The Monitor-Leader VEDNESDAY AUGUST 12, 1942 PAGE 7 Leander Victory Opens Twilight Loop Playoffs ‘Lou, You’re OK’ Coaches Get Taste of Their Own Medicine Sarver Hurls 2-Hitter ' Indian Bradley Signs Boudreau to New Milnar 1-Year Contract as Indian Pilot to Trounce Eagles, 10-1 jVery,Very During nearly three months of Hubarth Sc Schott-H illcre a RAY BLOSSER Sad t ¦•7 play of the regular season, the game CLEVELAND, Aug 12 (tf*) Baseball's “boy manager,” on Friday while the Eagles ¦ Eagles apparently held num- Boudreau, has made good with Boss Alva Bradley, tv the will meet the loser tomorrow lou known to jr of the Hie trade as a tough man on managers who Ke^'i ber Leander Case team. evening. don’t win. Today t . Pitcher The two outfits met in three The white-haired president walked into the Piling up ten hits in dif- Bj Cleveland club’s games, and the Cafers two room last night and surprised the Indians w r ord were ferent frames, Leander— ¦jressing with the Has No-Hifter for dumped twice. which Bjiat Lou barely 25 years old had been signed to lead them ¦ won the Junior Softball League Hirough the 1945 season. 8 2 3 Innings, Then ®J¦Mi/ But last night, playing in the crown last year scored all of I Players cheered and Boudreau, who has the Tribe scrapping yi|:,? Jj Twilight Softball League's open- their runs in the same two Cramer Gets Single * ? Htfith Boston for second place despite the loss of pitcher Bob Feller, A* wj~v ing playoff game, it was a dif- frames. Their opponents, held * ¦ »sponded: BY AUSTIN BEALMEAR .ii - B|p 4jggttfg^i|]|i| | | nlr m ferent story. Meeting in a Red hit less over the first four in- i Division game at Griffith, nings, collected one in the B “Naturally I’m happy, but I Associated Press Sports Writer which blow ¦ ’ant you fellows to know that With the New York Yankees had been postponed once be- fifth, as Vernon Smith laid out a Im not fooling myself. It’s you and Brooklyn monop- cause of rain. Leander trounced clean single over right short, Dodgers ~ v opponent, and another A on B'ho have done the job for me.” olizing the major league pen- » V sv\ U their 10-1. behind the Preston Smith’s •¦ single in the sixth. Half-Million i two-hit pitching of Ed Sarver. [(ORE THAN $25,000 nant races, fans who like their • '.wnor i»iw«"‘ '‘ W II ' - JSHI The losers’ only ¦ Although the present contract baseball close must be getting 9* p»' .'¦«?**»*¦r % PLAY AGAIN FRIDAY run came aft- days \ | "¦ er a rash of in the Harried through 1943, Bradley an occasional thrill these The victory places Leandcr errors sev- out enth. With Warren Ray third, I ffered no explanation why a Bucks to Army of the way the other first against the w-inner of tonight’s at Vance ¦ew three-year document was division clubs are scrapping for Crane, who had also the reached first on an stole ¦ gned for 1943 That's Ivory Value consolation prizes. error, second and catcher’s Joe “The I irough 194 5. Yesterday, for instance, the of Departing Tigers Nice Start Silent’’ Jackson’s throw to cut I !e also made no Cleveland Indians battled the Detroit Tigers him off let Ray in. Kiention of a DETROIT, Aug. 12— UP) for 14 innings LEANDER AH R H E without a score on either side. Krobrrg. If 4 1 2 0 SARVER Hilary increase, of the Detroit Tigers D. Kirin. 3b TRIPLES Followers Coaches get on receiving end of obstacle course at St Mary’s Naval Pre-Flight School 4 112 it pre- reckoned today that the club is While the Tribe missed a chance at Moraga, B. Klein, cf 4 0 2 0 gave a K<dt was Calif. Left to right: Spec Keene. Willamette; Jim Dixon. Oregon State, and Eldon Jackson, Leander hint of their to retake second place in the Jenne, Portland c 4 0 0 0 power Himed he had yielding upwards of half a mil- «<ake hurdles as Lieuts Vaughn Corley and Tex Oliver, former Oregon mentors, crack L. Trombley, lb 4 0 0 1 in the second. Facing American League, the deadlock the whip. Trombley. ¦ iven his play- lion dollars in ball playing tal- G Is 2 110 Crane the Eagles’ regular produced the nearest thing to a Wf i!son. rs 3 110 Ilg short stop ent to the