Evening star., 1942-08-04
57,305Fans Boo
As imp Checks
Giants Rally
Dodgers With Homers
Had Grabbed Army
Relief Tilt Lead
BY JUDSON BAILEY,

The dimout on the East Coast
blacked out the ninth inning of
bitter battle between the Brooklyn
Dodgers and New York Giants last
night, leaving 57,305 spectators in
confusion, and made continuance
of the twi-night form Of baseball in
New York matter of doubt.
About all the fans were sure of
as they scrambled out of the Polo
Grounds was that the National
League champions had won the ball
game IA with Dixie Walker betting
a three-rm homer in he third in
ming and Dolph Camilli hitting the
jackpot in the seventh inning with
clout against the :ighIfield roof
while the bases were loaded.
These two tremendous blows gave
WhitloW Wyatt his 18th victory
against three defeats and sroiled
Van Lingle Mungo's outing against
his former teammates. The Giants
also scored four runs, every one will
attest, but some of the details are
likely to be fuzzy along with the
account Of the games ending.
Even Players Were Confused.
Trailing oy three runs the Giants
came to bat in the last half of the
ninth and Bill Werber singled on
the first pitch then Mel OFT walked.
The crowd was in an uproar, sensing
that Wyatt was weakening, and that
Babe Young, who had hit a homer
earlier, was next at bat, to be fol-
lowed by Willard Marshall and Bus
ter Maynard, a couple of sluggers.
However, Umpire George Mayer
kurth at this point signaled the
game was over because of the dim
out rules, which prohibit outdoor
floodlights in the New York area
for more than one hour after sun
down.
To prevent stalling. no one except
the umpires knew exactly when the
game would pe halted and even the
players were confused by the sudden
stoppage. The Brooklyn team re-
manned in the field for several min
utes while the big crowd that had
turned out for the benefit of the
Army emergency relief fund booed
long and loud.
Booing Lasts Into Dimout.
The booing continued even after
all lights were extinguished except
a spotlight on the American Flag
and while amplifiers intoned The
Star Spangled Banner" and thous-
ands of fans waved lighted matches
in what had been intended for
spectacular patriotic ceremony.
The same teams were scheduled
for another part daylight-part flood
light game at the Polo Grounds to-
night and the same thing in Brook
lyn tomorrow night.
But President Horace Stoneham
of the Giants said that there never
would be another twi-night game in
his ball park after tonight and 1t
was considered likely that provisions
would be made for Brooklyn games
to prevent a recurrence Ct the
trouble there. Both Commissioner
Kenesaw M. Lands and National
League President Ford Frick we're
present last night.
Al-Star Game Nearly Hit.
The major league au-star game
last month narrowly escaped SIM
liar bob-tailirg (some ,eople said
the big clock In centerfeld was stop
ped to allow completion, and last
week In Brooklyn a game between
the Dodgers and st. Louis Cardinals
was halted in the last half of the
seventh inning. The Dodgers were
ahead then, however, and 10 rally
was nipped.
The Giant -Dodger contest was the
only major league game yesterday,
an open date which most OF the
clubs filed with exhibitions includ-
ing one in which the st. Louis Card
inals beat the Philadelphia Athletics,
So, at Cooperstown, baseball's birth
place.