The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
Red Sox Have Since Opening Day

From top to bottom in the Am erican League and from third to | last in the National, the teams have 1 lolled along through the August dog | days with only two minor changes. | The White SoX, winning eight out ] of their last 10 games managed to advance to the dizzy heights of | sixth place, one percentage point | ahead of the Browns yesterday, l while on Aug. in the National | League the Boston Braves evicted | the Cincinnati Reds from fourth place and have occupied the quar- ters ever since. Actually, the races have been in pretty much of dreary status quo for weeks In the American League, the same four teams, the Red Sox, Yankees, Tigers and Senators have been in the first division since June 13 and only for one day with the Tigers replaced the Yankees in sec ond place on July 31, have there been any lamentations. The Red Sox have had an incredible first place monopoly. never having been out of the lead since opening day.
 Dodgers, Cards Traded
 In the National, either the Dodg- CTS or Cards have been in first place since opening week, the Cubs have been in third since June 5, and the Braves and Reds have al- ternated in fourth all year.
 DD1Jrh,r ,o1l by only one percentage point today, saw string of l8 straight victories at Philadelphia come to an end when the Phils, packing two years ot vengeance into one afternoon, won ' to 6 and to 4. These were their first triumphs over the Dodg- CTS after 12 straight losses this sea- son. Frank Mccormick drove in the winning run in each game, doubling in the eighth to send home Johnny Wyrostek in the opener, while his single scored pitcher Blk Donnelly with the deciding run in the night cap. Rockies Del Ennis of the Phils and Ed StNens and Terrell Ander- son of the Dodgers hit homers as did Dodger veteran Augie Galan.
 The Cards put on their best hit ting of the year at Cincinnati, win ming l5 to and T to 3 as Stan Mu- sial made eight hits in 10 times up to take over the Major League bat ting lead with 8 .369 mark. A 22- hit demonstration in the first game found Enos Slaughter getting five 1 safe blows and driving in seven runs. Murry Dickson, easing up after his 11th victory was assured, yielded successive honers to Grady Hatton, Max West and Ray Muel- Ter which tied a Major League rec ord. Slaughter, Musial, and Dick Sisler of the Cards also hit homers.
 Giants Get Break
 Sid Gordon's three-run homer in the ninth gave the Giants a g to 6 win and an even break at Boston where the Braves took a 10 to opening decision as Johnny Sain won his 18th game. Danny Lit whiler and Ray Sanders homered for Boston while Babe Young also hit a. Giant homer.
 A four-run rally in the ninth ] gave the Pirates a 10 to g victory over the Cubs at Pittsburgh, Jim Russell singling home the tying and winning run. The teams battled to a A tie in nine inning second game called because of the Sunday curfew. Russell hit a tWo-run hom- CT in this game while rookie John OstroWski got one in each game and Bill Nicholson hit one in the open CT for Chicago.
 The Yankees and Red Sox divided at New York, Boston maintaining its l3 game lead In a 3 1-2 hour marathon opener, Boston won ' to 5, both sides getting more walks than hits. Boston drew 12 bases on balls, the Yankees nine. Lefty Joe Page put on the best pitching show of the day, hurling a two-hit, g to l Yankee victory in the seven in- ming nightcap in which Joe DiMag- gio smashed homer in the l2-hit winning attack.
 Tigers Drop Pair
 The White Sox topped the Tigers. 3 to 0 and 4 to 3, in 12 innings at Chicago. They handed Hal New houSer his second straight defeat in the opener, dropping his record tc 20 victories and five defeats. South paw Ed Lopat gave up only four hits to win his eighth game and his | third in row. Relief Pitcher Earl Caldwell won his third game in five days by holding the Tigers score less in the second game after Ed die Lake tied the score with ninth inning homer.
 The Athletics became the first team to be eliminated mathematic- ally from the pennant race by div idmg with the Senators at Phil adelphia. Bobo NewSom ended Phil delphia's "hopesh" with a 3 to l first game victory in observance ot his 37th birthday. Rookie Gi Coan's inside-the-p park homer gave Newsom his margin. The As, witr the pennant pressure" off ther smashed out 15 hits to win tht nightcap, l2 to 5. By winning al their remaining games they coulc now only tie Boston, provided tht Red SoX lost all theirs.
 Pinch hitter Joe Schultz singled in the winning run in the ninth tC give the Browns a 3 to 2 victory over the Indians at St. Louis bu Cleveland took the afterpiece, tt 3, on the margin of Hank Edwards two run homer. Pitcher Allie Reyn olds scored his seventh victory il his last eight starts, though Bobb, Teller had to come in to save it.
 YESTERDAYS STAR-Stan
 Musial of the Cards who boost
 ed his average 10 points to 1869
 with eight hits in a double vic-