SPORTS AND COMICS fWtUtTlt '' SP0RTS AND C0MICS SlUrffa 1947 C CLASSIFIED ADS JJV THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, ** « w in, Lose, or Draw McCahan s No-Hitter First Nats Since 17 — ———-—-—-——Against _ ♦ By FRANCIS E. STANN Star Staff Correspondent. Perfect Game Missed Atkinson Rides 10 Denver Open Starts The East Isn't Strong Enough Winners in 3 NEW YORK, Sept. 4—It’s beginning to look as if the New York Days By the Associated Press chapter of the Knock-Down-the-Pros Club had better go a-hunting A's Hurler When Amid Complaints of By NEW YORK, 4.—The for better shillelahs. * Sept. horses are sharing the spotlight have been since 1936 to beat the The New York promoters trying at Aqueduct these days with Eastern All-Stars vs. Giants First Sacker Errs 'Unfair' Course pros in the annual Jockey Ted Atkinson, one of the game and they’ve succeeded exactly once—seven By Burton Hawkins busiest and mo§.t popular riders fty th# Atsociattd Pr«* years ago. The reason? Chum, there are at the New York tracks. DENVER. 4.—Amid much long The Nats will trot on Griffith Sta- Sept. football in simply not enough good eligible players Torrid Teddy from Toronto muttering, the Nation's leading pros dium’s turf tonight as a history- the East to match a pro team. They have to be rode three winners again yester- creating club, permanent fixtures in resumed their self-appointed task <from the four corners of the Nation to do day, giving him a total of 10 for gathered baseball’s record book as the result today of solving the tricky Cherry the first three days of the fall any good. of being the first Washington team Hills course and, incidentally, what the Giants did to the meeting. He ambled home first pick- It wasn’t so much in 30 to fall victim to a no-hit years some of the $15,000 last while 21-0, aboard Teaneck Comet ($10.50) ing up ready Eastern All-Stars night, winning by game. It happened yesterday at in the opening race, doubled cash offered in the Denver as what the All-Stars didn't do. They didn’t even when the Athletics’ Open. Philadelphia in astride Oatmeal, paying $2.50, As started 72 holes of medal make a spectacle of it. sturdy Bill McCahan narrowly they the fifth, and called it a day which will a horrible break missed the play end Sunday the True, the All-Stars got becoming major league’s with Mae in the Agnes ($7.30) pros were talking to themselves. 7 minutes and 45 seconds after play began. first perfect game pitcher in 25 precisely final. Ed (Porky) Oliver of Wilmington, who did more to entice a years. Glenn Davis, probably Both Abelardo Delara and Eric was one of six who in Not since Ernie Shore of the Bos- Del., turned record 52,102 customers into the Polo Grounds than Guerin, the 1947 70s in the ton Red Sox relieved Babe Ruth, Derby-winning one-under-par pro-ama- Friuli e. sunn. other departed from the game, and scored doubles on teur But he any principal, who had walked the Nats’ first bat- jockey, yester- warmup yesterday. from with a leg damaged beyond immediate repair. day’s card, thus splitting the sev- complained the greens were ‘‘too- most likely football, ter, and proceeded to baffle Wash- en flat races on the program hard—too sun baked.” He was the guy—that fleet, ever-dangerous ball carrier—who ington for the remainder of the j among three riders. Snead Calls 7th Unfair. figured to lead the All-Stars to whatever scoring they might game on June 23, 1917, had the Nats Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va„ With Davis he was after being led off succumbed to a no-hit game. accomplish. gone—and gone one of five who struck out two and matched par, said a series of ruffles and flourishes—it was Kitty-bar-the-door McCahan the field to | the seventh hole, a sharp dog leg walked none. The only Nat to reach World Series Tickets for the Easterns. j to the left, was downright ‘'unfair.” base against him was Stan Spence,) Snead -made the comment after who grounded to First Vaionr Linesmen iook Aiiorars Apart Baseman) taking two putts to go 3 feet on the Ferris Fain with one out In the sec- On Sale After Yanks a fifth and' three putts for 5 feet on The Giants were leading by 7-0 when Davis grabbed first-quarter ond inning and continued to second) the sixth and then having his at- kick and began rolling up the field. The crowd let out a whoop when Fain threw' wild Mc- quick past to drive across the But tempt dog leg— a holler because this was Davis’ meat—returning kicks. first base, into and Cahan, covering