■■■ Reds Bob Up With Bigger Lead Than Yankees as Start Second Half ■ Majors y Sports Mirror Lose or Draw Champions Drop Hartnett Draws Bv MM Auoclatod Preu. Win, Today a year ago—Lefty Grove, star Red Sox pitcher, forced out By FRANCIS E. STAN. 6th in Row as of game in sixth inning with First Blood in sudden arm ailment as he won An Authority Speaks on Joe Gordon 14th game of season. Three United If it did nothing else, baseball's latest all-star show exposed the ln- years ago—Full States team of 384 athletes as- flelding greatness of Joe Gordon for all to see. The young Yankee second Bosox Win sured for Berlin Olympics as baseman emerged sharing the heroics with Bob Feller, who is getting some Cub-Phil Feud women’s track team raised funds recognition of his own, and around the country now the critics are saying to send IS. that Gordon is the No. 1 man at his position. National Pacemakers Five years ago—Cavalcade won Bill Reinhart was talking about the youngster a few days before the Trounces Club Irked $30,000 Arlington Classic, beat- all-star game. Reinhart is George Washington's football and basket ball Blank Giants, Go ing Discovery by four lengths; Because Lou Gehrig, ill with coach and one of the two men who know Gordon best. The other is Arny Idled lumbago, kept record of in- Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees. 6V2 Games Up string games At 'Dream' Game tact by batting in first inning for • “He's the finest .young ballplayer I ever saw at the start of his career,” JUDSON BAILEY, Yanks. said “and I think he'll wind with critics By Reinhart, up ballplayers, managers, A»soci»ted Press Sports Writer. By the Auocltted Prtu. and fans generally recognizing him as one of the great infielders of the 14.—First A week or two ago it would have PHILADELPHIA, July on time.” blood in baseball's newest leud—be- depending Terry’s greater speed. been almost too fantastic to believe, And you can’t take Mell Ott out of Reinhart is properly proud o. Gordon because he was among the first the National tween the Phils and Cubs—has gone but today League lead- any ball game. Then I used Dolph to see in the This was when Reinhart was coach- er has a than the to Gabby Hartnett and his Bruins. possibilities youngfter. bigger margin Camilli as a pinch hitter. He's a team in the In an old-time hammer-and- ing baseball at the University of Oregon a few years ago He coached first-place American left-hand swinger and a home run tong battle that saw the two starting freshman football, too, and two of his brighter stars were Tuffy Leemans, League. knocker. The Cincinnati Reds, pitchers—Hugh Mulcahy and Claude a ball and this same a smart opening “Johnny Mize, who I used in the hard-hitting carrier, Gordon, fast, Passeau—thrown out for fighting, their Eastern assault with a 7-0 ninth for Lou Fette, leads the league blocking back. the Cubs rallied last night in the shutout of the second-place New in home runs, a hard dangerous “There is no way of proving, now, just hoV good Gordon was on face of a hostile throng of 10,714 to York Giants yesterday, expanded hitter. When I used my own second the football Reinhart. “All can do is take word win, 7 to 5. field,” explained you my their lead to games while the baseman, Bill Herman, to hit for see It was sweet for Hartnett for it ... my word as well as that of others who happened to Joe collapsing New York Yankees saw victory Goodman in the fifth there’s two out for it vindicate his in the few games he played. He didn’t keep at it, you see, because I theirs dwindle to 5 4 over Boston helped judgment and none on. of in the American keeping the National League's made him He was too good a baseball player.” League. some stop. leading hitter, Morrie Amovlch, of “Imagine guy asking me why There was a time late in June I didn't bat the Phils, on the bench in the all- Arnovich for Stan Hack when the world champions had a in the ninth when as as a star game at New York Ott's on first and Just Good Shortstop margin of more games between Tuesday. The Phils, from President Gerry there’s two out. Hack had a single Reinhart is recognized as one of the best basket ball and football them and second place than they and walk for Nugent down, contend Hartnett four times up. Sure he coaches in these court teams at