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Sports HIGH WIRE STAR BLISS in ST DETROIT TIMES 16-C THE RoJdy, Aug. 11. I <>44 Sinkwich Holding Out for $25,000 From Lions Sports HIGH WIRE STAR BLISS IN ST. LOUIS 'W’st'* Eqan Predicts Bob Westfall State's Golf Trout Joins Wakefield tc Be One of Greatest Players To Sign Soon its/ MBI. Hope Beaten No. 18 Circle m ftpwtel I* TMR DETROIT TIMER Bv LEO M \< HOM.I I. By MARGARET RUSSELL -6 Bv LF.O MACDONELL B WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 You rant say Wish Fg»n Plk ‘CHICAGO, Aug. 11-Long hit- |||'|) || bijV Frank “Stubby" Overmire, blocky Frankie Sinkwich, All-American icti'i ¦ good Tiger tub thumi»er. ting Dorothy Germain of Phila- little left-hander of the Tigers, halfhack from Georgia who was the and On a recent trip to Now delphia, defending champion in will face Nationals Dutch a sensation his first year with the Leonard tonight in an effort to Tiger scout told nows the 41tb annual Women's Western W Y’ork, the IVtro.t Lions last (all, is holding jSbK ¦r tewp the Tigers moving forward Wwkrfirtd i- • Golf Association a/nateur cham- [ Tia wits That *Thr* out for a two-year contract with in the American League pennant 4 ¦ pome to tv one of the greatest was pionship. m progress at Lake race. " the Detroit club. He given j modem WL Foresf Club, slashed Overmire beat Leonard In a outfielders in baseball s Onwentsia a discharge from the nvrehant J sizzling 2-1 game in Detroit on Moreover, Wakefield promises herself into the semifinals with a marine recently and then was rr-p July 19, leaving the base lines of George Case 6-5 victory over Betty Jean Washing- to he a rival .tooted by the army draft hoard. strewn with stranded the league s leading base run- Rucker of Spokane, together with I ton runners. The Tigers have He was with the marines for a oyt with the according to Egan Phyllis Otto of Omaha. Georgia \ won 13 of 18 starts ner while and given a medical dis-, Nats this season. “Right now he la starting to of Fargo Mrs. H. M. charge. Taintor and j “Dizzy” Trout, winner of bases well and he'll be a Paul run Sims, former Minnesota champion.! 20 games for Detroit last year, ( fast The figure asked by Sinkwich " \ rival for aw and other ¦ * The high, swirling wind w hich today shares leadership among boys in the league," Egan pro- for the two years is understood to mm* wL k swept effect American League pitchers of the claimed. “Dick has Improved a lie $25,000. making him one of the the course had little on Dorothy’s smashing shots. She; W 4 American League with Hal New- lot In fielding and he has one highest salaried players in the was 2 up at the turn and gathered - houser, his teammate, and Tex of best arms In the ganu National Football League history. 111 b the next in succession j Hughson of the Boston Rod Sox. to the sante time it was learn<*d, the foyr holes v lie's Intelligent and Is keen At ill night won his " Betty 18th that Rob Westfall was exjMvted 1o as Jean faded. IL\ fV 'Qf Trout last learn In winning, the victory -of the season, setting Incidentally, former Tigers *ign with the Lions before the Miss Taintor. gal. who was n down the Nationals. 3-2, to hop spotlight. week is up. Hr has already told violin playing also t continue to claim the semifinalist in the Tigers past the Yanks into ex-Tiger out- Coach Frit/ Crisler he wouldn't 1941. eliminated the Pat Mullin. the last Michigan hope. Sally Session* third. exploded two home runs return to Michigan to play. 10-inning fielder. of Muskegon, who captured the It was a blazing lrt game recently to pare He had completed three seasons A one medalist prize with 71. battle with Johnny Ntggpling and Camp Sihert to a victory. Mul- with the Wolverines hut had now> Dir has his sights set on 25 lin is the playing manager of planner! to enter srhool in Novem- EACH SET .38 triumphs. the southern camps service i*er to work for his degree. Under the wht time rules he would have They were square at the turn. DREAM PAIR team. rarh tallying 38 for the best golt l*oen eligible to play this fall in Stephen O'Neill glories in the the Western Conference. of the day. Georgia gathered the Merv Shea Stars tenth and eleventh as Sally’s short Jane Wyman, movie star, stops by to give her moral feats of Trout and Newhouser. To The addition of Westfall would hav»» one 