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Good Old Days
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Stamford State
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Wednesday Evening, August 22, 1945
Wednesday Ev
Back in Majors
By JACK HAND against the Tigers in his first
(Associated Press Sports Writer) | pro start since 191 Th TE:
The good old days are back in waves also have it that See
baseball with Detroit counting its - massio will son, rejoin
first million paid admissions. Bobby New York Yankees.
Feller about to shed his Navy blue Washington continues to amaze
for a Cleveland baseball suit and the fans with a complete reversal
another knock-down dragout finale of last year’s form It’s about time
looming in the American league.
The league - leading Tigers
beat Brooklyn to the punch by
announcing their attendance
had hit the jackpot at 1.020.492
yesterday but brother Branch
Rickey in Flatbush will be
sounding the same tidings over
the weekend and the New York
Giants also have a chance to do
the trick.
Feller’s return to civilian life
is expected to take place today
with Rapid Robert slated to
take the hill Friday night
somebody gave Ossie Bluege a hand
for the job he’s done on, the Sen-
ators in transforming the "flop of
1944 into the surprise of the cur-
rent campaign
Bluege plugged a hole here and
there. brought up a fine rookie in
Outfielder George Binks, recovered
1 Buddy Lewis from the Air force.
Guard Captures
TAAF Tourney
Stamford State Guard, favorite
to cop the district TAAF softball
tournament, supported that pre-
diction last night at Fair Park by
nosing the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce 3-1 to capture a prize of $200
and the right to enter the TAAF
state tourney at Dallas Friday and
Saturday.
The Stamford ten took the
Jaycees in the sixth inning when
the Jaycees committed two er-
rors to give the State Guard
three unearned runs off Billy
Middlebrooks.
The Jaycees only collected two
hits off Stamford hurler Roy
Weeks but they were sufficient
to send across the lone Jaycees
tally in the last- half of the
sixth inning, as Herman drove
Major Leaders
By the Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING-Holmes, Boston, 368;
Cavarretta, Chicago, 363.
RUNS—Holmes, Boston, 110; Ro-
sen, Brooklyn, 94.
RUNS BATTED IN - Walker,
and Olmo, Brooklyn, 98.
HITS — Holmes, Boston, 184;
Hack, Chicago, and Rosen, Brook-
lyn, 155.
DOUBLES—Holmes, Boston, 41;
Walker, Brooklyn, 37.
TRIPLES Olmo, Brooklyn, 13;
Pafko, Chicago, 10.
FOME RUNS—Holmes, Boston,
25; Workman, Boston, 19.
STOLEN BASES—Schoendienst,
St. Louis, 21; Barrett, Pittsburgh,
17.
PITCHING — Passeau, Chicago,
14-5, 373; Brecheen, St. Louis, 8-3,
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become a pennant factor.
Lewis’ return can’t be given too
much credit in the Nats’ success
story for the former Army captain
is hitting 345 with 12 extra base
hits included in his total of 38.
and 14 RBIS to his credit. He bash-
ed a single. double and triple in
yesterday’s 11-8 slugfest over Cleve-
land as the Senators pulled to with-
in one full game of the front-run-
ning Tigers
Bobo Newsom did his best to help
out Washington. essaying the iron
man stunt against his old Detroit
mates but was rapped out of the
- box in both ends of the double bill.
‘ Joe Berry came in to save the
opener for Philadelphia, 7-6, in 11.
innings. But he couldn’t repeat
when called again in the ninth of
- the second tilt after Newsom fad-
ed with the score tied and two men
in Carmean. 5
The State Guard team had won
through to the finals in the tough
upper bracket of the tournament |
by defeating weak Avenger Field
of Sweetwater 6-0 in the first round
and then taking the veteran Abi-
lene Jaycees 3-2 in the semi-finals
of the bracket.
Weeks allowed four and five hits
in the two games for a tourney to-
tal of only nine hits allowed.
