Evening star., 1942-05-04
Three.Way Battle On
With Brooks Edge
Cut 10 One Game
BUGS Miss Tie at Top
In Split With Braves;
Bosox Stop indians
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR,


Brooklyn's champion Dodgers still
rule the roost in the National
League, but the st. Louis Cardinals
and Pittsburgh Pirates have them
hanging on the ropes in what
rapidly is shaping up as the hottest
three-way argument since junior
learned to drive the family auto
mobile.
Still reeling from the effects of
q one-two punch they absorbed at
Pittsburgh, Durocher's dandies stag
gered into st. Louis yesterday and
were f1attened twice by Cardinal
team that finally discovered what
bats were for.
A total of 135,654 customers paid
their way into American League
parks yesterday and $1,000 turned
out in the National League. Yankee
Stadium in New York boasted the
seasons greatest throng. 65,804.
At st. Louis, 24,871 watched the
Cardinals clip the Dodgers. 14-10. in
a long -winded opening game and
A in the afterpiece, which was
held to 51a innings because the
daylight ran out.
Dodger, Card Pilots Chased.
The double defeat reduced Brook
lyn's margin to single game over
the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates,
who missed their chance to share
the lead by dividing a double
header with the Boston Braves.
The Dodgers and Cards went at it
hammer and tongs, but Cardinal
Catcher Ken ODea decided the
issue in the opening game with a
grand-slam homer that routed
Whitlow Wyatt in the first inning
and a three-run double that broke
. 1910 tie in the seventh.
Kirby Highly issued trio of un-
timely walks in losing the second
game. With the bases filled on
passes in the fourth inning, Jimmy
Brown tripled to bring in all the
runs st. Louis needed and came
home himself on an outf1eld fly.
Both managers and three players
we're chased from the field for differ
ing with the umpires on various
decisions. Leo Durocher and Billy
Southworth were waved to the
showers in the opener, along with
Freddie Fitzsimmons of the Brooks,
while Dodgers Wyatt and Dolph
Camiln were banished during the
nightcap.
Pressure finally caught up with
the Cleveland Indians, two lengths
to the good in the American League,
and the Boston Red Sox cashed in
on a trio of errors for an 8-4
triumph that ended the Tribes
winning streak at Is games. The
Boston crowd Of 32.123. was the
second biggest Of the day.
Rudy York's sixth and seventh
home runs of the season carried the
Detroit Tigers to an 81 victory
over the Philadelphia Athletics, but
Phil Marchildon pitched q sparkling
two-hitter in the nightcap to give
the AS an even break, 10.
The New York Yankees snapped a
deadlock with the Red Sox and
moved to within a half game of the
second-place Tigers by sweeping a
bargain bill from the Chicago White
Sox, Ga and 81. A two-run homer
by Charley Keller paced the Yankee
attack in the opening game and
Alley Donald kept the Sox under
control in the second by scattering
seven hits.
Pirates, Braves Split.
Pittsburgh ran its winning streak
to three by downing Boston, 60, in
the first game behind the seven-hit
pitching of Max Butcher, but the
Braves came back with a 14-hit
attack to square accounts, 1873.
Eddie Miller hit a home run with
the bases loaded for Boston in the
nightcap. while Babe Phelps drove
In all of the Pirates runs with a
pair of four masters.
The New York Giants knocked
Bucky Walters out of the box in the
second inning and went on to trip
the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4, as Bob
Carpenter went all the way.
At Chicago, the Cubs downed the
Philadelphia Phils, 81. but the
Phils took the second game, 81.