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A_ ___ Jungaleers -—- — ♦- Bluege Is Well Fixed Tigers League Statistics Drawing Day TUBSDAY, Lose or AUGUST 14. IMS. Win, Draw AMZR1CAN. _ ImiHi Yeiterduy. With Slab Starters; Crowds of St. Louis, 4—3; Washington. S—11. By JOHN B. KELLER, 37,000; Detroit. 15—11: New York. 4—8. Cleveland. 10; Boiton, 0. Star Staff Correspondent. Chicago, 4; Philadelphia. 3 (11 lnnlngt). With Browns Ruin Yank Standings af Ctabs. Brownie Fans Stick Cause Split Hopes W. L. Pet. Q.B. W. L. Pet. G O Despite Hopeless By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. Del 61 43 .687 .. Clev. 52 61 .505 8 <4 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14.—St. Louis fans still back their 1944 cham- By JACK BAND. Wai. 58 46 .658 3 8t.L. 50 52 .400 10 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14.—Through (Asboclated Frets Chi. 54 60 .619 7 Bos. 61 54 .488 10‘4 Browns even Sports Writer.) pion to the utmost, though no flag appears in sight this the Louis N. Y. 52 49 .515 7>4 PhU. 34 67 .337 25>4 with St. Browns this Detroit year for their club now 10 games off the top. Most convincing of their power hitting and effec- Gamsa Today. Games Tomorrow. afternoon, the Nats plunge into Was. at St. L.. 3:00. Wash, at Det. attitude toward the holdover was the furious tive pitching is providing a healthy struggling champs their most important series of this N-Y. A4 fi*4" 3:00- N- Y. at St. L. (n). shower of bottles and antidote to the night ball-crazy Phil, ek Chle., 2:30. Phil, at Cleve. pop miscellaneous debris hurled from the left- Western tomorrow swing and they majors by Bost. at Clev., 2:00. Bost. at Chle. (21. field stands by irate patrons after Umpire Bill Grieve declared A1 attracting weekday -. # will have plenty of ground to make of to Evans’ that bounded from the of the stand barrier a home crowds 37,000 Briggs Stadium, NATIONAL. top up as they tackle Detroit’s leading where over 800,000 daytime cus- Results Yesterday. . Tigers. Bottles began to fly from the stand after Grieve tomers have spun the turnstiles. Chicago, 4; Philadelphia. 1, immediately Fortunately, the Nats are well Boston, 6; Pittsburgh, 4. ordered Evans, who had stopped at second because Left Fielder Milt Although Nation-wide attention New York, 2; Cincinnati, 0. fortified with starting hurlers for St. Louis, 11: Brooklyn. in- had retrieved the to continue has been focused on 10 (15 Byrnes ball, around the bases. They the four-game series. Dutch Leon- Brooklyn's nings). kept coming onto the field as the Browns around the amazing drawing power because al- raving gathered ard, Marino Pieretti, Mickey Haef- Standing of Clubs. and after Grieve consulted the other most have been lured to W. L. Pet. Q.B. umpire umpires and his de- ner and 850,000 W. L. Pet. G.B. Roger Wolff, top winners Chi. 69 38.657 Pitt. 55 34 cision was upheld, fruit tin cans and boxes of various kinds Ebbets Field by day and night, the .505 16 baskets, of the Washington corps, are in line St.L. 84 44 .593 6V4 Bos. 60 59 .459 21 were can miss Bkl. 61 added to the missiles hurled to the field. for Bengals hardly hitting the 46.575 8'4 Ctn. 43 61 .413 25>4 duty. N.Y. 68 60 .637 12Va Phil. 28 79 .262 42 Head umpire, George Pipgras showed great restraint in not de- million paid mark without turning Going into today’s game, the final Games Today. Games Tomorrow. the as he on a claring game forefeited, might have done, because of the this for them in St. single light. Cln. at N. Y., 2:30. Cln. at Bost. <2>. year Louis, the St. L. at Bkl., 2:30. fans’ misbehaviour. It required 25 minutes for the crew to The combination St. L. at PhU. (2, U ground Nats were three games off the lead time-honored of Pitts at Bost. (2). n). clean up left field. 