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Tiger Fan · 02-02-2005, 01:25 AM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1947

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
BROWNS RALLY TO BEAT INDIANS
The St Louis Browns scored 8 runs over the final two innings to beat the Cleveland Indians 11-6 in American League action. Wally Judnich homered in both the 8th and 9th innings to pace the St Louis attack. He had 3 hits and 5 rbi's on the day while fellow Browns outfielder Bruce Campbell also had 3 hits. Cleveland starter Bill Lohrman (15-3, 1.75) was rolling along until getting in to big trouble in the 8th inning. Tom Baker (12-13, 3.39) got the win.

In other American League action pinch-hitter Norm Schlueter singled in the winning run with a pinch-hit in the bottom of the 13th to lift Chicago past the New York Yankees 4-3. Danny Litwhiler's 2 run homer in the 8th inning tied the game for Chicago. In the only other game in the Junior Circuit Steve Rosar and two relievers combined on a 3-hitter as Philadelphia edged Detroit 2-1.

In the National League despite a day off the Chicago Cubs moved another half-game ahead of Philadelphia atop the standings after the Phillies fell 9-3 in Cincinnati. Joe Medwick and Ford Garrison each had 2 rbi's to pace the Reds.

Elsewhere, Pee Wee Reese had a 3 hit game as Brooklyn doubled Boston 6-3. Reese doubled, drove in a pair of runs and scored two for the Dodgers. In the other game last place New York dropped St Louis 6-2.

Today Dizzy Dean makes his first start in over a month. The Yankee hurler, who started the season 5-0, was 11-12 with a 3.56 era when he suffered an arm injury August 5th in a loss to Detroit. The 37 year old, who won 25 games in 1934, has been bothered by injuries virtually every season since 1939. As a result his career record sits at 186-138...not too bad but quite dissappointing when you consider he had 137 wins before his 29th birthday and just 49 over the past 8 seasons.

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AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	77	54	.588	  x
BOSTON		69	61	.531	 7.5
ST LOUIS	69	63	.523	 8.5
WASHINGTON	67	66	.504	11.0
NEW YORK	63	69	.477	14.5
PHILADELPHIA	63	69	.477	14.5
DETROIT		62	69	.473	15.0
CHICAGO		57	76	.429	21.0
	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		78	54	.591	  x
PHILADELPHIA	74	57	.565	 3.5
PITTSBURGH	75	58	.564	 3.5
CINCINNATI	70	62	.530	 8.0
ST LOUIS	69	62	.527	 8.5
BOSTON		61	70	.466	16.5
BROOKLYN	52	82	.388	27.0
NEW YORK	49	83	.371	29.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 2 Detroit 1
Chicago 4 New York 3 (13 inn)
St Louis 11 Cleveland 6

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 9 Philadelphia 3
Brooklyn 6 Boston 3
New York 6 St Louis 2

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia (S Overmire 8-13, 4.09) at Detroit (V Trucks 10-16, 2.95)
New York (D Dean 11-12, 3.56) at Chicago (B Byerly 7-12, 5.23)
St Louis (R Scarborough 11-10, 3.34) at Cleveland (B Feller 11-9, 2.82)
Boston (A Karl 16-7, 3.86) at Washington (F Hutchinson 16-14, 3.49)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 4.35) at Pittsburgh (C Melton 15-10, 2.07)
Philadelphia (L Hoerst 5-1, 1.69) at Cincinnati (H Feldman 15-8, 4.47)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
B McCosky Det	 .331	 J Medwick Cin	.353
W Judnich SLB	 .327	 B Elliott Pit	.352
J Hudson Bos	 .323	 G Rosen Bkn	.330

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	29	 S Chapman Bsn	24
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Gordon Phi	21

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	87
D Litwhiler Cha	 88	 S Chapman Bsn	82
T Williams Bos	 87	 H Clift Chn	82

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 21-9	 V Olsen Chn	21-7
E Johnson Bos	 17-9	 P Roe Pit	19-7
A Karl Bos	 16-7	 C Schanz Phi	19-12

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.75	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.79	 H Wyse Chn	     2.50

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 177	 E White StL	175
A Jurisch Det	 173	 R Barney Bkn	168
V Trucks Det	 169	 P Roe Pit	148

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
NCAA FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF TOMORROW
The rest of the division 1 teams will not see any action for two weeks but there is one game in college football this weekend. Southern Methodist travels to Santa Clara to meet the Broncos. The game will mark the college debut of sophomore QB/RB Doak *Walker with SMU. He is counted on to lead the Mustangs in to contention in the Southwest Conference, where they were 0-3-3 a year ago. Overall the Mustangs were 4-3-3 while independant Santa Clara was 2-6 last season.

That game is the only one scheduled until Friday, September 19th when there are 5 games on the docket. Most of the schools begin play the following day.

b>GOLF
PLENTY OF RED NUMBES IN OPENING ROUND AT RIVIERA
Well over half the field broke par in the opening round of the final event of the 1947 PGA schedule. Chandler Harper led the way, shooting an 8 under par 64 to enjoy a 1 stroke lead on 5 golfers at Riviera Country Club's Los Angeles Open.

This is the final regular event of the tour but there are still two more weekends of golf to come. Next weekend it is the Ryder Cup in Portland, Oregon and the following weekend will be the tournament of champions from Houston which features the top 20 money winners.

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 FIRST ROUND RESULTS IN LA OPEN
Harper		-8
Bulla		-7
Hogan		-7
King		-7
Sarazen		-7
Wood		-7
Fleck		-6
Smith		-6
Boros		-5
Cerda		-5
Shute		-5
Wall		-5
Barron		-4
Nelson		-4
Rosburg-a	-4
Weetman		-4
Bruen		-3
Daly		-3
Harbert		-3
Little		-3
Locke		-3
Middlecoff	-3
Oliver		-3
Rees		-3
xScarborough-a	-3
Adams		-2
Carr-a		-2
Cotton		-2
Harmon		-2
Harrison	-2
Riegel		-2
Snead		-2
Ward		-2
xKeeler-a	-2
xMartin-a	-2
Burke Jr	-1
Burton		-1
Byrd		-1
Faulkner	-1
Furgol		-1
Horne		-1
Revolta		-1
Van Donck	-1
Von Nida	-1
xWhistler-a	-1
Dutra		E
Ford		E
Ghezzi		E
Hamilton	E
Hebert		E
Mackay Jr	E
Mangrum		E
xMulvenon-a	E
Bolt		1
Dawson-a	1
Ferrier		1
Haefner		1
Stranahan	1
Thomson		1
Turnesa		1
Worsham		1
xWhite-a	1
Bradshaw	2
Demaret		2
xNehring-a	2
Lees		3
McSpadden	3
xTibbetts-a	3
Fazio		4
Metz		4
Runyon		4
xDePore-a	4
Keiser		5
de Vicenzo	6

SOCCER
SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Rangers 0 Aberdeen 0
Celtic 4 Third Lanark 1
Motherwell 0 Falkirk 0
Airdrie 4 Hearts 3
Hibernian 4 Dundee 1
St Mirren 1 Patrick Thistle 1
Queen of the South 2 Morton 1
Clyde 3 Queen's Park 2

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STANDINGS	GP W L	T GF GA	PTS
Hibernian	8  6 1	1 20  4	 13
Partick		7  5 0	2 11  2	 12
St Mirren	8  5 1	2 10  4	 12
Dundee		8  5 3	0 12 11	 10
Celtic		7  4 2	1 14  8	  9
Rangers		7  3 1	3  9  5	  9
Queen of South	8  4 3	1 10 12	  9
Falkirk		8  2 1	5  8  7	  9
Aberdeen	8  3 3	2  9  8	  8
Motherwell	8  2 3	3  8 10	  7
Hearts		8  2 4	2 12 12	  6
Airdrie		8  2 4	2 11 16	  6
Clyde		7  2 4	1  7 12	  5
Third Lanark	7  1 5	1  5 15	  3
Queens Park	7  1 6	0  5 17	  2
Morton		8  0 6	2  5 13	  2

Tiger Fan · 02-03-2005, 11:26 PM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1947

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
KOLLOWAY LEADS THE WAY FOR WHITE SOX
Second baseman Don Kolloway hit a walk-off homerun with 2 out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Chicago White Sox a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees. The Chicago win spoiled Dizzy Dean's return to the mound for the Yankees after missing over a month due to injury. Dean looked in complete control through 7 innings before tiring in the 8th and allowing the White Sox to score twice to tie the game. He gave way to reliever Jimmie DeShong in the 9th with the game tied at 3, setting the stage for Kolloway's heroics.

In other games Bob Feller fanned 7 and improved his record to 12-9 after the Cleveland Indians dropped St Louis 5-2. Virgil Trucks tossed a 4-hit shutout as Detroit blanked Philadelphia 2-0 while the Senators pounded out 21 hits in a 14-5 win over Boston. Buddy Lewis had a 5 hit game for Washington while Les Fleming and Mike Chartak each had 4 hits for the Sens.

Just two games in the National League yesterday. In Cincinnati, Lefty Hoerst pitched his second straight complete game victory since being moved into the Phillies rotation. Hoerst and his Philadelphia teammates dumped the Reds 6-1. In Pittsburgh, pinch-hitter Jack Lohrke's first major league hit was an rbi single in the bottom of the 10th to lift the Pirates past Boston 3-2. The 23 year old Lohrke was just called up to the majors 3 days ago after being the Pirates first round pick this past offseason. The Pirates had tied the game an inning earlier on another pinch-hit rbi, this off the bat of Maurice Van Robays.

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AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	78	54	.591	  x
BOSTON		69	62	.527	 8.5
ST LOUIS	69	64	.519	 9.5
WASHINGTON	68	66	.507	11.0
DETROIT		63	69	.477	15.0
NEW YORK	63	70	.474	15.5
PHILADELPHIA	63	70	.474	15.5
CHICAGO		58	76	.433	21.0
	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		78	54	.591	  x
PHILADELPHIA	75	57	.568	 3.0
PITTSBURGH	76	58	.567	 3.0
ST LOUIS	69	62	.527	 8.5
CINCINNATI	70	63	.526	 8.5
BOSTON		61	71	.462	17.0
BROOKLYN	52	82	.388	27.0
NEW YORK	49	83	.371	29.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 2 Philadelphia 0
Chicago 4 New York 3
Cleveland 5 St Louis 2
Washington 14 Boston 5

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 1
Pittsburgh 3 Boston 2 (10 inn)

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia (A Williams 16-12, 3.09) at Detroit (R Lynn 3-2, 1.60)
New York (T Bonham 14-15, 2.79) at Chicago (G Schott 9-11, 4.98)
St Louis (A McKain 14-8, 3.29) at Cleveland (W Spahn 16-12, 3.24)
Boston (E Johnson 17-9, 3.14) at Washington (M Candini 15-14, 3.45)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (H Bithorn 9-8, 3.70) at Pittsburgh (D Adkins 11-12, 3.83)
Philadelphia (C Schanz 19-12, 3.45) at St Louis (E White 16-8, 2.67)
Chicago (V Olsen 21-7, 2.85) at New York (R Bauers 10-17, 3.70)
Brooklyn (R Barney 8-11, 3.45) at Cincinnati (A Carter 16-14, 3.52)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
B McCosky Det	 .327	 J Medwick Cin	.352
W Judnich SLB	 .326	 B Elliott Pit	.352
J Hudson Bos	 .326	 G Rosen Bkn	.330

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	29	 S Chapman Bsn	24
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Gordon Phi	21

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	87
D Litwhiler Cha	 90	 S Chapman Bsn	82
T Williams Bos	 88	 H Clift Chn	82

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 21-9	 V Olsen Chn	21-7
E Johnson Bos	 17-9	 P Roe Pit	19-7
F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14	 C Schanz Phi	19-12

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.75	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.79	 H Wyse Chn	     2.50

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 184	 E White StL	175
V Trucks Det	 177	 R Barney Bkn	168
A Jurisch Det	 173	 P Roe Pit	148

GOLF
SAM KING LEADS MIDWAY THROUGH THE LOS ANGELES OPEN
Sam King has a 2 stroke lead as the Los Angeles Open reaches it's midway point. The British golfer, who will compete in next weekend's Ryder Cup in Portland, shot a 4 under par 68 yesterday and is 11 under through 36 holes. King sits 22nd on the money list this season despite not having a top 5 finish.

Putting whiz Horton Smith sits second with 4 golfers, including Ben Hogan, one stroke behind Smith. William xScarborough III was the only amateur to make the cut.

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 SECOND ROUND RESULTS IN LA OPEN
NAME		RD 1	RD 2	TOTAL
King		65	68	-11
Smith		66	69	-9
Boros		67	69	-8
Harper		64	72	-8
Hogan		65	71	-8
Sarazen		65	71	-8
Cerda		67	70	-7
Fleck		66	72	-6
Revolta		71	67	-6
Adams		70	70	-4
Bulla		65	75	-4
Cotton		70	70	-4
Rees		69	71	-4
xScarborough-a	69	71	-4
Barron		68	73	-3
Bruen		69	72	-3
Shute		67	74	-3
Thomson		73	68	-3
Von Nida	71	70	-3
Daly		69	73	-2
Faulkner	71	71	-2
Haefner		73	69	-2
Middlecoff	69	73	-2
Oliver		69	73	-2
Wood		65	77	-2
Harbert		69	74	-1
Wall		67	76	-1


	MISSED CUT
Harrison	70	74	 E
Hebert		72	72	 E
Nelson		68	76	 E
Snead		70	74	 E
xWhistler-a	71	73	 E
xWhite-a	73	71	 E
Carr-a		70	75	1
Ford		72	73	1
Horne		71	74	1
Rosburg-a	68	77	1
Burton		71	75	2
Hamilton	72	74	2
Little		69	77	2
Locke		69	77	2
Van Donck	71	75	2
Weetman		68	78	2
Burke Jr	71	76	3
Harmon		70	77	3
Ward		70	77	3
xMulvenon-a	72	75	3
Demaret		74	74	4
Ghezzi		72	76	4
Keiser		77	71	4
Stranahan	73	75	4
xDePore-a	76	72	4
xKeeler-a	70	78	4
Fazio		76	73	5
Furgol		71	78	5
Mackay Jr	72	77	5
Mangrum		72	77	5
Metz		76	73	5
xNehring-a	74	75	5
de Vicenzo	78	72	6
Dutra		72	78	6
McSpadden	75	75	6
Runyon		76	75	7
Worsham		73	78	7
xMartin-a	70	81	7
xTibbetts-a	75	76	7
Byrd		71	81	8
Ferrier		73	79	8
Riegel		70	82	8
Turnesa		73	79	8
Lees		75	79	10
Bradshaw	74	81	11
Bolt		73	83	12
Dawson-a	73	84	13

BOXING
RILEY KO'S VEGARA
Featherweight Charley Riley delighted his hometown fans in St Louis winning an easy fight with Simon Vegara by a 5th round knockout. Riley, who lost to World Champion Willie Pep in his last bout, took control of his 10 round fight with Vegara right from the start, flooring the native of Panama in the first round. Vegara recovered from that knock down but good not regain his feet when sent to the canvas for a second time in the bout 4 rounds later.

Riley improves to 24-5 with the victory and is hopeful he will get another shot at undefeated World Champion Willie Pep, whom he lost to by a 13th round TKO last month. Vegara's record drops to 38-7-2.

Tonight's big fight is in Atlantic City where heavyweight contenders Elmer Ray (23-5) and Jersey Joe Walcott (24-2-2) will meet for the first time. Each is looking at victory as a way to position himself for a shot at World Champion Ezzard Charles.

FOOTBALL
THIS WEEKEND'S FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7
San Diego Chargers (1-0) at Oakland Raiders (0-1)
Tennessee Titans (0-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1)
Cleveland Browns (1-0) at Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0)
New England Patriots (0-1) at New York Jets (1-0)
Chicago Bears (1-0) at Detroit Lions (1-0)
Atlanta Falcons (1-0) at Carolina Panthers (1-0)
Arizona Cardinals (0-1) at San Francisco 49ers (0-1)
Philadelphia Eagles (0-1) at Washington Redskins (0-1)
Kansas City Chiefs (1-0) at Minnesota Vikings (1-0)
Denver Broncos (1-0) at Green Bay Packers (1-0)
Houston Texans (1-0) at Dallas Cowboys (0-1)
Indianapolis Colts (0-1) at New York Giants (0-1)
Cincinnati Bengals (0-1) at New Orleans Saints (1-0)
Miami Dolphins (0-1) at Seattle Seahawks (0-1)
Baltimore Ravens (1-0) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0)

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8
Buffalo Bills (0-1) at St. Louis Rams (0-1)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
TODAY
Southern Methodist at Santa Clara

CANADIAN FOOTBALL
TODAY
WESTERN LEAGUE
Regina (0-2)at Edmonton (1-0)
Winnipeg (2-0) at Calgary (0-1)

IPRFU
Montreal (1-0) at Ottawa (0-1)

ORFU
Sarnia Imperials (0-1) at Windsor Royals(1-0)
Hamilton Wildcats (1-0) at Toronto Balmy Beach (0-0)
Ottawa Trojans (0-0) at Toronto Indians (0-1)

SOCCER
ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION
TODAY'S MATCHES
Manchester United at Arsenal
Aston Villa at Blackburn
Wolverhampton at Blackpool
Portsmouth at Bolton
Preston NE at Charlton Athletic
Everton at Derby
Sheffield United at Grimsby Town
Chelsea at Huddersfield
Burnely at Liverpool
Sunderland at Manchester City
Stoke City at Middlesbrough

Dargone · 02-04-2005, 12:12 AM

Good stuff as usual...

khucke · 02-04-2005, 12:28 PM

Quite nice races for the batting title with somewhat uncommon names. How are Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio or Jackie Robinson doing?

Tiger Fan · 02-04-2005, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by khucke

Quite nice races for the batting title with somewhat uncommon names. How are Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio or Jackie Robinson doing?

JOE DIMAGGIO
Dimaggio began his career with the Yankees in 1936 as a 21 year old. There was a lot of talent in the Yankee outfield so he had to compete with the likes of veterans Hack Wilson, Dusty Cooke and Ben Chapman along with youngster Dixie Walker for playing time. As a rookie Dimaggio was used mainly as a pinch-hitter but he hit .301 and helped the Yankees to the American League Pennant.

In 1937 he would start to push Hack Wilson for playing time, but as highly thought of as Dimaggio was, you have to remember that Wilson was an icon in New York. Hack's 489 homeruns is fourth best alltime and although his other skills started to erode quickly in 1937, Wilson still managed to hit 44 homers so the 22 year old Dimaggio was told to be patient.

Patience paid off the following season when Dimaggio was given full-time duties in centerfield for the Yankees, pushing Dusty Cooke to right where he would replace an agining Hack Wilson. Dimaggio instantly became the Yankees offensive leader and was hitting .319 with 19 homers when disaster struck. Just after the allstar game Dimaggio torn stomach muscles and would miss the rest of the season including the playoffs as the Yankees lost to St Louis in the series.

Dimaggio would make his first allstar game appearance the following season but the it appeared the injury had robbed him of some of his power. Another injury, this time to his back would force him to miss nearly a month of the season.

In 1940 the Yankees had a wealth of young outfield talent and a decision was made to deal Dimaggio in favour of keeping a 23 year old by the name of Charlie Keller. The prize the Yankees were after was a minor league shortstop by the name of Eddie Joost and Dimaggio was swapped to the Reds for Joost, minor league 3B Don Lang and veteran OF Jim Bucher. The deal would not pan out for the Yankees as Joost, at this writing now 31 years old, has played only 6 major league games and with 4 different teams.

