The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-18
Cards, Cubs
 Indicated in
 pennani Race
(BY JACK HAND) ZAP SPORTS WRITER J

Cardinals habit of lccing to the
 Phillies is leaving the door wide
 open for the Chicago Cubs in the f National League pennant scramble. , Although the Dodgers still rule D Ford Tricks roost by a half game, , many baseball men believe the real
 1946 race in September will find the ? Cards and Cubs battling for the flag,
 9 Counted out of the race and rated just another wartime club" , in the early spring calculations, the f Bruins today are a strong third, breathing hard on the necks of the } St. Louis Red Birds and only 3 1-2 !, games out of first place The Cubs made ground yesterday by drubbing the Braves, 1o-0, in | the afternoon and then watching both the Brooks and Cards low under the arcs Bob Chipman's , siX-hit shutout performance, his first win in over a month, added another cheery note to the Chi cago situation. Recent pitching form of Johnny Schmitz, Hank Wyse and Hank Borowy have been encouraging.
 St. Louis once again refused to take advantage of a chance to re- gain the lead they hadn't held all by themselves since May 19. Ron Ncrthey belted two home runs and Andy Seminick added one with the bases choked to give Oscar Judd a
 10-1 early margin. The lefty faded
 under Card pressure in the last two rounds and had to call in re- lief help from Charlie Schanz and Dick Mulligan to save the 10-7 de- ciSion.
 Dodgers Setback
 Brooklyn staggered to a fifth successive setback at Cincinnati B. , ?, their seventh defeat in eight
 starts on the current western tour f Young Hank Behrman appeared to
 have a 2-1 triumph in his pocket until the Dodger defense collapsed
 in the four-run eighth to give
 Buoky Walters his sixth decision.
 Eddie Miller's single with the bases
 loaded actually decided the issue.
 Rookie Ralph Kiner sunk the
 New York Giants with a three-run
 homer and two singles behind Pitts burgh's Nick Strincevich. 8-5. Mel Ott tried everything, starting relief
 artist Art Trinkle and relieving
 successively with Red Hress, the 39- :, year-old coach and Johnny Gee 1, who hadn't pitched ball all sea-
 son.
 All major league records went by
 the boards at the Yankee Stadium when the New Workers lured 30,159 paying guests through the turnstiles to boost the season high to 1,510,- 934 The best previous mark was ', 1,485, 166 attained by the Chicago Cubs in 1929, and that for an en-
 tire season.
 uftfOo " tH tbO Incidentally the Yanks won two from St. Louis, 3-2, 8-4, but re- : mained Il full games behind Bos- : ton, which dumped Chicago twice, : 3-1 and 6-1. Most important de- velopment of the day to the Tanks . was the accidental beaning" of shortstop Phil Rizzuto by Nelson
 Potter Rizzuto was carried from
 the field and spent tte night in
 New York Hospital under observa- tion The injury was diagnosed as
 a concussion
 Jimmy Outlaws 18th inning double enabled Detroit to trim Washington 3-2 for Al Benton's first success since April Is, the sec- ond day of the season. The big ex-sailor hurled five innings of hit : less relief ball to outpoint Bobo [ NeWsom.
 Allie Reynolds got victory No. 5 : on the record by subduing the Philadelphia Athletics with five blows, 8-2.
 Scores and batteries: American League . First Game
 Chicago I; Boston 3; Lopat and Fresh Dobson and Partee. , Second Gamc : Chicago l; Boston 6; Grove, , Hammer (0 and Hayes; Ferriss and H. Wagner.
 First Game Il St. Louis ?; New York 3 Gale , house and Mancuso; Bevens and l Robinson.
 Second Gdnlc St. Louis 4; New York 8; Potter, Zoldak (4), Kinder (8) and Helf, Mancuso (4); Bonham and Rob- inSon.
 Cleveland 8; Philadelphia 2; Rey- holds and Hogan; Knerr, Griffith
 60 and Rosar.
 Detroit 3; Washington 2; 12 in-
 nings; Trucks, Benton (8) and Tsbbetts; Newson and Early. National League Boston 0; Chicago 10; Sain,