Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-19
Chicago
Eyes
Series
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS

NEW YORK, July 19.-(UP)-
The hell-for-leather drive of the |
Chicago White Sox on the base
paths has brought them closer to a
cut of world series melon.
Things weren't too bright for the
Sox during the first half of the
l943 season, with manager Jimmy
Dykes getting little hitting and less
pitching. Although both those de-
partments have now picked up, it's
the work on the basepaths that has
propelled the sox into a surprising
ly high spot in the junior circuit.
Chicago was crushed 1874 by an
l8-hit Detroit attack in the first
game of a doubleheader yesterday,
but the White Sox came back to
drive into fourth place in the
standings with a Al victory over
the Tigers in the nightcap.
MANY STOLEN BASES
Thurman Tucker pilfered two
bags ad 31-year old Wally Moses
shared one in the course of the af-
ternoon to increase the Chicago
SWifties' total of stolen bases to
83, tops in the American league.
Moses had stolen %, the second
best total in the majors.
The pace-setting Yankees MAIN
tanned their 512 game lead by trip
ping the AS, To and 4-3, while the
runner-up Senators kept pace with
pair of decisions over the Red
Sox, 9-2 and Sd
Rookie Bill Johnson'S three-run
homer, his second of the year, in
the fourth provided Ernie Bonham
with enough OF a margin to score
his ninth success in the first game.
The Yakees rallied for two runs in
the 10th to win the nightcap and
stretch their longest winning string
of the campaign to eight games.
Spud Chandler checked the AS with
eight hits for his 18th decision.
The Senators made nine hits
count for as many runs as Rae
Scarborough turned in an eight
hitter against the Red Sox in the
first game. Washington walloped
Lou LUcier for three runs in the
second inning of the nightcap, tai
lied another on Gene Moore's four
bagger in the third and scored their
last run on Joe Sullivans fly.
Cleveland clipped the Browns,
4-3 and 10-7. Ray Mack's long fly
sent home the deciding counter in
the ninth inning of the first con-
test and Cleveland spoiled Buck
Newsoms debut for the Browns in
the nightcap with seven-run spree
in the third
COOPER WINS
I the National League, Mort
Cooper-a failure in the all-star
game-returned to the win column
in the Friendlier surroundings of
his own loop by hurting the card
inals to a ia success over the
Pirates. The win was Cooper's
18th and broke a four-game St.
Louis losing skein, their longest in
two years. The Red Birds collect
ed five hits in the seventh to sew
up the game with four runs.
The Cardinals led 6-5 in the
nightcap when the Sunday law put
halt to the game at the end of
seven innings. The game will be
resumed at the same stage when
st. Louis returns to Pittsburgh.
The Cards garnered 13 hits off
three pitchers while Murry Dickson
and George Munger were giving the
Pirates 10 safeties.
Brooklyn beat the Braves, 8-5, in
first game that went IL innings
and then tied, A, in a nightcap
called with one out in the sixth
because of the Sunday law. The
Braves put over three runs in their
half and had only one out and the
bases loaded when the $50 Sum
day law went into effect. The game
will be resumed at the same point
Oh the Dodgers next stop at Boston.
A three-run 10th inning won the
first game for the Dodgers. Dixie
Walker sent in the first with a fly,
a double steal counted the second
and Billy Herman's single scored
the third.
The Cubs troEnced the Reds, 81
and TO, as the Giants knocked off
the Phillies, 1915 and 3-2 Claude
Basseau, who muffled the Reds
with eight hits in the first game,
was the only player to drive in a
Chicago run with a hit, as fly balls
drove in the other two tallies.
Rookie Henry Wyse whitewashed
the Reds with six hits in the finale
as the Cubs handed Bucky Walters
his 10th setback.
A 19-hit attack made victory in
the first game easy for the Giants
as every member of the starting
lineup made at least one hit. Four
successive singles sent in two tai
lies in the second for the winning
edge in the nightcap.