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Whitehead’s Curtailed No-Hitter Best of Five Fine Pitching Feats by Veterans
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
For the Sake of Variety, Let's Not
Astounding as it may seem to Uncle Mike Jacobs, there are a few
folk around town who are not precisely excited today over the prospect
of a Joe Louis-Bob Pastor fight in Griffith Stadium next month for the
heavyweight championship.
The people behind the movement are members of the local Variety
Club. This is fair enough. The Variety Clubbers aim to raise a little
revenue, which wdll be spent in behalf of charity. In recent years they
have taken to promoting a boxing show once a summer, or nearly so.
It was perhaps only natural the Variety folk should invade New
York and see Mr. Jacobs. After all. he controls most of the good fighters,
or, at least, most of the “name" fighters. To talk with Louis they must
talk first with Mr. J. That’s the way it works.
But let’s look at this thing a little more closely. According to Mr.
Jacobs, there may be a heavyweight title fight in Washington “if Pastor
beats Billy Conn” a week from today. We wonder if the Variety Club
folk got around to asking Mr. Jacobs w?hy he didn't say anything about
Louis and Conn "if Conn beats Pastor” a week from today.
But What Happens If Conn Wins?
In short, isn't Mr. Jacobs saying, in effect, that only the drippings
are good enough for Washington? Even if Conn is nothing more than a
weak-punching light heavyweight who can’t weigh within 17 pounds of
the Negro w’ith the terrific punch, there is some attraction to Louis versus
Conn. For one thing, Louis never has beaten Conn. In other words,
they’ve never met.
But Louis-Pastor represents only drippings. What other city wants
the fight? New York had it once. This was the time when Pastor
climbed on his bicycle and back-pedaled for 10 rounds to lose a decision.
Detroit had the same fight. Louis w'on by a knockout in the eleventh
round.
Nowt there can be enough of a good thing. Even Tobacco Road had
to come to an end. Pastor is no standout bum. No other man in the
world has fought 21 rounds with Louis. Twenty-one rounds means that
Pastor has devoted more than an hour to being in the same 24-foot
ring with a man who has dynamite in both fists. But when it’s boiled
down, what does this make a third meeting? The answer can be nothing
except an exhibition.
Conn-Louis is being saved—that is, if Conn licks Pastor, as he figures
to lick him—for New' York or Pittsburgh. Mr. Jacobs would not like to
have Washington take his coming Pat Comiskey-Louis fight, nor another
meeting which eventually may take place—young Charley Ketchuck
against Louis.
Washington Is Not a Great Fight Town
The impulse is to be painfully willing to go along with a heavyweight
championship match. After all, Washington never has had one. But not
this match—say, how many other ways can Pastor lose to Louis?—nor
can the town hope to have one of the better ones, such as Louis-Conn.
The enterprise of the Variety Club people is laudable and we are not
out to knock them. But there are some angles to be considered and it is
possible the boys didn't think of all of them when they waltzed into Uncle
Mike's office and put their proposition up to him.
In the first place, Washington isn't a great fight town. When Louis
fights the ringside seats sell for $27.50. How many Washingtonians are
going to pay this to see a fight? The highest they’ve ever been asked to
shell out was $5.50, and this was the time Petey Sarron fought Freddy
Milter for the featherweight championship. Incidentally, it was a police
benefit show and the coppers, as you may recall, have a lot of Fuller Brush
technique with them when they are selling something.
Comiskey, Ketchuck Not Ready Yet
Some highly technical obstacles come to mind, too, but they are not
to be taken seriously. We happen to be thinking, at the moment, of the
District Boxing Commission rules which prohibit out-of-town promoters,
such as Mr. Jacobs, from setting up their tents. Skirting this law, of
course, is simple. All Mr. Jacobs would need is a front, and where could
he find a better front than the Variety Club?
