The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16
INITIAL TEST SHOWS SUCCESS
 |-CUBS VICTORS
Passeau Wins Tenth Game to Lead Both Leagues;
 Barna's Bat Clicks
BY PAUL sCHEFFELs

New York, June 16-UP)-The Brooklyn Dodgers, responsible fol more innovations in major league baseball than any other club-most of them incredible, but all of them interesting introduced dwight baseball to 15,157 of the Flatbush faithful last night and the novelty gives promise today of developing into 8 regular diamond fixture.
 'Twight" baseball is a contest defined as cross between a twi- light affair and a night game. It is a direct result of war-time re- strictions on outdoor lighting and the nimble brain of Club President Larry MacPhail. John Mcdonald team secretary, authored the title
 The games are to start promptly at 2 D. m. and at sundown, the arclights will be turned on for ex- actly one hour. The military au- thorities allowed MacPhail the hour of artificial light and the opposing managers agreed to forego any stalling tactics.
 MacPhail, whose deeds of daring with Dodger dollars first brought night ball to Ebbets field, solvercy to the club cashbox and National league pennant and world series to Brooklyn, announced plans for at least five of the hybrids immedi- ately after the total arc affairs were blacked out. At the time, other clubs criticized dwight" baseball as only some more Dodger daffiness.
 Not So Bad
 Today, however, the feeling was different after last nights turnstile take was counted. Despite crush of workers returning home on the subways, the crowd compared fav- orably with the average daytime draw of a similar game-approxi- mately 5000.
 Horace StonehAm, president of the New York Giants, who attended the game, announced that his team would follow suit as soon as pos- sible. The initial effort at the Polo Grounds will probably be with the Pittsburgh Pirates June 18th or 18th.
 Even Detroit and the New York Yankees, who had stood with Bos- ton against tinkering with the American league timetable, have given in and will experiment today at the Motor City. The Tigers Yankees doubleheader will start at 3 p. m., making the second game something like a twilight contest but not as radical a departure as the Ebbets field embroglio.
 The attendance last night was far below last nights night crowd oi 32,06l for the same game. The con- test ended at 9 p. m. and thus should satisfy the fan, the diamond execu- tives and the army.
 The only sour note for Brooklyn was the fact that Pitcher Claude Passeau and the Chicago Cubs walked off with a 60 victory, which lifted the Bruins into fifth place, two games out of the first division. Passeau became the first pitcher in either league to win 10 games as he held the Dodgers to five hits. The Cubs ganged up on Rookie Ed Head to knock him out in the third. He retired the first two men, but then gave up five hits and three runs, with Bill Nicholson's double pro- viding the most damage.
 Second Shutout
 Chicago clouted Johnny Allen for six hits and three more runs in the next 5 l-3 innings, while Larry French pitched the final frame. The Cubs collected 12 hits. It was the Dodgers second whitewash of the season.
 In the only other game played in the major leagues, the New York Giants climbed to within 8 single percentage point fo the third-place Cincinnati Reds by scoring a 6-2 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hal Schumacher allowed a total of seven hits. giving up only one single until the seventh.
 The Giants pecked away at Max Butcher for single runs in the third, fourth an deighth and sewed up the game with a three-run burst in the ninth of Ken Heintzelman. Mel Ott hit his eighth homer and Babe Barna clouted No. after Johnny Mize had singled.
 YESTERDAYS STAR - Claude Passeau, who became the first pitcher in the majors to win 10 games when the pitched the Chi- cago Cubs to a five-hit. so triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers.