Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-05-28 | Page 11 | Lee Allows but Six Blows in Gaining 5-0 Victory

Lee Allows But B t Six Blows in Gaining 5 0 Victory By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK May 28 UP His UP His face is red red and his short cropped hair is streaked with gray Hes He's big and ana boisterous and he puffs like a steam engine chugging up a steep incline His name is Charles Leo Hart Hart- nett Hes He's known far and wide as Gabby that Gabby that is to everyone except except ex ex- ball players who call him Leo Without him the Cubs wouldn't be tagging at the New York Giants' Giants heels in the hot National league pennant race His clenched fist shaking shaRing above his head is the symbol symbol symbol sym sym- bol of the Cubs' Cubs new fighting spirit Hes He's 37 Years Old Again yesterday Hartnett who at 37 is the he third oldest player in the National league and the oldest play play- ing every day sparked the Cubs to victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 He hit a home run with two mates on base and got two singles enabling the Cubs to move within two games of the idle New York Giants Hartnett's catching ye yesterday helped to steady y Big Bill Lee in a shaky ninth inning enabling the Cubs' Cubs right-hander right to score his third straight victory and pull through with a shutout Lee allowed only six hits in winning his fourth gaine game The Cubs made 10 hits off Klinger Swift and Sewell Sewen Goes Goes' 10 Linings Innings The fourth place Cincinnati Reds and the St. St Louis Cardinals put on ona ona ona a grand exhibition in the seasons season's first night game with the one time gas house gang dropping their seventh seventh sev sev- straight 2 1 2 1 in 10 innings It was a nip and tuck pitchers' pitchers battie battle battle bat bat- tle tie with John of the Reds setting down 10 Cards on strikes and Bill McGee whiffing eight Cincinnati batsmen With two d down n in the tenth Virgil Virgil Virgil Vir Vir- gil Dayis Davis doubled and was sent home with the winning run on Harry Crafts Craft's two-base two knock Reds Take Long One ST. ST LOUIS I CINCINNATI AB H O Ai AB H O A 5 1 a 3 01 Frey 5 1 2 1 3 0 O 2 21 0 0 0 0 ss 55 4 0 U 1 2 21 Cooke If U 5 2 a i U 0 4 1 0 U I rf 5 0 g 2 0 r Medwick If 11 3 0 4 0 g C 5 2 7 1 Mize Ib lb 4 0 6 2 21 c 4 2 It d 4 dOwen Owen c a 4 2 2100 10 01 Craft Cran cf et 5 1 1 0 4 II 1 3 0 RISKS tRiggs 4 0 2 a 3 McGee p. p 4 1 0 31 Myers alJ ss 3 2 3 0 Van Hear Meer p 1 1 0 4 Ivan Totals 35 91 DI Totals 37 11 out when winning run scored St. St Louis 0 1 0 1 Cincinnati 1 2 1 2 Summary Errors Errors Myers Runs I batted In in-Gutteridge in Frey Craft Cratt Two Two- base hits J. 3 Martin Frey rey V. V Davis Craft Myers Sacrifices Sacrifices Vader Vander Meer 3 Bases pa Off balls balls Off McGee 2 2 Vander Meer 2 k out out out-B out out-By By McGee 8 8 Vander Meer 10 Passed ball ball V. V. V Davis