The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-11
.Chisox Push
Winning Mark
10 Nine Games
Nots Also Continue
in Victory Saddle;
Brooks Increase leod

hO O1lN bEALMEAR
Associated Press Sports Writer
There doesn't seem to be much
the Boston Red Sox or anybody
else can do to catch the New
York Yankees, but the Red Sox
get another chance today to slow
them down and renew a few
personal duels at the same time.
AS the Red Sox moved into
Yankee Stadium for a three.
game set, they chung to second
place in the American League
by a lone percentage point but
they trailed the defending cham.
pions by Is lengths - just one
shy of the margin the Yanks
held at this stage in their run
away campaign of 1941.
MATS, CHISOX WIN
Although the Yankees divid-
ed a doubleheader with the
Philadelphia Athletics yester-
day, they tackled a full game to
their lead with the help of the
washington Senators, who swept
twi-night twin bill from the
Red Sox. and the Chicago White
Sox, who whipped Cleveland
again.
1t was the ninth straight vic.
tory for the White Sox and il
enabled them to step into fifth
place ahead of the idle Detroit
Tigers.
One duel the customers will
be looking for in the Yankee
Red Sox series is that between
Ted Williams of Boston and Joe
Gordon of New York for the
batting crown which the Red
Seeker now wears. They are
one-tWo among the hitters of the
league, with Gordon only seven
percentage points behind.
Another interesting devel-
opment should materialize in
the meeting Of two of the dew
astating DiMaggio brothers.
Boston's Dominic and New
YOrk's Joe. Each has collect
ed exactly $50 hits this sea-
son, but Joe has the edge in
most of the other departments
and is hitting 1907 to Dom's
.292. Joe has hit 16 homers to
III for Dominic and leads in
runs scored, 81 to Is.
Today's battle also brings to-
gether two of the leagues ton
three pitchers - Hank Borowy
of the Yankees with ten wins
and two losses and Tex Hugh.
son of the Red Sox with q rec.
ord of ID and three.
The Senators pounded Oscar
Judd and Mace Brown for II
hits in taking the first game
fr ON the Red Sox, 90, last
night, but the second game was
a pitching duel in which Walt
Masterson of the Senators tri-
umphed over Joe Dobson, 10.
although the Mats were outhit.
5 to 4. A single by Stan Spence
and a double by Bruce Camp.
bell decided the issue in the first
frame.
DEAN DEFEATED
AT Chicago, the fast-travelinp
White Sox collected only five
hits off Chubby Dean while the
Tribe clipped Joe HUMPHREYS for
ii, but the Sox won, 81. Dean
walked in the run that put Chi
cago ahead to stay.
The Athletics tripped the Yam
KEGS and Red Ruffing, Al, in
the opener of their double bill.
but Ernie Bonham pitched the
champs to 80 decision in the
nightcap.
After Ruffing had pitched
one-hit ball for six frames, the
AS tagged him for four blows
and all their runs in the sew
enth. Bonham pitched six hit
ball in the second game.
In the National League, the
Brooklyn Dodgers BANKED the
Philadelphia Pills, 60, in a twi-
night affair and increased their
lead to nine games over the St.
Louis Cardinals, who went down
before the Pittsburgh Pirates.
6-4, in the only other contest on
the days card.
HIGBE WINS
Kirby Higbe handcuffed the
pills on four hits. His mates
could manage only six off the
combined offerings of Frank
II oerst, Ike Pearson and 81
johnson but they made each one
count for a run.
The Pirates, who drove Mort
Cooper off the mound in a 16-
inning tie game last Saturday,
routed him again yesterday in
the fifth inning of the playoff
of that deadlock.
Bob Elliott's three-run triple
sent Cooper to his sixth defeat,
compared with l3 triumphs. The
Cards raped Aldon Wilkie and