The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-22
GUTTERIDCE \. R. ENDS BROWNIES LOSING STREAK
RY GLEN PERKINS samfaRsa NlRwsR Staff goarseknnsl

New York. August 9. = tuPl - The ''one-day wonder" of the baSe- bah seaTch the story that the St. Louis Browns were washed up" was. washed out today.
 The Browns did the "laundering" themselves at Washington last night by pulling a hard. i2-inning game out of the fire from the peSky last place Washington Senators after coming from behind twict to tie the score in the regulation distance.
 Haunting the stubbolneSs that has featured their plodding prog Fess toward their first American League pcnnant. the Browns Missouri Mules of baseball snap ped their longest losing streak ot the year at four games when Don Gutteridge hit a two run homer in the third overtime Inning to pro- duce a 5-S victory. The little second baseman, who collected three hits in six appearances. picked a three and two pitch rom Mickey Hoesner for his first homer of the season to end the bah game.
 Sig Jallucki scattered fight hits over the route for the triumph but was in trouble several times. The Mats stabbed him with two runs in the second frame a deficit st. Louis orercame with single tailieS in the third and fourth only to see the Senators move ahead again in the last of the fourth when Freddie Vaughan. Rookie second baseman, connected for his first major league homer. An unearned run in the eighth. scored on Gil Torres errQr sent the contest into overtime and the Gutteridee circuit blow ended the game Haefner. who pitched 1 the distance for the Senators. was the loser. The Browns nov lead the second place Boston Red Sox by foni and one-half games.
 Boston was stubborn. too. the Cleveland Indians needing B in- nings 10 eke out a 7-6 win. Home runs featured the contest, Mickey ROcco's being the payoif blow in the 18th. Previously. in the lith in- ming. Pitcher sim Bagby and out fielder Pat Seerey hit successive home runs for the tribe but Boston came back with two runs in their half to knot the count again. In the third inning Ken Keltner started the Indians toward victory with a two run homer Bagby. who worked n innings for the winners. failed to gain the victory, Ted Klieman, who relieved him in the l2th. was credit ed with the win.
 At New York. the Yankees. with home runs by Herschel Martin and Russ Derry. stopped the pressing Detroit Tigers. 5-l. Walter fMonk) Dubiel gained the decision but was denied a shutOut when an error per- mitted the only Detroit score in the fifth frame.
 The Philadelphia Athletics de- feated the Chicago White Sox. 3-2 in the circuits third extra inning game Frankie Hayes single with the bases loaded in the 10th pros vided the "Ais" with the victory. Don Black went the route for the Mackmen and spaced six hits ID winning. Bin Dietrich was the loser.
 In the National League the New York Giants extended their winning streak" to two games by downing the Chicago Cubs. 4-3. largely through the batting efforts of catcher Ernie LOinbardi. who drive in ali Of the New York tallies with two hOmers and a single. The big backstop poled both his circuit blows off loser Bill Fleming to give veteran Johnny Allen the decision.
 The Brooklyn Dodgers July los- ing streak was officially extended to I6 games when the pittsburgh Pi- rates defeated them 9-7 in the com pleti0n of a game suspended after eight innings on July 9. Xavier RescignO. third Pittsburgh pitcher Of the July game, was the winner, although Fritz Ostermueller fin- ished up for him yesterday.
 Adding insult to injury. the Pirates also eopped the regularly scheduled game. 7-6 in 10 innings. Coming from a 50 deficit. the Bucs tailed four times in the fifth and scored another in the sixth to send the game into extra innings, Johnny Barrett's fly sent Bob Elliott across the plate with the winning run tO give Ray Stapp the decision.
 Boston at st. Louis, the only other National League game scheduled, was ratned out.