Evening star., 1947-08-19
League Leaders Blast
Rivals Crack Lefties
For 61-Game Edge
By Ralph Roden

The Brooklyn Dodgers, fresh from
two crushing triumphs over the st.
Louis Cardinals, hoped to administer
the coup de grace" today to the
pennant ambitions of the Redbirds
in the third game of a four-game
series that no longer is CRUCIAL
as far as the league leading Brooks
are concerned.
Having blasted the Cards two top
southpaws, HOWE Pollet and Harry
(The Cat) Brecheen in a day-night
double-header at Ebbets Field yes
terday, rs and 1873, to stretch their
lead to six and one-half games, the
jubilant Dodgers now are out of
the danger zone in the important
set.
Now assured of no worse than a
split, Manager Burt Shotton was all
set to call OH Lefty Joe Hatten to
oppose either the Cards Red Munger
or Al Brazle today in the Dodgers
bid to make it seven in a row over
the defending world champions. The
Brooks had defeated the Cards four
straight during the last Western
journey.
A total of 66,504 fans, 32,781 for
the day encounter and 33,723 for the
night affair, watched little Vic Lom-
bardi and Harry Taylor stop the
Redbirds.
lombard Does Double Duty.
lombard, who pitched despite
the fact that only hours earlier his
wife underwent an emergency op-
GRAFTON for burst appendix, al
lowed eight hits before firing in
the ninth of the opener. Hugh
Casey retired the side on three
pitches.
The spunky southpaw came back
in the night affair with three
inning, one-hit relief job after Tay-
lor retired from the game because
of strained ligament in his right
elbow.
Lombardi's battery mate, Bruce
Edwards, was the batting star of
the opener. The stocky receiver
slammed two tremendous triples to
drive in three runs and scored once
himself. He also Clipped in with a
double and single in the aftermath.
The Brooks jumped on Pollet for
two runs in the first on Jackie
Robinson's ninth homer, a walk and
Edwards first triple.
Whitley Kurowski and Enos
Slaughter got those runs back in
the second.
The Cards moved ahead, AZ, in
the third on successive singles by
Schoendienst, Erv Dusak, force
play, balk and another one-bagger
by Kurowski.
However, Pollet blew up in the
fifth. the Dodgers pushing five runs
in on two walks, two singles, Ed
wards second three-base poke and
a f1y-out to sew up the game.
Dodgers Splurge Again.
Another f1ve-run uprising downed
the Cards In the night game. En-
tering the third inning on the long
end Of 81 count, the Dodgers
pounced on Brecheen.
The Dodgers added another run
in the sixth, three more in the sew
enth and their final in the eighth.
Stanky and Edwards batted in three
runs apiece and Reese and Jorgen-
sen two each as the Dodgers bat
tered Brecheen, Munger and Ted
Wilks for IA hits.
KurowSki provided the Cards with
the only lead they had when he
homered in the second. Slaughter
drove in the Cards other two
markers with two-run circuit blast
in the sixth.
The second game was a play-off
of the disputed July 20 game which
the Dodgers won in the ninth, 80,
only to have National League Presi-
dent Ford Frick uphold the st. Louis
protest.
Everybody, including club officials
and writers, paid to see the after
dark struggle, with the receipts 60
ing to the Brooklyn War Memorial
Fund.
The twin-bill was the only regular
action in either the National or
American League.
A number of exhibition games
were played. The New York Giants
downed the American Leagues pace
setting New York Yankees, Al, at
New York, and the Pittsburgh Pi-
rates eked out 7-6 victory over the
Eastern Leagues Albany Senators at
Albany.