The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-14
FIaibush Sad
al 7 Defeats
by Cincinnati
Cords Split Twin
Bill TO Toke leod
in Crucial Period
BY SID FEEDER

The st. Louis Cardinals and
the Brooklyn Dodgers are be-
ginning to look like couple Of
play boys with empty pockets
fighting for the check in night
club. and it might be that they've
just discovered the New York
Yankees are about to clinch the
American League pennant.
You know, the Nat on
League winner has to take on
the Yanks in the world series,
and in five of the last six sets
that has turned out be be about
as-hilorious as champagne
hangover.
FORLORN HOPE
Oh, sure the Nat ION a l
Leaguers always have shown up
for the series, but on several Oc-
casions in the past they might
as we'll have stood in bed" And
now the hour has arrived when
the Yanks con put the clincher
on the 1912 flag. A victory in
Cleveland today or loss for the
the Boston Red Sox in Chicago
gives the Yanks their sixth pen
nant in seven years.
So the news may have affect
ed the Dodgers and Cardinals &C
cordingly.
Anyway, there were few signs
during yesterdays firing that
either the collapsible Flatbush
Follies or the hot-and-go Card
inals were any too eager to get
in there with the Yankees. As
a matter of cold fact, the Dodg-
ers. after three days of dropping
their stitches one at time, came
completely apart at the seams.
They blew up louder than q
case of home brew in losing both
ends of doubleheader to Gin
cinnati, 6-3 and Al. It's prob
ably a lucky thing they're able
to close for repairs until We'd
nesday.
CARDS LOOK BETTER
Meanwhile, the Cards looked
somewhat better in splitting q
bargain bill with the Philadel-
phia Phils to take a one-game
edge in the race. But with .
chance TO double that bulge they
handed the first game to the
Phils, 81. They did it, mind
you, on couple of errors with
two out in the ninth.
After that, they took the
nightcap. 3 to 2, when Terry
Moore broke tie with his fifth
homer of the year.
Brooklyn's efforts weren5t
nearly that close. In the first
game Bucky Walters pitched q
six-hitted and swatted jackpot
three-run double. Ray Starr,
who has been about as tough for
Brooklyn in the past as q walk
through the park, suddenly be-
came Mathewson in the night
cap and hurled five-hitter.
In this contest" the Dodgers
fielding-as well as their pitch
ing. hitting and a good portion
of their college try-wet bye
bye. rd-baseman Lew Riggs
committed three errors in one
inning to help the Reds along.
This tied a modern National
League record, but before the
afternoon was over the mark
was broken. The hero" was
young Lennie Merullo, the Chi
cago Cubs shortstop. Apparent
ly excited over becoming a new
papa. Lennie fumbled four in
one frame of the second game
with the Boston Braves, but Chi
cago managed to hang on for q
IL to 8 triumph. The Braves
took the opener, IL to 6.
The Yankees arrived at the
'pennant doorstep by moving
down Cleveland, 81 ad Al be-
hind Red Ruffing and Hank Bor-
owy. The Red Sox also clicked
twice over the Chicago White
Sox 6l and so. with Bill But
land winning his seventh In .
row in the first and Tex Hugh
son collecting his 10Th Of the
year in the afterpiece.
This left the Bostons in a spot
where the one way they can still
win the pennant is to take all
their remaining games while the
Yanks lose all their outings.
Otherwise, the clubs were just
playing out the string. The New
York Giants knocked over Pitts
burgh twice, SO and So; the St.
Louis Browns gave Philadelphia
Athletics the same medicine, TO
and 80. and Washington took
the first from Detroit, So, but
lost the second, 30.