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Card Loss
May Cost
By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UP)
Failure of the St. Louis Cardinals
to win consistently from teams
that are pushovers for the rest
of the league probably will cost
them their fourth straight pen
nant. Last night for example, they
had a fine opportunity to gain on
the Cubs in a double header
against the forlorn Phillies. All
the Cards could manage to do
was to split, leaving them with a
net loss of a half game against
the Cubs, who mauled the Dodg
ers at Brooklyn, 20 to 0.
Cards Shaky
The Cards were shaky in losing
the opener at Philadelphia, 8 to
5, yielding five runs in the fifth
on just one hit. Rookie Glenn
Gardner saved the night by pitch
ing a three-hit, 7 to 0, shutout in
the second game for his first big
league triumph.
The Cubs made 1!) hits, Includ
ing four homers, In their rout of
the Dodgers. Paul Gillespie got
two of the homers. Hank Horowy
scored his third National league
victory against one defeat.
The Pirates won two at New
York, 11 to i) and 3 to 2, to move
within a game of (he first divi
sion. They chased Bill Voiselle
with six runs in the first although
the Giants tied it at 7-ull in the
seventh when Danny Gardella hil
his second homer of the game.
Tommy Holmes took over the
major league home run lead, hit
ting two to make his total 20 as
the Braves beat Cincinnati twice,
Baseball Standings
By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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Chicago 50
Cleveland 54
New York 52
St. Louis 52
Boston 51
Philadelphia 34
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Chicago 70
St. Louis 00
Brooklyn 01
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Pittsburgh 5!)
Boston 51
Philadelphia 30
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COAST LEAGUE
Portland 85 52 .520
Seattle 80 57 .581
Sacramento 73 00 .525
San Francisco 70 01) .504
Oakland 07 72 .482
San Diego 05 70 .401
Los Angeles 50 80 .424
Hollywood 57 82 .410
Another Jap Kills
Self in Defeat
ZURICH, Aug. 10 (UP) Lt.
Gen. Kiyolomi Okamoto, Japan
ese military attache, shot and
killed himself a! his home today.
Thus he followvd lhe example
set by Japanese war minister
Gen. Koivchika Anami, who com
mitted hara-kiri in Tokyo yes
terday to "utouo for his failure"
to win the war.
Okamolo I'ormriiy was assist
ant chief of staff in Singapore.
He was assigned to Switzerland
in December, 1043.
TO OPEN SPEEDWAY
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. Ill (UP)
The Indianapolis Tunes said
today in a copyrighted story the
Indianapolis m o t o r speedway
planned to resume the SUH-mile
Memorial day automobile race in
1040.
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DRAWING CARDS "It ain't that I object to you busting up them
atoms, protestor, but mind you don't scatter In' pieces on th' floor!"
SPORTS
Local Keports
'age 8
to Setups
Pennant
at Boston, 10 to 5 and 13 to 3.
Emil (Dutch) Leonard main
tained his mastery over ,'ihe Ti
gers, beating them for thy fourth
straight lime, 8 to 0, at Detroit
to put Washington within two
and a half games of the lead.
Win Eleven
The White Sox got fine pitch
ing from Bill Dietrich and Orval
Grove to beat the Red Sox at
Chicago, 5 to 1 and 11 to 0. The
Sox made 10 hits in the opener
and 12 in the nightcap for their
1 1th win in IS games.
Steve Gromek won his 15th
game as Cleveland Indians top
ped the visiting Athletics, 8 to 3.
The Browns sent the reeling
Yankees into the second division
with a 10 to 4 defeat, the sixth In
a row for the Now Yorkers. The
Browns made 15 hits, handing
Charley Ruffing his first loss
since returning from military
duly.
TODAY'S
SPORTPARAI
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Correspondent
By JACK CUDDY
ZUGZPI'i'S, Germany, Aug. 10
(UP) Sgt. George T. Mustin of
Memphis, Tenn., a bronzed, middle-aged
brown-haired lml, is
with company "C" of the 508th
militaly police battalion of tlK'
Third army. He is a very sane
fellow and he knows his Mem
phis friends will not believe him
when he comes home and says
"I also did some skiing in mid
August." But fortunately, five touring
sports writers from the United
Slates saw Muslin and more than
40 other G. I.s cavorting on the
snow in the mid-August "dog
days" and are willing to swear
to it on a slack of Bibles as high
as the Zuusnitz. This mountain
as the Zugspitz,
is a peak in the Bavarian Alps
which soars to 0,730 feel, the
highest in Germany.
Snow Plenty
The sports writers were stand
ing on the sundeck of the Schnco
fernerhaus, a weathered wooden
hotel on the mountainside 1,501)
feet below the Zugspitz summit.
The skiers seemed like black
specks zooming, tumbling and
stopping on the three square
mile expanse of perpetual snow
on the adjacent slope. ,
One speck left the snow and
came trudging up the path to the
skihouse elevation of the Schnce-
ferneihaus. The writers ran down
to meet him and hi proved to
be Mustin with his skis over his
sloulder, a stick in his hand and
wearing heavy skishoes.
