The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-26
Buns Lead Cut
10 5 II Games
St. Louis Browns
Move into 3rd Place
BY JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer

The cup OF cheer Tor 81. LOUIS
baseball fans is trimming over
today with the Cardinals chop
ping away vic iously at the
Brooklyn Dodgers and t h e
Browns installed in third place
in the American League.
In the past the people of the
metropolis on the Mississippi
have shown they could take
their baseball or leave it alone
and more often than not left
it alone even when they had a
pennant fight in their laps. But
evidence of the spirit among
them now is the combined turn
out of 58,848 for two successive
night games with the Dodgers
this week.
1890 SEE GAME
They set a record for a night
game in st. Louis Monday night
with rs, 588 and last night 33 $50
jammed into Sportsman's Park
to set new mark - and to see
one of the most breath taking
baseball battles of this or any
other season.
For II innings the struggle
was a scoreless standoff be-
tween those master h u r | e s,
Whit Wyatt of the Dodgers and
Mort Cooper of the Cards. Then
things started happening fast.
Nj ager Leo Durocher and
Coach Chuck Dresser of the Ma
tional League champions were
banished from the field during
an argument with the umpires.
In the 18th Brooklyn broke the
spell with a run off Cooper and
the Redbirds retaliated by ty-
ing the score against Wyatt.
Larry French, the veteran
scout hpaw who hasn't been
beaten by any club except ST.
Louis, smothered the rally, but
in the 14th he and rookie Les
Weber were victimized for the
deciding run with the Cards get
ting 81 triumph on close
play at home plate almost ex-
actly at midnight, three hours
and a half after the game be-
gan.
SECOND OVER DODGERS
1t was the second straight sue
cess for the Cardinals in their
flourishing bid to overhaul
Brooklyn and reduced the mar
gin between the clubs to 5 "
games, but it was rivalled by the
big stride of the St. Louis
Browns far away in Washington,
where they captured twilight
night doubleheader to move into
third place in the American
League.
AL Hollingsworth and Dennis
Galehouse combined in a seven
hit hurting job to stop the SEN
ators 81 in the first game and
George McQuinn set off a rally
in the 18th inning with a single
TO win the nightcap 80.
The st. Louis squirt was help
ed by the Boston Red Sox, who
clamped down twice on the
Cleveland Indians 4-3 and 81
during a turbulent doublehead-
er in which the first game went
IL innings, Manager Lou Bou-
dreau and two Cleveland play
ers were xpelle d between
games for arguing with umpires,
and Ted Williams was booed for
going hitless in both contests.
This also cost him the league
batting leadership.
CHISOX COLLAPSE
The New York Yankees were
held TO seven hits by Johnny
HUMPHREYS and scoreless for six
innings, but the defense of the
Chicago White Sox collapsed to
give the World Champions three
runs in the seventh and Joe Cor
don homered with one aboard in
the eighth for a 5-3 verdict.
Gordon made three hits alto
gether and passed Williams in
the batting race.
At Cincinnati, the eight-game
winning streak of Carl Hubbell
was broken as Johnny Wander
Nicer pitched tn c Cincinnati
Reds 10 81 victory over the
New York Giants, scattering
eight hits and tanning IL.
Truett (Rp) Sewell held the
Boston Braves to- three hits, all
of them by Tommy Holmes, and
scored his fifth shutout of the
season for the Pittsburgh Pr
rates 60.