Evening star., 1941-09-02
Tie Costs Team
Ground in Hot
Flag Chase
Cards Take Two, Add
Half Come to Leod;
Yonks, As Split
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

AosoSAdleu EEcss SpoIlS WEltett
The same subway that goes to Eb-
bets Field in Brooklyn also runs to
Coney Island, and there are about
as many sideshows at one stop as at
the other.
But the people who have been
rushing to the circus at Ebbets
Field are beginning to wonder
whether the main show may be In
the other direction-St. Louis.
The Cardinals captured a double
header from the Pittsburgh Pirates
yesterday with comparative ease. 5-3
and 6-3. to stretch their current win
ming streak to seven straight games.
while the Brooklyn Dodgers had
terrible time winning a l5-inning
marathon from the Boston Braves.
6-5, and then escaping with %
six-inning tie in the nightcap.
This pushed st. Louis half game
in front in the feverish National
League pennant race. with S3-45 for
SAB. compared with Brooklyn's 83-46
and SAB.
The Dodgers tie was rescheduled
for today-and if Brooklyn should
win with st. Louis idle the margin
between the two rivals would be re-
duced again to .002.
Dodgers Appear Shakv.
The Dodgers debacle in losing q
double-header SATURDAY. to the New
York Giants and the difficulty they
had yesterday with the seventh
place Braves did nothing to in
crease the confidence of their fans.
Dolph Camilli carried them 10
victory in the four hour opener. He
made five hits. tied the score in the
eighth inning with his 29th home
run. tied it again with a double in
the 18th and won it with single in
the 18th. Darkness permitted only
six innings of play in the afterpiece.
and old Fred Fitzsimmons pitched
two-hit ball over this distance
But Shortston Peewee Reese had
another attack of the filters and let
in two runs. The Dodgers barely
were able to come from behind be-
fore the game was called.
At ST. Louis. before 34.812 fans.
the biggest crowd in two years at
Sportsmans Park. Ernie White held
Pittsburgh to nine hits and allowed
no runs after the first inning in the
opening contest. A homer by Jim
Brown put ST. Louis ahead in the
sixth and White himself tripled to
bat in the final run in the eighth.
Afterward Howard Pollet. the kid
sensation from the Texas League
pitched a six-hitter for his third
victory and drove in two runs with
a single.
Giants Double Winners.
In the other National League
action. the Giants swept double
bill from the poor Phillies and Gin
cinnati split with the Chicago Cubs
New York's first victory. To, was
achieved on four-hit hurting by Bob
Carpenter and a five-run seventh
inning in which Joe Moore and Mel
OFT each hit two-run honers. OFT
also smacked home run. his 9th.
in the nightcap and drove in three
tallies. but it took another circuit
clout. Babe Young's 2lst, to win, 4-3,
in the 10th inning
Paul Derringer beat Jake Mooty
in duel in which each allowed six
hits as the Reds topped Chicago,
81, but the Cubs came back to take
the nightcap. 5-4. on Phil CAVIAR
retta's triple in the 10th. Vallie
Eaves and Tot Presnell combined i'll
f1Ve-hit pitching performance,
The New York Yankees divided a
double header with the Athletics at
Philadelphia and now need three.
more victories to clinch the Amer
lean League pennant. A cluster of
home runs by George Selkirk, Joe
Gordon and Charley Keller doomed
the boomers to a 1911 win in the
first encounter, but Bill Beckman
mufied them, 81, on II hits in the
second session.
The second-place Boston Red Sox
beat Washington. 1879 and 1912.
Tribe Takes Two Beatings.
The Chicago White Sox whipped
the bruised and tottering Cleveland
Indians twice, rs and 4-3 Lefty
Thornton Lee scored his 18th victory
in the opener. yielding 13 hits, but
knocking in the winning runs him.
left with a single. John Rignev
kept nine hits scattered over II in
nings in the nightcap.
The Detroit Tigers tore the st.
Louis Brown apart, 9-5 and 1873.
Rudy York hit three homers in the
first engagement and Barney Nc
Cosky and Bruce Campbell each
hit one, both with two mates aboard,
in the second game.
The Labor Day program drew
176,929 fans in eight cities.