The trade was not as lobsided as it could have been because Dimaggio, although he did make three allstar game appearances while with the Reds, never regained the hitting ability he displayed prior to his stomach injury.

Today at age 32, Dimaggio is a solid major league player but has almost no chance at becoming a hall of famer.

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	JOE DIMAGGIO CAREER STATS
Year Teams     G   AB	 R   H	 2B  3B	 HR  RBI  AVG	 SLG
1936 NYA      99  156	29   47	 11   5	  6   32 .301	.551
1937 NYA     117  342	55  103	 28   5	 13   62 .301	.526
1938 NYA      82  313	52  100	 21   1	 19   60 .319	.575
1939 NYA,AL  128  480	69  139	 34   4	 21   75 .290	.508
1940 NYA CIN 140  464	70  127	 29   5	 25   76 .274	.519
1941 CIN,NL  147  572	81  159	 26   9	 23   94 .278	.476
1942 CIN,NL  148  575	74  140	 33  10	 15   90 .243	.414
1943 CIN     146  553	73  134	 34   9	 18   74 .242	.434
1944 CIN,NL  142  519	74  143	 44   4	 21   88 .276	.497
1945 CIN     149  546	80  139	 37   2	 23  105 .255	.456
1946 CIN     123  461	64  104	 34   4	 21   77 .226	.453
1947 CIN     111  414	69   99	 24   3	 20   70 .239	.457
---- ---    ---- ----  --- ---- ---  -- ---  --- ----   ----
Total	    1532 5395  790 1434	355  61	225  903 .266	.479

1947 stats current as of September 7, 1947
NAMED NATIONAL LEAGUE MVP IN 1944
WON GOLD GLOVE AT CENTERFIELD IN 1945

	JOE DIMAGGIO POSTSEASON STATS
Year	G AB  R	 H  2B 3B HR RBI AVG  SLG
1936	6  5  0	 1   1	0  0  3	.200 .400
----    -  -  -  -   -  -  -  - ---- ----
Total	6  5  0	 1   1	0  0  3	.200 .400

JACKIE ROBINSON
Prior to 1947 players had been assigned to their original teams however in the winter before the '47 season that all changed. Major League baseball in my replay decided to institute an amateur player draft and all new players to the league must pass through that draft with one exception. Since I had already done a brief article during 1946 on the player who was expected to break the color barrier in the major leagues, Jackie Robinson was granted an exemption and was 'grandfathered' to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Just like in real-life Robinson is very old for a rookie but the 28 year old has enjoyed a solid freshman campaign. He has some decent potential but it remains to be seen how good he can become.

Here are his rookie season stats so far. He leads the National League in steals at this writing with 26, one more than Pittsburgh's Elmer Valo.

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	G   AB   H  2B 3B HR  RBI  R  BB  K  SB  CS  AVG  OBP  SLG
       115 421 107  15	7 10   54 59  53 24  26  11 .254 .343 .394

TED WILLIAMS
The reigning American League MVP, 29 year old Ted Williams appears to be just hitting his peak as a player. He burst on to the scene in 1939, winning the rookie of the year award and making the first of 9 straight allstar appearances. Williams won his only batting title in 1942 but has finished either second or third in the batting race on 4 other occassions. He has led the American League in on-base-percentage each of the last 5 years and has led his league in homeruns the past 2 seasons. The one thing he has yet to accomplish is to lead the Boston Red Sox to the American League Pennant, but that hasn't happened in Boston since 1922.

In 1940 Williams broke his wrist and missed 2 months but aside from a slight power loss it has not affected his career much.

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	TED WILLIAMS CAREER STATS
Year Teams   G    AB   R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI	 BB   K  AVG  OBP  SLG
1939 BOS,AL 147	 505  119  154  44  7  38  119	127  48	.305 .445 .646
1940 BOS,AL 113	 381   98  130	29  8  28   95	 86  22	.341 .463 .680
1941 BOS,AL 148	 505  117  179	43  4  25  106	119  29	.354 .478 .604
1942 BOS,AL 128	 445   83  144	40  4  13   72	101  18	.324 .449 .519
1943 BOS,AL 147	 492   92  159	43 16  13   92	104  32	.323 .441 .555
1944 BOS,AL 122	 410   78  133	31  4  13   70	104  24	.324 .461 .515
1945 BOS,AL 148	 506   95  151	30  6  20   90	121  32	.298 .434 .500
1946 BOS,AL 147	 469   94  151	33  3  31   93	140  35	.322 .478 .603
1947 BOS,AL 126	 403   88  129	32  1  30   90  137  30	.320 .490 .628
           ---- ----  --- ---- --- -- ---  --- ---- --- ---- ---- ----
Total	   1226	4116  864 1330 325 53 211  827 1039 270	.323 .459 .582

1947 stats current as of Sept 7, 1947
1939 named AMERICAN LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
     Set MLB record for rookie homeruns with 38
1942 AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING CHAMP
1946 AMERICAN LEAGUE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
1946 WON GOLD GLOVE AT LEFTFIELD

Here are the top 15 in the batting race as of September 7th, 1947

BadluckinOOTP · 02-05-2005, 11:17 PM

How this wasn't voted the #1 dynasty I'll never know, but how is Oklahoma State's athletic program doing these days?

Tiger Fan · 02-06-2005, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadluckinOOTP

How this wasn't voted the #1 dynasty I'll never know, but how is Oklahoma State's athletic program doing these days?

Thanks for the compliment. Much appreciated. In answer to your first question likely the wrong era for most people. I can see doing the 1940's and 50's as opposed to the 90's and 2000's limits my appeal plus these reports are likely far too long for most observers.

Ah, Oklahoma State or more precisely Oklahoma A&M. They were known as the Oklahoma A&M Aggies until I believe 1957 and just like in real life for the era they are a basketball powerhouse. In basketball I have them playing in the Big 8 because of limited editing available with TDCB. In reality they did not join that conference until the late 1950's. In football they are in the MVC just as they were in real life.

The football Aggies are coming off of a dissappointing 4-5-2 season including a 1-1 record in the Missouri Valley Conference with which they are loosely affliated. A&M will play just 2 of the 4 other schools in the conference again this season. With Georgia, Oklahoma, Denver and SMU on their schedule another losing season looks likely for the Aggies. There top player is RB Jim *Parmer who will take over for Bob *Fenimore, a first round pick of the San Diego Chargers. Oklahoma A&M also lost CB Neil *Armstrong, who was taken midway through the first round by New Orleans. *Fenimore, by the way, had a terrific NFL debut, gaining 87 yards rushing and being named player of the game in a Chargers rout over New England.

In basketball the Aggies have a storied tradition, winning 10 of 15 Big 8 regular season titles and 7 conference tournaments. They also have 4 Final Four appearances including 1933-34 when they beat Penn State 74-61 in the National Title game. In the 3 seasons prior to last year the Aggies made it at least to the Sweet 16 and finished with records of 29-8, 32-5, and 29-6. However, the bottom fell out last year and Oklahoma A&M endured it's worst season in a decade, finishing with a 15-14 record and exiting in the first round of the NCAA's.

There is plenty of optimism surrounding this season with 3 starters including Big 8 Freshman of the Year PF Jack *Shelton returning. Shelton averaged 10.1 ppg and 10.4 rpg and was joined on the conference rookie team by center Dick *Schnittker, who averaged 8.6 rebounds and points per game. Add in senior PG Lonnie *Eggleston, a third year starter and freshman Bob *Kurland, a 6'10" center from St Louis and this could be a special season for the Aggies.

If you want an NBA team to follow you might try the New Orleans Jazz who just recently signed 11 year veteran and Oklahoma A&M alum Bam Sanders. The 7'0" center played a key role on the Aggies NCAA championship team of 1934.

Other Aggies in the NBA presently are:

Eric Irizarry :Cincinnati Royals - 5th year shooting guard is a former 3rd overall pick but lost his starting role a year ago. Averaged 10.6 ppg coming off the bench though.

Noah Baldin : Fort Wayne Pistons - 6th overall pick played sparingly as a roookie with the Pistons 2 years ago. Was ready to step in as starting center a year ago before torn achilles cost him all but 5 games of the season. Hoping to be a 100% when this season begins.

Giovonni Bearce : Indianapolis Olympians - Reserve PG was taken 11th overall 5 years ago.

Charles Hale : Milwaukee Hawks - Enjoyed a terrific college career but it has not translated into NBA success. Averaged just 14 minutes per game in his sophomore pro season last year.

Nob Kirkland : Minneapolis Lakers - rookie PG was taken 8th overall this past offseason. Has decent potential.

Gene *Rock: St Louis Bombers - Taken 8th overall a year ago, the SG started 66 games and made the NBA all-rookie team. Is A&M's alltime career steals leader.

Tiger Fan · 02-06-2005, 01:23 AM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1947

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
OLSEN WINS 22ND AS CUBS TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS CLINCHING
Major League victory leader Vern Olsen improved to 22-7 on the year by tossing a complete game 4-hitter to lead the Chicago Cubs past New York 6-1 in National League action. Olsen also had 3 hits in the game to raise his batting average to a very respectable .274. Bill Nicholson drove in 3 runs to pace the Chicago offense, including a pair on a first inning homerun. The Cubs lead on both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh now sits at 4 games after both of those teams lost yesterday.

Ernie White won his 17th game of the season as St Louis blanked Philadelphia 1-0 in a tremendous pitching duel between White and Phillies ace Charley Schanz. Both pitchers went the distance and combined to allow just 7 hits in the game. The only run came in the bottom of the first inning on an rbi single from Cards catcher Walker Cooper. In Pittsburgh, Butch Nieman's three-run homer in the top of the 7th snapped a scoreless tie and propelled the Boston Braves to a 4-2 win over the Pirates.

The other game was in Cincinnati where Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson each had 3 hits as the Brooklyn Dodgers downed the Reds 7-1.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
The Boston Red Sox and St Louis Browns are still clinging to the slim chance one of them could catch and surpass the defending American League champion Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox and Browns both won yesterday while the Indians lost so Boston creeps to within 7.5 games while St Louis is 8.5 off the pace.

Earl Johnson won his 18th game and Ted Williams hit a 2-run homer to help the Red Sox past Washington 5-4. The Browns beat Cleveland 2-1 on an Archie McKain 4-hitter. In other action, Merv Connors hit a 2-run homer in the top of the ninth to lift the Yankees past the White Sox 2-1 while Detroit dropped Philadelphia 9-3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT RACE
With 3 weeks remaining in the season the Pittsburgh Pirates clearly have the hardest stretch run of the 3 pennant contenders. The Bucs have to play 15 of their final 19 games away from Forbes Field. The one positive is Pittsburgh has far more control over it's destiny than Philadelphia does as the Pirates will finish their season with a 4 game series against the first place Cubs at Wrigley Field. Pittsburgh also has 3 games remaining with Philadelphia.

Chicago seems to have the easiest path with 18 of their final 21 games at home and 8 of the 21 are against the hapless Dodgers and Giants franchises.

GAMES REMAINING
CHICAGO CUBS
Home 18 (NYG 2, STL 3, Bsn 4, Cin 2, Bkn 3, Pit 4)
Away 3 (NYG 3)

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
Home 14 (StL 2, Cin 3, Bsn 2, Pit 3, Bkn 4)
Away 7 (StL 4, NYG 3

PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Home 4 (Bsn 2, Cin 2)
Away 15 (Bsn 2, StL 4, NYG 2, Phi 3, Chi 4)

Code:

AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	78	55	.586	  x
BOSTON		70	62	.530	 7.5
ST LOUIS	70	64	.522	 8.5
WASHINGTON	68	67	.504	11.0
DETROIT		64	69	.481	14.0
NEW YORK	64	70	.478	14.5
PHILADELPHIA	63	71	.470	15.5
CHICAGO		58	77	.430	21.0
	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		79	54	.594	  x
PHILADELPHIA	75	58	.564	 4.0
PITTSBURGH	76	59	.563	 4.0
ST LOUIS	70	62	.530	 8.5
CINCINNATI	70	64	.522	 9.5
BOSTON		62	71	.466	17.0
BROOKLYN	53	82	.393	27.0
NEW YORK	49	84	.368	30.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 9 Philadelphia 3
New York 2 Chicago 1
St Louis 2 Cleveland 1
Boston 5 Washington 4

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 4 Pittsburgh 2
St Louis 1 Philadelphia 0
Chicago 6 New York 1
Brooklyn 7 Cincinnati 1

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia (L Harris 4-4, 2.18) at Detroit (A Jurisch 21-9, 3.76)
New York (M Russo 8-5, 3.98) at Chicago (B Fleming 2-7, 3.98)
St Louis (E Lopat 15-15, 4.68) at Cleveland (R Poat 10-11, 3.50)
Boston (R Melton 13-10, 3.73) at Washington (R Barrett 11-10, 4.34)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 3.69) at Pittsburgh (P Roe 19-7, 3.68)
Philadelphia (V Lombardi 15-13, 3.41) at St Louis (J Hutchings 13-14, 4.39)
Chicago (H Wyse 13-9, 2.50) at New York (E Wright 7-7, 5.05)
Brooklyn (L Webber 8-14, 4.55) at Cincinnati (A Houtteman 11-11, 4.84)

Code:

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
B McCosky Det	 .329	 J Medwick Cin	.354
W Judnich SLB	 .327	 B Elliott Pit	.351
J Hudson Bos	 .325	 G Rosen Bkn	.333

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	30	 S Chapman Bsn	24
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Gordon Phi	21

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	89
D Litwhiler Cha	 90	 S Chapman Bsn	82
T Williams Bos	 90	 H Clift Chn	82

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 21-9	 V Olsen Chn	22-7
E Johnson Bos	 18-9	 P Roe Pit	19-7
F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14	 C Schanz Phi	19-13

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.75	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.70	 H Wyse Chn	     2.50

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 184	 E White StL	183
V Trucks Det	 177	 R Barney Bkn	171
A Jurisch Det	 173	 P Roe Pit	148

BOXING
WALCOTT HAS EASY TIME WITH RAY
33 year old Jersey Joe Walcott had little trouble winning a unanimous decision over Elmer Ray in a 12 round bout at Atlantic City last night. The victory improves Walcott's record to 25-2-2 and keeps him ranked 4th overall in the heavyweight division behind only world champion Ezzard Charles, Joe Louis and Nathan Mann. With the loss Ray sees his record slip to 23-6. It was Ray's first bout since losing a 15 round decision to Roscoe Toles last January.

On the undercard heavyweight Aaron Wilson, who was born in Tennessee but is officially French, who his North American debut with a second round knockout of New Haven's Lee Hunt.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
In the lone college football game this weekend Southern Methodist blanked Santa Clara by a score of 28-0. No other teams will see action until Friday September 19th when there are 5 games including Georgia entertaining Furman.

CANADIAN FOOTBALL
In Ottawa, Alouettes quarterback Sam Etcheverry threw a pair of touchdown passes to lead visiting Montreal to an 18-4 victory over the Rough Riders. Gerry James ran for 108 yards and scored on a 4 yard touchdown run with less than 4 minutes to play as Winnipeg remained unbeaten with a 28-26 win at Calgary. Jackie Parker had 148 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns for the Eskimos, who dominated the time of possession.

In ORFU action the Ottawa Trojans shaded the Toronto Indians 19-17, Toronto Balmy Beach dropped the Hamilton Wildcats 28-12 while Windsor spanked Sarnia 42-3

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ORFU		W	L	T	PTS
Windsor		2	0	0	4
Tor Balmy Beach	1	0	0	2
Ott Trojans	1	0	0	2
Ham Wildcats	1	1	0	2
Tor Indians	0	2	0	0
Sarnia		0	2	0	0

IPRFU		W	L	T	PTS
Montreal	2	0	0	4
Tor Argos	1	0	0	2
Ham Tigers	0	1	0	0
Ottawa RR	0	2	0	0
				
WESTERN		W	L	T	PTS
Winnipeg	3	0	0	6
Edmonton	2	0	0	4
Calgary		0	2	0	0
Regina		0	3	0	0

GOLF
HOGAN MOVES INTO TIE FOR LEAD AT LOS ANGELES OPEN
Ben Hogan has won 6 events already this season and he is hoping the season ending Los Angeles Open will provide him with victory number 7. Hogan shot a 4 under par 68 yesterday to move into a share of the lead with 1 day to play. Sam King, who enjoyed a two stroke lead after Friday's action, joins Hogan at 12 under par. Horton Smith is third, 2 strokes back.

Code:

NAME		RD 1	RD 2	RD 3   TOTAL
Hogan		65	71	68     -12
King		65	68	71     -12
Smith		66	69	71     -10
Revolta		71	67	69	-9
Adams		70	70	68	-8
Barron		68	73	67	-8
Bruen		69	72	67	-8
Harper		64	72	72	-8
Harbert		69	74	66	-7
Sarazen		65	71	73	-7
Boros		67	69	74	-6
Bulla		65	75	70	-6
Cerda		67	70	73	-6
Wood		65	77	68	-6
Fleck		66	72	73	-5
Middlecoff	69	73	69	-5
Thomson		73	68	70	-5
Cotton		70	70	72	-4
Haefner		73	69	70	-4
xScarborough-a	69	71	72	-4
Daly		69	73	71	-3
Faulkner	71	71	71	-3
Shute		67	74	72	-3
Von Nida	71	70	72	-3
Rees		69	71	75	-1
Wall		67	76	72	-1
Oliver		69	73	76	 2

SOCCER
ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Arsenal 1 Manchester United 0
Blackburn 2 Aston Villa 1
Blackpool 3 Wolverhampton 0
Portsmouth 2 Bolton 2
Charlton Athletic 2 Preston NE 0
Derby 3 Everton 1
Sheffield United 5 Grimsby Town 1
Huddersfield 3 Chelsea 2
Burnely 1 Liverpool 1
Sunderland 3 Manchester City 1
Stoke City 1 Middlesbrough 0

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STANDINGS	GP W  L	 T  GF	GA  PTS
Arsenal		5  4  0	 1  10	 4   9
Blackpool      	5  4  0	 1   7	 0   9
Burnley 	5  2  0	 3   5	 3   7
Wolverhampton  	5  3  1	 1   9	 6   7
Man United	5  3  1	 1   5	 3   7
Bolton  	5  1  0	 4   5	 4   6
Stoke City 	5  2  1	 2   7	 3   6
Derby County 	5  2  1	 2   8	 5   6
Huddersfield	5  2  1	 2   7	 6   6
Aston Villa    	5  3  2	 0   5	 3   6
Manchest. City  5  1  1	 3   4	 5   5
Blackburn	4  2  1	 1   6	 5   5
Preston NE      5  2  2	 1   7	 7   5
Charlton Athl	5  2  2	 1   9	 7   5
Portsmouth      5  1  2	 2   6	 7   4
Sheffield Untd 	5  2  3	 0  11	 8   4
Sunderland 	5  2  3	 0   8	 7   4
Everton 	5  0  2	 3   3	 6   3
Middlesbrough	5  1  3	 1   4	 9   3
Liverpool       5  0  4	 1   3	11   1
Chelsea 	4  0  4	 0   3	 9   0
Grimsby Town	5  0  5	 0   2	16   0

SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION
TODAY'S MATCHES
Rangers at Celtic
Aberdeen at Falkirk
Hearts at Hibernian
Queen of the South at Dundee
Airdrie at Motherwell
Clyde at Patrick
Morton at St Mirren
Queen's Park at Third Lanark

BadluckinOOTP · 02-06-2005, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiger Fan

was joined on the conference rookie team by center Dick *Schnittker,

Fantastic analysis, but when I got to this name I couldn't help but snicker.

