COOPER FOUR-HIT SHUTOUT STOPS KNIGHTS

Mort Cooper threw a four-hit shutout as the Montgomery Burns defeated the Harlem Knights, 2-0, in Game 2 of the 1944 World Series, and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series.

Cooper was brilliant in the complete game victory, easily dispatching the Knights inning after inning. Ken Raffensberger was very effective for the Knights, allowing only one run in 7 innings, but wound up being the tough-luck loser. Montgomery broke the 0-0 deadlock in the fifth with a Jim Russell RBI double. They added an insurance run in the ninth when Micky Owen homered off of Sam Zoldak.

Including the regular season, the Knights have dropped 8 straight.

10/6/1944, MON44-HAR44, Wrigley Field
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1944 Burns             0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  1     2  8  0     9  1
1944 Knights           0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  4  0     6  0
 
Burns                AB  R  H BI   AVG    Knights              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Stirnweiss        2b  5  1  1  0  .333    Spence            cf  4  0  1  0  .250
Russell           rf  4  0  1  1  .286    WalkerD           lf  2  0  0  0  .167
Holmes            cf  4  0  1  0  .250    Etten             1b  4  0  0  0  .125
McCormick         1b  4  0  1  0  .125    Nicholson         rf  3  0  0  0  .000
Litwhiler         lf  4  0  1  0  .143    Kurowski          3b  4  0  0  0  .000
Kerr              ss  3  0  0  0  .000    Hayes             c   4  0  1  0  .250
Christman         3b  4  0  0  0  .250    Mayo              2b  3  0  1  0  .333
Owen              c   4  1  2  1  .500    Newsome           ss  3  0  1  0  .200
Cooper            p   3  0  1  0  .333    Raffnsbger        p   2  0  0  0  .000
                     35  2  8  2           Dallesndro       ph  1  0  0  0  .000
                                           Zoldak           p   0  0  0  0  .000
                                                               30  0  4  0
 
Burns                            INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Cooper           W 1-0           9.0  4  0  0  3  4 109  65  0.00
                                 9.0  4  0  0  3  4 109  65 
 
Knights                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Raffnsbger       L 0-1           7.0  6  1  1  3  6 111  73  1.29
Zoldak                           2.0  2  1  1  0  0  23  14  3.00
                                 9.0  8  2  2  3  6 134  87 
 
HAR: Dallesndro batted for Raffnsbger in the 7th
 
2B-Russell, Newsome. HR-Owen(1). SB-Litwhiler(1). K-Stirnweiss, Russell, 
Holmes, McCormick, Owen, Cooper, WalkerD, Kurowski, Newsome, Raffnsbger. 
BB-Russell, Kerr, Cooper, WalkerD 2, Nicholson. 
GWRBI: Russell
Temperature: 52, Sky: clear, Wind: out to left at 16 MPH.