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By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The Dodgers and the Cardinals split even in a four game series, a series which was looked upon as the most important of the year. Now just how important was it? Who can say for sure? The Dodgers didn’t lose any ground, neither did the Cardinals. Off hand, you'd have to say the Cardinals came out of it with the edge. They took the Dodgers on in their own back yard, the most clamorous, emotional and boisterous back yard in the National League, and held them to a draw. Not only that but they had two of their chief dependables out of the lineup, Terry Moore and Country Slaughter. If you were a betting man this, normally, would influence you more than somewhat. And perhaps it should. But pennant races are often decided by intangibles, say, like the schedule. The Dodgers arent a great ciub. Yet's say they are pretty good. You can say that and no sensible person will argue with you. They have power, fight and fair enough pitching. They may have a sufficiency of what it takes to win the pennant on their own. And they seem to be a club that is thinking in terms of the World Series.

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

Ray Sanders, Columbus first sacker, lost no time celebrating his election as the “Rookie of the Year” in the American Association. . . . He stepped out in Minneapolis last night and belted two home runs to assure the league's baseball writers that they didn’t miss when they named

him the most valuable freshman of 1941. The Janky, hard-hitting 23-year-old first sacker won the first annual award of $100 by an overwhelming majority in a poll of the American Association Chapter of Baseball Writers who donated the cash. All but eight of the 36 members voted for Sanders. . . . John Pesky, Louisville shortstop, was second with four votes, while Johnny Schmitz, Milwaukee lefthander; Stan Galle, Milwaukee infielder; Stan Mazer, Louisville infielder, and Lou Klein, Columbus infielder, each received one vote apiece. Klein received the most votes for “Second . choice.” . . . He had nine. . , . Pesky received six: a Sanders, Schmitz and Aaron Robinson, Kansas = City catcher, five each; Dave Koslo, Milwaukee lefthander, four, and Mazer and his teammate Ulysses Lupien, first baseman, one each. Sanders is 6 feet 2 Inches tall, weighs 175 pounds ang is a resident of St. Louis. . . . He was picked off St. Louis softball lots by a Cardinal scout who influenced him to try regular baseball and then placed him in the Cardinal chain . . . and after three years in the little minors Sanders was promoted to Columbus this year. . . . His throwing arm is ncne too good. otherwise the kid looks the part of a big leaguer. * In last week's averages Sanders was clubbing the horsehide at a 321 clip and he had batted in 106 runs and scored 102. . .. His hits included 36 doubles, nine triples and 12 homers. . . . He swings left and throws right.

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Mayor Urges Baseball Defense Bond Support BASEBALL DEFENSE BOND DAY will be observed throughout the United States tomorrow and every major and minor league team scheduled for action will participate in the patriotic event. . . . And, of course, the game between the Indianapolis Indians and Toledo Mud Hens at Perry Stadium tomorrow night will contribute to the observance. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan has called upon citizens of Indianapolis to do their bit and elaborate arrangements have been completed to make it an outstanding occasion. . . . The purpose is to stimulate interest and create publicity for the sale of U. S. Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. According to Mayor Sullivan the program at the Tribe park will begin at 8 o'clock with flag raising, airplane stunts, American Legion participation and other colorful features. Special guests for the occasion will be approximately 1500 soldiers and officers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, sailors from the Naval Armory and the Marines.

Stoney McGlynn, Old-Time Iron Man

ONE OF baseball's old-time Iron Men died in Manitowoc, Wis., yesterday. . . . He was Stoney McGlynn, who, in 1909, while pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers, worked 446 innings and hurled 14 shutouts that season. . . . He also led the league in strikeouts that year with 183. The Iron Man topped the league in victories in 1909 with 27 but

This being so it must be admitted they have a good solid chance on their own. Added to this is the fact that when the schedule makers sat around on a wintry eve some months ago, they didn’t do the Dodgers any harm. They made it work out, undesignedly, of course, that the Dodgers play 20 of their last 31 games against the Humpty Dumpties and the Tattered Tims of the league—nine against the Phillies, seven against the Gianis and four against the Braves. Now if the Dodgers can’t more than hold their own against this sort of opposition they don’t deserve to be in the World Series. True, there is one tough stretch that yet remains. On Sept. 11, the Dodgers begin a three-game series with the Cardinals on the road. Then they move to Cincinnati for three more. From there they go to Pittsburgh for two. This isn't going to be easy going,

but championships are won the hard way and that's the way we'd.

