Evening star., 1942-05-09
Pitches Second
Brilliant Game
Within Week
Holds 2o Consecutive
Detroit and Boston
Butters HitIess
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


The world champion New York
Yankees still are In sole possession
Of first place in the American
League today. thanks to the Phila-
delphia Athletics and Phil March,
ildon.
All American League teams wers
idle yesterday except the Athletics
and the Boston Red Sox. who
charged into Philadelphia with the
idea Of wiping out the half-game
margin between themselves and the
Yanks by slapping down the lowly
AS.
But Marchildon. ace of Connie
Mack's pitching stan. had an idea
of his own. He tossed a 5-hitter
and gave the Athletics their first
victory Of the year over the Boston
club, I'll.
Not only did the defeat keep the
Sox from grabbing a share of first
place. but 1t knocked them out of
second-place tie with Cleveland
and into the Number 8 spot, a half
game behind the Indians and a
full game behind the Yanks.
Marchildon Kind to williams.
In fashioning his fourth triumph
against two defeats, Marchildon
struck out six men and issued only
three bases on balls, two of them
to Ted Williams. He picked up
where he left OF last Sunday,
when he retired the last 19 men in
order in a 2-hitter against Detroit,
and set down the first 10 Red Sox
to face him before two singles and
walk robbed him Of a shutout.
Charley Wagner. who entered the
game with three wins and no losses,
yielded only seven hits in going the
route for Boston, but the AS pushed
over both their runs in the third
inning on a pair of singles, a walk
and an infield out
Three games entertained the fans
In the National League and all ran
true to form with the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Pittsburgh Pirates and st.
Louis Cardinals-the big three In
the notwithstanding out on top.
In Brooklyn, the first twilight
game in the history Of the majors
established an Ebbets Field record
Of 1892 paid admissions as the
Dodgers tripped the New York
Giants, rs.
The game, first OF Is to be staged
In the two leagues this season for the
benefit Of the armed forces, produced
s59.859.25 for the Navy Relief So
ciety.
Wyatt Scores First Victory.
Two runs behind In the last hall
of the third inning. the Dodgers
knocked Cliff Melton out OF the box
with four-run assault and went on
to give Whitlow Wyatt his first de-
cision of the season. Wyatt, q 22-
game winner In 1941, got through
the opening frame for the first time
in three starts but had to have help
IN the seventh when his control went
sour.
Dolph Camilli's seventh home run
of the year in the seventh inning
was the margin of victory for the
Brooks.
The Pittsburgh Pirates remained a
game and half behind the Dodgers
by whipping the Chicago Cubs, Ga.
Rip Sewell went all the way in
pitching his fourth victory against
one defeat, although he was tagged
for II hits. the same number the
Bucs collected of three Cub hurlers.
The Pirates came from behind
twice to tie the score. once on a
homer by Vince Di Maggie. and
pushed across the winning runs In
the seventh on double, two singles
and sacrifice.
The third place st. Louis Cardi-
mails cashed in on home runs by Enos
Slaughter and Ray Sanders and the
eight-hit pitching of Lon Warneke
for a So decision over the Cincin-
natl Reds. Warneke kept the Reds
in check except for homers by Frank
Mccormick and Ray Iamanno.