The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-29
Draft Boards
Contro! Fate
ofLoop Races
Stirnweiss, Mack
Moy be Called
TO Service
BY JUDSON BAL ley

Associated Press sports Writer
The American Leagues PEN
nant race seems TO be in the
hands Of the draft authorize to-
day.
II has been right within their
nc. all along, of course. and
all the pennant predictions this
spring we're hedged with a
dense foliage of "ifs" and butts"
covering the possibility of the
loss of key players by contend
ing clubs.
However, the matter is down
to cases now. Today Short
stop George Stirnweiss of the
New York Yankees under
goes an induction examination
at Hartford, Conn, and last
night il was disclosed that an
appeals board at Mansfield,
Ohio, has retained second
baseman Ray Mack Of the
Cleveland Indians in class IA.
Neither of the players is as
y ointment as some that are
sure to be called later in the
season, but they are vital cogs
in the clubs that now rank one
two in the American League and
their cases are as controversial as
any baseball is likely TO pro-
duce.
Mack was married on Oct. l6.
49, the date of the first draft
registration, is the father of an
18-months-o.d daughter and ex-
poets another child this summer.
The Indians had expected him
to be deferred by the selective
service ruling that fathers of
children born before last Sept
ember Is would not be called
until the supply of single and
childless married men had been
exhausted.
The appeals board said its de-
cision was not unanimous, leav-
ing Mack the right to take his
case to the presidential board
Stirnweiss, bridegroom of
about six weeks. is understood
TO have stomach ulcers and
Yankee spokesmeh have said he
vas rejected for this reason
when he tried TO become naval
aviation cadet last winter
Thus there is doubt bout the
future of both players, but no
doubt that the decisions on their
cases will have bearing on the
pennant race.
The pace-setting Yankees
have played five games, win
ming four, and StirnweisS has
hit safely i'm every contest for
batting average of ASS to
show that even though he is a
24-year-Old rookie he is as
valuable to the club as any
veteran. Yesterday the Yam
KEGS shut out the Boston Red
SOx. so, with Ernie BOnham
pitching six-hit ball. Stirweiss
made three of New YOrk's
eight hits, scored one run and
batted in another.
Cleveland took over undisput-
cd possession Of second place as
Lefty AL Smith shut out the Chi
cago White Sox, 20. Smith
gave nine hits to the six his
teammates obtained off Bill
Dietrich. but the Indians bunch
cd three singles and two stolen
bases in the first inning TO get
their runs.
The Indians in winning five
of their first seven games have
distinguished themselves as pen
ant poSsibiliti if they can keep
their team togetl or and keep
clicking. The early games have
indicated no other likely rival
for the Yanks.
The Washington Senators, who
moved into third place as Ewald
Pyle pitched them to 80 vic
tory over the Philadelphia
Athletics. also ST, cred a draft
blow when infielder Gerry Prid-
dy was summoned 10 New York
for his physical examination.
The world champion ST. Louis
Cardinals lost their contest with
the Chicago Cubs, 40, on four
errors and the tight seventh
hurting of Hiram Bithorn, the
Bruins Puerto Rican righthand-
err.
There were nine errors on 4
Brooklyn Dodgers affair with
the Philadelphia Phillies and
Brooklyn's National ague
leaders finally obtained a 4-3
decision with an unearned run
in the tenth after Schoolboy
Rowe's pinch double had pro-
duced two runs TO tie the score
il the eighth