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Solid Smash to

Circle of Those

Enter Select With 2000 Hits

By PAUL SCHEFFELS

United Press Staff Correspondent

{ NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Luke

Appling, veteran shortstop of the

_ Chicago White Sox, today stood on the threshold of one of the most ‘toveted achievements of veteran baseball players, needing only one , #olid smash to’ enter the select circle of those having 2000 hits. Appling, already well on the way toward winning the second American league batting title of his career—he topped the loop in 1936 with

388—will if he connects agaist the Boston Red Sox, join a clique thai includes only seven other active players. “yg. Already over the 2000 mark are ul Waner, Brooklyn; Mel Ott, Gionts; Joe Cronin, Red Sox; Doc - Cramer, Detroit; Dick Bartell, +Giants; Billy Herman, Brooklyn, and Joe Medwick, Giants. When Appling adds his name to the list, it will be a brilliant chapter in a 14-year career studded with note- * Worthy diamond achievemeifits. Appling, setting the junior circuit batting pace with .336, slammed out five hits in nine trips yesterday as the White Sox divided with the d Sox. He collected only one hit three tries as’ the Red Sox pped out a 10-3 triumph in the first game. Boston blasted Bill Dietrich for five runs, Jake Wade for four and tapped Bill Swift for another. Rookie Emmett O'Neill, who replaced Mike Ryba in the fifth : And gave up only two hits until reved with two out in the eighth, was credited with the triumph.

Gets Four Nits

Appling belted out two singles, doyble and a triple in six attempts #8 Chicago took the finale, 7-6, in 14 innings. He drove in two runs and set up the deciding tally by opening the 14th with a triple. Bkeeter Webb walloped a single to send him home. Wally Moses tied the score for Chicago in the ninth with a two-run blast. ‘ The Indians stretched their curtent winning string to five games with a 4-3 decision over the Athletics. Jim Bagby recorded his 13th victory although Joe Heving had to | Btifle a two-run ninth-innhing A's lly. Manager Lou Boudreau ced the Tribe at bat with two triples and two singles to drive in .two runs and soore two. Rudy York: blasted his 20th and 21st home runs to lead the Tigers to'a 10-3 decision over the Senators. The triumph hoisted Detroit into second place as three Washington pitchers bowed before a 14-hit ‘Tiger barrage. York has hit seven Homers in the Tigers’ last six games.

First in Three

The Yankees chalked up their first win in three games at St. Louis, handing Buck Newsom his fifth straight loss by beating the Browns, 6-2, in a nightdgame. Nick BEtten’s double with the bases loaded in the first gave the Yankees a 3-0 edge they never lost. Charley Wensloff spaced six St. Louis safejes for his ninth triumph. In the National league, Mort per won his 16th game. as the dinals defeated the Giants, 4-1. ooper held the New Yorkers to three hits and after Sid Gordon's safety in the fifth faced only 14 batters as the Giants went down in order. Manager Mel Ott’s 15th homer spoiled Cooper's shutout as the Cards combed Ken Chase and Ace Adams for nine hits. Butch Nieman, Boston Braves tookie, beat the Cubs, 3-2, when he hit a triple in the 12th after Tommy "Holmes had singled with two out. The blow provided Al Javery with: his 10th triumph.

Dodgers Beat Reds

The Dodgers defeated Cincinnati . 8-0, in a twilight game, Kirby Higbe held the Reds to five hits as Brooklyn reached Johnny Vander Meer for all their runs in the first inning, beating the Cincinnati southpaw for the fifth time this years. The triumph put Brooklyn half a game behind the third-place Reds. + The Phillies ran their winning J streak to seven ‘by beating the Pirates, 4-3, in a Bight game that

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and one triple. They smacked out 13 safeties at that. However, their blows were not as timely as Milwatikee’s and the home team left 11 runners stranded in the seven rounds. Tony York, shortstop, was lead« ing hitter for the Brewers. He smacked out four hits, including two doubles and a triple, scored four runs and batted in one. The Brewers sent in a full team of righthanded hitters -against Southpaw Trexler and the 7127 fans saw the home team’s hopes blasted in the first inning. York and Martin (switch hitter) belted doubles, Clarke walked, Norbert and Norman: were retired, but Johnson smacked a double and Helf a single before the |. side was out. The surprising rally was good for four markers. The visitors added a fifth run in the second on three singles and in the fourth they stored two more on two doubles and a single before Trexler wes relieved by Walter Tauscher. In the fifth stanza the Brewers teed off on Tauscher and tallied three markers on two singles, a double and a scoring fly. And in the sixth the Brewers increased their run total to 11 on a single, a double in (80d a long fly.

