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MLB ALLSTAR GAME July 5, 1938 STONE AND ROLFE LEAD AL STARS IN ROMP John Stone and Red Rolfe each had 4 hits as the American League blasted the National League 11-2 in baseball's All-Star Game. The Junior Circuit stars socked a total of 19 hits before a crowd of over 30,000 at St Louis' Sportsman's Park. Stone, who was traded by Washington to the Athletics over the winter, was named the game's Most Valuable Player after hitting four singles in 5 at bats while also scoring twice. The game began well for the National Leaguers as starting pitcher Dizzy Dean sat the AL stars down in order in the first inning and the Senior Circuit took a 1-0 lead in the second on an rbi single from the Cubs Billy Jurges. However, the Giants Fred Frankhouse took over on the hill in the bottom of the second and prompty allowed three straight singles and a total of 4 hits in his one inning of work, which allowed the AL to take a 2-1 lead, a lead they would not relinquish. The American Leaguers blew the game open in the bottom of the 4th, roughing up Cubs ace Larry French for 4 runs on 5 hits keyed by an rbi double off the bat of Cleveland's Hal Trosky. The AL added 4 more runs in the 8th inning including a 2-run homer from Yankees veteran first baseman Lou Gehrig.  1938 BRITISH OPEN -July 6-10, 1938 The 1938 British Open was held at Royal St George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England a week before the PGA Championship which meant none of the American tour regulars competed in the event, unlike last year when it was held in conjunction with the Ryder Cup. An almost exclusive pool of British golfers were battling for a winner's purse of 100 British pounds. After calm, sunny days for the first two rounds, the tournament was hit with one of the worst storms ever to The Open which caused scores to rise. Reg Whitcombe would be the winner in weather so bad that the huge Exhibition Tent, the largest ever seen at The Open, was ripped apart and debris was scattered as far as a mile away. There were only 9 scores under 80 in the third round and just 7 in the final round. To reflect this I edited one of the current courses to make it much more difficult. It is not very accurate to the real Royal St George's but the scores should be more realistic with that year's results. ROUND ONE Only two golfers managed to break par in the first round of the event led by Scotland's Jimmy Adams shooting a 2 under 69 on the par 71 course. Adams, who finished second in the real life event twice in his career including 1938 but never won The British Open, has a one stroke lead on Dick Burton and two up on John J. Busson after 18 holes. Real life champ Reg Whitcombe is 6 back after carding a 75. ROUND TWO At the midway point the tournament leader is RH Pemberton after he carded an even par 71 to follow up his opening round of 73. Day one leader Adams shot a 76 and is now tied for second with Burton, while real-life champ Reg Whitcombe shot even par 71 and is in 4th. Code:
1938 BRITISH OPEN : Round Two Leaderboard RH Pemberton 73 71 +2 Jimmy Adams 69 76 +3 Dick Burton 70 75 +3 Reg Whitcombe 75 71 +4 John J Busson 71 78 +7 Arthur Lacey 74 75 +7 Cyril Tolley 75 75 +8 ROUND THREE The scores continue to climb in wet weather in day three as only one golfer, Hector Thompson, manages to shoot an even par and scores in the eighties are common for much of the field. Reg Whitcombe, the youngest of three brothers competing in the event, takes over as the leader by two strokes on John J Busson after finishing the round at 3 over. Code:
1938 BRITISH OPEN : Round Three Leaderboard Reg Whitcombe 75 71 74 +7 John J Busson 71 78 73 +9 Jimmy Adams 69 76 78 +10 RH Pemberton 73 71 79 +10 Dick Burton 70 75 79 +11 Hector Thompson 82 72 71 +12 Jack McLean 77 74 74 +12 PJ Mahon 80 71 74 +12 REG WHITCOMBE WINS 1938 BRITISH OPEN It wasn't pretty as he limped home with a 7 over par 78 on the final round but, just as in real life, Reg Whitcombe is the 1938 British Open Champion. In real life it would be the only major of Whitcombe's career although he did finish second to Sir Henry Cotton in 1937. Whitcombe shot two over on the back nine and needed a 25 foot putt to snake into the hole on 18 to save par and give him a 1 stroke victory over RG French, who gained 8 strokes on Whitcombe on the final day but was forced to settle for second place. It was a terrible event for Sir Henry Cotton who shot over 80 twice in the four rounds and finished 24 shots off the lead. Defending champion Sam King also did not fare well, opening the event with back to back rounds of 80 and was never in the mix. King finished tied for 33rd.  Code:
1938 BRITISH OPEN FINAL LEADERBOARD Reg Whitcombe 75 71 74 78 +14 R.J. French 77 78 74 70 +15 Dick Burton 70 75 79 76 +16 Arthur Lacey 74 75 80 73 +18 J.L. Black 75 78 73 76 +18 John J. Fallon 73 78 78 73 +18 Jimmy Adams 69 76 78 80 +19 Bill Cox 75 80 73 75 +19 Jack McLean 77 74 74 79 +20 E.F. Storey 78 78 73 75 +20 Hector Thompson 82 72 71 79 +20
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July 10-11, 1938
July 10, 1938 NFL PRESEASON WEEK 1 EAGLES TOP COLTS IN PRESEASON OPENER The Philadelphia Eagles got a very small measure of revenge for their loss to Baltimore in last season's NFL Championship game by beating the Colts 14-13 in the preseason opener for both clubs. Philadelphia back Swede Johnston, who ran for over 1000 yards in 1937, looked in mid-season form as he had 16 carries for 108 yards to lead the Eagles offense while quarterback Andy Puplis, a 4th round pick out of Notre Dame, looked solid in his pro debut and threw the game winning touchdown with just over 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter. On the Baltimore side rookie quarterback Bill Hartman played most of the game, completing 8 of 11 passes for 86 yards.  In other games the Los Angeles Rams won the battle of California, beading the San Francisco 49ers 24-14 despite Mike Sebastian's 101 yard, 1 touchdown day for the Niners. Bob McChesney's 70 yard punt return helped lead Detroit past the Chicago Bears 20-3. It was a defensive struggle in Pittsburgh as the hometown Steelers held off the Green Bay Packers 9-8 in a game that had 5 field goals and a safety account for all of the scoring. In Cleveland, rookies Whizzer White and Buster Kinard each had strong debuts helping the Browns past the Washington Redskins 16-13. Kinard, a second round pick out of Mississippi, had 6 tackles, a sack and a fumble recovery while 6th rounder White, a back from the University of Colorado, carried the ball 26 times for 96 yards. Washington quarterback Sammy Baugh played just the first quarter but threw for 75 yards and ran for a 42 yard touchdown. Kink Richards ran for a game high 124 yards but it was not enough as Richards' Chicago Cardinals came up on the wrong end of a 23-11 score in New York against the Giants. Parker Hall, an undrafted rookie out of Mississippi, had a strong game under center for the Giants, passing for 158 yards and a touchdown as he battles to win the backup job behind Emmett Mortell. That position became more important in New York as Mortell, who missed 4 weeks with injury last season, suffered a hamstring injury early in the game and is questionable for the season opener in two weeks time. JULY 10, 1938 - NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE BRUINS SIGN GOALTENDER The Boston Bruins have announced the signing of 22 year old goaltender Frank Brimsek, a Minnesota native who spent the last 3 seasons with the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the Eastern Hockey League. Nicknamed 'Mr Zero", the real life Brimsek would go on to play over a decade in the NHL and be named to the Top 100 Players of All-Time list as well as inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Brimsek is expected to challenge 35 year old Tiny Thompson for the Bruins starting job. Thompson has played 424 career NHL games including 43 last season, in which he posted a 2.70 goals against average and helped the Bruins to the playoffs.  JULY 11, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CUBS START ANOTHER STREAK The Chicago Cubs have another winning streak on the go, although this one sits at a much more modest 5 games. The Cubs, who won 22 straight in June before dropping 6 of 7 games, now find them riding another streak after a sweep of the Giants and a 1-0 victory in Pittsburgh yesterday. Larry French, who was beat up pretty good in Tuesday's all-star game, recovered nicely with a 7-hit shutout which, combined with Stan Hack's 7th inning rbi double, lifted the Cubs to a 1-0 win over the Bucs and back in to first place in the National League. Chicago is a game ahead of St Louis. The Cardinals snapped Chicago's long streak by taking the first two games of their series in St Louis a week and a half ago but they came out of the all-star break flat, dropping two of three to the Pirates. The mid-season break did little to halt the New York Yankees dominance in the American League. The Yankees, who dropped 2 of 4 just prior to the break, responded with 3 wins in a 4 game series with Washington over the weekend. CUBS DEAL LOHRMAN It came as a quite a shock to hear the Cubs traded 25 year old pitcher Bill Lohrman to Cincinnati in exchange for second baseman Jimmy Brown. Lohrman had a 6-2 record with a 2.50 era in 9 starts this season at the bottom of the Chicago rotation. The 27 year old Brown was hitting .312 in a platoon role in Cincinnati. He will replace Billy Rhiel as the Cubs everyday second sacker. For the hole at the bottom of their rotation the Cubs will turn to 39 year old Charlie Root, who was 2-4 with a 3.61 era out of the pen this season. Root won't see a lot of starts with Larry French (11-6, 2.49), Tex Carleton (12-4, 2.88), Bill Lee (11-4, 3.91) and Lon Warneke (7-7, 5.04) ahead of him in the rotation. Lohrman will likely become the Reds number one starter in a rotation that has struggled at times. The Reds rotation also consists of Joe Krakauskas (5-11, 2.77), Si Johnson (6-9, 3.75), Syl Johnson (6-5, 3.49) and Lee Grissom (2-6, 5.42) There was one other trade as the New York Giants added outfielder Ethan Allen from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for catcher Gus Mancuso. The 34 year old Allen, who was hitting .294 with 3 homers for the Sox, will serve as the Giants 4th outfielder. Mancuso (.286,3,9) was the backup in New York but the 32 year old will take over the everyday catching duties for the White Sox, replacing an aging Luke Sewell. The 37 year old Sewell was hitting just .222 this season. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 58 21 - Chicago 49 29 -
Boston 45 33 12.5 St Louis 47 29 1.0
Cleveland 38 40 19.5 New York 45 32 3.5
Philadelphia 36 41 21.0 Pittsburgh 38 41 11.5
Detroit 36 42 21.5 Boston 36 43 13.5
Chicago 35 43 22.5 Brooklyn 34 44 15.0
St Louis 34 43 23.0 Cincinnati 32 46 17.0
Washington 30 49 28.0 Philadelphia 30 47 18.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .382 Phelps BKN .389
Rolfe NYY .365 Mize STL .354
Stone PHA .363 Medwick STL .351
Moses PHA .358 Vaughan PIT .344
Dickey NYY .350 Leslie BKN .343
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 25 Mize STL 25
Gordon SLA 20 Ott NYG 19
Foxx BOS 19 Medwick STL 19
Greenberg DET 16 Johnson CIN 16
DiMaggio NYY 14 Berger BSN 13
Hayes PHA 14
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 75 Mize STL 66
Gehrig NYY 68 Ott NYG 65
DiMaggio NYY 66 Medwick STL 63
Greenberg DET 64 Suhr PIT 54
Trosky CLE 64 P Waner PIT 53
Foxx BOS 61 Leslie BKN 52
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 14-2 Carleton STL 12-4
Grove BOS 13-2 P Dean STL 11-3
Gomez NYY 13-3 Lee CHN 11-4
Mills CHA 12-4 French CHN 11-6
Broaca NYY 11-4 Tobin BSN 11-6
McFayden NYY 10-3
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 107 P Dean STL 86
Gomez NYY 99 Carleton CHN 86
Mills CHA 87 D Dean STL 84
Grove BOS 81 Mungo BKN 81
Allen CLE 77 Blanton PIT 78
Rowe DET 76 Melton BKN 70
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.30 P Dean STL 2.32
Gomez NYY 2.32 D Dean STL 2.42
Grove BOS 2.70 French CHN 2.49
Mills CHA 2.85 Lohrman CHN 2.50
Ruffing NYY 2.95 Fischer BSN 2.72
Smith PHA 3.17 Tobin BSN 2.75
McFayden NYY 3.22 Mungo BKN 2.75
Pittsburgh shortstop Arky Vaughan is riding a 25 game hitting streak after getting a single in a 1-0 loss to the Cubs yesterday. Vaughan (.344,6,33) is 6 hits shy of the longest streak of the season, held by Cleveland's Roy Weatherly. John Stone had a big week. Not only did the A's outfielder get 4 hits and win the MVP award in the All-Star game but he is also the American League Player of the Week after going 9-for-14 in 4 games. The 32 year old is hitting .363 on the season. St Louis Cardinals pitcher Jim Winford (9-5, 3.15) claimed National League honours in the abbreviated week by tossing a 6 hit shutout in a 3-0 win over Pittsburgh on Thursday. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RED BIRDS ARE RED HOT The state of Ohio had a big week in the American Association with both the Columbus Red Birds and Toledo Mud Hens winning 5 of their last 6 games. For the league leading Mud Hens winning streaks are no surprise but the Red Birds have struggled for much of the season so the solid play of late has helped them climb to within 3 games of third place Minneapolis. One unexpected star for Columbus was infielder Jim Bucher. Hardly a household name, the 27 year old caught fire last week, going 12-for-24 with a pair of homers and earned the nod as the American Association's top performer. On the season Bucher, who came over from the Brooklyn Dodgers, is hitting .274 with 3 homers and 43 rbi's. As needed as the win streak was for Columbus - they were just 11-17 in June - it did little to help them to get into playoff contention as Toledo, and to a lesser extent Kansas City continue to run away with things. The Mud Hens are showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, it is just the opposite as Toledo has improved it's record each month Code:
TOLEDO MONTHLY RECORD APRIL 8-6 .571 MAY 20-9 .690 JUNE 20-8 .714 JULY 6-2 .750  Wells is leading the league's shortstops in fielding percentage while also being one of the more productive at his position offensively. The 32 year old is in his third season with the Mud Hens after playing a decade in the Negro Leagues. The real life Wells is an Austin, Texas native who is widely considered to be one of the best shorstops of his day and is also credited for teaching Jackie Robinson how to turn a double play. He was also notable as being the first player to use a batting helmet (in his case it was a construction helmet) after receiving a concussion while playing for the Newark Eagles. Wells was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. The Kansas City Blues did stumble a little last week, going 3-3 which dropped them 2 more games back of Toledo in the battle for first place. Kansas City, which now sits 4 behind the Hens, did get a strong effort from Al Piechota in a 9-1 win over St. Paul. The 24 year old Piechota (5-2, 4.81) has been forced into the rotation because of the season ending injury suffered by 1937 pitcher of the year Ted Kleinhans. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 54 25 - Kansas City 50 29 4.0 Minneapolis 41 39 13.5 Columbus 38 42 16.5 Milwaukee 36 42 17.5 Louisville 33 47 21.5 Indianapolis 33 47 21.5 St Paul 32 46 21.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .383 Martin Dihigo MIL .356 Len Schulte LOU .350 Lonny Frey TOL .346 Benny McCoy TOL .344 Roy Hughes MIL .337 Joe Vosmik LOU .333 Jeff Heath MIL .331 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 17 Chet Laabs TOL 15 Benny McCoy TOL 15 Rudy York MIL 15 Bill Norman StP 13 Buzz Arlett MIN 13 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 68 Benny McCoy TOL 65 Chet Laabs TOL 64 Roy Cullenbine TOL 62 Rudy York MIL 58 Dick Siebert COL 56 Ted Williams MIN 55 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 13-2 Paul Derringer TOL 13-3 Denny Galehouse MIN 13-7 Carl Hubbell MIN 13-10 Gene Schott TOL 12-3 Fred Gay KC 11-6 Max Macon COL 10-11 Tiny Bonham KC 9-8 Dizzy Trout IND 9-8 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 105 Dizzy Trout IND 97 Wayne LeMaster LOU 93 Johnny Rigney StP 91 Carl Hubbell MIN 90 Lefty Smoll TOL 81 Ted Kleinhans KC 80 Denny Galehouse MIN 78 ERA Gene Schott TOL 3.02 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.18 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Tiny Bonham KC 3.43 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.46 Dizzy Trout IND 3.48 Fred Gay KC 3.65 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.84
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1938 PGA Championship
1938 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP - JULY 10-16, 1938 As it was for last year's sim the PGA championship was a match play event after two stroke play rounds to trim the field to 64 golfers. The real life winner was Paul Runyan, who would beat Sam Snead in the finals for his second career PGA championship. I will use a similar format with the exception of trimming the field in my event to 16 golfers after the opening two rounds. Sam Snead is the defending champion in my sim as the then 25 year old beat Al Espinosa in the finals. This time around Snead qualified by finishing 9th in the stroke play portion while Espinosa missed the cut due primarily to a dreadful 81 on his opening 18. Denny Shute, who in real life had won each of the last two PGA Championships earned the top seed for match play by virtue of a low score of 3 under par. Here are the results for the top 16 who qualify for the match-play format Code:
Denny Shute 73 68 141 Byron Nelson 71 71 142 Joe Turnesa 75 67 142 Lawson Little 71 72 143 Al Borsch 74 69 143 Henry Picard 70 74 144 Horton Smith 77 68 145 Alfred Padgham 74 71 145 Sam Snead 69 77 146 Jimmy Demaret 71 75 146 Ben Hogan 72 75 147 Tony Penna 72 76 148 Gene Sarazen 71 77 148 Tommy Armour 75 73 148 Henry Cotton 74 74 148 Bobby Locke 76 72 148 MATCH PLAY Stroke play leader Denny Shute got into trouble early in his match with Bobby Locke, falling behind by 3 holes at the turn. It would stay that way until Shute pulled within 1 after winning both 16 and 17 but the two golfers both shot par on 18 giving Locke an upset victory. Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen both were eliminated in the round of 16 with Hogan's match against Henry Picard being the most exciting of the day. Hogan recovered from 3 down by winning 3 of the final 4 holes to tie the event but he would fall to Picard on the second playoff hole.  The last two standing were Sam Snead and Byron Nelson as Nelson was making a bid for his 3rd major championship of the year. Snead was trying to atone for a rough season that saw him finish well back in the pack in both the Masters and the US Open and also attempting to win his second consecutive PGA Championship. The 36 hole final saw Snead go up by two after back to back birdies on 3 and 4 but Nelson recovered and won the final 3 holes of the front nine to take a 1 hole lead into the turn. Nelson would go up another hole with a win on 10 but Snead righted himself and ended a 4 hole losing streak with a par on the par 5 11th, something Nelson could not match. Snead pulled back to even with a birdie on 13 and they would remain tied until Nelson found the water with his tee shot on 17, another par five. Snead took the hole with a par and. after they halved 18, Snead would take a 1 hole lead into the final 18 holes. Another birdie on the first hole of the second round increased Snead's lead on Hogan to two but Hogan pulled even with wins on hole 3 and 4. Hogan chipped in for birdie on the fifth and was now 1 up. They would each win one of the final 4 holes and finish the front-nine with Hogan up by a single hole. For the second straight round Hogan birdied the 10th to go 2-up. Nelson then played conservative golf over the next five holes and matched Snead stroke for stroke until Snead came up with a birdie on 16 and moved to within 1 with 2 holes remaining. The par fives had given Nelson fits all day and 17 was no exception as Nelson's tee shot ended up in the thick rough and the best he could manage was bogey. Snead would par the hole and they would head to the 36th hole of the finals deadlocked. It would be Snead who would show the steady hand on this day as his second shot on the par 4 18th landed just feet from the hole and he would win his second straight PGA championship when Nelson could not match his birdie.  The event will go down as an incredible comeback for the 26 year old Virginia native as Snead beat Byron Nelson on each of the final 3 holes to win by one. In real life Snead would win 7 major championships including 3 PGA titles (1942,1949,1951). With 2 majors (1937 & 1938 PGA Championship) already under his belt he is well ahead of his real life pace where he did not win his first major until 1942. With all 4 majors complete for 1938 here is the list of winners for each of the golf events I have simmed. Code:
GOLF MAJOR WINNERS
YEAR MASTERS US OPEN BRITISH OPEN PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
1937 Gene Sarazen Jug McSpaden Sam King Sam Snead
1938 Byron Nelson Byron Nelson Reg Whitcombe Sam Snead
Below is champion Sam Snead with the Wanamaker Trophy
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July 18, 1938
JULY 18, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL While there is little suspense in the American League where the two-time defending champion New York Yankees continue to enjoy a double-digit lead on Boston there is plenty of excitement in the National League. Each of the previous two seasons it has been the Cardinals, Cubs and Giants battling it out and this year is no exception. The Giants got hot early in the season and built a lead before the Cubs caught fire with an amazing 22 game winning streak in June. Now, the St Louis Cardinals are on a roll, winning six straight games and 10 of their last twelve to take a half game lead on Chicago for first place. The Cardinals went into Philadelphia for a 3-game series and just destroyed Phillie pitching in erupting for 39 runs over the weekend. Johnny Mize (.358,27,74) and Joe Medwick (.347,20,67) continue to lead the best offense in the senior circuit but the pitching staff, led by Paul (12-3, 2.23) and Dizzy Dean (11-5, 2.37) has been equally as dominant. The Cubs are keeping pace, winning each of their last 4 games and, like St Louis, 10 of their last 12 contests to stay within a half game of the front-running Cardinals. The Cubs lack the dominant star on offense like Mize or Medwick but they have been getting balanced production throughout the lineup and their pitching certainly rivals the Cardinals, led by Tex Carleton (13-4, 2.98), Larry French (12-6, 2.52) and Bill Lee (12-5, 3.76). New second baseman Jimmy Brown, acquired a week and a half ago from Cincinnati, has also fit in nicely, batting .462 with 7 rbi's in his 9 games for Chicago. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 62 23 - St Louis 53 29 -
Boston 49 35 12.5 Chicago 54 31 0.5
Cleveland 43 41 18.5 New York 49 34 4.5
Chicago 38 46 23.5 Pittsburgh 40 46 15.0
Detroit 38 46 23.5 Boston 38 48 17.0
St Louis 37 46 24.0 Brooklyn 36 49 18.5
Philadelphia 36 47 25.0 Cincinnati 36 49 18.5
Washington 33 52 29.0 Philadelphia 32 52 22.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .370 Phelps BKN .394
Rolfe NYY .370 Mize STL .358
Stone PHA .357 Medwick STL .347
Travis WSH .352 Vaughan PIT .346
Dickey NYY .351 Wright PHI .334
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 27 Mize STL 27
Gordon SLA 20 Ott NYG 21
Foxx BOS 19 Medwick STL 20
Greenberg DET 18 Johnson CIN 20
DiMaggio NYY 17 Berger BSN 13
DiMaggio PHI 13
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 77 Mize STL 74
DiMaggio NYY 72 Ott NYG 70
Gehrig NYY 71 Medwick STL 67
Cronin BOS 69 P Waner PIT 61
Greenberg DET 68 Suhr PIT 58
Foxx BOS 68 Leslie BKN 53
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 15-2 Carleton STL 13-4
Grove BOS 13-2 P Dean STL 12-3
Gomez NYY 13-4 Lee CHN 12-5
McFayden NYY 12-3 French CHN 12-6
Broaca NYY 12-4 D Dean STL 11-5
Mills CHA 12-6 Tobin BSN 11-7
Castleman NYG 11-8
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 111 D Dean STL 95
Gomez NYY 99 Carleton CHN 93
Mills CHA 97 P Dean STL 90
Allen CLE 86 Mungo BKN 89
Grove BOS 81 Blanton PIT 78
Rowe DET 81 Melton BKN 75
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.29 P Dean STL 2.23
Gomez NYY 2.36 D Dean STL 2.37
Grove BOS 2.70 French CHN 2.52
Ruffing NYY 2.84 Mungo BKN 2.58
Mills CHA 2.93 Henshaw NYG 2.61
McFayden NYY 3.01 Castleman NYG 2.67
Smith PHA 3.32 Tobin BSN 2.71
Cincinnati's Bob Johnson claimed National League honours. The 32 year old outfielder, who moved to the Reds in a winter deal with the Athletics, had been struggling at the plate with a .226 batting average at the start of the week but he hit .400 (12-for-30) with 4 homers last week. Speaking of the Reds and trades, Cincinnati made a move this week by sending veteran pitcher Si Johnson to the Boston Bees in exchange for 22 year old 3B Bob Kahle. Johnson was 6-10 with a 3.94 era in 19 starts for the Reds. The 31 year old has a career record of 80-129, which had been spent entirely in Cincinnati. Kahle was batting .246 in 21 games for the Bees. He spent each of the past two seasons with Indianapolis of the American Association. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION BLUES PITCHING CONTINUES TO DOMINATE Despite losing reigning pitcher of the year Ted Kleinhans to a season ending injury last month, the Kansas City Blues have showed little sign of slowing down. The Blues have won 6 straight and 8 of their last nine games to close to within a game of first place Toledo atop the American Association. The Blues outscored their opponents 44-22 over the last nine games and received some very strong pitching including a pair of starts from long time reliever Charley Moncrief, who is the latest replacement for the injured Kleinhans. Moncrief is 4-0 on the season including 2 wins as a starter. His first start of the year was not the greatest: 4 earned runs in 5 and a third innings in a win over Indianapolis, but he was terrific the second time out, allowing just 1 run on 3 hits over 6 2/3 in a 2-1 win over Columbus. If Moncrief can keep it up the Blues will be in great shape as their other three starters: Al Hollingsworth (14-2, 3.39) Tiny Bonham (10-8, 3.29) and Fred Gay (13-6, 3.39), have all been outstanding. The front-running Mud Hens limped through a 3-3 week, their worst showing in any week since going 4-4 in the opening week of the season. Toledo dropped 2 of 3 to Minneapolis before recovering to take two of three from Louisville over the weekend. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 57 28 - Kansas City 56 29 1.0 Minneapolis 44 42 13.5 Columbus 41 45 16.5 Milwaukee 38 46 18.5 St Paul 36 48 20.5 Louisville 35 51 22.5 Indianapolis 34 52 23.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .390 Joe Vosmik LOU .352 Len Schulte LOU .350 Martin Dihigo MIL .349 Roy Hughes MIL .344 Lonny Frey TOL .340 Billy Herman KC .332 Benny McCoy TOL .330 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 17 Buzz Arlett MIN 16 Rudy York MIL 16 Chet Laabs TOL 15 Benny McCoy TOL 15 Bill Norman StP 14 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 68 Roy Cullenbine TOL 66 Benny McCoy TOL 65 Chet Laabs TOL 64 Rudy York MIL 61 Buck Leonard LOU 60 Phil Weintraub TOL 59 Ted Williams MIN 59 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 15-7 Al Hollingsworth KC 14-2 Paul Derringer TOL 13-4 Fred Gay KC 13-6 Carl Hubbell MIN 13-12 Gene Schott TOL 12-4 Max Macon COL 11-11 Tiny Bonham KC 10-8 Dizzy Trout IND 10-9 STRIKEOUTS Max Macon COL 110 Dizzy Trout IND 107 Wayne LeMaster LOU 103 Johnny Rigney StP 101 Carl Hubbell MIN 93 Denny Galehouse MIN 88 Lefty Smoll TOL 85 Ted Kleinhans KC 80 ERA Lloyd Johnson IND 3.19 Gene Schott TOL 3.23 Tiny Bonham KC 3.29 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.39 Fred Gay KC 3.39 Dizzy Trout IND 3.51 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.69 Minneapolis outfielder Chuck Klein established a new American Association hitting streak record as he has hit safely in 25 consecutive games. The 33 year old outfielder, who joined the Millers after two seasons in Milwaukee, is leading the Association with a .390 batting average. The previous mark of 24 (just in the AA major league years from 1936-to-presnt) was set by Dick Siebert of Indianapolis and equalled by Klein last season when he was with the Brewers. Klein's current streak remains active. Indianapolis Indians young first baseman Gene Hasson hit for the cycle last week in a 7-4 win over Milwaukee. The 21 year old doubled in the first, homered in the third, added an rbi single in the 5th and a 2-run triple in the seventh before flying out in the 8th. Hasson, who saw limited action with the Philadelphia Athletics last season, is batting .275 with 7 homers and 47 rbi's for the Indians this season. JULY 18, 1938 - NHL NEWS LIONEL CONACHER RETIRES Veteran defenseman Lionel Conacher has told the Detroit Red Wings his NHL career is over at the age of 37. Nicknamed "The Big Train", Conacher broke in as a defenseman with the old Pittsburgh Pirates franchise and won a Stanley Cup with them in 1927. After that team folded he spent a year with the Philadelphia Quakers before joining Detroit in 1930. His brothers Charlie and Roy remain active. Charlie is a 28 year old all-star winger while 21 year old Roy is preparing for his rookie season with the Boston Bruins. Code:
LIONEL CONACHER CAREER STATS
REGULAR SEASON PLAYOFFS
YEAR TEAM GP G A PTS PIM GP G A PTS PIM
25-26 PIT 36 8 20 28 157 Did not play
26-27 PIT 38 10 32 42 123 6 0 7 7 24 Norris, Cup Champ, 1stTeamAS
27-28 PIT 41 13 20 33 158 4 0 1 1 7
28-29 PIT 44 5 20 25 181 Did not play MVP
29-30 PIT 36 15 19 34 77 2 0 2 2 2
30-31 PHI 44 10 23 33 102 Did not play 1st AS
31-32 DET 37 8 19 27 73 2 0 0 0 5 2nd AS
32-33 DET 48 2 27 29 176 6 1 0 1 27 1st AS
33-34 DET 48 12 21 33 87 7 0 4 4 12 2nd AS
34-35 DET 41 3 9 12 77 7 0 4 4 15
35-36 DET 47 6 11 17 132 Did not play
36-37 DET 37 2 5 7 87 1 0 0 0 4
37-38 DET 44 10 10 20 76 Did not play
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TOTALS 541 104 236 340 1506 35 1 18 19 96
REAL LIFE 498 78 108 186 883 35 2 2 4 40
