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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 194§
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Tough And Roujih
Bums Remember
Owen 1941 Fiasco
Both Teams Count I.ast
Year's Ending Only
!A Standoff
itReu. v. s. I'at. (Ml.)
I NEW YORK. Vui?. I". (TP)
•—Commissioner Konesaw Moun-
tain Landis he of the famous
white hair had better pot his
pitching arm in shape, for he'll
probably have to "throw the
book" at the players in this
year's worid series, potentially
the bitterest classic in baseball
history
The fall extravaganza is still
about six weeks away. But
there's little doubt that the New-
York Yankees and Brooklyn
Dodgers will represent their re-
spective leagues, both having al-
ready traveled far ahead of the
field. Today the two clubs, at
odds ever since Mickey Owen's
missed third strike last October,
are heaping fuel on one of the
game's fastest-growing feuds.
Both li'.'ams still consider
last year's series an unsatis-
factory standoff because Ow-
en's lapse apparently chang-
ed the complexion of the
entire scries. An especially
bitter taste hits been left
with Pre\y Larry MacPhail
of the Dodgers, who wanted
to win last October but now
is consumed by a dogged de-
sire to humble the American
league champions when they
meet again.
Remember what tension rip-
pled through the last series
when Pitcher Whit Wyatt of
the Dodgers and Outfielder Joe
DiMaggio exchanged torrid
phrases over an alleged "bean-
ball" bit lie ted across by the
Brooklyn tosser? Bear in mind
that the incident involved the
comparatively mild - mannered
veteran Wyatt and the definite-
ly even - tempered DiMaggio.
Then you have a hint of what's
in the offing. ,
It's only natural, of course,
that men like Macphail. Base-
ball's radical, and Ed Barrow,
the Yankees' conservative; Man-
ager Leo Durocher, the "Lip."
and Joe McCarthy, the tight-
jawed pilot, should clash. But
now their "natural" feuds have
been fanned to a raging inten-
sity by a clash in current dates.
The Yankees have scheduled
W illiams Regains
Top Batting Spot
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Lo so Brough reaches for low
back-hand in final round of Mid-;
die States Women's Lawn Ten-
nis Championships in Philadel-
phia. Young Beverly Hills, Calif.,
miss beat Margaret Osborne, 6-4.
10-8 for title.
a program with the Senators at
the Bronx ballyard on Aug. 23
for the benefit of army and navy
relief, preparing to go all out
to make the American league
contribution a noteworthy ges-
ture. But, unfortunately, the
Dodgers and Giants are playing
doubleheader at Ebbets field on
the same date.
The American league has lag-
ged far behind the National
league in swelling the charity
coffers of the services since the
Dodgers and Giants alone in
two games have poured almost"
$150,000 into the two funds. The 1
Yankees had hoped their twin
bill with Washington would
wipe away some of this unfor-
tunate deficit and. almost to a
man, the club feels that the
Dodgers-Giant game should be
switched to another in order
not to effect attendance in the
Bronx.
The Dodgers already have
become one of the most un-
popular clubs in their own
loop, being accused of using
"dusters" and "bean-balls."
so vagrant did the violations
become in a recent Dodgers-
Braves brawl that Wyatt and
Boston pitcher Manny Salvo
wt if both fined and league
1'rexy Ford Frick issued a
manifesto calling for an au-
tomatic fine of S200 against
the manager of a pitcher ac-
cused of purposely throwing
a bean-ball.
Such incidents have only
NEW YORK, August 15
(TP) Ted Williams of the Bos-
ton Red Sox regained the Am-
erican league batting leadership
this week, replacing Joe Gordon
of the New York Yankees, of-
ficial averages based on games
played through Thursday dis-
closed today.
The Red Sox slugger was cre-
dited with an average of ,343.
Gordon dropped to third with
.337. and Taft Wright of the
Chicago White Sox moved into
second place with .338.
Williams maintained his lead
in three other hitting depart-
ments — runs batted in, 103;
runs scored, 3; and home runs
24.
Pete Reiser of the Brooklyn
Dodgers dropped four points of
his average but maintained the
National league lead with .339.
His nearest competitor was Er-
nie Lombardi of the Boston Bra-
ves, with .325.
Southpaw Larry French of
the Dodgers held his lead over
the National league pitchers
with 12 triumphs and one loss.
His teammate, Whit Wyatt, pur-
sued him with a 13 and four
record. 8pud Chandler of the
Yankees led the American lea-
gue moundsmen for the second
consecutive week with 13 vic-
tories and two defeats while
Hank Borowy of the same club
was second wit hll wins again-
st two setbacks.
I eaders in other departments.
Doubles 'N) Slaughter, St.
Louis, 10: (A) Heath.
Doubles (N) Slaughter, St.
30; (A) Doerr, Boston, and Hig-
gins. Detroit, 32.
Triples (N) Slaughter, St.
Louis, 16; (A.) Heath. Cleveland,
12.
Home runs (N) Mize, New
York, 19; (A) Williams, Boston.
24.
Stolen bases (N) Reiser,
Brooklyn. 13; (A) Case. Wash-
ington, 27. ,
Beaumont Beats
Rival Cats In 1I
Innings, () to 5
Ft. Worth Loses lii<j
Opportunity To Gain
On Loop Leaders
brought further dislike of the
Brooks from the Yankees so
they're readying for a torrid
return bout with "the Bums."
There may not be much um-
pire-batting or bean-balling this
fall, since the presence t>f Judge
Landis and his ready baseball
law books have a considerable
influence on most baseball bel-
ligerents. Nevertheless, the plac-
id Yankees are not so placid
now and are ready to fight fire
with fire.
