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‘of iced beer. It was the happiest “pennant

aver for Ownie. Bush, club presi-|Louls Browns and they won thelr

first pennant in 1944. though it, Was. his eighth| U0: Cth the Red Sox and they

y execu: managed th ‘winning took their first flag in 23 years, {This year he came to the Tribe,

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Pittsburgh, played on one here and two with Detroit. . It was the first time Hallett had. a pennant and the first time he had been on a winning ball club. He said he never fait better than last night and

Al Lopez was the tar get cof most of thé congratula tions he e credit

alos PE said the club had the proportions of speed, youth ana veterans for a winning club. He praised the play of Les Fleming, who has "knocked about” in the and then stepped down to a triple-A team and showed as much hustle as any youngster.

Boost for Fleming aie is wi a. big league play-

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Hallett. Twirls 5-Hitter; Brews Can't Possibly Catch Our Champs

bilant than Biayers.. oot for the ov over Columbus at a) Field. There

dressing-room 'Boom" Freddy Ferris a good race for the most noise. While Boom»

: : in+|Boom" reviewed his favorite hex ‘etired the side in the ninth llgns. and yells, Don Site

af back-slapping: and severallany club wants to win a pennant,

t) after the Indians clinched

"PENNANT. HAPPINESS. uri Bush (front of]. + team president, who had taken

pennants with other major and minor clubs,” congratulates

the American Association

ield. Mugging in the background are (left to right} play-

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the club the Association

Don Gutteridge gave “Boom-

“It

all they have to do is hire me.” Gutteridge went to the St,

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No Letdown Ordered

Hump Pierce, the team trainer, was his usual self yélling at fans outside, “take the door but leave the hinges.” He doesn't know how many winning clubs he has been with but he said he had enough watches and rings from pennant teams that some day he would trade them all for a case of beer. The lack of a noisy celebration can’ be explained by the Tribe's huge lead over the second-place club. The Indians knew they had the flag in their hip pockets and the clincher last night was more or less just another game. There won't be.a letdown, however, and that 18 the order from Lopez. He sald it wouldn't be fair to Columbus and St. Paul who are battling for’a playoff spot. “We're going ahead and will play each game like the pennant ded on it,” he sald. f you are looking for some of

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Tribe Wins Eddie Ash,

Letter to the Boss:

WHO'S THE happiest man in Indianapolis today?

You might pick Indians

Sullivan their business manager, or Ownie Bush, their boss or “Mr. Faithful Fan” who hasn't missed a game.

But we wouldn't.

our boss, Eddie Ash. You've been waiting 20 years for this day. We have seen you eat, sleep and breathe baseball, and it's easy for us to see why you are the dean of American Associa~ tion baseball writers. For 35 yeara you have been writing baseball. You have, spent innumerable hours &t the ball park covering games. We figured out that you have seen some 3000 professional ball games so far, .Of course cov. ering the game isn't all there is to it. There is that “little” job of returning to the office and working until the wee hours of the morning ‘writing the story for the paper. ,

WE'VE heard a lot of guys say, “That Eddie Ash knows more baseball than any one else in town" So we nosed around to find out how long you have been attached to the game, This is what we learned: You started making the game the biggest part of your life ‘when you played with the South Side Devil-Stoppers years ago. Then you played at Manual ‘High School and later became one of Wabash College's best outfielders, You were a snappy one-armed fielder for the TasteTells, a semi-pro team spon sored by the old Capitol City Brewery. That was when semi pro ball was really fast. We heard that Wabash was allowed three hits in a game with Notre Dame and you got all three and that you are credited with one of the shortest home runs on record. That was when you hit a single and the outfielder couldn't find the ball because it rolled into a gopher hole.

AFTER graduating from Wabash you went to work at the Star in 1913 and then for the Indiana Dally Times in 1917 and when Scripps-Howard bought the Daily Times and renamed it The Indianapolis

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Times you were appointed sports editor. You: were reporting baseball games back in 19013 and 1914 when Indianapolis had two es, the Federal Leagle and American Association. The Hoo-Feds played at 30th St.

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WINNING HURLER—Ptfburdh Pirate President Frank’ McKinney, who also is vice president of the Indianapolis baseball club, got in. line early to praise -

winning hurler Jack Hallett last night.

10th triumph against five defeats.

