Browns Win To Tie Detroit, Athletics Tame Tigers BOSOX DEFEATED 3 TO 0 IN FASTEST GAME FOR BROWNS ST. LOUIS. Sept. 25.— UP' —The fighting St. Louis Browns climbed |r''o a first place tie with Detroit tonight in the American league pennant race as they defeated the Boston Red Sox 3 to 0 behind the brilliant two hit pitching of Nelson Potter. The veteran right hander pitch ed eight innings of scoreless base ball and his game was marred only by two consecutive scratch bingles "in the third inning by Roy Partee and Skeeter Newsome. The Sox had only one base run nae after that third inning, New some, who reached first in the eighth on an error by George Mc Quinn. Chet Laabs and Rookie Boris “Babe” Martin were the bright spots in the eight-hit Brownie at tack on Clem Driesewerd and Francis Barrett. Laabs’ first inning home run sent Luke Sewell’s men off to a lead and he later got a hit and scored the Browns second run in the seventh. Martin doubled his first time up and singled Laabs home in the seventh in his first major league appearance. The game was witnessed by 11, 077 paid customers ana was play ed in one hour and 20 minutes, fastest for any contest in St. Louis this year. R H E Boston __ 000 000 000—0 2 0 St. Louis_ 100 000 llx—3 8 1 Dreisewerd, Barrett (8) and Partee; Potter and Hayworth. _\r_ BOSTON BRAVES, PIRATES DIVIDE BOSTON, Sept. 25.— (D —The Boston Braves today defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4 in 13 in nings when with two out, Phil Masi doubled and scored on Stu ilofferth’s single. Prior to the scheduled game Pittsburgh de feated. the Braves, 13-8, complet ing a game that was postponed on Aug. 1 going into the ninth inning with the Pirates leading, 12-8. SUSPENDED GAME R H E Pittsbugrh 430 102 201—13 18 1 Boston _ 000 003 230— 8 12 3 Batteries: Sewell, Roe, Starr and Lopez; Cardoni, Klopp, C. Barrett, Tobin and Masi. REGULAR GAME R R E Pitts. 010 000 030 000 0—4 13 1 Boston 000 220 000 000 1-4 7 1 Batteries: Roe, Rescigno, Starr, Cuccurullo, Sewell and Davis, Camelli and Lopez, C. Barrett and Poland. N. C. STATE PREPS FOR VIRGINIA TILT RALEIGH, Sept. 25—Ml— N. C. State’s gridders, with a 27-7 vic tory over Milligan under their belts, turned today to preparing lor an afternoon tussle with the University of Virginia at Norfolk Saturday. Head Coach Beattie Feathers sent his boys through a two-hour drill stressing the running of plays, pass protection and punting. The practice session was light, however, because some of the play, ers were pretty well shaken up in the Milligan tilt. Howard Turner, who turned in a brillian performance against the Buffaloes Saturday, sprained and ankle in the game, Feathers said, and will be out for several days. However, he is expected to be back in uniform for the Virginia game. The only serious casualty beside Turner was Tom Graham, reserve tackle, who burised both knees and will be out for several days. -V Navy Preps For Opener With Carolina Preflieht ANNAPOLIS, Md., Sept. 25.—(£>) —Plenty of hard work on rough edges and basic weakness are on the Navy football slate this week before the opener Saturday against North Carolina Pre-flight. Comdr. O. E. Hagberg, head coach, said the squad looked “pret ty good” in Saturday’s scrimmages despite flaws which will be tackl ed this week. -V There are 11,936 miles of shore line around the United States. WANTED TO BUY Second-Hand Bicycles PICKARDS! 209 Market St. Dial 2-3224 ANNOUNCEMENT I wish to announce to my many friends and Customers, That I am now located at the DIXIE BARBER SHOP 104 Princess Street YOUR BARBER, . J. Marvin Bass. Bil 1IMIII BUBI—ITIQ—Br * Gopher Gains In Game With Iowa Seahawks Tom Cates, No. 84, Gopher fallback. Is stopped after a six-yard gain in the opening Minnesota drive in the Iowa Seahawk-Minnesota game in Minneapolis. George Strohelmer, No. 62, Seahawk center, makes the tackle. The Seahawks won, 19-13. — (AP Wirephoto)_ Yanks Spell Victory Twice Over Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 25. — (fP) — The third-place New York Yankees to day flashed their extra-base clout ing power of yore to twice trim the Chicago White Sox, 3-1 and 5-4, and climb within three games of first in the last-ditch American league race. Trailing pace-setting