Evening star., 1943-06-04
Trailing Browns
Don't Rate Top
Yanks Highly
Few Hits Could Have
St. Louis Up; Dodgers
Slip, Cards Triumph
BY JUDSON BAILEY.

The National League is having
two-horse race for the pennant, and
it's a good show that the Brooklyn
Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals are
giving the fans.
But the really wide-open scram-
BILE is in the American League,
where the siXth-place club is nearer
the lead than is the third club in
the National. Furthermore, it
wouldn't take much to make all
eight clubs contenders.
The New York Yankees have been
showing the way except for one
lapse ever since the season started,
yet they have not convinced anybody
that they are real good ball club.
Certainly they have not convinced
Luke SeWell, manager of the last
place st. Louis Browns, whom the
Yanks beat yesterday. 81, when
Bob Muncrief forced home the de-
Gliding run in the ninth inning with
walk
1t was the 18th loss in IS games
Tor the Browns. and of the defeats
have been by one run and another
was by a shutout. In other words a
hit here or good fielding play
there might have changed the story
many times, and even with all their
troubles the Browns are only seven
games behind the Yanks
Browns Sorely Need Hitting.
After yesterdays game Sewell was
miserable. The only place close
ones count is in horseshoes,' he
moaned. But the truth is haven't
seen any ball cluo in our league
that stands out. The Yankees don't,
and it's anybodys pennant. If we
get a few hits we'll be up there.
If we don't get few hits Ill go
nuts
The Browns made only four safe
ties off big Ernie Bonham yester-
day, but one was homer by George
McQuinn. The Yankees made Just
six hits off Muncrief, although Joe
Mccarthy shook up his batting or
der.
The Philadelphia Athletics over
powered Cleveland, 1914, with an
18-hit offensive while Rookie Don
Black held the Indians to nine scat
tered blows. This kept the AS in
fourth place 21a games back of
New York while the Indians skidded
to sixth with their ninth loss in II
games. Even so, Cleveland is only
four games out of first place.
The Chicago White Sox bounced
from seventh to fifth by beating
the Boston Red Sox, Ga, with five
runs in the third inning. Chicago,
kicked around in the early weeks
OF the season, now is 312 games out
of the lead.
Cubs Catch Dodgers in Daze.
In the National League the Chi
cago Cubs caught the Brooklyn
Dodgers still in reverie from their
final victory at st. Louis and dyna-
mited them, 81, while the Cardi-
nails romped to an 80 decision over
the Phillies. This shaved Brook
lyn's lead again to half game.
Lon Warneke, who hadn't scored
victory all spring. stopped the
while his teammates racked up 13
hits and punched them for four clus-
ters of two runs Bill Nicholson hit
his fifth home run in six games.
The Cardinals made a dozen hits,
and Murry Dickson coasted to vic
tory in his first complete game after
many relief appearances.
The Pittsburgh Pirates pounded
out 9-6 victory over the New York
Giants for Truett (Rip) Sewell,
who now has won six and lost Just
one game. The triumph enabled
the Pirates to hold third place, AZ
games out of the lead, by a shade
in the percentages over the Gin
cinnati Reds. who beat the Boston
Braves, IA. in night game. The
Reds rallied for four runs in the
eighth inning to save the victory
for Johnny Wander Nicer.