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fining |to ppcfis** Attendance D. Passes 1945 Washington, C., Monday, August 5, 1946—A—12 Majors' by 2,000,000 Feller, Rowe, Culler Nats Are Facing Drop Win. L ose or D raw Williams Idle as By FRANCIS E. STANN Hurt; To Fifth Batting Navy Scuttlebutt Has Middies Heading West First Time in Year Power Declines Scuttlebutt In naval circles around town has it that in starting By the Associated Press 1947 or 1948 the Naval Academy’s football schedule will include a By Burton Hawkins with the The major attendance game University of California or Southern California and leagues’ Star Staff Correspondent that in the future the will at least one West Coast figures soared to Midshipmen play 12,788,000 today— EN ROUTE TO leam WASHINGTON, eacn year on a nome-ana-nome basis two more nearly million than last Aug. 5.—Plaguing the Nats at the The University of Washington is reported to be a year’s record total—following a moment is a strange loss of batting third Western team that will appear on Navy's splendid Sunday turnout featured power that jeopardizes their first schedule in the future Navy will alternate by Cleveland's 75,959 crowd of division status, what with the Cleve- playing the Trojans, Bears and Washington. which 74,592 paid. land Indians only two games off If Navy goes West, look for Army to follow The throng which filled Cleve- fourth place since the Washington suit Their football teams are big advertising land’s Municipal Stadium for a club has dropped six of its last mediums for the service academies, but neither glimpse of Bobby Feller almost wit- seven starts. goes beyond the Mississippi Speaking of foot- nessed a tragedy when the In their last three games, the Nats ball, Otto Graham of Northwestern, Stan Kos- speed- ball king was forced to leave the mustered only one run and did not lowski of Holy Cross and Pat Harder of Wisconsin field in the seventh of the JIMMY McLANE. bash an extra-base hit. They col- are reunited as backfield members of Coach Bo inning first game of a scheduled double —AP lected only 15 hits in 27 innings and McMillin's College All-Stars, who will the Wirephoto. play header with the Yankees because the only run was made with the aid Los Angeles (formerly Cleveland! Rams on Sol- of a pulled back muscle. Feller’s of a passed ball. dier Field, Chicago, August 23 Graham and injury later was described as not In the six defeats—three by the Koslowski were teammates while aviation cadets serious and the Tribe expected him McLane’s 3 St. Louis Browns and three by the at the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, Victories Francis E. Stann. to take his regular turn next Thurs- Chicago White Sox—the Nats N. C., and Harder was the star of Georgia's Pre- day amassed only eight runs and wasted Flight at the same time. Cleveland’s previous record crowd highly proficient pitching. One reason why Georgetown is not expecting miracles as foot- Pace AAU was the 74,592 which attended the Tankers; The sudden reduction of power is ball is resumed this year is the fact that enrollments at the Hilltop stadium’s inaugural July 31, 1932. traceable to slumps by Gerry Priddy are closed and there is no open sesame, not even for triple-threaters Yesterday’s turnout was about and Stan Spence, plus the fact that and 220-pound tackles. 6,- Old Stars Shine 000 shy of the major league record when pitchers get by the No. 5 hit- Pipe Dream Stuff: Boudreau As Nat of 81,841 set. by the Yankees Mav By tho Associated Press ter in Washington's batting order 30, 1938. they don’t have to fret. Little dan- Rumors persist that Bill Veeck, fun-loving president of the SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 5.—It Five other clubs, the Tigers, Red ger lurks in the lower portion of the Cleveland Indians, will replace Manager Lou Boudreau with fun- was like old times as the former Sox, Phils and the two Chicago Nats’ lineup. loving Charlie Grimm or fun-loving Jimmy Dykes this winter national clubs, have set new single-game champions came back to Much Good Hurling Wasted. Boudreau would look good in a Washington uniform ... A Boudreau- record attendances this season and reclaim their titles at the has made one Gerrv Priddy-Mickey Vernon combination would revive memories of prewar Priddy only hit in the Yanks established a new his last 16 the Peck-to-Harris-to-Judge double-play combination Lou not night three-day AAU senior men’s outdoor efforts, while Spence has game mark of more than 63,000 a scratch single to show for his last only is one of the league's best hitters, but he is the sharp type of swimming meet which ended yes- two months ago. 14 trips to the Joe Grace batter who goes well in Griffith Stadium. terday. Except, that is, for Jimmy plate. Yanks Go on to and Mickey Vernon continue to BUFFALO, N. T.