Evening star., 1942-08-19
Cardinals Make
Be|ated Threat
In Flag Chase
Slice Three Games OFF
Dodeer Lead in Hurry;
Red Sox Keep Hot
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR.

After nearly everybody except their
relatives had given them up for lost,
the st. Louis Cardinals are threat
ening at last to make race out of
the National League pennant drive.
They still trail the front-running
Brooklyn Dodgers by siX-and-one-
half lengths, but they have knocked
three full games off the Dodger lead
in the last three days and apparently
have gathered enough steam to make
things hot the rest Of the way down
the stretch.
With Southpaw Max Lanier hurl-
ing seven-hit shutout ball, the Cards
ran their latest winning streak to
five in a row last night by beating
the Chicago Cubs and Claude Pas
seau, SO.
The Dodgers dropped into Phila-
delphia for a one-night stand and
were jolted, 81, by the Phils, whom
they had expected to roll over and
play dead.
That defeat was the second
straight for the Brooks, who have
lost 5 of their last 10 games. The
Cardinals have won 10 of their
last II.
Giants Are Dodger Problem.
While the Dodgers can look for
trouble in their remaining six meet
ings with the Cards, they also have
a problem close to home in the sur
prising New York Giants.
The Giants, in third place and un-
willing to vacate without struggle,
have won six and lost eight with the
Dodgers and still have eight more
battles scheduled with the Flat
bush Flock.
Carl Hubbell pitched the Giants to
a 1912 triumph over the Boston
Braves yesterday, scattering six hits
as his boss, Mel OFT, Clipped in with
his 21st home run and took over the
leadership of the league.
1t was the sixth straight in the
longest Giant winning streak of the
year and the eighth in a row for
Hubbell, whose victory string is the
longest unbroken one among Ma
tional League pitchers.
In beating Passeau for the first
time in three attempts this year,
the Cardinals backed up Lanier's
effective pitching with nine-hit
attack led by Terry Moore and
Johnny Hopp. Lanier famed eight
and didn't issue single base on
balls.
It was Rube Melton, once the
property of the Cards. who turned
back the Dodgers for the Phils.
Melton yielded only seven hits and
collected two of his teams nine
blows off Max Macon.
Red Sox Stretch Streak.
The Pittsburgh Pirates dropped
Cincinnati five games behind the
Giants by whitewashing the Reds.
SO, on the six-hut hurting of john
ny Lanning in another night con-
test.
In the American League the Bos-
ton Red Sox ran their winning
streak to five games by edging out
the New York Yankees, ST. in 10
innings
Johnny Peacock doubled off Re-
lief Pitcher Johnny Murphy in the
tenth and scored the winning run
on Dom Di Maggio's outfield fly,
handing the veteran Yankee fire.
man his seventh straight defeat.
The loss chopped New York's lead
to liz games.
Denny Galehouse turned In q
seven-hit shutout in a night con-
test as the st. Louis Browns
whipped the Chicago White Sox,
TO, and climbed to within a single
game of the third-place Cleveland
Indians, who were idle.
Jack Wade gave the Browns their
first hit of the game in the sixth
inning, but they buried him under
a Slx-run assault in the seventh and
continued their 11-hit attack on Joe
Haynes.