I don't own TDCB, but since the era you are playing in consists of shorter players. Does it make a difference that as you previously posted Oklahoma A&M had Bob Kurland, who at 6'10 I would imagine is one of the taller players in the country, plays against shorter posts? Or is it all about ratings?

I didn't quite know how to phrase this question, so hopefully you can decipher it.

cknox0723 · 02-06-2005, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiger Fan

Code:

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	30	 S Chapman Bsn	24
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Gordon Phi	21

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	89
D Litwhiler Cha	 90	 S Chapman Bsn	82
T Williams Bos	 90	 H Clift Chn	82

I haven't been through here in quite some time, but gave it a look just now and ended up spending 20 minutes reading. Fantastic, fantastic work. So engrossing. Just one question. Is that really Harlond "Darkie" Clift I see on the National League leaderboards? If so...that's just another great part of this game, because his last productive year was 1942 and he was out of baseball after '45...two years prior to where you sit at.

I hope to be able to read this more regularly. Really a fine job.

Tiger Fan · 02-06-2005, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadluckinOOTP

I don't own TDCB, but since the era you are playing in consists of shorter players. Does it make a difference that as you previously posted Oklahoma A&M had Bob Kurland, who at 6'10 I would imagine is one of the taller players in the country, plays against shorter posts? Or is it all about ratings?

I didn't quite know how to phrase this question, so hopefully you can decipher it.

I am not certain how much of an impact height has in TDCB but I meant to edit Kurland's ht to 6'10" I just forgot. I do know that height plays a bigger role in the pro game I am using TPB05 so I will make sure Kurland is edited. In fact, because I am not editing heights of every college player I think I will make Kurland 7'0" just to give him a height advantage like he enjoyed in his era.

Interesting sidenote on Kurland. When I first created the college league to join my replay all I had was a list of all-americans as far as real players to add. I saw Kurland listed but no positions or other data was on my list so I made him a guard and he just completed 4 years at Oklahoma A&M. However, recently when was researching things further I realized he was 6'10" and a dominating center so I have recreated him as a freshman this year and changed the name of the old Bob Kurland in my game to Bob Kirkland, a fictional player.

Learning about players like Kurland has greatly enhanced my enjoyment of this replay but because of limited data on so many of the non-baseball athletes of the era I call this a very loose historical replay.

Tiger Fan · 02-06-2005, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cknox0723

I haven't been through here in quite some time, but gave it a look just now and ended up spending 20 minutes reading. Fantastic, fantastic work. So engrossing. Just one question. Is that really Harlond "Darkie" Clift I see on the National League leaderboards? If so...that's just another great part of this game, because his last productive year was 1942 and he was out of baseball after '45...two years prior to where you sit at.

I hope to be able to read this more regularly. Really a fine job.

thanks, much appreciated. In answer to your question yes, it is one and the same Harlond Clift.

I have read a few articles on him and he was one of the most underrated 3rd baseman in the game during the late thirties. In real life he becamse the first 3B ever to break the 30 homer plateau with 34 in 1938. Seven times in his 11 year career he scored 100 or more runs and 7 times he drew at least 100 walks. He was pretty good defensively as well, with his career total of 309 doubleplays being the most of any pre-1950 thirdbaseman. His career declined very quickly starting in 1943 when he contracted the mumps. He was dealt to the Senators in 1943, the year before the Browns won their only pennant. He had toiled in obscurity with the perennial sad-sack Browns for over a decade prior to that. In 1944 he fell off a horse and injured his shoulder. By 1945, when the talent level began to increase after WWII was over, his career was done.

In my all-sports replay Clift must have got a mumps vaccine and steered clear of the horses as is still enjoying success in 1947. He only spent a few months with the Browns and as a result has been rewarded with 3 World Series appearances, including 1945 when he was on the Cubs World Championship winner. He consistantly draws 80-110 walks a season which helps make up for a relatively low batting average. He has 4 gold gloves to his credit as well.

Clift hit a double and a homer in his major league debut for the Browns against Fred Fussell and the New York Yankees on April 19, 1934. However, 3 months later he was dealt to Cincinnati for pitcher Benny Frey and minor league OF Red Barnes. He would hit .313 and win his first gold glove the following season with the Reds but that did not stop them from dealing him to the White Sox for OF Mike Kreevich in July of 1937.

Clift sopent two full years with the White Sox and picked up two more gold gloves before being dealt back to Cincinnati on July 3, 1939 for pitcher Al Hollingsworth. Two weeks later he was sent back to the Windy City but to the Cubs instead of the White Sox. The Reds got pitcher Max Butcher in exchange.

He has been with the Cubs ever since, winning his 4th gold glove in 1940, making two allstar teams and appearing in 3 World Series.

Code:


	HARLOND CLIFT CAREER STATS
Year Teams	 G     AB   R	 H    2B  3B   HR RBI	 AVG
1934 SLA CIN	 103  317  54	 89   24   2	7  48	.281
1935 CIN	 146  485  78	152   31   9	5  81	.313
1936 CIN CHA	 140  460  63	130   31   4	7  59	.283
1937 CHA	 141  440  57	102   29   2	4  47	.232
1938 CHA	 141  462  82	107   32   7   13  52	.232
1939 CHA,CIN,CHN 138  404  56	 99   24   4   15  60	.245
1940 CHN,NL	 142  480  82	113   19   6   18  80	.235
1941 CHN	 133  432  84	102   32   3   14  63	.236
1942 CHN	 144  450  69	108   22   6   20  74	.240
1943 CHN,NL	 146  484  72	118   31   4   18  66	.244
1944 CHN,NL	 145  481  77	113   29   5   12  71	.235
1945 CHN	 147  488  75	117   29   5   11  60	.240
1946 CHN	 145  476  55	 98   21   5   15  69	.206
1947 CHN	 125  445  67	111   25   5   22  82	.249
		---- ---- ---  ----  ---  --  --- ---   ----
Total		1936 6304 971  1559  379  67  181 912	.247

Tiger Fan · 02-07-2005, 12:11 PM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1947

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
STEELERS BLAST BROWNS 34-3
Quarterback Tom Friede passed for 253 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers past Cleveland 34-3 in NFL action yesterday. The Steelers are tied with Baltimore atop the AFC North after the Ravens nipped Tampa 27-20. The Bucs lost the game when QB Paul Christman foolishly threw into double coverage with less than a minute to play and the game tied at 20. Christman was hoping to get the Bucs into field goal range but instead Baltimore cornerback Torrin Goode returned the interception 79 yards for the game winning score. It was one of 4 interceptions thrown by Christman and certainly has raised speculation that second overall pick Otto *Graham will make his regular season debut at QB for the Bucs next weekend.

Kansas City and Houston are the only other 2-0 teams in the AFC. The Chiefs beat Minnesota 29-19 while the Texans did just enough to beat a weak Dallas squad 16-9.

The Detroit Lions gave the Chicago Bears a run for the money but the Bears showed the young Lions who is king of the NFC jungle. Sid *Luckman threw a pair of touchdown passes and safety Frankie Morrall had two interceptions to lead the Bears to a 30-23 win. The Lions kept it close all day but even with homefield advantage were clearly a step below the defending league champions.

Harley Mitchell ran for 119 yards and a touchdown as Philadelphia blasted Washington 27-3 in a battle of NFC East rivals. Eagles DB Marion Dulaney picked off a pair of Sammy *Baugh passes before the Redskins signal caller left the game with an ankle injury.

In other action:
Oakland beat San Diego 37-23 behind a 148 yard rushing performance from Raider back Johnny Cushing. Cushing also caught 5 passes for 34 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns.

Rookie Charles *Trippi, the ex-Georgia Bulldog star, made his NFL debut and fared quite well, throwing for 196 yards and a pair of touchdowns to lead Tennessee to a 24-6 victory over Jacksonville. *Trippi was forced into the starting lineup when Manfred Gayle suffered a broken foot in the season opener.

After a terrible showing in week 1, the New England Patriots got back on track with a 17-7 victory over the Jets in New York. Rookie WR Hugh *Taylor had 6 catches for 108 yards and his first career touchdown in the win. Both the Jets and Pats are 1-1.

Heisman Trophy winner Glenn *Davis ran for 92 yards and a touchdown to help Seattle beat Miami 24-7.

Dralinn Moretti ran for all 3 touchdowns and 102 yards as the Cincinnati Bengals won in New Orleans by a 21-7 count. Moretti, in his 4th year out of Boston College, had just 2 touchdowns all of last season.

The New York Giants went through 3 quarterbacks but they did manage to defeat their ex-signal caller and the Indianapolis Colts 22-19. Bill Sweeney connected with Chuck Myers on a 40 yard touchdown strike for the winning score midway through the final quarter. Eric Poppinga was the Giants starter a year ago before signing with the Colts as a free agent. Poppinga completed 17 of 27 passes for 226 yards and one touchdown. His backup from last year, Joey Martin, started the game for New York but left with a suspected broken elbow. Rookie Harry *Gilmer was also shaken up forcing the Giants to go to third stringer Sweeney.

Rookie Frank *Albert tossed a pair of touchdown passes and looked very poised leading Green Bay to it's second straight victory, 34-13 over Denver.

Russ Davis ran for 111 yards to help San Francisco past Arizona 31-19. The Cardinals, as always, got a terrific effort from safety Booker Hasselbeck who had 2 interceptions and led both teams with 9 tackles but it wasn't enough to prevent the Cards from dropping to 0-2.

Antowain Anderson scored two touchdowns and rushed for 197 yards leading Atlanta over Carolina 17-15. The Panthers had plenty of chances to put the ball in the endzone but all they could manage was 5 field goals. Panther kicker Lionel Levy tried to make it 6-for-6 but he missed a desperation 51 yard field goal attempt for the win as time expired.

Tonight's game has the Buffalo Bills visiting St Louis to take on the Rams. The Bills were hammered 53-13 in their opener at Kansas City while the Rams lost 29-26 to Tampa.

SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Oakland 37 San Diego 23
Tennessee 24 Jacksonville 6
Pittsburgh 34 Cleveland 3
New England 17 NY Jets 7
Chicago 30 Detroit 23
Atlanta 17 Carolina 15
San Francisco 31 Arizona 19
Philadelphia 27 Washington 3
Kansas City 29 Minnesota 19
Green Bay 34 Denver 13
Houston 16 Dallas 9
NY Giants 22 Indianapolis 19
Cincinnati 21 New Orleans 7
Seattle 24 Miami 7
Baltimore 24 Tampa Bay 20

TONIGHT'S GAME
Buffalo at St Louis

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	NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
North			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Chicago Bears		2   0	0	1.000	54	43
Green Bay Packers	2   0	0	1.000	55	25
Detroit Lions		1   1	0	 .500	56	48
Minnesota Vikings	1   1	0	 .500	45	52

East			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Philadelphia Eagles	1   1	0	.500	47	27
New York Giants		1   1	0	.500	45	45
Dallas Cowboys		0   2	0	.000	21	37
Washington Redskins	0   2	0	.000	21	60

South			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Atlanta Falcons		2   0	0	1.000	40	31
Carolina Panthers	1   1	0	 .500	38	31
New Orleans Saints	1   1	0	 .500	31	34
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	1   1	0	 .500	49	53

West			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
San Francisco 49ers	1   1	0	.500	45	42
Seattle Seahawks	1   1	0	.500	37	31
St. Louis Rams		0   1	0	.000	26	29
Arizona Cardinals	0   2	0	.000	35	54

	AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
North			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Pittsburgh Steelers	2   0	0	1.000	73	10
Baltimore Ravens	2   0	0	1.000	50	37
Cincinnati Bengals	1   1	0	 .500	31	31
Cleveland Browns	1   1	0	 .500	40	54

East			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
New England Patriots	1   1	0	.500	20	43
New York Jets		1   1	0	.500	38	34
Buffalo Bills		0   1	0	.000	13	53
Miami Dolphins		0   2	0	.000	36	55

South			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Houston Texans		2   0	0	1.000	40	19
Tennessee Titans	1   1	0	 .500	44	43
Indianapolis Colts	0   2	0	 .000	36	45
Jacksonville Jaguars	0   2	0	 .000	13	63

West			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Kansas City Chiefs	2   0	0	1.000	82	32
Oakland Raiders		1   1	0	 .500	54	54
Denver Broncos		1   1	0	 .500	44	63
San Diego Chargers	1   1	0	 .500	59	40

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
CARDS DECK PHILLIES ON NEAR NO-HITTER FROM HUTCHINGS
Johnny Hutchings may have lost his no-hitter and shut out in the 9th inning but he did get a complete game victory as the St Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia 6-2 in National League action. Hutchings retired the first two hitters in the top of the ninth to get within one out of his first career no-hitter but a bloop single off the bat of Ray Sanders ended Hutchings' bid for history. Pinch-hitter Ron Northey followed with a 2-run homer before Hutchings settled down and fanned Buster Adams to end the game. Shortstop Marty Marion led the Cardinals offense with 3 hits including a 2-run triple.

Steve Gromek went the distance for the Boston Braves, allowing 11 hits in an 8-4 win over Preacher Roe and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The win improves Gromek's record to 18-9 (6-3 since being acquired from Cleveland) while Preacher Roe falls to 19-8.

Despite suffering losses the Phillies and Pirates did not lose any ground in their pursuit of front-running Chicago. Vince Dimaggio drove in 3 runs as the New York Giants beat the Cubs 5-4. In the other National League game Pee Wee Reese and Stan Hack each had 3 hits to pace Brooklyn past Cincinnati 8-6.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
The St Louis Browns took 3 games out of 4 with the front-running Cleveland Indians over the weekend. Yesterday Eddie Robinson and Milt Byrnes homered to pace the Browns to a 5-3 victory.

Boston failed to take advantage of the Indians loss. The Red Sox fell 4-3 in Washington after Morrie Anderholt delivered an rbi single in the 10th to win the game for the Senators.

In other American League action Detroit doubled Philadelphia 6-3 as Al Jurisch won his league leading 22nd game of the season. Jurisch, with a 22-9 record to go with a 3.74 era, has won his last 10 decisions. New York blasted Chicago 12-4 as Billy Johnson and Calvin Chapman each had 3 hits and 4 rbi's for the Yankees.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
New York's Tiny Bonham was named the American League player of the week after going 2-0 while pitching 18 scoreless innings for the Yankees. Bonham, who won 25 games a year ago, is 15-15 with a 2.70 era on the season. The 34 year old is a 4 time allstar and has a career record of 138-98. He is in his 8th pro season, all with the Yankees.

The National League player of the week is St Louis pitcher Ernie White. White was 2-0 with a 1.59 era and threw a shutout last week. He is 17-8 with a 2.59 era this season and is bidding for his third straight 20-win season. At 31 years of age, the 1945 NL Cy Young Winner has a career record of 94-49 and has been an allstar each of the past 3 seasons.

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AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	78	56	.582	  x
BOSTON		70	63	.526	 7.5
ST LOUIS	71	64	.526	 7.5
WASHINGTON	69	67	.507	10.0
DETROIT		65	69	.485	13.0
NEW YORK	65	70	.481	13.5
PHILADELPHIA	63	72	.467	15.5
CHICAGO		58	78	.426	21.0
	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		79	55	.590	  x
PHILADELPHIA	75	59	.560	 4.0
PITTSBURGH	76	60	.559	 4.0
ST LOUIS	71	62	.534	 7.5
CINCINNATI	70	65	.519	 9.5
BOSTON		63	71	.470	16.0
BROOKLYN	54	82	.397	26.0
NEW YORK	50	84	.373	29.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 6 Philadelphia 3
New York 12 Chicago 4
St Louis 5 Cleveland 3
Washington 4 Boston 3 (10 inn)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 8 Pittsburgh 4
St Louis 6 Philadelphia 2
New York 5 Chicago 4
Brooklyn 8 Cincinnati 6

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York (D Dean 11-12, 3.55) at Washington (D Errickson 9-18, 4.49)
Chicago (B Poffenberger 1-4, 5.68) at Boston (B Bowman 8-6, 3.72)
Detroit (H White 7-13, 4.58) at St Louis (T Baker 12-13, 3.39)
Philadelphia (S Rosar 3-2, 4.85) at Cleveland (B Lohrman 15-3, 1.75)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (J Flores 9-14, 4.91) at Pittsburgh (V Raschi 7-13, 3.83)
Brooklyn (A Carrasquel 5-3, 4.49) at Cincinnati (S Ferens 15-7, 3.36)
St Louis (B Voiselle 15-13, 3.98) at Chicago (E Head 16-10, 3.89)
Philadelphia (H Mulcahy 15-14, 3.31) at New York (S Emmerich 1-7, 5.04)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
B McCosky Det	 .327	 J Medwick Cin	.354
W Judnich SLB	 .327	 B Elliott Pit	.348
J Hudson Bos	 .327	 G Rosen Bkn	.335

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	30	 S Chapman Bsn	24
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Gordon Phi	21

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	89
D Litwhiler Cha	 91	 S Chapman Bsn	84
T Williams Bos	 90	 H Clift Chn	82

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 22-9	 V Olsen Chn	22-7
E Johnson Bos	 18-9	 P Roe Pit	19-8
F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14	 C Schanz Phi	19-13

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.75	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.70	 E White StL	     2.59

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 184	 E White StL	183
A Jurisch Det	 182	 R Barney Bkn	171
V Trucks Det	 177	 P Roe Pit	151

GOLF
HOGAN WINS PLAYOFF IN LOS ANGELES OPEN
Ben Hogan parred the first playoff hole while Sam King had to settle for a bogey giving Hogan the Los Angeles Open title. They both shot 3 under par 69 in Sunday's final round, forcing the sudden death playoff. The playoff began on the par 4 15th hole at Riviera Country Club and ended when King missed his putt for par. The victory is Hogan's 7th of the season. No other golfer won more than 2 events.

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	FINAL RESULTS OF LA OPEN
NAME		RD 1	RD 2	RD 3	RD 4	Total	
Hogan		65	71	68	69	273    -15* won playoff
King		65	68	71	69	273    -15
Sarazen		65	71	73	67	276    -12
Barron		68	73	67	70	278    -10
Fleck		66	72	73	68	279	-9
Smith		66	69	71	73	279	-9
Bruen		69	72	67	73	281	-7
Bulla		65	75	70	71	281	-7
Cotton		70	70	72	69	281	-7
Harbert		69	74	66	72	281	-7
Von Nida	71	70	72	68	281	-7
Adams		70	70	68	74	282	-6
Rees		69	71	75	67	282	-6
Revolta		71	67	69	75	282	-6
Cerda		67	70	73	73	283	-5
Harper		64	72	72	75	283	-5
Middlecoff	69	73	69	72	283	-5
Boros		67	69	74	74	284	-4
Thomson		73	68	70	73	284	-4
Wall		67	76	72	70	285	-3
xScarborough-a	69	71	72	73	285	-3
Faulkner	71	71	71	73	286	-2
Daly		69	73	71	75	288	 E
Haefner		73	69	70	76	288	 E
Shute		67	74	72	76	289	 1
Wood		65	77	68	79	289	 1
Oliver		69	73	76	73	291	 3

FIELD ANNOUNCED FOR TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
The top 20 money winners during the season automatically qualify for the year end Tournament of Champions event which will be held in Houston in two weeks. In addition to the top 20 money winners, anyone who won a tournament in 1947 is eligible. That means the field will be expanded to 23 golfers with the addition of tournament winners Harry Bradshaw, Ed Oliver and Dick Burton.

