The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-03
Pennont DoY Not For off For Red Sox

New York, Sept. 3-CUP)-Ted Williams, who has sacrificed his bat ting average to swing for the fence and glory, was in danger today of ending up empty handed while his team and teammates monopolize American League honors.
 It's pennant-day minus seven for the Red Sox. Any combination of Boston victories and Yankee defeats totalling seven games will bring the American League flag to Beantown for the first time since 1918.
 But titanic Teddy, whose slashing bat launched the Red Sox ahead of the field earlier this. year, currently is muscle-bound by the worst slump of the season although his team and mates are getting hotter as Boston barrels down the stretch.
 No Titles Sighted
 It would be irritating irony if Will liams-acclaimed the greatest hitter in the game-would finish the sea- son with no titles of swat. But as the BoSoX swept doubleheader from the Yankees here yesterday, 5 to 2, and 3 to 1, to stretch their lead to season high of 15h games, Williams got two for seven, both singles. His -limbed, power packed swing was still there-poetry in motion-but his timing wasn't And it hasn't been with the big guy for almost two weeks. From Aug. 9 through yesterday, Williams has got 12 hits in 49 times at bat, a .245 hit ting pace.
 The bean-pole bomber'S once proud average has skidded to .334. plenty good but not great, with team mate Johnny PaSky and Mickey Vernon of the Senators ahead of him in the American League bat ting race. Williams still leads in runS-batted-in with 115, but team mate Bobby Doerr is right on his heels with III, and Bosox first base man Rudy York-Who drove in two runs yesterday-has 110.
 Even in home runs, which Will Hams is striving too hard to pro- duce, the Red Sox's lanky outfielder is being pressed by Hank Greenbere, who no whas 29 to Williams 34. A normal hitting diet should pull the big guy through to the R.BI. and home run titles, but most of Sep tember lies ahead and at the mo- ment Williams is hitting about the size of his bat.
 While Williams was shawod-box- ing with his slump yesterday, the Red Sox' Dave (Boo) Ferriss took a tighter grasp on A. L. pitching honors by defeating the Tanks in the first game on eight hits for his 24th victory of the campaign, his l2th straight and his fourth over the fading Yankees. Big Boo needs only one more game to tie Wes Ferreu's American League record for victor les in a pitchers first two seasons in the majors. Terrell winning 46 with the Indians in 1929-30.
 Six Shy of 100 Mark
 Southpaw Mickey Harris won the nightcap for his 16th triumph of the season, leaving the Red Sox just six games shy of the 100 circle.
 In the ding dong National League race, the Cardinals swept @ double header from Cincinnati yesterday. 6 to 4, and 2 to T as Enos Slaughter cracked three home runs to enable relief pitcher Alpha Brazle to win both games. The sweep restored the Redbirds to two-and-a-half game lead as the Dodgers split with the Phillies, winning the opener, 5 to 2, and dropping the nightcap, 3 to 3.
 Slaughter generated misery for Cincinnati pitchers all day, hitting a two-run homer in the first game as Johnny Wander Nicer suffered his ninth defeat of the season. In the second game, the husky outf1eld- CT from Roxboro, N. C., smashed two round-trippers for three runs, ad- ded a double and scored a run on that. Brazle, the loyal southpaw from Loyal, Okla, relieved Johnny BeaZley in the first game to gain credit for that victory and entered the second game in the sixth inning to gain his ninth victory of the sea- son compared to 10 defeats.
 At Philadelphia, Oscar Judd's seven-hit pitching and Del Ennis two clutch safeties gave the Phils the nightcap of their doubleheader with the Dodgers after Rube Mel tons seven-hit hurling and Carl Furillo's two-run homer in the open CT had carried Brooklyn to victory.
 Greenberg Homers
 The Detroit Tigers moved to with in 2 1-2 games of the second-place Yankees, splitting a doubleheader with the White Sox as Dizzy Trout took the opener with four-hit, 2 to performance and Chicago captured the second game, 6 to 3, behind Frank Papish's f1ve-hit hurling. Greenberg swatted his 18th round- tripper to win the opener
 Bobo Newsom captured his 18th game of the season at Washington. winning the first game on eight hits, to 2, but the Athletics came back to take the second game, to l, with a 16-hit attack on three Sen- ator pitchers.
 The Cleveland Indians suffered their seventh defeat in their last eight games when the Browns took | the first game of a doubleheader, g | UO z, d1lO IIlcu IllCy UdIIlO0 uiiC Browns through 13 innings to dark ness and 2-all tie in the nightcap.
 The last-place Pirates, behing Edson Barr's five-hit pitching, de- feated Chicago in the opener of twinhll, to 1, but Russ Bauers, an ex-Pirate, pitched the Cubs to seven-hit, ' to 3 victory in the sec ond game At Boston, the Giants split a doubleheader, dropping the first game to Mort Cooper, to 2, and taking the second with 12-hit l attack. & to 3.