The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-27
RED RUFFING
 BEATS AS BY
 13 TO 4 SCORE
By CARL LUNDQUIsT

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 New York, July 27-(UP)--It's too bad Yankee manager Joe Mccarthy wasn't around to see the old coal mi- ner from Nokomis, H., Charley (Red) Ruffing make his comeback on the pitching mound after nearly three years in the army.
 l. probably would have been more of a tonic than any medicine that could be prescribed for the veteran pilot. Up in Buffalo where he is recovering from 8 nervous ailment that made him want to resign as manager, 1t must have made him feel as if old times were back again when big Red beat the Athletics, 1S to 4.
 The entire team seemed to respond to Rulings return and that of his rookie hattery-mate, catcher Aaron Robinson. Together they formed baseball's first ex-G.I. battery in which both members had been ma jor leaguers before the war.
 Ruffing, whose 13 year career with the Yankees bears remarkable par allel to McCarthy's pitched the king of a game for which he Is famous He knocked the heart out of the op- position by retiring the first seven men in order, six of them on strike outs.
 Hit Q Triple
 For six innings he gave up only two hits. The As got to him in the seventh for two more hits and run, but he planes his feat of hitting a three bagger in the previous inning for that.
 After I had made that hit and ran all the way to third I was so alarmed tired felt like sitting right down on the bag" said the 40-year- old righthander. And when I went out in the seventh I couldn't do any more than just lob my pitches in and they started to tag me-"
 The game was a lot like Ruff fing'S last victorious appearance in the first game of the 1942 World Series against the Cardinals at St. Louis. He held the Cards hitless for seven and two thirds innings to set a new world record. That was tn only game the Yankees won in that series.
 Giving Ruffing solid support against the As, who have been play ing the best ball in the league of late despite their cellar position the Yankees made IA hits. Arthur CBud) Metheny set the pace, get tinug a homer and two singles to drive in three runs. Robinson, al- though hitless, drove in run with a fly and handled Ruffing well. He recently was discharged from the Coast Guard because of a kne m- jury.
 Moved Up
 The victory put the Yankees into a three-way third place tie with Chicago and Boston, four games out of the lead.
 The Cubs capitalized on the ap- pearance of their favorite oppon- ents, the Reds, at Chicago, win ming, 2 to 1. to give Hank Wyse his l4th victory. It was the ninth vic- tory without defeat for the Cubs ever the Reds this season. Third Baseman Stan Hack drove in the 9th, ending the game by making a sensational stabbing catch of a liner by Gerald Walker. Bill Nicholson drove in the first Cub run off Ed Heusser with a triple.
 The second place Cards remained four and a half games behind the Cubs, winning, 10 to with an 18- hit attack on three pitchers. Rookie Ken Burkhardt had no trouble win- ming his 11th game as every start CT in the Card lineup made at least one hit. Augie Bergamo made four in a row to run his string to seven for two games.
 There were no other games sched- uled.
 YESTERDAYS STAR-Charley (Red) Rufftng, who got off to g B to 4 winning start for the Yan- kees over the As in his first ap- pearance after nearly three years in the Army