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	TOP 20 PGA MONEY WINNERS
NAME		PRIZE$	WINS	TOP 5	TOP 10	CUTS made
HOGAN		22700	 7	13	15	17
SNEAD		11800	 0	 7	12	14
DEMARET		10463	 1	 5	 8	11
NELSON		 9938	 0	 6	 9	15
HEBERT		 9563	 2	 3	 6	14
KEISER		 9218	 1	 3	 6	12
LOCKE		 8825	 1	 3	 6	12
MIDDLECOFF	 8575	 0	 2	 8	13
FURGOL		 7928	 0	 2	 5	13
HARPER		 7462	 0	 3	 5	14
REES		 7313	 1	 3	 6	11
FLECK		 6814	 0	 2	 5	12
HARBERT		 6812	 0	 2	 5	11
THOMSON		 6724	 0	 2	 4	13
HARRISON	 6587	 0	 2	 5	13
HAMILTON	 6517	 0	 2	 3	13
KING		 6312	 0	 1	 4	11
WARD		 6288	 0	 2	 5	11
FERRIER		 6260	 1	 2	 2	 8
COTTON		 5792	 0	 1	 4	11

Also qualifying based on a tournament victory:
Harry Bradshaw
Dick Burton
Ed Oliver

BOXING
ABRAMS WINS POSTWAR DEBUT
A quiet Sunday evening in boxing with just one fight of note. In Detroit, welterweight Frankie Abrams won his postwar debut with a 6-round unanimous decision over Canadian Ray McIntyre. Both fighters had seen plenty of action prior to the postwar tournament but neither elected to enter the postwar tournament and this was the first bout for each of them.

SOCCER
SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION
TODAY'S MATCHES
Rangers 2 Celtic 0
Falkirk 1 Aberdeen 0
Hibernian 3 Hearts 0
Queen of the South 0 Dundee 0
Motherwell 2 Airdrie 1
Clyde 2 Patrick 1
Morton 4 St Mirren 1
Queen's Park 1 Third Lanark 1

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STANDINGS	GP  W	L   T	GF  GA	PTS
Hibernian	9   7	1   1	23   4	 15
Partick		8   5	1   2	12   4	 12
St Mirren	9   5	2   2	11   8	 12
Rangers		8   4	1   3	11   5	 11
Falkirk		9   3	1   5	 9   7	 11
Dundee		9   5	3   1	12  11	 11
Queen of South	9   4	3   2	10  12	 10
Celtic		8   4	3   1	14  10	  9
Motherwell	9   3	3   3	10  11	  9
Aberdeen	9   3	4   2	 9   9	  8
Clyde		8   3	4   1	 9  13	  7
Hearts		9   2	5   2	12  15	  6
Airdrie		9   2	5   2	12  18	  6
Third Lanark	8   1	5   2	 6  16	  4
Morton		9   1	6   2	 9  14	  4
Queens Park	8   1	6   1	 6  18	  3

Bobbuttons · 02-07-2005, 12:21 PM

Quote:

xScarborough-a 69 71 72 73 285 -3

Not too shabby!

Carlton · 02-07-2005, 02:53 PM

The Phillies blowing it year in and year out is getting too realistic TF

jtb · 02-07-2005, 05:13 PM

TF How do you keep this all scheduled? Do you have a master schedule and follow it (Sat Sept 4 Pittsburgh@Chicago etc. in Boxing Lightweight bout.) Somedays you have simulations in just about everything and probably somedays are a little easier. I think I can speak for all following this and say your reports set the standard. Thanks!

Tiger Fan · 02-07-2005, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtb

TF How do you keep this all scheduled? Do you have a master schedule and follow it (Sat Sept 4 Pittsburgh@Chicago etc. in Boxing Lightweight bout.) Somedays you have simulations in just about everything and probably somedays are a little easier. I think I can speak for all following this and say your reports set the standard. Thanks!

For baseball, football and basketball I use the game generated schedules and manually match the days up with the real calander for 1947. For college football, canadian football, the NHL, horse racing and soccer I use the real life 1947 schedules where ever possible. For boxing and golf I make the slate up myself while trying to have the proper number of tournaments in golf and realistic action for all 800-plus fighters in my boxing universe.

I tie it all together with a spreadsheet letting me know what happens each day. It real is a lot less work than it sounds. Probably the boxing is the most time consuming as I try to keep my young fighters working their way up the ranks and the contenders fighting each other.

Here is a glimpse of the spreadsheet I use.

Tiger Fan · 02-07-2005, 10:04 PM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1947

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
CARDINALS BEAT CUBS IN EXTRA INNINGS
Enos Slaughter's 2-run single in the top of the 10th inning lifted the St Louis Cardinals past Chicago 9-7 and kept the Cards slim postseason hopes alive. St Louis has won 6 of it's last 7 games but with three teams ahead of them and less than 3 weeks remaining in the season it seems highly unlikely the Cards will make the playoffs. Still, coming back from a 7-3 deficiet after 6 innings to pull out the victory gives St Louis something to build on. Infielders Stu Martin and Buddy Hassett paced the St Louis assualt with 3 rbi's each.

The Philadelphia Phillies benefited from the Cards comeback. Del Ennis hit a two run homer in the top of the ninth to seal a 5-2 Phillies win in New York moving the Phils to within 3 games of the first place Cubs. Hugh Mulcahy got the win to improve to 16-14 on the season but he suffered a minor back injury in the process and is questionable for his next start.

Pittsburgh failed to take advantage of the Cubs loss as the Pirates dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston and remain 4 games behind Chicago. Sam Chapman hit his National League leading 25th homer of the season and drove in 3 runs for the Braves.

In the other National League contest Luis Olmo had 4 rbi's and Frank McCormick 3 as the Brookyln Dodgers crushed Cincinnati 15-4.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
No changes at the top of the American League standings as the top 3 teams all won. Cleveland defeated Philadelphia 3-2 thanks to a 2-run triple from Ken Keltner in the bottom of the 8th inning and a solid pitching performance from Bill Lohrman (16-3, 1.77).

Boston beat Chicago 5-1 with Ted Williams and Babe Young each homering to lead the Red Sox. For Williams, it was his major league leading 31st round-tripper of the year. In St Louis, catcher Frank Mancuso hit a 3-run homer to lead the Browns past Detroit 5-4. The Browns and Red Sox remain 7.5 games back of Cleveland. The other American League game had New York downing Washington 6-2

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AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	79	56	.585	  x
BOSTON		71	63	.530	 7.5
ST LOUIS	72	64	.529	 7.5
WASHINGTON	69	68	.504	11.0
NEW YORK	66	70	.485	13.5
DETROIT		65	70	.481	14.0
PHILADELPHIA	63	73	.463	16.5
CHICAGO		58	79	.423	22.0
	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		79	56	.585	  x
PHILADELPHIA	76	59	.563	 3.0
PITTSBURGH	76	61	.555	 4.0
ST LOUIS	72	62	.537	 6.5
CINCINNATI	70	66	.515	 9.5
BOSTON		64	71	.474	15.0
BROOKLYN	55	82	.401	25.0
NEW YORK	50	85	.370	29.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 6 Washington 2
Boston 5 Chicago 1
St Louis 5 Detroit 4
Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 6 Pittsburgh 2
St Louis 9 Chicago 7 (10 inn)
Philadelphia 5 New York 2
Brooklyn 15 Cincinnati 4

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York (M Lanier 16-17, 3.14) at Washington (F Hutchinson 17-14, 3.54)
Chicago (B Byerly 7-12, 5.11) at Boston (A Karl 16-8, 4.13)
Detroit (V Trucks 11-16, 2.86) at St Louis (R Scarborough 11-11, 3.43)
Philadelphia (S Overmire 8-14, 4.01) at Cleveland (B Feller 12-9, 2.80)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 3.69) at Cincinnati (H Feldman 15-9, 4.40)
St Louis (X Rescingo 4-5, 4.28) at Chicago (P Erickson 11-17, 4.73)
Philadelphia (L Hoerst 6-1, 1.58) at New York (D Koslo 9-18, 4.19)

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AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
J Hudson Bos	 .327	 J Medwick Cin	.353
W Judnich SLB	 .326	 B Elliott Pit	.348
B McCosky Det	 .325	 G Rosen Bkn	.336

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	31	 S Chapman Bsn	25
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Dimaggio Cin 22

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	89
D Litwhiler Cha	 92	 S Chapman Bsn	87
T Williams Bos	 91	 H Clift Chn	82

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 22-9	 V Olsen Chn	22-7
E Johnson Bos	 18-9	 P Roe Pit	19-8
F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14	 C Schanz Phi	19-13

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.77	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.70	 E White StL	     2.59

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 184	 E White StL	183
A Jurisch Det	 182	 R Barney Bkn	171
V Trucks Det	 177	 P Roe Pit	151

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
RAMS RALLY PAST BUFFALO 31-22 IN MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
Mike Largent's second touchdown of the game helped the St Louis Rams mount a third quarter comeback en route to a 31-22 victory over the Buffalo Bills in NFL action last night. The Bills led 22-13 at the half before Largent took control of the game in the third quarter. He gained 58 of his 128 yards on an 80 yard drive to open the second half. Largent capped the drive with a 1 yard plunge for his second major of the game. St Louis cornerback Keith Gardner also played a big role in the comeback as he picked off Buffalo rookie QB Demarco Dickinson twice in the second half.

More bad news for the 0-2 Bills as rookie tight end Hank *Foldberg left the game with an ankle injury and he could miss several weeks. St Louis QB Rod Dugas suffered a stress fracture in his right foot and although he is questionable for next week he did not miss a snap in the win over Buffalo.

SUNDAY'S RESULTS
Oakland 37 San Diego 23
Tennessee 24 Jacksonville 6
Pittsburgh 34 Cleveland 3
New England 17 NY Jets 7
Chicago 30 Detroit 23
Atlanta 17 Carolina 15
San Francisco 31 Arizona 19
Philadelphia 27 Washington 3
Kansas City 29 Minnesota 19
Green Bay 34 Denver 13
Houston 16 Dallas 9
NY Giants 22 Indianapolis 19
Cincinnati 21 New Orleans 7
Seattle 24 Miami 7
Baltimore 24 Tampa Bay 20

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
St Louis 31 Buffalo 22

WEEK 3 SCHEDULE
Oakland at Pittsburgh
Baltimore at Kansas City
Tennessee at New England
Jacksonville at NY Jets
Buffalo at Indianapolis
Miami at Houston
Chicago at Arizona
Dallas at New Orleans
Detroit at San Francisco
Seattle at Green Bay
St Louis at Minnesota
Atlanta at Philadelphia
Carolina at Washington
NY Giants at Tampa Bay
Cincinnati at Denver

MONDAY NIGHT
San Diego at Cleveland

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	NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
North			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Chicago Bears		2   0	0	1.000	54	43
Green Bay Packers	2   0	0	1.000	55	25
Detroit Lions		1   1	0	 .500	56	48
Minnesota Vikings	1   1	0	 .500	45	52

East			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Philadelphia Eagles	1   1	0	.500	47	27
New York Giants		1   1	0	.500	45	45
Dallas Cowboys		0   2	0	.000	21	37
Washington Redskins	0   2	0	.000	21	60

South			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Atlanta Falcons		2   0	0	1.000	40	31
Carolina Panthers	1   1	0	 .500	38	31
New Orleans Saints	1   1	0	 .500	31	34
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	1   1	0	 .500	49	53

West			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
San Francisco 49ers	1   1	0	.500	45	42
Seattle Seahawks	1   1	0	.500	37	31
St. Louis Rams		1   1	0	.500	57	51
Arizona Cardinals	0   2	0	.000	35	54

	AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
North			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Pittsburgh Steelers	2   0	0	1.000	73	10
Baltimore Ravens	2   0	0	1.000	50	37
Cincinnati Bengals	1   1	0	 .500	31	31
Cleveland Browns	1   1	0	 .500	40	54

East			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
New England Patriots	1   1	0	.500	20	43
New York Jets		1   1	0	.500	38	34
Miami Dolphins		0   2	0	.000	36	55
Buffalo Bills		0   2	0	.000	35	84

South			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Houston Texans		2   0	0	1.000	40	19
Tennessee Titans	1   1	0	 .500	44	43
Indianapolis Colts	0   2	0	 .000	36	45
Jacksonville Jaguars	0   2	0	 .000	13	63

West			W   L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Kansas City Chiefs	2   0	0	1.000	82	32
Oakland Raiders		1   1	0	 .500	54	54
Denver Broncos		1   1	0	 .500	44	63
San Diego Chargers	1   1	0	 .500	59	40

BOXING
PLENTY OF BIG NAMES IN ACTION THIS WEEK
This is a very big week for boxing fans as three world title fights will be contested and a legend makes his return to the ring after suffering his first career defeat. The title fights are three days in succession beginning tomorrow night when world welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson faces journeyman Chuck Taylor in Pittsburgh. The fight is merely just a tuneup for Robinson who should have little trouble improving upon his 12-1-1 record. The 27 year old Taylor, who hails from Coalport, Pa., is 10-12 in his career.

On Thursday World Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles will meet Mose Brown in Charles' hometown of Cincinnati. Charles, with a 21-1 career record, won the World title with a 3rd round KO of Joe Louis last month in New York City. His only loss had come last September against Louis. Brown, a 31 year old from Texas, is 11-17-1 in his career.

Speaking of Louis, the Brown Bomber will be back in action Saturday - his first fight since losing the title to Charles. The 33 year old Louis, with a 9-1 record, faces Philadelphia native Curtis Sheppard in a 10 round bout at The Olympia in Detroit. The 30 year old Sheppard is 16-8 but most of his wins were against subpar opponents.

The other title fight is Friday night in New York's Madison Square Garden when world Lightweight champion Ike Williams puts his 20-0 record on the line against top contender Art Aragon. A 21 year old from Los Angeles, Aragon sports a 14-4-1 record with one of his losses coming by TKO to Williams but that was over a year ago in the early stages of the post-war tournament and Aragon has greatly improved since then. Among Aragon's recent victims are top 10 candidates Maxie Docusen, Mario Trigo and Lulu Constantino. Williams last saw action in June when he defended his title against then top ranked contender Bob Montgomery.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
SEEDS ANNOUNCED FOR PRESEASON ALASKA SHOOTOUT
The third of the 3 'Preseason' tournaments has released it's 8 team field. The Alaska Shootout will be held in Anchorage the weekend of November 6-9th. Here are the 8 schools that will be participating:

1- Florida - The Gators have made it a habit of sending first round picks to the NBA but all of that talent has not been parlayed into much recent success. Last season there was positive news like a 22-9 record and a run to the SEC tournament final before losing to national champion Kentucky, but the year ended on a sour note when the fourth seeded Gators were upset by Texas A&M in the opening round of the NCAA's. Things look bright this year with all of the starters back. The backcourt will again feature Tyson Edwards and SEC freshman of the year Shaun Fluellen. Upfront there is Bill *Closs and Ward *Gibson along with recruit Harry *Hamilton who may be the best freshman player in the nation.

2- Boston College - The Eagles are coming off 5 straight NCAA tourney appearances and an elite 8 berth a year ago. They will be rebuilding this season as the only starter to return is junior SG Frank *Kudelka. There are 7 freshman on the BC roster.

3- Purdue - The Boilermakers won the Big Ten conference tournament for just the third time in their history last year. There is plenty of talent back from last season including senior PF Michael Arrowood, who averaged 15.7 ppg and 11.1 rpg a year ago.

4- Oregon - The Ducks have never missed the NCAA tournament in their 15 year history. They won it all in 1939 and made the final four in 1938 and 1944. Last season they finished 27-7 and got as far as the Sweet 16. With 4 starters returning including center Al *Groza, the brother of Detroit Lions lineman Lou *Groza, Oregon will again be a force in the PCC North.

5- Memphis - The Tigers have never made it to the NCAA tournament but this might be the year that changes. All the key contributers of a team that went 16-14 a year ago are back and all appear to be improved. A good start at Anchorage could get the Tigers on a roll.

6- Indiana State - The Sycamores have won the Horizon Conference tournament 3 of the past 4 years including last season when they finished the year with a 26-9 record. Senior center Jim Phelps is the go to man on offense. He averaged 16.7 ppg last year and was named to the All-Conference team.

7- Alabama - 2 years removed from their second NCAA tournament title, the Crimson Tide will miss the contribution of first overall NBA pick Odie *Spears but there is still plenty of talent on campus. After being in Spears' shadow, SF Harry *Gallatin finally gets the chance to call the club his team. *Gallatin averaged nearly 15 points and 10 boards a game as a junior a year ago.

8- Notre Dame - After missing postseason play for the first time in school history two years ago, the Fighting Irish rebounded with a 26-7 record last year in a season that saw them win their 8th Midwest Independant Conference title. With 4 starters back including National Freshman of the Year center Ryan Gardner, this is a Notre Dame team that may make a run at it's third ever National Championship.

The other two preseason events are the preseason NIT and the Hawaii Classic.

PRESEASON NIT SEEDS
1- Indiana
2- Holy Cross
3- California
4- Oklahoma A&M
5- New Orleans
6- Miami Ohio
7- Wyoming
8- Auburn

HAWAII CLASSIC SEEDS
1- New York University
2- Washington
3- Penn State
4- Virginia Military Institute
5- Southern California
6- Kansas
7- Richmond
8- Houston

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
HABS AND RANGERS MAKE 5 PLAYER SWAP
The Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers have announced a five player trade that will send center Buddy O'Connor to Broadway. Joining O'Connor on the way to New York will be defenseman Frank Eddolls, who spent all of last season in Buffalo of the AHL. The Habs get punishing defenseman Hal Laycoe along with minor leaguers Joe Bell and George Robertson.

The keys to the deal are O'Connor and Laycoe. O'Connor spent 6 seasons with Montreal and had 9 goals and 20 points a year ago. Laycoe, a 25 year old from Saskatchewan, had just 10 points for the Rangers but was their most consistant rearguard.

The Rangers feel Eddolls may be the player that tips the deal in their favour. The 26 year old has just 51 NHL games to his credit but the Rangers feel he can adequately fill in the void created by the loss of Laycoe.

KRAUT LINE IS NO MORE - BAUER RETIRES
Boston winger Bobby Bauer, one third of the famous Kraut Line, has reportedly told the Bruins he will not join the club this season. The 32 year old native of Waterloo, Ontario has decided to end his career. Bauer gained fame both before and after the war playing on a line with fellow German-Canadians Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart. The three of them were boyhood friends and played together on the 1935 Memorial Cup winning Kitchener Greenshirts. They also won a pair of Stanley Cups together and an Allan Cup, emblematic of Canadain Senior A supremacy, while playing for the RCAF Flyers during the war. In real life, Bobby and his brother Father David Bauer, would both be enshrined in the hockey hall of fame.

