Nats in 7-4 Win Over Tigers
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Racing Is on Draft’s Non-Deferrable List That Omits Other —■—- • Baseball, Sports GARDENS, Pg. 6 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ | FINANCIAL, Pgs. 6-7 Powell’s Muff of Steal Sign Becomes Break for Nats in 7-4 Win Over Tigers Win, Lose or Draw Hit Jake Makes By BURTON HAWKINS. Star Staff Correspondent. Feuds of Vernon-Priddy Sort Don't Harm Baseball. In Falling Tells DETROIT. Aug. 14.—When Mickey Vernon and Gerald Priddv ex- changed punches in the Nats' dressing room after Friday's game here, the only fellow who was damaged was Coach Clyde Milan. He was on the foot while In 3-Run spiked attempting to pry ’em apart. Rally The Vernon-Priddy feud—it develops they didn't part amicably— doesn’t mean necessarily that the Nats will be harmed. When the Batter's Yankees were rolling along at their mightiest Babe Ruth had battles Lusty Swing with teammates Wally Pipp, Mark Koenig. Tony Lazzeri and Waite Misses Hoyt with the king of swat losing every engagement. Pipp flattened Barely Case, Babe with one punch. for Plate The famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination Racing which the swept Cubs to several pennants owned two members who By BURTON HAWKINS, 1 ———————————————— man i speaa ro eacn omer ior years, V Staff Correspondent. Joe Tinker and Evers de- from _8t»r Johnny Early Wynn. Thursday Wynn DETROIT. Aug. 14.—In a hectic tested each other, but it didn't was beaten. 10-3 the and by Tigers ninth Inning that saw Jake Powell sabotage the Cubs. Friday Overmire was charged with narrowly miss bashing his bat Nick i the Altrock and A1 Schacht, base- 11-3 defeat by the Nats. against George Case’s head when ball's most famous comedy team Dom Di Maggio of the Navy and he missed a steal sign, the Nats when were together, they with the Joe Di Maggio of the Army have sprayed three runs across the plate Nats some seasons didn't see ago. requested ioreign duty. Dcm re- to defeat the Tigers. 7-4, here today in each anything funny other. They portedly was told he'll play base- as Early Wynn registered his 13th didn't speak after having differences i ball for Norfolk Naval Training Sta- victory while working in a relief of opinion while making a movie tion for the duration and like it, or role. short in Hollywood, but their act pretend to. Mickey Vernon had singled remained intact a while after. Angelo long Giuliani across with the Nats’ fifth Ex-Nats in Hawaii. York Likes Nat run, a blow that also sent Case to Hurling. Playing in service leagues on the third in the ninth. Vernon con- of Eight Rudy York’s 21 home Hawaiian Islands are Walter Mas- tinued to second on Right Fielder runs this season have been belted | terson and Arnold Anderson, both Ned Harris’ mull and that set the against Washington pitching, four former Washington pitchers. Elmer stage for a near disaster that turned at Griffith Stadium and four at Gedeon, who played a few games out beautifully for the Nats. Briggs Stadium. Dutch Leonard has with the Nats as an outfielder be- ROMPING With Powell batting, Case and been the victim on three occasions HOME—Eurasian, with Jockey Steve Brooks in the saddle, stepped meet at Belmont Park fore entering the Army, now is a planted Saratoga yesterday. Fairy Manhurst, Famous Vernon launched an attempted with Jim Mertz twice across the finish line three ahead in the classic being clipped captain stationed at Ardmore (Okla.) lengths Travers Stake of the trans- Victory and Bourmont were next in that order. _A. P. double-steal. Powell failed to get for homers and Wirephoto. by Rudy Early Air Field. He’s with 586th Bom- the sign, and as Case slid into him Wynn, Milo Candini and John bardment Squadron as a pilot and heavily, swung lustily, barely missing Miller one yielding each. With the operations officer. George’s head with both bat and same sort of success against other Turf Workmen Due Calls ball. The Cleveland players say they're de- Early Alsab, Despite Usual ball shot into left field teams in the York would Saratoga's Travers, league, Spinaway a pressed by the vast distances of for single as Jake dropped at the possess 56 homers. Municipal Stadium, where the cen- To Even if Fathers plate. Sid Luckman has as aid to Are Powell scrambled to his quit ter field bleachers are a streetcar Service, Surge, Is Fourth as Snatched by Outsiders feet and Clark Shaughnessv at so * scooted all the to second base Pittsburgh, jaunt from home plate, officials Must Take Essential War Jobs to way and any day now the Chicago