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by JAMES C. APPERSON
JUST THE thing to start a rabid Cub fan drooling is the re
cent release sent out by Charley Segar of the National League Serv
ice Bureau. In the course of his comment. Scribe Segar points out
that September is the month when the Cubs can really get hot with
pennant fever. As if this isn’t enough to get a Cub fanatic (built
along the lines of a certain Chicago sports announcer) foaming at
the mouth over a pennant-retaining mirage, Segar goes into detail.
For instance:
“The best percentage for September was attained by the Chi
cago Cubs in 1935; The Cubs that year, under the able leadership
of Charley Grimm, were 10 games out of first place on July 6.
Then they began clicking and, in a driving finish, they romped off
with the pennant. They won 21 straight games in September and
had a total of 23 victories and 3 defeats for the month, clinching
the pennant on September 27 and finishing two games ahead of
the Cardinals.”
Not only does Segar incite the dyed-in-the-wool Cub fan with
a thrilling last-minute flag chase that ends successfully, but he adds
fresh coals to the fire by picking a chase wherein the St. Louis Car
dinals end up two games short of the coveted bunting. There should
be a law against putting this kind of idea in a never-say-die Cub
follower s head. There’s no telling what effect it may have on his
purse strings.
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BUT DOES Segar let it go at this one description, oh no, he
then goes on to describe the Chicagoans’ similar drives of 1906 and
the famous one of 1938, climaxed by Gabby Hartnett’s timely in
the-dark home run on Sept. 28. Writes Segar:
"The Chicago Cubs of 1906 and 1938 each won 21 games and
lost 5 during September of those years. The 1906 team apparently
didn’t do badly in any month as that aggregation won 116 games,
a record for the major leagues. Gabby Hartnett’s 1938 team didn’t
have any such easy going. The Cubs that year were 3 I A games be
hind the Pirates on September 20. On September 27 they had re
duced the margin to half a game.
"Then, on September 28 in Chicago, with darkness enveloping
the field, Hartnett hit his dramatic home run off Mace Brown in
the ninth inning after the Pirates’ pitcher had two strikes on Gabby.
This four bagger won the \game, 6 to 5,' and put the Cubs in front
by half a game. They beat the Pirates three straight and cinched
the flag with only one day to go.”
Mind you, Segar, enough of this variety of propaganda and a
White Sox fan won’t be able to show face on the city’s streets for
the rest of the month.
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THE CHICAGO STAR, SEPTEMBER U, 191 t 6
Bids for World Series
Tickets Deluge Boston
BOSTON lf you’re a base
ball fan your chances of seeing a
World Series game in Boston
next month are roughly one in
seven. The Boston Red Sox to
night announced 70,000 grand
stand seats would be available
for the three games at Fenway
Park.
But the American League club
estimated 250,000 fans would
want two tickets apiece the
maximum so the demand
would run about 500,000 tickets.
The unenviable task of decid
ing the lucky 70,000 fans will fall
to 40 "extras” whom the club has
hired to handle the ticket rush
beginning tomorrow.
Thousands of fans jammed
banks, post offices and telegraph
stations today preparing their ap
plications. Those postmarked be
fore midnight will be rejected.
Branch post offices ran out of
money orders and banks reported
lines four deep waiting for certi
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Test your baseball knowledge
By CHARLEY SEGAR
Wow well do you know
your baseball loreT Charley
Seegar, scribe of the National
League Service Bureau, goes
over the ins and outs of the
game. He asks: “Do you
know . . . .”
The honor of being the first
pitcher in the National League
to register a victory over every
opposing team this year goes to
Hugh Casey? The Dodgers’ right
hander achieved this distinction
on July 27 when he was returned
the winner in a relief role against
the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was
his eighth triumph, two of these
having been scored against Cin
cinnati.
July .6, 1946, will always be a
red-letter day in the life of Mike
Budnick, the Giants’ right hand
ed pitcher-? On that day he not
only achieved his first victory by
winning over the Phillies, but he
fashioned his first major league
home run and this wallop decided
the outcome of a 7 to 6 affair.
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Dain Clay, the Cincinnati Reds’
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outfielder, had played in 312
games and had hit only one home
run? He has improved that mark
this year for, up to August 28,
he had fashioned two round trip
pers for the season.
PETE REISER, the Brooklyn
Dodgers’ speed boy, has stolen
more bases this season than he
had in all his previous years in
the National League? Up to this
season, Pistol Pete had pilfered
only 26 bases. In his base steal
ing exploits this year Reiser has
stolen home more times than any
other player in the league’s his
tory—at least, no one has come
forward with any statistics to dis
prove Reiser’s claim to this hon
or.
Two former Gl’s, who were
discharged from service recently,
made their appearance on the
mound in the same game and in
the same inning? This happened
on August 25 in St Louis with
the Cardinals and- Dodgers bat
tling. George Munger was sent
in by the Red Birds as a relief
hurler in the eighth inning and,
in the latter half of that inning,
Cal McLish was used as a relief
pitcher by the Dodgers.
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