Fictional History of Baseball - Page 13

Tiger Fan · 01-10-2016, 01:16 AM

MONDAY JULY 14, 1941
YANKEES AND PIRATES LEAD THE WAY

The New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates have never met in a World Series but as the season passes the all-star break those two teams are on a collision course. There is still a lot of baseball left to play and neither team has much of a lead but both clubs have been playing very well of late and seem to be the favourites.

The Yankees had their most recent winning streak, an 8 gamer, come to an end yesterday with a 6-5 loss to the White Sox in Chicago. Since June 1st the Yankees have the best record in baseball, going 28-8 (.778). The Yankees led the major leagues in batting average, slugging percentage and homeruns and trail only the Boston Red Sox in runs scored (499 to 494). The Yankees pitching has been much better than the second place Red Sox, allowing nearly 100 fewer runs. The Yankees are third in the American League behind the A's and White Sox in runs allowed.

The Yankees batting order strikes fear in to the rest of the American League:

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1 Martin Robbins    2B  .265  5  41
2 George Foskey	    LF  .283 15  55
3 John Hanson       CF  .323 14  52
4 Elgie Vargas	    RF  .365 19  77
5 Oscar Weidner	    SS  .259  6  56
6 Dioner Gonzales   1B  .330  1  21
7 Joe Martin	    C   .302  6  36
8 Tommy Dahl	    3B  .255  4  45

Even with Martin and Dahl presently on the disabled list along with Jim Post, who platoons with Gonzales at 1B, the Yankees bats continue to roll. Pitching has been strong with the biggest surprise being the dominant season 35 year old Jake Banks is having. The 10 year veteran has shaved 2 runs off his career era this season and is among the league leaders at 2.63. He has also won 11 of 13 decisions and is just 3 wins shy of equaling his previous career best.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are in a tough battle in the National League as they have a mere one game lead on defending champion Philadelphia with the Cardinals also right in the mix. Pittsburgh has won 3 straight after the all-star break including a doubelheader sweep of the slumping New York Giants yesterday.

The biggest surprise in Pittsburgh has been the emergence of rookie catcher Yuniesky Gomez. The 25 year old from Harrison, New Jersey made the all-star team after hitting .276 with 8 homers and 34 rbi's in the first half of the season. He has been outstanding defensively despite only having 7 career major league games under his belt prior to this season.

The Pirates pitching staff has held up extremely well, even with the elbow surgery that cost ace Kitty Martin most of the season. Pittsburgh has also scored runs in bunches but the Pirates have to be wary of the defending champion Phillies. Just a game back of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia has won 9 of it's last 13 games after going through a team-wide slump in late June which led to a stretch of games where the Phillies won just 2 of 11 contests.

The pitching, led by 40 year old William Mongillo (12-6, 2.08) has been outstanding, just as it was last season. The bats on the other hand, with the exception of 3B Bill Antell (.327,4,32), have been in a season-long slump. You have to think the Phillies bats will break out soon and when they do it will be tough for the Pirates to keep up.

The Cardinals were 8 games off the pace on June 9th but since then have slowly worked their way into contention. Getting outfielder Juan Herrera back (.364,0,19 in 27 games) after he missed almost two months with a thumb injury is a huge boost to an offense that has played very well this year. Outfielder Emiliano Ramon (.318,7,31), first baseman Frank Greiger (.309,5,49) and second baseman Otto Valdez (.307,2,37) lead the way and all-star catcher Gil White (.279,8,37) has been a pleasant surprise. The redbirds pitching staff lacks the depth of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh but with Chris Golden (11-4, 2.37) and hard-throwing Kick McAvoy (8-10, 3.89) there is some talent.

If I was betting I would say the Yankees will hold off Boston in the American League as Vargas has a much better supporting cast than Red Sox slugger Frank Thomas. In the National League, I think it is just a matter of time before the Phillies bats get hot and they pull away from the pack.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 54 29   -	Pittsburgh	 49 33   -
Boston		 52 32  2.5	Philadelphia	 48 34  1.0
Cleveland	 45 38  9.0	St Louis	 48 37  2.5
Chicago		 42 40 11.5	Boston		 44 38  5.0
Philadelphia  	 41 40 12.0	NY Giants	 43 42  7.5
St Louis	 40 44 14.5	Cincinnati	 42 42  8.0
Washington	 30 53 24.0	Brooklyn	 39 46 11.5
Detroit		 28 56 26.5	Chicago	  	 21 62 28.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .366	Bill Antell	   PHI	 .327
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.365	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .317
Vince Craft	PHA	.335	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .307
Joe Purdom	WSH	.325	John Wagoner	   NYG	 .301
John Hanson	NYY  	.323	Charlie Moore	   PHI	 .300

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	29	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 15
Elgie Vargas	NYY	19	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11
George Foskey	NYY	15	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 10
John Hanson	NYY	14	Len Butler	   NYG	  9
Abel Knight	SLB	13	George Osgood	   CIN	  9

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	88	George Osgood	   CIN	 64
Elgie Vargas	NYY	77	Marty Wolf	   BKN   60
Johnny Pate	BOS	62	Linus Hoffman	   BKN   58
Oscar Weidner	NYY	56	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   55
George Foskey	NYY	55	Jack Hansen	   PIY   55
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	12-5	William Mongillo    PHI  12-6
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  12-6	Chris Golden	    StL	 11-4
Jake Banks	   NYY  11-2	John White	    NYG	 10-6
Jay Moore	   NYY  11-5	Barney DuPont	    PIT  10-6
Jim Thayer	   PHA  11-6	John Petersen	    NYG   9-4

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.11	William Mongillo  PHI   2.08
George Odom	PHA	2.25	Chris Golden	  StL	2.37
Jake Banks	NYY	2.63	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.55
John Graham     CHA     2.66	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.78
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.68	Joe Straub	  PHI	2.78

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	91	Barney Dupont	  PIT   78
Jim Thayer	PHA	82	Jim Turner	  CIN   76
Buck Parham	PHA	79	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   72
Elias Edmondson NYY	71	Kick McAvoy	  StL	71
Mike Garretson	WSH	70	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   68

VARGAS HEATING UP FOR YANKEES

New York Yankee outfielder Elgie Vargas continued his torrid play of late by going 11-20 (.550) with 3 homers and 8 rbi's in 5 games last week. The 30 year old slugger was named the American League player of the week for his efforts. It is the 19th time in his major league career and second time this season that the New York City native has been named player of the week. On the season he is batting .365 with 19 homers and 77 rbi's in 69 games.

The National League player of the week went to Philadelphia Phillies veteran pitcher William Mongillo. In a shortened week because of the all-star break Mongillo had just 1 start but pitched a 5 hit shutout as the Phillies blanked St Louis 6-0. He also pitched 2 scoreless innings in the all-star game and was credited with the victory in the National Leagues 5-0 victory. On the season the 40 year old year old is 12-6 with a National League leading 2.08 era.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 1    5  .316	 29    88   .366
NYY Elgie Vargas	 3    8  .550	 19    77   .365
CLE Charlie Mongan	 0    0  .154	 13    33   .258

DRAFT SIGNING UPDATE

Here is an update on the first round picks from last month's draft.

1- Detroit: Alexi Ruiz 3B. 18 year old remains unsigned.

2- Cubs: Charlie Bertrand LF. The 18 year old signed and is playing for the Class B St Cloud Bulldogs. In 9 games Bertrand is struggling, batting just .167 (6-36) with 1 homer and 2 rbi's.

3- White Sox: Sam Herrera P: 19 year old remains unsigned

4- Cubs: Deacon Schober RF: 22 year old signed and went straight to the major leagues. He is batting .316 (12-38) in 11 games with a homerun and 10 rbi's.

5- Washington: Pat Green 3B: 18 year old remains unsigned

6- Browns: Silver Cook 2B: The 18 year old just signed last Friday and made his pro debut in the rookie Kity League with Springfield. He went 1-for-3 with a walk in the game, an 8-4 win over Lexington.

7- Pittsburgh: Chick Pate 2B: 19 year old remains unsigned.

8- Cincinnati: Rube Correnti SS: 18 year old remains unsigned.

9- Braves: Michael Ryan P: 18 year old remains unsigned.

10-White Sox: Jim Barlett P: 18 year old remains unsigned.

11-Brooklyn: Roscoe Merkel 2B: 18 year old signed early last week and has been assigned to the Lexington Hustlers of the Kity League. In 3 games Merkel is 1-for-7 with 3 strikeouts.

12- Cleveland: Angelo Arias P: Signed with Indians and assigned to Class A Oklahoma City. Pitched a complete game victory in his debut, allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 5 and walking none. 22 year is a former Texas Longhorn and was named the NCAA West pitcher of the year and MVP recently.

13- Athletics: Sam Carter 3B: 22 year old remains unsigned.

14- Cardinals: Bill Bell OF: 18 year old remains unsigned.

15- Giants: Adam Young P: 22 year old remains unsigned.

16-Yankees: Jake Fagen P: 23 year old remains unsigned.

17- Phillies: Fred Butler P: 22 year old remains unsigned.

18- Red Sox: Tommy Rogers 3B: 19 year old remains unsigned.

BUG HARRISON UPDATE

We haven't heard much from the young Philadelphia Phillies outfielder of late but he has been featured prominently in previous years so I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how Harrision's season is gone.

First some background for those who may not remember the name. Harrison played 4 seasons at Nebraska, hitting .334 with 16 homers and 78 rbi's as a senior in 1939. He was projected as a first round pick but certainly not number as that spot was reserved from current Detroit Tiger slugger Sam Fuller, who hit 49 homers that season with the Western Academy League Hawaii Islanders. Harrison did hear his name called by the Phillies, who held the 6th pick in the draft.

In Philadelphia Harrison joined a club with a ton of good young hitters including third baseman Bill Antell, who was entering his second season in the big leagues. The Phillies moved Harrison from his natural 3B position to the outfield, where he had played some for Nebraska. Once he signed a contract in early July he was brought straight to the big league club without spending a day in the minors.

It turned out to be a perfect decision as the then 23 year old Harrison, started his career with a 34 game hit streak, the longest since 1932 and the 7th longest in league history. Despite playing in just 70 games, the Washington DC native would be named National League rookie of the year after Harrison finished the season with a .377 average along with 16 homers and 76 rbi's.

In 1940 he proved how easily he adapted to leftfield by winning a gold glove and appearing in the first-ever All-Star Game. Harrison played 149 games and led the National League in homers (20) and rbi's (120) while batting .330. He helped the Phillies to their first pennant and World Series title in 12 seasons by hitting .350 (7-24) with a homer and 4 rbi's in 5 World Series games.

This year, however, has been a struggle for the now 25 year old - his birthday was last week. Harrison hit just .200 in spring training as he was bothered by a bruised wrist. He hit just .232 in April but started to pick things up in May before being hit by a pitch in the hand and missing 4 days. Once he returned from the injury he seemed to lose his groove and continues to struggle, batting just .245 with 6 homers and 45 rbi's in 80 games.

He still leads the club in homers and remains batting clean-up in the Phillies order but this has clearly not been a season Bug Harrison can take pride in. Many of the Phillies young batters are not producing like they did last yeae - the team ranks 7th in runs scored - but the pitching has been the best in the National League and as a result the Phillies remain in the hunt, just a game back of front-running Pittsburgh.

NCAA FOOTBALL
STANFORD IN A RUSH TO WIN NCAA TITLE

The Stanford Cardinal feel this may be the year the club contends for it's second National Championship. Stanford, which went a perfect 12-0 and won the Rose Bowl in 1913 to claim it's only title, is pinning it's hopes on another huge season for Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Kenneth Rush. The senior led Stanford to a 10-2 record and finished 11th in the polls after losing to co-National Champion Army 44-33 in the Fiesta Bowl. Rush led the nation in both passing yardage and touchdowns last season.

The only key loss on defense to graduation is FS Gary Holcomb, who was all Pac-8 a year ago but redshirt freshman Stephen Hicks looks up to the challenge of replacing Holcomb. Overall, this might be the best defense Stanford has had in years led by junior strong safety Michael Smith, who had 100 tackles last season and was named to the All-Pac 8 team. Watch out for sophomore Edward Castaneda, the linebacker had 61 tackles and led the team with 8 sacks as a true freshman

Rush will have a new center this year but the rest of the offensive line returns including second team All-American senior guard Philip Thomas and all Pac-8 senior tackle Paul Garcia. The top receiver in Ben Martin, who had 69 catches for 1108 yards and the top rusher Randall Brown, who gained 690 yards on the ground last year, have both graduated but junior Jeffrey Williams seemed to improve every game and had 59 catches last season including 10 touchdown grabs.

Running back is the one area of concern but Stanford used a committe approach last season and while Brown is gone, junior Clinton Smith (275 yds), Junior Michael Baggett (168 yds) and Sophomore James Stanley (392 yds) will all get more carries this season. Another player to watch is junior-college transfer Alberto Rose, a powerful inside rusher who may earn the starting halfback job.

The Pacific 8 is always a dogfight and Stanford has not emerged as the top dog since 1930, but this might just be the year that Ken Rush leads the Cardinal to it's second National Championship. The competition will be tough as USC had a huge recruiting class and Cal landed top quarterback recruit Bruce Stuckey. UCLA has had some down years of late but the Bruins can never be counted out either.

The college football season kicks off in late August.

Back WR Jeff Williams 59 catches 933 yards G Thomas and T Garcia

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 KEN RUSH CAREER STATS
Year   GP GS  Comp-Att Comp% Yds TD Int  Sack Rat 
1938    6  5  98-168   58.3 1433  9   6   16 140.5 
1939   10 10  206-331  62.2 2775 22   8   24 149.8 
1940   12 12  280-410  68.3 3904 35   7   27 173.0 
Total  28 27  584-909  64.2 8112 66  21   67 158.5

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
BEARS LOOK TO TRAINING CAMP WITH HOPE

Training camps for the 12 National Football League teams are just around the corner and no team is more eager to have a fresh start than the Chicago Bears, the NFL's perennial sad-sack organization. The Bears won their only NFL championship way back in 1919. There are 4 other teams that have won just 1 title including Washington, New York, Pittsburgh and Baltimore but with just 5 playoff appearances in the 29 year history of the franchise the Bears are the least successful team in the league.

The Bears have not won a playoff game since 1925 but have only played one playoff game (1932) since then. Their .439 career regular season winning percentage (141-182-13) is better than only the Pittsburgh Steelers but the Steelers have made the playoffs in 2 of the past 4 years including an NFL title game loss to Detroit two years ago. The Bears have had reached .500 just once in the past 8 years and in the last three seasons went 3-9, 4-8 and 4-8.

Chicago has really struggled the last 3 seasons after the retirement of QB Mike Maxwell. Rookie of the year in 1929 when he was drafted second overall out of Ohio State, Maxwell was the Bears starting QB until an injury-riddled 1938 campaign that forced his retirement. He was offensive MVP in 1937 when he led the Bears to a 6-5-1 record, their only winning season since 1932, and is 5th all-time in passing yardage.

Since Maxwell the Bears tried Jimmy Carpenter, Gary Simpson and Jose Chandler under center with moderate success. Now it is Pete Cole's turn. The 24 year old was the Bears second round pick out of Michigan and is expected to challenge Simpson for the starting job. Simpson was a Cardinals draft pick from Vanderbilt in 1938 but was released late in the 1939 season and signed by the Bears. He started 11 games last season and had 16 touchdown passes compared with 11 interceptions and led the offense to the middle of the pack in the league by being ranked 6th overall.

The big issue for the Bears in recent years has been their defense, or more precisely the lack thereof. Only the woeful Detroit Lions defense allowed more points against then the Bears and while Chicago did rank 2nd against the run it was in a big part because teams found it so easy to throw on what was far and away the worst pass defense in the NFL.

Unfortunately not much has changed this season in the secondary. Ben Dennis, a third round pick out of USC will be given a shot at taking over the free safety position from veteran Anthony Kraft, who really struggled last season. However, there have been no additions at cornerback, a position that was badly exposed last year.

There is some talent on the defense, most notably 3rd year DE Christopher Scott who led the NFL in sacks last season with 12 and made his first pro bowl appearance. Scott was a first round pick from Auburn in 1938 and joined run stopping DT Miguel Anderson (7th year South Carolina) as the only Bears on the defensive side of the ball to play in the Pro Bowl last year.
The other big performer on the Bears defense is linebacker Mark Miller. A third round pick from Wisconsin in 1933, the 8 year veteran made a pro bowl appearance in 1938 and is coming off a personal best 91 tackles last season.

The bottom line. Despite the fact the Bears defense is so bad Chicago used it's first round pick on WR James Tran from Florida and it's second round pick on Michigan QB Pete Cole. With the exception of FS Ben Dennis in the third round the Bears entire draft was focused on the offense. The lack of attention to the defense means the Bears will give up a ton of points this season and while Tran will help the offense, they certainly will not score enough to offset the problems on the other side of the ball. A 4th straight season of 4 wins or less seems to be what the future holds for the Bears.

Tiger Fan · 01-11-2016, 09:50 PM

MONDAY JULY 21, 1941
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS SLUMP

The Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies both had a rough time last week allowing the St Louis Cardinals to move a little closer to top spot in the National League. The Cardinals did not have a great week themselves, starting out 2-3 before sweeping a doubleheader from the Braves yesterday but it was enough to allow them to gain a game and a half on front-running Pittsburgh.

St Louis now trails the Pirates by just 1 game after Pittsburgh went 2-4 last week including dropping 2 out of 3 to the Boston Braves. The Pirates pitching let them down in New England as George Myers (7-5, 4.57) and Pete Moersch (8-7, 4.08) were shelled on succesive nights. Perhaps the absence of Kitty Martin, out long term with an injury, is starting to show on the Pittsburgh rotation. The starters ERA ranks only 6th in the National League and were it not for some stellar work out of the pen from Joe Barroso (5-0, 7sv, 2.14) the Bucs might be in a heap of trouble.

Like Pittsburgh, the Phillies also ran into some trouble with pitching this week. The Phillies split a 2 game series with St Louis to start the week before letting lowly Chicago come into town and sweep a pair of games by scores of 7-4 and 5-1. After beating Cincinnati 3-1 on a great pitching performance from Jack Chandler (8-6, 2.74), who allowed just 4 hits over 8 1/3 innings, the week ended badly for the Phillies as they were swept by the Reds in a Sunday doubleheader.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 59 31   -	Pittsburgh	 51 37   -
Boston		 56 36  4.0	St Louis	 52 40  1.0
Philadelphia  	 47 42 11.5	Philadelphia	 50 39  1.5
Cleveland	 47 44 12.5	Boston		 48 42  4.0
Chicago		 46 44 13.0	NY Giants	 48 43  4.5
St Louis	 42 50 18.0	Cincinnati	 45 46  7.5
Washington	 36 55 23.5	Brooklyn	 41 50 11.5
Detroit		 30 61 29.5	Chicago	  	 26 64 26.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .373	Bill Antell	   PHI	 .320
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.363	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .307
Vince Craft	PHA	.328	John Palmer	   StL	 .301
Joe Purdom	WSH	.323	John Wagoner	   NYG	 .297
Joe Camberos	CLE	.321	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .297

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	32	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 15
Elgie Vargas	NYY	24	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11
George Foskey	NYY	17	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 10
Charlie Mongan	CLE	16	Len Butler	   NYG	 10
John Hanson	NYY	15	George Osgood	   CIN	  9
				Chicken Hicks	   PIT	  9

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	99	George Osgood	   CIN	 70
Elgie Vargas	NYY	88	Marty Wolf	   BKN   62
Johnny Pate	BOS	66	Linus Hoffman	   BKN   61
Oscar Weidner	NYY	61	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   57
George Foskey	NYY	60	Jack Hansen	   PIY   56
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	13-6	William Mongillo    PHI  12-6
Wiki Estrella	   BOS	12-4	Chris Golden	    StL	 11-4
Jay Moore	   NYY  12-5	John White	    NYG	 11-6
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  12-6	Barney DuPont	    PIT  11-6
Jim Thayer	   PHA  12-6	Danny Gentry	    BKN  10-7
Jake Banks	   NYY  11-2	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  10-7
				Kick McAvoy	    StL  10-10

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.71	William Mongillo  PHI   2.18
Buck Parham	PHA	2.36	Chris Golden	  StL	2.37
John Graham     CHA     2.67	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.47
Jim Thayer	PHA	2.93	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.74
Jack Dickinson	CLE	3.01	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.81

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	96	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   83
Buck Parham	PHA	86	Jim Turner	  CIN   82
Jim Thayer	PHA	84	Barney Dupont	  PIT   81
Elias Edmondson NYY	81	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   80
Jocko DiBlasi	SLB	71	Kick McAvoy	  StL	78
Mike Garretson	WSH	71

THOMAS MOVES CLOSER TO 450TH HOMER

Boston Red Sox slugger Frank Thomas is looking to be well on his way to his third triple crown. The six time MVP is also just 4 homers shy of reaching 450 for his career and has 11 days to get to that pinnacle before his 31st birthday. Thomas, who hit 3 homers and drove in 11 runs last week was named the American League player of the week for the 37th time in his career.

Thomas won his second triple crown last season after a record-breaking year that saw him hit 77 homers and drive in 202 runs while batting .375. He has 6 batting titles and his lifetime .370 average ranks second all-time trailing only George Bielinski (more on him in a moment). Thomas is one of just 3 players to top the 250 homer mark and all 3 are active. Thomas leads with 446. Elgie Vargas is next with 374 followed by Charlie Mongan with 284.

Thomas also has 1395 career rbi's trailing only hall of famer George Weaver, who drove in 1508 but played in well over twice as many games as Thomas has to this point. Weaver is also the all-time hit leader with 3940. Thomas is presently 45th all-time with 1918 base hits.

Despite Thomas' big week the Red Sox went just 4-4 in 8 games and dropped some more ground in their efforts to catch the Yankees.

The National League player of the week was one of my old Cubs as 26 year old Daisy Wilkerson earned the nod. The Cubs went 5-2 last week with Wilkerson batting .500 (11-22) with 3 rbi's and 6 runs scored. On the season Wilkerson, who also won a player of the week award last season, is batting .281 with 2 homers and 27 rbi's.

THE TRAGIC CAREER OF GEORGE BIELINSKI

Mention the name George Bielinski to a Washington Senators fan over the age of 40 and you are sure to hear a story about a man who could have been the greatest hitter of all-time. The key word in that sentence is 'could' as the baseball world will never know what might have been because Bielinski suffered a career ending ankle injury at the age of 25.

In the short-time he played the game the native of Quincy, Massachusetts certainly made his mark. He won three straight Cape Cod Division MVP awards in the Northeast Academy League before being selected 1st overall by the Senators in the 1919 draft.

A leftfielder, Bielinski made the majors as a 20 year old the following spring and was named the American League rookie of the year in 1920 after batting .320 with a league leading 28 triples. He also stole 25 bases and helped the Senators improve by 13 wins and go from 6th to a tie for second place in the American League.

He would win his first of 3 batting titles in 1921 when he hit .384 with a league leading 43 stolen bases. While he did not win the batting title in 1922, he did improve his batting average to .392 and then would lead the league each of the next two seasons. In 1923 he was named American League MVP at the age of 23.

In 1925 the now 25 year old Bielinski had a 25 game hitting streak to start the season and was batting an obscene .487 after 39 games.

Then tragedy struck. The day was May 31, 1925 and the Senators were playing the Philadelphia Athletics at home. In the bottom of the fourth inning Bielinski, who was already 2-for-2 at the plate, was positioned in leftfield. A pop fly was hit into foul territory down the leftfield line and Bielinski and third baseman Louis Chadwick both took off after the ball. The field was slick as both were rushing al-out towards the stands on the foul line. Bielinski was calling for it but because of the proximity to the crowd Chadwick says he did not hear him until it was too late. Bielinski made the grab just a split second before the two players collided. Bielinski had just planted his right foot into the dirt as Chadwick hit him. He tumbled akwardly and twisted to his left. Tragically his spike caught in the mud and while his leg twisted his foot did not join it resulting in a terrible scene that left his ankle bone jutting out of his skin.

Doctors feared he might lose the foot but several surgeries and many months of rehab latter Bielinski was able to walk on the foot again, albeit with an extremely noticable limp. Baseball was a thing of the past for Bielinski and he never played again.

The Senators, who had come close but could not win a pennant with Bielinski in the lineup, did manage to win back to back World Championships with Chadwick playing a huge role for the team. Chadwick would give his first World Series ring to Bielinski. Ironically, Chadwick would also suffer a career ending leg injury but his came at the age of 34.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 3   11  .441	 32    99   .373
NYY Elgie Vargas	 5   11  .346	 24    88   .363
CLE Charlie Mongan	 3    5  .303	 16    38   .265

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

Now that the draft is over things have quieted down in the hockey world but there was one trade made this week. The New York Rangers acquired 31 year old defenseman Oscar Bylund from Detroit in exchange for 24 year old winger Tyler Sanza and the rights to junior winger Roman Plevank of the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Bylund was originally drafted by the New York Americans in the first round in 1928 before being dealt to Detroti in 1931 after playing 22 games as an NHL rookie with the Americans that season. He has been on the Detroit blueline ever since and has appeared in 549 NHL games, scoring 40 goals and adding 177 assists. Bylund, who was born in Sweden but moved to Canada at a young age, was a member of 2 Stanley Cup winning teams with the Wings. Last season he appeared in all 78 regular season games and had 4 goals and 32 points. Bylund will likely be on the third defense pair with the Rangers.

The Red Wings get Sanza, a 24 year old right winger from Fredericton, New Brunswick who played 3 years of junior with the Windsor Spitfires. He made the Rangers roster as a 19 year old and scored 6 goals and 9 points in 50 games as a rookie. Sanza bounced between New York and AHL Providence the next 3 seasons before establishing himself as an NHL regular last season by appearing in all 78 games for the Rangers, scoring 14 goals and adding 3 assists. Sanza has 46 points in 236 career NHL games but did not see a lot of icetime most seasons with the Rangers. The Rangers had selected 9th overall in the 1935 NHL draft.

Detroit also gets Plevak, an 18 year old winger from North Bay that the Rangers selected 54th overall in last month's NHL draft. Plevak had 22 goals and 37 assists for the CJHL Edmonton Oil Kings this past season.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
DOLAN KEEPS ON RUNNING

Even though he is entering his 11th National Football League season, Green Bay Packers running back Geoffrey Dolan is showing no signs of slowing down. Dolan is one of the most consistent players in the game and the Packers have known in the past exactly what they will get from their 33 year old running back and are hoping for more of the same this year.

Dolan is not the flashiest rusher and while he well never lead the league in rushing yardage he is durable and good to eat up about 50 yards a game. That consistency has allowed Dolan to rack up 5873 yards on the ground in his career, which places him number one among active running backs and 5th all-time. While it is highly unlikely he will catch former Cleveland great Matthew Johnson (7328 yards 1918-28) or old-time Steeler back Julius Middleton (7246 yards 1913-20) Dolan is less than 500 yards from moving into third place on the all-time list.

Dolan's backup last season Mickey Flint has decided to retire after just 4 seasons in the league so the Packers used two of their draft picks this season on running backs, selecting Philip Johnson from Nebraska in the 4th round and Wisconsin's David Thomas in the fifth. Flint rushed for 641 yards on 135 carries as he split the time almost equally with Dolan leaving 3rd stringer Barry Hudson to get just 1 carry last year. With Flint's absence and the inexperience in the backfield behind Dolan expect the veteran to be given the ball even more this year.

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GEOFFREY DOLAN COLLEGE STATS AT HARDIN-SIMMONS
Year  GP GS Rush  Yds   YPG    YPC  Lng TD  Fum   
1927  11 11  228  1049   95.4  4.6   79  6   2   
1928  11 11  235  1127  102.5  4.8   51 13   5  
1929  11 11  244  1326  120.5  5.4   29  9   4  
1930  12 12  246  1463  121.9  6.0   38 10   4  
      -- --  ---  ----  -----  ---   -- --  -- 
Total 45 45  953  4965  110.3  5.2   79 38  15  

		NFL STATS
Year Team G  GS Att Yards Avg Lg  TD  Yds/G Fum 
1931  GB 12  0  118  456  3.9 17   8  38.0    2 
1932  GB 10 10  127  500  3.9 28   2  50.0    0 
1933  GB 12 12  168  575  3.4 35   3  47.9    2 
1934  GB 12  0  139  575  4.1 20   2  47.9    2 
1935  GB 12 12  179  560  3.1 13   3  46.7    1 
1936  GB 12 12  148  594  4.0 36   3  49.5    0 
1937  GB 12 12  173  724  4.2 37   6  60.3    1 
1938  GB 12 12  157  549  3.5 14   6  45.8    0 
1939  GB 12 12  145  674  4.6 61   6  56.2    0 
1940  GB 12 12  149  666  4.5 54   7  55.5    2 
        --- -- ---- ----  --- --  --  ----   -- 
Career  118 94 1503 5873  3.9 61  46  49.8   10 

    CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Named to All Border Conference team 1928,1929,1930
Drafted 1st overall by Green Bay 1931
NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year 1931
3 time Pro Bowl selection 1933, 1937, 1940
4 NFL championships 1932,1933,1938,1940

Tiger Fan · 01-13-2016, 07:09 PM

MONDAY JULY 28, 1941
BUCS ACE KITTY MARTIN FORCED TO RETIRE

The Pittsburgh Pirates received the worst possible news about 37 year old pitcher Kitty Martin. Martin was throwing on the sidelines as part of his rehabilitation from elbow problems early last week and he felt something pop. The diagnosis is the elbow is so badly damaged Martin will not be able to pitch again. He announced his retirement over the weekend.

Martin played 15 seasons with the Yankees, Detroit and Pittsburgh, posting a 178-154 career record. His best season was 1933 when he led the American League in wins, going 23-11 as he led the Tigers to a World Series championship. He also won a pennant with Detroit in 1935 but missed 3 months of that season with back troubles.

Martin went 52-27 in 4 seasons of college ball at Georgia and remains 6th all-time in wins for the Bulldogs. The Yankees drafted him 12th overall in 1926. The Nashville native would make his major league debut with the Yankees late in the 1927 season, going 3-1 with 2 saves out of the bullpen.

He would record double-digit wins each of the next 5 seasons with the Yankees before being dealt to the Tigers prior to the 1932 season. He followed up his breakout 23-11 1933 season by going 18-9 for Detroit the following season.

Midway through the 1936 campaign the Tigers dealt him to Pittsburgh and he would remain with the Pirates until his retirement announcement.

While Martin's injury news was by far the most serious the Pirates were not the only National League team to lose a key piece. The Philadelphia Phillies will be without 25 year old outfielder Bug Harrison for about a month after he was hit by a pitch yesterday in a game against the Reds and suffered a fractured bone in his foot. Harrison, the former Nebraska star who was National League rookie of the year in 1939, was batting .249 with 7 homers and 57 rbi's this season.

The Boston Braves also lost an outfielder for a month as Chicken Vanderveen suffered a fractured shoulder blade in a game last week. The 34 year old was batting .318 with 4 homers and 30 rbi's in 72 games this season.

ABEL KNIGHT REACHES 2000 HIT MILESTONE

St Louis Browns second baseman Abel Knight is the newest member of baseball's 2000 hit club after collecting his milestone base hit in a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on Tuesday. Knight singled twice in the game off of A's starter Bill Coon with the 2000th hit coming in the 5th inning with the bases empty.

Knight broke in with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1931 and was named National League rookie of the year. He was dealt to the Browns 2 years later and has spent the rest of his career in St Louis. He has played 1510 games in the major leagues and is a lifetime .338 hitter. This season in 96 games Knight is batting .292 with 14 homers and 54 rbi's.

A native of Lake Tahoe, California, Knight is the 38th player in league history to reach the 2000 hit mark.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 64 32   -	Pittsburgh	 55 40   -
Boston		 59 39  6.0	St Louis	 56 43  1.0
Philadelphia  	 54 42 10.0	Philadelphia	 54 42  1.5
Cleveland	 50 47 14.5	Boston		 53 44  3.0
Chicago		 47 49 17.0	NY Giants	 50 47  6.0
St Louis	 43 55 22.0	Cincinnati	 47 50  9.0
Washington	 40 56 24.0	Brooklyn	 44 53 12.0
Detroit		 30 67 34.5	Chicago	  	 28 68 27.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .381	Bill Antell	   PHI	 .314
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.355	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .311
Vince Craft	PHA	.330	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .303
Joe Camberos	CLE	.325	John Palmer	   StL	 .300
John Hanson	NYY	.323	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .296

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	36	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 17
Elgie Vargas	NYY	25	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 12
George Foskey	NYY	19	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11
John Hanson	NYY	18	Len Butler	   NYG	 11
Charlie Mongan	CLE	17	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 10

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	113	George Osgood	   CIN	 76
Elgie Vargas	NYY	 91	Marty Wolf	   BKN   66
Johnny Pate	BOS	 71	Linus Hoffman	   BKN   63
John Hanson	NYY	 66	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   59
George Foskey	NYY	 64	Len Butler	   NYG   59
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jay Moore	   NYY  14-5	William Mongillo    PHI  13-7
Jim Thayer	   PHA  14-6	Chris Golden	    StL	 12-4
Wiki Estrella	   BOS	13-4	John White	    NYG	 11-6
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  13-6	Barney DuPont	    PIT  11-7
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	13-7	Danny Gentry	    BKN  11-7
Jake Banks	   NYY  12-2	Kick McAvoy	    StL  11-10
Bill Coon	   PHA  12-7

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.89	William Mongillo  PHI   2.26
Buck Parham	PHA	2.42	Chris Golden	  StL	2.51
Jim Thayer	PHA	2.76	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.53
George Odom	PHA	2.89	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.69
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.90	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.82

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	107	Jim Turner	  CIN   94
Jim Thayer	PHA	 96	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   86
Elias Edmondson NYY	 86	Barney Dupont	  PIT   85
Buck Parham	PHA	 86	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   84
Jocko DiBlasi	SLB	 74	Kick McAvoy	  StL	80

THOMAS HITS 450TH HOMER AND WINS PLAYER OF THE WEEK AGAIN

Frank Thomas became the first player in major league baseball to hit 450 career homeruns after hitting 4 homeruns last week. The 30 year old Boston Red Sox outfielder also batted .500 (13-26) this week with 14 rbi's in 6 games, numbers good enough to earn him the American League player of the week honour for the second straight week.

Thomas hit his 450th off of Cleveland reliever Dick Wilber in a 7-3 Red Sox loss to the Indians in Boston on Saturday. It was the second day in a row Thomas went yard off of the 25 year old rookie reliever.

The National League player of the week is 31 year old St Louis Cardinals second baseman Otto Valdez. Valdez hit .452 last week with a homerun and 10 rbi's as the Cardinals went 4-3. On the season the Indianapolis native his batting .311 with 3 homers and 50 rbi's. It was the second time in his 10 year major league career that Valdez was named player of the week. He was named to the National League all-star team last year in his first season with the Cardinals. Prior to St Louis, Valdez played for Cleveland and the Chicago Cubs. In 1189 major league games he is a lifetime .289 hitter.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 4   14  .500	 36   113   .381
NYY Elgie Vargas	 1    3  .238	 25    91   .355
CLE Charlie Mongan	 1    4  .227	 17    42   .261

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ARMY SET TO DEFEND CO-NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

The preseason college poll will be released in a couple of weeks and the season is just under a month away but talk has already centered around whether or not Army can successfully defend the national title it split with upstart Houston last year. The Black Knights finished a perfect 12-0 for the second time in school history and continue to be one of the most dominant programs in the nation under head coach Tim Bennett. Bennett has led Army to a 167-37 record in his 17 years as head coach and claimed National Titles in 1930 and last season.

The big game on Army's schedule, as always, is the showdown with Notre Dame which will take place in week 7 of the college season. However, Army must not overlook it's first opponent as the Black Knights will play Big 10 power Michigan to start the season. Both of those key games will be on their home turf.

Senior quarterback John Price returns to lead the Army offense. The Severna Park, Maryland native has started 19 games in his collegiate career including 9 last season when he threw 19 touchdown passes while having just 4 interceptions. Running back Donald Brady is also back. As a sophomore last season Brady ran for 1836 yards and scored 15 touchdowns on the ground while adding another 3 on pass receptions.

Brady should be a Heisman Trophy and first team All-American contender but he will face plenty of competition as 6 of the top 10 rushers from last season still have eligibility left including Notre Dame's John Simmons who had a huge game against Army a year ago. Brady will also face serious competition on his own team as his starting job is not guaranteed because of the return of senior Dexter Carson. Carson started 9 games in 1939, rushing for 1106 yards and 10 touchdowns before suffering a serious knee injury that hobbled him for most of last season. He did play sparingly late in the year and still gained 557 yards on just 78 carries. Carson looked outstanding in the spring game and many feel he will win back the starting halfback job that he held ahead of Brady two seasons ago.

Army has one of the best defenses in the nation and added to depth on both sides of the ball with a top 10 recruiting class.

The other co-National Champion is extremely unlikely to repeat. Houston had an easy schedule and pulled off a big upset in their bowl game win over Florida State. The Cougars have gone 22-2 the last two seasons but were 5-6 in 1938. While another winning season and Missouri Valley Conference title is almost assured they will have a tough time going undefeated with non-conference games at USC and at Georgia.

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	TOP COLLEGE RUSHERS 1940
NAME		 SCHOOL		 YR	YARDS	NFL DRAFT 
Michael Baugh	 North Carolina  SO	2072	eligible 1943
John Simmons	 Notre Dame	 JR	1998	eligible 1942
Robert McHugh	 Hardin-Simmons  JR     1873	eligible 1942
Philip Johnson	 Nebraska	 SR	1871	4th round Green Bay
Donald Brady	 Army		 SO	1836	eligible 1943
Richard Luna	 Duke		 SO	1806	eligible 1943
Alberto Herrmann Oklahoma 	 SR	1766	7th overall to Cardinals
James Young	 Southern Miss   JR	1701	eligible 1942
David Thomas	 Wisconsin	 SR	1675	5th round Green Bay
Steven Norris	 Arkansas	 SR     1630	6th round Pittsburgh

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

The 12 National Football League clubs will begin their training camps this coming weekend in anticipation of the regular season openers on September 7th. The Chicago Bears, Baltimore Colts and St Louis Cardinals will open their training camps this Friday August 1 while players on the other 9 teams report on Saturday.

The preseason opener will be held Friday August 15 and Saturday August 16. Here is the schedule for the opening preseason week.

Friday August 15
Chicago at Baltimore
Los Angeles at Cleveland

Saturday August 16
Detroit at Philadelphia
Green Bay at Pittsburgh
New York at St Louis

Sunday August 17
San Francisco at Washington

The biggest change for the league this season is the implementation of overtime in regular season games. The plan to use sudden-death overtime in the regular season similar to the playoffs was at the request of the Cleveland Browns, who missed the post-season last season despite going 8-4. Cleveland finished third in the East Division as they were nosed out by the Philadelphia Eagles, who won just 7 games but ended up with a better winning percentage due to their 3 ties.

The Green Bay Packers are the defending NFL Champions after beating Philadelphia 27-23 in the title game. Here are the final standings from last season.

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     NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1940 STANDINGS
EAST	     W  L  T    WEST            W  L  T
Washington   8  3  1    Green Bay       8  3  1
Philadelphia 7  2  3    Baltimore	7  4  1
Cleveland    8  4  0    San Francisco    5  6  1
St Louis     6  5  1    Los Angeles     4  8  0
New York     5  7  0    Chicago	        4  8  0
Pittsburgh   3  8  1    Detroit	        2  9  1

	SEMI-FINALS  
Philadelphia 37 Washington 10
Green Bay 23  Baltimore 8

	NFL CHAMPIONSHIP
Green Bay 27  Philadelphia 23

        TITLE GAME HISTORY
YEAR	WINNING TEAM    LOSING TEAM     SCORE
1913	San Francisco	Philadelphia 	20-10
1914	Cleveland	Detroit		24-10
1915	San Francisco	NY Giants	44-10
1916	Cleveland	Chicago		28-14
1917	San Francisco	St Louis	31-23
1918	Philadelphia	Detroit		21-10
1919	Chicago		Philadelphia	27-13
1920	Baltimore	St Louis	20-17
1921	Cleveland	Green Bay	30-13
1922	St Louis	Chicago		28-24
1923	San Francisco	Philadelphia	23-3
1924	NY Giants	Detroit		31-27
1925	Pittsburgh	Chicago		24-17
1926	Los Angeles	NY Giants	20-10
1927	St Louis	Los Angeles	38-13
1928	Washington	Los Angeles	21-16
1929	Philadelphia	Green Bay	23-17 (OT)
1930	Cleveland	Detroit		38-0
1931	Los Angeles	St Louis	27-20
1932	Green Bay	Washington	30-17
1933	Green Bay	NY Giants	34-13
1934	Detroit		St Louis	26-17
1935	San Francisco	NY Giants	28-27
1936	San Francisco	Cleveland	19-17
1937	St Louis	San Francisco  	33-14
1938	Green Bay	NY Giants	35-6
1939	Detroit 	Pittsburgh	34-24
1940    Green Bay	Philadelphia	26-23

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RECORDS BY TEAM
San Francisco 49ers		6-1
Cleveland Browns		4-1
St Louis Cardinals		3-4
Green Bay Packers		4-2
Detroit Lions			2-4
Philadelphia Eagles		2-4
Los Angeles Rams		2-2
New York Giants			1-5
Chicago Bears			1-3
Washington Redskins		1-1
Pittsburgh Steelers		1-1
Baltimore Colts			1-0

Tiger Fan · 01-16-2016, 03:31 PM

Monday August 4, 1941

BRAVES CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOR N.L. CROWN

After finishing in 7th place a year ago very few followers of the sport gave the Boston Braves much of a chance at winning the National League pennant but as the season hits August the Braves are very much in the thick of the race.

Throughout their 41 year existance in the modern game the Braves have never been given much thought. They are one of just two teams (Cleveland is the other one) to have never won a World Series and the Braves have the third worst record all-time in the sport, ahead of only Cleveland and Brooklyn. Most of the franchise's existance has been spent in the bottom half of the National League with their lone pennant coming in 1932. The Braves did finish second in 1937 and 1939 but followed both of those up with sub-500 seasons including a 7-84 showing last year.

So what has changed this season. Well, for one the inability of the powerhouse Giants or Phillies to get much of anything going. Their struggles have allowed Pittsburgh and the Braves to suddenly become contenders. The Braves offense has been amonng the worst in the National League but their pitching staff has suddenly become world beaters as Boston has shaved over a run off of it's team era from a year ago.

What is even more impressive is the Braves have accomplished that without Bones Dodge or Danny Hunt who have both been sidelined the entire season. The 32 year old Dodge, who was 9-10 last season tore up his elbow in spring training and is gone for the year. Hunt, who was cut lose by the Yankees despite a 17-10 season in 1939, went 8-8 in 20 starts for the Braves last season before suffering a torn rotator cuff. He has not pitched since August of last year but is rumoured to be close to returning.

With those two missing from the rotation their was more pressure on returning starts Esteban Puente (11-9, 3.18), Heinie Walker (9-11, 3.50) and Doc Stevens (9-4, 3.41) but all have performed well. The rotation was also bolstered by the return to form of Sam Schaumburg. The 33 year old former Harvard star is 130-110 lifetime but had a terrible start to last season and found himself finishing the year up in AAA Milwaukee. This year he is 11-9 with a 3.69 era in 22 starts. Long-time minor leaguer Yorit Galvan (6-9, 3.94) has done just enough to be an acceptable #5 starter. The 35 year old Galvan had pitched just 55 major league innings in his career prior to this season.

But the biggest reason for the Braves success has been the bullpen led by St. Petersburg native Skyrocket Salvi. The 27 year old is 5-1 with a 0.85 era and 15 saves this season. For most teams the bullpen is an after thought but the Braves have used Salvi in 48 games this season and he has been incredibly successful - making the all-star team for the second straight year. Salvi is also just 2 shy of the major league single season save record of 17 set by Kid Knouse in 1932 and equalled by Brooklyn's Milo Swalley last season.

PIRATES, PHILLIES, CARDS STRUGGLE

Unlike the American League where the New York Yankees are starting to run away with it, the National League pennant seems to be something nobody wants to take a firm grasp of. There are 5 teams within 4.5 games of the lead but none of them have been able to go on any sort of a positive run of late. In the last ten games the Pirates, Phillies and Braves are all 5-5 while the slumping Cardinals are just 2-8.

After losing a pair to 7th place Brooklyn the Cardinals dropped 3 of 4 at home to Philadelphia last week. The wins were the right tonic for the Phillies who started the week by losing 2 of 3 at Chicago. Most expected the latter half of July was the time the defending champion Phillies would start to pull away with the league as they had a schedule that saw them playing 12 games against either Cincinnati or the last place Cubs in just over 2 weeks. Unfortunately the Phillies dropped 8 of those 12 games and remain looking up at the first place Pirates.

Pittsburgh is the surprise team in the National League, perhaps an ever bigger surprise than the Boston Braves. The Pirates won just 70 games last season and the expectation was about the same for this year but the Bucs are among the leaders in the National League in almost every offensive category and , like the Braves, have been the beneficiary of great relief pitching.

Joe Barraso has been the Pirates star reliever. The 23 year old is 6-0 with 8 saves and a 2.31 era in 41 appearances this season. He was drafted as a starter out of Dartmouth after going 19-3 as a senior but he did notch 37 saves during his first 3 years in college when he pitched primarily in relief.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 68 34   -	Pittsburgh	 58 43   -
Boston		 62 41  6.5	Philadelphia	 58 45  1.0
Philadelphia  	 58 44 10.0	St Louis	 57 48  3.0
Cleveland	 55 48 13.5	Boston		 56 48  3.5
Chicago		 49 53 19.0	NY Giants	 54 48  4.5
St Louis	 46 58 23.0	Cincinnati	 49 54 10.0
Washington	 41 61 27.0	Brooklyn	 48 54 10.5
Detroit		 31 71 37.0	Chicago	  	 31 71 27.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .380	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .319
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.356	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .309
Vince Craft	PHA	.327	Bill Antell	   PHI	 .306
Joe Camberos	CLE	.318	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .305
Bill Wodke	PHA	.317	John Wagoner	   NYG   .299

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	38	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 17
Elgie Vargas	NYY	27	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 12
George Foskey	NYY	19	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11
John Hanson	NYY	19	Len Butler	   NYG	 11
Charlie Mongan	CLE	19	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 11

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	117	George Osgood	   CIN	 77
Elgie Vargas	NYY	 97	Marty Wolf	   BKN   70
Johnny Pate	BOS	 77	Len Butler	   NYG   66
John Hanson	NYY	 70	Linus Hoffman	   BKN   63
George Foskey	NYY	 69	Jack Hansen	   PIT   61
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jay Moore	   NYY  14-6	William Mongillo    PHI  14-7
Jim Thayer	   PHA  14-6	Chris Golden	    StL	 12-5
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  14-6	John White	    NYG  12-6
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	14-7	Danny Gentry	    BKN  12-7
Jake Banks	   NYY  13-2	Barney DuPont	    PIT  12-8
Wiki Estrella	   BOS  13-5	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  12-8
Bill Coon	   PHA  13-7	Kick McAvoy	    StL  12-10

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.85	William Mongillo  PHI   2.20
Buck Parham	PHA	2.40	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.62
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.77	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.64
George Odom	PHA	2.78	Chris Golden	  StL	2.67
Jim Thayer	PHA	2.99	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.74

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	113	Jim Turner	  CIN   99
Jim Thayer	PHA	 98	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   93
Buck Parham	PHA	 95	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   92
Elias Edmondson NYY	 91	Barney Dupont	  PIT   91
Jocko DiBlasi	SLB	 80	Kick McAvoy	  StL	84

MONTHLY AWARDS FOR JULY

It comes as little surprise that Boston Red Sox outfielder Frank Thomas was named the American League player of the month for July. Thomas, who won a pair of player of the week awards last month, hit .440 with 12 homers and 43 rbi's in 28 games. On the season the legendary slugger, who has 452 career homers despite turning just 31 this past week, is batting .380 with 38 homers and 117 rbi's. Thomas appears to be well on his way to winning his fourth triple crown, having previously accomplished the feat in 1935,1936 and 1940. Thomas is also a 6-time American League MVP.

The pitcher of the month in the American League is Philadelphia Athletics veteran Bill Coon. The 31 year old from Lorton, Virginia went 6-1 in 7 starts with a 2.18 era. On the season, Coon is 13-7 with a 3.05 era. He was the American League pitcher of the year in 1935.

23 year old Washington Senators outfielder Joe Van Voorst was named the American League's top rookie for July. The former Oklahoma Sooner hit .300 with 3 homers and 17 rbi's last month to improve his totals on the season to .269,3,31.

In the National League the top rookie award went to Chicago Cubs first baseman Tom White. The 26 year old hit .296 with 4 homers and 17 rbi's in July. He was promoted to the Cubs from AA Syracuse in late June and is batting .297 in 33 games. White played college ball at Nebraska but was undrafted and signed as a free agent by the Cubs in 1938.

St Louis Cardinals second baseman Otto Valdez was named the player of the month in the senior circuit. The 31 year old hit .333 with a homerun and 25 rbi's last month. On the year Valdez is leading the National League in batting at .319. He also has 3 homers and 56 rbi's.

38 year old Esteban Puente of the Boston Braves was named the pitcher of the month for July in the National League. He went 5-2 last month with a 1.86 era to improve his record on the season to 11-9. Puente made his major league debut with the Braves in 1926 and has a lifetime record of 189-166.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 2    4  .364	 38   117   .380
NYY Elgie Vargas	 2    6  .360	 27    97   .356
CLE Charlie Mongan	 2    5  .227	 19    47   .259

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
IS THIS THE BREAKOUT YEAR FOR MYERS

Ever since the Baltimore Colts drafted Heisman Trophy winner Charles Myers 3rd overall from USC in the 1936 entry draft, Colts fans have been waiting for Myers to lead the team to greatness. Truth be told the Colts have been waiting a lot longer than 5 years for greatness as this is a franchise that won it's only NFL title in 1920 and has not played in a championship game since then.

After apprenticing as the backup in 1936, Myers took over the starting role in 1937 and led the Colts to a 9-3 record and their first West Division regular season title since 1922. Unfortunately, despite completing 22 of 36 passes for 182 yards in the Division playoff game the Colts fell to San Francisco.

Injuries cost Myers the end of the 1938 season and most of the 1939 campaign. Last year Myers was finally healthy again and led the Colts back to the playoffs after a two-year absence. He also earned his first trip to the Pro Bowl game.

The Colts watched Michael Huff of the Redskins, who followed Myers at USC and like Myers led the Trojans to a National Title (2 in Huff's case), blossom into a superstar last season. The feeling is that is the path Myers would have been on a couple of years ago had he not been injured two years in a row. The expectation in Baltimore is this is the year they finally get back to, and hopefully win, an NFL championship game for the first time in 21 years.

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	CHARLES MYERS CAREER STATS
			NFL
Year Team G GS Comp Att Yards Pct  Lg TD Int Att/G  Yds/G Sk  Rating 
1936 BAL  1  0   0    2     0  0.0  0  0   0   2.0    0.0   0   39.6 
1937 BAL 12 12 269  407  2562 66.1 55 18  12  33.9  213.5  17   85.8 
1938 BAL  9  8 181  281  1686 64.4 77  4  11  31.2  187.3   3   69.2 
1939 BAL  2  2  40   61   384 65.6 31  3   2  30.5  192 4.  4   85.7 
1940 BAL 12 12 250  382  2519 65.4 40 16   7  31.8  209.9  32   90.4 
         -- -- --- ----  ---- ---- -- --  --  ----  -----  --   ----
Career   36 34 740 1133  7151 65.3 77 41  32  31.5  198.6  66   83.1 

Playoff Passing Stats
Year Team G GS Comp Att Yards Pct  Lg TD Int Sk  Rating 
1937 BAL  1  1   22  36  182 61.1  27  0  0   2   74.1 
1940 BAL  1  1   18  30  186 60.0  26  0  1   1   64.0 
          -  -   --  --  --- ----  --  -  -   -   ----          
Career    2  2   40  66  368 60.6  27  0  1   3   69.5 

	    NCAA STATS WITH USC TROJANS
Year  GP GS Comp-Att  Comp%   Yds   TD  Int Lng   Sack Rat 
1932  12 11  221-350    63.1  3110  33   9   62   32  163.8 
1933  12 12  239-376    63.6  4081  27  10   80   37  173.1 
1934  10  9  204-321    63.6  3073  24   5   74   25  165.5 
1935  11  9  186-283    65.7  2922  25   6   84   19  177.4 
      -- -- --------    ---- ----- ---  --   --  ---  -----
Total 45 41 850-1330    63.9 13186 109  30   84  113  169.7 

1931  Named #2 ranked high school prospect for college recruiting
1932  Won Heisman Trophy and Davy O'Brien Award, 2nd Team All-American
      Pacific 8 player of year and Freshman of the Year.
1933  Named Pacific 8 player of the year
1934  Won National Championship with USC
      Named Pacific 8 player of the year
1936  Drafted 3rd overall by Colts from USC
1937  Led Colts to Division title, lost 24-16 to SF in playoff
1938  Missed 3 weeks with blurred vision
1939  Suffered ruptured achilles in week 2, sidelined for season
1940  Lost divisional playoff game 23-7 to Green Bay
1940  Named to Pro Bowl

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
SEC READY FOR ANOTHER TIGHT SEASON

It will be hard to match the exciting race last year when 6 teams finished within a game of each other but the SEC has so many quality programs another tight battle is almost assured. Last year there was a 3-way tie for first in the conference as Florida, Tennessee and LSU all finished 6-2 while Mississippi State, Alabama and Auburn all ended up one game back at 5-3.

