The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-14
Flatbush Takes Heart
AS Buns Polish Braves

JOY yesterday as Brooklyn broke a
hitting slump to trounce the tor
menting Boston Braves 1915 and
move 3 IL games ahead of the
idle st. Louis Cardinals. The
Brooksh knocked Johnny Sain, the
Braves ace winner, out of the
box in a four-run first inning high
lighted by Bruce Edwards two
run double.
Handsome Harry Taylor was
belted off the mound in the fifth
when Boston went on a four-run
spree with a homer by Bama Ro-
well that scored three and another
clout by Bob Elliott. But the bod
gers recovered Immediately from
trailing Sd to score five times in
their half of the fifth. They were
never headed from that time, club
bling six Boston hurlers for 10 hits.
ST Johnson, the third, was given
the loss.
Over in the Quaker City, the
Philadelphia Phillies made it two
in a row by whacking four New
York hurlers for IA hits and a So
victory. Hero for the Phils was
Ken Heintzelman, who stopped the
Giants colder than the st. Louis
Browns with six hits. He needed
help in the ninth. however, after
Bobby Thomson belted his 23rd.
homer of the year. The other Giant
tally was also a homer, with Bill
ly Rigney poking his 18th of the
season. HOWE Schultz and Emil
Verban led the Pills attack on
three New York pitchers - Andy
Hansen, Joe Beggs and, Ken Trim
kle with three hits apiece.
-Four. circuit clouts spanked the
Pittsburgh Pirates to a 1912 win
over the Chicago Cubs in Forbes
field yesterday. Buc catcher Dixie
Howell socked two of the four
masters, which were his first and
second of the year, to drive in six
of the Pittsburgh runs. Ralph
Kiner blasted the Tooth Pirate hon.
er of the season in getting his 29th
for 1947, and Billy Cox jumped on
the bandwagon with his ninth.
The st. Louis Cardinals and Gin
cinnati Reds were not scheduled.
Joe DiMaggio kept company with
ailing Tommy Heinrich on the New
York Yankee bench yesterday. but
rockies Yogi Berra and AL Clark
filled their shoes and the Yanks
took a comfortable 80 triumph
over the Philadelphia Athletics.
DiMaggio was sidelined with a
recurrence of an e~arly-season sore
heel, while Heinrich has a spralned
ankle. But Berra and Clark made
it easy for another first-year man
- Vic Raschi - to hang up his
sixth victory without defeat for the
season by driving in six runs to
spcarhead a 10-hit Yank assault.
Romping to a five u lead in
the first inning when they clout-
ed three home runs, two of them
on successive pitchers, the Boston
Red Sox last night took their
eighth home victory in a row from
the Washington Senators by a score
of 1913. Sam Mele hit a homer for
the Crimson Hose in the first IN
ming and then later on in the frame
by Bobby Doerr and Jake Jones on
successive pitchers from Milo
Candini. Jones added another four
Dagger in the seventh.
Henry Thompson scored with
what proved to be the winning
u on a passed ball in the las. OF
the eighth after another Negro
player, Willard Brown, tied the
game with a home run, his first
in the major leagues, to give the
St. Louis Browns a 6-5 victory in
the second game of a night double
header played at St: Louis. The
Browns dropped the first tussle to
the Detroit Tigers, II.
Rudy York's 18th home run OF
the season spanked a four-run raj
" in the eighth inning as the CHI
cago White Sox defeated the Cleve-
land Indians and Bob Feller at
Chicago, 81, before 37,103 persons.