Tribe Pitchers Pomy Reaches Even at Ninth
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Night Lights Help to Stop DiMaggio DETROIT TIMES, JULY 18. 1941 PAGE 15 MISHAP SPOILS TROUT'S SHUTOUT Two Ordinary •Glsml ICs Over, Tribe Pitchers Now I Fan llil* u J MR jJxy'Xfly -KJVv End Streak at 56 By PAT ROBINSON International Nr*»a S»nlf» Sport* Writer W "7'\p EDITOR NEW YORK, July 18. —Well.' Joe DiMaggio’* hitting streak hasj Baker's Current Tiger Roster ended and now everybody-—espe- Youth Will Be on cially Joe himeslf can sit back Side Next Year in Shows 15 Probable and relax and enjoy the ball Average games. Rebuilding Tigers Regulars 24 After hitting in 56 straight games for a new all-time major- GOOD league record. Joe was finally, PITCHING MATERIAL LOOKS -.topped under the light*, in Cleve-] land last night by two ordinary Del Baker has youth on his side in rebuilding the Tigers pitchers—Al Smith and Jim Bagby great plav-* by the Detroit manager added opportunities And it took two for 1942, which gives third baseman Ken Keltner to stop to show his talent as a pilot. He did a grand job of piloting him at that. a rather strange collection of Anyhow, Joe can rc*-t assured youngsters and oldsters to an that his name will be enrolled in championship. the record books for many a long ~ American League George B§W ¦" year to come. If Sisler's r. Now will come the bigger record of hitting in 41 games chance of revealing what he ran lasted since 1921 and Willie Keel- FINGERS INDICATE “NOTHING FOR THREE” do with younger material —wi'h er's old time mark of 4t straight JOE’S games stood up for 44 years, how and the front July Relief Now f believe niv hitting will help from scouts long do you suppose DiMaggio'* CLEVELAND. IS office, of course, should help be will thtt his record-breaking batting Improve. You know »e have been new mark stand? Streak hqd iteen choked ofT was getting some mighty tough needed. No manager can do good JM pitch- HARDER UNDER LIGHTS expressed by Joe DiMagglo today. ing in last few games and work with a bunch of Humpty were not easy, nor Keeler "Yes. 1 really am glad it's the lilts coming And neither Sisler .I"'' in>t tm- anvway." Dumpties. with games. over.” the great said “After for had to contend night 1 Keeler record I felt DiMaggio Ameri- A |M?rusal of the current We can’t say that Joe would have broke the now leads the at ease hilt I was beginning to can League in every variety of farm-, made a if the game had hern Tiger roster, plus several hit tighten up again. 1 wanted to offense, except a tatting average, played daylight, but certainly hands whose big league ability in beat my minor league record of his next objective therefore i he have and 3 would had a fairer chance games. a ! Williams, Joe, appears to have been estab- he the lights. bl I couldn't lift hall the rmoi setter. than had under olf the ground last night. however, is head man in runs, hits lished. reveals 15 probable regu- In any event he has satis- the fourth inning when Charley of having "In the and runs batted in. Keller lars whose average age is but faction hit in every Smith walked me, I hit at one home run lead game he shares the with slightly more than 24 ycais. since started his streak had hall. 1 didn't want to walk. him. against Ed Smith of the White Sox mm* The oldest of the list is JOHNNY CORSICA May 15. and of realizing that hi* Rudy York, who, despite com-' prolonged w-alloping has aided the their Ihiulilo paratively long service in baseball, is only 28 years of age. Birdiej Yanks in sensational climb Pomy Copyright by Detroit Tiatoi. All ri«hti roiorvod to the top. Reaches Tebbetts and Frankie Croueher. who also have been around fori Although Joe went hit less, the 27 each and the rest drop down to 20. PAUL TROI'T, who pitched a fine covering on Buddy Myer’s grounder to awhile, are but The. Yanks topped the Indians again. four-hit victory for the Tigers over the York (who’s seen at right). George Pays sll others are: 4-3. and today are seven games in Paul Trout (26>, Dutch Meyer (26), Floyd Giebell '26). Boyd Senators, is shown on the ground at first Archie, who had been on first, moved all front. Publinx 'Semis’ inning yesterday to third and later scored the Perry (25), Dixie Parsons (25), Johnny Corsica 24 , Pat Mullin base during the ninth the way TRAVIS’ STREAK ENDS after he’d tripped over the