Evening star., 1942-08-03
Net Of 100000
Promised for
Tilt Tonight
Brooklyn Only One Up
In IntercIub Feud;
indians Second
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR,

The Brooklyn Dodgers, who might
not be so far along with their work
had they met the New York Giants
more often, tangle with their heck
lers from Harlem this evening in a
contest hat has generated more ex-
citement in Gotham than any base
ball battle since the last world series.
This interborough brawl was just
another Monday ball game when the
schedule was drawn months ago, but
now it's an important struggle with
Army Relief the principal bene-
ficiary.
When the two National League
rivals played for Navy Relief in the
Dodgers park in May they took in
about 100000, mark none of the
other teams has touched. This time
they'll have the major league spot
light to themselves when they start
swinging in the Polo Grounds at
6.45 pm eastern war time) and
they have promised to do even better
by the Army
With everybody who goes through
the gates buying ticket and many
others purchasing ducats without
going to the game, officials won't be
satisfied with anything less than
100000.
Mungo Faces Old Mates.
The extra special attraction will
be Van Lingle Mungo, new addition
to the Giants pitching staff, hurting
against the Dodgers, whose uniform
he wore when he was the terror of
the majors not so many years ago.
A quirk in the schedule has kept
the two teams apart since Memorial
Day. In IL outings this season, the
Dodgers won six and the Giants five
Whitlow Wyatt will be Brooklyn's
starting pitcher for this evenings
joust, which opens a four-game
series.
The Giants helped the Dodgers
preserve their nine-game lead yes
terday by splitting double header
with the second-place st. Louis Car
dinals, which is all the Dodgers
could do with the Chicago Cubs.
It took the Dodgers 10 innings to
turn back the Cubs, 5-4, in the first
game. Pete Reiser hoisted a long fly
with the bases loaded to decide the
issue. In the second game, Claude
Passeau pitched the Cubs to a 7-6
triumph, but he had to have help
in the ninth when the Dodgers
rallied for three runs.
Hubbell Wins Fifth in Row.
Carl Hubbell pitched the Giants
to a IL decision over the Cardinals
for his fifth straight win as Mel
OFT blasted two home runs, one with
the bases loaded. Then Mort Cooper
tossed a four hitter at the Giants
and the Cards won, 80.
The Cincinnati Reds clung to their
one-game, third-place margin over
the Giants by splitting with the
Boston Braves. AL Javery blanked
the Reds TO on five hits in the first
game, with Max West contributing
grand slam homer, but Cincinnati
took the second, AZ, on circuit blows
by Eric Upton and Eddie Joost, the
latter's with mate aboard.
The Pittsburgh Pirates dumped
the Philadelphia Phils, 4-2 and 80,
and hoped over the Cubs into fifth
place. Luke Hamlin pitched five
hit ball for the Bucs in the first
game and Vince Di Maggie account
ed for all the Pittsburgh runs in the
second on a pair of home runs.
Yankees Stretch Margin.
In the American League, the New
York Yankees downed the st. Louis
Browns twice and stretched their
lead to 1871 games over the Cleve-
land Indians, who wrested second
place from the Boston Red Sox with
the help of the Detroit Tigers.
A two-run homer by Tommy Hen
rich led the Yanks to a 40 victory
over st. Louis in the opener and
Ernie Bonham blanked the Browns,
100, In the nightcap, although he
yielded 10 hits.
The Indians nosed out the Phila-
delphia Athletics, 4-3 and 40, with
Pinchhitter Chubby Dean singing
home the winning tally in a three
run ninth-inning rally in the first
game and Jim Bagby scattering
eight hits In the second.
The Detroit Tigers knocked the
Boston Red Sox into third place by
four percentage points, taking the
first game, 8-4. as Paul Dizzy
Trout pitched seven-hit ball and
contributed three-run homer. The
Tigers annexed the second go, on
the nine-hit hurting of Virgil Trucks
and AL Benton. Both Boston runs
in the second game came on Ted
Williams oath homer.