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Boston (Scarborough 6-6 and Wight 5-5) at New
York (Lopat 14-8 and Reynolds 11-10), 2, 1:30 p.m.
Washington (Hudson 5-9) at Philadelphia (Fowler 7
-4), 8 p.m.
Chicago (Holcombe 7-7) at St. Louis (McDonald 3-
4), 8:30 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Notes on the Scorecard
Tigers Dubious AboutNewhousers Future
On Page 1: Truman Presses Russians to Sign Treaty Formally
Ending War With Japan
The Baseball Once-Upon-A Times.All the News
That
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FINAL EDITION
Including finalresults of all ball
games
VOL. 1, No.144 FIVE CENTSTHURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1951
Bums, Hodges Remain Red-Hot,Rip Philly For 10th Straight Win
BROOKLYNWant to incite a rip-roaring
bar stool argument? Walk into any tavern in
Flatbush and ask the unanswerable question:
Whos hotter, the Dodgers or their slugging
first baseman?
Theres probably no separating one from the
other, especially after Brooklyns 11-2 smash-
ing of the Phillies on Wednesday night. It was
the lead-leading Brooks 10th win in a row.
As for first sacker Gil Hodges, he tagged his
loop-leading 34th home run and had three RBI.
In his past 16 games, the strong, silent Hodges
has 10 homers, 27 RBI and is batting .323.
The Dodgers, 16-1 in their past 17 tilts, lead
the league by 8 games over the reeling Gi-
ants, who dropped a doubleheader to theBraves. Brooklyns magic
number is 13.
Hodges blasted a three-run circuit clout to
cap the Dodgers five-run rally in the bottom of
the first inning. He walked and scored a run in
Brooklyns four-run fifth inning.
Ralph Branca (9-6) hurled eight frames, al-
lowing two runs on seven hits. He has won his
past three starts. Carl Furillo had three hits for
the Bums, while Pee Wee Reese and Andy
Pafko knocked in two runs each.
Phils starter Ken Johnson (4-9) was roughed
up for six runs in one-plus innings.
AROUND THE HORN
Elsewhere in the National League:
The Giants blew a 10th-inning lead in the
first game, and were blown out in the second as
they dropped a twin bill to the homestanding
Braves, 6-5 and 10-1.
The Giants, who trail the Dodgers by 8
games, are 15-16 since Aug. 3.
New York squandered a 4-1 advantage in the
opener, then took a 5-4 lead on pinch-hitter
Hank Thompsons RBI fly out in the 10th. But
in the bottom of the inning, Bostons Sam
AMERICAN W L PCT. GB NATIONAL W L PCT. GB
Chicago 82 51 .617 --- Brooklyn 85 47 .644 ---
Boston 78 51 .605 2 New York 78 57 .578 8
Cleveland 75 60 .556 8 St. Louis 69 61 .531 15
New York 70 61 .534 11 Philadelphia 70 64 .522 16
Philadelphia 67 67 .500 15 Boston 63 69 .477 22
Detroit 63 70 .474 19 Chicago 61 72 .459 24
Washington 50 80 .385 30 Pittsburgh 61 73 .455 25
St. Louis 42 87 .326 38 Cincinnati 45 89 .336 41
Major League Standings
Wednesdays American League Results Wednesdays National League
Results
Washington 4, Philadelphia 1, Gm. 1
Washington 8, Philadelphia 3, Gm. 2
New York 4, Boston 1
Cleveland 9, Detroit 8 (10 innings)
Chicago at St. Louis, ppd., rain
St. Louis 5, Chicago 2, Gm. 1
St. Louis 7, Chicago 1, Gm. 2
Boston 6, New York 5 (10 innings), Gm. 1
Boston 10, New York 1, Gm. 2
Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 2 (11 innings)
Brooklyn 11, Philadelphia 2
Todays Probable Starting Pitchers Todays Probable Starting
Pitchers
Philadelphia (Church 10-10) at Brooklyn
(Newcombe 17-5), 1:30 p.m.
St. Louis (Chambers 7-12) at Chicago (McLish 6-8),
2:30 p.m.
New York (Jansen 16-7) at Boston (Surkont 10-12),
8:30 p.m.
Cincinnati (Fox 7-16) at Pittsburgh (Law 8-7 or
Pollet 7-12), 8:30 p.m.
Major League Leaders
AMERICAN G AB R H AVG. NATIONAL G AB AVG.R H
Fain, Phi. 97 368 74 128 .348 Musial, St.L 128 503 .344109
173
Doby, Cle. 117 401 91 136 .339 Wyrostek, Cin. 123 502 .33351
167
Fox, Chi. 131 547 87 180 .329 Sisler, Phi. 104 393 .33161
130
Valo, Phi. 101 382 72 125 .327 Ashburn, Phi. 134 578 .330105
191
DiMaggio, Bos. 124 558 106 179 .321 Jethroe, Bos. 123 482
.330105 159
Avila, Cle. 126 494 78 158 .320 Schoendienst, St.L 119 473
.33082 156
Minoso, Chi. 123 484 99 154 .318 Furillo, Bro. 131 567 .31994
181
Busby, Chi. 112 426 68 135 .317 Hemus, St.L 106 364 .31958
116
Kell, Det. 130 537 70 170 .317 Snider, Bro. 127 506 .31692
160
Groth, Det. 111 411 44 130 .316 Gordon, Bos. 128 481 .31476
151
HR: Zernial (Phi.) 36; Robinson (Chi.) 29;
Vollmer (Bos.) 25; Easter (Cle.) 24; Wertz (Det.)
