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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Saturday, August 25, 1915
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Detroit C8
Washington 87
St. Louis : 00
Chicago 00
Cleveland 50
New York 56
Boston 50
Philadelphia 36
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
By CARL LUNDOUIST
NEW YORK. Aufe'. 25 (UP)
Out of a world of war to one of
friendly strife where the most
potent weapon is his own bullet
ball came ex-sailor Bobby Feller
lo bid anew for immortality as
the greatest pit. her ol all lime.
They made it tout!h on the
corn-field kid from Iowa last
night in his first appearance with
the Cleveland Indians since be
fore Pearl Harbor. He had to
pitch against the lop pitcher in
the major leagues, Hal Newhous
er of the league leading Detroit.
Tigers.
Foller Wins
: But Feller met Ihj challenge
and handed Newhouser, the only
Langford, Bates
Win Pro-Amateur
Golf Tournament
- PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP) A
"dark horse" team of John Lang
ford, assistant professional, and
Harry Bales, champion of t h r
Portland golf club, swept n field
of 40 toams yesterday to win the
$2,000, 30-hole Pacific northwest
pro -amateur golf tournament
with a 134 best ball total.
The Portland club duo went
thiough two hectic rounds of 07
lor a 134 tbtal, 10 under par.
in snatching their upset vic
tory, the Portland team defeat
ed such teams as Pvt. Bob Ham
ilton, 1044 national PGA cham
pion, and Ken Black of Vancou
ver, B. C, Canadian amateur
champion, and the pro-amateur
combination of Bobby Litton, un
attached, and Joe Ahern, Colum-bia-Edgewatrr.
Litton and Ahern played i ex
ceptional golf to finish one stroke
behind the leaders with a 135.
Their close margin was made
possible by a sensational 05 on
the second II!.
Pvt. Hamilton of Fort Lewis
and Evansville, Ind., and Ken
Black had ruunds of lill-OH for a
130 total and third place.
Defending champions Gordon
Richards and Harry Givan of Su
btile placid fiflh with 130.
The winning team luttrd a
$500 war bond, the n e x t nine
highest teams were awarded
1,500 in war bonds lo share
among themselves.
Harold Wist, Tualatin club pro
of Portland and Hay Honsbcrger,
of Portland, shot 137 for fourth.
Oilier teams in the first II) piize
money wore Hoy and Buddy
Moe of Spokane, Joe Mozel and
Sid llerner, Chalie Summers and
Vie Ripley, all of Portland, lied
for sixth at l-lll: and two Seattle
t?ams, Bob Belt o ami Chuck
Thomas and Henry Garlells and
Erv Parent, tied for ninth with
141.
20-game winner in cither league,
his eighth defeat, 4 to 2. He let
D( trail's sluggers have only four
hits and he struck out I'! bat
ters, using his spirited curve
moie i.'gularly than his famous
last ball He was in trouble just
once when a double by Paul Rich
ards, a walk lo Jimmy Outlaw
and singles by Ed Boroin and
Roger Cramer lied the score at
2-all.
Gelling first class cooperation
from his teammales, Feller got
off to a two-run lead in the first
inning on Pat Seerev's 13lh hom
er with a man abase. Promptly
after the Tigers tied the score
Mickey Rocco's double and two
infield outs gave the Indians the
deriding run in the third. They
added another in the fifth.
Half Game
The Cleveland victory reduced
f troit's lead lo a hare half game
and gave Washinglnn's second
place Senators a rhancc to take
over first place today.
The Cardinals also tightened
up the National league race, win
ring the first of their all-important
12 games with the leading
Cubs, 1 to 0. The Cards scored
the only run after Lennie Merul
lo made n wild throw on a
grounder by George KurowskL
The win put the Cards four and
a half games out of the lead.
Last year's American league
champions, the Brownies, con-
linued to be hot, too, winning
their 10th game in their last 13.
3 to 1, over the visiting White
Sox. Al Hollingsworth pitched
a six-hitter to put the Browns
into third place ahead of Chicago.
In the only other game played
in eilher circuit yesterday the
Reds ended a six-game losing
streak with a 2 lo 1 triumph at
Pittsburgh.
Chicago 74
St. Louis 71
Brooklyn 04
New York 04
Pittsburgh 63
Boston 54
Cincinnati 40
Philadelphia 35
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 1)2 50 .622
Seattle 87 50 .590
Sacramento 7il 70 .527
San Francisco 70 73 .510
Oakland 70 79 .470
San nil '.wo 60 Bl .400
Los Angeles 62 87 .416
Hollywood 50 80 .399
Phyllis Otto To
Meet the Babe
In Golf Finals
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UP)
Phyllis Otto, 21-yeur-old daugh
ter o( a small-town Iowa bank
er, waited five years for the
chance she gels today when she
tecs off against Mrs. Babe Didrik-
son Zaharias in the 36-hole finals
of the women's western amateur
golf tournament.
