The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-05
CROWDS AT
 ATTENDANCE
 3. B. GAMES
BY JOE REICHLER (Ar SPORTS WRITER ]

III lllc MdJOl lSdgueS, tQe second half of the first postwar baseball oampaign today virtually assured of establishing a new season attend Iance record before the end of this month. They have hopes of reach ing the 2OO00,000 mark before the season comes to a close Sept. 29.
 A total of 239, ,456 fans paid to see yesterdays Independence Day bargain bills to boost the total at tendance for the National and American Leagues to 8,909,352, only two million short of last years record figure.
 Neither the Tanks nor the Cards were able to take advantage of the mediocre performance of the League leaders yesterday. With a chance to gain a full game each. the chal- lengers played follow the leader and split their twin bills, as did the Red SoX and Dodgers.
 (Boo) Ferriss went down to his fourth defeat of the season as the lowly Philadelphia Athletics, with Canadian Phil Marchildon do- { ing the chucking shaded the Red Sox 3-2 in the opener of their twin bill With Ted William slam ming his second homer of the day and his 22nd of the season, the NSox had to slave off a desperate Mackman rally to cop the night cap 9-8
 After Emil (Dutch) Leonard had blanked the Yankees in the first game for Washington 20 the Bronx Bombers, with Lefty Joe Page pitching his first complete game in over a month, came back in the nightcap to return the shut out 5-0.
 A three-run ninth inning attack enabled the Dodgers to whip the New York Giants 8-5 before 48,200 paid admissions and earn an even split, as the Giants had won the opener 7-5.
 ! The Cardinals Iell into third place for several hours when they dropped the first game to the Chi cago Cubs Az, but reclaimed the runnerup berth by capturing the nightcamp 6-1
 A ninth inning double play by the Cleveland Indians with the Wouldbe tying run crossing the plate prevented the Detroit Tigers from sweeping a pair from the Tribe before a crowd of 51 1903. Outfielder Roy Sullenbine clouted three home runs, one in the first game which Detroit won 8-4, and two in the second, won by the h. dians 9-8.
 The St. Louis Browns moved to within a half game of fifth place by downing the Chicago White Sox twice, Al and 3-2
 The Philadelphia Phillies advanc- ed to within half game of fifth place Boston by whipping the Braves twice, TO and 3-2 Oscar Judd pitched the first game shut out
 After losing the first game to Pittsburgh 6-1, the Cincinnati Reds executed squeeze bunt to bring home the run that gave them 43 decision in II innings of the nightcap.
 The scores and batteries
 American League
 First game-Boston 2; Philadel- phia 3; Ferriss and Partee, H. Wagner (O; Marchildon and Ro- sar.
 Second game-Boston g; Phila- delphia 8; zuber, Klinger (0, Johnson e6), Brown CD, Drieswerd CD, Ryba (8, and H. Wagner; Christopher, Savage (6), Fargan CD, Knerr l8) and Rosar, De- sautels.
 First game-New York 0; Wash ington 2; Wade, Murphy (8) and Robinson; Leonard and Guerra.
 Second game-New York 5; Washington O; Page and Robinson; Wolff, Scarborough (5), Kennedy (6), Curtis (9) and Evans.
 First game-Cleveland 4, Detroit l 8; Gromek, Black CD, Center CD, ! Krakauskas (8), Berry (8) and He 1 gan; Hutchinson and Tebbets.
 Second game-Cleveland g; De- ! troit 8; Reynolds, Berry (6), Lemon (9) and Hayoire (5), Benton (6) I Corsica (4, White (6), Trout (9) and Richards.
 First game-St. Louis 4; Chi cago l; Kramer and Mancuso, Helf @; Smith, Haynes (9) and Fresh.
 Second game-St. Louis 8; Chi cago 2; Potter and Helf; Papish. HollingsWorth (8) and Dickey.
 National League
 First game-Brooklyn 5; New York T. Hatten, Head (5), Melton CD, and Edwards; Koslo and Lom- bardi.
 Second Brooklyn 8, New York 5; Lombardi and Sandlock, Anderson (6); Voiselle, Kraus .(6) Trinkle (S) Kennedy (8) and Cooper.