While the preseason rankings have not yet been released it is quite conceivable that all 6 of those teams may be in the top 15 with a good chance Tennessee is ranked #1. If so it will be the third National Championship for Tennessee as the Vols won it all in 1911 and shared the National Title with Notre Dame in 1938. 1938 was the only season prior to last year the two NCAA polls declared different champions.

The Vols completely retooled their defense with the addition of 3 highly touted linebackers in their recruiting class, which ranks among the best in the nation. Juco transfer Armand Chavarria is expected to step in and lead the team right away, especially when teamed in their 3-4 defense with talented true freshmen Benjamin Blair and Daniel Sheppard.

The offense returns most of the same cast led by junior quarterback Samuel Copeland, who started 10 games and threw 15 touchdown passes. His favourite target is sophomore wideout Chris McIntosh, who caught 56 passes for 933 yards as a true freshman last season. Four of the five offensive linemen return as does senior running back Leonardo Sanders, who gained over 1000 yards on the ground for the third straight season.

Tiger Fan · 01-18-2016, 06:31 PM

MONDAY AUGUST 11, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
ATHLETICS SWEEP AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS

The New York Yankees may be making a bid to run away with the American League pennant but they would not be in such a position if they played the Philadelphia Athletics every game. In 12 meetings between the two clubs this season, the 3rd place A's have gone 9-3 against the Yankees including a 3-game sweep this past weekend.

The A's, who travel to New York for 3 games next week, took the opener at Shibe Park by a 10-4 score on Friday as Wild Bill Gillen (.264,3,35) had a 5 hit game to pace the Philadelphia offense. Second year starter George Odom (8-7, 2.74) went the distance for the win as he held Yankee slugger Elgie Vargas hitless in the game. Vargas struck out twice in his 5 at bats.

On Saturday reigning American League pitcher of the year Buck Parham (12-9, 2.55) outduelled 1939 pitcher of the year Elias Edmondson (13-9, 3.22) as the A's won 5-3. Outfielder Deivi Alvarez (.301,7,59) had the big bat for Phialdelphia, delivering 3 hits and a pair of rbi's.

The sweep was completed by a masterful 3-hit shutout from Bill Coon (15-7, 2.87) as A's catcher Paul Collins hit a 2-run homer and a sacrifice fly to drive in all the runs in a 3-0 Philadelphia victory.

While the A's certainly seem to have the Yankees number, the same can not be said for the rest of the league as New York continues to dominate. Philadelphia is now within 7.5 games of the front-runners and who knows, with another sweep of the Yankees next week in New York we just might have a pennant race in the American League yet.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 71 37   -	Pittsburgh	 62 47   -
Boston		 65 45  7.0	Philadelphia	 60 48  1.5
Philadelphia  	 64 45  7.5	St Louis	 61 51  2.5
Cleveland	 58 50 13.0	NY Giants	 56 50  4.5
Chicago		 52 56 19.0	Boston		 57 52  5.0
St Louis	 49 61 23.0	Brooklyn	 52 54  8.5
Washington	 43 67 29.0	Cincinnati	 52 57 10.0
Detroit		 33 74 37.5	Chicago	  	 34 75 28.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .372	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.354	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .315
Vince Craft	PHA	.324	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .308
Joe Camberos	CLE	.322	John Wagoner	   NYG   .303
John Hanson	NYY	.321	Bill Antell	   PHI	 .302

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	40	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 17
Elgie Vargas	NYY	28	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 13
Charlie Mongan	CLE	22	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 12
John Hanson	NYY	20	Len Butler	   NYG	 11
George Foskey	NYY	19	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	120	George Osgood	   CIN	 80
Elgie Vargas	NYY	103	Marty Wolf	   BKN   71
Johnny Pate	BOS	 81	Len Butler	   NYG   68
John Hanson	NYY	 75	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   65
George Foskey	NYY	 71	Jack Hansen	   PIT   65
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Wiki Estrella	   BOS  15-5	Chris Golden	    StL	 14-5
Jay Moore	   NYY  15-6	Danny Gentry	    BKN  14-7
Jim Thayer	   PHA  15-7	William Mongillo    PHI  14-8
Bill Coon	   PHA  15-7	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  13-8
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	15-8	Barney DuPont	    PIT  13-8
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  14-7	John White	    NYG  12-7
Jake Banks	   NYY  13-2	Kick McAvoy	    StL  12-10
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  13-9	

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.85	William Mongillo  PHI   2.25
Buck Parham	PHA	2.55	Chris Golden	  StL	2.45
George Odom	PHA	2.74	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.61
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.77	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.77
Jim Thayer	PHA	2.84	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.84

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	118	Jim Turner	  CIN   106
Jim Thayer	PHA	105	Barney Dupont	  PIT    98
Buck Parham	PHA	102	Elbert Eaton	  PHI    97
Elias Edmondson NYY	 98	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG    96
Jack Dickinson	CLE      90	Kick McAvoy	  StL	 85

BUSBY NAMED NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Al Busby was named the National League player of the week after hitting .542 (13-24) with 2 homers and 8 rbi's in 6 games last week. The news futher enhances the feel good story out of Cincinnati surrounding the comeback year being enjoyed by the New York City native.

Busby is batting .354 with 5 homers and 31 rbi's in 63 games since returning to the Reds lineup. Busby, who just turned 24 last month, was taken 4th overall by the Reds in the 1937 draft from the Northeast Academy League's Bronx Bombers. He made his major league debut two years later and hit .318 in 106 games for the Reds but missed a month of the season with back troubles.

In that off-season the back got so bad he required surgery and missed almost the entire 1940 season, only returning to play 4 games in September with AAA Sacramento. This season he got off to a great start, hitting .327 for the Reds in April before the injury bug struck again. This time Busby tore a ligament in his thumb and missed 6 weeks. He returned to action in late June and his thumb, and back, both seem to be fully healed.

PEACOCK REPEATS AS AMERICAN LEAGUE TOP PERFORMER

For the second week in a row the American League player of the week award goes to St Louis Browns outfielder Charlie Peacock. The 32 year old native of Allen Park, Michigan went 13-for-27 last week (.481) including a 5-for-5 game against the Chicago White Sox. On the season Peacock is hitting .300 with 10 homers and 48 rbi's.

Peacock, who was American League rookie of the year in 1931, has now won the player of the week award 6 times in his career.

CUBS ROOKIE WHITE HITS FOR CYCLE

Chicago Cubs rookie infielder Tom White continues the outstanding play that earned him the National League rookie of the month award for July. In a game last week the 26 year old hit for the cycle and is now batting .288 with 5 homers and 23 rbi's in 40 major league games.

White, who played college ball at Nebraska, had 4 hits in 5 at bats but his club still lost the game by a 6-5 score to Pittsburgh. White hit a solo homer in the second inning off of Nelson Aguilar (8-4, 3.62), doubled in the fourth, singled in the 5th, struck out in the 7th and hit an rbi triple in the 9th inning. Unfortunately he was stranded at third as the game ended.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 2    3  .217	 40   120   .372
NYY Elgie Vargas	 1    6  .333	 28   103   .354
CLE Charlie Mongan	 3    6  .333	 22    53   .283

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
PRESEASON TOP 20 RELEASED

The college football season begins in less than two weeks and judging by the AP poll the Southeastern Conference will be the dominant group of teams. Seven SEC schools were ranked in the top 15 in the preseason poll released by the Associated Press, including #1 ranked Tennessee.

The Pacific 8 had 6 teams make the top 20 led by #9 Stanford. Texas, ranked 7th, is the highest of the three Southwest Conference schools to make the list. Rounding out the top twenty were 2 Big Ten schools in #5 Ohio State and 12th ranked Michigan as well as a pair of independants in #2 Notre Dame and #3 Army.

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   AP Preseason top 20
1- Tennessee		SEC
2- Notre Dame		IND
3- Army			IND
4- Auburn		SEC
5- Ohio State		B10
6- Mississippi State	SEC
7- Texas		SWC
8- Alabama		SEC
9- Stanford		Pac8
10-LSU			SEC
11-USC			Pac8
12-Michigan		Big10
13-Florida		SEC
14-California		Pac8
15-Georgia		SEC
16-UCLA			Pac8
17-Oregon State		Pac8
18-Arkansas		SWC
19-Oregon		Pac8
20-SMU			SWC

Tiger Fan · 01-20-2016, 10:52 PM

MONDAY AUGUST 18, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
LEAD STORY JINX STRIKES AGAIN

A few times this season I have started my recap with a story on a red-hot team or player only to see them falter in the week(s) immediately after the write-up. Well you can add the Philadelphia Athletics to the list as just after I wrote of their dominance over the New York Yankees this season, the A's go and get swept 3 straight in New York and fall 3 more games off the pace - now sitting 10.5 back of the league leading Yankees.

New York opened the 3-game set with a 5-4 victory on Friday thanks to a walk-off rbi double from John Hanson (.317,22,82) that plated George Foskey(.287,20,75) with the winning run. The next two games were all New York as the Yankees torched the A's pitching staff winning 7-2 Saturday and 16-3 on Sunday.

GIANTS MAKING A RUN AT NATIONAL LEAGUE LEAD

The New York Giants have won 13 of their last 18 games and are making a charge at the National League pennant. In the past week the Giants have gained 3 games on the slumping Pirates and Phillies, who share the lead at 63-51, 1.5 games ahead of the 3rd place Giants.

Contending for the pennant is old hat for the Giants, who won the pennant three straight seasons before finishing second to the Phillies last year. For most of the season it looked like the Giants had little chance of winning their 4th pennant in 5 seasons, especially in late June when they trailed the Pirates by 8.5 games. However, their recent run of success, coming at a time when the rest of the contenders in the division barely played .500 ball has allowed New York to climb back into the race.

The Giants are a veteran team with plenty of post-season experience and have enough pitching depth to withstand longterm injuries to Arturo Serna and Jim Boelke. The big three in their rotation continue to be 30 year old Aurelio Ventura (13-8, 2.71), 28 year old John Petersen (12-6, 3.83) and 36 year old John White (12-7, 3.37). Losing the 35 year old Serna for the season was a big blow especially after he got off to a 6-1 start with a 1.99 era but the Giants have withstood decidedly subpar seasons from their bottom two starters in 37 year old Ben Hull (6-14, 469) and 30 year old Elige Medina (4-14, 4.16). Prize prospect Jim Sanicki (1-0, 0.00 out of the pen) may yet join the rotation but the 24 year old is just returning to action after missing 4 months with a back injury.

The Giants offense has revolved around a trio of 27 year olds in shortstop John Wagoner (.299,9,53), third baseman Dennis Hobbs (.275,5,47) and first baseman Len Butler (.241,14,76). Thirty-five year old outfielder Celerino Ochoa (.289,3,52) also provides veteran leadership.

New York is not the only team to be hit with injuries to key players. The Phillies have been without outfielder Bug Harrison (.249,7,57) for a month with a foot injury and Pittsburgh had to withstand a career ending injury to pitcher Kitty Martin. The Cardinals are the latest team to lose a key component as second baseman Otto Valdez (.317,3,56) went down with an ankle sprain this past week that is expected to sideline him for a month.

With seven teams within 8 games of first place the final month and a half of the National League schedule should by a wild ride, especially if none of the teams are able to mount any sort of sustained winning streak...which has been the case all season.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 76 39   -	Pittsburgh	 63 51   -
Boston		 69 48  8.0	Philadelphia	 63 51   -
Philadelphia  	 66 50 10.5	NY Giants	 61 52  1.5
Cleveland	 64 51 12.0	St Louis	 63 55  2.0
Chicago		 54 61 22.0	Boston		 60 56  4.0
St Louis	 52 64 24.5	Cincinnati	 56 57  6.5
Washington	 46 71 31.0	Brooklyn	 54 58  8.0
Detroit		 35 78 40.0	Chicago	  	 38 78 26.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .368	Emiliano Ramon 	   StL	 .322
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.359	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Joe Camberos	CLE	.327	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .313
John Hanson	NYY	.317	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .313
Vince Craft	PHA	.315	John Wagoner	   NYG   .299

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	42	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 18
Elgie Vargas	NYY	31	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 14
Charlie Mongan	CLE	26	Len Butler	   NYG	 14
John Hanson	NYY	22	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 13
George Foskey	NYY	20	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	126	George Osgood	   CIN	 81
Elgie Vargas	NYY	112	Len Butler	   NYG   76
Johnny Pate	BOS	 84	Marty Wolf	   BKN   72
John Hanson	NYY	 82	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   70
George Foskey	NYY	 75	Jack Hansen	   PIT   67
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jay Moore	   NYY  16-7	Chris Golden	    StL	 15-5
Jim Thayer	   PHA  16-8	William Mongillo    PHI  15-8
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	16-9	Danny Gentry	    BKN  14-8
Wiki Estrella	   BOS  15-6	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  13-8
Bill Coon	   PHA  15-8	Barney DuPont	    PIT  13-9
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  14-8	
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  14-9	
	

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.85	William Mongillo  PHI   2.20
Buck Parham	PHA	2.42	Chris Golden	  StL	2.48
George Odom	PHA	2.73	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.71
Bill Coon	PHA	2.79	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.81
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.84	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.82

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	126	Jim Turner	  CIN   112
Jim Thayer	PHA	117	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   107
Buck Parham	PHA	105	Barney Dupont	  PIT   104
Elias Edmondson NYY	100	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG    98
Jack Dickinson	CLE      97	Kick McAvoy	  StL	 93

VARGAS NAMED PLAYER OF THE WEEK

New York Yankees outfielder Elgie Vargas has spent most of his career in the shadow of Boston Red Sox star Frank Thomas. Both made their major league debut in 1932 at the age of 21. Since then Thomas has 6 MVP awards while Vargas has just 1. Thomas has won the triple crown 3 times and has 6 batting titles while Vargas has never won a title. Thomas has been named American League player of the week 38 times including three this year. Vargas has won the award 20 times including this past week when he claimed it for the third time this season.

Vargas will almost certainly not catch Thomas for the homerun or rbi lead this season but if he continues to hit like he did last week he may finally win his first batting title. Vargas went 12-for-28 (.429) last week with 3 homers and 9 rbi's in 7 games. On the season Vargas is batting .359 with 31 homers and 112 rbi's. Thomas continues to lead the major leagues in all three of those categories, hitting .368 with 42 homers and 126 rbi's.

The National League player of the week was Chicago Cubs outfielder James McBeth. McBeth went 14 for 29 last week with a homer and 4 rbi's in 7 games to raise his season totals to .281,9,48. After just an awful start to the season the Cubs have gone 18-20 since the all-star break and are playing the role of spoiler in the National League as they have won some key games against contending clubs such as last week when they swept both St Louis and Pittsburgh on the road in 2-game series.

The 29 year old McBeth is one of the few veterans who survived the housecleaning done in early June when the club was 14-52. A native of Snyder, Texas, McBeth began is career in the Detroit Tigers organization when he was drafted in the third round in 1931 from the academy league Oregon Timbers. While in rookie ball he was dealt to the Yankees in part of a package that saw Detroit add recently retired pitcher Kitty Martin. Caught in the numbers game in New York, he was a backup outfielder-first baseman but did play on two pennant winning teams with the Yankees before being dealt to the Cubs midway through last season in exchange for third baseman Bill Farley.

This is his 7th major league season but McBeth has only been an everyday player for one season prior to this year. In 575 career big league games McBeth is a .287 hitter with 56 homers and 311 rbi's. He is also hitting .303 in 35 World Series plate appearances.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG[/b]
BOS Frank Thomas	 2    6  .310	 42   126   .368
NYY Elgie Vargas	 3    9  .429	 31   112   .359
CLE Charlie Mongan	 4    5  .296	 26    58   .266

DRAFT SIGNING UPDATE

Here is an update on the first round picks from last month's draft. We have reached the signing deadline and it appears just 2 first round picks failed to agree to contracts with the team that drafted them: 15th pick Adam Young, a pitcher from Arizona State, did not sign with the Giants while the Phillies pick at #17, Oklahoma's Fred Butler, also refused to sign.

1- Detroit: Alexi Ruiz 3B. 18 year old signed this weekend with the Tigers and has been assigned to the Kity League's Owensboro Farmers.

2- Cubs: Charlie Bertrand LF. The 18 year old signed quickly and is batting .294 in 27 games with Bowling Green of the Kity League. He also played 9 games (.200) for Class B St. Cloud and 9 games (.167) with AA Syracuse but is back in the rookie league now.

3- White Sox: Sam Herrera P: 19 year old just signed with White Sox and will begin his pro career with the Fulton Railroaders of the Kity League, but likely not until next season as he is still recovering from knee surgery due to an injury suffered late in the Academy League season.

4- Cubs: Deacon Schober RF: 22 year old signed and went straight to the major leagues. He is batting .243 (17-70) in 31 games with a homerun and 12 rbi's.

5- Washington: Pat Green 3B: 18 year old signed a week ago and is playing for the Madisonville Miners of the Kity League. He went 5-for-12 (.417) in his first 3 games.

6- Browns: Silver Cook 2B: The 18 year old just signed last month and made his pro debut in the rookie Kity League with Springfield. In 11 games he is batting .329 with a homerun and 4 rbi's

7- Pittsburgh: Chick Pate 2B: 19 year old signed last month and is playing for the rookie league Cairo Goldbugs. In 21 games in the Kity loop, Pate is batting .218.

8- Cincinnati: Rube Correnti SS: 18 year old signed last month and is with the Kity League's Central City Reds, where he is batting just .123 in 17 games.

9- Braves: Michael Ryan P: 18 year old signed on the weekend and will make pro debut today in the Kity League for the Hopkinsville Blue Hens.

10-White Sox: Jim Barlett P: 18 year old signed last month and is in Fulton of the Kity League. He is 1-1 with a 1.84 era in 2 starts for the Railroaders.

11-Brooklyn: Roscoe Merkel 2B: 18 year old signed shortly after the draft and was assigned to the Lexington Hustlers of the Kity League. In 32 games Merkel is batting .250

12- Cleveland: Angelo Arias P: Signed with Indians and assigned to Class A Oklahoma City. Pitched a complete game victory in his debut, allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 5 and walking none. So far this season he is 5-4 with a 3.93 era in 9 starts for Oklahoma City. 22 year is a former Texas Longhorn and was named the NCAA West pitcher of the year and MVP recently.

13- Athletics: Sam Carter 3B: 22 year old former University of California star signed last week and skipped the minors by going right to Philadelphia. In 4 games with the A's he is 0-for-7 and has struck out 4 times.

14- Cardinals: Bill Bell OF: 18 year old signed last week and has played 3 games for the Clarksville Crows of the Kity League. He is 2-for-12 (.167) with a pair of rbi's in those games.

15- Giants: Adam Young P: 22 year old from Arizona State did not sign and will likely sit out the season before re-entering the draft next year.

16-Yankees: Jake Fagen P: 23 year old NCAA East MVP from Columbia signed last week with the Yankees organization and was assigned to Class A Dallas of the Texas League. Pitched a complete game victory in his pro debut, allowing just 1 earned run in a 4-1 victory over Beaumount.

17- Phillies: Fred Butler P: 22 year old remains unsigned and will likely sit out the season although there is some talk he may be eligible for a fifth year at the University of Oklahoma before re-entering the draft next year.

18- Red Sox: Tommy Rogers 3B: 19 year old signed last month and is struggling with the Jackson Generals of the Kity League, batting just .162 in 11 games.

MATHIAS SIGNS WITH CUBS

One of the biggest coups of the draft was the Chicago Cubs decision to draft and subsequently be able to sign 4th round pick Guy Mathias. The 23 year old starred at Maryland but had said he did not want to play pro ball. Last year the Reds took a chance and drafted him in the 5th round and he refused to sign. This year the Cubs took him in the fourth round and he would only agree to sign if he received a $23,000 bonus which was almost equal to what the Cubs gave their second overall pick Charlie Bertrand and nearly double what they gave #4 overall Deacon Schober.

In the end the deal got done and Mathias put off medical school to join the Cubs organization. In 3 games with Class A Fort Worth of the Texas League he was hitting .417 (5-for-12)

COLLEGE BASEBALL
DOMINO CHOOSES UCLA OVER BROOKLYN DODGERS

While none of the academy league players drafted in the first two rounds failed to sign a pro contract there were some very talented players taken a little later in the draft that made good on their promises to play college ball instead of turning pro.

The most notable was former Staten Island Ports pitcher Joseph Domino, who turned down a reportedly quite lucrative signing bonus from the Brooklyn Dodgers to attend UCLA instead. Domino, a 19 year old righthander from Kulpsville, Pennsylvania won every award possible in the Metro New York Division this past season as he was named pitcher of the year, league MVP and playoff MVP as he led the Ports to the Northeast Academy League title after going 22-5 with a 2.32 era in 32 starts.

Other college commitments announced this week include Fred Rude signing with the NCAA champion Columbia Lions. Rude, a third round pick of the Pirates, was 6-1 with a 2.53 era for the Michigan Lakers before suffering a torn rotator cuff that ended his season in March. Rude, has outstanding potential but has been very injury prone missing substantial time in 1939 with back troubles and 1940 with a hamstring injury. He only made 71 starts over 4 seasons with the Central Academy League Lakers, posting a 33-22 career mark with a 2.53 era. Columbia hopes he can stay healthy and if so should be a solid replacement to Jake Fagen, who graduated after going 65-28 over 4 seasons at Columbia and 7-0 in the postseason as he led the Lions to back-to-back College World Series titles.

Sam Rogers, who went 22-7 with the Dakota Loggers this season before being drafted in the 5th round by Cleveland, has decided to attend Texas Tech rather than turn pro. The 20 year old was named MVP and top pitcher in the Western Academy League's Pacific Division.

Another 5th round pick, 19 year old first baseman Bill West, opted for North Carolina State instead of the New York Giants organization. West played all 20 games for the Key West Conchs of the Florida Academy League this season, batting .310 with 14 homers and 84 rbi's. He will be joined at North Carolina State by another Florida Academy pitcher as 18 year old Ren Fisher, who went 16-11 for Daytona Beach this season, turned down the St Louis Cardinals, who selected him in the 7th round.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
ROUGH START FOR FISCHER IN PRESEASON OPENER

First overall draft pick Jason Fischer found out quickly there is a big difference between the NFL and college ball. The former Penn State star quarterback made his pro debut in the Detroit Lions preseason opener against the Philadelphia Eagles and threw a pair of interceptions in a 37-10 loss.

Thomas Muller, who started 11 games for Detroit last season, opened the game as Detroit's signal caller and promptly led his team to a scoring drive on their opening possession. Muller played the opening quarter, completing 4 of 6 passes for 46 yards and a touchdown, before giving way to the rookie Fischer.

Fischer's first two possessions ended in interceptions that led to touchdown drives for the Eagles. The rookie did settle later in the game and ended up completing 15 of 24 passes for 185 yards but the two interceptions cost the Lions the ballgame.

The good news for Detroit was that 5th year running back Bernard Whitaker had a huge game, carrying the ball 25 times for 121 yards. The 121 yards is more than he amassed in 4 seasons with the Lions as their 3rd string running back.

The victorious Eagles got a strong game from veteran back-up quarterback Paul Knight. The 2 time Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford, who has never established himself as an NFL starter, threw for 144 yards and a pair of touchdowns after taking over for starter Angel Bates in the second half.

In other action defending NFL Champion Green Bay beat Pittsburgh 26-19 on the strength of a pair of rushing touchdowns from 7th year backup running back Joseph Campbell.

The Baltimore Colts overcame a slow start and a 26-17 halftime deficit to rally at home and beat the Chicago Bears 27-26. Colts starting quarterback Charles Myers completed just 2 of 7 pass attempts in the game.

Running backs David Campos and David Henson each scored a touchdown to pace the Cleveland Browns to a 17-14 victory over the Los Angeles Rams.

Thomas Paz and receiver Timothy Taylor connected on three second half touchdown passes to rally the visiting New York Giants to a 31-20 victory over the Cardinals in St Louis. Paz, a former Alabama star, has been the Giants backup QB behind Donald Owens the last two seasons while Taylor is a second year pro from Oklahoma who had 3 catches in 3 appearances for the Giants last year as a rookie.

Finally, in the nations capital San Francisco rallied with 17 unaswered second half points to beat the Washington Redskins 27-17. Washington quarterbacks Michael Huff and Chris Johnson combined to throw 3 interceptions in the loss.

NCAA FOOTBALL

The college football season kicks off this weekend with a full slate of games including preseason #1 ranked Tennessee at home to face North Carolina State. The Volunteers are expected to walk all over a Wolfpack squad that was 1-10 a year ago after going 0-11 in 1939. North Carolina State has never had a winning season in the 30 year history over the sport. Tennessee, on the other hand, is a two-time National Champion and coming off a 10-2 season in which they were ranked 7th in the AP poll and 12th in the final coaches poll.

Other games involving top 10 ranked teams are:

#2 Notre Dame at West Virginia
#4 Auburn entertains Navy
#5 Ohio State travels to Iowa State
#7 Texas hosts Richmond
#9 Stanford visits Cincinnati
#10 LSU is home to Southern Mississippi

Tiger Fan · 01-22-2016, 06:39 AM

MONDAY AUGUST 25, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

A GIANT STEP FORWARD

The New York Giants picked the perfect time to get hot as they have taken over top spot in the National League thanks to a stretch of games where they won 13 of 14 including their last 9 in a row. Among those games was a 4-game sweep of Pittsburgh and winning two of three from the Philadelphia Phillies - the two clubs they leapfrogged this past week to move into first place.

After starting the week with a pair of wins over the basement dwelling Chicago Cubs the Giants made a huge statement with the sweep of Pittsburgh. It began with a doubleheader on Thursday with New York winning 6-5 and 9-4. On Friday afternoon Elige Medina (5-14, 3.63), the Giants 5th starter, pitched a complete game in a 6-1 win and on Saturday veterans Henry Warner (.281,6,50) and Celerino Ochoa (.302,5,59) combined for 7 hits, 4 rbi's and 4 runs in an 11-0 laugher.

Yesterday the winning ways continued as the Giants opened a 4 game set with Cincinnati by sweeping a twinbill 3-0 and 4-2. Meanwhile the Pirates have won just 5 of their last 14 games to relinquish their hold on first place - a position they have occupied almost exclusively since early June. The Phillies have had a little more success, playing .500 ball over their last 20 games but that timeframe included dropping 4 of 6 to the Giants.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 80 42   -	NY Giants	 69 52   -
Boston		 72 51  8.5	Philadelphia	 67 54  2.0
Philadelphia  	 69 53 11.0	Pittsburgh	 67 55  2.5
Cleveland	 68 53 11.5	St Louis	 66 59  5.0
Chicago		 57 64 22.5	Cincinnati	 61 60  8.0
St Louis	 57 66 23.5	Boston		 61 61  8.5
Washington	 48 76 33.0	Brooklyn	 56 64 12.5
Detroit		 37 83 42.0	Chicago	  	 40 82 29.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .368	Emiliano Ramon 	   StL	 .326
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.366	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Joe Camberos	CLE	.325	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .308
John Hanson	NYY	.315	John Wagoner	   NYG   .306
Dave Hawthorne	CLE	.307	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .303

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	43	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 18
Elgie Vargas	NYY	38	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 15
Charlie Mongan	CLE	27	Len Butler	   NYG	 15
John Hanson	NYY	24	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 14
George Foskey	NYY	20	Linus Hoffman	   BKN	 11
				Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   11

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	129	George Osgood	   CIN	 81
Elgie Vargas	NYY	124	Len Butler	   NYG   80
Johnny Pate	BOS	 87	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   76
John Hanson	NYY	 87	Marty Wolf	   BKN   73
Oscar Weidner	NYY	 81	Jack Hansen	   PIT   73
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	17-10	Chris Golden	    StL	 16-6
Jim Thayer	   PHA  16-8	William Mongillo    PHI  16-9
Jay Moore	   NYY  16-8	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  15-8
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  16-9	John White	    NYG  14-7
Wiki Estrella	   BOS  15-7	Danny Gentry	    BKN  14-10
Bill Coon	   PHA  15-9	John Petersen	    NYG	 13-6
Buck Parham	   PHA  15-9	Barney DuPont	    PIT  13-9
				Kick McAvoy	    StL  13-12

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	1.95	Chris Golden	  StL	2.40
Buck Parham	PHA	2.32	William Mongillo  PHI   2.42
Bill Coon	PHA	2.77	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.60
George Odom	PHA	2.80	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.67
Jim Thayer	PHA	2.98	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.92

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	131	Jim Turner	  CIN   119
Jim Thayer	PHA	122	Barney Dupont	  PIT   111
Buck Parham	PHA	114	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   110
Elias Edmondson NYY	104	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   106
Jack Dickinson	CLE     101	Kick McAvoy	  StL	 94

VARGAS REPEATS AS AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

New York Yankees outfielder Elgie Vargas continues to be the hottest hitter in the major leagues as he was named the American League's top performer for the second week in a row. In 7 games last week the 30 year native New Yorker hit .464 with 7 homeruns and 12 rbi's. Included in that outburst was a 3-homer game against Cleveland on Friday and back to back 2 homer games against Detroit earlier in the week.

Vargas now has 38 homeruns and 124 rbi's on the season while improving his average to .366. He is closing in on Boston's Frank Thomas in all 3 of those categories despite having played 14 less games than the Red Sox slugger due to a shoulder injury earlier in the season.

The National League player of the week award went to New York Giants outfielder George Saunders. The 28 year old hit .536 (15-28) with 2 homers and 8 rbi's as he helped the Giants stretch their winning streak to 9 games and move into top spot in the National League. On the season the former Chicagoland academy leaguer is batting .276 with 10 homers and 58 rbi's.

SCHOBER INJURED

The Chicago Cubs have announced that rookie outfielder Deacon Schober will miss at least a couple of weeks and perhaps longer with an undisclosed injury. The 22 year old was selected 4th overall in the June draft after playing college ball at Alabama. He bypassed the minors and stepped right into the Cubs line-up after signing a contract and was batting .224 with a homerun and 12 rbi's in 35 games after hitting .354 with 18 homers and 95 rbi's for the Crimson Tide.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG
BOS Frank Thomas	 1    3  .375	 43   129   .368
NYY Elgie Vargas	 7   12  .464	 38   124   .366
CLE Charlie Mongan	 1    3  .250	 27    61   .265

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
NO UPSETS IN OPENING WEEK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

The Associated Press top 25 college football rankings remain unchanged from the preseason polls as all of the top 25 schools in action emerged with a victory in the first weekend of the 1941 college seasons.

A pair of Pacific 8 schools had the closest calls as #11 USC needed overtime to beat defending co-national champion Houston 37-34 while #17 Oregon State survived a scare but beat Oklahoma State 20-19. Senior QB Corey Lamb threw 4 touchdown passes for Houston in their loss to USC. Staying with the Pac 8, true freshman quarterback Bruce Stuckey had a huge day for #14 California in their 62-3 thrashing of Indiana. Stuckey, who was considered the top QB recruit this season, completed 21 of 27 passes for 363 yards and 4 touchdowns in the Bears win.

#1 ranked Tennessee had little trouble with North Carolina State, winning 40-3. Vols junior quarterback Samuel Copeland passed for over 500 yards and 4 touchdowns. #2 ranked Notre Dame also had an easy time, thumping West Virginia. The Irish offense was led by senior running back John Simmons, a second team all-american a year ago, who gained 124 yards rushing will scoring three touchdowns on the ground and a 4th on a 7 yard reception.

The best offensive performance from a running back this week came from New Mexico State sophomore Robert Haynes, who ran for 235 yards in a 45-7 romp over Davidson.

Here are the top 10 passing, rushing and receiving perfomances of the week

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		Passing Leaders 
Rank Player 		Team       Result            Comp Att Yards TD Rating 
1 Samuel Copeland Tennessee   W, 40-3 NC State 		35 49  501   4 184.3 
2 Eddie White 	  Texas       W, 44-10 Richmond 	25 37  454   3 192.0 
3 Lewis West  	  Notre Dame  W, 68-10 West Virginia 	29 39  416   5 201.1 
4 Robert Preston  Wyoming     W, 33-30 at Santa Barbara 13 24  401   2 213.7 
5 Russ  Galloway  Tulane      W, 37-17 Furman 		20 32  392   2 186.0 
6 Kenneth Rush    Stanford    W, 37-26 at Cincinnati 	24 41  381   2 152.7 
7 Rich Williams   Hardin-Simmons W, 20-14 Duke 		33 44  379   1 154.9 
8 Bruce Stuckey   California  W, 62-3 Indiana 		21 27  363   4 239.6 
9 Harry Green     Missouri    L, 30-36 at #19 Oregon 	24 48  362   3 129.8 
10 Thomas Coleman Oklahoma    W, 37-19 Utah 		19 30  350   3 187.7 
				Rushing Leaders 
Rank Player 		Team 	Result 	      	       Rush Yards YPC TD 
1 Robert Haynes   New Mexico St   W, 45-7 Davidson 	32  235  7.34  1 
2 Ronald Mullins  West Texas A&M  W, 37-21 Idaho 	24  190  7.92  3 
3 Kent Melton     North Texas     L, 18-24 Montana 	34  186  5.47  0 
4 Wilfred Wilson  Ohio State      W, 33-0 at Iowa State 24  185  7.71  4 
5 Kenneth Fair    Santa Barbara   L, 30-33 Wyoming 	27  185  6.85  1 
6 Ellis Williams  Florida         W, 29-6 Utah State 	27  183  6.78  1 
7 Lawrence Otto   Boston College  W, 38-14 Kansas State 27  175  6.48  2 
8 Leonardo Sanders Tennessee      W, 40-3 NC State 	22  174  7.91  1 
9 Michael Robertson Cal           W, 62-3 Indiana 	14  170 12.14  0 
10 Claude Lilly  Northwestern     W, 27-9 Syracuse 	30  159  5.30  1 
Receiving Leaders 
Rank Player 	   Team 	Result 				Rec Yards YPC  TD 
1 John Davis      East Carolina   L, 24-44 at #25 Wisconsin       6  178  29.7  0 
2 Bruce Thomas    Missouri 	  L, 30-36 at #19 Oregon          4  169  42.2  2 
3 David White     Wyoming         W, 33-30 at Santa Barbara       4  162  40.5  0 
4 William Jones   Kansas State    L, 14-38 at Boston College      6  159  26.5  2 
5 Royce Brunner   Citadel         L, 13-45 at #24 Texas Tech      4  155  38.8  1 
6 Scott White     North Carolina  W, 23-16 Wash State             7  151  21.6  1 
7 Craig Pollard   Houston         L, 34-37 at #11 USC             5  151  30.2  1 
8 Raymond Chow    Texas           W, 44-10 Richmond               6  149  24.8  0 
9 Chris Mcintosh  Tennessee       W, 40-3 NC State                8  142  17.8  1 
10 Anthony Donnelly Hardin-Simmons W, 20-14 Duke                  7  136  19.4  0

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WEEK 1 RESULTS
#12 Michigan (1-0)	47-17	Northern Arizona (0-1)
#5 Ohio State (1-0)	33-0	Iowa State (0-1)
#25 Wisconsin (1-0)	44-24	East Carolina (0-1)
#24 Texas Tech (1-0)	45-13	Citadel (0-1)
#7 Texas (1-0)		44-10	Richmond (0-1)
#2 Notre Dame (1-0)	68-10	West Virginia (0-1)
#14 California (1-0)	62-3	Indiana (0-1)
#19 Oregon (1-0)	36-30	Missouri (0-1)
#17 Oregon State (1-0)	20-19	Oklahoma State (0-1)
#9 Stanford (1-0)	37-26	Cincinnati (0-1)
#11 USC (1-0)		37-34	Houston (0-1)
#1 Tennessee (1-0)	40-3	NC State (0-1)
#10 LSU (1-0)		30-13	Southern Miss (0-1)
#18 Arkansas (1-0)	18-13	Wake Forest (0-1)
#4 Auburn (1-0)		31-25	Navy (0-1)
#20 SMU (1-0)		69-13	Colorado (0-1)
#21 Penn State (1-0)	42-10	Denver (0-1)
#13 Florida (1-0)	29-6	Utah State (0-1)
Boston College (1-0)	38-14	Kansas State (0-1)
Villanova (1-0)		36-0	Texas A&M (0-1)
Illinois (1-0)		51-21	Penn (0-1)
Minnesota (1-0)		26-7	Clemson (0-1)
Northwestern (1-0)	27-9	Syracuse (0-1)
Baylor (1-0)		38-7	Memphis (0-1)
Rice (1-0)		27-14	Maryland (0-1)
Hardin-Simmons (1-0)	20-14	Duke (0-1)
North Carolina (1-0)	23-16	Wash State (0-1)
Miami (1-0)		34-16	Dartmouth (0-1)
Pittsburgh (1-0)	34-10	Harvard (0-1)
Marshall (1-0)		23-10	Nebraska (0-1)
Oklahoma (1-0)		37-19	Utah (0-1)
Tulane (1-0)		37-17	Furman (0-1)
Detroit Mercy (1-0)	23-7	Columbia (0-1)
Montana (1-0)		24-18	North Texas (0-1)
UTEP (1-0)		23-13	Long Beach St (0-1)
West Texas A&M (1-0)	37-21	Idaho (0-1)
George Washington (1-0)	48-9	Cornell (0-1)
Fresno State (1-0)	59-9	Brigham Young (0-1)
Arizona (1-0)		54-13	San Diego State (0-1)
Wyoming (1-0)		33-30	Santa Barbara (0-1)
Arizona State (1-0)	20-17	San Jose State (0-1)
New Mexico St (1-0)	45-7	Davidson (0-1)
Western Michigan (1-0)	30-24	Wm & Mary (0-1)
Purdue (1-0)		47-7	Pacific (0-1)
Texas Christian (1-0)	44-13	Cal State LA (0-1)

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				  AP COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL
Rank Team 		Conf Record    Points  Last Week    		Next Week   Prev Rank
1. Tennessee 		SEC   1-0 (0-0) 1609   W, 40-3 NC State 	Clemson 	1 
2. Notre Dame 		IND   1-0 (0-0) 1537   W, 68-10 West Virginia   at Northwestern 2 
3. Army 		IND   0-0 (0-0) 1488   OPEN #12 		Michigan 	3 
4. Auburn 		SEC   1-0 (0-0) 1424   W, 31-25 Navy 		Virginia 	4 
5. Ohio State 		B10   1-0 (0-0) 1373   W, 33-0 at Iowa State    #22 Washington  5 
6. Miss State 		SEC   0-0 (0-0) 1311   OPEN 			Syracuse 	6 
7. Texas 		SWC   1-0 (0-0) 1237   W, 44-10 Richmond 	#21 Penn State  7 
8. Alabama 		SEC   0-0 (0-0) 1180   OPEN 			Purdue 		8 
9. Stanford 		Pac8  1-0 (0-0) 1121   W, 37-26 at Cincinnati   #20 SMU		9 
10. LSU 		SEC   1-0 (0-0) 1056   W, 30-13 Southern Miss 	at Rutgers     10 
11. USC 		Pac8  1-0 (0-0) 991    W, 37-34 Houston         at Iowa State  11 
12. Michigan		B10   1-0 (0-0) 928    W, 47-17 Northern Ariz   at #3 Army     12 
13. Florida 		SEC   1-0 (0-0) 858    W, 29-6 Utah State       Missouri       13 
14. California 		Pac8  1-0 (0-0) 809    W, 62-3 Indiana 		Arizona State  14 
15. Georgia 		SEC   0-0 (0-0) 754    OPEN 			Virginia Tech  15 
16. UCLA 		Pac8  0-0 (0-0) 699    OPEN 			Maryland       16 
17. Oregon State 	Pac8  1-0 (0-0) 655    W, 20-19 Oklahoma State  at Kansas      17 
18. Arkansas 		SWC   1-0 (0-0) 583    W, 18-13 Wake Forest 	Kansas State   18 
19. Oregon 		Pac8  1-0 (0-0) 522    W, 36-30 Missouri 	at Minnesota   19 
20. Southern Methodist  SWC   1-0 (0-0) 450    W, 69-13 Colorado 	at #9 Stanford 20 
21. Penn State 		IND   1-0 (0-0) 370    W, 42-10 Denver 		at #7 Texas    21 
22. Washington 		Pac8  0-0 (0-0) 306    OPEN 			at #5 Ohio St  22 
23. Ole Miss 		SEC   0-0 (0-0) 234    OPEN 			NC State       23 
24. Texas Tech 		SWC   1-0 (0-0) 171    W, 45-13 Citadel      at Hardin-Simmons 24 
25. Wisconsin 		B10   1-0 (0-0) 111    W, 44-24 East Carolina  at Oklahoma     25

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
EAGLES IMPROVE TO 2-0 IN PRESEASON PLAY

Veteran quarterback Paul Knight threw 3 touchdown passes to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 30-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers in NFL preseason action. The victory improves the Eagles record to 2-0 while the Packers are even at 1-1. Philadelphia's final preseason game will be in St Louis against the Cardinals next week.

The New York Giants are also 2-0 after a 16-12 victory at home over San Francisco. Rookie first round pick Alberto Herrrmann ran for 75 yards and the games only touchdown to lead New York to the win. The former Oklahoma Sooner gained 91 yards last week in the Giants win over St Louis. The Giants learned starting defensive tackle Joseph Moore will be lost for much of the season with an injury suffered in the opening preseason week. The 8th year pro from UCLA started all 12 games last year and made 25 tackles. He has started 59 games for the Giants in his pro career.

In other action the Detroit Lions beat Cleveland 20-17 in overtime but may have lost first overall pick Jason Fischer for their regular season opener. The rookie Detroit quarterback suffered a head injury and is listed as doubtful for next week but he may return for the season opener in 2 weeks. The Lions also lost veteran running back Bernard German for the season with a serious concussion in the game. German, a 6th year pro from USC, ran for 343 yards last season. He played in all 12 games but did not start.

Veteran running back Pat Patrick gained 109 yards on the ground to help the St Louis Cardinals past the Baltimore Colts 20-14.

In Pittsburgh, running back Charles Becerra scored on a 1 yard plunge with 5 minutes remaining in the game to give visiting Washington a 16-13 victory over the Steelers.

Curtis Cole seems to be edging ahead of Noel Craig in the fight for the Rams starting QB job. Cole played the first quarter and went 5-for-6 for 94 yards and a touchdown to lead Los Angeles past Chicago 25-17. Craig completed 14 of 24 passes but threw a late interception that allowed the Bears to close the gap. Craig also threw a pick in the Rams week 1 loss to Cleveland.

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NFL PRESEASON STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
New York	2  0
Philadelphia	2  0
Cleveland	1  1
St Louis	1  1
Washington	1  1
Pittsburgh	0  2

WEST		W  L 
Baltimore	1  1
Detroit		1  1
Green Bay	1  1
Los Angeles	1  1
San Francisco	1  1
Chicago		0  2

LAST WEEK RESULTS
St Louis 20 Baltimore 14
Detroit 20 Cleveland 17
New York 16 San Francisco 12
Philadelphia 30 Green Bay 13
Washington 16 Pittsburgh 13
Los Angeles 25 Chicago 17

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
Philadelphia at St Louis
Pittsburgh at Cleveland
Chicago at New York
Green Bay at Washington
Detroit at Baltimore
San Francisco at Los Angeles
END OF PRESEASON

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE

The NHL season is just around the corner and teams are starting to set their training camp rosters. The Detroit Red Wings and New York Americans made a trade towards that end this week as the Wings picked up 30 year old left winger Thomas Rihna in exchange for a minor leaguer and a prospect.

Rihna is a former 50 goal scorer who was limited to 31 games last season due to an elbow injury. After a junior career with the Toronto Marlboros he spent the better part of 5 seasons in Buffalo of the AHL before making the Americans roster for good in 1935-36 at the age of 24. He had 4 goals and 3 assists in 46 games that season but broke out the following year when he led the NHL in goals with 50. He was a consistent 30-35 goal scoreer the next 3 years until last season when he missed the first 3 months of the year recovering from elbow surgery and scored just 9 goals in 31 games.

It is not known where Rihna will fit on Detroit's roster as the Wings already have Conner Hendricks (32-35-67) and Cody McCann (27-37-64) as left wingers on their top two lines but taking a chance on Rihna returning to his previous form was a good risk at a very reasonable cost for Detroit.

Going to the Americans are defenseman Maxwell Young and 19 year old forward Mykola Melnyk. Melnyk is an Edmonton native who tallied 90 points for the Toronto Marlboros of the CJHL last season. He was a 4th round pick of the Wings in the 1940 NHL draft after being a memeber of the Montreal Jr Canadiens Memorial Cup winning team that season. The Jr Habs dealt him to the Marlboros prior to the last CJHL season.

Young is a 31 year old rearguard who was dealt from the Americans to the Red Wings last season but now returns to New York. He spent most of last year in the AHL but has played 275 career NHL games, all with the Americans, scoring 29 goals and adding 95 assists.

The deal is a bit of a surprise on the Americans end as that leaves them with only Neil Frank (23-43-66) as a proven NHL scorer on the left side. Dennis Frew, a 25 year old who scored 40 goals in Buffalo 2 years ago and split this past season between the Bisons and the Americans appears to have the second line spot as his to lose in camp this season and there was feeling in New York that Rihna had hit his peak and was on the downside.

The key for New York in this deal is Melnyk. After being a depth guy on the Jr Canadiens he was given first line minutes last season with the Marlboros and had a break out year. He adds to an already strong group of young forward prospects the Americans have been accumulating that also includes Cornwall Royals teammates Rob Ouellet (51-53-104) and Eric Rufenach (30-58-88), Medicine Hat's Matthew Andison (43-41-84) and Alex Kachan (23-59-82) who played for the Kitchener Rangers last year. You can also add the Americans top prospect, 19 year old defenseman Ryan Wall (17-46-63 with the Toronto Marlboros) to that list. The future looks bright for the Americans but the loss of Rihna's scoring touch certainly dims their short term outlook.

Tiger Fan · 01-23-2016, 08:32 AM

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1941
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE SHOWDOWN BEGINS TODAY

The New York Giants host the Philadelphia Phillies in a 3 game series beginning today that could go a long ways towards deciding the National League Pennant. The Giants have a 1 game lead on the defending champion Phillies. The club's will also meet in Philadelphia for a 3 game set in the final week of the season.

The Giants saw their 9 game winning streak end on Monday as they were swept in a 2 game series by the Cincinnati Reds but but New York promptly started a new streak with 6 straight wins to finish the week including back to back doubleheader sweeps of Brooklyn Friday and Saturday. With another doubleheader looming today there is question about how tired the Giants pitchers will be.

The Phillies are on a streak of their own as they have won 8 in a row including a pair over Boston on the weekend. Todays games feature a terrific pitching matchup in the opener as the Giants will send Aurelio Ventura (16-8, 2.72) to the mound against Jack Chandler (13-8, 2.79) while game two seems to favour the Phillies with William Mongillo (17-9, 2.45) facing New York's 5th starter Elige Medina (6-15,3.93)

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 84 44   -	NY Giants	 75 55   -
Cleveland	 73 55 11.0	Philadelphia	 72 54  1.0
Boston		 74 56 11.0	Pittsburgh	 69 59  5.0
Philadelphia  	 73 56 11.5	St Louis	 70 61  5.5
St Louis	 61 69 24.0	Cincinnati	 65 61  8.0
Chicago		 58 71 26.5	Boston		 63 65 11.0
Washington	 52 77 32.5	Brooklyn	 56 72 1
Detroit		 40 87 43.5	Chicago	  	 42 85 31.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.364	Emiliano Ramon 	   StL	 .326
Frank Thomas	BOS     .359	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Charlie Peacock	SLB	.319	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .315
Bill Wodke	PHA	.318	John Wagoner	   NYG   .307
John Hanson	NYY	.314	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .303

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	44	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 18
Elgie Vargas	NYY	39	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 16
Charlie Mongan	CLE	28	Len Butler	   NYG	 15
John Hanson	NYY	25	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 14
George Foskey	NYY	20	Emiliano Ramon	   StL	 13

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	131	Len Butler	   NYG   87
Elgie Vargas	NYY	129	George Osgood	   CIN	 81
John Hanson	NYY	 93	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   76
Johnny Pate	BOS	 89	Marty Wolf	   BKN   75
Oscar Weidner	NYY	 89	Jack Hansen	   PIT   74
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	18-10	Chris Golden	    StL	 17-6
Jay Moore	   NYY  17-8	William Mongillo    PHI  17-9
Jim Thayer	   PHA  16-8	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  16-8
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  16-8	John Petersen	    NYG	 15-6
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  16-9	John White	    NYG  15-7
Bill Coon	   PHA  16-10	

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	2.30	Chris Golden	  StL	2.30
Buck Parham	PHA	2.42	William Mongillo  PHI   2.45
George Odom	PHA	2.63	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.72
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.81	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.75
Bill Coon	PHA	2.91	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.79

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	134	Barney Dupont	  PIT   123
Jim Thayer	PHA	124	Jim Turner	  CIN   121
Buck Parham	PHA	120	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   116
Jack Dickinson	CLE     110	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   115
George Odom	PHA	108	Kick McAvoy	  StL	102

AUGUST AWARD WINNERS

The National League rookie of the month winner proves that preseverance can pay off. 29 year old shortstop Mike Warner was never an everyday player for the Austin Marshalls academy squad and it was no surprise when he went undrafted in 1931. He walked on at Texas Tech, playing in just 2 games his first year in the NCAA. He only started 42 games as a 22 year old in 1934 and again went undrafted. The Phillies signed him to a rookie league contract in 1935 and he bounced around the minors getting released by 5 different teams before landing in the Reds organization in 1938. He split last season between 3 levels of the minors but this year had an impressive spring training and made the big league club as the final man on the roster.

When starting shortstop Dan Paul had a minor injury in the opening week of the season, Warner got his chance and went 2-for-4 in his major league debut. Paul struggled at the plate and was eventually demoted to Sacramento and Warner, who has always been strong with the glove, has hit just enough to keep the job. In 99 games this season the rookie is batting .270 with 8 homers and 44 rbi's. He was on fire at the plate in August, batting .378 with 5 homers and 20 rbi's to win National League rookie of the month honours.

The American League rookie of the month had no problem being noticed throughout his career. NCAA MVP and all-american Teo Tellier was named the month's top rookie for the third time this season. The former Oregon State star and current St Louis Brown hit .363 wth a homer, 16 rbi's and 17 runs scored in August. On the season the 23 year old first baseman is batting .282 with 5 homers and 59 rbi's in 126 games.

The American League pitcher of the month award went to second year Philadelphia Athletics starter George Odom. The 24 year old Odom was 4-1 in 6 starts with a 2.31 era and 39 strikeouts in 50 innings of work. On the season Odom is 11-8 with a 2.63 era. The National League award went to Chris Golden of the St Louis Cardinals. The 34 year old lefthander was 5-2 in August with a 1.77 era. On the season Golden is tied for the National League led in wins with a 17-6 record and his 2.30 era leads the league.

