The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 22, 1941, Page 3

‘ .oad; ‘ i | Chicago Fell Before St. Louis Twice; Record! Crowd Saw Phils Beat! Dodgers (Spectal to ‘Phe Citizen) NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—It’s the Dodgers and the Phillies in in Shibe Park today,’ and |* for the first time in days the Brooklyns just mathematically can’t get themselves knocked out of the lead. A game ahead of the pace,} | the worst the Dodgers can do is; see their lead cut to a half-game, pecause the St. Louis Cards will! pe on the road. _ The Phillies, who had won 40 games in the entire season, pick- ed yesterday to win their forty-} teach other. ‘Denny Galehouse jgles. re sT ‘Split champs in Fenway Park during the 1941 season. Home runs, the usual Yankee route to victory, won for the Bosox. Ted Wil- | tiams, the slugging outfielder, | cracked one with Manager Joe! Cronin on base; Cronin, himself, ; blasted his 16th four-bagger in the opening frame, and Lou Fin- ney hit one in the sixth, the Same inning Williams drove the jball out of the park. Williams’ circuit clout was his 36th of the season and his only hit of the’ game. His batting average now | stands at .406. Washington Senators won all their games with phia Athletics accomplished the sweep by tak- ting both ends of a twin bill yes- terday; 6-5 and 6-2. . .The St. |Louis Browhs and Cleveland In- dians took turns in blanking The Tribe turned in the first a3 Al Smith pitched a |five-hitter to win 14-0, and the Browns were on top of a 3-0 count in the aftermath» when handcuffed the Redskins with a pair of sin- -Detroit Tigers walloped jthe Chieago White Sox 6-3 in the first at the expense of the Dodg- | opener of a twin bill and then ers, whacking a game off their: slender margin as the Cards! sailed through the Cubs twice, | 6:5 and 7-0, The Brooklyns were in fine} fettle for their first match with the hapless Philadelphians, win- ning by a pleasant 8-to-3 margin, | pit the last-placers took their revenge in the nightcap, spilling the Flatbush boys by a 6-3) count. j Record Crowd Before the largest crowd ever to jam itself into the Philadel- phia ball orchard—35,909 paying customers--the Phillies pounced on their more important rivals in the first inning of the night-, cap, poking in three runs before } the Brooklyns ‘had time ito’ get} their hats on straight. the customary eight innings more | after that, but | Brooklyn Philadelp! Brooklyn ... | Philadelphia Franks; | Warren. |Chieago They went ahead and played!St. Louis were held to a 1-1 tie inning nightcap. Results of the games: NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game At Philadelphia in a 14: R. H. E. 861 Allen and Owen; Second Game At Philadelphia Hamlin, Drake, Hughes, First Game At’St. Louis Raffensberger, and as far as the!McCullough; Hutchinson, Crouch Brooklyns were concerned it was land Mancuso. a waste of time. Knocking the Dodgers eval in order in the first-half of the | initial-stanza, the Philies sallied | Chicago ahead with hits by Bragan, who; doubled, and Etten, who singled “behind Marty after the center-| fielder had been given a free! trip. That loaded the bases, | and Danny Litwhiler promptly| At New York R. H. E. lifted one into the left field | Boston 090 stands to put the game securely New York 481 on ice. | Tobin and Masi; Friedman and The Dodgers scored three times | Danning. in the third, fourth and fifth, | SSiaSea ss but the Phillies added a couple} Second Game i in the fifth when Nick Etten; At New York R. H. E. slammed another home run with | Boston 414 3 Marty on base. ~ |New York 1 Win First One The Bums of Brooklyn gained’ their winning margin in the| third inning of the opener, scor- | ing three times. The Cards did their scoring in the ninth inning of their first | game with the Cubs, pulling the! game out of the fire when Stan) Musial sneaked home from third | while the Chicagoans were work- | ing on Coaker Triplett at first. The second game was a cinch,! with the Cards winning 7-0. How-| ard ,Pollet, rookie southpaw, | seattered eight hits against the Bruins in the afterpiece. Giants And Reds “Hot” | Bill Terry’s New York Giants| yesterday claimed their second straight doubleheader — victory | from the Boston Braves. The scores were 4-0 and 15-4. Harry Feldman, a rookie moundsman, | blanked the Braves in the BpED: | er by scattering nine safeties, | while the Giants laid down a 20-; hit barrage to win. the nightcap | by a lopsided count. Ken O'Dea) and Dick Bartell blasted hone ers inthe free-scoring corona game. 4 The Cincinnati Reds practical ly clinched third place in the Na-/ tional League by stretching "thelr! lead to five anda half games ‘as! Elmer Riddle whitewashed the! Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0. Riddle, | who allowed the Bucs only six | hits, turned in his fourth shat-| out of the year. The victory, was the Reds’ eighth in a row and gave them a clean sweep of the three-game series with the | Pirates. | Yanks Bow To Bosox | One of the largest crowds of the season in Boston saw their Red Sox spank the New York! Yankees 4-1 in the | last appear- Second Game At St. Louis St, Louis __.. Eaves, Kush “and Scheffing; Pollet and Mancuso, First Game Hutchings, Johnson and Masi; MeGee, Lohrman.and O’Dea. At Cincinnati R. H. E. Pittsburgh 06 2 Cincinnati 260 Dietz and Baker; Riddle and Lombardi, AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game At Washington R. H. E. Philadelphia —. 515 2 Washington - 611 0 Fowlger, Shir! ley and Hayes; Chase, Zuber and Early. Second Game At Washington R. H. E. Philadelphia — 28 2 Washington 69 3 Caliguiri and Hayes; Wynn and Evans. First Game At Chicago R. H. E. | Detroit - 610 0) Chica; 3 6 3} Bridges and ‘Tebbetts; Lyons and Tresh. Second Game At Chicago R. HE. {Detroit 1 a4 Chicago 1 8 0} (Called, End of 14th, Darkness) | Rowe and Sullivan; and Turner. First Game At Cleveland 'St. Louis Cleveland Auker, |Smith and Hogan. Second Game |_ At Cleveland St. Louis - ic the Philadel-, h in the present! series between the clubs. They! a & 2! Podgajny, | )Johnson, Grissom and Warren. .| eran Frankie Crosetti to short, Rigney | -|that fall with a Kramer and Grace; | . |New York CLUDES WRESTLING AND BOXING 7 ake To who is replacing John’ R. Offutt tas high sehool coach, today out- lined a program of . intramural sports for the school’ which he said will include wrestling and ; boxing. =< TROJANS SHUTOUT RED RAIDERS, 2-0 for basketball has not yet been ec out, will present the xing and wrestling if local PANDORA BEARS BUMPED | students are interested in learn- REGULARS IN TWIN BILL "8 about the sports. Tackling his first OPENER YESTERDAY job as a | last week after working for 10 ;years as sports director of a The Pandora Bears, playing Catholic youth organization in their second game of the season | Milwaukee. There, he gave in- in the newly-formed Island City | structions in boxing and wrest- Baseball League, trimimed the} land other gymnasium sports. MIAMI GAME CALLED OFF | Previously he had been a | member of the Marquette Uni- |. versity cage squad for two years jand later played with’ a semi-! |pro basketball team in Wiscon- | | sin, informed just before his team Started for Miami that bad He’s quiet and modest, doesn’t | jdrink or smoke. Girls back in} Kansas City, where he played| BASEBALL last year, send him letters signed | (Major Leagues) ‘with lipsticked kissess He’s called | | TODAY {King of Queens because he lives | prebesaicadidl {in the Queens borough of Nw} York city. } Teammates call him Scooter— he’s so close to the ground and scoots around so fast. } He is the outstanding Ameri- can league freshman of the | gn} season and this corner would Bh agerh taney f like to say “I told you so”. We Teg gel 1 tabbed him last February ‘@s SOFTBALL, No, 1 rookie, | SERVICE SOFTBALL, ‘LEAGUE Detroit at Chicago. St. Louis at Cleveland. Only games scheduled. National Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Boston at New York. | With an average of: well above (3:30 p. m,). 300, only the great DiMaggio WEDNESDAY’ * jamong the Yanks outhits “him, Naval Air Station vs. A at Scooter’s hits are timely, but not long-distance blows. He banged only two homers this year. |. He and Joe Gordon form the best second base combination in Naval Air Station. SATURDAY Subehasers vs. Naval Station at Fort Taylor. Coast Guard vs. Submarines the league. They're threatening | at Marine Barracks. |the loop’s double-play record and} Destroyers vs. Marines at ;May better it before the ‘cur-|Army Barracks. | tains fall. | SUNDAY Scooter and his pal, Jerry | Naval Air Station vs. Coast | Priddy, came up from KC last | Guards at Naval Air Station. | spring and Boss McCarthy | Subchasers vs. Amny at Army | tossed ‘em in at short and sec- | Barracks. | ond and shifted Gordon to | Naval Station vs. | first, This maneuver didn’t | Marine Barracks, pan out, So Gordon went back Destroyers vs. to second, the slowed-up vet- | Fort Taylor. Marines at Submarines at Johnny Sturm to first and ; Subscribe to The Citizen—20¢ Rizzuto and Priddy te the | weekly. BASEBALL RETURNS | McCarthy kept Rizzuto at his elbow, coaching him and build-| ing up his confidence. Then hal Shot ‘back into the fray and) Scooter Soon became a star, | ‘ i Almost every year the Yanks! Hot Off the Wire! jhave uncovered some rookie| istar. 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