1:30. at N. as a result of losing the of a winning ball club and a tight pen- Pitt, Y. (2). opener Chi at ■ one views there road Phil BOO. Chi at Bkl. Any way it, is a rugged ahead for the last night’s double-header to the nant race laugh at such handicaps Nats. Aside from their there pennant-aspiring pitching shortage, is Browns, a 4-2 affair. as a Monday afternoon after a big the deadly schedule to the end of the campaign. They got some poor baseball out Sunday double-header. With New The Nats, final encounter of the including today’s series with the of their systems in the loss, but York as the attraction, Detroit Close Finishes Mark Browns, have 50 games to dispose of in 34 days. That the playing brings came back in the nightcap for an pulled 37,888 through gates yes- up 16 double-headers between today and when the to watch the September 23, 11-3 triumph through a slashing 17- terday Tigers bury the Nats end their season. hit attack that included a two-run visitors’ flag hopes, 15 to 4 and 11 AAU Tank Meet as homer to 9. Kimble Batted by A1 Evans. Bluege Thought Right-handed The , Evan’s second of Four straight put the cooler on Maybe the Nats’ front office in Washington knew otherwise, but the season, was a hit that landed Joe McCarthy’s ambitions and Titles Are Settled Eluege thought he was getting a right-handed batter in Dick on top of the barrier in front of boosted the Bengals’ lead over Familiar faces the win- Kimble, shortstop whose purchase from Toledo of the American As- the left field stand and rebounded Washington to three full games as crowded sociation was ner’s circle last at Takoma announced yesterday. Even Fred Vaughn and George to the playing field. It brought on the Nats split a twi-night double- night where Binks, who saw Kimble in the association before they joined the Nats, a furious protest from the Browns header in St. Louis. pool eight champions were told their Kimble was a and a crowned in the annual D. C. AAU pilot right-handed swinger. pop-bottle barrage from the Tigers Unleash Mighty Attack. were all He bats left-handed. His left field stand IN THE title meet, but the brand of com- They wrong. addition gives patrons unprece- MIDDLE—Not here, of course, but that’s where Ernie Barber, left, and Jim Watson won Detroit now has seven of nine petition the Nats six portside punchers other than Mickey Haefner and dented here. to be when the Redskins take the field for their next month. rival significantly suggested the hope opening game They’re from the Eastern teams making of four of them now are in the The blow was day long, individual reigns is line-up regularly. the third home run candidates for the center berth and at first Coach Dud DeGroot season to glance thinks they may have their last visit of the the over. A to give Gil Torres some relief has been needed of the twin bill. In the shortstop sorely first game, to share it. —Star Staff Photo. West and will be able to entertain by the Nats lately. The only to have in all of his Mike Krevich hit one for The veteran Ernie player participated the Nats Washington in a series opening Boggs’ length club's 106 games this season, Torres has been afield and at bat. and Vern for victory over John in the 150- fading Stephens the home tomorrow without too much worry of Dilley Right now, it looks as a rest would him a of side. yard backstroke was the widest mar- though do deal good. losing the lead. Maybe Kimble will give Gil a few days off. Haefner Deserved Better. Case and Cavarretta Redskins So Powerful at Start gin of the night. Photo finishes Never before had the Tigers un- Kimble, w'ho is 27, has been in baseball for seven Haefner deserved a marked most events and if organized years, Mickey better leashed such power as in their 20- they the last three with Toledo. He has a fair fate in the were to the fielding record, and a bat- first game last night. hit attack on Ernie Bonham and try again today average ting mark of .274 to show for his in the association this He did a of Are Told Not to fan still would hesitate to forecast play good as year. piece pitching Are New Runnersup Eight Report Emerson Roser in the first game He has made 114 hits, 20 7 and 2 he restricted the Browns the winner. including doubles, triples home to five hits By LEWIS F. ATCHISON. to go to bed. Joe is as big as the rout. Rudy York clubbed a homer a runs. Dick has been a frequent scorer and has batted in 48 runs. and three one Jean Ort touched a wet but walks, intentional, in A modern Rip Van Winkle stroll- side of a house and still seems in in each game to help Dizzy Trout dainty According to Bill general of the