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DETROIT TIMES. AUG. 13. 1942 PAGE 25 Tiger Southpapus Baffle Indians Twice SPORTS ONE OF THESE YOUNGSTERS WHIRLAWAY OF TOMORROW? Henshaw'sßelief By LEO s MACDONELL Dates for Fall • \"s ¦ N ” 1 ''.\. v \ . \ x In Tebbetts, Tigers Loss Appreciated or Not, Role, Newhouser More Than a Catcher; Birdie Was Loyal to Race Meet Set fe He’s Great Leader Tiqers, Detroit Fans ••(Via Rumors) Stop Cleveland GEE’S ONE VICTORY COST BCCS >751000 Officials McCosky and York from the Tigers- for the duration, Refuse Comment Birdie Tebbetta has gone Supply Hitting; Tribe at least. He may or may not be hack with the Detroit club. We but ’Those in Know’ like to brhrv-r he wilt be back, again lending Tils gifted talents to Say Sept. 12-Oct. 10 Loses sth, 6th in Row the cause of the Tigers after Uncle Sam, in the cause of human- ity in general, has dusted off the Japs and Nazis. By LEWIS If. WALTER CLEVELAND. Aug. 13.- Wal- With the going of Tebbetts, the Tigers are losing more than lowing in the unwonted luxury of The most successful race meet- !having found 'in opponent with just a who, Bill Dickey on the sunset side, is the catcher, with ing in the hi.storv of ih? Detroit loss punch than they posSc>s. tho class of the league in the receiving department. The Tigers arc Tigers pointing r race track is drawing to a close. tixtav were for losing aggressive leader, a catcher with a keen insight into |elcan sweep of their series wi*h an Already $5,000,000 over last year’s baseball, oackstop with razor-edged mind that has had much jIhe Indians. a a handle, it is expected the total hot both of a In other j- By winning ends to do with holding together a rather feeble ball team. by Detroiters during the 73-day I double-header yesterday, tlvi . I 1 -l p. meeting will hit the SIH 000,000 Tigers made it three in a row over , SLib. the Moreover, Tebbetts is a grand boy in many other ways—a , ijrf, tPIL slumping Tribesmen and mark by the time the last horse ¦ good, honest young man with a high sense of honor and decency handed the latter the fifth and in the last race plods under the regard for humor. While a loyal. 100 per sixth defeats in succession. Todav tempered with a fine wire Saturday evening. Manager Del Baker was to send workman, himself seriously and could cent he never took too | So successful is the meeting, Hal White to the mound against laugh at himself along with the other mugs, increasing Jim Bagby Jr., in quest of a grand [with crowds and handle jslam. Pay Cut or Not, He Was Loyal mounting with every week, that Yesterday’s double victory was rumors of a fall meeting to com- through the left- At times we have wondered if Tebbetts was fully appreciated made possible mence four weeks from now are {handed pitching of Roy Henshaw in Detroit. We have even wondered whether or not the front Newhouser, becoming very strong. Although and Hal who shut out office at Briggs Stadium fully appreciated his value. He. won- the Indians for 15 innings after Racing Commissioner Edward J. dered, too, tins spring when he learned that he was one of the jAIBenton had tailed to fool them Fry and General Manager Edward |in the first three heats of the Tigers enveloped in tlm big pay slashes. He was tut after having P. Sirong refuse comment, those t first game. done nothing more than improve in ability over tap season before. who to the even But he was loyal, notwithstanding. The other day, when the claim be in know HITTING STARS name Die dates for the fall Tigers were at their lowest in a disappointing season, we wrote meet- But it was clinched l y the hit- ing According to their str>ri«s. ting of Barney McCosky and »« » » it w ill be 25 day: trom September Rudy York, who between them 12 in October 10. inclusive. made 12 of the 21 hits credited to the Tigers in the course of the RIDERS INTERESTING long afternoon. I* row, With only three days of. McCosky notched '•ix in a more getting four four, including racing for the meeting to go. fans are two doubles, in the opener and ? till getting a hoot from the hattle coming back with a double and a riding staged by Erie single on his first two trips to the sor # honor> Guerin, Johnny Adams and Jess plate in the nightcap. York made three hits in each High \ I game and among his half dozen Guerin, who pulled into the lead blows, were his seventeenth home for the first time this week 1S ( run of the season and two doubles. with for, He hatted in two runs and scored now ahead S 3 to 80 y .