The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-21
FLAG RACE In
SENIOR LOOP
WAKING HOT
CARDS MARROW MARGIN
WITH DOUBLE VICTORY AS
DODGERS SPLIT; YANKEES
WHIP TIGERS IN IL INNINGS
tspseiai 70 The citizen,

reawakened st. Louis Cardinals
pulled up step closer "a the
National league lead yesterday
afternoon. Humping the Bos-
ton Braves twice, while athe
Brooklyn Dodgers split twin
bin with the Pittsburgh Pirates
the Redbirds cut the Flatbush
mines margin over them to 4
mere gama-and-a-half.
Boston outhit the Cards but
couldn't produce the runs neces-
sary TO claim victory. St. Louis
took the first 4 to 2 in a l2-in-
ming battle and captured the
second, Z to 3, in an eight-inning
affair halted by the Sunday blue
law
Brooklyn STAYED off shutout
in the nightcap with the Pirates
when Ducky Wucky Medwick
homered in the ninth John
Lanning had mastered the Daffy
boys until then, gaining a al
triumph The Dodgers, behind
fat Freddy Fitzsimmons and
Curt Davis, took the opener
easily by the same score, S TO i.
Fitzsirnmons, who left the game
in the fourth when struck by a
battHd bali, and Davis held the
Bucs to five satellites.
Philadelphia Phillies proved
they can hit the ball but they
also proved they can't convert
base knocks into runs. Pound
ing Cincinnati Red pitching for
n safeties. the Phils scored only
three runs in two games. The
Reds cot just Is bingles and tall
he'd 10 markers. Although touch
ed for Is hits in the first game,
Paul Derringer frightened UP in
the pinOhes to win, I'll, and
end five-game losing streak.
Cincinnati took the afterpiece,
80, despite four-hit pitching
job by Lefty Lee Grissom. who
suffered his ninth loss of the
season.
New York Giants and Chi
oago Cubs shared honors in a
doubleheader. Heavy hitting fea-
tured the scraps. including five
circuit clouts. New York clinch-
ed the first, rs, and then drop
ped the second. AT
American League
Fighting the longest game Of
the year, the New York Yam
KEGS cut loose in the 18th in
ming to lanbast the Detroit Ii
gers, 1876. The Yanks, who swept
the three game series with the
Tigers, made a runaway of the
battle when they homered twice
doubled thrice and hit single
in the fateful 18th.
BY virtue of Cleveland Indians
split with the Washington Sena-
tors. the Yankees increased then
American league lead to sever
full games.
Washington walloped the In,
dams 8 to 4 in the curtain-rais-
er of their twin bill. but fell vic,
TINS 5 to | in the aftermath
when a comedy of errors ended
IL tie in the seventh.
The veteran Ted Lyons claim
ed another victory in his Ions
career as he pitched a six-hif
performance against the Phila
delphia Athletics for a FL vic,
tory if a twin bill opener The
Chisox lost a 13-inning second
game, r Bssck Ross ef the Sos
9and Bump Ha5iey 81 the AZ
staged tight pitchers duel I'm.
It'll the 18th wiieTf FfAdley wa!
removed IN favor OF Ferrick, who
got credit for the victory Aftel
each tailed run in sthe frs
inning, both clubs were shutou
until the 18th. A single, an err
ror and walk loaded the bag
in that round and three run:
came in on McCoy's long fly ant
Bob Johnson's double.
St Louis Browns ran up theil
longest winning streak of The
season-four in row-by de
feating the Boston Red Sos
twice, 6-3 and 100.
Ure,,lte.