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Browns Take Double From New York To l ie Detroit ' _ 1 - * -Ml , .i- —— YANKS SWEPT OUT OF PENNANT RACE ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29.—UP)—The determined St. Louis Browns swept into a tie with the Detroit Tigers for the A' ~rican league pt -nt today by twice conquering the New York Yankees while the Ti gers split a double header with tail-end Washington. The victories eliminated the Yankees from any mathematical pennant chance and assured the Browns of second place. St. Louis triumphed Ernie Bon ham 4 to in the first game and beat Hank Borowy 1 to 0 in the final. The Brownies squeezed in their only run in the first when Don Gutteridge doubled, went to third on a wild pitch that hit the dirt in front of the plate and scor ed on Mike Kreevich’s grounder to first. Nelson Potter, pitching the Browns’ second game, chalked up his 19th victory of the season against seven defeats. Sensational one hand running catches by Kreevich and Gutter idge saved the second game for the Brownies. In the eighth with two on and two cut, Kreevich rac ed backwards to the center wall to pull down Johnny Lindell’s long fly. In the ninth Gutteridge leaped'high to spear pinehhitter Paul Waner’s liner over his shoul der with one hand. Gangling, 26-year-old Jack Kra mer registered his fourth straight victory in the first game. Four hits in the third inning net ted the Browns two runs and a lead of one run over the Yanks, with Kramer starting the blasting he doubled over Lindell’s head, moved to third as Gutteridge beat out a bunt. Kreevich singled to left scoring Kramer, Gutteridge stopping at second. Chet Laabs singled to center, Guuteridge scor ing. me Brownies lucitea me game aw'ay in the eighth when George McQuinn propelled his eleventh homer of the season, scoring Vern Stephens who had singled. Mc Quinn’s blow sailed over the right field pavillion. The Yanks scored their run in the first inning when George Stirnweiss opened with a single and Art Metheny sacrificed. Stirn weiss moved to third as Gutter idge tossed out Herschel Martin. Lindell singled to center, scoring Stirnweiss. The victory was Kramer’s 17th agains' 13 defeats. First game: R H E New York_ 100 000 000—1 8 1 St. Louis ... 002 000 02x—4 9 0 Batteries: Bonham and Gar bark; Kramer and Hayworth. Second game: R H E New York ... 000 000 000—0 6 1 St. Louis 100 000 OOx—1 2 2 Batteries: Borowy and Garbark; Potter and Mancuso. YOUNG PENN OUTFIT MEETS DUKE TODAY PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.—(jT»)— Penn’s youthful football team and a strong Duke eleven will meet for the first time in their history to morrow afternoon on Franklin Field. Penn’s Red and Blue will start with only two lettermen — Walt Shekel, left tackle, and Jack Rosen thal, acting captain and right end —from last year’s lineup. The only o'her veteran, Ray Stengel, is out of action due to an injury suffer ed in a scrimmage last week Six of the players selected by Coach George Munger to oppose the Southern Conference cham pions of 1943, are freshmen four of them are only 17 years old. It will be the youngest team in Penn sylvania’s football history. Opposing will be a powerful Duke team with seven veterans on the first team. -V COLLEGE OFFICIALS DISCUSS GRID RULES KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept- 29 UP)—A group of southeastern and southern conference officials met f today to consider the possibility of uniform rules between the two groups. The executive committee of the southeastern named commission er Mike S. Conner, W. D. Funk houser of the University of Ken tucky and secretary of the confer ence, and Dean N. W. Dougherty of the University of Tennessee to meet with Dean A. W. Hobbs of the University of North Carolina and H. A. Fisher of North Caro lina State, vice president of the southern conference, to consider standardizing rules covering eligi bility, scouting and aid to athletes in the two conferences. -V Tar Heels To Meet Virginia Harriers CHAPEL HILL, Sept. 29— UP) — The University of North Carolina cross country team, which beat Cerry Point and ran second to