The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30
VAUGHAN GETS 2,00OTH BASE
 HIT YESTERDAY
By GLEN PERKINS United Press Staff Correspondent)

New York, Aug. 30-(UP)-In- fielder Arky Vaughan of the Brook lyn Dodgers was a member of base balls select 2,000-hit circle today; and his recent activities indicate 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 a double vic- tory over the Philadelphia Phillies, bringing his batting average to .317 His third hit was the 2,OOOth of his major league career, which started with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1882 and has seen him lead the league at various times in hitting, runs scored and triples as well as being selected as the National leagues most valuable player in 1885.
 Whit Wyatt hurled the opening victory, allowing only six hits, as the Dodgers triumphed, 3-1. Wyatt retired the first 18 men to face him without hit, keeping the initial sack empty until Ray Hamrick led of the seventh with line single to right.
 Ed Head matched Wyats six hit ter in the afterpiece which the Dodgers took, 80. Durochers s dandies jumped on Schoolboy Rowe for five runs in the first frame to give Head margin that was never threatened.
 The Boston Braves came out of their six-game losing streak with a double victory over the New York Giants, Al in the first and To in the nightcap. Jim Tobin pitched the win in the opener and Al Jav- cry was credited with the second game as both. notched their 18th triumphs of the season. Javery was pressed to win his game and drove in the winning run himself in the fifth inning.
 The Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals split pair, though the Cards were forced to Il innings in the second to salvage one game of their four-game series with the Reds.
 Elmer Riddle picked up his 17th 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 11th with single. Walker Cooper single him home.
 The Chicago Cubs and the Pitts burgh Pirates split 8 doubleheader when the Bruins defeated Rip Sewell 11-2 in the fist and then bowed to Hank Gornicki 3-1, in the nightcap. Hi Bithorn recorded his 18th victory in the opener when a ninth-inning uprising of seven runs clinched the game and kept Sewell from his 20th victory.
 In the American league, the Cleve- land Indians moved into undisputed possession of third place and dumped the Chicago White Sox into fifth with two wins The veteran Mel Harder hurled the opening vict- tory and allowed the Sox to hit only four balls out of the inf1eld as the tribe scored 2-1 decision. Orval Grove was the loser. Rookie Allie Reynolds won the nightcap, 6-1, as- sisted by Jeff Heath's 18th home run.
 The Detroit Tigers took the St.. Louis Browns to camp twice, 15-5 and Az. Rudy York hit two homers, one in each game, to raise his ma- jor league leading total to 30, but | failed by one to tie his own record of 18 circuit clouts in a single month, set in August, 1887. Virgil (Fire) Trucks was the winner of the opener and Tommy Bridges won the second.
 The Philadelphia Athletics lost numbers g and 24 of their last 25 starts by lowing twice to the Wash ington Senators. Third baseman Sherrard Robertson drove III the winning run in the 11th inning of the first to give Jim Mertz credit for the 5-4 victory. Two tallies in the ninth inning of the second game provided Dutch Leonard with a 2-l triumph.
 The New York Yankees won two from the Boston Red Sox, although they needed 10 innings to take the first, GA. Roy Weatherly smashed h,s fourth homer of the season in the extra frame to give Johnny Murphy his 10th victory and end Tex Hughson's eight-game mastery of the league leaders. Charley Keller hit his 23rd and 24th homers in the opener and the veteran Al Simmons of the Red Sox gained his first. Spud Chandler notched his 17th hurling victory in the after piece, 5-1, and again Weatherly drove one out of the park. YESTERDAYS STAR - Veteran A A.y-. trI I,it