20-game winner on a may game and cinched mat- encouragement St. Louis Browns and particularly . Philadelphia, complete long vanished the And. in you the hunt of the to staff is enough to till the dreams liavp read. 44-year-old Mervyn Lions for an outstanding player ters with a birdie 3 at the thir- to Bol> Muncrief, pitching; mainstay of the Brownies. teenth when her approach was a of most managers. Rhea, now a coach for the from the University of Michigan. But the Brownies, it seems, need little encouragement in and Spurgeon Chandler lineup Westfall an foot from the cup. Trout Phils, stepped mjo the was All-American his their drive for the pennant. But then Miss Wyman is of the Yankees were the onlv the other day and drove out a last year with the Wolverines and Miss Otto turned on the heat pitchers to win 20 against Betty Jane of nice. last >ear circuit smash that helped his one of the greatest fullbacks in Garman \ery To have two such mas- Merv the history of the Hammond in the final stages after battles. team heat the Giants. conference. ters on a roster is enough to make got his homer off Johnny Al- Sinkwich wa* signed by the holding a 1 up lead at the turn.! of the a leader walk on air. len the former American Lions principally as a passer, She won four last five holes “Hal Dizzy are going par figures. I soil S ’liibBusiness and over League flingrr. loiter he turner! out to he a spec- in even Phlladflphiu on Saturday to After 3 at to Although no announcement tacular runner and led the Lions’ being down the four- get a good rest and he ready was of it at the time, ground attack in all the games he teenth tee, Mrs. Sims won the on Sunday,** made fourteenth, | for the Athletics < among the gifts showered upon played. At present he is at his fifteenth and eight- Gets Bros* Attention this mormng. of pined Steve Connie Mark on the venerable home in Y’oungstown. O. eenth from Peggy Kirk Findlay "Trout can pitch on two baseball man s 50th anniversary and took the match into extra By DRI’KENBROD day* rest, pilch on holes. M. F. and Hal can a<- manager of the Athletics, in three. They're right at their T »• - sets, becoming ? Peggy kept in the game hy With new clubs, and particularly matched increas- Philadelphia recently, was a k*±?-J3Mai V hard best now and with the team set dropping a 45-foot putt at the ingly to get. quite a fevv pros are giving considerable attention thej’re WHY gold pen and *• hitting behind them, f*encil Hot * u*ed and twentieth, hut put to the club business—and well. Cold was out at the on M from the New Y’ork Yankees. -mm Like cars, club*, apt to go and get those ; when she failed to negotiate dealers in used the pros repair the some fixing 21st * game*. Maybe they’ll t- look almost like win v a 4-footer for her par 5 after Mrs. them up until they new. Mickey Not Blue When the government gave more.. iSirns took a par “Rudy VnrU will be ready for perrmsMon to begin played his first game there in al- The of the Brooklyn Baseball Year In the semifinals Mi** Taintrr the Athletic* and may ptay I most years evening. assembling clubs from materials 29 the other Ikims over Great Lakes has not will play Miss Otto, while Miss Rudy pulled a leg le hand, many thought there Eldon Briggs. Lansing pro. who here. mu*< ' on ’ got Lt. Comdr. Gordon S. H) I*ntled frru Germain will tackle Mrs. Sims. that put him on the bench, hut The 4-v -4~ would be plenty of new clubs. is one of the longest drivers, still (Mickey 1 Cochrane down. The 1944 major league season he hit that hail good last night his r DETROIT RESULTS: But lalior shortage has slowed is trying to learn to putt. He used proclaims cur- . to drive In the whining commander may go down / Marian T.*Rr*n|tf , up Also, grip ruu. nine in the hooks as the Schustrr of 111 9e- manufacturers con- a cross handed in the Michi- rent is the best of the fostwl Mr*. A E Wilson of Drtroit Golf . jvear of and siderable of the clubs they are gan Open . Brnno Pautkc, pro LIKES HOMERS three he has managed at the “hot cold running Club, A-ft, first fllcht consolation Mr* " Las-r*nc« Lockwood. Cleveland 9*f**trto making are being benight up by at Plum Hollow for 14 years, wa- naval training tenter. baseball Time* Phoio Ftrarjrr “Wakefield hit that home mi Mr*. L. 0 of Detroit Golf Club.
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