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Club Owners Meet to Pick Commissioner; Session •---—— Long UnderWay < belting Jslaf Calvin Griffith Goes Nat Shutout Boosts Morgan J&poffs•* D. To New York Washington, C., Tuesday, 'August 7, 19S1—A-13 Meeting As Successor to Whitey Ford an By a Staff Corraspondant of Th« Star With 'Open Mind' DiMaggio singled and Johnny NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—When the Mize walked to fill the bases with Burton Hawkins By Yankees needed pitching support one out. McDougald’s fly fetched W or Draw Star Staff Correspondent in the stretch last season, they Brown across and the Yankees in, NEW YORK. Aug. 7. — Lose, Major came up with a fuzzy-cheeked scored in the seventh when again By FRANCIS STANN league baseball club owners sat rookie, 21-year-old Whitey Ford. Gene Woodling tripled and came down today to the task of selecting IT HAS REMAINED for Happy Chahdler, during He’s in the Army now, but taking in on Brown’s single. his^testi- a new commissioner or at least mony before the House Monopoly subcommittee investigating up the slack is another 21-year-old The Nats threatened mildly in narrowing the field of nominees, i baseball, to reveal for the first time the fears of clubowners that rookie, angular Tom Morgan, a the first inning when Coan beat By early afternoon there was] in court the outlawed righthander with eight straight out a bunt and Mickey Vernon outfielder, Danny Gardella, would have no word from their meeting at the; victories. singled with two out, but Sam beat ’em. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as to how; Morgan, who was pitching for Mele fanned. Mele, presented with In perhaps the most potentially damaging the session was going. Binghamton, N. Y., last season an automobile by fans of leveled The meeting started shortly Astoria, charge by Chandler at the clubowners while Ford was sparkling with nine L. and after 9 a.m. and it was considered I., fishing tackle by the who fired him as a ma- commissioner, he told the successive wins that played Nats in pre-game / likely that it would be a long one. ceremonies, committee: “Baseball men didn’t think jor part in the Yankees’ pennant failed to they Calvin Griffith, representing get a ball out of the in- could win the case.” conquest, lifted New York into a field and struck Gardella Washington, said he had “an open out twice. one-game lead over Cleveland last “Who do you mean by ‘baseball men’?’* mind” in regard to his ballot now Washington’s only other scoring by blanking the Nats, 4-0, asked a member. that Chief Justice Vinson, the night gesture came in the eighth when on live hits. Runnels led off "The clubowners and the Nats’ choice, had declared himself with a single and major league Shutting out the Nats no longer Cass unavailable. , Michaels walked. Clyde owners,” Happy replied. is considered a feat since it’s oc- Ricfcey Arrives Late. Kluttz flied out, though, and From the lips of the commissioner curred 11 times this"season, but deposed Other American League repre- Pinch-Hitter Sherry Robertson the Gardella was told Morgan gave 29,386 fans an indi- story for the first time. sentatives present were Tom Yaw- forced Michaels. The threat died cation he’ll be to have It is important, perhaps, because it will come key, Red Sox: Charles Comiskey, handy when Eddie Yost popped out. around in the weeks ahead. Idle today, the Nats will up again when the hearings are resumed in White Sox: Ellis Ryan. Indians; CONFER ON NEW BASEBALL COMMISSIONER—These four be con- major league clubowners, mem- Unbeaten. fronted October. It add a rr.nci. st»nn. Walter O. Briggs. Tigers; Del Morgan by Vic Raschi, seeking hia may many gray hair to jr„ bers of the committee that has been screening prospects for the job of baseball commissioner, Webb and Dan Morgan hasn’t been whipped 17th win, tomorrow. Bucky Harris the heads of the clubowners. Topping, Yankees; meet in New York to discuss the situation. Given the task of narrowing down the candidates, since the Nats knocked him ofl iwill counter with Bob Roy Mack. Athletics, and Bill De- left to Phil Porterfield, they are, right, Wrigley, Chicago Cubs; Lou Perini, Boston Braves; Del Webb, 