The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-07
VETERAN GIANT PITCHER STOPS
 DODGERS 'COLD'
Won 23 Games in I034; Buck NewSOm Beats
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 New York, Aug. '. (UP)-Hal Schumacher's won and lost record this year-nine victories, eight de- featS-doeS not rank him among the top pitchers of the National league but if there were many more moundsmen with an earned run record as effective as his has been recently, there wouldn't be Q 300 hitter in the circuit.
 The 31-year-old righthander has been with the Giants more than Il years now and, like Carl Hubbell, seemed ready for baseball's bone yard this season. Now he is begin ming to come through in the steady fashion that won g games for the New Workers in 1884.
 Schumacher has limited the op- position to 56 runs in 158 innings of pitching this season, and has re- duced his earned run average to somewhere in the neighborhood of one-third of run per inning about three per nine inning game. In his last 13 games he has turned in only one really weak performance when the opposition's runs ran up to the SiX-run mark.
 During that string he's pitched two shutouts, three one-run games, four two-run contests, two threes and one four-runner.
 He turned in one of his brightest jobs yesterday when the Giants whipped the Dodgers, 80, for one of their most decisive beatings of the year Schumacher limited Brooklyn to seven hits.
 Home Run Parade
 Home runs figured in all the Giants runs. Mel Ott hit his 17th and 18th and Billy Werber, Mickey Witek and Buster Maynard each connected for one circuit clout.
 Johnny Allen, who was gunning for his 11th victory, was blasted in the fifth and suffered his six loss, allowing six of the Giants eight runs and three of the homers. Ott hit his 17th with one on in the fourth ard Maynard duplicated in the same round. Werber walloped his with one on in the fifth, Aliens last round, and Witek and Ott rapped out the final pair of Ed Head in the seventh
 No other National League games were played.
 Youthful Bill Rutland, in his sec ond start of the year, limited the As to four. hits and the Red Sox took a 20 triumph. Russ Chiristo- pher doled out six hits but lost the game in the second when 8 base on balls, an error and two hits scored Boston's runs.
 Williams Drops
 Ted Williams, who went hitless and relinquished the league batting lead to Joe Gordon, walked to start the rally and reached second on on Bobby Doerr's hit. Tony Lupien forced Doerr and when Bill Knick- erbocker dropped a throw at second in an attempt to force Lupien, W:l- Hams scored. Johnny Peacock sin gled home Lupien.
 Ed Smith won his third victory against IT defeats and the White Sox stretched their winning string to six by beating the Tigers, Al. Smith held the Tigers to six hits and only lost a shutout in the eighth when Jimmy Bloodworth homered. Chicago cracked through to Al Benton for four runs and enough to win in the first frame.
 Buck Newsom registered his ninth victory pitching the Senators to a 6-3 triumph over the Yankees last night at Washington. Newsom, who has dropped IA decisions this year, kept II New York hits well-Scat- tered. The Senators reached Hank Borowy and Johnny Murphy for IA hits, scoring in six innings. The Cleveland-St Louis doublehaeder was postponed.