** y» m* / vr \2L- gi'V *v 'i. ~ 4 * t ¦ T-u ' two in the first game.-and scored Adam* and 77 for Iligley. But one in the second. it-s Mill any ones race. Henshaw, sent to Benton's Guerin, thr little horsebaeker TWO OF MRS. PAYNE WHITNEY’S COLTS CAVORT AT RED BANK, N. J. rescue in the third inning with one from Maringouin. La., is still the run in and runners on second and favorite. He and Higley each rode third with none out, not only pre- t/ Jm two winners yesterday while vented further scoring in that Adams was blanked. Guerin, one Poetic Justice session, but went on to blank 'he '"- f JEmM -' Wf' » of the best riders Detroit has Boston the Same Favorites Gain Indians with four scattered hits seen despite his 17 years, kept thei for the remainder of the distance. stable of T. D. Buhl out in front: Freddie Temple Picked as Barthel Skipper After in the 2-year-old competition of WIPE Ol’T LEAD the ‘ meeting when he brought Tigers, meanwhile, - The . By Winning Interlake Title With Warrior j wiped w&m' t-v As Net Meet O, K Joe home by hotter than a Years Go j In out a two-run deficit by scoring length over the Giggler in the once in the fourth and three Ron Huron Pui-e with Over Ice Once a year the rooters for By GEORGE E. VAN Eugene Russell. Leo Conroy. times in the fifth at the expense BIRIHF TEBHETTS—G<HH>B\ DETROIT third. League Drilling, Leon Boston's American club PUT-IN-BAY. Ohio. Aug. 13.- A doing a sujierb job of handling the Morric Blackwell. of Lefty A! Smith. right Cross, it was our that whatever happened out on the ball Then he popped hack in break down completely and mum- Toledo Yacht Club skipper, Freddie lighi canvas up forward, beat William Edward Frank Bee- Newhouser allowed five hits in that belief the game the Tigers the next race, the seventh, with to wrong Temple, one of the most colorful Ernie Grates' of man. Ray Gibson and Fred Otto second while field, it wasn't that the players were not trying. Sun, ble themselves “What's Shamrock Detroii the favorite. Lucia’s which yachtsmen on the Great Lakes. 7’ points to 7V were hammering Joe Hcving and “When the ball season started I forgot all atMiiit that pay he in thr with the Sox?" Today they arc at 2 Perce Darnells are among the early round sur- Vernon Kennedy 10. Hal was kept front all way to ;W’ill be the Interlakc Yachting Pintail in good sjxit to for ,i a take the vivors today in the men's singles at win two lengths. it again, for the (So\ pennant in trouble on a couple of occa- nil/* Tebbetts told the writer the time. b> almost Association representative in the final race, although she was out of time “Ye-, a real fellow who likes baseball doesn't quit on a Higley brought Mrs. Ray contender a month ago—are now Barthel Trophy Series to be held running title, the first annual Highland Park sions. but each called his of the for the was strikeout pitch info play Grundy Gallant Hour to an easy in the pen- in Detroit. August 28-29-30. it was Tennis Club championship tour- to foil team.” chimed in Pinky Higgins, who was standing by. That's .s practically also-rans caught to leeward in a wind shift ,the Indians. He triumph in the fourth for an $8 games nT the announced today by Commodore on the first leg and never got fanned six. the loyalty of which we vOrite. nant race, 13 pace nament at Ford Field. The Tigers gave him the runs he rnutuel and followed in the fifth by the York Yankees. Howard Finch of Detroit. up. i The late Frank J. Navin would have liked to «ec Tebbetts’ w;th Ted Lewis' Jo Betty, which set New Those to advance on the needed by counting once in the the This series decides the crew The series was one of the bit- rise to greatness as a big league catcher. Jean Dubuc. the old outlasted Guerins mount. Wise The Red Sox bowed to Yan- championship of the lakes for women's side were Mary Lou third and again in the fourth. Mc- 8-4 yesterday as Charley terest in all Interlake history hut Cosky driving first run, Tiger scout, sitae 1 Birdie for Mr. Navin and Mr. Navin helped Maiden, to win by three-quarters kees.

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