The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-15
Cords Class Keen Against
 Brooklyn

New York, May l5-(UP)-Eddie Dyer, the man on the fire, wasn't incoming much today about the slow start of his Cardinals and after an ll-inning look 1t was easy to see why.
 Dyer brushed off thoughts that he might be roasted alive if St. Louis fails to come through after being the hottest preseason pen- nant favorite in either league.
 And the Cardinals with stirring, 2 to 5 victory over the front-run- ming Dodgers in extra innings, made 1t plain that any attempt to read them out of the race at this early date is extremely premature.
 Reflects POtentialities
 They won with a characteristic 'aGas-House- Gang" performance, beating the dazzling Dodgers at home after they had won nine straight games there this season, but there was a lot more to the story than that.
 Had the Cardinals been beaten yesterday there still would have been no reason to discount the teams all-around brilliance and it's potential greatness.
 They ran for the extra base and made it, they parlayed hustle and class afield to cut off the Dodgers when they tried the same thing. They gave Lefty Max Lanier 5 to o lead in four innings as he em- ployed his long standing hex to beat the Dodgers for the Fist time against seven losses since coming to the Cards in 1889.
 Then when Lanier tired and Brooklyn tied the score, Martin Marion came through with two- run single in the 11th to clinch the game. It was Lanier's fifth straight victory without defeat. The Cards made Is hits, George Kurowski get ting four to set the pace as Brook lyn's first place lead was cut to game.
 Good Reason For Lag That demonstration backed up Dyer's feelings that there isn't much to worry about-yet. Injuries have retarded progress, he said, and post ponements have kept pitchers from working often enough to be in top trim, while the large number of re- turning servicemen on the club are just now hitting pre-war stride. At Boston, Billy Southworth's Braves won their fourth straight, beating Pittsburgh, to 1 at night to stay a game behind the Cards. Lefty Jim Wallace faced only 31 batters in pitching four-hitter in which he struck out six. Four sin gles, an error and walk gave Bos- ton four runs in the fourth and a triple by Barna Powell followed by Tommy Holmes double produced the other in the seventh.
 Dave (BooO Ferriss won his fourth straight game beating the White Sox, 3 to 6 on two hits at Chicago to keep Boston Ia games ahead in the American. A two-run homer by Rudy York gave Ferriss all the margin he needed for his fourth straight victory.
 The Yankees made all their runs on homers by Joe DiNaggio, Bill Dickey and Joe Gordon in 8 6 to triumph over the Browns at St. Louis. Backed by all that power, Floyd Bevens scattered nine hits to win his second game with a min- imum of trouble. DiMaggio's hom- CT, which produced three runs, was his seventh.
 Tiger Streak Snapped
 Washington went to extremes to snap Detroit's eight-game winning streak, getting 20 hits in IS to 1 victory in the most lop-sided major league tilt this year. Buddy Lewis drove in five runs with a homer, double, and single and scored three himself while Jeff Heath got three doubles and a single to drive in four runs. Rookie Anse Moore robbed Roger Wolff of a sffutout with a ninth inning homer.
 Other major league games were rained out.
 =. YESTERDAYS STAR Dave
 (Boo) FerriSs of the Red Sox,
 who pitched his second shutout
 and fourth straight victory,
 beating the White Sox, 3 to 0 |. on two hits.
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