! Inciting Jitof J&pfIs * One-Game Due if A L. in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, September 26, 1944—A—8 Playoff Race Ends CurrentTie j ■—■——— Flag -♦ — ♦ ----- Filchock Returns to Redskins Browns Cop to Share Bengal Slab Over Cards Nals Hoping Daylight W in, Los e or Draw Edge As Bears Face Luckman's Loss Lead as Tigers Bow Seen if Brownies Lose Out Play Will Aid Them; By JOHN B. KELLER, By LEWIS F. ATCHISON. By JOE REICHLER, Gorslca (6-14) Is another 6t»r Staff Correspondent. Johnny The Redskins’ hopes of making it Assoeltted Press Sports Writer. possibility. two exhibition wins in a row over To A's The Cardinals’ No. 1 chucker and We Nominate for 'Most Valuable' in Big Loops Christopher NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The World, Bow to Tribe, 6-0 the Bears at Chicago Sunday perked probable first choice is Cooper, CLEVELAND, Ohio. Sept. 26.—Now is the time for the Baseball By JACK HAND. game By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. with the news Series between the St. Louis Cardi- winner of 22 up noticeably today Auoclated Presa Sports games this season, Writers’ Association of America to mull over season Writer. performances that Sid Luckman, Bear quarterback nals and either the Detroit Tigers topping the 20-victpry mark for the I CLEVELAND, Ohio. Sept. 26 — and make nominations for the "most President Will HaYrldge had the valuable player" awards in and sparkplug of the T, probably third successive year. He leads all American League constitution out or the St. Louis Browns should be This afternoon, the Nats were to both big loops. Strictly for the American League, club by club, here’s will not be in the line-up. pitchers with seven shutouts. In for an airing today, studying the one of the best pitched since the get more light on baseball—real how may go: An Associated Press from Wilks, the Cards- boast the freshman they dispatch rules a relating to pennant race tie of Chief a Chicago indicated that Luckman, an days Christy Mathewson, sensation of the daylight—in game with Cleve- DETROIT TIGERS—There could be four men in the running for as the St. Louis Browns settled pitching majors. merchant again Bender and Jack Coombs four Wilks land's at the so have been their roles in the ensign in the marine who has a 17-3 record for a mark Indians League Park. laurel, important lifting Tigers down in first place, deadlocked with decades last week received to ago. of .850, the best ever a permission play percentage They needed it, for their from dreary second division berth to the heights since the middle the Detroit Tigers. The should win the too, night with the Bears until called for sea Tigers, they echieved by a Cardinal tosser. In of July. Notably there are Pitchers Hal Newhouser and Trout. The rule book said a one-game play season that came to a close Dizzy i duty, expects to be shipped out im- American League flag, will present Lanier and Brecheen they have two Then there are Outfielders Doc Cramer and Dick playoff would determine the winner last Wakefield. Wake- mediately. If true he probably j Hurricane Harold Newhouser and of the finest lefthanders in the Na- night in the big—and practi- and the site of the tilt should be j Paul two of the best field, Joining the club after his discharge from a Navy preflight group will miss the next five games at (Dizzy) Trout, tional loop. Lanier, who pitched two cally empty—Cleveland stadium was determined by the toss of a coin. I In July, has had much to do with the drive to the pitchers in baseball. The Browns but sparking Tigers' least, including league contests. Both Steve O'Neill and Luke sterling, losing, games against pretty much a bast. Sewell! have an with his and keen defensive He has batted Luckman the Bears to a exceptionally strong hurling the Yankees last fall, has won 17 top heavy hitting play. paced were said to be That 6-to-0 defeat polishing up two-1 corps in Jack Kramer, Bob Mun- by the Tribe well above .340 much of the time and in little more than two months thrilling 3-point victory over the games, the most of his career, and headed coins. Nelson in the of the College All-Stars last month, and crief. Potter and Denny Brecheen has won 16 and lost 5. opener three-game has scored nearly 50 runs and driven across almost as many. How- President Harridge was expected last in his Galehouse while the Cardinals boast Of the four, only Wilks is without series here left the Nats with a it would