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Portland 89
Seattle 85
Sacramento 78
San Francisco 74
Oakland 70
San Diego 68
Los Angeles 07
Hollywood 58
AMERICAN LEAGUE
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Detroit 07 48 .585
Washington C7 49 .578
Chicago 00 55 .522
St. Louis 50 55 .513
New York 50 55 .505
Cleveland 58 57 .504
Boston 55 03 .40(1
Philadelphia 30 7 .321
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Senators Half Game
Out of First Place
By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (UP)
They don't call owner Clark Grif
fith of the Washington Senators
the "Old Fox" for nothing. Bor
lowing a page from the book of
Sam Breadon of the St. Louis
Cards, Griffith today has his ball
players hustling for a world ser
ies cut that would be more than
many of them will make for an
entile season.
Wherever the Senators go in
their swing about the American
league circuit, fans, writers and
opposing teams are impressed by
their spirit and hustle. And to
day they were only half a game
out after another double header
victory at Cleveland, 3 to 0 and
0 to 5, that ran their current win
ning Strea klo five straight.
Homer Wins
Winding up their final western
swing with 13 victories out of 20,
the Senators won the first game
on the margin of a homer by
George Myalt.
The Nats knocked out Steve
Gromek with four runs in the
first inning of the second game
but couldn't hold the margin.
Cleveland pecked away and fi
nally tied the score with two runs
in the ninth. Mickey Haefer
gained his second win in as many
days, pitching three relief inn
ings as the Senators pushed over
the winning run in the 1 1th
Detroit won, 4 to ;, from the
visiting Athletics, hut lost a half
game in the race. Paul (Dizzy)
Trout won his Kith game and his
fourth in a row.
Browns Drop
Chicago topped the visiting
Yankees, 0 to 5 in 1 1 innings J
when Mike Tiesh doubled and
Kerby Farrell singled. Tresh
earlier had dougled in the last
of the ninth to touch off a three
run rally which tied the score.
The Browns and Red Sox split
at St. Louis. Bob Muncrief notch
ed his eighth victory against two
losses, giving the Browns a 4 to
2 victory in the opener. In the
second game, the Browns hand-
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ed the Red Sox a 5 to 4 victory
on loose fielding and wildness by
Pitcher Weldon West. Mike
Ryba won his fifth victory. The
Browns dropped to fourth behind
Chicago.
There were no National leagui
games scheduler).
Three Latins Take
Quarter Finals
Places in Tennis
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug
23 (UP) Three South American
tennis players earned berths in
the quarter finals of the South
ampton invitational meet, mak
ing up for the absence of Fran
Cisco (Pancho) Segura, the Ecua
dor star who is resting up for the
national meet next week
Alejo Russell of Buenos Aires
scored the major upset of the
meet when he eliminated the vet
eran Sidney B. Wood, jr., 8-2, 17'
15 . Wood made a remarkable
comeback in the second set after
trailing 5-2 and with Russell
needing only one match point
Wood made it 6-5 by winning
four straight games and from then
on it was a bitter battle.
Favored Billy Talbert of Wil
mington, Del., won with difficulty
from Lt. Edward Moylan of the
navy. Other South American
winners are Heraldo Weius of
Buenos Aires who eliminated
Jack McManis of San Diego,
Calif., 0-2, 0-2, and Andres Ham
mersley of Santiago, the Chilean
champion, who won 0-4, 3-6, 7-5
from Lt. Seymour Greenberg.
Second seeded Lt. Gardner
Mulloy of the navy and Miami
Fla., won from Nick Buzolich of
Los Angeles, 0-2, 7-5; Francis X.
Shields of New York topped Pfc.
George Ball of San Antonio, Tex.,
6-3, 0-7: Eiwood Cooke of Los
Angeles won from J Gilbert Hall
of New York, the national veter
an's champion, 0-2, 6-1; and Lt
Hal Sorface of Kansas City, Mo.,
ousted Lt. Robert Peacock of the
navy, 0-0, 0-4,
Feller to Rejoin
Cleveland Team
CHICAGO, Aug. 23 (UP)
Chief Specialist Bob Feller is on
his wny to Cleveland today to re
join his former teammates and
attempt to regain his stellar
pitching role with the Cleveland
Indians.
The husky player collected his
last service pay from the navy
v,!t,.rrl;iv :rt,r l,v,nct V,,,,- im,x-c
service. Feller had compiled 45.
jS' onc 1,1010 lnlln required for dis
charge. He thought his pitching
KC-'- chores at Great Lakes had kept
him in "pretty good" condition.
Credit
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Pitcher Wins
Second Game
By United Press
Sacramento's 19 -year-old
schoolboy pitcher from Long
Beach, Joe Vivaldi, turned his
second mound assignment into
his second victory as he hurled
the Solons to a 5 to 3 triumph
over San Francisco in their Pa
cific coast league ball game
Wednesday night.