22; Williams (Bos.) 22.
RBI: Zernial (Phi.) 130; Robinson (Chi.) 114;
Williams (Bos.) 106; Vernon (Was.) 94; Rosen
(Cle.) 94.
Wins: Wynn (Cle.) 17-9; Raschi (N.Y.) 16-6;
Pierce (Chi.) 14-6; Lopat (N.Y.) 14-8; Lemon
(Cle.) 14-12.
Strikeouts: Raschi (N.Y.) 159; Gray (Det.)
117; Wynn (Cle.) 116; Reynolds (N.Y.) 114;
Trout (Det.) 109.
ERA: Pierce (Chi.) 2.62; Lopat (N.Y.) 2.79;
Marrero (Was.) 2.94; Hutchinson (Det.) 3.06;
Wynn (Cle.) 3.20.
HR:Hodges (Bro.) 34; Musial (St.L) 32; Sauer
(Chi.) 32; Thomson (N.Y.) 31; Snider (Bro.) 31.
RBI: Musial (St.L) 118; Sauer (Chi.) 112;
Hodges (Bro.) 109; Snider (Bro.) 108; Thomson
(N.Y.) 102.
Wins:Roe (Bro.) 17-5; Newcombe (Bro.) 17-
5; Jansen (N.Y.) 16-7; Maglie (N.Y.) 15-11;
Roberts (Phi.) 15-12.
Strikeouts: Newcombe (Bro.) 144; Queen
(Pit.) 123; Rush (Chi.) 122; Maglie (N.Y.) 120;
Roberts (Phi.) 108.
ERA: Jansen (N.Y.) 2.00; Newcombe (Bro.)
2.08; Roe (Bro.) 2.68; Rush (Chi.) 2.69; Hiller
(Chi.) 3.20.
rained out. The ChiSox swept the Injuns in a
three-game series Monday and Tuesday.
Simpsons heroics were hardly unprece-
dented, though they could be considered unex-
pected. He homered 33 times and had 156 RBI
with a .323 average in 178 games with San
Diego of the PCL in 1950. But prior to Wednes-day, he was
batting .207 in 89 games this season
with four circuit clouts and 34 RBI.
His effort Wednesday helped make a winner
of reliever Bob Chakales (3-3). Detroits Hal
White (6-8) took the loss. Vic Wertz had three
RBI for the Bengals.
AROUND THE HORN
Elsewhere in the American League:
DETROIT (AP) Hal Newhouser, once
the mainstay of the Detroit Tigers pitching
staff, may be offered a provisional dollar-a-year contract for
the 1952 season.
Charley Gehringer, new general manager of
the Tigers, has had a series of conferences with
Newhouser in the last few weeks.
We would like to see him pitch a game or
two before the season ends, Gehringer said.
However, he might not be able to. Hal proba-
bly will be asked to sign a provisional one dol-
lar-a-year contract or something of that type
until he can demonstrate he will be able to
pitch regularly again.
Newhouser, who is receiving $42,000 for
the current season, has a record of 4-8, and
hasnt appeared in a game since Aug. 17.
I think the club should have sent me some-
where for treatment immediately after I washurt in June,
Newhouser said. But it didnt.
The only treatment Ive had I took upon myself
to arrange.
Archie Wilson, 26-year-old outfielder of the
Buffalo Bisons, was voted the Most Valuable
Player in the International League. Wilson is
hitting at a .315 clip. He has 26 homers and
102 RBI.
Vic Raschi (16-6) twirled a six-hitter sup-
ported by two-run homers from Joe DiMaggio
and Gene Woodling as the Yankees topped the
visiting Red Sox, 4-1.
Bostons Leo Kiely, who began his big
league career with seven straight wins, allowed
four runs in eight innings and fell to 7-2.Red Sox shortstop
Johnny Pesky saw his hit
streak snapped at 17 games.
Connie Marrero (8-10) fired a five-hitter in
the first game, and Pete Runnels drove in four
runs in the second as the visiting Senators
swept the As, 4-1 and 8-3.
Eddie Yost had three hits in each game. Run-
nels homer was the first of his career.
Jethroe singled home the tying run off reliever
Larry Jansen. Two batters later, Jansen walked
Bob Elliott to force home the winning run.
The Braves amassed 10 runs on 16 hits against
loser Sal Maglie (15-11) in the nightcap. Jim
Wilson (8-5) went the route for Boston.
Harry Brecheen and Gerry Staley fired com-
plete games and helped themselves with the bat
as the Cards swept the host Cubs, 5-2 and 7-1.
