Evening star., 1943-09-07
10-Hits-in-Row Mark
Tied by Red Rookie;
Yanks, As Divide
BY JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer


Labor Day, traditionally big day
for the major leagues, passed with
nothing more than modest notice
from the fans this year. but the
players and clubs concerned did their
utmost to provide excitement for the
122,561 spectators who turned out
at seven parks.
At Chicago, Woody Williams,
reserve infielder for the Cincinnati
Reds, tied the National League
record for consecutive hits, 10, by
making five in the first game and
another on his first time up in the
n1ghtcap to go with four he had
made at ST. Louis Sunday.
With this momentum the Reds
whipped the Cubs twice, 10-1 and
81, the latter game going 10 innings.
Elmer Riddle gained his 18th victory
and John Wander Nicer his 18th.
Gard, Dodger Regulars Hurt.
The world champion Cardinals
crushed the Pittsburgh Pirates twice,
30 and 60, as Alpha Brazle pitched
seven-hit ball and Harry Brecheen
came up with a four hitter, walking
none
In the first of these games at st.
Louis Ray Sanders, first baseman
Tor the Redbirds, was struck on the
head by batted ball and had to be
taken to hospital although his in
juries later were said not to appear
serious.
AT Brooklyn before the largest
throng of the day, 28,638 paid, the
Dodgers ran their winning streak to
10 games, longest in the five-year
managerial tenure of Leo Durocher.
by winning the first half of a double
header with the Boston Braves. and
like the Cards, were deprived of the
services of a regular through injury.
Stanley (Frenchy) Bordagaray,
who has been alternating between
infield and outheld assignments. was
hit on the head by a ball pitched by
Rookie Armand Cardoni and was
taken to hospital for observation,
although apparently not badly hurt.
Dahlgren Helps PhiIs Divide.
In the first game Curt Davis
pitched f1ye-hit ball, but was tagged
Tor three runs early, and it was a
seven-run sixth-inning uprising
against AL Javery that won for
Brooklyn, 7-3. Then the Braves
banked back to win the second game,
3D., on Chet Ross single in the tenth
inning.
Babe Dahlgren, who worked two
innings as catcher In the first
gabe at the Polo Grounds in New
York, hit a two-run homer in the
llth inning of the second game to
give the Philadelphia Phillies a 81
decision over the Giants after New
York had bagged the. opener, 6-3.
with Ace Adams making his 61st re-
lief appearance to tie his own major
league record.
In the American League, the New
York Yankees were walloped 11-2
ID the HrstSgame Of a double -header
with the Philadelphia Athletics to
give the junior circuit leaders their
third straight loss, but they re-
bounded with an 1l-4 in the second
game.
Cleveland Takes Two.
DICK Siebert, who had batted in
fiye runs at Boston Sunday. drove in
four for the AS in the first game
against the Yanks, but in the sec
ond game Charley Keller hit his
18th homer of the season and the
Bombers finished strong with six
runs in the ninth inning.
The Boston Red Sox swept a dou-
ble-header from Washington.
Cleveland clipped the st. Louis
Browns twice, 80 in 10 innings and
20 in five frames, with weather in
terferring in both games.
The same elements caused post
ponement of the scheduled double
header at Detroit and as the result
the Tigers will entertain the Chicago
White Sox in two games today, the
only games on the calendar.