NFL PRESEASON WEEK TWO Rookie defensive end Buster Kinard continues to make his presence felt in the National Football League. Baltimore's second round draft pick had a sack and a fumble recovery in the preseason opener and he followed that up with 2 more sacks and a forced fumble to help lead the Colts to a 21-6 victory over the Cleveland Browns in the final pre-season tune-up for each club. The Philadelphia Eagles finished the preseason with a 2-0 record as Swede Johnston had his second straight 100 yard rushing day, he gained 101 on 22 carries, to help the Eagles past the Los Angeles Rams 16-10. Backup quarterback Pete Tyler threw for 118 yards in the first half to help the Chicago Cardinals past Washington 30-6. Rookie linebacker Mike Sullivan had 15 tackles and a sack as San Francisco thumped the New York Giants 33-9. The other two games both ended in ties with Pittsburgh and Detroit squaring up at 17-17 while the Bears got a late field goal to pull even with Cleveland 10-10. The regular season begins next week. COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW The 1938 college football season kicks off next weekend with a partial slate of games highlighted by number one ranked Nebraska playing host to Oregon. The Cornhuskers were 9-3 last year in a season that culminated in an Orange Bowl victory over Tennessee. Nebraska's strength should be it's line on both sides of the ball led by senior center Charley Brock. The starting QB will be a sophomore Harry Hopp, who saw very limited action a year ago while senior running back Bill Callahan, who gained 688 yards on the ground as a back a year ago, will be heavily relied on to lead the offense this season. Oregon, which enters the season ranked 15th in the nation, was also 9-3 last season and won the Tangerine Bowl over Oklahoma. The Ducks are a talented offensive squad led by sophomore QB Chet Haliski, who passed for over 2100 yards as a freshman and senior end John Yerby, who led the team with 40 catches last season. Other games of note include #2 Notre Dame visiting Auburn, 4th ranked Michigan starting it's season off with a conference game at Northwestern while fellow Western Conference foe Ohio State entertains Iowa. Number 6 Alabama meets 20th ranked Texas while 7th ranked Georgia is home to Purdue. Here are the AP top 20 preseason rankings.  A note about my college alignment. I am using a modified league file I created with 82 schools. The conference setup is based on the early 1970s. DDSCF does allow customization but I did not want to mess with changing conference structure each season to mirror real life so it will remain with this setup throughout the league history. My conferences and schools are: ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia and Wake Forest BIG 8 CONFERENCE Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State WESTERN or BIG TEN CONFERENCE Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin. IVY LEAGUE Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE or PAC EIGHT Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and Washington State SEC Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Vanderbilt SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE Arkansas, Baylor, Rice, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech BORDER CONFERENCE also referred to as the WAC Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado State, New Mexico, Texas Western (UTEP), Utah and Wyoming. INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS Army, Boston College, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami, Navy, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Carolina, Syracuse, Utah State, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW: PLAYERS TO WATCH To help prepare for the 1938 season here is a list of the top players at some of the key positions. We start with the top quarterbacks in college football. 1- Frank Filchock SR: Indiana 2- Sid Luckman SR: Columbia All Ivy League 1937 3- Hal Van Every JR: Minnesota 4- Charlie O'Rourke SO: Boston College 5- George Cafego JR: Tennessee 1937 All American 6- Banks McFadden JR: Clemson 7- Billy Peterson SR: Baylor 8- Frankie ALbert FR: Minnesota 9- Chuck DeShane JR: Alabama 10- Steve Stiko JR: Notre Dame The top ten running backs to watch in 1938 are: 1- Jack Banta SO: USC 2- Bill Dudley FR : Texas 3- Norm Standlee SO : Stanford 4- Charley Holm SR : Alabama 5- Noah Mullins FR: Kansas State 6- Bill Callihan SR: Nebraska 7- Tom Colella FR: Ohio State 8- Mario Tonelli SR : Notre Dame 9- Tony Canadeo SO: UCLA 10- John Kimbrough SO: Tecas A&M The top ten ends are: 1- Joe Aguirre SO: UCLA - 1937 All-American 2- Ken Kavanaugh JR: LSU 3- John Yerby SR: Oregon 4- Doyle Nave JR: USC 5- Al Krueger SO: USC 6- Bob Merker FR: Michigan State 7- Hampton Pool JR: Stanford 8- Joe Wendlick SR: Oregon State - all PCC in 1937 9- Ed Frutig SO: Michigan 10- Mac Speedie FR: Colorado The top defensive players for 1937 1- Ray Bray SR DE: North Carolina 2- Larry Craig SR CB: South Carolina 3- John Brennan SR DE: Michigan 4- Bulldog Turner JR LB: Arizona - 1937 All Border Conference 5- Ed Benoir SR DT: Notre Dame 6- Dave Anderson SR SS: Cal - All PCC 7- Paul Graham SR LB: Indiana 8- Carl Kaplanoff SR DE: Ohio State 9- Bob Smith JR CB: Oregon 10- Vic Sears SO DT: Oregon State
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JULY 25, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL It is the New York Giants turn to get hot in the always thrilling National League pennant race. The Giants won all six of their games last week, sweeping btoh Cincinnati and Brooklyn on the road, and have won 9 of their last 10. New York is tied with Chicago for second place, a game and a half back of the St Louis Cardinals. The big news in the American League was centered on pitchers going down with injuries. Over the last week and a half the New York Yankees lost Johnny Broaca, The Red Sox lost Lefty Grove and the Browns lost Oral Hildebrand but no team was hit harder than the Chicago White Sox, who in a span of 3 days lost both Lefty Mills and Monty Stratton from a rotation that was already missing Johnny Vander Meer who is expected to miss the entire season after undergoing shoulder surgery from an injury suffered last year. Stratton (5-12, 5.69) will miss at least a month with a back injury while Mills (12-6, 3.04) will be sidelined even longer with shoulder troubles. The loss of Broaca (13-4, 2.35) should not slow down the Yankees, who have now stretched their lead over second place Boston to 13.5 games. Broaca, who suffered a strained elbow, is expected to be back in the New York rotation by mid-August. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 66 25 - St Louis 56 32 -
Boston 52 38 13.5 New York 55 34 1.5
Cleveland 47 43 18.5 Chicago 56 35 1.5
St Louis 41 48 24.0 Pittsburgh 45 47 13.0
Detroit 41 49 24.5 Boston 41 51 17.0
Philadelphia 40 49 25.0 Brooklyn 38 53 19.5
Chicago 39 51 26.5 Cincinnati 37 54 20.5
Washington 34 57 32.0 Philadelphia 34 56 23.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Rolfe NYY .371 Phelps BKN .386
Weatherly CLE .363 Mize STL .361
Stone PHA .360 Vaughan PIT .348
Moses PHA .353 Medwick STL .347
Gehrig NYY .351 Wright PHI .334
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 31 Mize STL 28
Gordon SLA 21 Ott NYG 21
Foxx BOS 21 Medwick STL 21
Greenberg DET 20 Johnson CIN 20
DiMaggio NYY 19 Berger BSN 13
DiMaggio PHI 13
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 81 Mize STL 79
DiMaggio NYY 77 Ott NYG 72
Gehrig NYY 75 Medwick STL 69
Trosky CLE 75 P Waner PIT 69
Foxx BOS 74 Suhr PIT 62
Greenberg DET 73 Leslie BKN 57
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 15-3 P Dean STL 13-3
Gomez NYY 14-4 Carleton STL 13-5
Grove BOS 13-2 Lee CHN 12-5
Broaca NYY 13-4 D Dean STL 12-5
McFayden NYY 12-4 French CHN 12-6
Mills CHA 12-6 Tobin BSN 12-8
Castleman NYG 12-8
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 126 D Dean STL 100
Gomez NYY 112 Carleton CHN 98
Mills CHA 97 P Dean STL 98
Rowe DET 90 Mungo BKN 97
Allen CLE 89 Blanton PIT 88
Grove BOS 81 Pearson PIT 77
Ruffing NYY 81
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.35 P Dean STL 2.29
Gomez NYY 2.45 D Dean STL 2.30
Grove BOS 2.70 Castleman NYG 2.58
Ruffing NYY 2.74 French CHN 2.69
Mills CHA 3.04 Fischer BSN 2.76
McFayden NYY 3.20 Mungo BKN 2.77
Smith PHA 3.35 Tobin BSN 2.79
There were some big offensive performances last week with Al Simmons (.290,13,55) of Detroit and Lloyd Waner (.294,1,28) of Pittsburgh each enjoying a 5-hit game but they were overshadowed by Cleveland third baseman Odell Hale (.299,11,50) who enjoyed a 6-for-6 game in a 15-3 win over Boston. Hale came up just a homer short of being the second player to hit for the cycle this season. He doubled, tripled and had 3 singles. Boston Red Sox infielder Jimmie Foxx hit 2 homers this week to bring his career total to 398 including 21 so far this season. When he gets 2 more he will join Babe Ruth (714) and Lou Gehrig (474 and counting) as the only players to reach the 400 milestone. New York Giants outfielder Mel Ott, who sits 4th in career homers, hit his 350th last week and at age 29 seems almost certain to be the next member of the 400 homer club after Foxx. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The playoff race appears to be long over with Toledo and Kansas City enjoying a large lead on the rest of the pack in their bid for the two playoff spots. Now it is starting to look like the race for first place may be close to done as well. Kansas City is still well within shouting distance at three games back of the front-running Mud Hens but it is looking more and more like Toledo is unstoppable. After starting the season 5-5, Toledo has played at a .704 winning percentage, going 57-24 since April 26th. The Mud Hens dropped 3 straight games a couple of weeks ago and that was the first time they have lost consecutive games since May 4th and 5th. Kansas City has certainly not played badly but the Mud Hens just have the look of a team that will not stumble. One interesting note is Kansas City is 6-4 head to head against Toledo this season and is the only club the Mud Hens have not dominated so perhaps there is still hope for the Blues to successfully defend their regular season crown. All eyes will be focused on early August when the two clubs meet 7 times in a ten day span beginning August 12th. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 62 29 - Kansas City 59 32 3.0 Minneapolis 47 45 15.5 Columbus 45 47 17.5 Milwaukee 42 48 19.5 St Paul 37 53 24.5 Indianapolis 37 55 25.5 Louisville 36 56 26.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .379 Roy Hughes MIL .344 Len Schulte LOU .343 Joe Vosmik LOU .342 Martin Dihigo MIL .341 Lonny Frey TOL .341 Josh Gibson IND .329 Benny McCoy TOL .326 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 18 Chet Laabs TOL 18 Rudy York MIL 17 Buzz Arlett MIN 16 Benny McCoy TOL 16 Bill Norman StP 15 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 73 Martin Dihigo MIL 71 Roy Cullenbine TOL 70 Benny McCoy TOL 70 Dick Siebert COL 67 Rudy York MIL 66 Ken Keltner MIL 64 Phil Weintraub TOL 63 Ted Williams MIN 63 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 15-2 Denny Galehouse MIN 15-8 Carl Hubbell MIN 15-12 Gene Schott TOL 14-4 Fred Gay KC 14-6 Paul Derringer TOL 13-4 Max Macon COL 11-11 Archie McKain TOL 10-8 Tiny Bonham KC 10-10 Dizzy Trout IND 10-10 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 116 Johnny Rigney StP 114 Max Macon COL 110 Carl Hubbell MIN 107 Wayne LeMaster LOU 105 Denny Galehouse MIN 88 Lefty Smoll TOL 85 Ken Heintzelman LOU 80 Ted Kleinhans KC 80 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.99 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.20 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.29 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Fred Gay KC 3.38 Dizzy Trout IND 3.45 Tiny Bonham KC 3.65 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.72 Johnny Rizzo of Columbus was named the player of the week after hitting .444 (12-for-27) with 3 homers and 10 rbi's last week. On the season the 25 year old outfielder is batting .323 with 13 homers and 60 rbi's. Minneapolis outfielder Chuck Klein (.379,10,57) saw his hitting streak come to an end at 29 games. The mark breaks the AA record of 24 jointly held by Klein and George Detore. They each hit safely in 24 games in the American Association's inaugural major league season of 1936 while both were playing for Milwaukee. NFL GETS UNDERWAY PACKERS KNOCK OFF COLTS IN SEASON OPENER The Green Bay Packers spoiled the Baltimore Colts ring ceremony by defeating the defending NFL champions on their homefield 24-9 in the season opener for both teams. The Colts led 9-0 until Packers linebacker Ernie Smith intercepted an Ace Parker pass late in the second quarter and raced 40 yards into the end zone to cut the Baltimore lead to 2 points at the break. The second half was all Green Bay as rookie Packers QB Wendell Wear threw for a touchdown and made several other key plays as the Packers charged back to score the final 24 points of the game. Wear, making his NFL debut after being selected in the first round out of Penn State, passed for 100 yards in completing 11 of 15 attempts. Linebacker Smith was the big star of the game as, in addition to the interception return for a score, he also led both teams with 12 tackles in the contest. The defending East Division champions also lost their home opener as the Philadelphia Eagles fell 10-6 to Pittsburgh despite a 95 yard rushing day from Swede Johnston. Rookie quarterback Any Puplis struggled at times for the Eagles, completing just 10 of 23 pass attempts for 56 yards. The Steelers did not muster much offense of their own but the key play was a 97 yard kickoff return by Carl Brum that accounted for the game's only touchdown. Sammy Baugh threw for 139 yards and a pair of touchdowns to lead the Washington Redskins to a 24-13 victory over the Chicago Cardinals. Jay Berwanger ran for a score and gained 70 yards on the ground for the winners while the Cardinals offense was led by back Kink Richards, who rushed for 102 yards. George Grosvenor ran for 90 yards and rookie QB Parker Hall passed for 145 and a score to help lead the New York Giants past Cleveland 20-10. Rookie running back Whizzer White gained 95 yards on the ground for the Browns while fellow Cleveland newcomer Buster Kinard had a pair of sacks in the loss. Running back Ernie Caddel rushed for 5 touchdowns all of last season but he started this season off by scoring 3 times to lead his San Francisco 49ers to a 27-10 victory over the Chicago Bears. The Niners offense could be tough to stop this season if the opener is any indication. Caddel and Mike Sebastian each ran for 94 yards while fullback Julie Alfonse picked up 93 on 8 carries. In all, San Francisco rushed for 297 yards in the win. The other game saw Detroit blank the Los Angeles Rams 8-0 thanks to a safety and a pair of Roy Pulley field goals. Neither team could muster much of anything in the way of a sustained drive in the contest played on a wet, muddy field in Los Angeles. Code:
NFL STANDINGS EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT Washington 1 0 0 1.000 San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 New York 1 0 0 1.000 Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 0 0 1.000 Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 Chi Cardinals 0 1 0 .000 Chi Bears 0 1 0 .000 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 Baltimore 0 1 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 Los Angeles 0 1 0 .000 1938 COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK ONE OREGON UPSETS TOP RANKED NEBRASKA Preseason number one Nebraska's stay at the top of the polls was extremely short as the Oregon Ducks knocked off the Cornhuskers 18-3 at Lincoln in the season opener. Ducks sophomore quarterback Chet Halinski threw for 138 yards while fellow sophomore, running back Marshall Stenstrom, carried the ball for 90 yards and a touchdown in the victory. Mario Tonelli ran for 151 yards and a pair of scores to pace Notre Dame to an easy 43-7 win over Auburn. Meanwhile defending National Champion Michigan opened it's Western Conference schedule with a 27-3 dismantling of Northwestern. Running back Tom Harmon scored a touchdown and carried the ball for 114 yards to lead Michigan. The win was costly as Wolverines quarterback Forest Evanshevski left the game early with a hamstring injury but there is hope he will be available next week. Ohio State was upset at home 22-14 by Iowa despite a 126 yard rushing, two touchdown day from Buckeyes freshman back Tom Colella. RESULTS FROM KEY GAMES THIS WEEK Michigan 27 Norhtwestern 3 Iowa 22 Ohio State 14 Indiana 24 Minnesota 21 Illinois 17 Michigan State 13 Oregon 18 Nebraska 3 Notre Dame 43 Auburn 7 Texas A&M 26 Florida State 20 Georgia 48 Purdue 0 LSU 38 Colorado 0 California 31 Arkansas 7 North Carolina 44 Rice 17 Alabama 40 Texas 34 UCLA 34 Pitt 0 Washington 35 Wisconsin 21
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JULY 28, 1938 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE BRUINS DEAL COACH'S SON The Boston Bruins made a pair of trades this week with the big news being from a relatively minor deal. It was the fact that the son of new Boston Head Coach Lester Patrick was involved that made the trade noteworthy. 23 year old rearguard Muzz Patrick and minor league goaltender Red Spooner to Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for 27 year old defenseman Tom Coulter, who had 4 points in 44 games last season. Lester Patrick's other son, Lynn Patrick is also a member of the Black Hawks. The 26 year old center had 18 goals and 44 assists for Chicago last season. Boston also made a deal with Detroit, acquiring 35 year old center Nels Stewart. Stewart, who had 17 goals and 42 points in his lone season with the Red Wings after a dozen years with the Montreal Maroons, is third all-time in career goals with 258, trailing only Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat. Despite his advancing age, Stewart is expected to add some offense to the Bruins third line. Boston also added 31 year old winger Hec Klrea in the deal. Kilrea spent last season in the minors but is a veteran of 253 NHL games with several teams. In return the Bruins send 27 year old defenseman Don Smillie to Detroit. Injuries limited Smillie to just 29 games last season, in which he had 1 goal and 4 points, but he has spent 5 years on the Bruins defense. WINGS ADD A PAIR OF YOUNGSTERS The Detroit Red Wings have added some youth to their roster with the announcement that center Sid Abel and defenseman Black Jack Stewart have agreed to contracts with the NHL club. Stewart, a 21 year old defenseman from Manitoba got his nickname for the bruising style of play that employs, often leaving opponents injured or scarred. Abel is a smooth skating pivot from Saskatchewan who played for the Flin Flon Bombers junior club. It is thought that while Stewart is likely ready for the NHL, Abel may need a season or two of seasoning in the minors. July 31, 1938 COLLEGE BASKETBALL BAUMHOLTZ HEADLINES COLLEGE HOOPS RECRUITING CLASS There are a pair of future major league baseball players that will draw interest in this season's crop of high school senior basketball players. Jim Konstanty is an Arcade, New York native who one day will become a pretty good pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies but at this point in the sim he is a 4 star high school basketball recruit. He would attend Syracuse in real life and lettered in not only baseball and basketball, but soccer and boxing as well. The top player in the recruiting class is considered to be another future star on the diamond in Frankie Baumholtz. The native of Midvale, Ohio was in real life a two-sport professional athlete, playing for the Cleveland Rebels in the Basketball Association of America's first season before playing 10 seasons of major league baseball. He was a guard who led Ohio University to the finals of the 1941 NIT and was a first team All America selection that season. Others at the top of this recruiting class include John Kotz, who was MVP of the 1941 NCAA tournament for Wisconsin in real life and played 1 season in the National Basketball League and George Glamack, a power forward/center who was a two-time All-American at North Carolina before playing several years of pro basketball. He was nicknamed the "Blind Bomber" because he had very poor eyesight and had to rely on the lines on the court when shooting.
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August 1, 1938
AUGUST 1, 1938 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK TWO NINERS RUSHING GAME TOO MUCH FOR PACKERS The three headed rushing attack of the San Francisco 49ers was in perfect form once again in week two as the Niners gained 282 yards on the ground and dominated the time of possession in a 21-13 win at home over Green Bay. Ernie Caddel again led the way with 96 yards on 24 carries including a touchdown run. Mike Sebastian chipped in with 89 yards while Jules Alfonse added 86 and a touchdown of his own. The three San Francisco backs are all in the top six rushing leaders in the league after two weeks. The loss overshadowed a decent second game from Packers rookie signal caller Wendell Wear, who completed 9 of 13 passes for 96 yards, and linebacker Pug Rentner, who had 12 tackles, including four for losses for the Packers. The Detroit Lions joined San Francisco as 2-0 teams in the West Division after they tamed the Chicago Bears 27-7 on the road. Running back Robert Perryman led the Detroit offense with 70 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns. The New York Giants are the only unbeaten team in the East Division after they won at home over Washington by a 13-6 score. George Grosvenor ran for 98 yards while Giants QB Emmett Mortell passed for 105 yards and a score in the game, overshadowning Washington sophomore Sammy Baugh, who threw for 119 yards but also tossed a third quarter interception that led to a New York field goal. The Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers are both 1-1 after the Cardinals, behind 5 Riley Smith field goals, beat Pittsburgh 15-7. Baltimore needed a last minute field goal from Robert Bowens to trim the Los Angeles Rams 13-10. Ace Parker had a strong game at quarterback for the Colts, completing 19 of 21 pass attempts for 136 yards in the win that allowed the Colts to even their record at 1-1. Clevlenad beat Philadelphia 19-14 to drop the Eagles to 0-2 on the season. Whizzer White's first quarter touchdown got the Browns off to a good start. White would carry the ball 19 times for 65 yards but be overshadowed by Eagles back Swede Johnston, who had 20 carries for 120 yards in the contest. Code:
NFL STANDINGS EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT New York 2 0 0 1.000 San Francisco 2 0 0 1.000 Washington 1 1 0 .500 Detroit 2 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 Chi Cardinals 1 1 0 .500 Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 Chi Bears 0 2 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000 Los Angeles 0 2 0 .000 COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK TWO The first AP poll of the season was released and Alabama holds down the top spot following two victories to start the season including a 50-0 lambasting of Kansas State on the weekend. Senior running back Charley Holm led the way for the Tide, scoring 3 touchdowns and rushing for 177 yards in the game. His backup, freshman Edgar Jones, also had a big day scoring a pair of touchdowns and gaining 125 yards rushing. Alabama, which beat Texas 40-34 in it's opening game, faces a stiff test next week in their SEC opener, a road game against 9th ranked Florida. The Gators had their SEC opener on Saturday and came away with a 13-0 victory over Mississippi State. Woody Fox threw for 145 yards and a touchdown to lead the Florida offense. Georgia and Mississippi are also 2-0 and give the SEC four teams in the top ten. The Bulldogs won a shootout 55-44 over LSU while Ole Miss handed Auburn it's second straight loss, winning 49-13 behind Bill Schneller's incredible game. The Rebels junior back scored 6 touchdowns while rushing for 177 yards. Notre Dame followed up an opening week win over Auburn with a 21-12 victory in their home opener against Northwestern. Sophomore Milt Piepul ran for a game high 109 yards for the Irish. The University of California is ranked #2 after a 38-10 win at home over West Virginia. Sophomore quarterback Bill Elmore had a big game for the Bears, passing for 113 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 58 and adding another score. Defending National Champion Michigan rounds out the top five after a 45-3 dismantling of Virginia. Sophomore quarterback Forest Evashevski threw for 181 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead the Wolverines. The Cavaliers fall to 0-2 after an 11-1 season a year ago that was capped with a win over Notre Dame in the Sun Bowl. Here are the results of all the key games this week Alabama 50 Kansas State 0 Arkansas 58 Oklahoma State 0 Mississippi 49 Auburn 13 Cal 38 West Virginia 10 Georgia 55 LSU 44 Illinois 23 North Carolina 10 Indiana 36 Kentucky 3 Kansas 27 Baylor 7 North Carolina State 35 Maryland 21 Miami 31 Florida State 23 Michigan 45 Virginia 3 Florida 13 Mississippi State 0 Penn State 54 Navy 22 Notre Dame 21 Northwestern 12 Oregon State 27 Iowa 13 Oklahoma 61 SMU 14 USC 45 Rice 21 TCU 35 Missouri 7 Texas 27 UCLA 24 Texas A&M 31 Utah State 10 Arizona 44 Washington State 20 [code] AP RANKINGS 1- Alabama 2-0 2- California 2-0 3- Notre Dame 2-0 4- Georgia 2-0 5- Michigan 2-0 6- Oklahoma 1-0 7- Mississippi 2-0 8- USC 1-0 9- Florida 2-0 10-Arizona 2-0 11-Illinois 2-0 12-Texas A&M 2-0 13-Tennessee 0-0 14-Indiana 2-0 15-Oregon State 1-0 16-Penn State 1-0 17-Oregon 1-0 18-TCU 1-0 19-N Carolina St 2-0 20-Baylor 0-1 RECRUITING We see our first top 100 recruit commit to a school this week as quarterback Cullen Rogers has decided to attend Clemson next year. Rogers is a 4-star recruit who is ranked 70th over all. In real life Rogers played his college ball at Texas A&M before playing 5 games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1946 after being selected in the 16th round of the 1943 NFL draft. As a senior at Texas A&M, Rogers captained both the school football and baseball teams. AUG 1, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDINALS END JULY WITH 8 STRAIGHT WINS It seems one of the three challengers for the National League pennant is always on a winning streak and the current streak belongs to the St Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals finished July with 8 straight victories and have opened up a three and a half game lead on both the Chicago Cubs and New York Giants. Johnny Mize had the hot bat for St Louis last week, going 10-for-20 with a pair of homers and 12 rbi's in 6 games. However, it really seemed every St Louis player came up big last week including their latest addition, Luke Appling, who was acquired from the Chicago White Sox mid-week and enjoyed a five hit game in leading the Cardinals to an 8-7 win over the Boston Bees on Saturday. The 31 year old shortstop was hitting .324 for the White Sox this season. St Louis acquired him to replace Leo Durocher (.253,1,43) in the starting line-up, sending Durocher to the bench and three young players in Dutch Meyer. Oscar Grimes and Bill LeFebvre to the Windy City. Only Meyer had played in the majors prior to the trade this year and he only had 3 plate appearances. St Louis also added some pitching depth at the deadline, acquiring 29 year old lefthander Ralph Birkofer (4-7, 5.48) from the Athletics in exchange for seldom used infielder Ripper Collins (.387,2,11). Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 70 27 - St Louis 62 32 -
Boston 56 40 13.5 New York 59 36 3.5
Cleveland 49 47 20.5 Chicago 60 37 3.5
Detroit 44 52 25.5 Pittsburgh 48 50 16.0
Philadelphia 43 52 26.0 Boston 43 55 21.0
Chicago 43 53 26.5 Brooklyn 39 58 24.5
St Louis 42 53 27.0 Cincinnati 39 58 24.5
Washington 37 60 33.0 Philadelphia 36 60 27.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Rolfe NYY .367 Phelps BKN .373
Stone PHA .364 Mize STL .369
Travis WSH .358 Medwick STL .345
Gehrig NYY .358 Vaughan PIT .341
Weatherly CLE .357 Wright PHI .332
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 32 Mize STL 30
Foxx BOS 23 Medwick STL 22
DiMaggio NYY 22 Ott NYG 21
Gordon SLA 22 Johnson CIN 21
Greenberg DET 20 Berger BSN 14
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 88 Mize STL 91
DiMaggio NYY 86 Medwick STL 77
Greenberg DET 82 Ott NYG 73
Foxx BOS 80 P Waner PIT 72
Gehrig NYY 79 Suhr PIT 66
Trosky CLE 76 Leslie BKN 61
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 15-3 P Dean STL 14-3
Gomez NYY 14-4 Carleton STL 14-5
Grove BOS 13-2 French CHN 14-7
Broaca NYY 13-4 D Dean STL 13-5
McFayden NYY 12-4 Lee CHN 13-5
Mills CHA 12-6 Castleman NYG 13-9
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 135 D Dean STL 105
Gomez NYY 113 P Dean STL 105
Mills CHA 97 Carleton CHN 103
Allen CLE 95 Mungo BKN 101
Rowe DET 94 Blanton PIT 96
Ruffing NYY 88 Melton BKN 81
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.35 P Dean STL 2.23
Gomez NYY 2.65 D Dean STL 2.33
Grove BOS 2.70 French CHN 2.67
Ruffing NYY 2.73 Tobin BSN 2.71
Mills CHA 3.04 Hallahan STL 2.73
McFayden NYY 3.08 Mungo BKN 2.74
Feller CLE 3.22
Cleveland's Bob Feller went 4-1 in July to earn the nod as top American League pitcher for the month. On the season the fireballing 19 year old is 11-6 with a 3.22 era and a major league leading 135 strikeouts. Jimmie Foxx (.330,23,80) was named player of the month after hitting .402 in July with 6 homers and 26 rbi's while the top rookie for the third straight month is first overall draft pick Joe Gordon of the St Louis Browns. The 22 year old Gordon is batting .288 with 22 homers and 88 rbi's on the year. Jimmie Foxx hit his 400th career homerun last week in a 10-5 Boston win over the Philadelphia Athletics. It came in the third inning with 1 man on base off of A's starter Eddie Smith. Foxx joins the now retired Babe Ruth (714) and current Yankee Lou Gehrig (476) as the only players to reach the 400 plateau. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The Toledo Mud Hens finished off the month of July with 13 wins in their last 15 games to stretch their lead atop the American Association standings to 5 games over the Kansas City Blues. The Mud Hens and Blues are the only teams over .500 after third place Minneapolis limped through week, dropping 5 of 7 games to fall 14.5 games out of a playoff spot. The Millers did indeed limp as a pair of starters in 2B John Mihalic (.249,3,42) and third baseman Fresco Thompson (.316,4,42) both went down with bone fractures recently. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 68 30 - Kansas City 63 35 5.0 Minneapolis 49 50 19.5 Columbus 48 51 20.5 Milwaukee 47 50 20.5 Indianapolis 40 59 28.5 St Paul 39 58 28.5 Louisville 39 60 29.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .376 Joe Vosmik LOU .346 Lonny Frey TOL .340 Len Schulte LOU .340 Roy Hughes MIL .339 Martin Dihigo MIL .334 Benny McCoy TOL .332 Josh Gibson IND .328 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 19 Ted Williams MIN 18 Chet Laabs TOL 18 Rudy York MIL 18 Buzz Arlett MIN 17 Bill Norman StP 16 RBI's Benny McCoy TOL 77 Chet Laabs TOL 76 Rudy York MIL 76 Martin Dihigo MIL 75 Roy Cullenbine TOL 74 Dick Siebert COL 73 Phil Weintraub TOL 69 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 16-3 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Denny Galehouse MIN 16-9 Fred Gay KC 15-7 Carl Hubbell MIN 15-13 Paul Derringer TOL 14-5 Archie McKain TOL 11-8 Tiny Bonham KC 11-10 Max Macon COL 11-11 Dizzy Trout IND 11-11 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 129 Wayne LeMaster LOU 125 Johnny Rigney StP 120 Carl Hubbell MIN 117 Max Macon COL 110 Denny Galehouse MIN 93 Ken Heintzelman LOU 89 Lefty Smoll TOL 85 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.75 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.09 Dizzy Trout IND 3.26 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.32 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Fred Gay KC 3.44 Tiny Bonham KC 3.64 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.70 Speaking of the Blues, they captured a pair of monthly awards as 24 year old lefthander Fred Gay (15-7, 3.44) was named the rookie of the month after winning 5 of his 6 decisions in July. His teammate Al Hollingsworth was named the pitcher of the month after also going 5-1 in July. On the season the 30 year old lefthander is 16-3 with a 3.32 era. The top hitter for July comes from the last place Louisville Colonels as outfielder Joe Vosmik hit .398 with 4 homers, 15 rbi's and 15 runs scored last month. On the season Vosmik is batting .346 with 8 homers and 58 rbi's. 22 year old Columbus sophomore outfielder Enos Slaughter (.321,7,53) earned player of the week honours after hitting .538 (14-for-26) with 2 homers last week.
