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TWO MEDFOFD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1944 CHAD TC mil ' ' ' i"- ", 10 FIRST PLACE TIE IN JUMIEEL Nelson Potter Blanks Bosox With Two Blows After Ti gers Lose to Mackmen. STRAIN OF CLUB'S LACK OF SPIRIT By Jack Cuddy United Press Stuff Correspondent Gambling "Fix" Threatens To Hurt Sports In Hawaii By Dan McGulre United Press Staff Correspondent Honolulu, Sept. 25 (U.R) The "fix" in Honolulu has reached a stage where even professional gamblers are getting suspi cious of each other, A few people, particularly - Vernon (Red) McQueen, sports i editor of the Honolulu Advertis er, want the authorities to stage a clean-up drive because they New York, Sept. 28 U.R)I are afraid football, basketball Billy Southworth seems to be ' and baseball events here will Whistlin' past the graveyard" when he assures reporters that his Cardinals have snapped out of their slump. That's the impression we got while shooting the breeze with Billy-the-Kid in the dugout be fore yesterday's gamo at Brook lyn. The middle-sized manager In become involved in such scan dais the public will refuse to have faith in the integrity of athletes. Gambling Is so widespread and Involves such vast sums that it staggers the IN FINAL CLASH Los Angeles, Sept. 26 (U.R) The Los Angeles Angels, Pa- Imagination. c'"c Coast league pennant win- New York, Sept. 26 (U.R) The Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Browns begin what virtu olio nmnnnt to a six-game base ball season today lnsoiar as ine come qui m a uuuiiuusb mcuuns iook it easy on tne opposition, pennant hopes of each club Is with his players at which, we As McQueen points out, It concerned. I understand, he had tried to whip Isn't the gambling itself that Is The Browns crediting the "P more pep. Beneath the veneer the primary danger It's the giant-killing Philadelphia Ath-' his smile, his nerves were "fix." Basketball games last i ,h hlC assist. tnreWi'- u.,ui,. I. ..... ocanuji mm iu uuyiuuai iiacu the scrambled American league I edge. stretch battle into a state of con-1 Turning on a grin, as If with fusion last night when they , a faucet, Southworth 6ald, "I'm climbed into a first place tie j glad to see the boys snapping Thousands of dollars are bet on ners fr the; second year in a high school football games. Last row. moved Into the finals of fall, a prep star was offered $300 the Governor's Cup playoffs Red Skelton in Craterlan Show Sri E 'Via ".i- Jt with the Tigers by beating the Boston Red Sox, 3-0. Earlier in the day the seventh place Ath letics, who defeated the Browns three-out-of-four when St. Louis was on top and later, knocked off the then league loading New York Yankees in three straight games, did it again by edging the front-running Tigers, 2-1. With the Detroit loss confront ing him, St. Louis Manager Luke Sewell knew that he had to win "this one" and sent his ace, Nel son Potter, to the mound. Potter came through with a two-hit per formance to score the shutout and push the Browns back Into a share of the driver'! seat. Thus, the two clubs start all over In their quest for the flag. for the Browns, their first in to throw a irame and a coach against San Francisco by de- the gray roaa unuorm naa just was offered a new sedan if he leasing ine roriiana Beavers 3-z last night with a ninth in ning rally. Los Angeles win gave them a 4-2 series victory, qualifying the Angels for the final playoff against the Seals, defending Governor's Cup holders, start ing in San Francisco tomorrow night. The first three games will be that even the fans became dis gusted. Most of the gambling is on Dunns, or runs, not winning ur , out of it the way they're doing. ' s'ng. It is well known that . played at eals stadium and We were in a pretty bad slump! there is a "syndicate" operating the remainder of the seven con before we started this eastern and that it can get to many! tests in Los Angeles starting trip. We had our ears pinned I professional athletes, no matter back good. It was our only j'"" o i""-- slump of the season. It was to be I pating.- expected. And I believe It did , Sports mean a lot here, espe the whole club a lot of good cInl'v at this time when thou giving the boys something tofnd servicemen are on work out of before the series." ha"f Th? city 6?es wild y That monologue may look I fotbaI1 in Particular. High good in print, but It didn't sound I scllooj ame? d,raw, overflow as good as !t looks-coming from ' crwdsu t,, th! 'caI stadlum. a guy who wa, Just about aslwh'h holdf 25-000-convincing as Maxle Bacr at I The opening game of the year. Speculator, N, Y., when he wasi training for his fight with Joe Louis. Baer was one up on South worth because he knew, at least, for whom he was conditioning. Southworth isn't sure whether the opponent will be the Detroit history, and for the Tigers, their Tigers or St. Louis Browns, now first since 1D40. 181h Victory Potter's exhibition, his best of the season, netted him his 18th deadlocked in the American league flag race. But he knows that both clubs are hot from the stretch brawl- victory, the Browns, their sixth ' ln "eAl'nlr cl.rcult: and he straight and ninth out of their last 11 starts since opening their 41nal hnmA alnnri Kftitpmhfr IS. Russ Christopher, ace cf the have made just one legitimate Atui.ti,.'