The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-12
CARDS TAKE GREAT LEAP
 ON DODGERS
BY JOE REICHLER ZAP SPORTS WRITER

The St. Louis Cardinals are once mere breathing on the necks of the National League leading Brock lyn Dodgers, principally because of the prodigious stickwork of their great one-two punch, Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter
 Led by these humping twins, the runner-up Cards swept both ends of a double header from the Gin oinnati Red 15-4 and 7-3 yesterday to advance within a half-game of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost twice to their serstwhile cousins, :" the Philadelphia Phillies.
 Musal and Slaughter, who be- tween them lead the National League hitters in six of the eight major offensive departments en- joyed one of their best batting days of the season, with Musial getting eight hits in ten times at lat and slaughter six in nine.
 The Reds staged a batting dis play of their own in the eighth inning of the opener, tying major league record when Grady Hatton, Ray Mueller and Max West hit successive home runs. But by that time Murry Dickson, stocky Cardinal righthander, was far out in front and he coasted to his 1lth victory. Johny Beazley scat tered six hits in winning his four tn game in the nightcap.
 PH1Ls PoUNcE oN CARDINALS
 Apparently aroused by Chicago Cubs General Manager Jimmy Gallaghers statement that they faint every time the Dodgers come into their park the Phils released all their fury on six Brooklyn pitchers and downed the Brooks twice 7-6 and 6-4. The pair ot victories ended skein of F straight Brooklyn wins this season and marked the first time Phila- delphia had beaten the Dodgers at Shibe Park since Sept. 10, 1944.
 Manager Leo Durocher and sec ond baseman Ed Stanky Of the Dodgers were banished from the second game by Umpire George Magerkurth, who also cleared the Brooklyn bench of all substitutes for heckling him over decision in the first inning.
 cROWD AT NEW YORK
 New York's largest crowd of the season - 72,320 paid saw the Yankees and American League leading Boston Red Sox divide a double header which took five hours and Il minutes to play. The seccnd game was halted by dark ness after six and a half innings. The division left the Red Sox still 13 games in front of the Yankees. Three hits by catcher Hal Wag- ner which drove in as many runs, helped the Red Sex to a 7-5 vic tory in the first game, while Lefty Joe Page limited the Sox to two hits in the abbreviated second game. which the Yankees won 9-1.
 TIGERS LOST TWO
 Hal Newhouser, 20-game winner, went down to his fifth defeat when the Chicago White Scx whipped Detroit's Tigers twice, 80 and 4-3, the second game lasting 12 innings. Bobby Teller was called in as a relief pitcher as Cleveland earn cd a split with the St. Louis Browns, winning the second game, 4-3. after the Browns had won the opener 3-2.
 The cellar dwelling Pittsburgh Pirates overcame a 9-1 Chicago lead to nose out the Cubs 10-9 in the first game of double header. Then they came from behind with two eighth inning runs to earn A tie in the nighcap. The second game was halted by Pennsylvania s curfew law
 THREF-RUN HOMER
 After Johnny Sain registered hls 18th victory for the Boston Braves with a 1O-2 triumph over New York, the Giants came back to win the second game 9-6. A three-run homer by Sid Gordon in the nnth broke up a 6-6 tie
 Bobo Newsom gained his 10th victory of the season, his seventh for his new Washington team when he defeated his former Phlla- delpflia Athletic teammates 3-l in the first game of double header. The As came back to pound three Senator hurlers for 15 hits ana 12-5 victory in the second game
 Scores and batteries:
 National League
 Brooklyn G. Philadelphia '; first