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AUGUST 8, 1938 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK THREE NINERS WIN SHOOTOUT IN BALTIMORE If you like offensive football then the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts played the perfect game with San Francisco improving to 3-0 following a 42-28 victory that saw the two teams combined for over 700 yards of offense. Turnovers proved to be the downfall of the Colts, as Baltimore committed 4 including a pair of Ace Parker interceptions. Aside from the two picks, Parker had a very solid game, throwing for 159 yards and two touchdowns while Baltimore running back Beattie Feathers gained 117 on the ground. San Francisco rookie quarterback Frank Patrick, a 3rd round pick out of Pittsburgh, threw a career best 3 touchdown passes to augment the 49ers dominant running game. While Jules Alfonse was held to 14 yards rushing, the other two thirds of the 49ers mighty running game came up very big. Ernie Caddel rushed for 115 yards while Mike Sebastian chipped in with 114 yards on the ground. Detroit joined San Francisco at 3-0 after the Lions defense pitched it's second shutout in 3 weeks, blanking the Chicago Bears 21-0. Dwight Sloan and Anthony Bernstein hooked up on a pair of first half touchdown passes to lead the Detroit offense with Robert Perryman, who rushed for 83 yards, adding the final score on a 4 yard run early in the fourth quarter. The New York Giants and Chicago Cardinals battled to a 9-9 tie despite a big game from Cardinals running back Kink Richards. Richards gained 110 yards on 21 carries. George Grosvenor of the Giants also topped the 100 yard rushing mark as neither club had much success through the air. Sammy Baugh threw for 138 yards and a touchdown to lead Washington past Green Bay 16-7. The Redskins defense was outstanding in the game, limiting Green Bay to just 128 yards of total offense and forcing a pair of fumbles. In a rematch of Week One, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-3 which means the road team won in each of their two meetings this season. Swede Johnston ran for 96 yards and two scores to pace the Eagles offense. Finally, the Cleveland Browns blasted the struggling Los Angeles Rams 33-0, dropping the Rams to 0-3 on the season and they have been outscored 54-10. Backups got plenty of playing time as the Browns jumped out to a 20-0 half-time lead meaning rookie Elmer Kolberg had the opportunity to rush for 91 yards after replacing fellow rookie RB Whizzer White, who had 19 carries for 84 yards himself. It also marked the pro debut of former TCU quarterback Davey O'Brien, who was 3-for-4 for 30 yards after taking over in the fourth quarter for the Browns. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
New York 2 0 1 .833 San Francisco 3 0 0 1.000
Washington 2 1 0 .667 Detroit 3 0 0 1.000
Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 Green Bay 1 2 0 .333
Chi Cardinals 1 1 1 .500 Baltimore 1 2 0 .333
Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Chi Bears 0 3 0 .000
Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 Los Angeles 0 3 0 .000
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Sammy Baugh WASH 396
Ace Parker BAL 373
Steve Perez ChiC 326
Frank Patrick SF 309
Jack Berner ChiB 302
RUSHING YARDS
Swede Johnston PHI 311
Ernie Caddel SF 305
Kink Richards ChiC 303
Mike Sebastian SF 297
George Grosvenor NY 295
Whizzer White CLE 244
RECEIVING YARDS
Glenn Frey WASH 181
William Stamps ChiC 160
Bill Hewitt NY 153
Oscar Carlson ChiB 144
Paul Kern SF 136
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 40
Thomas Cupp BAL 35
Ed Skoronski PHI 35
Ted Roque PHI 34
Terry Jones ChiB 28
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK THREE ROUGH WEEK FOR WESTERN CONFERENCE AS MICHIGAN, OTHERS FALL The Michigan Wolverines dreams of a second straight National Title were dealt a critical blow early as the UCLA Bruins came into the Big House and spanked the Wolverines 34-20 behind a 223 yard passing day from UCLA quarterback Roy Zimmerman. The junior completed 17 of his 23 pass attempts to help the Bruins completely dominate the Michigan defense. The story might have been different for the Michigan offense had quarterback Forest Evashevski not been knocked out of the game for the second time in three weeks. Evashevski completed his first 3 passes for 32 yards before injury his knee on a hit from UCLA linebacker Al DeMao. The Michigan passing game sputtered after senior Mike Harris took over and aside from halfback Tom Harmon's 106 yards on the ground, accomplished little. Evashevski, who was named All-Conference last season, is listed as probable for the Wolverines game at Notre Dame next week. Michigan was not the only Western Conference team to lose to a Pacific Coast Conference opponent on Saturday. USC knocked off Illinois 44-23 behind a 4 touchdown, 187 yard rushing day from Jack Banta while Michigan State dropped to 1-2 after losing to 2-0 Oregon at home by a 27-16 score. Only Minnesota, which humiliated Washington State 45-6, was able to beat a PCC foe on this day. The Gophers were led by senior back Wilbur Moore, who gained 107 yards on the ground and scored 3 touchdowns. Notre Dame improved to 3-0 with a convincing 34-0 win over Purdue behind quarterback Steve Stitko's 210 yard, 3 touchdown passing day. The Irish host Michigan next week in a game that lost a little of it's lustre after the Wolverines defeat at the hands of UCLA. Today's win was impressive enough to allow Notre Dame to leapfrog over California and into the number two spot in the rankings. The Bears won easily by a 40-3 score over a very weak Ivy League squad from Cornell. California quarterback Bill Elmore threw for 230 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the contest. Alabama cemented it's hold on the number one ranking with an impressive road win over SEC rival Florida. The Crimson Tide claimed a 19-3 victory to improve to 3-0 as Chuck DeShane passed for 208 yards. His favourite target was back Edgar Jones, who had 59 yards receiving plus an additional 57 yards rushing on the day. After a pair of weeks off, Tennessee finally got it's season started with a 35-10 victory on the road over a winless Auburn team. Junior Volunteers quarterback George Cafego, who was an All-American a year ago, didn't throw the ball a lot but was effective when he did, completing 8 of 10 pass attempts for 139 yards and a one touchdown while also rushing for 79 yards and 2 scores on 14 carries. Cafego's opposite number, highly touted Auburn freshman quarterback Billy deCorrevont, continues to have problems with his offensive line. Pressured all day and sacked 3 times, deCorreveont did manage to pass for 164 yards, a high water mark in his young 3 game college career. Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Alabama 3-0 1 Win 19-3 at Florida 2 Notre Dame 3-0 3 Win 34-0 at Purdue 3 California 3-0 2 Win 40-3 Cornell 4 Oregon State 2-0 15 Win 27-16 at Michigan State 5 Oklahoma 2-0 6 Win 34-21 at Pittsburgh 6 USC 2-0 8 Win 44-23 Illinois 7 TCU 2-0 18 Win 34-20 at Washington 8 Arizona 3-0 10 Win 39-37 at Texas Western 9 N Carolina St 3-0 19 Win 34-10 at South Carolina 10 Tennessee 1-0 13 Win 38-10 Auburn 11 Arkansas 2-1 NR Win 48-0 at Harvard 12 Clemson 2-0 NR Win 31-21 Georgia 13 UCLA 2-1 NR Win 34-20 at Michigan 14 Ohio State 2-1 NR Win 42-9 Colorado 15 Georgia 2-1 4 Loss 31-21 at Clemson 16 Texas 2-1 NR Win 35-13 Texas Tech 17 Michigan 2-1 5 Loss 34-20 UCLA 18 Nebraska 2-1 NR Win 45-23 Texas A&M 19 Stanford 2-1 NR Win 28-9 Oregon 20 Illinois 2-1 11 Loss 44-23 at USC Dropping out of top 20 Mississippi 2-1 7 Loss 24-21 at Kentucky Florida 2-1 9 Loss 19-3 Alabama Texas A&M 2-1 12 Loss 45-23 at Nebraska Indiana 2-1 14 Loss 27-20 at Baylor Penn State 1-1 16 Loss 31-27 at Iowa Oregon 1-1 17 Loss 28-9 at Stanford Baylor 1-1 20 Win 27-20 Indiana The highest player to commit this week was defensive tackle Derrell Palmer who will play his college ball at Tennessee next season. Palmer was the second best defensive lineman available and ranked 46th overall in his recruiting class. The real life Palmer played his college ball at TCU and was inducted into that school's hall of fame after being an all-american in 1943. Following some time in the Marines during WWII Palmer joined the NFL in 1946 with the New York Yankees. He played both offensive and defensive tackle and would move on to the Cleveland Browns in 1949 where he would be part of a team that won 3 straight NFL East Division titles from 1951-53 but lost in the NFL Championship each of the three seasons. He retired after the 1953 season. His son Scott won a National Championship at Texas in 1969 and played 2 years in the NFL. AUGUST 8, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL The New York Yankees further extended their lead atop the American League by winning five of six games last week. On the season New York is 75-28 and on pace for a 118 win season. The Boston Red Sox, who start a 3-game series at Fenway against the Yankees today, dropped three of their last 5 games and now sit 15.5 behind the front-runners from New York. The St Louis Cardinals had a 9 game winning streak snapped on Tuesday when Bill Lohrman tossed a 5-hit shutout to blank Paul Dean and the Cardinals 1-0. St Louis rebounded with 4 straight wins including an 18-3 victory over Philadelphia. The Chicago Cubs kept pace, also winning 5 of 6 during the week, but they remain 3.5 games back of the Cardinals in the National League pennant race with New York sitting a game back of Chicago. It is a huge week for the Cubs as they begin with 3 games at New York before heading to St Louis for another 3 game set. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 75 28 - St Louis 67 33 -
Boston 59 43 15.5 Chicago 65 38 3.5
Cleveland 54 49 21.0 New York 63 38 4.5
Detroit 49 53 25.5 Pittsburgh 53 51 16.0
Philadelphia 45 56 29.0 Boston 44 60 25.0
St Louis 44 58 30.5 Brooklyn 41 62 27.5
Chicago 43 59 31.5 Cincinnati 40 63 28.5
Washington 40 63 35.0 Philadelphia 37 65 31.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Rolfe NYY .370 Mize STL .371
Travis WSH .369 Phelps BKN .363
Stone PHA .361 Medwick STL .351
Gehrig NYY .360 Vaughan PIT .345
Weatherly CLE .355 P Waner PIT .333
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 35 Mize STL 30
Gordon SLA 25 Medwick STL 24
Foxx BOS 24 Ott NYG 23
DiMaggio NYY 23 Johnson CIN 21
Gehrig NYY 21 Solters BKN 15
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 99 Mize STL 95
Gehrig NYY 91 Medwick STL 89
DiMaggio NYY 90 Ott NYG 78
Foxx BOS 88 P Waner PIT 76
Greenberg DET 85 Suhr PIT 75
Trosky CLE 81 Caverretta CHN 65
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 17-4 D Dean STL 15-5
McFayden NYY 15-4 Carleton STL 15-6
Gomez NYY 14-5 French CHN 15-7
Grove BOS 13-2 P Dean STL 14-4
Broaca NYY 13-4 Lee CHN 14-5
Feller CLE 13-6 Castleman NYG 14-9
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 146 D Dean STL 117
Gomez NYY 116 P Dean STL 111
Mills CHA 97 Mungo BKN 111
Allen CLE 97 Carleton CHN 106
Rowe DET 95 Blanton PIT 101
Ruffing NYY 89 Castleman NYG 86
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Broaca NYY 2.35 P Dean STL 2.16
Grove BOS 2.70 D Dean STL 2.39
Ruffing NYY 2.75 Mungo BKN 2.58
Gomez NYY 2.93 French CHN 2.69
McFayden NYY 3.02 Tobin BSN 2.69
Mills CHA 3.04 Hallahan STL 2.75
Feller CLE 3.17 Castleman NYG 2.82
Little has gone right this season for the Washington Senators but 24 year old shortstop Cecil Travis had himself a big week in the nation's capital. The youngster who is contending for the American League batting title with a .369 average so far this season, was named player of the week after going 14-for-27 with 10 rbi's and 10 runs scored last week for the Senators. As for the team itself, this version of the Senators is already 35 games out of first place and on pace for the franchise's worst showing since 1909. It has been a rough several years as the Senators have not won more than 67 games in a season since their pennant winning 1933 campaign. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION If Kansas City is going to make a move on front-running Toledo the next two weeks provide a big opportunity. The 2 clubs will meet 7 times over that span with the first 3 in Kansas City this week. The Blues lead the season series with the Mud Hens 6-4 but trail Toledo by 5 games in the standings. Columbus reeled off 5 straight victories including two against Minneapolis to pass the Millers and move into third place in the standings. The Red Birds General Manager noted his club is 45-26 against the bottom five teams in the league but just 8-27 against Toledo and Kansas City combined. The Blues especially seem to have Columbus' number, going 14-3 against them so far this season. Surprisingly the league's worst team - Indianapolis - is actually playing .500 ball vs the Blues (9-9). However, Toledo is another story for the Indians who are 3-14 vs the Mud Hens, matching the Red Birds futility against Kansas City for the worst record against any one team. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 72 32 - Kansas City 67 37 5.0 Columbus 53 53 20.0 Minneapolis 52 54 21.0 Milwaukee 48 53 23.5 St Paul 43 60 28.5 Louisville 42 64 31.0 Indianapolis 42 64 31.0 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .378 Martin Dihigo MIL .352 Lonny Frey TOL .343 Len Schulte LOU .343 Benny McCoy TOL .341 Joe Vosmik LOU .340 Roy Hughes MIL .339 Josh Gibson IND .330 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 20 Chet Laabs TOL 19 Ted Williams MIN 18 Rudy York MIL 18 Buzz Arlett MIN 17 Bill Norman StP 16 RBI's Martin Dihigo MIL 83 Chet Laabs TOL 83 Benny McCoy TOL 80 Roy Cullenbine TOL 79 Rudy York MIL 78 Dick Siebert COL 77 Buck Leonard LOU 76 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 18-9 Al Hollingsworth KC 17-3 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Paul Derringer TOL 16-5 Fred Gay KC 16-7 Carl Hubbell MIN 16-14 Rip Schroeder COL 12-7 Tiny Bonham KC 12-11 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 137 Dizzy Trout IND 131 Johnny Rigney StP 123 Carl Hubbell MIN 122 Max Macon COL 110 Denny Galehouse MIN 103 Ken Heintzelman LOU 95 Lefty Smoll TOL 86 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.22 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.35 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Dizzy Trout IND 3.40 Fred Gay KC 3.44 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.58 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.60 Under AA rules each team is allowed to protect four established veteran players and has exclusive rights to players who actually played for the real life American Association franchise in the current year. So while Klein's bat likely would have been a big addition for the Blues in a potential series with Toledo, the cost of losing either Gay (protected through 1939) or Bonham (protected through 1940) was too much for the Blues. The Milwaukee Brewers dropped 5 straight games and were shutout twice last week but through no fault of Martin Dihigo. The 33 year old Brewer outfielder was named the AA's top performer last week after batting .667 (14-21) with 2 homers and 8 rbi's. On the season Dihigo is hitting .352 with 12 homers and is tied for the league lead in rbi's with 83.
