DETROIT TIMES, June 1,1942 PAGE 11 Red Sox Sell CATCHING Snead Fools Dopesters MOSES Foxx to Cubs • OFF IST Who Figured He’d BlowUp '— SPORTS - - - -¦ " ’ . |- ; By LEO MACDONELL Slugger, Now unM—i¥mii¥vrn' ~ ir~ “n" "T" r .. Comes From * •“ *' *». ¦- - v- Mr. Dykes, Never One Chicago Pilot Relates 34, at Boston IP25' m Behind to Win | to Tell a Lie, Says His Tale of Sadness, Since 1936* P. G. A. Title 'Yanks Are a Cinch' Mainly Thornton Lee * By LAWTON CARVER .»,* A^-j u BOSTON, June 1 (UP).—First International Ncwi Annie* **porl« Mitmr * STILL HAS HOPES FOR PALE HOSE baseman Jimmy Foxx was sold ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. June 1 today by the Boston Red Sox of (INS).—After a week of tense, ** James Joseph Dykes was discovered behind a fat cigar in the American League to the Chi- tough competition during which cago Cubs of the National League the visiting team’s club rooms at Briggs Stadium. He was chin- he had blasted Ben Hogan and for an unannounced cash sum. Byron Nelson, among others, to with Herb a Chicago baseball scribe. ning Simon, The 34-year-old Foxx, a "boy incredible defeats, the Little Cor- to thirty-fourth “Is this a private conversation?” we ventured. wonder” under Connie Mack with poral came the hole of national professional “I never have private conversations,” replied the eminent the Philadelphia Athletics, had the since championship final yesterday with umpires.” been with Red Sox 1936 staring Dykes airily, “The more the merrier. I even talk to and was playing his eighteenth a 16-foot putt and defeat the pair. m League. him in the face. He was two Mr. Simon stressed Dykes’ invitation so we joined season the American to go and Foxx established a reputation as down with three holes “Maybe you would like to know what the manager of the with Sam Snead going hotter and volun- a slugger by topping the American White Sox thinks about the American League race?” League in home runs for four sea- hotter as he scented his first teered Dykes. “Well, I am thinking It will be just too bad sons and pacing the circuit's hit- major golfing victory. Keller get to hitting.” ters for tw’o years. The Little Corporal sank that when Joe DiMagglo and Charley a other 16-footer for a bordie 4 and Then the fankees might keep drawing away from the halve in such silence that the clubs. 2,000 piled around the green could ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ IK •«** “Quite so,” pronounced Dykes, twirling his overstuffed Major |KHK|||| iHijHKj Kg|'‘ ¦¦ hear the click of his old wooden- Leaders against the ball, cigar. ‘ I jBl BHHL jH '¦ Is I shafted blade IH then the roar that went up beqt And then whad? oaks and pines along the fair- v the then will he a scramble for the rest of the first \ ¦.{"-7 k way gallery “And It \>>' s 7 ..+*{' ‘ u as the trooped to the division—with every other one of the seven clubs having a Seem to Be In' thirty-fifth green. chance.” The Little Corporal was keeping the match alive and was about to What happened to the White Sox? nr r«H*a Pr»*« The major leagues took time pull another miracle such as he “Well, a lot of things have happened to the White Sox,” Saturday out today to draw a deep breath had done on when he won the two finishing holes from * 1 and see what could he done about the Dodgers, Nelson to square his semifinal, the Yankees and to running away with the and then won the extra hole who are against pennant races. go into the final Snead The Yanks, with an eight-game SSSBXMgm MMMmj&JsMm? yesterday. lead. look invincible, even with DRAMATIC CLIMAX power hitters. Joe DiMaggio their The Little Corporal might have and Charlie Keller, in batting DiMaggio is hitting .255 done it for the second time. He slumps. might have given hard- \ and Keller .237. that , rooting gallery and his soldier m The Dodgers, with a six-game pals a final victory, but Snead lead, can seem to do no wrong. *+> ' . _ , _ , I C <O?T&Ss V saw Some of the clubs and players another defeat in major com- petition about to engulf him and in the league already have given up. Jimmy Cub pilot, has he responded with one of the Wilson. great been quoted that nobody can stop shots of all time and beat Lloyd Phils’ the Little Corporal, otherwise Brooklyn. Waner. ' Jimmy Tumesa of Fort Dix and veteran, • - predicted yesterday -the . 