The Indians got their bats working in the third frame and scored three runs. Trexler led off with a single, was forced by Blackburn, and Moore scored Blackburn with a triple. Moore scored after the catch |. on Hofferth’s long fly, Pike singled, advanced on a wild pitch and.scored on Morgan's single. In the fourth the Indians scored one run on three hits. and an error and in the sixth they got their fifth and last marker on three hits. The fielding feature was furnished by Bill Norman, Milwaukee right fielder, in the fourth inning. He came in fast and snared Pike's drive with one Wand-at his shoe tops— for the third out and with two Tribe runners on base.

right fielder, was out of action with an ‘eye injury. ‘Pike, who has an

finjured hand, went in for English

and when he was banished in the sixth Pitcher George Diehl had to play the right garden for the Tribe.

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was featured by the ejection of Pittsburgh Pilot Frankie Frisch, Al Rubeling, Bob Klinger and Hank Gornicki for arguing. A two-run homer by Don Northey provided the Phillies with their first tallies in the fourth, Singles by Babe Dahlgren, Merrill May and Coaker Triplett gave the Quakers two more and the game in the seventh,

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By HARRY GRAYSON 4 GOLP HAS had its quota of “Boy Wonders,” but the first American-bred player to richly deserve

the cognomen was the -starred John J. Mec-

Dermott. Johnny McDermott came within a gnats eyelash of winning the United States Open three times before he was 21. He tied for it once, captured it twice, was the first native-born shotmaker to prevail. : The flery Philadelphian was the first American to prove that the British masters, Harry Vardon and Big Ted Ray, were not invincible. Tom McNamara and other authorities who saw all the moderns considered McDermott the finest golfer of all time. Old-timers contend much of the cockiness which pervaded American professional golf and led to a long string of triumphs in the British Open, sprang from McDermott. For years McDermott has been an inmate at the Pennsylvania State hospital at Norristown, having cracked up mentally while at the very peak of a career that might have dwarfed. the exploits of many a headliner who followed him. BE IN TEMPERAMENT McDermott was not unlike Walter Hagen. Critics of the day noted a marked similarity in the pair of talented youngsters. McDermott was & product of the caddie yard.

He was slightly built, did not weigh more than :

130 pounds, but had everything, including implicit faith in himself. He would walk out on the first tee and offer to lay a price that he would shoot the course in what was a phenomenal figure. He was so accurate he'd practice pitching to a handkerchief instead of a green. He had enormous hands, learned early, quickly and well. In 1910 he wound up his 72-hole chore in the Open at the Philadelphia Cricket club in a tie with Alec and Macdonald Smith, the famous broth-

ers. McDermott was an Anglophobe, made no effort

to keep his animosity a secret. He was no match physically for burly Alec Smith, but this didn’t deter him from speaking his mind about Alec Smith and the English in general. It made no difference to him that Alec was a braw Scot. He came from the British Isles. That was enough. McDermott didn’t make good his promise to beat Alec Smith in Philadelphia. Alec won the play-off, Johnny was second and Mac Smith last. Again the following year at the Chicago Golf club, McDermott found himself in a deadlock at the end of 72 holes in the Open, this time ‘with Mike Brady, who was destined to be a bridesmaid twice but never a bride in the Open. ” o »

IN BUFFALO in 1912 McDermott outstripped everyone but McNamara, a Bostonian and another Irishman who got close, but never close enough. McNamara, first to break 70 in the Open, thrice finished second. It was in 1013 at Shawnee that McDermott stood the golfing world on its ear by repelling the incomparable Vardon and Edward Ray. McDermott declared he could beat them every

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Johnny ; McDermott tied. for United States Open and won it twice before)he was 21. .

time they met, boasted that neither Vardon nor Ray would bag the Open at Brookline later in the season. McDermott was prophetic. Neither Vardon nor Ray prevailed. But it was a 20-year-old New England amateur out of the caddie ranks, Francis Ouimet, who startled the Royal and Ancient world by beating them, and not McDermott, as he predicted. McDermott was the only one to give Ouimet a bit’ of advice before his never-to-be-forgotten play-off with .the British stylists. It was simply: “Play your game, kid.” It wasn’t long before the meteoric career of Johnny McDermott, the boy who had the game to become the wonder golfer of all time, was at an end. However brief, it was a pathetic close to one of the most brilliant chapters in American golf.