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August 15, 1938
AUGUST 15, 1938 COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK FOUR IRISH KNOCK OFF MICHIGAN TO TOP POLLS Senior Mario Tonelli ran for 161 yards and a pair of first half touchdowns to lead the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a 17-10 victory over Michigan in weekend college football action. The win, coupled with an Alabama loss, moves the Irish to the top of the AP Poll with a 4-0 record while the defending National Champion Wolverines fall out of the top 20 at 2-2. After a scoreless first quarter Tonelli broke off a pair of long touchdown runs in the second quarter, one for 64 yards and the second for 52, to help Notre Dame build a 17-0 lead at the break. Michigan closed the gap in the third quarter with a field goal and a touchdown run from Tom Harmon but with quarterback Forest Evashevski struggling - he completed just 8 of 22 passes and was picked off once - the Wolverines could not generate the offense needed to get the equalizer. With Tonelli and fellow back Matt Piepul, who gained 116 yards rushing, eating up the clock Michigan lost for the second consecutive week.  A week after a big road win at Florida, Alabama came up short at home as the Tide fell 24-8 to Ole Miss and slipped from 1st to 12th in the rankings. Senior back-up running back Hal Reeves, a fictional player, was the hero for the Rebels as he rushed for just 44 yards on 20 carries but did score 3 touchdowns - none longer than a 3 yard run. Another fictional player, senior running back Les Gould, had a big game for Oregon State, gaining 136 yards on 32 carries to lead the Beavers to a 23-7 win over UCLA in the conference opener for both schools. It was a disappointing outcome for the Bruins who were coming off an upset win over Michigan on the road. The win boosted the 4-0 Beavers to #2 in the polls. A school perhaps worth watching is Arizona. The Wildcats smacked Texas Tech 44-14 to improve to 4-0 and move up to 6th in the polls. The play in a weak conference (Border Conference) so they will likely run the table there. The big games for the Wildcats are both against PCC teams and both at home as they face UCLA in Week Six and #2 ranked Oregon State in Week Nine. Win both of those games and they will be playing in a New Year's Day Bowl Game. Their strength is their defense led by junior linebacker Bulldog Turner, who leads the nation with 4 sacks and is third in total tackles, along with defensive back Johnny Black, a sophomore who was elected team captain and already has 3 interceptions on the season. In real life Turner would go on to be enshrined in both the college and pro football Hall of Fames. Like Turner, Black played at Arizona in real life but I can not find any more information on him other than the New York Giants selected him in the 15th round of the 1941 NFL draft. It should also be mentioned that Sid Luckman is quietly having a very strong senior season at Columbia. A likely high NFL draft pick, Luckman does not get noticed much playing at an Ivy League school but he is tied for the lead in touchdown passes with 5 despite playing just 2 games for Columbia. He has his Lions at 2-0 with a 3 touchdown, 260 yard passing performance against Rice in their opener and threw for 2 more scores this week in a 49-32 win over Princeton. The Ivy League schools are eligible for bowl selection but will only play 8 regular season games while all other Division 1 schools will play 11.  Illinois sophomore running back Bob Morrow is another player quietly putting together a strong season. Perhaps Heisman Trophy talk surrounding Morrow will come in to play after the Illini back leads the nation with 576 yards rushing after 4 games including 141 in a 19-7 loss to Washington on the weekend. The real life Morrow played 5 NFL seasons with the Chicago Cardinals as well as both the New York Giants and Yanks. He played his college ball at Illinois Wesleyan and would later go on to coach at that school. Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 4-0 2 Win 17-10 Michigan 2 Oregon State 3-0 4 Win 23-7 at UCLA 3 Oklahoma 3-0 5 Win 33-10 USC 4 Tennessee 2-0 10 Win 28-6 at Florida 5 N Carolina St 4-0 9 Win 30-20 North Carolina 6 Arizona 4-0 8 Win 44-14 Texas Tech 7 Arkansas 3-1 11 Win 32-10 TCU 8 Clemson 3-0 12 Win 34-20 at Georgia Tech 9 Georgia 3-1 15 Win 37-10 Mississippi State 10 Nebraska 2-1 18 Win 65-0 Utah State 11 California 3-1 3 Loss 20-7 at Ohio State 12 Alabama 3-1 1 Loss 24-8 Mississippi 13 Ohio State 3-1 14 Win 20-7 Cal 14 Indiana 3-1 NR Win 27-3 Syracuse 15 Stanford 3-1 19 Win 48-10 Duke 16 Mississippi 3-1 NR Win 24-8 at Alabama 17 Texas 3-1 16 Win 24-15 Oregon 18 USC 2-1 6 Loss 33-10 at Oklahoma 19 Penn State 2-1 NR Win 59-0 SMU 20 Texas A&M 3-1 NR Win 41-20 Harvard Dropping out of top 20 TCU 2-1 7 Loss 32-10 at Arkansas UCLA 2-2 13 Loss 23-7 Oregon State Michigan 2-2 17 Loss 17-10 at Notre Dame Illinois 2-2 20 Loss 19-17 Washington The highest rated recruit to commit this week was #53 overall Bill Godwin. Godwin, who was considered the best linebacker in his recruiting class, will join Baylor next season. The real life Godwin spent two seasons in the NFL with the Boston Yanks. Prior to that he played college ball at Georgia and helped the 1942 Bulldogs to an SEC title and a 9-0 Rose Bowl win over UCLA.  NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK FOUR NINERS BEAT COLTS AGAIN In a scheduling quirk the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts found themselves meeting twice in 7 days and once again the outcome was in the 49ers favour. Mike Sebastian ran for 114 yards while Ernie Caddel added 100 as San Francisco dominated the line of scrimmage and came away with a 12-7 victory. The Colts defense, which surrendered 42 points a week ago, was much stronger and held San Francisco out of the endzone, forcing the 49ers to settle for 4 field goals. That was more then enough for victory as the Colts, despite a 176 yard passing day from Ace Parker, could only score once. The win allows San Francisco to remain perfect at 4-0 on the season. The Detroit Lions suffered their first loss of the year, falling 33-10 to the Cardinals in Chicago. Cardinals receiver William Stamps had a big game, making 5 catches for 131 yards including a 49 yard touchdown. Cardinals backs Kink Richards and rookie Jack Robbins combined for 198 yards and 2 rushing touchdowns. The East Division race tightened up after the New York Giants were upended 14-12 in Philadelphia. The Giants and Cardinals are tied for top spot at 2-1-1 with each of the other four teams now enjoying a 2-2 record. Green Bay capitalized on a pair of Sammy Baugh interceptions to beat Baugh's Washington Redskins 25-3. One of the picks, by rookie defensive back Bob Kenderdine, was returned 56 yards for a Green Bay score. Rookie quarterback Cecil Isbell did enough in his NFL debut to help Pittsburgh past the Cleveland Browns 19-3. Isbell, a third round pick out of Purdue, completed 9 of 15 passes for 97 yards in the win. A thrilling finish in Los Angeles got the hometown Rams their first win of the season. It was a battle of winless teams as the Rams beat the Chicago Bears 16-14 but needed a 20 yard touchdown pass from Joe Bartlette to Charles Jessup with 12 seconds remaining in the game in order to pull of the win.  Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
New York 2 1 1 .625 San Francisco 4 0 0 1.000
Chi Cardinals 2 1 1 .625 Detroit 3 1 0 .750
Cleveland 2 2 0 .500 Green Bay 2 2 0 .500
Washington 2 2 0 .500 Baltimore 1 3 0 .250
Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 Los Angeles 1 3 0 .250
Philadelphia 2 2 0 .500 Chi Bears 0 4 0 .000
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Ace Parker BAL 549
Steve Perez ChiC 486
Sammy Baugh WASH 478
Dwight Sloan DET 362
Jack Berner ChiB 356
RUSHING YARDS
Mike Sebastian SF 411
Ernie Caddel SF 405
Kink Richards ChiC 405
Swede Johnston PHI 401
George Grosvenor NY 341
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 291
Mason Bogan BAL 200
Bill Hewitt NY 198
Perry Schwartz BAL 196
Charles Jessup LA 193
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 49
Thomas Cupp BAL 46
Ed Skoronski PHI 43
Joe Kuharich NY 40
Ted Roque PHI 39
Terry Jones ChiB 39
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 39
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL For only the second week this season and first since April 25-May 1 the New York Yankees lost more games then the won. The Yankees went just 2-4 on the week and for the first time in quite a while lost some of their lead. The second place Boston Red Sox are still 13.5 games back of New York but the Red Sox can take pride in winning two of three at Fenway against the Yankees this week and coming within a whisker of a sweep. Wes Ferrell pitched a strong game for Boston in the opener to win his 10th game of the season but the real story was the Boston bats chasing Lefty Gomez after 5 innings, scoring 7 runs on 13 hits off Gomez in an 11-3 Red Sox rout. Tuesday's game was another big offensive showing from Boston as the Red Sox won 7-1 with Lefty Grove going the distance to run his record to 14-2 on the season. Jimmie Foxx followed up a 3 hit performance in the series opener with his 25th homer of the season. The Red Sox had an 8-6 lead entering the eighth inning of the series finale but the Yankees rallied to send the game into extra innings and New York would score 4 times in the tenth and avoid the sweep with a 12-9 victory. The Yankees would then drop 2 of three at home to the White Sox while Boston took two of three from Washington. A pennant race certainly seems unlikely but with the Red Sox and Yankees meeting for 3 more this week if we get a Boston sweep who knows. The two clubs also have 6 more meetings in the season's final month. The National League race faces a crucial week with the St Louis Cardinals 3 games up on second place Chicago and 4.5 ahead of the Giants. The Cardinals began a tough stretch at home on Thursday where they lost 2-1 to the Cubs thanks to a 2-run first inning homer by Phil Cavarretta off Dizzy Dean and an outstanding pitching display by Tex Carleton to improve to 16-6 on the season. The series would see all three games decided by a single run with the Cubs taking two of them. On Sunday, St Louis dropped the opener of a 4-game set with the Giants, getting blanked 4-0 on a Slick Castleman 3 hitter. Following the 3 remaining games with New York the Cardinals are off to Chicago for another 3 game set with the Cubs, this one at Wrigley. Each of the NL contenders have been very streaky this season so we could see a much tighter grouping at the top of the table this time next week. Of course, the Cards could just as easily greatly extend their lead with a big week. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 77 32 - St Louis 70 37 -
Boston 63 45 13.5 Chicago 68 41 3.0
Cleveland 58 51 19.0 New York 68 42 4.5
Detroit 50 58 26.5 Pittsburgh 57 53 14.5
Philadelphia 49 58 27.0 Boston 50 61 22.0
St Louis 47 61 29.5 Brooklyn 44 65 27.0
Chicago 45 63 31.5 Cincinnati 42 68 29.5
Washington 44 65 33.0 Philadelphia 39 69 31.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Travis WSH .372 Mize STL .364
Rolfe NYY .361 Phelps BKN .357
Weatherly CLE .360 Vaughan PIT .352
Stone PHA .359 Medwick STL .349
Gehrig NYY .350 Wright PHI .341
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 36 Mize STL 30
Foxx BOS 26 Medwick STL 25
Gordon SLA 25 Ott NYG 24
DiMaggio NYY 24 Johnson CIN 22
Gehrig NYY 22 Solters BKN 16
Averill CLE 21 Lombardi CIN 16
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 102 Mize STL 99
DiMaggio NYY 96 Medwick STL 96
Gehrig NYY 94 P Waner PIT 82
Foxx BOS 94 Ott NYG 81
Greenberg DET 86 Suhr PIT 81
Trosky CLE 86 Leslie BKN 70
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 17-5 Carleton STL 16-6
McFayden NYY 15-5 Castleman NYG 16-9
Gomez NYY 15-6 P Dean STL 15-5
Grove BOS 14-2 D Dean STL 15-6
Broaca NYY 13-4 Lee CHN 15-6
Feller CLE 13-6 French CHN 15-6
Harder CLE 13-6
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 147 D Dean STL 122
Gomez NYY 128 P Dean STL 119
Rowe DET 101 Mungo BKN 112
Allen CLE 100 Carleton CHN 109
Mills CHA 97 Blanton PIT 108
Ruffing NYY 92 Melton BKN 102
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Broaca NYY 2.35 D Dean STL 2.38
Grove BOS 2.56 P Dean STL 2.39
Ruffing NYY 3.00 Mungo BKN 2.72
Gomez NYY 3.03 Castleman NYG 2.75
Mills CHA 3.04 French CHN 2.92
Feller CLE 3.16 Hallahan STL 2.92
McFayden NYY 3.18 Carleton CHN 2.93
Staying with the Dodgers, pitcher Cliff Melton (12-11, 3.26) was named the National League player of the week after pitching 18 innings without allowing an earned run. He started the week with a 6-hitter in a 5-0 shutout of Philadelphia and finished it by allowing just 3 hits (and an unearned run) in a 10-1 pasting of Cincinnati. Despite winning just one of six games last week, veteran Detroit second baseman Charlie Gehringer (.342,12,52) was named the American League player of the week. The 35 year old went 12-for-25 for a .480 average last week. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION MUD HENS EXTEND LEAD The first half of the showdown between Toledo and Kansas City went the Mud Hens way as the visitors took 2 of 3 games in Kansas City and now lead the second place Blues by 7 games for the American Association lead. Toledo will host Kansas City for 3 games this week. Last week the Mud Hens took the opener of the series in Kansas City 6-3 behind Roy Cullenbine's 17th homer of the season - a three run shot in the 8th inning off of Tiny Bonham that lifted Toledo to victory. Kansas City evened things up the next night with a 5-4 win in 10 innings that was ended with an Ival Goodman walk-off solo homerun but the Mud Hens took the rubber match 7-0 behind a 3-hit shutout from Lefty Smoll (9-7, 4.23). Earlier in the week Toledo got very bad news when they learned ace Gene Schott (16-4, 2.70) was likely done for the season with a hamstring injury. There is a slight chance he may return for the post-season. The Mud Hens still have plenty of talent and will certainly make the playoffs but they do look a fair bit less imposing if they don't have Schott available in October. The Blues have struggled just a bit since losing Ted Kleinhans (6-8, 3.36) and the absence of Schott might just even things up a little when the two clubs square off as expected in the American Series for the second straight season. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 77 34 - Kansas City 70 41 7.0 Columbus 56 55 21.0 Minneapolis 55 57 22.5 Milwaukee 51 59 25.5 St Paul 48 64 30.5 Louisville 45 67 32.5 Indianapolis 44 67 33.0 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .370 Lonny Frey TOL .347 Roy Hughes MIL .346 Martin Dihigo MIL .345 Joe Vosmik LOU .344 Len Schulte LOU .342 Stan Spence MIN .338 Benny McCoy TOL .333 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 20 Chet Laabs TOL 20 Rudy York MIL 20 Ted Williams MIN 18 Buzz Arlett MIN 17 Roy Cullenbine TOL 17 RBI's Roy Cullenbine TOL 88 Chet Laabs TOL 88 Martin Dihigo MIL 86 Rudy York MIL 85 Benny McCoy TOL 84 Buck Leonard LOU 79 Dick Siebert COL 78 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 20-9 Al Hollingsworth KC 18-3 Carl Hubbell MIN 17-14 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Paul Derringer TOL 16-6 Fred Gay KC 16-7 Rip Schroeder COL 13-7 Archie McKain TOL 13-9 Tiny Bonham KC 13-12 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 152 Wayne LeMaster LOU 146 Johnny Rigney StP 135 Carl Hubbell MIN 128 Max Macon COL 110 Denny Galehouse MIN 109 Ken Heintzelman LOU 103 Lefty Smoll TOL 97 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Dizzy Trout IND 3.10 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.21 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.24 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.37 Fred Gay KC 3.50 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.55 The last place Indianapolis Indians certainly have a lot of holes, particularly on offense where they have scored the fewest runs by far of any of the 8 American Association clubs. Their pitching, especially the bullpen, has also struggled but the Indians seem well positioned for the future with two of the best pitchers in the league in Dizzy Trout and Lloyd Johnson. Trout (12-12, 3.10) is just 23 years old but is in his 4th season with the club (stretching back to their final year as a triple A league) while the 27 year old Johnson is much improved in his second season with the club compared to his debut last year. Johnson is 12-6 with a 3.21 era so far this season after going 6-13, 4.81 a year ago. The Indians also have an outstanding catcher in 26 year old former Negro League star Josh Gibson (.324,10,44) and a 21 year old middle infielder with plenty of potential in Lou Boudreau (.274,1,47). Johnson in particular seems like a nice asset for Indianapolis. He does not require a slot (teams can use 6 slots on established players) which increases his value. The real life Lloyd Johnson played just a single major league game -tossing 1 inning for the 1934 Pittsburgh Pirates - before bouncing around the minors for a decade spending parts of 5 seasons with the Indians. The Indians have enjoyed very little on-field success in the American Association's major league days (two 7th place finishes and the worst winning percentage in the league) but it looks like there just might be some hope for the future. 
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AUGUST 22, 1938 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK FIVE Despite an injury that forced league rushing leader Mike Sebastian to miss the game the San Francisco 49ers had more than enough offense to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-6 and improve to 5-0 on the season. The Steelers did a much better job than most teams in keeping the league's top offense in check but they could only slow down, rather than stop, the 49ers vaunted rushing attack. Ernie Caddel led the San Francisco offense with 112 yards rushing and scored a first quarter touchdown while fullback Julie Alfonse chipped in with 86 yards on the ground. 49ERS CONTINUE TO ROLL The co-leaders in the East Division each came up with a victory in Week Five. In New York, the Giants dumped Cleveland 27-10 behind a huge day from running back George Grosvenor, who scored 3 touchdowns and gained 135 yards on the ground. The Chicago Cardinals kept pace with the Giants by stopping Detroit at home 31-14. Kink Richards ran for 101 yards while Cardinals quarterback Steve Perz passed for 128 including a touchdown to end William Stamps, who leads the NFL in receiving yards. The news from the other Chicago team remains bad as the hapless Bears dropped to 0-5 with a 15-7 loss in Baltimore. Ace Parker led the Colts to their second win of the season, passing for 165 yards and one touchdown. In Philadelphia, Swede Johnston ran for 101 yards while backup running back Cliff Battles scored a pair of touchdowns to lead the Eagles to a 29-0 shutout of Washington despite another strong game from Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh, who completed 20 of 29 passes for 149 yards. Washington's issue is they are dead last in rushing yardage which leaves Baugh constantly scrambling as teams key on the pass. The other game saw the Los Angeles Rams rally from a 19-6 half-time deficit to tie the Green Bay Packers 19-19. A 24 yard touchdown pass from Joe Bartlette to Charles Jessup with 6 minutes remaining allowed the Rams to salvage the tie. After dropping their first 3 games the Rams have earned a victory and a tie. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
New York 3 1 1 .700 San Francisco 5 0 0 1.000
Chi Cardinals 3 1 1 .700 Detroit 3 2 0 .600
Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 Green Bay 2 2 1 .500
Washington 2 3 0 .400 Baltimore 2 3 0 .400
Pittsburgh 2 3 0 .400 Los Angeles 1 3 1 .300
Cleveland 2 3 0 .400 Chi Bears 0 5 0 .000
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Ace Parker BAL 714
Sammy Baugh WASH 627
Steve Perez ChiC 614
Dwight Sloan DET 502
Andy Puplis PHI 471
RUSHING YARDS
Ernie Caddel SF 517
Kink Richards ChiC 506
Swede Johnston PHI 502
George Grosvenor NY 476
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 420
Mike Sebastian SF 411
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 333
Anthony Bernstein DET 263
Charles Jessup LA 247
Mason Bogan BAL 232
James Rose PIT 231
Bill Hewitt NY 211
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 62
Ed Skoronski PHI 58
Thomas Cupp BAL 52
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 50
Joe Kuharich NY 48
Terry Jones ChiB 48
Fred King ChiB 46
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK FIVE NOTRE DAME SURVIVES SCARE FROM MIAMI Mario Tonelli ran for a pair of second half touchdowns to help Notre Dame rally from a 14-6 first half deficit and remain unbeaten with a 20-17 victory over the Hurricanes in Miami. Tonelli would rush for 83 yards on the day increasing his team leading season total to 573. With Oregon State losing 26-20 to California, the Oklahoma Sooners took over second spot in the poll with a 33-30 overtime win (game requires me to use overtime) at home over Texas. It was a sloppy game for the Longhorns, who fumbled the ball 7 times including a pair by quarterback Sammy Hicks. Four of those fumbles were recovered by the Sooners. One Texas player who did not fumble and continues to have an outstanding freshman season is running back Bill Dudley. Dudley rushed for 83 yards and scored his 8th touchdown of the season. On the year, the top recruit from last season has rushed for 611 yards through the first five games. Tennessee is now ranked third at 3-0 after thumping 0-5 Georgia Tech 57-7. Vols quarterback George Cafego threw for 140 yards while also rushing for 127 and two touchdowns in the win. Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 5-0 1 Win 20-17 at Miami(FL) 2 Oklahoma 4-0 3 Win 33-30 Texas 3 Tennessee 3-0 4 Win 57-7 Georgia Tech 4 N Carolina St 5-0 5 Win 52-13 Wake Forest 5 Arkansas 4-1 7 Win 19-0 at Baylor 6 Arizona 5-0 6 Win 30-14 at Wyoming 7 Ohio State 4-1 13 Win 38-13 at Illinois 8 California 4-1 11 Win 26-20 Oregon State 9 Nebraska 4-1 10 Win 34-3 at Missouri 10 Alabama 4-1 12 Win 50-10 at Vanderbilt 11 Georgia 4-1 9 Win 38-26 at Mississippi 12 Stanford 4-1 15 Win 38-24 at Washington 13 Oregon State 3-1 2 Loss 26-20 at Cal 14 USC 3-1 18 Win 31-24 Oregon 15 Texas A&M 4-1 20 Win 32-29 at Texas Tech 16 Wisconsin 4-1 NR Win 34-11 Indiana 17 Penn State 3-1 19 Win 38-23 Army 18 TCU 3-1 NR Win 51-0 Oklahoma State 19 Michigan 3-2 NR Win 53-13 at Michigan State 20 LSU 3-2 NR Win 31-6 Florida Dropping out of top 20 Clemson 3-1 8 Loss at Duke 19-9 Indiana 3-2 14 Loss at Wisconsin 34-11 Mississippi 3-2 16 Loss 38-26 Georgia Texas 3-2 17 Loss at Oklahoma 33-30 Mississippi State may not have had much on field success, losing 27-25 to Florida State Saturday to fall to 1-4 on the year and they were just 2-9 last season but they did land the highest rated recruit to sign this week. Quarterback Roy McKay, who was ranked #12 overall and 6th at his position has committed to the Bulldogs. It is a big position of need for Mississippi State with sophomore Billy Jefferson as their only QB under scholarship at the moment. McKay played his college ball at Texas in real life before being drafted by Green Bay in the 5th round of the 1943 NFL draft. He played 4 seasons with the Packers and is best known for throwing 4 touchdown passes to Don Hutson in one quarter in a game against Detroit. That allowed Hutson to set the all-time NFL scoring record for most points in a quarter. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDINALS EXTEND NL LEAD The St Louis Cardinals performed well enough in 10 games over the past week and a half against their two chief rivals for the National League Pennant that they were able to extend their lead. The defending World Series champs started slow by dropping two of three games at home to Chicago and the opener of a 4 game set with the New York Giants but they rebounded with 5 wins in their final 6 games by taking 3 straight from New York at Sportsman's Park and then winning two of three in Wrigley. The result is St Louis has extended it's lead to 6 games over second place Chicago and 9.5 on the Giants. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 80 35 - St Louis 75 38 -
Boston 66 49 14.0 Chicago 70 45 6.0
Cleveland 62 53 18.0 New York 66 48 9.5
Detroit 55 59 24.5 Pittsburgh 62 54 14.5
Philadelphia 50 63 29.0 Boston 52 65 25.0
Washington 50 66 30.5 Brooklyn 48 68 28.5
St Louis 49 65 30.5 Cincinnati 46 70 30.5
Chicago 40 68 33.5 Philadelphia 42 73 34.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Travis WSH .374 Phelps BKN .362
Stone PHA .360 Mize STL .359
Rolfe NYY .359 Medwick STL .353
Almada BOS .358 Vaughan PIT .349
Weatherly CLE .357 Wright PHI .347
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 40 Mize STL 30
DiMaggio NYY 28 Medwick STL 26
Foxx BOS 27 Ott NYG 25
Gordon SLA 25 Johnson CIN 23
Gehrig NYY 24 DiMaggio PHI 19
RBIs RBIs
DiMaggio NYY 107 Medwick STL 101
Gordon SLA 103 Mize STL 100
Gehrig NYY 100 Suhr PIT 86
Trosky CLE 98 Ott NYG 85
Foxx BOS 96 P Waner PIT 82
Greenberg DET 92 Leslie BKN 74
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 19-5 P Dean STL 16-5
McFayden NYY 15-6 Carleton STL 16-6
Gomez NYY 15-7 D Dean STL 16-6
Grove BOS 14-4 Castleman NYG 16-10
Feller CLE 14-6 Lee CHN 15-7
Weaver DET 14-10 French CHN 15-10
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 160 D Dean STL 127
Gomez NYY 134 P Dean STL 122
Allen CLE 112 Mungo BKN 122
Rowe DET 106 Blanton PIT 115
Ruffing NYY 103 Carleton CHN 111
Newson WSH 98 Melton BKN 105
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.35 D Dean STL 2.27
Grove BOS 2.53 P Dean STL 2.33
Ruffing NYY 2.91 Mungo BKN 2.53
Mills CHA 3.04 Castleman NYG 2.87
Gomez NYY 3.08 French CHN 2.93
McFayden NYY 3.12 Fischer BSN 2.99
Feller CLE 3.13 Winford STL 3.11
A week ago Brooklyn's Frenchy Bordagaray hit for the cycle in a game against Boston. Exactly one week later the Bees Gene Moore duplicated the feat by hitting for the cycle in Boston's 10-6 win over the Dodgers. Hal Trosky continues to slug for the Cleveland Indians. The 25 year old outfielder was named American League player of the week after hitting 4 homers and driving in 12 last week. Trosky (.339,40,98) is on pace to become the first player to hit 50 homers in a seasons since Jimmie Foxx did it in 1932. Trosky's 40th homer of the year established a new personal best for him. Brooklyn catcher Babe Phelps (.362,7,53) was named the National League player of the week after going 11-for-25 with 2 homers. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The hottest team in the American Association is the Columbus Red Birds, who have won 15 of their last 18 games. The Red Birds have gained 6 games on Kansas City for the second playoff berth in that span but are still 10.5 games behind the Blues with just over a month remaining in the season. However, Columbus' chances of catching the Blues seems unlikely as the clubs only have 5 head-to-head games remaining. Kansas City's hopes for reeling in Toledo for first place pretty much disappeared last week after the Mud Hens took 3 of 4 games between the two clubs with each Toledo win coming by just a single run. The Mud Hens have won 24 of their last 30 games and have built a comfortable 10 game lead on Kansas City atop the standings. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 83 35 - Kansas City 73 45 10.0 Columbus 63 56 20.5 Minneapolis 59 60 24.5 Milwaukee 54 63 28.5 St Paul 48 69 34.5 Louisville 48 72 36.0 Indianapolis 45 73 38.0 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .371 Martin Dihigo MIL .353 Lonny Frey TOL .346 Joe Vosmik LOU .343 Roy Hughes MIL .342 Benny McCoy TOL .342 Stan Spence MIN .339 Len Schulte LOU .333 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 23 Chet Laabs TOL 21 Rudy York MIL 20 Johnny Rizzo COL 19 Ted Williams MIN 18 Buzz Arlett MIN 17 Roy Cullenbine TOL 17 RBI's Benny McCoy TOL 96 Chet Laabs TOL 95 Roy Cullenbine TOL 91 Martin Dihigo MIL 91 Rudy York MIL 87 Buck Leonard LOU 83 Dick Siebert COL 81 Johnny Rizzo COL 81 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 21-10 Al Hollingsworth KC 19-4 Carl Hubbell MIN 19-14 Paul Derringer TOL 18-6 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Fred Gay KC 16-9 Rip Schroeder COL 15-7 Archie McKain TOL 14-9 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 158 Wayne LeMaster LOU 156 Carl Hubbell MIN 144 Johnny Rigney StP 138 Denny Galehouse MIN 121 Max Macon COL 117 Ken Heintzelman LOU 109 Lefty Smoll TOL 104 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.09 Dizzy Trout IND 3.19 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.24 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.35 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.39 Johnny Johnson TOL 3.52
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Note- I am not updating football this week as I think it is a little ahead of schedule in trying to keep all of the league's flowing together nicely to match up with our online baseball results. Week Six of the NFL and college football will come next update.
AUGUST 29, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Our only hope for a pennant race remains in the National League where the Chicago Cubs did manage to gain a game this week on St Louis and now trail the first place Cardinals by 5 games with the two teams playing a pair of games next weekend. With the season about to enter it's final month the New York Giants appear to have dropped out of contention as they are now 10.5 games back of St Louis but they do have 9 games remaining with the Cardinals including 3 this week. St Louis will open the week with 3 in Philadelphia before playing 3 games at the Polo Grounds. The Cardinals have a terrible schedule with back to back doubleheaders Saturday in New York and then Sunday against the Cubs after a long train ride back home. St Louis and Chicago will meet just two more times after the Sunday twin bill. In the American League the New York Yankees continue to roll as they head towards their third straight Pennant. The Yankees won 8 of their last 9 games and are now 16 games ahead of the second place Boston Red Sox. Only Cleveland ace Bob Feller was able to slow New York during that time frame. Feller shut down the Yankees in a 4-1 Tribe victory but he left the game with an elbow injury, which again had Cleveland fans holding their breath. The word this time is it is not serious and the 19 year old strikeout artist will miss just 1 start. Feller missed most of the 1937 season with elbow troubles and they flared up again this June forcing him to the sidelines for a couple of weeks. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 86 36 - St Louis 79 41 -
Boston 70 53 16.0 Chicago 75 47 5.0
Cleveland 65 57 21.0 New York 69 52 10.5
Philadelphia 57 63 28.0 Pittsburgh 64 59 16.5
Detroit 57 64 28.5 Boston 55 69 26.0
Washington 53 70 33.5 Brooklyn 53 70 27.5
St Louis 50 71 35.5 Cincinnati 49 74 31.5
Chicago 48 73 37.5 Philadelphia 45 77 35.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Travis WSH .368 Wright PHI .361
Almada BOS .362 Medwick STL .357
Stone PHA .359 Phelps BKN .357
Weatherly CLE .358 Mize STL .356
Rolfe NYY .356 Vaughan PIT .352
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 41 Mize STL 31
DiMaggio NYY 28 Ott NYG 27
Foxx BOS 27 Medwick STL 26
Gordon SLA 26 Johnson CIN 23
Gehrig NYY 26 DiMaggio PHI 19
Solters BKN 19
RBIs RBIs
DiMaggio NYY 107 Medwick STL 108
Gordon SLA 106 Mize STL 106
Gehrig NYY 105 Suhr PIT 97
Trosky CLE 102 Ott NYG 91
Foxx BOS 101 P Waner PIT 87
Greenberg DET 96 Cavarretta CHN 86
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 20-5 P Dean STL 17-5
Gomez NYY 17-7 Carleton STL 17-7
Feller CLE 16-6 D Dean STL 17-7
McFayden NYY 15-6 Lee CHN 17-7
Grove BOS 14-4 Castleman NYG 17-10
Broaca NYY 14-5 French CHN 16-10
Weaver DET 14-11
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 177 D Dean STL 136
Gomez NYY 149 P Dean STL 132
Allen CLE 118 Mungo BKN 126
Rowe DET 116 Blanton PIT 125
Ruffing NYY 106 Carleton CHN 118
Newson WSH 105 Melton BKN 108
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Broaca NYY 2.31 P Dean STL 2.16
Grove BOS 2.51 D Dean STL 2.33
Ruffing NYY 2.84 Mungo BKN 2.47
Gomez NYY 2.96 Castleman NYG 2.76
Mills CHA 3.04 French CHN 3.01
Feller CLE 3.10 Hallahan STL 3.02
McFayden NYY 3.30 Carleton CHN 3.05
Cleveland's Hal Trosky hit one homer last week, a two-run shot in a win over the White Sox last Monday, but he did not add to his total the rest of the week. With 41 on the season, Trosky is still on pace to surpass the 50 homerun mark. Pittsburgh rookie outfielder Joe Grace came within 1 of equaling a major league record for at bats in a game. The 23 year old went five-for-10 with a homer and 4 rbi's in the Bucs 11-7 win over Boston last week that needed 17 innings to decide. The record for at bats in a game is 11 which has been accomplished 5 times, most recently by Johnny Burnett and Ed Morgan, who each did it for Cleveland in a 1932 game. Red Ruffing became the first twenty game winner in Major League Baseball this season. The 33 year old Yankee righthander went the distance in a 4-1 win over Detroit to run his record to 20-5 on the season. Ruffing surpassed the twenty win mark each of the past two seasons, going 27-7 in 1936 and 22-10 last year. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Any hopes, slight as they might have been entering the week, of the Columbus Red Birds catching Kansas City for the second playoff spot were extinguished this week as the Red Birds dropped 4 of 6 games against the bottom three team teams in the American Association this week. Entering the week on a 6 game winning streak, Columbus fell to Indianapolis 10-6 on Monday. After rebounding to beat the Indians in their series finale Tuesday, Columbus then proceeded to drop two of three in Louisville before losing the opener of a 3-game set at St Paul yesterday. The Sunday win for the Saints was made possible by an all too rare outstanding outing from Satchell Paige (8-13, 4.54). The injury ravaged 32 year old tossed a 4-hit shutout to gain a 2-0 win over Columbus. Despite dropping his previous six decisions, Paige has looked much better of late but he is still a long ways from the pitcher the Saints expected - and enjoyed- for the first few months of the 1936 season before two major injuries derailed his career. As for the Red Birds, they are now 11.5 games back of Kansas City for the wildcard berth. The Blues did not have a stellar week themselves, splitting their six games on the week. Had Columbus been able to continue their hot streak, which saw them go 15-3 before last week, perhaps next week's series between the Red Birds and Blues in Kansas City might have meant something. Either way it will be hard to imagine anyone knocking off Toledo in a playoff series. The Mud Hens have won 10 of their last 11 after going 5-1 this week to extend their lead on second place Kansas City to 12 games. Toledo also went 5-2 against the Blues in their two series last month. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 88 36 - Kansas City 76 48 12.0 Columbus 65 60 23.5 Minneapolis 61 64 27.5 Milwaukee 58 65 29.5 Louisville 52 73 36.5 St Paul 49 74 38.5 Indianapolis 48 77 40.5 LEADERS AVG Chuck Klein MIN .363 Lonny Frey TOL .352 Martin Dihigo MIL .352 Joe Vosmik LOU .342 Roy Hughes MIL .341 Johnny Rizzo COL .338 Dale Alexander KC .336 Benny McCoy TOL .335 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 24 Chet Laabs TOL 22 Rudy York MIL 20 Johnny Rizzo COL 19 Ted Williams MIN 19 Lin Storti MIL 18 Buzz Arlett MIN 17 Roy Cullenbine TOL 17 Clyde McCullough KC 17 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 105 Benny McCoy TOL 99 Roy Cullenbine TOL 95 Rudy York MIL 93 Martin Dihigo MIL 92 Phil Weintraub TOL 89 Buck Leonard LOU 88 Johnny Rizzo COL 86 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 21-11 Al Hollingsworth KC 20-4 Paul Derringer TOL 20-6 Carl Hubbell MIN 20-14 Fred Gay KC 17-9 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Rip Schroeder COL 16-7 Archie McKain TOL 15-10 STRIKEOUTS Dizzy Trout IND 163 Wayne LeMaster LOU 163 Carl Hubbell MIN 146 Johnny Rigney StP 145 Denny Galehouse MIN 124 Max Macon COL 121 Ken Heintzelman LOU 113 Lefty Smoll TOL 105 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.05 Dizzy Trout IND 3.11 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.31 Ted Kleinhans KC 3.36 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.41 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.44 Johnny Johnson TOL 3.44 Another young Columbus outfielder had a big day last week. 26 year old Johnny Rizzo enjoyed a 5-hit game in the Red Birds 10-6 loss to Indianapolis to start the week. Rizzo, who is batting .338 with 19 homers and 86 rbi's, went five-for-five with all of the hits being singles. Jimmy Wasdell of the Indians is riding a 20-game hit streak. The 24 year old is batting .311 on the season and his streak is the second longest this year. Chuck Klein of Minneapolis, who leads the league with a .363 batting average, had a 29 game streak earlier in the season. Klein's mark is the standard in the 3 year old history of the American Association as a major league. How dominant are the first place Mud Hens? They lead the AA in just about every category including runs scored, fewest runs allowed and defensive efficiency and zone rating. Toledo's 765 runs scored are nearly 100 more than second place Columbus and their 513 runs against are nearly 100 less than any other team except second place Kansas City, which has surrendered 544 runs.
