The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-09
ROAD GAMES BIG HELP TO CUBS
 AND SENATOR'S
BY CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, July 9-(UP)-Ths Cubs and Senators aren't encourag. ing wartime travel, but 1t was hard to deny today that it has done won ders for both teams.
 Homeward bound after brilliant road trips, both clubs now are in the thick of the pennant fights, the Cubs in first place in the National and the Senators in second in the American. When they took off on extended road junkets late in June, Chicago was in fifth and Washing ton in sixth.
 The Cubs won 10 straight victor ies, have made up five and a halt game deficit, passing the Giants, Pirates, Cardinals and finally the leading Dodgers. They have won 13 out of 16 games for the best road trip showing of any Major League team this year, even though 1t was only a shade better than the squirt of the Senators.
 Washington, which won IS out of g games on its trip, suffered a lit- tie loss of lustre by losing its two final games in St. Louis Saturday and Sunday, the defeats ending a Six-game winning streak.
 The Cubs finished their road stand with 12 to and g to 2 vic- tories over the Phillies yesterday. Powerful, plentiful hitting, the trade mark of their winning drive,' paced the 14-hit first game attack with triple, double and two singles while Stap Hack and Don Johnson made three hits each in the 16-hit second game. Ray Prim, in a relief role, and Hany Wyse, who went the route in the second for his third victory on the trip, were the winners Harry Lowery got first game Cub homer.
 The Browns topped Washington, 5 to l, as Nelson Potter ended seven-game losing streak with six hit job in a contest cut to seven innings by rain. Three runs in the second, followed by George Mo- Quinn's homer in the third, spelled defeat for Marine Pieretti. The sec- ond game was called off. Dodgers Drop The Cards dropped the Dodgers to second place in the National, with a pair of 6 to 4 wins. Chortling Charley Barrett, who has become a typical "gas-houSe' Cardinal since moving over from the Braves, laughed at the Dodgers in the open CT as he sent them out of the lead they had held for "A days. Ken Burk Hardt survived Dixie Walkers four-run homer in the first inning of the second game and went on to win his ninth game. Barrett's vic- tory was his 10th this season and eighth since joining the Cards. George Kurowski paced the Cards in the final game with an inside the park homer and triple.
 The Giants split with the Reds at New York when Bill Voiselle broke his losing complex in the nightcap and went the route for the first time since May % to shut out team he had failed to beat in four previous starts, 5 to 0. Phil Weintraub's three-run homer help ed him win. Bucky Walters, also a pitching disappointment this season, won the opener for the Reds, 5 to ?.
 Tommy Holmes of the Braves ran his batting streak to 37 games and team mate Charley Workman tied for the league lead with his 18th homer as Boston split with the visiting Pirates. Pittsburgh took the opener, 10 to 8. with Ellsworth (Babe) Dahlgren's three-run homer the big blow. The Braves made it easy for Jim Tobin to win 13 to 1 five-hitter, getting IA hits in the second. Holmes got homer in this game, his 14th.
 The Tigers increased their lead to four and a half games in the Am erican by splitting with the Yankees at Detroit. New York hooked nemesis, Paul (DizzO Trout, 8 to 6, in the opener for their first vic- tory over him since Aug. g, 1943. Hank Greenberg's third homer since rejoining the Tigers a week ago and a two-rrln round-tripper by Eddie Mayo in the ninth still weren't enough. Alton Benton beat the Yankees, to 2, in the second game for his seventh win against one defeat and his second since returning after being out with a broken ankle.
 Five Blanks
 Red Sox Rookie Dave (Boo) Fer riss won his 14th game and fifth shutout at Cleveland, 6 to o, but the Indians won the second game, 4 to ?. Ferriss started his own win ming rally with two-run triple III the second. He gave up seven hits on the mound to top Steve Gromek, ace of the Indian staff. Jeff Heath led a 1o-hit attack with three hits as Rookie Pete Center won the second.
 The White sox topped Philadel- phia twice, 5 to 4 and 3 to 2, al Chicago. Chicago win the opener despite six errors and two-run homer by Dick Siebert, but Orval Grove got perfect support in win ming his ninth game in the after piece.
 YESTERDAYS STAR-Bill Voi- selle of the Giants, who ended his long pitching slump with a shut out over the Reds. team he never before had beaten.