The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-19
BASE STEALING
HELPS TO CAIN
FOURTH IN LOOP
BY PAUL SCHEFFELS
United Press Staff Correspondent

OMtCu AECSo otdAl Correspondent
New York, July 19-(UP)-The
hell-for- leather drive of the Chicago
White Sox on the basepaths has
brought thin closer to a cut of
World Series melon.
Things weren't too bright for the
Sox during the first half of the 1913
season, with Manager Jimmy Dykes
getting little hitting and less pitch
ing. Although both those depart
ments have now picked up, it's the
work on the basepaths that has pro-
PEELED the SoX into a surprisingly
high spot in the Junior circuit.
Chicago was crushed 1874 by an
18-hit Detroit attack in the first
game of a doubleheader yesterday,
but the White Sox came back to
drive into fourth place in the stand
ings with Al victory over the Tig-
ers in the nightcap.
Thurman Tucker pilfered two bags
and 31-year- old Wally Moses shared
one in the course of the afternoon
to increase the Chicago swifties'
total of stolen bases to 83, tops in
the American League. Moses has
stolen %, the second best total in
the Mayors.
Leaders Win Two
The pace-Setting Yankees main
tanned their 51a game lead by trip
ping the AS, To and 4-3, while the
runner-up Senators kept pace with
a pair of decisions over the Red Sox.
go and 5-4.
Rookie Bill Johnson's three-run
homer, his second of the year. in
the fourth provided Ernie Bonham
with enough of margin to score
his ninth success in the first game.
The Yankees rallied for two runs in
the 10th to win the nightcap and
stretch their longest winning string
of the campaign to eight games.
The Senators made nine hits
count for as man, runs as Rae Scar
borough 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, tailed an
other on Gene Moore's four-bagger
in the third and scored their last
run on Joe Sullivan's fly.
Cleveland clipped the Browns, 4-3
and 1877. Ray Mack's long fly sent
home the deciding counter in the
ninth inning of the first contest
and Cleveland spoiled Buck New
SONS debut for the Browns in the
nightcap with seven-run spree in
the third.
In 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 Cardinals
to 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 collected 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
a halt to the game at the end of
seven innings. The game will be re-
sumed at the same stage when st.
Louis returns to Pittsburgh.
Win And Tie
Brooklyn beat the Braves, 3-5. in
a first game that went II innings
and then tied, A, in a nightcap
called with one out in the sixth be-
cause 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 Sunday
law went into effect. The game will
be resumed at the same point on 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 fly,
a double steal counted the second
and Billy Herman's single scored the
third.
The Cubs trounced the Reds, 81
and TO, as the Giants knocked off
the Phillies, 1915 and 3-2.
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.
YESTERDAYS STAR Wally
Moses, who stole his 22nd base as
the White Sox scored Al triumph