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September 5, 1938
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK SIX ALABAMA TOPS TENNESSEE Charley Holm ran for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead Alabama to a 35-21 victory over visiting Tennessee in Southeastern Conference action. The win moves 5-1 Alabama up in the polls to #4 while the Vols (3-1) drop from 3rd to 17th in the latest AP rankings. Holm ran for both his touchdowns in the first half as the Tide built an early 14-0 lead before Tennessee quarterback George Cafego finally got his team going in the second half. Cafego started slow but finished with another strong game, passing for 155 yards and a touchdown while rushing from 17 more and another score. Alabama's Chuck DeShane, like Cafego also a junior, threw for 184 yards and also ran for a touchdown to help improve his squad to 3-1 in conference. 8th ranked Georgia leads the way in the SEC as the Bulldogs improved to 4-0 in conference (5-1 overall) with a 39-17 win on the road over Vanderbilt. Freshman back Curt Sandig led the Georgia offense with 2 touchdowns and 108 yards rushing. Staying in the SEC, LSU moved up to 16th in the polls as Young Bussey and Ken Kavanaugh teamed up on a pair of touchdown passes to lead the Tigers past Kentucky 33-16. Notre Dame remains perfect at 6-0 and #1 in the polls following a 35-3 win at home over the University of Pittsburgh. Milt Piepul ran for 91 yards and a touchdown while Mario Tonelli gained 111 yards on the ground for the Irish. Oklahoma, at 5-0, and North Carolina State, which narrowly survived Duke 26-20 to improve to 6-0, are the only other unbeaten teams in the top 10. Columbia, led by 195 passing yards, a passing touchdown and a rushing TD from Sid Luckman, is also unbeaten. The Lions topped Yale 28-17 to improve to 4-0 and break into the top twenty rankings at #17. In addition to Tennessee, Arkansas fell from the top five with a loss to Texas. The Razorbacks landed at 14 in the polls after the 20-5 defeat to the Longhorns. Both schools are 4-2 on the year with Texas once again being led by freshman half back Bill Dudley, who ran for 101 yards and scored a touchdown. Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 6-0 1 Win 35-3 Pitt 2 Oklahoma 5-0 2 Win 49-0 Colorado 3 N Carolina St 6-0 4 Win 26-20 at Duke 4 Alabama 5-1 10 Win 35-21 Tennessee 5 Nebraska 5-1 9 Win 49-7 Kansas 6 Ohio State 5-1 7 Win 37-23 at Indiana 7 California 5-1 8 Win 26-10 at Washington 8 Georgia 5-1 11 Win 39-17 at Vanderbilt 9 Oregon State 4-1 13 Win 41-0 Arizona State 10 Wisconsin 5-1 16 Win 37-10 Michigan State 11 USC 4-1 14 Win 28-3 Stanford 12 TCU 4-1 18 Win 31-10 Texas A&M 13 Michigan 4-2 19 Win 26-3 Illinois 14 Arkansas 4-2 5 Loss 20-5 Texas 15 Penn State 4-1 17 Win 23-15 at Syracuse 16 LSU 4-2 20 Win 33-16 at Kentucky 17 Tennessee 3-1 3 Loss 35-21 at Alabama 18 Columbia 4-0 NR Win 28-17 Yale 19 Texas 4-2 NR Win 20-5 at Arkansas 20 Stanford 4-2 12 Loss 28-3 at USC Dropping out of top 20 Arizona 5-1 6 Loss 38-21 UCLA Texas A&M 4-2 15 Loss 31-10 at TCU RECRUITING Baylor landed the top offensive lineman in getting tackle Rocco Canale to commit to the Bears. He is the second top 100 recruit to commit to Baylor, joining linebacker Bill Godwin. Canale, who was ranked 11th overall, was nicknamed the Walking Billboard in real life because of his brawny physique. He played 5 seasons in the NFL after a college career at Boston College. Two other top 100 recruits committed this week. Linebacker Joe Domnanovich to Maryland while wideout Bruce Alford will attend Rice. Domnanovich is the 72nd ranked recruit and in real life was an All-American at Alabama before playing six seasons in the NFL. Alford played college ball at TCU and was MVP of the 1942 Orange Bowl before playing half a dozen seasons in the AAFL and NFL. He would become an NFL official after his playing days and worked three Super Bowls. His son Bruce Alford Jr, also played in the NFL. Code:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEADERBOARDS
QB PASSING YARDS
Jimmie Lawrence Wyoming 1150
Roy Zimmerman UCLA 1121
Foster Watkins Tx Western 1120
Chuck DeShane Alabama 1104
Doc Walton Florida St 1098
Banks McFadden Clemson 1026
Bill Elmore Cal 1013
RUSHING YARDS
Lee Kelly NC State 924
Bob Morrow Illinois 833
Vic Berry South Carolina 768
Ernie Steele Wisconsin 753
Bill Dudley Texas 712
Les Gould Oregon St 711
Norm Standlee Stanford 691
Mario Tonelli Notre Dame 684
TOTAL POINTS
Lee Kelly NC State RB 90
Bill Schneller Mississippi RB 66
Pinky Ross Arizona RB 66
Curt Sandig Georgia RB 60
Vic Berry South Carolina RB 60
Rube Binkley Indiana K 59
Howard Smith Georgia K 58
TACKLES
Bulldog Turner Arizona 55
Frank Gaylord Illinois 55
Bob Shoemaker Michigan 52
Gene Swallow Army 51
Paul Graham Indiana 48
SACKS
Bulldog Tuner Arizona 6
Jim Belsky Cal 6
Dave Anderson Cal 5
Will Dolman Cal 5
Howard McIntosh Florida St 5
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK SIX BEARS GET FIRST VICTORY Rookie quarterback Jack Berner engineered an 87 yard fourth quarter drive that culminated in a 7 yard touchdown to Ray Hanken giving the Chicago Bears their first victory of the season, as they downed the New York Giants 10-6 at Wrigley Field. The Giants controlled much of the game, led by 102 rushing yards from George Grosvenor, but the Chicago defense held strong in it's own territory on several occasions to preserve the upset win. The Giants loss coupled with Philadelphia's 17-14 win over Baltimore allowed the Eagles to take over top spot in the East Division. As usual Philadelphia running back Swede Johnston had a strong game, gaining 83 yards rushing and 9 more on two catches from former Notre Dame quarterback Andy Puplis. Puplis was 14 of 21 for 122 yards and 1 touchdown to lead the Eagles, who's defense did a great job stopping Ace Parker and the Colts passing game. Parker completed just 7 passes for 41 yards. Kink Richards ran for 136 yards to take over the NFL rushing lead but it was not enough to help his Chicago Cardinals generate points. The Cardinals were forced to settle for a 3-3 tie with the Steelers in Pittsburgh. San Francisco remained perfect but the visiting Los Angeles Rams gave the 49ers a scare as they picked off a pair of Pat Coffee passes and returned both for touchdowns. It wasn't enough for the Rams to extend their unbeaten streak to three games as the 49ers prevailed 20-17 behind a 115 yard rushing day from Ernie Caddel. Caddel's backfield mate Mike Sebastian missed his second straight game with a neck injury. Henry Money ran for a pair of 4th quarter touchdowns to help Detroit seal a 20-7 victory at home over the Green Bay Packers. The Lions completely dominated the game, gaining 413 yards of total offense compared to just 193 for the Packers but two Detroit turnovers kept Green Bay somewhat close. In the other game Greg Grossman's 34 yard field goal with 3:28 remaining in the game lifted the Washington Redskins to a 10-9 victory over the Browns in Cleveland. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
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Philadelphia 4 2 0 .667 San Francisco 6 0 0 1.000
Chi Cardinals 3 1 2 .667 Detroit 4 2 0 .667
New York 3 2 1 .583 Green Bay 2 3 1 .417
Washington 3 3 0 .500 Baltimore 2 4 0 .333
Pittsburgh 2 3 1 .417 Los Angeles 1 4 1 .250
Cleveland 2 4 0 .333 Chi Bears 1 5 0 .167
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Ace Parker BAL 755
Sammy Baugh WASH 697
Steve Perez ChiC 670
Dwight Sloan DET 635
Andy Puplis PHI 593
RUSHING YARDS
Kink Richards ChiC 642
Ernie Caddel SF 632
Swede Johnston PHI 585
George Grosvenor NY 578
Robert Perryman DET 468
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 459
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 338
Anthony Bernstein DET 302
Charles Jessup LA 276
Mason Bogan BAL 252
Paul Kern SF 232
James Rose PIT 231
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 77
Ed Skoronski PHI 69
Terry Jones ChiB 60
Thomas Cupp BAL 59
Joe Kuharich NY 58
Bill Crass ChiC 56
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 55
Ted Roque PHI 54
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September 5, 1938 Baseball recap
September 5, 1938 YANKEES COMMIT TO PLAYING AA CHAMP IF THEY WIN SERIES New York Yankees owner Jacob Rupert went on record today confirming his club, should they win the World Series, is very willing to play the champion of the American Association in a challenge series. Few other details were announced in the article, which is reprinted below courtesy of www.aareplay.com  The Yankees magic number to clinch their third straight American League Pennant is down to 10 after sweeping a twin bill from last place Chicago yesterday. The National League continues to provide a bit of drama as the Chicago Cubs crept to within 3.5 games of first place St Louis. It is the third straight season the Cubs have been within shouting distance of a pennant in early September only to fade down the stretch. Two years ago they finished just two games back of the Giants. Last year an awful September sank them to third place as the Cardinals won the pennant. The Cubs once again find themselves chasing St Louis and were riding an 8 game winning streak when they arrived in Sportsman's Park for a quick series, a one day doubleheader. Chicago took the opener 7-6 thanks to a 4-run 7th inning that was aided by a pair of Cardinal miscues. That allowed the Cubs to temporarily move to within 2.5 games of first place but the Cardinals salvaged a split with a 7-6 win of their own in the nightcap. Chicago and St Louis will play just two more times, a series at Wrigley Field in the final week of the season. The New York Giants are 9.5 games back but they still have 6 games with St Louis and 8 with Chicago on their remaining slate. Included in that is a huge week upcoming when New York visits both the Cubs and Cardinals for 3 games each. A big week and the Giants are right back in the mix. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 91 39 - St Louis 84 44 -
Boston 76 54 15.0 Chicago 81 48 3.5
Cleveland 68 61 22.5 New York 75 54 9.5
Detroit 61 67 29.0 Pittsburgh 67 63 18.0
Philadelphia 59 68 30.5 Boston 59 72 26.5
Washington 58 73 33.5 Brooklyn 55 75 30.0
St Louis 54 74 34.0 Cincinnati 50 80 35.0
Chicago 49 80 41.5 Philadelphia 47 82 37.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Travis WSH .360 Medwick STL .364
Stone PHA .359 Phelps BKN .362
Weatherly CLE .359 Wright PHI .359
Rolfe NYY .355 Mize STL .353
Almada BOS .355 Vaughan PIT .341
Gehrig NYY .351 Leslie BKN .338
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 42 Mize STL 32
Gordon SLA 30 Ott NYG 28
Foxx BOS 29 Medwick STL 28
DiMaggio NYY 28 Johnson CIN 24
Gehrig NYY 28 DiMaggio PHI 20
Averill CLE 26 Solters BKN 20
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 115 Medwick STL 119
DiMaggio NYY 113 Mize STL 110
Gehrig NYY 110 Suhr PIT 102
Trosky CLE 108 Ott NYG 96
Foxx BOS 107 P Waner PIT 91
Greenberg DET 105 Cavarretta CHN 91
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 21-6 P Dean STL 18-5
Gomez NYY 18-7 Lee CHN 18-7
Grove BOS 16-4 French CHN 18-10
Feller CLE 16-6 Castleman NYG 18-11
McFayden NYY 16-7 Carleton STL 17-8
Broaca NYY 15-5 D Dean STL 17-8
Tobin BSN 15-14
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 177 D Dean STL 140
Gomez NYY 154 P Dean STL 135
Allen CLE 121 Mungo BKN 134
Rowe DET 120 Blanton PIT 128
Ruffing NYY 116 Carleton CHN 121
Newson WSH 111 Melton BKN 118
ERA ERA
Broaca NYY 2.36 P Dean STL 2.23
Grove BOS 2.46 D Dean STL 2.44
Ruffing NYY 2.81 Mungo BKN 2.47
Gomez NYY 2.85 Castleman NYG 2.79
Mills CHA 3.04 Fischer BSN 3.00
Feller CLE 3.10 French CHN 3.07
McFayden NYY 3.27 Hallahan STL 3.11
The monthly awards for August went to Medwick as the top National League hitter while Brooklyn's Van Mungo, who is 14-12 with a 2.47 era, was named the top pitcher. Philadelphia's young outfielder Taffy Wright, who is challenging for the batting crown with a .360 average on the season, was named the top rookie for the month of August. For the fourth straight month St Louis Browns 22 year old second baseman Joe Gordon was named the AL rookie of the month. Gordon is batting .298 with 30 homers and 115 rbi's on the season. Cleveland teenager Bob Feller was named pitcher of the month after winning all 5 of his August decisions. On the season, the third year Indian is 16-6 with a 3.10 era and he appears fully healthy after missing a week with elbow inflammation. Elbow troubles cost him 3 months of his season last year. After hitting 11 homers and driving in 31 in August, New York Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig was named the AL batter of the month. Gehrig is batting .351 with 28 homers and 110 rbi's on the year. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION The slumping Kansas City Blues dropped 7 of their last 9 games, including 2 of 3 over the weekend to the Columbus Red Birds. The Blues lacklustre play of late keeps the door slightly open for the Red Birds to sneak past Kansas City and into the playoffs. Time is running out with just 23 games remaining and Columbus 8.5 games back but the Red Birds have been hot over the past month, winning 22 of their last 31 games. Hurting their chances is the fact that Columbus has just 2 games remaining with Kansas City. In their favour is that while the Red Birds are pretty much injury free, Kansas City may have lost a third key player to injury over the weekend as rookie catcher Clyde McCullough (.281,17,77) is out for an indefinite amount of time with an injury. The Blues are already without reigning pitcher of the year Ted Kleinhans and veteran first baseman Dale Alexander (.336,9,60). Another big plus for the Red Birds is the pitching of Rip Schroeder. The 26 year old has won his last 10 decisions and is probably the most dominant pitcher in the league over the past two months. On the year Schroeder is 18-7 with a 3.74 era. The real life Schroeder never made the major leagues, pitching for over a decade in the minors including a very brief stint in Columbus in 1937, where he went 1-3 primarily as a reliever. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 92 39 - Kansas City 78 53 14.0 Columbus 70 62 22.5 Minneapolis 65 67 27.5 Milwaukee 62 68 29.5 Louisville 56 76 36.5 St Paul 52 78 39.5 Indianapolis 50 82 42.5 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .357 Chuck Klein MIN .357 Joe Vosmik LOU .341 Roy Hughes MIL .340 Martin Dihigo MIL .340 Jeff Heath MIL .447 Dale Alexander KC .336 Stan Spence MIN .335 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 24 Chet Laabs TOL 23 Ted Williams MIN 22 Rudy York MIL 22 Johnny Rizzo COL 20 Lin Storti MIL 19 Buzz Arlett MIN 18 Bill Norman STP 18 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 111 Benny McCoy TOL 100 Roy Cullenbine TOL 98 Rudy York MIL 98 Martin Dihigo MIL 97 Phil Weintraub TOL 94 Buck Leonard LOU 93 Johnny Rizzo COL 92 PITCHING WINS Denny Galehouse MIN 22-11 Al Hollingsworth KC 21-5 Paul Derringer TOL 20-7 Carl Hubbell MIN 20-15 Rip Schroeder COL 18-7 Fred Gay KC 18-9 Gene Schott TOL 16-4 Archie McKain TOL 16-10 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 173 Dizzy Trout IND 164 Johnny Rigney StP 154 Carl Hubbell MIN 153 Max Macon COL 129 Denny Galehouse MIN 125 Ken Heintzelman LOU 117 Lefty Smoll TOL 105 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Dizzy Trout IND 3.15 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.19 Fred Gay KC 3.47 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.50 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.53 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.67 Johnny Johnson TOL 3.69 Monthly awards went to a pair of Columbus Red Birds as Rip Schroeder (18-7, 3.74) was named the top pitcher for August while outfielder Johnny Rizzo (.333,20,92) captured the batter honours. The top rookie was Toledo lefthander Johnny Johnson after the 23 year old went 4-2 in August, raising his record on the season to 10-5 with a 3.69 era. Johnson's performance helped lessen the impact the loss of ace Gene Schott (16-4, 2.70) had on the league leaders.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 1938 REGH HIGHLIGHTS EARLY COLLEGE HOOPS COMMITTMENTS TO USC The number one ranked high school basketball player took very little time to decide where he will spend the next four years. Guard Bob Regh is one of three top 100 players who announced even before their senior year of high school ball began that they will play for the Southern California Trojans beginning in the fall of the 1939. The real life Bob Regh played high school ball in Hammond, Indiana before going on to spend 5 seasons in the National Basketball League, winning a championship in 1943 with the Sheboygan Red Skins. Also committing to USC were a pair of fictional players. PG Duane McLaren from Temple, California is the 33rd ranked recruit in his class while #84 Jimmy Jacobsen is a 6'9" center from Gonzales, California. The Trojans hope the additions help get them back on track as USC is coming off a 17-12 season that saw them miss the National Tournament for the first time since 1924. USC won two National Titles in it's history - in 1928 and again in 1934. This season they are 23rd in the pre-season poll.  BAUMHOLTZ WEIGHING OPTIONS Highly touted point guard Frankie Baumholtz is still said to be considering USC but his interest has likely waned a bit after the Trojans signed Duane McLaren. It appears Kansas State and Mississippi State are now the top two schools on Baumholtz' mind, but Indiana and DePaul are also said to be in the mix. Baumholtz is considered the top point guard available and number two overall but he is also considered a top baseball prospect in addition to his prowess on the hardwood. The real-life Baumholtz played college ball at Ohio University and led the Bobcats to the finals of the 1941 NIT before going on to play a couple of years of pro basketball including for Cleveland of the BAA (later NBA) in it's inaugural season. He would also play a decade of major league baseball for Cincinnati, the Cubs and Phillies. NHL PREVIEW LEAFS LOOK TO WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT CUP The decision by the Montreal Maroons to suspend operations has given the NHL has a different look for the 1938-39 season. Gone is the two division format as all seven teams will compete in a single division. There is also a higher than normal roster turnover as the remaining clubs were active in signing the top players from the former Maroons organization. One thing that won't change is the Toronto Maple Leafs will be favoured to win a 4th straight Stanley Cup. Toronto has been the class of the league throughout the decade, winning 7 of it's record 9 Cup titles in the past 9 seasons. Last season, the Leafs were a perfect 5-0 in playoff action after finishing with the league's best regular season record, and over the past three years the Leafs sport a regular season mark of 104-22-18. Training camps will get underway for each of the seven squads later this month. Here is a quick look at each of the organizations.  TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS Leaf fans will expect another big season out of Syl Apps, who has quickly become the most dominant player in the league. The 23 year old Apps led the NHL in scoring in each of his two seasons while establishing a new league record for goals with 37 last year. The two-time Hart Trophy winner as league MVP also owns the single season record for assists when he recorded 50 in his freshman campaign, topping the 47 helpers Howie Morenz earned in 1929-30. Perhaps this year Apps, who notched 76 points in each of his two seasons to lead the league in scoring both times, will have his eyes set on the single season point mark of 78 that Joe Malone set back in the NHL's inaugural season of 1917-18. Apps is the only NHL player to surpass the 70 point mark twice in his career. Code:
NHL SINGLE SEASON POINT LEADERS NAME YEAR CLUB PTS Joe Malone 1917-18 Canadiens 78 Syl Apps 1936-37 Toronto 76 Syl Apps 1937-38 Toronto 76 Newsy Lalonde 1917-18 Canadiens 73 Nels Stewart 1929-30 Maroons 72 Howie Morenz 1929-30 Canadiens 71 Frank Boucher 1929-30 Ottawa 67 Busher Jackson 1936-37 Toronto 65 Joe Malone 1919-20 Canadiens 61 Howie Morenz 1933-34 Canadiens 61 One change in the Toronto lineup might be between the pipes where veteran goaltender Moe Roberts (24-5-1, 1.82) could be pressed for playing time by newly signed Davey Kerr. At 28 years old, Kerr is four years younger than Roberts and has seen plenty of rubber with little in the way of defensive support during his 8 seasons in the league with the Montreal Maroons. Kerr (10-23-9, 2.66) signed with Toronto after the Maroons organization folded during the summer. Kerr will have a much better defense in front of him in Toronto as the Leafs are led by Norris Trophy winner Flash Hollett (5-23-28), a 26 year old who has been a part of 4 Toronto Cup winners, along with 29 year old Red Horner (1-13-14), who has hoisted the Cup seven times.  CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS The Chicago Black Hawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals last season for the first time in 5 years. As was the case five years ago, the Hawks ran into the Toronto Maple Leafs in the finals and were again denied an opportunity to hoist the Cup for the second time in franchise history. Chicago's first and only Stanley Cup win came in 1928-29, which was the last time the Hawks beat Toronto in a playoff series. Last year the Hawks snuck into the playoffs on the final weekend of the season as they were embroiled in a tight race with Boston (which also made the postseason) and Detroit (which did not). The Hawks then proceeded to beat the New York Americans and the Bruins in their first two playoff series before getting swept in 3 games by the Leafs. There a plenty of concerns about Chicago's ability to advance far in the playoffs again this season and most surround a lack of offense. Chicago's leading scorer a year ago was Clarence MacKenzie (15-18-33) and he was one of just 3 Hawks to record double-digit goal totals, joining legendary defenseman Eddie Shore (10-18-28) and winger Doc Romnes (10-10-20). The hope is a healthy Lynn Patrick will help alleviate some of those concerns. The 26 year old pivot was limited to just 22 games last season and managed a paltry 2 goals a year after scoring 18 times. Patrick's younger brother Muzz joined the team in an off-season deal with Boston. The 23 year old is expected to add depth to the club's strength - it's defense. That group is led by long-time Hawk Shore and another newcomer in King Clancy, who had 23 points for the now-defunct Montreal Maroons last season. Shore and Clancy have combined to win 7 Norris Trophy's but the concern is their age with each being 35 years old this season. The youth movement may start in net this season as 26 year old Mike Karakas (3-8-0, 3.79) appears ready to challenge 33 year old Charlie Gardiner (17-16-4, 2.29) for the starting goaltending job. Gardiner has won 5 Vezina Trophy's and led Chicago to it's only Cup in his 11 year career but is starting to slow down. Regardless of how talented the Hawks may be in their own zone it seems unlikely they will reach the finals again this season without a serious upgrade to their offensive game.  MONTREAL CANADIENS With the Maroons gone the Canadiens have the city of Montreal to themselves. Other than a two year drought beginning in 1934-35 the Habs have found themselves in the playoffs quite regularly but after winning 4 Stanley Cups by 1928, the Canadiens have been overshadowed by their Canadian rivals from Toronto. Montreal had made it back to the Stanley Cup Finals just once since their last title, and that was a quick exit in a 3-game sweep at the hands of the Leafs two seasons ago. The Habs hope the addition of 28 year old centre Paul Haynes (5-19-24) from the Maroons helps. Haynes had a down year last season but is just two years removed from a 52 point season. Haynes does have big shoes to fill as the Canadiens greatest player, Howie Morenz, retired at the age of 37 after scoring 717 points in 601 career games. Morenz' longtime linemate Aurel Joliat (11-6-17) did decide to comeback for one more season but he is a mere shadow of his former self. Morenz and Joliat rank 1-2 on the NHL's career goal scoring list and only Frank Boucher has more points than Morenz or Joliat (280-319-599). The problem Montreal faces is it has limited talent available to have the torch passed on to with the retirement of Morenz and the close of Joliat's career. Goaltender Bill Beveridge is solid (21-15-2, 2.34) but he will be tested often this season and will need to be near perfect with the Habs limited offensive firepower.  BOSTON BRUINS Boston has only made the playoffs three times since the club's inception prior to the 1924-25 campaign. One of those came in the spring of 1935 when the Bruins shocked the hockey world by nearly winning the Stanley Cup - losing the finals in the maximum 5 games to the Rangers who had upset Toronto - and another was last season when they beat the Canadiens in the opening round only to fall to Chicago in the semi-finals. The Bruins have quietly assembled quite a collection of talent and may be the best bet to challenge Toronto for the Cup next spring. One of those changes is another new coach as longtime General Manager Art Ross has had a revolving door for coaches, but that might have come to an end with the summer signing of Lester Patrick, who won 2 coach of the year awards in his 10 seasons with the Montreal Maroons. Other changes include veteran forward Nels Stewart who was picked up in an off-season deal with Detroit. The 35 year old Stewart's career seemed on the wane 2 years ago when he scored just 5 goals in 47 games for the Maroons but he had a resurgence in Detroit last season, scoring 17 times and adding 25 helpers for the Red Wings. Also coming from Detroit but by way of the Montreal Maroons is young defenseman Bucko McDonald. The 23 year old played 4 seasons with Detroit but was traded to the Maroons just after the season ended in April and then became a free agent when the Maroons folded. McDonald is just another of the many good young players the Bruins have assembled. It is a group that includes rookies Frank Brimsek, a 23 year old goalie, and Roy Conacher, a 22 year old winger. Young players with a season or two under their belt include 20 year old centre Milt Schmidt (11-14-25), 21 year old winger Woody Dumart (15-30-45), 21 year old defenseman Jack Crawford (4-18-22), 23 year old winger Bobby Bauer (17-19-36) and 24 winger Gordie Drillon (26-19-45). Add the veteran presence of 31 year old defenseman Dit Clapper (6-23-29) and 35 year old goaltender Tiny Thompson (17-19-7,, 2.70) to act as a mentor to Brimsek and the Bruins look to have a big season.  DETROIT RED WINGS The Wings have never won a Stanley Cup and missed the playoffs two of the past three seasons. They have a tremendously talented goaltender in 24 year old Turk Broda (19-20-6, 2.57) and a decent defense led by Eddie Goodfellow (5-23-28), Tom Anderson (10-21-31) and highly touted rookie Jack Stewart but there are plenty of questions up front. The Wings added to the defensive depth with the off-season trade that brought Don Smillie (1-3-4) over from Boston but the cost was their leading scorer from last season in 35 year old Nels Stewart. The eventual replacement for Stewart is a 20 year old rookie by the name of Sid Abel. The Wings are very high on Abel, who may make his NHL debut this season. The short-term replacement for Stewart will be 34 year old Babe Siebert, who was signed from the Maroons organization. Siebert scored just 20 points a year ago, the lowest total of his 13 year NHL career. Veterans John Sorrell (13-21-34) and Eddie Wiseman (8-16-24) and 22 year old forward Pete Leswick (9-12-21), who was acquired from the New York Americans, will also be counted on to lead the offense.  NEW YORK AMERICANS The Americans have made 3 straight playoff appearances and won a Stanley Cup in 1932 but they enter this season with concerns about a lack of depth. 26 year old winger Sweeney Schriner (20-24-44) is the team leader and there is hope Pep Kelly (8-15-23), who split last season between Toronto and the Americans, can take on a bigger role this season. Likewise, 24 year old center Phil Watson (12-11-23), who came over in a deal with the cross-town Rangers last season, will be heavily counted on. With Marty Barry (13-22-35), Buzz Boll (13-18-31) and Charlie Sands (14-18-32) in a supporting role the Americans should have a pretty solid offense. Keeping the other team from scoring may be a challenge as there are plenty of question marks surrounding 32 year old goaltender Alfie Moore (13-20-5, 3.49) and the defense, beyond 19 year old sophomore Wally Stanowski (3-5-8) is paper-thin.  NEW YORK RANGERS The Rangers added a prize prospect in 26 year old forward Toe Blake (7-4-11) from the Montreal Maroons folding. Blake has loads of potential but his health has been a big issue as 2 major injuries limited the left winger to just 26 games over the past two seasons. If Blake can stay healthy he will fit in nicely alongside 37 year old Frank Boucher (19-32-51)- the NHL's all-time points leader- and Oscar Asmundson (13-27-40) on what might be the best second line in the game. The first line features the Colville brother- center Neil (16-25-41) and right winger Mac (14-22-36) along with left winger Herb Cain (17-42-59). 22 year old Babe Pratt (9-28-37) and 26 year old Earl Siebert (8-13-21) anchor a solid defense that also includes veterans Ott Heller (6-10-16) and Doug Young (6-5-11). However, just like the Americans, the Rangers have a big question mark in net. Lorne Chabot played 39 games a year ago and has been the Rangers number one goaltender for the past dozen years but he announced his retirement over the summer. It will be a position that will need to be addressed in training camp as the only goalie the Rangers have under contract at the moment is 30 year old Benny Grant, who played in 9 games as Chabot's backup last year and has played 59 career NHL games with 4 teams. 1938-39 PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH There is no reason to doubt that the Toronto Maple Leafs will win their fourth straight Stanley Cup. If the Rangers can add a veteran goaltender they might nose out Boston for second place but the way it stands now the Bruins have the edge. The New York Americans should finish fourth leaving Montreal, Detroit and Chicago to battle to avoid finishing in the basement.