—NEW socialite Racing at Hagerstown starts tomorrow and runs through August Victory. McLane, the 15-year-old whizzer hit, CHAMPION—Nancy Cowperthwaite, Brooklyn running lor the Feller’s but aren’t German-American A. 17 The B. & O. will operate a special train with diner leaving abrupt retirement spoiled from Akfon, Ohio. they getting any co-op- C., New York City, winning the second heat of the 80-meter hurdles scoreless duel with eration. ■Washington at 11:25 a.m. and Silver Spring at 11:40 every day ex- fa the Yankees’ McLane won the 400, 800 and which enabled her to wrest the title from De fender Lilly Purifoy of Tuskegee in the finals (Bill) At where the Nats cept Sunday. Floyd Bevens, the Cleveland 1,500 meter free-style events to join Chicago, to score the only upset of the Women’s National AAU track and field championships. ace fanned seven dropped 3-1 and 1-0 to the Twenty-five years ago note: The widest margin by which the having to raise the list of triple crown winners in- games —AP his strikeout total White Sox before Wirephoto. National Open golf championship was won was 9 strokes .Jim to 246 in 239 cluding Johnny Weissmuller, Buster yesterday 19,801 Barnes set the record in 1921 at the Columbia Country Club here. innings. With Feller out, the Crabbe, Jack Medica, Ralph Flana- customers, Washington received a brilliant brand of Friends of Fred Davis, the ex-Alabama and ex-Redskin tackle, Yankees went on to win, 2-0, getting gan and Keo Nakama, who did it hurling, yet cap- the tured only one of four when Pacesetter Vernon say that as a result of his dickering with the Los Angeles Rams and winning markers in the ninth last in 1944. games Alice Coachman Leads off Bobo Newsom found the formula Worshams in the Chicago Bears, for whom he’ll play this year, Davis will make inning Bob Lemon, who had But Hawaiian Bill Smith, 200 and for Payoff taken over success in $3,800 more this season than he received from the Redskins in 1945 for Feller. The second 400 meter champion in 1941 and by blanking Chicago the Awed by Williams game was halted series opener. the A few years ago you could count the $3,800-a-year linemen on the by rain in the 1942, returned to take the 100 and to 10th By Associated Press top half of the second Otherwise, the Nats saw Tuskegee Of Lake fingers of one hand. inning. 200 meter free-style races and lead sterling CHICAGO, Aug 5.—“Mickey” Spring Golf; A amount crowd of 49,425 saw the Amer- his Hawaii University swimming pitching to nothing. Ray Vernon, Washington first base- What's of Exhibition-Game ican lost an Become Squawk? League Red Sox knock De- club teammates to an easy victory. Scarborough eight-hit, 1-0, man, hopes he can win the troit’s Hal game on AAU Track Title Major league ball players who were not chosen on the committee Newhouser from the hill Hawaii totaled 72 points to waltz Saturday. Yesterday American League batting cham- Mariero Winner for the third time Mickey Haefner limited the White to air squawks before League Presidents Will Harridge and Ford this season and off with team honors, actually its By Ihe A-,eciat«d Prtss pionship, but he speaks in awe Special Dispatch to The Star Sox to six are plaster him with his fourth hits in the opening game of Boston’s Frick mystified by the failure of the committee to blast the defeat fourth straight championship. Un- N. 5 —Tuske- Ted Williams, his and followed with a BUFFALO, Y„ Aug. SPRING LAKE, N. J., Aug. 5.— clubowners’ habit of booking extensive preseason exhibition schedules. against 20 victories as the Sox represented since 1941, the Hawaii- Early Wynn six- rival for the title. hitter in the gee Institute held its 10th National Washington's Worsham brothers, The lengthy exhibition schedules, which forced managers to trimmed the Tigers, 9-4. ans won prevously in 1939, 1940 and nightcap, but the Nats “Naw,” said Mickey, who has couldn’t click at the Lew the widely known Congres- divide their squads into two teams, were the No. 1 beef of the Bobby Doerr, who spoiled Feller’s 1941 under the banner of the Alex- plate. Women’s AAU team championship led the junior circuit hitting race bid for In the final three sional pro and his kid brother, Buck last spring in Florida Most veterans maintain that a a no-hitter last week, was ander Community House.