Sports News Classified Ads Q 1 —■■ 1 "" "'i' *. ■ ■■ ■ WASHINGTON, I). <\, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1942. 0-1 Dodgers on Spot in Series Finale With Cardinals Only 4V2 Games Off Lead S •! I League Statistics St. Louis Schroeder THURSDAY. AUGUST 27. IMt. Lose or Draw Sweep Tops AMERICAN. Win, Remit* Yesterday. GRANTLAND RICE Chicago. 3; New York. 3. By Boston. 4. Cleveland I (In the absence of vacationing Francis E. Stan.) Detroit. 1—4: Philadelphia, 0—2 ttwt* Would llght-nighii. Stagger Tourney Shorn Others not scheduled. as Sports Second to War Public's Topic Standing ef the Clubs. W. L Pet OB. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Aug. 27.—On a transcontinental trip New York__82 43 638 Bosion _ 73 31 .393 71% wonder, outside of the war, what they are talking about? 60 39 S'2S you Brook Pacers Of Net Aces 3t Louis _ 16 HI from New York to Los Angeles, in something approach- Cleveland _ 64 .312 18 Moving Detroit ...._H3 H4 496 29 ing an inquisitive mood, you can get a fair idea of the national Chicago 34 63 .434 Washington 4.* 73 .397 chitchat off at Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque Club Bows Third 48 84 .364 by stopping Top U. S. Amateur Opening Philadelphia_ en route West. Time in Bosox Games Today. Games Tomer rew. In a sporting way Chicago today is the seething city. Service men Row; Finds Louise Cleve at Boston. Detroit »t Wash Brough a! New York. noncombatants had these ideas in mind- Only game. Cleve. and Gain on Yankees Chicago at Boaton. The All-Star-Chicago Bear game tomorrow night, good for $150,000 Women's Favorite at. Louis at Phila. in war relief, plus a whale of a scrap and scramme. JITDSON By BAILEY, By GAYLE TALBOT, NATIONAL. The roundup in the Big Nine, plus Notre Dame, for Associated Press Sports Writer. Results Yesterday. record-breaking Associated Press Sports Writer. what looks to be football’s college hot spot—embracing such performers as The St. Louis Cardinals have St Louts. 2: Brooklyn. 1 tin Innings'. NEW YORK, Aug. 27—Young New i 1 Cincinnati. 2. shown the rest of the National Yc/k Billy Hillenbrand, Pat Harder, Tom Kuzma, Otto Graham, Angelo Ber- Ted Schroeder, jr„ of California, Philadelphia. 3—O; Chicago, 2—S iflrst League they aren’t kidding aboht game 1 1 innings'. telli. Bill Daley, and a host of others. who was just a promising if slight- Others not scheduled. making a finish fight for the pen- Then they collar you about the Yankees and the Dodgers and the ly erratic doubles specialist a year Standing ef the nabs. nant which the Brooklyn Dodgers j ehances of the fighting Cardinals. ago, wm discover ne nas mane an ; W. L. Pet. OB. confidently thought they had Brooklyn 84 38 ,689 will the two come seven and pstonishing rise in the tennis firma- 80 630 How Army teams out against rough cinched. St Louis _ 43 4'% ment when the national amateur, New York__OH 38 .332 19 Can Wallace Wade's outfit handle HO ready professional squads? Maj. A tremendous stake rested on to- Cincinnati _ 62 .492 -.4 championships begin today at For-; 36 63 Sammy Baugh's deadly passing next Sunday? finale of the four- Pittsburgh_ .4<£ :5!i> day's twilight est Hills. Chicago- 39 70 .437 » For in one spot I ran into a group of six or seven soldiers, game series, because the Redbirds Boston 30 ,3 .400 33 % example, 36 82 .303 46 to to the He will find himself playing the Philadelphia_ aailors and Marines, and within a few minutes there were over 60 gath- needed take it get Dodgers first feature match in rew- really tottering. But. win or lose, the day's right Games Today. Games T na.ee ered who wanted to know about their home towns or their home sections the at Chicago Cardinals are their the big stadium itself, with Bkl at St. L. (twlgt'. Bklyn. making good New York at Cinct. N Y at Pitts, ). m baseball and football. crowd and as he ex- jngt truculent claims that they would oh-ing ah-ing Boston at Pitts. Boston at Cinct. and _ rw.il. fit T. (?». battle till the schedule runs out. changes volleys placements with Lt. Russell Bobbitt of Atlanta Servicemen Talk Little About Conflict A few weeks ago Brooklyn had a 10-game lead, yet the feat of the and Fort Knox. A year ago Ted the a remote On your way through Chicago and Kansas City, headed for busy Cardinals in sweeping the first three needed guide to locate the Kew Mexico headquarters of Albuquerque, most of your contacts are installments of their four-game outlying court on which he played Robinson and Motisi his first