Evening star., 1942-07-11
SnapsCooper's
Mound Streak,
Nails Braves
Helps Posseou to Win
18th Victory on Hill;
Yonks Triumph
By JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
No one has accused James Emory
Foxx OF anything but a decorous
debut in the National League. For
days after he joined the Chicago
Cubs the big slugger was as incon-
spicuous as stick Of gum.
But If the senior circuit expected
"the Beasts" huge war club to re-
main silent indefinitely, 1t must
know better now.
He set off cannon cracker on the
Fourth Of July with three-run
homer that knocked Mort Cooper
out of the box after Cooper had nine
straight games; yesterday ne made
half OF the Cubs six hits and
knocked in the deciding run In
3-to-2 victory over the Boston
Braves.
This game was a pitching duel
between Claude Passeau and Jim
Tobin with the unlucky Boston
hurler helping to beat himself. In
attempting to start double play
he threw wild and let Phil Cavar-
retta reach second, from where he
scored on Foxx's single in the eighth.
The Braves contributed two other
errors, one of them by Shortstop
Eddie Miller, who hadn't made
miscue in 40 previous games.
Passeau held the Braves to five
hits In scoring his 18th triumph
against five defeats. He has won
more games than any other pitcher
in either major league this season.
Reds Shade Dodgers.
The Cincinnati Reds nosed out the
Brooklyn Dodgers 81 in 10 innings
in night game with Frank Nc
Cormick singing Bucky Walters
home to decide the contest after the
pitcher had opened with his second
hit and advanced on an error.
Each team scored in the third in
the only other interruption of a
stirring pitching battle between
Walters, who gained his tenth vic
tory, and Kirby Higbe, who was
charged with his sixth defeat against
eight successes.
Walters allowed but six hits and
Higbe gave only five for nine innings.
Then Walters singled to open the
10th and Hugh Casey came in to
yield the winning blow.
The defeat shaved a full game
off the Dodgers apparently ample
8h-game lead because the ST. Louis
Cardinals snatched a 80 victory in
a l0-inning tussle with the New York
Giants.
With two out in the ninth, the
Redbirds had been blanked on four
hits by Bob Carpenter Then Whitley
Kurowski singled and Pinchhitter
Walker Cooper doubled. Ace Adams
was rushed to the mound and served
another single to Pinchhitter Coaker
Triplett for the two runs that tied
the score.
Cooper Barely Escapes.
In the 10th inning Terry Moore
and Enos Slaughter singled and
Stan Musial bunted down the third
base line. Adams fielded the ball
and threw to third for force play
but Billy Werber wasn't there and
the winning run came in unmohsted.
This uprising saved Mort Cooper
another defeat, for he gave up two
runs and all the Giants eight hits
before retiring for pinchhitter in
the seventh.
In the American League the New
York Yankees continued their mas
terry over the st. Louis Browns with
a So victory-their eighth straight
over st. Louis. The Yanks scored
all their runs on three hits off John
Niggeling in the first inning. After
ward they made only two blows of
Stan Ferens, but the game had been
decided
Mel Harder held the Philadelphia
Athletics to four hits as the Cleve-
land Indians scored a AZ victory.
Tex Hughson not only pitched T.
hit ball, but drove In three runs
himself with a double and a single
as the Boston Red Sox battered the
Detroit Tigers, 6-1.
Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Chi
cago-Washington night games were
postponed.