The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-28
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BY JUDS0N BAILEY
2 Associated Press Sports Writer

BY JbDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The most coveted pitching
goal in the major leagues is 80
victories in a season. 1t is much
more valuable, and a whole lot
more difficult to obtain, than a
no-hitter.
The feat hasn't been accom-
plished since Dizzy Dean had his
great season for the st. Louis
Cardinals in 1884 and it hasn't
been done in the American
League since 1881 when Robert
Moses Lefty Grove won 81
for the Philadelphia Athletics.
After Bob Teller traded his
baseball toys for a Navy uni
form last winter there didn't
seem to be a pitcher anywhere
with even a remote possibility
of gaining the pinnacle this sea-
son-or next, either.
BONHAM, PERHAPS
Yet, Ernie (Tiny) Bonham,
big righthanded ace of the New
York Yankees, apparently has
found the right trail and his
chances look about as good as
Feller's ever did.
Bonham bagged his seventh
straight victory yesterday, 8-3,
from the Philadelphia Athletics.
The crowd at Yankee Stadium,
where he hadn't been scored
upon all season, was hoping he
would get his fifth shutout. He
missed this, but he pitched an
expert seventh game without
allowing a walk.
The big fellow is no strike
out specialist such as Dean or
Grove or Teller, but his fork
ball" is something the opposing
batters usually pop up and his
control is amazing. In the seven
games he has pitched this sea-
son he has walked only five bat
tiers.
RIGHT ON BEAM
He may not win 80 games,
because there are only "a weeks
in a season and he may not
work often enough. But with a
team like the world champions
behind him he is not likely to
lose many and at present he is
right on the beam - approx
mately one-fourth the victories
in approximately one-fourth the
season.
The Yanks gave Bonham a
five-run boost in the fourth in
ming yesterday, three of the
runs coming on a homer by Tom
Heinrich, and this enabled the
champs to coast to their 10th
victory in 10 games.
The Boston Red Sox came out
of a slump to overpower the
Washington Senators, 10-1, in a
night game. Oscar Judd limited
the Nationals to six Well-Spaced
hits before a crowd of 1900.
Rookie John Pesky collected
three of Boston's 13 hits and
scored twice.
Chicago's usually weak hit
ting White Sox collected II hits
at Cleveland, but had plenty of
trouble tanning the Indians, 81.
Three of the Tribes ten hits
were homers and it remained
for relief pitcher Joe Haynes to
win his own game for the Sox
by singing across two runs in
the eighth inning.
The st. Louis Browns backed
up Johnny Niggelling with ex-
tra-baSe hitting to beat the De
troit Tigers, So. Walt Judnich
led the attack with a homer, a
double and a single.
T h e Brooklyn Dodgers in
creased their National League
lead to six games by betting the
Boston Braves, Al, with a
three run ninth inning rally
that settled a hurting duel be-
tween Whit Wyatt and Jim To-
| bin.
Wyatt rationed five hits and
Tobin scattered seven and the
only runs till the final frame
were Billy Herman's homer for
Brooklyn in the first and Seb-
by Sisti's round-tripper in the
third. Then Dolph Camilli walk
ed, Joe Medwick and Pinchhit-
ter Pete Reiser S n 6 e d and
Mickey Owen tripled.
BUCKY WINS
Bucky Walters pitched seven
hit ball as the Cincinnati Reds
conquered the Chicago Cubs, 10
/. with a 13-hit offensive that
included a grand slam home run
by Gerald Walker TO climax a
Seven-run spree in the fourth
inning.
The Surging st. Louis Cardi-
nails moved into second place
slightly ahead of Boston by
routing the hapless Pittsburgh
Pirates, So. Three errors figur-
ed in Pittsburgh's fourth straight
setback.
Bob Carpenter pitched the
New York Giants to 60 deci-
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