This department doesn't happen to be in the match-making business,
but it has the necessary brass to suggest to the Variety Clubbers to pull
out of the Louis-Pastor obligation, if any. Let’s assume that Pastor upsets
Conn. This would be a terrific blow to Mr. Jacobs because young Comiskey
is not ready yet and young Ketchuck is even farther away from a match
with Louis.
All a Pastor victory over Conn would lead one to believe is that all
of the logical heavyweight contenders are (1) eliminated or (2) not yet
ripe. In short, it would be proved that Baer, Galento, Godoy and Conn
are not deserving challengers. So there would remain Pastor, already
twice beaten by Louis, but preferable to the others because he went 21
rounds, or almost, in two fights.
What's Wrong With a Scalzo-Jeffra Bout?
We seem to feel that if the purpose of the Variety Club folk is to
put on a successful show and make a little dough it can be done without
employing fighters who will make off with most of the gate.
Offhand, this department can think of a match between Harry Jeffra,
the private bantamweight champion of Mike Jacobs, Inc., and Petey
Scalzo, who is the National Boxing Association’s idea of the champ. They
won't sell out the ball park, but neither will Louis and Pastor. Or, with
a little hard work, the Variety boys might be able to get Ken Overlin, who
claims he is a Washington boy and who has the New York middleweight
title, to fight Tony Zale, the guy who knocked out A1 Hostak to win the
N. B. A. crown.
These aren’t what the trade might call terrific, but they might be
adequate. Jeffra still is the guy who was robbed of the title once in Mr.
Griffith's arena and Scalzo used Washington as a springboard to national
ranking. Zale is a stranger, but Overlin isn’t. He used to fight here
when most of us were a good many years younger. And both of these
matches are likely to cost a good deal less than No. 3 in the series of
Louis-Pastor.
These are only friendly and well-meant tips. If the Variety Clubbers
want another Louis-Pastor affair—providing, of course, that Pastor gets
by Conn—that’s their affair. Only this department is afraid there won’t
be much variety attached to it.
Major League Statistics
TUESDAY. AUGUST 0. 1040.
AMERICAN
Resulta Yesterday.
Detroit, 0—0; St. Louis. 2—4 (second
fame 6Mj Innings).
Cleveland. 10: Chicago. 1.
Boston. 4: New York, 1.
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Phila. at Wash.. .3:15. Phila. at Wash.. 3:15.
Cleve. at Chi. (2). Cleve. at Chicago.
Det. at St. L. (night). Detroit at 6t. Louis.
N. Y. at Boston. N. Y. at Boston (2).
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Results Yesterday.
Brooklyn. 6: New York, 0 (night).
Only game scheduled.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Chicago at Cincl. Chicago at Cinci.
Boston at Phila. (2). Boston at Phlla.
St. L. at Pitt. (2). St. L. at Pitt.
Only games. Bkln. at N.Y. (night).
Conn vs. Pastor
Victor to Get
Louis Fight
D. C., Chicago, Detroit
Bidding to See Bob
Battle Champion
By SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—With the
gorgeous figure of Madcap Maxie
Baer apparently painted out of the
title picture, “Artist” Mike Jacobs is
getting ready to sketch the winner
of next week's Bob Pastor-Billy
Conn tussle in against Joe Louis in
September, wherever there's the best
demand for such art.
Into his Broadway studio com
mittees are coming almost daily to
see what they can do about landing
this fall spectacle. He's already en
tertained propositions from Detroit,
Chicago, Pittsburgh and Washing
ton.
Max Demands $50,000.
Madcap Maxie was supposed to
get the title shot as a result of his
recent win over Tony the globular
Galento. But Madcap Maxie has the
idea that if he risks life and limb
against Louis again, anywhere, it
should be worth a guarantee of
$50,000. And, ever since Mike had
to dig ’way into the sock to pay off
the costly collection of ivory for his
“carnival of champions” some four
years ago he’s guaranteeing "nuthin’
to nobody.”