Bears of the Indians are toying with the Change Leased Eurasian Takes Oldest U. S. Race because while all was happening will announce he's changed his idea of erecting a fence within Still Somewhat Some Chance Wins at the plate Left Fielder Dick mind about quitting pro football more reasonable swatting distance Status; Ruling Hazy At 13 to 2; Bee Mac Scores at 4 to 1 Wakefield contributed a fumble on and will report to training camp at of the hitters. By the Associated By the Associate* Vress. Powell’s hit, which also scored j Press. jobs promptly down in front for SID Delafield, Wis., to the By FEDER, added to the headaches piled up all Vernon. Powell was Case’s quarterback rumors and PAWTUCKET, R. I„ Aug. 14.—A. gashed by Despite recurrent the draft boards, which won’t need Associated Press Sports Write'. for the favorite In the Bears another season. S. Hewitt's Some Chance-, at $5 to day players. spikes and Stan Spence was sent gloomy predictions in sporting cir- to take any fathers out of base- $2, NEW Shaughnessy, to schools YORK, Aug. 14.—Topping first seven races, only two ‘‘chalk in to run for him. referring baseball and other ex- which raced indifferently last sea- cles. sports ball, football and other sports as off a day of surprise packages in both horses” reached the teller’s dropping football, says, “Anybody Germain 5-4 son after a good 2-year-old record paying Error Dorothy cept racing escaped unscathed in long as they can find enough non- and window. Higgins’ Starts Rally. can can. in betting racing, Mrs. Barclay quit.” Anybody including the new draft-rule deferrables to fill 1941, took the measure of the changes tonight. up their quotas. Douglas today “borrowed back” a One of the rank in the Washington entered the ninth Shaughnessj*. The manner in famed Alsab today in the $5,000- oksiai^ers Generally, professional athletes colt a owning a 4-4 tie with the which he and the To show' how' sports breezed by she sold few weeks ago lor "cheap" field of seven 3-year-olds in Tigers picked up quit Western a break that at least should added King Philip Handicap at when Golf Victor got the second edition of the non-de- $5,000 and with It won the 74th the Travers, Eurasian led from end Third Baseman Pinky Higgins University of Maryland, after mak- Narragansett Park. keep them operating as usual a little ferrable list of the Travers to end under muffed Giuliani's grounder for the ing so many speeches about the with none of the running Stakes, the Steve Brooks' ride and longer, provided they have children Alsab, topweighted at 126 pounds oldest first of three Detroit errors in the glorious opportunities to aid the trouble that had been forecast so country’s horse race. won by three lengths in the good born before September 15, 1942, and favored, gave from and one of five the host war effort in Over Wall often, it turned out that all heavily away Her $15.20-for-$2 shot. Eurasian, time of 2:03*5 for the mile and a inning by his position as ath- Mary than jobs seemed likely before. 14 to 22 pounds to the rest of the a rabbit out club during the afternoon. letic director leaves a involved in the manufacture of pulled of the hat for quarter. William S. Dupont’s Fairy Wynn there, linger- B> the Associated Press. The news field and even his customary late the a sacrificed and after Case walked ing sulphuric taste at College Park. big for baseball players "amusement machines and equip- entertainment of crowd of Manhurst was second, half a length and most charge could bring him no better on Vernon singled to EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 14.—Dor- other professional athletes ment'1 were listed but a specific j 28,224 who sat in the trans- in front of Mrs. Payne Whitney’s right, scoring was than fourth. Giuliani and Case to third. Germain of won that the list of non-deferrable exemption was made for "athletic planted Saratoga-at-Belmont ses- Famous Victory, which was another sending Memphis Full of Color. othy Philadelphia Allen activities and was ex- and T. Simmons’ Eire finished sion, after Bee Mac, a to Beat- half in front of the odds-on Mickey continued to second on Har- the women’s occupations sport equipment.” gift betting The White Sox have stolen 109 i western amateur golf second, two behind Some ris’ error and then came the tended without touching them. If No lengths rice MacGuire of New York from favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloan’s episode bases this season and the Nats have reason w'as given for the break tournament today, 5 and 4, over a Chance while John L.