bag while only Washington run. To 085 (24), Barney McCosky (23), Freddie Hutchinson 22 . Virgil 1 And speaking of hitting streaks, SPOKANE. Wash.. July IS Trucks (22) and Harold Newhouser (20 >. Cecil Travis, who had hit salely in What a fighter and grand golfer By LEWIS H. WALTER 24 straight games, also was is Detroit's Art Pomy. As the Baker Again Mopped yesterday when Paul If your life ambition has been Smiles Weiss, battle for the United States Ama- Russell Trout of the Tigers let the Sena- casually drop the Are 'Comers' teur to let informa- Several with hits, Public Links championship tors down four the tion to your pals that you "had Then there arc Dick Wakefield, 20-year*old University of Tigers winning, 7-1. goes into 'he semifinal stage today. Pitching, Improved Hitting Tiger Manager; the Daily Double the yes- Michigan sophomore outfielder who was given $50,000 to sign Pleases The Red Sox took a fall out of Pomy will be in the fray and at track the White 7-4. and terday,” you should have been at a Tiger contract, and possibilities from the Beaumont farm in the Trout Hurls 4-Hitter to Whip Senators, 7-1 Even at Ninth Sox. the Browns pitted against Jack Kerns of again topped the Athletics, 4-3. on the Fair Grounds when every one Texas League. Two of these possibilities are Wood and Unser, Denver over the 36-hole route at Clift’s single with the bags ten- but Sleepout Sam. the most un- who are hitting over .300. Wood is a third basemen. Then, of Playing on a windy, rain-swept anted in the ninth. Indian Canyon golf course. By LEO MACDOXELL course, Mr*. Don Weiss, the de- lucky horse player this side of the hard-hitting I Chief interest in the other cir* Pomy, who has played remark- course, Bob Patrick of Buffalo. fending and Margaret * Besides the fine pitching of overtook the strong-armed Hoosier champion, ¦cuit yesterday centered in Elmer Alleghenies, lined up before the Although is no Bob Feller amung them, the Tiger ably steady golf throughout the there Buck New -om and Paul Trout, the Kusaeli were all even at the end Riddle, wicket to collect Argos and m the ninth. of nine holes their 18-hole the Reds' sensational tourney, came back with a burst after pitchers look like material for the best balanced staff in the thing that pleas** IVI Baker most in youngster, who apparently is just Besides allowing only two hits final for the Women's State golf. Red Moss came rambling home. league next year. Certainly, it willhave youth. While there have about the Tigers' recent successe* as effective under the lights as he of sub-par to defeat Bob the during the stretch. Trout per- Amateur Golf championship. Daniel of San Francisco after an Of course, there would have been some disappointments, the Tiger pitching this year lias been is improvement in the clubs is in daylight. Young Elmer hitting. mitted only four men to reach trimmed the Giants. 5-4/ for his extra hole of play. been a catch in it. If they asked better than average. The shot one-over-par The manager especially is *econd base, in eight innings. He By HAYES eleventh straight victory without a Detroiter you the winning price on the If the Tiger pitchers had gotten the hitting and fielding they EDGAR golf for. the first nine holes to pleaded with the “lugging of put Senators on base with walk* defeat this year. double you picked with such great Higgin< Margaret Russell of Oakland round into the home stretch one were entitled to, the club, if not on top. assuredly would have Barney McCosky Pinky and then, in fine style, pulled him- And in the only other game the Hills again pit power hole to the bad. mental toil and trouble, you’d have to the head team than the 14 games or more and Billy S»illi\ *n three Tigers rlf out of his troubles. will her Phils and Cubs battled a six- been much closer against accuracy ol No. 14 he canned a putt for to confess the load of cabbage you who up to tecen’lv h*d Bake- George Archie, once a Tiger the Mrs. Don- inning 2-all tie when rain halted On they were out of first place at this writing. and ald Weiss the finals of a birdie 4 to square the match, worried because of tlicit lapses at first up in the ninth, singled to of Flint in the proceedings. carted away from the cashier’s (he the bat renter. Archie’s blow only women's state tournament at but San Francisco lad came wicket totaled a huge was the regain sum—sll.