Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-UP)-1n
fender Arky Vaughn of the Brook
lyn Dodgers was member of base
balls select 2,000-hit circle today;
and his recent activities in
dicate that he may have another
1000 stored away in his brawny
body.
Arky, of the open batting stance,
garnered three safeties yesterday
as the Dodgers scored double vic
tory over the Philadelphia Phillies,
bringing his batting average to .3l7.
His third hit was the 2,000th of his
major league career, which started
with the Pittsburgh Pirates in
1882 and has seen him lead the lea
que at various times in hitting,
runs scored and triples as well as
being selected as the national lea
CUES most valuable player in 1895.
Whit Wyatt hurled the opening
victory, allowing only six hits, as
the Dodgers triumphed, 81. Wyatt
retired the first 18 men to face
him without hit, keeping the in
itial sack empty until Ray Ham
rick led off the seventh with line
single TO right.
MATCHES PERFORMANCE
Ed Head matched Wyatt's six
hitter in the afterpiece which the
Dodgers took, 30 DurOcher'S Dan
dies jumped on schoolboy Rowe for
five runs in the first frame to give
head a margin that was never
threatened.
The Boston Braves came out of
their six game losing streak with
double victory over the New York
Giants, Al in the first and 10 in
the nightcap. Jim Tobin pitched
the opener and Al Javery the sec
ond game as both notched their
18th triumphS of the season. Javery
himself drove in the winning run
of his game in the fifth inning
The Cincinnati Reds and the ST.
Louis Cardinals split pair thought
the Cards were forced to IL in
nings in the secord to salvage one
game of their fouf-game series
with the Reds.
Elmer Riddle picked up his 18th
victory of the season in the opener,
5-3, to make it three straight for
the Cincinnati team. Max Lanier
came in to pitch the 10th inning of
the nightcap, famed four of the
six men he faced and started the
rally that gave the champions 3-2
victory by opening the 18th with a
single. Walker Cooper singled him
home.
The Chicago Cubs and the Pitts
burgh Pirates split a doubleheader
when the Bruins defeated Rip
SeWell, 11-2, in the first and then
bowed to Hank Gornicki, 81, in the
nightcap. Hi Bithorn recorded his
10Th victory in the opener when
uprising of seven runs
clinched the game and kept Sewell
from his goth victory.
In the American league, the
Cleveland Indians moved into un-
disputed possession of third place
and dumped the Chicago White
Sox into fifth with two wins.
The veteran Mel Harder hurled
he opening victory and allowed the
Sox to hit only four balls out of
he infield as the tribe won, 81.
0rval Grove was the loser. Rookie
Allie Reynolds won the nightcap,
81, assisted by Jeff Heath's 18th
nome run.
The Detroit Tigers took the st.
Louis Browns to camp twice, 1875
and 4-2. Rudy York hit two hon.
ers, one in each game, to raise his
major league leading total to 80,
but failed by one to tie his own
record of 18 circuit clouts in a sin
gle month, set in August, 1897.
Virgil (CFire) Truck won the open
er and Tommy Bridges took the
second.
The Philadelphia Athletics lost
% and "a Of their last 25
starts by bowing twice to the
Washington Senators. Third base
man Sherrard Robertson drove in
the winning run in the 18th inning
of the first to give Jim Mertz
credit for the 5-4 victory. Two
tallies in the ninth inning of the