Evening star., 1941-08-07
Lone Red Homer
In Fortnight Is
Gard Poison
Detroit Ties Record
With 1l-Run Rally
To Swamp Tribe
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


Somebody always is rocking the
boat in the National League. The
boys ride along on an even keel
for a couple of days and then, just
when the fans take a deep breath
OF satisfaction, the jitterbugs start
bouncing.
Today the Brooklyn Dodgers have
bounced back into first place ~th
a siX-game winning streak and a
margin of 3 percentage points over
the st. Louis Cardinals, while the
Pittsburgh Pirates, yesterday nine
games out of first place, today are
only eight away and still spouting
fire and fury.
The Cardinals backed out of the
scene by losing a 81 struggle to the
Cincinnati Reds, whose Southpaw
star, Johnny Wander Nicer, limited
the Cards to eight hits, famed nine
and walked seven.
The important factor, however,
was three-run homer in the third
inning by Mike Mccormick. 1t was
the first one a Cincinnati player
had hit since July 20 and the only
home runs the Reds have collected
since June 81 have been three by
this same Mike Mccormick, who
was hitting an even 100 up till
June 49,
Inspired by Card Defeat.
With the score of Cincinnati's
conquest posted on the big black
board in the Polo Grounds, the
Dodgers stormed out in front of
52,79l New York fans last night
and downed the Giants, 81.
Dolph Camilli hit his goth home
run In the second inning. and after
that the game was a pitching duel
between Kirby Higbe and Carl
Hubbell. Higbe, in winning his 18th
game, the most victories by any Ma
tional League pitcher this year, al
lowed just four hits and had a
shutout until a homer by Babe
Young tied the score in the seventh.
Finally in the ninth inning the
Irrepressible Dodgers broke through
Hubbell's masterful hurting for the
deciding runs. Joe Medwick dou-
bled, Dixie Walked tripled and
Jimmy Wasdell singled. This was
enough to send the Giants crash
ing to their 14th defeat in is games.
The Pirates achieved their 5th
straight~and 17th triumph in 20
games by overwhelming the Chi
cago Cubs, 1873. The Buccaneers
belted 13 hits, one of which was a
home run by Pitcher Truell CRip)
Sewell. who coasted to victory.
Salvo Pitches Shutout.
Five-hit hurting by Nanny Salvo
brought the Boston Braves a 60
shutout against the Phillies in an
other night game. 1t was Salvo's
third victory of the season. all
against the tail-enders. For six in
nings 81 johnson matched him
with two-hit pitching, but the
Braves Dashed 81 off the mound
with four runs in the seventh.
The New York Yankees divided
a double-header with the Boston
Red Sox, but still managed to in
crease their big American League
lead by half game through Cleve-
lands loss to Detroit.
Tex Hughson and Mike Ryba
held the Yanks to six hits in the
first game, two of them homers by
Joe Di Maggie and Joe Gordon, as
the Red Seekers smashed to a 6-3
victory. Hughson hurt his arm in
the third inning and Ryba finished
to take credit for the victory. In
the nightcap Marvin Breuer held
Boston to five hits and Di Maggie
doubled two runs across in the
sixth inning for the margin of a
81 triumph.
Bengal Rally Ties Record.
The Detroit Tigers scored II runs
in one tremendous third-inning ex-
plosion to beat the Indians, 11-2.
The big rally, tying an American
League record, brought II Tigers to
bat before they were stopped.
Charley Gehringer singled with the
bases loaded, Barney McCosky
tripled for two runs and Pinky Hig-
gins homered for a couple more.
Then there was some miscellaneous
scoring.
The st. Louis Browns made use
OF a five-run fourth inning to take
the first game of their double head
er from the Chicago White Sox, 9-6,
but Lefty Thornton Lee came back
with a six-hit pitching job to give
the Sox the second, So.