"Are you the hotel profession
al," we asked him, "You have
been tumbling around like an ex
pert." Novor Trlod
"Nuls to you," Mustin replied
"I am an all-America amateur.
I'm from Tennessee and I never
saw so much snow before. I've
never been on skis before but 1
have been having the time of my
life and 1 could conquer these
sliek sticks with a couple more
practices so 1 could travel on my
skis instead of my backsides."
Mustin explained he had seen
an army folder inviting Third
army G. I s to visit the Alps and
have fun.
"Naturally, 1 didn't believe that
folder stud, but I figured I
couldn't lose anything since it
didn't cost anything. 1 certainly
was surprised. You have to hand
it to the men who fixed up Ibis
trip. They certainly introduced
me to a new world."
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Beavers Lose to
Oaks as Rainiers
Win From Angels
Seals Even Series
With San Diego;
Stars Lose '
By United Press
Portland went down to a 10
to 2 defeat Wednesday night be
fore a 18-hit onslaught by the
Oakland Acorns as Seattle, sec
olid to the Beavers in coast league
standings, broke even by split
ting a double header with Los
Angeles, 2 to 4 and 10 to 0.
Sacramento beat Hollywood 4
to 1 to take the second game in
the scries, and San Francisco
evened Its series with San Diego
with a 3 to 2 victory.
Portland used three pitchers,
Tising, Leon and Gunarson, in
an attempt to halt Oakland but
the Acorns made one each in the
second and fourth, three in the
fifth, two in the sixth and three
in the eighth.
The Padres gained II hits off
Bob Joyce compared to seven for
the Seals, but timely hitting -nd
base stealing assisted the league s
best pitcher in recording his 2uth
victory.
The Seattle Rainiers' hopes to
narrow the Beavers margin dim
med as they suffered a near shut
out defeat, 4 to 2, in the opener
They came back to whitewash
the Angels in the nightcap, 10
to 8.
Sacramento's Guy Fletcher
chalked up' his 20th victory of
the season as he pitched the Sol
ons to their 4-1 victory over Hoi
lywood.
Many Statrs Soon
To Return; May
Be Golden Age
By WALTER BYERS
CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (UP)
Many of the athletes who are
ready to make the coming decade
anotner "golden era are sched
uled today for immediate dis
charge from .the service.
Arier World War I came the
greatest decade in sports history,
the "roaring twenties," brimming
with the exploits of Babe Ruth,
Red Grange, Bobby Jones, Jack
Dempsey and big Bill Tilden.
And today, with some of the
nation's brightest pre-war stars
prepared to doff 'jheir service uni
forms, a new sporting era was
dawning, one which may not
match the "golden era" in indi
vidual glory bull is certain' to
outdo it in all-around brilliance.
Hogai Soon
The first big-name star to pock
,,l M rlii-r.,,,.cl ,,i-rl-c cin,.rt thn
surrender of Japan is Lt. Ben '
Hogan, the mighty Texas mite
who will be mustered out of 'the
AAF Sept. 5. Hundreds of Amer
ica's other top athletes, many of
them in the service for almost
three years like Hogan, are ex
pecting their discharge instruc
tions momentarily.
A tipoff on the approaching
mass return to the playing fields
are l.he 528 major league baseball
players now in the service. The
National Football league lists an
identical number in service garb,
which alone totals 1,052 men, not
counting the hundreds of colleg
iate, amateur and other profes
sional stars.
To Hit Stride
Ted Williams, Joe DiMagfeio,
Hob Feller, Stan Musial, Johnny
Vandermeer, Dick Wakefield.
Pete Reiser, Johnny Beazley and
Charley Keller are a few of the
baseball greats who will pick up
miti and ball again. DiMaggio,
Feller and Keller possibly may
return to their clubs before the
end of the '45 season.
There is little doubt they all
will hit their strides again for
such athletes as Hank Greenhorg
and Al Benton are servicemen
who already have blazed a come
back trail for than to follow1.
. Back, Linomcn
There's George McAfee, rated
the greatest running back the
gridiron ever knew; Bill Daley,
Norm Staiutlee. "Bullet Bill" Os-
nianski, Glenn Dobbs, Hugh Gal-
larneau, Sid Luekman and Pat
Harder, all ready to don shoul
der pads and cleats again.
The ring will welcome back
the "B o ni b e r," heavyweight
champ Joe I.ouis; Gus Lesnevich.
Billy Conn and Tony Zale. Ed
Oliver, Jimmy Demaret and Hor
ton Smith are anxious to grasp
a golf club again and glazed U'e
awaits sueh hockey stars as the
"kraut Inn-" of Bobby Bauer, Bill
Schnutt end Woody Duniart,
goalie Sam l.opresti and New
York's t'olville brothers, Neil and
Mac.
