tJeitiriQ J&fetf in Return Half jlpofls♦* East Game Washington, D. C., Thursday, August 23, 1945—A—12 Griffs, Triumphant West, Behind Meet Aroused Yanks; Washington Has Only Win; Lose or Draw By JOHN B. KELLER Take Six of Seven 14 Road Dates Left; Star Staff Correspondent Griffs Make Best Showing in Years in West Tilts With Tribe Bengals Have 29 NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Should the Nats drive through to their By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. By JACK HAND, first American League pennant since 1933—and right now they look NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—For the Associated Press Sports Writer. to reason for their good enough do so—a big success could be found in fifth time this trip, the Nats are Washington has a decided sched- their play in the West. running into a ball club all fired ule advantage in the American They got out of Cleveland yesterday after completing their sched- up by success in tussling with its League race today as the Senators ule in the inland sector of the loop with their best record in years for immediately prior opponent. But head East only a half game behind tussling in the West—27 games won and 14 lost. the Nats have done a pretty good Detroit after completing their final And they got that record the hard way. In their first trip through job of cooling oft the others, so Western trip. the West this season, the Nats were reminiscent of the strongly Nats of maybe New York's Yankees won't Only 14 of the Nats’ 38 remaining the last 10 while the cornbelt. won years moving through They just be too hot. contests will be played away from three while while games losing six, in another at St. Louis that went But the Nats are not underesti- the home lot while the Tigers will overtime to tie. It was as well they managed just perhaps that the mating the Bronxmen. With Char- be on the road for 29 of their 39 moist weather limited their to 10 spring play games. ley Keller adding his powerful games. The second time around, however, the Nats began their amazing punch, the Yanks after a desolate The Senators have copped 27 of 44 climb toward the top. They took three series, tied another and carried time ir the West, suddenly were starts on their three jaunts to Chi- home a trip record reading 11 wins and 4 losses. aroused and back into the popped cago, Cleveland, Detroit and St. They began their last tour of the West with a staff well And the Yanks will be pitching first division. Louis. The Tigers have found the worn by work in five successive double-headers in Griffith Stadium, for Washington’s second- gunning road rough on the Atlantic Seaboard but the Nats lost little of their speed. to 13 wins outfit that has its eyes on a They swept through place where have 11 of while 7. successful they captured only dropping pennant after a greatly 25 tilts. After years of monotonous reverses, the West this time proved a tour of the West. No. 1 GRID FAN.—President Truman, who has been a Redskin Eleven more games with the New profitable field for the Nats. There they resembled champions. Every series now is highly im- fan since his earliest in the was days Senate, yesterday pre- York Yankees, who are beginning to to the second-place Nats, portant sented a gold season pass to all National Football League show signs of life with Red Ruffing Unable to Shake Off St. Louis Hoodoo half a from first place only game games by Commissioner Elmer Layden at the White House. and Charley Keller back in harness, the Detroit Tigers. There was one in the Western half of their occupied by — only spot jaunt where At right is George Marshall, Redskin president. AP Photo. bar the path of Ossie Bluege's men are of carrying a I the Nats made little headway. They could not shake off that St. Louis They hopeful to the flag but Steve O'Neill’s Ben- that them even when the Browns were the foot- first-place standing back to Wash- jinx dogged perennial gals still have 10 more meetings ball of the league. In the 12 engagements in the ington next week, so' they will put Sportsman’s Park, with Cleveland, now strengthened ONE CHAMP TO ANOTHER—Joe Hiestand, Hillsboro, Ohio, best the Washington club could manage was four wins and a tie. The everything they have into the four Redskins Obtain Flashy Youel, by the return of Bobby Feller. In who seeks his second straight North American clay target title, holdover American League champs simply beat the ears off the Nats. games here. fact, the Tigers get first-hand in-! is congratulating Ruth Knuth of who retained Their form reversal in Park in was Griffs Have Day Off. Indianapolis, Comiskey Chicago amazing, formation on Rapid Robert’s condi-' After a well-deserved of in in her “champion of champions’’ crown at were layoff Trade for Use 1946 yesterday Vandalia, though. Where last year they unable to win a game, the Nats Gob, tion when he faces them tomorrow one to action Ohio. this time took 7 of the 11 with the of their on day, the Nats return —AP Wirephoto. high spot play Chicago's By LEWIS F. ATCHISON. shall, intends to play only one more night. Southside on tomorrow in a single game. Another coming the second visit. season and then enter business here Trout Back in Stride. is for George Marshall can warble "You Then a series to make them solid contend- singleton slated Saturday, more they swept four-game Belong to Me” whenever he lamps and the deal would be profit- The Senators ended their Western ers for the championship. while on Sunday the customary able for him. Jim Youel from now on because wanderings yesterday by knocking Ruth Knuth Is Lone Title Winner Detroit was another for the Nats. In double-header will be played. happy hunting ground the one-time Iowa ace is to Even if Fiorentino refuses to re- over Cleveland in both ends of a seems Nats need to returning Briggs Stadium, where had so in It that all the the they many unpleasant experiences the Redskins in a deal sending port Redskins still get You«i. doubelheader, 3-0 and 6-5, the lat- the Nats went on to 7 in 11 tilts. get along here is a continuation of 1944, this year triumphs the They Guard A1 Fiorentino to the Cleve- He's under an ironclad contract to ter in 11 innings. As Rain Fouls the torrid up In Traps Classic a series there in then the next two. The Nats game they put split May, bagged really Rams. the Rams, one more binding than Dizzy Trout, recov- before for land apparently By the Associated Press. because of illness, had 96x100. She hit their peak last week at Detroit when they went into town trailing Washington just leaving regular league papers and one that ered from his aching back, stopped — the the West. In the Corn Belt, they Youel once belonged to the Tribe VANDALIA, Ohio, Aug. 23 was not entered in the "Champion of league leading Tigers 314 games and came out only a game and a precludes any possibility of him as but his contract was lost in the Philadelphia, 4-1, the Tigers half from the won 13 of 20 to roll up 22 wins in There even is a count’’ in Champions" affair. top spot. jumping to any rival league. made it five out of seven over the “long their last 30 > shuffle and no record of it filed at Even the most doubtful Ber- Their best record was made in Cleveland against a club they games. Marshall Layden to A’s. Connie Mack gave National so accompanied gambled and trapshooting. have not been able to The Nats rammed through the League headquarters, nie Judd of Hamilton, Ohio, the nod do much against in Washington. They licked the White House where they pre- lost with a 19-year-old The famous Grand American West without the services of their he became a free agent. Turk Ed- righthander, for the men's North American when the Tribe in six of eight games in Cleveland Stadium sented a season to President Bill played spacious pass Connelly, from Alberta, Va„ today went into its sec- then star hitter, baserunner and out- wards tried to sign him again last Trapshoot darkness called a halt to the pro- moved to the league park bandbox for a sweep of three games. Truman and they later had lunch who was his first start in season, but Youel an offer making ond day with little or nothing de- Judd broke his first 100 fielder, George Case, but they got accepted with Baseball Commissioner ceedings. from the Rams instead. organized ball. The youngster cided. And particularly among Six Games Here With Browns great help from a couple of new-1 Chandler. This have targets and then finished the full Play Pesky Happy” may yielded three runs in the first and those Items fire were comers. still hanging route with 198x200. That meant the Mike Kreevich, outfielder Youel is a gob at Great Lakes an historical Whether the Nats get a flag likely will depend on what can been event, marking that was more than enough, al- the North American- amateur they bought from the St. Louis Browns, Naval Station and will clay 99 shooters behind him had to break show the Western clubs in next month.