Evening star., 1946-07-10
led s5|ugging Terrific
AS American League
Coasts 10 12-0 Win .
By Burton Hawkins
Stor Staff Correspondent


are mentioned. Ted Williams here
after will be referred to in sep
arate category. as sort of milky
way all by himself. The American
League today is Oasking in the re-
fiected glory of Boston's boom boom
boy and the part ne played in pre-
senting the Junior loop a 1910 vic
tory over the National League here
yesterday in baseballs annual
dream game
Williams made the dream" game
a terror packed nightmare for the
National League, SO completely
dominating the action with his two
home runs and two singles that the
highly proficient three-hit pitching
of Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser and
Jack Kramer virtually is ignored.
Loose -jointed Ted, seigegun of the
league leading Red SoX and base
ball S most famed mauler since Babe
Ruth's era, now has compiled an
amazing 500 batting average in four
all-star games. registering seven hits
! in Ia attempts against the best
pitching presented by the National
! League and has driven across nine
/ runs.
Ted Star of AII-Stars.
| Williams is the star of all-StarS.
chesty, confident slugger who won
the l94l game at Detroit for the
American League with ninth in
ming. three-run homer off Claude
Passeau, then proceeded to exceed
those heroics with his astonishing
batting display here.
Playing in an All-Star game for
the first time since leaving the serv-
ice. Williams moved into action in
the fourth inning after the Yankees
burly Charley Keller had whisked
the American League into a 20 lead
with a home run off Passeau after
Williams had walked with two out
in the first inning.
Passeau wouldn't give Williant
anything to hit, but Kirby Higb/
elected to pitch to him starting the
Americans fourth and the Dodgers
right -hander Immediately regretted
it. Ted promptly smacked his first
homer of the day into the center
/ field bleacherS some 400 feet distant.
In the fifth inning Williams
lashed a single to center off the
Reds Ewell Blackwell, who was a
comparative pitching success. for
when Williams faced him again in
the seventh he merely Dashed an
other single into right field.
PayOff in the Eighth.
Then came the spayoff in the
eighth. The American LeaguerS al
ready had pushed across a run on
singles by George Stirnweiss and
Kramer and Sam Chapmsns long
fy when Williams stalked to the
plate with two out.
Rip SeWell, the Pirates veteran
right t-hander, offered up his fantas-
tic "blooper'' pitch, a soaring spe-
cialty which seemingly comes out
of the clouds. and Williams suited
that into the right field bullpen.
scoring Kramer and Stephens ahead
of him.
The American League had spurted
into go lead in the fifth as the
result Of singles by Buddy Rosar and
NeWhouser, an intentional pass to
the Mats Stan Spence. a double by
Vernon Stephens and Williams
single. They picked up two more
runs in the seventh when Joe Cor
don doubled across Williams. who
had singled. and Keller, who had
walked
While the American League entry
was bashing four pitchers for IA hits
in capturing its ninth victory in 13
All-Star games. Feller. Newhouser
and Kramer were having an easy
/ time of it. Feller gave up two hits
in the first two innings and there
after the only safety obtained by the
National Leaeuers was Peanuts
LoWrey's single through the box off
NeWhouser in the sixth
The American League pitchers
struck out 10. WithsFeller and Kra-
mer accounting for three each and
NeWhouser adding four. Kramer
didn't permit a hit in his three
inning stretch.
Managers Steve ONeill and Char
ley Grimm each used 81 players in
the lopsided affair, which produced
a net of $50. OIL. a portion of which
will be given to the families of Spo-
kane. Wash. players recently killed
in bus crash. The crowd of 34.9O6
crammed every available inch of
FenWay Park.