The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
WASHINGTON
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BY CARL LUNDQUIsT

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 New York, Aug. 24.-(UP) Those senors from the junior circuit, Washington's Battin,, Latins, came to Manhattan today with well laid plans to use the Yankees as a step- ping stone to first place.
 Getting into the lead would be new experience for the Senators, who have been all the way from second to seventh place and back again in the current pennarlt quest. They have missed out on eighth, but that is where they finished last season. Now they would like to be- come the first club in major league history to complete the climb from bottom to top in one year span.
 As they squared off for the final stage of the race in which they have the advantage of playing a long stretch of games at home, the Mats even were ready with a secret weapon. Manager Ossie Bluege ala- nounced from the Senate gallery" at Yankee stadium that Gilberto Torres, the Cyclonic Cuban who has been whirlwind at shortstop al. season, was going to take evor as relief pitcher.
 Torres was benched during the teams recent trip at Cleveland on the advice of the club physician who advised him to 'tsit down before you fall down." While he was taking it easy, shortstop Dick Kimble, a fugitive from the St. Louis Browns Toledo farm club, moved into his spot and has been hitting 1858.
 Bluege tabled Kimble as a "fine competitive player" and logical bet for the late season pennant drive. That, he said, gave the pitch ing staff 8 big boost just before a long string of double headers since the teams previous top relief artist Alex C@-rasque1 has been boosted to, starting role. Carrasquel, win- ner of his last five starts, is a stoi- cal Venezuelan Indian but has his own conclusions about his pitching ability.
 "They start Alex all the time, Alex win for them 25 games may be-" he said.
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 Torres, who was a pitcher-out- fielder at Montgomery, Ala, before coming up to the Senators, won 19 games in one season while playing nearly every day. Like most of the other Senator pitchers. he is g knuckle-ba
 The Senators lost ground on their off-day, dropping full game be- hind the leading Tigers who used a squeeze play to beat the Athletics at Detroit, to 3, for the sixth win in eight games in the long series. Jim robin, who failed to win his previ- ous two starts as a. Tiger, went the distance to edge Don Black in a duel. He gave up eight hits while the Tigers made 10. Roy Cullenbine scored on the squeeze after walking and going to third on Rudy YorkS single. Skeeter Webb sent him home with a perfect bunt.
 Rookie Ralph Branca of the Dodgers settled an old score with the Giants at New York, holding them to four hits in a 4 to vic- tory. The Giants wouldn't give him tryout when he was pitching star at New York University. The only damaging blow he yielded was homer to Leon Treadway. Ed Stew ems got a single. double. g triple and walk to lead the Dodgers.
 Pittsburgh handed Cincinnati its sixth straight defeat, 6 to 2, behind the steady pitching of Walter (Boom Boom) Beck. Bill Salked got a three run homer to lead the 10-hit attack.
 There were no other games sched- uled in either leaguge.
 YESTERDAYS STAR = Ralph Branca, who pitched the Dodgers to four-hit, to victory over the Giants, striking out eight batters.