THE MTC:HTG A N Th. A TT.Y lba ZkO LE .. a a 1YMiV i 1TCn 1. LAT1"1PGL 1 a asMSf asa.+r Steagles Play Ten Contests This Season Wikit Is Only Center; Team Spearheaded by Discharged Army Vets PITTSBURGH, July 26-(AP)- The Pittsburgh Steelers-Chicago Cardinals National Football League entry is casting about for a couple of centers and a name that will fit into headlines, but otherwise the club figures it is pretty well set for next autumn's football grind. "We've got enough good men for every position but center," Head Coach Walt Keisling said today, "and with four men recently discharged by the army it looks like we're better off than we've been for a couple of years. But you can't tell what will happen." Last year the Pittsburgh-Philadel-. phia combination-they picked up the name of "Steagles"-finished sec- ond in the Eastern Division of the league. Out of 24 men on the roster to date, the Pittsburgh-Chicago com- bine has 12 men with professional grid experience, headed by Ted Doyle, ex-Nebraska tackle who has played in the big time for seven years. "We'll play ten league games this year," Keisling said as he worked on details of the combine's camp which opens at Carroll College, Wak- esha, Wis., Aug. 14. "Three of them will be in Pittsburgh and two in Chicago. The rest will be on the road."~ "But we still need centers. The only one we have signed so far is Al Wikits, formerly of Duquesne. He's had one year of professional experi- ence." "I don't know what we're going to call this team," said Keisling. "There doesn't seem to be any combination of Steelers-Cardinals that can be shortened enough to hit a headline." Loughran Will Be Discharged From Marines NEW YORK - (AP) - Tommy Loughran, one of boxing's famous figures, soon will be honorably dis- charged from the Marines because of overage. "I expect to get my release within a week," declared the 41-year-old former lightheavyweight champion last night while on a visit to New York. Tommy, universally recognized as one of the ring's most clever boxers, now wears the stripes of a staff sergeant in the Devil Dogs. He en- tered the Marines on Sept. 15, 1942, at Philadelphia and was sent to Par- ris Island, N. C., where he was in charge of boot training for nine months. After that he spent four months at New River, N. C., and then was transferred to the Marine barracks at the Philadelphia Navy yard. He is in charge of the physi- cal conditioning of the Marines there. Tommy isn't thinking of a ring comeback when he gets back into civilian life. "No, no," he laughed. "I expect to' go into private business." Germain of Philadelphia ' Will Defend Golf Title CHICAGO, July 26.-(P)-Dorothy' Germain of Philadelphia will defend1 emn's Western Golf Association said' title at the Onwentsia country club, Lake Forest; Ill., Aug. 7-12, the Wo- men's western golf association said today. Mfch igan /Jygain9g the eg'und4 9y ANK MANTHO Duily Sports Editor OLDTIMIERS AID BOND DRIVE-These Chicago Club oldtimers gathered at Wrigley Field, Chicago, to help a bond rally-left to right, Mickey Doolan, ss; Rogers Hornsby, 2b; Mordecai Brown,' p; Jimmy V aughn, p; Jimmy Archer, c; Freddy Lindstrom, 3b. Ralm aStops DetroitCotsinEgh L ET'S GO BACK to Memorial Day, 1930, when Al Simmons, one of base- ball's most colorful players, managed to have the most amazing day in his career at the plate. The Washington Senators, who were leading the league by four games, were in Philadelphia for a double bill. The Athletics were in second place, and this series would have a lot to do in determining the outcome of the pennant chase. To show the supreme importance placed on this series by the Washington 'brain trust,' they sent their two star hurlers, Ad Liska and Bump Hadley, into Philadelphia 48 hours ahead of the team. This was done so that the two pitchers would be well rested for the big affair. In the first game, Liska had managed to hold Connie Mack's boys in check. He held a 6-3 lead going into the ninth inning, when with two outs, the next two Athletic's got hits. This brought the veteran Simmons, who had gone hitless in four previous attempts, to the plate. ALREADY THINKING that the game was lost, Simmons teed off on the first pitch by Liska and lined it into the left stands, to tie the score at six all. The game went into extra innings, and in the fifteenth frame, Al singled to get on base. As he rounded the third base sack in a faked attempt to score on Jimmie Foxx's single, he got caught in a run down, but managed to slide back into third safely. However, in sliding back to the bag, Simmons ruptured a blood vessel in his leg. While Al hobbled in with the winning run on Boob McNair's single, the club physician was called to examine the fast swelling leg. The club's medico, a rabid baseball fan, informed Connie Mack that he would take the injured player to the -hospital only after he had seen the remainder of the double bill. He added that the beloved Mack could put his slugging outfielder in uniform and use him as a- pinch hitter if the need arose. With the