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808 OLIVER, SPORTS EDITOR
Pitching Tips, T hrills
Leonard Features Control---
And A Tricky Knuckle Ball
BY FRANK ECK
~ AP Newsfeature Sports Editor
Control is needed for a kid, or
anybody for that matter to be
come a winner pitcher,” says
Emil (Dutch) Leonard, winner of
—Last as a Series—
more han 160 games during his
15 vears in the majors.
“If a kid can acquire control
he can pitch,” emphasizes the
3%7-year-old ace who won 17
games for the Philadelphia
Phillies last season. “I've main
tained for a long time that even
if a pitcher shoots a ball out of
a cannon the batters still will
egt thir bat around.
“You've got to have that con
trol. After that it's up to the
pitcher to study the batter’s weak
points.
“I first went to Brooklyn in
1933 and in 34 I monkeyed
around with a knuckle ball. The
boys on the team talked about it
one day end I told Manager Ca
sey Stengel 1 could throw a
knuckler pretty good. ‘
“Otto Miller was sent to the |
sidelines to see how good it |
broke. Well the first time Otto
tried to catch my knuckler it
hit him on the knee, That con
vinced Stengel—and Miller —
that I had a fair knuckler.”
Leonard says he has had “two
or three big thrills” during his
brilliant career. One was his
-BOWLING RESULTS
Normal Grocery, The Banner-Herald and Industrial
Laundry emerged victors from play in the Banner-Herald
Pin Association last night, as the league headed into its
last two weeks of existence,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Batting—W illiams, Boston .378;
Boudreau, Cleveland .365.
Runs batted in—Stephens, Bos
ton and DiMaggio, New York 112.
Runs—Williams, Boston 90; Di-
Maggio, Boston 89.
Hits—Boudreau, Cleveland 150;
Mitchell, Cleveland 143.
Doubles—Henrich, New York
32; Priddy and Zarilla, St. Louis
28.
Triples—Stewart, Washington
13; DiMaggio, New York 11.
Home runs—DiMaggio, New
York 28; Stephens, Boston 26.
Stolen bases — Dillinger, St.
Louis 22; Coan, Washington 18.
Strikeouts—Brissie, Philadelphia
112; Feller, Cleveland 116. »
Pitching—Kramer, Boston 14-4
.778; Raschi, New York 11-5 .773.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Batting—Musial, St. Louis .384;
Pafko, Chicago .333.
« Runs batted in—Mize, New
¥ork 97; Musial, St. Louis 96.
Runs—Musial, St. Louis 105;
Lockman, New York 90.
Hits—Musial, St. Louis 176;
Ashburn, Philadelphia, 142.
Doubles—Musial, St. Louis 34;
Ennis, Philadelphia 30.
Triples—Musial, St. Louis 13;
Hopp, Pittsburgh 11.
Home runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh
32; Mize, New York 31.
Stolen bases—Ashburn, Phila
delphia 29; Torgeson, Boston 17.
Strikeouts—Blackwell, Cincin
nati 112; Brecheen, St. Louis 107.
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The Grocers pounded Downs
}Motors, 1139-1094, with Flem-~
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ners with a 108 average. He was
followed by Brackett with 98,
while Allen had a similar score
for Downs.
o WY | Harvill pounded the
hardwood for a thundering 138
j high line and 133 average, as the
’ Banner-Herald Ludlow Lads
i turned back the AFHW No. 176
team, 1215-1190. Kile and Betts
recorded 104 s for the losers.
Royal Typewriter was tlie vie
tim of the strong Industrial
team, with Norris and Wallace
leading the 1234-1158 victory.
Summary (Averages)
Normal Grocery—Fleming 108,
Brackett 98, Mansfield 89, Col
lins 84,
Downs—Allen 98, Johnson 93,
Couch 88, Thompson 87.
Banner-Herald — Harvill 133,
Thomas 102, Thilenius 95, Dris
i kell 93, May 80 (single line).
’ AFHW — Kile 104, Betts 104,
Benton 98, Nunnally 91.
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Industrial — Norris 107, Wal
» lace 107, Thompson 98, Lester 95.
Royal—Dickerson 107, White
head 102, Condron, 91 Shart 88.
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]golfing “Double Crown” —the
P. G. A. and U. S. Open titles —
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old.
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! Pitching—Brecheen, St. Louis
‘17553 .189; Chesnes, Pittspurgnh 9-3
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Braves Nip ‘Bums’
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3-2 In nnings
: By The Associated Press
| The Boston Braves take on the runner-up Cardinals in
| St. Louis tonight after successfully disposing of a Brook
[ lyn bid for their league leadership.
1943 All-Star victory over the
National League. Another was
his victory over Detroit in the fi
nal geme of the 1944 season, the
setback costing [the Tigers the
American League flag,
“I also like to recall the time
I beat Bobby Feller in 13 in
nings, 1-0,” says Dutch, “I al
lowed six hits and didn’t walk
a man. That was one game
where control counted. A walk
coming before any one of those
hits could have led to a run.”