seem a Sunday, league debut, to make an on ever. that player who has served through the season announcement the of Mort Max Lanier, Ted tossed two touchdown passes and details in Cooper, World Series experience. record for under the would be more deserving of consideration. Cramer, who has run a the near future as the play lamps a double-lateral ac- Wilks and Harry Brecheen. In addition the Cards have A1 started that of a formerly puny batting mark to .287 in the Detroit has possibility deadlock increased. of only 27 victories against 37 de- superb charge, counted for a third score in Chi- Tigers Need Only Top Pair. Jurisich (7-9', Fred Schmidt (5-3), Chances Browns. feats. been a great lift to his club. But where could the Tigers have gone Green Against Bud (2-1 > and Blix cago’s losing joust with Bay. Newhouser and Trout, between Byerly Donnelly Last without Chances were against the Brownies night's was the second game their splendid pair of pitchers? The left-handed Newhouser With the best of luck, the A. P. re- them, have 53 of the (1-01, all of whom have been used sticking up there as a four-game registered under lights for the Nats here this with 27 wins is one up on the right-handed Trout and with only nine ported, he hardly can hope to return 84 mostly in relief. series with the persistent New York Tigers’ victories to date. The year, but in 1945 they probably won t defeats has lost three less than Diz. But Trout also a to the gridiron before his team’s re- lefthanded Newhouser's record is If the Browns win, their pitching sports batting Yankees follows two more play more than one at night here, with the Packers games not on in the ,280s. His bat as as turn engagement 27 wins and nine staff, although a par with average well his arm has been of remark- with Boston. Detroit has Washing- defeats, including possibly not any. It was with great November 5. five that of the Cards’ on paper, should able assistance to the Tigers. SOj for the Tigers’ top man, one vote ton coming in when the shutouts and 23 complete games, reluctance that Owner Alva Brand- The Redskins, meanwhile, have Tigers give a good account of itself. for Trout. finally get rid of Connie Mack's while Trout boasts a 26-12 record, ly of the Indians consented to rais- Prank former un- a cool signed Filchock, including six strikeouts and 31 com- Kramer, usually weather the ST. LOUIS BROWNS—Down in St. Louis the fans and the news- troublesome A's after two more tilts. ing schedule from 7 to 14 after- derstudy to Sammy Baugh, who has i Newhouser also is the pitcher, has won four of his last critics Each team had six games to plete games. dark affairs this season—actually paper credit Vernon Stephens, shortstop, with having done received a medical from FRANK FILCHOCK. play. five starts for a creditable 16 and discharge In leading strikeout hurler in the 16 were he has hinted more than any event, the fellow who first played—and any other of the Browns to keep his club in the running the Navy. Word of his addition to —Star Staff Photo. with 171. 13 record. He leads the Brownie said "they never come back" hadn't majors he would be satisfied if none were for the town’s first American League And to the roster came on the eve of hurlers with 17 games. pennant. they appear heard about the St. Louis Veteran observers, including Carl complete slated in Cleveland next year. lean post, where he contracted a Americans be correct in this. The Browms’ hurlers haven’t been exceptional and Baugh's meeting with his Texas Hubbell, former premier lefthander Muncrief. 13-8, ranked as the The disorder, has not been who had been evicted from their night game here isn't espe- as a club the Browns draft board that will determine his [stomach of the New York Browns ace until sidelined by a sore batting trail even the last-place Nats. But first-place flat so often Giants, agree that cially popular with the either. status for the remainder of the away from football while in service. lately. They elbow, has shown marked public, the Browns rate within a of the Trout and Newhouser alone can beat improve- An all-time low for a defensively point top of the league. Two years he starred on the crawled in the back door when the night crowd season. If the board rules he can- ago ment of late. He could well be the | the Cardinals. They reason that if in was Their almost airtight infield more than anything else has put them Preflight eleven and last Tigers’ nine-day sublease ran out.