After winning player of the week twice last month it is no surprise that Yankee slugger Elgie Vargas claimed the junior circuit's batter of the month honours. Vargas tore the cover off the ball in August, hitting .395 with 14 homers and 38 rbi's. On the season the 31 year old leads the American League in batting with a .364 average and is second in both homers (39) and rbi's (129).

Cincinnati has a good collection of talented young hitters and one of the best is Al Busby. The 24 year old outfielder hit .406 last month with 3 homers and 19 rbi's to win National League player of the month for August. On the season Busby is hitting 349 with 6 homers and 41 rbi's despite missing nearly two months with a torn ligament in his thumb.

WODKE WINS A.L. PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Philadelphia Athletics outfielder Bill Wodke was named the American League's top performer for the past 7 days after the 26 year old hit .586 (17-29) in 7 games. On the season Wodke is batting .318 with 6 homers and 60 rbi's while also scoring 91 runs.

While the Pittsburgh Pirates may be falling out of contention in the National League pennant race it is through no fault of shortstop D'Angelo Alvarez. The 29 year old hit .481 (13-27) with 5 rbi's and 7 runs scored last week, numbers good enough to earn him N.L. player of the week honours. His week included a 5 hit game in an 8-7 win over the Boston Braves that lasted 19 innings. On the season, Alvarez is batting .280 with 5 homers and 43 rbi's in 100 games played.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 HR   RBI   AVG
BOS Frank Thomas	 1    2  .136	 44   131   .359
NYY Elgie Vargas	 1    5  .333	 39   129   .364
CLE Charlie Mongan	 1    2  .304	 28    63   .268

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
DOMINANT WIN OVER MICHIGAN MOVES ARMY TO #1

The voters in the Associated Press college football poll have decided that Army's 34-3 pounding of then #12 Michigan was decisive enough to jump the Black Knights past Tennessee and Notre Dame and into top spot in the AP rankings.

Army scored 21 first half points on three touchdown passes from John Price to build a quick lead and coasted to a 34-3 win over the Wolverines. Army had nearly triple the yards from scrimmage that Michigan earned thanks to senior QB Price's 372 yards passing and senior running back Dexter Carson's 170 yards rushing. The loss puts a huge dent in the Wolverines national title hopes as most in Ann Arbor felt this was the year Michigan could add to it's total of 3 National Championships (1923,1933 and 1935). Army, which was co-National Champion with Houston last year, looks to have perhaps the best offense in college football led by Carson and Price - both players who will play on Sundays in the future.

Tennessee drops to #2 despite a second straight runaway victory over an ACC team. Last week it was North Carolina State losing to the Vols by a 40-3 score. This time around it was Clemson that dropped to 0-2 after being beaten 38-10. Junior quarterback Sam Copeland had another big game for the Vols, throwing for 375 yards and a pair of touchdowns but did throw his first interception of the season as well. Juco tansfer Armand Chavarria had his first two division one sacks in the game and made 9 tackles.

Running back John Simmons was a monster once again for Notre Dame. The senior carried the ball 34 times for 176 yards and 2 scores to lead the Irish past Northwestern 25-10. Despite improving to 2-0 with the victory, Notre Dame drops one spot in the polls to #3.

There were several upsets this week as 5th ranked Ohio State fell 19-13 to Washington while the Southwest Conference had nearly as rough a time as the Big 10 with Texas falling 10-9 on a last minute field goal by Penn State. The Longhorns are expected to walk away with the SWC and the thinking was they were well positioned for an unbeaten season. Finally, Georgia became the first of a large group of SEC powers to slip up as the Bulldogs lost 18-11 to Virginia Tech.

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Rank	Team		Conf	Record		Points	Last			Next			Prev
1	Army		IND	1-0 (0-0)	1602	W, 34-3 #16 Michigan	at George Washington	3
2	Tennessee	SEC	2-0 (0-0)	1547	W, 38-10 Clemson	Southern Miss		1
3	Notre Dame	IND	2-0 (0-0)	1492	W, 25-10 at Northwestern Brown			2
4	Auburn		SEC	2-0 (0-0)	1425	W, 24-10 Virginia	at Purdue		4
5	Miss State	SEC	1-0 (0-0)	1358	W, 53-0 Syracuse	Citadel			6
6	Stanford	Pac8	2-0 (0-0)	1297	W, 37-20 #23 SMU	Oklahoma State		9
7	Alabama		SEC	1-0 (0-0)	1237	W, 43-14 Purdue		Maryland		8
8	LSU		SEC	2-0 (0-0)	1147	W, 30-10 at Rutgers	Wake Forest		10
9	Ohio State	B10	1-1 (0-0)	1058	L, 13-19 #17 Washington	Richmond		5
10	USC		Pac8	2-0 (0-0)	973	W, 37-20 at Iowa State	Rutgers			11
11	Florida		SEC	2-0 (0-0)	916	W, 34-21 Missouri	East Carolina		13
12	Texas		SWC	1-1 (0-0)	855	L, 9-10 #14 Penn State	NC State		7
13	California	Pac8	2-0 (0-0)	812	W, 34-24 Arizona State	Clemson			14
14	Penn State	IND	2-0 (0-0)	749	W, 10-9 at #12 Texas	at Ohio			21
15	UCLA		Pac8	1-0 (0-0)	696	W, 33-6 Maryland	Memphis			16
16	Michigan	B10	1-1 (0-0)	655	L, 3-34 at #1 Army	Cincinnati		12
17	Washington	Pac8	1-0 (0-0)	606	W, 19-13 at #9 Ohio St 	Texas A&M		22
18	Oregon State	Pac8	2-0 (0-0)	557	W, 33-0 at Kansas	at Missouri		17
19	Arkansas	SWC	2-0 (0-0)	491	W, 45-10 Kansas State	at Kansas		18
20	Georgia		SEC	0-1 (0-0)	406	L, 11-18 Virginia Tech	Houston			15
21	Oregon		Pac8	1-1 (0-0)	325	L, 17-38 at #22 Minnesota Virginia		19
22	Minnesota	B10	2-0 (0-0)	266	W, 38-17 #21 Oregon	Wichita State		26
23	SMU		SWC	1-1 (0-0)	198	L, 20-37 at #6 Stanford	Louisville		20
24	Ole Miss	SEC	1-0 (0-0)	132	W, 54-0 NC State	Penn			23
25	Michigan State	B10	1-0 (0-0)	104	W, 23-20 Pittsburgh	Kansas State		27

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	WEEK 2 RESULTS

#25 Michigan State (1-0)23-20	Pittsburgh (1-1)
#1 Army (1-0)		34-3	#16 Michigan (1-1)
#3 Notre Dame (2-0)	25-10	Northwestern (1-1)
#14 Penn State (2-0)	10-9	#12 Texas (1-1)
#13 California (2-0)	34-24	Arizona State (1-1)
#22 Minnesota (2-0)	38-17	#21 Oregon (1-1)
#17 Washington (1-0)	19-13	#9 Ohio State (1-1)
#6 Stanford (2-0)	37-20	#23 Southern Methodist (1-1)
#18 Oregon State (2-0)	33-0	Kansas (0-1)
#15 UCLA (1-0)		33-6	Maryland (0-2)
#2 Tennessee (2-0)	38-10	Clemson (0-2)
#11 Florida (2-0)	34-21	Missouri (0-2)
Virginia Tech (1-0)	18-11	#20 Georgia (0-1)
#8 LSU (2-0)		30-10	Rutgers (0-1)
#24 Ole Miss (1-0)	54-0	NC State (0-2)
#5 Miss State (1-0)	53-0	Syracuse (0-2)
#7 Alabama (1-0)	43-14	Purdue (1-1)
#4 Auburn (2-0)		24-10	Virginia (0-1)
#19 Arkansas (2-0)	45-10	Kansas State (0-2)
#10 USC (2-0)		37-20	Iowa State (0-2)
Arizona (2-0)		23-13	Boston College (1-1)
Villanova (2-0)		33-30	Nebraska (0-2)
Oklahoma (2-0)		32-11	Wisconsin (1-1)
Hardin-Simmons (2-0)	44-10	Texas Tech (1-1)
Georgia Tech (1-0)	30-12	West Virginia (0-2)
Baylor (2-0)		34-18	Indiana (0-2)
Colorado (1-1)		18-16	Texas Christian (1-1)
Vanderbilt (1-0)	23-10	Iowa (0-1)
Wake Forest (1-1)	27-16	Kentucky (0-1)
Rice (2-0)		23-20	Holy Cross (0-1)
Duke (1-1)		40-14	East Carolina (0-2)
Florida State (1-0)	57-21	Richmond (0-2)
North Carolina (2-0)	22-9	Yale (0-1)
Miami (2-0)		30-6	Utah State (0-2)
UTEP (2-0)		42-20	Illinois (1-1)
Houston (1-1)		39-21	Oklahoma State (0-2)
Texas A&M (1-1)		29-0	Citadel (0-2)
Cincinnati (1-1)	41-16	Princeton (0-1)
West Texas A&M (2-0)	24-13	Louisville (0-1)
Memphis (1-1)		55-22	San Diego State (0-2)
Utah (1-1)		34-27	Southern Miss (0-2)
Tulane (2-0)		48-6	Wm & Mary (0-2)
Fresno State (2-0)	33-16	Wichita State (0-1)
Navy (1-1)		16-12	Cal State LA (0-2)
Ohio (1-0)		50-0	Penn (0-2)
VMI (1-0)		26-25	Northern Arizona (0-2)
Harvard (1-1)		20-17	Wash State (0-2)
Tulsa (1-0)		20-13	Denver (0-2)
Montana (2-0)		19-14	Marshall (1-1)
Detroit Mercy (2-0)	23-3	Dartmouth (0-2)
Long Beach St (1-1)	33-22	Davidson (0-2)
George Washington (2-0)	27-17	Santa Barbara (0-2)
Colorado State (1-0)	23-12	Western Michigan (1-1)
New Mexico (1-0)	28-7	Brown (0-1)
Wyoming (2-0)		23-10	Pacific (0-2)
South Carolina (1-0)	24-10	Idaho (0-2)
New Mexico St (2-0)	41-16	Cornell (0-2)
Furman (1-1)		40-10	North Texas (0-2)
San Jose State (1-1)	38-6	Brigham Young (0-2)

TOP OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCES OF WEEK TWO

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	Passing Leaders 
Rank Player 	    Team 	Result 			Comp Att Yards TD Rating 
1 Ronnie Barker    Ohio 	W, 50-0 at Penn          19 29   418    4 232.1 
2 Steve Smith      Memphis 	W, 55-22 at San Diego St 22 34   414    5 209.6 
3 Marion Gibbs     Indiana 	L, 18-34 at Baylor       23 34   393    2 166.5 
4 Alberto Simon    Florida S    W, 57-21 at Richmond     29 38   384    4 195.9 
5 Eddie Fisher     Duke 	W, 40-14 East Carolina   22 31   384    2 189.9 
6 Vicente Eldridge Baylor 	W, 34-18 Indiana 	 25 31   380    4 219.7 
7 Samuel Copeland  Tennessee 	W, 38-10 Clemson 	 23 36   375    2 164.2 
8 Kenneth Rush     Stanford 	W, 37-20 #23 SMU 	 27 38   375    3 180.0 
9 John Price       Army 	W, 34-3 #16 Michigan 	 23 32   372    3 200.5 
10 David Lee       Michigan St  W, 23-20 Pittsburgh 	 24 39   368    2 152.6 

				Rushing Leaders 
Rank Player 	    Team 	Result 			Rush Yards YPC  TD 
1 James Young     Southern Miss L, 27-34 Utah 		29   282   9.72  2 
2 William Miller  Detroit Mercy W, 23-3 Dartmouth 	31   212   6.84  0 
3 Jesse Winstead  Furman 	W, 40-10 North Texas 	38   204   5.37  2 
4 Edwin Cain      Florida State W, 57-21 at Richmond 	31   198   6.39  1 
5 John Simmons    Notre Dame 	W,25-10 at Northwestern 34   176   5.18  2 
6 Dexter Carson   Army 		W, 34-3 #16 Michigan 	22   170   7.73  1 
7 Ellis Williams  Florida 	W, 34-21 Missouri 	33   166   5.03  2 
8 Richard Luna    Duke 		W, 40-14 East Carolina  31   164   5.29  1 
9 Kenneth Jones   Vanderbilt	W, 23-10 Iowa 		29   164   5.66  1 
10 Nick Mcwhorter Arkansas 	W, 45-10 Kansas State 	26   163   6.27  3 

				Receiving Leaders 
Rank Player 	    Team 	Result 			 Rec Yards YPC TD 
1 Jordan Herndon  Oregon 	L, 17-38 at #22 Minnesota 5  187  37.4  0 
2 James Smith     Memphis 	W, 55-22 at San Diego St  5  186  37.2  0 
3 David Horn      VMI 		W, 26-25 at Northern Ariz 5  168  33.6  2 
4 Chris Mcintosh  Tennessee 	W, 38-10 Clemson 	  6  168  28.0  1 
5 Orlando Poore   East Carolina L, 14-40 at Duke 	  7  165  23.6  1 
6 Joseph Stover   SouthCarolina W, 24-10 Idaho 		  5  158  31.6  1 
7 Craig Pollard   Houston 	W, 39-21 at Oklahoma S    7  154  22.0  1 
 Marvin Wallace  Ole Miss 	W, 54-0 NC State 	  8  151  18.9  1 
9 Jorge Rogers    Santa Barbara L, 17-27 at GeorgeWashing 6  150  25.0  0 
10 Harry Bennett  Michigan St   W, 23-20 Pittsburgh 	  7  147  21.0  2

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
PRESEASON COMES TO A CLOSE

The New York Giants finished the preseason as the league's only unbeaten team after hanging on for a 20-17 victory over the Chicago Bears. The Giants took a 17-3 lead into the break only to see backup Chicago quarterback Jimmie Carpenter complete 19 of 24 second half passes for 301 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Despite Carpenter's heroics the Bears came up short and finished 0-3 in preseason play.

The Detroit Lions, who will play Chicago in next weekend's season opener for both clubs, finished 2-1 with an impressive 26-13 win over the Baltimore Colts. Running back Charles Lott, who has not had an NFL regular season carry since 1937 with Cleveland, looked to seal his hold on the backup running back spot in Detroit by rushing for 94 yards in the game. Lott will almost assuredly see action next week as the Lions starting back Ronald Coats, who gained 748 yards last season, is out for the opener with a foot injury.

Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Rams beat San Francisco 17-6, Cleveland dropped Pittsburgh 31-24, St Louis scored 10 4th quarter points to beat Philadelphia 24-17 and Green Bay topped Washington 20-16.

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NFL PRESEASON STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
New York	3  0
Philadelphia	2  1
Cleveland	2  1
St Louis	2  1
Washington	1  2
Pittsburgh	0  3

WEST		W  L 
Detroit		2  1
Green Bay	2  1
Los Angeles	2  1
Baltimore	1  2
San Francisco	1  2
Chicago		0  3

LAST WEEK RESULTS
St Louis 24 Philadelphia 17 
Cleveland 31 Pittsburgh 24 
New York 20 Chicago 17 
Green Bay 20 Washington 16
Detroit 26 Baltimore 13
Los Angeles 17 San Francisco 6 
END OF PRESEASON

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
New York at Philadelphia
Pittsburgh at St Louis
Washington at Cleveland
Baltimore at Green Bay
Detroit at Chicago
Los Angeles at San Francisco

Tiger Fan · 01-23-2016, 08:53 AM

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1941

I decided to watch the big National League doubleheader on Monday between the Giants and the Phillies and New York definately made a statement on this day as the homeside swept both games at the Polo Grounds. The Giants stretched their winning streak to 8 games (including 3 doubleheaders in the past 4 days) and their lead on Philadelphia to 3 games.

The much-anticipated pitchers duel in the opener between Aurelio Ventura and Jack Chandler did not pan out as the Giants rocked Chandler for 6 runs in the second inning and then hung on for a 7-5 victory as Ventura got into trouble late. A 2-run double off the bat of Giants catcher Henry Warner (.286,6,54) and 2 batters later a 2-run triple from 1B Len Butler (.260,15,89) sealed Chandler's fate. Chandler (13-9, 3.00) did stick around until being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the top of the 5th but it was his shortest outing of the season.

The second game was even tougher on the Phillies pitching as William Mongillo gave up 7 runs (6 earned) in 5 innings to drop to 17-10 on the season in the Giants 8-0 win. Big Jim Wade (.272,4,53), who was acquired from the Cubs in June, started things off quickly for New York with a 2-run homer in the first inning and he would drive in another run as part of a 5-run Giants outburst in the 5th that ended Mongillo's day.

Giants starter Elige Medina (7-18, 3.83), another mid-season pick up from the Cubs, did not factor in the decision as he lasted just 4 innings because he was pitching on just 2 days rest due to all of the twin bills of late. Veteran Al Vasquez (1-0, 2.51), recently called up from AAA Minneapolis, earned the win by allowing just 3 hits in 5 and a third innings.

Tiger Fan · 01-23-2016, 09:08 AM

I had to give this it's own post as the Philadelphia Phillies did get some good luck later in the week. They were no-hit by Esteban Puente of the Boston Braves - the first no-hitter in just over a year- but won the game 1-0 thanks to a pair of first inning walks and an error.

The game started with Puente walking lead-off man Radhames Casado and number 2 hitter Bob Almont. Bill Antell then hit a fly ball deep enough to allow Casado to tag up and move to third. The next batter, Bug Harrison, hit a doubleplay ball to Braves 27 year old rookie shortstop Jim Peters, but Peters muffed the play allowing Casado to score what would prove to be the only run of the game.

Puente struggled with his control all game, walking 7, but he did not allow another runner past second base. I believe it is the first time in this universe a major league pitcher has thrown a no-hitter and lost the game.

There were 19 no-hitters in the first 24 years of the league but only 5 since then and it included a 10 year drought with none from 1924 until 1934, when Arturo Serna and George Barr - both still active - each threw one. Since then we have had 3 including Puente today.

Shadi Aladdin (great name!) got one for Brooklyn in 1936 and Buck Parham of the A's pitched one a year and 4 days ago (Sept 1, 1940).

Tiger Fan · 01-24-2016, 02:21 PM

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1941
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

RED SOX CONTINUE TO FADE

On July 1 the Boston Red Sox had a half game lead on the New York Yankees atop the American League standings. Today the defending American League champions find themselves in 4th place, 13.5 games behind the league leading Yankees. The Red Sox went 15-13 in July and followed that up with a 16-20 record since the 1st of August. Since the beginning of July Boston is 31-33 while during the same stretch the Yankees have gone 44-19.

So what has happened to the mighty Red Sox - a team thaat has finished first 3 of the last 5 years and second to the Yankees in the other two? All world outfielder Frank Thomas (.356,46,136) continues to produce but the rest of the offense has dropped off, particularly since the club lost 24 year old second baseman Johnny Pate (.288,11,89) to an ankle injury 2 weeks ago.

Center fielder Les Kennedy (.276,10,67) was an all-star a year ago at age 25 but his numbers, while still solid, are down substantally from the .302,18,101 he put up the previous year. However, Kennedy's slump pales in comparison to the drop-off from 34 year old first baseman Ned Knapp (.231,2,27) who hit .326 last season and made the all-star team.

Even with the reduced production from Knapp and Kennedy the Red Sox still rank second to the Yankees in runs scored in the American League. It is the pitching that has been the biggest problem, particularly the rotation that ranks 7th in the league in ERA ahead of only lowly Detroit.

Being without Hezekiah Lank (13-9, 3.24 last year) for most of the season has hurt. Lank just made his first start of the season this weekend after being sidelined 13 months with a torn rotator cuff. Wiki Estella (15-10, 3.34) is having another solid season but he is now 39 years old. 30 year old John McDermott (10-14, 5.07) has really struggled and 33 year Andy Campbell (14-14, 3.83) is showing signs of being on the backside of his career.

You can not say the door is closed on any team with a 31 year old Frank Thomas but the Red Sox glory run that included 3 pennants and a World Championship in the past 5 seasons may be nearing it's end. Many of the key pieces are showing signs of age and fragility and years of drafting late have left the minor league cupboard rather bare.

The Yankees resurgence from the better part of a decade near the bottom of the standings co-incided with the Red Sox revival. New York, however, seems much better positioned for their dynasty to continue on for several more years as Elgie Vargas is the same age as Frank Thomas, but he has an outstanding supporting case of younger talent like 30 year old pitchers Jay Moore (18-8, 3.43) and Eliha McCormic (6-6, 3.33), 28 year old 1B-OF Dioner Gonzales (.335,2,35), 27 year olds in catcher Joe Martin (.276,8,55), shortstop Oscar Weidner (.276,10,96) and second baseman Martin Robbins (.270,7,68), 26 year old centerfielder John Hanson and 23 year old first baseman Jim Post (.340,5,58). Add in 32 year old outfielder George Foskey (.280,21,80) and pitcher Elias Edmondson (16-11, 3.18) who both were acquired by trade in recent years, and there is a ton of talent in the Bronx.

While the Red Sox have always preferred to build from within the Yankees have not been afraid to make some deals and have been extremely succesful in doing so. New York just seems to know the right time to make moves and have the ability to get them done. Foskey is a great example as they got Detroit to part with him in 1939 after Foskey's power numbers dipped substantially the previous season. New York got him for 5 prospects, none of whom will likely ever make the majors. They did the same thing at the 1939 trade deadline to add Edmondson from Washington for 4 minor leaguers, only one of whom has made the majors in outfielder Chief Shepherd, and he hit just .168 in 49 games while Edmondson has gone 42-20 in Yankee pinstripes.

Even Elgie Vargas was acquired in a trade. A second round pick of the Pirates in 1930, Vargas was still in rookie ball when New York dealt pitcher Houston Avalos to Pittsburgh for him and another young outfield prospect named Santiago Herrera in June of 1931. Herrera would play just 13 major league games but Vargas would obviously pan out quite nicely for the Yankees as the deal was credited for the start of New York's resurgence. As for Avalos, he was a 26 year old started with a 2-6, 4.90 record for New York at the time of the deal. He would go 2-10 with a 5.89 era for Pittsburgh the rest of the way and bounced between Pittsburgh and AAA Oakland for the rest of the decade before retiring in 1939 at the age of 34, with a lifetime major league record of 16-35.

NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT CHASE
GIANTS LOSE BOTH MIDDLE INFIELDERS IN 3 DAY SPAN OVER THE WEEKEND

The New York Giants have learned they will be without shortstop John Wagoner likely for the rest of the regular season and second baseman Billy Bolling might have suffered a career ending injury. Bolling, who made the all-star game each of the past two seasons, was batting .255 with 4 homers and 49 rbi's this season. The 29 year old from Mahoney City, Pennsylvania suffered what has been diagnosed as a torn labrum and the concern is it might be career ending. Bolling was a first round pick in 1931 by the Detroit Tigers and was dealt to the Giants the following season. He has played all of his 987 career major league games for the Giants and played on 3 pennant winning teams and 2 World Series champs.

There is a chance the 27 year old Wagoner could return for the World Series if the Giants can hang on and win the pennant. Wagoner, who was hitting .311 with 10 homers and 66 rbi's in 125 games this season, suffered a strained muscle in his stomach while making a throw. Doctors indicate the injury will take at least 3-4 weeks to heal. Wagoner joins pitchers Arturo Serna and Jim Boelke on the Giants disabled list. Both of the hurlers are done for the year.

The Giants will go to 39 year old Henry Gardner (.246,2,9) at shortstop in Wagoner's absence. The veteran major league was acquired from the St Louis Browns over the off-season and has played 1081 career major league games with a lifetime .260 batting average. Gardner went 1-for-9 with a homerun in the three games since he took over the starting job.

26 year old Kid Dill will take over the second base duties. Dill was hitting .333 in 27 major league appearances this season. Undrafted out of Georgia Tech, he has played 98 career major league games.

The big question is will the Giants offense, which was third in the National League, be strong enough without Bolling and Wagoner to hold off the Philadelphia Phillies.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 89 47   -	NY Giants	 80 56   -
Cleveland	 78 57 10.5	Philadelphia	 78 57  1.5
Philadelphia  	 77 59 12.0	Pittsburgh	 74 61  5.5
Boston		 76 61 13.5	St Louis	 73 64  7.5
St Louis	 64 71 24.5	Cincinnati	 68 66 11.0
Chicago		 60 75 28.5	Boston		 64 71 15.5
Washington	 55 80 33.5	Brooklyn	 59 77 21.0
Detroit		 42 91 45.5	Chicago	  	 45 89 34.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.359	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Frank Thomas	BOS     .356	John Wagoner	   NYG   .311
Charlie Peacock	SLB	.326	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .308
Bill Wodke	PHA	.322	Oreste Gallagos	   PHI	 .301
John Hanson	NYY	.318	Gil White	   StL	 .300

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	46	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 18
Elgie Vargas	NYY	41	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 16
Charlie Mongan	CLE	30	Len Butler	   NYG	 15
John Hanson	NYY	28	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 14
George Foskey	NYY	21	Emiliano Ramon	   StL	 13
				Silver Hall	   PIT	 13

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	136	Len Butler	   NYG   89
Elgie Vargas	NYY	132	George Osgood	   CIN	 84
John Hanson	NYY	100	Jack Hansen	   PIT   83
Oscar Weidner	NYY	 96	Marty Wolf	   BKN   79
Johnny Pate	BOS	 89	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   78
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jay Moore	   NYY  18-8	Chris Golden	    StL	 18-6
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	18-11	William Mongillo    PHI  18-10
Jim Thayer	   PHA  17-9	John White	    NYG  17-7
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  17-9	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  17-9
Buck Parham	   PHA	17-10	John Petersen	    NYG	 16-6
Jake Banks	   NYY	16-3	Danny Gentry	    BKN  15-12
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  16-11	Kick McAvoy	    StL	 15-13
Bill Coon	   PHA  16-11	Jack Chandler	    PHI	 14-9
Edgard Ortiz	   CLE  16-11	Elbert Eaton	    PHI  14-9	
				Barney DuPont	    PIT  14-11

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	2.40	Chris Golden	  StL	2.37
Buck Parham	PHA	2.43	William Mongillo  PHI   2.53
George Odom	PHA	2.55	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.84
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.80	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.90
Bill Coon	PHA	2.93	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.94

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	138	Jim Turner	  CIN   127
Jim Thayer	PHA	132	Barney Dupont	  PIT   126
Buck Parham	PHA	128	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   118
Jack Dickinson	CLE     122	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   118
Elias Edmondson NYY	115	Kick McAvoy	  StL	108

HANSON NAMED A.L. PLAYER OF THE WEEK

New York Yankees outfielder John Hanson was named the American League's top performer last week after hit hit .364 (12-33) with 3 homers and 7 rbi's in 8 games to help New York get 5 wins. On the season the 26 year old who was taken first overall in the 1934 draft is batting .318 with 28 homers and 100 rbi's.

Brooklyn Dodgers rookie outfielder George Jessen captured National League honours. The 25 year old rookie, who played college ball at Texas Tech, hit .593 (16-27) with 12 rbi's. On the season in 118 games the native of Covina, California is batting .237 with 8 homers and 60 rbi's.

BROWNS ROOKIE EXTENDS HITTING STREAK TO 22 GAMES

23 year old first baseman Teo Tellier of the St Louis Browns extended his hitting streak to 22 games with a homerun in the Browns 5-2 loss to Chicago. The 22 game streak is the longest in the American League this season and 4 shy of the 26 game streak achieved by D'Angelo Alvarez of Pittsburgh earlier in the year.

Tellier, who has been named rookie of the month three times this season, is batting .281 with 7 homers and 64 rbi's. A native of Terrebonne, Quebec he played college ball at Oregon State and was a first team all-america selection before being selected in the third round of the 1940 draft by the Browns.

The rookie hitting streak record is 34 games set by Philadelphia's Bug Harrison in 1939 while the all-time player mark is 46 games accomplished by Antonio Perez of the Boston Braves in 1918.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 G    HR   RBI   AVG
BOS Frank Thomas	 2    5  .310	 136  46   136   .356
NYY Elgie Vargas	 2    3  .294	 121  41   132   .359
CLE Charlie Mongan	 2    8  .200	 102  30    71   .262

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
PACKERS CORRAL COLTS IN SEASON OPENER

The defending NFL champion Green Bay Packers made a huge statement that they are the team to beat once again this season. The Packers, who finished a game ahead of the Colts last season before beating them in the West Division playoff, came out with their offense firing on all cylinders in a 34-3 thrashing of the Colts in Baltimore.

Green Bay took a 24-0 lead into the half in a game that saw Christopher Jordan throw for 191 yards and 3 touchdowns while running back Joseph Campbell gained 113 yards on the ground after replacing veteran Geoffrey Dolan, who suffered a minor injury. The Green Bay defense was led by linebacker Gary Hamilton, a 5th year pro out of TCU, who had 14 tackles in the game.

The Los Angeles Rams decided to start Curtis Cole at quarterback after a preseason duel with Neil Craig for the starting job. The decision proved to be the right one as the former first overall pick from Florida State threw for 229 yards and a touchdown to lead the Rams to a 30-17 victory at home over San Francisco.

Four Roy Pearson field goals helped lift the Detroit Lions to a 26-10 victory over the visiting Chicago Bears. The win was orchestrated by a rookie quarterback but not the one you expected as first overall pick Jason Fischer missed the game with a concussion and last year's starter Thomas Muller was knocked out of the game early in the second quarter with Detroit trailing 10-7. Enter third stringer Dale Lund, a 5th round pick in April from Hardin-Simmons. Lund completed 17 of 25 passes for 182 yards and one touchdown to lead the Lions to the victory. It looks like Lund will get the start next week in Los Angeles as Fischer is listed as doubtful and Muller will definately be out.

It wasn't pretty but the defending East Division champion Philadelphia Eagles escaped New York with a 20-14 victory over the Giants. New York dominated the time of possession and total yardage but 3 Donald Owens interceptions proved the Giants undoing. The final interception, midway through the 4th quarter with New York up 14-13, led to an 11 yard touchdown pass from Angel Bates to Bryan Dudley to secure the win for the visitors. Bates, a 7th year pro from Stanford, was picked off once himself and completed 15 of 25 passes for 175 yards. Rookie running back Alberto Herrmann had a decent pro debut for New York. The 5th overall pick from Oklahoma carried the ball 17 times for 53 yards and his first touchdown.

The latest duel between quarterbacks Corey Ely of Cleveland and Michael Huff of Washington went to the Browns signal caller as the former Army great engineered two fourth quarter scoring drives to allow the Browns to rally for a 27-20 victory in the nation's capital. Ely, who was taken 3rd overall by the Browns in 1938, completed 18 of 24 passes for 194 yards and the game winning score while Huff, the 8th pick from USC that same year, completed 16 of 24 for 247 yards and two touchdowns but he was also intercepted once. Huff was named the NFL's MVP last season.

In the final game of the weekend the St Louis Cardinals hammered the Pittsburgh Steelers 40-17 despite a 103 yard rushing performance from Pittsburgh back William Hein.

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NFL PRESEASON STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
Philadelphia	1  0
Cleveland	1  0
St Louis	1  0
New York	0  1
Washington	0  1
Pittsburgh	0  1

WEST		W  L 
Detroit		1  0
Green Bay	1  0
Los Angeles	1  0
Baltimore	0  1
San Francisco	0  1
Chicago		0  1

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Philadelphia 20 New York 14
St Louis 40 Pittsburgh 17
Cleveland 27 Washington 20
Green Bay 34 Baltimore 3
Detroit 26 Chicago 10
Los Angeles 30 San Francisco 17 

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
New York at Pittsburgh
Washington at St Louis
Chicago at Green Bay
Detroit at Los Angeles
San Francisco at Cleveland
Philadelphia at Baltimore

     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Corey Ely	CLE	 18-24    194   1   0   112.2
Michael Huff	WSH	 16-24    247   2   1   110.9
Dale Lund	DET	 17-25    182   1   0   102.4
Curtis Cole	LA	 18-28    229   1   0   101.6
Nick Stephens   SF 	 12-27	  101   2   0    79.4

RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	TD
Joseph Campbell    GB    21	113	 0
William Hein	   PIT	 25     103      1
William Bell	   LA	 18      84	 1
Michael Jenson	   SF	 21      84      0
Vincent Newton	   WSH   20      82      0

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert Davis	   TE  NYG     8   31   3.9	1
Mike Slocum	   WR  DET     7  114  16.3	0
Robert James	   TE  CHI     7   48   6.9	0
Charles Taylor	   WR  LA      6  110  18.3     1
Paul Collins	   WR  NYG     6  103  17.2	0
Matthew Shull	   TE  CLE     6   54   9.0     1

TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
William Martin	   LB   WSH	16
Gary Hamilton	   LB   GB      14
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      13
Mark Miller	   LB   CHI     13

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ARMY REMAINS NUMBER 1 WITH WIN OVER GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Associated Press top 10 college football rankings remain unchanged as all of the top teams posted victories on Saturday. The only teams in the top 25 to lose were Penn State, Washington and Michigan. The Nittany Lions dropped from 14th to 17th after a 34-25 loss at Ohio. The Ohio victory allowed them to move past Michigan State and into the top 25. Washington fell by a 24-21 score to Texas A&M. The biggest surprise was Michigan as the Wolverines dropped to 1-2 with 23-9 loss to unranked Cincinnati.

At the top of the polls Army got another strong performance from senior quarterback John Price, who threw for 362 yards and 4 touchdowns in a 49-36 win over George Washington. With over 700 passing yards and 7 td's in two games Price is making an early campaign for the Heisman Trophy. If successful Price would be the first Black Knights player ever to win the award.

Price will face stiff competition from Notre Dame running back John Simmons, who rushed for 239 yards and 4 more touchdowns in the Irish's 52-10 pounding of Brown. In three games, the senior from Danville, Indiana has rushed for 539 yards and scored 10 touchdowns - 9 rushing and one of his 9 catches for 64 yards.

After a tight first half when they only led 7-6, Tennessee turned it on in the second half and cruised past Southern Miss by a 24-6 score. Senior Leonardo Sanders ran for 106 yards and a score while junior QB Samuel Copeland completd 15 of 25 passes for 265 yards and a score.

Among the week's top performances you have to look at Arizona junior quarterback Daniel Cullen who threw for 411 yards and 5 touchdowns in the Wildcats 64-14 win at Wyoming. Despite taking the loss at Ohio, Penn State signal caller Matthew Minor passed for 396 yards this weekend. The top rushing performance of the week came from Cornell sophomore Jerome Andrews, who gained 296 yards on 29 carries and scored 3 touchdowns in a 44-11 win over Davidson.

On defense the player to watch is Brigham Young's senior linebacker Harry Young. Despite his club being 0-3 on the season Young was a 1 man wrecking crew with 15 tackles in the Cougars 14-10 loss to Florida State. Finally San Diego State junior safety Brian Mason had a career game with 3 interceptions including one he returned for a touchdown in a 44-17 win over Western Michigan.

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	ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record	  Pts	Last			Next		LW
1	Army		IND	2-0  	  1610	W, 49-36at G Washington	OPEN		1
2	Tennessee	SEC	3-0 (0-0) 1544	W, 24-6 Southern Miss	#24 Ole Miss	2
3	Notre Dame	IND	3-0  	  1485	W, 52-10 Brown		Villanova	3
4	Auburn		SEC	3-0 (0-0) 1425	W, 41-24 at Purdue	#8 LSU		4
5	Miss State	SEC	2-0 (0-0) 1365	W, 49-9 Citadel		Oklahoma State	5
6	Stanford	Pac8	3-0 (0-0) 1284	W, 44-22 Oklahoma State	OPEN		6
7	Alabama		SEC	2-0 (0-0) 1202	W, 14-10 Maryland	Vanderbilt	7
8	LSU		SEC	3-0 (0-0) 1134	W, 41-6 Wake Forest	at #4 Auburn	8
9	Ohio State	B10	2-1 (0-0) 1058	W, 46-22 Richmond	OPEN		9
10	USC		Pac8	3-0 (0-0)  991	W, 38-21 Rutgers	at #20 Oregon	10
11	Florida		SEC	3-0 (0-0)  912	W, 28-9 East Carolina	at Kentucky	11
12	Texas		SWC	2-1 (0-0)  855	W, 49-0 NC State	OPEN		12
13	California	Pac8	3-0 (0-0)  800	W, 54-21 Clemson	Wash State	13
14	UCLA		Pac8	2-0 (0-0)  759	W, 38-10 Memphis	at 15 Oregon St 15
15	Oregon State	Pac8	3-0 (0-0)  687	W, 17-10 at Missouri	#14 UCLA	18
16	Arkansas	SWC	3-0 (0-0)  626	W, 24-10 at Kansas	at Texas A&M	19
17	Penn State	IND	2-1  	   554	L, 25-34 at #25 Ohio	at Boston Coll 	14
18	Washington	Pac8	1-1 (0-0)  492	L, 21-24 Texas A&M	NC State	17
19	Georgia		SEC	1-1 (0-0)  439	W, 34-32 Houston	OPEN		20
20	Oregon		Pac8	2-1 (0-0)  361	W, 24-10 Virginia	#10 USC		21
21	Michigan	B10	1-2 (0-0)  304	L, 9-23 Cincinnati	Iowa		16
22	Minnesota	B10	3-0 (0-0)  244	W, 38-7 Wichita State	at Wisconsin	22
23	SMU		SWC	2-1 (0-0)  171	W, 31-13 Louisville	at Baylor	23
24	Ole Miss	SEC	2-0 (0-0)  114	W, 47-14 Penn		at #2 Tennessee	24
25	Ohio		IND	2-0  	    84	W, 34-25 #17 Penn State	Virginia Tech	32

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	WEEK 3 RESULTS
Cincinnati (2-1)	23-9	#21 Michigan (1-2)
#22 Minnesota (3-0)	38-7	Wichita State (0-2)
#9 Ohio State (2-1)	46-22	Richmond (0-3)
#12 Texas (2-1)		49-0	NC State (0-3)
#13 California (3-0)	54-21	Clemson (0-3)
#20 Oregon (2-1)	24-10	Virginia (0-2)
#15 Oregon State (3-0)	17-10	Missouri (0-3)
#6 Stanford (3-0)	44-22	Oklahoma State (0-3)
#14 UCLA (2-0)		38-10	Memphis (1-2)
#10 USC (3-0)		38-21	Rutgers (0-2)
Texas A&M (2-1)		24-21	#18 Washington (1-1)
#2 Tennessee (3-0)	24-6	Southern Miss (0-3)
#11 Florida (3-0)	28-9	East Carolina (0-3)
#19 Georgia (1-1)	34-32	Houston (1-2)
#24 Ole Miss (2-0)	47-14	Penn (0-3)
#5 Miss State (2-0)	49-9	Citadel (0-3)
#7 Alabama (2-0)	14-10	Maryland (0-3)
#4 Auburn (3-0)		41-24	Purdue (1-2)
#23 SMU (2-1)		31-13	Louisville (0-2)
#8 LSU (3-0)		41-6	Wake Forest (1-2)
#16 Arkansas (3-0)	24-10	Kansas (0-2)
#25 Ohio (2-0)		34-25	#17 Penn State (2-1)
#1 Army (2-0)		49-36	George Washington (2-1)
#3 Notre Dame (3-0)	52-10	Brown (0-2)
Colorado (2-1)		28-23	Boston College (1-2)
Iowa State (1-2)	23-16	Villanova (2-1)
Michigan State (2-0)	36-10	Kansas State (0-3)
Northwestern (2-1)	41-3	Navy (1-2)
Baylor (3-0)		48-20	Holy Cross (0-2)
Texas Tech (2-1)	43-3	Virginia Tech (1-1)
Texas Christian (2-1)	58-19	Iowa (0-2)
Vanderbilt (2-0)	47-7	Syracuse (0-3)
Indiana (1-2)		20-10	Kentucky (0-2)
Rice (3-0)		34-23	West Virginia (0-3)
Duke (2-1)		43-9	Montana (2-1)
Georgia Tech (2-0)	23-17	Princeton (0-2)
Florida State (2-0)	14-10	Brigham Young (0-3)
North Carolina (3-0)	35-13	Idaho (0-3)
Miami (3-0)		16-15	UTEP (2-1)
Yale (1-1)		26-23	Pittsburgh (1-2)
Detroit Mercy (3-0)	23-17	Illinois (1-2)
Wisconsin (2-1)		37-18	Long Beach St (1-2)
Nebraska (1-2)		33-7	West Texas A&M (2-1)
Oklahoma (3-0)		34-13	Hardin-Simmons (2-1)
Tulane (3-0)		41-14	Colorado State (1-1)
Northern Arizona (1-2)	24-23	Furman (1-2)
New Mexico St (3-0)	27-24	Harvard (1-2)
Columbia (1-1)		10-6	Denver (0-3)
Marshall (2-1)		31-27	VMI (1-1)
San Diego State (1-2)	41-17	Western Michigan (1-2)
New Mexico (2-0)	34-17	Wash State (0-3)
Utah (2-1)		34-20	Wm & Mary (0-3)
Arizona (3-0)		64-14	Wyoming (2-1)
Arizona State (2-1)	31-16	Cal State LA (0-3)
Cornell (1-2)		44-11	Davidson (0-3)
Dartmouth (1-2)		27-21	North Texas (0-3)
Tulsa (2-0)		29-23	Pacific (0-3)
South Carolina (2-0)	16-13	Fresno State (2-1)

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	TOP 25 PASSERS (QB Rating)
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Comp	Comp%	Yds	Y/Att	TD	Int	Rat
1	K. Thomson	MISS	1	20	17	85.0	268	13.4	2	1	220.6
2	M. Fong		MSST	2	55	44	80.0	632	11.5	6	1	208.9
3	J. Aaron	MISS	2	25	20	80.0	284	11.4	2	0	201.8
4	D. Frye		PNST	3	33	24	72.7	310	9.4	5	0	201.6
5	B. Stuckey	CAL	3	61	44	72.1	664	10.9	7	0	201.4
6	J. Price	ARMY	2	65	45	69.2	734	11.3	7	0	199.6
7	A. Simon	FSU	2	38	29	76.3	384	10.1	4	0	195.9
8	R. Barker	OHIO	2	42	25	59.5	509	12.1	4	0	192.8
9	L. West		ND	2	70	51	72.9	731	10.4	8	2	192.6
10	L. Johnston	VMI	1	14	9	64.3	171	12.2	1	0	190.5
11	R. Preston	WYO	2	39	22	56.4	518	13.3	3	1	188.2
12	L. Sims		UCLA	1	35	29	82.9	335	9.6	3	1	185.8
13	E. Devries	GW	3	86	62	72.1	817	9.5	9	2	181.8
14	P. Jones	USC	3	86	58	67.4	822	9.6	10	2	181.5
15	R. Oconnor	TUL	3	34	21	61.8	297	8.7	4	0	174
16	R. Burnett	OHIO	2	22	16	72.7	185	8.4	2	0	173.4
17	K. Rush		STAN	3	118	80	67.8	1086	9.2	10	0	173.1
18	C. Lamb		HOU	3	92	53	57.6	925	10.1	11	4	172.8
19	S. Copeland	TENN	3	110	73	66.4	1141	10.4	7	1	172.7
20	W. Christensen	UNM	2	35	26	74.3	287	8.2	3	0	171.5
21	E. Fisher	DUKE	3	105	73	69.5	1017	9.7	8	3	170.3
22	D. Cullen	ARZ	3	101	62	61.4	962	9.5	10	2	170.1
23	H. Bright	NEB	2	49	36	73.5	443	9.0	4	2	168.2
24	B. Taylor	NMSU	3	90	60	66.7	773	8.6	9	2	167.4
25	T. Coleman	OU	3	97	58	59.8	916	9.4	8	1	164.3

				TOP 20 RUSHING
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Yds	YPC	Lng	TD
1	RB J. Simmons	ND	3	92	539	5.86	42	9
2	RB J. Young	SOMS	3	80	522	6.52	72	2
3	RB J. Andrews	CORN	3	76	515	6.78	59	4
4	RB R. Haynes	NMSU	3	95	512	5.39	60	2
5	RB W. Wilson	OHST	3	67	473	7.06	55	7
6	RB E. Williams	FLA	3	88	467	5.31	59	3
7	RB L. Spooner	MINN	3	65	445	6.85	53	4
8	RB C. Lilly	NW	3	92	439	4.77	25	4
9	RB L. Sanders	TENN	3	70	407	5.81	69	2
10	RB W. Miller	DET	3	87	393	4.52	30	0
11	RB M. Robertson	CAL	3	40	388	9.7	39	2
12	RB R. Luna	DUKE	3	75	387	5.16	27	1
13	RB M. Baugh	UNC	3	73	380	5.21	74	4
14	RB R. Mullins	WTAM	3	60	376	6.27	63	3
15	RB K. Melton	UNT	3	79	374	4.73	35	0
16	RB D. Hayes	ARZ	3	89	374	4.2	19	2
17	RB D. Quinn	MSST	2	58	371	6.4	83	3
18	RB J. White	AUB	3	62	350	5.65	46	4
19	RB A. Garcia	TTCH	3	60	347	5.78	77	3
20	RB J. Medley	ASU	3	61	346	5.67	86	1

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
PRESEASON SCHEDULE BEGINS

The 25th National Hockey League season is getting closer as all 8 teams began preseason play this week in anticipation of the September 20th regular season start. The New York Rangers, winners of the past two Stanley Cups, had a rough start to their title defense as the Rangers lost both of their exhibition games over the weekend, falling 5-4 at home to Toronto and 4-3 to the Maroons in Montreal.

Veteran Toronto forward Darren Vaness had a big game for the Leafs in their win over the defending champs, scoring once and adding 3 assists. Vaness, who had 66 points last season, added another assist the next night but in a losing cause as Toronto fell 5-3 at home to Detroit.

One line to watch for if the early going is any indication is the Montreal Canadiens trio of Paul Eastman centering Brent McGonigal and rookie Ben Lindberg. The trio has combined for 7 goals and 12 points through two games. Eastman is a 24 year old Calgary native entering his 4th season with the Habs. Last year injuries limited him to 54 games but he still set a career high with 15 goals and 38 points. McGonigal is a 28 year old who is entering his 7th full season with the Canadiens. In 67 games last year he had 25 goals and 54 points. Lindberg is a 19 year old who the Canadiens selected 6th overall in the 1940 draft but returned him to Sherbrooke of the CJHL where he scored 44 goals and 35 asssits last season.

The New York Americans earned a win and a tie as they begin the post-Tyler Kennedy era. The legendary goaltender who has been between the pipes for the Americans since 1920 retired in the off-season as the NHL's all-time leader in wins and second only to Detroit's Dylan Turnbull in games played. The Americans seem to be leaning to giving the job to Chuck Walton, who posted a 3.76 GAA in 57 games with the AHL's Buffalo Bisons last season. The 23 year old native of Kitchener, Ontario was selected 44th overall in 1936 but has yet to play an NHL regular season game. Walton played in both preseason games and had a .910 save percentage in a tie against Detroit and a win over Boston. Walton's competition for the starting job will come from 30 year old Patrick Turmel, who had been Kennedy's backup for most of the past 7 years but appeared in just 26 NHL games.

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  PRESEASON STANDINGS
		W  L  T  PTS
Mon Maroons	2  0  0   4
Detroit		1  0  1   3
NY Americans	1  0  1   3
Chicago	 	1  1  0   2
Mon Canadiens   1  1  0   2
Toronto		1  1  0   2
Boston		0  2  0   0
NY Rangers	0  2  0   0

Tiger Fan · 01-26-2016, 11:12 PM

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SUBWAY SERIES

With the New York Giants now joining the Yankees with very comfortable leads atop their respective leagues it is looking more and more like we will have a Subway Series for the third time in the past four years. Prior to 1938 the Giants and Yankees had never met in a World Series but they made the 1938 series an instant classic as the Giants rallied from a 3 games to one lead to win the series in the 10th inning of one of the greatest game sevens of all time.

1939 was just as dramatic as the Yankees nearly came back from a 3 games to one deficit only to see the Giants score three times in the top of the ninth inning in game seven to win for the second straight season.

After both New York teams finished second behind the Red Sox and Phillies in their respective leagues last year, the two appear headed for another showdown.

One Giant who played a key role in both World Series wins, will not be around this time as second baseman Bobby Bolling was forced to announce his retirement after the damage from the shoulder injury he suffered last week was deemed too extensive to fix by surgery. Bolling played 987 major league games for the Giants and was a lifetime .307 hitter. The 29 year old also played in 3 World Series with the Giants, losing to Boston in 6 games in 1937 before back to back wins over the Yankees. In 19 games he hit 3 homers, drove in 15 runs and batted .274. His biggest post-season moment came in Game 5 of the 1939 series when he had 4 hits to lead the Giants to a victory that started them on their comeback from a 3 games to 1 deficit.

The injuries continue to mount for the Giants with catcher Henry Warner (.291,7,58) is the latest to be sidelined. He will miss 2-3 weeks with an oblique strain and joins the now retired Bolling along with shortstop John Wagoner on the sidelines. Pitchers Arturo Serna and Jim Boelke are also out with long term injuries.

Despite losing 3 regulars from the lineup recently the Giants keep on winning as they have won 7 straight and 17 of their last 18. The lead on the defending champion Phillies is now 5 games with each team having just 12 left to play. Included in those 12 games are a 3-game set between the two clubs in Philadelphia September 23-25 so the Phillies do still have a slim chance to catch New York.

The Yankees on the other hand have whittled their magic number for clinching down to just 1 game as they enjoy a 12.5 game lead on second place Cleveland. The two teams open a brief 2 game set in the Bronx today.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
NY Yankees	 94 48   -	NY Giants	 86 56   -
Cleveland	 81 60 12.5	Philadelphia	 81 61  5.0
Philadelphia  	 80 62 14.0	Pittsburgh	 77 64  8.5
Boston		 79 63 15.0	St Louis	 75 68 11.5
St Louis	 66 74 27.0	Cincinnati	 70 70 15.0
Chicago		 64 77 29.5	Boston		 67 74 18.5
Washington	 58 84 36.0	Brooklyn	 62 80 24.0
Detroit		 43 97 50.0	Chicago	  	 48 93 37.5

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.358	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .317
Frank Thomas	BOS     .353	John Wagoner	   NYG   .311
Charlie Peacock	SLB	.329	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .308
John Hanson	NYY	.322	Celerino Ochoa	   NYG	 .302
Bill Wodke	PHA	.319	George Saunders	   NYG   .299

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	47	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 20
Elgie Vargas	NYY	44	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 17
Charlie Mongan	CLE	34	Len Butler	   NYG	 16
John Hanson	NYY	31	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 14
George Foskey	NYY	21	Emiliano Ramon	   StL	 13
				Silver Hall	   PIT	 13

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Elgie Vargas	NYY	141	Len Butler	   NYG   97
Frank Thomas	BOS	137	George Osgood	   CIN	 88
John Hanson	NYY	108	Jack Hansen	   PIT   87
Oscar Weidner	NYY	 98	Marty Wolf	   BKN   85
Johnny Pate	BOS	 89	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   80
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Jay Moore	   NYY  18-9	John Petersen	    NYG	 18-6
Buck Parham	   PHA	18-10	John White	    NYG  18-7
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB	18-12	Chris Golden	    StL	 18-8
Jake Banks	   NYY	17-3	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  18-9
Jim Thayer	   PHA  17-9	William Mongillo    PHI  18-10
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  17-10	Jack Chandler	    PHI	 15-9
Edgard Ortiz	   CLE  17-11	Danny Gentry	    BKN  15-14
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  17-11	Kick McAvoy	    StL	 15-14
Bill Coon	   PHA  17-12	

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Bobby Hopps	CHA	2.39	Chris Golden	  StL	2.53
Buck Parham	PHA	2.43	William Mongillo  PHI   2.59
George Odom	PHA	2.70	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.74
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.76	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.88
Bill Coon	PHA	3.07	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.95

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	141	Jim Turner	  CIN   134
Jim Thayer	PHA	134	Barney Dupont	  PIT   129
Buck Parham	PHA	133	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   124
Jack Dickinson	CLE     123	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   122
Elias Edmondson NYY	122	Kick McAvoy	  StL	112

MONGAN HITS 300TH HOMERUN

Cleveland Indians third baseman Charlie Mongan became just the third player in major league history to reach the 300 homerun plateau, joining Frank Thomas (461) and Elgie Vargas (394), and he did so in dramatic style by launching a grand slam in the Indians 7-3 win over Philadelphia last week. Since then the 26 year old has hit two more homeruns and now has 34 on the season.

