Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-04
Shufout of Cardinals
Fourth This Year
And 9Th Victory
Vet Amuzes Baseball
World; Moundsmen
Have Field Day
BY SID FEEDER,
Arnn.nAl nrnr. CAr I'LL


You look at the National League
pitching averages today, at the rec
ord of John WhitloW Wyatt, and
you wonder whether that song
writer didn't have the Tigers, the
White SoX and the Indians in mind
when he turned out that little thing
about the Three Blind Mice"
The lean chucker from Chicka-
manga is wearing the same right
arm now as he wore back in the '30s.
Yet, those three American League
clubs all brushed him off. They
couldn't see his stuff for sour apples.
And right now Whitey's the hottest
thing to hit the National League
since frankie Brisch blasted his first
umpire.
All that John Whitlows doing is
winning the whiteWashing cham
pionship of the major leagues as he
losses those beWildering Brooklyn
Dodgers to the top of the National
League pile. He turned in a snappy
six-hitter yesterday to sink the st.
Louis Cardinals. 60. This not only
put the Dodgers back up into tie
with the Cards for first place, but
also marked the fourth time this
year Whitley has dished out a dainty
set of goOSe-eggS.
Teller Tribes Only Dependable.
In chalking up his ninth victory
of the season, with no more trouble
than he has losing his hair these
days, John WhitloW had another
chuckle at those outfits over in the
American League who gladly would
mortgage their boards of directors
to get back pitcher such as he is
just now.
The Indians only can pray nothing
happens to Bob Teller. because if
Rapid Robert should be sidelined,
the Tribes tWirling staff virtually
would be nonresident. And the
White SoX. while they're getting
fair -to-middling mound work, are
receiving it from a set Of throWers
most of whom weren't even fooling
their grandmothers with a curve ball
a year or two ago. The TigerS-weu,
they're in sixth place today, and 20
game winners don't do that to you.
This sudden "blossoming of a
30-year- right-hander into a
whole bouquet of pitching posies,
after IS years of kicking around,
is harder to figure out than the
collapse of the Reds. You can I'M
derstand how one club, or even two,
might have passed him up. But
when three of EN- give him the
go-by-well, you figure it out!
Wyatt's sparkling tossing was the
most important of parade of
Grade-A elbowing efforts turned
loose yesterday.
Tommy Hughes, the latest prize
bit of bric-a-brac to pop up with
the Phillies, turned in a one-hit
job that moved down the Chicago
Cubs, TO. Laughing Lou Novikoff
got the only hit, and was promptly
wiped out by you guessed it, the
hidden-ball trick.
Carpenter Wins for Giants.
Another youngster. Bob Carpenter,
made even Bill Terry smile by serv-
ing up a five-hitter to give the
Giants a T-3 win over the Cincin-
natl Reds in a game marked by
four homers.
Over in the American League,
Steve Peek gave four runs to the
Detroit Tigers in the first inning
and then settled down to pitch a
four-hit shutout the rest Of the
way. However, it was a case of
locking the door after the mule
got out and the Tigers trounced
the New York Yankees, 40, behind
Dizzy Trouts eight-hit effort.
Only at Boston, and. of course,
st. Louis did the pitchers come
a dime a dozen. The Pittsburgh
Pirates used two hurlers to four
for the Braves and won a free
for-all 9-5 affair.
The Boston Cleveland night game
and the Philadelphia Chicago day
doings in the American League were
rained out.