Evening star., 1942-07-10
Bosox' Wagner
Caps Hill Feats
With 4-Hitter
Downs Tigers in II
Rounds; Wyott Wins
With 5-BIow Game
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,


With long rests behind all of them
pennant drives in front OF some Of
them and artificial light around most
of them, major league pitchers en-
joyed one of their best days of the
season Yesterday.
AS the teams returned to action
after the three-day intermission for
All-Star games, both leagues pro-
duced some sparkling mound per-
formances. including a four hitter
in II innings, four five-h -hitters and a
trio Of six-hit jobs. two of which
still weren't good enough to win.
Five of the winners had the help
of the arc lights last night, but the
masterpiece of the day was the IL
inning stint of Charley Wagner. who
held the Detroit Tigers to four blows
in pitching the Boston Red Sox to
81 decision in broad daylight.
Hal Newhouser. Wagner's op-
ponent, pitched four-hit ball for 10
innings. but yielded two singles in
the l1th and Manager Joe Cronin
inserted himself as a pinch hitter,
bringing In Boston's winning run
with a long fly.
Yanks' Borowy Needs Help.
The Red Sox needed the victory
to stay within four lengths Of the
American League leading New York
Yankees. who dropped the ST Louis
Browns. So Hank Borowy kept his
place at the top of the circuits pitch
ing ranks by holding the Browns to
six safeties. but had to have help in
the eighth inning when blister ap-
peared on his pitching hand.
1t was the seventh triumph against
one defeat for Borowy, who was
aided by the long distance clouting
of Joe Di Maggie. Tommy Heinrich
and Charley Keller against three
Brownie hurlers.
Buddy Blair helped Phil Mar
childon of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics whip the Cleveland Indians.
So. in night game. Marchildon
turned In five e-hitter after q shaky
first inning, and Blair lsshed q
home run and a triple. driving In
two runs and scoring twice him.
self
Whitlow Wyatt pitched and bat
ted the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 80
decision over Johnny Wander Nicer
and the Cincinnati Reds. Wyatt
held the Reds to five blows and col
lected one of his teams six hits. a
single, that brought in two runs
and helped chase Wander Nicer to
the showers in the second inning.
Beaxley Shuts Out Giants.
While Wyatt was notching his
ninth victory against two defeats
under the lights at Cincinnati, the
st. Louis Cardinals blanked the
New York Giants, 80. to maintain
their pace 81 games behind the
first place Dodgers In the National
League.
Johnny Beazley shut out the
Giants on six hits while his mates
puuIiUcu tIUSG I<cW VI \ EttCIlCIS
for 10 blows, including two home
runs, two triples and double.
Beazley himself sparked a six-run
Cardinal uprising in the sixth in
ming. smacking a ee-bagger with
the bases loaded.
The Philadelphia Phils met a
similar fate at Pittsburgh, where
the Pirates whitewashed them, 80,
in a night game for Army Navy re-
lief which drew 29,488 fans and a
gate of $50, ,30851.
Rip Sewell handcuffed the Phils
on five hits but had only one-run
advantage over Rube Melton when
the latter was removed for a pinch
hitter in the eighth. Then the
roof fell in on three relievers, who
were tagged for seven hits and
eight runs in one frame.
The Boston Braves and Chicago
Cubs played the longest game OF
the day. an afternoon affair that
ended when Buddy Gremp smashed
a home run in the 18th inning to
give the Braves the nod. 4-3.