! 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 , Ted tossed two touchdown passes and details in Cooper, experience. record for under the would be more deserving of consideration. Cramer, who has a the near future as the play lamps a -lateral ac- Wilks and . 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 's while Trout boasts a 26-12 record, ly of the Indians consented to rais- Prank former un- a cool signed Filchock, including six 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 , 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 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. this town set last night not play football after October 1 [Georgia Bucky Walters of Cincinnati, with "dark horse" of the series. where they are today. And the sparkplug of that infield is .year was a standout with the Nelson Potter put the Brownies when only 2.254 huddled in the vast Shortstop without being reclassified from 2-C a weaker team than the Potter Browns’ Winner. Not | Naval Station back in a tie by stopping Boston. 3-0. hitting Big edifice to watch the clubs carry on. Stephens. only has he taken care of his own position in fine to has intimated he Memphis Training | 1-A, Sammy with two Bengals, can beat the National the The Nats’ latest streak but he also has done eleven. In the Sugar Bowl against hits, singles in the third Potter, club's biggest winner, losing fashion, plenty to bolster the often wavering will give up the game and remain six times and Tulane last January he tossed four . Chet Laabs .and Rookie League champions has won 18 and lost 7 while Gale- was run to six games as they got Don Gutteridge at second and the none-too-consistent Mark Christ- on his Texas ranch. shut them out four times, then the consecutive touchdowm passes, com- Boris "Babe” Martin from Toledo, house. a tardy starter this season, only four hits off Ed Klieman while man at third. Nor has his .298 been detriment to his Were Filchock in Tigers’ twin aces should beat them batting any tip-top physical pleted eight in a row and connected who would not be eligible for the closed fast for an 8-9 mark, after the Indians pounded Mickey Haef- club. There are others on the of condition his Bears’ four times in a seven-game series. Browns, course, who have done return, plus the on a total of 15 out of 21. Sports World Series, if and when, were the losing his first four starts. ner and Jug Thesenga—the latter to their outfit at the loss of would They point out that the only one All two plenty keep top of the standings through most Luckman, weigh writers called it the greatest pass- hitting stars of the timely triumph. in all. the Tigers' big four have pitched the last —for of the in the Skins’ favor or two days rest each would get 961 eleven safeties. The Nat campaign, but Stephens heads the St. Louis ballot. heavily Sunday. ing exhibition ever witnessed in the Connie Mack continued to take a given up hits in 1.022 innings, infield But the one-time Indiana star is would be no great obstacle as to- walked 334 and threw in three errors for Sugar Bowl, where Baugh, too, had hand in the race from a seventh- struck out 472 for good not out of the and gether they've hurled 54 of the Year' Award to long hospital played. The who belted complete 75 victories and 46 defeats. They ve measure. McCarthy place position. A's, and each will have decidedly is not at his best. In games pitched pitched 75 with 17 A pass to Klieman at the start of —If At Memphis Filchock became a the Yanks out of the lead 10 days complete games nonplaying managers could be con- is he over 300 innings. Not since 1921, fact it conjectural whether of shutouts. the third inning blazed the way to sidered, the vote in the case pupil the T formation under ago. toppled Detroit, 2-1, yesterday of the New York club could go to Joe will be able to the full j when Urban Faber and Dick Kerr The play season, on the Browns’ top hurlers have the first Indian marker. A wild His 1 Denny Meyers, former Boston Col- four- chucking of Lanky McCarthy. inspirational direction certainly got a surprising although he looks healthy enough. j of the , each yielded 848 hits in 897 and Rocco's Ed ! lege , and was quoted by the Russ Christopher. By the victory innings, pitch got Big amount of good out of a nondescript aggregation. But this being a ! Filchock at his best would be a pitched over 300 innings has a team walked 