The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
ALMOST SOUND NOW BUT ARMY
 RATES HIM 4-F
Augie'S Single Beat Braves 4=3; White SOx Up to
 Third Place
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

Ohltcu HrcSS SLdH correspondent
 New York, June 1l.-OP)-Ill- ness and injury played havoc with the career of Augie Galan but de- spite six seasons of bad breaks, the little Brooklyn outfielder today looked like baseball's comeback man of the year.
 Galan may have found the for mula for success or maybe nothing else can happen to him. The army report that tagged him 4F would indicate he's had all the ailments in the baseball book.
 He's sound now except for a Splin-. tered right elbow that he cannot move any further than a right angle and broken kneecap held together by a wire binding. His left knee is so weak it can last full game only with the aid of 8 metal and elastic brace
 Galan is currently batting 1903, third best average on the club, and it was his never-say-die spirit that provided the Dodgers with a 4-3 triumph over the Boston Braves yesterday.
 Three Straight Hits
 The Dodgers Jagged, 32 going into their half of the ninth when pinch hitter Paul Waner singled to open four-hit rally that drove Al Jav- cry to the showers. Arkie Vaughan, Dixie Walker and Galan then came through in rapid-fire fashion Augie's single sending home the winning run for victory that kept his mates half game off the pace.
 Manager Leo Durocher returned to the lineup for the first time since 1941 but did not get single ground CT to handle at short. He partici- pated in double play and sent in run with single,
 St. Louis kept half a game in front in the only other National league game scheduled by blanking the Pirates, 50 behind the six-hit pitching of Mac Lanier who won his third victory He famed nine and pitched out of one jam in the fourth when Pittsburgh collected three hits but did not score. Lanier also singled home St. Louis first two runs in the second as three Pirate pitchers gave up eight hits.
 Spud Chandler hung up his sixth victory and pitched the New York Yankees to a 21a game edge in the American league by defeating the Philadelphia Athletics, 8-2. Chand Ter allowed seven hits.
 The Yankees assaulted Jesse Flores and Johnny Burrows for 10 hits, nicking the Mexican mounds man for six runs in the first five innings. Between them, Joe Gordon and George Stirnweiss handled p chances flawlessly
 or Ossie Judd tied the Senators up with three hits as the Boston Red Sox notched 20 triumph Petey Fox's first homer of the year brought Boston it's first run and Judd, who knocked out three hits, romped home on Jim Tabor'S single for the other. Boston made eight hits off two pitchers.
 Going Up
 Chicago's White SoX bounced up into third place and tumbled the Tigers into sixth by defeating De- troit, l1-5 behind a 17-hit barrage. Dizzy Trout was knocked off the hill after only one-third of an inn ing while Orval Grove. although he gave up II hits, won his second de- cision.
 The cellar r-dwelling Browns trim med Cleveland's seventh-place edge to two games by defeating the tribe, 2-1 for their second straight win in night game. Johnny Niggeling, who authored five wins over the h. dians last year, was credited with the victory although he failed to finish.
 Fritz Ostermueller took over with one out and two on in the eighth and in turn was replaced by George Caster who put out the fire. Vern Stephens single sent over the de- ciding rurn in the third.
 YESTERDAYS STAR - Augie Galan who singled home the win ming run as the Dodgers nipped