20. has been shelled who Witt. Browns. Topping will cast April He will be trying to square his IN THE SPRING of 1946 Gardella was in New York Yankees, and Ellis Ryan, Cleveland Indians. _AP ! training camp with but Webb Wirephoto. several times but has remained record at 4—4. the Yankee vote, was; i the Giants. He was unsigned; a wartime and the war unbeaten and has accumulated player invited because he served on the; "*«»■ AB. H. O. A. New Yk. AB H O A three of the Yankees’ 17 shutouts Yost,3b 4 0 3 2 was over. The Giants didn’t much want him. Gardella committee made the first sur- ! W’dling.lf 4 110 accepted that Coan.lf 4 18 0 C’ns.rf.ib 3 0 1 O Griffs' Records After the Nats knocked him Noren.cf 4 an offer to play in the Mexican of available men. Record Field of 21 13 0 Brown.3b 4 3 0 5 League. vey Neither Boxer V non.lb 4 BATTING. Happy around in that 20 15 0 DlM’gio.cf 4 110 April game Mele.rf 4 o o When the Mexican was Gardella was The meeting started without a AB R. H. 2b. 3b. Hr.Rbl. Pet | 1 Berra,c 3 0 4 o honeymoon over, 2 11 Ferrtek __ 3 O 2 0 0 0 0 .607 Morgan was shipped back to Kan- Mize,lb 3 0 13 1 Pittsburgh but ft,3Mloh r.2b -021 suspended by Chandler for five like other representative, Coan __ 354 «3 117 23 8 8 47 .331 Bauer, rf 0010 years, every jumper. sas City. He came back after a 3 0 11 Branch arrived soon after. fo Run Tomorrow Runnel* #5 11 30 4 0 o 8 .31(1 ;KluUz,c McD’Id.'lb 4 1 3 8 Rickey After Graziano Wins Johns n.r •- 0 0 0 But his case differed from the others. Gardella hadn’t been Haynes 13 1 4 0 0 0 3 ,3oi< month’s and lost nc M Rizzuto.ss 2 0 3 ? seasoning Rob son 1 0 0 0 Other National League men pres- McCormick 140 25 44 4 2 0 10 .295 | Morgan.p 3 10 18 signed. He was bound to the Giants only by the reserve list Noren 402 72 1T0 31 6 0 09 .281 time filling Ford’s shoes. His firsi Harris.p 0000 ent were Phil Wrigley, Cubs; War- Klutta 104 8 30 3 Ml o 14 .281 —not the reserve Vernon 353 44 99 10 « H 50 starting assignment after his re- Totals 31 5 24 5 clause—which permits each club to keep ren Horace Stone- In Hamblefonian "8f Totals 30 7 27 18 Giles, Reds; Mele_ 400“41 108 23 0 3 68 On .37(1 Disqualification turn was against Washington Jun< “Hit Into a forceplay for Johnson ln 40 (Hudson 26 5 7 0 0 0 8th. players. barn, Giants; Bob Carpenter, By th« Associated Press l ,26!i Yost — 367 73 97 24 1 6 41 .264 (Picture on Next Page.) 28, and he won a 3-0 shutout. Hi: ; 5Laihi,nAon ooo ooo ooo—o Gardella went to court, as did Pitchers Max Lanier and Phillies; Fred Saigh, Cardinals; ‘Michaels 327 39 8fl 15 2 3 29 .265 New York -OOO 201 10X—1 N. 7. — Dente 235 19 58 8 0 By the Associated Press other shutout was 1-0 over St GOSHEN, Y„ Aug. 1 27 .247 Brown. Berra, McDou- Fred Martin of Now Walter O’Malley, Dodgers, and Gras-so 111 12 25 2 O 1 9 .221 „„ftun2?—Woodling. the Cardinals. Chandler takes up the 20 in a 1 »>— rwenty-one standardbreds today Consuegra 2 7 1 0 0 3 .21? 7.—Neither Louis July pitching due Mrrin,f/Il°iT^CDnU8aid- batted Lou Perini, Braves. ,33 BOSTON. Aug. Brown. Three-base hit— story: were named for the Hambleton- Verble 159 15 32 3 2 O 15 .204 with Ned Garver. Woodling.u£:2?i1i3ald Home Marrero,- 46 7 9 0 0 0 1 ,19t is run—McDougald. Dou- It was considered probable that fighter satisfied, naturally, with 1 Michaels to Guerra -- 174 14 34 2 0 1 11 .19? The Nats have beer l Vernon: “The xlubowners were mighty concerned, I can tell you. an, assuring tomorrow’s winner recently Rr'natr\St0 McDougald 10; to a new commissioner to succeed Moreno 28 2 5 1 0 0 0 .171 ? °n.n Mize: McDougald the result of last night’s fight here on As was some ;he richest reward in the Robertson. 47 8 8 0 1 1 8 ,17( making all pitchers resemble fac bases—Wash- commissioner; I under pressure to reinstate them history o^fnn2U-t0 New«? Mve' York, 6 the deposed A. B. Chandler would Harris 13 1 2 1. o O o .154 I ki Bases on balls— the in which the for- similes of Walter Johnson anc 1 L'i' 4: off but I didn’t do it. I don’t I didn’t reinstate )f event. Johnson 35 1 3 0 0 0 2 .08* Rocky Graziano, J°hns.°5- Morgan, 1. Struck pressure easily. not be selected today. Young Grif- PVi.if.ftr HfAfVAn.f.An T« fVMiM Iaa °ut—-By Johnson, 2; by Morgan.