Evening star., 1942-08-31
Cards Snare 19
OF Il 10 Crowd
Pacesetters
Reiser's Injury Hurts
Dodgers; Yonks Goin
With Browns Aid
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,


Like cuffless trousers and ceiling
prices. that pennant duel between
the Brooklyn Dodgers and st. Louis
Cardinals-which most folks figured
would get here sooner or later
finally has arrived.
After coasting along in the COM
parative safety of lengthy lead
through most OF the National League
campaign, the Dodgers found them
selves separated from the threat
ening Cardinals today by nothing
more than three short games.
The Cardinals started the Dodgers
down the hill, but the Chicago Cubs
and Pittsburgh Pirates also got in a
couple of licks, and other snipers
probably are waiting.
Perhaps as responsible for the
Brooklyn slump as anything is the
leg injury of Center Fielder Pete
Reiser which has put the National
League batting leader in the hospital
after hobbling him for nearly two
weeks
Reiser Sent to Hospital.
Pistol Pete, who has failed to get
a hit in his last Is official trips to
the plate, finally was sent to Johns
Hopkins last night for treatment Of
a torn ligament in his left thigh.
The Dodgers fired both barrels at
the Pirates yesterday and came away
with nothing better than an even
break, while the Cardinals swept a
double-header with the Boston
Braves for a total of 10 victories in
% games.
Whitlow Wyatt pitched the
Dodgers to a 81 decision in the
opener, although he had to have
help in the eighth inning, but Larry
French failed to last through the
first inning of the nightcap as the
Bucs pounded him and three re-
levers for a dozen hits and tri-
umphed, 9-5.
Vince Di Maggie drove in five
Pittsburgh runs in the second game,
while Rip Sewell held the Dodgers
to six blows and weathered a four
run rally in the eighth.
The Cardinals beat the Braves,
S-3, in their first game, swapping a
tie with a five-run outburst in the
sixth. The second, however, went II
innings before Harry Gumbert, who
pitched two-hit ball in five innings
of relief. doubled for the run that
won for him and the Cards, 80.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the
Philadelphia Phils, 20 and 8-5, with
Johnny Wander Nicer hurting the
shutout and Max Marshall and Bert
Haas spicing the nightcap for the
victors with home runs.
Giants Win and Tie.
The New York Giants doWned the
Chicago Cubs, 8-6, in the first game,
but the second ended in a SIS dead
lock with darkness hating play after
nine innings, during which Manager
Mel OFT of the Giants made the
2,500th hit of his major league
career.
In the American League, the st.
Louis Browns helped take some of
the pressure off the New York
Yankees by splitting with the Boston
Red Sox while the Yanks were win
ming a pair from the Detroit Tigers.
Red Ruffing pitched flve-hit ball
to beat the Tigers. II, in the first
game, but it took a 10th-inning
single by Pinch Hitter George Sell
kirk to decide the second for the
Yanks, 43. Outfelder Tommy
Heinrich, making his last appearance
before entering the Coast Guard led
the Yankee attack in the second
game with three hits in three official
times at bat.
John Niggehng hurled the Browns
to Al flrst-game victory, beating
the Red Sox for the fifth time this
year. The SoX bounced back to take
the second, 1876, but still trail the
Yankees by eight games.
Ted Lyons won his weekly game
Tor the Chicago White Sox, pitching
IL decision over the PHILADELPHIA
Athletics. but the AS rallied for two
runs in the ninth inning to squeeze
out, 30, in the second game with
Phil Marchildon pitching four-hit
hall