A w-eek ago Mike announced that
Conn, if he passed Pastor next
Tuesday in the Polo Grounds, would
get Louis as a “reward.” Today he
expanded that to include Pastor and
j added that Detroit, Chicago and
Washington have approached him
on a third set-to between the
Bomber and Bobby, provided Bob
takes care of Conn in the approved
manner. Gabe Menendez and Bill
McCormick came up from Washing
ton yesterday to talk about it and
went home with a promise that there
was a very good chance the tea
party would go to Griffith Stadium.
As for a Conn-Louis get-together
—If Pretty Boy Billy does that
thing1 to Pastor—it's between Pitts
burgh and New York. Boxing Com
missioner Havey Boyle came up on
behalf of the Smoky City and ad
vised “Uncle Mike” that Mrs. R. K.
Mellon of the Pittsburgh Mellons
was interested. Mike said that he'd
bear the bid in mind, but he said
this much today:
“If Conn wins next week, and by
a kayo or a lop-sided edge. I'll have
to put him in with Louis right here
in New York.”
Capital Skeet Stars
Seek U. S. Honors
In Field of 300
Toughest Test in Game
Draws Many Champs
To Syracuse Meet
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 6.—A
sizable contingent of skeet en
thusiasts from Washington, D. C.,
was among the field of more than
300 who today descended on this
city for the start of the sixth an
nual national skeet championships
at the Onondaga Skeet and Trap
Club.
Crack shots from all over the
country, lugging enough artillery
to start a small blitzkrieg, will shoot
it out in the season's largest and
toughest competition—250 clay
pigeons. The firing will continue
through Saturday, when the mas
sive Founders’ Bowl will be pre
sented the all-gaiige winner.
Washington Shots Confident.
W. W. <Bill) Rapley, Rufus Wat
sin, Joe Gamble, George Deyoe, Dr.
Raymond Curry, Joe George, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Walker, Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Coe were among
the contestants from the Nation's
Capital. Taking home a slice of
the bacon is a man-sized task, but
the Washington gunners are con
fident of getting their share.
The 1939 champions who will de
fend their titles are Walt Dinger,
Tulsa, Okla., national all-gauge;
Don Sperry, Flint, Mich., 20-gauge
and small gauge; Richard Shaugh
nessy, Dedham, Mass., sub-small
gauge; Robert Parker, Tulsa, Okla.,
junior and high over all, and
Johnny Kost, Los Angeles, sub
Junior champion.
Fair Marksmen Defend Titles.
Blond Patricia Laursen, Akron,
Ohio, will defend the women’s all
gauge crown she won last year at
Los Angeles, while Mrs. M. L.
Smythe of Aurora, 111., will defend
her small-gauge and sub-small
gauge titles. Mrs. E. B. Hochwalt,
Edmonds, Wash., is the defending
20-gauge champion, and Miss Diana
Wilkinson, Oakland, Calif., junior
titlist. _
CAN YOU SPARE IT, MIKE? —By CROCKETT
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Masterson Gaining Confidence
Necessary to Earn Regular
Slab Job With Nationals
By BURTON HAWKINS.
A revised and moderately im
proved Washington baseball club
returned to Griffith Stadium today,
equipped with a new and acceptable
first baseman in stubby Jimmy
Bloodworth and a pitching staff
which is squared away more promis
ingly than at any time this season.
Washington, of course, isn't go
ing anywhere in particular in the
current campaign, but the peren
nial plea of "wait until next year’’
now seems to pack more punch than
; similar statements issued in the
! sunset of other seasons.
The Nats seemingly own three of
: the league's more highly regarded
pitchers in Dutch Leonard, Ken
Chase and Sid Hudson and, if con
fidence is any criterion, 20-vear-old
Walter Masterson is poised to aid
that threesome tremendously in
1941.
Masterson, who has served two
full seasons with the Nats, feels he
will begin to reach his peak next
year. The bespectacled youngster,
who graduated from Philadelphia
sandlots to a major league team,
says he has benefited from his
comparatively brief association w.th
the Nats and will be ready to prove
it another year.