Pre-Flight in a triangular meet here last week, will race the Vir ginia Harries over a four-mile course at Charlottesville at 2 o’clock Saturday. The Tar Heel contestants will be picked from Carolina’s fii'sl eight finishers in last week’s meet, Coach Dale Ranson said today. These are Don Glascock, Bbt Dodson, Jack Harding, Tal Bag gett, Doug Erath, Harry Holden Jack Jdelchor, and Keith Hutson Boston Scores On Browns Via Error r* i U'—BBMHg—BiaKKwI-y*'"-••••*••« Lamar Newsome, Boston Red Sox shortstop, scored after this play at third base in the ninth inning )f a crucial game with the St. Louis Browns at St. Louis. Browns pitcher Tex Shirley threw wild to third baseman Mark Christman after fielding a buat by Boston pitcher Francis Barrett, and Newsome raced home. Boston won 4 to 1, and the Browns dropped into second place In their tight race with the Detroit Tigers for the American league pennant. The umpire is Jue Rue. (AP wirephoto). CLASSEN PICKS DUKE OYER PENN By HAROLD CLASSEN NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—LV)— Making the season’s second ap pearance as a football forecaster with the full knowledge that last week’s record of only three losses in 34 selections won’t be ap proached. 1 The selections (probable attend ances in parentheses): Notre Dame over Pittsburgh (30,000): The Irish have dropped some and Pittsburgh has come a ^ ong way since a year ago but s Notre Dame should have enough .eft. t; Duke over Pennsylvania (50,000): * Penn has two huge tackles but an all-freshman backfield. It’s likely C to be close. Navy over North Carolina Pre- s Flight (14,000): The country’s pre- s season choice as the No. 1 college a Eootball team makes its. debut. ' Army over North Carolina (8,- * >00): Despite North Carolina’s set- 0 back by Wake Forest last week, c the cadets will learn here if they t lave a line to go with their publi cized backs. d California over UCLA (50,000): C rhe home field advantage should C jive the Golden Bears the needed I ift in a game that could go either way. s Tennessee over Kentucky (18,- a 300): Neither team played las* year and Kentucky will wish it ] still was idle. Michigan over Indiana (20,000): The Culligan-Rifenburg passing combine to defeat but not over shadow the Hoosiers’ Bob Hoem- . schemeyer. j Great Lakes over Illinois (25,- t 300): Injuries and losses by Navy t regulations to hurt the Ulini. £ Southern California over College af Pacific (40,000): Not even Mr. £ Stagg’s presence can help here. r Alabama over Louisiana State c (30,000): Frank Thomas never has t lost an opening game since taking over thp. Crimson Tide. 1 Northwestern over Wisconsin: ] Freshman Jug Girard isn’t enough I Eor the Badgers. I Minnesota over Nebraska: The Gophers stood up well last week ] against the more numerous Iowa 1 Seahawks. 1 Ohio State over Missouri (25,- ( 000): The Buckeyes are labelled 1 the best all-civilian team in the i middle west, if not in the entire 1 country. Purdue over Marquette: Cecil Isbell rings up his first triumph as coach of the Boilermakers. Florida over Mississippi (10,000) They are playing it in Florida. Georgia Pre-Flight over South Carolina: South Carolina defeated Newberry last week, 48 to 0, but the opposition is tougher this time. Dartmouth over Holy Cross: Ho ly Cross lacked zest in a recent scrimmage against Yale. Yale over Coast Guard (12,000): Could go the other way easy enough. Yale hasn’t lost to a Con necticut team in 76 years. Finishing in a hurry: Columbia over Union, Brown over Tufts, Penn State over Muhlenberg, Har vard over Worcester, Cornell over Bucknell, Colgate over Rochester, West Virginia over Case, Villano va over Franklin & Marshall, Au burn over Howard, Georgia Tech over Clemson, VMI over Catawba, Camp Peary over Cherry Point Marines, William & Mary over Fort Monroe, Virginia over North Carolina State, Mississippi State over Jackson Airbase, Southern Methodist over North Texas, Ok lahoma over Norman Navy, Texas Christian over South Plains Army Airbase, Rice over Randolph Field, Texas A. & M. over Texas Tech, Iowa State over Gustavus Adol phus, Kansas State over Wichita, Utah over Idaho (southern branch) Colorado College over New Mexi co, Washington over Whitman. n-v Monteljp- was the capital of Cal ifornia under three different flags; Spanish, Mexican and American. --' * • • -- -* GAME POSTPONED PORTSMOUTH, Va., Sept. 29.