The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-19
Indians Garry
War 10 Yanks;
Race is Tight
Dodgers Continue
TO Burn up MI;
Chisox on March
BY JUDSON BAILEY


dinner in Cleveland last night
and, nice fellow that he is, as
serted that the Indians are de-
finite pennant contenders in the
American League.
Mr.. McGillicuddy may have
been speaking either from his
heart or from his extraordinary
fund of baseball wisdom, but in
either case the timing of his re-
marks was faultless because the
tribe has -crept into a virtual tie
with the New York Yankees for
first place in the American
League.
There is no question that "a
year-old Lou Boudreu has ac-
complished amazing things at
Cleveland. The tribe won 13 in
row at the end of April and
when it wen into a tailspin and
lost half a dozen straight, he
jolted it back to an upward
plane that has brought seven
triumphs in the last eight games.
WALLOP ATHLETICS
Yesterday the Indians waylaid
the Philadelphia Athletics with
six-hit pitching by Chubby Dean
and Joe Heving and a 14-hit at
tack led by Ken Keitner and
Oris Hockett. The result was a
IA victory that boosted the tribe
within 13 percentage points of
the Yanks. Actually the two
clubs are even in games won
and lost reckoning, but the tribe
has played two more than New
York.
The Yankees were idle at st.
Louis yesterday for the eighth
time in IL days and are not
scheduled today. This will give
the Indians an opportunity to
move half a game ahead of the
champions by winning today
but they would still be left two
percentage points behind New
York because they have lost an
extra contest.
The Browns took advantage of
their off day to return Babe
Dahlgren, the itinerant infield-
err, to the Chicago Cubs on the
grounds that there had been a
misunderstanding as to what
would happen if Dahlgren went
into military service before the
end of the season.
AS IN BASEMENT
Philadelphia's defeat at Cleve-
land plunged the AS into the
American League basement as
the Chicago White Sox captured
their seventh straight victory rs
at the expense of the Washington
Senators. Waliy Moses was the
big gun in Chicago's attack and
won the game with three-run
homer in the ninth inning after
driving in two tallies earlier in
the affair.
The surge of the Sox raised
them to a tie with the Senators
for sixth place as John Rigney,
Chicago's pitching mainstay,
passed from civilian life into the
ranks of the Navy at the Great
Lakes Training station.
In the days other American
League contest the Boston Red
Sox downed the Detroit Tigers
4-2 with Jimmy FoXx providing
the winning margin o. two
run homer in the sixth inning.
Double X and single X Pete Fox
returned to the lineup yesterday
in a shakeup and single also
knocked in run. Broadway
Charley Wagner pitched seven
hit ball for Boston and the only
runs against him were driven in
by Rudy York, one Of them his
ninth homer.
DODGERS HOT
The Brooklyn Dodgers con-
tinued to burn up the National
League, running their latest
winning streak to seven games
and increasing their first place
margin also to seven, by smoth-
ering the Chicago Cubs Al. The
veteran Johnny Allen pitched
five-hit ball and had a shutout
till Clyde Mccullough homered
after two were out in the ninth.
Arky Vaughan led Brooklyn
nine-hit offensive with two
doubles, each OF which drove in a
run.
The ST. Louis Cardinals shook
off their scoring lethargy with a
1914 triumph over the New York
Giants. The Redbirds made Is
hits and punched five runs in
the second inning. Jimmy Brown
and Walker Cooper each batted
in four runs. The only import
ant gesture Of defiance from the
Giants was a two-run homer by
Johnny Mize in the first frame.
Michigan Gains Tight