The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-22
hos Won 22; Relieved Of 


 .avid tBoo) Ferriss of Shaw, Miss, nd the Boston Red Sox became the 7inning'est pitcher in major league baseball today as he continued to make hay while the sun shines-a neat trick for hay fever sufferer.
 While his famous rivals, Bobby Teller and Hal Newhouser re- mained deadlocked at 21 games, de- feated in their last outings, the Bosox's Sophomore ace gained his 22d victory of the season although he needed the help of Bob Klinger and a slugging salute by his team mates to quell the Browns yester- day, 12 to g.
 Easy going, ice-cream loving Boo" now stands at his full 6 feet, 2 inches with good chance of winning 30 games in his second year on the big stem. Through treatments by Dr. Francis Racke- mann, celebrated Back Bay special ist, Ferriss apparently has overcome the "sneezes" which last season hit him in mid-August harder than any opposing hitter.
 Takes 10th Row
 An -Scotchman, who throws a lot of good stuff" with good con- irol, Ferriss took his 10th in a row the hard way yesterday along the route to the 3o-game marks estab- lished in 1912 by Walter Johnson of the Senators and Smoky Joe Wood of the Red SoX,
 Tn a 35-hit slugfest with the Browns, the Red Sox gave Boo" tremendous batting support as Ted Williams hit three for three and both Rudy York and Bobby Doerr batted in their Tooth run of the year, York adding another later. Starter Bob Mancrief of the Browns ook his shower In the second, when he Red Sox scored seven times, vhile Klinger pitched the last three and two-third innings for the Sox.
 Ferriss said, however, that his exit was not due to recurrence of the hay fever sneezes which came along when he had a 19-4 record last year and forced him to end up with a 2l-l0 mark. The 24-year- old Southerner has dropped only four games this year.
 Billy (The Kid) Southworth made his last 1946 appearance at St. Louis winning one, once again proving his mastery at picking spots for his pitchers He sent 37-year- old Si Johnson against the Cardi- nals and the aging righthander, making his first start since July 31. went the route to hurl the Boston Braves to to 5 victory over St. Louis, dropping the Redbirds a game and a half behind the Dodg- CTS who routed Pittsburgh, to 2
 Wins Own Game
 In winning his second game of the season, Johnson drove in Nanny Fernandez with what proved to be the winning run in the top half of the ninth and then survived shaky last half of the ninth when Enos Slaughter slammed his 10th homer of the season to pull the Cardinals to within one run
 The Dodgers. turning on the Pi- rates who walloped them Tuesday, 10 to o, backed up southpaw Joe Hatten's eight-hit hurling with II hits, including Howie Schultz sim gle and Bruce Edwards double in the big three-run eighth.
 In the American League, the Ath letics drove Virgil (Fire) Trucks to the showers in the sixth and went on to defeat the Detroit Tigers, to l. It was Detroits fourth defeat in row. the World Champions longest losing streak since early May when they dropped seven straight.
 The second-place Yankees moved -hree and a half games ahead of he Tigers by sweeping a double >eader from the White Sox, 10 to l, nd to 4.
 Chandler Shackles Sox
 Spud Chandler gained his 18th ictory in. the opener aided by Joe 0iMaggio's 2lst. Aaron Robinson's 18th and Charley Keller's 24th 4omers while pinch-hitter Nick Et-