Two Shutouts
Recorded In
Legion Play
THOMASTON, Ga., Aug. 24—
(AP)—Classy teams from Jack
sonville, Fla., and Darlington, S.
C., slugged their way into the
second round of the American
Legion’s Fifth District Junior
Tournament with neat no - run
victories., ’
Sterling mound performances
figured yesterday in each shut-
Jackson pounded a 7 to 0 de
cision over Macon, Ga. behind
one its tossing of Don Bessene,
Darlington’s big bats slammed 13
hits for a 5 to 0 triumph over
Huntsville, Ala,
Lone Hit a Fluke
Macon’s only hit was a fluke
ball ithat bounded off Bessent,
who fanned 12 for his eighteenth
victory of the season. Jackson
ville’s Robert Godwin, . smallest
player on the squad, had a per=
sect performance at bat with
four hits and a sacrifice.
Huntsville managed to get only
two hits off Heyward Tunstall,
while Darlington collected 13.
Tunstall hurled hitless ball for
six innings. Only three Huntsville
players got on base.
The linescores:
Jacksonville 150 010 000—7 8 2
Macon .... 000 000 000—0 1 6
Bessent and Morrow Lewis,
Veal and Brake.
Huntsville . 000 000 000—0 2 4
Darlington 000 200 30x—5 13 1
Smith, Yell and Baker, Tunstall
and Small.
Lefthanders
Pace National
Batting Race
NEW YORK, Aug. 24—(AP)—
Led by Stan Musial of the St.
Louis Cardinals, lefthanded hit
ters are dominating the race for
National League batting honors.
Only three of the' circuit’s top
ten hitters are righthanded bat
ters.
The orthodox swingers in the
first ten are, Alyin Dark of Bos
ton, Andy Pafko of Chicage, and
Sid Gordon- of New York.
Musial, ‘including Sunday’s
games,” ‘was belting opposition
hurling at a .384 clip, three
points above his average of a
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Billy Southworth’'s hustling
Braves cooled off the Dodgers,
3-2, in 14 innings yesterday to
win the series, three games 10
one, :
The loss dropped the Dodgers
into third place, the idle Cardi
nals taking over second, two
and-one-half games behind the
Braves. .
Before 32,499 fans at Brooklyn
yesterday, the Braves won out in
the 14th when Phil Masis and
Connie Ryan socked consecutive
doubles against Rex Barney,
fourth Dodger hurler.
Mike McCormick sent the game
into overtime when he belted
Paul Minner's first pitch into
the lower left field stands in the
eighth inning. The blow was Mc-
Cormick’s first homer of the
year and it tied the score at 2-2.
Reds Shade Phillies
Only one other game was play
ed in the National League. The
Reds nosed out the Philadelphia
Phillies, 3-2, in ten innings un
der the lights @t Cincinnati on
relief pitcher Harry Gumbert’s
homer, his first hit of the sea
son. '
In the lone American League
contest, the New York Yankees
crushed the last place Chicago
White Sox, 11-1, in a night game
at New York. The victory was
the seventh straight for the
Yanks and enabled them to move
within a game of second place
Boston and within one-and-a
half games of Cleveland.
All-Stars Upset
PowerClub,s-3
The City League All-Stars pulled somewhat of an up
set last night and turned back a slightly favored Georgia
Power nine, 5-3, at Legion Softball Park.
| Playing without any of the
Choke Cleaner nominations for
All-Star, the “cream of the led
’gu‘e” made the best of what they
‘had, chose several other '‘top
players in the City League, and
presented a combination with
enough power to outhit and out
play the City champs. e
L. H. Lewis, formerly of Sou
thern Bell, went all the way ‘6n
the mound for the Stars and
was never in much trouble.
Charley Owens, toeing the slab
for the Georgia Power lads, tx‘mk‘
the loss. It was a flurry of bése
hits early in the game that pro
duced all the Star runs and made
it a lost cause for Owens. ‘
Carter Catches bt
J. B. Carter, Bell’'s Food, was
behind the plaie for . the All-‘
Stars. The infield was composed
of Dupree Wilkes, Southern Bell,
first base; Wiliis Nash, V. F. W,
second base; Albert Arnold,
Bell’s, shortstop; and ‘Tim Cartey,
Athens Manufacturing, _third
base. v :
The outfield line-up was Har
digree, Southern Bell, in left;
“Bryant, V. F. W,, in center; and
Brown, V. F. W,, in right.
All the Choke players named
week ago. !
Dark, the rookie Brave short
stop is second at ,355 with Pafko
third at .333 and Richie Ashburn
of Philadelphia fourth at 322.
' Tommy Holmes of Boston is fifthl
at .318.
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By The Associated Press
Memphis’ second place Chicks
;pulled to within 1% games of
first place Nashville last night as‘
they won a Southern Association
game from the Vols 6 to 5. Only
10 percentage points separate the
clubs.
