Evening star., 1942-09-14
Task Of Batt|inq
Yanks Hits zinq
OF n. |. Rivals
Appear Like PIoyboys
With Empty Pockets
Asking for Check
BY SID FERER.


The st. Louis Cardinals and the
Brooklyn Dodgers are beginning to
resemble a couple of playboys with
empty pockets fighting for the check
in a night club, and it might be
that they've just discovered the New
York Yankees are about to clinch
the American League pennant.
You know, the National League
winner has to take on the Yanks in
the World Series, and in five of the
last six sets that has turned out to
be about as hilarious as a champagne
hangover.
Oh, sure, the National Leaguers
always have shown up for the Series
but on several occasions in the past
they might as we'll have stood in
bed" And now the hour has arrived
when the Yanks can put the
clincher on the 1912 flag. A victory
in Cleveland today or a loss for the
Boston Red Sox in Chicago gives
the Yanks their sixth pennant in
seven years.
u6Sis SoIuC Apart.
So the news may have affected the
Dodgers and Cardinals accordingly.
Anyway, there were few signs during
Yesterdays firing that either the
collapsible Flatbush Follies or the
hot-and-cold Cardinals were any too
eager to get in there with the
Yankees. AS matter of cold fact
the Dodgers, after three days of
dropping their stitches one at a time
came completely apart at the seams,
Ihey blew up louder than a case
OF nome brew in losing both ends
OF a double-header to Cincinnati
b-3 and Al. It's probably a lucky
thing they're able to close for re-
pairs until Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Cards looked sorne-
what better in splitting a bargain
bill with the Philadelphia Phils to
taKe one-game edge in the race
But with a chance to double that
nulge they handed the first game
10 the Phlls, I'll. They did it. mind
you. on couple of errors with two
out in the ninth.
After that, they took the niphtcan
$ 10 = when Terry Moore broke a
tie with his fifth homer of the wear
Sets Record for Errors.
Brooklyn's efforts weren't nearly
that close. In the first game Buckv
Walters pitched a six-hitter and
swatted a jackpot three-run double.
Ray Starr, who has been about as
tough for Brooklyn in the past as a
walk through the park, suddenly be-
came a Mathewson in the nightcap
and hurled five hitter.
In this contest the Dodgers
f1elding-as well as their pitching,
hitting and good portion of their
college try-went bye-bye. Third
Baseman Lew Riggs committed three
errors in one inning to help the
Reds along.
This tied modern National
League record, but before the after
noon was over the mark was broken.
The hero" was young Lennie Me-
rulo, the Chicago Cubs shortstop.
Apparently excited over becoming
new papa, Lennie fumbled four in
one frame of the second game with
the Boston Braves, but Chicago
managed to hang on for a 12-to-8
triumph. The Braves took the
opener, II to 6.
Yanks Need One More.
The Yankees arrived at the pen
nant doorstep by moving down
Cleveland, 81 and Al behind Red
Rufflng and Hank Borowy. The Red
Sox also clicked twice over the
Chicago White Sox, 6-1 and SO, with
Bill Butland winning his seventh in
a row in the first and Tex Hughson
collecting his 18th of the year in the
afterpiece.
This left the Bostons in a spot
where the one way they still can win
the pennant is to take all their re-
manning games while the Yanks lose
all their outings.
Otherwise, the clubs were just
claying out the string The New
York Giants knocked over Pittsburgh
twice. SO and 5-3; the St Louis
Browns gave Philadelphit Athletics
the same medicine, TO and 80, and
Washington took the first from De-
troit, So, but lost the second, 80.