The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-02
Vital Series
with Red Sox
Starts Friday
Boston Club Con
Kick Chomps Right
Out of First Place
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer

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anyone needed to feel sorry for
the world champion New York
Yankees, but their plight is get
ting more pathetic night and
day.
Since marching boldly out Of
Yankee Stadium nearly three
weeks ago they have lost IL out
of IL contests and last night saw
their American League lead cut
to three games as they blew a
5-4 decision to the Philadelphia
Athletics.
This was a reduction of n
games in their first place margin
in a single day because of the
Boston Red Sox' second straight
doubleheader victory over the
Washington Senators.
The Yankees were held to five
hits by three Philadelphia pitch
ers. but this was rot what whip
ped them. The champs held
40 lead at the end of four in
ningS, one of the runs being Joe
DiMaggios 18th homer of the
year But then the Yanks fold
ed up as they have done in four
Of their last five games.
They couldn't score any more
themselves and they let the AS
rally for two runs in the fifth
and tie the score in the seventh.
Then in the ninth, with runners
on first and second, j o h my
Murphy fielded srelief pitcher
Luman Harris bunt and threw
into leftfield to allow the win
ming run to cross the plate. AL
together the AS made Ia hits.
BOBO LOSES
Washington was held to five
hits in each game and the Red
Sox made twice as many. They
doWned Buck NeWsom 80 in the
opener with a run in the seventh
and three innings of perfect re-
lief pitching by Yank Terry and
then they captured the night
cap with the greatest of ease
II.
This brought BOstOn's current
surge to 20 victories in "a games
and put a premium on the three
game series between the Yanks
and Red SOx at Fenway Park to-
morrow and Saturday-with the
possibility that New York may
lose control of first place.
The Cleveland Indians kept
within sight Of s4he struggle for
the lead by beating the Chicago
White Sox To on the seventh
hurting of Lefty AL Smith. The
Tribe scored seven runs in the
first inning, routing Orval Grove
before he could get batter out.
The st. Louis Browns turned
loose a 14-hit assault to score In
all but one inning and belt the
Detroit Tigers 1910 on the five
hit hurting of Eden Auker, who
thus became the first American
League pitcher 20 gain ten vic
tories this season. Home runs
by George !IcQuinn and Mike
Chartak dressed up st. Louis
attack.
Action in the National League
was limited to two games with
the st. Louis Cardinals shutting
out the Pittsburgh Pirates 40
and the Chicago Cubs cutting
the Cincinnati Reds So in a
night encounter.
The latter affair was perhaps
the last start for both Claude
Passeau and Johnny Wander
Nicer before the All-Star game
in New York Monday. Passeau
performed in his customary
fashion, yielding five hits and
scoring his 18th victory against
five defeats. Wander Nicer on the
other hand lasted only three
innings and left the game trail
ing AZ. Elmer Riddle finished
creditably and the Cubs were
held to a total Of five hits.
st. Louis success came on the
six-hit pitching of Lefty Ernie
White, who had been troubled
with a sore arm earlier this sea-
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