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September 12, 1938
SEPTEMBER 12, 1938 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RED BIRDS PLAYOFF HOPES FLY AWAY Whatever faint hopes the Columbus Red Birds had of earning their first ever trip to the American Series came to an end last week as the club lost 5 straight games to fall an even dozen back of Kansas City for second place and the final playoff spot. The Blues actually picked up a couple of games on the front-running Toledo Mud Hens this week - the first time that has happened in quite some time. Toledo's lead is certainly not in jeopardy as they still have a 12 game bulge on the Blues and a magic number of five. Kansas City just has to hope they don't lose any more players over the final three weeks of the season. Rookie catcher Clyde McCullough was the latest to go down when the 21 year old was hurt just over a week ago. It took a little time to confirm the severity but McCullough (.281,17,77) will miss the Series with a seperated shoulder that should take five weeks to heal. His loss is a big blow to the Blues, not just for his work behind the plate with the best starting pitching in the league but also he was the Blues leading power hitter. McCullough's absence means 23 year old Chris Hartje, who is hitting .203 in 50 games this season, takes over behind the plate. Hartje did bat .278 in everyday play last week and has hit 2 homers in his last 8 games so perhaps he is up to the challenge. The Blues are also without Ted Kleinhans, the 39 year old who had a breakout year winning 30 games last season. Kleinhans is done for the year and perhaps his career following a rotator cuff injury and first baseman Dale Alexander (.336,9,60) is also sidelined, having missed the last two weeks with a torn hamstring. There is hope Alexander will be back just before the season ends. Toledo will have a large absence of it's own for the American Series as their 25 year old ace Gene Schott (16-4, 2.70) had his season come to a premature end in early August due to hamstring issues. Speaking of the Blues, Kansas City management responded to New York Yankees owner Jacob Rupert's statement that his club would be willing to play the American Series winner if they won the World Series. The Blues brass says "if (the Blues) were to advance would want a large sum of money to play an unscheduled series. Ownership would then award 75% of all revenue from said series to the players." There has been no comment so far from the Toledo Mud Hens on their potential willingness to commit to such a series should they win the AA title. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 95 43 - Kansas City 83 55 12.0 Columbus 71 67 24.0 Minneapolis 69 69 26.0 Milwaukee 65 72 29.5 Louisville 59 79 36.0 St Paul 55 82 39.5 Indianapolis 54 84 41.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .360 Chuck Klein MIN .355 Martin Dihigo MIL .342 Johnny Rizzo COL .341 Roy Hughes MIL .339 Benny McCoy TOL .338 Len Schulte LOU .337 Joe Vosmik LOU .334 HOME RUNS Benny McCoy TOL 24 Chet Laabs TOL 24 Ted Williams MIN 23 Rudy York MIL 22 Johnny Rizzo COL 20 Lin Storti MIL 20 Buzz Arlett MIN 20 Roy Cullenbine TOL 20 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 115 Roy Cullenbine TOL 108 Benny McCoy TOL 102 Martin Dihigo MIL 102 Rudy York MIL 101 Phil Weintraub TOL 99 Buck Leonard LOU 98 Johnny Rizzo COL 94 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 23-5 Denny Galehouse MIN 22-11 Carl Hubbell MIN 21-16 Paul Derringer TOL 20-8 Rip Schroeder COL 18-8 Fred Gay KC 18-9 Archie McKain TOL 17-10 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 177 Johnny Rigney StP 168 Carl Hubbell MIN 164 Dizzy Trout IND 164 Max Macon COL 133 Denny Galehouse MIN 125 Ken Heintzelman LOU 119 Lefty Smoll TOL 107 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 3.06 Dizzy Trout IND 3.15 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.50 Fred Gay KC 3.57 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.57 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.67 Johnny Johnson TOL 3.69 The Kansas City Blues received a confidence boost ahead of their anticipated playoff date with the Mud Hens. The Blues had a quick series - a one day doubleheader - with the Mud Hens and came away with the sweep. Little used catcher Lyle Judy, making just his second appearance of the season, went 3-for-4 with a triple and two rbi's to lead the Blues to a 4-3 win in the opener while in the nightcap Al Hollingsworth won his league leading 23rd game by tossing a three hitter in a 9-0 drubbing of the front-runners. Toledo and Kansas City will meet 3 more times before the playoffs begin. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Time is running out for the Chicago Cubs in their pursuit of a National League Pennant for the first time since 1935. The Cubs started the week with a 3 game sweep of the New York Giants but finished it in disappointing fashion, dropping two of three to the Pittsburgh Pirates with both losses coming by a single run. Like the Cubs the first place St Louis Cardinals also went 4-2 this week so the Cardinals lead remains at 3.5 games with 3 weeks remaining in the season. The Cubs have a couple of players with hot bats in Stan Hack and Joe Kuhel. Both are riding active hit streaks with Hack's now at 24 games and Kuhel's at 23. Hack (.339,9,67) is a long-time Cub who bats lead-off so his streak is much less of a surprise than that of 32 year old Kuhel, a first baseman who was acquired just before the trade deadline from the Philadelphia Athletics. Kuhel is hitting .368 in his 32 games with Chicago after batting just .250 in 90 contests for the A's. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 95 41 - St Louis 88 46 -
Boston 78 57 16.5 Chicago 85 50 3.5
Cleveland 70 65 24.5 New York 76 59 12.5
Detroit 65 70 29.5 Pittsburgh 70 66 19.0
Philadelphia 63 71 31.0 Boston 69 73 26.0
Washington 59 77 36.0 Brooklyn 58 77 30.5
St Louis 57 77 37.0 Cincinnati 52 84 37.0
Chicago 53 82 41.5 Philadelphia 49 86 39.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Stone PHA .362 Medwick STL .361
Weatherly CLE .358 Phelps BKN .359
Travis WSH .355 Wright PHI .354
Rolfe NYY .354 Mize STL .351
Almada BOS .353 Vaughan PIT .343
Gehringer DET .349 Hack CHN .339
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 42 Mize STL 35
Gordon SLA 32 Ott NYG 28
Foxx BOS 31 Medwick STL 28
DiMaggio NYY 29 Johnson CIN 24
Gehrig NYY 29 DiMaggio PHI 22
Averill CLE 28 Solters BKN 21
Greenberg DET 28 Berger BSN 19
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 121 Medwick STL 120
DiMaggio NYY 116 Mize STL 120
Gehrig NYY 114 Suhr PIT 102
Foxx BOS 114 Cavarretta CHN 99
Greenberg DET 109 P Waner PIT 97
Trosky CLE 108 Ott NYG 97
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 21-7 Lee CHN 19-7
Gomez NYY 19-7 D Dean STL 19-8
Grove BOS 17-4 P Dean STL 18-6
Feller CLE 16-7 Carleton STL 18-8
McFayden NYY 16-8 French CHN 18-11
Broaca NYY 15-5 Castleman NYG 18-12
Weaver DET 15-13 Tobin BSN 16-14
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 181 D Dean STL 149
Gomez NYY 159 P Dean STL 139
Ruffing NYY 125 Mungo BKN 138
Rowe DET 125 Blanton PIT 132
Allen CLE 123 Carleton CHN 130
Newson WSH 115 Melton BKN 126
ERA ERA
Grove BOS 2.40 P Dean STL 2.36
Broaca NYY 2.56 D Dean STL 2.56
Ruffing NYY 2.82 Mungo BKN 2.60
Gomez NYY 2.86 Castleman NYG 2.77
Mills CHA 3.28 Lee CHN 2.99
Feller CLE 3.28 Fischer BSN 3.02
McFayden NYY 3.33 Hallahan STL 3.04
While the American Association's Kansas City Blues did comment on the recent announcement from New York Yankees owner Jacob Rupert on his willingness to have his club play the AA champ should the Yankees win the World Series, there has as of yet been no official response from Commissioner Hap Chandler's office. Veteran Yankee Lou Gehrig, speaking on behalf of the players, had little interest in discussing Rupert's statements either. Gehrig said it was "foolish to speculate on anything beyond the Series," noting the Yankees needed to focus on winning the World Series first. The Yankees lost the Fall Classic to the National League champion each of the past two seasons. COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK SEVEN Steve Stitko threw for 158 yards and a pair of first half touchdowns to lead the undefeated Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a 20-10 win over Southern California. The victory improves Notre Dame to 7-0 and keeps them at the top of the AP college football poll while the Trojans record falls to 4-2 and they drop to 16th in the polls.NOTRE DAME BEATS USC Notre Dame took a 14-3 lead into the locker room at the break but the score could have been much different had USC not turned the ball over twice in the opening 30 minutes. The first turnover saw USC running back Jack Banta get stripped of the ball on the Notre Dame 11 yard line as the Trojans were driving for what would have been the opening score of the game while the second, an interception of a Wayne Saunders pass by Irish safety Hod Stinnett led to the second Notre Dame score of the game. While USC did manage to keep Irish senior running back Mario Tonelli out of the endzone, Tonelli did rush for 102 yards on the game with his sidekick Milt Piepul chipping in with an additional 81 rushing yards. Notre Dame's defense, led by a pair of sacks from senior tackle Ed Longhi, was also outstanding. GEORGIA LEADS A STRONG SEC At #6 in the polls the Georgia Bulldogs may sit one spot back of SEC rival Alabama but in the conference standings the Bulldogs lead the way. Georgia improved to 5-0 (6-1 overall) with a 58-0 blasting of 3-4 Kentucky on the weekend to remain the only unbeaten team in conference play. The path seems clear to a conference title for the Bulldogs with only Florida (3-4 overall) and winless Auburn remaining on the schedule. Should the Bulldogs trip up then 1-loss teams Alabama, Tennessee and LSU are all ready to pounce. The Tide, ranked 5th in the nation at 6-1, won a hard fought 12-3 victory in a non-conference game at Arkansas on the weekend. Alabama is 3-1 in conference with their toughest game coming in two weeks at LSU. The Tigers are 4-2 and were off this week which caused them to drop one spot in the polls to 17th. Tennessee moved back up to 11th in the rankings with a 38-3 win over Mississippi State. The Vols are 3-1 in conference play (4-1 overall) with a loss to Alabama on their resume. The Tide's lone loss came against 14th ranked Mississippi with the Rebels at 3-2 in conference play and 5-2 overall. Mississippi beat Vanderbilt 24-14 but have lost to Georgia and Kentucky. Code:
SEC STANDINGS CONF OVERALL #6 Georgia 5-0 6-1 #5 Alabama 3-1 6-1 #11 Tennessee 3-1 4-1 #17 LSU 3-1 4-2 #14 Mississippi 3-2 5-2 Kentucky 2-2 3-4 Florida 1-3 3-4 Vanderbilt 1-4 2-5 Auburn 0-3 0-7 Mississippi State 0-4 1-6 Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 7-0 1 Win 20-10 USC 2 Oklahoma 6-0 2 Win 37-6 at Kansas State 3 N Carolina St 7-0 3 Win 52-10 Brown 4 Ohio State 6-1 6 Win 31-16 Wisconsin 5 Alabama 6-1 4 Win 12-3 at Arkansas 8 Georgia 6-1 8 Win 58-0 Kentucky 7 California 6-1 7 Win 32-28 UCLA 5 Nebraska 6-1 5 Win 40-0 at Oklahoma State 9 Oregon State 5-1 9 Win 38-9 at Washington 10 Penn State 5-1 15 Win 35-10 Texas Tech 11 Tennessee 4-1 17 Win 38-3 Mississippi State 12 Texas 5-2 19 Win 37-10 Rice 13 Stanford 5-2 20 Win 45-38 Washington State 14 Mississippi 5-2 NR Win 24-14 Vanderbilt 15 Wisconsin 5-2 10 Lost 31-16 at Ohio State 16 USC 4-2 11 Lost 20-10 at Notre Dame 17 LSU 4-2 16 did not play 18 TCU 4-2 12 Lost 35-10 at Penn State 19 Clemson 4-2 NR Win 51-0 at Auburn 20 Baylor 4-2 NR Win 16-6 at Texas A&M Dropping out of top 20 Michigan 4-3 13 Lost 24-17 at Minnesota Arkansas 4-3 14 Lost 12-3 Alabama Columbia 4-1 18 Lost 17-10 at Rutgers A pair of top twenty players signed this week including Michael Hancock, a fictional player from Louisiana who signed with Alabama and Pat Preston, a guard who committed to TCU. Preston played four seasons as a lineman for the Chicago Bears and later would be the athletic director at Wake Forest. There are still a number of highly ranked quarterbacks and receivers that have yet to commit. Included in the quarterbacks are #3 recruit George Ceithaml, who has offers from a host of schools including Michigan State, Ohio State, Maryland and Tennessee. Other quarterbacks in the top twenty still available include #8 Glenn Dobbs and #10 Harry Connolly. Ohio State, Maryland and Syracuse are actively pursuing both of them. The fictional player Michael Hancock, who just signed with Alabama, was the first of the top receivers to commit which might open the door for others including 4th overall Steve Pritko (Oklahoma is his first choice) and Nick Susoeff (Syracuse, Maryland), who is rated the 5th best recruit. Code:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEADERBOARDS
QB PASSING YARDS
Roy Zimmerman UCLA 1346
Foster Watkins Tx Western 1303
Jimmie Lawrence Wyoming 1288
Chuck DeShane Alabama 1278
Doc Walton Florida St 1253
Bill Elmore Cal 1219
Banks McFadden Clemson 1138
RUSHING YARDS
Lee Kelly NC State 1060
Bob Morrow Illinois 1023
Bill Dudley Texas 913
Ralph Zukas Arizona 863
Vic Berry South Carolina 856
Ernie Steele Wisconsin 839
Les Gould Oregon St 838
Norm Standlee Stanford 794
Mario Tonelli Notre Dame 786
RECEIVING YARDS
Bill Lazetich Wyoming 618
Merrill Waters BYU 500
Russ Cotton Texas Western 488
Norm Thompson California 487
Bob Miller Florida State 482
Bill Higgins Maryland 445
Joe Wendlick Oregon State 440
TOTAL POINTS
Lee Kelly NC State RB 108
Bill Schneller Mississippi RB 72
Rube Binkley Indiana K 71
Pinky Ross Arizona RB 66
Curt Sandig Georgia RB 66
Howard Smith Georgia K 65
TACKLES
Bulldog Turner Arizona 63
Frank Gaylord Illinois 63
Bob Shoemaker Michigan 60
Gene Swallow Army 58
Frank Kiessling Washington St 57
SACKS
Bulldog Tuner Arizona 7
Jim Belsky Cal 7
Ed Longhi Notre Dame 6
Benny Ellis Michigan St 6
Howard McIntosh Florida St 6
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEEK SEVEN 49ERS DUMP STEELERS Ernie Caddel ran for 116 yards and a touchdown while fellow back Mike Sebastian gained 99 and scored once in his first game back after missing two weeks with an injury. Together the pair combined to lead the San Francisco 49ers to their 7th straight victory, topping the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-10. Second place Detroit remains with shouting distance of the front-running 49ers after the Lions improved to 5-2 with a 27-7 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Rams. The Lions running game of Robert Perryman and rookie Andy Uram combined for 206 yards and a pair of scores in the win. The East Division is a little tighter but the Chicago Cardinals came up with a big win at home over the New York Giants, claiming a 21-14 victory thanks to a pair of fourth quarter rushing touchdowns from Jack Robbins and Jay Arnold. All 3 Chicago scores came via the ground as Kink Richards, who gained a game high 100 yards, had scored on a 19 yard run in the first quarter. The first place Cardinals have not lost since a week one defeat in Washington. The Redskins topped Cleveland 16-6 to move into a second place tie with Philadelphia in the East Division. Quarterback Sammy Baugh continues his outstanding play for Washington, passing for a 184 yards and a touchdown in the win. Meanwhile the Eagles lost 21-14 in Baltimore. In the other game the Chicago Bears downed Green Bay 9-6 in a game that saw neither team mount much in the way of an offensive attack. The win came at a cost for the Bears as rookie quarterback Jack Berner suffered a season ending knee injury and had to be replaced by Johnny Gildea, who was last year's starter. Berner, a third round pick out of Illinois, had started all seven games, completing 58 of 93 pass attempts for 492 yards and 2 touchdowns. He did not throw an interception. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
Chi Cardinals 4 1 2 .714 San Francisco 7 0 0 1.000
Philadelphia 4 3 0 .571 Detroit 5 2 0 .714
Washington 4 3 0 .571 Baltimore 3 4 0 .429
New York 3 3 1 .500 Green Bay 2 4 1 .357
Pittsburgh 2 4 1 .357 Chi Bears 2 5 0 .286
Cleveland 2 5 0 .286 Los Angeles 1 5 1 .214
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Sammy Baugh WASH 881
Ace Parker BAL 880
Andy Puplis PHI 766
Steve Perez ChiC 764
Dwight Sloan DET 752
Wendell Wear GB 630
RUSHING YARDS
Ernie Caddel SF 748
Kink Richards ChiC 742
Swede Johnston PHI 676
George Grosvenor NY 662
Robert Perryman DET 567
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 538
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 384
Charles Jessup LA 335
Anthony Bernstein DET 325
Mason Bogan BAL 297
Bill Hewitt NY 252
Paul Kern SF 246
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 89
Ed Skoronski PHI 81
Ted Roque PHI 67
Bill Crass ChiC 66
Joe Kuharich NY 65
Thomas Cupp BAL 65
Terry Jones ChiB 64
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 64
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September 18-19, 1938
September 18, 1938 COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 8 DUDLEY RUNS FOR 486 YARDS Everyone knew Texas freshman running back Bill Dudley was special but the game he had this weekend against SMU almost defies reality. The back carried the ball 25 times for 485 yards as the Longhorns hammered SMU 80-9. Dudley also scored 6 touchdowns in the contest and added 2 pass receptions for an additional 20 yards. Entering the game Dudley was among the NCAA rushing leaders but now he has a lead of over 200 yards on the next closest rusher with 1,398 through the first 8 games of the season. He is just 73 yards shy of the single season mark set last year by Virginia senior Alex Stapleton. It is already the fifth time Dudley has rushed for over 100 yards in a game and his second straight week with over 200 yards. In real life Dudley was an NFL Hall of Famer who played over a decade in the league after being selected first overall in the 1942 NFL draft. He was also an All-American his senior year at Virginia.  Speaking of the Cavaliers, it has been a rough season for the University of Virginia's football team. After going 11-1 and winning a bowl game last year the Cavaliers have limped through a 4-4 season this time around. UVA did get a measure of revenge on the only team to beat them a year ago, as the ended North Carolina State's hopes for a perfect season with a 44-22 win in Raleigh. The Wolfpack also fell from third in the AP poll to 9th following the defeat as their record drops to 7-1. Running back Jim Pike led the way for the Cavaliers with 101 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns. At 3-1 in conference and owning a tiebreaker on the Wolfpack (4-1 in ACC play) the Cavaliers still have a chance to repeat as conference champions. Notre Dame and Oklahoma remain as the only two unbeaten teams. The Irish are 8-0 following a 48-0 win over Navy while the Sooners won their 7th game, beating Iowa State 38-14. With North Carolina State and Ohio State losing to fall out of the top five, Alabama moves up two spots to third in the polls with 58-7 pounding of Mississippi State. A pair of one loss Pacific Coast Conference teams in California and Oregon State round out the top five. Cal won the head to head meeting between the two schools a few weeks ago and at 4-0 in conference has the upper hand on the Rose Bowl bid. Code:
PCC STANDINGS CONF OVERALL #4 Cal 4-0 7-1 #5 Oregon State 3-1 6-1 Stanford 3-2 5-3 USC 2-1 4-3 UCLA 1-3 4-4 Oregon 1-3 3-4 Washington 1-3 3-5 Washington State 1-3 3-5 Code:
WESTERN CONF CONF OVERALL #14 Wisconsin 4-1 6-2 #18 Michigan 4-1 5-3 #11 Ohio State 3-2 6-2 #21 Minnesota 3-2 5-3 Illinois 3-2 4-4 Michigan State 2-3 4-4 Indiana 2-3 4-4 Iowa 2-3 3-4 Northwestern 1-4 1-7 Purdue 1-4 2-6 Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 8-0 1 Win 48-0 Navy 2 Oklahoma 7-0 2 Win 38-14 Iowa State 3 Alabama 7-1 5 Win 58-7 at Mississippi State 4 California 7-1 7 Win 28-16 USC 5 Oregon State 6-1 9 Win 24-17 Stanford 6 Nebraska 7-1 5 Win 38-14 Colorado 7 Penn State 6-1 10 Win 30-20 at West Virginia 8 Texas 6-2 12 Win 80-9 at SMU 9 N Carolina St 7-1 3 Loss 44-22 Virginia 10 Tennessee 5-1 11 Win 35-10 Florida State 11 Ohio State 6-2 4 Loss 19-16 at Minnesota 12 Georgia 6-2 8 Loss 24-21 at South Carolina 13 Mississippi 6-2 14 Win 31-16 LSU 14 Wisconsin 6-2 15 Win 24-10 Iowa 15 TCU 5-2 18 Win 20-17 at Baylor 16 Clemson 5-2 19 Win 37-9 Wake Forest 17 Arkansas 5-3 NR Win 14-9 Texas A&M 18 Michigan 5-3 NR Win 32-21 Indiana 19 Arizona 6-2 NR Win 34-31 New Mexico 20 N. Carolina 5-2 NR Win 40-3 Rutgers Dropping out of top 20 13 Stanford 5-3 13 Loss 24-17 at Oregon State 16 USC 4-3 16 Loss 28-16 at Cal 17 LSU 4-3 17 Loss 31-16 at Mississippi 20 Baylor 4-3 20 Loss 20-17 TCU Wisconsin landed the highest ranked recruit this week with the Badgers getting a committment from defensive back Tony Compagno. The 11th ranked recruit had been heavily pursued by most of the Western Conference teams as well as Oklahoma. It was a busy week for elite DB's with Max Kielbasa (#23 overall) signing with Iowa and Jim Reynolds (#31) agreeing to attend LSU. The real-life Compagno played 3 seasons for the Steelers after playing college ball at St. Mary's of California. Kielbasa is in the Duquense Univesity Hall of Fame and is a Pittsburgh native who played 2 years for the Steelers while Reynolds played his college ball at Auburn and was a 6th round NFL draft pick in 1943 but played his only season of pro ball with the short-lived Miami Seahawks of the AAFC. While none of the top "real" quarterbacks committed a few fictional guys just under the leaders did sign this week including Benjamin Medeiros, a Washington DC native who was ranked in the top 25 and signed with Tennessee. #26 ranked Kenneth Albrect also committed, signing with Michigan State. Code:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEADERBOARDS
QB PASSING YARDS
Chuck DeShane Alabama 1466
Foster Watkins Tx Western 1447
Jimmie Lawrence Wyoming 1409
Doc Walton Florida St 1348
Roy Zimmerman UCLA 1346
Banks McFadden Clemson 1327
Bill Elmore Cal 1292
Owen Goodnight Arizona 1260
RUSHING YARDS
Bill Dudley Texas 1398
Bob Morrow Illinois 1157
Lee Kelly NC State 1150
Vic Berry South Carolina 989
Mario Tonelli Notre Dame 979
Ralph Zukas Arizona 965
Les Gould Oregon St 946
Charley Holm Alabama 927
Ernie Steele Wisconsin 920
RECEIVING YARDS
Bill Lazetich Wyoming 635
Russ Cotton Texas Western 580
Merrill Waters BYU 533
Bob Miller Florida State 522
Norm Thompson California 516
Freddie McCrory UCLA 503
Gil McNeely Duke 491
Joe Wendlick Oregon State 484
TOTAL POINTS
Lee Kelly NC State RB 114
Bill Dudley Texas RB 90
Charley Holm Alabama RB 78
Rube Binkley Indiana K 74
Bill Schneller Mississippi RB 72
Johnny Butler Oklahoma RB 72
Tony Canadeo UCLA RB 72
Curt Sandig Georgia RB 72
Babe Kuhns Arizona K 72
TACKLES
Frank Gaylord Illinois 76
Bulldog Turner Arizona 72
Bob Shoemaker Michigan 68
Bobby Robertson Duke 66
Tex Gannon Penn State 65
Stillman Rouse Missouri 64
Frank Kiessling Washington St 64
SACKS
Jim Belsky Cal 8
Bulldog Tuner Arizona 7
Ed Longhi Notre Dame 7
Benny Ellis Michigan St 6
Howard McIntosh Florida St 6
Dave Anderson Cal 6
Will Dolman Cal 6
September 19, 1938 NFL WEEK EIGHT 49ERS CLINCH PLAYOFF SPOT The season may be just 2/3 completed but the San Francisco 49ers have already punched a ticket to the playoffs. The 8-0 Niners can finish no worse than second in the West Division after winning in Green Bay 29-3. Ernie Caddel, who leads the NFL in rushing, scored a pair of touchdowns and ran for 106 yards to key the San Francisco victory. The Detroit Lions got a pair of touchdowns from rookie back Andy Uram to beat the Baltimore Colts 34-9. Lions defensive back Bob McChesney also had a big game, picking off a pair of Ace Parker passes including one he returned 80 yards for a touchdown. Sammy Baugh completed 16 of 22 pass attempts for 165 yards and including a 4th quarter touchdown toss to Glenn Frey, lifting the Washington Redskins to a 16-10 victory at home over the New York Giants. The Redskins are one of three teams tied with a .625 winning percentage atop the East Division. The other two are Philadelphia and the Chicago Cardinals after the Eagles beat the Cardinals 19-7 on the weekend. Swede Johnston ran for 108 yards and a touchdown for the winners. Cleveland won a kicking battle, getting a pair of 4th quarter field goals from Greg Grossman to top the Pittsburgh Steelers 9-6 while in Chicago the Bears kept their playoff hopes alive with a 16-7 win over the Los Angeles Rams. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
Washington 5 3 0 .625 San Francisco 8 0 0 1.000
Philadelphia 5 3 0 .625 Detroit 6 2 0 .750
Chi Cardinals 4 2 2 .625 Baltimore 3 5 0 .375
New York 3 4 1 .438 Chi Bears 3 5 0 .375
Cleveland 3 5 0 .375 Green Bay 2 5 1 .312
Pittsburgh 2 5 1 .312 Los Angeles 1 6 1 .188
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Sammy Baugh WASH 1046
Ace Parker BAL 936
Steve Perez ChiC 876
Andy Puplis PHI 865
Dwight Sloan DET 795
Wendell Wear GB 774
RUSHING YARDS
Ernie Caddel SF 854
Kink Richards ChiC 788
Swede Johnston PHI 784
George Grosvenor NY 703
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 629
Robert Perryman DET 626
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 426
Charles Jessup LA 386
Anthony Bernstein DET 348
Bill Hewitt NY 325
Mason Bogan BAL 314
Glenn Frey WASH 283
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 98
Ed Skoronski PHI 88
Bill Crass ChiC 79
Joe Kuharich NY 77
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 76
Ted Roque PHI 71
Terry Jones ChiB 70
