Evening star., 1946-07-16
5|ugging Chief Factor
In Reducing Brooks
Lead 10 = Games
By RoIph Roden
Axsor,oted prsu Snorts Writ,

Boston can have Ted Williams,
its colorful humping outfielder ST.
Louis fans will take Stanley Frank
Musial, the betting Pole from DON
ora, Pa, who is Furnishing National
League hurting at .367 clip and
leading Eddie Dyer's Red Birds in
| their drive to overtake the league
lead from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Musial, who roamed the outfeld
for the Cards prior to this season,
has been holding down first base
since early June and the left
! handed Slugger has been playing the
bag as if he never performed at
another position, in addition to belt
| ing the ball in his prewar style.
The 25-year- star, who leads
his league in hits, runs scored, dou-
bles and triples has enjoyed some
of his biggest days at the plate
against the Dodgers.
Before 26,476 fans at ,Sportsman's
Park last night, Musial spanked the
| red-hot Cards to a 1914 victory over
the Brooks by smashing four hits
in five trips to the plate, including
a homer and triple.
Third Straight Over Dodgers.
The four blows increased Musial's
| average against Brooklyn hurting
to .489 in IL contests. The 175-
pound clouter now has banged out
% hits in At times at bat, and driven
in II runs and scored II markers
against the Brooks.
The victory was the Cards third
in row over Brooklyn and it mar
| rowed the Dodgers margin to one
and-one-h half games. st. Louis hop
ped on Hugh Casey for two runs in
the opening inning and iced the de-
cslon by scoring three more runs
in the fourth and fifth frames.
In all. the Cards raped five Dod-
ger hurlers for 13 hits in the battle,
marked by the banishment of Man
ager Leo Durocher and Outf1elder
Pete Reiser of Brooklyn in the third
inning when they protested a deci-
sion by Umpire Al Barlick. ReiserI
claimed he had caught Enos Slaugh- |
ters line drive, but Barlick ruled he
had trapped the ball. After five
minutes of argument the arbiter
tossed both of them out of the con-
fiict
Harry Brecheen started for ST
Louis but he weakened in the ninth
when the Dodgers showed in three
runs. He was relieved by Red Bar
rett, who retired the side.
Cubs Gaining on Brooks.
ChicagoS third place Cubs ad-
vanced to within four and -one half
games of Brooklyn as Hooks Wyse
pitched the defending National
League champions to a 81 victory
over the New York Giants.
Ed Waitkus batted in two of Chi
cago's markers with two singles as
Wyse became the third senior league
hurler to notch 10 victories.
Although defeating the Pittsburgh
Pirates 30. the Boston Braves
dropped into fourth-place dead
lock with the Cincinnati Reds, who
doWned the Philadelphia Phillies,
AZ
Johnny Niggeling. veteran right
handler. limited the Pirates to six
safeties as Boston tailed all of its
runs in the first inning. Dick
Cutler collected four of the Braves
eight hits, allowed by Ken Heintzel-
man and Preacher Roe.
Rookie Johnny Hetki scattered
seven Philadelphia blows in the
Reds win. Grady Hatton, another
recruit, slammed three-run homer
in the fifth inning to account for
Cincinnati's margin of victory
In the American League, the De
troit Tigers defeated the slumping
New York Yankees, 20. behind the
tWo-hit pitching of Freddie Hutch
inson before 39,893 night game fans
at New York.
Third in Row for Tigers.
1t was Detroit's third straight
triumph over the Yanks and moved
the third place Bengals to within
one-and- -one half games of the run
nerup Yanks.
The crowd increased New York's /
home attendance to .480,775 in "A
games which is 4.39l admissions
short of the major league mark
established by the winning
1929 Chicago Cubs.
Phil Marchildon of the Philadel- .
phia Athletics also turned in two
hit triumph, whitewashing the Chi
cago White Sox, 1910 The Mack
men clinched the game in the sec
ond inning when they pounded five
runs home.
The st. Louis Browns fell into
ifth-place deadlock with the Cleve- /
land Indians, who, along with the