like to see the Dodgers win if they are going to win. But they could win another way. They could lose ground against the more formidable clubs and, thanks to the schedule, pick it up against the weaker clubs. For instance, their last eight games are against the Phillies and the Braves, six of them against the Phillies. We must say it agein—if the Dodgers can’t win against that sort of opposition they don’t deserve to win. They could have done worse in the series with the Cardinals which just ended. And they could have done better. They might well have won two yesterday instead of breaking even. This is the

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FIELD CLUB, Omaha, Neb, Aug. 27 (U. P).—Match play begins today in the National Amateur Golf tournament, and stars who have waged a losing fight against par for two days put their battles on a man to man basis. When medal play ended at sundown yesterday, the starting field of 145 men was reduced to 64. Arthur Doering Jr. of Chicago and Raymond E. Brownell Jr. of Delmonte, Cal. lead off at § a. m. today’s 32 18-hole forenoon matches. At 1:15 p. m, the 32 survivors of the first round will resume the contests and by tonight only 16 men will remain in the tournament. Stewart (Skip) Alexander, the Burlington, N. C,, entrant who won the medal with his 144 score—a record—plays Johnny Fischer of Ft.

provincial slant because the Cardinals must be stronger with Moore and Slaughter in the lineup. Without these two, the Cards have a clown outfield, a situation which is bound to handicap the pitching no matter how good it is—and it can be better than the Dodgers. The Cardinals had three superbly pitched games in the series, White, Pollet and Cooper, quality pitching that would win most of the time. White and Cooper came off with wins. They weren't lucky but they were lucky that the patched up outfield didn’t have more chances to kick them around. This is a situation, incidentally, that may have a very vital effect on the ultimate decision. Slaughter is definitely out for the season, Moore is in the doubtful category. He was beaned in Boston, is subject to dizzy spells, much like Bill Jurges of the Giants, and not even men of medicine can be positive about his future. While we're on this subject, we think additional tribute should be paid to the Cardinals’ stay-in-there-and-fight spirit. We can’t recall another club that has had so much hard luck in the matter of injuries and has refused to give up. The first blow fell on the very first day of the season, and similar blows have been falling ever since. Yet the Dodgers or no other team can shake them off. They are still in there swinging and we think there is something inspirational about their stubbornness in the face of a dark and depressing adversity. : Some strange, unseen force seems to ‘be maliciously working against the Cardinals but you can almost hear them screaming back:

All This and a 144 Too—

“We know you don’t like us but we are going to make you like us.” It seems to us that even a Dodger fan has to admire this sort of resolution. Most of the drama and suspense in yesterday's double header was centered in the second game, In the first game there was violence and volume to the Dodgers’ offense. Backed up by old Curt Davis’ brave and, at times, brilliant pitching, this game became a graceful and restful waltz. But the second game saw Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, age 40, waddle to the hill and his opponent was Mort Cooper, a young strong-armed. giant who can throw balls through concrete, It was nothing-nothing for six innings. The old Fat Guy had had just enough rest and, what with his guile and been-there experience and incomparable fielding ability, he was giving the much better equipped Cooper a Mexican stand off. : By now it was obvious that some sort of break had to develop for either man to win. This break had to come in the field. The pitching wasn’t going to crack; the defense had to crack. Would it be the Dodgers or the Cardinals? The answer came in the seventh and it was the Dodgers who cracked. Pee Wee Reese made two errors in a row and when the inning was over the Cardinals had scored three times and won the game, If the inning had been played perfectly they wouldn't have gotten a man to first base; indeed, it would have been the easiest inning in

the game for the old Fat Guy.

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Cincy’s Flag Hopes Rest on Terrymen

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (U. P)— being short of good players is a condition that has become sickeningly familiar to the New York Giants but if this club—which has made almost a fetish of standing pat—can consolidate its time-worn veterans into some semblance of palmier days, the National League race may take on an entirely dif - ferent complexion. During the next five days the Giants—now the only club in the league which has not acquired a new player this month—play the leading Dodgers and runner-up Cardinals in six games, two with St. Louis and four with Brooklyn. Naturally there is no chance for the Giants, 19% games away, to come even close to the pennant, but should they be fortunate enough to

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By UNITED PRESS Columbus split a doubleheader

with Minneapolis last night, and retained an 8! game lead in the American Association. It was a big

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opener and shut : out the thirdplace Millers, 8 to 0. The Red

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including two home runs by : R a y Sanders Grodzicki and a third by Max Marshall. . In the fifth and last inning of the. second game, Grodzicki relieved Brumbeloe, Frank Denneker tapped one of his pitches over the fence with two on base, and Minneapolis won, 6 to 3. Last place Milwaukee took am early lead over second place Louise - ville and won, 9 to 3. The Colonels - got 11 hits off Campbell, the wine - ning pitcher, but few were effective, -

Thomas, Ky., former national champion. Alexander shot a five under par 67 Monday, but he soared to 77 terday.

