Evening star., 1942-07-04
Champion Clubs
0f'41 Both Ride
High on July
Newhouser's 3-Hitter
Puts BengoIs Within
One Game of Third
BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR.


It's the Fourth of July and the
New York Yankees are perched
safely. at least for the day. atop the
American League standings after
demonstrating conclusively there
was nothing wrong with them that
few base hits couldn't cure.
Tradition has it that the major
league leaders on July 4 will be the
leaders at the finish. and this Inde-
pendence Day finds last years world
series opponents ruling their respec-
tive rooSts
AS the teams squared off today
for holiday double headers in both
loops, the Yankees boasted a four
game margin in the American
League and the Brooklyn Dodgers
possessed a National League lead
of 8ia lengths.
The Yankees puffed into Boston
yesterday, a little groggy from
Western trip on which they lost IL
Of II games, and proceeded to show
that they were "only foolin'" the
last three weeks. They landed a
5-3 haymaker on the same Boston
| club that previously had beaten
them five times in eight attempts
and had won 20 of its last "a games.
Only Red Sox Hopes Darkened.
1t was twilight affair, first ever
attempted on Boston's unlighted
field, but nothing was darkened ex-
cept the hopes of the Red Sox.
Frankie Crosetti was the standout
performer for the Yanks, who made
all their eight hits and five runs off
Broadway Charley Wagner in the
seven innings he worked. After the
Red Sox had come from behind to
tie the score at 3-3 in the third.
| Crosetti singled in the winning
marker in the fourth and added
clincher with sixth Inning home
run. Spud Chandler kept eight
Boston hits fairly we'll scattered
and hurled shutout ball after the
third.
The Dodgers also tackled a full
game to their lead, banging the
Philadelphia Phils, 81, while the
Pittsburgh Pirates were taking care
of the second-place st. Louis Car
| dinals, 5-4
Whitlow Wyatt tossed five-hitter
at the Phils, who paraded a half
dozen pitchers to the mound in a
vain attempt to halt Brooklyn's 13-
hit barrage. Johnny Rizzo, with
two hits, drove in three Dodger
runs, while Dolph Camiln collected
three hits and batted in two runs.
Homers Start Bucs to Victory.
Home runs by Elbie Fletcher and
Vince Di Maggie started the Pirates
on their way to four-run lead off
Lon Warneke, but Lloyd Dietz had
to rescue Johnny Lanning when the
Cardinals rallied for three runs in
the last two frames. 1t was Pitts
burgh's only triumph in the four
game series.
In the only other game in the Ma
tlonal League the New York Giants
took a free-hitting "twi-night" de-
clsion from the Boston Braves, 1916.
Johnny Mize hit his 18th home run
and Mel OFT his 18th, with mate
on base. Mickey Witek also poled
a two-run homer for the Giants,
while Tommy Holmes and Clyde
Kluttz homered for the Braves, the
latter with two on base.
Hal Newhouser pitched Shit ball
under the arcs as the Detroit Tigers
stopped the Cleveland Indians, 5-1,
and closed the gap between them
selves and the third-place tribe to
a single game, and Walt Masterson
blanked the Philadelphia Athletics
on hits to give the Washington
Senators 40 decision.
The Tigers drove Mel Harder to
cover in the first inning, when they
batted around and turned six hits
into four runs, and coasted to vic
tory as Newhouser famed 10.