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1945-09-27 [P The SportsJTrail Cards Down Lose, _By WHITNEY MARTIN Cubs; Tigers Win, By WHITNEY MARTIN He s a sort — wispy of YORK, Sept. 26 _ °w.. fellow, UtlKUii X'r'W Uft is 'Little rliUitK PIRATES REDS SPLIT CUB Danville Defeats , often, that two Poison,” and how he Jack Sords Caps ST. LOUIS BLASTS I: isn't baseball could last ACE.By with so long in a game that EVEN BEFORE SMALL the outstanding re- To Hold 3-1 Edge; Win p’avei's stops most players of more cord-- of Jimmy Foxx and Lloyd ruggedI STOPS HOME TOWN physiques in a much shorter CROWD OF 71S PAID Will Mean OUT VICTORY IN i Wanes announce their peri- Tonight Flag retirement, oc* ls one of those ike same day. Both have mysteries. again. Waner punched out CINCINNATI, Sept. 26.— UPJ 26.— before, but they didn’t those singles TEAM BY 3 TO 2 RALEIGH, Sept. (^—Dan- tanned say Pittsburgh's Pirates, with an eye FARCIAL CONTEST I There occasionally streching them to two- ville’s pennant winners virtually is little reason on a third posiu'-ely. baggers or triples.. He hit place tie with Brooklyn, clinched the Carolina league play- doubt it is final this time. only 26 t0 home runs split a doubleheader with Cincin- in his career. Bengal* Clinch Title Tie off Championship by defeating The r careers have much in com- Grimm Out Game Foxx was nati today, winning the second and gaining Plays in a blaster, and atomic Raleigh, 5-1, tonight nion. although physique and With In 2-1 after bomber at the plate. In total Victory First game freshman Johnny a 3-1 lear in the series. Under Protest From of are home ] s'vle play they about as runs Hetki hurled four-hit ball to he bows to Babe give The fifth game will be played alike as a tea only Ruth Game •nueh kettle and a and in the Reds a 4-2 decision in the op- ano Seventh On \ 1932 he came within two oi in Danville tomorrow night, Inning load of hay. ener. Herb Ruth’s record season’s mark of 60. Mich., a win will give the title to The.' started their Sept. 26—(TP)—Steve Gromek saw ! professional His home run Only 715 paying customers Brett’s club. CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—OP)—In one performance is the a Detroit boy who away, classy careens at approximately the same got pitch- the teams last of the more remarkable when meeting jtfar. Leon Counes turned in a master- hilarious inning which featured Foxx in 1924 the fact he ed the Cleveland Indians to a tense time- and Waner !S Jim Russell collected half ol a right-handed hitter is 3 ful mound exhibition tonight in just about all the comic touches 1925. They didn’t move consid- to 2 victory over the Tigers in m around ered. In Hetki’s hits and drove in both Buc to four j most of holding Raleigh hits, only ■ thorn club to the parks the right the second game oi today’s vital in the book, as well as a few new (reach club until the runs in the third frame of the firsl out of the in- field line is much shorter than the double header after the Detroiters one of which got laughs, the St. Louis Cardinals end of their careers. Foxx game. The Reds made four hits ofl the hit- , (ag left field. He held Capitals ■ field line. had clinched a t'e for the Ameri- walked five runs home to crush only with the A’s and Red their old team Boom Boom Bob bounched a playing We haven’t much doubt mate, less until Oakley the 11 6 until 1942 and but that can League championship by Chicago, Cubs to today j cox Waner playing Foxx Beck good for as many runs in the hot drive off Fred Voigt’s shins in will wind up in the baseball slugging out an 11 to 0 win in the and keep the fading fires of their only with the Pirates until 1941. hall fourth on two walks and a singl the sixth. That hit, an error by of fame when he becomes eli- opener. National League pennant hopes The:-- are both were for another in the fifth. and walks to Jackson and unobtrusive, with gible, as he good King, unquestionably fulfills More than 41,000 fans who jam- the burning. (he same town in which all the Shortstop Eddie Miller was ejected Denning produced only they requirements. He could med into Stadium in But after the comic-relief best insurance Briggs hopes in run. the against trouble and the third for protesting a ruling Raleigh Play. did, practically po- of seeing the Bengals sweep the seventh, which saw errors, balks, ij with umpires and other players. every of umpire Tom Dunn at second. sition, and his fielding was ade- twin bill and sew up the and a parade of three Chicago i a no pennant The They ending their careers in nightcap found Nick Strince- > quate. He conducted himself as a instead saw the Tribe claw from elbowers, including Long Lon same town in which vich Earl Harrist all the tthe they on a bearing HEELS PREP Warneke and whose gentleman the field, with none behind with three-run in TAR Ray Starr, started, although Foxx began with rally way. A single, sacrifice, a wild of the obnoxious over-the-tracks the sixth inning of the and combined ages total 75, and Ed > s and with nightcap and an / the A ended the Phillies pitch infield* force prodr who hadn’t ; boisterousness and rowdyism. And win going away as Gromek throt- Hanyzewski, pitched lifetime one run the while Bob Their batting averages are he could hit — in, fifth, FOR ENGINEERS since last April 22—and made it I period. tled the home team with a single well over .300. In Elliott’s single, a passed ball ""d obvious with his efforts his last appearance at the hit in the last four frames. today— There the similarity ends and Babe Dahlegren’s double broke a the Cubs were out of it for keeps. plate last Sunday he blasted a tre- As a result of the split the Tigers CHAPEL. HILL. Sept. 26.—(flh- r■’ally begin about two 1-1 tie in the eighth. 1 you talking mendous double, and maybe it’s will leave for St. Louis Friday With a new attendance record foi They picked up a run in the different guys. Waner was a head- as a on Bill Nicholson’s douche just well pinch hitter was night still needing tc win one of an opening day game expected eighth, to Foxx was sent and ache pitchers. practi- in for him in the seventh in- their final two games against the Gumjde Saturday when Georgia Tech meets pinch-hitter Johnny Moore’s a nervous breakdown. but was all. In cally ning of the second game. He Browns to ..take the title and avert DUKE WILL LOSE the Carolina Tar Heels here, the single, that fact, is built the didn’t take of an of* Jimmy along general might not have done so well, and a play-off with the Washington Sen- PASS63 AU, cmica&o Tar Heels today completed con'act they much ! lines of a 10-ton truck. round a certain work with a brisk review and line fensive hand in the proceedings His there’s satisfaction in ators here next Monday. The St. eie«4rf' a v/i-tau a time after the when ! placid face tops wrestler's neck, the scene while fans Louis 4A*Jc>ee, scrimmage.. any fourth, leaving the games will be played Satur- FRESHMAN GUARD ivi i shoulders and chest and P&cCotz -t^g, success they drove crooner Red Barreit massive are saying “what a great guy he day and Sunday. A second eleven studied Georgia to a warble in the showers, alter bowling pin legs. Waner weighs is” instead of “what a great guy of5 cues -rtis yeAR Tech’s new T and ex- There was not too much DURHAM, N. C., 26.—(A3) tricky magic i as much gloom Sept. he'd piled up an unbeaten string about as Jimmy’s shad- he was." in the —Duke lost changed places with the first team. Tiger dressing room tonight, the services of Harris of four wins against them as a 1 Coaches and su- principally because lefty Hal New- Mullen,' 17 year old freshman Suavely Murphy Cardinal this season. the which houser pitched one of his finest guard, wh it was learned toda> pervised offense, again coaches The tall Tennessean, Ken Burk- games of the year in that t’e had suffered a bone frac- \Meu, Pivet? p/jAAiciAay, ■eatured passing, while shutting out hardt, came on then and ! the ture in one in Reed and Jamerson direc'ed the through Wildcats For Game Indians in today’s first game, leg yesterday's pASseAU coAjsipeeep<3nU/*ie 5 2-3 frames set the Cubs down Prep and he will be scrimmage session with Greens- jp ,m defense. rested and eAseeAuu -rUis yeAi? ready with four hits to chalk up his to fire at the boro PDC eleven. op the one-man track ] away Browns in the Pav/or Uis 64o-Acee. Don payton, 17th win of the season. who hails final battle on Sunday. Mullen, from Tampa. Mississippi parm team, ran one backfield and Tom is Pounding out their win with 13 With Kinston On The slender southpaw looked vir- Fla., the third Blue Devil right Gordman, who pitched the win ] Friday sent to hits off a parade of seven guard the sidelines.
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