NEXT—Chick Evans.

| k1ags x1 us to Compete Against Andersson in Sweden: Hopes to Leave U. S. Aug. 22

~ NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (U. PJ) —Gunder Hagg, the Swedish running

ace, said today that he was anxious

pete against Arne Andersson before the Swedish track season ended. © Hagg hopes to get a reservation aboard an army air force plane that leaves Aug. 22. : Meanwhile, he faced a busy schedule of banquets

Segura Shoots For a Final

Berth Today

RYE, N. Y., Aug. 13 (U. P.) —Topseeded Francisco Segura of Ecuador

_ |plays Seymour Greenberg of Chi-

cago today for a berth in the fihals of the Eastern grass courts tennis championships at the Westchester Country club. Lt. Ted Schroeder, the country’s top-ranked player, and Bob Falkenburg, national junior champion from Hollywood—both one round behind the field—play Charles Oliver of Perth Amboy, N. J., and Lt. Joseph R. Hunt, respectively, in two quarter-final matches, ¢ Women’s quarter-final matches ot First-Seeded Pauline Betz of Los Angeles against Katharine Winthrop of South Hamilton, Mass. and Margaret Osborne, No. 4, San Francisco, against Shirley Jane Fry of Akron, O. In the lower half, Louise Brough, No. 2 of Beverly Hills, Cal, plays Mrs. Norma Tauble Barber of New York and Doris Hart, No. 3, Miami, Fla., meets Dorothy Head of Alameda, Cal. Segura led the men into the semifinals yesterday by ousting James Brink of Seattle, Wash. 6-0, 7-5, while Greenberg disposed of Jack Tuero of New Orleans, 6-1, 6-1. Schroeder won over Dick Bender of Westfleld, N. J, 6-3, 7-5, and Hunt ousted George Ball, El Paso, Tex., 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, in two firstround matches. Miss Betz sét the pace for the women’s seeded stars, all of whom won. She beat Barbara Scofield of San Francisco, 6-1, 6-1.

EMPLOYMENT HITS NEW HIGH WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.). —Employment in the United States reached an all-time peak of 54,300,000 persons during the week ended July 10, the census bureau

reported today.

to leave for home “in order to com-

and sight-seeing. “I'm anxious to give Anderson a chance to beat me,” Hagg. said while commenting on the 4:02.6 mile his countryman had registered for a new world record while Gunder was touring the United States. Guest of honor at a dinner tendered by the Swedish-American A. C., last night, Hagg received a trophy from Col. Hans Lagerloff, honorary president, and a wrist watch from Dan Ferris, A, A. U. secretary, who revealed that the Swedish runner’'s eight appearances in this country had netted the army air forces aid society $160,000. Ensign Greg Rice, runner-up to Hagg in the Swede’s American debut at Randall’s island, and Gil Dodds and Bill Hulse, chief competitors on Gunder’s tour, also received wrist watches. Hagg gave Rice and Dodds each one of his white calfskin running shoes. His track suit went to Hulse. “I am well satisfied with my accomplishments in this country,” Hagg said. “I realize that many expected me to do better, but I feel that under the circumstances I did the best I could.” Hagg will attend a banquet at Worcester, Mass, tomorrow night, then go sightseeing in Washington and return to New York for a major league baseball game. A farewell banquet will be tendered him by the United Swedish Societies at Brooklyn Aug. 21.

Roll on Monday

league will roll each Monday night at 8:30 during the 1943-44 season at the Fountain Square alleys. Three more teams are needed and an organizatior® meeting will be held

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- The Kiwanis club and 2 state fair board will hold a. joint luncheon Wednesday noon in the

ballroom of the Columbia club, = | Sponsored by the agriculture com=

mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, the luncheon will honor the; fair board and 4-H club workers.d Indiana 4-H champions will speak, and music and entertainment wind i conclude the program.

Eight Tilts Are Slated for Navy

WABASH, Ind, Aug. 13 (U. PJ... —The Navy V-12 football team at: Wabash college will play an eight-' game schedule this fall against, other Midwestern V-12 squads, Ool-* lege Athletic Director Pete Vaughan X announced today.

Games have been scheduled a) : ready with naval trainees at Indiana university, Illinois Normal at Bloomington, Ill, Indiana Stated * Teachers’ college and DePauw university. The complete card will be announced later.

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