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		       TOP 5 CAREER HOMERUN LEADERS
NAME		 YRSPLAYED  AGE	 TEAMS	   	     G    HR
Frank Thomas	 1932-now   31	 Bos(A)   	  1316   461
Elgie Vargas	 1932-now   31   NYY	  	  1294   394
Charlie Mongan	 1936-now   26   WSH-CLE   	   722   302
Mike Estep	 1926-39   ret   BSN	  	  1664   221
Deivi Villalobos 1925-now   39   PHA-WSH-CIN-PIT  2098	 207
Frank Greiger    1929-now   33   CHN-StL	  1615   197
John Monroe	 1923-now   39   NYG	          2108   195
Chris Wood	 1927-now   35   NYG-DET	  2094   195
George Foskey	 1931-now   32   DET-NYY	  1503   169
Charles Matthews 1918-37   ret   CLE-PHI	  1779   158

TELLIER HITTING STREAK SNAPPED

Rookie first baseman Teo Tellier of the St Louis Browns saw his hitting streak snapped at 26 games in a 3-0 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics yesterday. A's pitcher Bill Conn (17-12, 3.07) shut the door on the 23 year old Canadian as he tossed a complete game 5-hit shutout. Tellier went 0-for-4 in the game with a ground out and 3 routine fly balls. His 26 game streak ties him with Pittsburgh's D'Angelo Alvarez for the longest of the season but is a far cry from the major league record of 46 games set by Antonio Perez in 1918. On the season the former All-American from Oregon State is batting .286 with 8 homers and 69 rbi's.

ACOSTA NAMED A.L. PLAYER OF THE WEEK

It is not very often a back-up wins player of the week but most players don't enjoy the week Boston Red Sox outfielder Jose Acosta had. The 28 year old started just 1 game last week but had 6 hits in 9 at bats including a pair of homeruns and 7 rbi's. The former Clemson Tiger had 4 hits including a homerun in a 7-1 victory over Detroit and also added a walk-off pinch-hit 2-run homer in Saturday's 4-2 Red Sox win over the St Louis Browns. In 84 games and 154 plate appearances this season Acosta is batting .252 with 4 homers and 33 rbi's. He has spent parts of 4 seasons in the major leagues including all of last year and this season but has played in just 198 career games and is a lifetime .263 hitter.

The National League player of the week is Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Jack Hansen. The 30 year old went 12-for-25 with a homerun and 4 rbi's in 6 games last week. On the season, Hansen is hitting .291 with 6 homers and 87 rbi's. This is the West Valley City, Utah native's 6th season with the Pirates but just his third as an everyday player. It is his first player of the week award.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 G    HR   RBI   AVG
BOS Frank Thomas	 1    1  .286	 141  47   137   .353
NYY Elgie Vargas	 3    9  .320	 127  44   141   .358
CLE Charlie Mongan	 4   12  .263	 108  34    83   .263

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
PACKERS AND RAMS ONLY UNBEATEN TEAMS

Parity seems to be the name of the game in the National Football League as after just two weeks there are only two unbeaten teams. The defending NFL champion Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams are the only clubs at 2-0 as 8 teams including 5 in the East Division are 1-1.

The Packers rode the arm of Christopher Jordan to victory at home over the Chicago Bears. The 24 year old from Georgia Tech threw for 287 yards and 3 touchdowns in the Packers 27-23 victory. The game went back and forth and wasn't decided until Jordan connected with wide receiver Sterling Burgess on a 34 yard touchdown strike with just over two minutes remaining in the contest.

The Rams had a tough time with Detroit as the two clubs were tied at 10 at the break but former Notre Dame running back William Bell took over in the second half. The Rams halfback gained 62 of his 91 yards in the second half and scored the game-winning touchdown in a 24-17 victory. With three quarterbacks injured including 1st overall pick Jason Fischer the Lions had to use free agent signee Darryl Barnett. The former San Francisco 49er was making his first pro start. He completed 18 of 30 passes for 220 yards and a pair of touchdowns but was intercepted twice. His only previous NFL action came in 3 relief appearances for the 49ers in 1938.

Pittsburgh crushed the New York Giants 56-14 as William Hein ran for 104 yards and 2 scores while Steelers quarterback Jesus Wright passed for 209 yards and 3 more touchdowns. The Steelers lost TE Jason Martin for the seasons with a knee injury. Martin, a 6th year pro from Oregon State, had 63 catches for the Steelers last season and made the Pro Bowl each of the past two years.

Michael Huff threw a pair of touchdown passes in the second half to lead Washington past the St Louis Cardinals 30-21.

The defense dominated for both teams in Cleveland as visiting San Francisco earned a 9-3 win thanks to 3 Darin Russell field goals. The 49ers lost starting quarterback Neil Stephens to a back injury mid-way through the game. He will likely miss a couple of weeks meaning the starting job goes to Leslie Garcia, who completed 10 of 13 passes for 98 yards in relief of Stephens. Cleveland QB Corey Ely had a terrible game, completing just 11 of 27 for 139 yards and getting picked off twice.

In the final game of the weekend the Baltimore Colts trampled the Philadelphia Eagles 30-3 in a rematch of last season's East Division playoff game. Charles Myers threw for 197 yards and a touchdown to lead the Colts to victory.

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NFL   STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
Philadelphia	1  1
Cleveland	1  1
St Louis	1  1
Pittsburgh	1  1
Washington	1  1
New York	0  2

WEST		W  L 
Green Bay	2  0
Los Angeles	2  0
Baltimore	1  1
Detroit		1  1
San Francisco	1  1
Chicago		0  2

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Pittsburgh 56 New York 14
Washington 30 St Louis 21
Green Bay 27 Chicago 23
Los Angeles 24 Detroit 17
San Francisco 9 Cleveland 3
Baltimore 30 Philadelphia 3

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
St Louis at Philadelphia
Cleveland at Pittsburgh
New York at Washington
Chicago at Baltimore
Green Bay at Los Angeles
Detroit at San Francisco


     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Chris Jordan	GB	 34-52    478   6   0   133.3
Michael Huff	WSH	 36-55    491   4   2   102.9
Curtis Cole	LA	 35-54    463   3   1   102.6
Jesus Wright	PIT	 23-39    301   4   2    96.2
Gary Simpson    CHI      36-58    479   3   2    91.1

RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	TD
William Hein	   PIT	 50     207      3
Michael Jenson	   SF	 46     179      0
Bernard Whitaker   DET   38     178      0
William Bell	   LA	 38     175	 2
David Campos	   CLE   41	170	 0

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert James	   TE  CHI    14  115   8.2	0
Mike Slocum	   WR  DET    11  170  15.5	1
Paul Collins	   WR  NYG    10  163  16.3	0
Carl Chavez	   WR  WSH    10  161  16.1     1
Aaron Torres	   WR  STL    10  140  14.0     1
John Johnson	   WR  BAL    10   88   8.8     0

TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      28
Maurico McIntosh   LB   CLE     27
Gary Hamilton	   LB   GB      26
Mark Miller	   LB   CHI     24

COLLLEGE FOOTBALL
VOLS BACK TO #1

Tennessee has regained the number one ranking in the Associated Press they held to start the college football season. The Volunteers moved past idle Army and back in top spot after destroying Mississippi 50-3 in the SEC opener for both schools. Samuel Copeland threw for 287 yards and 3 touchdowns while running back Leonardo Sanders gained 172 yards on the ground for Tennessee. The Vols also returned 2 interceptions for scores and knocked both the Ole Miss starting quarterback senior John Aaron and his back-up out of the game.

Mississippi State also moved ahead of idle Army going from 5th to second in the polls with a 27-24 victory over Oklahoma State. The Bulldogs needed 10 fourth quarter points and a solid game from senior quarterback Michael Fong to pull out the come from behind win. Fong threw for 286 yards and a pair of touchdowns while freshman running back David Quinn ran for 154 yards including a 51 yard touchdown scamper in the fourth quarter to give Mississippi State the win.

Notre Dame improved to 4-0 with a 68-6 pounding of Villanova but the Irish dropped from #3 to 4 in the polls due primarily to the weakness of their opponent. John Simmons ran for 178 yards and 3 touchdowns in the win.

It was just the first week of conference play but there were some key matchups in the Southeastern Conference as title contenders LSU and Auburn squared off with LSU winning the battle of the Tigers by a 23-22 score thanks to a desperation 65 yard hail mary touchdown pass from Kevin Salter to Stanley Vinson as time expired in the game. Meanwhile, Florida's title hopes took a huge blow when the Gators fell 28-27 to Kentucky as the Wildcats scored two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes to win the game. Senior quarterback George Ruffin, who had struggled in Kentucky's two losses to start the season, caught fire in the fourth quarter of this game throwing a pair of touchdown passes to freshman Geoffrey Ulrich to earn the upset win.

Out west, USC, Oregon State and California all improved to 4-0 on the season with conference opener wins. The Trojans got a 4-touchdown, 477 yard passing effort from junior quarterback Peter Jones in a 34-32 win over Oregon. Senior running back Garry Clary rushed for 149 yards and two scores as the Beavers beat UCLA 30-13. Junior Joseph Shelton threw 4 touchdown passes to lead Cal past winless Washington State 31-10. Shelton has regained the starting role he held last season due to an injury to top recruit Bruce Stuckey.

Michigan narrowly avoided falling to 1-3 on the season as the Wolverines needed a late touchdown to beat winless Iowa 34-31 in the Big Ten opener for both schools. In the only other Big Ten conference game Wisconsin edged Minnesota 32-27.

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		ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record		Points	Last			Next		LW
1	Tennessee	SEC	4-0 (1-0)	1602	W, 50-3 Ole Miss	at #8 Alabama	2
2	Miss State	SEC	3-0 (0-0)	1531	W, 27-24 Oklahoma St    at #7 LSU	5
3	Army		IND	2-0 (0-0)	1476	OPEN			at Villanova	1
4	Notre Dame	IND	4-0 (1-0)	1406	W, 68-6 Villanova	OPEN		3
5	Stanford	Pac8	3-0 (0-0)	1332	OPEN			#13 California	6
6	USC		Pac8	4-0 (1-0)	1268	W, 34-32 at #22 Oregon	OPEN		10
7	LSU		SEC	4-0 (1-0)	1198	W, 23-22 at #9 Auburn	#2 Miss State	8
8	Alabama		SEC	3-0 (1-0)	1108	W, 31-24 Vanderbilt	#1 Tennessee	7
9	Auburn		SEC	3-1 (0-1)	1042	L, 22-23 #7 LSU		OPEN		4
10	Oregon State	Pac8	4-0 (1-0)	975	W, 30-13 #18 UCLA	OPEN		15
11	Ohio State	B10	2-1 (0-0)	902	OPEN			at #25 Minnesota 9
12	Texas		SWC	2-1 (0-0)	830	OPEN			#23 Baylor	12
13	California	Pac8	4-0 (1-0)	772	W, 31-10 Wash State	at #5 Stanford	13
14	Florida		SEC	3-1 (0-1)	723	L, 27-28 at Kentucky	OPEN		11
15	Arkansas	SWC	4-0 (1-0)	661	W, 40-7 at Texas A&M	OPEN		16
16	Penn State	IND	3-1 (1-0)	601	W, 29-16 at Boston Coll OPEN		17
17	Washington	Pac8	2-1 (0-0)	544	W, 29-3 NC State	#18 UCLA	18
18	UCLA		Pac8	2-1 (0-1)	494	L, 13-30 at #10 Oregon St at #17 Wash 	14
19	Georgia		SEC	1-1 (0-0)	406	OPEN			Kentucky	19
20	Michigan	B10	2-2 (1-0)	317	W, 34-31 Iowa		at Michigan St 	21
21	Wisconsin	B10	3-1 (1-0)	265	W, 32-27 #25 Minnesota	OPEN		27
22	Oregon		Pac8	2-2 (0-1)	198	L, 32-34 #6 USC		OPEN		20
23	Baylor		SWC	4-0 (1-0)	148	W, 34-20 #24 SMU	at #12 Texas	33
24	SMU		SWC	2-2 (0-1)	81	L, 20-34 at #23 Baylor	OPEN		23
25	Minnesota	B10	3-1 (0-1)	52	L, 27-32 at #21 Wisconsin #11 Ohio St	22

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	LAST WEEKEND'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES
#21 Wisconsin (3-1)	32-27	#25 Minnesota (3-1)
#20 Michigan (2-2)	34-31	Iowa (0-3)
#16 Penn State (3-1)	29-16	Boston College (1-3)
#4 Notre Dame (4-0)	68-6	Villanova (2-2)
#13 California (4-0)	31-10	Wash State (0-4)
#6 USC (4-0)		34-32	#22 Oregon (2-2)
#10 Oregon State (4-0)	30-13	#18 UCLA (2-1)
#1 Tennessee (4-0)	50-3	Ole Miss (2-1)
#8 Alabama (3-0)	31-24	Vanderbilt (2-1)
#7 LSU (4-0)		23-22	#9 Auburn (3-1)
Kentucky (1-2)		28-27	#14 Florida (3-1)
#23 Baylor (4-0)	34-20	#24 Southern Methodist (2-2)
#15 Arkansas (4-0)	40-7	Texas A&M (2-2)
#17 Washington (2-1)	29-3	NC State (0-4)
#2 Miss State (3-0)	27-24	Oklahoma State (0-4)
Duke (3-1)		31-6	South Carolina (2-1)
Wake Forest (2-2)	50-9	Maryland (0-4)
North Carolina (4-0)	33-13	Clemson (0-4)
Cincinnati (3-1)	40-26	Tulsa (2-1)
Houston (2-2)		22-13	Wichita State (0-3)
Louisville (1-2)	38-31	Southern Miss (0-4)
Oklahoma (4-0)		30-23	Colorado (2-2)
Nebraska (2-2)		25-20	Iowa State (1-3)
Missouri (1-3)		39-35	Kansas State (0-4)
Long Beach St (2-2)	38-6	San Jose State (1-2)
San Diego State (2-2)	37-23	Cal State LA (0-4)
Fresno State (3-1)	42-14	Utah State (0-3)
Holy Cross (1-2)	22-10	Navy (1-3)
Pittsburgh (2-2)	34-20	Syracuse (0-4)
UTEP (3-1)		41-26	Northern Arizona (1-3)
New Mexico St (4-0)	16-10	West Texas A&M (2-2)
Hardin-Simmons (3-1)	20-10	Arizona State (2-2)
Cornell (2-2)		52-25	Penn (0-4)
Yale (2-1)		26-23	Dartmouth (1-3)
Harvard (2-2)		15-6	Brown (0-3)
Texas Christian (3-1)	17-6	Texas Tech (2-2)
Denver (1-3)		31-20	Idaho (0-4)
Utah (3-1)		24-14	Montana (2-2)
New Mexico (3-0)	14-9	Brigham Young (0-4)
West Virginia (1-3)	44-10	Wm & Mary (0-4)
East Carolina (1-3)	24-14	Davidson (0-4)
Citadel (1-3)		25-21	VMI (1-2)
Ohio (3-0)		38-19	Virginia Tech (1-2)
Florida State (3-0)	29-19	Georgia Tech (2-1)
George Washington (3-1)	51-13	Marshall (2-2)
Miami (4-0)		31-15	Tulane (3-1)
Michigan State (3-0)	43-0	Detroit Mercy (3-1)
Furman (2-2)		22-13	Wyoming (2-2)
Columbia (2-1)		20-15	North Texas (0-4)
Santa Barbara (1-2)	27-23	Purdue (1-3)

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	TOP 25 PASSERS (QB Rating)
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Comp	Comp%	Yds	Y/Att	TD	Int	Sack	Rat
1	R. Burnett	OHIO	3	46	35	76.1	539	11.7	5	0	5	210.4
2	D. Frye		PNST	4	55	36	65.5	624	11.3	7	0	8	202.8
3	B. Stuckey	CAL	3	61	44	72.1	664	10.9	7	0	2	201.4
4	J. Price	ARMY	2	65	45	69.2	734	11.3	7	0	7	199.6
5	J. Faulkner	FRS	2	22	16	72.7	269	12.2	2	1	0	196.3
6	R. Barker	OHIO	2	42	25	59.5	509	12.1	4	0	3	192.8
7	L. West		ND	3	72	52	72.2	740	10.3	8	2	5	189.7
8	R. Preston	WYO	2	39	22	56.4	518	13.3	3	1	7	188.2
9	M. Fong		MSST	3	85	62	72.9	868	10.2	8	1	8	187.4
10	L. Sims		UCLA	1	35	29	82.9	335	 9.6	3	1	2	185.8
11	P. Jones	USC	4	128	82	64.1	1299	10.1	14	3	8	180.7
12	J. Shelton	CAL	3	64	42	65.6	661	10.3	6	1	7	180.2
13	E. Devries	GW	4	117	85	72.6	1048	 9.0	12	2	12	178.3
14	M. Montano	MIST	2	35	24	68.6	286	 8.2	4	0	1	174.9
15	K. Rush		STAN	3	118	80	67.8	1086	 9.2	10	0	5	173.1
16	E. Fisher	DUKE	4	134	94	70.1	1297	 9.7	10	3	14	171.6
17	K. Thomson	MISS	2	29	20	69	323	11.1	2	2	2	171.5
18	S. Copeland	TENN	4	143	95	66.4	1428	10.0	10	2	12	170.6
19	W. Christensen	UNM	3	60	46	76.7	537	 9.0	4	1	9	170.5
20	D. Cullen	ARZ	3	101	62	61.4	962	 9.5	10	2	8	170.1
21	H. Bright	NEB	2	49	36	73.5	443	 9.0	4	2	1	168.2
22	T. Coleman	OU	4	126	73	57.9	1230	 9.8	11	2	7	165.6
23	B. Taylor	NMSU	4	113	78	69	942	 8.3	10	2	9	164.7
24	V. Eldridge	BAY	3	95	62	65.3	875	 9.2	7	2	6	162.7
25	R. Jones	WASH	2	25	19	76	203	 8.1	2	1	1	162.6


				TOP 20 RUSHING
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Yds	YPG	YPC	Lng	TD
1	RB J. Andrews	CORN	4	107	729	182.2	6.81	59	5
2	RB J. Simmons	ND	4	121	717	179.2	5.93	42	12
3	RB J. Young	SOMS	4	110	671	167.8	6.10	72	3
4	RB R. Haynes	NMSU	4	128	613	153.2	4.79	60	2
5	RB M. Baugh	UNC	4	111	587	146.8	5.29	74	6
6	RB W. Young	UTEP	4	127	584	146.0	4.60	50	4
7	RB L. Sanders	TENN	4	98	579	144.8	5.91	69	3
8	RB E. Williams	FLA	4	114	552	138.0	4.84	59	5
9	RB L. Spooner	MINN	4	81	535	133.8	6.60	53	5
10	RB D. Quinn	MSST	3	84	525	175.0	6.25	83	4
11	RB J. White	AUB	4	83	517	129.2	6.23	46	4
12	RB M. Robertson	CAL	4	63	498	124.5	7.90	39	2
13	RB R. Luna	DUKE	4	101	483	120.8	4.78	27	1
14	RB W. Miller	DET	4	106	481	120.2	4.54	30	0
15	RB G. Clary	ORST	4	88	475	118.8	5.40	51	4
16	RB W. Wilson	OHST	3	67	473	157.7	7.06	55	7
17	RB R. Mullins	WTAM	4	76	472	118.0	6.21	63	4
18	RB K. Jones	VAND	3	82	457	152.3	5.57	60	3
19	RB K. Melton	UNT	4	112	455	113.8	4.06	35	0
20	RB A. Garcia	TTCH	4	77	444	111.0	5.77	77	3

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
YOUNGSTERS IMPRESS MAROONS

It is only preseason but there is some cause for optimism in Montreal as the Maroons have gotten off to a quick start. The defense has been outstanding thanks in a big part to the play of 3 newcomers including a pair of youngsters.

The Maroons acquired 20 year old Derek Rydall from Boston over the summer and the youngster, who played 55 games for the Bruins as a rookie, has looked outstanding on the number one defense pairing playing alongside rookie Patrick Mathers. The 19 year old Mathers, who was taken first overall in the 1940 draft, had 3 strong seasons with the CJHL's Edmonton Oil Kings, plays well beyond his years and looks like he will earn a spot when the season opens this week.

39 year old captain Melvin Ladner has played 1133 career NHL games and will provide veteran leadership on the second defense pairing as he is teamed with another newcomer in 24 year old Martin Chovanec, an off-season pickup from the New York Americans. Chovanec was the AHL defenseman of the year in 1937-38 and had 17 points in 40 games with the Americans last season.

With a greatly improved defense in front of him goaltender Dillon Benoit has looked great for the Maroons in the preseason, posting a .930 save percentage and a 2.51 goals against average while playing in all 6 contests. Last year in 71 games the 31 year old had an .893 save percentage to go with a 3.77 GAA and a 19-40-10 record.

The Maroons may have two 19 year olds on their roster this season as Ryan Barczai looks to join Mathers as 1940 draft picks on the club. Barczai was a second round pick that year from Brandon and had 77 points for the Wheat Kings last seasons despite being limited to 59 games due to injuries. Barczai is also hoping to play with his older brother as the Maroons acquired 33 year old Jarryd Barczai from Chicago in an July trade. The elder Barczai is a proven NHL goal scorer and will center the Maroons top line after scoring 33 goals and 66 points a year ago. Jarryd had started his career in Montreal playing 7 seasons for the Canadiens before being dealt to Chicago prior to last season.

WINGS LOSE LARSON FOR A MONTH

The Detroit Red Wings will be without 24 year old winger Lenny Larson after he suffered an ankle injury in preseason action last week. The former Sudbury Wolves junior split last season between Detroit and Hershey of the AHL, appearing in 57 games for the Red Wings and scoring 5 goals while adding 19 assists. He led the CJHL in scoring in 1935-36 with 101 points before being drafted 7th overall by the Wings. So far Larson has been unable to establish himself as an NHL regular as he has shuttled back and forth between Detroit and Hershey each of his four seasons as a pro.

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  PRESEASON STANDINGS
		W  L  T  PTS
Mon Maroons	4  2  0   8
Detroit		3  2  1   7
Chicago	 	3  2  1   7
NY Americans	2  1  3   7
Toronto		3  3  0   6
NY Rangers	3  3  0   6
Boston		2  3  1   5
Mon Canadiens   1  5  0   2

PRESEASON SCORING LEADERS
		 TM   G  A  PTS
Cody McCann	 DET  4  7   11
Andy Adell	 DET  2  8   10
Austin Shabaga	 DET  6  3    9
Bill Schneekloth NYR  2  7    9
Chris Maxwell	 TOR  7  1    8
Anton Kazanski	 MM   4  4    8
Carsten Jacobson NYA  2  6    8
Tyler Wing	 NYA  2  6    8

Tiger Fan · 01-27-2016, 09:45 PM

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
YANKEES CLINCH. GIANTS MAGIC NUMBER IS 2

The New York Yankees have clinched their 3rd American League pennant in the past 5 seasons and the 7th in franchise history. With an 11 game bulge on second place Cleveland officially clinching was just a formality and came early last week.

The only drama remaining in the American League is whether or not Yankee outfielder Elgie Vargas can deny Boston's Frank Thomas in the Red Sox outfielders bid for a fourth triple crown. Both Boston and New York have 6 games remaining and Thomas and Vargas are at the top of the American League batting average race as each is hitting .353. Thomas has likely wrapped up the homerun crown with 50 compared to the 45 Vargas as hit, although the Yankee slugger has played 14 less games. Vargas has pulled ahead of Thomas in the rbi race as he has 146 compared to 145 for Thomas.

Thomas won the triple crown in 1935, 1936 and again last season when he hit an amazing 77 homeruns, drove in 203 and batted .375. The only other player to win the triple crown was Art Kenneth of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1909. Thomas has led the American League in batting each of the past 6 seasons and was named American League MVP 6 times between 1934 and last year. The only time he didn't win was 1939 when the award went to Vargas who hit 56 homeruns while driving in a record 210 rbi's and batting .368.

The Yankees have 6 home games remaining with 3 against Philadelphia and 3 vs Washington. The Red Sox play the same two teams but their 6 games are all on the road.

The New York Giants will likely be the Yankees opponent in the World Series once again as they have a 5 game lead on Philadelphia with 6 games remaining. The Giants finish up a 4 game set at the Polo Grounds against the Braves with a game today before travelling to Philadelphia for 3 with the Phillies before ending the season in Boston for 2 games. The Phillies entertain Brooklyn at Shibe Park today before welcoming the Giants for 3 games and then finish their season with a pair against the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The Phillies snapped the Giants streak of 3 consecutive National League pennants last season. The Giants have beaten the Yankees in the two World Series the clubs have faced each other in.

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			MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W  L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
x-NY Yankees	 97 51   -	NY Giants	 90 58   -
Cleveland	 86 62 11.0	Philadelphia	 85 63  5.0
Philadelphia  	 85 63 12.0	Pittsburgh	 80 68 10.0
Boston		 82 66 15.0	St Louis	 77 72 13.5
St Louis	 68 79 28.5	Cincinnati	 73 74 16.5
Chicago		 65 82 31.5	Boston		 69 79 21.0
Washington	 60 88 37.0	Brooklyn	 65 83 25.0
Detroit		 47 99 49.0	Chicago	  	 53 95 37.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.353	Al Busby	   CIN	 .371
Frank Thomas	BOS     .353	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .320
Charlie Peacock	SLB	.327	John Wagoner	   NYG   .311
John Hanson	NYY	.327	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .309
Bill Wodke	PHA	.315	Celerino Ochoa	   NYG	 .300

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	50	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 20
Elgie Vargas	NYY	45	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 17
Charlie Mongan	CLE	36	Len Butler	   NYG	 17
John Hanson	NYY	34	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 14
George Foskey	NYY	21	Cowboy Hicks	   PIT   14

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Elgie Vargas	NYY	146	Len Butler	   NYG   99
Frank Thomas	BOS	145	George Osgood	   CIN	 93
John Hanson	NYY	115	Jack Hansen	   PIT   90
Oscar Weidner	NYY	100	Marty Wolf	   BKN   89
Charlie Mongan	CLE	 90	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   88
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Buck Parham	   PHA	19-10	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  20-9
Edgard Ortiz	   CLE  19-11	John White	    NYG  19-7
Jake Banks	   NYY	18-4	William Mongillo    PHI  19-10
Jack Knapp	   CLE  18-9	John Petersen	    NYG	 18-7
Jim Thayer	   PHA  18-9	Chris Golden	    StL	 18-9
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  18-10	Jack Chandler	    PHI	 16-9
Jay Moore	   NYY  18-10	Kick McAvoy	    StL	 16-14
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  18-11	

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Buck Parham	PHA	2.41	William Mongillo  PHI   2.58
Bobby Hopps	CHA	2.55	Chris Golden	  StL	2.59
George Odom	PHA	2.59	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.64
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.77	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.81
Pat Cochran	SLB	3.04	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.89

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	144	Jim Turner	  CIN   139
Jim Thayer	PHA	144	Barney Dupont	  PIT   130
Buck Parham	PHA	134	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   130
Jack Dickinson	CLE     125	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   125
Elias Edmondson NYY	124	Kick McAvoy	  StL	118

BUSBY NAMED N.L. PLAYER OF THE WEEK

The Cincinnati Reds can only wonder what Al Busby might have accomplished this season had he been healthy the entire year. The 24 year old outfielder missed 6 weeks with a thumb injury and has appeared in just 100 games this but he is batting .371 with 9 homers and 52 rbi's. The New York City native has finally got enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting crown so as long as he does not get injured this week he will claim his first National League batting title.

Busby, who the Reds took 4th overall in the 1937 draft, was named National League player of the week after batting .480 (12-25) last week with 2 homers and 7 rbi's. He has been amazing at the plate in August and September, batting .425 (77-181) since August 1 with 6 homers and 30 rbi's. It is the second time in his career and second time in just over a month he was named player of the week.

Cleveland outfielder Pedro Aguayo was named the American League's top performer for the past week. The 26 year old went 15-for-26 (.577) with a homerun and 5 rbi's. On the season, the former Jacksonville Whales academy league player is batting .289 with 14 homers and 80 rbi's in his first season as an everyday player in the major leagues.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE
	     	    	 LAST WEEK	      SEASON
TM  NAME		HR  RBI  AVG	 G    HR   RBI   AVG
BOS Frank Thomas	 3    8  .333	 147  50   145   .353
NYY Elgie Vargas	 1    5  .238	 133  45   146   .353
CLE Charlie Mongan	 2    7  .280	 115  36    90   .264

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
NHL REGULAR SEASON BEGINS

The New York Americans finished with the best preseason record in the NHL but it is their cross-town rivals who are tabbed by most experts to win the Stanley Cup. If they live up to expectations the Rangers will hoist the Cup for the third straight season. Standing in the Rangers way will be the always tough Detroit Red Wings led by ageless wonder Dylan Turnbull. The 41 year old goaltender surprised many by deciding not to retire and will return to guarding the Red Wings cage for the 23 straight season. The Winnipeg native has played in an NHL record 1650 games and won 8 Vezina Trophy's as the league's top netminder.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have never won a Stanley Cup but this might be the year as the Leafs have the pieces to make a serious title run. The Leafs are led by 30 year old center Chris Maxwell, who had 74 points a year ago and was named the Hart Trophy recipient as league MVP for the 6th time in his career. 24 year old forward Chris Bishop had the best season of his career last year when he won the league scoring title with 77 points just a year after missing almost the entire season with back troubles.

The regular season opened with 3 games on Saturday including the Leafs 2-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens in which veteran Toronto goaltender Marc-Andre Baribeau made 30 saves. In other games defensemen Andy Brown and ex-Ranger Christopher Jolin each had a goal and an assist to lead Detroit past the New York Americans 4-1 while Boston and Chicago skated to a 4-4 tie. In Sunday's lone contest the Montreal Maroons beat Detroit 2-1 on the strength of a 22 save effort from goalie Dillon Benoit.

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REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
		GP W  L  T  PTS
Detroit		2  1  1  0   2
Mon Maroons	1  1  0  0   2
Toronto		1  1  0  0   2
Boston		1  0  0  1   1
Chicago	 	1  0  0  0   1
NY Rangers	0  0  0  0   0
NY Americans	1  0  1  0   0
Mon Canadiens   1  0  1  0   0

FINAL PRESEASON STANDINGS
		W  L  T  PTS
NY Americans	3  1  3   9
NY Rangers	4  3  0   8
Mon Maroons	4  3  0   8
Chicago	 	3  2  2   8
Detroit		3  3  1   7
Boston		3  3  1   7
Toronto		3  3  1   7
Mon Canadiens   1  6  0   2

FINAL PRESEASON SCORING LEADERS
		 TM   G  A  PTS
Andy Adell	 DET  3  9   12
Chad Sumi	 BOS  7  4   11
Gabryel Roy	 BOS  5  6   11
Cody McCann	 DET  4  7   11
Bill Schneekloth NYR  3  8   11
Austin Shabaga	 DET  7  3   10
Brett McGonigal  MON  5  4    9
Chris Bishop	 TOR  4  5    9
Anton Kazanski	 MM   4  5    9
Gianluca Bardelli NYR 3  6    9
Tyler Wing	 NYA  3  6    9
Carsten Jacobson NYA  2  7    9
Matt Jambrosich  BOS  2  7    9

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
RAMS KNOCK OFF PACKERS IN BATTLE OF UNBEATENS

The Los Angeles Rams are the only 3-0 team in the NFL after a 24-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers in Los Angeles yesterday. The Packers are now 1 of 4 teams with a 2-1 record while each of the other 7 teams in the league sit at 1-2 after the seasons third weekend.

In Los Angeles it was Rams running back William Bell who led the way as the 6th year pro from Notre Dame chewed up the clock carrying the ball 24 times for 103 yards. Los Angeles quarterback Curtis Cole passed for only 169 yards but did a great job protecting the ball as the Rams did not turn it over all game.

Green Bay took an early lead as Packers quarterback Christopher Jordan engineered a quick opening drive that culminated in a 5 yard pass to tight end David Esparza. The game changed on the next play as Rams kick returner William Pace took the ensuing kick-off 108 yards for a touchdown to tie the game.

Jordan, who completed 3 passes for 39 yards on the opening drive, would only throw for 96 more yards the rest of the game as the Packers could not get untracked. The Rams opened a 24-7 lead entering the fourth quarter before Green Bay finally got back on the scoreboard when Packers defensive end Jeremy Crews tackled running back George Austin in the Los Angeles end zone for a safety. David Smith would round out the scoring with a 38 yard field goal on the next Green Bay possession.

In other action the Chicago Bears earned their first win of the season with a 24-9 victory on the road in Baltimore. Chicago running back Ryan Clifton ran for 102 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the victory.

San Francisco scored the final 24 points of the game, overcoming a 13-3 halftime deficit to beat Detroit 27-13. 49ers running back Michael Jensen gained 101 yards on the ground while his back up Russel Richards ran for 57 yards including a pair of fourth quarter touchdown runs. The loss spoiled a 105 yard rushing day from Detroit's Ronald Coats. Number one draft pick Jason Fischer remains sidelined with a concussion so the Lions started Darryl Barnett at quarterback for the second straight game. Barnett completed 12 of 25 passes but was intercepted with 4:03 remaining in the game and 49ers defensive back Mark Alexander returned the pick 33 yards for a touchdown that broke the tie and made the score 20-13 at the time.

In the first overtime game, as the format calling for a 5th quarter is in place, saw the New York Giants score on a 6 yard James Williams run to snap a 20-20 tie and give the Giants the 26-20 win. The Giants forced the extra time because quarterback Donald Owens threw a pair of touchdowns in the final 6 minutes of regulation.

Angel Bates threw a pair of first half touchdown passes to lead the Philadelphia Eagles past the St Louis Cardinals 20-6. Eagles third year running back David Jones rushed for 104 yards in the win.

Pittsburgh dropped Cleveland 28-13 as the normally dependable Corey Ely of the Browns had a terrible day. The 1938 first round pick from Army completed just 13 of 27 passes for 110 yards and was intercepted twice in the game. Pittsburgh starting quarterback Jesus Wright was knocked out of the game early in the second quarter but back-up Carl Stevens filled in nicely, throwing for 147 yards and a pair of 4th quarter touchdowns to ensure the win.

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NFL STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
Philadelphia	2  1
Pittsburgh	2  1
Cleveland	1  2
St Louis	1  2
Washington	1  2
New York	1  2

WEST		W  L 
Los Angeles	3  0
Green Bay	2  1
San Francisco	2  1
Baltimore	1  2
Detroit		1  2
Chicago		1  2

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Philadelphia 20 St Louis 6
Pittsburgh 28 Cleveland 13 
New York 26 Washington 20
Chicago 24 Baltimore 9
Los Angeles 24 Green Bay 12 
San Francisco 27 Detroit 13 

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
Philadelphia at Cleveland
St Louis at Washington
Baltimore at Green Bay
Los Angeles at San Francisco
Chicago at New York
Pittsburgh at Detroit

     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Chris Jordan	GB	 50-81    611   7   0   113.8
Michael Huff	WSH	 59-83    735   6   2   112.3
Curtis Cole	LA	 54-80    632   3   1    98.5
Gary Simpson    CHI      52-78    702   3   2    97.3
Angel Bates	PHI	 44-78    475	3   1	 81.9

RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	TD
William Hein	   PIT	 75     304      3
Michael Jenson	   SF	 71	280      0
William Bell	   LA	 61     278	 2
David Campos	   CLE   63	257	 1
Bernard Whitaker   DET   53     242      0

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert James	   TE  CHI    18  131   7.3	0
Carl Chavez	   WR  WSH    17  272  16.0	1
Paul Collins	   WR  NYG    15  223  14.9	1
Richard Carr	   WR  WSH    14  184  13.1     3
John Johnson	   WR  BAL    14  166  11.9     0
Rafael Do	   WR  SF     14  162  11.6     1

TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
Maurico McIntosh   LB   CLE     38
Donnie Reynolds	   LB   StL	37
Gary Hamilton	   LB   GB      37
William Martin	   LB   WSH     36
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      35

SACKS		   POS  TM     SACKS
Chris Scott	   DE   CHI	 4
Donald Pineda	   DE   NY	 3
Dennis Brown	   DE   WSH      3

INTERCEPTIONS      POS  TM      INT
Erick Guy	   CB   PHI	 2
John Cummings	   FS   PIY      2

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
TENNESSEE LOSES #1 RANKING AND QB COPELAND

It was known going into the season that the Southeastern Conference race would be wide open with 4 or 5 teams not only capable of winning the conference but also contending for the National Championship. What has hurt the SEC in the past is the depth in the conference has caused the title contenders to knock each other off and prevent anyone from contending for the National Title.

It looks like that may happen again this year as #1 Tennessee and #2 Mississippi State each lost last week to key conference opponents. The Volunteers were embarrassed in Alabama as they fell 53-14 to the now 4-0 Tide. To make matters even worse Tennessee lost junior quarterback Samuel Copeland to a broken pelvic bone when he was sacked in the second quarter. When Copeland was knocked out of the game the Vols were leading 14-13 at the time. Tennessee put senior Jay Roman in at quarterback and he proceeded to go 2-for-14 with 2 interceptions as the Tide took over the game. Third string redshirt sophomore Angelo Damico had just as rough a time going 0-for-3 in the fourth quarter with 2 more picks. The result was not only a blowout loss but also left the Volunteers scrambling to figure out how they will solve the quarterback problem. Tennessee does have a bye week next weekend before facing Kentucky at home the following week. The loss drops Tennessee from 1st to 5th but does allow Alabama to creep up to #11 in the rankings.

Meanwhile #2 ranked Mississippi State lost 45-27 on the road at 7th ranked LSU. Like Tennessee, the Bulldogs suffered a key injury as freshman running back David Quinn, who was among the nation's leaders with 595 yards rushing, suffered a broken bone in his foot and is expected to miss a month.

Despite beating Villanova 38-17 #3 Army moved up just one spot in the polls as Stanford jumped over the Black Knights to claim the number 1 ranking with a 52-21 victory over #13 Cal. Senior quarterback Kenneth Rush led the Cardinal offensive assault by throwing for 343 yards and 4 touchdowns. Stanford has a huge Pacific 8 showdown next week when they travel to the Rose Bowl to play 6th ranked USC.

Michigan's nightmare season continues as the Wolverines dropped to 2-3 on the season with a 27-24 loss to rival Michigan State. The Spartans, in a rebuilding year where they are expected to be in the middle of the Big 10, look like they have a bright future as sophomore quarterback Michael Montano passed for 374 yards and 2 touchdowns in the victory. The bad news for the Spartans is senior wide receiver Walter Rojas, who was projected to be a high NFL draft pick, blew out his knee and is done for the year. Rojas had 15 catches in 4 games this season despite being regularly double-teamed, after making 43 catches for 645 yards last year.

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	ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record	  Pts	Last			Next		Prev
1	Stanford	Pac8	4-0 (1-0) 1606	W, 52-21 #16 California	at #6 USC		5
2	Army		IND	3-0 (1-0) 1550	W, 38-17 at Villanova	Rutgers			3
3	Notre Dame	IND	4-0 (1-0) 1488	OPEN			at #17 Penn State	4
4	Miss State	SEC	3-1 (0-1) 1422	L, 27-45 at #7 LSU	#20 Georgia		2
5	Tennessee	SEC	4-1 (1-1) 1357	L, 14-53 at #11 Alabama	OPEN			1
6	USC		Pac8	4-0 (1-0) 1294	OPEN			#1 Stanford		6
7	LSU		SEC	5-0 (2-0) 1209	W, 45-27 #4 Miss State	OPEN			7
8	Oregon State	Pac8	4-0 (1-0) 1141	OPEN			OPEN			10
9	Auburn		SEC	3-1 (0-1) 1076	OPEN			at Ole Miss		9
10	Texas		SWC	3-1 (1-0) 1006	W, 36-30 Baylor		at #15 Arkansas		12
11	Alabama		SEC	4-0 (2-0)  928	W, 53-14 #5 Tennessee	OPEN			8
12	Washington	Pac8	3-1 (1-0)  860	W, 36-16 #21 UCLA	OPEN			17
13	Ohio State	B10	2-2 (0-1)  796	L, 9-42 at #18 Minnesota #19 Michigan State	11
14	Florida		SEC	3-1 (0-1)  730	OPEN			at Vanderbilt		14
15	Arkansas	SWC	4-0 (1-0)  663	OPEN			#10 Texas		15
16	California	Pac8	4-1 (1-1)  601	L, 21-52 at #1 Stanford	#23 Oregon		13
17	Penn State	IND	3-1 (1-0)  538	OPEN			#3 Notre Dame		16
18	Minnesota	B10	4-1 (1-1)  483	W, 42-9 #13 Ohio State	OPEN			25
19	Michigan State	B10	4-0 (1-0)  398	W, 27-24 #24 Michigan	at #13 Ohio State	27
20	Georgia		SEC	2-1 (1-0)  343	W, 27-14 Kentucky	at #4 Miss State	19
21	UCLA		Pac8	2-2 (0-2)  265	L,16-36 at #12 Washington at Wash State		18
22	Wisconsin	B10	3-1 (1-0)  206	OPEN			at Northwestern		21
23	Oregon		Pac8	2-2 (0-1)  146	OPEN			at #16 California	22
24	Michigan	B10	2-3 (1-1)   94	L,24-27 at#19 Michigan St  OPEN			20
25	SMU		SWC	2-2 (0-1)   65	OPEN			OPEN			24

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		LAST WEEKEND'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
#18 Minnesota (4-1)	42-9	#13 Ohio State (2-2)
#19 Michigan St (4-0)	27-24	#24 Michigan (2-3)
#2 Army (3-0)		38-17	Villanova (2-3)
#1 Stanford (4-0)	52-21	#16 California (4-1)
#12 Washington (3-1)	36-16	#21 UCLA (2-2)
#7 LSU (5-0)		45-27	#4 Miss State (3-1)
#11 Alabama (4-0)	53-14	#5 Tennessee (4-1)
#20 Georgia (2-1)	27-14	Kentucky (1-3)
#10 Texas (3-1)		36-30	Baylor (4-1)
Duke (4-1)		30-18	Virginia (0-3)
North Carolina (5-0)	30-7	NC State (0-5)
Cincinnati (4-1)	25-20	Memphis (1-3)
Detroit Mercy (4-1)	26-17	Southern Miss (0-5)
Illinois (2-2)		43-24	Purdue (1-4)
Colorado (3-2)		31-22	Kansas (0-3)
Oklahoma State (1-4)	27-24	Missouri (1-4)
Long Beach St (3-2)	17-10	Pacific (0-4)
Fresno State (4-1)	17-3	Santa Barbara (1-3)
Boston College (2-3)	44-0	Navy (1-4)
Rutgers (1-2)		13-3	Syracuse (0-5)
Arizona (4-0)		47-34	Northern Arizona (1-4)
Arizona State (3-2)	40-7	North Texas (0-5)
Princeton (1-2)		 9-7	Penn (0-5)
Columbia (3-1)		39-28	Brown (0-4)
Texas Christian (4-1)	15-10	Rice (3-1)
Colorado State (2-1)	25-10	Denver (1-4)
New Mexico (4-0)	46-0	Wyoming (2-3)
West Virginia (2-3)	27-20	Richmond (0-4)
Furman (3-2)		36-10	VMI (1-3)
George Washington (4-1)	23-20	Miami (4-1)
Florida State (4-0)	32-0	Western Michigan (1-3)
Georgia Tech (3-1)	37-6	Virginia Tech (1-3)
Pittsburgh (3-2)	46-9	Utah State (0-4)
San Jose State (2-2)	24-13	Utah (3-2)

TOP PERFORMERS THIS WEEK

Army senior quarterback John Price threw for 365 yards and 4 more touchdowns in a win over Villanova. In 3 games this season Price has thrown 11 touchdowns and for 1099 yards. Stanford QB Kenneth Rush also threw 4 touchdown passes and has 14 in 4 games this season. Both are expected to be taken high in the NFL draft next April.

Junior QB Ronald Chavez of Pittsburgh completed 21 of 30 passes for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns in the Panthers 46-9 win over Utah State.

Freshman running back Robert Scott of Boston College rushed for 211 yards in a 44-0 win over Navy. Scott's 641 yards on the season rank 7th in the nation.

It was quite a day for Alabama receivers in their rout of Tennessee. Senior Phillip Payne had 8 catches for 166 yards while fellow senior Ronald May made just 3 catches but gained 143 yards.

The pass rush was the name of the game for North Carolina in their 30-7 victory over ACC rival North Carolina State. Junior linebacker Henry Williamson and sophomore defensive end Chad Roberts each sacked Wolfpack quarterback Dale Phillips 3 times. They each have 7 sacks on the season as the North Carolina defense leads the nation with 26 sacks in 5 games.

Junior Missouri cornerback Tony Maldonado had 3 interceptions against Oklahoma State this weekend but the Tigers lost the game 27-24. Florida State junior corner Tony Smith also had 3 interceptions on Saturday but they came in a win as the Seminoles beat Western Michigan 32-0.

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	TOP 25 PASSERS (QB Rating)
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Comp	Comp%	Yds	Y/Att	TD	Int	Sack	Rat
1	R. Burnett	OHIO	3	 46	 35	76.1	 539	11.7	 5	0	 5	210.4
2	D. Frye		PNST	4	 55	 36	65.5	 624	11.3	 7	0	 8	202.8
3	J. Price	ARMY	3	 95	 63	66.3	1099	11.6	11	1	12	199.6
4	R. Barker	OHIO	2	 42	 25	59.5	 509	12.1	 4	0	 3	192.8
5	L. West		ND	3	 72	 52	72.2	 740	10.3	 8	2	 5	189.7
6	J. Shelton	CAL	4	 72	 48	66.7	 756	10.5	 7	1	 8	184.2
7	P. Jones	USC	4	128	 82	64.1	1299	10.1	14	3	 8	180.7
8	D. Cullen	ARZ	4	128	 83	64.8	1248	 9.8	14	3	 8	178.2
9	B. Stuckey	CAL	4	 88	 59	67.0	 822	 9.3	 9	1	 5	177.0
10	K. Rush		STAN	4	152	104	68.4	1429	 9.4	14	1	 7	176.5
11	M. Montano	MIST	3	 70	 47	67.1	 660	 9.4	 6	0	 4	174.6
12	W. Christensen	UNM	4	 67	 51	76.1	 589	 8.8	 5	1	10	171.6
13	K. Thomson	MISS	2	 29	 20	69.0	 323	11.1	 2	2	 2	171.5
14	R. Preston	WYO	3	 43	 22	51.2	 518	12.0	 3	1	 7	170.7
15	E. Fisher	DUKE	5	173	123	71.1	1626	 9.4	12	3	14	169.5
16	H. Bright	NEB	2	 49	 36	73.5	 443	 9.0	 4	2	 1	168.2
17	K. Salter	LSU	5	143	 91	63.6	1370	 9.6	13	5	10	167.1
18	S. Copeland	TENN	5	148	 96	64.9	1430	 9.7	10	2	14	165.6
19	T. Coleman	OU	4	126	 73	57.9	1230	 9.8	11	2	 7	165.6
20	B. Taylor	NMSU	4	113	 78	69.0	 942	 8.3	10	2	 9	164.7
21	V. Eldridge	BAY	3	 95	 62	65.3	 875	 9.2	 7	2	 6	162.7
22	C. Lamb		HOU	4	121	 69	57.0	1143	 9.4	12	4	15	162.5
23	R. Harrison	PUR	3	 60	 40	66.7	 549	 9.2	 4	1	 3	162.2
24	E. Devries	GW	5	154	105	68.2	1228	 8.0	13	2	15	160.4
25	B. Daniel	TEX	1	 29	 19	65.5	 243	 8.4	 2	0	 2	158.7

				TOP 20 RUSHING
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Yds	YPG	YPC	Lng	TD
1	RB J. Young	SOMS	5	135	823	164.6	6.1	72	3
2	RB M. Baugh	UNC	5	144	769	153.8	5.3	74	7
3	RB J. Andrews	CORN	4	107	729	182.2	6.8	59	5
4	RB J. Simmons	ND	4	121	717	179.2	5.9	42	12
5	RB L. Spooner	MINN	5	104	668	133.6	6.4	53	9
6	RB L. Sanders	TENN	5	114	658	131.6	5.8	69	3
7	RB R. Scott	BC	5	118	641	128.2	5.4	79	4
8	RB R. Luna	DUKE	5	125	636	127.2	5.1	27	2
9	RB R. Haynes	NMSU	4	128	613	153.2	4.8	60	2
10	RB D. Quinn	MSST	4	101	595	148.8	5.9	83	4
11	RB W. Miller	DET	5	133	590	118.0	4.4	30	1
12	RB W. Young	UTEP	4	127	584	146.0	4.6	50	4
13	RB M. Robertson	CAL	5	 77	565	113.0	7.3	39	2
14	RB K. Melton	UNT	5	127	561	112.2	4.4	35	0
15	RB E. Williams	FLA	4	114	552	138.0	4.8	59	5
16	RB B. Thompson	FRS	5	118	539	107.8	4.6	29	2
17	RB D. Hayes	ARZ	4	124	527	131.8	4.3	19	4
18	RB R. Clark	GW	5	113	523	104.6	4.6	45	0
19	RB J. White	AUB	4	 83	517	129.2	6.2	46	4
20	RB J. Winstead	FURM	5	127	517	103.4	4.1	36	4

				TOP 20 RECEIVING YARDS
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Rec	Yds	YPG	YPC	YAC	Lng	TD	Drp
1	WR D. Horn	VMI	4	19	587	146.8	30.9	102	79	5	2
2	WR W. Jones	KSU	4	20	511	127.8	25.6	173	83	3	2
3	WR P. Payne	ALB	4	28	499	124.8	17.8	186	60	2	0
4	WR D. Winn	OU	4	24	481	120.2	20.0	 90	69	3	2
5	WR V. Means	MINN	5	28	474	 94.8	16.9	102	74	2	0
6	WR D. Cox	UNT	5	27	464	 92.8	17.2	 11	52	2	5
7	WR D. White	WYO	5	23	461	 92.2	20.0	 94	65	3	6
8	WR J. Davis	ECU	4	21	453	113.2	21.6	 79	55	1	2
9	WR S. Vinson	LSU	5	23	452	 90.4	19.7	175	65	6	0
10	WR C. Mcintosh	TENN	5	25	448	 89.6	17.9	 94	62	3	2
11	WR S. White	UNC	5	29	421	 84.2	14.5	162	59	2	2
12	WR C. Edmond	PITT	5	28	416	 83.2	14.9	 93	49	1	0
13	WR C. Pollard	HOU	4	24	416	104.0	17.3	131	69	4	0
14	WR J. Chase	FURM	5	31	408	 81.6	13.2	123	44	1	0
15	WR M. James	USC	4	20	405	101.2	20.2	 89	71	5	2
16	WR P. Boswell	NARZ	5	23	405	 81.0	17.6	 45	54	2	4
17	WR L. Kirkland	NEB	4	25	397	 99.2	15.9	 79	52	0	2
18	WR S. Johnson	ND	4	22	395	 98.8	18.0	 78	65	3	0
19	WR R. Bowles	IAST	4	21	393	 98.2	18.7	 35	77	3	5
20	WR P. Burks	FRS	5	30	392	 78.4	13.1	 88	53	2	1

Tiger Fan · 01-29-2016, 03:41 PM

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1941

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
THOMAS WINS TRIPLE CROWN AS YANKS LOSE VARGAS

Boston Red Sox outfielder Frank Thomas won the triple crown for the fourth time in his career but it was only because of an injury to New York Yankees outfielder Elgie Vargas. Vargas entered the final week .001 ahead of Thomas in the batting race and up by 1 in the rbi category.

Unfortunately for the Yankees Vargas would be injured in Thursday game with the Philadelphia Athletics and would finish the season with a .348 batting average to go with 45 homers and 147 rbi's. Thomas would get 7 rbi's over the weekend and finish the season with a .349 batting average, 53 homers and 152 rbi's to claim the triple crown for the fourth time in his career.

The more pressing concern for the American League pennant winning Yankees was the injury, diagnosed as an oblique strain, that is expected to sideline Vargas for the entire World Series. Yankees pitcher Elias Edmondson (18-12, 3.10) will also miss at least part of the Series as he left his final start on Friday with neck problems.