Although he walked 10 Seal
players, loading the bases with
three passes in the third, young
Vivaldi held his opponents to six
hits while the Sacs collected sev
en blows from Frank Seward and
Tony Buzolich. In his first suc
cess Vivaldi pitched a three-hitter
against San Diego last Sun
day. The pennant-bound Portland
Beavers checked Los Angeles, 9
to 3, and the second-place Seat
tle Rainiers defeated Oakland, 8
to 5, to remain Vk games out of
first position. Hollywood turned
four hits into six runs to beat San
Diego, fl to 3.
Roy Helser, Beaver mound star,
was never pressed as he rolled
up his 18th victory of the season.
He was allowed seven hits. An
gel hurler Charley Cuellar was
greeted in the first frame by a
four hit attack for four runs by
Portland.
Charley English paced Port
land's batting, knocking out two
doubles and a single in four trips
to the plate.
The veteran southpaw Carl
Fischer gained his 17th win of
the season as the Ruiniers swept
their second straight game from
the Oakland Acorns, but a homer
in the ninth by Charlie Metro,
with two aboard, sent Fischer to
the showers. Sylvester Johnson
finished for Seattle, choking off
the Oaks rally, Floyd Stromme
was charged with the defeat.
Pitcher Who Wins
20 First Year
Not Always Fizzle
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEW YORK (NEA) Dave Fer-
riss is the first major league
pitcher to win 20 games this sea
son, which has the baseball writ
ers recalling the mighty few who
have performed the feat as fresh
men.
Statisticians can dig up only a
half gozen who have had the good
fortune in the 45 years the Amer
ican league has been in exist
ence, and none came close to
crashing the Hall-of-Fame.
Since Grover Cleveland Alex
ander turned in 28 victories in
1911, a 20th century high for a
frosh, only Cliff Melton of the
Giants, and the Braves' veterans,
Jim Turner and Lou Fctte, have
won as many as 20 games their
first time around in the National
league, and they were no great
shucks, as it was subsequently
demonstrated.
Were it not for Grover Alex
ander and a fistful of old-timers,
ff the record you might suspect
that only a pitcher with trick
stuff could account for 20 big
league victories in his maiden
whirl.
This would seem true especial
when you consider that such
Jack Chesbro, Big Ed Reul-
ach, Rube Wacldell, Eddie Plank.
Wild Bill Donovan, Big Ed Walsh,
George Mullin, Chief Bender,
ack Coombs, Rube Marquard,
moky Joe Wood, Walter John
son, Babe Ruth, the Coveleskies,
Eddie Cicottcr Herb Pennock,
eorge Uhle, Waite Hoyt, Rob
ert Moses Grove, Dizzy Dean,
Lefty Gomez, Carl Hubbell, Paul
Derringer, Bob Feller and Spud
Chandler are among the several
thousand who failed to make the
grade.
But, while 01' Pete Alexander
might be the modern exception
proving the rule, the one-time
Nebraska farm boy also conclu
sively showed that a pitcher can
nlki n with the equipment and
etain it . Alex tossed his weight
ound with considerable author
iT as late as 1929 throughout a
9-year stretch.
Before him you have to go back
o Amos Rusie, Cy Young. Clark
Griffith, Iron Man Joe McGin-
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By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, Aug 23 (UP)
Cannon-mouthed Leo Durocher,
whose histrionics on the ball field
have brought him stage- and
screen offers, will have a hard
time trying to find a job that will
pay him more money than he gets
for managing the Brooklyn Dodg
ers. Durocher comes a long way
from being Brooklyn boss Branch
Rickey's favorite manager, but
before the 1945 season ends he
may become tho most high-priced
pilot in major league history.
"Worst Club"
Rickey, who has more angles
than a geometry text-book, heard
the hue and cry of the baseball
writers this spring when they
came to the Dodger training camp
and described the club being as
sembled as "the worst ever to
represent the National league."
Not even the most rabid Dodg
er supporter among the scribes
could foresee a higher finish than
the second division for the babes
in the major league woods that
Accident Fatal to
Indian Quisling
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23
(UP) Radio Tokyo said today
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian
rebel leader, died in a Japanese
hospital Aug. 19 from wounds
sustained in an airplane accident.
Bose, known as the "Indian
Quisling," who fled India for Ja
pan to form a puppet party in
connection with Japan's greater
East-Asia co-prosperity sphere,
was seriously injured when his
plane crashed near Taihoku air
field, Tokyo said.
Lt. Gen. Tsunamasa Shidei was
instantly killed, while Bose's ad
jutant and four Japanese officers
were injured, the broadcast add
ed. nity and the immortal Christy
Mathewson. They broke into the
National league with 10 to 29 vic
tories each, and kept riglit on
going.