Detroit by four and a half games as they opened a four-game stand here, the Yankees grabbed a 12-inning open er from the Pale Hose just as the Tigers’ 2-1 loss to Philadelphia flashed on the scoreboard. The Yanks snapped a six-game Sox winning streak in the overtime opener, a 1-1 mound duel between New York’s Mel Queen and Orval Grove until George Stirnweiss sin gled, Johnny Lindell tripled and Nick Etten doubled for two Yankee runs in the 12th. Each team had counted once in the first inning. It was shades of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio in the finale as husky Herschel Martin V pounded across all five Yankee runs with a pair of homers. Like Detroit and St. Louis, the Yanks now have six games left to play .facing the White Sox twice more and then closing with a four game set at St. Louis. Queen, racking up his sixth win against two defeats, held the Sox to six hits in the 11 innings of the opener he toiled. Jim Turner gave the Hose two blows but held them scoreless in the 12th. The Yanks meanwhile slapped Grove for 11 hits, five for extra bases. Stirnweiss’ triple produced the Yankee run in the first, while Chicago’s lone tally came on sin gles by Wally Moses and Hoy Schalk and a long fly by Hal Tros ky. Walt Dubiel went the route in the finale for his 13th win against 12 losses, but needed all the help he got from slugger Martin. The Sox collected 10 hits and took a 1-0 lead in the second on Thurman Tucker’s triple and an error by Bud Metheny. After Martin smack ed his three-run homer off starter Joe Haynes in the third, the Hose scored again on Moses’ double and a single by Ralph Hodgin. Then came Martin’s two-run cir cuit clout in the seventh to give New York a 5-2 lead. Three hits and a bad throw by Dubiel on a double-play ball gave the Sox a pair in the eighth which ended when Etten stabbed Schalk’s pop foul with the bases loaded. The Yanks collected 11 hits off Haynes and Gordon Maltzberger who spell ed him in the eighth. First Game New York. 100 000 000 002—3 Chicago _ 100 000 000 000—1 Batteries: Turner, Queen and Garbark; Grove and Tresh. Second Game New York .. 003 000 200—5 Chicago . 011 000 020—4 Batteries: Dubiel and Garbark; Ross, Maltzberger, Haynes and Jordan. GIANTS DEFEAT CINCINNATI, 3 - 2 NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — UP) — Shortstop Buddy Kerr put the chill on Cincinnati’s dropping second place hopes here today by driv ing a ninth inning homer off the left field wall on Ed Heusser’s first pitch of the frame, for a 3-2 New York victory. The game was played in the fast time of 81 min utes. Eric Tipton’s double, a sacrifice and Eddie Miller’s fly to left gave the Reds a 1-0 lead in the fifth and Woody Williams stretched it to two with his first homer of the year in the sixth. The Giants tied in the eighth on singles by Leon Tradeay, Mel Ott and Bruce Sloan and won on Kerr’s blow to give Ace Adams his eighth victory after Har ry Feldman had been yanked for a pinch hitter. Cincinnati . 000 011 000—2 New York.. 000 000 021—3 Batteries: Heusser and Mueller; Adams, Feldman and Berres. -V BLUE DEVILS PREP FOR PENNSYLVANIA DURHAM, Sept. 25 —5R— Eddie Cameron called his Blue Devils out 15 minutes early today as he began after-game reorganization. After comparing notes on the Rich mond game with his assistants, Cameron was satisfied that the Devils’ outstanding weakness is the lack of an effective pass defense. John Crowder, first-string center who missed the opener because of an injured knee, worked some to day, but little Johnnie Powell, 161 pounder, who started against Rich mond, saw most of the action in today’s workout. The Dukesters travel to Phila delphia this week end to engage the university of Pennsylbania. --V Swedish Track Stars Plan Trip To America STOCKHOLM, Sept. 25. — (JP) _ The Aftonbladet said today in its sports pages that the “chances are much better now that Arne Ander son and Gunder Haegg’’ will be able to fly to the United States lor the indoor track season this winter. The article added that a deci sion on the proposed journey of the Swedish middle distance aces would be made in a few days -V BUY WAR, BONDS AND STAMPS [sportstraIlI By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -«)—Al though