Walter Glad He Missed Minors.
“It’s been said I should have
served a coupla years with a minor
league team before coming into
the majors,’’ says Masterson, “but
I don’t believe it. I think I've
learned more in two years with
Washington than I could in five
seasons with a minor league team.
“In the first place players and
coaches in the majors are smarter
than anybody in minor leagues—
if they weren’t they wouldn't be
with the best teams. I've learned
a lot and I believe by next year
I'll be able to help this club plenty.
“The other day, for instance, I
pitched against Cleveland rnd had
my ears pinned back in the first
game of a double-header. Down in
the bull pen during the second game
Rick Ferrell took me aside and
said, ‘Walter, your curve is too
slow. Speed it up and you’ll be
more effective.’
“Well, for the next few days I
worked on that with Bennie Ben
gough. I developed more speed on
my curve and I can throw it from
three angles, sidearm, three-quarters
and overhand. I think I’ll be a
better pitcher for taking that tip
from Ferrell.
"Then, too, I’ve learned a iot
about pitching to certain batters,
the same batters I’ll be pitching to
in future years if I'm fortunate
enough to make«the grade. Some
of ’em can’t nick a ball low and
inside and others are suckers for
other spots.
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.
Schoolboy Rowe. Tigers, and John
Whitehead. Browns — Former's 6-hit
hurling won first game and latter
pitched no-hit. no-run ball for six in
nings to take niahtcap.
Mel Harder. Indiana—Held White
Sox to five hits.
Jimmie Foxx and Frits Ostermueller,
Red Sox—Former hit his 25th homer
with one on and latter kept seven hit*
by Yankee* well scattered
Whitlow Wyatt. Dodger*—Bhut out
the Giants with six hits.
Out-of-State Colleges Shanghai Kansas Grid Stars
Artie McGovern May Get Job of Whipping Willkie Into Shape For Campaign
By BILL WHITE,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. Aug. 6.—College
chatter: All that heat out in
Kansas isn't generated by the
sun. The folks are getting all
het up (1940 version) over raids
made on native sons by out-of
State colleges. Latest to get
away was the very good Ger
ald Tucker of Winfield, who
will wear Northwestern's purple.
Bob (Baby) Doll, Colorado U.’s
crafty eager, has a job in Cali
fornia and won't be back to bol
ster that Buff machine. Jim
Phelan thinks Oregon State may
Inhale the aroma of the Rose
Bawl this year. Bill Nowling of
r\
t /
St. Pete (Fla.l is another reason
Tennessee'll be tough. Ralph
Miller. Kansas U.’s fine passer,
may stay out a year and let his
trick knee heal. Washington' U.
of St. Looey is ready to give up
the ghost after this grid season.
Paul Christman, the marvel from
Mizzou can't have tonsilitis any
more.
One-minute interview—Tennis
Star Gracyn Wheeler: “Every
time I go out to play Alice Marble
I honestly think I' going to beat
her—but I never do. I’m going
to keep on trying, though. Some
day I’ll do it—and faint.”
Personalities: Artie McGovern
may get the assignment of whip
V
ping Wendell Willkie into shape
for the campaign. The marriage
of Walter Brown, manager of
the Boston Garden, takes one
of Beantown's most eligible
bachelors offn the list. Washing
" ton writers say young Sid Hudson
is the third best fielding pitcher
in Nat history (Walter Johnson
and Jack Russell were the tops.)
Here ’n’ there: Everybody here
feels badly over the death of
Eddie Galiani, turf writer on the
World-Telly. Paul Shu, former
V. M. I. great, will enter the
service soon. He’d rather be a
marine than a pro footballer.
Don’t be surprised if Clarence
Munn Is the new Michigan coach
/
when Yost is forced to retire and
Fritz Crisler moves into the front
office. Mickey Parks told friends
in Oklahoma City that the. Wash
ington Redskins, where he plays
center, will either win the pro
bunting this year or face a terrific
shake-up.
