The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-07
BY GAYLE TALBOT

NEW YUM, July 6-ND-
Better All-Star games possibly
will be played than last nights
spectacle at the Polo Grounds in
which the American League
once again slugged the National
into defeat, 81, before benefit
crowd of 1864, but it is diff
cult to imagine one more dram
attic.
One minute after big Ernie
Lombardi of the National
Leaguers lifted a lazy fly 10
right field to end the contest,
pitch darkness closed over the
big arena as part of New York
City's second wartime blackout.
For % minutes the crowd that
had cheered itself hoarse for two
hours sat tense and almost silent.
LIKE A WAKE
They sat as at a wake for the
blasted hopes of the National
Leaguers, who had entered the
10th annual struggle with
burning determination to win
and had seen their chances van
ish almost with the first pitch.
Where the Nationals had plan
ned to invade Cleveland for a
climatic appearance against the
Service All-Stars in Municipal
Stadium tonight, they found
themselves instead returning
chastened to their respective
clubs while the triumphant Am
orleans headed for the Ohio city.
Last nights game was over
to all intents and purposes when
Lou Boudreau, Cleveland'S
handsome young manager, laced
the second ball pitched by Mort
Cooper of the st. Louis Cardin-
ais into the deep left field stand.
The Nationals from that instant
must have felt it was hopeless.
The crowd did, anyway.
FOLLOWS 1941 PACE
Here was Boudreau, who is
not a distance clouter and had,
in fact, hit only one previous
home run this year, blasting for
the circuit off Cooper, the Ma
tionals must have recalled with
a sudden chill that Ted Williams
had closed last years all-star
battle at Detroit with homer.
Boudreau's blow must have
unsettled Cooper, who had been
Manager Leo Durocher's game
time choice to start instead OF
Claude Passeau of the Chicago
Cubs, his original selection. For
the next American Lacquer,
Tommy Heinrich, bumped a dou-
BILE into right-center, and after
the next two men went down big
Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers
lofted a homer into the upper
deck in right field.
From there on, with the Am
orleans Boosting three-run lead
and their pitchers-Spud Chand-
Ter of the Yankees and big Al
Benton of Detroit-setting the
Nationals down inning after inn
ing. there never was much doubt
that the Junior Leaguers had
won their seventh victory in 10
all-star duels.
OWEN SAVES N. l..
Mickey Owen, the Brooklyn
catcher whose failure to stop d
third strike made him the goat
of the 1941 world series, saved
his side from a shutout with a
pinch home run off Benton in the
eighth. He had first tried to
bunt. He was the only Nation
al Lacquer to get past second
base, as Chandler and Benton
issued only six hits.
The Americans gave their two
pitchers brilliant support. York
and Boudreau, not content with
batting the Nationals into SUD-
mission, each contributed field
ing gem.
Durocher's big mistake, as II
turned out, was in starting
Cooper instead of either Johnny
Wander Nicer of the Cincinnati
Reds or Passeau. Both the lat
ter proved to be in dazzling
form. Vandy, his 5outhpaw
curves fairly cracking, allowed
only two singles in the three
innings he worked, and one OF
those was an extremely scratchy
one by Joe DiMaggio. For two
frames Passeau yielded only one
single, that also by DiMaggio
Bucky Walters of the Reds sat
the winners down in order in the
ninth, striking out Ken keltner
of the Cleveland Indians.
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