The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19
The Indians!
Are They Sill
in The League!
Teller, e Al Form
Circuit Mystery;
Dodgers Open lsod
BY JUDsON BAILEY

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Associated Press Sports Writer
OThe most mystifying develop
ment of the big league baseball
season is what has happened to
the Cleveland Indians.
This Is the team that many
persons picked to win the Amer
lean League pennant business
of blushing by shrinking violets
suddenly exposed to q search
ing light) and at one stage of
the race 1t was seven full games
in front.
This is the team with the
greatest pitcher in baseball,
with the best second base COM
bination in the circuit, with
harmony among its players,
with balance of pitching, field
ing and batting strength.
ONE GAME AWAY IN 40
This is the team that finish
ed one game away from the
championship in 1910 and sup
posedly couldn't miss in 1941.
Yet this is the team that has
lost IL of its last Is decisions,
that has sunk to the fourth
place and is still sinking.
Even teams like the Phillies,
Browns and Senators, which
have sunk about as low as they
can 60, win once in a while but
the Indians have been going
practically weeks at a time
without winning.
They lost q AZ affair to
Washington last night to let the
Senators climb out of q tie for
the cellar. In desperation Man.
ager. Roger Peckinpaugh start
ed a rookie named Steve Gro
mex, who was acquired last
week from the class D Michigan
State League. He walked a
couple and gave up three sim
giles and q double for three
Washington runs in the third
inning and after that the game
was no contest.
$500 LAST MONTH
The tryst was kept in NUM-
cipal Stadium, where a night
game last month drew $500
fans, but only 8.365 customers
turned out for this one.
The Brooklyn Dodgers sue
ceeded in initiating their sud-
denly-acquired National League
lead to a full game while the
st. Louis Cardinals were idle.
The Dodgers beat the Pitts
burgh Pirates, SIS, on Pete
Reiser's homer in the ninth, but
they probably would have in
stilled more confidence among
their followers if they also had
taken the day off.
Brooklyn's often-praised in
field made six Count 'em,
s-i-x) errors and gave the Pr
rates four uncarned runs
which nearly cost the ball
game, but Joe Medwick's cir
cult smash and Reiser's tri-
pie with two men on base in
the early innings kept disas-
ter away from Ebbets Field.
The defeat was Pittsburgh's
sixth in eight encounters and
bumped the Buccaneers out of
third place in the senior cir
cult as the Cincinnati Reds
came up with a double decker
triumph over the Phillies.
The Reds won the opener,
1875, with 14-hit offensive
that was concentrated for 10
runs in the first two innings.
Then they came from behind
with a four-run seventh-inning
rally to capture the second
session 5-4. Gene Thompson
pitched nine-hit ball and famed
nine in the nightcap.
GIANTS WIN PAIR
New York's in and out Giants
tumbled the tottering Chicago
Cubs in both ends of q double
header, Ga and IL, for Chica-
COS 18th setback in 20 games.
Hal Schumacher pitched seven
hit ball in the opener and Lefty
Cliff Melton, who had hurled
a three-hit shutout against the
Dodgers in his last start, came
right back with a four-hit job
that kept the Cubs blanked aft
er the first inning.