Evening star., 1940-07-08
Both Sides Used
To Vagaries OF
ST. Louis Park
FelIer, Walters Likely
To Sturt on Mound:
Leiber Forced Out
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

associated Press sports Writer.
ST. LOUIS, July 8-They are
playing the eighth rendition of the
Major League All-Star baseball
game in Sportsman's Park tomor-
row but it's the first time the heroes
will tangle on a diamond equally
familiar to both sides.
Back in 1888 the game was started
in the Chicago White Sox Park as
the answer to the fans prayer and
sportsWriter's dream. Fittingly
enough, the dream player of all
time, Babe Ruth, smashed a home
run to give the American Leaguers
the first of five victories.
Since then the leagues have al
ternated as hosts. Now it is the
turn of the st. Louis Cardinals of
the National circuit to spread the
festive board before an expected
$4,000 customers.
Nationals Familiar With Park.
And in recent years the Cardinals
have shared Sportsman's Park with
their fellow townsmen, the Browns
OF the American League.
Which all means that the wind
currents and shadows tormenting
the American Leaguers in their
regularly scheduled games with the
Browns have been studied by the
Nationals in their stopovers with
the Cards-that the sun spots dis
turbing the fielders in the senior
loop have been scanned by their
rivals.
With the terrain so familiar, bet
tors today argue that the American
League contingent was a 5-to-2
favorite on its pitching and batting
prowess. A pencil and paper champ
discovered the Nationals have won
in the even numbered years after
first crashing through in 1886, but
they still trail five games to two
for the series.
Pittsburgh and st. Louis Cardinal
stars already were on hand, having
met Sunday in a twin bill and
Manager Bill McKechnie, boss of
the Nationals, arrived late last night
with his Cincinnati contributions.
Joe Cronin, chief of the Boston
Red Sox and leader of the American
Leagues forces, will spend most of
the day travelling from Washington.
Starting lineups of both teams still
were in doubt.
Nicholson Replaces Leiber,
McKechnie announced that Bill
Nicholson, Cub outfielder, would re-
place the ailing Hank Leiber of the
same club on his squad Leiber is out
with a throat infection.
1t was the second change in his
lineup to one for the Americans.
George McQninn, Browns first base
man, may be unable to play, how
ever.
Should McQuinn's throbbing knee
keep him on the sidelines it is prob
able that Jimmy Foxx of the Red
Sox, only player to be chosen for all
eight charity contests, will 60 the
full route at the initial sack. This
would be some kind of poetic justice
since Foxx wasn't used even as
pinch-hitter last year.
Although both Ford Frick, presi-
dent of the National League, and
William Harridge, who holds a
similar job in the American, asked
that hurlers designated for tomor-
rows contest see no service after
July 4, 10 of the 16 fingers have gone
to the mound since that date.
Hubbell and Walters Rested.
Hugh Mulcahy of the Phillies has
worked twice in four days and was
beaten both times. Only Carl Hub
bell, the venerable southpaw of the
Giants, and Bucky Walters, II times
a victor this season for the Reds,
have been idle among the tossers at
McKechnies command.
Al Milnar, Cleveland lefthander,
and Tommy Bridges of Detroit, win
ner of the 1889 classic before a New
York audience, have rested in the
junior loop.
But it is an even bet that Bob
Feller, the Cleveland howitzer, will
60 the mound first for the Amer
leans with Walters as his opponent.
The American League moguls
scheduled their summer meeting for
this afternoon while the National
Leagues gathering was down for
tonight.