Evening star., 1948-09-13
Pennant for Pirates
Would Make Never
Unique Manager
By Joe ReichIer
Associated Press Sports Writer

The odds are against them, but
If Billy Meyer and his Pittsburgh
Pirates win the National League
pennant, he'll be the first manager
In major league history to reach
the top with club that finished last
Or tied for 1.-THE preceding year
Generally picked for fifth place
at the best, the second-place Bucs
today were three games behind the
front-running Boston Braves. How
ever, they were all even with the
Hubmen in the important losing
column. Each has lost So games
The Braves have played and won
six more games than the Pirates.
Pittsburgh picked up half game
on the Braves yesterday, defeating
the Chicago Cubs, 7-3, while the
Philadelphia Phils were holding
Boston to a split in q doubleheader.
The Phils won the opener, 6-4 but
the Braves came back to win the
13-inning nightcap, 81. 1t was
Pittsburgh's seventh straight tri-
umph.
1t was a bad day for Boston all
around as the American League
leading Red Sox saw their first
place margin shrink q full game
when they were beaten by the
fourth-place Philadelphia Athletics,
while the runnerup Yankees and
the third-place Cleveland Indians
won.
Red Sox Lead Cut to 21a.
Staging q six-run ninth-inning
rally, the AS whipped the Red Sox,
1914, to cut Boston's lead to two
games over the Yankees and 21a
over the Indians.
The Yankees trounced the Mats
in Washington, 1915.
The Indians defeated the st.
Louis Browns, GA, in the first game
of their doubleheader in Cleveland.
The second game was 3-3 tie with
darkness ending the contest after
IL innings. The two teams will re-
play the game today, originally an
off-day for both clubs.
In the other American League
game, home runs by Tony Lupien,
Don Holloway and Aaron Robinson
helped the Chicago White Sox de-
feat the Detroit Tigers, So.
Old Rip Sewell, 40-year-old right
handler, pitched the Pirates seventh
straight victory yesterday, limiting
the Cubs to five hits. 1t was his
11th victory against only three de-
fears.
The Pirates collected only eight
hits but took advantage of IA bases
ON balls issued by four Cub hurlers.
Four walks arrived with the bases
loaded.
Dark Whiz on Bases.
AL Darks daring base-running
gave the Braves a standof in their
twin bill. The rookie Boston short
stop singled off Walter Dubiel in the
top half of the 18th inning, raced
all the way to third on Earl Torge-
sons sacrifice, and scored the WIN
ming run when Bill Salkeld followed
with a long fly.
The Braves made IA hits OF
Dutch Leonard in the first game,
but the veteran knuckle baller was
strong in the pinches. Del Ennis
homered in the sixth to- snap a %
tie. The Pl1iis added three more in
the seventh to offset Boston's single
runs in the eighth and ninth. Car
vel Rowell paced Philadelphia's IL
nit attack with four safeties, includ-
ing a double and triple against his
former mates.
The st. Louis Cardinals moved
into third place by half game over
Brooklyn and New York, nosing out
the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6. Marty
Marion singled home the tie-break-
ing run in the last half of the eighth
to give Relief Pitcher HOWE Pollet
his 18th victory.
Giants Pile 1t On Dodgers.
The Giants threw another wrench
into Brooklyn's pennant plans, des
feating the Dodgers, 5-3, for their
seventh win in their last nine starts
against Brooklyn under the leader
ship of Leo Durocher. They shelled
Preacher Roe from the mound with
a l1lIC6-l uIl OuGUulSU III WIG 3AA
inning and never were headed.
The victory put the fifth-place
Giants only .O005 percentage points
behind Brooklyn and six games
back of the Braves.
A crowd of 29,100 which boosted
Boston's home attendance to a rec
ord 1,43S ,426, saw the AS overcome
q 81 deficit to gain their seventh
win in II games at Fenway Park.
Carl Scheib went the route for his
18th triumph. The six-run explosion
featured seven singles against Boo
Ferriss, Lefty Earl johnson and Tex
Hughson.
Joe Gordons fourth-inning dou-
BILE with the bases loaded and Sam
Zoldak's brilliant relief pitching en-
abled the Indians to win their
seventh straight in the opener. Zol-
dak, who relieved starter Satchel
Paige in the fifth, won his 10th
game of the season and his third in
five DAYS.