Brecheen (10-7) doubled and had two RBI in
the first game. Staley had two hits and knocked
in three runs in the second for St. Louis, which
moved into third place ahead of Philadelphia.
Clyde McCullough singled home the tying
run with two out in the ninth inning and ended
the game with a two-run homer in the 11th as thePirates downed
the visiting Reds, 4-2.
It was McCulloughs third game-ending home
run of 1951, tops among major league hitters.
The loss ran Cincys losing streak to 13 in a
row, tied for second-longest in the N.L. since
1937. The team record is 19, set in 1914.
Simpsons Base Hit Propels Indians to Victory in 10thCLEVELAND
Through nine innings of
Wednesday nights tilt, Harry Simpsons game
mirrored his rookie seasonmore promise than
production.
The Indians center fielder struck out in the
first inning with a runner on second. He walked
in the third ahead of Al Rosens two-run homer.He popped out in
the fifth before Rosens second
round-tripper. He fouled out in the sixth with two
runners on and his team trailing, 8-7.
But in the eighth, his fly out scored Bob Ken-
nedy with the tying run. Simpsons single in the
10th plated Dale Mitchell for a 9-8 Tribe win.
The victory drew third-place Cleveland within
eight games of A.L.-leading Chicago, which was
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By Red Smith
Views
Of
Sport
Dressens tactics scorned
NEW YORK Charley Dressen, managerof the best National League
club in years, has
been making a spectacular ass of himself.
Three times this summer he has cleared the
Dodgers bench of reserve players and sent
them to the clubhouse to protect them, he
says, against unfair treatment by the umpires. It
is a deliberate and calculated gesture of insult
to a body of honest working stiffs, who are, as
a group, a credit to baseball.
When Dressen empties the Brooklyn dugout,
he is saying, in effect: These men are not hon-
est, impartial umpires. Theyve got it in for my
ball club. Theyre always picking on us. They
are so shot with bias, so governed by prejudice,
so swollen with self-importance, that I dare not
trust my players within range of their pettytempers.
He is saying all this publicly, before a whole
grandstand full of people, but he does not say it
aloud in words he would be held to account for
later on. He says it instead by sly indirection,
employing a cheap device that is permissible by
the rules. It should cease to be permissible and
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no written change in the rule book is necessary
to put a stop to it. Ford Frick, president of the
National League, can take care of it with a
phone call and five words: Cut out the non-
sense, Charley.
Chances are Ford already has done so, for he
is an alert executive, especially vigilant against
discernible behavior. If he hasnt, he undoubt-
edly will. He can get the dime for the telephone
here.
It may not have occurred to Dressen that
there is a confession implicit in his unspoken
charges against the umpires. If he must empty
his dugout to avoid having the umpires do it,
then it is an admission of his own inability, or
unwillingness, to control the loud-mouths on his
bench.
There is a Difference
The privilege of abusing the umpire is the
fifth American Freedom, to be defended as
zealously as the other four. In the heat of sin-
cere competition, there are always going to be
differences of opinion between the umpire on
the one side, and the manager, players and fanson the other.
Sometimes disagreements will be
expressed in terms not altogether suitable to
pulpit or drawing room.
However, it is one thing to favor an umpire
with a critical discussion of his intellectual defi-
ciencies and physical imperfections, his ques-
tionable choice of antecedents and dubious con-
ditions of birth, his spiritual shortcomings and
temperamental blemishes. It is something else
again to plan and organize and stage public pro-
test parades like Communist bellyachers on
May Day.
Baseball players are forbidden to throw a cap
or gloves or otherwise behave in a manner that
might encourage a public disturbance. What
then, of the manager who throws out a whole
squad of players?
Much can be forgiven which is said or done
under stress of righteous anger. Paul Richards,
manager of the White Sox, was properly taken
to task by Will Harridge, president of the
American League, when he screamed
incompetence after umpires permitted a
cloudburst to wash out a victory Chicago had all
but won. He was an angry man popping off on
the spur of his disappointment.
Perhaps it was impulsiveness on Dressens
part, too, the first time he cleared his bench. But
obviously the strategy pleased him for he has
continued to use it in a deliberate campaign to
discredit the umpire.
Bill Veeck, of the Browns, was widely and
properly rebuked for sneaking a midget into the
majors as a pinch batter, importing clowns and
acrobats and messing up the sport with his
grandstand managers. Sometimes he oversteps
the bounds, but at least he wears his tongue in
his cheek and there is no malice in his tomfool-
ery, but only a skylarking kind of candor that
recognizes the inability of the Browns to enter-tain customers
without slapsticks.
No Need For Delays
Charley Dressen has a fine club that does not
need to snipe at umpires. Fans who come out for
a series between the league leaders and their
closest pursuers are entitled to something better
than a march of wooden soldiers from the Polo
Grounds dugout to the clubhouse in center field.
It should not be necessary to remark that
baseball fans dont pay their way into a ball park
to see a manager demonstrate what a clever fel-
low he is and what a slob the other guy is. For
that, they tune into the radio wits.
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