TODAY unit SATl'UDAY
League's Youngest
Umpire Fired For
Protesting Salary
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP)
The major league, meeting to
work out plans for returning vet
erans became involved today in
an unexpected complication, the
protest of an umpire, who charges
lie was fired because he sought
to get salary increases for his
associates.
The umpire, Ernie Stewart,
youngest arbiter in the American
league,, said he held conferences
with baseball commissioner A. B.
(Happy) Chandler over "dissat
isfaction" among umpires over
salaries paid. Chandler, he said,
suggested he make a survey of
salaries and report buck to him.
League Piesident William Har
ridge found out about his inves
tigation, Stewart said, and order
ed him dismissed.
"It made him mad and he fired
me," Stewart said. "He said I
had been discharged for causing
dissention and being disloyal."
Chandler said "the case is
something Harridge will have to
decide under baseball rules."
Headaches Don't
Keep Wilson Out
Of Managership
. By AL VERMEER
NEW YORK (NEA) It's bet
ter than driving a truck.
Jimmy Wilson would do it all
over again as a manager. Though
memories of unhappy days with
the Piullies and Cubs are still
fresh, Coach Wilson of the Reds
is not inclined to say he will
never again accept a major league
managerial assignment, provided
one is offered him.
'The toughest thing about run
ning a club is not what takes
place on the field but how you
get along with the front office,"
explains the one - time soccer
player.
Without mentioning names,
Wilson was taking a healthy left
jab at Jim Gallagher, gonoral
manager of the Wrigloys, who
was said to have forced the fam
ous catcher's resignation before
the season of 1044 had hardly
started. Wilson got the gat? when,
after bagging the opener, the
Bruins went into a lU-game nose
dive.
Unexpected happenings have
guided the baseball life of Wil
son. A star with the Cards, he
was swapped to the Phils fol
lowing a falling out with his
roommate, Frank Frisch, in 1033,
and elevated to the management,
There he was responsible for
t h e remarkable conversion of
bllcky Wallers from a third base-
man.
The Phils sold Walters to Cin
cinnati in 1038. A few months
later Wilson was released and
McKeehnie, admiring the work
he had done with Walters, invit
ed Jim to join the Reds.
Another dramatic turn occur
rd in 1040. Catcher Willard llersh-
berger committed suicide, and
when Sehnoz Lombardi pulled up
with a bad leg on the eve of the
World Series, there was only
Wilson lefl to catch.
Wilson was 4V) and had bivn
inactive for three campaigns, but
despite creaking joints he caught
all six games against the Tigers
blillianlly. Pitching to him in
two winning efforts was Hucky
Walters.
Granada
tonight only
Bushing, dashing action .
Regal gals . . .
Ringing, singing music ,
and a grand final!
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Nelson Favorite
In Memphis Meet
MEMPHIS, Aug. 10 (UP) The
"stop Byron Nelson" brigade took
to the southland today in an ef
fort to halt the greatest winning
sneak golf has ever known, but
the odds were short the tireless
Texan will go right on winning.
Already victorious in 10 straight
major tournaments under spon
suiship of the Professional Golf
ers association. Nelson is a top
heavy favorite to win the big
money in the $13,333 war bond
prizes in the Memphis invitation
al open. . '
Cub Catcher Tells
Hitler the Signs
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (NEA)
Ace Adams was having difficulty
with signs, especially those of
Adolfo Luque. Adams came to
bat with a man on first. As he
ok his stance at the plate, Ace
glanced at Coach Luque for
seme sign, which was immedi
ately forthcoming, but the Gi-
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Forest Fires Now
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PORTLAND, Aug. 18 (UP)
State forestry officials disclosed
today all forest fires in Oregon
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ed over night in central Oregon
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Big Celebration
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By United Press
The nation today set about
erasing the traces of a two-day
victory celebration, the second
phase of which lacked, for the
most part, the spontaniety that
followed the first official news
of Japan's surrender.
For the majority of Americans,
one night, of revelry was enough.
But in San Francisco, and to a
lesser degree in the large cities
of the east coast and midwest,
reopening of the bars was a sig
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making. Only in the west coast port,
which for four years lived under
the shadow of the war in the Pa
cific, did the hilarity increase.
Riot squads of 3,200 police and
shore patrolmen were called out.
Hospitals received more than
700 emergency cases, ;!he majority
of them sailors cut by flying
glass, injured in fist fights or
felled by drunkenness.
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Japan Not Likely
To Be Divided Into
Occupation Zones
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 UP)
Japan probably will not be di
vided into zones of occupation,
President Truman told his news
conference today, but a mixture
of allied forces under the allied
supreme commander, Gen. Doug
las MacArthur, will move into
the defeated enemy country.
Truman said plans for the occu
pation are started.
Asked who wouia. announce
the signing of the surrender terms
by the Japanese, the president
said Gen. Douglas MacArthur
will make the announcement and
he, the president, then will issue
his V-J day proclamation.
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