such things as a .339 bat ting average, home runs with the bases full and pounding home an assortment of other runs at op portune times may -or may not have had anything to do with it, the fact the upsurge of the Detroit Tigers dates back to the return of Dick Wakefield last July 13 is not due entirely to the material help he has provided. He provided, a mental lift, if smoothing out the worry wrink les of brawny Rudy York can be called a mental lift. Manag er Steve O’Neill himself sees this factor as of major importance. York was the howitzer of the Tiger attack prior to the reap pearance of Wakefield, and as such the responsibility weighed up on him heavily. He knew he was the guy who just had to hammer home those runs, and the opposing pitchers did their best to make it tough for him. He was the one man in the lineup they really had to concen trate on. They could pass him in a pinch, and, if they felt up to it, pitch to him but put all their stuff behind it and give him noth ing decent to hit. “York was Dressing in an offnrt to hit the ball,” O’Neill explains. ‘‘Wakefield’s return took the pres sure off him, with benefit all around.” Which is true enough. With the lanky, free-wheeling Wakefield fol lowing York in the batting order opposing hurlers had two consecu tive worries, and there was no percentage in walking: York to get at Wakefield. It would be too much like walking Babe Ruth to get at Lou Gehring. Up to July 5, or about a week before Wakefield appeared, the harried Rudy was batting only ■244 for 71 games. He had hit eight home runs and batted home 34 runs. .Through last Wednesday he had boosted his average to .272 for 139 games, had hit 16 home runs and batted in 87 runs. Another factor in the Tiger up rising has been the veteran Doc Cramer, who went on a hit ting spree for a couple of weeks and won several games with timely blows. This ancient mariner of the base ball seas was struggling along in midseason and apparently headed for the rocks. July 2 he was hitting s robust .211, which for an out fieder is strictly kerosene circuit performance. It may or may not have had noth ing to do with it, but it can well be imagined that when O’Neill pondered changing over Cramer from an outfielder to a pitcher, Cramer went into conference with himself and mused: “Well, if they make me a pitch er, and I flop. I’m through. I’d better go after those hits.” At any rate, his average began to creep up and at last report he was hitting a respectable .288 or thereabouts. A lot of things can go into the making of a tc am’s winning streak and they aren’t all shown in the averages. «T -w-' Center Gene Malinowski Walks Out On Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 25. — (IP) — Departure of Gene Malinowski, 200 pound starting center, for his home in Detroit, Mich., was announced today by Coach Wally Butts of the University of Georgia. Butts said he did not know why Malinowski had decided to leave Georgia, adding, “he left sometime during the night without saying a word to any of the coaches. “Evidently he didn’t want to play for Georgia, in which case I am glad he decided to leave now,” he said. - I-y - -- ■ Interest Runs High In Friday Night*s Wrestling Matches More interest is being shown in Friday’s wrestling show at Thalian Hall than has been ex hibited ata any show in many weeks, judging by the advance sale of tickets at the Orton hotel, Promoter Bert Causey said yesterday. Jack Dillon of Murfreesboro, Tenn., will tangle with Daffy Don Lee of Alabama in the main event. Johnny Long, the Baltimore flash, will meet Jer ry Valeno of Indianapolis in the semi-final. The feature attraction, billed as the “Battle of the Bullies,” is expected to be one of the roughest and toughest matches . to be staged here in some time. CARDINALS BEAT BROOKLYN, 3 -1 BROOKLYN, Sept. 25.— (JP) — Harry Brecheen warmed up for a possible World Series start by turning back the Brooklyn Dodgers with six hits 3-1 but needed.a two run single by Augie Bergamo in the ninth today to earn victory No. 102 for the champion St. Louis Cardinals. Frenchy Bordagaray’s single, Dixie Walker’s double and an in field out gave Rube Melton a one run edge in the fourth but the Cards tied in the fifth on Martin Marion’s single, Bergamo’s double and Ed Stanky’s error. Brecheen earned his 16th victory and Melton took his 12th defeat. R H E St. Louis _ 000 010 002—3 7 1 Brooklyn _ 000 100 000—1 6 3 Batteries: Brecheen and O’Dea; Melton and Bragan. STANDINGS RESULTS YESTERDAY American League Philadelphia 2; Detroit l.