Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Baseball Wars Rage in
Majors; & Players 0usted
Pennanf Chases
Unchanged as
Leaders Split

NEW YORK, July 3. CUP--The
baseball wars ragged at White Heat
today. The barking has turned in
to biting and the boys are playing
cut and slash baseball of the old
school.
In capsule form:
Leo Durocher and zeke Bonura
slug 1t out. Umpire chases Jim
my Dykes. Eric McNair, and Ted
Lyons. s.. President Harridge fines
Hank Greenberg $50 for punching
Joe Kuhel Two Yankees and
two Red Soxs go to hospital with
cuts and injuries.
From Frilay through Sunday
eleven ball players were chased by
the umpires. Popularity boys like
Johnny Wander Nicer and Ted
Lyons were given the gate because
of their arguments with umpires.
Umpire ziggy Sears waved Wander
Nicer out of a game Friday at Chi
cago for protesting about strikes.
Luke Appling. White Sox short
stop, was chased the same day.
Greenberg and Muhel engaged in a
fist fight because Hank claimed
Joe spiked him at first base and
both were chased.
Durocher VS.. BOnura
The hostilities broke out in earn
est Sunday. Hal Schumacher threw
a pitch close to Leo Durocher's
head in the Giants-Dodgers twin
bill before SLABS at the Polo
grounds. Then Durocher hit into
a double play. Running the play
out, Durocher stepped on Bonura's
ankle at first. Bonura threw the
ball at Leo. They exchanged blows.
After the battle Bonura called it a
Cheap stunt Durocher claimed
Bonura,s foot was on the middle
of the bag. Bill Terry called Duro-
cher "a liar"
In Detroit Eddie Rommel called
Eric McNair of the White Sox, a
former teammate on the Athletics,
out ON strikes. McNair threw his
bat in the air. Manager Jimmy
Dykes. who roomed with Rommel
nine years, charged off the bench
to get at his ex-roomie but was
stopped by Umpire Cal Hubbard,
the ex-tackle who scales $50
pounds. Lyons, Sunday school
boy, got into the argument and
was banished along with McNair
and Dykes. The previous day
Greenberg and Kuhel had their
argument and Dykes was fuming
over at the remarks pouring off
the Tigers bench about the White
Sox "only talking tough" Casey
Stengel, Bees pilot, and Merrill
May. Phils' third baseman, staged
an imbroglio of their own and were
chased by the jumps.
Red SOx Split
Even though hopelessly out of the
race. the Red Sox went after the
Yanks hammer and tongs. Jim
Tabor spiked Buddy Rosar on Sat-
urday. Yesterday Catcher Gene De-
sautels was shaken up and cut on
the lip. Second Baseman Bobby
Doerr was hit on the elbow by a
pitched ball. Outfielder Tommy
Heinrich crashed into the wall 60
ing after a fly and split open his
scalp. He had to have four stitches
taken in the wound
They are playing baseball for
keeps this year.
Both pem;ant faces remained
status quo yesterday. The Reds
split doubleheader with the Cubs
and the Yankees divided with the
Red Sox Cincinnati slugged out
an ll-3 victory over the Cubs in
the opener before 1904 and then
tossed away the second game, 9-8
on base on balls, the Reds big
weakness.
Lefty Grove beat Lefty Gomez
in the opener, 7-3, but the Yanks
came back t. murder the Red Sox
9-3, In the n,ghtcap Tommy Bridg-
es hung up his 18th triumph as
he let the White Sox down with
four hits for 5-1 victory. Cleve-
land and st. Louis split a twin
bill, the Browns taking the first
game, 4-3, and the Indians grab
bing the afterpiece, 8-2. Washing
ton slugged its way into sixth place
by downing the Athletics twice, 4-3
and 1872.
All the Battling between the
Dodgers and the Giants provided
nothing more than standoff. Luke
Hamhn tanned the Giants in the
opener 80, but the Giants raped
out a ga victory in the second
game. Pittsburgh knocked the Car
dinals into fourth place by taking
twin bill, S-5, and 6-3. Homers
by Eddie Miller 1.-TWO on) and A
I,opez (bases loaded enabled the
Rees to trim the Phillies twice, 81