Evening star., 1944-07-12
Spence Alone Shines
As AII-Star Mates
Prove Impotent
BY JOHN b. KELLER.
Star Staff Correspondent.

Star Staff Correspondent.
EN- ROUTE TO WASHINGTON,
July l2.-An American League team
that closely resembled the Griffs,
where lack of punch is concerned,
never had any license to beat the
National League array in the 18th |
annual All-Star battle between the
major circuits here last night and
1t didn't. Moreover, the National
Leaguers looked even better than
the 7-to-l score might indicate, as
they got their first victory in the
dream game" series since 1910.
The amazing thing to an Ameri-
can League observer was the way
the National Leaguers hung 1t on
the best in the way of pitching the
junior circuit had to offer. Hal
Newhouser of Detroit's Tigers and
Tex Hughson of Boston's Red Sox,
the latter the loser, never resembled
the hurlers who have built up such
fine records in their own circuit.
Maybe the lop-sided National
League isn't entertaining the Gus
toners as much as the American
League with its y-go-round this |
year. but it certainly has the stuff
to punish anything its rival can
put forth.
AS it turned out, Rick Ferrell and |
Dutch Leonard of the Mats went to
the game only as spectators, but
Stan Spence made his contribution.
He got two of his outfits six hits and
with a spectacular throw cut down
the Cubs Phil Cavarretta at the
plate for a side-retiring double play |
Had some of the other American
Leaguers displayed the punch |
Spence did, it might have been
different story.
Bucky Walters of Cincinnati's
Reds, No. in lifetime shutouts, with
33 among pitchers active today, GER
tainly was no puzzle to the Ameri-
can Leaguers in his three innings
Two of the left-hand swingers and
three of the right-hand batters
nicked him for singles. with Ken
Keltner Of Cleveland's Indians and
Hank Borowy, the Yank pitcher,
punching two in the second for a
run. Borowy. though, gave up three
hits. one of the blows triple by
Cavarretta of the Cubs after two
were out in the third. A fawless
throw on the line to the plate by
Spence was needed. however. to keep
run from the National Leaguers
in the first frame. 1t came after
the Nat had nabbed Walker Cooper's
long drive and it completed a side
retiring double play.
Spence was the only American
Lacquer to get a hit off the left
handed Ken Raf1ensberger, the Phil
lies freshman, bidding for the
strikeout championship this year.
The southpaw toiled in the fourth
and fifth. STAINS single sent Thur
man Tucker to third base, and Stan
was waved on toward second by
Coach Joe Cronin, but couldn't
make 1t.
But that made no difference, the
way the National Leaguers mauled
Hughson in the fifth. Tex looked
anything but the good pitcher he Is
in his own company. A double, four
singles. and pass made Hughson
look very bad before Bob Muncrief
of the Browns relieved him with
two out and stopped the rampage.
At that. one of the four runs of
nI
three were mighty big.
Bill Nicholson of the Chicago
Cubs, who led the attack against
Hughson with a tWo-bagger while
pinch batting for Raffensberger, was
the home run and -driving-inI
champion of his league last year.
Bill comes from Marylands Eastern
Shore. He is graduate of Wash
ington College at Chestertown where
he won four letters in football and
baseball, three in basket ball and
got his B. S. and his scientific back
ground for operating his dairy farm.
Muncrief was steady the little
while he hurled, but it was no
picnic for Newhouser, ace of the
Detroit Tigers. He at no time re-
sembled the southpaw pitcher who
not quite two weeks ago limited the
Mats to two hits in shutting them
out. He really got a going over as
the National Leaguers combed him
for three runs. They had to call in
Bobo Newsom, currently clustering
with the AS to stop the carnage.
For the American Leaguers, 1t was
a sad finish. For three innings
they we're helpless before Rip Sewell
of Pittsburgh's Pirates and his
"ephus" ball, although he used this
peculiar pitch sparingly, and No
Hit Jim Tobin OF Boston's Braves
took them over the jumps in order
in the ninth
The American Leaguers simply
didn't have what it takes.
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