Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-08 | Page 16 | Yankees Given Credit for All-Star Victory

Yankees Given Credit for All-Star Victory ustlons where they were possible third outs, drove horn seven ef the eight American league runs. The National leaguers collected 11 hits themselves, but only Jo Medwick was able to exert extra-baa pressure. pres-sure. Terry's team needed three and four hits to score; th Yanka. pardon, th American leaguers, never nev-er required more than one. tcelled the play of their own teammates. team-mates. It wss Yankee batting power that spread destruction upon the Griffith Grif-fith stadium greensward; it was Yankee pitching In th person of Vernon El Goof Gomes that alone achieved "all-star" quality; and it was Ysnkee defensive talent as exemplified by Joe DiMaggio's rifleshot rifle-shot peg to th horn plat that throttled the National league's one opportunity to climb into the competition. com-petition. The Yankees; net the league, won this on. And in a manner that defied any team to beat them. Charles Gehrlnger, Joe Cronin. I Sammy West and Earl Averill, the i other members of the American league cast, performed deeds of valor throughout the long afternoon, after-noon, yet those wbo were present csught th Impression th absent Yankees would hav don just as well Certainly th result wouldn't hav been different. Extra-base power, the weight and authority of th Yankee bats, explains ex-plains th t to 2 score. Of course, i Gehrig's homerun and two-bagger, Rolf s triple, and Dickey's two-bagger, two-bagger, all of them produced In sit- By GARRY SCHl MACHF.R International News Sparta Writer WASHINGTON". July -What-vr else It msy bsve demonstrated demonstrat-ed or revealed, th American league's newest all-star triumph definitely def-initely classified and labeled the lftST Yankee. It Identified them as one of the truly great teams of baseball history his-tory won for thera a ranking with that other Yankee power trust of 127, th fabled Oriole of John Mc-GraW Mc-GraW youth and th mud-e pattered pat-tered Whit Sox of scandalous memory. mem-ory. How could on gam award this distinction? Because of th comparisons com-parisons it provided and the test- ing quality of th competition. All the great players of th two ma- lor league wore assembled her, th suparstars of th baseball plane- tarium and yet th Yankee mad 'it their own private show. The . five Yankees who carried I th American league standard Gehrig. Gomes. DiMsggio, Dickey i and Rolfe not only overwhelmed 1 th National leaguers with the bril-I bril-I lianc and strength of their per- form a nee, but dominated and exes.