Evening star., 1942-08-10
Seven Of Is TiIts
Between Them
Go Overtime
Bruins Thrice on Top
Before Triumphine;
Lyons in Streak
BY AUSTIN BELMEAR,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
Most baseball teams will 60 to great
lengths to win their games but few
Of them have had to 60 as far As
the Chicago Cubs, who needed 18
innings yesterday to trip the Cincin-
natl Reds in the opener of double
header.
Twelve pitchers, the most ever
used in a major league game,
paraded to the mound in the
struggle, longest in the majors this
season and the seventh extra-in-
ming affair for these two clubs In
l3 meetings.
Three times the Cubs figured they
had it in the bag, but each time
the Reds tied 1t up Finally Hiram
Bithorn, last OF six Chicago hurlers.
blanked the Reds for six straight
innings and the Cubs sandwiched
the 18th inning blows Of Stan Hack
and Dom Dallessandro between q
walk and an outfield fly for two runs
and 1913 decision.
The game itself lasted five hours
and was interrupted for another
hour by weather in the 18th frame.
That left only an hour of daylight
for the second game, which the Reds
won, I'll, in four and q half innings.
with Bithorn the starting and losing
hurler.
Eleven Hurlers Previous Record.
A total of 81 players participated
in the first game-three short Of
the record held by the Pittsburgh
Pirates and Boston Braves. The
previous record OF IL pitchers in a
single game was set September 6,
1924, when the Philadelphia Phillies
used six against the New York
Giants, who used five. Since then.
four games played in the National
League and three in the American
have employed that many fingers.
BY squaring accounts in the night
cap, the Reds preserved third place
in the National League by a lone
percentage point over the New York
Giants, who swept a double header
from the Philadelphia Phils.
The Cubs might have won the
opener in regulation time II Claude
Passeau hadn't weakened in the
ninth after pitching eight scoreless
innings against Bucky Walters. The
Reds routed Passeau with four runs
which tied the score and came from
behind to knot 1t twice more when
the Cubs scored two In the 10th
and two In the 18th.
Some batters appeared at the
plate 10 times. with the losers lead
ing in hits, 20 to 10. Hack, who
celebrates his 10th anniversary in
the majors tomorrow, led the Cub
assault with fve blows In flve of{icial
times at bat. Johnny Wander Nicer
pitched four hit ball for Cincinnati
In the second game.
Meanwhile, the st. Louis Card
inals squeezed past the Pittsburgh
Pirates, 4-3 and 81, to trim Brook
lyn's lead to eight lengths. The
Dodgers bumped into a postpone
ment at Boston.
Musial Hits Two Big Doubles.
Stan Musial handled the clutch
hitting for the Redbirds, driving in
the winning marker in the night
cap and setting the stage for the
tie-breaking tally in the curtain
raiser, each time with q double.
At Philadelphia the Giants tripped
the Phils, 80. in the first game
when Mel OFT laid down . 10th
inning bunt with the bases loaded,
but Bill MCGEE made things easier
in the second game, pitching . Ave-
hit shutout as the Giants won, 10.
Buster Maynard clouted home run
and made 10 putouts, two shy Of
the major league record.
In the American League. the New
York Yankees increased their Lead
to . dozen games and the Boston
Red Sox moved into second place,
although neither team lifted . bat.
1t all came about when the Chi
cago White Sox clipped the Cleve-
land Indians, ILL and 81, stretch
ing their winning streak to eight
games and dropping the Tribe halt
q game behind the Red Sox. Tsd
Lyons pitched four-hit ball In ths
opener for his 10th win this year
and his seventh in q row.
Bob Kennedy, who was sworn into
the Naval Air Corps between games,
won the nightcap by singing the
winning run across In the ninth.
The Detroit Tigers had the help
OF II st. Louis errors as they downed
the Browns, 9-3 and 81.
Double-headers between the
Yanks and Philadelphia Athletics
and the Red Sox and WASHINGTON
Senators were postponed until to-
day.