A's again behind in the seventh inning of the nightcap, 7-3, and the bases loaded, Mack felt that the need had arisen, and motioned for Simmons to come into the game as a pinch hitter. HADLEY was on the mound for the Senators and his first two pitches to Simmons were balls. He then tried to breeze a fast one past the slugger, and Al connected for another four-bagger to tie the old ball garme, which Philadelphia went on to win in the ninth inning. This exhibition of hitting and determination to win on the part of the A's broke the spirit of the Senators' pennant ambitions, and they were never the same after that double defeat. Not only did Simmons one man demonstration show what athlete's call "guts," but it also showed that such initiative does not go unnoticed. This is attested by the fact that Simmons' was amply remunerated for his, efforts, as he received a three year contract for $100,000, which Connie Mack had not intended to give the veteran until that glorious day. Braves, Reds Break Even in Twin Bill , Michigan Boys Are Beaten in Tennis Tourney MILWAUKEE- (/P)- Kenneth Green of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Dick Braden of Monroe, Mich., were de- feated in a Western Junior Tennis Tournament doubles match yester- day, but Green and two other Michi- gan boys coasted through the second- round singles. Green and Braden captured* the first set but later fell before the seed- ed No. 2 pair of Matt Murphy and Herbert, Suhr of San Francisco, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Gloria King, Detroit girl entered in the junior division, also was beaten by a favorite, Kitty Hill of Brookline, Mass., 6-1, 6-1. Miss Hill is seeded No. 3. Two other Detroiters were elimi- nated from the junior boys running. Bill Sayres was defeated by Bob Goldfarb of El Paso, Tex., 6-4, 6-3, and Leonard Brose was downed by Robert David of Chicago, 6-1, 6-4.1 In the boys division Green coasted through the second round by a de- fault victory over Donald Crite of Lafayette, Ind.; Alex Halzeck of Hamtramck, Mich., defeated Dick Mullaney, Milwaukee, and Fred Al- bert of Ironwood, Mich., trimmed Alfred Pushner, Milwaukee. Richard Kin of Kalamazoo was defeated by Warren Moeller of Milwaukee. Bartzen Wins Tens Match MILWAUKEE, July 26.-(/P)-Ber- nard (Tut) Bartzen of San Angelo, Tex.. seeded No. 1 in the junior divi- sion of the western junior boys tennis tournament, swept into the quarter finals today without the loss of a game to Don Seifert of Chicago. Two more contenders in the boys' division won through to quarter final berths, joining two seeded players who won their places earlier. Charles De Voe of Indianapolis took a three set decision from James Orwin of Kalamazoo, Mich., 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, and Alex Hetzick of Hamtramck, Mich., eliminated Tony Trabart of Cincin- nati, 6-2, 6-1. SHOWING NOW' Downpour Prevents Newhouser From Winning Sixteenth Game DETROIT, July 26-(AP)-Rain stopped the Detroit-Boston game in the first of the eighth tonight, with the score tied 1-all. Two Red Sox players were on base, and only one away, when the downpour came. Hal Newhouser, making a bid for his 16th victory, held Boston to four singles. George Woods yielded the Tigers six hits, including a two-bag- ger by Pinky Higgins. The Detroit tally came in the fourth when Eddie Mayo beat out a hit to Bob Doerr, advanced on a single by Roger Cramer and scored from third after Leon Culbertson's catch of Rudy York's fly to center. Boston came back in the seventh when Bob Johnson walked, went to third on Doerr's single and came home after Cramer's catch of Jim Tabor's fly to center. The Tigers threatened in their half of the seventh, but a double play which nipped Chuck Hostetler at the plate, Newsome to Cronin to catcher Roy Partee, ended the up- rising. Hits by Culbertson and Pete Fox boosted Boston's chances in the eighth, but they were washed out by a sudden showerhthat made the grounds so wet that officials ruled the game could not proceed. A paid crowd of 5,490 witnessed the abbrevi- ated twilight contest. $47 A STROKE: Prize Cash in Sports Events Emphasizes Financial Angles Cleveland Bids For Top Berth In Junior Circuit By the Associated Press Cleveland nursed a budding pen- nant boom today as the Tribe cele- brated its eighth win in nine starts against eastern opposition and a 10-0 landslide over the New York Yankees. Lou Boudreau's club, always touted as "the best on paper" but a consis- tent disappointment to its followers, quit the cellar less than a month ago and moved into fourth place by easy, stages.. Although still in fourth spot, Cleve- land trailed second place New York by a single game and the leading St. Louis Brownies by four and one- half. As the Cleveland-New York series went into its second stage tonight the big league calendar called for the final seven games of 16 scheduled for war relief. In addition to the All- Star game in Pittsburgh that sent $106,275 into the service bat and ball fund, nine special games upped the total to $304,775. Funds for War Relief St. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago in the American and all the eastern clubs in the National give over to- day's receipts to the war fund in an effort to hit the $500,000 goal. All war fund games, except the Cincin- nati at Boston doubleheader, will be played tonight. Every team will have given over one home date to the cause. Steve Gromek, a strong armed chucker for Baltimore last year, shut out the Yanks for Cleveland, sprink- ling six blows while Ken Keltner's grand slam homer in the first frame doomed Hank Borowy. Bob Muncrief upped, the Browns margin on the Yanks to three and one-half games by turning back Phil- adelphia, 9-1, for his 10th victory. Lum Harris was the main victim as St. Louis cuffed three A's hurlers for 16 safeties before 3,462 fans, the smallest night game crowd of the major league season. Al Jurisich kept the St. Louis Cardinals in a winning mood by blanking the Phillies, 9-ft. f 1 BOSTON, July 26.- (lP)- After knocking Bucky Walters out of the box for a 9-2 victory, the Boston Braves dropped the nightcap by an 8-5 margin today while splitting a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds. Red Barrett held the Reds to seven hits and only one earned run, the result of successive two-baggers by Max Marshall and Gee Walker in the first inning of the opener. Ira Hutchinson and Al Javery gave the Reds a total of 11 bases on balls in the second game but the Braves closed in determined fashion by driv- ing over three runs with five hits in the ninth. Cincinnati . .100 000 100-2 7 2 Boston .....0001 036 00x-9 14 2 Walters, De La Cruz and Mueller, Just; Barrett and: Hofferth. Cincinnati ..102 002 030-8 11' 0 Boston .....001 000 013-5 11 0 Gumbert and Mueller; Hutcin- son, Javery, Hickey and Kluttz. By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Whoever figured out that the Tam O'Shanter golf tourna- ment will be worth about $47 a stroke to the winner wasn't doing the con- testants any favor. We can just hear every guy on the course going around muttering "$47-$47-$47" every time he addresses the ball, and everyone knows that's the wrong address. It's tough enough to hit a golf ball without having your mind cluttered up with thoughts of what a messed- up shot is going to cost you in dol- lars and cents, and knowing that an out-of-bounds tee shot iqi't going to cost you just a stroke and distance, but a stroke, distance and $47. We've seen fellows shake like ,a jeep and miss a fourteen-inch putt just because there was a nickel hang- ing on the shot. When some of these Tam O'Shanter performers miss a stroke with $47 in the kitty, they're liable to have another one right there. Anyway, the breaking down of the prize money into items such as the dollars and cents a stroke is just another indication of the importance attached to the financial angles of our sporting events and how the magnitude of an event ini the public mind is in direct proportion to the cash involved. Babe Ruth hit a lot of home runs, and we had to know how much each home, run was worth to him. Joe Louis knocked out a lot of guys in one, two or three rounds, and some- one always had to figure how much he got a minute. But breaking down the golf earn- ings into an itemized statement even before a tournament is played is a new one on us. We have an idea it is something new to the contestants. It will start them thinking, which is bad, particularly for a golfer, who should let his arms and hands and wrists think for him. They were just general worriers before, fretting about their game as a whole. Now every shot is a separate worry. They can see a price tag pinned to the ball every time they get ready to smack it. About the only way they can keep from going completely nuts is to figure that every imperfect shot isn't costing $47. A flubbed iron that gains on the hole might be figured as cost- ing only $32.75. P' .. .. ,, r" J mUMERA FIIO ,,F E-ASIN, Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. *GB W L Pct. *GB St. Louis.......53 51 .564 --- St. Louis .......62 24 .721 - New York .......47 42 .528 312 Cincinnati ..... 50 39 .562 13 Boston..........48 44 .522 4 Pittsburgh ......47 37 .560 14 Cleveland.......48 45 .516 41 New York .......32 47 .472 21x1 DETROftI.......46 47 .495 62 Philadelphia ... .37 48 .435 24% Chicago . ........ 42 45 .438 7%'Chicago .........36 47 .434 24'/ Washington .....42 49 .462 9 Boston..........37 53 .411 27 Philadelphia . . . . 39 52 .429 12% Brooklyn ........36 52 .409 27 TUESDAY'S NIGHT GAMES '*Games behind leader. Cleveland 10, New York 0. TUESDAY'S NIGHT GAME St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 1. St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 0. WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS WEDN'ESDAY'S RESULTS' Boston at DETROIT, incomplete. Cincinnafi 2-8, Boston 9-5. New York at Clevelai d, night. Pittsburgh at New York, night. Washington at Chicago, night. Chicago at Brooklyn, night. 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