On the American league side,
only southpaw Venn Gregg, who
copped 23 for Cleveland in 1911,
might have pitched a bust of him
self into the House at Coopers
town, but his arm went haywire.
The others who are remembered ;
only and largely because they ;
scored 20 victories making their
bows are Eddie Summers, who
neipeci met lgers to tneir pen
nant in 1908; Ewell Russell of the
1913 White Sox; Hugh Bedicnt of
the Red Sox champions of the
same era; and Monte Weaver of
the 1932 Senators.
There was a stretch of some 30
years between Reb Russell and
between the latter and Ferriss.
Bedient and Weaver, and 13 years
But that shouldn't discourage
Boo ferriss.
Not with his size and stuff.
SINCE IS55 . 11
UP Staff Correspondent
Rickey had assembled at the
eainp.
Bad Beating
Unperturbed, Rickey left the
l Duraen oi proot as to whether
the writers were right or wrong
to Durocher, who in many ways
has become the Dodger "whip
ping boy."
If what the writers said was
true, the Dodgers were in for a
terrific financial beating at the
gate. But if the team could
make a race of it, there was a
strong possibility it might have
its most profitable year. Hence
Rickey offered Durocher a one
year contract on a bonus basis.
His base salary was reduced from
the previous year but Rickey stip
ulated when the Ebbels field at
tendance reached 500,000 Duroch
er was to get an extra $5,000.
From then on, whenever the at
tendance went up another 100,
000 Durocher received another
$5,000. With the receipts now
past the 900,000, Durocher has
cashed $25,000 in bonuses already
and gets a "double feature" $10,
000 bonus when the turnstiles
hit one million.
Big Crowds
Since his base pay reportedly
was $20,000, he is almost certain
to make a flat $55,000 for the
year, which would make him the
highest salaried manager of all
time.
lt was a terrific gamble for him
to take. If the Dodgers had been
as bad as they were made out to
he, it isn't likely the season's at
tendance would have reached
$500,000. It was up to Durocher
and he delivered That the Dodg
ers, despite a recent bad slump,
have managed to stay in the first
division verges on the miraculous.
Yet the spirit has been high and
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Panic if Plants
Of U.S. Closed
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23
(UP) Henry J. Kaiser, west
coast industrialist, today warned
closing of government war plants
will create economic panic.
Kaiser criticised an unidenti
fied group of business men re
ported by San Francisco news
papers to be opposing peacetime
use of government-owned war
plants.
Kaiser announced he plans to
build railroad freight cars in the
government - owned shipyards
which he operates in Richmond,
Calif. He has entered a bid to
deliver 19,000 freight cars by Jan.
1, 1946.
"All government war plants, I
including Willow Run, should be
leased immediately to private en
terprise, Kaiser told the senators.
The reported fight against
peacetime use of government-
plants by private enterprise prob
ably is led by businessmen who
fear competition, Kaiser com
mented. "Private enterprise of the old
order is after profit, not prosper
ity it is afraid of competition,
he said.
Gene Shields Dies
In Logging Mishap;
Was Football Great
PORTLAND, Aug. 23 (UP)
Gene Shields, 45, football great
at the University of Oregon, was
killed Wednesday when a log,
lolling off a truck, crushed him
to death near Timber, 20 miles
northwest of Forest Grove.
Shields was at the scene of op
erations where he and a brother,
Marshall (Dutch) Shields, had
been engaged for almost three
years.
Shields went to the university
in 1927, remaining through the i
regimes of Coach John J. (Cap)
McEwan, Claience W. (Doc)
Spears and Prince G. Callison.
He entered the logging business
in 1942.
In addition to his brothers he
is survived by his widow and two
young daughters, Norma and
Nancy of Portland; t w o other
brothers and two sisters and his
mother, Mrs. Nora Shields of
Camas. Wash.
Coe McKenna Takes
Over Tax Position
PORTLAND, Aug. 23 (UP)
State Senator Coe McKenna of
Portland turned in his official
resignation today to Secretary of
Slate Robert Farrell. He will take
over new duties as state tax com
missioner. The task of appointing a suc
cessor to represent Multnomah
county in the Oiegon state senate
was delegated to the Multnomah
county commissioners. It is ex
pected they will select former
state senator Jack Lynch, who
barely lost to McKenna in the
last election. Both are republicans.
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Works For State
SALEM, Aug. 23 (UP) Mi
Dorothy Taylor, physical restora
tion specialist for the state voca.
tional rehabilitation service, has
established her headquarters in
Portland, it was announced here
today.
COMMUNISTS ESTABLISHED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23
(UP) Re-establishment of organ
ized communists in, California
was announced today by party
officials following a 600-delegate
convention last Sunday.
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