# New York 3-5; Chicago 1-4. Washington 0; Cleveland 6. St. Louis 3; Boston 0. National League Cincinnati 2; New York 3. St. Louis 3; Brooklyn 1. Pittsbijrgh 4-13; Boston 5-8. Chicago 7-4; Philadelphia 6-1. American League Team Won Lost Pet. Detroit . 84 64 . 568 St. Louis _ 84 64 .568 New York_ 81 67 .547 Boston _ 74 74 .500 Cleveland _ 71 77 .480 Philadelphia _ 68 80 . 459 Chicago ..„ 67 80 .456 Washington .. 61 87 .412 National League Team Won Lost Pet. St. Louis _ 102 46 . 689 Pittsburgh _ 88 60 .595 Cincinnati .. 84 63 .571 Chicago . 72 75 .490 New York_ 65 82 .442 Boston . 61 87 .412 Brooklyn _ 60 88 .405 Philadelphia _ 58 89 .395 TODAY’S GAMES NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — (/P) — Probable pitchers for tomorrow’s Major league games. (Won and lost records in parenthesis.) American League Philadelphia at Detroit—Hamlin (6-11) vs. Trout (26-12). New York at Chicago (night) Bonham (12-8) vs. Humphries (7-10) Boston at St. Louis (night) — Bowman (11-8) vs. Galehouse (8-9). Washington at Cleveland—Can dini (6-7) vs. Klieman (10-13), National League St. Louis at Brooklyn — Lanier (17-12) vs. Gregg (9-15). Pittsburgh at Boston—Roe (13-11) vs. Andrews (15-14). Cincinnati at New York (2) — Walters (22-8) and De La Cruz (8-9) or Konstanty (5-4) vs. Fischer (4 14) and Allen (4-8). Chicago at Philadelphia (2) — (twi - night) — Erickson (5-9) and Passeau (14-9) vs. Lee (10-10) and Kennedy (0-5). TAR HEELS MEET FAVORED ARMY CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 25—(A9— Warren Thomas first string end who suffered a shoulder injury in the Wake Forest game will be lost to North Carolina for Saturday’s game at Army and probably throughout October it was learned today. Jack Foster starting tailback was limited to light work with a leg injury today and may or may not be ready. The other Tar Heels who sur prised many fans with their fine showing against the conference fa vorites, pushed drills today for Army which ranks with the nation’s three or four top elevens. Coach Gene McEver appeared fairly well pleased with Carolina’s defenses and particularly the line backing of Bobby Weant and Ray Walters PREFLIGHTERS SET FOR WAVY CONTEST CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 25 Light work which consisted most ly of pointing out mistakes in yes terday’s game with Cherry Point kept the Cloudbusters busy here this afternoon. No one was hurt in the 27 to 14 victory over the Marines and Coach Killinger had nothing but praise for the work of the Pre flighters. However he pointed out that Saturday’s game with Navy at Annapolis would be a different story. Statistics on the C h e r r y Point-Preflight game indicated that the Cloudbusters line continues to be a problem. The Marines gained 183 yards from rushing against 137 for the Preflighters. Helps You Overcome • FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel 11] at ease because loose, wabbly falsa teeth. FASTEETH. an Improved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them flimer so they feel more comfortable. Soothing and cooling to gums made sore by excessive acid mouth. Avoid embarrassment eaua ed by loose plates. Get FASTEETH to day at any drug store. Wildcats Scheduled T« Meet Portsmouth BY WEDDELL HARRISS Coach Rupert Bryan announced last night that arrangements for a non-conference engagement with the powerful Portsmouth High school eleven of Portsmouth, Va., have been completed and the Wild cats will journey to Portsmouth Friday to encounter the strong Vir ginia outfit at 8:30 p.m. ITiis will be the initial contest for the ‘Cats under lights this sea son. The Virginia outfit is recogniz ed as one of the most powerful teams in this section, consistently producing such great stars as Eric Tipton and Ace Parker. The entire Wildcat squad will be ready for action against the Portsmouth lads with the excep tion of scrappy substitute wing back “Football” Smith, who sus tained an arm injury