—The scheduled game be tween the New Hanover Wild cats of Wilmington and Ports mouth High school was called tonight because of rain. Offi cials announced the game would be played on Saturday night at 8 o’clock. No changes have'been made in the line-ups. BOSTON DEFEATS CHICAGO CUBS 5-1 BOSTON, Sept. 29— (tfl —Nate Andrews kept Chicago hits well scattered while pitching the Bos ton Braves to a 5-1 win today in the opening game of their final 1944 series. The Braves pounded Southpaw Charlie Gassaway, just up from Milwaukee, for seven of their 11 safeties and all of their runs. Cas saway retired in the fourth inning after Tommy Holmes and Chuck Workman homered against him. Holmes, who collected four hits out of five tries, belted his cir cuit drive with a teammate on base. Since Manager Charlie Grimm did not accompany his Cubs here, Coach Roy Johnson ran the team. Chicago _ 000 001 OOd—1 7 1 Boston -. 011 300 OOx—5 11 1 Batteries: Lynn, Fleming, Gas saway and Williams: Andrews and Hofferth. REBUILTARMYUNE AND CAROLINA CLASH WEST POINT, N. Y., Sept. 29.— (J-P)—Army’s rebuilt line, listing on ly one transplanted regular from the 1943 team, is due for a test in the opening football clash of the season against North Carolina. Joe Stanowicz, a 1943 tackle, started at right guard against the Tar Heels. All other forwards ex cept end Ed Rafalko, a part-time regular last season, are new Probable lineups: Pos.—North Carolina Army LE—Godwin _ Pitzer LT—Kinsey _ Hayes LG—Golding . Green C—Walters _ St. Onge RG—Walker..Stanowicz RT—Lane -- Nemetz RE—Thomas _ Rafalko QB—Weant _Lombardo LH—Foster _ Davis RH—Camp - Minor FB—Warren _ Dobbs Kickoff—2:45 p.m. -V PENNANT RACE AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press Teams W L Pet GB GTP Detroit. 87 65 .572 — 2 St. Louis —.. 87 65 .572 .. 2 Remaining games: Detroit—Home, Washington (2), St. Louis—Home, New York (2), DETROIT SPLITS WITH SENATORS DETROIT, Sep;. 29.— (» —The last place Washington Senators, splitting a doubleheader today with the Detroit Tigers before 17,606 fans, knocked out Paul (Dizzy) Trout in four innings of their 9 to 2 night cap vactory after the Ti gers had taken the opener 5 to 2. The even break knocked Detroit into a tie for the American league lead with the St. Louis Browns, who whipped New York twice a St. Louis. The pennant thus will be decided on the last day of the season Sunday. Washington, beaten by Ruffus Gentry in the opener for its 16th loss to the Tigers in 19 games this year, belted Trout for six runs and six hits in sending him to his 13th defeat in the after piece against 27 wins. Lefthander Milt Haefner. nicked for 12 hits, coasted to his 12th victory after being staked to a 6-0 lead. The Senators, taking their sec ond decision in nine appearances who whipped New York twice at dozen hits off four Tiger pitchers. Stan Spence, with his 12th homer good for three runs in the third, drove in four tallies in the night cap. Detroit, battling to hold its edge over the Browns, made seven hits off Johnny Niggeling count for five runs in the first game, kayoing Niggeling in the eighth inning in handing him his eighth loss Ruffus Gentry, giving 10 hits in 7 2-3 innings, gave way to Johnny Gorsica in the eighth but received credit for his 12th victory Rudy York’s triple drove home a Tiger score in the first inning and Gentry held the edge until he wild pitched the tying run across in the sixth. Detroit sewed it up with three runs in the seventh on four hits. First Game R HE Washington .. 000 001 010—2 10 0 Detroit ...... 100 000 31x—5 7 0 Batteries: 'Curtis, Niggeling and Ferrell; Gorsica, Gentry and Richards. Second Game R H E Washington .. 013 221 000—9 13 0 Detroit. _ 000 100 100—2 12 2 Batteries: Haefner and Guerra; Eaton, Beck, Mooty, Trout and Swift. -V POULTRYMEN COOPERATE RALEIGH, Sept. 29—W)—L. F. Fourie, poultry marketing special ist with the State Department of Agriculture, said today that 132 North Carolina hatcheries were participating in the national poul try improvement plan to eradicate the pullorum disease from the poultry industry. Wake Forest Defeats Georgia 14 To 7 In Bulldogfs First Game _-—— .