From the mail bag—“The
afternoon feature of the New
York Baseball Writers’ field day
will be the time-honored annual
ball game between the New York
and Brooklyn chapters for the
John J. McGraw Trophy. Every
thing possible will then be done
to revive the contestants.”—John
Dreblnger, N. Y. Times.
k
“I still have plenty to learn, but
I believe I’ve learned more being
with a major league club then I
possibly could have spending the
same time with a minor club. I feel,
in my own heart, that I've improved
vastly since reporting to Washington
and I think I can prove it in another
full season.
Masterson and Hudson are Man
ager Bucky Harris’ pitching pets
and not without reason. Hudson,
a natural from the outset, has hit
a winning stride after a slow start,
learning rapidly and applying the
knowledge effectively. He is cal
culated as a Washington regular
for many years hence.
Should Masterson acquire the
same finesse, and he feels he is
en route to that goal, the Nats would
own a pair of young pitchers des
tined to remain among the mound
elite for a prolonged period. Bucky
believes they both are equipped with
enough courage, brains and ability
to fashion' brilliant careers.
Hudson was to pitch today as
the Nats opened a three-game series
with the Athletics here and was to
seek to prolong Washington's baby
winning streak of two games. The
Red Sox will invade for three games
starting Friday.
Players Raising Fund
To Right Hurt Leg
Of Phil Helper
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 6.—Contri
butions from players on the eight
National League baseball clubs'may
bring back to Ted Kessler full use
of the leg he injured in an automo
bile accident nine years ago.
They chipped in nearly $500 to pay
for an operation to the clubhouse
man for visiting teams at Shibe
Park, home of the Phillies.
Kessler, father of four children,
has used a cane to get around since
the accident. He has been in charge
of the visitors’ clubhouse for 13 years
and before that was batboy for the
visitors.
Mace Brown, Pittsburgh pitcher,
started the collection and was as
sisted by Coach Hans Lobert of the
Phils.
Both Archery Champs
Are Defending in
National Shoot
Chambers, Jean Tenney
Set Marks Last Year;
Action Starts Today
Ey the Associated Press.
AMHERST. Mass.. Aug. 6.—Led by
National Champion Pat Chambers of
Portland, Oreg.. contestants in the
60th annual National Archery As
sociation tournament at Massachu
setts State College start today on a
two-day contest in the popular York
rounds.
Contestants are required to shoot
72 arrows at 100 yards, 48 at 80 and
24 at 60 yards. Chambers established
the association record with his
score of 134—826 for the single York
event in last year’s national tour
ney. The double York record, 262—
1,614, was set by Chambers in 1938.
Jean Tenney of Clear Spring,
Md., opens the defense of the single
national women's title, which she
W'on last year with a record score
Of 72—494.
In the afternoon round the women
will be shooting for the 72—552
mark in the single Columbia, which
was set last year by Mrs. Beatrice
Hodgson of San Pedro, Calif.
Ole Firesides Ahead
A late rally with C. Wilhoit driving
in the winning run won for Ole
Fireside over the Hyattsville P. B. C.,
7-5. Buddy Dixon W'as the winning
pitcher with a six-hit performance.
Brown and Hutch Shine
Brown, shortstop, and Hutch,
right fielder, each got four hits and
four runs to lead the way as the
Georgetown baseball team downed
Davidsonville, 17-5.
Louis-Pastor Go Here Seems
Sure if Latter Disposes
Of Conn Next Week
Aided and abetted by the Variety
Club, Promoter Joe Turner is ready
to hock the family jewels to bring
Joe Louis here for a title match
with Bob Pastor in September.
Articles for the same have been
signed and sealed and are awaiting
delivery by Pastor, who must hur
dle Pittsburgh Billy Conn before
Washington can have a peek at
Louis in a title match.
