The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
Big Thrill
Given Fans
by Wyatt
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer


of the St. Louis Cardinals and
Brooklyn Dodgers for the Ma
tional League pennant has been
settled, one thrill will remain
memorable for $1,000 baseball
fans.
For the fanatics packed into
Ebbets Field at yesterdays
Pcrucial doubleheader between
the foremost rivals OF the
senior circuit, the season reach
ed a high point when Whitlow
Wyatt singled in the ninth inn
ing to snatch a 80 victory In
the face of encroaching dark.
ness and save Brooklyn's game
and a half lead over the Card
inals, who had swept majestic
ally to a 7-3 triumph in the first
encounter.
SCENARIO FINISH
It was a finish lifted right out
of a scenario. The teams were
playing for big stakes and the
st. Louis victory in the opener
had cut the Dodgers lead to
half-game. Wyatt, grand
veteran, was wrapped in a
breathless pitching duel with
2O-year-old Howard Pollet,
lefthander who had been
sensation in the Texas League
till the Redbirds promoted him
10 days ago.
Pollet pitched superbly, al
lowing only five hits till the
ninth. But he got into jam
in the fourth inning and Dixie
Walker smashed a double along
the leftfield line for two runs
The Cardinals had counted q
run in the first on three singles
and in the eighth they tied the
score with another on a double
by Coaker Triplett and a single
by Frank Creepy Crespi.
PAIR OF BUNTS
With this the situation when
the Dodgers came to bat for
the last time, Peewee Reese laid
a perfect bunt down the third
base line for a single. Mickey
Owen sacrificed with an equal
Ineffective bunt down the first
base line.
Then Manager Leo Durocher
came trotting in from the coach
ing box and put his arm
around Wyatt. The fans ex-
pected a pinchhitter. Instead
Durocher let Wyatt bat for him
self. The conference, he said
later. was just to tell Wyatt to
wait for a curve ball.
The curve came on the first
pitch and Wyatt, who swings
the heaviest bat on the Brook
lyn club, met it squarely. It
was a single that shot straight
into center and put the Dodgers
back in a commanding position
for the rest of this series, a
game today and another tomor-
row. The victory was Wyatt's
18th.
In winning the first game,
the Cards hammered out a
dozen hits. including seven
doubles. They did everything
right and Ernie White, their
southpaw star, pitched steady,
nine-hit ball for his 18th tri-
umph. They dubbed Kirby
Higbe off the scene in less than
three innings.
REDS COMING FAST
The Cincinnati Reds, coming
fast but probably too late, gain
ed a game on both the leaders
by trouncing the New York
Giants, 1879, and Ga. Supposed
ly a weak-hitting club, they
made 33 hits in the two games.
The flying Phillies cut down
the Chicago Cubs twice, 8-5 and
7-6, while the Pittsburgh Pr
ates split with the Boston
Braves. Boston took the r.
inning opener, 4-3, and Pitts
burgh the nightcap 7-3, in six
stanzas.
The New York Yankees
showed any doubtful American
Leaguers and 44,296 Chicago
fans that they still were boss
by swapping the second-place
White Sox, 81 and 8-5. Char
ley Keller hit his 31st and 32nd
home runs.
BROWNS WHIP SENATORS
The st. Louis Browns put the
Washington Senators through a
4-3 10-inning wringer to
bounce from the cellar into
sixth place. Rain postponed the
second game of their scheduled
doubleheader.
AL Benton pitched the Detroit
Tigers to IA decision over
the Philadelphia Athletics.
The Cleveland Indians down.
ed the Boston Red Sox, 4-3 and
So, holding the Red Seekers
to seven hits in the first game
and six in the second.