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Smoke Rings FITZSIMMONS — ~ — GETS WIN w a A A a I'M- 200TH » • a A Hank, The Late ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ x x nr xxx * x x DODGERS, PIRATES SAM By RAGAN DIVIDE TWIN BILL PC’s Top Fear Leland Is Second ---— Cape j. --X______ Loop; the Picking up loose ends of an up and down week-end 1 we wonder why Freddy Gets Into Select Circle and Hammering Henry Armstrong is be- .... down. HITTING CUB Sords ing played With 2-0 Win In Finale; ATHLETICS TAKE By Jack PEPSIS DEFEAT Hammering Henry will be meeting Lew Jenkins, of Bucs Take Opener, 6-2 Sweetwater, Texas, Wednesday night and everyone is say- TWO FROM TIGERS 7-2 that he’s definitely not what he used to CROWNMEN, ing be—like the PITTSBURGH, July 14.— <£>) —At he s old gi'ay mare, passed his peak and is down fat loping long last, Freddy Fitzsimmons of Detroit Pennant Hopes Get A if5 COOLER ) Bears Win Over Kappas, 3-0; the hill to the pastures below. the Brooklyn Dodgers achieved today •_j-i_ A oof Me<?6/ the 200th victory of his 16-year Na- Setback As They Losd 8 Purol Whips A’s, 9-5; tional That hardly sounds right, but then league pitching career by To 2 And 5 To 2 Mason boro Triumphs be the case. shutting out the Pirates it might Armstrong Fitzsimmons Becomes Pittsburgh a time. 2 to 0 on four hits after the Pirates has been around long He’s a well-lilted fighter and one of the bet- Fifth 200th Hurler won the opener of a doubleheader. PHILADELPHIA, July 14.- The Cape Fear Baseball associa- ones in the business. 6 to 2. dealt second place ter little The Athletics tion brought to a close its first half a severe PITTSBURGH, July 14.—UP)— The triumph was Fitzsimmons’ Detroit’s pennant hopes with the Pepsi Cola This Jenkins is what many have ends play yesterday Fred Fitzsimmons of the Brook- eighth of the season—four of them setback today by taking both the “killer” type and he’s more entry copping the first half flag — 5 to called over the Pirates a of a doubleheader, 8 to 2 and than lyn Dodgers joined a distinguish- against single a "Cinderella” James J. than with a 7 to 2 triumph over the Royal of ed of defeat. The crowd of the 2, before a crowd of more was. The group pitching greats today largest jjraddock ever Sweet .ater nine. by shutting out the Pirates for season here, 33,336, witnessed Fitz- 21,000. Crown slugger is the lightweight champ the 200th victory of his major simmons’ ascension to the ranks of The victories boosted the Mack- Yesterday’s play left the Crown- and Armstrong- is now currently career. baseball's select hurlers. men out of the American league men, Hi-Kappas, Purol tied for third crown. league holding the welterweight clinched sec- Only four other hurlers nov; Freddy settled down to a master- celler. place. Leland having what we're getting at is the a 3 to 0 decision gut active in the big leagues have ful job of hurling after a shaky start. clouted Posif(o>i wr T?(e ond position with down Outfielder Sam Chapman AAiy fact that this playing of Henry- In the first Lee over the fraternity nine. won this many. inning, Handley three home runs, one with two oorpew> like just another way of draw- and lie Southern looks Lefty Grove of the Boston Red singled, Frankie Gustine walked teammates on to boost his Purol vanquished cash customers and base, ing more the drew an intentional Athletic club 9 to 5 and Masonboro Sox has 291 to his credit and is Arky Vaughan seasons total to 12; Frank Hayes will be more like what every- ii Jackson-Bell 6 to 2 in other fight seeking the even more select pass to fill the bases, but Fitzsim- his 13th for the Athletics and whipped to poled expects it be. There is no mons games yesterday. one company of baseball’s “300” win- bore down and nipped the Hank Greenberg hit his 16th for involved in this scrap, but it title ners. Carl Hubbell of the New threat. Detroit. four-master Jackson and Bell failed to register to us. He’s a Greenberg’s looks like Jenkins good was a single win in the first half sched- York Giants has won 221, Ted Thereafter, Freddy complete with Gehringer on base in the and besides he has forgotten but have recently strengthened fighter Lyons of the Chicago White Sox boss of the situation, although