Win, Lose Or Draw Twilight Potter of Browns Suspended by Trimming Ars; to Be First Filly to Pending Report on 'Spitball' by GRANTLAND RICE
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Stoening fhfat J£prtj& Reformed Boost Washington, D. C., Saturday, July 22, 1944—A—10 Bagby, Rebel, May Tribe Into Pennant Race — Celebrates Return Tear Strives Win, Lose or Draw Twilight Potter of Browns Suspended By Trimming Ars; To Be First Filly to Pending Report on 'Spitball' By GRANTLAND RICE. By JERRY LISKA, Yanks Retain Victory Habit Despite Talent Loss AMocittcd Prtu PoorU Writer. Yankees Score Capture Classic CHICAOO, July 22 —Pitcher Nel- Habit is a pretty drab sounding word. There is no glamor or class By JACK HAND, By the Associated Pre/a. son Potter, a nine-to-flve win- about it. It is Just another word. But it happens t© be an important game 22. — Warren Associated Press Sports Writer. CHICAGO, July ner with the St. word. Faults can be cured. Habits are something else. league-leading Jim who once vowed he'd Wright’s sensational Louis Browns, has been suspended You can pick up golf, football, boxing and baseball faults and do Bagb? TwilightgTear, unbeaten in 10 was favored by President Will Harridge of the about them. But habits are different^ They are much never pitch another game for Cleve- starts, something American League pending investi- Notre has had the habit of to shatter a traditional hex on fillies tougher. For example, in football Qame land under Manager Lou Boudreau gation of Umpire Cal Hubbard’s to to in winning. I've seen Notre Dame win football games that appeared today stood out as the man who by scampering victory today’s charges that Potter had violated the which the out- be total losses. may boost the Tribe into the thick $81,350 Arlington Classic rules of pitching by using In baseball the Yankees have had the habit of winning. It may looms as strictly a family affair. lawed "spitball.” of the scrap. pennant was in the fifth have had the best or the best material. Anyway they Only six horses—smallest field in Nelson ejected be they manager the Merchant When Bagby joined i the classic’s .history—were entered inning of the St. Louis-New York keep on winning—pennants and World Series. They took a killing Marine after last season, he said in the lucrative 1 Vi-mile race and Yankee game in St. Louis Thurs- from the Cardinals in 1942, but they bounced back to wreck beating he was through with Cleveland. But three, including Twilight Tear, Pen- day night by Hubbard after the later. the same team a year after being rejected by the draft sive, the Kentucky Derby and umpire and Luke Sewell, manager to be At the start and early sessions of this season they looked earlier in the week, the 17-game Preakness winner, and fleet Miss of the Browns, engaged in an argu- about as hot as the bottom of a glacier. Within the war period they winner of ’42 and ’43 hustled to Keeneland, carried the colors of ment that brought a shower erf had lost Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon, Phil Rtzzuto, Tommy the Tribal wigwam and last night Wright’s Calumet Farm. pop bottles and hats onto the field. five hits Henrich, Red Ruffing, Bill Johnson, Buddy Hassett, Red Rolfe, Charley stopped Philadelphia with Never Won by a Filly. Suspension Is Mandatory. Boudreau's Indians took a 4-1 Keller and others. Joe McCarthy and the Yankees lost an entire out- as In 15 previous runnings, the Under the rules, Harridge must decision over Luke Hamlin to sweep classic never has had a finish for 10 Har- field, an entire infield and about 70 per cent of the battery stars. filly suspend Potter days. the series. better than third. It even was a ridge withheld further action or Nelson and Geersten for such favorites as of Um- Pilot McCarthy Remains Eloquently Silent Cleveland, Detroit Pick Up. pitfall' prime comment pending receipt While the Yankees and Browns Whirlaway, Bnnelech, Cavalcade, pire Hubbard’s report. As the seafaon we were pulling for the Browns and the Red opened took turns knocking one another's Twenty Grand, Johnstown and Dis- In St. Louis, Hubbard said he djd the Brownie manager, is quite a fellow. The Box. Luke Sewell, brains out, without disturDing St. Share Lead in Hoi covery. not need any more evidence "than The ••luckless” Browns never had won an American League pennant. Louis’ 2-game margin, Cleveland •Although the Wright trio was ac- what I saw Potter doing repeatedly.” Red Sox have been riding on the golden