con- had lost, but this is a circumstance parts. His George Washington snubbed Morrie. struck out, but that third strike Umv which never will be repeated this sistently have stood out. His football material has not been up to the "I was saving Arnovich until the pire Magerkurth called on him was season. They fell apart at Detroit a basket ball standard, but the caliber of coaching has been. late stages of the almost wild pitch. yesterday for their sixth game,” explained Bill has a way of shifting his players to prove, in his mind, they straight Hartnett before he fared forth to "Why there was nobody as sorry as trimming, 10-6. in certain From star school fullbacks he makes face the crowd that booed him at I was that Arny didn’t into the belong positions. high The Boston Red Sox get took ad- I followed some of them. every opportunity and cheered Ar- game. my own plan and of his guards. He takes ends and makes tailbacks out The vantage of this opportunity by novich's every move. "If we manage it didn’t work out, that's all.” ace halfback of the G. W. frosh may find himself playing center as a downing the Cleveland Indians, 6-5, to get a couple of men on base Hack and Herman played a big sophomore. We asked Reinhart if he used this same policy as a base- in 10 innings. theres’ the spot for Amy.” part in the Cubs’ win. Hack’s ball coach at Oregon. Fiav Ragged in American. "Why should I have used him as double and Herman’s triple helped answered the old Rose Bowl “and here I “Yes,” quarterback, again The whole program in the Amer- a pinch hitter early in the game? put the Cubs ahead in the fifth. might be able to tell you a few things about Gordon. He is one of the ican League yesterday presented If I do that then I can't use him if Herman’s homer in the sixth tied the most versatile players I've ever seen. I had him at second, shortstop and some of the sloppiest baseball of we have a chance later on. I used score and his throw home in the the season. third base at Oregon. I've seen him play the outfield and I know that, Babe Phelps because he was a left- seventh nipped Walt Millies. Hack There were 18 bases on ball and handed hitter to start the ninth and later if necessary, he can catch. I wouldn't be surprised if he did a good job against right-handed singled 21 hits in the Yankees’ melee. pitching. scored the winning run. Arnovich. as a pitcher if given the opportunity. With the Yankees leading, 4-1, “When I sent Terry Moore to cen- meanwhile, got only one single in “If anything ever happens to Crosetti and the Yankees come up with going into the last half of the eighth, ter after Ival Goodman was hurt, I’m five times at bat. another second baseman, they needn't worry about shifting Gordon to Atley Donald, the undefeated rookie ahort. If anything, he can play shortstop better than second base. That ace of the champions, walked three sounds but at I thought he was a bit better on short. men and was crazy, Oregon just yanked. Then, with HOMER BRINGS ELATION—Outfielder Wally Berger of the Reds Is paying his compliments to the two out, three relief hurlers let in Giants, once his teammates, by hitting a homer in the second inning for the first of the tilt Statistics nine runs and let out the ball game. tally Major League He Even Bats Left-Handed the leaders won in New York FRIDAY. JULY 14. IBS*. Goodness, Boston belted Bobby Feller out of yesterday, 7 to 0. Berger gets a handshake from Shortstop Billy "If been circumstances had different when Gordon joined the the box with a 5-run flurry in the Myers as he scores. Harry Danning is the Giants’ catcher. —A. P. Wirephoto. AMERICAN. NATIONAL Yankees,” Reinhart went on, "he still would have been a great ballplayer. fourth of their inning night game, Kesulti Yesterday. Results Yesterday. If Lazzeri had been the man and Crosetti had then all younger been wearing out, gave five runs back to the Detroit. 10; New York. 6. Cincinnati. 7: New York. 0. Gordon would have been the This sounds crazy, too, but Indians in the ninth. The Indians St. Louis 4: Washington. 3. St. Louis. 5-1: Boston 3-3. shortstop. Philadelphia. 12: Chicago. 10. Chicaeo. 7: Philadelphia, ft. refused to the Official Score Gordon can make plays at shortstop now that Crosetti can’t. Or if the accept proposition, Accused of Boston.