Evening star., 1941-06-13
Head BacksArnl
As Keen Hur|er
Blanks Braves
Cincinnati Vet Now
Yielding Few Hits;
As Nip Tigers
BY JUDSON BAILEY,

A lot of tears have been shed this
season over the failure of Big Paul
Derringer to dominate the National
League pitching scene as he did in
leading the Cincinnati Reds to two
pennants and world championship.
The Duke, at 33, is a little fatter
and a little slower than he was last
year. He was hurt during spring
training and had some trouble get
ting started This was not helped
by the lamentable lack of hitting
from his teammates.
But 10 years in the big time have
made this huge Highlander one of
the craftiest hurlers in the business.
Game in and game out, even now, he
can do as much with his curves.
KNOCKERS, changes of pace and con-
troll as most of the rubber-arned
speedballers.
He showed how tough he can be
yesterday by pitching four-hit ball
to beat the Boston Braves. 10. The
Reds made only five singles them
selves off Young Art johnson.
southpaw, but they managed TO link
two Of them with walk for q run
in the first inning.
Derringer's Second in Row.
That was all Derringer needed. He
gave just one base on balls, famed a
half dozen, and let runners get as
lar as second base only three times.
1t was Paul's second straight vln
coming on top of his 80 triumph
last Sunday over the then league
leading Brooklyn Dodgers and
helped take some of the diSappoint-
ment out of the five times he had
been beaten by one run this spring.
The days only other National
League game also was an air-tight
pitching spectacle-betWeen Carl
Hubbell and Bill Lee. with the
New York Giants stopping the Chi
cago Cubs, 20. Lee allowed six hits
to Hubbell's eight, but gave run in
the first inning on two singles, a
walk and a fly. and two errors
brought another in the fourth.
Although the teams were tied yes
terday, freak in the percentages
lifted the Giants into third place
ahead Of the Reds, $40 to 500.
In the American League the Bos-
ton Red SoX divided a double header
with the st. Louis Browns in odd
affairs. The Sox scored four runs
in the first inning of the first game
and then were shut out for the next
eight frames by the impressive re-
lief hurting of Bob Muncrief. The
Browns tailed five times in their
half of the first inning and won, ga.
Yankees Win Protested.
The Red SoX were held to six hits
IN the second game, while the
Browns made seven, but Boston tri-
umphed, 3-2, on Ted Williams two
run homer. The scoring in each
game was completed by the fourth
inning.
The Philadelphia Athletics copped
a nip-and-tuck struggle from the
Detroit Tigers, 5-3, on Al Brancatos
three-run circuit clout in the ninth
inning after Pat Mullin had hit one
with a mate aboard for Detroit in
the seventh.
What with John Duncan Rigney
withdrawing his request for draft
deferment, Joe Di Maggie hitting his
18th homer of the season and run
ming his hitting streak to 26 straight
games, and Manager Jimmy Dykes
of the Sox filing a protest, the New
York Yankees and Chicago White
Sox had high old time of it in their
night game.
The Yankees finally won in the
tenth, 80, on Di Maggio's four bag
ger. But Dykes announced in the
ninth he would protest, claiming
that spectator reached out and
touched a ball hit by Red Ruffing
and thus interfered with Myril
Hoag's fielding. The Ruffing hit
went for two bases and brought in
the tying Yankee run.