Evening star., 1941-07-12
Leads in Ta||ies,
Runs batted In,
Hits, Honers
Team Holds $50 Pace
During Joe's Streak;
Dodgers Tilt Edge
BY BILL BONI,

Associated Press Sports writer
: The time has come, it now would
seem. to speak of Just one thing-Di
Maggie. and how his hits Yank vic
tories do bring.
On May Is Di Maggie began his
batting streak. The Yanks were
then in low estate; to friends they
wouldn't speak. Our Joseph, too, was
in the dumps. He couldn't hit at all.
He couldn't even, some folks said.
have hit a garden wall.
But since that time through 50
games or Joe has not missed once:
He's clouted hard and clouted far
for just about two months. In
clouting so he climbed up high with
In the batting ranks and, climbing.
brought along with him those once
so-lowly Yanks.
Today the world they look upon
has undergone change. They lead
the league (American now Joseph S
found the range.
Di Mag Sweeping Laurel.
But to get down to serious busi-
ness. the Yanks and Di Maggie
really hit a peak yesterday in St.
Louis, where the league leaders
knocked off the Browns. 81. Di
Maggie, in running his string to the
half-century mark, did it with a
vengeance-three singles and his 10th
homer-and thus took command OF
the individual lead in runs scored,
runs batted in. hits and homers.
The Yankees. with the Cleveland
Indians idle, boosted their first
place margin to four games and.
what's more. tied the Indians 194l
league record Of II straight VIC
tories.
On the day Di Maggie started hit
ting. the Yankee record was IA won
and IA lost. Since then they have
won three out of every four starts
and have captured 25 of ga spell
incidentally. during which the San
Francisco wonder boy has belted
u of his homers.
In contrast to the Yanks' l4-hit
slugging yesterday, the two other
American League contests featured
nearly air. tight pitching.
At Detroit the Boston Red Sox sent
Lefty Grove after the Booth victory
of his memorable career. But Grove
had the bad misfortune to tie into
Bobo Newsom on one of his better
afternoons. and Grove and the Red
Sox came out on the short end OF
20 count. Each pitcher turned in
hitter
Dodgers Also Pound Ball.
Like the Yankees. the pace-setting
Brooklyn Dodgers in the National
League relied chiefly on batting
punch. With every man connecting
safely at least once and Pitcher
Curt Davis bagging a homer and a
single, the Brooklyns walloped the
champion Cincinnati Reds, 1872, for
the second straight day. The Dodgers
blasted Dom Paul Derringer off the
hill with a seven-run attack in the
first inning and, thus having made
things easy for Davis, went on to
pick up a half game on the idle ST.
Louis Cardinals and run their ad-
vantage to 3la games.
The Boston Braves struck a neat
balance between pitching and hit
ting to square their series with the
Chicago Cubs through a To tri-
umph. Jim Tobin attended to the
hurting, allowing five hits and fac
ing only 80 batters. The punch was
provided by Sebby Sisti and Johnny
Cooney, whose combined production
of four doubles and three singles
accounted for five of the Boston
tallies.
In the American League the In
dians and Philadelphia Athletics
had an open date, as did the Cardi-
mails, New York Giants. Pittsburgh
Pirates and Phillies in the National.