Code:

		BOBBY BAUER'S CAREER STATS
			REGULAR SEASON		  PLAYOFFS
Season	Team	Lge GP	  G   A	Pts  PIM    GP	 G  A	Pts PIM
1935-36	Boston 	NHL  1	  0   0	  0   0	    --	--  --	--  --
1936-37	Boston 	NHL  1	  1   0	  1   0	     1	 0   0	0    0
1937-38	Boston 	NHL 48	 20  14	 34   9	     3	 0   0	0    2
1938-39	Boston 	NHL 48	 13  18	 31   4	    12	 3   2	5    0
1939-40	Boston 	NHL 48	 17  26	 43   2	     6	 1   0	1    2
1940-41	Boston 	NHL 48	 17  22	 39   2	    11	 2   2	4    0
1941-42	Boston 	NHL 36	 13  22	 35  11	    --	--  --	--  --
1945-46	Boston 	NHL 39	 11  10	 21   4	    10	 4   3	7    2
1946-47	Boston 	NHL 58	 24  16	 40   0	    --	--  --  --  --
---------------------------------------------------------------
	NHL Totals 327	116 128	244  32	    43	10   7	17   6

SOCCER
ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Aston Villa 2 Everton 0
Blackpool 3 Blackburn 2
Burnley 1 Manchester United 1
Liverpool 4 Sheffield United 1
Stoke City 2 Preston NE 1

Code:


STANDINGS	GP  W	L   T	GF  GA	PTS
Blackpool      	6   5	0   1	10   2	11
Arsenal		5   4	0   1	10   4	 9
Burnley 	6   2	0   4	 6   4	 8
Man United	6   3	1   2	 6   4	 8
Stoke City 	6   3	1   2	 9   4	 8
Aston Villa     6   4	2   0	 7   3	 8
Wolverhampton  	5   3	1   1	 9   6	 7
Bolton   	5   1	0   4	 5   4	 6
Derby County 	5   2	1   2	 8   5	 6
Huddersfield	5   2	1   2	 7   6	 6
Manchest. City  5   1	1   3	 4   5	 5
Blackburn	5   2	2   1	 8   8	 5
Charlton Athl	5   2	2   1	 9   7	 5
Preston NE      6   2	3   1	 8   9	 5
Portsmouth      5   1	2   2	 6   7	 4
Sunderland 	5   2	3   0	 8   7	 4
Sheffield Untd 	6   2	4   0	12  12	 4
Everton 	6   0	3   3	 3   8	 3
Middlesbrough	5   1	3   1	 4   9	 3
Liverpool       6   1	4   1	 7  12	 3
Chelsea 	4   0	4   0	 3   9	 0
Grimsby Town	5   0	5   0	 2  16	 0

Tiger Fan · 02-08-2005, 12:45 AM

TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1947

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
FELLER'S 2-HITTER LEADS TRIBE TO WIN OVER A'S
Bob Feller tossed a 2-hitter while fanning 8 to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia A's. The victory improves Feller's record to 13-9. He leads the majors with 192 strikeouts. The big inning for the Indians was the 4th when the A's had two errors allowing Cleveland to plate 3 runs. The Indians remain 7.5 games ahead of Boston in the American League pennant race after the Red Sox doubled Chicago 8-4. Ted Williams had 3 hits including a pair of homeruns to lead the Boston attack. Williams has 3 homers in his last 2 games. Andy Karl picked up the victory, his 17th of the season.

Bobby Thomson had 3 hits and drove in both runs as Detroit shutout St Louis 2-0. Virgil Trucks allowed just 5 St Louis hits in going the distance for his 12th win of the season. The other game had Washington holding off New York 6-5 with Senators hurler Fred Hutchinson picking up win number 18 on the year.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Time certainly is not on their side but the St Louis Cardinals are making a last ditch effort to get into the National League pennant race. The Cards held off a late Chicago rally to beat the Cubs for the second straight game, 8-7 was the final. Cards catcher Walker Cooper homered, drove in 4 runs and scored 3 for the winners who now trail first place Chicago by 5.5 games. The Cubs have dropped 3 straight.

Philadelphia missed a great chance to move to within 2 games of the lead after the Phillies were beaten 3-1 by last place New York. Dave Koslo (10-18, 4.09) tossed a 3-hit complete game for the win while Lefty Hoerst (6-2, 1.80) suffered his first loss since replacing the injured Max Macon in the Phillies rotation 2 weeks ago.

In the only other game Ford Garrison drove in 3 runs and Joe Dimaggio scored 3 times as the Cincinnati Reds hammered Boston 9-0. Happy Feldman tossed a complete game 5-hit shutout to run his record to 16-9.

Code:

AMERICAN	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CLEVELAND	80	56	.588	  x
BOSTON		72	63	.533	 7.5
ST LOUIS	72	65	.526	 8.5
WASHINGTON	70	68	.507	11.0
DETROIT		66	70	.485	14.0
NEW YORK	66	71	.482	14.5
PHILADELPHIA	63	74	.460	17.5
CHICAGO		58	80	.420	23.0

	
NATIONAL	 W	 L	 PCT	 GB
CHICAGO		79	57	.581	  x
PHILADELPHIA	76	60	.559	 3.0
PITTSBURGH	76	61	.555	 3.5
ST LOUIS	73	62	.541	 5.5
CINCINNATI	71	66	.518	 8.5
BOSTON		64	72	.471	15.0
BROOKLYN	55	82	.401	24.5
NEW YORK	51	85	.375	28.0

YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 6 New York 5
Boston 8 Chicago 4
Detroit 2 St Louis 0
Cleveland 4 Philadelphia 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 9 Boston 0
St Louis 8 Chicago 7
New York 3 Philadelphia 1

TODAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston (E Johnson 18-9, 3.15) at St Louis (A McKain 15-8, 3.18)
Detroit (R Lynn 4-2, 1.69) at Cleveland (W Spahn 16-13, 3.20)

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (H Bithorn 10-8, 3.64) at Cincinnati (A Carter 16-15, 3.59)
St Louis (E White 17-8, 2.59) at Chicago (V Olsen 22-7, 2.80)
Philadelphia (C Schanz 19-13, 3.39) at New York (R Bauers 10-18, 3.79)

Code:

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS	 NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS
BATTING			 BATTING
W Judnich SLB	 .330	 J Medwick Cin	.353
B McCosky Det	 .327	 B Elliott Pit	.348
J Hudson Bos	 .324	 G Rosen Bkn	.336

HOME RUNS		 HOME RUNS
T Williams Bos	33	 S Chapman Bsn	25
W Judnich SLB	23	 H Clift Chn	22
T Henrich Det	19	 J Dimaggio Cin 22

RBI'S			 RBI'S
W Judnich SLB	101	 B Elliott Pit	89
T Williams Bos	 95	 S Chapman Bsn	87
D Litwhiler Cha	 92	 W Cooper StL	84

WINS			 WINS
A Jurisch Det	 22-9	 V Olsen Chn	22-7
E Johnson Bos	 18-9	 P Roe Pit	19-8
F Hutchinson Wsh 18-14	 C Schanz Phi	19-13

ERA			 ERA
B Lohrman Cle	1.77	 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99
J Haynes Wsh	2.56	 C Melton Pit	     2.07
T Bonham NYY	2.70	 E White StL	     2.59

STRIKEOUTS		 STRIKEOUTS
B Feller Cle	 192	 E White StL	183
A Jurisch Det	 182	 R Barney Bkn	171
V Trucks Det	 181	 P Roe Pit	151

GOLF
RYDER CUP BEGINS FRIDAY IN PORTLAND
After a 10 year hiatus the Ryder Cup returns this weekend. Last contested in 1937 there had been doubts that this year's event would ever get off the ground until Oregon fruit grower Robert A Hudson came forward to fund the British team. Hudson, who is also a member of the PGA Advisory Committee, stepped up and offered his help and the use of the Portland Golf Club as the host site.

Here are the members of each club and notable accomplishments over the past two seasons.

UNITED STATES
Captain Ben Hogan - won 1946 Masters, 1947 Masters and PGA along with 5 other events. Won nearly twice as much money as number 2 man on 1947 money list.

Byron Nelson - won 1946 PGA and British Open, 1946 TSN golfer of the year. Fourth in money winners chart for 1947 but no wins.

Jimmy Demaret- Won the Western Open and finished 3rd in money winners list for 1947. Was second in this year's British Open.

Sam Snead - No wins but 12 top 10 finishes and finished second in earnings for 1947. Finished third in this year's Masters.

Herman Barron - Dissappointing season with just two top 10 finishes but did finish 5th at US Open.

Lloyd Mangrum - finished 5th in 46 US Open but struggled through 1947 finishing 41st on money list.

Ed Oliver - Won the 1947 Bing Crosby event and finished 21st in earnings for 1947

Lew Worsham - suffered through terrible 1947 season, making just 6 cuts in 17 events.

Dutch Harrison - 15th on the money list with two top 5 finishes.

BRITIAN
Captain Henry Cotton- tied for 5th in 46 Masters, was 20th in earnings for 1947.

Arthur Lees - Made 8 cuts and finished 31st in earnings. Tied for third in British Open.

Fred Daly - won 1946 Irish Open, 37th in winnings for 1947 with no tournament victories.

Charlie Ward - 18th in earnings with a pair of top 5 finishes.

Jimmy Adams - Made just 6 cuts and finished 58th in earnings.

Max Faulkner - 40th in earnings with 1 top 5 finish.

Dai Rees- finished 4th in 46 Masters and won Greensboro Open in 1947. 11th in season earnings for 1947.

Sam King- very consistant, finished 17th in earnings and made 11 cuts.

SOCCER
ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION
TODAY'S MATCHES
Bolton at Arsenal
Sunderland at Chelsea
Manchester City at Derby County
Grimsby Town at Huddersfield
Middlesbrough at Wolverhampton

Bobbuttons · 02-08-2005, 03:09 AM

Ryder Cup just days away! Yes! Been waiting on this all year long (all of 1947, that is).

02-02-2005, 01:25 AM	#421
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1947 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BROWNS RALLY TO BEAT INDIANS The St Louis Browns scored 8 runs over the final two innings to beat the Cleveland Indians 11-6 in American League action. Wally Judnich homered in both the 8th and 9th innings to pace the St Louis attack. He had 3 hits and 5 rbi's on the day while fellow Browns outfielder Bruce Campbell also had 3 hits. Cleveland starter Bill Lohrman (15-3, 1.75) was rolling along until getting in to big trouble in the 8th inning. Tom Baker (12-13, 3.39) got the win. In other American League action pinch-hitter Norm Schlueter singled in the winning run with a pinch-hit in the bottom of the 13th to lift Chicago past the New York Yankees 4-3. Danny Litwhiler's 2 run homer in the 8th inning tied the game for Chicago. In the only other game in the Junior Circuit Steve Rosar and two relievers combined on a 3-hitter as Philadelphia edged Detroit 2-1. In the National League despite a day off the Chicago Cubs moved another half-game ahead of Philadelphia atop the standings after the Phillies fell 9-3 in Cincinnati. Joe Medwick and Ford Garrison each had 2 rbi's to pace the Reds. Elsewhere, Pee Wee Reese had a 3 hit game as Brooklyn doubled Boston 6-3. Reese doubled, drove in a pair of runs and scored two for the Dodgers. In the other game last place New York dropped St Louis 6-2. Today Dizzy Dean makes his first start in over a month. The Yankee hurler, who started the season 5-0, was 11-12 with a 3.56 era when he suffered an arm injury August 5th in a loss to Detroit. The 37 year old, who won 25 games in 1934, has been bothered by injuries virtually every season since 1939. As a result his career record sits at 186-138...not too bad but quite dissappointing when you consider he had 137 wins before his 29th birthday and just 49 over the past 8 seasons. Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 77 54 .588 x BOSTON 69 61 .531 7.5 ST LOUIS 69 63 .523 8.5 WASHINGTON 67 66 .504 11.0 NEW YORK 63 69 .477 14.5 PHILADELPHIA 63 69 .477 14.5 DETROIT 62 69 .473 15.0 CHICAGO 57 76 .429 21.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 78 54 .591 x PHILADELPHIA 74 57 .565 3.5 PITTSBURGH 75 58 .564 3.5 CINCINNATI 70 62 .530 8.0 ST LOUIS 69 62 .527 8.5 BOSTON 61 70 .466 16.5 BROOKLYN 52 82 .388 27.0 NEW YORK 49 83 .371 29.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 2 Detroit 1 Chicago 4 New York 3 (13 inn) St Louis 11 Cleveland 6 NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 9 Philadelphia 3 Brooklyn 6 Boston 3 New York 6 St Louis 2 TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia (S Overmire 8-13, 4.09) at Detroit (V Trucks 10-16, 2.95) New York (D Dean 11-12, 3.56) at Chicago (B Byerly 7-12, 5.23) St Louis (R Scarborough 11-10, 3.34) at Cleveland (B Feller 11-9, 2.82) Boston (A Karl 16-7, 3.86) at Washington (F Hutchinson 16-14, 3.49) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 4.35) at Pittsburgh (C Melton 15-10, 2.07) Philadelphia (L Hoerst 5-1, 1.69) at Cincinnati (H Feldman 15-8, 4.47) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING B McCosky Det .331 J Medwick Cin .353 W Judnich SLB .327 B Elliott Pit .352 J Hudson Bos .323 G Rosen Bkn .330 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 29 S Chapman Bsn 24 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Gordon Phi 21 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 87 D Litwhiler Cha 88 S Chapman Bsn 82 T Williams Bos 87 H Clift Chn 82 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 21-9 V Olsen Chn 21-7 E Johnson Bos 17-9 P Roe Pit 19-7 A Karl Bos 16-7 C Schanz Phi 19-12 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.75 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.79 H Wyse Chn 2.50 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 177 E White StL 175 A Jurisch Det 173 R Barney Bkn 168 V Trucks Det 169 P Roe Pit 148 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NCAA FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF TOMORROW The rest of the division 1 teams will not see any action for two weeks but there is one game in college football this weekend. Southern Methodist travels to Santa Clara to meet the Broncos. The game will mark the college debut of sophomore QB/RB Doak Walker with SMU. He is counted on to lead the Mustangs in to contention in the Southwest Conference, where they were 0-3-3 a year ago. Overall the Mustangs were 4-3-3 while independant Santa Clara was 2-6 last season. That game is the only one scheduled until Friday, September 19th when there are 5 games on the docket. Most of the schools begin play the following day. b>GOLF PLENTY OF RED NUMBES IN OPENING ROUND AT RIVIERA* Well over half the field broke par in the opening round of the final event of the 1947 PGA schedule. Chandler Harper led the way, shooting an 8 under par 64 to enjoy a 1 stroke lead on 5 golfers at Riviera Country Club's Los Angeles Open. This is the final regular event of the tour but there are still two more weekends of golf to come. Next weekend it is the Ryder Cup in Portland, Oregon and the following weekend will be the tournament of champions from Houston which features the top 20 money winners. Code: FIRST ROUND RESULTS IN LA OPEN Harper -8 Bulla -7 Hogan -7 King -7 Sarazen -7 Wood -7 Fleck -6 Smith -6 Boros -5 Cerda -5 Shute -5 Wall -5 Barron -4 Nelson -4 Rosburg-a -4 Weetman -4 Bruen -3 Daly -3 Harbert -3 Little -3 Locke -3 Middlecoff -3 Oliver -3 Rees -3 xScarborough-a -3 Adams -2 Carr-a -2 Cotton -2 Harmon -2 Harrison -2 Riegel -2 Snead -2 Ward -2 xKeeler-a -2 xMartin-a -2 Burke Jr -1 Burton -1 Byrd -1 Faulkner -1 Furgol -1 Horne -1 Revolta -1 Van Donck -1 Von Nida -1 xWhistler-a -1 Dutra E Ford E Ghezzi E Hamilton E Hebert E Mackay Jr E Mangrum E xMulvenon-a E Bolt 1 Dawson-a 1 Ferrier 1 Haefner 1 Stranahan 1 Thomson 1 Turnesa 1 Worsham 1 xWhite-a 1 Bradshaw 2 Demaret 2 xNehring-a 2 Lees 3 McSpadden 3 xTibbetts-a 3 Fazio 4 Metz 4 Runyon 4 xDePore-a 4 Keiser 5 de Vicenzo 6 SOCCER SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Rangers 0 Aberdeen 0 Celtic 4 Third Lanark 1 Motherwell 0 Falkirk 0 Airdrie 4 Hearts 3 Hibernian 4 Dundee 1 St Mirren 1 Patrick Thistle 1 Queen of the South 2 Morton 1 Clyde 3 Queen's Park 2 Code: STANDINGS GP W L T GF GA PTS Hibernian 8 6 1 1 20 4 13 Partick 7 5 0 2 11 2 12 St Mirren 8 5 1 2 10 4 12 Dundee 8 5 3 0 12 11 10 Celtic 7 4 2 1 14 8 9 Rangers 7 3 1 3 9 5 9 Queen of South 8 4 3 1 10 12 9 Falkirk 8 2 1 5 8 7 9 Aberdeen 8 3 3 2 9 8 8 Motherwell 8 2 3 3 8 10 7 Hearts 8 2 4 2 12 12 6 Airdrie 8 2 4 2 11 16 6 Clyde 7 2 4 1 7 12 5 Third Lanark 7 1 5 1 5 15 3 Queens Park 7 1 6 0 5 17 2 Morton 8 0 6 2 5 13 2 __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