military services of D 2b hurler. Jack Strubank, was ab- no-hit game in the current cam- Trombley, 3 2 1 1 lore than the • V V the nation. Schwan, rs 3 2 1 n sent Gordon “Tony” Trom- I paign. Sarver. p 3 2 2 25,000 ? ) 0 bley laid out a double and was I annual- ~ This unofficial estimate was Ater playing to a standoff in A&WWins Right to Oppose singled I v believed to be f f made as catcher George (Birdie) Clovers Help Total 34 10 11 4 in by Bill Wilson. Two the twilight half of a double- choices put ¦ ailed for in the Tebbetts prepared to leave for EAGLES AB R H E fielder’s men on header, the two teams came Ray. 3b base, resent legal his Nashua, N. H., home to be- L G in Junior Loop Finals 3 10 1 Wilson scoring on one, ¦ Crane, . fir p V' back under the lights and De- Lucille, Betty 3 0 0 0 and then Ed Sarver tripled I apers. come the seventh Tiger to pull V. Smith, 2b. Is 3 0 1 2 to troit triumphed, 3-2. Newsboys, 11 5, Rachow, If drive in two ¦ Only after a Lou Boudreau on one of Uncle Sam’s fighting Defeat 0 0 0 0 runners. Outfielder will Thus the Boston Red Sox, who V. Anding, Is 2 0 0 0 Fred Froberg singled Sarver in of hesitation late last year man’s uniforms. Tebbets be but to Victory Godfrey, lb 2 0 0 0 B'eek stopped the Yankees 3-2 in an Losers' Hurler Now for Finals Chapman, for the fifth tally. ¦id Bradley appoint Boudreau inducted into the Army. lb 2 0 0 0 11-inning daylight tilt, retained is Absent from Game BY DAVE HOFF A. Rachow. c 2 0 0 0 In the fourth, six consecutive ¦he Indians’ 15th pilot since Preceding Tebbetts were out- possession of a a vv AB R II i P Smith, cf. 2b 1 0' 1 0 second place .at Wakefield, If hits, including a double ¦ club joined the American fielder Hank Greenberg, for Charboneau 2 0 0 0 CHICAGO. Aug 12 uP) 2 0 0 2 by Mer- least for another day. A & W Root Beer, a team B. Tromblev, 3b 2 0 0 0 Duprey, rs 2 0 0 0 ritt whom Detroit probably could Hufstedler, Lucille Mann and Betty Jame- Schwan, led to five more K <eague in 1901. Lou made a GIANTS REGAIN 3RD w'hich was accorded the favor- 2b 3 2 10 have asked $150,000 from any Conti, ss 3 1 1 0 son believe in the Luck of the Total 22 1 2 5 runs. loecial trip to Cleveland to ask At the same time, the New ite’s position in the Junior Soft- Wesley, lb 2 2 0 other ball pitcher Freddie 4 Clover —and a lot of folks be- Sarver, incidentally, BSr the job, vacated by eleva- team; York Giants recaptured third ball League three months ago Mmhion. rs 2 0 0 0 led hit Hutchison, for whom the Tigers Mass, If 4 0 10 lieve Lucille and Betty willplay team at the plate, getting K on of Roger Peckinpaugh to place in the National League when play opened, reached the Barline, 0 two paid $70,000; infielder Billy c 4 0 0 for the Women's Western Ama- hits in three trips. This in* No. 1 front office post. Brad- from Cincinnati by beating the playoff finals last night. Ross, rs 1 2 0 0 Towers Girls was $50,000; Pat Sahrow. p 2 3 1 0 teur golf championship Satur- somewhat startling to veteran ley said no. Hitchcock, who cost Boston Braves, 6-4, while the Mullin, young outfield sensation Defeated last week in an up- Maikoski. cf 3 13 0 day. followers of the Red league, “I still think I’m the man for Reds were going down before Brown, cf 0 0 0 0 Play at who I set by the L & G ten, the Root Mack recall that he’d gotten only of 1941, and pitchers Bob Uhle 3-1, Betty, who won two national three ¦he job,” Lou declared as he the Pittsburgh Pirates, Total 30 11 8 0 and Les Mueller. Beer ten last night was battling previous safeties this <— out the door. At Cleveland, Lefty A1 Mil- titles and took the Western This season E/alked for the right their con- June, Evening as testified to by his place thought Next to go may be Coach nar of the Indians bid seriously to meet MONITOR-LEADER AB R H E Open last always plays 10th 1 Bradley more and ap- queror Thursday, battling D Donaldson, p 3 l 1 1 Smashing Algonac, batting position. He Charley Gehringer, who has - 20-3, the was in top for the first no hitter since W. Mertz. lb 2 1 0 0 with a clover leaf in her mouth.