Evening star., 1943-06-05
Second 1-Hit Tilt
In Row by Mort
b| Phi||ies
Dodgers Crush Cubs
To Save Lead; Yonks
Homer Way to Win
BY HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.

A few weeks earlier in this base
ball season, st. Louis fans were au-
dibly worried about the report that
Mort Cooper had a sore arm.
Their world champions were trail
ing the hated Brooklyn Dodgers in
the National League race, Cooper
had taken couple of sound she'll
ackings and the Cardinal customers
inquired that there wasn't much
hope without the full-time services
Of the big fellow who won % games
and lost only 7 during last years
pennant chase.
Well, the Cards still are second bv
half game, but If Cooper still has a
sore arm, Manager Billy Southworth
probably wishes all his other pitch
ers would go out and get ones lust
like it.
For Big Mort pitched his second
successive one-hit game last night
to beat the Phillies, S to 0. He had
done the same stunt against Brook
lyn Monday Mort didn't allow a hit
until Jimmy Wasdell singled in the
eighth, he gave no walks and he
whitfield five. Charley Fuchs limited
the Cards to eight blows, but two of
them-one stretching Stan Musial's
streak to 81 consecutive games-pro-
duced pair of third-inning runs
and three more came home in the
eighth when Ken ODea homered
to sew up the decision.
Dodgers Enjoy Hitting Spree.
The only reason the Cards re-
manned in second place after that
showing was that the pace-setting
Dodgers had decided to go on a hit
ting spree in the afternoon. Making
up for several weak performances at
the plate, the Dodgers drove Paul
Derringer to cover with a seven-run
first inning and went on to pile up
% hits for an 18-to-5 triumph over
the last-place Chicago Cubs.
Meanwhile, winning streaks car
ried the Pittsburgh Pirates into
third place in the National League
and the Detroit Tigers into second
in the American.
The bold Buccaneers, hanging up
their fifth consecutive victory and
their eighth in nine games, just
lasted to gain 9-to-8 decision over
the New York Giants before a night
crowd Of 1920. This put them a
half game ahead of the Cincinnati
Reds, who took a day off. The Bucs
drove Van Mungo out with a six
run fourth inning only to have the
Giants come back with five in the
eighth to stop just short of a tie.
The ultimate winning run came in
the same inning when Vince Di
Maggie, who hit a three-run homer
in the fourth, Scooted all the way
home from first on passed ball.
The Tigers fourth straight trl-
umph was a 81 decision over the
Mats.
Gordon's Home Run Tells.
The New York Yankees homered
their way to Ga. 10-inning de-
cision over the st. Louis Browns in
one of the three daylight games.
The Yanks won out on Joe Gordon's
10-inning homer after Vernon
Stephens, returning to the st. Louis
lineup for about 10 days before re-
porting to his draft board for
final physical examination, twice hit
for the circuit and accounted for
all the Browns runs
The biggest f1oodlight crowd of all,
1894, turned out at Philadelphia to
see Jesse Flores lose his second game
after seven straight victories as the
Cleveland Indians pulled out 80
decision over the Athletics. Ray
Mack's triple, scoring the already
traded Otto Denning, was the de-
cisive blow in the eighth inning.
The Chicago White Sox, scoring
all their runs in the first inning on
two of their four hits off Lou Lucifer,
whipped the Boston Red Sox, 4-3,
in the other afternoon contest.