In effect, that is the current
reaction of the entire club.
Manager McCarthy, always re-
luctant to discuss things of this
nature, indicated though that his
team would not rely on umpires
or $200 fines to protect them,
if and when anyone "begins the
bean."
McCarthy mentioned no names.
But since the American league
has had no trouble with pitch-
ing of that sort, and the only
i National leaguers the Yanks are
likely* to meet will be the Dodg-
ers, well—. And should the
Dodgers-Giants bill really pare
down the Yankees' charity
crowd, the fur will really fly
come series time, brother.
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While Shreveport was idle
last nigh|t, Beaumonit jumped
on its next nearest rival, Fort
Worth and built up its Texas
league lead to four games .
The Cats, with an opportuni-
ty to move back into second
place and at the same time cut
down on the Exporters' lead,
forced the game to 11 innings
before losing 6 to 5.
Trailing by two runs. Fort
Worth rallied in the ninth
to tie the game and get an-
other chance. But the
Shippers beat them to it.
scoring once in the lltli off
Joe Winfield, third Oat liur-
ler.
At San Antonio, the Oklaho-
ma City Indians made more er-
rors than hits and were swarm-
ped by the Missions. 10-1. Sid
Peterson limited Oklahoma City j
to five bingles, while San An-
tonio blasted Manager Clay
Touchstone for 12 safe blows.
These plus six Oklahoma City
miscues gave San Antonio the
overwhelming victory.
Lefty Cliff Chambers bested
Paul "Daffy"' Dean in a pit-
cher's duel as Tulsa beat Hous-
ton 3-1. Chambers held the
Buffs to seven hits and had a
shutout until the ninth when
he allowed one run to cross
the platter. The Oilers garner-
ed nine safeties off Dean to
hand the Houston ace his six-
th loss of the season as again-
st 16 wins.
The Dallas Rebels, losers of 23
of their last 24 games, rested in
peace when their engagement
with the second-place Shreve-
port Sports was postponed.
MERIT EXAMS AUG. 27
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 15 —
(UP)—The Texas merit council
has announced that examina-
tions will be held Aug. 29 at
Abilene, Austin. Dallas and
Longview for the positions of
Junior Clerk, Junior Stenogra-
pher, Junior Operator of Tab-
ulating Equipment, Interview?
ing Clerk and interviewer to
supply eligible employes for
state offices and the U. S. em-
ployment service in Texas.
Medwiek Leading
Choice For Most
Valuable Player
Gets Pair Of Wallops In
Each Of Two Dodger
Victories
NEW YORK, Aug. 15—(UP)
Outfielder Joe Medwiek of the
Brooklyn Dodgers appears to l.e
headed for designation as the
senior circuit's most valuable
player.
Naturally, with almost six
weeks of the season yet to go,
much can happen to help or hin-
der Medwick's chances of win-
ning the coveted award. But if
the ballots were to be cast to-
day, the muscular slugger would
carry it off by a decisive plural-
ity-
There always ^vili be room for
argument as to what single play-
er is the most outstanding on a
club like the Dodgers, since their
triumphs in the National league
is basically a team job. The club
is leaving the field behind in
its circuit because more good
players are on it than any other
club.
Buf'Medwick, although he'll
have tough competition from
Mickey Owen, Pete Reiser and
Peewee Reese, has performed ab-
ly enough to top the club and
the league. He poked a pair of
hits in each game as the Dodg-
ers drubbed the Braves twice
yesterday, 10-0 and 7-3, to raise
his runner-up batting mark in
the National league to .325 and
his loop • leading runs - batted-in
j total to 79.
One of his hits in the first
game was a double, tying
him for the leagne lead in
that department with Stan
Hack of the Cubs, each hav-
ing :t0. His four hits pulled
him to 135. just two short of
the league's best mark, held
by Knos Slaughter of the
Cardinals.
Curt Davis held the Braves
seven hits in the first game
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for his 12th win while Brook-
lyn belted out 15 hits. Whit Wy-
att allowed only eight blows in
the nightcap as the Dodgers col-
lected 11. It was Wyatt's 14th
victory.
Dolph Camilli hit a homer in
each game for Brooklyn to tie
for the league lead at 19 with
Johnny Mize of the Giants.
Mort Cooper went the route
for the second time since June
30 as he pitched the Cardinals
to a two-hit, 4-0 triumph over
the Reds last night. Cooper
notched his seventh shutout of
the year as he gave up singles to
Bert Haas in the first and Frank
McCormick in the fourth.
Carl Hubbell allowed only four
hits, two of which were hom-
ers by Dan Litwhiler and Ron
Northey, to gain his seventh vic-
tory in a row and eighth of the
year es the Giants defeated the
Phils, 5-2. Mickey Witek drove
in two runs with three hits, the
final one breaking a two-all dead-
lock in the seventh.
The Cubs backed up Lou
Wat neke's sjeven-hltter with
an 18-liit assault to trip the
Pirates, 7-1. It was Warne-
ke's eighth win and second
since he left Sf. Louis.
Rookie Hal White turned in a
four-hitter as the Tigers trim-
med the White Sox, 7-1. It was
White's eighth win of the year
against 10 defeats.
The Yankees slaughtered the
Athletics, 11-2, and set a new
single game major league rec-
ord for double plays as 17.950
fans looked on. It bettered by
one the previous joint record
held by several teams. The Yank-
ees turned in seven double-kill-
ings in all.
YESTERDAY'S STAR — Joe
Medwiek, who raised his batting
average to .325 by hammering
out a pair of hits in each game as
the Dodgers tripped the Braves,
10-0 and 7-0.
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