10 games. Wflm' Elmsford. N. Y., 2 and 1, with a Dodgers would win by v y Oft 4 wm€/' * •> , ?¦ **w&* , . AA*a combination of luck and skill BEAT WEAKER CLUBS that brought a dramatic climax One of the main reasons why to the twenty-fifth championship the Yanks and Dodgers have com- MOSES IS DOUBLED OFF FIRST BASE IN FIRST INNING for theapro title. manding leads is their ability to Two up and two to go at the knock oIT the weak clubs. The thirty-fifth of their 36-hole match, Yanks have won 21 of their 31 Snead chipped in from a bank games from the White Sox. Sena- Wonders ever a hump from about 50 feet 7-Inning Up with a fast moving, skidding shot tors and Athletics, the three bot- Browns Trade l Cubs Give '"Sj ** and with that finally reached the p y L teams, and hav# lost only • k t tom s promised two to those three clubs. The While Sox Score 5 Runs In Tenth to Beat Tigers; land—finally proved, too, Dodgers have copped 18 of their that he can win under pressure. in He came from to take 32 victories from the Cubs, Braves It’s 9th Loss Late Innings for Detroit Night Ball Hopes behind thia Hayes week-long and Phils and have lost only two For Frank one after a struggle that started last Monday and he games to that trio. By LEO MACDONELL (INSL—The Boston is Brooklyn’s deep-dish ST. LOUIS. June 1 (INS).—The CHICAGO. June 1 won the last national pro cham- apple Dodgers walloped "We Did It Before and We Can land lost tw’o games, which put possibility of night baseball for pionship for the duration from a pie. The St. Louis Browns announced to- Chicago in 1942 gone the twice again Do It Again!" the Cubs has game. scrapping little corporal. He Braves yesterday, day the trade of catcher Bob the Tigers in second place. was learned today. JIMMY DYKKS 10-2 and 3-1. and didn’t have to That’s a well known war ditty glimmering, it won it for tbe nary as Snead will Swift and pitcher Boh Harris to A crowd of 29,154, approxi- Owner P. K. Wrigiey had equip- week, sleep ... sweat to do Every Tigers might use be inducted this , . cigars up a but the well it. he doesn't smoke in his i wogk it. the Philadelphia Athletics for 2,500 than Saturday’s ment ordered Wrigiey Field close decision went against Bos- The Tigers can blow those games mately less for i As they went to the thirty-fifth catcher _Frank Hayes. when the Japs raided Pearl Har- “things we didn’t figure on before the season | tttp and finally the Braves got in the late innings! And how!! turned, ssvy the Sabbath Day da*, yesterday there id Dykes, r Don Barnes, president of the «vet to. the wasn’t thinking about hoi and bothered Manager They did it again yesterday at bor. rued-4- K among those familiar w ittiMPud’s »rted. Now. mind you. In March I AHn Brpwns. said the deal was in- bade. government shortly after this, and career Mack and Casey Stengel and catcher Clyde strengthen Briggs Stadium, the White Sox Maybe games who didn’t fbel that'he was :iy first place for the Sox. I liked to hear Mr. < tended to the club’s it Is seven-inning made a few overtures to the Chi- about to blow this one as he had Klutte were tossed out of the hitting as well as the catching scoring five runs in the tenth in: tizzy Dean and these other gentlemen speak of the White Sox onener( shortstop Eddie Miller ning to lick the Tigers, 9-4. in the that the Tigers need. They have cago White Sox suggesting that sc many others, although et that and department. lost games in the late innings. the Cubs be allowed to play some >attiing the Yankees for first place, but I wasn’t thinking anv given, the gate in the nightcap. first game of what was to have nine next to the last hole he needed This, course, in Comiskey kid himself. But I . Max West was lucky he wasn’t been a doubleheadcr. The weAlher of doesn’t speak well night games the Sox’ only a half to win. Somehow you such thing. James Joseph Dykes doesn't : for relief pitching. Park. This got nowhere. division, place, cut short the second game inHJhe the knew he must do something a lit- did think we were a sure pop for first for second (Continued on Page 12) j Sandlot News, Page 15 Then Wrigiey got the idea he tle crazy or must fold up—but h« club third inning. The only joy in START SEASON BADLY perhaps. And despite what’s happened I think my ball day’s proceedings was that Cleve- might be able to improvise a didn't this time.