Flag and Our Boss,

Manager Al Lopez, or Ted

tucky Ave. and 8. West Bt. You have known more balls players and baseball Saecutives than any oné man in the AA and we think you are deserving of a tribute. We have talked with just a few of your baseball pals. Here's what they Rave to say: » CHARLES LOGAN. y president of the New Orleans bail Club and a Times sports reporter, 1917-1921-—"“We might reserve a place.on the top side of the batting order for Eddie Ash, who has traveled the high road and low road with the In. diany all these years without evr once learning how to quit. I can go back a quarter of a century and remember when I was a kid on Eddie's sports desk. He loves the. game and all those who have been associated with him have learned to love it. “Baseball has no season with: Hddie. It never has had. To him it's a game that lives through every month of the year and the games of yesterday give him as big a thrill in retrospect as the games ached: uled tomorrow. So far as ballplayers are concerned, the finest quality they can hold is an in. tense desire to win and a tireless hustle regardless of the count in their favor or against them. Eddie was that kind of a ballplayer at Wabash and unquestionably the roaring and flying Indians of this year have brought him the reward.”

LJ ” » MAYOR AL FEENEY, who was an undergraduate at Manual when Eddie was playing varsity ball—"“To me he is the dean of all baseball writers. In high school he was an outstanding player. He knows the game from start to finish and I doubt whether any one else has acquired such a baseball knowledge.” - » »

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TED SULLIVAN, Indians’ business manager and close friend of Eddie since high school days-—"He was the best ball player we had at Manual and today he is one of the best baseball writers in the country.”

» » . HUMP PIERCE, trainer who knew

Indians’ Eddie at

Wabash-"“He certainly was the greatest one-armed ball prayer

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» » # that's it, Eddie. could have gone on and on with page after poge of com-

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Is a Very Happy Man

Staff Photographer. GIVE ME FIVE, JACK—Tribe Business Aaa r Ted od Sullivan n rushed out on the fisld as Hallett retired the. side in the ninth.

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for a congratulatory |

handshake are Third Baséman Russ Peters (left) and Left Fielder Cully Rikard right}. Hallett allowed five hits and fanned six as 8 Hie Redskins beat Columbus; 4 to I, give the Indians the pennant.

and in his prime he would make Pete Gray look like a playboy.” . . .

‘AL LOPEZ, Manager of Indians—"I heard of Eddie when I was with the Pirates in 1946. I looked forward to meeting |Bea him _ and since then have marveled at his fund of baseball knowledge.”

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Ri tt AnH 1 2 Howerton, Ha fect, "Sadtat o-DAMe ta-Bear {tie and produced the winning run

ron: in the last half of the sixth on Roy Smalley’'s walk, Schmitz’

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ends. This is our little bit of appreciation for’ what we have been taught by you. We hope that some Gay we can give Joe Doke/s batting average in without through the record books.

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Tribe Batting, Box Score

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nas Bases—Cass A ‘Ta, Gutteridge 8, Turner 5, Riki astiglions, Peters,

Saffell 10, Rikard 4,

its—Cal 0 5 Sutteridy ot: Ganss.

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has whipped Brooklyn six times. Schmitz, a slender, 6-foot-2-inch fast-baller, registered his 16th triumph of the year when he beat Brooklyn 7 to 6, yesterday. The defeat cut the Dodgers’ National League lead to a mere two percentage points over the second place Boston Braves. The Cub left-hander, who lost his first game of the year. to Brooklyn on Wednesday, relieved Bob Rush in the sixth’ inning yesterday and held the Dodgers scoreless from that point on. Meanwhile, Chicago broke a 6-6

sacrifice and Emil Verban’s -sin-

d|gle to left. field.

The defeat concluded Brooklyn’s western invasion with a record of nine victories and four defeats,

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Legion Series Tickets Johnny Hutchings, Tribe pitcher, will autograph American Legion junior world series‘ tickets tomorrow from 10 a. m. unti noon at L. Strauss & Co. series will open at Victory Field Monday afternoon. Three finalists termined are Belleville, Ill, . tha and Trento Tex., and Jacksonville, Fla., are playing their final game at the C., sectional to-

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Cubs Are still Dodger Jinx

By MILTON RICHMAN, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 3—Brooklyn may yet compete in the 1048 World Series with the help of power, pitching or providence, but certainly not with the help of Southpaw Johnny Schmitz of the Cubs, The Dodgers have dropped 11 games to Chicago this season, more contests than they have lost to any other club, and Schmitz

of his most sucessful season since he broke in with Chicago in 1941. His best previous year

was in 1947 when he won 13

games. The Cubs clouted four Dodge pitchers for 11 hits yesterday, ins cluding a homer by Eddie Waits kus. Veteran Phil Cavarretta led the Chicago offensive with three hits. Erv Palica started the game for the Dodgers and Bob McCall for the Cubs but neither got past the fourth inning. ; Larry Jansen, ace of the New York Giants’ pitching staff, racked up his 16th victory of the year by beating the fourth-place Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 to 4. Jans< sen, who had failed on six previe ous attempts to notch his 16th decision, almost allowed the Buc+ caneers to tle the game Ih the ninth when they scored three

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