-— ■ - ■ ■ ■■■■ + _ )eacons Victorious In Sec. ond Game Of Season By DICK HOSCH 1 ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 29—J. letermined Wake Forest elewf * ed by plunging fullbacks Dick irinkley and Buck Mabry, punch< :d out a 14-7 win over Georgia tere tonight as the bulldogs 0pen, :d their season. Neither side was able to muster nuch of an offensive during / !irst period, with most of the a? ;ion in Georgia territo-y \Vak» Torest stuck to straight football Slick Ognovich doing most of tn, •unning, while the Bulldogs came out with a mixture of end runs and passes, with Rabbitt Smith and Pearl handling the ball. On th» iinal play of the quarter, perl Spiraled a punt t0 the Deacon i| yard line, placing the visitors « i disadvantage for the first time The Deacons worked the ball past midfield as Nick Ognovich completed short, bullet passes to Bob Smathers, John Bruno and Dock Brinkley ,but the attack bogged on the Georgia 37. Then Brinkley, from Norfolk, Va„ j member of Georgia's squad last year, set the Bull Dogs back, kick, ing out of bounds on Georgia's 2. yard line. A1 Perl retaliated with a booming punt that bounced out on the Deacons’ 47. The half end. ed scoreless after several punt exchanges and meager ground gains- ! Perl kicked off to Ognovich at midfield. Tom Fetzer, 150-pound tail back, and Nick Sacrinty, the Deacons ace, came in and the visitors pounded to the Georgia 2i. Duplicating the stetue-of-liberty play which set up the score against North Carolina, Smathers ran 13 yards to the eight, and Mabry plunged to the one. On fourth down, Mabry knifed through cen ter for a touchdown and Clift® Hobbs converted. Keturnmg me kickoii, mi fumbled at the Georgia 25 and Bob Feniello recovered from Wake Forest. The Deacons, led by Ma bry, punched out two first downs to the Georgia three, as the third quarter ended with Wake Forest leading 7-0. , The Bulldogs held Mabry to two yards in three attempts but Brink ley plunged over from the one to fourth down and C. Hobbs again kicked the point, giving the Ba cons a 14-0 lead. After the kickoff. Georgia scored from their own 31 as Don Wets took 1 over - the - line pass and sprinted down the sideline. Bill? Bryan, a freshman guard from Waycross, kicked the point. A fumble gave Wake Forest the ball on the Georgia 28, but Per! intercepted a pass at the eight and ran it out to his 37. After a punt exchange,- Ken McCall, sub quar terback, picked up 15 yards to ais own 35, and Billy Rutland ran 25 to the Wake Forest 40. The Dea cons stiffened and held four downs, and a few plays later the game ended with the visitors winning, 14-7. lineups Pos. Wake Forest Georgia LE Bruno .- Balle? LT Whetstine —.Castroms LG Garrison . st- j0M C Foreman . Bo*1{* RG Ratteree .. Rel RT D. Hobbs. Per£®? RE D. Harris .—: Wtfh QB Barbour. skipw°‘ LH Feniello . ", RH Ognovich.Ru‘!a Wake Forest. 0 °n 1 I" 7 Georgia . 0 R 0 7'„. Wake Forest scoring. Toucn downs—Mabry, Brinkley (sub f Mabry). Hnbbl Points after touchdown: C. Hod 2 (sub for Feniello) (placemen j Georgia scoring: Touchdown Wells. Points after touchdown Bryan (sub for Skipworth (P ments) u-fki Substitutions: Georgia McCall, Smith, Deavers; e Mosely, Edwards; tackiesjJW, tary. Greene; guards Ale Bryant, Chonko, Furchgottsi. ter: Jackura. ,matMn, Wake Forest—Backs. Smatn Fetzer, Brinkley, Sacrinity. ou Harris, Hobbs. George Washington was the i president of the Society of nati, originally composed cers in the Revolutionaiy " Kirkpatrick Mac Milk] invented | j Pal patented the Hollow Jj I Ground Blade for coo quicker, "FeathejJouch" «hovi"9 4i»l4* fOi.,25* ... WSsSiK Camp Davis Air Base Wins Softball Title The 141st Camp Davis Air Base softball team were crowned Muni :ipal league champions last night jy Vance Chadwick, city softball rommissioner, at the end of one >f the most thrilling city series ever staged in Wilmington. The Camp Davis Air Base won in extra inning contest from