The National League champion New York Giants have plenty of injuries of their own to contend with. Second baseman Bobby Bolling was forced to retire following a devastating injury in August and shortstop John Wagoner has missed several weeks with a muscle strain. There is hope Wagoner (.311,10,66) may return for game two if not the series opener. Veteran catcher Henry Warner (.291,7,58) is still a few days away from returning from his injury and outfielder George Saunders (.299,12,71) is definately out for the series. There had been hope that pitcher Arturo Serna, who was 6-1, 1.99 in 9 starts before requiring elbow surgery might be able to return for the Series opener but word is he needs at least another week.

The Series begins Wednesday at Yankee Stadium and despite the absence of Vargas the Yankees have to be considered heavy favourites because the Giants are so banged up. The Yankees were favoured in each of the two previous meetings between these clubs - 1938 and 1939 - and came up short both times so perhaps the Giants have another title in them.

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		FINAL 1941 MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN	  W   L  GB	NATIONAL	  W  L  GB
x-NY Yankees	101  53   -	x-NY Giants	 92 52   -
Cleveland	 90  64 11.0	Philadelphia	 90 64  2.0
Boston		 88  66 13.0	Pittsburgh	 83 71  9.0
Philadelphia  	 86  68 15.0	St Louis	 80 74 12.0
St Louis	 70  84 31.0	Cincinnati	 74 80 18.0
Chicago		 68  86 33.0	Boston		 73 81 19.0
Washington	 61  93 40.0	Brooklyn	 66 88 26.0
Detroit		 52 102 49.0	Chicago	  	 58 96 34.0

		    BATTING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 AVG	NATIONAL		 AVG
Frank Thomas	BOS     .349	Al Busby	   CIN	 .358
Elgie Vargas	NYY	.348	Otto Valdez	   StL	 .328
John Hanson	NYY	.328	John Wagoner	   NYG   .311
Charlie Peacock	SLB	.323	Bill Schmidt	   BKN	 .304
Vince Craft	PHA	.315	Celerino Ochoa	   NYG	 .303

			HOME RUNS
AMERICAN		HR	NATIONAL		HR
Frank Thomas	BOS	53	Marty Wolf	   BKN	 20
Elgie Vargas	NYY	45	Carlos Torres	   CIN	 17
Charlie Mongan	CLE	40	Len Butler	   NYG	 17
John Hanson	NYY	34	Yuniesky Gomez	   PIT	 15
George Foskey	NYY	21	Cowboy Hicks	   PIT   14

			RBI'S
AMERICAN		RBI	NATIONAL		RBI
Frank Thomas	BOS	152	Len Butler	   NYG  103
Elgie Vargas	NYY	147	George Osgood	   CIN	 94
John Hanson	NYY	117	Jack Hansen	   PIT   92
Oscar Weidner	NYY	102	Alexi Gamboa	   CIN   90
Charlie Mongan	CLE	 98	Marty Wolf	   BKN   89
 					
	
		    PITCHING LEADERS
AMERICAN		 WINS	NATIONAL		 WINS
Buck Parham	   PHA	20-11	John White	    NYG  21-7
Jay Moore	   NYY  19-10	William Mongillo    PHI  21-10
Edgard Ortiz	   CLE  19-11	Aurelio Ventura	    NYG  20-10
Jack Dickinson	   CLE  19-11	John Petersen	    NYG	 18-8
Jake Banks	   NYY	18-5	Chris Golden	    StL	 18-9
Jack Knapp	   CLE  18-9	Jack Chandler	    PHI	 17-10
Jim Thayer	   PHA  18-10	Kick McAvoy	    StL	 17-15
Elias Edmondson	   NYY  18-12	Elbert Eaton	    PHI  16-9
Jocko DiBlasi	   SLB  18-16	Barney DuPont	    PIT  16-12
				Tom Phillips	    CHN  16-17

		
AMERICAN		ERA	NATIONAL		ERA
Buck Parham	PHA	2.51	William Mongillo  PHI   2.45
Bobby Hopps	CHA	2.60	Chris Golden	  StL	2.58
George Odom	PHA	2.66	Otto Stahl	  BKN 	2.73
Jack Dickinson	CLE	2.81	Jack Chandler	  PHI   2.85
Pat Cochran	SLB	2.92	Aurelio Ventura   NYG   2.86

			STRIKEOUT'S
AMERICAN		Ks	NATIONAL		Ks
Peleg Dooley	CHA	150	Jim Turner	  CIN   144
Jim Thayer	PHA	145	Barney Dupont	  PIT   136
Buck Parham	PHA	142	Elbert Eaton	  PHI   135
Jack Dickinson	CLE     131	Aurelio Ventura	  NYG   132
George Odom	PHA	131	Kick McAvoy	  StL	123

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL REPORT

The Indianapolis Indians domination of the American Association continued as Cleveland's top farm team won the league pennant for the 5th straight season. The Indians finished 82-58, 2 games up on both the Kansas City Blues (NYY) and Minneapolis Millers (NYG). The Sacramento Solons (StL) dominated the Pacific Coast League finishing 97-43, 23 games up on the second place Hollywood Stars (PHI).

In the Little World Series, the Indians came out on top as they won thier 4th AAA Series in 5 years by downing Sacramento 3 games to one. 29 year old catcher Willie Luchs was named the series MVP after he batted .471 with 3 homers and 6 rbi's in the 4 games. Luchs hails from Waterbury, Connecticut and joined the Tribe organization after playing college ball at Stanford. He has played in 190 major league games between 1937-39 for Cleveland, batting .225.

In AA, the series title went to the Yankees farm team in the Eastern League - the Newark Bears, who beat Southern League champion Chattanooga(CIN) 3 games to 1. John Ford, a 4th round pick of the Yankees from the Northeast Academy's Falmouth Commodores in 1935, was named the series MVP. The 25 year old righthander pitched two complete game victories after going 7-3 during the regular season. He missed 3 months of the 1941 campaign with an arm injury.

The Yankees also won a title in Class A as the Texas League champion Dallas Rebels beat the Fresno Giants(NYG) of the Western League 3 games to one. Despite being on the losing side the MVP award went to Giants second baseman Harry Locke, a 26 year old who hit .467 with a homer and 5 rbi's in the 4 game series. Locke was promoted to Fresno from Class B Clinton late in the season and hit .383 in 15 games for the Western League champs. One of the starting pitchers on the Dallas Rebels was Jake Fagen, who went 1-1 in the series. Fagan was the NCAA pitcher of the year this season as he led Columbia to back to back College World Series titles before being drafted by the Yankees in June. He was 19-5 with a 2.04 era this season at Columbia and then 3-0 in the CWS before turning pro and going 6-1 with a 1.95 era in 7 regular season starts for the Rebels.

Class B and the Rookie Kity League are still finishing up their regular seasons.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
MAROONS OFF TO QUICK START

After finishing dead last a year ago the Montreal Maroons made a number of changes and they seem to be paying off - at least in the early going as the Maroons started the season with 3 wins and a tie in the first four games.

The biggest acquisition in the off-season was adding 33 year old center Jarryd Barczai in a trade with Chicago. Barczai had 66 points in 65 games for the Hawks last season and has found instant chemistry playing alongside Chris Montour on the Maroons top line. The two veterans have combined for 11 points in the first four games of the season.

While not a newcomer to the team, goaltender Dillon Benoit seems to have a new attitude and has been tremendous in the early going, posting a .938 save percentage and a goals against average of 2.00. Last year the 31 year old had a .893 save percentage in 71 games with the Maroons.

FRENETTE INJURED

The defending Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers will be without first line forward Nicolas Frenette for a month after the 25 year old suffered a knee injury in a 3-2 win over Chicago early last week. Taken first overall by the Rangers in 1934, Frenette was named CJHL MVP the following season with the St. Catharines Teepees. He has played 5 seasons with the Rangers and had 18 goals and 43 assists last year.

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REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
		GP W  L  T  PTS
Toronto		4  3  0  1   7
Mon Maroons	4  3  0  1   7
Chicago	 	5  2  2  1   5
Boston		3  1  0  2   4
NY Rangers	2  1  1  0   2
Detroit		4  1  3  0   2
Mon Canadiens   4  1  3  0   2
NY Americans	4  0  3  1   1

 SCORING LEADERS
		 TM   GP  G  A  PTS
Chris Montour	 MM    4  4  2   6
Chad Sumi	 BOS   3  3  3   6
Joe Selby	 CHI   5  0  6   6
Jarryd Barczai   MM    4  3  2   5
Hugh Kilburn	 CHI   5  3  2   5
Logan Lobreau    CHI   5  3  2   5

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
OVERTIME FIELD GOAL KEEPS RAMS UNBEATEN

Los Angeles Rams kicker Robert Miller was the hero as the veteran kicker was successful with a 53 yard field goal with just 29 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Rams a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Miller also connected on a 29 yard field goal with less than 2 minutes remaining in regulation to force the overtime.

With the win the Rams improve to 4-0 on the season while the 49ers record evens at 2-2. Both San Francisco losses this season have been to Los Angeles as the Rams beat them 30-17 in the Bay Area in week one.

Quarterback Curtis Cole had another strong game for Los Angeles, completing 28 of 39 passes for 3 touchdowns including a pair of scoring passes to tight end Donald Tran. The real key to the Rams offense though was running back William Bell, who gained 107 yards on the ground while also making 5 catches for 27 yards.

This marked the second game that the new overtime rule came into play. It was decided in the off-season because there were too many ties that one extra sudden-death quarter would be played should the game end regulation tied.

Green Bay improved to 3-1 on the season with a 20-13 win over Baltimore. Running back Geoffrey Dolan rushed for 86 yards and scored a touchdown for the Packers, who's defense gave the Baltimore offense fits all day.

Corey Ely threw 3 touchdown passes including a pair in the fourth quarter as Cleveland beat Philadelphia 24-7. Ely completed 13 of 22 throws for 153 yards in the game. Both clubs are now 2-2 on the season and in a 5-way tie for the East Division lead.

First overall draft pick Jason Fischer finally made his NFL debut after missing 3 games with a concussion sustained in the preseason. Fischer helped the Lions beat Pittsburgh 31-20 but his debut certainly had it's hiccups as, despite completing 21 of 34 passes for 258 yards and a touchdown, the former Penn State star tossed 3 interceptions in the game. Detroit running back Ronald Coats, who missed the first two weeks of the season with a toe injury, had a big game as the 31 year old rushed for 101 yards and 2 touchdowns.

James Williams ran for 113 yards but it was his 1 yard plunge with 1:23 remaining in regulation that gave the New York Giants a 24-21 victory over Chicago. Rookie Alberto Herrmann rushed for 77 yards as the Bears were unable to contain the Giants ground game. That was through no fault of Chicago linebacker Mark Miller, who registered 16 tackles and a sack in the loss. New York did losing quarterback Donald Owens for at least game as he suffered a leg injury after Miller sacked him in the fourth quarter. Thomas Paz, a second round pick from Alabama 4 years ago took over and engineered the winning drive. Paz has 2 career NFL starts on his resume.

Daniel Gonzalez threw for 176 yards and 3 touchdowns to help lead the St Louis Cardinals past the Washington Redskins 31-20. Washington quarterback Michael Huff threw 2 touchdown passes of his own but was also intercepted twice in the contest.

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NFL STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
Philadelphia	2  2
Pittsburgh	2  2
Cleveland	2  2
St Louis	2  2
New York	2  2
Washington	1  3

WEST		W  L 
Los Angeles	4  0
Green Bay	3  1
San Francisco	2  2
Detroit		2  2
Baltimore	1  3
Chicago		1  3

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Cleveland 24 Philadelphia 7 
St Louis 31 Washington 20
Green Bay 20 Baltimore 13 
Los Angeles 34 San Francisco 31 (OT)
New York 24 Chicago 21 
Detroit 31 Pittsburgh 20 

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
Pittsburgh at New York
Cleveland at St Louis
Philadelphia at Washington
San Francisco at Baltimore
Detroit at Green Bay
Chicago at Los Angeles

     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Michael Huff	WSH	 75-108   914   8   4   104.5
Chris Jordan	GB	 65-110   821   8   1   102.9
Curtis Cole	LA	 82-119   908   6   2   101.1
Gary Simpson    CHI      63-96    881   4   2   100.2
Daniel Gonzalez STL	 58-88    598   5   2    94.8


RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	AVG	TD
William Hein	   PIT	101     393      3.9	5
William Bell	   LA	 79     385	 4.9	3
David Campos	   CLE   81	356	 4.4	1
Michael Jenson	   SF	 93	354      3.8	1
Robert Roberts	   STL   67     328      4.9	2

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert James	   TE  CHI    22  159   7.2	1
Carl Chavez	   WR  WSH    22  329  15.0	1
William Pace	   WR  LA     20  297  14.8     0
Rafael Do	   WR  SF     20  222  11.1     2
Robert Davis	   TE  NY     18  101   5.6     1
Richard Carr	   WR  WSH    18  235  13.1     4
John Johnson	   WR  BAL    18  207  11.5     0
Sal Pearson	   TE  DET    18  128   7.1     0


TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
Mark Miller	   LB   CHI     50
Maurico McIntosh   LB   CLE     49
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      48
Donnie Reynolds	   LB   StL	47
William Martin	   LB   WSH     47


SACKS		   POS  TM     SACKS
Chris Scott	   DE   CHI	 4
Donald Pineda	   DE   NY	 4
Dennis Brown	   DE   WSH      3
Jeff Stewart	   DE   STL      3
Bryan Allen	   DE   BAL      3
Arthur Long 	   DE   BAL      3

INTERCEPTIONS      POS  TM      INT
Erick Guy	   CB   PHI	 2
John Cummings	   FS   PIT      2
Anthony Walker	   CB   STL	 2
Ted Richter	   CB   PIT      2
Mark Alexander	   SS   SF       2

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
STANFORD WINS PAC8 SHOWDOWN WITH USC

Kenneth Rush threw for 284 yards and a pair of touchdowns as number one ranked Stanford improved to 5-0 with a 33-25 victory over Pacific 8 rival USC. The Cardinal also got a big effort from running back Alberto Rose as the junior carried the ball 28 times for 201 yards. The loss drops USC from 6th to 11th in the polls. Stanford will face another tough test as they host 5th ranked Oregon State next week.

Army remains #2 after another lobsided victory as the Black Knights hammered Rutgers 62-20 behind a 5 touchdown, 441 yard passing performance from senior John Price. However, third ranked Notre Dame slipped to 4-1 as the Irish were beaten 44-16 by Penn State. The Nittany Lions allowed Notre Dame back John Simmons to rush for 100 yards but the Irish gained just 182 total net yards compared to 622 for Penn State. Nittany Lions sophomore quarterback Dale Frye threw for 514 yards and 4 touchdowns.

Arkansas is now the team to beat in the SWC after the Razorbacks humbled Texas 41-0. Arkansas sophomore QB Thomas Lopez threw 4 touchdown passes in the win.

North Carolina may be a sleeper team to watch out for. The ACC is not as highly regarded as the power conferences but the Tar Heels have quietly improved to 6-0 on the season with a 44-10 win over South Carolina on the weekend. Much like Houston last year, the Tar Heels have a great opportunity to go undefeated and if they pull out a bowl win they could creep in and take at least a share of the National Championship.

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			ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record	  Pts	Last			Next		Prev
1	Stanford	Pac8	5-0 (2-0) 1599	W, 33-25 at #11 USC	#5 Oregon State	   1
2	Army		IND	4-0 (2-0) 1540	W, 62-20 Rutgers	#6 Notre Dame	   2
3	LSU		SEC	5-0 (2-0) 1472	OPEN			at #8 Florida	   7
4	Tennessee	SEC	4-1 (1-1) 1414	OPEN			Kentucky	   5
5	Oregon State	Pac8	4-0 (1-0) 1344	OPEN			at #1 Stanford	   8
6	Notre Dame	IND	4-1 (1-1) 1261	L, 16-44 at #14 Penn St at #2 Army	   3
7	Arkansas	SWC	5-0 (2-0) 1183	W, 41-0 #15 Texas	Texas Christian	  15
8	Florida		SEC	4-1 (1-1) 1113	W, 32-23 at Vanderbilt	#3 LSU		  14
9	Auburn		SEC	4-1 (1-1) 1053	W, 27-13 at Ole Miss	at #12 Miss State  9
10	Alabama		SEC	4-0 (2-0)  986	OPEN			at #18 Georgia	  11
11	USC		Pac8	4-1 (1-1)  915	L, 25-33 #1 Stanford	OPEN		   6
12	Miss State	SEC	3-2 (0-2)  850	L, 7-24 #18 Georgia	#9 Auburn	   4
13	California	Pac8	5-1 (2-1)  801	W, 48-17 Oregon		at #16 Washington 16
14	Penn State	IND	4-1 (2-0)  760	W, 44-16 #6 Notre Dame	Holy Cross	  17
15	Texas		SWC	3-2 (1-1)  702	L, 0-41 at #7 Arkansas	Texas Tech	  10
16	Washington	Pac8	3-1 (1-0)  632	OPEN			#13 California	  12
17	Ohio State	B10	3-2 (1-1)  575	W,20-13 #23 Michigan St #21 Wisconsin	  13
18	Georgia		SEC	3-1 (2-0)  525	W,24-7 at #12 Miss St	#10 Alabama	  20
19	Minnesota	B10	4-1 (1-1)  447	OPEN			at Iowa		  18
20	UCLA		Pac8	3-2 (1-2)  372	W, 37-13 at Wash State	OPEN		  21
21	Wisconsin	B10	4-1 (2-0)  292	W, 19-3 at Northwestern	at #17 Ohio State 22
22    George Washington	IND	5-1 (3-0)  219	W, 38-32 Ohio		OPEN		  37
23	Michigan State	B10	4-1 (1-1)  154	L, 13-20 at #17 Ohio St	Purdue		  19
24	Michigan	B10	2-3 (1-1)  106	OPEN			at Illinois	  24
25	Baylor		SWC	5-1 (2-1)   81	W, 24-17 Texas A&M	at Rice		  27

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		WEEKEND RESULTS
#21 Wisconsin (4-1)	19-3	Northwestern (2-2)
#17 Ohio State (3-2)	20-13	#23 Michigan State (4-1)
#14 Penn State (4-1)	44-16	#6 Notre Dame (4-1)
#2 Army (4-0)		62-20	Rutgers (1-3)
#20 UCLA (3-2)		37-13	Wash State (0-5)
#13 California (5-1)	48-17	Oregon (2-3)
#1 Stanford (5-0)	33-25	#11 USC (4-1)
#9 Auburn (4-1)		27-13	Ole Miss (2-2)
#18 Georgia (3-1)	24-7	#12 Miss State (3-2)
#8 Florida (4-1)	32-23	Vanderbilt (2-2)
#25 Baylor (5-1)	24-17	Texas A&M (2-3)
#7 Arkansas (5-0)	41-0	#15 Texas (3-2)
#22 George Wash.(5-1)	38-32	Ohio (3-1)
North Carolina (6-0)	44-10	South Carolina (2-2)
Duke (5-1)		49-10	Maryland (0-5)
Wake Forest (3-2)	37-7	Virginia (0-4)
Southern Miss (1-5)	24-3	Tulsa (2-2)
Houston (3-2)		18-13	Cincinnati (4-2)
Memphis (2-3)		20-7	Wichita State (0-4)
Indiana (2-2)		57-10	Iowa (0-4)
Oklahoma (5-0)		30-0	Missouri (1-5)
Colorado (4-2)		36-24	Iowa State (1-4)
Nebraska (3-2)		34-9	Kansas (0-4)
San Jose State (3-2)	32-29	Fresno State (4-2)
Long Beach St (4-2)	16-7	San Diego State (2-3)
Cal State LA (1-4)	23-17	Pacific (0-5)
Pittsburgh (4-2)	51-3	Holy Cross (1-3)
UTEP (4-1)		19-15	Arizona State (3-3)
West Texas A&M (3-2)	17-13	Northern Arizona (1-5)
Arizona (5-0)		31-20	New Mexico St (4-1)
Cornell (3-2)		30-13	Brown (0-5)
Yale (3-1)		56-45	Penn (0-6)
Dartmouth (2-3)		34-17	Princeton (1-3)
New Mexico (5-0)	26-19	Idaho (0-5)
Montana (3-2)		21-17	Denver (1-5)
Utah (4-2)		27-10	Colorado State (2-2)
Wm & Mary (1-4)		24-3	VMI (1-4)
West Virginia (3-3)	32-22	East Carolina (1-4)
Richmond (1-4)		44-38	Davidson (0-5)
Marshall (3-2)		27-21	Virginia Tech (1-4)
Miami (5-1)		49-3	Western Michigan (1-4)
Georgia Tech (4-1)	33-30	Tulane (3-2)
Hardin-Simmons (4-1)	31-21	Columbia (3-2)
Louisville (2-2)	23-16	Santa Barbara (1-4)

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	TOP 25 PASSERS (QB Rating)
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Comp	Comp%	Yds	Y/Att	TD	Int	Sack	Rat
1	J. Price	ARMY	4	124	88	71	1540	12.4	16	1	15	216.3
2	R. Barker	OHIO	3	45	27	60	578	12.8	5	0	3	204.6
3	B. Bell		ORE	1	12	9	75	143	11.9	1	0	0	202.6
4	D. Frye		PNST	5	95	60	63.2	1138	12	11	1	11	199.9
5	R. Burnett	OHIO	4	71	52	73.2	747	10.5	8	1	10	196
6	L. West		ND	3	72	52	72.2	740	10.3	8	2	5	189.7
7	J. Shelton	CAL	4	72	48	66.7	756	10.5	7	1	8	184.2
8	B. Stuckey	CAL	5	115	78	67.8	1084	9.4	13	2	8	180.8
9	M. Montano	MIST	3	70	47	67.1	660	9.4	6	0	4	174.6
10	D. Cullen	ARZ	5	163	101	62	1563	9.6	18	4	10	174
11	E. Fisher	DUKE	6	204	138	67.6	1952	9.6	16	3	14	171
12	R. Preston	WYO	3	43	22	51.2	518	12	3	1	7	170.7
13	K. Rush		STAN	5	182	120	65.9	1682	9.2	16	2	12	170.4
14	H. Bright	NEB	2	49	36	73.5	443	9	4	2	1	168.2
15	P. Jones	USC	5	171	106	62	1583	9.3	17	4	11	167.9
16	K. Salter	LSU	5	143	91	63.6	1370	9.6	13	5	10	167.1
17	S. Copeland	TENN	5	148	96	64.9	1430	9.7	10	2	14	165.6
18	B. Taylor	NMSU	5	146	98	67.1	1274	8.7	12	2	11	164.8
19	P. Diaz		DAVD	3	37	20	54.1	377	10.2	4	2	3	164.5
20	R. Harrison	PUR	3	60	40	66.7	549	9.2	4	1	3	162.2
21	S. Butler	NEB	3	101	71	70.3	896	8.9	6	2	4	160.5
22	E. Devries	GW	6	185	127	68.6	1500	8.1	15	3	20	160.3
23	V. Eldridge	BAY	4	127	85	66.9	1131	8.9	8	2	8	159.4
24	W. Christensen	UNM	5	100	72	72	805	8	7	2	11	158.7
25	T. Coleman	OU	5	156	92	59	1367	8.8	14	3	9	158.4

				TOP 20 RUSHING
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Yds	YPG	YPC	Lng	TD
1	RB J. Young	SOMS	6	167	1063	177.2	6.4	72	4
2	RB J. Andrews	CORN	5	139	956	191.2	6.9	59	6
3	RB M. Baugh	UNC	6	172	918	153.0	5.3	74	10
4	RB R. Luna	DUKE	6	157	830	138.3	5.3	27	2
5	RB J. Simmons	ND	5	140	817	163.4	5.8	42	12
6	RB W. Young	UTEP	5	159	769	153.8	4.8	75	5
7	RB J. White	AUB	5	107	711	142.2	6.6	46	4
8	RB M. Robertson	CAL	6	100	703	117.2	7.0	39	3
9	RB B. Thompson	FRS	6	145	689	114.8	4.8	29	2
10	RB D. Hayes	ARZ	5	153	685	137.0	4.5	47	4
11	RB R. Haynes	NMSU	5	149	680	136.0	4.6	60	2
12	RB L. Spooner	MINN	5	104	668	133.6	6.4	53	9
13	RB R. Clark	GW	6	140	666	111.0	4.8	45	1
14	RB L. Sanders	TENN	5	114	658	131.6	5.8	69	3
15	RB R. Scott	BC	5	118	641	128.2	5.4	79	4
16	RB E. Williams	FLA	5	135	632	126.4	4.7	59	5
17	RB A. Rose	STAN	5	106	626	125.2	5.9	39	5
18	RB P. Johnson	YALE	4	105	615	153.8	5.9	43	4
19	RB R. Mchugh	HaSi	5	157	609	121.8	3.9	24	5
20	RB D. Quinn	MSST	4	101	595	148.8	5.9	83	4


				TOP 20 RECEIVING YARDS
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Rec	Yds	YPG	YPC	YAC	Lng	TD	Drp
1	WR D. Horn	VMI	5	43	26	730	146.0	28.1	130	79	5	2
2	WR S. White	UNC	6	56	34	542	90.3	15.9	205	59	2	3
3	WR E. Ybarra	MSST	5	48	30	526	105.2	17.5	149	55	1	0
4	WR C. Edmond	PITT	6	46	34	525	87.5	15.4	123	49	1	0
5	WR F. Shea	ARMY	4	36	22	524	131.0	23.8	177	88	5	1
6	WR D. Winn	OU	5	47	32	522	104.4	16.3	102	69	4	2
7	WR C. Pollard	HOU	5	41	31	514	102.8	16.6	164	69	4	0
8	WR W. Jones	KSU	4	41	20	511	127.8	25.6	173	83	3	2
9	WR D. Braun	PNST	5	38	29	507	101.4	17.5	115	64	3	1
10	WR P. Burks	FRS	6	48	34	500	83.3	14.7	117	74	3	2
11	WR J. Davis	ECU	5	55	27	499	99.8	18.5	91	55	2	2
12	WR P. Payne	ALB	4	39	28	499	124.8	17.8	186	60	2	0
13	WR J. Boling	DUKE	6	49	30	494	82.3	16.5	154	71	6	6
14	WR L. Kirkland	NEB	5	52	33	485	97.0	14.7	105	52	0	2
15	WR R. Hunt	MIA	6	44	30	482	80.3	16.1	105	62	4	0
16	WR J. Miller	ORE	5	45	28	481	96.2	17.2	134	58	4	4
17	WR K. Wallace	WVU	6	69	29	475	79.2	16.4	79	55	0	4
18	WR V. Means	MINN	5	43	28	474	94.8	16.9	102	74	2	0
19	WR D. Cox	UNT	5	67	27	464	92.8	17.2	11	52	2	5
20	WR R. Bowles	IAST	5	52	26	463	92.6	17.8	43	77	3	7

Tiger Fan · 01-29-2016, 04:14 PM

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 1941
YANKEES BLAST GIANTS IN SERIES OPENER

The New York Yankees exploded for 5 runs in the third inning and coasted to a 10-2 victory over the visiting New York Giants in the opening game of the World Series. Despite missing slugger Elgie Vargas (.348,45,147) who is out with an injury, the Yankee offense dominated the game as the homeside wrapped out 12 hits including a pair of 8th inning homers from John Hanson (.328,34,117) and Oscar Weidner (.271,10,102). Game two will be played tomorrow at Yankee Stadium.

The Giants did get shortstop John Wagoner (.311,10,66) back in the lineup for the game but they were still missing 3 regulars in 2B Billy Bolling (.255,4,49), catcher Henry Warner (.291,7,58) and OF George Saunders (.299,12,71). The visitors did get the game's first run as Wagoner hit a two out single and scored on an rbi double from mid-season pickup Jim Wade (.272,6,69). However, that was all the Giants would get until scoring another run in the 8th inning as Yankee starter Jay Moore (19-10, 3.77) was in complete control the rest of the way, especially considering the huge lead he would have to work with.

The Yankees evened the game in the bottom of the first on a bases loaded single from Weidner but George Foskey (.291,21,89) ended a potentially big inning by grounding out with the bases loaded. Giants starter Aurelio Ventura (20-10, 2.86) retired the Yanks in order in the second inning but he would have great difficulty in the third.

The Yankee 5 run outburst in the bottom of the third included 4 hits and an error by Wagoner. Among the 4 hits were a lead-off double off the bat of second baseman Martin Robbins (.266,8,71) and a triple from 1B Jim Post (.336,6,71).

While Giants starter Ventura did survive the 3rd he could not get out of the fourth inning as the Yankees plated two more runs to make the score 8-1. George Foskey's double scored both Hanson and Weidner while also sending Ventura to the showers.

Giant reliever Elige Medina kept the Yankee bats in check until the 8th inning when rookie Jim Sanicki, the former Harvard star who missed much of the season recovering from arm surgery, took over in the bottom of the 8th and was promptly greeted with back to back homers from Hanson and Weidner.

Tiger Fan · 01-30-2016, 09:20 AM

THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 1941
ANOTHER BLOWOUT WIN FOR YANKEES

The New York Yankees offense completely dominated the American League during the regular season so it really should be no surprise that the Yankees are doing the same to the National League champion New York Giants. For the second day in a row Yankee bats lit up Giant pitching to the tune of 10 runs as the American Leaguers went up 2 games to none in the World Series with a 10-6 victory at Yankee Stadium. After an off day tomorrow the series shifts to the Polo Grounds for the next 3 games (if necessary) beginning Saturday.

The outcome of this one was never in doubt as the Yankees sent 11 men to the plate in the first inning and scored 7 runs off of Giants starter John Petersen (18-8, 3.77). Petersen could not find the plate as he walked the bases loaded with 1 out and then issued a free pass to George Foskey to score the first Yankee run. Jim Post followed with an rbi single and then Petersen walked in two more runs before finally getting the second out when he fanned Yankee pitcher George Barr. Lead-off man Martin Robbins, who walked to start the game, then delivered a 2-run single and Joe Almy followed with an rbi single but the inning ended when Robbins was gunned down trying to advance to third. Petersen would settle down after that but the damage had been done.

The Giants first run off of George Barr (16-9, 4.00) came on a solo homerun from Celerino Ochoa (.303,5,73) in the 4th inning. Barr would go the distance and was not overly sharp, allowing 10 hits and 6 earned runs, but with the huge lead he was given he did not need to be sharp.

Yankee catcher Joe Martin(.276,9,62), whho had 2 hits and drove in a pair of runs was named the player of the game. The Giants, already ravaged by injuries, suffered another one as outfielder Ted Linton (.278,1,8) hurt his ankle and is day to day. Linton is filling in for the injured George Saunders in right field.

Tiger Fan · 01-30-2016, 10:11 AM

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 1941
COMEBACK WIN PUTS YANKEES UP 3-0

New York Giants pitcher John White (21-7, 3.05) took a 3-hit shutout into the 9th inning only to see the Yankees win 2-1 in 11 innings and take a commanding 3 games to none lead in the World Series. White's pitching performance, especially in contrast to the previous two efforts from Giants hurlers, was masterful as he set down the first 14 Yankee batters in order until Jim Post hit a 2-out single in the fifth inning.

The game was scoreless as Game one winner Jay Moore was enjoying similar success on the mound for the Yankees. Moore allowed just 2 hits through the first five innings but in the 6th gave up the game's first run as Giants shortstop John Wagoner led off with a single, moved to third on Henry Warner's double and scored on an error by Yankee second baseman Martin Robbins.

That would be the game's only run until the 9th inning when Moore was lifted for pinch-hitter Onix Bardales, who blooped a single over Wagoner's head. Martin Robbins sacrficed Bardales to second and he moved to third on a ground out by Yankee outfielder Joe Almy. With the Giants just 1 strike away from winning the game, John Hanson ripped a 2-2 pitch up the middle for the Yankees to score Bardales with the tying run.

Yankee relief pitcher Sam Dignam would give up a 2-out double to Dennis Hobbs in the bottom of the 9th but he got Celerino Ochoa to ground out to end the inning. In the 10th inning George Foskey hit a 1-out triple for the Yankees but White struck out pinch-hitter Smith King and got Tommy Dahl to fly out to end the inning without any damage.

After the Giants went quietly in order in the bottom of the 10th the Yankees struck in the 11th as White allowed a 1-out double to Martin Robbins and he came in to score on a single off the bat Almy, a former Chicago Cub acquired in June as outfield depth and is now filling in for the injured Elgie Vargas.

Yankee reliver Dignam retired the Giants in order again in the bottom of the 11th including striking out John Monroe to end the game and give the Yankees the 2-1 victory and commanding 3-games to none series lead.

JOHN MONROE

The strikeout to end the game might well have been the last time we will see John Monroe in action. The 39 year old face of the Giants has played with the team since 1923 when he made his major league debut in September of that year as a 20 year old. He was a two-time National League MVP and won 5 batting titles in a career that has seen him play 2109 major league games, hit 195 homers and have a lifetime .362 batting average. Monroe has 2867 hits which ranks him 4th all-time.

This is the 7th World Series Monroe has appeared in and in 39 games is batting .309. He went 2-for-2 in the Giants 10-6 loss in game two. He has won 3 World Series titles with the Giants.

Tiger Fan · 01-30-2016, 01:33 PM

Sunday October 5, 1941
GIANTS HITCH RIDE ON WAGONER TO STAY ALIVE

New York Giants shortstop John Wagoner had 3 hits including a double and triple while driving in 4 runs and scoring twice to lead his club to a 7-4 victory in Game Four of the World Series. The victory keeps the Giants slim hopes alive as they trail in the series 3 games to one.

The 27 year old Wagoner, who played a key role in the Giants two World Series victories over the Yankees in 1938 and 1939, is a lifetime .320 hitter in the postseason including going 6-for-17 (.353) so far in this series.

The Yankees threatened first as lead-off man Martin Robbins hit a triple off of Giants starter Aurelio Ventura to start the game but Ventura got out of the jam damage free with a pair of infield pop-outs and a ground out. While the Yankees could not take advantage of a lead-off extra base hit the Giants did as rookie Mike Hall greeted Yankee starter Elias Edmondson with a double on his second pitch of the game. Hall got a great jump and moved over to third on a comebacker to the mound from Celerino Ochoa and then scored on John Wagoner's ground out.

The Yankees responded quickly in the top of the second and looked like they were going to turn this one into another rout like the opening two games as the American League champs got 3 runs on 5 hits in the inning including doubles from George Foskey and Joe Martin.

However instead of a Yankee rout the Giants bats came alive as they tied the game in the home half of the third inning on an rbi double from Jim Wade and a single from Henry Warner. In the 4th inning the Giants would add three more runs with the big blow being Wagoner's two run triple. In the 6th inning the Giants chased Edmondson when Wagoner doubled in Mike Hall to make the score 7-3.

Edmondson was making his first start since September 28th when he lasted just 1/3 of an inning before leaving with neck problems. The 32 year old who was American League pitcher of the year in 1939, was 18-12 with a 3.10 era on the season but he clearly looked like his timing was off on this day.

One player who's timing is certainly on is journeyman 1B-OF Mike Hall. The 31 year old spent most of the season at AAA Minneapolis before being called up at the September deadline and going 4-for-9 down the stretch as a pinch-hitter for the Giants. Moved into the starting lineup because of injuries the South Gate, California native is batting .400 (6-15) in the 4 World Series games. He is no stranger to the post-season as he had played 19 World Series games prior to this year (4 with the Braves in 1932 and 14 with the Giants in 1938-39). He has appeared in over 1000 regular season major league games batting .292, but just 38 over the past two seasons.

Tiger Fan · 01-30-2016, 04:42 PM

MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 1941
YANKEES WIN WORLD SERIES!

For just the third time ever and the first since 1924 the New York Yankees are World Champions. The Yankees, who lost in 7 games to the New York Giants in the 1938 and 1939 Series knocked off those same Giants in 5 games this time around.

The Yankees won game five on the road at the Polo Grounds by a 9-5 scord as George Barr got his second win of the series and outfielder Joe Almy, filling in for the injured Elgie Vargas, had two hits and drove in 3 runs.

The Giants struck first, taking a 2-0 lead in the opening inning on an rbi single from John Wagoner and a wild pitch two batters later that allowed Wagoner to score. However the Yankees got 3 back in the top of the third off of surprise Giants starter Arturo Serna as Almy hit a two run triple and scored on a base hit from John Hanson.

The 36 year old Serna was 6-1 with a 1.99 era this season before blowing out his elbow in May. This was his first appearance since May 25th and he would not survive the 6th inning as the Yankees extended their lead to 7-2 before he was chased.

Yankee pitcher Barr was pulled in the 8th inning and allowed 5 earned runs on 10 hits before givine way to Manuel Rios and finally Sam Dignam who pitched the final inning. Yankee catcher Joe Martin tied a World Series record by being walked 4 times in the game.

Yankee second baseman and lead-off man Martin Robbins went 2-for-5 in the game and was named the series MVP after hitting .435 (10-23) with 3 rbi's and 3 runs scored.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
LEAFS IN TOP SPOT THANKS TO BARIBEAU

Thanks to some outstanding goaltending from Marc-Andre Baribeau the Toronto Maple Leafs are unbeaten and sit atop the National Hockey League standings as the season completes it's second week. Unfortunately for Toronto, Baribeau suffered a shoulder injury in yesterday's 7-4 win over the Detroit Red Wings and is expected to be sidelined for the next ten days. The 35 year old Baribeau has been with the Leafs since 1927 and their number one goaltender since 1929, playing in 921 career NHL games and posting a lifetime save percentage of .893. This season through 7 games he had been almost unbeatable, stopping pucks at a .935 rate...tops in the league.

For the next week and a half the Leafs will have to rely on longtime backup Evan Tilley, who had a 3.48 GAA and an .884 save percentage in 17 games last year. Toronto does have plenty of offense - they lead the league in goals scored - and the first line of Chris Maxwell between Tyler Ellis and Ben Gilbart has combined for 26 points. Second line center Chris Bishop, who led the NHL in scoring last year, has had a slow start with just 3 goals and 4 points in the first 7 games but if he gets untracked the absence of Baribeau will not be as much of a concern.

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REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
		GP W  L  T  PTS
Toronto		7  5  0  2   12
Mon Maroons	7  4  1  2   10
Boston		5  2  0  3    7
Chicago	 	7  2  3  2    6
NY Rangers	5  2  2  1    5
Detroit		7  1  4  2    4
Mon Canadiens   5  1  4  0    2
NY Americans	5  0  3  2    2

           SCORING LEADERS
		 TM   GP  G  A  PTS
Chris Maxwell	 TOR   7  4  6  10
Tyler Ellis	 TOR   7  2  7   9
Matt Jambrosich  BOS   5  4  4   8
Chad Sumi	 BOS   5  4  4   8
Chris Montour	 MM    7  4  4   8
Jarryd Barczai   MM    7  5  2   7
Logan Lobreau    CHI   7  4  3   7
Ben Gilbart	 TOR   6  3  4   7
Joe Selby	 CHI   7  0  7   7

	GOALIE LEADERS
	         TM    W-L-T   GAA   SV%
M.A. Baribeau    TOR   5-0-2   2.12  .935
Dillon Benoit    MM    4-1-2   2.59  .922
Gregg Pfimmer    CHI   2-3-2   2.87  .907
Bill Horvath     NYR   2-2-1   2.60  .906
Andre Ravelli    BOS   2-0-3   2.80  .904
Dylan Turnbull   DET   1-4-2   2.60  .901
Max Holden       MON   1-4-0   3.01  .900
Chuck Walton     NYA   0-3-1   3.02  .885

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
SIX FIELD GOALS HELP BEARS PAST RAMS

Chicago Bears kicker Michael Parker made 6 field goals to lead the Chicago Bears to an upset victory over the previously unbeaten Los Angeles Rams. Neither club had great success moving the ball but the Rams did get a pair of touchdown passes from Curtis Cole to wideout William Pace. Unfortunately Cole was also picked off twice including one late in the third quarter that led to the Bears only touchdown on the day.

With the loss the Rams are now tied with the Green Bay Packers for top spot in the West Division at 4-1. The Packers capitalized on a 4th quarter mistake by rookie Detroit quarterback Jason Fischer as his pass was intercepted and returned 74 yards by Green Bay safety Robert Samson for the winning score in a 26-20 Green Bay win.

In other action Michael Huff threw for 319 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead Washington past Philadelphia 29-13. Robert Cole kicked 6 field goals in Baltimore's 25-14 win over San Francisco. William Hein ran for 99 yards and a touchdown to help Pittsburgh past New York 26-10 and St Louis got a 4th quarter 1 yard touchdown run from Robert Roberts to win a defensive battle over Cleveland 13-6.

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NFL STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
St Louis	3  2
Pittsburgh	3  2
Cleveland	2  3
Philadelphia	2  3
New York	2  3
Washington	2  3

WEST		W  L 
Los Angeles	4  1
Green Bay	4  1
San Francisco	2  3
Detroit		2  3
Baltimore	2  3
Chicago		2  3

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Pittsburgh 26 New York 10
St Louis 13 Cleveland 6 
Washington 29 Philadelphia 13 
Baltimore 25 San Francisco 14 
Green Bay 26 Detroit 20
Chicago 25 Los Angeles 17

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
Washington at Cleveland
New York at Philadelphia
Baltimore at Chicago
San Francisco at Green Bay
Detroit at Pittsburgh
St Louis at Los Angeles

     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Michael Huff	WSH	 92-140  1233  10   4   105.4
Curtis Cole	LA	 99-142  1126   8   4   100.3
Chris Jordan	GB	 84-142  1062   9   3    94.9
Jesus Wright	PIT	 59-95    744   5   3    90.9
Gary Simpson    CHI      80-128  1093   4   3    90.4


RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	AVG	TD
William Hein	   PIT	127     492      3.9	6
William Bell	   LA	 96     457	 4.8	3
David Campos	   CLE  102	451	 4.4	1
Robert Roberts	   STL   81     407      5.0	3
Michael Jenson	   SF	106	400      3.8	1

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert James	   TE  CHI    29  212   7.3	1
Carl Chavez	   WR  WSH    27  431  16.0	3
William Pace	   WR  LA     27  398  14.7     2
Rafael Do	   WR  SF     24  249  10.4     4
Robert Davis	   TE  NY     23  121   5.3     2
Richard Carr	   WR  WSH    23  332  14.4     4



TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      61
Donnie Reynolds	   LB   StL	57
Mark Miller	   LB   CHI     57
William Martin	   LB   WSH     55
Bobby Dominguez    LB   BAL     54
Randy Baker	   LB   DET     54


SACKS		   POS  TM     SACKS
Chris Scott	   DE   CHI	 5
Donald Pineda	   DE   NY	 4
Arthur Long 	   DE   BAL      4


INTERCEPTIONS      POS  TM      INT
Erick Guy	   CB   PHI	 2
John Cummings	   FS   PIT      2
Anthony Walker	   CB   STL	 2
Ted Richter	   CB   PIT      2
Mark Alexander	   SS   SF       2
Michael Finch	   LB   PIT	 2
Robert Harmon	   SS   DET	 2
Kevin Roberts	   SS   SF       2

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ARMY BEATS NOTRE DAME

In what is always the biggest game of the season for the two independant powerhouses, Army kept it's National Title hopes alive with a 38-23 victory at home over Notre Dame. Army's two pronged attack of quarterback John Price and running back Donald Brady had a huge game as Price completed 22 of 31 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns while Brady carried the ball 27 times for 196 yards and scored three times. Brady also made 5 catches for 49 yards.

Meanwhile Notre Dame's great senior running back John Simmons did not score a touchdown but did rush for 117 yards while sophomore quarterback John Burnett passed for 311 yards and two scores.

At 5-0 the only stiff test remaining in Army's way for an undefeated season will be a date with #21 ranked Penn State in 5 weeks. The loss drops Notre Dame to 4-2 on the season as the Irish fell 44-16 at Penn State last week.

In other action Stanford held on to it's number one ranking with a 25-18 win over 6th ranked Oregon State thanks to a 3-touchdown 279 yard passing performance from quarterback Kenneth Rush.

The SEC continues to provide plenty of excitement with Georgia the only remaining unbeaten team in conference play. The Bulldogs beat Alabama 40-13 to hand the Tide their first loss of the year. In other action Florida dumped LSU 44-14 and Tennessee got a 24-16 win over Kentucky with James Roman in at quarterback to replace the injured Samuel Copeland.

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					ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record	  Points	Last		Next			LW
1	Stanford	Pac8	6-0 (3-0) 1596	W, 25-18 #9 Oregon St 	#20 Washington		1
2	Army		IND	5-0 (3-0) 1540	W, 38-23 #7 Notre Dame	San Diego State		2
3	Tennessee	SEC	5-1 (2-1) 1480	W, 24-16 Kentucky	at #5 LSU		4
4	California	Pac8	6-1 (3-1) 1419	W,45-28 at #20 Washingt	at #21 UCLA		13
5	LSU		SEC	5-1 (2-1) 1354	L, 14-44 at #6 Florida	#3 Tennessee		3
6	Florida		SEC	5-1 (2-1) 1295	W, 44-14 #5 LSU		at #8 Auburn		8
7	Notre Dame	IND	4-2 (1-2) 1235	L, 23-38 at #2 Army	Pittsburgh		6
8	Auburn		SEC	5-1 (2-1) 1173	W,27-16 at #17 Miss St	#6 Florida		9
9	Oregon State	Pac8	4-1 (1-1) 1092	L, 18-25 at #1 Stanford	at #10 USC		5
10	USC		Pac8	4-1 (1-1) 1034	OPEN			#9 Oregon State		11
11	Georgia		SEC	4-1 (3-0)  952	W, 40-13 #12 Alabama	Ole Miss		18
12	Alabama		SEC	4-1 (2-1)  891	L,13-40 at#11 Georgia	#17 Miss State		10
13	Arkansas	SWC	5-1 (2-1)  842	L, 6-12 #24 TCU		Texas Tech		7
14	Penn State	IND	5-1 (3-0)  790	W, 37-6 Holy Cross	at Rutgers		14
15	Wisconsin	B10	5-1 (3-0)  717	W, 30-26 at #18 Ohio St Iowa			21
16	Texas		SWC	4-2 (2-1)  656	W, 30-23 Texas Tech	Rice			15
17	Miss State	SEC	3-3 (0-3)  596	L, 16-27 #8 Auburn	at #12 Alabama		12
18	Ohio State	B10	3-3 (1-2)  512	L, 26-30 #15 Wisconsin	at Purdue		17
19	Minnesota	B10	5-1 (2-1)  453	W, 41-0 at Iowa		Illinois		19
20	Washington	Pac8	3-2 (1-1)  375	L, 28-45 #4 California	at #1 Stanford		16
21	UCLA		Pac8	3-2 (1-2)  333	OPEN			#4 California		20
22    George Washington	IND	5-1 (3-0)  270	OPEN			at Western Michigan	22
23	Michigan State	B10	5-1 (2-1)  203	W, 51-16 Purdue		Northwestern		23
24	Texas Christian	SWC	5-1 (3-0)  130	W, 12-6 at #13 Arkansas	#25 Baylor		38
25	Baylor		SWC	6-1 (3-1)  102	W, 10-6 at Rice		at #24 TCU		25

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		WEEKEND RESULTS
#23 Michigan St (5-1)	51-16	Purdue (1-5)
#15 Wisconsin (5-1)	30-26	#18 Ohio State (3-3)
#19 Minnesota (5-1)	41-0	Iowa (0-5)
#2 Army (5-0)		38-23	#7 Notre Dame (4-2)
#14 Penn State (5-1)	37-6	Holy Cross (1-4)
#4 California (6-1)	45-28	#20 Washington (3-2)
#1 Stanford (6-0)	25-18	#9 Oregon State (4-1)
#11 Georgia (4-1)	40-13	#12 Alabama (4-1)
#8 Auburn (5-1)		27-16	#17 Miss State (3-3)
#3 Tennessee (5-1)	24-16	Kentucky (1-4)
#6 Florida (5-1)	44-14	#5 LSU (5-1)
#25 Baylor (6-1)	10-6	Rice (3-2)
#16 Texas (4-2)		30-23	Texas Tech (2-3)
#24 TCU (5-1)		12-6	#13 Arkansas (5-1)
South Carolina (3-2)	17-16	Maryland (0-6)
Duke (6-1)		62-16	NC State (0-6)
Clemson (1-4)		34-10	Virginia (0-5)
North Carolina (7-0)	25-7	Wake Forest (3-3)
Houston (4-2)		48-6	Tulsa (2-3)
Memphis (3-3)		44-17	Louisville (2-3)
Southern Miss (2-5)	31-3	Wichita State (0-5)
Michigan (3-3)		31-24	Illinois (2-3)
Northwestern (3-2)	33-7	Indiana (2-3)
Oklahoma (6-0)		30-13	Iowa State (1-5)
Colorado (5-2)		38-7	Oklahoma State (1-5)
Kansas (1-4)		43-20	Kansas State (0-5)
Nebraska (4-2)		16-13	Missouri (1-6)
San Jose State (4-2)	23-16	San Diego State (2-4)
Long Beach St (5-2)	16-7	Santa Barbara (1-5)
Pacific (1-5)		10-3	Utah State (0-5)
Fresno State (5-2)	26-10	Cal State LA (1-5)
Rutgers (2-3)		21-10	Navy (1-5)
Boston College (3-3)	38-14	Syracuse (0-6)
Pittsburgh (5-2)	34-20	Villanova (2-4)
UTEP (5-1)		22-16	West Texas A&M (3-3)
Northern Arizona (2-5)	43-10	North Texas (0-6)
Arizona (6-0)		61-28	Hardin-Simmons (4-2)
Arizona State (4-3)	50-44	New Mexico St (4-2)
Yale (4-1)		41-30	Cornell (3-3)
Penn (1-6)		40-31	Columbia (3-3)
Harvard (3-2)		26-9	Princeton (1-4)
Dartmouth (3-3)		55-10	Brown (0-6)
Oregon (3-3)		28-14	Wash State (0-6)
Ole Miss (3-2)		40-23	Vanderbilt (2-3)
SMU (3-2)		32-25	Texas A&M (2-4)
Idaho (1-5)		17-16	Montana (3-3)
Denver (2-5)		27-23	Wyoming (2-4)
Colorado State (3-2)	31-3	Brigham Young (0-5)
New Mexico (6-0)	29-10	Utah (4-3)
East Carolina (2-4)	26-9	Wm & Mary (1-5)
Furman (4-2)		36-0	West Virginia (3-4)
Richmond (2-4)		31-30	Citadel (1-4)
Davidson (1-5)		43-20	VMI (1-5)
Florida State (5-0)	28-26	Marshall (3-3)
Ohio (4-1)		52-20	Miami (5-2)
Virginia Tech (2-4)	20-19	Tulane (3-3)

Tiger Fan · 01-31-2016, 06:33 PM

Monday October 13, 1941
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

NEW OWNER FOR THE CARDINALS

Dave Underwood turned over the keys to the St. Louis Cardinals this afternoon to Russ Myers in a brief ceremony outside Sportsman's Park.

Russ Myers wasted no time trying to put his mark on the team.

"I've made a lot of money building things that no one thought would work. I've got a track record. Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster," he said. "Great teams are built with great players. We're gonna go get them."

Myers is said to be a understanding character, with a fiscal personality of economizer.

The Cardinals finished the regular season with a 80-74 record, 4th place in the National League. They won back to back World Series titles in 1935-36, also winning the series in 1902 and a National League pennant in 1904. The team had been in the Underwood family since 1912.

KITY LEAGUE TAKES CENTER STAGE

With the Major League Baseball season over and the new NCAA season still a few months away, all eyes in the baseball world are on the only minor league still running - the rookie level Kity League.

The Kity League, which is the lowest level of the minors and serves primarily to introduce June draft picks to their first taste of pro ball, sees it's 84 game schedule run from early July until mid-October. The regular season ended yesterday with the Owensboro Farmers (Det) and Fulton Railroaders (CHA) winning their respective divisions.

The Farmers are led by outfielder Doc Biggs (.347,23,80), a 22 year old who the Detroit Tigers drafted from Brown University in the second round in June. Biggs led the Kity League in homers and rbi's this season. The other power bat in the Farmers lineup belongs to 21 year old first baseman Bobby Schroeder(.343,15,57), who is in his second season with Owensboro after being selected from the Long Island Ducks academy team in the fourth round of the 1939 draft.

1940 first round pick Manuel Hernandez is Owensboro's top pitcher. The 20 year old was 11-5 with a 2.86 era this season. He played academy ball for the Carolina Kings and twice won 18 games in the Central Academy League.