Birmingham broke a 3-3 tie
with two down in the ninth to
shade New Orleans, 4-3. Little
Rock made it three straight over
last place Chattanooga, 4-3, and‘
Atlanta and Mobile split a dou
ble-bill. The Crackers won the
‘iirst 8 to 2 and the Bears the
second, 6-5. |
Catcher Joe Astroth provided(‘
the punch necessary to give Mem
phis the edge over Nashville.
With two down, one on and the
count three and two in the ninth,
he poled a 390-foot homer,
bringing in the tieing run and
scoring the clincher himself.
Birmingham staged a story
book finish when rightfielder
George Wilson doubled, scoring
Mel Holderlein from second with
the run that spelled defeat for
New Orleans. The victory gave
the Barons a 2-1 edge in the
series.
Milo Johnson racked up his
11th triumph of the year for
Little Rock, allowing Chattanoo
ga only one earned run.
Umpire Sidney Hale was hit
on the arm by a foul tip in the
second and forced to retire from
the game. A player from each
team took his place.
Bill Kénnedy limited Mobile
to eight hits in the first game.
Atlanta’s Tom Neil and - Red
Mathis hit doubles, second base
man Jack Hollis tripled and
third sacker Charlie Glock hom
ered.
to . the = All-Star line-up were |
force dto- miss the game because
of Choke’s participation in the ‘
State Invitational Softball Tour
- nament in Atlanta. The: Choke'
line-up would have furnished at
least four starters on the Star
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! AMERICAN LEAGUE
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| Cleveland ...0...... 70 45 .609
{Bostomwiia v, itsein iWO 46 603
New: York ..3:.;... -8, 46 .506
Philadelphia ....... 68 49 .581
Detroft ............ b 4 57 .486
FRYTIOnIN . -..0..... .40 671 402
| Washington ........ 44 72 .379
SENIORED ... 0L 2 98 880
‘ NATIONAL LEAGUE |
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Boston . : ... 008 4D D
eLo ..o ... 0L 83 51 ob 3
1 Brooklyn- .......... 61 b 0 . 560
Fivtgborgh ... 281 B 2 B 3
TINOW York .. ..50 ... B 8 B 3 :.623
*Rhiladelphia ....... 52 62 .456
fClncinnatl.. .. ....... 49 67 7422
Dhicage - ....:.0....748 €6B 404
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Nashvil}é . :..... ... 78~ 54 . .591
Nembhis .~ .. e, 78754 88l
NGO . .o ~ 8802 . BE3
Birmingham ........ 69 64 .519
New Orleans ...... 63 66 .488
Atlamta:. ... 0. .:..-00 68 460
1Litt1eR0ck.........56 72 .438
Chattanooga ........ 51 80 .389
Boudreau I
Gains On
Williams |
CHICAGO, Aug. 3¢ — (AP)—
Bostons Ted Williams is getting
rugged competition from Cleve
land”s Lou Boudreau in a two
man battle for the American
League batting championship.
Through Sunday’'s games, Wi?-
iams’ pace-setting .377 was only
14 points ahead oi Boudreau's
runner-up .363, and that was two
points less than his bulge the
previous week,
In third place, 41 points off the
pace, was enother Tribe thump
er, Dale Mitchell with .336. He
was followed by Al Zarilla, St.
Louis, .321; Barney McCosky,
Philadelphia, and Luke Appling,
Chicago, .314; Bob Dillinger, St.
|Louis and Walt Evers, Detroit,
Louis; and Joe DilMiaggio, New
York, George Kell, Detroit, and
Bill Goodman, Boston, 297 each.
Joe Has 27 Four-Baggers
Yankee clipper DiMaggio still
led in homers with 27 and Bos
ton’s Vern Stephens wrested the
RBI leadership from Jolton’ Joe
'with a spurt of 11 in a week to
112
‘ Other speciclized leaders were
Williams in runs, 90; Boudreau
in hits, 149; Tom Henrich, New
York, in two-baggers, 32; Wash
ington’s Ed Stewart in triples,
13; and Dillinger in stolen bases,
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Boston’s Jack Kramer assumed
the pitching leadership with a
778 percentage on a 14-won, 4-
lost record, Philadelphia’s Lou
Brissie continued as the top
strikeout ertist with 112,
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 11, Chicago 1 (N.)
(Only game scheduled).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 3, Brooklyn 2 (14
innings).
Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 2
(night, ten innings).
(Only games scheduled).
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Memphis 6, Nashville 5.
Mobile 2-6, Atlanta 8-5.
Birmingham 4, New Orleans 3.
Little Rock 4, Chattanooga 3.
TODAY’S SCHEDULE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis at Washington (N.)
Detroit at Philadelphia (N.)
Cleveland at Boston (N.)
Chicago at New York.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Chicago. .
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh (N.)
Boston at St. Louis (N.) -
(Only games scheduled). g
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Mobile at Atlanta.
New Orleans at Birmingham.
Chattanooga at Little Rock.
Nashville at Memphis.
Dick Stovall, center for the
Detroit Lions of the National pro
football League, has four brothers
who played football in Texas
schools.
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