the 2ity Optical team by the score of 2 to 1 to take the seven game se ries. Elo Evanicky, the one man ball team, pitched and. batted his team to the championship last night. He gave up but two scatter ed hits and slammed out a double in the eighth inning to put the pen nant in the Air Base barracks. Evanicky has hurled a total of sixty eight innings in the series and allowed a total of 31 hits. The City Opticians scored the first run of the contest in the first of the fifth inning, H. Bohan non was walked and advanced to third on E. Bohannon s single to right. H- Bohannon scored on Edens grounder to shortstop, Cockerham grounded out to sec ond. Thomas flied out to the short stop to end ihe inning. In the last of that inning the Airmen scored one to knot the count. Sabrowski flied out to right, Washulske singled, Smith singled and Wash luske raced home on the throw to the infield. Evanicky was out pitched to first and Sager fouled out to the catcher. In the last half of the eighth inning the Camp Davis lads scored the winning run, Smith grounded out to third, Eva nicky slammed out a double to center and Sager singled to left to score the Iron Man pitcher with | the winning run. I The largest crowds in local softball history attended the se ries games which have set several ] Local records. The fans were well i pleased with the spirit of the ] Learns. Both managers of the ( teams thanked Vance Chadwick, city softball commissioner for his splendid work in keeping the field in excellent condition for the play offs. Aubrey Wallace and Lawrence Liles officiated as umpires at all the series games and were com mended for doing a very good job. Plans are underway between Manager Freeman Smith and Roy Cook of the Optic’s to play an other game for the benefit of Burney Covington, City Optical catcher who was injured in one of the series games. As soon as plans are completed an announce ment will be made. CINCINNATI BEATS BUMS BEFORE 912 BROOKLYN, Sept. 29.—<A>>—Ar nold Carter was effective with men on the bases against the Dodgers today and the Cincinnati Reds made it two straight over Brooklyn 10-2 to move to wi*hin a half game of the second place Pittsburgh Pirates, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies Rube Melton started for the Dodgers and yielded four runs in t:-*e first inning on only one hit, the Dodgers committing three er rors. The Reds collected 11 hits. Ger ald Walker leading the attack witji a double and two singles. The paid attendance was 912, the smallest Ebbetts’ Field crowd of the sea son. Cincinnati __ 401 010 202—10 11 1 Brooklyn ... 010 000 001— 2 11 4 Batteries. Carter and Mueller, Sunkel, Webber, Melton and Bra gan. -V Giants Beat Cards 3-2 In 10th Inning NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—</P)— Ted Wilks was charged with his fourth loss of the season today when the New York Giants put two doubles together in the 10th inning to de feat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 A double by Buddy KeTr follow ed by another two-bagger by Hugh Luby accounted for the winning run Rube Fischer, last of three Giant pitchers, was the winner. RntVt r’-i'-rlinole' rime nrnm +Vio result of homers, one by old Pepper Martin in the first inning and the other by Walker Cooper in the fourth. The Giants scored in the sixth on Bruce Sloan’s triple and Nap Reyes’ fly and tied the game in the ninth when pinch hitter Leon Treadway tripled on Bill Jurges’ safe bunt. St. Louis_100 100 000 0—2 8 1 New York -000 001 001 1—3 11 0 Batteries: Wilks and W. Cooper; Fischer, Feldman, Melton and Mancuso. THREE~CAR0LiNiANS ON CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. — (fP) — The Navy department announced today 287 casualties of the U. S. Naval forces, not hitherto released. The list included the following North Carolinians: Pfc. Andres T. Scales, USMCR, wounded. Mother, Mrs. Hettie Scales, 1206 Wendover Ave., Greensboro- Father, George M. Scales, Madison. Sgt. Arthur L. Skinner, USMCR, wounded. Wife, Mrs". Arthur L. Skinner, 170 Coopers Lane, Greensboro. Corp. Ralph C. Slaughter, USM CR, wounded. Parents, Mr- and Mrs. Davis S. Smith, 606 Rankin St., Gastonia. __ STANDINGS RESULTS American League St. Louis 4-1, New York 1-0. Detroit 5-2, Washington 2-9 Philadelphia 4-1, Cleveland 2-1. Boston 3, Chicago 4. National League Boston 5, Chicago 1. Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 0. Cincinnati 10, Brooklyn 2. New York 3, St. Louis 2. American League Team Won Lost Pet. Detroit ___ 87 65 .572 St. Louis _ 87 65 .572 New York. 83 68 -550 Boston . 76 77 .497 Cleveland 72 79 .477 Philadelphia _ 69 82 .457 Chicago _ 68 82 .453 Washington_ 69 88 .439 National League Team Won Lost Pet. St. Louis . 104 48 .684 Pittsburgh _ 89 62 .589 Cincinnati _ 89 63 .586 Chicago _- 74 77 .490 New York. 66 86 -434 Boston _ 63 88 .417 Brooklyn _ 61 92 .399 Philadelphia - 60 91 .397 TODAY’S GAMES NEW YORK, Sept. 29- — (JP) — Probable pitchers for tomorrow’s games, with won and lost records in parenthesis: American League New York at St. Louis — Queen (6-2) vs. Galehouse (8-10). Washington at Detroit—Carras quel (8-6) vs. Newhouser (28-9). Philadelphia at Cleveland—Chris topher (13-14) vs. Heving (8-2). Boston at Chicago—Terry (6-10) vs. Grove (14-14). National League St. Louis at New York—Cooper (22-7) vs- Brondell (0-0). Cincinnati at Brooklyn—Heusser (13-9) vs. Chapman (4-3). - Pittsburgh at Philadelphia — Strincevich (14-7) vs. Schanz (13-15) Chicago at Boston—Derringer (7 12) vs. Tobin (17-9). LEATHERNECKS TEAM TO MEET CAMP PEARY CAMP LEJEUNE, Sept. 30.—The Camp Lejeune Marines will open their 1944 football campaign here on October 14 against Camp Peary from Williamsburg, Va., accotrding to a revised schedule released to day by Marine Lieutenant Colonel William W. Stickney, camp recrea tion officer. The Leathernecks have booked six games, all of which will be played at this base. Several open dates still dot the schedule and Lieutenant Colonel Stickney is at tempting to fill them. -V Small fish are swallowed whole by fishwives of Corsica. MAXTON AIRMEN FACE OPTICIANS The Maxton-Laurinburg Air Base softball team will play The City I Optical company club tonight at Robert Strange in a double head er. The first game is scheduled to get underway at 8 o’clock. This is a return game. The Op ticians journed to Lumberton sev eral weeks ago to play the Laurin burg club in a double header for the benefit of the American Red Cross. The local team won the first game 2 to 0 and the second was called at midnight in the 12th inning with the score tied. The Laurinburg-Maxton team has played several of the outstanding teams of the state and a large crowd is expected to attend to night’s twin bill. A silver offering will be taken during the games by ♦he members of the Red Cross Motor Corps. Clyde Jordon will hurl one of the games for the locals and either Robert Shipp or Slugger Brown will be on the mound for the other. Manager Sgt. Maurice O’Keefe will send Allio, who hurled a no hitter against the Eyemen in Lum berton, but lost 2 to 0. to the mound for one game and George Saunders will hurl in the night cap. Sanders is a very fast ball pitcher and struck out thirteen C. O. batters in the game a few weeks ago. The Maxton Team will arrive in the city tonight and will use the facilities of the Second and Or ange street USO. These arrange ments were made today with the manager of the club. _v_ INDIANS WIN FIRST HALF OF TWIN BILL CLEVELAND, Sept. 29. — (/P) — The Cleveland Indians and the Phil adelphia Athletics played 18 in nings of baseball today but only one victory was recorded — the Quaker City nine taking the first half of a scheduled doubleheader 4 to 2. The second contest was called because of darkness with the score tied one-all at the end of thu ninth inning. It will be replayed Sunday as half a double bill. - The A’s made six hits off the pitching of Bill Bonness, Paul Cal vert and Ray Poat in winning the first game. The Tribe collected nine base knocks, including a home run by Jeff Heath, from winning pitcher Don Black and his relief, Jonas Berry. Steve Gromek allowed eight hits in the indecisive second game while Jesse Flores and Berry limited the Indians to six. First Game R H K Philadelphia ..002 002 000—4 6 0 Cleveland - 010 001 000—2 9 0 Batteries: Berry, Black and Pruett and Hayes; Calvert', Bon ness and Schleuter and Ruszkow ski. PHILLIES DEFEAT PITTSBURGH. 