Evening star., 1942-07-29
Thousands Fail
To Land Seats
For Hot Gard
Seven Giants in Row Hit
To Sturt Club on Woy
To Double Victory
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer

Baseball generally is considered a
form sport, but sometimes its form
assumes the strangest shapes.
The Brooklyn Dodgers and st.
Louis Cardinals came to grips yes
terday in what was expected to be
a desperate double header, with the
National League champions striving
to hold their seven-game lead and
the Redbirds making what might be
their last challenge.
The setup was such that 33,2l2
paying customers turned out on
Tuesday to pack the Dodgers Eb-
bets Field and thousands OF others
failed to get seats.
So what happened? The two
titans stumbled around for six
hours and split the bill, settling
nothing in particular.
Brooklyn won the first game, rs.
Each team made three errors and all
Of the Dodgers runs were unearned
except homer by Johnny Rizzo in
the eighth inning that decided the
outcome. The Dodgers drove Lefty
Ernie White to cover with five runs
in the first, but the Cardinals kept
chipping away till they tied at Gall
and chased Larry French to the
showers in the sixth inning. Curt
Davis received credit for the victory,
his tenth.
Cards Cluster Seven Runs.
The nightcap was interrupted for
half an hour by weather in the third
chapter while Kirby Higbe was lead
ing Max Lanier, 10. The Cards
scored seven runs in the seventh
inning and won. 81. getting l6 hits
to Brooklyn's s.
The Boston Red Sox inflated their
second-place margin to two full
games by beating the Cleveland In
dians again, 81, with all their runs
coming on Ulysses Lupien,s double
with the bases loaded in the second
inning. Ted Williams went hitless.
At Chicago, Lefty Ed Smith alb
sorbed his 18th shellacking as the
New York Yankees overpowered the
White Sox, 8-3, with Joe Di Maggie,
Charley Keller and Joe Gordon hit
ting home runs. Di Magic also hit
triple and two singles, good for
three runs, and Gordon's circuit
elout came with two aboard.
At New York the GiantsaRept 4
double -header from the Chicago
Cubs, s-5 and so. The first seven
Giants to come to hat IN the first
inning Of the game made hits, one
OF them homer by Willard Mar
shall with two on, to give Carl Hub
bell . six-run start. After that it
didn't make much difference that
Dom Dallessandro hit two home
runs and Stan Hack one for the
Cubs.
Schumacher Hurls 3-Hitter.
In the second game Hal Schu-
macher pitched three-hit shutout
ball to beat the four-hit hurting of
Johnny Schmitz and Tot Pressnell.
The Cincinnati Reds took both
ends OF double-header from the
Phils, 81 and 81. Johnny Wander
Nicer allowed only two hits in the
opener, one of them homer by Stan
Benjamin on the first pitch and the
other a single by Bobby Bragan with
two out in the ninth. Ray Starr
hurled . five-hitter in the second
game to get his 18th victory. The
Reds were held to five hits also, but
one was Dick Vests first homer of
the year with one on.
At Boston, Johnny Sain, making
his first start for the Braves, hurled
three-hit shutout ball for eight In
nlngs and then let the Pittsburgh
Pirates tie the score at three-all in
the ninth. The Braves won, 4-3,
when Nanny Fernandez bunted with
the bases loaded to squeeze across
the deciding run.