in a practice session several weeks ago. J. W. Johnson, who also was out due to an arm injury, has return ed to his second string wingback position. Johnson saw action in the Whiteville game at both the wing back and fullback positions. The ‘Cats are working on their aerial attacks, with quarterbacks Johnny Symnes and Bubba Sykes doing the tossing. On the receiving end will be Louis Hanson, Charlie Jones, Norman Waters, Walter Powell, Billy Mason, Carl Mason, Don Hyatt, and R. Bridgers, all promising Wildcat ends. The Virginia aggregation is re portedly using a T formation, whereas Wilmington runs basical ly from a single wing. Opticians Win, 4-3 Ip 25-Inning Game The City Optical softhall team defeated the 141st Camp Davis Air Base, 4 to 3, in one of the long est played softball games on re cord last night at Robert Strange Park, The contest went for 25 in nings. The win for the Opticians puts them in front by two games in the city championship series. The Op tic’s have won three and lost one in the seven game series. Elo Evanicky of the Air Base and Robert Shipp of the Opticians hurled the entire contest. Shipp gave up seven hits, struck out eleven and walked one in the 25 innings. Evanicky was touched for five blows, struck out thirteen and gave up three passes. The Airmen were charged with seven errors and the Eyemen with nine miscues. The game was played in two hours and thirty minutes for twen ty five innings, which is consider ed by softball observers to be a recprd length game. The City Optical club made a total of nine double plays and the Air Base were able to make five double killings. The Soldiers scored three runs in the fourth inning and were held scoreless for 21 innings. The Opti cians scored one in the third and knotted the count by scoring two in the last of the seventh. They were held scoreless until the last of the 25th and with none out they filled the bases, the winning run scored on an infield grounder. The two teams will play again ton'.ght in the fifth game of the series. In the event the Opticians win the softball season will be over in Wilmington. If the Air Base takes tonight’s game the series will continue until one team wins four games. One of the largest crowds of the season, estimated at nearly 2,500 people, were on hand last night and an even larger audience is antici pated for tonight’s game which will be called at 8 o’clock. ONLY 3 ENTRIES IN BELMONT RACE NEW YORK, Sept. 25. — (JP) — The three-year old turf division which looked so promising at the start of the 1944 season has dwind led until today it could muster only three horses for the 52nd running of the mile and five-eighths Law rence Realization at Belmont Park tomorrow. The longest stake race of the year for three - year - olds drew Alfred Parker’s by Jimminy, William Ziegler, Jr.’s Bounding Home and Free Lance from Mrs. H. C. Phipp’s Wheatley stable. Of the three, only By Jimminy is a can didate for championship honors of the division. Parker’s Son of Pharamond 2nd, on the sidelines when Pensive won the Kentucky Derby and Preak ness, is the division’s leading mo ney winner of the year with earn ings of $148,830. The last $61,650 came in the American derby, near ly a month ago. He never has been over the distance of the Realiza tion but his breeding sjnd past per formances indicate that he’ll have no difficulty going the route. -V PENNANT RACE AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press Games To Teams W L Pet. Behind Play Detroit -_ 84 64 .568 .. 6 St. Louis . 84 64 .568 „ 6 New York 81 67 .547 3 6 REMAINING GAMES Detroit—Home, Philadelphia (2), Washington (4). Away, none. St. Louis—Home, Boston (2), New York (4). Away, none. New York Home, none. Away, Chicago (2), St. Louis (4). -.—v Muscle Shoals in Alabama, a 37 mile cascade in the Tennessee river, takes its name from curious rock formations which glisten like muscles. DETROIT LOSES TO PHILADELPHIA' H IN OPENER DETROIT, Sept. 25- w B Christopher, Lanky righthander, tamed the ^ Tigers on four hits today ^ Athletics captured the open r ' a three-game series, 2 to it, fore a paid crowd of 5 881 iL, ' The Tiger loss, cracking 3 game winning streak, gave f St. Louis Browns an orroort '* to tie Detroit tor the'ESl leegue le,