Hopes to Stay Around

Having turned in his score early. Alexander hung around the course all day, watching Johnny Burke of Chicago and others in the running for the medal blow their chances. Twice before Alexander has reached match piay, but lost in the first round, despite his shooting sub par golf. “The fellows certainly presented me with something yesterday and I hope they'll be as generous today,” he said. “My previous record in national match play isn’t so hot and I'd like to stick around a while.” The match should be one of the day's best, because Fischer got the feel of the course on the closing

nine yesterday and came home with

a two-under-par 34 that gave him a total 73. Another close forenoon match should be the one between Dick Chapman of Mamaroneck, N. Y., the defending champion, and Lou Jennings of Portland, Ore. Jennings qualified at 151, a stroke less than the champion needed.

Ward Still in Running

Johnny Goodman, the hometown favorite who stole the galleries yesterday, plays Robert Riegel of Houston, Tex. Soldier Charley Yates of Atlanta, Ga., former British Amateur champion, meets Steeve Kovach, the Tarentum, Pa., steelworker who has won 11 tournaments in the East since June. Marion Gonzalez, 18-year-old Brazilian and only foreign threat, plays Skee Riegel of Glendale, Cal, and Burke, 1938 intercollegiate titlist, goes against Bob Cochran of Normandy, Mo. Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,, twice a finalist, plays Arthur K. Atkinson Jr. of Mamaroneck, N. Y, and Marvin (Bud) Ward, long-hitting former champion from Spokane, Wash. meets Alex Welsh

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Famed Tennis Coach Is Killed by Auto

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 (U. P). —Harold Goldshall, 37, varsity tennis coach at the University of Southern California was killed last night by an automobile. He had coached such tennis stars as Ellsworth Vines, Gene Mako, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder and Joe Hunt, and was a star himself 20 years ago. He had coached tennis at U. S. C. for 14 years.

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are eight good reasons for that big grin on the face of Stewart “Skip” Alexander Jr. Burlington, N. C. Seven of them are pictured above. The eighth is that he shot a record 144 in the National Amateur Golf tournament qualifying round at Omaha.

All-Stars Test Pepsi-Colas

Pepsi-Cola Boosters, Indianapolis sectional softball tournament winners, tackle an All-Star team tonight at Stout Stadium. The 15 All-Star members were selected by fans who witnessed the

recent I. S. A. championship tourney and will be managed by Doc. Morgenthaler, Stewart- Warner coach. Rusty Hatcliffe is the PepsiCola pilot. Tonight's feature battle starts at 9 p. m., preceded by a 7:45 curtain raiser between J. S. C. and Weak’s Market. The lineups: PEPSI-COLA: Herb Ratcliffe, second-base; Newt Briner, right field; George Coffman, shortstop; Carl Martin, short-field; Logan Kinnett, pitcher; Ab Nutall, third-base; Ted Fendley, left-field; Herb Coffman, catcher; Ralph Lydle, centerfield, and Marvin Hook, first-base. The All-Star team is composed of John O'Gara and Nick Scollard, Gem Coal; Porter Steenburger and Bud Carver, Mallory; John Follis and Cliff Reid, Y. & B. Painters; Frank Melton, Stewart-Warner; Mac Eversole, Schoettle’'s Market and Dan Veza, Kingans, infielders, and Harry Dibble, Stewart-Warner; Harvey Cloud, Metal Auto Parts; William Calvert, Kingan, and Mike Bisesi, U. S. Tires, outfielders.