The Atlantic. Ia., girl has been
lwaiting "another shot" at Mrs.
Zaharias ever since 1940 when
the Babe walloped Phyllis, 8 and
7, in the women's western open
the first and only time they've
met.
Mrs Zaharias, bidding for her
first women's amateur title, end
ed Dorothy Germain's two-year
reign as western amateur champ
and 3. Miss Otto was nosing
out Louise Suggs of Atlanta, Ga.,
the tournament medalist, in the
other semi-finals match, 2 and 1.
SALMON PACK INCREASED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP)
Seeietaiy of Agriculture Clin
ton P. Anilii's'in annoum-rd to
day civilian allocalioii of (he IIMfi
cauiK'd salmon pack had been in
cicascd hv 7,riliil,ooii pounds. To
lal civilian allocation of all kinds
of canned lish from the l!i.ri pack
will now he 21111.5(11111110 pounds.
Anders:tii said.
Suarcz Wins Main
Event Over Lacey
PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP)
Johnny Suarez, CIS-pound lighl
wi ighl boxer of Portland, won a
10-round decision over "Snooks"
Lacey, 129 pounds, in the main
eivnt al Portland auditorium last
night.
Neither boxer hit the canvas
once in a slow 10 rounds.
Manuel James, l.r)7. Denver,
substituting for Kay Miller, Kan
sas City, III., with ptomaine
poisoning, lost to Frank Ogg, 163,
Sacramento, Calif. James broke
his hand in the fourth hut last
id until the end of the seventh
when Ihe fighl was called in
Ogg's favor.
Nelson Ahead Hy
Four Strokes in
Kndxville Meet
KNOXVILLE, Aug. 25 (UP)
Things were back to normal
among the professional golfers
today Byron Nelson was out in
front of the field by four strokes
in the $10,01)0 Knoxville open.
His closest challenger was am
ateur Fred Haas, the New Or
leans sensation who beat him at
Memphis last week. Haas shot a
72 to go with his firsl lound card
of 08, giving him a total of 140.
Nelson was back in his usual
brilliant form, shooting a three-
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hills layout to go with his first
lound card of 67. That gave hini I
a 36-hole total of 130, eight
strokes under par.
Haloid (Jug) McSpadcn of San-
Bob Joyce Barely
Wins Game at His
Big Party Friday
Bs United Press
They gave a parly for Pitcher
Bob Joyce Friday night in San
Francisco coincidental with the
culmination of his sale to the
New York Giants for spring de
livery and in iccognition of his
hurling efforts for the Seals thus
far this season.
This same party was almost
spoiled in the last two innings
when Sacramento grabbed a 6-5
lead until Catcher Joe Sprinz
came along with the evening's top
present for Joyce a single that
drove home the winning run,
gave San Francisco a 7-6 victory
and Joyce his 2th pitching vie
lory of Ihe season.
Beavers Win
Throughout the rest of the
league Portland maintained its
four-game league lead with a 7-3
triumph over Los Angeles; Seat
tle trimmed Oakland for a fourth
straight time, 7-3, and San Diego
dumped Hollywood 4-2.
Joyce and the Seals coasted be
hind a 4-0 lead going into the top
half of the eighth. Sacramento
bunched five base knocks good
for three runs. They repeated
the trick in the ninth after the
Seals picked up a run in the
eighth. Going into the last half
of the ninth inning, the Sacs
clung to a shaky, but good look
ing, 0-5 margin.
Husky Ted Norbert's grand
slam home run in the sixth pro
vided the Rainiers with their vic
tory over Oakland. The game
was Joe Demoran's 11th straight
mound victory and Seattle's sev
enth in a row.
Wins 13th
Norebert's clout over the left
field wall 305 feet distant off re
lief pitcher Jack Lotz was his
second of the series with the bags
drunk and his fourth of the sea-;
son.
A two-run San Diego rally ac
counted for pitcher Jim Brill
heart's 13th victory.
A timely one-bagger to left
field with the bases loaded in the
eighth inning by Mel Nuncs to
night carried the Portland Beav
ers to a 7 to 3 victory over the
unlucky Los Angeles Angels. The
series now stand 4-1 in favor of,
the Beavers. " '
Nunes' hit, coming as it did
with bases loaded and the teams
tied at 3-3, drove home a pair of
runs, preparing for Ad Liska to
follow with another single to cen
ter which scored two more runs
and set the Beavers on the road
to victory.
ford, Me., shot a two under par
(0 to go into a third place tie
with the veteran Tony Penna of
Dayton, O., at I'll.
CHOCRANE LOSES i
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UP) !
Fledllli (Redl Coehrane's welter- j
weight lilli was a hollow Ihmi:
li.d.iy in Ihe light of bis second
knei l.nol in .-- i s v, i -k;. at Un
hands of wild '..lugging lioi l
( :,i aiaro. New York i-a.l shirt. ,
ho In Id , ,mt the champion in
i "l ly loth round lasl night.
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