The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-08
BIGGEST CROWD
 AT BALL GAME
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lOE all StdT SdLlcS, tlc ldISSSl pre- vious crowd being 49,000 in Chi cago in 1893. In New York last year 4s,000 fans saw the game.
 Practice Home Runs
 The players appeared on the freshly-manicured stadium field al noon for batting and fielding prac. tice. Joe Vosmik of the Indians who was holding down the righ, field berth on the American League team, brought salvos of cheers from the crowd when he cloute6 two practice homers into the up. per left field deck. Pepper Martin of the Cardinals followed suit q few minutes later.
 The game was attended by ce. lebrities from every walk of life Boxing champions, former baseball heroes like Babe Ruth and Iris Speaker. movie actors and famous golfers sat shoulder to shoulder ir the Giant horseshoe.
 President Ford Prick of the Ma tional League was present, togeth- CT with owners and managers o1 every other major league team President William Harridge of the American League was unable tc attend because of illness, but Ken esaw Mountain Landis, baseball high commissioner. was on hand in box seat.
 The American Leaguers,. being the home team, took the field first. They wore their white home uniforms The Nationals were in grey road uniforms.
 Thousands of persons had been in the stands since early morning even though they held reserved seats. Many brought their lunches or kept the peanut and candy vendors hopping.
 Frisch selected Walker to be the opening pitcher because National League managers had shown an utter, disregard for the all-star game and had used within the last couple of days all but two of the pitchers scheduled for duty here.
 Walker and Hal Schumacher were the only fresh hurlers, and the latter pitched a full game Fri day. s.5.
 Babe Ruth There
 Babe Ruth, member of the American League afl-stars for two seasons, was in the press box to- day as correspondent at seat No. 26. Na sa.
 Americans Score First s}'ls,
 NATIONAL FIRST
 Pepper Martin hit GomeZ's first pitch into left field for a single Vaughan flied to Johnson in lcgt Martin stole second. ' Ott grounded out, Cronin to Gehrfg and Martin advanced to third. Medwick struck out. Al < M
 No runs, one hit, no errors. one left.
 AMERICAN FIRST
 Vosmik grounded out, Herman to Terry. Gehringer walked. Geh' rig forcer Gehringer, Terry tc Vaughan. Foxx hit a home TUT into the lower deck of the left field stand and scored behind Gehrig Johnson flied out to Herman.
 Two runs, one hit, no errors none left.
 NATIONAL, SECOND
 Terry lined out to Johnson. Ber- ger flied to Gehrig. Herman was out, Gomez to Gehrig. a'4
 No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.
 AMERICAN SECOND
 Simmons struck out. HemSley tripled against the left field wall Cronin flied to Berger in left cen ter, Hemsiey scoring -after the catch. Gomez struck out.
 One run, one hit, no errors, none left. IF
 NATIONALS THIRD
 Wilson grounded out, Gehringel to Gehrig. Mancuso batted for Walker and flied out to Cronin in left field. Martin struck out.
 No runs, no hits, no errors none left.
 NATIONALS FOURTH
 Vaughan doubled to right cen- ter. Ott popped to Hemsley in frontof the plate. Medwick walked. Terry singled to center, scoring Vaughan and sending Medwick to third. Berger struck out. Herman flied out to Johnson.
 One run, two hits, no errors. two left. ft
 AMERICANS FOURTH
 Foxx and Johnson struck out. Simmons sent a slow roller to- ward short for a single and when Martin crossed in front of Vaughan picking up the ball on the dead run, he threw far wide of first base and Simmons continued to second. Hemsley tapped in front of the plate and Wilson tagged him out. No runs, one hit, one error, one left. tss..
 FIFTH NATIONALS
 Wilson flied out to Johnson in left center. Schumacher out, Cron- in to Gehrig. Martin struck out.
 No runs. no hits, no errors. none left.