The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-27
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BY GLEN PERKINS United Press Staff CorrespOndentD

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 New York, September 27. = (uP) = The Detroit Tigers and st. Louis Browns remained tied for first place In the American League for the second consecutive day today and about the only certainty in the Red- hot race was that the parties inc volved faced five days of almost nerve.wracking tension.
 Both clubs won again yesterday, both have identical won and lost records and both have five games left to play, Q trying situation for highly trained and keyed Athletes, To each player, the difference in winning and losing the pennant means upwards of $4,000 regardless of how they finish in the World Series. Thus. every play means something extra to the participants and it is at this stage of the game that money players" the fellows who don't get rattled when the chips are down, are worth their weight in world series checks.
 25 For Trout
 The Tigers took short lived half game lead yesterday when Dizzy Trout pitched them to 6-0, six. hit shutout over the Philadelphia Athletics in an afternoon game. The victory, Trout's 27th and his sev- enth shutout, was supported by c lS hit offense from the Bengals bats. The Tigers power department, Dick Wakefield and Rudy York, acc counted for five of the six runs. Wakefield gave Trout an early lead when he hit his 18th homer of the season, 420-foot, inside the park belt in the second inning. and York drove in four runs with two singles and scored the other himself.
 The Browns came through in night game to tie for first place, beating the slumping Boston Red Sox leo in a pitching battle between Sig Jakuckl and veteran Mike Ryba, Jakucki pitched five-hit ball as the Browns achieved their seventh straight win and their 10th in their last i2 games, Ryho allowed but four hits but two came In the first inning and brought about the only run of the game.
 The two singles, plus two walks brought Chet Laahs across the plate with the all-important run and Jakucki took over from that point, On two occasions he pitched out of definite jams, once with men on first and third with two out in the seventh, and again with the bases loaded and two down in the eighth.
 From Behind
 The New York Yankees, the only ones who have not yet counted themselves out of the race, stayed within three games of the leaders by beating the Chicago White Sox, 9-3. The Tanks won in old.tine Yankee fashion. Trailing 40 going into the fifth, the Tanks tied the count on successive homers by Nick Etten and Oscar Grimes and eased into Q 7-4 lead an inning later, Bill Zuber was credited with the win,
 The last place Washington Sen- ators defeated the Cleveland In- dians s.S when they pounded five Cleveland hurlers for IS hits. Joe Heving broke an American League record when he appeared in his 62nd relief role for the Tribe this season. Dutch Leonard was the winner.
 In the National League the Cin- cinnati Reds won two from the New York Giants, 8.5 and 6-4 and the St. Louis Cardinals stretched their vic- tory skein to seven by edging the Brooklyn Dodgers 8.7. The Chicago Cubs clinched fourth spot by win- ming the first of two lop-sided games from the Philadelphia Phillies, l6.0. The Phillies won the nightcap. l0.1. Pittsburgh defeated the Boston Braves 6-2.
 YESTERDAYS STAR - Sig Jakucki, who, with the pressure de- finitely on, pitched a five hit shut. out against the Boston Red SoX to keep the St. Louis Browns in tie with the Detroit Tigers for first place in the American League.