Evening star., 1942-06-15
Iron Man Mark
SET
Tied by Red
Scores Easily Over
Browns; Wyatt Gets
Dodgers Even Break
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
Beside the name of Joe 0ronman)
McGinnity on the list Of Gotham's
greatest pitchers they wrote another
one today-Charles Herbert Ruff1ng
Of the World Champion New York
Yankees.
Charley the Red, winner of more
games than any hurler active in
the major leagues, chalked up the
251st victory of his 19-year record
yesterday to tie the mark left by Nc
Ginnity, who often pitched, and
sometimes won, double headers for
the New York Giants in the early
years Of John McGraw.
Only three pitchers in ali the
baseball history OF the Nations
largest city have topped the total
reached by Ruf1ng.
The one and only Christy
Mathewson won 372 games before
gas poisoning in the other war
forced him to call it quits. Amos
Rusie of the pre-McGraw Giants
won 352 and Mickey Welch won
300 while toiling for the same club
under its initial pilot, Jim Mutrie.
In 10 games this year. Fufhng has
pitched 80 innings and has gone the
distance seven times. He has yielded
SO hits while striking out 80 batters
and issuing only 16 bases on balls.
Gordon's Streak Snapped.
Yesterday he tossed a five-hitter
at the st. Louis Browns, the team
that had beaten him twice before
in his only reversals for 1912. He
pitched the Yankees to 6-1 victory
in the first game and Ernie Bonham
finished with 5-4 decision in the
second.
But while Ruffing was adding to
his achievements with his seventh
win and Bonham was turning in his
ninth against only one defeat, an
other Yankee came to the end Of
the longest batting streak of 1912.
Joe Gordon, whose single in the
opener stretched his string to %
consecutive games, went zero-for-
four against John Niggeling, who
held the Yanks to seven hits in the
afterpicce and watched his mates
commit three errors which helped
the champions score three runs.
At that, the Yarks failed to in
crease their 91z game lead in sthe
American League for the second
place Boston Red Sox took a pair
Of close ones from Detroit, 80 in
the regulation distance and 2-1 in
II innings. Tony Lupien, Harvard's
gift to the Red Sox and first base
successor to Jimmy Foxx, drove in
both winning runs, with double
in the eighth inning of the first
game and single in the nightcap's
11th.
Indians, AS Split.
The only change of the day in
either league came at the other end
of the American standings, where
the Chicago White Sox vacated tho
cellar and turned it over to Wash
ington by crushing the Mats, 9-3
and 11-4.
The Cleveland Indians and Phila-
delphia Athletics divided q double
bill, with Luman Harris pitching
three-hitter to give the AS a 81
decision in the nightcap after the
Tribe had won the first game, 8-3,
Whitlow Wyatt pitched Brooklyn's
National League leaders to a Al
triumph over the Cincinnati Reds
with three-hit performance in the
first game, but Ray Starr turned
in a four hitter that gave the Reds
the second. 81.
A three run homer by Dolph Ca
milli, his ninth four-bagger of the
year, gave Wyatt his sixth triumph
against one defeat, and the nod over
Bucky Walters.
The defeat cost the Dodgers full
game on their lead, since the St.
Louis Cardinals downed the Phila-
delphia Phils twice, 9-l and 6-5. A
six-hitter by Lon Warneke in the
first game and three-run homer
by Johnny Hopp in the second
helped the Cards pull within five
and-a-half games of the Dodgers.
Giants Check Pirates.
The New York Giants snapped
| Pittburgh's seven game winning
streak, 4-3, as Bob Carpenter went
all the way, but the Pirates bounced
back to win the nightcap, 8-3, be-
hind the seven-hit pitching of Rip
Sewel.
Another streak ended for the Bos-
ton Braves, who downed the Chicago
Cubs, 10-1, for their first victory in
13 games after the Cubs had won
the first half of the double bill, 8-6.
Paul Waner of the Braves coll
lected two singles and double and
now needs only two more blows to
become the seventh player in history
to make 5000 hits.