The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-10
Cubs, Reds Use
II Pitchers in
Record Number Ends
in Chicago Victory;
81 Players Take Port
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR
Associated Press sports Editor

to great lengths TO win their
games but few of them have had
to go as far as the Chicago Cubs,
who needed ID innings yester-
day to trip the Cincinnati Reds
in the opener of doubleheader.
Twelve pitchers, the most ever
used in Major League game,
paraded to the mound in the
struggle, longest in the Majors
this season and the seventh ex-
ira inning affair for these two
clubs in 13 meetings.
Three times the Cubs figured
they had it in the bag, but each
time the Reds tied it up. Finally
Hiram Bithorn, last of six Chi
cago hurlers, blanked the Reds
for six straight innings and the
Cubs sandwiched the 18th in
ming blows of Stan Hack and
Dom Dallessandro between a
walk and an outfield fly for two
runs and 1913 decision.
LASTS FIVE HOURS
The game itself lasted five
hours and was interrupted for
another hour by weather in the
18th frame. That left only an
hour of daylight for the second
game, which the Reds won, 81,
in four and a half innings, with
Bithorn the starting and losing
hurler.
A total of 81 players partici-
pated in the first game-three
short of the record held by the
Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston
Braves. The previous record of
IL pitchers in a single game was
set Sept. 6, 1924, when the Phil
adelphia Phillies used six against
the New York Giants, who used
five. Since then, four games
played in the National League
and three in the American have
employed that many Fingers.
BY squaring accounts in the
nightcap, the Reds preserved
third place in the National
League by a lone percentage
point over the New York Giants,
who swept a doubleheader from
the Philadelphia pills.
The Cubs might have won the
opened in regulation time If
Claude Passeau hadn't weaken
ed in the ninth after pitching
eight scoreless innings against
Bucky Walters. The Reds routed
PasSeau with four runs which
tied the score and came from
behind to knot it twice more
when the Cubs scored two in the
10th and two in the 18th.
10 TIMES AT PLATE
Some batters appeared at the
plate 10 times, with the losers
leading in hits, 20 to 10. Hack,
who celebrates his 10th anniver-
sary in the Majors tomorrow.
led the Cub assault with five
blows in five official times at
bat Johnny Wander Nicer pitched
four-hit ball for Cincinnati in
the second game.
Meanwhile, the st. Louis
Cardinals squeezed past the
Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3 and 81,
to trim Brooklyn's lead to eight
lengths. The Dodgers bumped
into a postponement at Boston.
Stan Musial handled the
clutch hitting for the Red Birds,
driving in the winning marker
in the nightcap and setting the
stage for the tie-breaking tally
in the curtain-raiser, each time
with double.
OFT WINS GAME
At Philadelphia, the Giants
tripped the Phils, 80, in the
first game when Mel OFT laid
down a 10th inning bunt with
the bases loaded, but Bill Nc
Gee made things easier in the
second game, pitching a five-hit
shutout as the Giants won, 20.
Buster Maynard clouted home
run and made 10 put outs, two
shy of the Major League record.
In the American League, the
New York Yankees increased
their lead to a dozen games and
the Boston Red Sox moved into
second place, although neither
team lifted bat.
II all came about when the
Chicago White SOx clipped
the Cleveland Indians, Ill
and 3-2, stretching their win
ming streak to eight games
and dropping the tribe half a
game behind the Red SOx. Ted
Lyons pitched four-hit ball in
the opener for his 10th win
this year and his seventh in a
row.
Bob Kennedy, who was sworn
into the Naval Air Corps be-
tween games, won the nightcap
by singing the winning run