The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-26
DAVIS TWIRLS TWO HIT
 MASTERPIECE
Yankees Gain in A. L. Race as Indians Lose to White
 SOx; Tiger Error Costly
BY GEORGE KTRKsEY

Um1ee0 Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, May %. = CUP)-The pitchers are beginning to catch up with the hitters in the major leagues. The last 400 hitter has passed out of the picture in the averages and it's getting more diffi- cult with the passing of each day to get a base hit.
 The pitchers were bearing down yesterday and came off with most of the honors. The returns show: /
 Only one team scored in double figures (the Cardinals with ten runS).
 Only four homers were hit in eight games, two in each league.
 Only three teams hit in double figures. The Cards got 13 hits, the White Sox Chow did they do it?) 12 and the Browns 10, All the rest were pretty much under the pitchers thumb.
 Curt Davis, Dodger veteran, fash- toned the best pitching performance "a two-hit 80 shutout over the Phils. Four other clubs were held to one run.
 The Yankees did themselves the most good by increasing their Amer ican League lead to three and a half games with 3-1 triumph over the Red Sox while the Indians were fip-flopping for their fifth straight loss. Spud Chandler gave up seven hits and was aided by three Yankee double plays, making the worlds champs total 50 in 34 games. Joe Gordon hit safely in his tenth straight game and Buddy HasSett drove in two runs and scored the other.
 Fine Finish
 Chubby Dean, Indians lefty, and Bill Dietrich, White Sox bespec- tacled right-hander were locked in 8 1-1 pitching duel until the ninth when Dean faltered. The White Sox cracked out four hits and scored four runs, winning, 5-1.
 Sid Hudson outdueled Phil Mar childon last night before 11,507 at Philadelphia as the Senators beat the Athletics, 5-3. Hudson gave up nine hits but had the As blanked until the eighth when he enjoyed 8 five-run lead. Marchildon's wild- ness and poor support contributed to his defeat.
 The St. Louis Browns nosed out Detroit, 3-2, on 8 costly Tiger error in the ninth. Hal Newhouser held the Browns to four hits until the eighth. Bob Muncrief allowed only four hits in the eight innings he worked but two of them were hon- CTS by Jimmy Bloodworth mad Pinky Higgins.
 Brooklyn coasted to S-O victory over the Phils in a twilight gam in which Curt Davis came close to a no-hitter. One of the two hits of him was of the infield variety and Dixie Walker just missed catching the other. Mickey Owens triple drove in two runs.
 The Braves subdued the Giants, Bel, in Il innings when Max West hit @ homer of Bill Lohrman with a mate on. Lou (Dry) Tost was the winning pitcher, allowing only eight hits. L,ohrman also allowed eight hits, but from the fifth until the eleventh was invincible.
 Coming Along
 Cincinnati moved into fourth place last night by downing Pittsburgh, 6-1, behind Paul Derringer's six-hit pitching. A crowd of 16,2o5 saw the first night game at Cincinnati. Der ringer got a single and double to help win his own game = his first victory this season. Frank McCor- mick, Reds first baseman, broke his string of 652 consecutive games when he didn't play because of 8 lame back. Hank Sauer replaced him.
 The Cardinals raked five Cubs for 13 hits and notched 1922 victory behind Ernie Whites easy eight hit pitching. Terry Moore banged out three hits.