Evening star., 1942-08-26
Change in Spirit
OF City Seen in
Attendance
Night Come Mark Set
By Crowd Of 1890;
Williams SIumps
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


The cup of cheer for st. Louis
baseball fans is brimming over today
with the Cardinals chopping away
viciously at the Brooklyn Dodgers
and the Browns installed in third
place in the American League.
In the past the people of the
on the Mississippi have
shown they could take their base
ball or leave it alone-and more
often than not they left 1t alone
even when they had pennant fight
in their laps. But evidence OF the
spirit among them now is the COM
bined turnout of 58,848 for two sue
cessive night games with the Dodg-
ers this week.
They set record for a night
game in st. Louis Monday night
with 25,588 and last night 33,260
iammed into Sportsman's Park to
set a new mark-and to see one OF
the most breath-taking baseball
battles of this or any other season.
Scoreless for IL Innings.
For IL innings the struggle was
a scoreless standoff between those
master hurlers, Whit Wyatt of the
Dodgers and Mort Cooper of the
Cards. Then things started happen-
ing fast. Manager Leo Durocner
and Coach Chuck Dresser Of the
National League champions were
banished from the field during an
argument with the umpires. In the
18th Brooklyn broke the spell with
a run off Cooper and the Redbirds
retaliated by tying the score against
Wyatt.
Larry French, veteran southpaw
who hasn't been beaten by any club
except st. Louis. smothered the
| rally, but in the 14th he and Rookie
| Les Webber were victimized for the
| deciding run with the Cards getting
| a FL triumph OH close play at
home plate almost exactly at mid
night, three hours and half after
the game began.
1t was the second straight success
for the Cardinals in their fourisned
bid to overhaul Brooklyn and re-
duced the margin between the clubs
ITO 51a games, but it was rivaled by
the big stride of the st. Louis
Browns far away in Washington,
where they captured a twilight-
night double-header to move into
third place in the American League.
Ted Williams Razzed.
The Browns squirt was helped by
the Boston Red Sox, who clamped
down twice on the Cleveland IN
dians, 4-3 and 5-1, during turbu-
lent double header in which the
first game went II innings. Manager
Lou Boudreau and two Cleveland
players were expelled between games
for arguing with umpires, and Ted
Williams was booed for going hit
less in both contests. This also
cost him the league batting leader
ship.
In the first game Lefty Ken Chase
pitched four-hit ball and Lou Finney
singled with the bases loaded for
the winning run. Southpaw Oscar
Judd hurled seven-hitter to take
the second game and send The In
dians to fourth place, 11a games
: behind the Browns.
The New York Yankees were held
; to seven hits by Johnny Humphries
and scoreless for six innings, but
, the defense of the Chicago White
) Sox collapsed to give the world
champions three runs in the seventh
and Joe Gordon homered with one
aboard in the eighth for a So ver-
, dict. Gordon made three hits al
, together and passed williams in
5 the batting race.
. At Cincinnati, the eight t-game
winning streak of Carl Hubbell was
broken as Johnny Wander Mee1
pitched the Cincinnati Reds to 81
/ victory over the New York Giants,
Scattering eight hits and tanning IL.
Truett (Rip) Sewell held the Bos-
/ ton Braves to three hits, all of them
by Tommy Holmes, and scored his
: fifth shutout OF the season for the
Pittsburgh Pirates, 60. The Phil
! adelphia Phils outhit the Chicago
:. Cubs, 1912, and won, Ga, on the
strength of five-run second in
ming blast against Bill Lee.