GROUND GAME LEADS THE WAY FOR NINERS The San Francisco 49ers remain unbeaten thanks to the most explosive running game in the NFL. Through 8 weeks the 49ers are averaging nearly 235 rushing yards per game while no other team in the league gains more than 175 yards per game. San Francisco's success, in addition to a strong offensive line, is spreading the load between Ernie Caddel, Mike Sebastian and fullback Julie Alphonse. Caddell's 854 yards leads the league while Sebastian, with 577, remains in the top ten despite missing 2 games with a neck injury. Alphonse has chipped in with 366 yards on the ground. A year ago Sebastian finished third in the league with 1,034 yards while Caddel was 9th with 854. In real life Caddel played his college ball at Stanford before joining the NFL's Portsmouth Spartans in 1933 and remained with the franchise after it's move to Detroit. He helped the Lions win an NFL championship in 1935 and led the NFL in average yards per carry three consecutive years. During his career he was known as the "Blond Antelope".  Sebastian, from Sharon, Pennsylvania was nicknamed "The Rose of Sharon" and he would play his college ball at Pitt where he was two-time All-American. He would only play two seasons in the NFL before knee and hip problems ended his playing career. He would later go on to be a high school coach and one of his star players was future NFL quarterback Babe Parilli. Alfonse played his college ball at Minnesota and was a second round pick of the Cleveland Rams in 1937. He spent two seasons with Cleveland. September 19, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDINALS LEAD EXTENDED TO 4.5 GAMES ATOP N.L. The St Louis Cardinals won 6 straight games, including 5 in a row to start the week before dropping a pair to Brooklyn over the weekend. The result is the Cardinals magic number to clinch their second straight National League Pennant is down to 9 games. The Chicago Cubs, losers of their last three straight, are now 4.5 games back of St Louis with 12 games to play (13 for the Cardinals). Included in those final two weeks is a 2 game series between the two clubs in the final week. In the American League the New York Yankees surpassed the 100 win plateau for the third straight season. The highwater mark in those years was 106 in 1936 but with two weeks remaining New York is expected to top that total this time around. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 101 42 - St Louis 93 48 -
Boston 82 60 18.5 Chicago 89 53 4.5
Cleveland 74 68 26.5 New York 79 62 14.0
Detroit 67 75 33.5 Pittsburgh 73 69 20.5
Philadelphia 66 75 34.0 Boston 65 77 28.5
Washington 62 81 39.0 Brooklyn 61 81 32.5
St Louis 59 82 41.0 Cincinnati 55 87 38.5
Chicago 57 85 43.5 Philadelphia 52 90 41.5
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Stone PHA .366 Medwick STL .359
Weatherly CLE .359 Phelps BKN .354
Almada BOS .357 Wright PHI .354
Travis WSH .352 Mize STL .353
Gehrig NYY .345 Vaughan PIT .344
Gehringer DET .345 Leslie BKN .338
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 45 Mize STL 36
Gordon SLA 35 Ott NYG 28
Foxx BOS 32 Medwick STL 28
DiMaggio NYY 31 Johnson CIN 26
Gehrig NYY 30 DiMaggio PHI 24
Averill CLE 29 Solters BKN 23
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 128 Mize STL 129
DiMaggio NYY 122 Medwick STL 123
Trosky CLE 118 P Waner PIT 111
Foxx BOS 118 Cavarretta CHN 108
Gehrig NYY 116 Suhr PIT 105
Greenberg DET 110 Ott NYG 102
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 22-7 Lee CHN 20-8
Gomez NYY 21-7 D Dean STL 20-8
Grove BOS 18-4 P Dean STL 19-7
Feller CLE 18-7 Carleton STL 19-8
McFayden NYY 17-8 French CHN 19-12
Broaca NYY 16-6 Castleman NYG 18-14
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 197 D Dean STL 160
Gomez NYY 170 P Dean STL 148
Rowe DET 129 Mungo BKN 145
Ruffing NYY 128 Blanton PIT 144
Allen CLE 125 Carleton CHN 136
Newson WSH 125 Melton BKN 129
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Grove BOS 2.30 P Dean STL 2.36
Gomez NYY 2.77 D Dean STL 2.50
Broaca NYY 2.79 Mungo BKN 2.76
Ruffing NYY 2.86 Castleman NYG 2.92
Mills CHA 3.14 Lee CHN 2.92
Feller CLE 3.30 Carleton CHN 2.96
McFayden NYY 3.37 Fischer BSN 3.02
The two Cubs hitting streaks both came to an end last week. Stan Hack reached 29 games with his, tied with Mel Ott for the longest in the National League this season, while Joe Kuhel had his stall at 26 games. There is another active streak that is growing steam. This one belongs to John Stone of the Athletics and has reached 26 games. The longest streak since the sim began in 1936 belongs to Joe DiMaggio, who hit safely in 33 straight games in 1937. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION BLUES CLINCH WILD CARD BUT SUFFER COSTLY LOSS The Kansas City Blues officially clinched a playoff berth but their was little celebration around Muehlebach Field after word that pitcher Fred Gay's season has come to an end. The rookie lefthander, who was 19-9 with a 3.54 era this season, is the latest Blue to be sidelined this season. He joins pitcher Ted Kleinhans, who won 30 games last season and was a big reason the Blues won the American Series last year, and rookie catcher Clyde McCullough (.281,17,77) as definitely out for the series. Meanwhile veteran first baseman Dale Alexander (.336,9,60) remains hopeful he will be recovered enough from a torn hamstring to suit up when the Series begins in early October. The Toledo Mud Hens officially clinched the regular season title this week. The Mud Hens, who finished second to Kansas City in the regular season last year and the pushed the Blues to the 7-game limit before succumbing in the Series, have an injury concern of their own. 25 year old pitching ace Gene Schott was off to a 16-4 start before going down with a hamstring injury in early August. He has been ruled out for a return in the Series. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 97 48 - Kansas City 87 58 10.0 Columbus 76 69 21.0 Minneapolis 72 73 25.0 Milwaukee 68 76 28.5 Louisville 63 82 34.0 St Paul 59 85 37.5 Indianapolis 57 88 40.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .355 Chuck Klein MIN .350 Johnny Rizzo COL .347 Len Schulte LOU .343 Jeff Heath MIL .341 Benny McCoy TOL .338 Roy Hughes MIL .336 Enos Slaughter COL .335 HOME RUNS Rudy York MIL 26 Chet Laabs TOL 25 Ted Williams MIN 25 Benny McCoy TOL 24 Lin Storti MIL 21 Buzz Arlett MIN 21 Roy Cullenbine TOL 21 Johnny Rizzo COL 20 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 120 Roy Cullenbine TOL 115 Rudy York MIL 112 Martin Dihigo MIL 105 Buck Leonard LOU 104 Benny McCoy TOL 103 Phil Weintraub TOL 103 Johnny Rizzo COL 100 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 24-5 Denny Galehouse MIN 23-12 Carl Hubbell MIN 22-16 Paul Derringer TOL 21-9 Rip Schroeder COL 19-8 Fred Gay KC 19-9 Archie McKain TOL 18-11 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 193 Johnny Rigney StP 175 Carl Hubbell MIN 175 Dizzy Trout IND 164 Max Macon COL 149 Denny Galehouse MIN 129 Ken Heintzelman LOU 122 Archie McKain TOL 110 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 2.99 Dizzy Trout IND 3.15 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.51 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.53 Fred Gay KC 3.54 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.66 Tiny Bonham KC 3.85
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SEPTEMBER 26, 1938 NFL WEEK NINE LIONS HAND 49ERS FIRST LOSS The race for first place in the West Division tightened up considerably after the Detroit Lions went out west and beat the San Francisco 49ers 24-20. It was the 8-1 Niners first loss of the season and moves 7-2 Detroit to within a game of the leaders. The two clubs each have 3 games remaining including a rematch in Detroit two weeks from now. This meeting went back and forth as the Lions took a 17-10 lead at the half thanks to a pair of Robert Perryman touchdown runs before the 49ers responded with two scores of their own in the third quarter. First it was Jim Robinson's second field goal of the game to cut the Detroit lead to 17-14 and then late in the quarter San Francisco quarterback Frank Patrick connected with end Gaynell Tinsley on a 2 yard score to put the Niners ahead by 3 points. However, Detroit would benefit from a Patrick mistake, as his pass was intercepted at midfield by Lions defensive back Bob McChesney. Six plays later Detroit running back Andy Uran, who gained 82 yards on the day including a key 26 yard rush just moments before, scored on a 3 yard run off-tackle to give Detroit the lead for good. San Francisco had more total offense and dominated the time of possession with running backs Ernie Caddel and Mike Sebastian combining for 241 yards rushing, but three 49ers turnovers compared to none for the Lions proved the difference in the game. In other action the Chicago Cardinals moved into top spot in the tight East Division with a 16-13 victory over Philadelphia. Kink Richards ran for a touchdown while league receiving leader William Stamps had 6 catches for 114 yards to lead the Cardinals. Cecil Isbell threw for 82 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 76 yards and a score to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers past the Washington Redskins 20-16. Whizzer White ran for 89 yards while Buster Kinard had 3 sacks to pace the Cleveland Browns past the Los Angeles Rams 13-0. The New York Giants beat the Chicago Bears 17-3 behind a pair of Parker Hall to Bill Hewitt touchdown passes while in Green Bay the Packers defense was dominant in bad weather as they held off Baltimore 16-7. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
EAST W L T PCT WEST W L T PCT
Chi Cardinals 5 2 2 .667 San Francisco 8 1 0 .889
Philadelphia 5 4 0 .556 Detroit 7 2 0 .778
Washington 5 4 0 .556 Green Bay 3 5 1 .389
New York 4 4 1 .500 Chi Bears 3 6 0 .333
Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 Baltimore 3 6 0 .333
Pittsburgh 3 5 1 .389 Los Angeles 1 7 1 .167
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Steve Perez ChiC 1127
Sammy Baugh WASH 1118
Andy Puplis PHI 1022
Ace Parker BAL 1020
Dwight Sloan DET 949
Wendell Wear GB 886
RUSHING YARDS
Ernie Caddel SF 965
Swede Johnston PHI 886
Kink Richards ChiC 868
George Grosvenor NY 792
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 718
Mike Sebastian SF 707
Robert Perryman DET 701
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 540
Anthony Bernstein DET 411
Bill Hewitt NY 396
Charles Jessup LA 386
Mason Bogan BAL 329
Glenn Frey WASH 315
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 108
Ed Skoronski PHI 99
Bill Crass ChiC 91
Joe Kuharich NY 87
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 86
Thomas Cupp BAL 82
Terry Jones ChiB 78
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK NINE IRISH CRUSH ORANGEMEN 59-0 Notre Dame continues to make it's case for a National Championship as the top ranked Irish improved to 9-0 by crushing Syracuse 59-0 on the weekend. It was the second straight shutout and third of the season for the Irish defense but it came at a heavy cost as senior lineman Ed Longhi, who leads the nation with 9 sacks, suffered a torn biceps and will miss the final two games of the season. Standing in the way of a perfect season for Notre Dame is a home game against Stanford(5-4) next weekend followed by a trip south to face 5-3 LSU in their final contest. On the weekend it was the Notre Dame running game that stole the show with Milt Piepul scoring 5 touchdowns while rushing for 168 yards while Mario Tonelli added 151 yards and two scores. Even third string back Rube Metcalf got in on the action with 15 carries for 123 yards as Notre Dame had over 42 minutes of possession and enjoyed a 577-71 total yards advantage over the 3-5 Orangemen. BIG 8 Oklahoma and Nebraska continue to head towards a showdown in Norman two weeks from now. The Sooners improved to 8-0 with a 35-3 win over Missouri while the 8-1 Huskers beat Iowa State 27-13. Code:
BIG 8 STANDINGS CONF OVER #5 Nebraska 5-0 8-1 #2 Oklahoma 4-0 8-0 Kansas 3-2 5-4 Missouri 2-3 3-6 Colorado 2-4 3-6 Iowa State 2-3 3-5 Oklahoma A&M 1-3 1-7 Kansas State 1-5 1-8 ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE North Carolina State has one conference game remaining, against Clemson in two weeks. However, if Virginia, which won a rivalry game with Virginia Tech 33-0 this week, can beat both North Carolina at home and Maryland on the road then the Cavaliers will win their second straight conference title. North Carolina State's only loss this season came to the Cavaliers two weeks ago. Code:
ACC STANDINGS CONF OVER #9N Carolina St. 4-1 8-1 Virginia 3-1 5-4 #15 Clemson 2-2 6-2 Duke 2-2 5-4 North Carolina 2-2 5-3 Maryland 1-3 2-7 Wake Forest 1-4 2-7 WESTERN CONFERENCE Wisconsin and Michigan will fight it out for the conference title but Minnesota is still in the mix for the Rose Bowl as the Gophers finish the season at home to the Badgers. Ohio State is reeling after back to back losses to Minnesota and Michigan State. The Buckeyes will have to settle for a spoiler role when they finish the season on the road at Michigan. The Wolverines won the showdown between the two rivals last season enroute to a National Championship. Code:
WESTERN CONF CONF OVERALL #12 Wisconsin 5-1 7-2 #16 Michigan 5-1 6-3 #20 Minnesota 4-2 6-3 #18 Ohio State 3-3 6-3 Michigan State 3-3 5-4 Indiana 3-3 5-4 Illinois 3-3 4-5 Iowa 2-4 3-5 Northwestern 1-5 1-8 Purdue 1-5 2-7 PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE Cal improved to 5-0 in PCC play and moved up to #3 in the polls following a 31-14 victory over Washington on the weekend. With wins over both Oregon State and USC earlier in the season the Bears seem all but assured a Rose Bowl berth and can clinch with a win against either Oregon or Stanford. The Bears have a solid quarterback in sophomore Bill Elmore but their real strength is a ferocious defense that leads the nation in sacks. Code:
PACIFIC COAST CONF OVERALL #3 Cal 5-0 8-1 #4 Oregon State 3-1 7-1 #19 USC 3-1 5-3 Stanford 3-3 5-4 UCLA 2-3 5-4 Oregon 1-3 4-4 Washington 1-4 3-6 Washington State 1-4 3-6 SOTHEASTERN CONFERENCE After finishing second to Tennessee a year ago the Georgia Bulldogs are poised to claim the SEC title following a 28-22 win over Florida keyed by 3 touchdowns from running back Curt Sandig. All that stands in the Bulldogs way is a win over Auburn next week. Even if Georgia is upset by the Tigers the worst they can do is share the title with Tennessee, and only if the Volunteers win each of their 3 remaining conference games. Alabama fell out of conference contention and dropped to 7th in the polls after being upset 31-17 by LSU on the weekend. Code:
SEC STANDINGS CONF OVERALL #11 Georgia 6-0 7-2 #7 Alabama 4-2 7-2 #13 Mississippi 4-2 7-2 LSU 4-2 5-3 #10 Tennessee 3-1 6-1 Kentucky 2-3 5-4 Auburn 2-3 2-7 Florida 1-5 3-6 Vanderbilt 1-5 2-7 Mississippi St 0-6 1-8 SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE Three SWC teams remain in the top twenty after each posted a victory over the weekend. The Texas Longhorns dumped Baylor 45-13 behind another huge game from freshman running back Bill Dudley, who gained 214 yards on the ground and scored 3 touchdowns. Texas is unbeaten in conference play with a win over Arkansas but the Longhorns still need to get by TCU, as the Frogs moved up to 14th in the rankings with a 32-17 win over Texas Tech. TCU visits Texas next week. Code:
SOUTHWEST CONF CONF OVERALL #6 Texas 5-0 7-2 #17 Arkansas 4-1 6-3 #14 TCU 3-1 6-2 SMU 2-2 4-4 Baylor 1-3 4-4 Texas A&M 1-4 4-5 Texas Tech 1-4 2-7 Rice 1-3 1-7 OTHER CONFERENCES AND INDEPENDENT TEAMS Here are the standings in the other two conferences as well as the records of each of the independent schools. Columbia quarterback Sid Luckman is not quite putting up the numbers he did a year ago as a junior, but he still looks like a potential high NFL draft pick next April. Code:
IVY LEAGUE CONF OVERALL Columbia 4-1 5-2 Yale 4-1 6-1 Brown 3-2 3-4 Harvard 3-2 3-4 Penn 2-3 2-5 Princeton 2-3 3-4 Cornell 1-4 2-5 Dartmouth 1-4 1-6 BORDER CONFERENCE CONF OVERALL Utah 5-1 5-3 Arizona 4-1 6-3 Arizona State 3-2 4-4 BYU 2-3 5-4 Colorado A&M 2-3 3-5 Texas Western 2-3 4-4 New Mexico 1-3 4-4 Wyoming 1-4 1-8 INDEPENDENTS OVERALL #1 Notre Dame 9-0 #8 Penn State 7-1 Army 6-3 Pittsburgh 5-3 Boston College 5-4 South Carolina 5-4 Utah State 4-5 Miami 3-4 Florida State 3-5 West Virginia 3-5 Syracuse 3-5 Virginia Tech 2-6 Rutgers 2-6 Georgia Tech 2-7 Navy 1-8 Current AP Rankings Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 9-0 1 Win 59-0 at Syracuse 2 Oklahoma 8-0 2 Win 35-3 at Missouri 3 California 8-1 4 Win 31-14 Washington 4 Oregon State 7-1 5 Win 36-7 at Arizona 5 Nebraska 8-1 6 Win 27-13 Iowa State 6 Texas 7-2 8 Win 45-13 Baylor 7 Alabama 7-2 3 Loss 31-17 at LSU 8 Penn State 7-1 7 Win 41-20 Boston College 9 N Carolina St 8-1 9 Win 30-10 Miami 10 Tennessee 6-1 10 Win 34-10 South Carolina 11 Georgia 7-2 12 Win 28-22 Florida 12 Wisconsin 7-2 14 Win 28-13 Purdue 13 Mississippi 7-2 13 Win 34-24 at Wake Forest 14 TCU 6-2 15 Win 32-17 Texas Tech 15 Clemson 6-2 16 Win 23-7 at North Carolina 16 Michigan 6-3 18 Win 26-25 Iowa 17 Arkansas 6-3 17 Win 24-17 at Rice 18 Ohio State 6-3 11 Loss 33-27 Michigan State 19 USC 5-3 NR Win 42-3 Washington State 20 Minnesota 6-3 NR Win 30-7 at Northwestern Dropping out of top 20 Arizona 6-3 19 Loss 36-7 Oregon State N. Carolina 5-3 20 Loss 23-7 Clemson RECRUITING The first of the group of highly touted quarterbacks committed this week with news that George Ceithaml will play for Maryland next season. In real life Ceithaml was a star two-way player at Michigan who was named All Conference quarterback of the year as a senior. He was a third round pick of Brooklyn in the 1943 NFL draft but joined the Navy instead and participated in the D-Day landing at Normandy. The Detroit Lions acquired him after the war but Ceithaml elected not to play pro football and later would become an assistant coach at Michigan and USC. The marquee quarterback of the class is Harry Connolly and he remains uncommitted but reportedly has narrowed his choices to Ohio State or Syracuse. Code:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEADERBOARDS
QB PASSING YARDS
Chuck DeShane Alabama 1644
Jimmie Lawrence Wyoming 1630
Banks McFadden Clemson 1510
Foster Watkins Tx Western 1447
Owen Goodnight Arizona 1410
Bill Elmore Cal 1401
Jud Stephenson Iowa 1361
Doc Walton Florida St 1348
Roy Zimmerman UCLA 1346
RUSHING YARDS
Bill Dudley Texas 1612
Lee Kelly NC State 1281
Bob Morrow Illinois 1276
Mario Tonelli Notre Dame 1130
Les Gould Oregon St 1098
Vic Berry South Carolina 1085
Ralph Zukas Arizona 1059
Walt Zinnsky Arizona St 1044
Ernie Steele Wisconsin 1042
RECEIVING YARDS
Bill Lazetich Wyoming 761
Gil McNeely Duke 616
Russ Cotton Texas Western 580
John Kovatch Clemson 579
Norm Thompson California 576
Merrill Waters BYU 562
Bob Miller Florida State 522
Joe Wendlick Oregon State 519
Freddie McCrory UCLA 515
TOTAL POINTS
Lee Kelly NC State RB 120
Bill Dudley Texas RB 114
Tony Canadeo UCLA RB 90
Curt Sandig Georgia RB 90
Johnny Butler Oklahoma RB 84
Bill Schneller Mississippi RB 84
Jack Skaggs Michigan K 83
Pnky Bolen Kansas K 80
Jess Eppert Oklahoma K 80
TACKLES
Frank Gaylord Illinois 85
Bulldog Turner Arizona 80
Bob Shoemaker Michigan 76
Stillman Rouse Missouri 73
Bobby Robertson Duke 72
John Cantrell SMU 69
Tex Gannon Penn State 69
Frank Kiessling Washington St 69
SACKS
Ed Longhi Notre Dame 9
Jim Belsky Cal 8
Bulldog Tuner Arizona 7
Will Dolman Cal 7
Benny Ellis Michigan St 6
Howard McIntosh Florida St 6
Dave Anderson Cal 6
Boyd Copeland Ohio State 6
Jess Lloyd UCLA 6
COLLEGE BASKETBALL GEORGETOWN LANDS A PAIR The Georgetown Hoyas early recruiting efforts paid off in a pair of top 30 players committing to the school this week. The highlight for the Hoyas, who were 19-11 last season and made their 6th straight tournament appearance (but have exited in the first round five straight years), is Robert Gerber. Gerber is considered the number one center available and ranked 9th best in his class overall. Joining Gerber in committing to Georgetown early is Joel Mason, a guard who is ranked 29th overall. Gerber has a tough task ahead next season as he will be asked to replace Jolly Higgins, a fictional player who is preparing for his fourth season as the Hoyas starting center. Higgins has averaged 10.3 ppg over his career so far including 12.8 last year as a junior. He was a freshman All-American and has been named to the Eastern Intercollegiate All-Conference team each of his three seasons including last season when he was EIC player of the year. The real life Gerber was an All-American at the University of Toledo before playing several seasons in the National Basketball League. I had the timeline off a bit on Mason as I learned he played in the NFL for several years prior to briefly playing in the NBL in the early 1940s so in reality he should have been in the basketball portion of the sim about 7 years earlier. Mason later became a long-time basketball coach at Wayne State University. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HERE COME THE CUBS! You could not ask for a much better pennant race than what the National League has in store for the final week of the season. The Chicago Cubs won their last four games while the St Louis Cardinals dropped their last four to shrink the Cardinals lead to just a half game on the Cubs. Chicago has 5 games remaining including a pair at home to St Louis, while the Cardinals have six games left on their schedule. Chicago is on a five game winning streak that began with a 14-0 pasting of Cincinnati on Wednesday. The Cubs then followed that up with a 3-game sweep of the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds including back to back 3-0 victories with Bill Lee (21-8) and Larry French (20-12) each tossing 3 hit shutouts. Chicago also won the opener of a two game set in Pittsburgh yesterday beating the Pirates 4-2 keyed by a 3-hit, 2 rbi performance from outfielder Phil Cavarretta. Meanwhile, the Cardinals were up by 4.5 games entering a 3 game series in Pittsburgh beginning Thursday. The Pirates took the opener 2-1 in 11 innings despite a marvelous outing from Paul Dean (19-8). The St Louis lead on Chicago was down to 2.5 games after Pittsburgh prevailed 8-3 on Friday and then further shrunk when Pirates scored in the bottom of the eighth to squeak out a 6-5 win on Saturday. The losing continued in New York as Dizzy Dean (21-9) got chased in the 7th inning when the Giants scored 6 runs to pull out a come from behind 7-4 victory. With the lead at a half game St Louis will play at New York on Monday and Tuesday while the Cubs finish up in Pittsburgh with just a game on Monday. The two teams convene at Wrigley Field for a 2-game series starting Wednesday before each finishes the season with two home games: Chicago hosting New York while the Cardinals entertain Pittsburgh. Code:
MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 105 43 - St Louis 95 53 -
Boston 85 63 20.0 Chicago 95 54 0.5
Cleveland 79 69 26.0 New York 83 65 12.0
Philadelphia 72 76 33.0 Pittsburgh 78 71 17.5
Detroit 68 80 37.0 Boston 67 81 28.0
Washington 63 85 42.0 Brooklyn 64 84 31.0
St Louis 61 87 44.0 Cincinnati 57 91 38.0
Chicago 59 89 46.0 Philadelphia 54 94 41.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Stone PHA .361 Phelps BKN .358
Weatherly CLE .360 Mize STL .357
Almada BOS .357 Medwick STL .355
Travis WSH .356 Wright PHI .353
Rolfe NYY .348 Vaughan PIT .349
Gehrig NYY .344 Hack CHN .336
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 47 Mize STL 38
Gordon SLA 37 Medwick STL 29
Foxx BOS 34 Ott NYG 28
DiMaggio NYY 32 Johnson CIN 26
Gehrig NYY 32 DiMaggio PHI 25
Averill CLE 31 Solters BKN 24
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 134 Mize STL 136
DiMaggio NYY 129 Medwick STL 127
Trosky CLE 129 Cavarretta CHN 117
Foxx BOS 121 P Waner PIT 116
Gehrig NYY 120 Suhr PIT 111
Greenberg DET 116 Ott NYG 105
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 23-7 Lee CHN 21-8
Gomez NYY 22-7 Carleton STL 21-8
Grove BOS 19-5 D Dean STL 21-9
Feller CLE 19-7 French CHN 20-12
Broaca NYY 17-6 P Dean STL 19-8
McFayden NYY 17-8 Castleman NYG 18-15
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 203 D Dean STL 167
Gomez NYY 175 P Dean STL 152
Allen CLE 140 Blanton PIT 152
Ruffing NYY 131 Mungo BKN 148
Rowe DET 131 Carleton CHN 142
Newson WSH 127 Melton BKN 135
ERA ERA
Grove BOS 2.27 P Dean STL 2.33
Gomez NYY 2.74 D Dean STL 2.65
Broaca NYY 2.80 Mungo BKN 2.77
Ruffing NYY 3.10 Lee CHN 2.82
Feller CLE 3.17 Carleton CHN 2.91
McFayden NYY 3.37 Castleman NYG 2.93
Mills CHI 3.41 Fischer BSN 3.13
Philadelphia Athletics first baseman Ripper Collins (.289,9,42) claimed American League player of the week honours after going 11-for-22 with 3 homers last week. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION With the playoff berths decided the only focus for the top two teams in the American Association was on staying healthy. Both Kansas City and Toledo did just that last week and they are each down to 4 games remaining before the start of the American Series, which will be a rematch of last season that saw the Blues prevail in 7 games. There are still some battles waging for individual accolades with Toledo's Lonny Frey looking to win his first batting title after passing Chuck Klein of the Minneapolis Millers, who had led much of the season. Frey's average dipped about .007 points in the last week but his .348 is still .003 ahead of Klein as the season enters it's final week. Klein's Minneapolis teammate Ted Williams hit a pair of homers last week to take over the AA lead with 27 on the season. The now twenty year old rookie has caught fire in September with 7 round-trippers after hitting just 4 in July-August combined. Williams' lead is far from safe as Toledo teammates Chet Laabs and Roy Cullenbine are just one behind. Laabs also leads the way in rbi's with 126, 10 more than Cullenbine who is runner up in that category. Wayne Lemaster of the Louisville Colonels has struck out more batters than anyone in professional baseball including highly touted Cleveland Indians youngster Bob Feller. Lemaster's 205 leads the Association but with likely just one start left he will finish well shy of the AA record 256 k's set by Kansas City's Ted Kleinhans last season. Code:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 98 52 - Kansas City 89 61 9.0 Columbus 79 72 19.5 Minneapolis 76 75 22.5 Milwaukee 71 78 26.5 Louisville 65 86 33.5 St Paul 63 86 34.5 Indianapolis 60 91 38.5 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .348 Chuck Klein MIN .345 Johnny Rizzo COL .344 Jeff Heath MIL .342 Roy Hughes MIL .342 Len Schulte LOU .337 Martin Dihigo MIL .337 Barney McCoy TOL .336 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 27 Rudy York MIL 26 Chet Laabs TOL 26 Benny McCoy TOL 24 Lin Storti MIL 21 Buzz Arlett MIN 21 Roy Cullenbine TOL 21 Johnny Rizzo COL 20 Stan Spence MIN 20 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 126 Roy Cullenbine TOL 116 Rudy York MIL 113 Buck Leonard LOU 109 Martin Dihigo MIL 107 Johnny Rizzo COL 106 Benny McCoy TOL 105 Phil Weintraub TOL 104 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 25-6 Denny Galehouse MIN 24-13 Carl Hubbell MIN 23-17 Rip Schroeder COL 21-8 Paul Derringer TOL 21-10 Fred Gay KC 19-9 Archie McKain TOL 18-12 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 205 Carl Hubbell MIN 189 Johnny Rigney StP 181 Dizzy Trout IND 164 Max Macon COL 158 Denny Galehouse MIN 137 Ken Heintzelman LOU 126 Lefty Smoll TOL 116 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 2.97 Dizzy Trout IND 3.15 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.52 Fred Gay KC 3.54 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.70 Rip Schroeder TOL 3.73 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.76 Tiny Bonham KC 3.81
