The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03
SCHEDULE SEEN
 AS AID SINCE
 CARDSLOST S-2
Brooklyn Beats Walters in l2 Innings; BOrOwy Just
 Misses NO-Hitter
RY PAUL sCHEFFELs

| (Umated Press Stan C0FKesp0mdentl
 New York, Sept. 3 -(UP)- The combination of Brooklyn's current comeback and Q 4 1-2 game lead over the Cardinals enhanced the Dodgers chances today of winning the National league pennant with comparative ease.
 The hot senior circuit raca stands this way today:
 W L 0B TIP Brooklyn ,.,,.,,, 90 70 -.- 24 St, Louis ....... e6 46 4h 8
 Immediately apparent is the Dodgers edge on the all-important losing side where they have lost five games less than the dogged Cardinals. The hottest series re- maining Is the two-gane meeting between the clubs at Ebbets field, Sept. Ii and 18th.
 Buck Draws Reds
 The Dodgers chances will be inc proved further if their recent pitch- ing acquisition from the Senators, Buck Newsom, proves Q fortunate choice. Winner of only ii games against 17 losses with Washington, boisterous Bucky goes against the Reds today at Cincinnati, meeting Johnny Wander Nicer, who has won l0 victories against nine defeats this season and is high among the leagues strikeout artists.
 The Giants, who gave the Dodgers flag stock tremendous boost yes- terday, scheduled Carl Hubbell to work at St. Louis against the Cards Howie Pollet or Ernie White.
 Hubbell has been particularly good lately but both Pollet and White are strictly gambles. Neither has lived up to last years standard and both have identical records of four wins and five defeats,
 Brooklyn shaded the Reds, S-2, in l2 innings yesterday while their in- terboro rivals, the Giants, belted the Cards, s-2.
 Bucky Balters walked Pee Wee Reese, first man up for Brooklyn in the l2th and this pass was turned into the run which gave the Dodgers their triumph and Walters his seventh straight defeat. which mathematically eliminated the Reds from the race.
 A quartet of Brooklyn pitchers worked, Whit Wyatt winning his l7th. Following the walk to Reese, Wyatt sacrificed and Clyde Shoun took over for the Reds. He disposed of Johnny Rizzo on 8 pop fly only to have Arky Vaughan single Reese across.
 Bob Carpenter held the cards to eight hits for his ninth victory as hte Giants defeated St. Louis. Babe Young's double with the bases load ed drove in three runs in the third. A single by Billy Jurges, 6 double by Mickey Witek and a single by Johnny Mize sent Max Lanier to the showers in the fourth. Three more pitchers followed him to the hill but were unable to stem the Giants l4-hit assault.
 Singles by Ernie Lombardi and Max West and Eddie Miller's long fly gave the Braves 2-l victory over the Cubs in 10 innings.
 Four Unearned
 Pittsburgh Scored four runs in the eighth without base hit and hand ed the Phils their eighth straight defeat, 5-2, last night before 3.7l2 fans, Pittsburgh's smallest night crows. Going into the eighth, Frank Hoerst had pitched only two- hit ball for the Philys and held 2-l lead, but his own error, coupled with four walks and two batsmen hit by his relief, Johnny Podgajny, resulted in four runs.
 Tn the American League, Hank Borowy came within a whisper of no-hitter as the Yankees beat St. Louis, 3-2 and 6-0. Charley Keller's 25th homer with two out in the 10th gave Spud Chandler his 18th vic- tory in the opener. Borowy gave up the only hit in the nightcap in the first inning.
 It was an infleld grounder to Joe Gordon by Harlond Gift which the Yankee second baserian could not handle. Borowy famed 10. walked two and faced only 2e men. When the game ended. fans hoisted him on their shoulders and only then learned that it had not been a mo- hitter. They booed the official scorer.
 The Red Sox trapped eDtroit. 3-2 and 4-2. Johnny Peskyis single with loaded bases in the ninth won the first game and Ted Williams double with the bases full in the seventh won the nightcap.
 Tom Ferrick checked his former mates with 10 hits and Cleveland won from the As, 1928. Herman Besse went all the way for the As although pounded for ie hits.
 Chicago defeated the Senators, e-2 and 7-e.
 YESTERDAYS STAR - Hank Borowy Of the Yanks who won his 18th WfefAFV with A OflA~hitter over