The Fulton Railroaders wont have the same power as the Farmers because Fulton's top two hitters in Dick Bellamy and Whitey Chamberlain were recently promoted to Class B Lynchburg of the Carolina League. The 23 year old Chamberlain, a former Kentucky Wildcat, hit .316 with 12 homers and 64 rbi;s in 73 games with Fulton while Bellamy, a June draft pick out of Georgia Tech, hit .257 with 10 homers and 37 rbi's in 35 games with the Railroaders before moving up a level.

Fulton does have 3 great teenage pitching prospects in Samuel Herrera, Jim Bartlett and John Conner. All 3 pitched in academy ball to start the season with Herrera being selected 3rd overall and Bartlett 10th overall in the June draft. Conner was the White Sox third round pick. Herrera was 1-2 with a 6.84 era in 5 starts since returning from a knee injury that cost him the end of his academy league season. He was 17-8 with a 2.86 era for the Austin Marshalls prior to the injury and 2 years ago he was named the Western Academy League's top pitcher. Bartlett was 9-1 with a 3.02 era in 12 starts with Fulton after going 13-10, 3.24 in his final season of Academy ball with the Utah Stars. Conner was 19-5 for the Bradenton Marauders of the Florida Academy League in 1940 and started this season 5-1 with a 2.98 era before suffering an elbow injury that sidelined him from February until the end of July. Had he not been injured he likely would have been a late first round pick. In 11 starts with the Railroaders Conner went 6-5 with a 4.43 era.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
JAMBROSICH LEADS BRUINS CHARGE

The Boston Bruins have moved into a 3-way tie for top spot in the National Hockey League and much of the credit can go to winger Matt Jambrosich. The 29 year old Toronto native has moved into the NHL scoring leader after picking up 6 points in 4 games last week.

Jambrosich has found a home playing right wing on a line with Chad Sumi (7-6-13) centered by Gabryel Roy (2-9-11). He had just 1 assist in the Bruins 6-5 loss to Chicago on Tuesday but followed that up with back to back 2 goal performances in a 4-3 win over the Montreal Maroons and a 5-2 victory at home over Toronto. Jambrosich added an assist in last night's 4-4 tie with the Rangers.

The Bruins knew Jambrosich had an offensive touch when they selected him 8th overall in the 1930 draft but his road to Boston was a long one. He was named the CJHL rookie of the year with Brandon in 1929 and led the CJHL in scoring with 111 points as a 19 year old. Boston had traded his rights to the Canadiens prior to his 19 year old season in exchange for goaltender Andre Ravelli. The deal worked out exceptionally well for the Bruins as Ravelli has been their number one goalie ever since.

While still in junior Jambrosich was dealt by the Habs to the Toronto Maple Leafs and he turned pro with the Leafs AHL farm team in Cleveland, notching 67 points in 1932-33 and claiming that league's rookie of the year award. The following season he was with the Leafs but struggled as a rookie, scoring just 13 goals and 18 assists. He dipped to 29 points the following season but followed that up with a 51 point campaign including 28 goals for Toronto in 1935-36.

That off-season the Leafs dealt him back to Boston in exchange for now retired defenseman Boris Vrabel. He has been with the Bruins for 5 seasons now and except for the season he suffered a knee injury and missed 45 games Jambrosich has averaged over 50 points a year including a breakout season last year when he scored a career high 72 points.

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REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS
		GP  W  L  T  PTS
Toronto		 9  5  2  2   12
Mon Maroons	 9  5  2  2   12
Boston		 9  4  1  4   12
NY Rangers	 8  3  2  3    9
Chicago	 	 9  3  4  2    8
Detroit		10  1  5  4    6
NY Americans	 8  0  3  5    5
Mon Canadiens    6  2  4  0    4

           SCORING LEADERS
		 TM   GP  G  A  PTS
Matt Jambrosich  BOS   9  8  6   14
Chad Sumi	 BOS   9  7  6   13
Chris Montour	 MM    9  4  7   11
Gabryel Roy      BOS   9  2  9   11
Jarryd Barczai   MM    9  8  2   10
Logan Lobreau    CHI   9  5  5   10
Chris Maxwell	 TOR   9  4  6   10
Tyler Ellis	 TOR   9  2  8   10
Daniel Asikainen MM    9  1  9   10

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
OVERTIME WIN LIFTS STEELERS TO TOP OF EAST

Adam Harris scored on a 4 yard run just over 3 minutes into the overtime period to give the Pittsburgh Steelers a 19-13 victory over the Detroit Lions in Sunday NFL action. The victory improves the Steelers record to 4-2 on the season and moves them into sole possession of first place in the East Division.

The Pittsburgh touchdown spoiled the best game of Jason Fischer's young career as the first overall draft pick completed 20 of 34 passes for 220 yards and 1 touchdown which came with just under 2 minutes remaining in regulation and allowed the Lions to force overtime.

The Steelers offense was once again led by running back William Hein as the league's leading rusher carried the ball 25 times for 115 yards. The 6th year pro from Miami seems well on his way to the second 1000 yard rushing season of his career as he has gained 607 yards through the first 6 games. Steelers quarterback Jesus Wright completed 25 of 33 passes for 320 yards and a touchdown but is listed as questionable for next week's game with Washington after suffering a neck injury late in the contest.

The Green Bay Packers improved to 5-1 with a convincing 50-12 pounding of San Francisco. Quarterback Christopher Jordan threw for 307 yards and 3 touchdowns before giving way to backup James Nelson in the fourth quarter.

The Los Angeles Rams kept pace with the Packers atop the West Division after a 26-9 win at home over St Louis. William Bell ran for 86 yards and a score while Curtis Cole threw for 212 and another score to key the Rams victory.

Corey Ely got the best of Michael Huff as Ely's Browns beat Huff's Redskins 30-10. Ely has struggled in recent weeks but looked good on this day as he completed 16 of 26 passes for 274 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Huff threw for just 179 yards and 1 score.

Michael Parker kicked 6 field goals and linebacker Mark Miller had 10 tackles and a pair of sacks to lead the Chicago Bears past Baltimore 25-3. The only touchdown in the game came on a 9 yard first quarter run by Bears back Ryan Clifton, who gained 69 yards on the day.

Rookie running back Alberto Herrmann ran for 74 yards while quarterback Thomas Paz threw a pair of touchdowns to lead the visting New York Giants to a 27-17 win over the Eagles in Philadelphia. New York defensive end Donald Pineda had a big game with 6 tackles, 2 sacks and a forced fumble.

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NFL STANDINGS
EAST		W  L
Pittsburgh	4  2
St Louis	3  3
New York	3  3
Cleveland	3  3
Philadelphia	2  4
Washington	2  4

WEST		W  L 
Los Angeles	5  1
Green Bay	5  1
Chicago		3  3
San Francisco	2  4
Detroit		2  4
Baltimore	2  4

LAST WEEK RESULTS
Cleveland 30 Washington 14 
New York 27 Philadelphia 17
Chicago 25 Baltimore 3 
Green Bay 50 San Francisco 12 
Pittsburgh 19 Detroit 13 (OT)
Los Angeles 26 St Louis 9 

NEXT WEEKS GAMES
St Louis at New York
Cleveland at Philadelphia
Washington at Pittsburgh
Green Bay at Chicago
San Francisco at Detroit
Baltimore at Los Angeles

     LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING		TM	COMP-ATT  YDS  TD  INT  RATING
Michael Huff	WSH	111-167  1412  11   4   104.7
Chris Jordan	GB	104-173  1369  12   3   101.0
Curtis Cole	LA	116-171  1338   9   4    99.0
Jesus Wright	PIT	 84-128  1064   6   3    97.3
Gary Simpson    CHI      97-155  1232   4   3    87.9


RUSHING		   TM	ATT	YDS	AVG	TD
William Hein	   PIT	152     607      4.0	6
William Bell	   LA	112     543	 4.8	4
David Campos	   CLE  116	536	 4.6	1
Robert Roberts	   STL   99     505      5.1	3
Michael Jenson	   SF	118	450      3.8	1

RECEIVING	   POS TM    REC  YDS	AVG	TD
Robert James	   TE  CHI    32  221   6.9	1
Robert Davis	   TE  NY     30  151   5.0     2
Carl Chavez	   WR  WSH    30  460  15.3	3
John Johnson	   WR  BAL    30  371  12.4     0
William Pace	   WR  LA     30  446  14.9     2
Sal Pearson	   TE  DET    28  228   8.1     0


TACKLES		   POS  TM     TACK
Joseph Boucher	   LB   LA      69
Bobby Dominguez    LB   BAL     68
Donnie Reynolds	   LB   StL	67
Mark Miller	   LB   CHI     67
Randy Baker	   LB   DET     66
William Martin	   LB   WSH     63


SACKS		   POS  TM     SACKS
Chris Scott	   DE   CHI	 6
Donald Pineda	   DE   NY	 6
Arthur Long 	   DE   BAL      4
Sean Graves	   DE   LA       4


INTERCEPTIONS      POS  TM      INT
Erick Guy	   CB   PHI	 2
John Cummings	   FS   PIT      2
Anthony Walker	   CB   STL	 2
Ted Richter	   CB   PIT      2
Mark Alexander	   SS   SF       2
Michael Finch	   LB   PIT	 2
Robert Harmon	   SS   DET	 2
Kevin Roberts	   SS   SF       2
Paul Lane	   CB   CHI	 2
Paul Holmes	   SS   GB       2

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
RUSH LEADS #1 STANFORD TO LOB-SIDED WIN

Stanford quarterback Kenneth Rush continues to present his case for a second straight Heisman Trophy as the senior threw for 316 yards and 5 more touchdowns in the Cardinals 45-0 win over Pacific 8 foe Washington. In 7 games this season Rush, who is expected to be the first quarterback taken in next April's NFL draft, has thrown for 2277 yards and 24 touchdowns while being intercepted just twice.

In other Pac8 action UCLA moved into the top 10 and dropped California from 4th to 6th after the Bruins beat the Bears 34-21 in Los Angeles. Sophomore running back Roger Strickland rushed for a career best 227 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead UCLA. Oregon State stays at #9 while USC drops from 10th to 14th in the polls after the Beavers beat the Trojans 26-20 at the Rose Bowl.

Army held on to the number 2 ranking with an easy 42-3 victory over San Diego State. John Price threw 3 touchdown passes for the Black Knights while junior Donald Brady rushed for 245 yards in the win.

John Simmons carried the ball for 298 yards to lead Notre Dame past Pittsburgh 43-31, snapping the Irish's 2 game losing streak.

Preseason #1 Tennessee continues to drop in the polls without quarterback Samuel Copeland. Three second half field goals proved the difference, snapping a 17-17 halftime tie and giving LSU at 26-17 victory at home over the Vols. LSU quarterback Kevin Salter, who started 9 games last year as a true freshman, continues to evolve into a solid college signal caller, completing 20 of 38 passes for 280 yards and a pair of first half scores. Tennessee's James Roman threw a pair of touchdown passes of his own but also had a costly interception early in the 4th quarter deep in Tigers territory. Roman is replacing the injured Samuel Copeland, who could miss up to another month with a broken bone in his hip.

The SEC has 4 teams in the top ten rankings led by #3 LSU. Auburn moved up to #4 after a 37-16 victory over Florida as the Gators fell to 11th in the rankings. Alabama is 5th following a 35-21 victory over #25 Mississippi State while the Volunteers are 7th in the latest poll.

Michigan's woes continue as the Wolverines dropped to 3-4 with a 24-21 loss at home to Indiana. Michigan was tabbed by many to contend for the National Championship but now even an early December bowl bid looks out of reach. Ohio State is also 3-4 as the Buckeyes lost 27-20 to lowly Purdue on the weekend.

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	ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25 RANKINGS
Rank	Team		Conf	Record	 Points	Last			Next		      LW
1	Stanford	Pac8	7-0 (4-0) 1607	W, 45-0 #23 Washington	Brown			1
2	Army		IND	6-0 (3-0) 1534	W, 42-3 San Diego State	at Boston College	2
3	LSU		SEC	6-1 (3-1) 1466	W, 26-17 #7 Tennessee	at Vanderbilt		5
4	Auburn		SEC	6-1 (3-1) 1396	W, 37-16 #11 Florida	at Kentucky		8
5	Alabama		SEC	5-1 (3-1) 1329	W, 35-21 #25 Miss State	at Ole Miss		12
6	California	Pac8	6-2 (3-2) 1248	L, 21-34 at #10 UCLA	at #9 Oregon State	4
7	Tennessee	SEC	5-2 (2-2) 1176	L, 17-26 at #3 LSU	#25 Miss State		3
8	Notre Dame	IND	5-2 (2-2) 1095	W, 43-31 Pittsburgh	at Syracuse		7
9	Oregon State	Pac8	5-1 (2-1) 1022	W, 26-20 at #14 USC	#6 California		9
10	UCLA		Pac8	4-2 (2-2)  962	W, 34-21 #6 California	Southern Miss		21
11	Florida		SEC	5-2 (2-2)  876	L, 16-37 at #4 Auburn	#15 Georgia		6
12	Wisconsin	B10	6-1 (4-0)  809	W, 54-25 Iowa		at Michigan		15
13	Penn State	IND	6-1 (4-0)  744	W, 17-12 at Rutgers	Navy			14
14	USC		Pac8	4-2 (1-2)  684	L, 20-26 #9 Oregon St 	at Wash State		10
15	Georgia		SEC	4-2 (3-1)  624	L, 10-22 Ole Miss	at #11 Florida		11
16	Texas		SWC	5-2 (3-1)  582	W, 34-20 Rice		Kansas			16
17	Arkansas	SWC	5-2 (2-2)  525	L, 13-30 Texas Tech	at SMU			13
18	Minnesota	B10	6-1 (3-1)  470	W, 47-22 Illinois	at Indiana		19
19	Texas Christian	SWC	6-1 (4-0)  385	W, 30-16 Baylor		Princeton		24
20	Michigan State	B10	6-1 (3-1)  325	W, 29-3 Northwestern	at Iowa			23
21    George Washington	IND	6-1 (4-0)  236	W, 58-6 at Western Mich	Georgia Tech		22
22	Oklahoma	B8	7-0 (3-0)  174	W, 44-10 at Maryland	Nebraska		27
23	Washington	Pac8	3-3 (1-2)  115	L, 0-45 at #1 Stanford	Oregon			20
24	Florida State	IND	6-0 (4-0)   91	W, 27-20 at Ohio	at Virginia Tech	28
25	Miss State	SEC	3-4 (0-4)   58	L, 21-35 at #5 Alabama	at #7 Tennessee		17

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				WEEKEND RESULTS
#12 Wisconsin (6-1)	54-25	Iowa (0-6)
#18 Minnesota (6-1)	47-22	Illinois (2-4)
#13 Penn State (6-1)	17-12	Rutgers (2-4)
#8 Notre Dame (5-2)	43-31	Pittsburgh (5-3)
#10 UCLA (4-2)		34-21	#6 California (6-2)
#9 Oregon State (5-1)	26-20	#14 USC (4-2)
#1 Stanford (7-0)	45-0	#23 Washington (3-3)
Ole Miss (4-2)		22-10	#15 Georgia (4-2)
#5 Alabama (5-1)	35-21	#25 Miss State (3-4)
#4 Auburn (6-1)		37-16	#11 Florida (5-2)
#3 LSU (6-1)		26-17	#7 Tennessee (5-2)
#19 TCU (6-1)		30-16	Baylor (6-2)
Texas Tech (3-3)	30-13	#17 Arkansas (5-2)
#16 Texas (5-2)		34-20	Rice (3-3)
#24 Florida State (6-0)	27-20	Ohio (4-2)
#21 George Wash (6-1)	58-6	Western Michigan (1-5)
#22 Oklahoma (7-0)	44-10	Maryland (0-7)
#2 Army (6-0)		42-3	San Diego State (2-5)
North Carolina (8-0)	45-7	Duke (6-2)
Wake Forest (4-3)	36-20	Clemson (1-5)
Virginia (1-5)		34-7	NC State (0-7)
Cincinnati (5-2)	39-11	Southern Miss (2-6)
Louisville (3-3)	24-20	Wichita State (0-6)
Memphis (4-3)		26-13	Detroit Mercy (4-2)
Purdue (2-5)		27-20	Ohio State (3-4)
Indiana (3-3)		24-21	Michigan (3-4)
Colorado (6-2)		29-17	Missouri (1-7)
Nebraska (5-2)		7-6	Kansas State (0-6)
Oklahoma State (2-5)	23-10	Kansas (1-5)
Fresno State (6-2)	29-3	Long Beach St (5-3)
Cal State LA (2-5)	23-7	Utah State (0-6)
Pacific (2-5)		25-3	Santa Barbara (1-6)
Villanova (3-4)		27-13	Boston College (3-4)
Holy Cross (2-4)	13-6	Syracuse (0-7)
Arizona State (5-3)	27-18	Northern Arizona (2-6)
Hardin-Simmons (5-2)	31-17	New Mexico St (4-3)
Arizona (7-0)		63-14	North Texas (0-7)
Harvard (4-2)		30-10	Dartmouth (3-4)
Columbia (4-3)		7-6	Princeton (1-5)
Vanderbilt (3-3)	40-14	Kentucky (1-5)
New Mexico (7-0)	35-2	Denver (2-6)
Utah (5-3)		34-12	Brigham Young (0-6)
Colorado State (4-2)	45-7	Wyoming (2-5)
West Virginia (4-4)	31-3	VMI (1-6)
Citadel (2-4)		33-6	Davidson (1-6)
Furman (5-2)		51-34	Richmond (2-5)
Georgia Tech (5-1)	37-17	Marshall (3-4)
Yale (5-1)		62-13	Texas A&M (2-5)
Montana (4-3)		24-14	Penn (1-7)
Wash State (1-6)	29-17	West Texas A&M (3-4)
Wm & Mary (2-5)		24-15	Brown (0-7)
Oregon (4-3)		34-13	San Jose State (4-3)
SMU (4-2)		50-7	South Carolina (3-3)
UTEP (6-1)		23-8	Cornell (3-4)
Tulsa (3-3)		37-17	Idaho (1-6)

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		MAJOR CONFERENCE STANDINGS
	   Conference  Overall
ACC		  W-L	W-L
North Carolina    5-0	8-0  
Duke  		  4-1   6-2
Wake Forest	  3-1   4-3
Clemson	 	  1-2   1-5
South Carolina    1-2   3-3
Virginia	  1-3   1-5
NC State	  0-3   0-7
Maryland	  0-3   0-7
  	   Conference  Overall
BIG 8		  W-L	W-L 
Nebraska	  4-0   5-2
Oklahoma	  3-0   7-0
Colorado	  4-1   6-2
Oklahoma State    2-1   2-5
Kansas		  1-3   1-5
Missouri	  1-4   1-7
Iowa State	  0-3   0-5
Kansas State	  0-3   0-6
  	   Conference  Overall
BIG TEN		  W-L	W-L
Wisconsin	  4-0   6-1
Michigan State    3-1   6-1
Minnesota	  3-1   6-1
Indiana		  2-1   3-3
Michigan	  2-2   3-4
Northwestern	  1-2   3-3
Purdue	 	  1-2   2-5
Illinois	  1-2   2-4
Ohio State	  1-3   3-4
Iowa		  0-4   0-6[b]

  	   Conference  Overall
PACIFIC 8	  W-L	W-L
Stanford	  4-0   7-0
Oregon State	  2-1   5-1
California	  3-2   6-2
UCLA	 	  2-2   4-2
Oregon		  1-2   4-3
USC		  1-2   4-2
Washington	  1-2   3-3
Washington State  0-3   1-6 [b]

  	   Conference  Overall
Southeastern	  W-L	W-L
LSU		  3-1   6-1
Georgia		  3-1   4-2
Alabama		  3-1   5-1
Auburn		  3-1   6-1
Ole Miss	  2-2   4-2
Florida		  2-2   5-2
Tennessee	  2-2   5-2
Vanderbilt	  1-3   3-3
Kentucky	  1-3   1-5
Mississippi State 0-4   3-4[b]

  	   Conference  Overall
Southwest	  W-L	W-L
Texas Christian   4-0   6-1
Texas		  3-1   5-2
Baylor		  3-2   6-2
Arkansas	  2-2   5-2
SMU		  1-1   4-2
Texas Tech	  1-2   3-3
Rice		  0-3   3-3
Texas A&M	  0-3   2-5

WEEKLY INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS

Here are some of the top performances from this past weekend:

Oregon junior quarterback Barry Bell, making his first start of the season, threw for 412 yards and 2 touchdowns to help the Ducks beat San Jose State 34-13.
Minnesota senior QB Jose Landrum passed for 397 yards and 4 td's in the Gophers 47-22 Big Ten win over Illinois.
Notre Dame sophomore QB John Burnett threw 4 touchdowns passes and for 389 yards in a 43-31 win over Pitt.

Arizona freshman running back David Hayes gained 327 yards on the ground and scored 4 touchdowns in a 63-14 thrashing of North Texas State.

Colorado State senior Edward Simmons rushed for 270 yards in a 45-7 win over Wyoming.

Army junior Leland James made 3 catches for 188 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 42-3 win over San Diego State.

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	TOP 25 PASSERS (QB Rating)
 Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Comp	Comp%	Yds	TD	Int	Sack	Rat
1	J. Price	ARMY	6	184	123	66.8	2116	21	2	21	198.9
2	R. Burnett	OHIO	5	 90	 65	72.2	 914	10	1	11	192.0
3	L. West		ND	3	 72	 52	72.2	 740	 8	2	5	189.7
4	R. Barker	OHIO	5	 88	 55	62.5	 985	 9	1	6	188.0
5	D. Cullen	ARZ	6	190	124	65.3	1914	23	4	10	185.6
6	B. Stuckey	CAL	7	164	113	68.9	1617	18	3	12	184.3
7	J. Shelton	CAL	4	 72	 48	66.7	 756	 7	1	8	184.2
8	K. Rush		STAN	7	242	161	66.5	2277	24	2	15	176.6
9	D. Frye		PNST	7	152	 96	63.2	1608	13	4	19	175.0
10	M. Montano	MIST	4	 70	 47	67.1	 660	 6	0	4	174.6
11	C. Joseph	MIST	4	 50	 32	64.0	 523	 4	1	3	174.3
12	P. Jones	USC	6	202	125	61.9	1928	19	5	14	168.1
13	E. Fisher	DUKE	8	258	173	67.1	2449	18	4	20	166.7
14	S. Copeland	TENN	5	148	 96	64.9	1430	10	2	14	165.6
15	E. Devries	GW	7	194	135	69.6	1621	17	3	20	165.6
16	P. Diaz		DAVD	3	 37	 20	54.1	 377	 4	2	3	164.5
17	C. Lamb		HOU	6	184	114	62.0	1784	15	6	18	163.8
18	R. Harrison	PUR	3	 60	 40	66.7	 549	 4	1	3	162.2
19	Z. Miller	VAND	3	 56	 35	62.5	 490	 4	0	3	159.6
20	B. Taylor	NMSU	7	215	138	64.2	1804	18	4	14	158.6
21	W. Christensen	UNM	7	163	114	69.9	1343	12	4	17	158.5
22	J. Landrum	MINN	7	186	117	62.9	1842	13	10	23	158.4
23	R. Preston	WYO	4	 55	 26	47.3	 591	 4	1	11	157.9
24	T. Coleman	OU	7	210	124	59.0	1814	18	3	14	157.0
25	D. Holliday	FURM	5	 99	 70	70.7	 882	 4	1	3	156.9


				TOP 20 RUSHING
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Att	Yds	YPG	YPC	Lng	TD
1	RB J. Young	SOMS	8	229	1412	176.5	6.2	72	6
2	RB M. Baugh	UNC	8	235	1287	160.9	5.5	74	14
3	RB D. Hayes	ARZ	7	214	1244	177.7	5.8	67	12
4	RB J. Simmons	ND	7	198	1232	176.0	6.2	62	13
5	RB J. Andrews	CORN	7	178	1097	156.7	6.2	59	6
6	RB R. Luna	DUKE	8	204	1071	133.9	5.3	27	4
7	RB P. Johnson	YALE	6	157	1048	174.7	6.7	66	9
8	RB W. Young	UTEP	7	221	1016	145.1	4.6	75	5
9	RB B. Thompson	FRS	8	205	 976	122.0	4.8	38	4
10	RB R. Mchugh	HaSi	7	212	 943	134.7	4.5	77	9
11	RB R. Clark	GW	7	167	 933	133.3	5.6	62	4
12	RB R. Haynes	NMSU	7	210	 933	133.3	4.4	60	3
13	RB M. Robertson	CAL	8	136	 931	116.4	6.9	39	5
14	RB K. Jones	VAND	6	161	 928	154.7	5.8	76	6
15	RB J. White	AUB	7	161	 920	131.4	5.7	46	5
16	RB L. Spooner	MINN	7	147	 879	125.6	6.0	53	10
17	RB E. Williams	FLA	7	181	 877	125.3	4.9	59	6
18	RB E. Simmons	CSU	6	156	 861	143.5	5.5	80	7
19	RB D. Brady	ARMY	6	130	 856	142.7	6.6	78	5
20	RB D. Smith	NARZ	8	181	 854	106.8	4.7	34	5


				TOP 20 RECEIVING YARDS
Rank	Player		Tm	GS	Rec	Yds	YPG	YPC	YAC	Lng	TD
1	WR D. Horn	VMI	7	34	810	115.7	23.8	142	79	5
2	WR D. Winn	OU	7	45	749	107.0	16.6	146	69	4
3	WR E. Ybarra	MSST	7	40	732	104.6	18.3	188	55	2
4	WR C. Edmond	PITT	8	43	732	 91.5	17.0	173	56	3
5	WR J. Cook	DUKE	8	46	708	 88.5	15.4	156	64	5
6	WR K. Wallace	WVU	8	42	680	 85.0	16.2	116	55	2
7	WR S. White	UNC	8	43	671	 83.9	15.6	247	59	3
8	WR D. Clayton	TXAM	7	33	666	 95.1	20.2	126	61	3
9	WR V. Means	MINN	7	42	660	 94.3	15.7	133	74	5
10	WR C. Pollard	HOU	6	38	659	109.8	17.3	232	69	5
11	WR F. Shea	ARMY	6	33	655	109.2	19.8	205	88	6
12	WR P. Burks	FRS	8	43	651	 81.4	15.1	154	74	4
13	WR L. James	ARMY	6	38	641	106.8	16.9	245	76	8
14	WR L. Kirkland	NEB	7	46	635	 90.7	13.8	143	52	0
15	WR C. Mcintosh	TENN	7	35	621	 88.7	17.7	135	62	3
16	WR M. James	USC	6	28	620	103.3	22.1	128	90	6
17	WR S. Johnson	ND	7	38	615	 87.9	16.2	122	65	5
18	WR J. Chase	FURM	7	38	605	 86.4	15.9	194	80	3
19	WR J. Boling	DUKE	8	40	600	 75.0	15.0	188	71	7
20	WR W. Chambers	NARZ	8	43	596	 74.5	13.9	150	61	4

