The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
Take 5.Ganle
Lead as Gomez
Downs Tigers
Indions' Third Place
Spot Suffers as They
Lose to Washington
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Shorts Wri,

Lose 70 washington
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The American League has
just suffered another chill in the
region of its pennant race.
The New York Yankees beat
down the Detroit Tigers again
yesterday 4-3 and the Washing
ton Senators surprisingly shut
out the Cleveland Indians TO in
a night game.
These results, coming as they
did on the heels of the Boston
Red Sox' double somersault be-
fore the st. Louis Browns Sun
day, placed an emphatic damper
on whatever rivals were rash
enough to think the world cham
pions were collapsing.
TIGERS TOUGH
All season long Detroit has
been the most troublesome of
the Yanks' opponents and the
Tigers were tough to handle yes
terday even though Lefty Gomez
held them to four hits and famed
seven while going the route for
the second time this year.
Gomez pitched one-hit ball for
six innings, but in the first
frame he walked one batter, hit
another, made wild pitch and
then walked two more to force
in a run. In the seventh ne
gave three successive singles to
load the bases and then escaped
with one run trickling across on
forceout and another on a fly.
The Yankees themselves were
held to six hits, four by Joe
Gordon, who drove in two runs
with a pair of doubles, and an
other a two-run homer by Red
Rolfe, who had returned to the
Yankees starting lineup Sunday
after long illness.
The Yanks' victory moved
them five full games in front of
the idle Red Sox.
INDIANS TUMBLE
The Cleveland Indians, who
had won four straight and IL of
their last Ia Excluding a tie),
meanwhile suffered a rude jolt
at the Nations capital and saw
their third place distance from
the leaders swell to seven games.
Young Walter Masterson was
the No. l boy for the Senators,
holding Cleveland to three scat
tered singles while his team
mates pelted three pitchers for
ten hits. Only the fast that the
Indians stalwart infield reeled
off four double plays kept the
Senators from making their con-
quest even more complete.
In the only other game, also a
night session, the Philadelphia
Athletics nosed out the Chicago
White Sox 4-3 in IL innings. Phil
Marchildon allowed Chicago just
eight hits and he started the
winning rally in the 18th with a
single after two were out. Mike
Kreevich, who had hit his first
homer of the year in the fifth,
then waited out a base on balls
from Johnny HUMPHREYS and Ell
mer Valo followed with a run
scoring single.
The only game scheduled in
the National League, Philadel-
phia at Cincinnati, was postpon-
ed.
PITTSBURGH PROTESTS
This left most of the attention
in the Senior Circuit conferred
on Pittsburgh's protest of game
with Brooklyn Sunday when the
Dodgers had rs men in uniform
on the bench. However, mana
ger Leo Durocher of the DOd-
gers contended that the extra
player, pitcher Max Macon, still
was under contract to Brooklyn S
Montreal farm in the Interna-
tional League and therefore did
not violate the Major League
player limit.
Whether il did or didn't, the
presence of Macon made the
imminent subtraction of one
player from the Dodgers rOs-
ter something to ponder and
there was a possibility that the
victim might be the veteran
Schoolboy Rowe. The move
moy be Ringing on whether
the Dodgers can get waivers in
order to send him to Mon
treal. II they can't, one of the
younger pitchers may feel the
finger.