T-Bears May Be Tough, But

All-Stars Aren'

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (U. P).— Football observers hope, for the sake of the College All-Stars, that George Halas brings his Chicago Bears into Soldier Field tomorrow night in a kindly mood. Only through the compassion of Owner-Coach Halas and his professional champions, they insist, will the nation’s greatest collection of college gridders be spared a humiliating experience in the annual! summer football classic. ; These critics discount the fact that Head Coach Carl Snavely has been drilling a group of young men who have scrapbooks bulging with assorted testimonials and the combined support of some 9,514,743 citizens who voted them the questionable privilege of facing the Bears. They point rather to the fact that Halas can field the same eleven which swamped Washington, 73-0, last fall and earned in many quarters the label ‘greatest football squad ever assembled.” Furthermore, they will tell you that Halas and his friend, Clark Shaughnessy, protagonists of the intricate “T” formation, have spent the summer defacing tablecloths around town in charting new variations to plague the opposition this season. Despite these forebodings, the All-Stars act unlike condemned men. They sparkled through a dress

For Poor Frank

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (U. P.).— This and that from here and there in sports: Notre Dame still is a month away from its first 1941 football game, but Frank Leahy already is spreading pessimisnt with a heavy hand. He is busily — and sadly —explain i n g that only three : regulars a r e , back from the 1940 squad and that the present sophomore crop is not exactly : bountiful. At the time,

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don’t take ‘em all away.” ... When he isn’t pitching for “Dem Bums’—the Brooklyn Dodgers— Whitlow Wyatt is a Southern gentleman, suh. The bald right-hand-er owns a 727-acre estate in Cedar-

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ball's big bauble be sought by the Dodgers and the Yankees the fight will be reduced to just another one of those things, instead of a minor epic. . . . Bitsy Grant, who has been around long enough to know what he is talking about, says that Bobby Riggs won't have too much trouble winning back the national singles title he lost to Don McNeill a year ago. “Riggs is by far the steadiest of the seeded players,” explains the

Shisnis mite, who isn’t séeded himSelf. . . . How about nominating Johnny Vander Meer as the man who has achieved the most succggsful comeback in baseball this year? The double no-hit pitcher has won 13 of

'1 his 23 accredited games to date, the

last four of them in a row—a feat which has greatly aided Cincinnati in the Reds’ belated drive. . . . Connie Mack’s reputation as a baseball prophet has been all but ruined by the Yankees. Last year the elder statesman of Philadelphia forecast the New Yorkers’ downfall but this spring he said the American League pennant race would be just as close and that even his Athletics had a chance .. . haw. . .. Boaen Ben Hogan turned back on Nelson in the matches at De- Yer Su

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rehearsal under the Soldier Field arc lights last night, acclimating themseives to actual game condirtions. Snavely must abide by the people’s choices in his starting lineup, which will include: Dave Rankin of Purdue, the team captain, and Ed Rucinski, Indiana, ends; Ernie Pannell, Texas Aggies, and Nick Drahos, Cornell, tackles; Augie Lio, Georgetown, and Tommy O’Boyle, Tulane, guards, and Rudy Mucha, Washington, at center. The starting backfield: Forest Evashevski, Michigan, quarterback; George Franck, Minnesota, and Tom Harmon, Michigan, halves, and George Paskvan, Wisconsin, fullback.

Beckwith Aims At 17thin Row

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (U. P).— Eight experts aiong the Chicago rialto today favored the ring craft of young Booker Beckwith, the Gary, Ind.,, minister's son, to give him a victory edge in tonight's heavyweight bout with Clarence (Red) Burman, Baltimore. Burman’s ranking as 10th best heavyweight in the world and his superior ring experience were highly regarded, but none contended that he could match the punching power and deftness of the Gary Negro. Beckwith has won 16 consecutive professional fights—10 by knockouts—in less than two years of boxing. He never hes fought at more than 173 pcunds cespite his heavyweight classification and he will concede Burman a 20-pound weight advantage.

Amateur Boxers

Hold Spotlight

Two amateur boxing cards staged by the City and WPA recreation officials gave fistic fans plenty of action last night. In the Douglas Park headliner, Lee Carter defeated James Glenn. Jim McClellan and Clark Kaneff, light heavies, battled to a draw in the Keystone playground main event. In other Keystone contests Joe Cook defeated Ray Stewart, Don Jones drew with Ted Hayes, Bennie Speckler defeated George Kiser, Bill Sensel drew with Calvin Dorman, Chuck Sensel defeated Wayne Hunter, Ed Wessling drew with Bob Buchiester, Bob Kennedy drew with

town, Ga., where he spent most of his boyhood. He plows his fields with a tractor given him by grateful

