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EUSESripsfLandeck's NeatPitching ChoreUps Lead to 4mFour up with only six games to play.That’s the Triplet .situation today as the fourth-placers inaugurate their final road juriket of the season during which they intend to clinch an Eastern league playoff berth prior to Sunday’s finale at Williamsport.The number 4 is the Triplets’ magic number Any combination of Triplet wins and Hartford losses totaling that figure will give the Selkirkmen the coveted positionRighthander Dave Latter, seeking his seventh win, goes to the mound tonight as the Trips open a three-game series in Elmira.Manager George Selkirk’s determined but injury-riddled Triplets increased their lead over the idle Hartford Chiefs to fourive March 31 1941). bonus players now signed may be optioned for one year by a club which buys or otherwises obtains their contract from the original assignorngsAMERICAN Yesterday’s Results (No games scheduled )STAN 13 IN OSNumberVc’a VorkBostonClevelandDetroitPhiladelphiaChicagoSt LouisWashingtonvL.Pet.G B.R,48623f1-2526127lt;*riMl4«-j~s5857161-6765.50851pn10H304«£635 S43ST,331S3U Igames as Arnie Landcck pitched a brilliant 1-0, 14-inning thriller over the Utica Blue Sox in the Johnson field windup last night.The popular ditty, ’’Baby It’s Cold Outside” was more appropriate for the 2,720 shivering fans, but there was a red-hot hurling duel going on between Landcck, who posted win No. 9, and Righthander Steve Ridzik.Only five Blue Soxers reached third base as the Pcotonc, 111., righthander racked up his fourth whitewash job. In the late innings he encountered trouble a couplg of times with runners in scoring position, but on each occasion, clamped down a little bit harder on his tobacco-chawand got out of the jam.Landeck's infield mates backed him up with three doubleplays at crucial moments to snuff out Utica threats. First Baseman Bob Marquis also turned in a stellar play in the ninth, stabbing Bill Johnson’s hot smash down the first base line just as the ball was going over the bagPitcher Dick Baker, playing the outfield, provided the winning spark with a single in the last of the 14th to send Marquis home with the deciding run of the three hour and 20 minute battle. Bob had singled, moved to second on a groundout and to third on Ken Braun’s third safety Baker had fouled off an attempted squeeze bunt for a second strike before he lined the pellet to right centerWhile allowing only 10 hits as compared with Ridzik’s 13. Landcck was tough in the cl inches. In the first he retired the side after Don Hasenmaycr reached third with only one down Johnny Betctella reached third in the ninth with no outs, but he was trapped off on an alert play by Shortstop Kenny Braun on Carl KoJosna’s grounder The Utes loaded the sacks with one down in the 12th, but a Frank Verdi to Braun to Marquis doubleplav saved the day' Umpire Jim Duffy gave the Trips some anxious moments in the lith With Ridzik. on second.^ Verdi caught him* on the hidden ball trick, but Duffy didn’t see the tag Then he•—Tumi l#i PnmTrip Averages Indians NearBATTINGRodgersJaegerBabeJ DyckMastroO’NealBrounMarquisSchultVerdiFordDyckGormanLnndeckMacklnsonLatterBakerRoseValenzuelaAR RIfnniA%©213 5210237.297332 539848.295357 5310029.280G5 S1813.277 „126 3934* 8.270239 226029.251409 3310237.210381 649131247364 6188212295 51 70 PITCHING16.237G.W.-L.ret.261757733642.66724127.6322596.6002387.5331867.4621645.4442725.286514.200Second PlaceRemaining Trip Games with-Elmira, 3, away. Williamsport, 3, away. Total—6.More Sports onPages 13-15By The Associated PressThe W»Ue»-Barre Indians rated a fair chance today of grabbing second place from the Scranton Miners before thewindup Sunday of the Eastern league’s regular season. jThe Indians climbed to within a game and a half of Scranton last night by blanking the Miners, 4*0. Scranton has seven games to play and Wilkes-Barre eight.Wilkes-Barre scored all fourruns in the sixth inning. Twoof them came on George D’Ad-dario’s seventh homer of theseason, a smash into the rightfield bleachers with a manaboard.Len Pillar hurled his first shutout of the year to gain his eighth win against six losses. Pillar allowed five hits andwalked five. Stan McWilliams, the loser, also gave up only five hits but he was lifted for Leo Kiciy, who was tapped for one in the two innings he pitched.See if* at THE FAIR!International•»** Leading Show Horses of U. S. and Canada plus comedy star Judy CanovaAT THE NEW YORKnHiTonight and every night thru Thursday, Sept. 8
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