Chicago took a one-run lead in the fourth inning. but St. Louis tied it up in the sixth and then tallied twice in the ninth off Dennis Galehouse to win the game. Chester Laabs doubled. after which Johnny Berar-dino and Joe Grace collected singles to send the winning runs scooting across the platter, Thirty-one thousand fans jammed the Tiger stadium for "Bridges Day" in honor of Tommy Bridges. and the Detroit hurler came through with a masterful 4 to 1 decision over the Cleveland Indians. He held the Indians to six hits while his mates made ą similar number of safeties good for free runs in the third and one in the sixth The Philadelphia Athletics were only one-half game out of the league cellar today after a double defeat at the hands of the Washington Senators who are holding down eighth position 1939 and lost a year ago by defeating Frank Kovacs by the convincing margin of 5-7. 6-1. 6-3. 6-3
Playing squarely in the teeth of a wind which at times exceeded a velocity of 40 m.ph. and obviously nettled by gallery necklets, Riggs rccovered his lost laurels in what type of up-hill fight for which he is fanned.
Riggs dropped the first se: in which both players alternated between the net and baseline. but then came back with a masterful sense of court generalship to win the title in three straight sets—United Press.
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