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MDSCATINE, JOURNAL AND JUKE 16, 1944 Ninth Straight Victory Won By Boston Red Sox Giants Advance to 3rd Place by Beating Dodgers By JOE REICHLER (Associated Press Sports Writer) The Boston Red Sox joined the St. Louis Browns in running the longest winning skein of the season when they defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 5-1 Thursday for their ninth straight victory. Tex Hughson, Red Sox' ace righthander, gained his ninth victory to bring his team to within a half game of the league leading Brownies. Hugshon thus ties Hal Newhoussr of the Tigers for the most victories in the American league. He allowed the Athletics six hits to give the Sox a clean sweep of the four game series.

Bob Johnson hit his fourth for the Red Sox. The New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 9-2 at night to move into a tie with the Cincinnati Reds for third place, and Mel Ott smashed his 17th homer in the first inning two on. Washington made it three out of four over the New York Yankees, with Mickey Haefner out- pitching Joe Page 3-2. Rookie Paul O'Dea's single in the llth inning scored Oris Hockett to give Cleveland a 3-2 win over Detroit. Joe Heving, who twirled the last four innings was winner and Paul Trout the loser.

The victories advanced the Senators and Indians a couple of notches into a fourth-place tie. Pittsburgh defeated Cincinnati 1-0, scoring the lone run in the ninth on Bob Elliott's single soor- ing Jeep Handley. Mix Butcher bested Tomas De La Cruz, although the Cuban allowed but four hits. The Philadelphia Phillies came from behind twice to win from the Boston Braves, 5-4. The St.

Louis and Chicago clubs in both leagues were not scheduled. League Leaders (ByTHE ASSOCIATED PHESS) Jim eric tin Chicago, .339. Cleveland, 41. Runs batted "Washington, 34. Boston, 66.

Cleveland, llrlples Gutteridge, St. Louis, anij Savage, New York, 5. Home Cleveland, S. Stolen bases Gutte ridge, St. 13.

Cleveland, and Ryba, Boston. 6-1. National league. Brooklyn, .405. Brooklyn, 4S.

Runs batted in York, 46. Brooklyn. S3. Brooklyn, IE Pittsburgh. Home New York, 17 Stolen Boston, St.

Louis. Moose to Play Davenport Nine at Park on Sunday gives you GO! It's really a treat. Millions say so: "Squirt can't be beat." SQUIRT 6IVES PARTIES tXTRA SQUIRT BEVERAGE CO. OF MUSCATINE J. B.

ST. CLAIR BOTTLING WORKS Triple Threat Brooklyn may not be going anywhere, but Dodgers lead National League in hitting by 20 points with .282, and Dixie Walker, top, Fienchy Bordagaray, middle, .330, and Augie Galan, .326, are in senior circuit's Big Five. Sailors Humble, St. Louis; Ready for Milwaukee Great Lakes, 111. The Great Lakes baseball team, fresh from an 8 to 2 win over St.

Louis, American league leaders, were today scheduled to meet Milwaukee, the American association's top team. The sailors, with a former major league player at every position, hammered two Brownie pitchers for 11 hits Thursday while Virgil (Fire) Trucks, ex- Detroit pitcher, held the league leaders to five blows. The victory was the 13th consecutive for the sailors against no defeats. Muscatine's Moose baseball club will meet the Boy Hansen nine from. Davenport at Weed park diamond at 3:30 p.

m. Sunday in the nightcap of a doubleheader engagement scheduled by the Davenport team. The visitors will meet the Muscatine Indees in the first game of the afternoon, scheduled to begin with the Moose contest slated at 3:30. The Moose will be out to raise their percentage standing above the .500 mark in the game, having won two and dropped two in contests thus far in the season. The Boy Hansen team has won two and dropped one in league competition this season.

Manager V. R. Branson of the P.loose club indicated today that Gertz would be on the mound for the engagement. The remainder ol the lineup will be as follows: Whitlock, 2nd base; Byrne, 3rd base; McCIeary, 1st base; Eliason, left field; Hindahl, shortstop; Havemann, right field; Beatty, center field; and Hafner, at catch. St.