Ambassador El Gabriel Menendez,
who puffs a big, black corona and
makes matches for Turner when
not serving on diplomatic missions
to New York, put out a feeler for
the Louis match one month ago
when he offered Jacobs a straight
60 per cent of the gross for a Louis
match at Griffith Stadium. El
Gabriel wanted to make a flat offer
of a $45,000 guarantee with a priv
ilege of 50 per cent of the gate but
Turner turned thumbs down on the
idea.
John Roxborough, chairman of
the board of Joe Louis, Inc., also
rejected the idea and Jacobs
wouldn’t even listen. The gentle
man of the loose-leaf teeth wanted
as much as 75 per cent for renting
out his chattel, but Turned balked
at that figure. Sixty, maybe, but
not 75.
Turner and Menendez first had
ideas of a Louis-Baer fight and it
was dlScussed by members of the
Variety Club, Turner and Roxbor
ough hi the early morning hours
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two weeks ago after Louis refereed
a bout at the ball park. The plan
was discarded, however, when Rox
borough announced Baer wanted a
$50,000 guarantee.
At any rate, the .Louis-Pastor
match is in—if Bob gets by Conn
next week. In the fistic fraternity
Pastor is a slight favorite over the
Pittsburgh fancy Dan because* of
his experience, weight and punch,
and both Turner and Menendez
think Bob will battle his way right
into a third ^meeting with Louis
at the stadium. Louis already holds
a 10-round decision and eleventh
round knockout over the reformed
football player.
Sees Gate Above $150,000.
Turner is confident Louis and
Pastor would lure a record crowd
to the stadium and hang up a new
financial mark for future promo
tions. He honestly believes the
match will draw between $150,000
and $200,000, with a top price of
$16.50 for ringside seats. Jacobs, of
course, wants the standard top of
$27.50 for ringside pews, but both
Turner and the Variety Club feel
that is a trifle high for Washington
purses—even the fattest.
In the event that Conn whips
Pastor, Variety Club officials will
exert every effort to bring Billy here
against Louis, but it is conjectural
if they can get this match, as Conn’s
home town and Detroit are bidding
for It. I
New 6-Club Grid Loop
Has Fight to Retain
Name ''American”
Another Claims Title
Taken by League of
East-Midwest Teams
By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Aug. 6.—1The
“American Professional Football
League" was a toddling infant to
day, after a hectic birth, and it
appeared that it might learn early
an important natural law—survival
of the fittest.
Only a few hours after the organ
izers took two days to elect officers,
decide a schedule and select team
names, the new league's right to call
itself the “American Professional
Football League” had been ques
tioned by an organization claiming
it Is in business under the same
name.
In Cincinnati Charles J. Heitzler.
“president of the American Profes
sional Football League.” declared
the loop formed in Buffalo had no
authority to use the name "Amer
ican.”
Will Draft College Talent.
He said his organization, five
years old and formerly known as
the Midwest Professional Football
League, wras incorporated as the
American last year.
Meanwhile, William D. Griffith,
Columbus, Ohio, president of the
Buffalo-bom "American” League,
asserted member teams would be
allowed to draft college players,
who were not still in school, begin
ning next year.
Griffith, former Ohio State Uni
versity publicity director, listed the
six teams in his league, their nick
names and home stadiums as fol
lows:
Buffalo, N. Y.; Indians, Civic
Stadium.
Boston, Mass.; Bears, Fenway
Park.
New York City, Yankees, Yankee
Stadium.
Cincinnati, Ohio; Bengals, Cros
ley Field.
Columbus, Ohio; Bullies, Red Bird
Stadium.
Milwaukee, Wis.; Chiefs, Dairy
Bowl.
A 25-player limit for each team
has been set, Griffith said, with
three additional players for the
"suspended list,” but a minimum of
20 players will be required for each
squad.
Starts Play September 15.
Griffith said the league’s sched
ule would be played on a home-and
home basis from September 15 to
December 1. Headquarters will be
at Columbus, he said.
Other officers elected yesterday
are Phil Bucklew, Columbus, vice
president, and Frank Dalton of New
York, secretary-treasurer.
