The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-15

troit. After Hal Newhouser hao hung up his 17th victory on a three-hit, 5-1 score, Stubby Over mire earned his first decision of the season, 6-3, before a Yankee Stadium throng of 1,94c fans. St. Louis dumped Brooklyn twice The double loss reduced the Dod- gers margin to 1-2 games witf two more games to play in St Louis during the current series. Enos Country Slaughter was the big gun in the opener, driving in four runs with a pair of single. and a homer in the 5-3 triumph Stan Musials round-tripper on ths first pitch in the 11th broke IF the nightcap with a 2-1 Cardina win for Murry Dickson over Vi' Lombardi
 Chicago also closed in on the Durccher gang, knocking over New York "A, although Hank Borowy once again, was unable to finish what he had started.
 Boston club to a first division rarth l~- one percentage point when it divided a pair with Pittsburgh After Warren Spahn had curved his way to Al nod over Fritz Cstermueller, Rip SeWell got the Bucs an even break with a seyen- hit effort, 5-2.
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 Johnny Wander Nicer copped his fourth straight and his first shut out of the year against the Phillies, 90, but Ken Raffensberger squar- ed matters by silencing the Cincin- natl Reds with six hits in the 8-2 afterpiece.
 Tn the American League, Wash ington climbed over the 800 mark by trcuncing St. Louis in both ends of a twin bill, 5-3 behind Sid Hud- son and Az on an eight-hit job by Rae Scarborough.
 Connie Mack's Athletics split two with Chicago. Russ Christopher got credit for the opener, 5-4, al- though he needed relief help to best Orval Grove, but Bob Savage dropped the second to reliefer Al HollingsWorth, 4-3.
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 American League
 First Game
 Cleveland 10; Boston II; Gromek Black C3), Berry CO and Hogan; Dobson, Dreisewerd CD, Bagby C5) Hughson (9) and Partee, Wagner 60.
 Second Gamc
 Cleveland 4; Boston 6; Embree Lemon CDss Gassaway (8) and Lol- lar, Jordan (8) Fiber, Ferriss (8) and Wagner.
 First Game
 Detroit 5; New York l; New houser and Tebbetts; Gettel, Wade (3), Russo (6), Queen C8) and Mi arhcs.
 Second Game
 Detroit 6; New York 3; Overmire and Richards; Page, Gumpert C6), Murphy (8) and Robinson.
 First Game
 St. Louis 3; Washington 5; zol- dok, Ferens CD, Kinder (8) and Macuso; Hudson and Evans
 Seccnd Gamc
 St. Louis 2; Washington A. Mun- crief, Ferrick CD and Helf, Man cuso CD; Scarborough and Early.
 First Game
 Chicago 4; Philadelphia 5; Grove and Dickey; Christopher, Pagan (6O, Marchildon (8) and Rosar.
 Second Game
 Chicago 4; Philadelphia 3; Hay nes, Hollingsworth CD and Tresk; Savage and DeSautels.
 National League
 First Ganlc
 Boston 4; Pittsburgh 1; Spahn and Masi; Ostermueller and Lopez.
 Second Game
 Boston 3; Pittsburgh 5; Wright and ODea; Sewell and Baker
 First Game
 Philadelphia 0; Cincinnati 8; Manner, Kark CD, Mulligan (5) and Hemsley; VanderMeer Il d Mueller.
 Second Gantc
 Philadelphia 8; Cincinnati 2; Raffensberger and Seminick; Deggs, Malloy (4), Lambert (9) and Lake man.
 First Ganlc
 Brooklyn 3; St. Louis 5; Higbe, Melton (3) and Edwards; Bcazley, Wilks co. and Garagiota.
 Second Gdmc
 Brooklyn 1 St. Louis 3; Lom- bardi and Anderson, Edwards CID i; Dickson and Kluttz.
 New York 4; Chicago T; Schu- macher, Fischer t2) Kraus (3) Joyce (6), Thompson and Lombar- di; Borowy and Mccullough.