231 and whiffed 361 for to the In the fifth with two latter as probably the most adept Pniladelphia took an 11-9 season plate. “most valuable will have tremendous asset to the Tribe. He j boasted two such indefatigable 5 victories and 37 on and as the player” ballot, McCarthy to be dismissed ball handler he had coached in that series edge over the Bengals. losses, including many out, Tribe added | , moundsmen. with nothing more than a of the award. As to ! still holds the second best passing 54 complete games and 10 shutouts. two more scores as Boudreau rifled "manager year” the 1 ! style of play. Filchock will be 28 Rufe Gentry, who went to the hill efficiency rating in the league, rank- Two Records Prove. The Cardinals' ace a to center. A players, it isn't difficult to name the one who has made the Yankees i years old next month. His normal when complained Enough, (lingers have two-bagger single ;ing a scant percentage point behind Baseball it is not given 757 hits in 863 in the sixth the In- click as well as they have after playing a lot of in-and-out baseball playing weight is 190 and he is of arm trouble, saw his four-game- history proves up innings, by Hoag got Baugh and well ahead of Luckman. under streak unusual for two pitchers to dominate walked 240 and fanned 395 for 72 dians a gift run after Vaughan had for nearly half the campaign. George Stirnweiss at second base has slightly 6 feet tall. (win smashed. ; He gained that position in 1939, his the series. In 15 of the classics triumphs and 27 erred with third out at hand. set a Yanks Postpone Elimination. defeats, pitching pace that would have carried the Yanks to another pennant first in ball, when he col- That De Groot intends to test him year pro The Yankees stuck in played since 1904. two pitchers have 57 complete games and 19 shutouts. In the seventh a -plav would had his teammates as quickly as possible was apparent there, three performed close to his standard. A misfit at laborated with Andy Farkus to com- accounted for the winners’ total The Cards dominate the have kept the Tribe runless had last when the two went into game back, trimming Chicago, 3-1 catching last season, Stirnweiss at second has been a the for night shortstop superstar this plete longest pass—99 yards in 12 and 5-4 victories. On six occasions, one with , generally re- Butka been awake at first. With a huddle to go over signals. Filchock innings in regulation year. He has been a flash defensively and in attack head the Bronx- a touchdown. hurler won three games. garded as the No. 1 in the sacks crowded. Rosaro popped to was to report for practice today and distance, behind Rookies Mel Queen men with a .313 mark. no Filchock, purchased by the Red- Should either Trout or Newhouser baseball, and Ken O'Dea. and a sterling There's nod for any other Yank | will and Walt Dubiel. Cleveland's Cooper Thesenga pitcher-to-catcher- I skins from was a mem- play against the Bears Sunday than Stirnweiss. Pittsburgh, “Specs” Klieman blanked falter, Steve O'Neill, Tiger boss, still is the only receiver with a .300 to-first-base twin killing followed. ber of the All-Star team if everything goes well. Washing- —Neither college 6-0, in the other has Stubby Overmire, diminutive batting average, hitting .323 to date. Then while Butka gazed admiringlv of Manager Joe Cronin's men best Whether he ton, American that beat the Tribe in the annual will be subject to re- lefthander, who Both he and O'Dea have had World at the ball in his headed for a “most valuable” award is with League contest. although showing glove Seery qualified the Red Sox and what 28-16. He three sea- classification selective classic, played by service, only an 11-11 rating, has won his Series experience. Detroit has two for the plate and beat the belated Tex and second St. Louis Cardinals scored three Hughson, pitcher, Bobby Doerr, baseman, did to get sons with Washington before enter-! despite his Naval discharge, as six hap- unearned runs to mark win No. last games, and Righthander god receivers in and throw there. their club in the race has in the case of up pennant been undone by those they left irrg the Navy in February, 1942, with’ pened Detroit's Dick Rufus with an 11-14 won . fRed• double and Rocco's 102 by a 3-1 edge over Brooklyn. Gentry, Myron Hayworth Hoag's single to enter Uncle Sam's armed forces. Hughson with his 18 victories on the rank of lieutenant