The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-10
MAX WEST H0MERS
in FIRST INNING
Junior Loop All-Stars Held
To Three Hits In Canes
First Shutout Victory
By JUDsON BAILEY

American league with the first shut
out in the eight year history of the
All.Star game today, 4 to 0, on mag.
nificent Shit pitching and a first
inning home run by Max West of
the Boston Bees.
A sweltering' crowd Of 32,373,
slightly less than the capacity of
the park, thrilled at the throwing
of five National league hurlers as
they stifled the ballyhooed batting of
the Americans.
The only blows given up by the
Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters and
company were two hits to Luke Ap-
ping of the Chicago White sox and
one to Pitcher Buck Newsom of the
Detroit Tigers.
The National leaguers fielded
faultlessly and collected seven safe
ties, four of them in a surprising
outburst off the New York Yankees
Red Ruffing in the first inning.
The embittered senior circuit stars,
victors in only two of the seven pre-
vious All-Star tussles, never gave
their foes a chance.
Arky Vaughan of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, a goat in the beating the
National league took last summer,
led off the assault on Ruffing with
a scratch single over Joe Gordon's
head. Billy Herman of the Chicago
Cubs, who had a perfect day at the
plate with three hits, put on his fav-
orite play, the hit and run, and
singled Vaughan to third. Then West
lofted a 360-foot four Dagger into the
right field pavilion.
West, ironically, was hurt in the
first half of the next inning to con-
tinue the All.Star struggles string
of casualties. He crashed into the
right field wall in a desperate leap
for a liner by Appling and bruised
his left hip, apparently not serious
ly.
After that first inning furry the
game settled down to a tight rope
act and the only other run was
scored in the eighth inning with
Bobby Teller of Cleveland on the
mound. Teller took over in the sew
enth.
He walked Mel OFT of the New
York Giants on four straight balls
and after Frank Mccormick of Gin
cinnati had sacrificed the runner to
second, Catcher Hank banning Of
the New York Giants, the National
leagues leading hitter drove him
home with a sharp single to right
field.
The only error Of the game &C.
CURED on this play as Catcher Rollie
Hemsley of the Indians let Lou. Fin.
ney's throw roll through him and
banning get to second but nc dam.
age was caused.
Both Manager Bill McKechnie of
the Nationals and Joe Cronin of the
Americans captured the spirit Of the
All-Star struggle as a show and IS
players got into the game, 20 for
the National league.
Derringer, who started on the
mound for the senior circuit, worked
innings and was the winning
He famed three batters and
gave up one hit, Appling's double
when West was hurt.
McKechnie kept his pitchers go.
ing at top speed in short tricks. He
sent Walters to the mound at the
start of the third and the National
leagues most valuable player pitch.
ed hitless ball for two frames, fac.
ing only six batters. Whitlow Wyatt
the Brooklyn Dodgers and Larry
French Of the Chicago Cubs followed
workmanlike performances,
each giving one hit in two innings,
and the veteran Carl Hubbell fin
lshed. He gave no hits in one inn
ing.
McKechnie made one mass substi-
of six players at the start Of
the sixth and the only players he
missed pitchers Hugh Mulcahy
and Kirby Higbe of the Phillies and
Leo Durocher of
the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Centerfielder Terry Moore Of the
Cardinals was the only
Lacquer to play the entire
game while Joe DiMaggio of the
Yankees and Jimmie Foxx Of the
Boston Red Sox went the route for
the American league.
So perfect was the National league
pitching that only five balls, be.
the three hits allowed, went
out Of the infield. No more than
one American Lacquer was ever on
base in an inning and a fast double
play wiped out Newsom when he
ed off with a single in the sixth.
Cronin used only three pitchers
Ind his choice Of Ruffing, with a
record Of seven and six this season,
~ his starting hurler, proved fully
ls bad strategy as fans had predict.
ID.
or five hits in the three innings he
worked. Newsom gave up one dur.
ng his tour Of duty and Teller, hero
# the American league triumph last
year, the other.
Among the hurlers Cronin over.
ooked were Lefty AL Milnar Of the
Indians, who hadn't worked since
July 4 and had won II games
three losses.
TIGERS WIN
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July 81
Detroit Tigers hammer
I'd FIVE hurlers for 20 hits, includ-
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