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OCTOBER 2, 1938 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CARDS COLLAPSE AS CUBS WIN NL PENNANT In a matter of less than two weeks the Chicago Cubs went from 4.5 games out of first place to winning the National League Pennant by 3 games over the St Louis Cardinals. An incredible final 10 games of the season saw the Cubs win 9 of ten while the Redbirds lost 9 of their final 10 contests. Ironically, the only St Louis win in that span came against the Cubs, as the Cardinals salvaged a split of their two game series at Wrigley midweek with a 2-0 victory. That win allowed St Louis to get back to within a game of first but the Cardinals dropped their last two games of the season against Pittsburgh while the Cubs were winning a pair from the New York Giants. It was an amazing season full of streaks, both good and bad, for the Cubs. Chicago won 22 straight games in June but it was their 7 game winning streak that began with just 10 games left on the schedule that ultimately gave them the pennant. St Louis had the best offense in the National League, led by 26 year old first baseman Johnny Mize (.358,40,140) who won the triple crown, becoming the second St Louis player to do so since 1901. Rogers Hornsby was the first, winning a pair of them in 1922 and 1925. The Cardinals also got another great season out of young outfielder Joe Medwick (.351,29,128) and deadline pickup Luke Appling (.317,2,62) became an ideal lead-off man. Their pitching led by the Dean brothers, Dizzy (22-9, 2.57) and Paul (19-10, 2.41), as well as Bill Hallahan (15-11, 3.19) and Jim Winford (15-10, 3.85) was also very good but Chicago, after two seasons of coming close but falling short both times, found the third time was indeed the charm. The Cubs strength is their pitching staff led by Bill Lee (23-8, 2.80), Larry French (21-12, 3.14) and Tex Carleton (22-8, 2.97) and while they lack the power of the St Louis line-up, Chicago does boast some pretty solid hitters including Phil Cavarretta (.313,12,118), Frank Demaree (.318,16,91) and Stan Hack (.333,10,77).  CUBS VS YANKEES WORLD SERIES The question now is can Chicago, which has been to 5 World Series since their back to back championship teams in 1905 and 1906 only to lose them all, compete with the New York Yankees? It is a rematch of the 1932 Series, one in which the Yankees prevailed. New York looks to be a powerhouse, coming off it's third straight 100+ win season, but they have lost two straight Series to National League teams and likely even more so then the Cubs with their long series drought, New York is feeling the pressure to win this one. The question is can a Yankee team, which won the American League pennant by 21 games and has not really played a meaningful game since mid-June, suddenly turn it on in a 7 game series. The Yankees were unable to do so last year and were swept by the Cardinals. Code:
FINAL 1938 MLB STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE W L GB NATIONAL LEAGUE W L GB
New York 109 45 - Chicago 99 55 -
Boston 88 66 21.0 St Louis 96 58 3.0
Cleveland 81 73 28.0 New York 87 68 13.0
Philadelphia 77 77 32.0 Pittsburgh 81 73 18.0
Detroit 70 84 39.0 Boston 69 85 30.0
Washington 66 88 43.0 Brooklyn 67 87 32.0
St Louis 64 90 45.0 Cincinnati 59 95 40.0
Chicago 61 93 48.0 Philadelphia 59 95 40.0
HITTING LEADERS
AVERGAE AVERAGE
Weatherly CLE .36291 Mize STL .358
Travis WSH .36258 Medwick STL .351
Stone PHA .359 Phelps BKN .350
Almada BOS .355 Wright PHI .349
Gehrig NYY .348 Vaughan PIT .345
Rolfe NYY .346 Jordan BSN .336
HOME RUNS HOME RUNS
Trosky CLE 48 Mize STL 40
Gordon SLA 37 Medwick STL 29
Foxx BOS 35 Ott NYG 28
Gehrig NYY 35 Johnson CIN 27
DiMaggio NYY 34 DiMaggio PHI 26
Averill CLE 31 Solters BKN 24
RBIs RBIs
Gordon SLA 137 Mize STL 140
DiMaggio NYY 137 Medwick STL 128
Trosky CLE 135 P Waner PIT 120
Gehrig NYY 129 Cavarretta CHN 118
Foxx BOS 124 Suhr PIT 113
Greenberg DET 121 Ott NYG 109
PITCHING LEADERS
WINS WINS
Ruffing NYY 24-7 Lee CHN 23-8
Gomez NYY 22-7 Carleton STL 22-8
Grove BOS 20-5 D Dean STL 22-9
Broaca NYY 19-6 French CHN 21-12
Feller CLE 19-7 P Dean STL 19-10
McFayden NYY 17-8 Castleman NYG 19-15
STRIKE OUTS STRIKE OUTS
Feller CLE 208 D Dean STL 170
Gomez NYY 176 P Dean STL 159
Allen CLE 142 Mungo BKN 156
Rowe DET 137 Blanton PIT 154
Ruffing NYY 135 Carleton CHN 148
Newson WSH 132 Melton BKN 138
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Grove BOS 2.18 P Dean STL 2.41
Gomez NYY 2.83 D Dean STL 2.57
Broaca NYY 2.93 Mungo BKN 2.65
Ruffing NYY 3.03 Lee CHN 2.80
Feller CLE 3.36 Castleman NYG 2.83
Brandt BOS 3.44 Carleton CHN 2.97
McFayden NYY 3.50 French CHN 3.14
 COLD CHICKEN! MUD HENS LIMP INTO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Based on a regular season that saw Toledo win an American Association record 98 games and finish 6 games ahead of the second place Kansas City Blues one would expect the Mud Hens should be heavily favoured to win the American Series, especially considering Kansas City will be missing two key pitchers in Ted Kleinhans, who won 30 games last season, and rookie Fred Gay, who was 19-9 this year before a sprained elbow ended his year three weeks ago. Another solid Kansas City rookie will also miss the series as 21 year old catcher Clyde McCullough (.281,17,77) separated his shoulder early last month. However, before we go and hand the Series to the Mud Hens, perhaps we should dig a little deeper. Toledo will be without it's top pitcher as well as 25 year old Gene Schott (16-4) had his season ended in early August after suffering a hamstring injury. What also plays in the Blues favour is Kansas City was 13-9 against Toledo and the Blues are the only team to have a winning record against the Mud Hens this season. Finally, and perhaps the biggest worry for fans in Toledo is while the Mud Hens were practically unbeatable prior to September 1st - they were 90-37 before that date - they have been an awful team the final month of the season, posting an 8-19 record during that period. Now, how much of that is just a by-product of the lack of meaningful games down the stretch after building up such a big lead and how much is a team that is struggling at the worst time possible remains to be seen. Code:
COMPARISON OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINGS FROM OPENING DAY UNTIL AUGUST 31 vs SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER. APRIL-AUGUST W L PCT SEPT-OCT W L PCT Toledo 90 38 .703 St Paul 17 11 .607 Kansas City 77 51 .602 Kansas City 16 11 .593 Columbus 68 61 .527 Columbus 14 12 .538 Minneapolis 63 66 .488 Minneapolis 14 12 .538 Milwaukee 60 67 .472 Milwaukee 14 14 .500 Louisville 55 74 .426 Indianapolis 13 13 .500 St Paul 51 76 .402 Louisville 12 14 .462 Indianapolis 49 80 .380 Toledo 8 19 .296  It will be the Mud Hens second chance to win an American Series against the Kansas City Blues but this time, unlike last year, the Mud Hens will have homefield advantage. A year ago Toledo came up short in a series that went the distance, falling 6-4 to the Blues on the road in Game Seven. Toledo, by virtue of a first place finish with an American Association record for wins, will get the extra home contest if the series goes the full seven games once again. Code:
FINAL AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINS W L GB Toledo 98 56 - Kansas City 92 62 6.0 Columbus 81 73 17.0 Minneapolis 77 77 21.0 Milwaukee 73 81 25.0 St Paul 67 87 31.0 Louisville 66 88 32.0 Indianapolis 62 92 36.0 LEADERS AVG Lonny Frey TOL .347 Chuck Klein MIN .345 Johnny Rizzo COL .342 Jeff Heath MIL .338 Roy Hughes MIL .338 Len Schulte LOU .338 Martin Dihigo MIL .336 HOME RUNS Ted Williams MIN 28 Rudy York MIL 26 Chet Laabs TOL 26 Benny McCoy TOL 24 Roy Cullenbine TOL 22 Lin Storti MIL 21 Buzz Arlett MIN 21 Johnny Rizzo COL 20 Stan Spence MIN 20 RBI's Chet Laabs TOL 129 Roy Cullenbine TOL 118 Rudy York MIL 113 Martin Dihigo MIL 112 Buck Leonard LOU 109 Johnny Rizzo COL 109 Benny McCoy TOL 107 Phil Weintraub TOL 106 PITCHING WINS Al Hollingsworth KC 25-6 Denny Galehouse MIN 24-13 Carl Hubbell MIN 24-17 Rip Schroeder COL 21-9 Paul Derringer TOL 21-10 Fred Gay KC 19-9 Archie McKain TOL 18-12 STRIKEOUTS Wayne LeMaster LOU 206 Carl Hubbell MIN 193 Johnny Rigney StP 187 Dizzy Trout IND 164 Max Macon COL 161 Denny Galehouse MIN 137 Ken Heintzelman LOU 129 Satchel Paige StP 123 ERA Gene Schott TOL 2.70 Al Hollingsworth KC 2.97 Dizzy Trout IND 3.15 Denny Galehouse MIN 3.52 Fred Gay KC 3.54 Carl Hubbell MIN 3.61 Lloyd Johnson IND 3.76 Rip Schroeder TOL 3.79 Tiny Bonham KC 3.81 The top hitter for September was another Minnesota youngster as the Minneapolis Millers Ted Williams won the award. The 20 year old rookie led the league in homers with 28, while batting .323 and driving in 99 runs. Despite plenty of interest in Williams from the Boston Red Sox, the Millers will most assuredly slot him next season to ensure he remains in Minneapolis. Toledo's Lonny Frey won the American Association batting title for the first time in his career. The 27 year old second baseman hit .347 to claim the crown after batting .335 a year ago in his first season with the Hens.  WEEK TEN NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE LIONS PULL EVEN WITH SAN FRANCISCO ATOP THE WEST The Detroit Lions pulled into a tie with San Francisco for the NFL's best record setting up a huge showdown in the Motor City between the two teams next week. Both clubs are 8-2 on the year after the Lions beat Green Bay 10-6 yesterday while the Niners were upset 26-20 in Chicago by the Bears. Detroit and San Francisco have each clinched a playoff spot but home field advantage for the West Division playoff game remains at stake. In Green Bay, Lions running back Andy Uram's 8 yard run in the second quarter accounted for the only touchdown in the game as both defenses played extremely well in Detroit's 10-6 victory. Meanwhile, a couple of hundred miles south in Chicago, the Bears were completing a 26-20 victory over San Francisco despite a 114 yard rushing day from 49ers back Ernie Caddel. Caddel, who surpassed the 1000 yard plateau on the season in the game, leads the NFL with 1,079 rushing yards.  The East Division playoff race is still wide open with 5 teams still in contention. Sammy Baugh did not have a great game, completing 9 of 15 passes for 79 yards but his 4th quarter 2 yard toss to Glenn Frey proved the difference in lifting the Redskins past the Chicago Cardinals 14-12. Washington is now tied for first place in the East with Philadelphia after the Eagles beat Cleveland 16-3 behind a 155 yard passing day from Andy Puplis. The loss drops the Browns to 4-6 and while they still have a shot at a playoff berth, the odds are very slim. The only East Division team that is officially eliminated is the Pittsburgh Steelers after they lost 16-10 at home to the New York Giants. George Grosvenor ran for 103 yards to lead the New York attack, improving the Giants to 5-4-1 on the season. In a game between two teams that are just playing out the string, the defending NFL Champion Baltimore Colts beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-9. The 1-8-1 Rams are all but assured of owning the top pick in next year's College Player Draft. Code:
NFL STANDINGS
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Washington 6 4 0 .600 San Francisco 8 2 0 .800
Philadelphia 6 4 0 .600 Detroit 8 2 0 .800
Chi Cardinals 5 3 2 .600 Baltimore 4 6 0 .400
New York 5 4 1 .550 Chi Bears 4 6 0 .400
Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 Green Bay 3 6 1 .350
Pittsburgh 3 6 1 .350 Los Angeles 1 8 1 .150
LEAGUE LEADERS
PASSING YARDS
Steve Perez ChiC 1226
Sammy Baugh WASH 1197
Andy Puplis PHI 1177
Dwight Sloan DET 1119
Ace Parker BAL 1117
Wendell Wear GB 972
RUSHING YARDS
Ernie Caddel SF 1079
Swede Johnston PHI 975
Kink Richards ChiC 968
George Grosvenor NY 895
Boyd Brumbaugh ChiB 810
Mike Sebastian SF 800
Whizzer White CLE 754
RECEIVING YARDS
William Stamps ChiC 609
Anthony Bernstein DET 459
Bill Hewitt NY 432
Charles Jessup LA 427
Mason Bogan BAL 339
Perry Schwartz BAL 334
TACKLES
Herb Roton GB 109
Ed Skoronski PHI 107
Bill Crass ChiC 95
Silvio Zaninelli PIT 94
Joe Kuharich NY 93
Ed Smithers DET 93
Thomas Cupp BAL 92
Bob Hoel DET 90
COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 10 IRISH REMAIN UNBEATEN WITH WIN OVER STANFORD The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is just one victory away from completing a perfect season. Notre Dame beat Stanford 24-14 to improve to 10-0 on the season and remain number one in the AP Poll. It appeared early the Irish might go down to defeat after the Indians built a 14-0 first half lead thanks to a Norm Standlee touchdown run and Bill Paulman's 25 yard interception return for a second quarter score. However Notre Dame regrouped in the second half and scored 3 rushing touchdowns: one each from Milt Piepul, Mario Tonelli and Rube Metcalf. Tonelli, who is among the NCAA rushing leaders, led the way on the ground with 99 yards. The Irish head to New Orleans next week to conclude their regular season with a game against LSU (6-3). Saturday was a big day for the Tigers who clinched at least a share of second place in the SEC after a thrilling 31-28 victory over Tennessee. Bill Hopper ran for a pair of touchdowns for LSU including the game winner with just over 2 minutes remaining in the game. LSU is 5-2 in conference play but the SEC crown went to Georgia after the Bulldogs (8-2) completed a perfect 7-0 run in conference with a 37-10 win over Auburn. As for the National Title picture, the biggest challenge Notre Dame has right now is Oklahoma after the Sooners ran their record to 9-0 with a 27-6 win at home over Kansas. Oklahoma still has a very tough test in two weeks time when they host fourth ranked Nebraska (9-1) in the game that will decide the Big 8 Champion. Code:
AP RANKINGS REC LW RESULT THIS WEEK 1 Notre Dame 10-0 1 Win 24-14 Stanford 2 Oklahoma 9-0 2 Win 27-6 Kansas 3 Oregon State 8-1 4 Win 49-7 Washington State 4 Nebraska 9-1 5 Win 26-0 at Kansas State 5 Texas 8-2 6 Win 33-21 TCU 6 Penn State 8-1 8 Win 49-12 North Carolina State 7 Alabama 8-2 7 Win 36-0 Miami 8 Georgia 8-2 11 Win 37-10 Auburn 9 Wisconsin 8-2 12 Win 31-10 Illinois 10 California 8-2 3 Loss 32-19 at Oregon 11 N Carolina St 8-2 9 Loss 49-12 at Penn State 12 Clemson 7-2 15 Win 52-10 Maryland 13 Tennessee 6-2 10 Loss 31-28 LSU 14 Michigan 7-3 16 Win 37-13 at Purdue 15 Minnesota 7-3 20 Win 37-15 at Michigan State 16 Ohio State 7-3 18 Win 44-10 Northwestern 17 Pitt 6-3 NR Win 28-27 Army 18 LSU 6-3 NR Win 31-28 at Tennessee 19 USC 6-3 19 Win 38-35 at Washington 20 TCU 6-3 14 Loss 33-21 at Texas Dropping out of top 20 Mississippi 7-3 13 Loss 24-17 Virginia Tech Arkansas 6-4 17 Loss 10-6 at SMU RECRUITING The first of the two big wide receivers available has committed to Syracuse. Nick Suseoff, who in real life attend Washington State before spending 4 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers in the late 1940's, was the 5th ranked recruit overall and #2 wide receiver behind Steve Pritko, who played his college ball at Villanova before an 8 year NFL career. In this sim Pritko is the #4 overall recruit and his shortlist now includes Arkansas, Ohio State and Illinois. Another highly touted wideout who has yet to commit is #15 overall Jack Russell. Russell, who played for Baylor before stops in the NFL and CFL in real life, is deciding between Auburn, Florida and Georgia Tech.  Suseoff should help the 4-5 Orangemen next season as Syracuse, despite having a pretty good freshman quarterback in Jimmy Nelson, has one of the worst passing offenses in the NCAA. Syracuse only has 3 receivers with more than 10 catches on the season, led by Johnny Rubenstein's 21 for 330 yards, and all 3 are seniors so there will be plenty of playing time for Suseoff next season. Code:
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QB PASSING YARDS
Jimmie Lawrence Wyoming 1796
Chuck DeShane Alabama 1766
Jud Stephenson Iowa 1753
Banks McFadden Clemson 1743
Foster Watkins Tx Western 1605
Owen Goodnight Arizona 1553
Bill Elmore Cal 1521
Darrell Tulley Texas A&M 1482
Doc Walton Florida St 1458
RUSHING YARDS
Bill Dudley Texas 1760
Les Gould Oregon St 1434
Bob Morrow Illinois 1350
Lee Kelly NC State 1325
Mario Tonelli Notre Dame 1229
Ralph Zukas Arizona 1214
Steve Juzwik Arkansas 1169
Charley Holm Alabama 1168
Ernie Steele Wisconsin 1148
RECEIVING YARDS
Bill Lazetich Wyoming 771
John Kovatch Clemson 692
Russ Cotton Texas Western 633
Erwin Prasse Iowa 630
Gil McNeely Duke 616
Heinie McNeil Alabama 609
Norm Thompson California 601
Merrill Waters BYU 579
Duke Raschke Indiana 555
Bob Miller Florida State 554
TOTAL POINTS
Lee Kelly NC State RB 120
Bill Dudley Texas RB 120
Curt Sandig Georgia RB 96
Marshall Stenstrom Oregon RB 96
Tony Canadeo UCLA RB 90
Johnny Butler Oklahoma RB 90
Bill Schneller Mississippi RB 90
Les Gould Oregon State RB 90
Jess Eppert Oklahoma K 89
TACKLES
Bulldog Turner Arizona 94
Frank Gaylord Illinois 93
Bob Shoemaker Michigan 83
Bobby Robertson Duke 81
Stillman Rouse Missouri 80
John Solic Rice 77
Paul Graham Indiana 76
Julie Koshlap Virginia 73
Marshall Robnett Texas A&M 73
SACKS
Ed Longhi Notre Dame 9
Will Dolman Cal 9
Jim Belsky Cal 8
Bulldog Tuner Arizona 7
Boyd Copeland Ohio State 7
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October 4, 1938
OCTOBER 4, 1938 WORLD SERIES PREVIEW For the third year in a row the New York Yankees easily won the American League Pennant but the task ahead of the Bronx Bombers now is to finally win the franchise's 5th World Series title. Each of the past two seasons the Yankees were outclassed by their National League foes. In 1936 the New York Giants knocked off the Yankees in six games while last season the St Louis Cardinals swept the Yankees in four on the strength of outstanding pitching. This time it will be a Chicago Cubs team, that like last year's Cardinals squad is built on pitching, who will face the Yankees when the Series begins in New York this afternoon. A glance at the two lineups shows an obvious edge to New York in offensive production. The Yankees scored a major league leading 959 runs while the Cubs only plated 818, good for second best in the National League. Both teams have some outstanding pitching with the Cubs allowing the fewest runs in the major leagues this season and the Yankees the second fewest. The starting pitching looks very close but the Cubs do seem to have an edge in the bullpen.  I picked the Yankees to win the Series each of the past two years and they came up short both times. I just find it very difficult to pick against a team with DiMaggio, Gehrig and Dickey as the heart of the order plus the pitching of Gomez and Ruffing. In 1936 they were beat by an other worldly performance from Mel Ott, who hit 5 homers, batted .522 and drove in 13 runs while Gehrig and DiMaggio combined for 0 homeruns and 4 rbi's. It was much the same last year as the Yankee bats went cold, in a big part because of an outstanding pair of starts from Dizzy Dean. In 10 games over the past two Series Gehrig is batting .205 with 0 homeruns and 3 rbi's while DiMaggio is hitting .200 with 1 homer and 3 rbi's. I am betting that Gehrig and DiMaggio will not both be silenced for three straight Octobers. If one or both have a big Series the Yankees will end their drought. If not, well judging by the talent gap between New York and the rest of the American League the Yankees will get several more shots at another World Championship in the next few years. PREDICTION: Yankees in Six. AMERICAN SERIES PREVIEW I already talked about this one in great detail in the previous update. The Blues have been playing very well in September but are missing 3 key players for the Series. The Mud Hens were amazing for the first four and a half months of the season but have been the worst team in the American Association the past month. They are also entering the Series, which is a rematch of last season's championship, without their best pitcher. On September 1st if you asked me I would have said you could make an all-star team out of the rest of the league and the Mud Hens would likely still win a series. By September 15th I would still have picked the Mud Hens to beat Kansas City but now, after an 8-19 month in which Toledo limped to the finish with 5 straight losses and dropped 9 of their last ten I have to go with Kansas City.  Yes, missing reigning league MVP and pitcher of the year Ted Kleinhans, along with rookies Fred Gay (19-9, 3.54) and Clyde McCullough (.281,17,77) will make the series tough for Kansas City I still have to give the Blues the edge. Blues pitcher Al Hollingsworth (25-6, 2.97) has been outstanding the past month, and rookie Tiny Bonham (15-17, 3.81) has also looked very good of late. Toledo does have more power and a much better offense, plus I think I would take Johnny Johnson as my number 3 starter over either Al Piechota or Lee Stine (not sure which way KC is leaning for the third starter) but I just cannot get over how utterly bad the Mud Hens have been for the last month. PREDICTION: Al Hollingsworth was brilliant in the American Series last year, winning 3 games to lead the Blues. There is no reason he can't do that again this time. I'll take Kansas City in 7. COLLEGE BASKETBALL RECRUITING Two more top five college basketball recruits have made a decision as to where they will play their college ball starting in 1939. John Kotz, the 4th ranked overall prospect and #2 ranked small forward, will join Tulane while guard Al Alvarez, ranked 5th in the nation, has committed to New York University.KOTZ, ALVAREZ COMMIT With top ranked recruit Bob Regh already signed by USC that leaves just Frankie Baumholtz and Bob Schwartz among the top five as uncommitted. Baumholtz is still said to be deciding between Mississippi State and Kansas State while Schwartz is leaning towards either Washington or NYU. Kotz is a huge signing for Tulane, an SEC school that has only made the NCAA tournament twice in the last 13 years but had some success both times. In 1933-34 the Green Wave made the Elite Eight while last season, after a 3 year tournament absence, Tulane won it's opening game to reach the Sweet 16. The real life Kotz was MVP of the 1941 NCAA tournament as a Wisconsin Badger and was a first team All-American the following season. Alvarez was born in Argentina and in real life played in the NBL for the Toledo Chevrolets after playing college basketball and baseball at the University of Toledo. He joins a New York University team that has been a powerhouse throughout my sim. The Violets won three National Titles but all were before 1910. Since then they are a tournament regular, including last season when they went 26-6 and made the Elite Eight, but only advanced as far as the Final Four once since 1915. They start this season ranked 25th in the AP preseason poll.  KONSTANTY REMAINS UNCOMMITTED Jim Konstanty, who would later become much better known in real life for his work on the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies, is a college basketball recruit this season in my sim. Ranked #53 overall, the forward is said to be leaning towards Tulane but also has offers from several other Southeastern Conference teams including Alabama and Mississippi State. In real life he was a multi-sport star at Syracuse before making his MLB debut for the Cincinnati Reds in 1944. In his senior year of high school in western New York, he captained the basketball, baseball and football teams. At Syracuse he became just the second athlete at that school to letter in four sports: baseball, basketball, soccer and boxing. NHL TRAINING CAMPS OPENING THIS WEEK Another National Hockey League season is nearly upon us as 4 of the seven clubs including the three-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Toronto Maple Leafs are set to open their training camps this week. The other 3 teams: Chicago, Detroit and the New York Americans will get underway early next week. The league will have a new look this year. With the Montreal Maroons decision to fold the 2-division format has been scrapped and all seven remaining teams will be aligned in a single division. Pre-season games will begin on October 20th while the regular season starts on November 3rd. Preseason games will be the first opportunity to see several highly touted prospects expected to contribute and the Detroit Red Wings, perhaps more than any other team, have plenty to look forward to. Detroit boasts two of the top three newcomers led by 21 year old defenseman Jack Stewart and 20 year old center Sid Abel.  Boston also has two very talented newcomers in goaltender Frank Brimsek and winger Roy Conacher. Code:
TOP 10 NHL PROSPECTS RK NAME POS TEAM AGE 1 Frank Brimsek G Boston 23 2 Jack Stewart D Detroit 21 3 Sid Abel C Detroit 20 4 Roy Conacher LW Boston 22 5 Murph Chamberlain LW Toronto 23 6 Ab DeMarco C Chicago 22 7 Pete Langelle C Montreal 20 8 Don Metz RW Toronto 22 9 Alf Pike LW Rangers 21 10 Red Heron C Toronto 20
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