02-03-2005, 11:26 PM	#422
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1947 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL KOLLOWAY LEADS THE WAY FOR WHITE SOX Second baseman Don Kolloway hit a walk-off homerun with 2 out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Chicago White Sox a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees. The Chicago win spoiled Dizzy Dean's return to the mound for the Yankees after missing over a month due to injury. Dean looked in complete control through 7 innings before tiring in the 8th and allowing the White Sox to score twice to tie the game. He gave way to reliever Jimmie DeShong in the 9th with the game tied at 3, setting the stage for Kolloway's heroics. In other games Bob Feller fanned 7 and improved his record to 12-9 after the Cleveland Indians dropped St Louis 5-2. Virgil Trucks tossed a 4-hit shutout as Detroit blanked Philadelphia 2-0 while the Senators pounded out 21 hits in a 14-5 win over Boston. Buddy Lewis had a 5 hit game for Washington while Les Fleming and Mike Chartak each had 4 hits for the Sens. Just two games in the National League yesterday. In Cincinnati, Lefty Hoerst pitched his second straight complete game victory since being moved into the Phillies rotation. Hoerst and his Philadelphia teammates dumped the Reds 6-1. In Pittsburgh, pinch-hitter Jack Lohrke's first major league hit was an rbi single in the bottom of the 10th to lift the Pirates past Boston 3-2. The 23 year old Lohrke was just called up to the majors 3 days ago after being the Pirates first round pick this past offseason. The Pirates had tied the game an inning earlier on another pinch-hit rbi, this off the bat of Maurice Van Robays. Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 78 54 .591 x BOSTON 69 62 .527 8.5 ST LOUIS 69 64 .519 9.5 WASHINGTON 68 66 .507 11.0 DETROIT 63 69 .477 15.0 NEW YORK 63 70 .474 15.5 PHILADELPHIA 63 70 .474 15.5 CHICAGO 58 76 .433 21.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 78 54 .591 x PHILADELPHIA 75 57 .568 3.0 PITTSBURGH 76 58 .567 3.0 ST LOUIS 69 62 .527 8.5 CINCINNATI 70 63 .526 8.5 BOSTON 61 71 .462 17.0 BROOKLYN 52 82 .388 27.0 NEW YORK 49 83 .371 29.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 2 Philadelphia 0 Chicago 4 New York 3 Cleveland 5 St Louis 2 Washington 14 Boston 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 3 Boston 2 (10 inn) TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia (A Williams 16-12, 3.09) at Detroit (R Lynn 3-2, 1.60) New York (T Bonham 14-15, 2.79) at Chicago (G Schott 9-11, 4.98) St Louis (A McKain 14-8, 3.29) at Cleveland (W Spahn 16-12, 3.24) Boston (E Johnson 17-9, 3.14) at Washington (M Candini 15-14, 3.45) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (H Bithorn 9-8, 3.70) at Pittsburgh (D Adkins 11-12, 3.83) Philadelphia (C Schanz 19-12, 3.45) at St Louis (E White 16-8, 2.67) Chicago (V Olsen 21-7, 2.85) at New York (R Bauers 10-17, 3.70) Brooklyn (R Barney 8-11, 3.45) at Cincinnati (A Carter 16-14, 3.52) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING B McCosky Det .327 J Medwick Cin .352 W Judnich SLB .326 B Elliott Pit .352 J Hudson Bos .326 G Rosen Bkn .330 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 29 S Chapman Bsn 24 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Gordon Phi 21 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 87 D Litwhiler Cha 90 S Chapman Bsn 82 T Williams Bos 88 H Clift Chn 82 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 21-9 V Olsen Chn 21-7 E Johnson Bos 17-9 P Roe Pit 19-7 F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14 C Schanz Phi 19-12 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.75 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.79 H Wyse Chn 2.50 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 184 E White StL 175 V Trucks Det 177 R Barney Bkn 168 A Jurisch Det 173 P Roe Pit 148 GOLF SAM KING LEADS MIDWAY THROUGH THE LOS ANGELES OPEN Sam King has a 2 stroke lead as the Los Angeles Open reaches it's midway point. The British golfer, who will compete in next weekend's Ryder Cup in Portland, shot a 4 under par 68 yesterday and is 11 under through 36 holes. King sits 22nd on the money list this season despite not having a top 5 finish. Putting whiz Horton Smith sits second with 4 golfers, including Ben Hogan, one stroke behind Smith. William xScarborough III was the only amateur to make the cut. Code: SECOND ROUND RESULTS IN LA OPEN NAME RD 1 RD 2 TOTAL King 65 68 -11 Smith 66 69 -9 Boros 67 69 -8 Harper 64 72 -8 Hogan 65 71 -8 Sarazen 65 71 -8 Cerda 67 70 -7 Fleck 66 72 -6 Revolta 71 67 -6 Adams 70 70 -4 Bulla 65 75 -4 Cotton 70 70 -4 Rees 69 71 -4 xScarborough-a 69 71 -4 Barron 68 73 -3 Bruen 69 72 -3 Shute 67 74 -3 Thomson 73 68 -3 Von Nida 71 70 -3 Daly 69 73 -2 Faulkner 71 71 -2 Haefner 73 69 -2 Middlecoff 69 73 -2 Oliver 69 73 -2 Wood 65 77 -2 Harbert 69 74 -1 Wall 67 76 -1 MISSED CUT Harrison 70 74 E Hebert 72 72 E Nelson 68 76 E Snead 70 74 E xWhistler-a 71 73 E xWhite-a 73 71 E Carr-a 70 75 1 Ford 72 73 1 Horne 71 74 1 Rosburg-a 68 77 1 Burton 71 75 2 Hamilton 72 74 2 Little 69 77 2 Locke 69 77 2 Van Donck 71 75 2 Weetman 68 78 2 Burke Jr 71 76 3 Harmon 70 77 3 Ward 70 77 3 xMulvenon-a 72 75 3 Demaret 74 74 4 Ghezzi 72 76 4 Keiser 77 71 4 Stranahan 73 75 4 xDePore-a 76 72 4 xKeeler-a 70 78 4 Fazio 76 73 5 Furgol 71 78 5 Mackay Jr 72 77 5 Mangrum 72 77 5 Metz 76 73 5 xNehring-a 74 75 5 de Vicenzo 78 72 6 Dutra 72 78 6 McSpadden 75 75 6 Runyon 76 75 7 Worsham 73 78 7 xMartin-a 70 81 7 xTibbetts-a 75 76 7 Byrd 71 81 8 Ferrier 73 79 8 Riegel 70 82 8 Turnesa 73 79 8 Lees 75 79 10 Bradshaw 74 81 11 Bolt 73 83 12 Dawson-a 73 84 13 BOXING RILEY KO'S VEGARA Featherweight Charley Riley delighted his hometown fans in St Louis winning an easy fight with Simon Vegara by a 5th round knockout. Riley, who lost to World Champion Willie Pep in his last bout, took control of his 10 round fight with Vegara right from the start, flooring the native of Panama in the first round. Vegara recovered from that knock down but good not regain his feet when sent to the canvas for a second time in the bout 4 rounds later. Riley improves to 24-5 with the victory and is hopeful he will get another shot at undefeated World Champion Willie Pep, whom he lost to by a 13th round TKO last month. Vegara's record drops to 38-7-2. Tonight's big fight is in Atlantic City where heavyweight contenders Elmer Ray (23-5) and Jersey Joe Walcott (24-2-2) will meet for the first time. Each is looking at victory as a way to position himself for a shot at World Champion Ezzard Charles. FOOTBALL THIS WEEKEND'S FOOTBALL SCHEDULE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 San Diego Chargers (1-0) at Oakland Raiders (0-1) Tennessee Titans (0-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1) Cleveland Browns (1-0) at Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0) New England Patriots (0-1) at New York Jets (1-0) Chicago Bears (1-0) at Detroit Lions (1-0) Atlanta Falcons (1-0) at Carolina Panthers (1-0) Arizona Cardinals (0-1) at San Francisco 49ers (0-1) Philadelphia Eagles (0-1) at Washington Redskins (0-1) Kansas City Chiefs (1-0) at Minnesota Vikings (1-0) Denver Broncos (1-0) at Green Bay Packers (1-0) Houston Texans (1-0) at Dallas Cowboys (0-1) Indianapolis Colts (0-1) at New York Giants (0-1) Cincinnati Bengals (0-1) at New Orleans Saints (1-0) Miami Dolphins (0-1) at Seattle Seahawks (0-1) Baltimore Ravens (1-0) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0) MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 Buffalo Bills (0-1) at St. Louis Rams (0-1) COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY Southern Methodist at Santa Clara CANADIAN FOOTBALL TODAY WESTERN LEAGUE Regina (0-2)at Edmonton (1-0) Winnipeg (2-0) at Calgary (0-1) IPRFU Montreal (1-0) at Ottawa (0-1) ORFU Sarnia Imperials (0-1) at Windsor Royals(1-0) Hamilton Wildcats (1-0) at Toronto Balmy Beach (0-0) Ottawa Trojans (0-0) at Toronto Indians (0-1) SOCCER ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION TODAY'S MATCHES Manchester United at Arsenal Aston Villa at Blackburn Wolverhampton at Blackpool Portsmouth at Bolton Preston NE at Charlton Athletic Everton at Derby Sheffield United at Grimsby Town Chelsea at Huddersfield Burnely at Liverpool Sunderland at Manchester City Stoke City at Middlesbrough __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles Last edited by Tiger Fan; 02-03-2005 at 11:28 PM.

02-04-2005, 12:12 AM	#423
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,862	Good stuff as usual... __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

02-05-2005, 11:17 PM	#426
BadluckinOOTP All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: OKC Posts: 1,534	How this wasn't voted the #1 dynasty I'll never know, but how is Oklahoma State's athletic program doing these days? __________________

02-06-2005, 01:23 AM	#428
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 1947 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OLSEN WINS 22ND AS CUBS TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS CLINCHING Major League victory leader Vern Olsen improved to 22-7 on the year by tossing a complete game 4-hitter to lead the Chicago Cubs past New York 6-1 in National League action. Olsen also had 3 hits in the game to raise his batting average to a very respectable .274. Bill Nicholson drove in 3 runs to pace the Chicago offense, including a pair on a first inning homerun. The Cubs lead on both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh now sits at 4 games after both of those teams lost yesterday. Ernie White won his 17th game of the season as St Louis blanked Philadelphia 1-0 in a tremendous pitching duel between White and Phillies ace Charley Schanz. Both pitchers went the distance and combined to allow just 7 hits in the game. The only run came in the bottom of the first inning on an rbi single from Cards catcher Walker Cooper. In Pittsburgh, Butch Nieman's three-run homer in the top of the 7th snapped a scoreless tie and propelled the Boston Braves to a 4-2 win over the Pirates. The other game was in Cincinnati where Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson each had 3 hits as the Brooklyn Dodgers downed the Reds 7-1. AMERICAN LEAGUE The Boston Red Sox and St Louis Browns are still clinging to the slim chance one of them could catch and surpass the defending American League champion Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox and Browns both won yesterday while the Indians lost so Boston creeps to within 7.5 games while St Louis is 8.5 off the pace. Earl Johnson won his 18th game and Ted Williams hit a 2-run homer to help the Red Sox past Washington 5-4. The Browns beat Cleveland 2-1 on an Archie McKain 4-hitter. In other action, Merv Connors hit a 2-run homer in the top of the ninth to lift the Yankees past the White Sox 2-1 while Detroit dropped Philadelphia 9-3. NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT RACE With 3 weeks remaining in the season the Pittsburgh Pirates clearly have the hardest stretch run of the 3 pennant contenders. The Bucs have to play 15 of their final 19 games away from Forbes Field. The one positive is Pittsburgh has far more control over it's destiny than Philadelphia does as the Pirates will finish their season with a 4 game series against the first place Cubs at Wrigley Field. Pittsburgh also has 3 games remaining with Philadelphia. Chicago seems to have the easiest path with 18 of their final 21 games at home and 8 of the 21 are against the hapless Dodgers and Giants franchises. GAMES REMAINING CHICAGO CUBS Home 18 (NYG 2, STL 3, Bsn 4, Cin 2, Bkn 3, Pit 4) Away 3 (NYG 3) PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES Home 14 (StL 2, Cin 3, Bsn 2, Pit 3, Bkn 4) Away 7 (StL 4, NYG 3 PITTSBURGH PIRATES Home 4 (Bsn 2, Cin 2) Away 15 (Bsn 2, StL 4, NYG 2, Phi 3, Chi 4) Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 78 55 .586 x BOSTON 70 62 .530 7.5 ST LOUIS 70 64 .522 8.5 WASHINGTON 68 67 .504 11.0 DETROIT 64 69 .481 14.0 NEW YORK 64 70 .478 14.5 PHILADELPHIA 63 71 .470 15.5 CHICAGO 58 77 .430 21.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 79 54 .594 x PHILADELPHIA 75 58 .564 4.0 PITTSBURGH 76 59 .563 4.0 ST LOUIS 70 62 .530 8.5 CINCINNATI 70 64 .522 9.5 BOSTON 62 71 .466 17.0 BROOKLYN 53 82 .393 27.0 NEW YORK 49 84 .368 30.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 9 Philadelphia 3 New York 2 Chicago 1 St Louis 2 Cleveland 1 Boston 5 Washington 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 4 Pittsburgh 2 St Louis 1 Philadelphia 0 Chicago 6 New York 1 Brooklyn 7 Cincinnati 1 TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia (L Harris 4-4, 2.18) at Detroit (A Jurisch 21-9, 3.76) New York (M Russo 8-5, 3.98) at Chicago (B Fleming 2-7, 3.98) St Louis (E Lopat 15-15, 4.68) at Cleveland (R Poat 10-11, 3.50) Boston (R Melton 13-10, 3.73) at Washington (R Barrett 11-10, 4.34) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 3.69) at Pittsburgh (P Roe 19-7, 3.68) Philadelphia (V Lombardi 15-13, 3.41) at St Louis (J Hutchings 13-14, 4.39) Chicago (H Wyse 13-9, 2.50) at New York (E Wright 7-7, 5.05) Brooklyn (L Webber 8-14, 4.55) at Cincinnati (A Houtteman 11-11, 4.84) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING B McCosky Det .329 J Medwick Cin .354 W Judnich SLB .327 B Elliott Pit .351 J Hudson Bos .325 G Rosen Bkn .333 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 30 S Chapman Bsn 24 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Gordon Phi 21 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 89 D Litwhiler Cha 90 S Chapman Bsn 82 T Williams Bos 90 H Clift Chn 82 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 21-9 V Olsen Chn 22-7 E Johnson Bos 18-9 P Roe Pit 19-7 F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14 C Schanz Phi 19-13 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.75 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.70 H Wyse Chn 2.50 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 184 E White StL 183 V Trucks Det 177 R Barney Bkn 171 A Jurisch Det 173 P Roe Pit 148 BOXING WALCOTT HAS EASY TIME WITH RAY 33 year old Jersey Joe Walcott had little trouble winning a unanimous decision over Elmer Ray in a 12 round bout at Atlantic City last night. The victory improves Walcott's record to 25-2-2 and keeps him ranked 4th overall in the heavyweight division behind only world champion Ezzard Charles, Joe Louis and Nathan Mann. With the loss Ray sees his record slip to 23-6. It was Ray's first bout since losing a 15 round decision to Roscoe Toles last January. On the undercard heavyweight Aaron Wilson, who was born in Tennessee but is officially French, who his North American debut with a second round knockout of New Haven's Lee Hunt. COLLEGE FOOTBALL In the lone college football game this weekend Southern Methodist blanked Santa Clara by a score of 28-0. No other teams will see action until Friday September 19th when there are 5 games including Georgia entertaining Furman. CANADIAN FOOTBALL In Ottawa, Alouettes quarterback Sam Etcheverry threw a pair of touchdown passes to lead visiting Montreal to an 18-4 victory over the Rough Riders. Gerry James ran for 108 yards and scored on a 4 yard touchdown run with less than 4 minutes to play as Winnipeg remained unbeaten with a 28-26 win at Calgary. Jackie Parker had 148 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns for the Eskimos, who dominated the time of possession. In ORFU action the Ottawa Trojans shaded the Toronto Indians 19-17, Toronto Balmy Beach dropped the Hamilton Wildcats 28-12 while Windsor spanked Sarnia 42-3 Code: ORFU W L T PTS Windsor 2 0 0 4 Tor Balmy Beach 1 0 0 2 Ott Trojans 1 0 0 2 Ham Wildcats 1 1 0 2 Tor Indians 0 2 0 0 Sarnia 0 2 0 0 IPRFU W L T PTS Montreal 2 0 0 4 Tor Argos 1 0 0 2 Ham Tigers 0 1 0 0 Ottawa RR 0 2 0 0 WESTERN W L T PTS Winnipeg 3 0 0 6 Edmonton 2 0 0 4 Calgary 0 2 0 0 Regina 0 3 0 0 GOLF HOGAN MOVES INTO TIE FOR LEAD AT LOS ANGELES OPEN Ben Hogan has won 6 events already this season and he is hoping the season ending Los Angeles Open will provide him with victory number 7. Hogan shot a 4 under par 68 yesterday to move into a share of the lead with 1 day to play. Sam King, who enjoyed a two stroke lead after Friday's action, joins Hogan at 12 under par. Horton Smith is third, 2 strokes back. Code: NAME RD 1 RD 2 RD 3 TOTAL Hogan 65 71 68 -12 King 65 68 71 -12 Smith 66 69 71 -10 Revolta 71 67 69 -9 Adams 70 70 68 -8 Barron 68 73 67 -8 Bruen 69 72 67 -8 Harper 64 72 72 -8 Harbert 69 74 66 -7 Sarazen 65 71 73 -7 Boros 67 69 74 -6 Bulla 65 75 70 -6 Cerda 67 70 73 -6 Wood 65 77 68 -6 Fleck 66 72 73 -5 Middlecoff 69 73 69 -5 Thomson 73 68 70 -5 Cotton 70 70 72 -4 Haefner 73 69 70 -4 xScarborough-a 69 71 72 -4 Daly 69 73 71 -3 Faulkner 71 71 71 -3 Shute 67 74 72 -3 Von Nida 71 70 72 -3 Rees 69 71 75 -1 Wall 67 76 72 -1 Oliver 69 73 76 2 SOCCER ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Arsenal 1 Manchester United 0 Blackburn 2 Aston Villa 1 Blackpool 3 Wolverhampton 0 Portsmouth 2 Bolton 2 Charlton Athletic 2 Preston NE 0 Derby 3 Everton 1 Sheffield United 5 Grimsby Town 1 Huddersfield 3 Chelsea 2 Burnely 1 Liverpool 1 Sunderland 3 Manchester City 1 Stoke City 1 Middlesbrough 0 Code: STANDINGS GP W L T GF GA PTS Arsenal 5 4 0 1 10 4 9 Blackpool 5 4 0 1 7 0 9 Burnley 5 2 0 3 5 3 7 Wolverhampton 5 3 1 1 9 6 7 Man United 5 3 1 1 5 3 7 Bolton 5 1 0 4 5 4 6 Stoke City 5 2 1 2 7 3 6 Derby County 5 2 1 2 8 5 6 Huddersfield 5 2 1 2 7 6 6 Aston Villa 5 3 2 0 5 3 6 Manchest. City 5 1 1 3 4 5 5 Blackburn 4 2 1 1 6 5 5 Preston NE 5 2 2 1 7 7 5 Charlton Athl 5 2 2 1 9 7 5 Portsmouth 5 1 2 2 6 7 4 Sheffield Untd 5 2 3 0 11 8 4 Sunderland 5 2 3 0 8 7 4 Everton 5 0 2 3 3 6 3 Middlesbrough 5 1 3 1 4 9 3 Liverpool 5 0 4 1 3 11 1 Chelsea 4 0 4 0 3 9 0 Grimsby Town 5 0 5 0 2 16 0 SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION TODAY'S MATCHES Rangers at Celtic Aberdeen at Falkirk Hearts at Hibernian Queen of the South at Dundee Airdrie at Motherwell Clyde at Patrick Morton at St Mirren Queen's Park at Third Lanark __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

02-04-2005, 12:28 PM	#424
khucke All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Düsseldorf, Germany Posts: 657	Quite nice races for the batting title with somewhat uncommon names. How are Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio or Jackie Robinson doing?