wave of some $3,000,000 or and Detroit made motions toward corded rock bottom 1-10 odds, the "I warned Potter in previous race was to into a maybe $4,000,000, yet they hadn't won a pennant since 1918. serious contention. The St. Louis- Utah Open Golf expected resolve games,” Hubbard added, "and I feel were second and then New York series ended yesterday duel between Twilight Tear and I have him every break pos- The Yankees scrambled around. They By the given Al Associated Press. tensive with the forced the issue down. All this time Joe McCarthy con- when Atley Donald outpitched Derby champion sible. Sewell by sixth. They were up—and SALT LAKE 22 — Hollingsworth for an 8-2 Yank vic- CITY, July trying to atone for two recent de- kicking about Borowy’s (Henry Bo- tinued to be as eloquently silent as he always has been. tory and an even break. Eighty-one survivors from a record feats by *his fast-stepping stable- rowy of the Yankees) pitching meth- When ask Joe a direct question you might as well shoot him you Detroit took four straight from field of 11’’ turned out mate. ods. Warnings to Potter were not then gofers today the heart. He first scowls and then he writhes—and one-run mar- The "outside" threesome included from the through Washington, all by for the second prompted by any protest his round of the $2,500 he tells you nothing. Joe doesn't like questions. He figures job gins, to keep pace with Cleveland R. W. Mcllvain’s Old Kentuck, sec- Yankee side until after Sewell asked Utah Open Tournament. ond choice at 12 to Brolite Farm’s is running a ball club—that, and nothing else. in a fourth-place tie, 1*4 games 1; me to warn Borowy. back of Boston and 5*4 off the Five pros and one amateur who Challenge Me, 15 to 1; and J. V. "Then I saw Potter blowing on his He must have a good system. At least it has worked. At the top. American 50 to 1. that he couldn’t You Boston lost ground by falling be- shot rounds on Maggio’s Eagle, fingers and told him start of the season McCarthy refused to make any prediction. subpar the 6.575- fore 5-3, for the second Seeks Her Stake. fool me—he was moistening his fin- If him hard Chicago, Fort course were Biggest had to goad him into a statement. you goaded enough yard Douglas In left to do time in 14 starts. Buck Ross finally A victory for Twilight Tear, carry- gers. There was nothing NELSON POTTER. him admit that his Yankees would be somewhere close. the lead at the end of you could make hit the win side of the ledger as the first 18 ing only 114 pounds compared with but order him from the game. are kick-ins for the 1944 American This doesn't mean the Yankees Yank Terry suffered his seventh fail- holes. Pensive’s 126, would* produce her "I have sent a full report to Presi- and the Red Sox will have more than a League pennant. The Browns ure with Tom Turner’s four hits, Byron Nelson of Toledo, Ohio, and biggest stake in two years of cam- dent Harridge.” Parks Tackles has a nerv- words to about this, if they keep on hustling. Both have his main torture. paigning, $63,550. She already has On the mound Potter Crafty .few say Johnny Geersten, Fort Douglas pro, ZERO SPECIALIST—Jo Ken- Yankees have—some Brecheen shut out the New earned and her 11th ous habit of running his tongue over just as many good ball players as the perhaps Harry were tied with 67s,’five under par. $123,560 to the Car- the first two fingers of his right to curl and fade. York Giants, 5-0, help Nelson shot a 32—35 and Geersten nedy, although she has straight triumph would give the better. Neither is likely up and Veteran in dinals move another step toward an classy daughter of Bull Lea a shot hand after almost every pitch Shucco, As someone has said—"there also is courage needed for front 34—33. pitched four no-hit, no-run early flag in the National. Johnny at the mark established by the then wiping his fingers on his shirt. The Browns have been in front most of the season, looking Toney Penna of and running." and Ray Sanders spanked Dayton, Ohio, games this season for the of all Sewell Sees No Hopp Leonard greatest money-winning filly Wrong. a that would the and remove part of the tension. Dodson of Kansas City fo spurt open gap home runs at the expense of Harry Globe Aircraft softball team time, Top Flight, which accumu- Manager Sewell said he could see Pulling Comeback of the answer. were tied for third, one stroke be- They have good pitching and that is a big part Feldman and Ace Adams. of Fort lated $275,900 in two years.