match. with men In uniform. They are covering the map today. series with the National League But rney taut little aDOUt war—me one topic mat nas cnangea meir champions in St. Louis has helped It is not, of course, that Ted’s whittle this down to four and tennis has so sensation- in lives. This subject lies too close. They take war and what goes with war one- improved Clash Tonight half. ally in the last 12 months, but that for granted. That's their 100 per cent job. Another victory for St. Louis would the players who overshadowed him But on the side their next interest is sport. shrink this to three and one-half a year ago are gone, either into the Bout "What kind of Army teams have we got? Can they whip these crack Delayed games and throw the race wide professional ranks or into the serv- pros?” open. But a triumph for the Dodgers ice. Ted is seeded No. 1 in this Their interest in these Army games is natural. The receipts mean would let them leave the mound city year’s championships and is fa- Both Confident They'll with a still comfortable flve-and- a of students to quick protection for their families in case of trouble—protection the Gov- vored by majority Condition one-half-game advantage. win the crown by Bob- Hold Keen ernment can't offer for many delayed weeks, or even months. The fact relinquished Cards Lone by Riggs. that Chicago and Los Angeles might turn out a combined attendance of Waging Fight. For Welter Battle The Cardinals are a lone His match with Bobbitt was about 300.000 spectators, good for over *300.000 in receipts, is cheering news. The waging fight, for although they have won as promising as anything on today's ! Bs the Associated Press. Army and Navy are out to raise around *16.000.000—no light lump. But 11 and lost 8 against the Dodgers program, the Southern boy having CHICAGO, Aug. 27 —Ray “Sugar” there will soon be 8,000,000 men in uniform. So *16,000,000 is no vast this year, no other club has given been a much better than fair player Robinson. New York’s undefeated financial tidal wave. Brooklyn as much as an even battle for several years past. He has the Negro welterweight, must wait until in the season's series. shots to make Schroeder extend him- tonight to test his dynamite on the Still Keen About Feud This has not daunted the Redbirds, self. rugged chin of Tony Motisi in seek- They're Dodger-Yank however, as they proved by captur- The opening match In the sta- ing his 124th successive ring vic- And you'd be surprised how many servicemen ask you how the ing a second straight 2-1. extra- HSnm hrmioVif f Aorofhor T AiiicP tory, inning decision over the Dodgers will come out against the Yankees. “Can't Whit Wyatt beat the Dodgers Brough, the women's favorite, and Robinson’s 10-round bout with the yesterday for Johnny Beazley's 16th Trapshooters Open All-Star-Pro Grid Nets Yankees at least two games? Won't this be a much tougher World Project Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, rough-punching Chicagoan, sched- success. with Series?” now a veteran campaigner, uled for Comiskey Park, home of The spunk of the St. Louis clubs, Miss calculated to win about At Kansas run into such as Services Before Brough the cmcago wmte aox, msi mgni, City you keen, sports-minded people Roy the Cardinals and Browns, is Grand American; $111,600 Game being as she Mrs. Sarah pleased. Palfrey was postponed because of weather Roberts and Clyde McBride. exhibited, too, by the Boston Red Cooke, who beat Pauline Betz in conditions. Both feel confident of McBride has been one of the sages of Midwestern sport for over 25 Sox, who still have time to cause Sale of $100 Tickets Raises Fund; Gate last year's final, is not entered. holding their sharp condition. Rob- There is no abler man than Clyde, who tells you there'll some commotion in the American Stake years. sporting $10,000 In two other stadium, or feature inson weighed 144 pounds yesterday close to the League. Tomorrow to Send Total to be a helter-skelter among the Big Six, with Missouri front. $160,000 matches, Lt. Gardnar Mulloy met and Motisi 147. Joe Cronin’s crew has won Missouri had one of the best backflelds in the land last season until nine Arthur MacDonald and Sidney B straight games and 15 of the last Field of 1,000 DAVE Robinson, seeking his 35th victory the from Columbia ran into the muck of the Possibly By HOFF, Wood, jr„ warmed up against James Tigers rain-swept Sugar 16 to Associated Press as a remained a fa- shave the lead of the New Sports Writer.