The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-02
Soaring Cards
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TopN.L..H Heap
Spank Pirates Twice Az
Dodgers Win And Tie
With Braves; Yanks
Split With AS
Especial 70 The citizen,

game off the pace Of the hot
St. Louis Cards, BrooxEyn's
Dodgers play host to the Boston
Braves this afternoon in a game
that can lit them back into a
tie for the National lead.
Cincinnati meets Chicago in
the only other tilt scheduled for
the National, while all American
League teams are idle.
The soaring Redbirds, who
wiped out the shaky Dodgers
gane-and-a-half lead over the
holiday weekend, yesterday aft
ernoon went half-game on top
the senior circuits heap with a
double victory, while the Buns
won and tied.
The largest crowd of rabid
fans to jam Sportsman's Park
since way back in August, 1899,
saw the Redbirds, on the strength
of rookie picthing, take the Pitts
burgh Pirates into camp, So and
6-3 Brooklyn, unlike its deci-
sive truimphs of the recent past,
suffered Is innings of hard play
ing before dispensing with the
Boston Braves, SIS, in twin bill
opener, and then were held to a
2-2 count in a six-round after
piece.
Rookie Pitchers Triumph
Ernie White, the southpaw
sensation of the Cardinal mound
staff, limited the Bucs to nine
safeties in the opener to notch
his 18th win of the season. He
aided his own cause with RIM
producing triple and Jim Brown,
who collected three for four,
poled a four Dagger.
Howard Pollet, recently UP
from the Texas League, turned
in six-hitter in the abbreviated
nightcap Pittsburgh went out
in front in its half of the opening
stanza with a four-hit two-rur
assault but from then on never
had chance. St. Louis wrestec
the lead Immediately, scoring
thrice in the bottom portion OF
the same round. Johnny Mize':
three-bagger drove home Brown
and Padgett and he himself scor-
ed on a wild throw to the plate
on the play to get the edge.
Like White. Pollet swelled the
count with his bat. His single
scored two mates. The victory
was his third since joining the
Cards two weeks ago. White
has lost four and Pollet jus
one. EaE
CamiIli Wins For Buns
DoIph Camillls booming ba
gave Brooklyn its close win ovel
the Braves in the first game o
their doubleheader. HIS fifth
safety of the battle, a long sin
gle with the bases loaded in tn,
18th. sent home the deciding
run. Dolph smashed his 29tl
base-circler in the eighth and il
the tenth, when Boston had gcn'
ahead in the top half of th'
round, ne knotted the score witt
a double scoring Pete Reise
all the way from first.
The game lasted four hour
and each team used IL players
Boston sent a half dozen pitch
ers to the Hill against trio TO
Brooklyn.
st. Louis jumped ahead of tn
Dodgers Saturday by coping
twin bill while the Flatbusl
nine suffered double loss. Sun
day the Cards remained just
few percentage points in front a
both won and yesterday put
half game between them.
New Y6rlx's Giants landed q
the Philadelphia Phillies, "a
then shaded another one 4-s I
10 innings, while the Cincinriai
Reds and Chicago Cubs wer
splitting a pair. the Reds takirl
the first. 81, and dropping tn
second, 5-4. in 10 innings.
Yanks Divide
The Yankees of New Yor
won a free-scoring battle wit
the Philadelphia Athletics, l3-ll
but dropped the second game 9
their doubleheader as the Al
marched to 81 triumph
Boston's Red Sox maintained
half-game lead over the TN
cago White Sox in the second
place Slot. whipping the Wash
ington Sc. ators twice while "
chieagoans were handing da1