The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-05
Newhouser
10 Bid'for
23rd Victory
Tigers Seeking
HOTPOINT Coin
Against White Sox

CHICAGO, Sept. 5-(P-Hal
Newhouser will be bidding for
his 23rd pitching victory when
the Detroit Tigers resume the
pennant chase tonight with the
White Sox again their intended
victims. He has lost eight.
The Chicagoans will send Joe
Haynes to the mound in quest
of No. 5.
The Tigers have a chance, by
winning, to gain half game on
the League-leading Yankees,
now two-and-a-half games
ahead of them, and the st. Louis
Browns, whom they trail by two
games, since the Detroit Chicago
contest is the only American
League game scheduled.
Both Detroit and st. Louis di-
vided Labor Day double-headers
while the Yankees forged to the
front by shutting out the Phila-
delphia AS twice. The Tigers
did all right in their first game,
winning IL to 2, but they slipped
badly after five and half in
nings of the afterpiece to wind
up on the short end of a 6-to-3
count.
The Tigers CO. only one hit
off southpaw Ed Lopat in the
second game until the sixth, but
they made that one good for two
runs in the opening stanza. Ed
die Mayo was safe on Jim
Webb's error and Michael
(Pinky) Higgins walked. Dick
Wakefield lined a triple over
short, scoring both runners.
HAS FOUR HITTER
The Tigers put together sim
giles by Roger Cramer and Hig-
gins, and a sacrifice by Mayo,
for another tally in the sixth.
Lopat yielded only one other
blow, however, and emerged
with a four-hitter to his credit.
Johnny Corsica shut the Sox
out till the sixth, but in that in
ming they pounded him for five
hits in a row and four of their
six runs. Lopat himself opened
the four-run rally with a single
Wally Moses doubled and both
runners scored on a hit by lie
Roy Schalk, who counted the
tying run on a two-bagger by
Hal Trosky. Thurman fuckers
double to left drove in the run
that put the Sox out in front.
Four singles off Henshaw in
the Seventh picked up Chicago's
other two TALES.
SLAM 20 HITS
The Tigers slammed out 20
hits in winning the opener, with
everybody but Frank (Stubby)
Overmire participating. jim
my Outlaw singled in two runs
with his only hit of the game
during a four-run first inning
and all the other Tigers got two
or three hits apiece-Cramer
four of them in six trips.
Overmire was niCked for
eight scattered blows in ringing
up his tenth victory. Orval
Grove, making his first start
since a recent illness, and Jake
Wade were the victims of the
Tiger barrage.
Two of Chicago's five errors
accounted for four Detroit runs,
and a wild pitch let in another
one. The Tigers played error
less ball in both games.
Cramer and Mayo opened the
first game with singles and Hig-
gins attempted TO sacrifice, but
was safe when Webb muffed
Groves throw. Cramer scored
on The misplay.
Wakefield walked, filling the
bases, Outlaw singled Mayo and
Higgins home, Wakefield joining
the parade across the plate when
leftfielder John Dickshot drop
ped the ball.
Webb doubled home Mike
fresh, who had singled, with a
Chicago run with two out in the
third but the Tigers offset that
one in the next inning when
Paul Richards double sent
Wakefield home.
Detroit scored three more in
the fourth with singles by Mayo,
Higgins and Rudy York, and
Ed Carnett's muff of Wake
fields long fly. Joe Hoover
singled in the fifth, stole second
and romped home on Cramer's
safety.
Two Tiger runs scored in the
ninth on singles by OUTLAW,
Cramer, Mayo and Higgins and
a third on Wades wild pitch.
Chicago also scored another