3-0 PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29—— The Phillies' dropped the Pitts burgh Pirates to within a half game of third place today as Ken Raffensberger shut out the visi tors 3-0 on seven-hit pitching. The Phils were able to connect for only four hits off Fred Oster mueller, but they used them to good advantage In picking up a run at a, time. Raffensberger fanned six. hue Pittsburgh - 000 000 000 0 7 2 Philadelphia . 010 OH 00x—3 4 0 Batteries: Starr and Lopez; Raffensberger and Finley. WANTED TO BUY Secondhand Bicycles RICKARDS 809 Ptol 84824 Best Of Lot As ‘Paper’ Choice BY JACK HAND NEW YORK, Sept. 29—Wl— Hot or cold, Newhouser or Trout, Detroit, St. Louis or New York, h#v can you miss the St. Louis Cardinals as the “paper” choice to regain the World Series title they lost to the Yankees a year ago With a standout outfield built around Stan Musial, an infield hinged on Martin (Mr. Short stop) Marion, a catching de partment that includes Walker Cooper and a strong arm mound staff of Mort Cooper, Ted Wilks and Harry Brecheen the Red Birds stick out in all departments with the possible exception, of pitching. If it’s Detroit in the Ameri can league corner, the Hal Newhouser-Dizzy Trout combi nation could take the play from the' Cards’ staff. Mr. Left and Mr. Right have the stuff, when right, to stop any club in base ball but they are tired and face moje heavy duty before Sun day if they are to hurl the Tigers to the flag. It's ail old rule that Pitch ing tells the story in a short series and that leaves it up to Newhouser and Trout if De troit wins. They could pitch 5 of the seven games if neces sary but it appears question able if they can carry their stuff through another gruelling pressure drive after the season long strain of carrying the Tigers. To be fair, they have shown no signs of weakening. Billy Southworth has Cooper, Wilks and Brecheen well rested and may surprise with Bud Byerly, a rookie up from Rochester, if he feels disposed to gamble. The threatened loss of Lefty Max Lanier who has gone back to St. Louis for treatment of his injured shoulder comes as a hard blow. Luke Sewell’s staff of Nels Potter, Denny Galehouse, Jack Kramer, Sig Jukucki and Bob Muncrief has been holding up very well and could be quite a - "-eir varied stylei if the Browns win the flag. The Cardinals have been kicking the ball around recent ly, losing 19 of 29 since Sept. 1. It could be they will not be able to regain their mid-season form and there have been re cent signs that might be the case. Comparisons of batting ave rages and field marks usual ly don’t mean a thing when the bell rings. Some forgotten infielder with a puny .200 mark can blossom forth with the big hits. Nevertheless, the Cards do lead their league in hitting and fielding and neither of then opponents is near tiie top. Dick WakefiehJ is hitting .348, six points better than Musial, but the Cards’ Johnny Hopp and Danny Litwhiler or Augie Bergamo rate a good edge on Roger Cramer and Jimmy Outlaw or the Browns’ ChetLaabs, Mike Kreevich and Milt Byrnes. The edge goes for fielding and overall speed too. Only the Browns can come close to the Cards’ infield which has Ray Sanders on first driving in 102 runs, Whitey Kurowski at third hitting 17 homers and Marion with 62 RBI’s to provide the power to make up for second sacker Emil Verban. Shortstop Vern Stephens, who has driven in 103 runs and boasts 19 homers, is the Browns’ punch helped by third baseman Mark Christman with 83 RBI’s, George Mcquinn . at first and Don Gutteridge on third. Rudy York, always danger ous, is the Tigers’ infield threat but Pinky Higgins, a veteran making a great comeback, is hovering over the®.300 mark and Eddie Mayo is a tough man in a clutch. Joe Hoover on short has been the weakest link. Cooper and Ken O’Dea rate over the Tigers’ catching staff of Paul Richards and Bob Swfit on the records and completely outshine toe i Brownies’ ’Red Hayworth, Fitenk Mancuso and Tom Tumert /
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