. mn,,rf .inff limliflri I tally In 28 Innings. They beat the Tigers to four hits in helping the Dodgers yesterday on three knows that the Cards who were given yesterday's 3-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers teams, was sold out. Scalpers were doing a rushing business. The stands were sprinkled liberally with khaki and whites sailors and soldiers didn't care who won they just want ed to see a football game. It looked like it was on the up-and-up. Maybe It's too early for the gamblers to be out. Sunday. San Francisco polished off Oakland, four games to one, to enter the finals. Two old reliables clinched the Angel win, Johnny Moore get ting a pinch single In the ninth inning and Ccce Garriott driv- Red Skelton Is shown In a comical scene from "Bathing Beauty," a musical technicolor with Esther Williams and Harry James. The picture opens to morrow at the Craterian for a four day program. In Rialto Role pV;CV Olive xp MOi Barber s 1 1 VJ jf&fr rMXK ' Observations' Coming to the Rialto Wednes- School bells are ringing as I start this column; big bells atop big buildings and nothing at all like the little hand bell I rung aay w ,"' ."'""""''.'lin front of the one-roomed ana j carroi '" 'school, my first, on a Septem- "Timo Wnfnnn " with FuplVil . . - ' c ber morning long ago. 1 rung it, Jungle Woman," with Evelyn Ankers. Scheduled as the com ing in Stan Gray, running for j panion feature, Johnny Mack Moore, with the winning run after two were out. The linescore: Los Angeles 3 10 0 Portland 2 10 0 Adams and Sarni; Pieretti and Adams. Brown and Raymond Hatton ap pear in "West cf the Rio Grande." the Browns climb the ladder, The New York Yankees took advantage of the situation to pick up a game and a half on the Bengals and draw within three games of the pace-setters by win ning a pair from the Chicago White Sox, 3-1 ln the 12-inning opener, and 5-4 in the nightcap. The Cleveland Indians used unearned runs, by virtue of three official errors and a few other unofficial miscues that did not reach the boxscore. The "tainted" victory ran the league champion s string to six but they were not the type of wins to bring ready smiles to the face of the usually genial Southworth. All were recorded the four hit pitching of Ed Kilo- 8alnt clubs floundering in the man to shutout the-Washington econd division and four were Senators, already consiimed to u ,u" 'B'n8. last place, 4-0. In the National league the champion St. Louis Cardinals scored twice ln tho ninth inning to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-1, and the New York Giants tallied once ln their last frame to edge the Cincinnati Reds, ?-2. 1 nusDurgn s t'iraics got omcial friHit ttr wnnina Ct nnma Ihnu tnrtAi A, , 1 mn.n It..,., i Detroit defeated the Boston Braves 13-8 JJCW York HOW THEY TAD St. Louis in the completion of a suspended Boston contest but the Braves took the , Cleveland regularly scheduled gnme, 5-4. J , 5 ,"L7" The Chlcngo Cubs won a twi- Philadelphia night doublohpadcr from the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0 and 4-1. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Part time Bookkeeping Sys tarns Installed or roYiiod. Income Tax and Social Secur ity. n3l Estite Loitni A. V. HARDY 20 Laurel St. Phone 4793 American W. L. 84 64 . 84 64 81 67 74 74 71 77 69 70 68 80 UdlllMblUI. ,.....H Ql Of National W. L. 102 48 88 60 84 63 72 75 65 82 61 87 60 88 80 10 RUN IN STATES Stockholm, Sept. 27 (U.R) The American legation an noun ced today that Swedish distance runners, Gunder Hagg apd, Arne jAndersson had accept ed an invitation to fly to the United States for two months of competition in connection with a war bond campaign. Legation spokesmen said that the Invitation was made by the United States treasury through the foreign office. Haakan Lid man, a hurdler, also accepted an invitation to make the trip. The announcement came less than a day after Hagg's return from Helsinki, when he dis claimed knowledge of any such Invitation and said he doubted whether such a tour could be made until after the war. The three athletes are expect ed to leave Sweden early in Oc-tobr. BIG SIX ELEVENS VIE WITH BIG 10 Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 26 (U.R) Having drawn two blanks In last Saturday's efforts against I southwest conference teams, representatives of the Big Six conference turn this week-end to the east and north for an other try at extra-curricular luck, this time against Big Ten teams. -Missouri, ln need of kicking If one can judge by the results State. Nebraska, still the low ly figure in the midlands cir cuit, takes on Minnesota. Kansas makes the trip to Den ver for a game Friday night against Denver university. The defending conference flag-wavers, Oklahoma, play their back yard opposition, the Norman Naval Zoomers, while Kansas State meets Wichita U., and Iowa State plays host to Gus tavus Adolphus. BOWLING I hoped, as one having authority to do so. The Normal school had said I did; the school board said so. But I wondered if the children felt the same. I doubt ed it. Two bia boys, almost as old as myself, and five small chil-! dren made up the school. At the end of the first week, the big boys quit. They made It plain they didn't concur with the Normal and the school board. I wished there'd been some thing on the Normal program which had told young teachers how to rid a school building of pack rats. This was my first problem. Also the training school had not included in its curriculum a remedy for the Football Briefs St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago ... New York Boston .. Brooklyn Philadelphia 58 H 0 H If and T IT Hi i! if3 Wt j Ibi ! jEi j Pet. .568 .588 .547 .500 .480 .466 .4.10 .4121 Loj Angles, Sept. 26 (U.R) i Coach Jeff Cravath today I drilled his USC Trojans on team Pet. I work to eliminate the frequent .689 penalties for offsldo and back .595 1 field in motion which marred .571 1 last Saturday's game with the .490 UCLA Bruins. .4421 Don Burnside, brilliant 17 .412 year old back drilled as quar ,405terback the key running spot ln .aua uin irujnn system. Quarterback Jim Hardy, Left end Don Hardy. 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