01-10-2016, 01:16 AM	#241
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday July 14, 1941 MONDAY JULY 14, 1941 YANKEES AND PIRATES LEAD THE WAY The New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates have never met in a World Series but as the season passes the all-star break those two teams are on a collision course. There is still a lot of baseball left to play and neither team has much of a lead but both clubs have been playing very well of late and seem to be the favourites. The Yankees had their most recent winning streak, an 8 gamer, come to an end yesterday with a 6-5 loss to the White Sox in Chicago. Since June 1st the Yankees have the best record in baseball, going 28-8 (.778). The Yankees led the major leagues in batting average, slugging percentage and homeruns and trail only the Boston Red Sox in runs scored (499 to 494). The Yankees pitching has been much better than the second place Red Sox, allowing nearly 100 fewer runs. The Yankees are third in the American League behind the A's and White Sox in runs allowed. The Yankees batting order strikes fear in to the rest of the American League: Code: 1 Martin Robbins 2B .265 5 41 2 George Foskey LF .283 15 55 3 John Hanson CF .323 14 52 4 Elgie Vargas RF .365 19 77 5 Oscar Weidner SS .259 6 56 6 Dioner Gonzales 1B .330 1 21 7 Joe Martin C .302 6 36 8 Tommy Dahl 3B .255 4 45 Even with Martin and Dahl presently on the disabled list along with Jim Post, who platoons with Gonzales at 1B, the Yankees bats continue to roll. Pitching has been strong with the biggest surprise being the dominant season 35 year old Jake Banks is having. The 10 year veteran has shaved 2 runs off his career era this season and is among the league leaders at 2.63. He has also won 11 of 13 decisions and is just 3 wins shy of equaling his previous career best. The Pittsburgh Pirates are in a tough battle in the National League as they have a mere one game lead on defending champion Philadelphia with the Cardinals also right in the mix. Pittsburgh has won 3 straight after the all-star break including a doubelheader sweep of the slumping New York Giants yesterday. The biggest surprise in Pittsburgh has been the emergence of rookie catcher Yuniesky Gomez. The 25 year old from Harrison, New Jersey made the all-star team after hitting .276 with 8 homers and 34 rbi's in the first half of the season. He has been outstanding defensively despite only having 7 career major league games under his belt prior to this season. The Pirates pitching staff has held up extremely well, even with the elbow surgery that cost ace Kitty Martin most of the season. Pittsburgh has also scored runs in bunches but the Pirates have to be wary of the defending champion Phillies. Just a game back of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia has won 9 of it's last 13 games after going through a team-wide slump in late June which led to a stretch of games where the Phillies won just 2 of 11 contests. The pitching, led by 40 year old William Mongillo (12-6, 2.08) has been outstanding, just as it was last season. The bats on the other hand, with the exception of 3B Bill Antell (.327,4,32), have been in a season-long slump. You have to think the Phillies bats will break out soon and when they do it will be tough for the Pirates to keep up. The Cardinals were 8 games off the pace on June 9th but since then have slowly worked their way into contention. Getting outfielder Juan Herrera back (.364,0,19 in 27 games) after he missed almost two months with a thumb injury is a huge boost to an offense that has played very well this year. Outfielder Emiliano Ramon (.318,7,31), first baseman Frank Greiger (.309,5,49) and second baseman Otto Valdez (.307,2,37) lead the way and all-star catcher Gil White (.279,8,37) has been a pleasant surprise. The redbirds pitching staff lacks the depth of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh but with Chris Golden (11-4, 2.37) and hard-throwing Kick McAvoy (8-10, 3.89) there is some talent. If I was betting I would say the Yankees will hold off Boston in the American League as Vargas has a much better supporting cast than Red Sox slugger Frank Thomas. In the National League, I think it is just a matter of time before the Phillies bats get hot and they pull away from the pack. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 54 29 - Pittsburgh 49 33 - Boston 52 32 2.5 Philadelphia 48 34 1.0 Cleveland 45 38 9.0 St Louis 48 37 2.5 Chicago 42 40 11.5 Boston 44 38 5.0 Philadelphia 41 40 12.0 NY Giants 43 42 7.5 St Louis 40 44 14.5 Cincinnati 42 42 8.0 Washington 30 53 24.0 Brooklyn 39 46 11.5 Detroit 28 56 26.5 Chicago 21 62 28.5 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .366 Bill Antell PHI .327 Elgie Vargas NYY .365 Bill Schmidt BKN .317 Vince Craft PHA .335 Otto Valdez StL .307 Joe Purdom WSH .325 John Wagoner NYG .301 John Hanson NYY .323 Charlie Moore PHI .300 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 29 Marty Wolf BKN 15 Elgie Vargas NYY 19 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 George Foskey NYY 15 Carlos Torres CIN 10 John Hanson NYY 14 Len Butler NYG 9 Abel Knight SLB 13 George Osgood CIN 9 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 88 George Osgood CIN 64 Elgie Vargas NYY 77 Marty Wolf BKN 60 Johnny Pate BOS 62 Linus Hoffman BKN 58 Oscar Weidner NYY 56 Alexi Gamboa CIN 55 George Foskey NYY 55 Jack Hansen PIY 55 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jocko DiBlasi SLB 12-5 William Mongillo PHI 12-6 Jack Dickinson CLE 12-6 Chris Golden StL 11-4 Jake Banks NYY 11-2 John White NYG 10-6 Jay Moore NYY 11-5 Barney DuPont PIT 10-6 Jim Thayer PHA 11-6 John Petersen NYG 9-4 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.11 William Mongillo PHI 2.08 George Odom PHA 2.25 Chris Golden StL 2.37 Jake Banks NYY 2.63 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.55 John Graham CHA 2.66 Jack Chandler PHI 2.78 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.68 Joe Straub PHI 2.78 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 91 Barney Dupont PIT 78 Jim Thayer PHA 82 Jim Turner CIN 76 Buck Parham PHA 79 Elbert Eaton PHI 72 Elias Edmondson NYY 71 Kick McAvoy StL 71 Mike Garretson WSH 70 Aurelio Ventura NYG 68 VARGAS HEATING UP FOR YANKEES New York Yankee outfielder Elgie Vargas continued his torrid play of late by going 11-20 (.550) with 3 homers and 8 rbi's in 5 games last week. The 30 year old slugger was named the American League player of the week for his efforts. It is the 19th time in his major league career and second time this season that the New York City native has been named player of the week. On the season he is batting .365 with 19 homers and 77 rbi's in 69 games. The National League player of the week went to Philadelphia Phillies veteran pitcher William Mongillo. In a shortened week because of the all-star break Mongillo had just 1 start but pitched a 5 hit shutout as the Phillies blanked St Louis 6-0. He also pitched 2 scoreless innings in the all-star game and was credited with the victory in the National Leagues 5-0 victory. On the season the 40 year old year old is 12-6 with a National League leading 2.08 era. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 1 5 .316 29 88 .366 NYY Elgie Vargas 3 8 .550 19 77 .365 CLE Charlie Mongan 0 0 .154 13 33 .258 DRAFT SIGNING UPDATE Here is an update on the first round picks from last month's draft. 1- Detroit: Alexi Ruiz 3B. 18 year old remains unsigned. 2- Cubs: Charlie Bertrand LF. The 18 year old signed and is playing for the Class B St Cloud Bulldogs. In 9 games Bertrand is struggling, batting just .167 (6-36) with 1 homer and 2 rbi's. 3- White Sox: Sam Herrera P: 19 year old remains unsigned 4- Cubs: Deacon Schober RF: 22 year old signed and went straight to the major leagues. He is batting .316 (12-38) in 11 games with a homerun and 10 rbi's. 5- Washington: Pat Green 3B: 18 year old remains unsigned 6- Browns: Silver Cook 2B: The 18 year old just signed last Friday and made his pro debut in the rookie Kity League with Springfield. He went 1-for-3 with a walk in the game, an 8-4 win over Lexington. 7- Pittsburgh: Chick Pate 2B: 19 year old remains unsigned. 8- Cincinnati: Rube Correnti SS: 18 year old remains unsigned. 9- Braves: Michael Ryan P: 18 year old remains unsigned. 10-White Sox: Jim Barlett P: 18 year old remains unsigned. 11-Brooklyn: Roscoe Merkel 2B: 18 year old signed early last week and has been assigned to the Lexington Hustlers of the Kity League. In 3 games Merkel is 1-for-7 with 3 strikeouts. 12- Cleveland: Angelo Arias P: Signed with Indians and assigned to Class A Oklahoma City. Pitched a complete game victory in his debut, allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 5 and walking none. 22 year is a former Texas Longhorn and was named the NCAA West pitcher of the year and MVP recently. 13- Athletics: Sam Carter 3B: 22 year old remains unsigned. 14- Cardinals: Bill Bell OF: 18 year old remains unsigned. 15- Giants: Adam Young P: 22 year old remains unsigned. 16-Yankees: Jake Fagen P: 23 year old remains unsigned. 17- Phillies: Fred Butler P: 22 year old remains unsigned. 18- Red Sox: Tommy Rogers 3B: 19 year old remains unsigned. BUG HARRISON UPDATE We haven't heard much from the young Philadelphia Phillies outfielder of late but he has been featured prominently in previous years so I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how Harrision's season is gone. First some background for those who may not remember the name. Harrison played 4 seasons at Nebraska, hitting .334 with 16 homers and 78 rbi's as a senior in 1939. He was projected as a first round pick but certainly not number as that spot was reserved from current Detroit Tiger slugger Sam Fuller, who hit 49 homers that season with the Western Academy League Hawaii Islanders. Harrison did hear his name called by the Phillies, who held the 6th pick in the draft. In Philadelphia Harrison joined a club with a ton of good young hitters including third baseman Bill Antell, who was entering his second season in the big leagues. The Phillies moved Harrison from his natural 3B position to the outfield, where he had played some for Nebraska. Once he signed a contract in early July he was brought straight to the big league club without spending a day in the minors. It turned out to be a perfect decision as the then 23 year old Harrison, started his career with a 34 game hit streak, the longest since 1932 and the 7th longest in league history. Despite playing in just 70 games, the Washington DC native would be named National League rookie of the year after Harrison finished the season with a .377 average along with 16 homers and 76 rbi's. In 1940 he proved how easily he adapted to leftfield by winning a gold glove and appearing in the first-ever All-Star Game. Harrison played 149 games and led the National League in homers (20) and rbi's (120) while batting .330. He helped the Phillies to their first pennant and World Series title in 12 seasons by hitting .350 (7-24) with a homer and 4 rbi's in 5 World Series games. This year, however, has been a struggle for the now 25 year old - his birthday was last week. Harrison hit just .200 in spring training as he was bothered by a bruised wrist. He hit just .232 in April but started to pick things up in May before being hit by a pitch in the hand and missing 4 days. Once he returned from the injury he seemed to lose his groove and continues to struggle, batting just .245 with 6 homers and 45 rbi's in 80 games. He still leads the club in homers and remains batting clean-up in the Phillies order but this has clearly not been a season Bug Harrison can take pride in. Many of the Phillies young batters are not producing like they did last yeae - the team ranks 7th in runs scored - but the pitching has been the best in the National League and as a result the Phillies remain in the hunt, just a game back of front-running Pittsburgh. NCAA FOOTBALL STANFORD IN A RUSH TO WIN NCAA TITLE The Stanford Cardinal feel this may be the year the club contends for it's second National Championship. Stanford, which went a perfect 12-0 and won the Rose Bowl in 1913 to claim it's only title, is pinning it's hopes on another huge season for Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Kenneth Rush. The senior led Stanford to a 10-2 record and finished 11th in the polls after losing to co-National Champion Army 44-33 in the Fiesta Bowl. Rush led the nation in both passing yardage and touchdowns last season. The only key loss on defense to graduation is FS Gary Holcomb, who was all Pac-8 a year ago but redshirt freshman Stephen Hicks looks up to the challenge of replacing Holcomb. Overall, this might be the best defense Stanford has had in years led by junior strong safety Michael Smith, who had 100 tackles last season and was named to the All-Pac 8 team. Watch out for sophomore Edward Castaneda, the linebacker had 61 tackles and led the team with 8 sacks as a true freshman Rush will have a new center this year but the rest of the offensive line returns including second team All-American senior guard Philip Thomas and all Pac-8 senior tackle Paul Garcia. The top receiver in Ben Martin, who had 69 catches for 1108 yards and the top rusher Randall Brown, who gained 690 yards on the ground last year, have both graduated but junior Jeffrey Williams seemed to improve every game and had 59 catches last season including 10 touchdown grabs. Running back is the one area of concern but Stanford used a committe approach last season and while Brown is gone, junior Clinton Smith (275 yds), Junior Michael Baggett (168 yds) and Sophomore James Stanley (392 yds) will all get more carries this season. Another player to watch is junior-college transfer Alberto Rose, a powerful inside rusher who may earn the starting halfback job. The Pacific 8 is always a dogfight and Stanford has not emerged as the top dog since 1930, but this might just be the year that Ken Rush leads the Cardinal to it's second National Championship. The competition will be tough as USC had a huge recruiting class and Cal landed top quarterback recruit Bruce Stuckey. UCLA has had some down years of late but the Bruins can never be counted out either. The college football season kicks off in late August. Back WR Jeff Williams 59 catches 933 yards G Thomas and T Garcia Code: KEN RUSH CAREER STATS Year GP GS Comp-Att Comp% Yds TD Int Sack Rat 1938 6 5 98-168 58.3 1433 9 6 16 140.5 1939 10 10 206-331 62.2 2775 22 8 24 149.8 1940 12 12 280-410 68.3 3904 35 7 27 173.0 Total 28 27 584-909 64.2 8112 66 21 67 158.5 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE BEARS LOOK TO TRAINING CAMP WITH HOPE Training camps for the 12 National Football League teams are just around the corner and no team is more eager to have a fresh start than the Chicago Bears, the NFL's perennial sad-sack organization. The Bears won their only NFL championship way back in 1919. There are 4 other teams that have won just 1 title including Washington, New York, Pittsburgh and Baltimore but with just 5 playoff appearances in the 29 year history of the franchise the Bears are the least successful team in the league. The Bears have not won a playoff game since 1925 but have only played one playoff game (1932) since then. Their .439 career regular season winning percentage (141-182-13) is better than only the Pittsburgh Steelers but the Steelers have made the playoffs in 2 of the past 4 years including an NFL title game loss to Detroit two years ago. The Bears have had reached .500 just once in the past 8 years and in the last three seasons went 3-9, 4-8 and 4-8. Chicago has really struggled the last 3 seasons after the retirement of QB Mike Maxwell. Rookie of the year in 1929 when he was drafted second overall out of Ohio State, Maxwell was the Bears starting QB until an injury-riddled 1938 campaign that forced his retirement. He was offensive MVP in 1937 when he led the Bears to a 6-5-1 record, their only winning season since 1932, and is 5th all-time in passing yardage. Since Maxwell the Bears tried Jimmy Carpenter, Gary Simpson and Jose Chandler under center with moderate success. Now it is Pete Cole's turn. The 24 year old was the Bears second round pick out of Michigan and is expected to challenge Simpson for the starting job. Simpson was a Cardinals draft pick from Vanderbilt in 1938 but was released late in the 1939 season and signed by the Bears. He started 11 games last season and had 16 touchdown passes compared with 11 interceptions and led the offense to the middle of the pack in the league by being ranked 6th overall. The big issue for the Bears in recent years has been their defense, or more precisely the lack thereof. Only the woeful Detroit Lions defense allowed more points against then the Bears and while Chicago did rank 2nd against the run it was in a big part because teams found it so easy to throw on what was far and away the worst pass defense in the NFL. Unfortunately not much has changed this season in the secondary. Ben Dennis, a third round pick out of USC will be given a shot at taking over the free safety position from veteran Anthony Kraft, who really struggled last season. However, there have been no additions at cornerback, a position that was badly exposed last year. There is some talent on the defense, most notably 3rd year DE Christopher Scott who led the NFL in sacks last season with 12 and made his first pro bowl appearance. Scott was a first round pick from Auburn in 1938 and joined run stopping DT Miguel Anderson (7th year South Carolina) as the only Bears on the defensive side of the ball to play in the Pro Bowl last year. The other big performer on the Bears defense is linebacker Mark Miller. A third round pick from Wisconsin in 1933, the 8 year veteran made a pro bowl appearance in 1938 and is coming off a personal best 91 tackles last season. The bottom line. Despite the fact the Bears defense is so bad Chicago used it's first round pick on WR James Tran from Florida and it's second round pick on Michigan QB Pete Cole. With the exception of FS Ben Dennis in the third round the Bears entire draft was focused on the offense. The lack of attention to the defense means the Bears will give up a ton of points this season and while Tran will help the offense, they certainly will not score enough to offset the problems on the other side of the ball. A 4th straight season of 4 wins or less seems to be what the future holds for the Bears. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-11-2016, 09:50 PM	#242
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday July 21, 1941 MONDAY JULY 21, 1941 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS SLUMP The Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies both had a rough time last week allowing the St Louis Cardinals to move a little closer to top spot in the National League. The Cardinals did not have a great week themselves, starting out 2-3 before sweeping a doubleheader from the Braves yesterday but it was enough to allow them to gain a game and a half on front-running Pittsburgh. St Louis now trails the Pirates by just 1 game after Pittsburgh went 2-4 last week including dropping 2 out of 3 to the Boston Braves. The Pirates pitching let them down in New England as George Myers (7-5, 4.57) and Pete Moersch (8-7, 4.08) were shelled on succesive nights. Perhaps the absence of Kitty Martin, out long term with an injury, is starting to show on the Pittsburgh rotation. The starters ERA ranks only 6th in the National League and were it not for some stellar work out of the pen from Joe Barroso (5-0, 7sv, 2.14) the Bucs might be in a heap of trouble. Like Pittsburgh, the Phillies also ran into some trouble with pitching this week. The Phillies split a 2 game series with St Louis to start the week before letting lowly Chicago come into town and sweep a pair of games by scores of 7-4 and 5-1. After beating Cincinnati 3-1 on a great pitching performance from Jack Chandler (8-6, 2.74), who allowed just 4 hits over 8 1/3 innings, the week ended badly for the Phillies as they were swept by the Reds in a Sunday doubleheader. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 59 31 - Pittsburgh 51 37 - Boston 56 36 4.0 St Louis 52 40 1.0 Philadelphia 47 42 11.5 Philadelphia 50 39 1.5 Cleveland 47 44 12.5 Boston 48 42 4.0 Chicago 46 44 13.0 NY Giants 48 43 4.5 St Louis 42 50 18.0 Cincinnati 45 46 7.5 Washington 36 55 23.5 Brooklyn 41 50 11.5 Detroit 30 61 29.5 Chicago 26 64 26.0 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .373 Bill Antell PHI .320 Elgie Vargas NYY .363 Bill Schmidt BKN .307 Vince Craft PHA .328 John Palmer StL .301 Joe Purdom WSH .323 John Wagoner NYG .297 Joe Camberos CLE .321 Otto Valdez StL .297 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 32 Marty Wolf BKN 15 Elgie Vargas NYY 24 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 George Foskey NYY 17 Carlos Torres CIN 10 Charlie Mongan CLE 16 Len Butler NYG 10 John Hanson NYY 15 George Osgood CIN 9 Chicken Hicks PIT 9 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 99 George Osgood CIN 70 Elgie Vargas NYY 88 Marty Wolf BKN 62 Johnny Pate BOS 66 Linus Hoffman BKN 61 Oscar Weidner NYY 61 Alexi Gamboa CIN 57 George Foskey NYY 60 Jack Hansen PIY 56 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jocko DiBlasi SLB 13-6 William Mongillo PHI 12-6 Wiki Estrella BOS 12-4 Chris Golden StL 11-4 Jay Moore NYY 12-5 John White NYG 11-6 Jack Dickinson CLE 12-6 Barney DuPont PIT 11-6 Jim Thayer PHA 12-6 Danny Gentry BKN 10-7 Jake Banks NYY 11-2 Aurelio Ventura NYG 10-7 Kick McAvoy StL 10-10 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.71 William Mongillo PHI 2.18 Buck Parham PHA 2.36 Chris Golden StL 2.37 John Graham CHA 2.67 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.47 Jim Thayer PHA 2.93 Jack Chandler PHI 2.74 Jack Dickinson CLE 3.01 Otto Stahl BKN 2.81 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 96 Elbert Eaton PHI 83 Buck Parham PHA 86 Jim Turner CIN 82 Jim Thayer PHA 84 Barney Dupont PIT 81 Elias Edmondson NYY 81 Aurelio Ventura NYG 80 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 71 Kick McAvoy StL 78 Mike Garretson WSH 71 THOMAS MOVES CLOSER TO 450TH HOMER Boston Red Sox slugger Frank Thomas is looking to be well on his way to his third triple crown. The six time MVP is also just 4 homers shy of reaching 450 for his career and has 11 days to get to that pinnacle before his 31st birthday. Thomas, who hit 3 homers and drove in 11 runs last week was named the American League player of the week for the 37th time in his career. Thomas won his second triple crown last season after a record-breaking year that saw him hit 77 homers and drive in 202 runs while batting .375. He has 6 batting titles and his lifetime .370 average ranks second all-time trailing only George Bielinski (more on him in a moment). Thomas is one of just 3 players to top the 250 homer mark and all 3 are active. Thomas leads with 446. Elgie Vargas is next with 374 followed by Charlie Mongan with 284. Thomas also has 1395 career rbi's trailing only hall of famer George Weaver, who drove in 1508 but played in well over twice as many games as Thomas has to this point. Weaver is also the all-time hit leader with 3940. Thomas is presently 45th all-time with 1918 base hits. Despite Thomas' big week the Red Sox went just 4-4 in 8 games and dropped some more ground in their efforts to catch the Yankees. The National League player of the week was one of my old Cubs as 26 year old Daisy Wilkerson earned the nod. The Cubs went 5-2 last week with Wilkerson batting .500 (11-22) with 3 rbi's and 6 runs scored. On the season Wilkerson, who also won a player of the week award last season, is batting .281 with 2 homers and 27 rbi's. THE TRAGIC CAREER OF GEORGE BIELINSKI Mention the name George Bielinski to a Washington Senators fan over the age of 40 and you are sure to hear a story about a man who could have been the greatest hitter of all-time. The key word in that sentence is 'could' as the baseball world will never know what might have been because Bielinski suffered a career ending ankle injury at the age of 25. In the short-time he played the game the native of Quincy, Massachusetts certainly made his mark. He won three straight Cape Cod Division MVP awards in the Northeast Academy League before being selected 1st overall by the Senators in the 1919 draft. A leftfielder, Bielinski made the majors as a 20 year old the following spring and was named the American League rookie of the year in 1920 after batting .320 with a league leading 28 triples. He also stole 25 bases and helped the Senators improve by 13 wins and go from 6th to a tie for second place in the American League. He would win his first of 3 batting titles in 1921 when he hit .384 with a league leading 43 stolen bases. While he did not win the batting title in 1922, he did improve his batting average to .392 and then would lead the league each of the next two seasons. In 1923 he was named American League MVP at the age of 23. In 1925 the now 25 year old Bielinski had a 25 game hitting streak to start the season and was batting an obscene .487 after 39 games. Then tragedy struck. The day was May 31, 1925 and the Senators were playing the Philadelphia Athletics at home. In the bottom of the fourth inning Bielinski, who was already 2-for-2 at the plate, was positioned in leftfield. A pop fly was hit into foul territory down the leftfield line and Bielinski and third baseman Louis Chadwick both took off after the ball. The field was slick as both were rushing al-out towards the stands on the foul line. Bielinski was calling for it but because of the proximity to the crowd Chadwick says he did not hear him until it was too late. Bielinski made the grab just a split second before the two players collided. Bielinski had just planted his right foot into the dirt as Chadwick hit him. He tumbled akwardly and twisted to his left. Tragically his spike caught in the mud and while his leg twisted his foot did not join it resulting in a terrible scene that left his ankle bone jutting out of his skin. Doctors feared he might lose the foot but several surgeries and many months of rehab latter Bielinski was able to walk on the foot again, albeit with an extremely noticable limp. Baseball was a thing of the past for Bielinski and he never played again. The Senators, who had come close but could not win a pennant with Bielinski in the lineup, did manage to win back to back World Championships with Chadwick playing a huge role for the team. Chadwick would give his first World Series ring to Bielinski. Ironically, Chadwick would also suffer a career ending leg injury but his came at the age of 34. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 3 11 .441 32 99 .373 NYY Elgie Vargas 5 11 .346 24 88 .363 CLE Charlie Mongan 3 5 .303 16 38 .265 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Now that the draft is over things have quieted down in the hockey world but there was one trade made this week. The New York Rangers acquired 31 year old defenseman Oscar Bylund from Detroit in exchange for 24 year old winger Tyler Sanza and the rights to junior winger Roman Plevank of the Edmonton Oil Kings. Bylund was originally drafted by the New York Americans in the first round in 1928 before being dealt to Detroti in 1931 after playing 22 games as an NHL rookie with the Americans that season. He has been on the Detroit blueline ever since and has appeared in 549 NHL games, scoring 40 goals and adding 177 assists. Bylund, who was born in Sweden but moved to Canada at a young age, was a member of 2 Stanley Cup winning teams with the Wings. Last season he appeared in all 78 regular season games and had 4 goals and 32 points. Bylund will likely be on the third defense pair with the Rangers. The Red Wings get Sanza, a 24 year old right winger from Fredericton, New Brunswick who played 3 years of junior with the Windsor Spitfires. He made the Rangers roster as a 19 year old and scored 6 goals and 9 points in 50 games as a rookie. Sanza bounced between New York and AHL Providence the next 3 seasons before establishing himself as an NHL regular last season by appearing in all 78 games for the Rangers, scoring 14 goals and adding 3 assists. Sanza has 46 points in 236 career NHL games but did not see a lot of icetime most seasons with the Rangers. The Rangers had selected 9th overall in the 1935 NHL draft. Detroit also gets Plevak, an 18 year old winger from North Bay that the Rangers selected 54th overall in last month's NHL draft. Plevak had 22 goals and 37 assists for the CJHL Edmonton Oil Kings this past season. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOLAN KEEPS ON RUNNING Even though he is entering his 11th National Football League season, Green Bay Packers running back Geoffrey Dolan is showing no signs of slowing down. Dolan is one of the most consistent players in the game and the Packers have known in the past exactly what they will get from their 33 year old running back and are hoping for more of the same this year. Dolan is not the flashiest rusher and while he well never lead the league in rushing yardage he is durable and good to eat up about 50 yards a game. That consistency has allowed Dolan to rack up 5873 yards on the ground in his career, which places him number one among active running backs and 5th all-time. While it is highly unlikely he will catch former Cleveland great Matthew Johnson (7328 yards 1918-28) or old-time Steeler back Julius Middleton (7246 yards 1913-20) Dolan is less than 500 yards from moving into third place on the all-time list. Dolan's backup last season Mickey Flint has decided to retire after just 4 seasons in the league so the Packers used two of their draft picks this season on running backs, selecting Philip Johnson from Nebraska in the 4th round and Wisconsin's David Thomas in the fifth. Flint rushed for 641 yards on 135 carries as he split the time almost equally with Dolan leaving 3rd stringer Barry Hudson to get just 1 carry last year. With Flint's absence and the inexperience in the backfield behind Dolan expect the veteran to be given the ball even more this year. Code: GEOFFREY DOLAN COLLEGE STATS AT HARDIN-SIMMONS Year GP GS Rush Yds YPG YPC Lng TD Fum 1927 11 11 228 1049 95.4 4.6 79 6 2 1928 11 11 235 1127 102.5 4.8 51 13 5 1929 11 11 244 1326 120.5 5.4 29 9 4 1930 12 12 246 1463 121.9 6.0 38 10 4 -- -- --- ---- ----- --- -- -- -- Total 45 45 953 4965 110.3 5.2 79 38 15 NFL STATS Year Team G GS Att Yards Avg Lg TD Yds/G Fum 1931 GB 12 0 118 456 3.9 17 8 38.0 2 1932 GB 10 10 127 500 3.9 28 2 50.0 0 1933 GB 12 12 168 575 3.4 35 3 47.9 2 1934 GB 12 0 139 575 4.1 20 2 47.9 2 1935 GB 12 12 179 560 3.1 13 3 46.7 1 1936 GB 12 12 148 594 4.0 36 3 49.5 0 1937 GB 12 12 173 724 4.2 37 6 60.3 1 1938 GB 12 12 157 549 3.5 14 6 45.8 0 1939 GB 12 12 145 674 4.6 61 6 56.2 0 1940 GB 12 12 149 666 4.5 54 7 55.5 2 --- -- ---- ---- --- -- -- ---- -- Career 118 94 1503 5873 3.9 61 46 49.8 10 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Named to All Border Conference team 1928,1929,1930 Drafted 1st overall by Green Bay 1931 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year 1931 3 time Pro Bowl selection 1933, 1937, 1940 4 NFL championships 1932,1933,1938,1940 Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-13-2016, 07:09 PM	#243
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday July 28, 1941 MONDAY JULY 28, 1941 BUCS ACE KITTY MARTIN FORCED TO RETIRE The Pittsburgh Pirates received the worst possible news about 37 year old pitcher Kitty Martin. Martin was throwing on the sidelines as part of his rehabilitation from elbow problems early last week and he felt something pop. The diagnosis is the elbow is so badly damaged Martin will not be able to pitch again. He announced his retirement over the weekend. Martin played 15 seasons with the Yankees, Detroit and Pittsburgh, posting a 178-154 career record. His best season was 1933 when he led the American League in wins, going 23-11 as he led the Tigers to a World Series championship. He also won a pennant with Detroit in 1935 but missed 3 months of that season with back troubles. Martin went 52-27 in 4 seasons of college ball at Georgia and remains 6th all-time in wins for the Bulldogs. The Yankees drafted him 12th overall in 1926. The Nashville native would make his major league debut with the Yankees late in the 1927 season, going 3-1 with 2 saves out of the bullpen. He would record double-digit wins each of the next 5 seasons with the Yankees before being dealt to the Tigers prior to the 1932 season. He followed up his breakout 23-11 1933 season by going 18-9 for Detroit the following season. Midway through the 1936 campaign the Tigers dealt him to Pittsburgh and he would remain with the Pirates until his retirement announcement. While Martin's injury news was by far the most serious the Pirates were not the only National League team to lose a key piece. The Philadelphia Phillies will be without 25 year old outfielder Bug Harrison for about a month after he was hit by a pitch yesterday in a game against the Reds and suffered a fractured bone in his foot. Harrison, the former Nebraska star who was National League rookie of the year in 1939, was batting .249 with 7 homers and 57 rbi's this season. The Boston Braves also lost an outfielder for a month as Chicken Vanderveen suffered a fractured shoulder blade in a game last week. The 34 year old was batting .318 with 4 homers and 30 rbi's in 72 games this season. ABEL KNIGHT REACHES 2000 HIT MILESTONE St Louis Browns second baseman Abel Knight is the newest member of baseball's 2000 hit club after collecting his milestone base hit in a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on Tuesday. Knight singled twice in the game off of A's starter Bill Coon with the 2000th hit coming in the 5th inning with the bases empty. Knight broke in with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1931 and was named National League rookie of the year. He was dealt to the Browns 2 years later and has spent the rest of his career in St Louis. He has played 1510 games in the major leagues and is a lifetime .338 hitter. This season in 96 games Knight is batting .292 with 14 homers and 54 rbi's. A native of Lake Tahoe, California, Knight is the 38th player in league history to reach the 2000 hit mark. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 64 32 - Pittsburgh 55 40 - Boston 59 39 6.0 St Louis 56 43 1.0 Philadelphia 54 42 10.0 Philadelphia 54 42 1.5 Cleveland 50 47 14.5 Boston 53 44 3.0 Chicago 47 49 17.0 NY Giants 50 47 6.0 St Louis 43 55 22.0 Cincinnati 47 50 9.0 Washington 40 56 24.0 Brooklyn 44 53 12.0 Detroit 30 67 34.5 Chicago 28 68 27.5 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .381 Bill Antell PHI .314 Elgie Vargas NYY .355 Otto Valdez StL .311 Vince Craft PHA .330 Bill Schmidt BKN .303 Joe Camberos CLE .325 John Palmer StL .300 John Hanson NYY .323 Oreste Gallagos PHI .296 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 36 Marty Wolf BKN 17 Elgie Vargas NYY 25 Carlos Torres CIN 12 George Foskey NYY 19 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 John Hanson NYY 18 Len Butler NYG 11 Charlie Mongan CLE 17 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 10 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 113 George Osgood CIN 76 Elgie Vargas NYY 91 Marty Wolf BKN 66 Johnny Pate BOS 71 Linus Hoffman BKN 63 John Hanson NYY 66 Alexi Gamboa CIN 59 George Foskey NYY 64 Len Butler NYG 59 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jay Moore NYY 14-5 William Mongillo PHI 13-7 Jim Thayer PHA 14-6 Chris Golden StL 12-4 Wiki Estrella BOS 13-4 John White NYG 11-6 Jack Dickinson CLE 13-6 Barney DuPont PIT 11-7 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 13-7 Danny Gentry BKN 11-7 Jake Banks NYY 12-2 Kick McAvoy StL 11-10 Bill Coon PHA 12-7 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.89 William Mongillo PHI 2.26 Buck Parham PHA 2.42 Chris Golden StL 2.51 Jim Thayer PHA 2.76 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.53 George Odom PHA 2.89 Otto Stahl BKN 2.69 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.90 Jack Chandler PHI 2.82 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 107 Jim Turner CIN 94 Jim Thayer PHA 96 Elbert Eaton PHI 86 Elias Edmondson NYY 86 Barney Dupont PIT 85 Buck Parham PHA 86 Aurelio Ventura NYG 84 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 74 Kick McAvoy StL 80 THOMAS HITS 450TH HOMER AND WINS PLAYER OF THE WEEK AGAIN Frank Thomas became the first player in major league baseball to hit 450 career homeruns after hitting 4 homeruns last week. The 30 year old Boston Red Sox outfielder also batted .500 (13-26) this week with 14 rbi's in 6 games, numbers good enough to earn him the American League player of the week honour for the second straight week. Thomas hit his 450th off of Cleveland reliever Dick Wilber in a 7-3 Red Sox loss to the Indians in Boston on Saturday. It was the second day in a row Thomas went yard off of the 25 year old rookie reliever. The National League player of the week is 31 year old St Louis Cardinals second baseman Otto Valdez. Valdez hit .452 last week with a homerun and 10 rbi's as the Cardinals went 4-3. On the season the Indianapolis native his batting .311 with 3 homers and 50 rbi's. It was the second time in his 10 year major league career that Valdez was named player of the week. He was named to the National League all-star team last year in his first season with the Cardinals. Prior to St Louis, Valdez played for Cleveland and the Chicago Cubs. In 1189 major league games he is a lifetime .289 hitter. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 4 14 .500 36 113 .381 NYY Elgie Vargas 1 3 .238 25 91 .355 CLE Charlie Mongan 1 4 .227 17 42 .261 COLLEGE FOOTBALL ARMY SET TO DEFEND CO-NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP The preseason college poll will be released in a couple of weeks and the season is just under a month away but talk has already centered around whether or not Army can successfully defend the national title it split with upstart Houston last year. The Black Knights finished a perfect 12-0 for the second time in school history and continue to be one of the most dominant programs in the nation under head coach Tim Bennett. Bennett has led Army to a 167-37 record in his 17 years as head coach and claimed National Titles in 1930 and last season. The big game on Army's schedule, as always, is the showdown with Notre Dame which will take place in week 7 of the college season. However, Army must not overlook it's first opponent as the Black Knights will play Big 10 power Michigan to start the season. Both of those key games will be on their home turf. Senior quarterback John Price returns to lead the Army offense. The Severna Park, Maryland native has started 19 games in his collegiate career including 9 last season when he threw 19 touchdown passes while having just 4 interceptions. Running back Donald Brady is also back. As a sophomore last season Brady ran for 1836 yards and scored 15 touchdowns on the ground while adding another 3 on pass receptions. Brady should be a Heisman Trophy and first team All-American contender but he will face plenty of competition as 6 of the top 10 rushers from last season still have eligibility left including Notre Dame's John Simmons who had a huge game against Army a year ago. Brady will also face serious competition on his own team as his starting job is not guaranteed because of the return of senior Dexter Carson. Carson started 9 games in 1939, rushing for 1106 yards and 10 touchdowns before suffering a serious knee injury that hobbled him for most of last season. He did play sparingly late in the year and still gained 557 yards on just 78 carries. Carson looked outstanding in the spring game and many feel he will win back the starting halfback job that he held ahead of Brady two seasons ago. Army has one of the best defenses in the nation and added to depth on both sides of the ball with a top 10 recruiting class. The other co-National Champion is extremely unlikely to repeat. Houston had an easy schedule and pulled off a big upset in their bowl game win over Florida State. The Cougars have gone 22-2 the last two seasons but were 5-6 in 1938. While another winning season and Missouri Valley Conference title is almost assured they will have a tough time going undefeated with non-conference games at USC and at Georgia. Code: TOP COLLEGE RUSHERS 1940 NAME SCHOOL YR YARDS NFL DRAFT Michael Baugh North Carolina SO 2072 eligible 1943 John Simmons Notre Dame JR 1998 eligible 1942 Robert McHugh Hardin-Simmons JR 1873 eligible 1942 Philip Johnson Nebraska SR 1871 4th round Green Bay Donald Brady Army SO 1836 eligible 1943 Richard Luna Duke SO 1806 eligible 1943 Alberto Herrmann Oklahoma SR 1766 7th overall to Cardinals James Young Southern Miss JR 1701 eligible 1942 David Thomas Wisconsin SR 1675 5th round Green Bay Steven Norris Arkansas SR 1630 6th round Pittsburgh NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE The 12 National Football League clubs will begin their training camps this coming weekend in anticipation of the regular season openers on September 7th. The Chicago Bears, Baltimore Colts and St Louis Cardinals will open their training camps this Friday August 1 while players on the other 9 teams report on Saturday. The preseason opener will be held Friday August 15 and Saturday August 16. Here is the schedule for the opening preseason week. Friday August 15 Chicago at Baltimore Los Angeles at Cleveland Saturday August 16 Detroit at Philadelphia Green Bay at Pittsburgh New York at St Louis Sunday August 17 San Francisco at Washington The biggest change for the league this season is the implementation of overtime in regular season games. The plan to use sudden-death overtime in the regular season similar to the playoffs was at the request of the Cleveland Browns, who missed the post-season last season despite going 8-4. Cleveland finished third in the East Division as they were nosed out by the Philadelphia Eagles, who won just 7 games but ended up with a better winning percentage due to their 3 ties. The Green Bay Packers are the defending NFL Champions after beating Philadelphia 27-23 in the title game. Here are the final standings from last season. Code: NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1940 STANDINGS EAST W L T WEST W L T Washington 8 3 1 Green Bay 8 3 1 Philadelphia 7 2 3 Baltimore 7 4 1 Cleveland 8 4 0 San Francisco 5 6 1 St Louis 6 5 1 Los Angeles 4 8 0 New York 5 7 0 Chicago 4 8 0 Pittsburgh 3 8 1 Detroit 2 9 1 SEMI-FINALS Philadelphia 37 Washington 10 Green Bay 23 Baltimore 8 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP Green Bay 27 Philadelphia 23 TITLE GAME HISTORY YEAR WINNING TEAM LOSING TEAM SCORE 1913 San Francisco Philadelphia 20-10 1914 Cleveland Detroit 24-10 1915 San Francisco NY Giants 44-10 1916 Cleveland Chicago 28-14 1917 San Francisco St Louis 31-23 1918 Philadelphia Detroit 21-10 1919 Chicago Philadelphia 27-13 1920 Baltimore St Louis 20-17 1921 Cleveland Green Bay 30-13 1922 St Louis Chicago 28-24 1923 San Francisco Philadelphia 23-3 1924 NY Giants Detroit 31-27 1925 Pittsburgh Chicago 24-17 1926 Los Angeles NY Giants 20-10 1927 St Louis Los Angeles 38-13 1928 Washington Los Angeles 21-16 1929 Philadelphia Green Bay 23-17 (OT) 1930 Cleveland Detroit 38-0 1931 Los Angeles St Louis 27-20 1932 Green Bay Washington 30-17 1933 Green Bay NY Giants 34-13 1934 Detroit St Louis 26-17 1935 San Francisco NY Giants 28-27 1936 San Francisco Cleveland 19-17 1937 St Louis San Francisco 33-14 1938 Green Bay NY Giants 35-6 1939 Detroit Pittsburgh 34-24 1940 Green Bay Philadelphia 26-23 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RECORDS BY TEAM San Francisco 49ers 6-1 Cleveland Browns 4-1 St Louis Cardinals 3-4 Green Bay Packers 4-2 Detroit Lions 2-4 Philadelphia Eagles 2-4 Los Angeles Rams 2-2 New York Giants 1-5 Chicago Bears 1-3 Washington Redskins 1-1 Pittsburgh Steelers 1-1 Baltimore Colts 1-0 __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-16-2016, 03:31 PM	#244
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday August 4, 1941 Monday August 4, 1941 BRAVES CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOR N.L. CROWN After finishing in 7th place a year ago very few followers of the sport gave the Boston Braves much of a chance at winning the National League pennant but as the season hits August the Braves are very much in the thick of the race. Throughout their 41 year existance in the modern game the Braves have never been given much thought. They are one of just two teams (Cleveland is the other one) to have never won a World Series and the Braves have the third worst record all-time in the sport, ahead of only Cleveland and Brooklyn. Most of the franchise's existance has been spent in the bottom half of the National League with their lone pennant coming in 1932. The Braves did finish second in 1937 and 1939 but followed both of those up with sub-500 seasons including a 7-84 showing last year. So what has changed this season. Well, for one the inability of the powerhouse Giants or Phillies to get much of anything going. Their struggles have allowed Pittsburgh and the Braves to suddenly become contenders. The Braves offense has been amonng the worst in the National League but their pitching staff has suddenly become world beaters as Boston has shaved over a run off of it's team era from a year ago. What is even more impressive is the Braves have accomplished that without Bones Dodge or Danny Hunt who have both been sidelined the entire season. The 32 year old Dodge, who was 9-10 last season tore up his elbow in spring training and is gone for the year. Hunt, who was cut lose by the Yankees despite a 17-10 season in 1939, went 8-8 in 20 starts for the Braves last season before suffering a torn rotator cuff. He has not pitched since August of last year but is rumoured to be close to returning. With those two missing from the rotation their was more pressure on returning starts Esteban Puente (11-9, 3.18), Heinie Walker (9-11, 3.50) and Doc Stevens (9-4, 3.41) but all have performed well. The rotation was also bolstered by the return to form of Sam Schaumburg. The 33 year old former Harvard star is 130-110 lifetime but had a terrible start to last season and found himself finishing the year up in AAA Milwaukee. This year he is 11-9 with a 3.69 era in 22 starts. Long-time minor leaguer Yorit Galvan (6-9, 3.94) has done just enough to be an acceptable #5 starter. The 35 year old Galvan had pitched just 55 major league innings in his career prior to this season. But the biggest reason for the Braves success has been the bullpen led by St. Petersburg native Skyrocket Salvi. The 27 year old is 5-1 with a 0.85 era and 15 saves this season. For most teams the bullpen is an after thought but the Braves have used Salvi in 48 games this season and he has been incredibly successful - making the all-star team for the second straight year. Salvi is also just 2 shy of the major league single season save record of 17 set by Kid Knouse in 1932 and equalled by Brooklyn's Milo Swalley last season. PIRATES, PHILLIES, CARDS STRUGGLE Unlike the American League where the New York Yankees are starting to run away with it, the National League pennant seems to be something nobody wants to take a firm grasp of. There are 5 teams within 4.5 games of the lead but none of them have been able to go on any sort of a positive run of late. In the last ten games the Pirates, Phillies and Braves are all 5-5 while the slumping Cardinals are just 2-8. After losing a pair to 7th place Brooklyn the Cardinals dropped 3 of 4 at home to Philadelphia last week. The wins were the right tonic for the Phillies who started the week by losing 2 of 3 at Chicago. Most expected the latter half of July was the time the defending champion Phillies would start to pull away with the league as they had a schedule that saw them playing 12 games against either Cincinnati or the last place Cubs in just over 2 weeks. Unfortunately the Phillies dropped 8 of those 12 games and remain looking up at the first place Pirates. Pittsburgh is the surprise team in the National League, perhaps an ever bigger surprise than the Boston Braves. The Pirates won just 70 games last season and the expectation was about the same for this year but the Bucs are among the leaders in the National League in almost every offensive category and , like the Braves, have been the beneficiary of great relief pitching. Joe Barraso has been the Pirates star reliever. The 23 year old is 6-0 with 8 saves and a 2.31 era in 41 appearances this season. He was drafted as a starter out of Dartmouth after going 19-3 as a senior but he did notch 37 saves during his first 3 years in college when he pitched primarily in relief. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 68 34 - Pittsburgh 58 43 - Boston 62 41 6.5 Philadelphia 58 45 1.0 Philadelphia 58 44 10.0 St Louis 57 48 3.0 Cleveland 55 48 13.5 Boston 56 48 3.5 Chicago 49 53 19.0 NY Giants 54 48 4.5 St Louis 46 58 23.0 Cincinnati 49 54 10.0 Washington 41 61 27.0 Brooklyn 48 54 10.5 Detroit 31 71 37.0 Chicago 31 71 27.5 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .380 Otto Valdez StL .319 Elgie Vargas NYY .356 Bill Schmidt BKN .309 Vince Craft PHA .327 Bill Antell PHI .306 Joe Camberos CLE .318 Oreste Gallagos PHI .305 Bill Wodke PHA .317 John Wagoner NYG .299 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 38 Marty Wolf BKN 17 Elgie Vargas NYY 27 Carlos Torres CIN 12 George Foskey NYY 19 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 John Hanson NYY 19 Len Butler NYG 11 Charlie Mongan CLE 19 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 11 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 117 George Osgood CIN 77 Elgie Vargas NYY 97 Marty Wolf BKN 70 Johnny Pate BOS 77 Len Butler NYG 66 John Hanson NYY 70 Linus Hoffman BKN 63 George Foskey NYY 69 Jack Hansen PIT 61 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jay Moore NYY 14-6 William Mongillo PHI 14-7 Jim Thayer PHA 14-6 Chris Golden StL 12-5 Jack Dickinson CLE 14-6 John White NYG 12-6 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 14-7 Danny Gentry BKN 12-7 Jake Banks NYY 13-2 Barney DuPont PIT 12-8 Wiki Estrella BOS 13-5 Aurelio Ventura NYG 12-8 Bill Coon PHA 13-7 Kick McAvoy StL 12-10 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.85 William Mongillo PHI 2.20 Buck Parham PHA 2.40 Otto Stahl BKN 2.62 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.77 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.64 George Odom PHA 2.78 Chris Golden StL 2.67 Jim Thayer PHA 2.99 Jack Chandler PHI 2.74 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 113 Jim Turner CIN 99 Jim Thayer PHA 98 Aurelio Ventura NYG 93 Buck Parham PHA 95 Elbert Eaton PHI 92 Elias Edmondson NYY 91 Barney Dupont PIT 91 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 80 Kick McAvoy StL 84 MONTHLY AWARDS FOR JULY It comes as little surprise that Boston Red Sox outfielder Frank Thomas was named the American League player of the month for July. Thomas, who won a pair of player of the week awards last month, hit .440 with 12 homers and 43 rbi's in 28 games. On the season the legendary slugger, who has 452 career homers despite turning just 31 this past week, is batting .380 with 38 homers and 117 rbi's. Thomas appears to be well on his way to winning his fourth triple crown, having previously accomplished the feat in 1935,1936 and 1940. Thomas is also a 6-time American League MVP. The pitcher of the month in the American League is Philadelphia Athletics veteran Bill Coon. The 31 year old from Lorton, Virginia went 6-1 in 7 starts with a 2.18 era. On the season, Coon is 13-7 with a 3.05 era. He was the American League pitcher of the year in 1935. 23 year old Washington Senators outfielder Joe Van Voorst was named the American League's top rookie for July. The former Oklahoma Sooner hit .300 with 3 homers and 17 rbi's last month to improve his totals on the season to .269,3,31. In the National League the top rookie award went to Chicago Cubs first baseman Tom White. The 26 year old hit .296 with 4 homers and 17 rbi's in July. He was promoted to the Cubs from AA Syracuse in late June and is batting .297 in 33 games. White played college ball at Nebraska but was undrafted and signed as a free agent by the Cubs in 1938. St Louis Cardinals second baseman Otto Valdez was named the player of the month in the senior circuit. The 31 year old hit .333 with a homerun and 25 rbi's last month. On the year Valdez is leading the National League in batting at .319. He also has 3 homers and 56 rbi's. 38 year old Esteban Puente of the Boston Braves was named the pitcher of the month for July in the National League. He went 5-2 last month with a 1.86 era to improve his record on the season to 11-9. Puente made his major league debut with the Braves in 1926 and has a lifetime record of 189-166. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 2 4 .364 38 117 .380 NYY Elgie Vargas 2 6 .360 27 97 .356 CLE Charlie Mongan 2 5 .227 19 47 .259 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE IS THIS THE BREAKOUT YEAR FOR MYERS Ever since the Baltimore Colts drafted Heisman Trophy winner Charles Myers 3rd overall from USC in the 1936 entry draft, Colts fans have been waiting for Myers to lead the team to greatness. Truth be told the Colts have been waiting a lot longer than 5 years for greatness as this is a franchise that won it's only NFL title in 1920 and has not played in a championship game since then. After apprenticing as the backup in 1936, Myers took over the starting role in 1937 and led the Colts to a 9-3 record and their first West Division regular season title since 1922. Unfortunately, despite completing 22 of 36 passes for 182 yards in the Division playoff game the Colts fell to San Francisco. Injuries cost Myers the end of the 1938 season and most of the 1939 campaign. Last year Myers was finally healthy again and led the Colts back to the playoffs after a two-year absence. He also earned his first trip to the Pro Bowl game. The Colts watched Michael Huff of the Redskins, who followed Myers at USC and like Myers led the Trojans to a National Title (2 in Huff's case), blossom into a superstar last season. The feeling is that is the path Myers would have been on a couple of years ago had he not been injured two years in a row. The expectation in Baltimore is this is the year they finally get back to, and hopefully win, an NFL championship game for the first time in 21 years. Code: CHARLES MYERS CAREER STATS NFL Year Team G GS Comp Att Yards Pct Lg TD Int Att/G Yds/G Sk Rating 1936 BAL 1 0 0 2 0 0.0 0 0 0 2.0 0.0 0 39.6 1937 BAL 12 12 269 407 2562 66.1 55 18 12 33.9 213.5 17 85.8 1938 BAL 9 8 181 281 1686 64.4 77 4 11 31.2 187.3 3 69.2 1939 BAL 2 2 40 61 384 65.6 31 3 2 30.5 192 4. 4 85.7 1940 BAL 12 12 250 382 2519 65.4 40 16 7 31.8 209.9 32 90.4 -- -- --- ---- ---- ---- -- -- -- ---- ----- -- ---- Career 36 34 740 1133 7151 65.3 77 41 32 31.5 198.6 66 83.1 Playoff Passing Stats Year Team G GS Comp Att Yards Pct Lg TD Int Sk Rating 1937 BAL 1 1 22 36 182 61.1 27 0 0 2 74.1 1940 BAL 1 1 18 30 186 60.0 26 0 1 1 64.0 - - -- -- --- ---- -- - - - ---- Career 2 2 40 66 368 60.6 27 0 1 3 69.5 NCAA STATS WITH USC TROJANS Year GP GS Comp-Att Comp% Yds TD Int Lng Sack Rat 1932 12 11 221-350 63.1 3110 33 9 62 32 163.8 1933 12 12 239-376 63.6 4081 27 10 80 37 173.1 1934 10 9 204-321 63.6 3073 24 5 74 25 165.5 1935 11 9 186-283 65.7 2922 25 6 84 19 177.4 -- -- -------- ---- ----- --- -- -- --- ----- Total 45 41 850-1330 63.9 13186 109 30 84 113 169.7 1931 Named #2 ranked high school prospect for college recruiting 1932 Won Heisman Trophy and Davy O'Brien Award, 2nd Team All-American Pacific 8 player of year and Freshman of the Year. 1933 Named Pacific 8 player of the year 1934 Won National Championship with USC Named Pacific 8 player of the year 1936 Drafted 3rd overall by Colts from USC 1937 Led Colts to Division title, lost 24-16 to SF in playoff 1938 Missed 3 weeks with blurred vision 1939 Suffered ruptured achilles in week 2, sidelined for season 1940 Lost divisional playoff game 23-7 to Green Bay 1940 Named to Pro Bowl COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEC READY FOR ANOTHER TIGHT SEASON It will be hard to match the exciting race last year when 6 teams finished within a game of each other but the SEC has so many quality programs another tight battle is almost assured. Last year there was a 3-way tie for first in the conference as Florida, Tennessee and LSU all finished 6-2 while Mississippi State, Alabama and Auburn all ended up one game back at 5-3. While the preseason rankings have not yet been released it is quite conceivable that all 6 of those teams may be in the top 15 with a good chance Tennessee is ranked #1. If so it will be the third National Championship for Tennessee as the Vols won it all in 1911 and shared the National Title with Notre Dame in 1938. 1938 was the only season prior to last year the two NCAA polls declared different champions. The Vols completely retooled their defense with the addition of 3 highly touted linebackers in their recruiting class, which ranks among the best in the nation. Juco transfer Armand Chavarria is expected to step in and lead the team right away, especially when teamed in their 3-4 defense with talented true freshmen Benjamin Blair and Daniel Sheppard. The offense returns most of the same cast led by junior quarterback Samuel Copeland, who started 10 games and threw 15 touchdown passes. His favourite target is sophomore wideout Chris McIntosh, who caught 56 passes for 933 yards as a true freshman last season. Four of the five offensive linemen return as does senior running back Leonardo Sanders, who gained over 1000 yards on the ground for the third straight season. Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-18-2016, 06:31 PM	#245
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday August 11, 1941 MONDAY AUGUST 11, 1941 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ATHLETICS SWEEP AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS The New York Yankees may be making a bid to run away with the American League pennant but they would not be in such a position if they played the Philadelphia Athletics every game. In 12 meetings between the two clubs this season, the 3rd place A's have gone 9-3 against the Yankees including a 3-game sweep this past weekend. The A's, who travel to New York for 3 games next week, took the opener at Shibe Park by a 10-4 score on Friday as Wild Bill Gillen (.264,3,35) had a 5 hit game to pace the Philadelphia offense. Second year starter George Odom (8-7, 2.74) went the distance for the win as he held Yankee slugger Elgie Vargas hitless in the game. Vargas struck out twice in his 5 at bats. On Saturday reigning American League pitcher of the year Buck Parham (12-9, 2.55) outduelled 1939 pitcher of the year Elias Edmondson (13-9, 3.22) as the A's won 5-3. Outfielder Deivi Alvarez (.301,7,59) had the big bat for Phialdelphia, delivering 3 hits and a pair of rbi's. The sweep was completed by a masterful 3-hit shutout from Bill Coon (15-7, 2.87) as A's catcher Paul Collins hit a 2-run homer and a sacrifice fly to drive in all the runs in a 3-0 Philadelphia victory. While the A's certainly seem to have the Yankees number, the same can not be said for the rest of the league as New York continues to dominate. Philadelphia is now within 7.5 games of the front-runners and who knows, with another sweep of the Yankees next week in New York we just might have a pennant race in the American League yet. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 71 37 - Pittsburgh 62 47 - Boston 65 45 7.0 Philadelphia 60 48 1.5 Philadelphia 64 45 7.5 St Louis 61 51 2.5 Cleveland 58 50 13.0 NY Giants 56 50 4.5 Chicago 52 56 19.0 Boston 57 52 5.0 St Louis 49 61 23.0 Brooklyn 52 54 8.5 Washington 43 67 29.0 Cincinnati 52 57 10.0 Detroit 33 74 37.5 Chicago 34 75 28.0 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .372 Otto Valdez StL .317 Elgie Vargas NYY .354 Bill Schmidt BKN .315 Vince Craft PHA .324 Oreste Gallagos PHI .308 Joe Camberos CLE .322 John Wagoner NYG .303 John Hanson NYY .321 Bill Antell PHI .302 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 40 Marty Wolf BKN 17 Elgie Vargas NYY 28 Carlos Torres CIN 13 Charlie Mongan CLE 22 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 12 John Hanson NYY 20 Len Butler NYG 11 George Foskey NYY 19 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 120 George Osgood CIN 80 Elgie Vargas NYY 103 Marty Wolf BKN 71 Johnny Pate BOS 81 Len Butler NYG 68 John Hanson NYY 75 Alexi Gamboa CIN 65 George Foskey NYY 71 Jack Hansen PIT 65 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Wiki Estrella BOS 15-5 Chris Golden StL 14-5 Jay Moore NYY 15-6 Danny Gentry BKN 14-7 Jim Thayer PHA 15-7 William Mongillo PHI 14-8 Bill Coon PHA 15-7 Aurelio Ventura NYG 13-8 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 15-8 Barney DuPont PIT 13-8 Jack Dickinson CLE 14-7 John White NYG 12-7 Jake Banks NYY 13-2 Kick McAvoy StL 12-10 Elias Edmondson NYY 13-9 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.85 William Mongillo PHI 2.25 Buck Parham PHA 2.55 Chris Golden StL 2.45 George Odom PHA 2.74 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.61 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.77 Jack Chandler PHI 2.77 Jim Thayer PHA 2.84 Otto Stahl BKN 2.84 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 118 Jim Turner CIN 106 Jim Thayer PHA 105 Barney Dupont PIT 98 Buck Parham PHA 102 Elbert Eaton PHI 97 Elias Edmondson NYY 98 Aurelio Ventura NYG 96 Jack Dickinson CLE 90 Kick McAvoy StL 85 BUSBY NAMED NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Cincinnati Reds outfielder Al Busby was named the National League player of the week after hitting .542 (13-24) with 2 homers and 8 rbi's in 6 games last week. The news futher enhances the feel good story out of Cincinnati surrounding the comeback year being enjoyed by the New York City native. Busby is batting .354 with 5 homers and 31 rbi's in 63 games since returning to the Reds lineup. Busby, who just turned 24 last month, was taken 4th overall by the Reds in the 1937 draft from the Northeast Academy League's Bronx Bombers. He made his major league debut two years later and hit .318 in 106 games for the Reds but missed a month of the season with back troubles. In that off-season the back got so bad he required surgery and missed almost the entire 1940 season, only returning to play 4 games in September with AAA Sacramento. This season he got off to a great start, hitting .327 for the Reds in April before the injury bug struck again. This time Busby tore a ligament in his thumb and missed 6 weeks. He returned to action in late June and his thumb, and back, both seem to be fully healed. PEACOCK REPEATS AS AMERICAN LEAGUE TOP PERFORMER For the second week in a row the American League player of the week award goes to St Louis Browns outfielder Charlie Peacock. The 32 year old native of Allen Park, Michigan went 13-for-27 last week (.481) including a 5-for-5 game against the Chicago White Sox. On the season Peacock is hitting .300 with 10 homers and 48 rbi's. Peacock, who was American League rookie of the year in 1931, has now won the player of the week award 6 times in his career. CUBS ROOKIE WHITE HITS FOR CYCLE Chicago Cubs rookie infielder Tom White continues the outstanding play that earned him the National League rookie of the month award for July. In a game last week the 26 year old hit for the cycle and is now batting .288 with 5 homers and 23 rbi's in 40 major league games. White, who played college ball at Nebraska, had 4 hits in 5 at bats but his club still lost the game by a 6-5 score to Pittsburgh. White hit a solo homer in the second inning off of Nelson Aguilar (8-4, 3.62), doubled in the fourth, singled in the 5th, struck out in the 7th and hit an rbi triple in the 9th inning. Unfortunately he was stranded at third as the game ended. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 2 3 .217 40 120 .372 NYY Elgie Vargas 1 6 .333 28 103 .354 CLE Charlie Mongan 3 6 .333 22 53 .283 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PRESEASON TOP 20 RELEASED The college football season begins in less than two weeks and judging by the AP poll the Southeastern Conference will be the dominant group of teams. Seven SEC schools were ranked in the top 15 in the preseason poll released by the Associated Press, including #1 ranked Tennessee. The Pacific 8 had 6 teams make the top 20 led by #9 Stanford. Texas, ranked 7th, is the highest of the three Southwest Conference schools to make the list. Rounding out the top twenty were 2 Big Ten schools in #5 Ohio State and 12th ranked Michigan as well as a pair of independants in #2 Notre Dame and #3 Army. Code: AP Preseason top 20 1- Tennessee SEC 2- Notre Dame IND 3- Army IND 4- Auburn SEC 5- Ohio State B10 6- Mississippi State SEC 7- Texas SWC 8- Alabama SEC 9- Stanford Pac8 10-LSU SEC 11-USC Pac8 12-Michigan Big10 13-Florida SEC 14-California Pac8 15-Georgia SEC 16-UCLA Pac8 17-Oregon State Pac8 18-Arkansas SWC 19-Oregon Pac8 20-SMU SWC Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-20-2016, 10:52 PM	#246
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday August 18, 1941 MONDAY AUGUST 18, 1941 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LEAD STORY JINX STRIKES AGAIN A few times this season I have started my recap with a story on a red-hot team or player only to see them falter in the week(s) immediately after the write-up. Well you can add the Philadelphia Athletics to the list as just after I wrote of their dominance over the New York Yankees this season, the A's go and get swept 3 straight in New York and fall 3 more games off the pace - now sitting 10.5 back of the league leading Yankees. New York opened the 3-game set with a 5-4 victory on Friday thanks to a walk-off rbi double from John Hanson (.317,22,82) that plated George Foskey(.287,20,75) with the winning run. The next two games were all New York as the Yankees torched the A's pitching staff winning 7-2 Saturday and 16-3 on Sunday. GIANTS MAKING A RUN AT NATIONAL LEAGUE LEAD The New York Giants have won 13 of their last 18 games and are making a charge at the National League pennant. In the past week the Giants have gained 3 games on the slumping Pirates and Phillies, who share the lead at 63-51, 1.5 games ahead of the 3rd place Giants. Contending for the pennant is old hat for the Giants, who won the pennant three straight seasons before finishing second to the Phillies last year. For most of the season it looked like the Giants had little chance of winning their 4th pennant in 5 seasons, especially in late June when they trailed the Pirates by 8.5 games. However, their recent run of success, coming at a time when the rest of the contenders in the division barely played .500 ball has allowed New York to climb back into the race. The Giants are a veteran team with plenty of post-season experience and have enough pitching depth to withstand longterm injuries to Arturo Serna and Jim Boelke. The big three in their rotation continue to be 30 year old Aurelio Ventura (13-8, 2.71), 28 year old John Petersen (12-6, 3.83) and 36 year old John White (12-7, 3.37). Losing the 35 year old Serna for the season was a big blow especially after he got off to a 6-1 start with a 1.99 era but the Giants have withstood decidedly subpar seasons from their bottom two starters in 37 year old Ben Hull (6-14, 469) and 30 year old Elige Medina (4-14, 4.16). Prize prospect Jim Sanicki (1-0, 0.00 out of the pen) may yet join the rotation but the 24 year old is just returning to action after missing 4 months with a back injury. The Giants offense has revolved around a trio of 27 year olds in shortstop John Wagoner (.299,9,53), third baseman Dennis Hobbs (.275,5,47) and first baseman Len Butler (.241,14,76). Thirty-five year old outfielder Celerino Ochoa (.289,3,52) also provides veteran leadership. New York is not the only team to be hit with injuries to key players. The Phillies have been without outfielder Bug Harrison (.249,7,57) for a month with a foot injury and Pittsburgh had to withstand a career ending injury to pitcher Kitty Martin. The Cardinals are the latest team to lose a key component as second baseman Otto Valdez (.317,3,56) went down with an ankle sprain this past week that is expected to sideline him for a month. With seven teams within 8 games of first place the final month and a half of the National League schedule should by a wild ride, especially if none of the teams are able to mount any sort of sustained winning streak...which has been the case all season. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 76 39 - Pittsburgh 63 51 - Boston 69 48 8.0 Philadelphia 63 51 - Philadelphia 66 50 10.5 NY Giants 61 52 1.5 Cleveland 64 51 12.0 St Louis 63 55 2.0 Chicago 54 61 22.0 Boston 60 56 4.0 St Louis 52 64 24.5 Cincinnati 56 57 6.5 Washington 46 71 31.0 Brooklyn 54 58 8.0 Detroit 35 78 40.0 Chicago 38 78 26.0 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .368 Emiliano Ramon StL .322 Elgie Vargas NYY .359 Otto Valdez StL .317 Joe Camberos CLE .327 Oreste Gallagos PHI .313 John Hanson NYY .317 Bill Schmidt BKN .313 Vince Craft PHA .315 John Wagoner NYG .299 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 42 Marty Wolf BKN 18 Elgie Vargas NYY 31 Carlos Torres CIN 14 Charlie Mongan CLE 26 Len Butler NYG 14 John Hanson NYY 22 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 13 George Foskey NYY 20 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 126 George Osgood CIN 81 Elgie Vargas NYY 112 Len Butler NYG 76 Johnny Pate BOS 84 Marty Wolf BKN 72 John Hanson NYY 82 Alexi Gamboa CIN 70 George Foskey NYY 75 Jack Hansen PIT 67 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jay Moore NYY 16-7 Chris Golden StL 15-5 Jim Thayer PHA 16-8 William Mongillo PHI 15-8 Jocko DiBlasi SLB 16-9 Danny Gentry BKN 14-8 Wiki Estrella BOS 15-6 Aurelio Ventura NYG 13-8 Bill Coon PHA 15-8 Barney DuPont PIT 13-9 Jack Dickinson CLE 14-8 Elias Edmondson NYY 14-9 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.85 William Mongillo PHI 2.20 Buck Parham PHA 2.42 Chris Golden StL 2.48 George Odom PHA 2.73 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.71 Bill Coon PHA 2.79 Otto Stahl BKN 2.81 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.84 Jack Chandler PHI 2.82 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 126 Jim Turner CIN 112 Jim Thayer PHA 117 Elbert Eaton PHI 107 Buck Parham PHA 105 Barney Dupont PIT 104 Elias Edmondson NYY 100 Aurelio Ventura NYG 98 Jack Dickinson CLE 97 Kick McAvoy StL 93 VARGAS NAMED PLAYER OF THE WEEK New York Yankees outfielder Elgie Vargas has spent most of his career in the shadow of Boston Red Sox star Frank Thomas. Both made their major league debut in 1932 at the age of 21. Since then Thomas has 6 MVP awards while Vargas has just 1. Thomas has won the triple crown 3 times and has 6 batting titles while Vargas has never won a title. Thomas has been named American League player of the week 38 times including three this year. Vargas has won the award 20 times including this past week when he claimed it for the third time this season. Vargas will almost certainly not catch Thomas for the homerun or rbi lead this season but if he continues to hit like he did last week he may finally win his first batting title. Vargas went 12-for-28 (.429) last week with 3 homers and 9 rbi's in 7 games. On the season Vargas is batting .359 with 31 homers and 112 rbi's. Thomas continues to lead the major leagues in all three of those categories, hitting .368 with 42 homers and 126 rbi's. The National League player of the week was Chicago Cubs outfielder James McBeth. McBeth went 14 for 29 last week with a homer and 4 rbi's in 7 games to raise his season totals to .281,9,48. After just an awful start to the season the Cubs have gone 18-20 since the all-star break and are playing the role of spoiler in the National League as they have won some key games against contending clubs such as last week when they swept both St Louis and Pittsburgh on the road in 2-game series. The 29 year old McBeth is one of the few veterans who survived the housecleaning done in early June when the club was 14-52. A native of Snyder, Texas, McBeth began is career in the Detroit Tigers organization when he was drafted in the third round in 1931 from the academy league Oregon Timbers. While in rookie ball he was dealt to the Yankees in part of a package that saw Detroit add recently retired pitcher Kitty Martin. Caught in the numbers game in New York, he was a backup outfielder-first baseman but did play on two pennant winning teams with the Yankees before being dealt to the Cubs midway through last season in exchange for third baseman Bill Farley. This is his 7th major league season but McBeth has only been an everyday player for one season prior to this year. In 575 career big league games McBeth is a .287 hitter with 56 homers and 311 rbi's. He is also hitting .303 in 35 World Series plate appearances. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG[/b] BOS Frank Thomas 2 6 .310 42 126 .368 NYY Elgie Vargas 3 9 .429 31 112 .359 CLE Charlie Mongan 4 5 .296 26 58 .266 DRAFT SIGNING UPDATE Here is an update on the first round picks from last month's draft. We have reached the signing deadline and it appears just 2 first round picks failed to agree to contracts with the team that drafted them: 15th pick Adam Young, a pitcher from Arizona State, did not sign with the Giants while the Phillies pick at #17, Oklahoma's Fred Butler, also refused to sign. 1- Detroit: Alexi Ruiz 3B. 18 year old signed this weekend with the Tigers and has been assigned to the Kity League's Owensboro Farmers. 2- Cubs: Charlie Bertrand LF. The 18 year old signed quickly and is batting .294 in 27 games with Bowling Green of the Kity League. He also played 9 games (.200) for Class B St. Cloud and 9 games (.167) with AA Syracuse but is back in the rookie league now. 3- White Sox: Sam Herrera P: 19 year old just signed with White Sox and will begin his pro career with the Fulton Railroaders of the Kity League, but likely not until next season as he is still recovering from knee surgery due to an injury suffered late in the Academy League season. 4- Cubs: Deacon Schober RF: 22 year old signed and went straight to the major leagues. He is batting .243 (17-70) in 31 games with a homerun and 12 rbi's. 5- Washington: Pat Green 3B: 18 year old signed a week ago and is playing for the Madisonville Miners of the Kity League. He went 5-for-12 (.417) in his first 3 games. 6- Browns: Silver Cook 2B: The 18 year old just signed last month and made his pro debut in the rookie Kity League with Springfield. In 11 games he is batting .329 with a homerun and 4 rbi's 7- Pittsburgh: Chick Pate 2B: 19 year old signed last month and is playing for the rookie league Cairo Goldbugs. In 21 games in the Kity loop, Pate is batting .218. 8- Cincinnati: Rube Correnti SS: 18 year old signed last month and is with the Kity League's Central City Reds, where he is batting just .123 in 17 games. 9- Braves: Michael Ryan P: 18 year old signed on the weekend and will make pro debut today in the Kity League for the Hopkinsville Blue Hens. 10-White Sox: Jim Barlett P: 18 year old signed last month and is in Fulton of the Kity League. He is 1-1 with a 1.84 era in 2 starts for the Railroaders. 11-Brooklyn: Roscoe Merkel 2B: 18 year old signed shortly after the draft and was assigned to the Lexington Hustlers of the Kity League. In 32 games Merkel is batting .250 12- Cleveland: Angelo Arias P: Signed with Indians and assigned to Class A Oklahoma City. Pitched a complete game victory in his debut, allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 5 and walking none. So far this season he is 5-4 with a 3.93 era in 9 starts for Oklahoma City. 22 year is a former Texas Longhorn and was named the NCAA West pitcher of the year and MVP recently. 13- Athletics: Sam Carter 3B: 22 year old former University of California star signed last week and skipped the minors by going right to Philadelphia. In 4 games with the A's he is 0-for-7 and has struck out 4 times. 14- Cardinals: Bill Bell OF: 18 year old signed last week and has played 3 games for the Clarksville Crows of the Kity League. He is 2-for-12 (.167) with a pair of rbi's in those games. 15- Giants: Adam Young P: 22 year old from Arizona State did not sign and will likely sit out the season before re-entering the draft next year. 16-Yankees: Jake Fagen P: 23 year old NCAA East MVP from Columbia signed last week with the Yankees organization and was assigned to Class A Dallas of the Texas League. Pitched a complete game victory in his pro debut, allowing just 1 earned run in a 4-1 victory over Beaumount. 17- Phillies: Fred Butler P: 22 year old remains unsigned and will likely sit out the season although there is some talk he may be eligible for a fifth year at the University of Oklahoma before re-entering the draft next year. 18- Red Sox: Tommy Rogers 3B: 19 year old signed last month and is struggling with the Jackson Generals of the Kity League, batting just .162 in 11 games. MATHIAS SIGNS WITH CUBS One of the biggest coups of the draft was the Chicago Cubs decision to draft and subsequently be able to sign 4th round pick Guy Mathias. The 23 year old starred at Maryland but had said he did not want to play pro ball. Last year the Reds took a chance and drafted him in the 5th round and he refused to sign. This year the Cubs took him in the fourth round and he would only agree to sign if he received a $23,000 bonus which was almost equal to what the Cubs gave their second overall pick Charlie Bertrand and nearly double what they gave #4 overall Deacon Schober. In the end the deal got done and Mathias put off medical school to join the Cubs organization. In 3 games with Class A Fort Worth of the Texas League he was hitting .417 (5-for-12) COLLEGE BASEBALL DOMINO CHOOSES UCLA OVER BROOKLYN DODGERS While none of the academy league players drafted in the first two rounds failed to sign a pro contract there were some very talented players taken a little later in the draft that made good on their promises to play college ball instead of turning pro. The most notable was former Staten Island Ports pitcher Joseph Domino, who turned down a reportedly quite lucrative signing bonus from the Brooklyn Dodgers to attend UCLA instead. Domino, a 19 year old righthander from Kulpsville, Pennsylvania won every award possible in the Metro New York Division this past season as he was named pitcher of the year, league MVP and playoff MVP as he led the Ports to the Northeast Academy League title after going 22-5 with a 2.32 era in 32 starts. Other college commitments announced this week include Fred Rude signing with the NCAA champion Columbia Lions. Rude, a third round pick of the Pirates, was 6-1 with a 2.53 era for the Michigan Lakers before suffering a torn rotator cuff that ended his season in March. Rude, has outstanding potential but has been very injury prone missing substantial time in 1939 with back troubles and 1940 with a hamstring injury. He only made 71 starts over 4 seasons with the Central Academy League Lakers, posting a 33-22 career mark with a 2.53 era. Columbia hopes he can stay healthy and if so should be a solid replacement to Jake Fagen, who graduated after going 65-28 over 4 seasons at Columbia and 7-0 in the postseason as he led the Lions to back-to-back College World Series titles. Sam Rogers, who went 22-7 with the Dakota Loggers this season before being drafted in the 5th round by Cleveland, has decided to attend Texas Tech rather than turn pro. The 20 year old was named MVP and top pitcher in the Western Academy League's Pacific Division. Another 5th round pick, 19 year old first baseman Bill West, opted for North Carolina State instead of the New York Giants organization. West played all 20 games for the Key West Conchs of the Florida Academy League this season, batting .310 with 14 homers and 84 rbi's. He will be joined at North Carolina State by another Florida Academy pitcher as 18 year old Ren Fisher, who went 16-11 for Daytona Beach this season, turned down the St Louis Cardinals, who selected him in the 7th round. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ROUGH START FOR FISCHER IN PRESEASON OPENER First overall draft pick Jason Fischer found out quickly there is a big difference between the NFL and college ball. The former Penn State star quarterback made his pro debut in the Detroit Lions preseason opener against the Philadelphia Eagles and threw a pair of interceptions in a 37-10 loss. Thomas Muller, who started 11 games for Detroit last season, opened the game as Detroit's signal caller and promptly led his team to a scoring drive on their opening possession. Muller played the opening quarter, completing 4 of 6 passes for 46 yards and a touchdown, before giving way to the rookie Fischer. Fischer's first two possessions ended in interceptions that led to touchdown drives for the Eagles. The rookie did settle later in the game and ended up completing 15 of 24 passes for 185 yards but the two interceptions cost the Lions the ballgame. The good news for Detroit was that 5th year running back Bernard Whitaker had a huge game, carrying the ball 25 times for 121 yards. The 121 yards is more than he amassed in 4 seasons with the Lions as their 3rd string running back. The victorious Eagles got a strong game from veteran back-up quarterback Paul Knight. The 2 time Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford, who has never established himself as an NFL starter, threw for 144 yards and a pair of touchdowns after taking over for starter Angel Bates in the second half. In other action defending NFL Champion Green Bay beat Pittsburgh 26-19 on the strength of a pair of rushing touchdowns from 7th year backup running back Joseph Campbell. The Baltimore Colts overcame a slow start and a 26-17 halftime deficit to rally at home and beat the Chicago Bears 27-26. Colts starting quarterback Charles Myers completed just 2 of 7 pass attempts in the game. Running backs David Campos and David Henson each scored a touchdown to pace the Cleveland Browns to a 17-14 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Thomas Paz and receiver Timothy Taylor connected on three second half touchdown passes to rally the visiting New York Giants to a 31-20 victory over the Cardinals in St Louis. Paz, a former Alabama star, has been the Giants backup QB behind Donald Owens the last two seasons while Taylor is a second year pro from Oklahoma who had 3 catches in 3 appearances for the Giants last year as a rookie. Finally, in the nations capital San Francisco rallied with 17 unaswered second half points to beat the Washington Redskins 27-17. Washington quarterbacks Michael Huff and Chris Johnson combined to throw 3 interceptions in the loss. NCAA FOOTBALL The college football season kicks off this weekend with a full slate of games including preseason #1 ranked Tennessee at home to face North Carolina State. The Volunteers are expected to walk all over a Wolfpack squad that was 1-10 a year ago after going 0-11 in 1939. North Carolina State has never had a winning season in the 30 year history over the sport. Tennessee, on the other hand, is a two-time National Champion and coming off a 10-2 season in which they were ranked 7th in the AP poll and 12th in the final coaches poll. Other games involving top 10 ranked teams are: #2 Notre Dame at West Virginia #4 Auburn entertains Navy #5 Ohio State travels to Iowa State #7 Texas hosts Richmond #9 Stanford visits Cincinnati #10 LSU is home to Southern Mississippi Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-22-2016, 06:39 AM	#247
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday August 25, 1941 MONDAY AUGUST 25, 1941 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL A GIANT STEP FORWARD The New York Giants picked the perfect time to get hot as they have taken over top spot in the National League thanks to a stretch of games where they won 13 of 14 including their last 9 in a row. Among those games was a 4-game sweep of Pittsburgh and winning two of three from the Philadelphia Phillies - the two clubs they leapfrogged this past week to move into first place. After starting the week with a pair of wins over the basement dwelling Chicago Cubs the Giants made a huge statement with the sweep of Pittsburgh. It began with a doubleheader on Thursday with New York winning 6-5 and 9-4. On Friday afternoon Elige Medina (5-14, 3.63), the Giants 5th starter, pitched a complete game in a 6-1 win and on Saturday veterans Henry Warner (.281,6,50) and Celerino Ochoa (.302,5,59) combined for 7 hits, 4 rbi's and 4 runs in an 11-0 laugher. Yesterday the winning ways continued as the Giants opened a 4 game set with Cincinnati by sweeping a twinbill 3-0 and 4-2. Meanwhile the Pirates have won just 5 of their last 14 games to relinquish their hold on first place - a position they have occupied almost exclusively since early June. The Phillies have had a little more success, playing .500 ball over their last 20 games but that timeframe included dropping 4 of 6 to the Giants. Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 80 42 - NY Giants 69 52 - Boston 72 51 8.5 Philadelphia 67 54 2.0 Philadelphia 69 53 11.0 Pittsburgh 67 55 2.5 Cleveland 68 53 11.5 St Louis 66 59 5.0 Chicago 57 64 22.5 Cincinnati 61 60 8.0 St Louis 57 66 23.5 Boston 61 61 8.5 Washington 48 76 33.0 Brooklyn 56 64 12.5 Detroit 37 83 42.0 Chicago 40 82 29.5 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Frank Thomas BOS .368 Emiliano Ramon StL .326 Elgie Vargas NYY .366 Otto Valdez StL .317 Joe Camberos CLE .325 Bill Schmidt BKN .308 John Hanson NYY .315 John Wagoner NYG .306 Dave Hawthorne CLE .307 Oreste Gallagos PHI .303 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 43 Marty Wolf BKN 18 Elgie Vargas NYY 38 Carlos Torres CIN 15 Charlie Mongan CLE 27 Len Butler NYG 15 John Hanson NYY 24 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 14 George Foskey NYY 20 Linus Hoffman BKN 11 Alexi Gamboa CIN 11 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 129 George Osgood CIN 81 Elgie Vargas NYY 124 Len Butler NYG 80 Johnny Pate BOS 87 Alexi Gamboa CIN 76 John Hanson NYY 87 Marty Wolf BKN 73 Oscar Weidner NYY 81 Jack Hansen PIT 73 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jocko DiBlasi SLB 17-10 Chris Golden StL 16-6 Jim Thayer PHA 16-8 William Mongillo PHI 16-9 Jay Moore NYY 16-8 Aurelio Ventura NYG 15-8 Elias Edmondson NYY 16-9 John White NYG 14-7 Wiki Estrella BOS 15-7 Danny Gentry BKN 14-10 Bill Coon PHA 15-9 John Petersen NYG 13-6 Buck Parham PHA 15-9 Barney DuPont PIT 13-9 Kick McAvoy StL 13-12 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 1.95 Chris Golden StL 2.40 Buck Parham PHA 2.32 William Mongillo PHI 2.42 Bill Coon PHA 2.77 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.60 George Odom PHA 2.80 Otto Stahl BKN 2.67 Jim Thayer PHA 2.98 Jack Chandler PHI 2.92 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 131 Jim Turner CIN 119 Jim Thayer PHA 122 Barney Dupont PIT 111 Buck Parham PHA 114 Elbert Eaton PHI 110 Elias Edmondson NYY 104 Aurelio Ventura NYG 106 Jack Dickinson CLE 101 Kick McAvoy StL 94 VARGAS REPEATS AS AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE WEEK New York Yankees outfielder Elgie Vargas continues to be the hottest hitter in the major leagues as he was named the American League's top performer for the second week in a row. In 7 games last week the 30 year native New Yorker hit .464 with 7 homeruns and 12 rbi's. Included in that outburst was a 3-homer game against Cleveland on Friday and back to back 2 homer games against Detroit earlier in the week. Vargas now has 38 homeruns and 124 rbi's on the season while improving his average to .366. He is closing in on Boston's Frank Thomas in all 3 of those categories despite having played 14 less games than the Red Sox slugger due to a shoulder injury earlier in the season. The National League player of the week award went to New York Giants outfielder George Saunders. The 28 year old hit .536 (15-28) with 2 homers and 8 rbi's as he helped the Giants stretch their winning streak to 9 games and move into top spot in the National League. On the season the former Chicagoland academy leaguer is batting .276 with 10 homers and 58 rbi's. SCHOBER INJURED The Chicago Cubs have announced that rookie outfielder Deacon Schober will miss at least a couple of weeks and perhaps longer with an undisclosed injury. The 22 year old was selected 4th overall in the June draft after playing college ball at Alabama. He bypassed the minors and stepped right into the Cubs line-up after signing a contract and was batting .224 with a homerun and 12 rbi's in 35 games after hitting .354 with 18 homers and 95 rbi's for the Crimson Tide. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG BOS Frank Thomas 1 3 .375 43 129 .368 NYY Elgie Vargas 7 12 .464 38 124 .366 CLE Charlie Mongan 1 3 .250 27 61 .265 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NO UPSETS IN OPENING WEEK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON The Associated Press top 25 college football rankings remain unchanged from the preseason polls as all of the top 25 schools in action emerged with a victory in the first weekend of the 1941 college seasons. A pair of Pacific 8 schools had the closest calls as #11 USC needed overtime to beat defending co-national champion Houston 37-34 while #17 Oregon State survived a scare but beat Oklahoma State 20-19. Senior QB Corey Lamb threw 4 touchdown passes for Houston in their loss to USC. Staying with the Pac 8, true freshman quarterback Bruce Stuckey had a huge day for #14 California in their 62-3 thrashing of Indiana. Stuckey, who was considered the top QB recruit this season, completed 21 of 27 passes for 363 yards and 4 touchdowns in the Bears win. #1 ranked Tennessee had little trouble with North Carolina State, winning 40-3. Vols junior quarterback Samuel Copeland passed for over 500 yards and 4 touchdowns. #2 ranked Notre Dame also had an easy time, thumping West Virginia. The Irish offense was led by senior running back John Simmons, a second team all-american a year ago, who gained 124 yards rushing will scoring three touchdowns on the ground and a 4th on a 7 yard reception. The best offensive performance from a running back this week came from New Mexico State sophomore Robert Haynes, who ran for 235 yards in a 45-7 romp over Davidson. Here are the top 10 passing, rushing and receiving perfomances of the week Code: Passing Leaders Rank Player Team Result Comp Att Yards TD Rating 1 Samuel Copeland Tennessee W, 40-3 NC State 35 49 501 4 184.3 2 Eddie White Texas W, 44-10 Richmond 25 37 454 3 192.0 3 Lewis West Notre Dame W, 68-10 West Virginia 29 39 416 5 201.1 4 Robert Preston Wyoming W, 33-30 at Santa Barbara 13 24 401 2 213.7 5 Russ Galloway Tulane W, 37-17 Furman 20 32 392 2 186.0 6 Kenneth Rush Stanford W, 37-26 at Cincinnati 24 41 381 2 152.7 7 Rich Williams Hardin-Simmons W, 20-14 Duke 33 44 379 1 154.9 8 Bruce Stuckey California W, 62-3 Indiana 21 27 363 4 239.6 9 Harry Green Missouri L, 30-36 at #19 Oregon 24 48 362 3 129.8 10 Thomas Coleman Oklahoma W, 37-19 Utah 19 30 350 3 187.7 Rushing Leaders Rank Player Team Result Rush Yards YPC TD 1 Robert Haynes New Mexico St W, 45-7 Davidson 32 235 7.34 1 2 Ronald Mullins West Texas A&M W, 37-21 Idaho 24 190 7.92 3 3 Kent Melton North Texas L, 18-24 Montana 34 186 5.47 0 4 Wilfred Wilson Ohio State W, 33-0 at Iowa State 24 185 7.71 4 5 Kenneth Fair Santa Barbara L, 30-33 Wyoming 27 185 6.85 1 6 Ellis Williams Florida W, 29-6 Utah State 27 183 6.78 1 7 Lawrence Otto Boston College W, 38-14 Kansas State 27 175 6.48 2 8 Leonardo Sanders Tennessee W, 40-3 NC State 22 174 7.91 1 9 Michael Robertson Cal W, 62-3 Indiana 14 170 12.14 0 10 Claude Lilly Northwestern W, 27-9 Syracuse 30 159 5.30 1 Receiving Leaders Rank Player Team Result Rec Yards YPC TD 1 John Davis East Carolina L, 24-44 at #25 Wisconsin 6 178 29.7 0 2 Bruce Thomas Missouri L, 30-36 at #19 Oregon 4 169 42.2 2 3 David White Wyoming W, 33-30 at Santa Barbara 4 162 40.5 0 4 William Jones Kansas State L, 14-38 at Boston College 6 159 26.5 2 5 Royce Brunner Citadel L, 13-45 at #24 Texas Tech 4 155 38.8 1 6 Scott White North Carolina W, 23-16 Wash State 7 151 21.6 1 7 Craig Pollard Houston L, 34-37 at #11 USC 5 151 30.2 1 8 Raymond Chow Texas W, 44-10 Richmond 6 149 24.8 0 9 Chris Mcintosh Tennessee W, 40-3 NC State 8 142 17.8 1 10 Anthony Donnelly Hardin-Simmons W, 20-14 Duke 7 136 19.4 0 Code: WEEK 1 RESULTS #12 Michigan (1-0) 47-17 Northern Arizona (0-1) #5 Ohio State (1-0) 33-0 Iowa State (0-1) #25 Wisconsin (1-0) 44-24 East Carolina (0-1) #24 Texas Tech (1-0) 45-13 Citadel (0-1) #7 Texas (1-0) 44-10 Richmond (0-1) #2 Notre Dame (1-0) 68-10 West Virginia (0-1) #14 California (1-0) 62-3 Indiana (0-1) #19 Oregon (1-0) 36-30 Missouri (0-1) #17 Oregon State (1-0) 20-19 Oklahoma State (0-1) #9 Stanford (1-0) 37-26 Cincinnati (0-1) #11 USC (1-0) 37-34 Houston (0-1) #1 Tennessee (1-0) 40-3 NC State (0-1) #10 LSU (1-0) 30-13 Southern Miss (0-1) #18 Arkansas (1-0) 18-13 Wake Forest (0-1) #4 Auburn (1-0) 31-25 Navy (0-1) #20 SMU (1-0) 69-13 Colorado (0-1) #21 Penn State (1-0) 42-10 Denver (0-1) #13 Florida (1-0) 29-6 Utah State (0-1) Boston College (1-0) 38-14 Kansas State (0-1) Villanova (1-0) 36-0 Texas A&M (0-1) Illinois (1-0) 51-21 Penn (0-1) Minnesota (1-0) 26-7 Clemson (0-1) Northwestern (1-0) 27-9 Syracuse (0-1) Baylor (1-0) 38-7 Memphis (0-1) Rice (1-0) 27-14 Maryland (0-1) Hardin-Simmons (1-0) 20-14 Duke (0-1) North Carolina (1-0) 23-16 Wash State (0-1) Miami (1-0) 34-16 Dartmouth (0-1) Pittsburgh (1-0) 34-10 Harvard (0-1) Marshall (1-0) 23-10 Nebraska (0-1) Oklahoma (1-0) 37-19 Utah (0-1) Tulane (1-0) 37-17 Furman (0-1) Detroit Mercy (1-0) 23-7 Columbia (0-1) Montana (1-0) 24-18 North Texas (0-1) UTEP (1-0) 23-13 Long Beach St (0-1) West Texas A&M (1-0) 37-21 Idaho (0-1) George Washington (1-0) 48-9 Cornell (0-1) Fresno State (1-0) 59-9 Brigham Young (0-1) Arizona (1-0) 54-13 San Diego State (0-1) Wyoming (1-0) 33-30 Santa Barbara (0-1) Arizona State (1-0) 20-17 San Jose State (0-1) New Mexico St (1-0) 45-7 Davidson (0-1) Western Michigan (1-0) 30-24 Wm & Mary (0-1) Purdue (1-0) 47-7 Pacific (0-1) Texas Christian (1-0) 44-13 Cal State LA (0-1) Code: AP COLLEGE FOOTBALL POLL Rank Team Conf Record Points Last Week Next Week Prev Rank 1. Tennessee SEC 1-0 (0-0) 1609 W, 40-3 NC State Clemson 1 2. Notre Dame IND 1-0 (0-0) 1537 W, 68-10 West Virginia at Northwestern 2 3. Army IND 0-0 (0-0) 1488 OPEN #12 Michigan 3 4. Auburn SEC 1-0 (0-0) 1424 W, 31-25 Navy Virginia 4 5. Ohio State B10 1-0 (0-0) 1373 W, 33-0 at Iowa State #22 Washington 5 6. Miss State SEC 0-0 (0-0) 1311 OPEN Syracuse 6 7. Texas SWC 1-0 (0-0) 1237 W, 44-10 Richmond #21 Penn State 7 8. Alabama SEC 0-0 (0-0) 1180 OPEN Purdue 8 9. Stanford Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 1121 W, 37-26 at Cincinnati #20 SMU 9 10. LSU SEC 1-0 (0-0) 1056 W, 30-13 Southern Miss at Rutgers 10 11. USC Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 991 W, 37-34 Houston at Iowa State 11 12. Michigan B10 1-0 (0-0) 928 W, 47-17 Northern Ariz at #3 Army 12 13. Florida SEC 1-0 (0-0) 858 W, 29-6 Utah State Missouri 13 14. California Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 809 W, 62-3 Indiana Arizona State 14 15. Georgia SEC 0-0 (0-0) 754 OPEN Virginia Tech 15 16. UCLA Pac8 0-0 (0-0) 699 OPEN Maryland 16 17. Oregon State Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 655 W, 20-19 Oklahoma State at Kansas 17 18. Arkansas SWC 1-0 (0-0) 583 W, 18-13 Wake Forest Kansas State 18 19. Oregon Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 522 W, 36-30 Missouri at Minnesota 19 20. Southern Methodist SWC 1-0 (0-0) 450 W, 69-13 Colorado at #9 Stanford 20 21. Penn State IND 1-0 (0-0) 370 W, 42-10 Denver at #7 Texas 21 22. Washington Pac8 0-0 (0-0) 306 OPEN at #5 Ohio St 22 23. Ole Miss SEC 0-0 (0-0) 234 OPEN NC State 23 24. Texas Tech SWC 1-0 (0-0) 171 W, 45-13 Citadel at Hardin-Simmons 24 25. Wisconsin B10 1-0 (0-0) 111 W, 44-24 East Carolina at Oklahoma 25 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE EAGLES IMPROVE TO 2-0 IN PRESEASON PLAY Veteran quarterback Paul Knight threw 3 touchdown passes to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 30-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers in NFL preseason action. The victory improves the Eagles record to 2-0 while the Packers are even at 1-1. Philadelphia's final preseason game will be in St Louis against the Cardinals next week. The New York Giants are also 2-0 after a 16-12 victory at home over San Francisco. Rookie first round pick Alberto Herrrmann ran for 75 yards and the games only touchdown to lead New York to the win. The former Oklahoma Sooner gained 91 yards last week in the Giants win over St Louis. The Giants learned starting defensive tackle Joseph Moore will be lost for much of the season with an injury suffered in the opening preseason week. The 8th year pro from UCLA started all 12 games last year and made 25 tackles. He has started 59 games for the Giants in his pro career. In other action the Detroit Lions beat Cleveland 20-17 in overtime but may have lost first overall pick Jason Fischer for their regular season opener. The rookie Detroit quarterback suffered a head injury and is listed as doubtful for next week but he may return for the season opener in 2 weeks. The Lions also lost veteran running back Bernard German for the season with a serious concussion in the game. German, a 6th year pro from USC, ran for 343 yards last season. He played in all 12 games but did not start. Veteran running back Pat Patrick gained 109 yards on the ground to help the St Louis Cardinals past the Baltimore Colts 20-14. In Pittsburgh, running back Charles Becerra scored on a 1 yard plunge with 5 minutes remaining in the game to give visiting Washington a 16-13 victory over the Steelers. Curtis Cole seems to be edging ahead of Noel Craig in the fight for the Rams starting QB job. Cole played the first quarter and went 5-for-6 for 94 yards and a touchdown to lead Los Angeles past Chicago 25-17. Craig completed 14 of 24 passes but threw a late interception that allowed the Bears to close the gap. Craig also threw a pick in the Rams week 1 loss to Cleveland. Code: NFL PRESEASON STANDINGS EAST W L New York 2 0 Philadelphia 2 0 Cleveland 1 1 St Louis 1 1 Washington 1 1 Pittsburgh 0 2 WEST W L Baltimore 1 1 Detroit 1 1 Green Bay 1 1 Los Angeles 1 1 San Francisco 1 1 Chicago 0 2 LAST WEEK RESULTS St Louis 20 Baltimore 14 Detroit 20 Cleveland 17 New York 16 San Francisco 12 Philadelphia 30 Green Bay 13 Washington 16 Pittsburgh 13 Los Angeles 25 Chicago 17 NEXT WEEKS GAMES Philadelphia at St Louis Pittsburgh at Cleveland Chicago at New York Green Bay at Washington Detroit at Baltimore San Francisco at Los Angeles END OF PRESEASON NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE The NHL season is just around the corner and teams are starting to set their training camp rosters. The Detroit Red Wings and New York Americans made a trade towards that end this week as the Wings picked up 30 year old left winger Thomas Rihna in exchange for a minor leaguer and a prospect. Rihna is a former 50 goal scorer who was limited to 31 games last season due to an elbow injury. After a junior career with the Toronto Marlboros he spent the better part of 5 seasons in Buffalo of the AHL before making the Americans roster for good in 1935-36 at the age of 24. He had 4 goals and 3 assists in 46 games that season but broke out the following year when he led the NHL in goals with 50. He was a consistent 30-35 goal scoreer the next 3 years until last season when he missed the first 3 months of the year recovering from elbow surgery and scored just 9 goals in 31 games. It is not known where Rihna will fit on Detroit's roster as the Wings already have Conner Hendricks (32-35-67) and Cody McCann (27-37-64) as left wingers on their top two lines but taking a chance on Rihna returning to his previous form was a good risk at a very reasonable cost for Detroit. Going to the Americans are defenseman Maxwell Young and 19 year old forward Mykola Melnyk. Melnyk is an Edmonton native who tallied 90 points for the Toronto Marlboros of the CJHL last season. He was a 4th round pick of the Wings in the 1940 NHL draft after being a memeber of the Montreal Jr Canadiens Memorial Cup winning team that season. The Jr Habs dealt him to the Marlboros prior to the last CJHL season. Young is a 31 year old rearguard who was dealt from the Americans to the Red Wings last season but now returns to New York. He spent most of last year in the AHL but has played 275 career NHL games, all with the Americans, scoring 29 goals and adding 95 assists. The deal is a bit of a surprise on the Americans end as that leaves them with only Neil Frank (23-43-66) as a proven NHL scorer on the left side. Dennis Frew, a 25 year old who scored 40 goals in Buffalo 2 years ago and split this past season between the Bisons and the Americans appears to have the second line spot as his to lose in camp this season and there was feeling in New York that Rihna had hit his peak and was on the downside. The key for New York in this deal is Melnyk. After being a depth guy on the Jr Canadiens he was given first line minutes last season with the Marlboros and had a break out year. He adds to an already strong group of young forward prospects the Americans have been accumulating that also includes Cornwall Royals teammates Rob Ouellet (51-53-104) and Eric Rufenach (30-58-88), Medicine Hat's Matthew Andison (43-41-84) and Alex Kachan (23-59-82) who played for the Kitchener Rangers last year. You can also add the Americans top prospect, 19 year old defenseman Ryan Wall (17-46-63 with the Toronto Marlboros) to that list. The future looks bright for the Americans but the loss of Rihna's scoring touch certainly dims their short term outlook. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-23-2016, 08:32 AM	#248
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Monday September 1, 1941 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1941 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE SHOWDOWN BEGINS TODAY The New York Giants host the Philadelphia Phillies in a 3 game series beginning today that could go a long ways towards deciding the National League Pennant. The Giants have a 1 game lead on the defending champion Phillies. The club's will also meet in Philadelphia for a 3 game set in the final week of the season. The Giants saw their 9 game winning streak end on Monday as they were swept in a 2 game series by the Cincinnati Reds but but New York promptly started a new streak with 6 straight wins to finish the week including back to back doubleheader sweeps of Brooklyn Friday and Saturday. With another doubleheader looming today there is question about how tired the Giants pitchers will be. The Phillies are on a streak of their own as they have won 8 in a row including a pair over Boston on the weekend. Todays games feature a terrific pitching matchup in the opener as the Giants will send Aurelio Ventura (16-8, 2.72) to the mound against Jack Chandler (13-8, 2.79) while game two seems to favour the Phillies with William Mongillo (17-9, 2.45) facing New York's 5th starter Elige Medina (6-15,3.93) Code: MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN W L GB NATIONAL W L GB NY Yankees 84 44 - NY Giants 75 55 - Cleveland 73 55 11.0 Philadelphia 72 54 1.0 Boston 74 56 11.0 Pittsburgh 69 59 5.0 Philadelphia 73 56 11.5 St Louis 70 61 5.5 St Louis 61 69 24.0 Cincinnati 65 61 8.0 Chicago 58 71 26.5 Boston 63 65 11.0 Washington 52 77 32.5 Brooklyn 56 72 1 Detroit 40 87 43.5 Chicago 42 85 31.5 BATTING LEADERS AMERICAN AVG NATIONAL AVG Elgie Vargas NYY .364 Emiliano Ramon StL .326 Frank Thomas BOS .359 Otto Valdez StL .317 Charlie Peacock SLB .319 Bill Schmidt BKN .315 Bill Wodke PHA .318 John Wagoner NYG .307 John Hanson NYY .314 Oreste Gallagos PHI .303 HOME RUNS AMERICAN HR NATIONAL HR Frank Thomas BOS 44 Marty Wolf BKN 18 Elgie Vargas NYY 39 Carlos Torres CIN 16 Charlie Mongan CLE 28 Len Butler NYG 15 John Hanson NYY 25 Yuniesky Gomez PIT 14 George Foskey NYY 20 Emiliano Ramon StL 13 RBI'S AMERICAN RBI NATIONAL RBI Frank Thomas BOS 131 Len Butler NYG 87 Elgie Vargas NYY 129 George Osgood CIN 81 John Hanson NYY 93 Alexi Gamboa CIN 76 Johnny Pate BOS 89 Marty Wolf BKN 75 Oscar Weidner NYY 89 Jack Hansen PIT 74 PITCHING LEADERS AMERICAN WINS NATIONAL WINS Jocko DiBlasi SLB 18-10 Chris Golden StL 17-6 Jay Moore NYY 17-8 William Mongillo PHI 17-9 Jim Thayer PHA 16-8 Aurelio Ventura NYG 16-8 Jack Dickinson CLE 16-8 John Petersen NYG 15-6 Elias Edmondson NYY 16-9 John White NYG 15-7 Bill Coon PHA 16-10 AMERICAN ERA NATIONAL ERA Bobby Hopps CHA 2.30 Chris Golden StL 2.30 Buck Parham PHA 2.42 William Mongillo PHI 2.45 George Odom PHA 2.63 Aurelio Ventura NYG 2.72 Jack Dickinson CLE 2.81 Otto Stahl BKN 2.75 Bill Coon PHA 2.91 Jack Chandler PHI 2.79 STRIKEOUT'S AMERICAN Ks NATIONAL Ks Peleg Dooley CHA 134 Barney Dupont PIT 123 Jim Thayer PHA 124 Jim Turner CIN 121 Buck Parham PHA 120 Aurelio Ventura NYG 116 Jack Dickinson CLE 110 Elbert Eaton PHI 115 George Odom PHA 108 Kick McAvoy StL 102 AUGUST AWARD WINNERS The National League rookie of the month winner proves that preseverance can pay off. 29 year old shortstop Mike Warner was never an everyday player for the Austin Marshalls academy squad and it was no surprise when he went undrafted in 1931. He walked on at Texas Tech, playing in just 2 games his first year in the NCAA. He only started 42 games as a 22 year old in 1934 and again went undrafted. The Phillies signed him to a rookie league contract in 1935 and he bounced around the minors getting released by 5 different teams before landing in the Reds organization in 1938. He split last season between 3 levels of the minors but this year had an impressive spring training and made the big league club as the final man on the roster. When starting shortstop Dan Paul had a minor injury in the opening week of the season, Warner got his chance and went 2-for-4 in his major league debut. Paul struggled at the plate and was eventually demoted to Sacramento and Warner, who has always been strong with the glove, has hit just enough to keep the job. In 99 games this season the rookie is batting .270 with 8 homers and 44 rbi's. He was on fire at the plate in August, batting .378 with 5 homers and 20 rbi's to win National League rookie of the month honours. The American League rookie of the month had no problem being noticed throughout his career. NCAA MVP and all-american Teo Tellier was named the month's top rookie for the third time this season. The former Oregon State star and current St Louis Brown hit .363 wth a homer, 16 rbi's and 17 runs scored in August. On the season the 23 year old first baseman is batting .282 with 5 homers and 59 rbi's in 126 games. The American League pitcher of the month award went to second year Philadelphia Athletics starter George Odom. The 24 year old Odom was 4-1 in 6 starts with a 2.31 era and 39 strikeouts in 50 innings of work. On the season Odom is 11-8 with a 2.63 era. The National League award went to Chris Golden of the St Louis Cardinals. The 34 year old lefthander was 5-2 in August with a 1.77 era. On the season Golden is tied for the National League led in wins with a 17-6 record and his 2.30 era leads the league. After winning player of the week twice last month it is no surprise that Yankee slugger Elgie Vargas claimed the junior circuit's batter of the month honours. Vargas tore the cover off the ball in August, hitting .395 with 14 homers and 38 rbi's. On the season the 31 year old leads the American League in batting with a .364 average and is second in both homers (39) and rbi's (129). Cincinnati has a good collection of talented young hitters and one of the best is Al Busby. The 24 year old outfielder hit .406 last month with 3 homers and 19 rbi's to win National League player of the month for August. On the season Busby is hitting 349 with 6 homers and 41 rbi's despite missing nearly two months with a torn ligament in his thumb. WODKE WINS A.L. PLAYER OF THE WEEK Philadelphia Athletics outfielder Bill Wodke was named the American League's top performer for the past 7 days after the 26 year old hit .586 (17-29) in 7 games. On the season Wodke is batting .318 with 6 homers and 60 rbi's while also scoring 91 runs. While the Pittsburgh Pirates may be falling out of contention in the National League pennant race it is through no fault of shortstop D'Angelo Alvarez. The 29 year old hit .481 (13-27) with 5 rbi's and 7 runs scored last week, numbers good enough to earn him N.L. player of the week honours. His week included a 5 hit game in an 8-7 win over the Boston Braves that lasted 19 innings. On the season, Alvarez is batting .280 with 5 homers and 43 rbi's in 100 games played. Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE POWER RACE LAST WEEK SEASON TM NAME HR RBI AVG HR RBI AVG BOS Frank Thomas 1 2 .136 44 131 .359 NYY Elgie Vargas 1 5 .333 39 129 .364 CLE Charlie Mongan 1 2 .304 28 63 .268 COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOMINANT WIN OVER MICHIGAN MOVES ARMY TO #1 The voters in the Associated Press college football poll have decided that Army's 34-3 pounding of then #12 Michigan was decisive enough to jump the Black Knights past Tennessee and Notre Dame and into top spot in the AP rankings. Army scored 21 first half points on three touchdown passes from John Price to build a quick lead and coasted to a 34-3 win over the Wolverines. Army had nearly triple the yards from scrimmage that Michigan earned thanks to senior QB Price's 372 yards passing and senior running back Dexter Carson's 170 yards rushing. The loss puts a huge dent in the Wolverines national title hopes as most in Ann Arbor felt this was the year Michigan could add to it's total of 3 National Championships (1923,1933 and 1935). Army, which was co-National Champion with Houston last year, looks to have perhaps the best offense in college football led by Carson and Price - both players who will play on Sundays in the future. Tennessee drops to #2 despite a second straight runaway victory over an ACC team. Last week it was North Carolina State losing to the Vols by a 40-3 score. This time around it was Clemson that dropped to 0-2 after being beaten 38-10. Junior quarterback Sam Copeland had another big game for the Vols, throwing for 375 yards and a pair of touchdowns but did throw his first interception of the season as well. Juco tansfer Armand Chavarria had his first two division one sacks in the game and made 9 tackles. Running back John Simmons was a monster once again for Notre Dame. The senior carried the ball 34 times for 176 yards and 2 scores to lead the Irish past Northwestern 25-10. Despite improving to 2-0 with the victory, Notre Dame drops one spot in the polls to #3. There were several upsets this week as 5th ranked Ohio State fell 19-13 to Washington while the Southwest Conference had nearly as rough a time as the Big 10 with Texas falling 10-9 on a last minute field goal by Penn State. The Longhorns are expected to walk away with the SWC and the thinking was they were well positioned for an unbeaten season. Finally, Georgia became the first of a large group of SEC powers to slip up as the Bulldogs lost 18-11 to Virginia Tech. Code: [b] Rank Team Conf Record Points Last Next Prev 1 Army IND 1-0 (0-0) 1602 W, 34-3 #16 Michigan at George Washington 3 2 Tennessee SEC 2-0 (0-0) 1547 W, 38-10 Clemson Southern Miss 1 3 Notre Dame IND 2-0 (0-0) 1492 W, 25-10 at Northwestern Brown 2 4 Auburn SEC 2-0 (0-0) 1425 W, 24-10 Virginia at Purdue 4 5 Miss State SEC 1-0 (0-0) 1358 W, 53-0 Syracuse Citadel 6 6 Stanford Pac8 2-0 (0-0) 1297 W, 37-20 #23 SMU Oklahoma State 9 7 Alabama SEC 1-0 (0-0) 1237 W, 43-14 Purdue Maryland 8 8 LSU SEC 2-0 (0-0) 1147 W, 30-10 at Rutgers Wake Forest 10 9 Ohio State B10 1-1 (0-0) 1058 L, 13-19 #17 Washington Richmond 5 10 USC Pac8 2-0 (0-0) 973 W, 37-20 at Iowa State Rutgers 11 11 Florida SEC 2-0 (0-0) 916 W, 34-21 Missouri East Carolina 13 12 Texas SWC 1-1 (0-0) 855 L, 9-10 #14 Penn State NC State 7 13 California Pac8 2-0 (0-0) 812 W, 34-24 Arizona State Clemson 14 14 Penn State IND 2-0 (0-0) 749 W, 10-9 at #12 Texas at Ohio 21 15 UCLA Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 696 W, 33-6 Maryland Memphis 16 16 Michigan B10 1-1 (0-0) 655 L, 3-34 at #1 Army Cincinnati 12 17 Washington Pac8 1-0 (0-0) 606 W, 19-13 at #9 Ohio St Texas A&M 22 18 Oregon State Pac8 2-0 (0-0) 557 W, 33-0 at Kansas at Missouri 17 19 Arkansas SWC 2-0 (0-0) 491 W, 45-10 Kansas State at Kansas 18 20 Georgia SEC 0-1 (0-0) 406 L, 11-18 Virginia Tech Houston 15 21 Oregon Pac8 1-1 (0-0) 325 L, 17-38 at #22 Minnesota Virginia 19 22 Minnesota B10 2-0 (0-0) 266 W, 38-17 #21 Oregon Wichita State 26 23 SMU SWC 1-1 (0-0) 198 L, 20-37 at #6 Stanford Louisville 20 24 Ole Miss SEC 1-0 (0-0) 132 W, 54-0 NC State Penn 23 25 Michigan State B10 1-0 (0-0) 104 W, 23-20 Pittsburgh Kansas State 27 Code: WEEK 2 RESULTS #25 Michigan State (1-0)23-20 Pittsburgh (1-1) #1 Army (1-0) 34-3 #16 Michigan (1-1) #3 Notre Dame (2-0) 25-10 Northwestern (1-1) #14 Penn State (2-0) 10-9 #12 Texas (1-1) #13 California (2-0) 34-24 Arizona State (1-1) #22 Minnesota (2-0) 38-17 #21 Oregon (1-1) #17 Washington (1-0) 19-13 #9 Ohio State (1-1) #6 Stanford (2-0) 37-20 #23 Southern Methodist (1-1) #18 Oregon State (2-0) 33-0 Kansas (0-1) #15 UCLA (1-0) 33-6 Maryland (0-2) #2 Tennessee (2-0) 38-10 Clemson (0-2) #11 Florida (2-0) 34-21 Missouri (0-2) Virginia Tech (1-0) 18-11 #20 Georgia (0-1) #8 LSU (2-0) 30-10 Rutgers (0-1) #24 Ole Miss (1-0) 54-0 NC State (0-2) #5 Miss State (1-0) 53-0 Syracuse (0-2) #7 Alabama (1-0) 43-14 Purdue (1-1) #4 Auburn (2-0) 24-10 Virginia (0-1) #19 Arkansas (2-0) 45-10 Kansas State (0-2) #10 USC (2-0) 37-20 Iowa State (0-2) Arizona (2-0) 23-13 Boston College (1-1) Villanova (2-0) 33-30 Nebraska (0-2) Oklahoma (2-0) 32-11 Wisconsin (1-1) Hardin-Simmons (2-0) 44-10 Texas Tech (1-1) Georgia Tech (1-0) 30-12 West Virginia (0-2) Baylor (2-0) 34-18 Indiana (0-2) Colorado (1-1) 18-16 Texas Christian (1-1) Vanderbilt (1-0) 23-10 Iowa (0-1) Wake Forest (1-1) 27-16 Kentucky (0-1) Rice (2-0) 23-20 Holy Cross (0-1) Duke (1-1) 40-14 East Carolina (0-2) Florida State (1-0) 57-21 Richmond (0-2) North Carolina (2-0) 22-9 Yale (0-1) Miami (2-0) 30-6 Utah State (0-2) UTEP (2-0) 42-20 Illinois (1-1) Houston (1-1) 39-21 Oklahoma State (0-2) Texas A&M (1-1) 29-0 Citadel (0-2) Cincinnati (1-1) 41-16 Princeton (0-1) West Texas A&M (2-0) 24-13 Louisville (0-1) Memphis (1-1) 55-22 San Diego State (0-2) Utah (1-1) 34-27 Southern Miss (0-2) Tulane (2-0) 48-6 Wm & Mary (0-2) Fresno State (2-0) 33-16 Wichita State (0-1) Navy (1-1) 16-12 Cal State LA (0-2) Ohio (1-0) 50-0 Penn (0-2) VMI (1-0) 26-25 Northern Arizona (0-2) Harvard (1-1) 20-17 Wash State (0-2) Tulsa (1-0) 20-13 Denver (0-2) Montana (2-0) 19-14 Marshall (1-1) Detroit Mercy (2-0) 23-3 Dartmouth (0-2) Long Beach St (1-1) 33-22 Davidson (0-2) George Washington (2-0) 27-17 Santa Barbara (0-2) Colorado State (1-0) 23-12 Western Michigan (1-1) New Mexico (1-0) 28-7 Brown (0-1) Wyoming (2-0) 23-10 Pacific (0-2) South Carolina (1-0) 24-10 Idaho (0-2) New Mexico St (2-0) 41-16 Cornell (0-2) Furman (1-1) 40-10 North Texas (0-2) San Jose State (1-1) 38-6 Brigham Young (0-2) TOP OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCES OF WEEK TWO Code: Passing Leaders Rank Player Team Result Comp Att Yards TD Rating 1 Ronnie Barker Ohio W, 50-0 at Penn 19 29 418 4 232.1 2 Steve Smith Memphis W, 55-22 at San Diego St 22 34 414 5 209.6 3 Marion Gibbs Indiana L, 18-34 at Baylor 23 34 393 2 166.5 4 Alberto Simon Florida S W, 57-21 at Richmond 29 38 384 4 195.9 5 Eddie Fisher Duke W, 40-14 East Carolina 22 31 384 2 189.9 6 Vicente Eldridge Baylor W, 34-18 Indiana 25 31 380 4 219.7 7 Samuel Copeland Tennessee W, 38-10 Clemson 23 36 375 2 164.2 8 Kenneth Rush Stanford W, 37-20 #23 SMU 27 38 375 3 180.0 9 John Price Army W, 34-3 #16 Michigan 23 32 372 3 200.5 10 David Lee Michigan St W, 23-20 Pittsburgh 24 39 368 2 152.6 Rushing Leaders Rank Player Team Result Rush Yards YPC TD 1 James Young Southern Miss L, 27-34 Utah 29 282 9.72 2 2 William Miller Detroit Mercy W, 23-3 Dartmouth 31 212 6.84 0 3 Jesse Winstead Furman W, 40-10 North Texas 38 204 5.37 2 4 Edwin Cain Florida State W, 57-21 at Richmond 31 198 6.39 1 5 John Simmons Notre Dame W,25-10 at Northwestern 34 176 5.18 2 6 Dexter Carson Army W, 34-3 #16 Michigan 22 170 7.73 1 7 Ellis Williams Florida W, 34-21 Missouri 33 166 5.03 2 8 Richard Luna Duke W, 40-14 East Carolina 31 164 5.29 1 9 Kenneth Jones Vanderbilt W, 23-10 Iowa 29 164 5.66 1 10 Nick Mcwhorter Arkansas W, 45-10 Kansas State 26 163 6.27 3 Receiving Leaders Rank Player Team Result Rec Yards YPC TD 1 Jordan Herndon Oregon L, 17-38 at #22 Minnesota 5 187 37.4 0 2 James Smith Memphis W, 55-22 at San Diego St 5 186 37.2 0 3 David Horn VMI W, 26-25 at Northern Ariz 5 168 33.6 2 4 Chris Mcintosh Tennessee W, 38-10 Clemson 6 168 28.0 1 5 Orlando Poore East Carolina L, 14-40 at Duke 7 165 23.6 1 6 Joseph Stover SouthCarolina W, 24-10 Idaho 5 158 31.6 1 7 Craig Pollard Houston W, 39-21 at Oklahoma S 7 154 22.0 1 Marvin Wallace Ole Miss W, 54-0 NC State 8 151 18.9 1 9 Jorge Rogers Santa Barbara L, 17-27 at GeorgeWashing 6 150 25.0 0 10 Harry Bennett Michigan St W, 23-20 Pittsburgh 7 147 21.0 2 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PRESEASON COMES TO A CLOSE The New York Giants finished the preseason as the league's only unbeaten team after hanging on for a 20-17 victory over the Chicago Bears. The Giants took a 17-3 lead into the break only to see backup Chicago quarterback Jimmie Carpenter complete 19 of 24 second half passes for 301 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Despite Carpenter's heroics the Bears came up short and finished 0-3 in preseason play. The Detroit Lions, who will play Chicago in next weekend's season opener for both clubs, finished 2-1 with an impressive 26-13 win over the Baltimore Colts. Running back Charles Lott, who has not had an NFL regular season carry since 1937 with Cleveland, looked to seal his hold on the backup running back spot in Detroit by rushing for 94 yards in the game. Lott will almost assuredly see action next week as the Lions starting back Ronald Coats, who gained 748 yards last season, is out for the opener with a foot injury. Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Rams beat San Francisco 17-6, Cleveland dropped Pittsburgh 31-24, St Louis scored 10 4th quarter points to beat Philadelphia 24-17 and Green Bay topped Washington 20-16. Code: NFL PRESEASON STANDINGS EAST W L New York 3 0 Philadelphia 2 1 Cleveland 2 1 St Louis 2 1 Washington 1 2 Pittsburgh 0 3 WEST W L Detroit 2 1 Green Bay 2 1 Los Angeles 2 1 Baltimore 1 2 San Francisco 1 2 Chicago 0 3 LAST WEEK RESULTS St Louis 24 Philadelphia 17 Cleveland 31 Pittsburgh 24 New York 20 Chicago 17 Green Bay 20 Washington 16 Detroit 26 Baltimore 13 Los Angeles 17 San Francisco 6 END OF PRESEASON NEXT WEEKS GAMES New York at Philadelphia Pittsburgh at St Louis Washington at Cleveland Baltimore at Green Bay Detroit at Chicago Los Angeles at San Francisco Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-23-2016, 08:53 AM	#249
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1941 I decided to watch the big National League doubleheader on Monday between the Giants and the Phillies and New York definately made a statement on this day as the homeside swept both games at the Polo Grounds. The Giants stretched their winning streak to 8 games (including 3 doubleheaders in the past 4 days) and their lead on Philadelphia to 3 games. The much-anticipated pitchers duel in the opener between Aurelio Ventura and Jack Chandler did not pan out as the Giants rocked Chandler for 6 runs in the second inning and then hung on for a 7-5 victory as Ventura got into trouble late. A 2-run double off the bat of Giants catcher Henry Warner (.286,6,54) and 2 batters later a 2-run triple from 1B Len Butler (.260,15,89) sealed Chandler's fate. Chandler (13-9, 3.00) did stick around until being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the top of the 5th but it was his shortest outing of the season. The second game was even tougher on the Phillies pitching as William Mongillo gave up 7 runs (6 earned) in 5 innings to drop to 17-10 on the season in the Giants 8-0 win. Big Jim Wade (.272,4,53), who was acquired from the Cubs in June, started things off quickly for New York with a 2-run homer in the first inning and he would drive in another run as part of a 5-run Giants outburst in the 5th that ended Mongillo's day. Giants starter Elige Medina (7-18, 3.83), another mid-season pick up from the Cubs, did not factor in the decision as he lasted just 4 innings because he was pitching on just 2 days rest due to all of the twin bills of late. Veteran Al Vasquez (1-0, 2.51), recently called up from AAA Minneapolis, earned the win by allowing just 3 hits in 5 and a third innings. __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-23-2016, 09:08 AM	#250
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	No-hitter but loses game I had to give this it's own post as the Philadelphia Phillies did get some good luck later in the week. They were no-hit by Esteban Puente of the Boston Braves - the first no-hitter in just over a year- but won the game 1-0 thanks to a pair of first inning walks and an error. The game started with Puente walking lead-off man Radhames Casado and number 2 hitter Bob Almont. Bill Antell then hit a fly ball deep enough to allow Casado to tag up and move to third. The next batter, Bug Harrison, hit a doubleplay ball to Braves 27 year old rookie shortstop Jim Peters, but Peters muffed the play allowing Casado to score what would prove to be the only run of the game. Puente struggled with his control all game, walking 7, but he did not allow another runner past second base. I believe it is the first time in this universe a major league pitcher has thrown a no-hitter and lost the game. There were 19 no-hitters in the first 24 years of the league but only 5 since then and it included a 10 year drought with none from 1924 until 1934, when Arturo Serna and George Barr - both still active - each threw one. Since then we have had 3 including Puente today. Shadi Aladdin (great name!) got one for Brooklyn in 1936 and Buck Parham of the A's pitched one a year and 4 days ago (Sept 1, 1940). Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-29-2016, 04:14 PM	#255
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Wednesday October 1, 1941 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 1941 YANKEES BLAST GIANTS IN SERIES OPENER The New York Yankees exploded for 5 runs in the third inning and coasted to a 10-2 victory over the visiting New York Giants in the opening game of the World Series. Despite missing slugger Elgie Vargas (.348,45,147) who is out with an injury, the Yankee offense dominated the game as the homeside wrapped out 12 hits including a pair of 8th inning homers from John Hanson (.328,34,117) and Oscar Weidner (.271,10,102). Game two will be played tomorrow at Yankee Stadium. The Giants did get shortstop John Wagoner (.311,10,66) back in the lineup for the game but they were still missing 3 regulars in 2B Billy Bolling (.255,4,49), catcher Henry Warner (.291,7,58) and OF George Saunders (.299,12,71). The visitors did get the game's first run as Wagoner hit a two out single and scored on an rbi double from mid-season pickup Jim Wade (.272,6,69). However, that was all the Giants would get until scoring another run in the 8th inning as Yankee starter Jay Moore (19-10, 3.77) was in complete control the rest of the way, especially considering the huge lead he would have to work with. The Yankees evened the game in the bottom of the first on a bases loaded single from Weidner but George Foskey (.291,21,89) ended a potentially big inning by grounding out with the bases loaded. Giants starter Aurelio Ventura (20-10, 2.86) retired the Yanks in order in the second inning but he would have great difficulty in the third. The Yankee 5 run outburst in the bottom of the third included 4 hits and an error by Wagoner. Among the 4 hits were a lead-off double off the bat of second baseman Martin Robbins (.266,8,71) and a triple from 1B Jim Post (.336,6,71). While Giants starter Ventura did survive the 3rd he could not get out of the fourth inning as the Yankees plated two more runs to make the score 8-1. George Foskey's double scored both Hanson and Weidner while also sending Ventura to the showers. Giant reliever Elige Medina kept the Yankee bats in check until the 8th inning when rookie Jim Sanicki, the former Harvard star who missed much of the season recovering from arm surgery, took over in the bottom of the 8th and was promptly greeted with back to back homers from Hanson and Weidner. Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-30-2016, 09:20 AM	#256
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	World Series Game 2 Thursday October 2, 1941 THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 1941 ANOTHER BLOWOUT WIN FOR YANKEES The New York Yankees offense completely dominated the American League during the regular season so it really should be no surprise that the Yankees are doing the same to the National League champion New York Giants. For the second day in a row Yankee bats lit up Giant pitching to the tune of 10 runs as the American Leaguers went up 2 games to none in the World Series with a 10-6 victory at Yankee Stadium. After an off day tomorrow the series shifts to the Polo Grounds for the next 3 games (if necessary) beginning Saturday. The outcome of this one was never in doubt as the Yankees sent 11 men to the plate in the first inning and scored 7 runs off of Giants starter John Petersen (18-8, 3.77). Petersen could not find the plate as he walked the bases loaded with 1 out and then issued a free pass to George Foskey to score the first Yankee run. Jim Post followed with an rbi single and then Petersen walked in two more runs before finally getting the second out when he fanned Yankee pitcher George Barr. Lead-off man Martin Robbins, who walked to start the game, then delivered a 2-run single and Joe Almy followed with an rbi single but the inning ended when Robbins was gunned down trying to advance to third. Petersen would settle down after that but the damage had been done. The Giants first run off of George Barr (16-9, 4.00) came on a solo homerun from Celerino Ochoa (.303,5,73) in the 4th inning. Barr would go the distance and was not overly sharp, allowing 10 hits and 6 earned runs, but with the huge lead he was given he did not need to be sharp. Yankee catcher Joe Martin(.276,9,62), whho had 2 hits and drove in a pair of runs was named the player of the game. The Giants, already ravaged by injuries, suffered another one as outfielder Ted Linton (.278,1,8) hurt his ankle and is day to day. Linton is filling in for the injured George Saunders in right field. Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-30-2016, 10:11 AM	#257
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Saturday October 4, 1941 World Series Game Three SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 1941 COMEBACK WIN PUTS YANKEES UP 3-0 New York Giants pitcher John White (21-7, 3.05) took a 3-hit shutout into the 9th inning only to see the Yankees win 2-1 in 11 innings and take a commanding 3 games to none lead in the World Series. White's pitching performance, especially in contrast to the previous two efforts from Giants hurlers, was masterful as he set down the first 14 Yankee batters in order until Jim Post hit a 2-out single in the fifth inning. The game was scoreless as Game one winner Jay Moore was enjoying similar success on the mound for the Yankees. Moore allowed just 2 hits through the first five innings but in the 6th gave up the game's first run as Giants shortstop John Wagoner led off with a single, moved to third on Henry Warner's double and scored on an error by Yankee second baseman Martin Robbins. That would be the game's only run until the 9th inning when Moore was lifted for pinch-hitter Onix Bardales, who blooped a single over Wagoner's head. Martin Robbins sacrficed Bardales to second and he moved to third on a ground out by Yankee outfielder Joe Almy. With the Giants just 1 strike away from winning the game, John Hanson ripped a 2-2 pitch up the middle for the Yankees to score Bardales with the tying run. Yankee relief pitcher Sam Dignam would give up a 2-out double to Dennis Hobbs in the bottom of the 9th but he got Celerino Ochoa to ground out to end the inning. In the 10th inning George Foskey hit a 1-out triple for the Yankees but White struck out pinch-hitter Smith King and got Tommy Dahl to fly out to end the inning without any damage. After the Giants went quietly in order in the bottom of the 10th the Yankees struck in the 11th as White allowed a 1-out double to Martin Robbins and he came in to score on a single off the bat Almy, a former Chicago Cub acquired in June as outfield depth and is now filling in for the injured Elgie Vargas. Yankee reliver Dignam retired the Giants in order again in the bottom of the 11th including striking out John Monroe to end the game and give the Yankees the 2-1 victory and commanding 3-games to none series lead. JOHN MONROE The strikeout to end the game might well have been the last time we will see John Monroe in action. The 39 year old face of the Giants has played with the team since 1923 when he made his major league debut in September of that year as a 20 year old. He was a two-time National League MVP and won 5 batting titles in a career that has seen him play 2109 major league games, hit 195 homers and have a lifetime .362 batting average. Monroe has 2867 hits which ranks him 4th all-time. This is the 7th World Series Monroe has appeared in and in 39 games is batting .309. He went 2-for-2 in the Giants 10-6 loss in game two. He has won 3 World Series titles with the Giants. Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