j Lick Bosox Twice a little matter of more than 300 U. S. tried to cut and he collapsed before a dugout. McCahan, 25- suddenly Lt. Davis, A., Washington's yards—fall short of the trapped sev- from By tho Associated Press Giant touched him. The bad knee which knocked him out of the year-old right-hander Lang- enth green. the next New York’s Yankees in the sun. home, Pa., then retired virtually wwiwo Chicago All-Star game bent like a licorice stick left too long Muupru nuuub tlir nillUP* 23 Nats in order. clinched the American League pen- What about Blanchard, Tucker, Bartos, Allen and the rest, you \ deep rough and the winding fair- in nant yesterday and started selling the on a bum for lo, these Stops Pinch-Hitters 9tn. ways, lake and the ever-present ask? Well, Lt. Blanchard’s been hobbling pin ! World Series tickets. of Opening creek. But, for cash, and he wasn't of much account. An Army test pilot during the war, playing they many weeks, I the box office for the fall classic fol- all headed out former Duke student today for a shot at was the lack of the University of the Nats shakes hands with a double win over the Red Tucker pretty wonderful, considering opportunities, BALL OF FAME—Pitcher Ray Scarborough (right) Washington lowed the prize money down from was put to the severest test the Nats ranging and Allen and Bartos did their best. And it’s taken us long enough to Athletics’ hurler, Bill McCahan, who tossed a no-hitter to shut out the Nats, 3-0. Sox, ruining a seven-game streak $2,500 first could muster against him in the the Philadelphia prize. isn’t lack of backfleld that beat the Pete Suder of the As. Rookie Mc- for the Boston club and blasting its After get to the point—it performers Ossie Others are Dave O’Keefe, Athletics’ coach (left), and Infielder 18-hole rounds todav and ninth inning when Manager hopes of overhauling the loop Eastern All-Stars every time. It’s lack of a line to stand up to the pros. treasured no-hit ball as he receives Scarboroughs congratulations. tomorrow, the field will be pared to Bluege poured three pinch-hitters Cahan holds the leaders. it’s to muster a line that —AP the low 64 players who will From the East, apparently, Impossible into the in an efTort to avert Wirephoto. play game cmecxs or money oruers or luur- two more of In the the recruited rounds 18 on Saturday will match the pros. Chicago game All-Stars, a 3-0 defeat. sets 35 cents for game ordered, plus and Sunday. If a is neces- from beat the National League champions, the Chicago playoff every sector, McCahan disposed of them easily. registry and postage must be in- sary it will be held too Stake Race Victim Monday. Bears, because their line was too fast and good. In their on a to Kavakos closed with which mainly He got Early Wynn pop fly Blanchard Fail Garvin Girls, applications, Remembering the good scores that, named Tereshinski, Gillom, Duke, Davis, should be addressed to Ticket Man- line they had people Humble, Shortstop Eddie Joost. Second Of Fever have been ruined on what they call Mastroangelo and half a dozen others. Baseman Pete Suder ^x>k Joe Swamp ager, Yankee Stadium, the Bronx "the killer finish" and the method- Grace’s Sharp grounder and threw By the Associated Press to National 51. N. Y. Checks or money orders ical 284 that was The Chicago All-Stars did a fair Job of taking the Bears apart To Shine as Giants Looking good enough for and McCahan I drawn for more or less than the in the him out fittingly PAWTUCKET, R. I., Sept. 4.— Ralph Guldahl to win the National on the line, drawing upon the best ex-collegians country, correct amount will be returned. finished his brilliant efTort by fan- Park’s Open at Cherry Hills in 1938, the while here the Giants took the Eastern All-Stars’ line. That Narragansett $10,000-added ; apart Cecil Travis, who batted for All applications postmarked be- *■ ning Jeanne D’Arc Stakes, scheduled Softball Crowns (See GOLF, Page C-3.) was the difference—the big edge the Giants’ line held. Losing Davis Batter All-Stars fore 4 will be returned. Eddie Yost. for its 11th running next Satur- September a cruel break in that it enabled the Giants to tighten their de- Special Dispatch to The Star Mail orders, except for bleacher was A small ladies’ day crowd of 4,572 (Picture on Page C-2.) day, today became the first but was lack of linemen that sank the Easterns— 4—Gar- seats, will be received until Sep- fense, it big league saw McCahan become the third of the swamp fever epi- PHILADELPHIA, Sept.