Evening star., 1943-06-14
Veteran Hubbe||
Still Is Giants
Meal Ticket
Wins Twice as Team
Drops II of Lost Is;
Yonks Routed by As
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports Writer
The New York Giants, once the
proudest team in baseball, are brush
ing close to the bottom of the Ma
tional League and rapidly becoming
an object of scorn both for the fans
and for rival clubs.
In two double e-headers over the
week end the groggv Giants lost
three out of four games to the
hustling Philadelphia Phillies and
dropped within half a game of last
place.
Except for Carl Hubbell they
would be there now, too, for the
Giants have dropped IL of their
last l3 decisions and Hubbell has
accounted for the only two victories
they have scored since May 80.
Hubbell, who used to be called
Bill Terry's meal ticket, still is the
bread-and-butter man of the Giants.
No longer the pitcher he used to be,
he, nevertheless. shut out the Pitts
burgh Pirates on one hit June 5 and
yesterday held the Phillies to seven
as New York won the first game of
a double header. 90, before 1883
paying customers. second smallest
crowd of the day in the major
leagues
Dahlgren's Hit Questioned.
The Giants gave him plenty of
help with Is hits, three of them
homers, but they quieted down in
the nightcap, which the Phillies won,
6-3. with a four-run rally in the
ninth. This outbreak was climaxed
by Babe Dahlgrens double with the
bases loaded.
Before getting his two-bagger,
Dahlgren was hit by a pitch. The
Chants argued he had stepped into
the ball and should be out for leav-
ing the batter's box, but Umpire
Beans Reardon ruled he should bat
again. This led to the game-wlnnine
double and caused Manager Mel OFT
to say later he would protest the
game.
The Brooklyn Dodgers halved
double-header with the Boston
Braves, but gained half a game on
the flrst-place St. Louis Cardinals
when darkness kept the world cham
plons from deciding their second
game against Pittsburgh after the
Pirates had won the first.
Nate Andrews beat the Dodgers,
4-3. in the opener at Ebbets Field
and Billy Herman decided the night
cap in Brooklyn's favor, 80. with a
tWo-run homer his first of the wear.
in the eighth inning.
Yanks Take Double Beating.
At. st. Louis, the Pirates scored
seven runs in the first inning of
their first game, in which they made
Is hits to win. 1913, but the second
session went IL innings to A tie
before darkness fell.
In the other National League af-
fair Cincinnati split with Chicago.
The Reds made 20 hits in the first
game, rolling up total of 43 safe
ties in their first three games against
the Cubs, and winning, 1876 But Bill
Lee stopped them on seven hits in
the afterpiece, which the Cubs won,
Al.
The New York Yankees fve-game
winning streak was snapped at
Philadelphia as the Athletics swept
a double-header, 5-3 and 80. A
squeeze bunt by Jojo White brought
in the deciding runs in the first
game and Jim Tyack. who had sim
gled to tie the score in the opener,
batted in all three of the AS runs in
the nightcap with a triple and a sin
gle.
This helped Washington shave
game off the Yankees lead as the
Mats split a pair at Boston.
Tigers Grab Third Place.
Detroit took charge of third place
by beating the Chicago White Sox
twice, Ga and 3-2
Tommy Bridges, allowing only nine
hits and tanning nine, was RESPONSE
BILE for the first victory and Rudy
York played major role in the sec
ond. driving in two runs with pair
of doubles.
The Cleveland Indians saved
themselves from a complete rout by
the St. Louis Brown by winning the
second game of their double header
after they had lost the first four
contests of a flve-game series The
Browns took yesterdays opener. 81,
with the Indians capturing the Sec
ond, 2-1, in 10 innings.