02-07-2005, 12:11 PM	#433
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1947 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE STEELERS BLAST BROWNS 34-3 Quarterback Tom Friede passed for 253 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers past Cleveland 34-3 in NFL action yesterday. The Steelers are tied with Baltimore atop the AFC North after the Ravens nipped Tampa 27-20. The Bucs lost the game when QB Paul Christman foolishly threw into double coverage with less than a minute to play and the game tied at 20. Christman was hoping to get the Bucs into field goal range but instead Baltimore cornerback Torrin Goode returned the interception 79 yards for the game winning score. It was one of 4 interceptions thrown by Christman and certainly has raised speculation that second overall pick Otto Graham will make his regular season debut at QB for the Bucs next weekend. Kansas City and Houston are the only other 2-0 teams in the AFC. The Chiefs beat Minnesota 29-19 while the Texans did just enough to beat a weak Dallas squad 16-9. The Detroit Lions gave the Chicago Bears a run for the money but the Bears showed the young Lions who is king of the NFC jungle. Sid Luckman threw a pair of touchdown passes and safety Frankie Morrall had two interceptions to lead the Bears to a 30-23 win. The Lions kept it close all day but even with homefield advantage were clearly a step below the defending league champions. Harley Mitchell ran for 119 yards and a touchdown as Philadelphia blasted Washington 27-3 in a battle of NFC East rivals. Eagles DB Marion Dulaney picked off a pair of Sammy Baugh passes before the Redskins signal caller left the game with an ankle injury. In other action: Oakland beat San Diego 37-23 behind a 148 yard rushing performance from Raider back Johnny Cushing. Cushing also caught 5 passes for 34 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns. Rookie Charles Trippi, the ex-Georgia Bulldog star, made his NFL debut and fared quite well, throwing for 196 yards and a pair of touchdowns to lead Tennessee to a 24-6 victory over Jacksonville. Trippi was forced into the starting lineup when Manfred Gayle suffered a broken foot in the season opener. After a terrible showing in week 1, the New England Patriots got back on track with a 17-7 victory over the Jets in New York. Rookie WR Hugh Taylor had 6 catches for 108 yards and his first career touchdown in the win. Both the Jets and Pats are 1-1. Heisman Trophy winner Glenn Davis ran for 92 yards and a touchdown to help Seattle beat Miami 24-7. Dralinn Moretti ran for all 3 touchdowns and 102 yards as the Cincinnati Bengals won in New Orleans by a 21-7 count. Moretti, in his 4th year out of Boston College, had just 2 touchdowns all of last season. The New York Giants went through 3 quarterbacks but they did manage to defeat their ex-signal caller and the Indianapolis Colts 22-19. Bill Sweeney connected with Chuck Myers on a 40 yard touchdown strike for the winning score midway through the final quarter. Eric Poppinga was the Giants starter a year ago before signing with the Colts as a free agent. Poppinga completed 17 of 27 passes for 226 yards and one touchdown. His backup from last year, Joey Martin, started the game for New York but left with a suspected broken elbow. Rookie Harry Gilmer was also shaken up forcing the Giants to go to third stringer Sweeney. Rookie Frank Albert tossed a pair of touchdown passes and looked very poised leading Green Bay to it's second straight victory, 34-13 over Denver. Russ Davis ran for 111 yards to help San Francisco past Arizona 31-19. The Cardinals, as always, got a terrific effort from safety Booker Hasselbeck who had 2 interceptions and led both teams with 9 tackles but it wasn't enough to prevent the Cards from dropping to 0-2. Antowain Anderson scored two touchdowns and rushed for 197 yards leading Atlanta over Carolina 17-15. The Panthers had plenty of chances to put the ball in the endzone but all they could manage was 5 field goals. Panther kicker Lionel Levy tried to make it 6-for-6 but he missed a desperation 51 yard field goal attempt for the win as time expired. Tonight's game has the Buffalo Bills visiting St Louis to take on the Rams. The Bills were hammered 53-13 in their opener at Kansas City while the Rams lost 29-26 to Tampa. SUNDAY'S RESULTS* Oakland 37 San Diego 23 Tennessee 24 Jacksonville 6 Pittsburgh 34 Cleveland 3 New England 17 NY Jets 7 Chicago 30 Detroit 23 Atlanta 17 Carolina 15 San Francisco 31 Arizona 19 Philadelphia 27 Washington 3 Kansas City 29 Minnesota 19 Green Bay 34 Denver 13 Houston 16 Dallas 9 NY Giants 22 Indianapolis 19 Cincinnati 21 New Orleans 7 Seattle 24 Miami 7 Baltimore 24 Tampa Bay 20 TONIGHT'S GAME Buffalo at St Louis Code: NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE North W L T PCT PF PA Chicago Bears 2 0 0 1.000 54 43 Green Bay Packers 2 0 0 1.000 55 25 Detroit Lions 1 1 0 .500 56 48 Minnesota Vikings 1 1 0 .500 45 52 East W L T PCT PF PA Philadelphia Eagles 1 1 0 .500 47 27 New York Giants 1 1 0 .500 45 45 Dallas Cowboys 0 2 0 .000 21 37 Washington Redskins 0 2 0 .000 21 60 South W L T PCT PF PA Atlanta Falcons 2 0 0 1.000 40 31 Carolina Panthers 1 1 0 .500 38 31 New Orleans Saints 1 1 0 .500 31 34 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1 1 0 .500 49 53 West W L T PCT PF PA San Francisco 49ers 1 1 0 .500 45 42 Seattle Seahawks 1 1 0 .500 37 31 St. Louis Rams 0 1 0 .000 26 29 Arizona Cardinals 0 2 0 .000 35 54 AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE North W L T PCT PF PA Pittsburgh Steelers 2 0 0 1.000 73 10 Baltimore Ravens 2 0 0 1.000 50 37 Cincinnati Bengals 1 1 0 .500 31 31 Cleveland Browns 1 1 0 .500 40 54 East W L T PCT PF PA New England Patriots 1 1 0 .500 20 43 New York Jets 1 1 0 .500 38 34 Buffalo Bills 0 1 0 .000 13 53 Miami Dolphins 0 2 0 .000 36 55 South W L T PCT PF PA Houston Texans 2 0 0 1.000 40 19 Tennessee Titans 1 1 0 .500 44 43 Indianapolis Colts 0 2 0 .000 36 45 Jacksonville Jaguars 0 2 0 .000 13 63 West W L T PCT PF PA Kansas City Chiefs 2 0 0 1.000 82 32 Oakland Raiders 1 1 0 .500 54 54 Denver Broncos 1 1 0 .500 44 63 San Diego Chargers 1 1 0 .500 59 40 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDS DECK PHILLIES ON NEAR NO-HITTER FROM HUTCHINGS Johnny Hutchings may have lost his no-hitter and shut out in the 9th inning but he did get a complete game victory as the St Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia 6-2 in National League action. Hutchings retired the first two hitters in the top of the ninth to get within one out of his first career no-hitter but a bloop single off the bat of Ray Sanders ended Hutchings' bid for history. Pinch-hitter Ron Northey followed with a 2-run homer before Hutchings settled down and fanned Buster Adams to end the game. Shortstop Marty Marion led the Cardinals offense with 3 hits including a 2-run triple. Steve Gromek went the distance for the Boston Braves, allowing 11 hits in an 8-4 win over Preacher Roe and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The win improves Gromek's record to 18-9 (6-3 since being acquired from Cleveland) while Preacher Roe falls to 19-8. Despite suffering losses the Phillies and Pirates did not lose any ground in their pursuit of front-running Chicago. Vince Dimaggio drove in 3 runs as the New York Giants beat the Cubs 5-4. In the other National League game Pee Wee Reese and Stan Hack each had 3 hits to pace Brooklyn past Cincinnati 8-6. AMERICAN LEAGUE The St Louis Browns took 3 games out of 4 with the front-running Cleveland Indians over the weekend. Yesterday Eddie Robinson and Milt Byrnes homered to pace the Browns to a 5-3 victory. Boston failed to take advantage of the Indians loss. The Red Sox fell 4-3 in Washington after Morrie Anderholt delivered an rbi single in the 10th to win the game for the Senators. In other American League action Detroit doubled Philadelphia 6-3 as Al Jurisch won his league leading 22nd game of the season. Jurisch, with a 22-9 record to go with a 3.74 era, has won his last 10 decisions. New York blasted Chicago 12-4 as Billy Johnson and Calvin Chapman each had 3 hits and 4 rbi's for the Yankees. PLAYERS OF THE WEEK New York's Tiny Bonham was named the American League player of the week after going 2-0 while pitching 18 scoreless innings for the Yankees. Bonham, who won 25 games a year ago, is 15-15 with a 2.70 era on the season. The 34 year old is a 4 time allstar and has a career record of 138-98. He is in his 8th pro season, all with the Yankees. The National League player of the week is St Louis pitcher Ernie White. White was 2-0 with a 1.59 era and threw a shutout last week. He is 17-8 with a 2.59 era this season and is bidding for his third straight 20-win season. At 31 years of age, the 1945 NL Cy Young Winner has a career record of 94-49 and has been an allstar each of the past 3 seasons. Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 78 56 .582 x BOSTON 70 63 .526 7.5 ST LOUIS 71 64 .526 7.5 WASHINGTON 69 67 .507 10.0 DETROIT 65 69 .485 13.0 NEW YORK 65 70 .481 13.5 PHILADELPHIA 63 72 .467 15.5 CHICAGO 58 78 .426 21.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 79 55 .590 x PHILADELPHIA 75 59 .560 4.0 PITTSBURGH 76 60 .559 4.0 ST LOUIS 71 62 .534 7.5 CINCINNATI 70 65 .519 9.5 BOSTON 63 71 .470 16.0 BROOKLYN 54 82 .397 26.0 NEW YORK 50 84 .373 29.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 6 Philadelphia 3 New York 12 Chicago 4 St Louis 5 Cleveland 3 Washington 4 Boston 3 (10 inn) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 8 Pittsburgh 4 St Louis 6 Philadelphia 2 New York 5 Chicago 4 Brooklyn 8 Cincinnati 6 TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE New York (D Dean 11-12, 3.55) at Washington (D Errickson 9-18, 4.49) Chicago (B Poffenberger 1-4, 5.68) at Boston (B Bowman 8-6, 3.72) Detroit (H White 7-13, 4.58) at St Louis (T Baker 12-13, 3.39) Philadelphia (S Rosar 3-2, 4.85) at Cleveland (B Lohrman 15-3, 1.75) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (J Flores 9-14, 4.91) at Pittsburgh (V Raschi 7-13, 3.83) Brooklyn (A Carrasquel 5-3, 4.49) at Cincinnati (S Ferens 15-7, 3.36) St Louis (B Voiselle 15-13, 3.98) at Chicago (E Head 16-10, 3.89) Philadelphia (H Mulcahy 15-14, 3.31) at New York (S Emmerich 1-7, 5.04) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING B McCosky Det .327 J Medwick Cin .354 W Judnich SLB .327 B Elliott Pit .348 J Hudson Bos .327 G Rosen Bkn .335 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 30 S Chapman Bsn 24 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Gordon Phi 21 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 89 D Litwhiler Cha 91 S Chapman Bsn 84 T Williams Bos 90 H Clift Chn 82 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 22-9 V Olsen Chn 22-7 E Johnson Bos 18-9 P Roe Pit 19-8 F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14 C Schanz Phi 19-13 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.75 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.70 E White StL 2.59 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 184 E White StL 183 A Jurisch Det 182 R Barney Bkn 171 V Trucks Det 177 P Roe Pit 151 GOLF HOGAN WINS PLAYOFF IN LOS ANGELES OPEN Ben Hogan parred the first playoff hole while Sam King had to settle for a bogey giving Hogan the Los Angeles Open title. They both shot 3 under par 69 in Sunday's final round, forcing the sudden death playoff. The playoff began on the par 4 15th hole at Riviera Country Club and ended when King missed his putt for par. The victory is Hogan's 7th of the season. No other golfer won more than 2 events. Code: FINAL RESULTS OF LA OPEN NAME RD 1 RD 2 RD 3 RD 4 Total Hogan 65 71 68 69 273 -15* won playoff King 65 68 71 69 273 -15 Sarazen 65 71 73 67 276 -12 Barron 68 73 67 70 278 -10 Fleck 66 72 73 68 279 -9 Smith 66 69 71 73 279 -9 Bruen 69 72 67 73 281 -7 Bulla 65 75 70 71 281 -7 Cotton 70 70 72 69 281 -7 Harbert 69 74 66 72 281 -7 Von Nida 71 70 72 68 281 -7 Adams 70 70 68 74 282 -6 Rees 69 71 75 67 282 -6 Revolta 71 67 69 75 282 -6 Cerda 67 70 73 73 283 -5 Harper 64 72 72 75 283 -5 Middlecoff 69 73 69 72 283 -5 Boros 67 69 74 74 284 -4 Thomson 73 68 70 73 284 -4 Wall 67 76 72 70 285 -3 xScarborough-a 69 71 72 73 285 -3 Faulkner 71 71 71 73 286 -2 Daly 69 73 71 75 288 E Haefner 73 69 70 76 288 E Shute 67 74 72 76 289 1 Wood 65 77 68 79 289 1 Oliver 69 73 76 73 291 3 FIELD ANNOUNCED FOR TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS The top 20 money winners during the season automatically qualify for the year end Tournament of Champions event which will be held in Houston in two weeks. In addition to the top 20 money winners, anyone who won a tournament in 1947 is eligible. That means the field will be expanded to 23 golfers with the addition of tournament winners Harry Bradshaw, Ed Oliver and Dick Burton. Code: TOP 20 PGA MONEY WINNERS NAME PRIZE$ WINS TOP 5 TOP 10 CUTS made HOGAN 22700 7 13 15 17 SNEAD 11800 0 7 12 14 DEMARET 10463 1 5 8 11 NELSON 9938 0 6 9 15 HEBERT 9563 2 3 6 14 KEISER 9218 1 3 6 12 LOCKE 8825 1 3 6 12 MIDDLECOFF 8575 0 2 8 13 FURGOL 7928 0 2 5 13 HARPER 7462 0 3 5 14 REES 7313 1 3 6 11 FLECK 6814 0 2 5 12 HARBERT 6812 0 2 5 11 THOMSON 6724 0 2 4 13 HARRISON 6587 0 2 5 13 HAMILTON 6517 0 2 3 13 KING 6312 0 1 4 11 WARD 6288 0 2 5 11 FERRIER 6260 1 2 2 8 COTTON 5792 0 1 4 11 Also qualifying based on a tournament victory: Harry Bradshaw Dick Burton Ed Oliver BOXING ABRAMS WINS POSTWAR DEBUT A quiet Sunday evening in boxing with just one fight of note. In Detroit, welterweight Frankie Abrams won his postwar debut with a 6-round unanimous decision over Canadian Ray McIntyre. Both fighters had seen plenty of action prior to the postwar tournament but neither elected to enter the postwar tournament and this was the first bout for each of them. SOCCER SCOTTISH FIRST DIVISION TODAY'S MATCHES Rangers 2 Celtic 0 Falkirk 1 Aberdeen 0 Hibernian 3 Hearts 0 Queen of the South 0 Dundee 0 Motherwell 2 Airdrie 1 Clyde 2 Patrick 1 Morton 4 St Mirren 1 Queen's Park 1 Third Lanark 1 Code: STANDINGS GP W L T GF GA PTS Hibernian 9 7 1 1 23 4 15 Partick 8 5 1 2 12 4 12 St Mirren 9 5 2 2 11 8 12 Rangers 8 4 1 3 11 5 11 Falkirk 9 3 1 5 9 7 11 Dundee 9 5 3 1 12 11 11 Queen of South 9 4 3 2 10 12 10 Celtic 8 4 3 1 14 10 9 Motherwell 9 3 3 3 10 11 9 Aberdeen 9 3 4 2 9 9 8 Clyde 8 3 4 1 9 13 7 Hearts 9 2 5 2 12 15 6 Airdrie 9 2 5 2 12 18 6 Third Lanark 8 1 5 2 6 16 4 Morton 9 1 6 2 9 14 4 Queens Park 8 1 6 1 6 18 3 __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

02-07-2005, 02:53 PM	#435
Carlton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 3,765	The Phillies blowing it year in and year out is getting too realistic TF __________________ "I am at that stage of my life where I keep myself out of arguments. I am 100% self sufficient spiritually, emotionally & financially. Even if you say 1+1=5, you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Enjoy!"

02-07-2005, 05:13 PM	#436
jtb All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 595	TF How do you keep this all scheduled? Do you have a master schedule and follow it (Sat Sept 4 Pittsburgh@Chicago etc. in Boxing Lightweight bout.) Somedays you have simulations in just about everything and probably somedays are a little easier. I think I can speak for all following this and say your reports set the standard. Thanks!