Although the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce blew its title
chances against the State Guard
the Jr. Jaycees had previous-
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SPEED BALL KING READY TO FIRE
FELLER’S RETURN MAY MEAN
TROUBLE
LOOP LEADERS
By JIMMY JORDAN
CHICAGO, Aug. 22— (A) —The
Cleveland Indians, who have flour-
ished around in the American lea-
gue all season, losing game after
game by one run, may be just
about ready to get up and do some-
ly upset all prediction in the thing about this red-hot pennant
lower bracket by upsetting the race. -
favored Abilene Christian Wild-
cats 7-4 in the first round, and
then downing the dark horse
Camp Barkeley Quartermasters
7-2 in the semi-final game dur-
ing the same night.
Bill Middlebrooks, Jaycee hurler |
gave up five hits in winning the
on base. Rudy York shot a single gave UP s ‘ - Cn
through short to break it up. 7 first game and one in winning the
to 6. giving Reliefer George Caster
semi-final.
his third successive win since join-
ing the leaders
The New York Yankees con-
tinued to show signs of life af-
ter a miserable western jaunt,
trouncing Chicago’s White Sox
twice. 3-0. behind Red Ruffing,
and 6-2 on a five-hitter by Al
Gettel with the help of Char-
ley Keller’s first homer.
St. Louis missed a chance to
gain ground on the leaders by
splitting two with the Boston
Red Sox. Nelson Potter gave the
Brownies the opener, 2 to 1, al-
though they collected only four
blows off Otis Clark, but Ran-
dy Heflin beat them, 4-3. in a
finale cut to five innings by
rain.
The St. Louis Cardinals continu-
chew away at Chicago’s
shrinking National lead. slicing it
to 5 1-2 games as the teams wound
This gave Middlebrooks a record
of only eight hits allowed in three
games:—-
Stamford
McClellan 2b
Calhoun 1b
J. Weeks
R. Weeks
C Portwood
Owens ss
McKinney cf
Reed e
Lovvern If
Cr. Portwood
Totals
a’r h Po a e
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ab r h po a e
Herman 2b
Bowers ss
Hutson rf
Howard e
Galloway 1b
Tate 3b
Stephens r
Middlebrooks p
Kimbler cf
Carmean If
Totals
Stamford ....
211 100
241 2 21 6 3
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| up their last eastern trip and head-
ed for an important weekend meet-
ing in Chicago.
Jr Chamber .....000 001 0—1
Runs batted in—Herman: Sacrifice—
Hutson: Lovvern: Double Plays—Gallo-
Charley The Red) Barrett trim-
med his former Bost n mates for
the second time in earning his 18th
triumph, 8-4 for the Cardinals de-
spite Tommy Holmes’ 25th homer.
way to Tate Portwood to Reed Bases on
balls off—Middlebrooks 2 Struck out by
| —Middlebrooks 2. Weeks T Earned runs
off—Weeks 1 Wild Pitches - Middle-
brooks 2: Left on base—Stamford 6 Jr
The main reason, of course, is
Bob Feller. The major-league
strike-out champion and 107-
game winner in Cleveland be-
fore he went to the Navy al-
most four years ago, expects to
be discharged today. He may
be back on the firing line Fri-
day night when the Indians
meet the league leading Detroit
Tigers in Cleveland.
What his return can do to
the pennant race isn’t hard to
discern by a look at the stand-
ings. Cleveland is in fifth place
today, seven and a half games
behind Detroit. The Indians
are half a game behind St.
Louis and a half a game behind
third place Chicago. They have
41 games left to play.
Feller has been pitching regularly
for the Great Lakes Naval Training
station team, which he managed
this year, and a lot of it has been
against major league and class AA
teams. The fireball artist who went
to Cleveland as a high school boy
has been mowing down batters as
he did before 1941—and without
even attempting to use the speed
he thought necessary four years ago.
