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Show Vander M eer j Lee Handcuff Vets Of American League BY GEORGE KIRKSEY Unite Press Staff Correspondent CROSLEY FIELD, CINCINNATI, 0., July 6 (U.R) The speed and enthusiasm of a young National League team prevailed over the veteran American Leaguers today in the sixth All-Star game, the Nationals winning, 4-1. A highly partisan National League throng of 27, 067 packed Crosley Field to capacity to see the National League win its second game in the mid-summer all-star series. It was a complete National League triumph in which pitching and superior defense played the vital; roles. - 1 The American League defense fell apart and. the vaunted sluggers slug-gers from the junior circuit were handcuffed most of the afternoon. Handcuff Americans Johnny Vander Meer, Reds sensational sen-sational young southpaw of no-hit, no-hit, no-run, fame, and big Bill Lee, Cubs right hander, pitched the famous fa-mous American League hitters into in-to a whisper. They "made one hit off Vander Meer, in three innings, and one off Lee in the same stretch. The hit off Lee was a fluke as Leo Durocher lost a fly ball in the sun. Mace Brown, Pittsburgh's relief re-lief star, finished the last three innings and the American leaguers leagu-ers found him for five hits, but he pitched his way out of trouble until un-til the ninth when Joe DiMaggio's single and Joe Cronin's double prevented pre-vented the junior league from being be-ing shut out. Alert, the National league took advantage of every crack in the American league defense. Foxx, Cronin, Dickey and DiMaggio all committed errors for the Amer- ican league and three of them produced pro-duced three runs. Ott's Mighty Tripl! Stanley Hack's single, Cronin's error of Billy Herman's grounder and Medwick's fly accounted for the first National league run off Lefty Gomez. Mel Ott's triple, 387 feet, off the right-centerfield wall, and Lombardi's blazing single past third gave the National leaguers their only earned run in the fourth off Johnny Allen. The National league runs in the seventh off Lefty Grove were gifts. Frank McCormick, Reds rookie first ibaseman, slashed a single to center. Leo Durocher, Dodgers shortstop, laid a bunt down the third base line, and Jimmy Jim-my Foxx, who shifted from first to third when Lou Gehrig came in as a pinch hitler in the fifth, threw the ball against the right field boxes. McCormick raced nome, and Durocher sped around to third while DiMaggio retrived the ball. Then DiMaggio uncorked a wild heave over Catcher Bill Dickey's head, and Durocher scored. |