02-07-2005, 10:04 PM	#438
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1947 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDINALS BEAT CUBS IN EXTRA INNINGS Enos Slaughter's 2-run single in the top of the 10th inning lifted the St Louis Cardinals past Chicago 9-7 and kept the Cards slim postseason hopes alive. St Louis has won 6 of it's last 7 games but with three teams ahead of them and less than 3 weeks remaining in the season it seems highly unlikely the Cards will make the playoffs. Still, coming back from a 7-3 deficiet after 6 innings to pull out the victory gives St Louis something to build on. Infielders Stu Martin and Buddy Hassett paced the St Louis assualt with 3 rbi's each. The Philadelphia Phillies benefited from the Cards comeback. Del Ennis hit a two run homer in the top of the ninth to seal a 5-2 Phillies win in New York moving the Phils to within 3 games of the first place Cubs. Hugh Mulcahy got the win to improve to 16-14 on the season but he suffered a minor back injury in the process and is questionable for his next start. Pittsburgh failed to take advantage of the Cubs loss as the Pirates dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston and remain 4 games behind Chicago. Sam Chapman hit his National League leading 25th homer of the season and drove in 3 runs for the Braves. In the other National League contest Luis Olmo had 4 rbi's and Frank McCormick 3 as the Brookyln Dodgers crushed Cincinnati 15-4. AMERICAN LEAGUE No changes at the top of the American League standings as the top 3 teams all won. Cleveland defeated Philadelphia 3-2 thanks to a 2-run triple from Ken Keltner in the bottom of the 8th inning and a solid pitching performance from Bill Lohrman (16-3, 1.77). Boston beat Chicago 5-1 with Ted Williams and Babe Young each homering to lead the Red Sox. For Williams, it was his major league leading 31st round-tripper of the year. In St Louis, catcher Frank Mancuso hit a 3-run homer to lead the Browns past Detroit 5-4. The Browns and Red Sox remain 7.5 games back of Cleveland. The other American League game had New York downing Washington 6-2 Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 79 56 .585 x BOSTON 71 63 .530 7.5 ST LOUIS 72 64 .529 7.5 WASHINGTON 69 68 .504 11.0 NEW YORK 66 70 .485 13.5 DETROIT 65 70 .481 14.0 PHILADELPHIA 63 73 .463 16.5 CHICAGO 58 79 .423 22.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 79 56 .585 x PHILADELPHIA 76 59 .563 3.0 PITTSBURGH 76 61 .555 4.0 ST LOUIS 72 62 .537 6.5 CINCINNATI 70 66 .515 9.5 BOSTON 64 71 .474 15.0 BROOKLYN 55 82 .401 25.0 NEW YORK 50 85 .370 29.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 6 Washington 2 Boston 5 Chicago 1 St Louis 5 Detroit 4 Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 6 Pittsburgh 2 St Louis 9 Chicago 7 (10 inn) Philadelphia 5 New York 2 Brooklyn 15 Cincinnati 4 TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE New York (M Lanier 16-17, 3.14) at Washington (F Hutchinson 17-14, 3.54) Chicago (B Byerly 7-12, 5.11) at Boston (A Karl 16-8, 4.13) Detroit (V Trucks 11-16, 2.86) at St Louis (R Scarborough 11-11, 3.43) Philadelphia (S Overmire 8-14, 4.01) at Cleveland (B Feller 12-9, 2.80) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (B McCahan 2-2, 3.69) at Cincinnati (H Feldman 15-9, 4.40) St Louis (X Rescingo 4-5, 4.28) at Chicago (P Erickson 11-17, 4.73) Philadelphia (L Hoerst 6-1, 1.58) at New York (D Koslo 9-18, 4.19) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING J Hudson Bos .327 J Medwick Cin .353 W Judnich SLB .326 B Elliott Pit .348 B McCosky Det .325 G Rosen Bkn .336 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 31 S Chapman Bsn 25 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Dimaggio Cin 22 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 89 D Litwhiler Cha 92 S Chapman Bsn 87 T Williams Bos 91 H Clift Chn 82 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 22-9 V Olsen Chn 22-7 E Johnson Bos 18-9 P Roe Pit 19-8 F Hutchinson Wsh 17-14 C Schanz Phi 19-13 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.77 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.70 E White StL 2.59 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 184 E White StL 183 A Jurisch Det 182 R Barney Bkn 171 V Trucks Det 177 P Roe Pit 151 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE RAMS RALLY PAST BUFFALO 31-22 IN MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Mike Largent's second touchdown of the game helped the St Louis Rams mount a third quarter comeback en route to a 31-22 victory over the Buffalo Bills in NFL action last night. The Bills led 22-13 at the half before Largent took control of the game in the third quarter. He gained 58 of his 128 yards on an 80 yard drive to open the second half. Largent capped the drive with a 1 yard plunge for his second major of the game. St Louis cornerback Keith Gardner also played a big role in the comeback as he picked off Buffalo rookie QB Demarco Dickinson twice in the second half. More bad news for the 0-2 Bills as rookie tight end Hank Foldberg left the game with an ankle injury and he could miss several weeks. St Louis QB Rod Dugas suffered a stress fracture in his right foot and although he is questionable for next week he did not miss a snap in the win over Buffalo. SUNDAY'S RESULTS* Oakland 37 San Diego 23 Tennessee 24 Jacksonville 6 Pittsburgh 34 Cleveland 3 New England 17 NY Jets 7 Chicago 30 Detroit 23 Atlanta 17 Carolina 15 San Francisco 31 Arizona 19 Philadelphia 27 Washington 3 Kansas City 29 Minnesota 19 Green Bay 34 Denver 13 Houston 16 Dallas 9 NY Giants 22 Indianapolis 19 Cincinnati 21 New Orleans 7 Seattle 24 Miami 7 Baltimore 24 Tampa Bay 20 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St Louis 31 Buffalo 22 WEEK 3 SCHEDULE Oakland at Pittsburgh Baltimore at Kansas City Tennessee at New England Jacksonville at NY Jets Buffalo at Indianapolis Miami at Houston Chicago at Arizona Dallas at New Orleans Detroit at San Francisco Seattle at Green Bay St Louis at Minnesota Atlanta at Philadelphia Carolina at Washington NY Giants at Tampa Bay Cincinnati at Denver MONDAY NIGHT San Diego at Cleveland Code: NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE North W L T PCT PF PA Chicago Bears 2 0 0 1.000 54 43 Green Bay Packers 2 0 0 1.000 55 25 Detroit Lions 1 1 0 .500 56 48 Minnesota Vikings 1 1 0 .500 45 52 East W L T PCT PF PA Philadelphia Eagles 1 1 0 .500 47 27 New York Giants 1 1 0 .500 45 45 Dallas Cowboys 0 2 0 .000 21 37 Washington Redskins 0 2 0 .000 21 60 South W L T PCT PF PA Atlanta Falcons 2 0 0 1.000 40 31 Carolina Panthers 1 1 0 .500 38 31 New Orleans Saints 1 1 0 .500 31 34 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1 1 0 .500 49 53 West W L T PCT PF PA San Francisco 49ers 1 1 0 .500 45 42 Seattle Seahawks 1 1 0 .500 37 31 St. Louis Rams 1 1 0 .500 57 51 Arizona Cardinals 0 2 0 .000 35 54 AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE North W L T PCT PF PA Pittsburgh Steelers 2 0 0 1.000 73 10 Baltimore Ravens 2 0 0 1.000 50 37 Cincinnati Bengals 1 1 0 .500 31 31 Cleveland Browns 1 1 0 .500 40 54 East W L T PCT PF PA New England Patriots 1 1 0 .500 20 43 New York Jets 1 1 0 .500 38 34 Miami Dolphins 0 2 0 .000 36 55 Buffalo Bills 0 2 0 .000 35 84 South W L T PCT PF PA Houston Texans 2 0 0 1.000 40 19 Tennessee Titans 1 1 0 .500 44 43 Indianapolis Colts 0 2 0 .000 36 45 Jacksonville Jaguars 0 2 0 .000 13 63 West W L T PCT PF PA Kansas City Chiefs 2 0 0 1.000 82 32 Oakland Raiders 1 1 0 .500 54 54 Denver Broncos 1 1 0 .500 44 63 San Diego Chargers 1 1 0 .500 59 40 BOXING PLENTY OF BIG NAMES IN ACTION THIS WEEK This is a very big week for boxing fans as three world title fights will be contested and a legend makes his return to the ring after suffering his first career defeat. The title fights are three days in succession beginning tomorrow night when world welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson faces journeyman Chuck Taylor in Pittsburgh. The fight is merely just a tuneup for Robinson who should have little trouble improving upon his 12-1-1 record. The 27 year old Taylor, who hails from Coalport, Pa., is 10-12 in his career. On Thursday World Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles will meet Mose Brown in Charles' hometown of Cincinnati. Charles, with a 21-1 career record, won the World title with a 3rd round KO of Joe Louis last month in New York City. His only loss had come last September against Louis. Brown, a 31 year old from Texas, is 11-17-1 in his career. Speaking of Louis, the Brown Bomber will be back in action Saturday - his first fight since losing the title to Charles. The 33 year old Louis, with a 9-1 record, faces Philadelphia native Curtis Sheppard in a 10 round bout at The Olympia in Detroit. The 30 year old Sheppard is 16-8 but most of his wins were against subpar opponents. The other title fight is Friday night in New York's Madison Square Garden when world Lightweight champion Ike Williams puts his 20-0 record on the line against top contender Art Aragon. A 21 year old from Los Angeles, Aragon sports a 14-4-1 record with one of his losses coming by TKO to Williams but that was over a year ago in the early stages of the post-war tournament and Aragon has greatly improved since then. Among Aragon's recent victims are top 10 candidates Maxie Docusen, Mario Trigo and Lulu Constantino. Williams last saw action in June when he defended his title against then top ranked contender Bob Montgomery. COLLEGE BASKETBALL SEEDS ANNOUNCED FOR PRESEASON ALASKA SHOOTOUT The third of the 3 'Preseason' tournaments has released it's 8 team field. The Alaska Shootout will be held in Anchorage the weekend of November 6-9th. Here are the 8 schools that will be participating: 1- Florida - The Gators have made it a habit of sending first round picks to the NBA but all of that talent has not been parlayed into much recent success. Last season there was positive news like a 22-9 record and a run to the SEC tournament final before losing to national champion Kentucky, but the year ended on a sour note when the fourth seeded Gators were upset by Texas A&M in the opening round of the NCAA's. Things look bright this year with all of the starters back. The backcourt will again feature Tyson Edwards and SEC freshman of the year Shaun Fluellen. Upfront there is Bill Closs and Ward Gibson along with recruit Harry Hamilton who may be the best freshman player in the nation. 2- Boston College - The Eagles are coming off 5 straight NCAA tourney appearances and an elite 8 berth a year ago. They will be rebuilding this season as the only starter to return is junior SG Frank Kudelka. There are 7 freshman on the BC roster. 3- Purdue - The Boilermakers won the Big Ten conference tournament for just the third time in their history last year. There is plenty of talent back from last season including senior PF Michael Arrowood, who averaged 15.7 ppg and 11.1 rpg a year ago. 4- Oregon - The Ducks have never missed the NCAA tournament in their 15 year history. They won it all in 1939 and made the final four in 1938 and 1944. Last season they finished 27-7 and got as far as the Sweet 16. With 4 starters returning including center Al Groza, the brother of Detroit Lions lineman Lou Groza, Oregon will again be a force in the PCC North. 5- Memphis - The Tigers have never made it to the NCAA tournament but this might be the year that changes. All the key contributers of a team that went 16-14 a year ago are back and all appear to be improved. A good start at Anchorage could get the Tigers on a roll. 6- Indiana State - The Sycamores have won the Horizon Conference tournament 3 of the past 4 years including last season when they finished the year with a 26-9 record. Senior center Jim Phelps is the go to man on offense. He averaged 16.7 ppg last year and was named to the All-Conference team. 7- Alabama - 2 years removed from their second NCAA tournament title, the Crimson Tide will miss the contribution of first overall NBA pick Odie Spears but there is still plenty of talent on campus. After being in Spears' shadow, SF Harry Gallatin finally gets the chance to call the club his team. Gallatin averaged nearly 15 points and 10 boards a game as a junior a year ago. 8- Notre Dame - After missing postseason play for the first time in school history two years ago, the Fighting Irish rebounded with a 26-7 record last year in a season that saw them win their 8th Midwest Independant Conference title. With 4 starters back including National Freshman of the Year center Ryan Gardner, this is a Notre Dame team that may make a run at it's third ever National Championship. The other two preseason events are the preseason NIT and the Hawaii Classic. PRESEASON NIT SEEDS 1- Indiana 2- Holy Cross 3- California 4- Oklahoma A&M 5- New Orleans 6- Miami Ohio 7- Wyoming 8- Auburn HAWAII CLASSIC SEEDS 1- New York University 2- Washington 3- Penn State 4- Virginia Military Institute 5- Southern California 6- Kansas 7- Richmond 8- Houston NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE* HABS AND RANGERS MAKE 5 PLAYER SWAP The Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers have announced a five player trade that will send center Buddy O'Connor to Broadway. Joining O'Connor on the way to New York will be defenseman Frank Eddolls, who spent all of last season in Buffalo of the AHL. The Habs get punishing defenseman Hal Laycoe along with minor leaguers Joe Bell and George Robertson. The keys to the deal are O'Connor and Laycoe. O'Connor spent 6 seasons with Montreal and had 9 goals and 20 points a year ago. Laycoe, a 25 year old from Saskatchewan, had just 10 points for the Rangers but was their most consistant rearguard. The Rangers feel Eddolls may be the player that tips the deal in their favour. The 26 year old has just 51 NHL games to his credit but the Rangers feel he can adequately fill in the void created by the loss of Laycoe. KRAUT LINE IS NO MORE - BAUER RETIRES Boston winger Bobby Bauer, one third of the famous Kraut Line, has reportedly told the Bruins he will not join the club this season. The 32 year old native of Waterloo, Ontario has decided to end his career. Bauer gained fame both before and after the war playing on a line with fellow German-Canadians Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart. The three of them were boyhood friends and played together on the 1935 Memorial Cup winning Kitchener Greenshirts. They also won a pair of Stanley Cups together and an Allan Cup, emblematic of Canadain Senior A supremacy, while playing for the RCAF Flyers during the war. In real life, Bobby and his brother Father David Bauer, would both be enshrined in the hockey hall of fame. Code: BOBBY BAUER'S CAREER STATS REGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1935-36 Boston NHL 1 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- 1936-37 Boston NHL 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1937-38 Boston NHL 48 20 14 34 9 3 0 0 0 2 1938-39 Boston NHL 48 13 18 31 4 12 3 2 5 0 1939-40 Boston NHL 48 17 26 43 2 6 1 0 1 2 1940-41 Boston NHL 48 17 22 39 2 11 2 2 4 0 1941-42 Boston NHL 36 13 22 35 11 -- -- -- -- -- 1945-46 Boston NHL 39 11 10 21 4 10 4 3 7 2 1946-47 Boston NHL 58 24 16 40 0 -- -- -- -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- NHL Totals 327 116 128 244 32 43 10 7 17 6 SOCCER ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Aston Villa 2 Everton 0 Blackpool 3 Blackburn 2 Burnley 1 Manchester United 1 Liverpool 4 Sheffield United 1 Stoke City 2 Preston NE 1 Code: STANDINGS GP W L T GF GA PTS Blackpool 6 5 0 1 10 2 11 Arsenal 5 4 0 1 10 4 9 Burnley 6 2 0 4 6 4 8 Man United 6 3 1 2 6 4 8 Stoke City 6 3 1 2 9 4 8 Aston Villa 6 4 2 0 7 3 8 Wolverhampton 5 3 1 1 9 6 7 Bolton 5 1 0 4 5 4 6 Derby County 5 2 1 2 8 5 6 Huddersfield 5 2 1 2 7 6 6 Manchest. City 5 1 1 3 4 5 5 Blackburn 5 2 2 1 8 8 5 Charlton Athl 5 2 2 1 9 7 5 Preston NE 6 2 3 1 8 9 5 Portsmouth 5 1 2 2 6 7 4 Sunderland 5 2 3 0 8 7 4 Sheffield Untd 6 2 4 0 12 12 4 Everton 6 0 3 3 3 8 3 Middlesbrough 5 1 3 1 4 9 3 Liverpool 6 1 4 1 7 12 3 Chelsea 4 0 4 0 3 9 0 Grimsby Town 5 0 5 0 2 16 0 __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles

02-08-2005, 12:45 AM	#439
Tiger Fan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 9,873	TIGERFAN'S SPORTING DAILY : WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1947 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL FELLER'S 2-HITTER LEADS TRIBE TO WIN OVER A'S Bob Feller tossed a 2-hitter while fanning 8 to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia A's. The victory improves Feller's record to 13-9. He leads the majors with 192 strikeouts. The big inning for the Indians was the 4th when the A's had two errors allowing Cleveland to plate 3 runs. The Indians remain 7.5 games ahead of Boston in the American League pennant race after the Red Sox doubled Chicago 8-4. Ted Williams had 3 hits including a pair of homeruns to lead the Boston attack. Williams has 3 homers in his last 2 games. Andy Karl picked up the victory, his 17th of the season. Bobby Thomson had 3 hits and drove in both runs as Detroit shutout St Louis 2-0. Virgil Trucks allowed just 5 St Louis hits in going the distance for his 12th win of the season. The other game had Washington holding off New York 6-5 with Senators hurler Fred Hutchinson picking up win number 18 on the year. NATIONAL LEAGUE Time certainly is not on their side but the St Louis Cardinals are making a last ditch effort to get into the National League pennant race. The Cards held off a late Chicago rally to beat the Cubs for the second straight game, 8-7 was the final. Cards catcher Walker Cooper homered, drove in 4 runs and scored 3 for the winners who now trail first place Chicago by 5.5 games. The Cubs have dropped 3 straight. Philadelphia missed a great chance to move to within 2 games of the lead after the Phillies were beaten 3-1 by last place New York. Dave Koslo (10-18, 4.09) tossed a 3-hit complete game for the win while Lefty Hoerst (6-2, 1.80) suffered his first loss since replacing the injured Max Macon in the Phillies rotation 2 weeks ago. In the only other game Ford Garrison drove in 3 runs and Joe Dimaggio scored 3 times as the Cincinnati Reds hammered Boston 9-0. Happy Feldman tossed a complete game 5-hit shutout to run his record to 16-9. Code: AMERICAN W L PCT GB CLEVELAND 80 56 .588 x BOSTON 72 63 .533 7.5 ST LOUIS 72 65 .526 8.5 WASHINGTON 70 68 .507 11.0 DETROIT 66 70 .485 14.0 NEW YORK 66 71 .482 14.5 PHILADELPHIA 63 74 .460 17.5 CHICAGO 58 80 .420 23.0 NATIONAL W L PCT GB CHICAGO 79 57 .581 x PHILADELPHIA 76 60 .559 3.0 PITTSBURGH 76 61 .555 3.5 ST LOUIS 73 62 .541 5.5 CINCINNATI 71 66 .518 8.5 BOSTON 64 72 .471 15.0 BROOKLYN 55 82 .401 24.5 NEW YORK 51 85 .375 28.0 YESTERDAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 6 New York 5 Boston 8 Chicago 4 Detroit 2 St Louis 0 Cleveland 4 Philadelphia 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 9 Boston 0 St Louis 8 Chicago 7 New York 3 Philadelphia 1 TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston (E Johnson 18-9, 3.15) at St Louis (A McKain 15-8, 3.18) Detroit (R Lynn 4-2, 1.69) at Cleveland (W Spahn 16-13, 3.20) NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston (H Bithorn 10-8, 3.64) at Cincinnati (A Carter 16-15, 3.59) St Louis (E White 17-8, 2.59) at Chicago (V Olsen 22-7, 2.80) Philadelphia (C Schanz 19-13, 3.39) at New York (R Bauers 10-18, 3.79) Code: AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS BATTING BATTING W Judnich SLB .330 J Medwick Cin .353 B McCosky Det .327 B Elliott Pit .348 J Hudson Bos .324 G Rosen Bkn .336 HOME RUNS HOME RUNS T Williams Bos 33 S Chapman Bsn 25 W Judnich SLB 23 H Clift Chn 22 T Henrich Det 19 J Dimaggio Cin 22 RBI'S RBI'S W Judnich SLB 101 B Elliott Pit 89 T Williams Bos 95 S Chapman Bsn 87 D Litwhiler Cha 92 W Cooper StL 84 WINS WINS A Jurisch Det 22-9 V Olsen Chn 22-7 E Johnson Bos 18-9 P Roe Pit 19-8 F Hutchinson Wsh 18-14 C Schanz Phi 19-13 ERA ERA B Lohrman Cle 1.77 K Raffensberger Bsn 1.99 J Haynes Wsh 2.56 C Melton Pit 2.07 T Bonham NYY 2.70 E White StL 2.59 STRIKEOUTS STRIKEOUTS B Feller Cle 192 E White StL 183 A Jurisch Det 182 R Barney Bkn 171 V Trucks Det 181 P Roe Pit 151 GOLF RYDER CUP BEGINS FRIDAY IN PORTLAND After a 10 year hiatus the Ryder Cup returns this weekend. Last contested in 1937 there had been doubts that this year's event would ever get off the ground until Oregon fruit grower Robert A Hudson came forward to fund the British team. Hudson, who is also a member of the PGA Advisory Committee, stepped up and offered his help and the use of the Portland Golf Club as the host site. Here are the members of each club and notable accomplishments over the past two seasons. UNITED STATES Captain Ben Hogan - won 1946 Masters, 1947 Masters and PGA along with 5 other events. Won nearly twice as much money as number 2 man on 1947 money list. Byron Nelson - won 1946 PGA and British Open, 1946 TSN golfer of the year. Fourth in money winners chart for 1947 but no wins. Jimmy Demaret- Won the Western Open and finished 3rd in money winners list for 1947. Was second in this year's British Open. Sam Snead - No wins but 12 top 10 finishes and finished second in earnings for 1947. Finished third in this year's Masters. Herman Barron - Dissappointing season with just two top 10 finishes but did finish 5th at US Open. Lloyd Mangrum - finished 5th in 46 US Open but struggled through 1947 finishing 41st on money list. Ed Oliver - Won the 1947 Bing Crosby event and finished 21st in earnings for 1947 Lew Worsham - suffered through terrible 1947 season, making just 6 cuts in 17 events. Dutch Harrison - 15th on the money list with two top 5 finishes. BRITIAN Captain Henry Cotton- tied for 5th in 46 Masters, was 20th in earnings for 1947. Arthur Lees - Made 8 cuts and finished 31st in earnings. Tied for third in British Open. Fred Daly - won 1946 Irish Open, 37th in winnings for 1947 with no tournament victories. Charlie Ward - 18th in earnings with a pair of top 5 finishes. Jimmy Adams - Made just 6 cuts and finished 58th in earnings. Max Faulkner - 40th in earnings with 1 top 5 finish. Dai Rees- finished 4th in 46 Masters and won Greensboro Open in 1947. 11th in season earnings for 1947. Sam King- very consistant, finished 17th in earnings and made 11 cuts. SOCCER ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION TODAY'S MATCHES Bolton at Arsenal Sunderland at Chelsea Manchester City at Derby County Grimsby Town at Huddersfield Middlesbrough at Wolverhampton __________________ Cliff Markle HOB1 greatest pitcher 360-160, 9 Welch Awards, 11 WS titles Last edited by Tiger Fan; 04-18-2007 at 12:40 AM.

02-08-2005, 03:09 AM	#440
Bobbuttons Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Picturesque Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio Posts: 3,708	Ryder Cup just days away! Yes! Been waiting on this all year long (all of 1947, that is). __________________ Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do....cause they're fast! Gibson swings, and a fly ball to deep right field! This is gonna be a home run! Unbelievable! A home run for Gibson! And the Dodgers have won the game, 5 to 4; I don't believe what I just saw! I don't believe what I just saw!