Kimble seven but his hand on the finish line a sec- Dewitt, manager Browns, innings, support failed In Races ing out on Georgetown’s plateau- better condition than when he left to his eleventh decision and George split is a fast runner and a Batting ond before has arm. Dewitt has Kimble's record him, and sent him down Leola Thomas in the good to his like football field yesterday when the team near the end of last season Caster to his third. Caster, a St. down pat, for Toledo is in the Browns’ chain. tenth defeat of the By the AsiocUted Preii. women’s 100-yard and year. the Redskins reported for their first limping on a cracked ankle. He Louis Brownie castoff, stopped the backstroke, As far as the were NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Both major Bettie Roland swam away from the averages con- workout would have thought he was can’t get up courage to face an Yanks dead after relieving A1 Ben- of Brownies Proves cerned, there was league batting races had new run- field in the 100-yard backstroke to Community Ownership Failure nothing wrong back in San Diego three years ago. honest scale. ton in the fifth frame of the night- with the Nats at bat. nersup today in Phil Cavarretta of reign for the fourth consecutive Community ownership of a major league ball club went blooie They col- Whoever said there was a beef De Groot took a gander at Earl cap. lected 11 hits off Chicago’s Cubs and George Case of year. with Milt Funk- again when Richard C. Muckerman last week gained control of the Hollingsworth, shortage plainly didn’t have the Audet, a nifty 225 pounds, and de- Chicago climbed into the first Together Browns one of those Mike Kreevich’s third Washington, but the lead was still houser’s double in the 50 and 100- through purchase of 56 per cent of the club’s stock. » Tribe in mind. The squad isn’t cided to use him on hidden ball four by shading Philadelphia, 4-3, on Back in home run of the and his firmly in the hands of Tommy yard free style, those events fea- 1936, a large group of St. Louis businessmen took over year first merely big—it’s huge, and your first; plays. As a matter of fact, the Tony Cuccinello’s pinch single in the the Browns from for the Club. Holmes of the Braves and the 37- tured the program. the estate of the late Phil De C. Ball, spouting Washington They thought is that it’s gonna take a whole backfield will be hidden if eleventh as Reliefer Johnny John- much of “civic also got three and year old Veteran Tony Cuccinello of Only other individual pride.” Bui the Browns kept dragging and when stock passes Hollings- lot of muscle to shove these boys! Audet stands upright. Even the son outpointed Joe Berry. champs worth kicked in a the White Sox. crowned were Balios and dividends failed to come along, many of the stockholders forgot with wild pitch around. Tupper Lake twins, Ray Bedore and Cleveland’s Lefty A1 Smith shut Dorothy while Vern Howard Gatton in the back- “civic pride.” They demanded So a few of the Stephens made an error. Holmes’ margin on Cavarretta was are a lot out 25-yard dough. top stock- “'Isn’t that a pretty sight,” beamed Larry Fuller, carrying of Boston with three singles, 10-0, headed Donald L. But the Nats managed to have 12 six .369 to as j stroke races for girls and boys, re- holders, by Barnes, bought in the. crying group’s points, .363, Goody Prexy George Marshall, bursting on! extra baggage. dropping the Red Sox to seventh. holdings to carry along the club. runners stranded. Rosen of Brooklyn dropped to a and Wilbur Moore spectively. the scene like a September sunrise.! Sammy Baugh Lowest they have been since mid- Muckerman, a Hollingsworth saw to eight Nats .361 after at seemed to be nationally-known refrigeration magnate, after third-place nipping “'These look so we’ve the only two who May. left on boys good al-j 50-yard free style—First. Milt Punk- watching conditions from both sides—the playing and the financial— being the runways with four Holmes’ heels for weeks. All aver- hadn't added weight during the of his six ready notified eight others not to Cubs Continue Mopup. houser (B. C. W.); second, Capt. Jim Reilly concluded that baseball like other . ages include off season.