The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-29
TIGER ACE IS
 2 GAMES AHEAD
 AS TEAM LEADS
By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, June 29 - U.P0 - It is the fashion today to describe comeback pitcher as the new Nun go, the new Derringer, the new Christopher or the new Bowman. The Detroit Tigers, without anyone to fit exactly in that category, were getting along nicely in the pennant race with their Newhouser.
 Restoring Detroit's one-game lead over the Yankees yesterday, New houser, plain Hal to the fans who watched him grow up on Detroit's sandlots, beat the pesky Senators, 5 to 2, on six hits for his seventh straight win.
 That gave the lanky lefty 12 and 4 record for the season, putting him two games ahead of his 1914 pace and surprising every other Amer ican League pitcher for this stage of the race since Bobby Teller was on the firing line at Cleveland in 1o41. Teller, going at phenomenal pace early that year, had a 16-3 mark, but faded in the late season and wound up with a 25-13 record.
 Since the burden of Detroit pitch ing is on Newhouser's shoulder, he is well fixed now to top his 1914 mark of % and g, barring injury or slump. Because of the failure of his pitching partner, Paul (Dizzy) Trout, to approach his 1914 pace, Newhouser has had to go more often than the rest of the staff and his winning streak of seven was achieved in 25 days. Going to the mound on an average of every three and half days, he never was re- lieved during the stretch and held the opposition to 6.9 hits per game. He had one shut out, three one-run games, two in which he yielded two and only once did the opposition get three.
 Beating Washington's ace, Roger Wolff, was simplified when Eddie May contributed first inning homer. Newhouser struck out six to run his league-leading total to 96. His only bad inning was the fifth when the Senators made both of their runs, one of them on Harlond Gifts homer.
 A six-run fifth inning gave the Browns margin for a g to 4 vic- tory over the Yankees at St. Louis, ending their five-game losing streak and snapping New York's winning streak at seven. Vernon Stephens got his 18th homer for the Browns as Sig Jakucki marked up his sev- enth triumph.
 Frankie Hayes, who did little be- sides make an appearance, tied the major league durability record for catchers at Cleveland, working his 217th straight game as Jim Bagby shut out the Athletics, II to 0. Hayes, obtained last month from the As, equalled the mark of Cin- cinnati's Ray Mueller, now in the service. The Indians made Is hits, Jeff Heath leading the way with three, including a homer, to drive in three runs. Bagby, giving up six hits, won his second game against eight defeats.
 The Cubs trimmed Brooklyn's Ma tional lead to three games, beat ing the Dodgers, II to 8. Chicago got Is hits to cushion ineffective pitching. Harry (Peanuts) Lowrey for Chicago and Goodwin Rosen for Brooklyn hit homers.
 The Braves, up to their speciality of winning games in the clutch beat the Reds at Boston, to 6, on Churck Workman's tWo-run homer in the ninth. Steve Mesner gave the Reds an early lead with a homer and pitcher Jim Tobin coun- tered with two run circuit clout for Boston. League leading hitter Tommy Holmes delivered safely in his Ath straight game.
 The Cards batted around in the fourth to score five runs, enough to beat the Phils at Philadelphia, 6 to l. Rookie Ken Burkhardt won his eighth game to take the lead among Cardinal pitchers.
 Nick Strincevich won his seventh game for Pittsburgh, beating the Giants, to 1, at New York. The Pirates made 12 hits of Harry Feld- man, but seldom were able to bunch them.
 The Boston at Chicago game in the American was rained out.
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