MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1942
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Stretch-Driving St. Louis Cards Soar To National League Peak .J
STIRRING SURGE
PLACES REDBIRDS
St. Louis Splits With Phillies
While Reds Take Twin
Bill From Brooklyn.
New York, Sept. 14 U.R
The National league pennant
race at a glance:
To
W LGB Play
St. Loulf .95 47 12
Brooklyn 94 48 1 12
Br Paul Scheffels
United Press Correspondent
New York, Sept. 14 (U.PJ
The wildest dream in baseball
was Just 12 garnet away from
realization for the St. Louis
Cardinals today.
Proud possessors of the top
spot In the National league by
one full game over the tottering
Brooklyn Dodgers after the
most magnificent stretch drive
in baseball history, the Cards
have just an even dozen con
tests to play. They must match
the Flatbushers who also have
only 12 to go victory for vic
tory to enter the world series
in October.
Classification of the Cards'
cyclonic drive, which resulted in
30 victories In their last 36
, games, as the most stirring in
diamond annals isn't too far-
j fetched. Only comparative per-
formance with as much dram
atic ginger was the drive of the
i 1914 Boston Braves from last
place in July to first place.
Victory In the nightcap of
their doubleheader with the
Phils, 3-2, gave the Cards first
place as the Dodgers dropped a
twin-bill to the Reds, 0-3 and
4- 1. The Phils shaded the Cards,
2-1, in the first game.
Moore Homers
St. Louis fumbled away the
first game, allowing the Phils
two runs In the ninth, but Terry
Moore's homer In the fifth with
the score tirt at 2-all won the
nightcap.
Pace-setters since April 20,
the Dodgers garnered only 11
hits in 18 innings while losing
to the Reds. Bucky Walters held
them to six hits in the opener
and helped with his own game
by doubling with loaded bases
in the fourth.
Ray Starr limited the Dod
gers to five hits in the nightcap
as the Brooklyn defense collap
sed. Lew Riggs made three er
rors with two out in the fifth
to allow the Reds to take a lead
they never lost.
In other senior league games,
the New York Giants defeated
the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-0, and
5- 3 ,as the Chicago Cubs split
with the Boston Braves, winning
the nightcap 12-8 in eight in
nings after losing the opener,
11-8.
Yanks Near flag
Almost forgotten In the excite
ment over, the National league
pennant race, the New York
Yankees moved to within a sin
gle game of their 13th Amer
ican league flag by beating the
Cleveland Indians, 9-1 and 4-1.
Only the Boston Red Sox' twin
victories, 8-1 and 8-0, over the
White Sox at Chicago prevented
the New Yorkers from clinching
the flag.
Washington split with the Pe
trol t Tigers. Early Wynn allow
ed eight hits as the Senators
won the opener, 8-2, but Hal
White gave up only four blows
js Detroit took the nightcap,
8-0. -
Yesterday's star Relief Pit
cher Bill Beckman and Terry
Moore of the Cards. Beckman,
former Athletics hurler, blank
ed the Phils for the last five
innings while allowing only
three hits after coming in with
none out in the fourth. Moore
banged out his sixth homer to
provide the Cards with the win
edge in the second game, 32.
EAGLES, CARDS
COP PRO GAMES
Br United Prase
Only two league games mark
ed the opening of the National
Professional league yesterday
but three more contests are card
ed for next Sunday and before
the end of the following week,
all 10 teams will have gone into
action.
The Philadelphia Eagles de
feated the Steelers, 24-14, at
Pittsburgh and the Chicago Car
dinals clipped the Cleveland
Rams. 7-0, at Buffalo, N. Y. in
exhibition contests, the cham
pion Chicago Bears walloped the
Redskins, 38-14, at Washington
and the Green Bay Packers pum
meled the Western Army All
Stars, 36-21, at Milwaukee.
Angels Near Coast
League Flag; Bevos
Drop TwoTp Padres
By United Press
The Los Angeles Angels held
a two-game lead today as Pacific
Coast league baseball teams
headed into the final week of
th- regular season.
Winning two game from
Hollywood, 7-3 and 6-1, the An
gels stretched their lead over
Sacramento's Solons who drop
ped both ends of a doubeheader,
to Seattle, 3-1 and 4-2.
The Angels meet Sacramento
In this week'i series and must
win only three games to clinch
the title. '
San Diego took over fourth
place by winning two games
from the Portland Beavers, 9-5
and 4-2, while San Francisco lost
twice to the Oakland Acorns,
6-1 and 6-1.
San Diego 9 16 2
Portland 5 11 2
Olsen and Salkeld; Orrell and
Leovich.
San Diego
Portland
2
Poffenberser and Detore: Os
borne and Mayer.
Birth Of Son Causes
Infielding Miseries
nightcap between the Braves
and Cubs yesterday.
The rivers and streams of the
Province of Quebec abound in
black bass, speckled trout, grey
trout, ruananiche, and northern
pike. Probably the most prized
fish of all is the Atlantic salmon.
Boston, Sept. 14 (U.B The
birth of a 7s pound son early
Sunday morning to Mrs. Len
Merullo had a disastrous effect
on the fielding of the Chicago
Cubs shortstop.
Merullo gained the dubious
distinction of setting a new rec
ord for errors for a major league
shortstop in a single inning when
he was charged with four mis
plays in the second frame of the
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