01-30-2016, 01:33 PM	#258
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	Sunday October 5, 1941 World Series Game 4 Sunday October 5, 1941 GIANTS HITCH RIDE ON WAGONER TO STAY ALIVE New York Giants shortstop John Wagoner had 3 hits including a double and triple while driving in 4 runs and scoring twice to lead his club to a 7-4 victory in Game Four of the World Series. The victory keeps the Giants slim hopes alive as they trail in the series 3 games to one. The 27 year old Wagoner, who played a key role in the Giants two World Series victories over the Yankees in 1938 and 1939, is a lifetime .320 hitter in the postseason including going 6-for-17 (.353) so far in this series. The Yankees threatened first as lead-off man Martin Robbins hit a triple off of Giants starter Aurelio Ventura to start the game but Ventura got out of the jam damage free with a pair of infield pop-outs and a ground out. While the Yankees could not take advantage of a lead-off extra base hit the Giants did as rookie Mike Hall greeted Yankee starter Elias Edmondson with a double on his second pitch of the game. Hall got a great jump and moved over to third on a comebacker to the mound from Celerino Ochoa and then scored on John Wagoner's ground out. The Yankees responded quickly in the top of the second and looked like they were going to turn this one into another rout like the opening two games as the American League champs got 3 runs on 5 hits in the inning including doubles from George Foskey and Joe Martin. However instead of a Yankee rout the Giants bats came alive as they tied the game in the home half of the third inning on an rbi double from Jim Wade and a single from Henry Warner. In the 4th inning the Giants would add three more runs with the big blow being Wagoner's two run triple. In the 6th inning the Giants chased Edmondson when Wagoner doubled in Mike Hall to make the score 7-3. Edmondson was making his first start since September 28th when he lasted just 1/3 of an inning before leaving with neck problems. The 32 year old who was American League pitcher of the year in 1939, was 18-12 with a 3.10 era on the season but he clearly looked like his timing was off on this day. One player who's timing is certainly on is journeyman 1B-OF Mike Hall. The 31 year old spent most of the season at AAA Minneapolis before being called up at the September deadline and going 4-for-9 down the stretch as a pinch-hitter for the Giants. Moved into the starting lineup because of injuries the South Gate, California native is batting .400 (6-15) in the 4 World Series games. He is no stranger to the post-season as he had played 19 World Series games prior to this year (4 with the Braves in 1932 and 14 with the Giants in 1938-39). He has appeared in over 1000 regular season major league games batting .292, but just 38 over the past two seasons. Attached Images __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles