Evening star., 1941-07-21
Brooklyn Mound
Corps About 10
Fall 70 Pieces
Bucs Deal Wyott Third
Defeat in Row; Yonks
Win in II Innings
Rv GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer


The ST Louis Cardinals are on
their way back West today to open
a long home stand against the East
ern clubs, and there is a good chance
they will take complete charge of
the National League race before
they again are routed out of Sports
mans Park.
They left that impression as they
completed a smashing tour of the
seaboard with a double defeat of
the Boston Braves yesterday by
scores of to 2 and to g. That
made it seven victories in their last
nine games. indicating that Billy
Southworth's boys finally were roll
ing.
The Cards are playing breath
taking, hell-for- baseball,
taking all sorts of chances and run
ming wild on the paths. Rival clubs
are talking more about that than
they are about the teams hitting.
In this nine-game stretch, incident.
ally, the Cards made only one home
run. and that was by Enos Slaugh-
ter in Yesterdays second contest.
Brooklyn's Lead Nicked.
Brooklyn, by doing no better than
breaking even against Pittsburgh
yesterday, saw its lead sliced to
game and a half, with long road
trip ahead The Dodgers have
played only 500 ball in their last
10 contests at home, and their pitch
ing staff is showing alarming signs
of falling apart.
Whit Wyatt, the teams ace. lost
his third straight start when the
Pirates beat him, 5 to l, in the
nightcap. Fred Fitzsimmons, re-
liable veteran. was struck on the
arm by a batted ball and forced
to retire early in the first tilt, which
Curt Davis went on to win, 5 to l.
Kirby Higbe, another OF the Dodg-
ers' big three" is in a hospital with
a bad appendix and will not ac-
company the club west.
The Cincinnati Reds who haven't
yet lost hope Of winning their third
straight flag, climbed within two
percentage points of third place by
humping the Phillies twice. to l
and 3 to 2. Paul Derringer broke
fve-game losing streak in the first,
in which he left u Phils stranded.
The New York Giants won the
first from Chicago, 7 to 5, Carl
Hubbell scoring his ninth victory,
but the Cubs came back to take the
second, 7 to 4, behind Verne Olsen.
Yanks Win in 18th.
In the most spectacular game of
a heavy day, the Yankees exploded
for six runs in the 18th inning to
win a 12-to-6 decision over Detroit
at Briggs Stadium Deadlocked,
sc, at the end of nine frames, they
battled four hours and five minutes
before the blow-off
Included in the Yankees winning
assault on Al Beton and Johnny
Corsica were home runs by Charley
Keller and Tom Heinrich and doubles
by Johnny Sturm, Red Rolfe and
Joe Di Maggie. Di Maggie previously
had clouted home run and pair
of doubles.
The hard-won victory increased
the Yankees lead to seven full games
over the Cleveland Indians. who
divided a brace with Washington.
The st. Louis Browns swept their
second double-header in two days
over Boston's diving Red Sox, to
and 10 to 0. Bob Muncrief's shut
out of the SoX in the nightcap was
only the second they have suffered
all season. George McQuinn had a
gay day of it at bat for the Browns.
busting three homers and two
singles.
Veteran Ted Lyons pitched Chi
cagos White SoX to 2-to-1 win in
their first bout with the Philadel-
phia Athletics, but the AS came
back to win the second, 4 to l, in
13 innings. Benny McCoy's deep
fly drove across the winning run.