troit recently, he finally made good a 12-year-

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fans while he worked with Milwaukee. . . . One of Whirlaway’s many feats which has been over-looked by the public is that of leading two successive age divisions in money winnings. The Calumet colt was the big earner of the two-year-olds last season and already has tied down the same honor among the three-year-olds this year. ... Jock Sutherland believes that many high school and prep coaches who have adopted the T-formation will run into serious trouble before the year is out. The Brooklyn football mentor explains that the T necessitates a special type of material and more than the usual number of plays. . . . Basil James probably will be the first top-flight jockey inducted into the armed forces. . .. Don’t believe those tales that Mike Jacobs postponed the Lou Nova-Joe Louis title fight because the boxoffice advance was lagging. The new date, Sept. 29, will conflict with

the World Series and should base-

old ambition. The two Texans had met only once before—at G le n Garden Course in Ft. Worth where Nelson won the caddy match, one up on extra y Rs holes. . . . Some Cecil Travis sort of special awards should go to Cecil Travis of Washington and Nick Etten of the Philadelphia Phillies, who apparently can’t be discouraged by anything. Both play for cellar ball clubs and yet both are fighting for the batting titles of their leagues.

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Bill Henry, Jim White defeated Dorval Scharbrough and Dorval Ray defeated Shorty Bernell. In other Douglas bouts James Stone drew with Frank Bible, Kenneth Allen defeated Bob Jones, Ned Robinson drew with Sonny Evans, James Stewart defeated Harold Toliver, Robert Elliott defeated Herschel Mansfield, Robert Webster scored a technical knockout over Robert Buckner, Richard Cole defeated Lavon Sears, Ralph Riley de-

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drew with Buster Jennings.

defeat the crippled Cardinals and then get an even break with Brooklyn, they might furnish the Cincinnati Reds a chance to break through to their third straight flag.

Not Too Far-Fetched

A look at the record and that doesn’t sound too far-fetched. The Reds are the hottest club in the circuit, with 16 victories in 20 starts, and today they are only 8%. games out of first place. The Reds meet the Dodgers tonight, rest for two days, then play the Cardinals two games and wind up with two against the Cubs. Should they beat the Dodgers and the Giants polish off the Cards, the Reds would pick up a game on both clubs. Then, if the Reds defeat St. Louis in their two games while the Durochermen tangle with Bill Terry’s club—the National League might be furnished with a surprise ending. The Giants slugged Bucky Walters and Jim Turner for a 7-4 victory in the first game of yesterday’s doubleheader but Gene Thompson and Paul Derringer combined to pitch {he Reds to a 5-4 decision in the nightcap, cut to eight innings by darkness. Two three-run blasts in the first and sixth innings coupled with Hal Schumacher’s three-hit relief pitching won the opener.

Cubs Thump Phils

Chicago's Cubs defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4 and 11-3, with Jake Mooty and Paul Erickson each turning in full-time jobs. Mooty gave up 13 hits but staggered to his seventh win on homers by Bill Nicholson and Babe Dahlgren. Erickson allowed six hits in the second game while the Cubs garnered 16 hits, including Dom Dallesandro’s four-run homer in the fourth. Pittsburgh divided with Boston. Jim Tobin pitched the Braves to a 4-3 victory in the first game, allowing only four hits for his 11th win, as Buddy Gremp’s single drove home the winning run. Max Butcher stopped the Braves with a six-hitter to bring Pittsburgh a 6-1 triumph in the nightcap.

Red Sox Regain Third

The Boston! Red Sox regained third place in the American League by belting Jim Bagby and Clint Brown for 13 hits and a 9-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Dick Newsome held the Tribe to eight hits for his 15th triumph. Philadelphia defeated Detroit twice, 9-1 and 2-1, to take over sixth place from the St. Louis Browns, who dropped to within half a game of the cellar by losing, 3-0, to Dutch Leonard of the Senators.

Brody Makes It 6 Wins in Row

Steve Brody, of Holyoke, Mass., continued on the winning trail at Sports Arena last night by defeating “Lord” Lansdowne, English matman, in the main event of the weekly wrestling card. Brody captured the first and third falls to annex his sixth straight local ring victory. After the Easterner had taken the initial fall with a body slam in 16 minutes, Lansdowne came back to even the count in 14 minutes with a back body drop. But he fell victim to another body slam by Brody to lose the match after six minutes of the third heat. The semi-windup clash resulted in a win for Dory Roche, of Decatur, Ill, who flopped Dobbie Osborne, Texas heavyweight, in 25 minutes with his pet octupus hold. Honors in the opening bout went to Harry Kent, 230-pounder from Portland, Oregon, who smashed Dick Lever, of Nashville, Tenn., with a back body

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