The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
BROOKLYN'S BUNS TOAST
 OF FLATbUSH
By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent

New York, June 16 - (U.P) - Food rationing - for today at least -as no problem for sports scribes; they can sit down to dry but plen- tiful meal of their own words writ ten about the Brooklyn Dodgers never would see the first division, let alone first place.
 For Dem Beautiful. Wonderful Buns" though their hour of glory was brief, led the league for awhile yesterday and Flatbush fans were telling the world about it. It was the chief topic of conversation in the B. ". T. Subway lines that go mole like to Ebbets Field, Prospect Park, Coney Island and other landmarks of Brooklyn. U. S. A.
 A butter-milk tour of the bars by an agent from the Flatbush March ing and Chowder Club revealed mo- thing but contempt for customers unwilling to toast the Dodgers, now in contention for the first time since they lost the pennant in the stretch in 1o42.
 There is nothing phony in this lore of the love of Flatbush for its beloved "bums" Not as skeptical as the writers, the fans can't believe the situation is temporary, though there is nothing to indicate that the Dodgers are as good as they look
 g to 8 victory at Boston gave them the lead and though the Bucs regeined it later with to ? night victory over the Cardinals, it didn't matter too much to Brooklynites be- cause their team had been in first, hadn't 1t?
 Goodwin Rosen's triple and Howie Schultzs double featured three run eighth inning that clinched the Dodgers seventh straight victory. They made Is hits, Luis Olmo get ting a homer. Phil Masi and Char ley Workman hit Brave homers. With the score tied, 3-all in the third, rain halted the second game.
 Nick Strincevich spotted the Cards two first inning runs at Pitts burgh, then held them scoreless while the Bucs tying the count on Charley Barrett in the second. Bob Elliott, ith homer and single. led the Pirate attack. It also was Pitts bursh's seventh straight victory.
 Indicat ting there is nothing wrong with any club series with the Phils won't cure, the Giants broke a six-game losing streak with to s victory Leon Treadway, replacing Joe Medwick, drove in three runs with . homer, his first in the big league, and two singles. The game was at New York.
 Fly Vandenberg made his first vic- tory of the season one to remember pitching the Cubs to 8 one-hit, 3 to 0 victory over the Reds at Cincin- nati after his team mate. Claude Passeau had won the opener on six hits, 8 to 1. Al Libke got the only hit oil vandenberg in the first in- ming on short pop-fly double. The two wins put the Cubs into fourth place and ran their string over Cin- cinnAti to seven without a defeat this season.
 Dave Ferriss, phenomenal fresh- man pitcher for the Red Sox com- pleted his cycle of victories in the American League with a 14-inning, 6 to decision over the Senators, the only team he hadn't beaten. He regained the lead among the pitch CTS ith nine victories in 10 starts, since Hank Borowy of the Tanks, with whom he was tied, lost a 4 to game at Philadelphia. Ferriss gave up 12 hits but held Washington scoreless after the sixth. Completing . six-hour marathon, the second game ended in a 3-all tie in the 18th, called because of the a. m. curfew.
 The As handed Borowy his sec- end defeat of the season against eight wins, ending a string of seven straight for the Yankee ace over Philadelphia. They came from be- hind with two runs in the seventh, after spotting New York three un- earned runs in the second.
 Allie Reynolds pitched the In- dians to to 2 triumph over the Browns at Cleveland, Manager Lou Boudreau supplying the winning punch with a two-run homer.
 Detroit at Chicago was rained out.
 YESTERDAYS STAR-Ey Van- denberg, following Hank Wyse as the second Cub pitcher of the sea- son to hurl a one-hitter. blanked the Reds. 3 to o and yielded no hits after the first inning.
 For being shot in the nose by Constable David Drake, while the