Evening star., 1944-08-21
Leaders Drop 6 Of 9
Tlts Played Here;
Vaughn C|outs
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

Those mournful notes floating
through Griflth Stadium aren't
coming from the last-place Mats
It's the st. Louis Browns wailing the
st. Louis Blues as they contemplate
their league lead cut to 3h games
by the unpredictable Washington
Ball Club.
That double Jolt handed the stag
gering Sewell crew yesterday ran its
current losing streak to four games
its worst of the season. It also left
the Boston Red Sox right at the
heels of the Browns, so the Mats
with nowhere to 60 may be remem-
bered as the outfit that put the skids
under the club hoping to get ST.
Louis its first American League
pennant.
To the Mats, the Browns in Sports
mans Park in st. Louis may be
champions, but here they only are
another ball club. In st. Louis, the
Washington outfit has won but one
Of eight games. Here the Mats have
mopped up in six of nine.
Wins Are Clean-Cut.
There was nothing f1uky abcit the
4-to-2 and l2-to-l wins the Mats
rang up to the great delight of the
18,048 Sunday crowd. In both games
they swung their bats freely and
effectively and they had the pitch
ing the Browns didn't like.
Dutch Leonard in the first game
came back after string of six de-
feats to allow the Browns just
hits and after the fourth inning not
Brown got to first base. In the
second set-to. Early Wynn, who was
to enter Uncle Sans armed forces
today, was nicked for 10 hits, but
they were so thinly spread that not
until the eighth did the Browns
find the plate and then their run
was unearned.
After long flies had backed hits
to give the Browns their tallies in
the opening encounter, the Mats
hoped on Denny Galehouse for
their triumph. A double by Case
and single by Spence in the fifth
got back one of the runs and in
the seventh. Galehouse's last round,
they clustered four hits for three
runs.
Doubles Bag First Game.
Ortiz began this attack with a
double and Spence and Ferrell got
a one-baser that fetched Torres
home.
Everybody in the Washington
lineup except Wynn and Powell,
who played only one inning, in the
second game shared in the II hits
that finished the righthanded Jack
Kramer in four rounds and blasted
Weldon West and Sam Zoldak, left
handlers, who followed Kramer. A
three-hit attack ended by Torres
triple in the first inning got three
runs. The Mats skipped two rounds,
then scored in each of the remain
ing five.
Three two-baggers and two triples
were among the flock of hits by the
Mats in the nightcap. One of the
doubles was clouted by Fred Vaughn
second baseman making his debut
here. He also got a scratch single
but he revealed a deal of power at
bat in the second game as well as
demonstrating he knows what to do
around the middle sack. Vaughn
drove across three of the dozen
runs as did Guerra.
Ump BaniShes Jakucki.
Fielding gem of the double
header was Sullivan's stop of Hay
worth's drive far back of second
base in the fourth of the second
game -. and Sully tagged his man,
too. E. Spence took one of West S
pitches on the crazy bone of his
right arm in the nightcap
That let Powell get into the game
:. While taking their second beat.
ing the Browns on the bench
heckled the umpires continually.
Finally Umpire Hubbard waved Sie
Jakucki to the clubhouse.
Jakucki will pitch tonight for the
league leaders. Haefner Is Skip
per Bluege's choice.