The Board of Directors are F. E.
Seick, Buffalo; Jack McBride, New
York; Sheldon H. Fairbanks, Bos
ton; George M. Harris. Milwaukee;
Dana King, Cincinnati, and Fred
Schmidt, Columbus.
Loop Games One-Sided
Two one-sided games are on the
nooks after yesterday’s play in the
Hot Shoppe Softball League. Con
necticut Avenue swamped Rhode
Island Avenue, 17-4, while Friend
ship crushed Florida Avenue, 15-5.
BASEBALL JtfK
Washington vs. Philadelphia
AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK
Tomorrow—Phila.—3:15 P.M.
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Osfermueller,
Rowe, Harder
Also Shine
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Dodgers' Aged Wyatt
Shares Limelight in
Blanking Giants
Bv JFDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
Like decrepit fire horses answer^
ing the summons of a familiar bell,
a quartet of the American League’s
tottering pitchers came charging
onto the firing line yesterday with
some of the season’s best hurling,
including an abbreviated no-hitter.
Silent John Whitehead, who
hadn’t won a game this season and
was so ineffective the St. Louis
Browns sent him to the minors for
a spell, blanked the Detroit Tigers,
4-0, without a hit in the second
\ game of a double-header and
i knocked the Bengals out of first
place.
Whitehead pitched only six in
I nings, because rain halted the game,
I and his performance won’t get his
! name on the no-hit hall of fame
list that Cleveland's Bob Feller and
Brooklyn’s Tex Carleton made early
] this season.
Browns Giant Killers.
But it was a noteworthy bit of
workmanship for Whitey. who could
win but one game all last year, and
it kept up the Browns’ favorite side
line of knocking off the pacemakers.
Previously this year they had
| bounced the Boston Red Sox and
j the Cleveland Indians out of first
place.
Schoolboy Rowe, who also served
a term in the minors with the grim
prospect that he might not come
back, pitched six-hit ball to give De
troit a 9-2 verdict in the first game,
j It was the 10th victory against two
| defeats for Rowe, who had the help
of home runs by Rudy York and
Dick Bartell.
Melvin Le Roy Harder, who has
been so near the skids this year the
fans in Cleveland had taken to
booing him. pitched the Indians to
a 10-1 triumph over the Chicago
White Sox and back into the league
lead by a scant percentage margin.
Harder came within one home run
by Mike Kreevich of getting a
shutout and gave only five hits over
the route.
Another admirable comeback was
the seven-hit, 4-to-l victory Fritz .
Ostermueller earned for the Red
Sox over the New York Yankees.
The little lefthander, who will be
33 years old next month, hadn't
I pitched a complete game until a
couple of wreeks ago. but this was
his third in four starts and a worthy
one.
He didn't give more than one hit
in any inning and the only time
j he was scored upon was the eighth,
I when he walked two men ahead of
| a single by Joe Di Maggio.
Foxx, Henrich Both Help.
Jimmie Foxx hit his 25th homer
with one on to help out and Yankee
Outfielder Tommy Henrich forgot
how many were out in the fourth
and intentionally dropped a fly try
ing for a double play with two
already down.
Whitlow Wyatt, an oldtimer resur
rected from the minors last year,
shutout the New York Giants, 6-0,
last night with a six-hitter for the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
This was the only action in the
National League yesterday and the
first time the two teams ever had
met at night. Wyatt never gave
the Giants a chance and had lots
of help from his mates, especially
Dixie Walker, who made four hits.
Senate Gains Loop Lead
By 9th-lnning Victory
feenate Beer is back in first place
in the Tri-State Softball League,
having moved there by defeating
Standard Linen, 10-8, last night at
Ballston Stadium.
The Beermen trailed by four runs
entering the last inning, but rallied
for six runs to take the game. In
the preliminary game Harrell hurled
a one-hitter as Tru-Blu downed
Cameo, 5-1.
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