While Feller hardly could
pitch Cleveland to a pennant,
his return could do a lot to up-
. set the contenders, and make
the Indians the real giant kill-
ers of the league. Manager Lou
Boudreau, bothered by inef-
fective pitching in tight games
all season, already has said that
if Feller was discharged today
he wanted to use him Friday
night against the Tigers.
But whether he would be dis-
charged still was a "military secret"
on Navy pier here. Feller reported
there Monday for processing and
is being held in quarantine for
three days. He cannot even tele-
phone friends. Just when he will
be released is not known.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING — Cuccinello, Chicago,
.325; Case, Washington, 316.
RUNS—Stirnweiss, New York, 75;
Stephens, St. Louis, 72.
RUNS BATTED IN—Etten, New
York, 73; Binks, Washington, 71.
HITS Stirnweiss, New York, 138;
Stephens, St. Louis, 130.
DOUBLES — Binks, Washington,
and McQuinn. St Louis, 25.
TRIPLES—Stirnweiss, New York,
15: Moses, Chicago, 12.
HOME RUNS — Stephens, St.
Louis. 18: Cullenbine, Detroit, 13.
STOLEN BASES—Myatt, Wash-
ington, 24; Case, Washington, 21.
PITCHING—Ferriss, Boston, 19-
6. .760; Newhouser, Detroit, 20-7,
.741.
COPR *FI BY HENGIVOY, NO TO I TEG U U DT. O
8-22
"Yes, that’s the call Sonny put in from Hawaii—$80 does
seem a lot, but it took us quite a while to round up all the
neighbors who wanted to say hello to him!"
However. Seaman 2-c Warren
. Johnson of the Public Relations of -
fice reported last night that Feller
had had the office telephone a
. friend to bring his car to Navy pier
at 4 p. m., today:
And, as Manager Joe McCarthy
of the New York Yankees said yes-
terday: "If he returns to Cleveland
soon, he can help put the Indian
, sign on the rest of the league.”
JAYCEES DOMINATE ALL-STAR
TEAM OF TAAC TOURNAMENT
Graziano-Cochrane
Bout Draws Heavily
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—UP)—The
return Rocky Graziano-Freddie
Cochrane non-title bout at Madi-
son Square garden Friday night
may pull the biggest 1945 gross
of any bout in the country to date.
At the rate the ducats are being
gobbled up. Promoter Mike Jacobs
anticipates a house of more than
$100,000. The present 1945 high
mark is the $101,918 for March 23
show when Tami Mauriello out-
pointed Lee Oma.
The sock fans apparently have
made Graziano one of their favor-
ites. He is a rough, unschooled
scrapper who makes up for his lack
of polish with a wicked punch. |
Nick Moran, who has succeeded
Juan Zurita as Mexico’s boxing
idol, has voluntarily posted a for-
feit of $500 for his appearance
Sept. 7 against NBA Lightweight
Champion Ike Williams.
Nat Rogers, Jacobs’ matchmak-
er, says this is the first time he
can recall any fighter putting up
a forfeit without being asked. -
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Chamber 3: Stolen base—Reed, Car-
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Breese and Lawson.
Marty Marion helped the cause
with four blows
The Cubs had to be content with
an even break in their final series
at the Polo grounds when the New
York Giants rallied for two in the
ninth to top Claude Passeau, 4-3,
on a squeeze pla .
Brooklyn’s dropped to- within a
half game of the fourth place
Giants, bowing to Pittsburgh, 12-1,
and the Phillies ran their longest
win streak of the season to five in
a night game 6-3 conquest of Cin-
cinnati.
ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM
Catcher—James Miller, Jaycees
Pitcher—Bill Middlebrooks, Junior Chamber of Commerce
First base—Edgar Galloway, Junior Chamber of Commerce
Second base—Trickey Nicks, Abilene Christian College
Third base—Boots Beaty, Jaycees
Short Stop—Mac Bowers, Junior Chamber of Commerce
Left field—O. C. Copeland, Jaycees
Center field—Paul Kuhel, NCO Bolts
Right field—Joe Weeks, Stamford
Roving short stop—Bob Grounds, Abilene Christian College
Utility—infielder, Cliff Dahlstrom, NCO Bolts; outfielder, Don
Hutson. Junior Chamber of Commerce: catcher—Harold Schoonover,
NCO Bolts; pitchers—Rey Weeks, Stamford, and J. D. Brown, Jaycees.
Olympic Committee
Plans Games in ‘48
LONDON, Aug. 22 — (A) —The
Olympic Games definitely will be
held in 1948, says Avery Brundage,
president of the United States
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JOE BERRY, Athletic and HANK
GREENBERG, Tigers—Berry saved
the first game with one-hit relief
job after Bobo Newsom faltered.,
7-6 Greenberg drove home four
runs with three doubles and a sin-
gle as the Tigers gained an even
break, 7-6.
RED RUFFING and CHARLEY
KELLER, Yankees—Ruffing blank-
ed Chicago with five hits for his
first shutout since his return from
e, 3-0: Keller socked his first
homer since returning to the club
in the second game for a 6-2 clean
BUDDY LEWIS. Senators—Rap-
ped Cleveland pitching for a sin-
gle, double and triple, driving home
two runs in an 11-8 victory.
NELSON POTTER, Browns and
RANDY HEFLIN, Red Sox—Potter
turned back Boston in the first
game, 2-1: Heflin eased through
with a 4-3 edge in an abbreviated
nightcap.
MIKE SCHEMER. Giants—Col-
lected four hits off Claude Passeau,
starting a game—winning rally in
the ninth inning with a triple in
a 4-3 edge
PETE COSCARART, Pirates-
Touched Hal Gregg for a grand slam
homer in the first inning of a 12-1
rout of the Dodgers.
R ED BARRETT, Cardinals-
Earned his 18th triumph and the
second over his former mates by
whipping Boston 8-4
STAN ANDREWS, Phillies-
Hoisted a home run into the left
field seats to break a 2-all tie as
Phils grabbed their first straight
by downing the Reds, 6-3.
Abilene’s district Texas Amateur
Athletic federation softball tourna-
ment held here Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday, drew the cream of
the West Texas softball players as
seven teams from the section played
Olympic association.
Brundage, who is vice president
of the International committee,
made the statement after attend-
ing a meeting of the I. O. C. yes-
terday.
He told reporters that several Am-
erican cities are interested in hold-
ing the games and Minneapolis is
“making perhaps the strongest bid " |
The British are staging a drive
to get the games for London.
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The All-Tournament team an-
nounced at close of the tournament
is spotlighted by three key men who
led the underdog Junior Chamber of
Commerce to the finals, and three
Jaycee players who carried their
team to the semi-finals against the
champion Stamford State Guard.
Abilene Christian College, favor-
ites in the lower half, spotted two
players on the all-tourney team, and
Stamford and the NCO Bolts each
placed one man The Quartermast-
ers and the Avenger Field Flyers
failed to scratch
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Heading the selection was Billy
Middlebrooks, Junior Chamber of
Commerce, who hurled the Jaycees
to two wins in one night and pitch-
ed two-hit ball as the Jaycees drop-
ped behind in their final clash with
the Stamford State Guard.
Dahlstrom’s uncanny fielding
and base running ability made
them the outstanding choices
for the infield posts. _
Mac Bowers, who especially shin-
ed in the Junior Chamber of Com- Furniture company of Houston put
merce semi-final bout, was chosen - .
for the shortstop position. Hi nut-AX nerene Manmna A A nea:
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climb to the finals Bob Grounds Houston post tournament. The win-
hitting and never-miss fielding | ners scored twice in the second with
earned him the roving short stop Casey Cosgrove’s triple tallying one
| PYourful o c Copeland stood run and setting up the other.
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Ed Galloway’s brilliant defensive
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