FREAKS" DECIDED MANY. SUNDAY TILTS|
UnderdOgs Win, Errors Costly, Gomez Clicks
 Again; As Win
BY GEORGE KIRKsEY United Press stan Correspondent)

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, May 19 = (UP) = The uncertainty of baseball Is It's chief lure. You can never tell what'll happen next. On this theme the late Frank J. Navin, owner of the Tigers, remarked after his club had lost 6 tough series to tail-end team: If those things didn't hap pen, we'd have to close every ball park in America"
 Look, for instance, at what hap. pened Sunday:
 CD Joe DlMaggio popped up for the third out in the fourth inning of the Yankee Brown game but 1t didn't end the inning. The St. Louis catcher tipped his bat on that strike, and DiMagglo was automatically awarded first base. The Yanks scored four runs after the reprieve and crushed the Browns, l2-2.
 (0 Tn the Tigers-Red sox game Rudy York hit e double play ball to Second Baseman Sammy Hale, subbing for the injured Bobby Doerr, in the eleventh inning of Q 4-4 tie. Hale threw wildly, and one run scored. Then Joe Cronin boot ed @ grounder and another run scored. The Tigers won, 6-5, despite Jimmy Foxx's homer in the last of the eleventh.
 tO The league-leading Indians, with five-game winning streak, met the seventh-place Athletics, who had four-game losing streak. Johnny Babich, who had sore arm all spring, was making his first start the Indians were 2-l fayorites. So the As knocked their eafs off, l0-3, despite the fact that Babich had to retire in the fifth because his arm frightened up.
 Sweet Revenge
 (Q Two ball players that Clark Griffith traded away, Joe Kuhel and Taft Wright, took advantage of an opportunity to show up the "Old Fox" by blasting six hits as the White SoX trimmed the Sena- tors, l0-5. Kuhel hit c triple and e double and Wright made four straight hits, pacing the White Sox'S l6-hit attack on three Wash ington pitchers.
 (6) Whit Wyatt, with c winning streak of seven straight, faced French, who hasn't been able to finish 6 game in his last three starts, in the Dodgers Cubs game. But the highly favored Dodgers took 1t on the chin, "A. It was the first time this season the Dodgers had lost q game by more than two runs. Eight Of the games Ii runs were unearned.
 (0 The Pirates had the Giants licked, 40, and had routed New York's new pitcher, Fiddler Bill McGee, but Rip Sewells defense fell parat and the Terrymen came on to win, 5.4. 1il the first two in- nings Pittsburgh had the bases filled Ave times. But in the seventh Al Lopez threw wildly to center field, Van Robays fumbled c ball in the outfield and the Giants pushed over three runs which insured 6 victory.
 Rockies Hit Wins For Reds
 CD Chuck Aleno, rokkie third baseman recalled from Indianapolis last week, singled in the third, driv- ing home the run by which the Cincinnati Reds broke their six game losing streak (their longest In two years), by defeating the Braves, 4-3. Paul Derringer famed nine and allowed only seven hits but had to pitch all out because of two Cincinnati errors.
 (8) The Cardinals had their ace, Cooper, in the box but he wasn't able to finish and they had to go to last of the ninth before finally subduing the hustling Phil lies, 0-6. Johnny Mize's single with the bases loaded broke up the game. It was c costly victory for the Cards because Catcher Walker Cooper suf- fered c dislocated shoulder In e col- liSion with Harry Marnie, Phil's second basefnan, and will be out of action Indefinitely.
 YESTERDAYS HERO Lefty Gomez, Yankee southpaw who was the only American League pitcher to go the route. He held the Browns to six hits in winning his
 third game, made two singles him. self and raced from first to third
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