Evening star., 1941-08-22
Both Rivals Slip
Trying 10 Tune
For Big Series
Reds Gain on Leaders
In Hot Roce;; FeIIer
HurIs 21st Win
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

The Brooklyn Dodgers and st.
Louis Cardinals have struggled all
season without proving anything
important and nothing that can
happen during the remainder of the
week is going to change this record
The two rivals for the National
League pennant simply are marking
time for the opening of their vital
four game series Sunday, in Brook
lyn. This marking time yesterday
took the form of both teams losing
and thus maintaining the one-and-
one-half-game margin which sep
arates the Dodgers in first place
from the Redbirds in second.
Manager Leo Durocher has been
trying to line up his pitching staff
for the Cardinal series. He started
Kirby Higbe out of turn Wednesday
against Pittsburgh in order to have
him ready for Sunday. Higbe was
knocked out, but the Dodgers won,
anyway.
Yesterday Durocher, decided TO
rest Whitlow Wyatt for one Of Sum
days two games. So he started
Luke Hamln against the sixth
place Chicago Cubs. This decision
proved more disastrous, as the Cubs
cruised to 6-2 victory, ending a
six-game Brooklyn winning streak.
Cards Beaten in Ninth.
Hamlin gave two runs in the first
two innings and then Mace Brown
loaded the bases with none out in
the third. Durocher rushed Wyatt
onto the scene for his first relief
job Of the season. The lean right
handler gave the Cubs their other
runs. Little Jake Mooty kept the
Dodgers under his thumb with seven
hits.
The Cardinals muffed q golden
to cut down distance
by losing to the last-place Phillies,
5-4, in a night game at Philadel-
phia.
The Cards banged out Is hits and
brought Mort Cooper up to the ninth
inning with a 4-3 lead. Emmett
Mueller opened with a double. Bob
Bragan duplicated it for the tying
run, and Howard Krist, who hurried
to the rescue, yielded a single to
Ben Warren for the winning tally.
Cincinnati's red-hot Reds picked
up game on the leaders by beating
the Boston Braves, 8-5, but still were
9l2 games behind first place. 1t
was the 18th triumph in II tries for
the world champions Bucky Wal
ters easily coasted to his 18th victory.
The Pittsburgh Pirates bounced
back from their four straight de-
feats at Brooklyn by nipping the
New York Giants, 5-3, behind big
Max Butcher, who now has stopped
the Giants six times this season.
Feller Scores 21st Win.
In the American League Bob Feller
found the time was ripe for his 2lst
victory, 20 shutout of the pace
setting New York Yankees. Feller,
who had won only one other game
in more than a month, scattered
seven hits and famed nine for
Cleveland's first triumph in 10 games
and New York's second straight
shutout. Atley Donald, who had
beaten Feller twice in previous en-
counters, held the Tribe to eight hits
and was supreme after the Tribe
scored the only runs of the contest
in the first inning.
The defeat cost the Yanks nothing
out embarrassment, however, because
the second-place Chicago White
Sox's nine-game winning streak was
snapped by Boston, 8-5.
Washington swept a double-heade
from Detroit, 6-3 and 90, and
climbed to sixth place, as the Phila-
delphia Athletics split with the last
place st. Louis Browns.
Bob Harris held the AS to eight
blows as the Browns took the opener,
11-3. Tom Ferrick retaliated with
a four-hit shutout in the nightcap
which the Athletics won. 1910. Sam
Chapman hit three home runs dur
ing the proceedings.