Evening star., 1939-07-03
15-GameSunday
Program Lures
195,338 Fans
Bonuro, Durocher Mix;
DesouteIs, Heinrich,
Doerr Are Injured
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

All that most major league play
ers want is a fighting chance and
they'll keep baseball safe from clas-
sification as parlor sport. That
was demonstrated yesterday in
rough-house 15-game program for
l95, 1888 patrons at eight parks.
Three contests were punctuated
by fighting, firecrackers and pop
bottles and in another three players
were injured. But withal there was
considerable good baseball and a
realignment Of the standings in both
leagues.
In the National the league leading
Cincinnati Reds divided q double
bill with the Chicago Cubs, winning
the first, ll-3, and booting the sec
ond. 9-8, to enable the Cubs to
climb into third place ahead of the
st, Louis Cardinals, who were beaten
twice by Pittsburgh 85 and So.
Grove Handouts Yankees.
In the American Old Moses Grove
OF the Boston Red Sox handcuffed
the New York Yankees in one half
OF a doubleheader, 7-3. but the
champions broke loose to win the
nightcap, 9-3.
Detroit had only one game. but
put on the best show even aside
from the fact Tommy Bridges
pitched four hitter against the
Chicago White Sox to win his 11th
OF the season, ST..
AS an aftermath to SATURDAYS
smuggling of Joe Kuhel bv Hank
Greenberg, which brought a fine of
So0 Tor Greenberg and an admoni-
ton from President William Har-
ridge to the White Sox for insult
ing and abusive language Man.
ager Jimmy Dykes emptied his dug
out yesterday.
He sent all the Sox PLAYERS who
weren't actually in the game out to
the centerfield bull pen where they
couldn't tease the Tigers. Then in
the fourth inning Umpire Ed Rom
mel called a disagreeable third strike
on Eric McNair. who threw his bat
nigh into the air and was quickly
banlshed. This caused DYKES to
forget about the Christening of his
teams language and he and Pitcher
Ted Lyons were soon tagged off
the field, too.
Stengel, May in Battle.
Manager Casey Stengel of the
Boston Bees and Merrill May of the
Phillies punched each other and
were expelled at Philadelphia after
May had collided with Shortstop-
per Ed Martin of the Bees in trying
to prevent a double play. Boston
won both games-the first, 81,
when Al Lopez hit a homer with the
bases loaded, and the second. 4-3.
as Martin homered with two on.
Flrecrackers popped and pop
bottles were fred from the ramparts
OF the Polo Grounds as Manager
Leo Durocher of the BROOKLYN
Dodgers and big Zeke Bonura, the
usually amiable first baseman of
the Giants, fought for the mixed
weight championship of New York.
The Dodgers won the first game,
30, on Luke Hamlins six-hit pitch
ing, but lost the second, Ga, to a
home-run barrage in which Bonura
participated. Durocher stepped on
Zekes ankle in play at first base
in the nightcap and Bonura went
berserk, throwing the ball and his
glove at Durocher and then chasing
him into the outfeld to get punch.
Real Injuries at Boston.
Like most baseball fights, nobody
got hurt in these goings on. But
at Boston they had real injuries.
First, Catcher Gene Desautels of
the Red Sox was bowled over tag
ging Tommy Heinrich at the plate
and had to retire for the day with
cut mouth. Then young Bobby
Doerr was struck on the elbow by
one of Lefty Gomez's pitches and
taken to hospital. Finally Hen
rich smashed into the bleacher wall
and cut cash in his head trying
to field Ted Williams home run.
-Four stitches were required to
close the wound, but the hospital
said neither he nor Doerr was seri-
ously hurt. Williams homer, Incl
dentally, came with two on in the
seventh and broke a tie to give
the second-place Red Sox the game.
They lost the second section, as
Bill Dickey and Joe Di Maggie hit