in sixth saved the Tigers from a shut- ule. what it was to be hungry. their lineup and expect to give a 227 and Red Ruffing of the New the seventh Elbie Fletcher walked out at the hands of Porter better account of themselves in the Not As A Sport York Yankees 222. and was advanced on long flies to Vaughan, rookie southpaw who then but couldn’t second half. Fishing is a fine thing. Not ac- Record books list 44 pitchers, second, third, get registered his first big league vic- home. Six errors by the Crownmen spell- tually fishing in its limitee sense, not including Fitzsimmons, who tory. ed for the Pepsis in the and all it connotes. have won 200 or more Jimmy Wasdell broke a scoreless victory but fishing games. Dick Bartell, Tiger shortstop, in- Red Bear- sixth a game at Legion stadium. for t tat deadlock in the with single Angling Is those ; ust like his back in prac- for the that scored Joe who had jured pre-game don went the route PC’s, fish, while is for Vosmik, to catch fishing tice and was forced to retire after seven safeties. Lefty Gray singled and advanced to second on scattering those who like to sit on a ci eek bank in the first inning of the for the Crownmen and Pirate hurler Ken Heintzelman’s singling started Royal the shade of a snarled oak CUBS AND GIANTS 1 six base blows dur- under opener. was nicked for balk. In the eighth, Vosmik tripled and think out things. ixirst name; ing his tenure on the mound. He and came home on Wasdell’s second DETROIT Ab R H O A John- For thinking out things, fishing on I was relieved in the fourth by single. Barteli, ss _ 10 112 SPLIT TWIN BILL Edens who pitched hitless ball a creek hank is far better than a Croucher, ss _ 3 0 0 1 ] ny The 39-year-old Fitzisimmons was the to Harvard. McCosky, cl _ 4 0 110 for the remainder of game scholarship born in Ind., and lives in Mishiwaka, Gehringer, 2b _ 3 12 13 while holding the Pepsis scoreless. Today there are a lot of people cm Lonrman ritcnes JNew Arcadia, Calif. Against his 200 vic- Greenberg, If_ 3 12 4 1 wood Rowan was the gun lb _ 4 0 0 8 2 Lin big Only a small part of these he has a record of 140 defeats York, fishing. 0 tories, four York To 2 TO Victory Fox, rf _ 4 0 2 0 C of the Crownmen, garnering are fishing in streams. But all of it since joining the New York Giants Kress, 3b_ 4 0 0 2 ] I Map <zoua-e / for five. Williams collected two for divided into the two classes— 1937 c Jt/AfA-j can be In Second Engagement in 1925, where he hurled until Tebbetts, _ 4 0 0 5 1 a 6Re*r WrTM BATti^e past three to take runner up honors. F. _ 0 0 0 0 Mis ey& fish just because they are when he became a Rowe, p 0 catching Dodger. BOTH lAl 1Mb oofpift-p Allen collected two for four to pace Seats, _ 2 0 0 1 0 >’'6Kk\Z and fishing just for the sake ]i Y^ar. but is aJoaI MitiiMG' Weuu fish Rip Sewell of the Pirates pitched x Metha, _ 1 0 0 0 0 ,**" aa)p at &xr FbP.iAe the winners at the plate. CHICAGO, July 14.-B i 11 and 0v/eR.-fMe a<ari<. c^cabq of it. five-hit ball in the opener clout- McKain p_ 0 0 0 0 0 .300 cues Ed Wilson and Charles Edens Odds And Ends Lohrman the New York runner on pitched ed a home run with one caught for Crownmen and Cov- Totals _ 33 2 8 24 1< the. 0 the sixth to notch his Charleston, S. C., yesterday became Biants to a 2 to victory over base in the inning x-Batted for cSats in 8th. ington for the Pepsis. sixth of the season. Mau- of Ben an official entry in the South Atlan- Bhicago Cubs in the second half of triumph PHILADELPHIA Ab R H O A Jumping on the offerings and 3b_ 5 10 0: • tic Class IS league, taking over the rice Van Robays hit two singles Gantenbein, SENATORS DEFEAT STANDINGS YANKS SHUT OUT Hingoff for 12 base blows, the Purol i doubleheader today after a 13th Miles, rf- 4 1110 out a triple with two aboard. Bluebirds defeated S. A. C. 9 to 5 Spartanburg franchise Dusty banged Chapman, cf_ 4 3 3 4 0 ;nning homer by Bill Nicholson YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Headon Piner Cooke, a Tar Heel, is the manager (First Game) Johnson, If_ 4 0 10 0 at Robert Strange. the Cubs the 6 to American League Save opener, 5, Ab R H O A Siebert, lb_ 4 0 19 0 6 TO 5 WHITE 4-0 limited the A’s to seven well scat- of the new club Charleston’s BROOKLYN INDIANS, Detroit 2-2.