Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-27
1853 Fans See
Detroit Win 7
From Browns
Bakers Men Gain
on Yanks and Tribe.
Play Boston Tomorrow
BY LEO MACDoNELL

Del Bakers astounding Tigers.
scoffed at by pompous critics I'm
Florida baseball camps this spring.
today were the idols Of sport-loving
Detroit as they reposed in third
place, but one-half game behind
the Yankees and Indians, who are
deadlocked at the top of the
American League championship
race standing.
Victorious over the Browns,
los and rs, in both ends of yes
terdays doubIe-header, the Tigers
racked UP a clean sweep of the
three-game series, extended their
winning streak to five straight and
lnotched their seventh triumph in
eight games played at home this
season to give them great glitter
as they prepare to head East to
beard the Yankees and other east
ern teams in their own dens.
Their first stop win be Boston.
where they open a three-game
series with the Red Sox tomorrow.
42,6sS SEE GAMES
Tigers double-dipped victory was
staged before 1898 paid CUSTOM
ers. some kind of a record, per-
haps, for a turnout to see a st.
Louis team play in Detroit, IL not
a mark for st. Louis games in
other parks.
With soldiers, sailors and other
guests added to the cash clients,
the crowd numbered almost As, 600.
1t was larger than the crowd Of
39,267 that paid to see the Tigers
and Indians battle in the seasons
opener less than two weeks ago.
1t was also larger than the 1941
opening day crowd of AZ, 165.
In pair Of free-hitting contests
in which the Tigers and Browns
sent 10 pitchers to the mound
five each---off of whom were
totaled the magnificent total of
"A hits and n runs, the great
crowd got its share of chills and
thrills.
10 EXTRA BASE HITS
The Tigers racked up 10 extra
base hits (from q team never sus-
lpected of having power), including
home runs by Jimmy Bloodworth
and Barney Nice osky, their second
each for the young season Blood
fwofth's was one of four hit6x6ol-
llected by the peppery young second
baseman and came in the first
inning Of the first game Of Bob
Muncrief.
First UP for the Tigers, Blood
worth smashed the ball into the
lower deck of the left field stands
over the 365-foot mark and sig
nailed glorious day for the home
lads. Bloodworth's other homer of
the year came In st. Louis.
Bloodworth also contributed the
fielding gem of the day, a sensa-
tional stab of a torrid liner off the
bat of George McQuillen in the
second game.
Resting on his laurels. perhaps.
Bloodworth did not hit safely in
the nightcap.
BARNEY TAKES OVER
/ McCosky, on the other hand,
crowded most Of his hitting into
the second game. His homer, one
\ of three knocks in this affair,
came off John Niggeling with Doc
! Cramer on base and was driven
far up against a girder in the Sec
ond deck of the right field stands.
Barney, too, made a homer early
in st. Louis.
Besides Bloodworth and Nc
7 Cosky, other high-powered hitters
of the afternoon were Rudy York
and Cramer.
Virgil Trucks started on the
mound in the first game for the
Tigers, but was yanked in the
sixth inning after he had given the
Browns nine hits and all of their
five runs in five official innings.
i Schoolboy Rowe replaced the
young finger from Buffalo, but
was no Improvement. and Baker