Louis 3-t Pittsburg-h 27 Cincinnati 2(1 New York 2(1 Brooklyn .24 Boston Philadelphia Chicago Hi Today's Games. Brooklyn at Pliihulelphia Cincinnati at Chicago. Saturday's (James. Xew York at Boston Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at Chicago.

Pittsburgh at St. 'Louts night). AMERICAN LEAGUE, W. Pet. St.

Louis 30 215 V.U>sion 2H 23 Detroit 27 2 Xew York .482 Cleveland 2i! 2R 2T, 27 Chicago Philadelphia 22 2S A Today's Games. Philadelphia at York. Bos'ton at Washington fnig'hIO. St. Loiiis al: 'Detroit (t.iviijg-ht).

Chicago at Cleveland (night). Saturday's Games. Philadelphia at New York (2). St. "Louis at rtetroit.

13oston at "Washington (night). Only games scheduled. $wlng1hg Start Army Non-Com Sets Record in Golf Tourney By FRITZ HOWELL -New HocheUe, N. folks around Wykagyl Country club knew today why Byron Nelson of Toledo, Ohio, has finished in the money in 51 straight tournaments since January of 1941. "Lord Byron" fired a 69 Thursday over the soggy layout where the $13,333 New York Red Cross tournament went into its second 18-hole round today.

The 69, three under par, wasn't good enough for the lead, as Sgt. Vic 'hezzi, the tall New Jerseyite, who beat Byron for the P. G. A. title, blazed around in 67 without benefit of a practice round.

Ghezzi's 30 on the back nine set a record for tha section of the course, the army non-com getting five birdies on the nine holes. Gene Sarazen wheeled in with a 71, after blasting a drive out of bounds on the last hole, and co-favorite Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Philadelphia finished with the same sub-par count despite two out-of-bounds shots on the 17th. Frank Strazza of Greenwich, and Ziggie Mellon of Bronxville were just back of Nelson with 70's, while four others were in the 71-bracket tie with Sarazen and McSpaden. Thurman Tucker of' White Sox shows two-year-oid daughter, Sherry Ann, how he leads American League batters with .393. Meagher to Coach Iowa's Pre-Flight Football Team Ex-Hawk Star in Aerial Spearhead Iowa' City Pilot of the first TJ.

S. bomber to atack the invasion area on D-day was Major Jens Norgaard of the army air forces, and on the 1939 Iron man Iowa football squad. One of the surgeons on a base hospital in England, now treating invasion casualties, is Major Eddie Anderson, coach of that team. ANOTHER ORDER FOR 1946 Iowa City Another order for tickets for the 1946 Wotre Dame- Iowa football game here has been received. This one is from a fan in Illinois.

Albert De Jong of Pella several weeks ago became the first to file an order. PROTECTION I tfie 'fieldTias protectiokj Soy we 'S ood otect 'from the elements.VWe do'itwith paint' f- i good paintAWhich means Dutch Boy PureWLite lead 'folks) Red Paint Store 214 IOWA AVE. PHONE 473 Iowa City, la. (IP) Guiding the gridiron destinies oi the Iowa navy pre-flight football team this fell will be Lt. Comdv.

Jack Meagher, it was announced Thursday night. Meagher arrived on the base Thursday. Former head coach and athletic director at Alabama Polytechnic institute, Auburn, Meagher succeeds Lt, Don Faurot, former University of Missouri coach who was transferred to Monmouth, 111., college last January. The new mentor, who coached at Rice institute from 1928 to 1933 before going to Auburn, played end for Notre Dame in 1015-16. A veteran of four years service with the Marines in the iast war, Meagher played a year of professional football after tfiis before starting coaching in 1922.

Meagher left Auburn a year ago to enter the service, and his most recent assignment was at the technical training center at Norman, Okla. 5 Game Lead in American Circuit (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) With all teams idle today in the American Association flag chase, the Milwaukee Brewers hung onto their five game lead over the Columbus Redbirds who Thursday night battled them to a 5-5 deadlock before a wind and rainstorm halted proceedings in the seventh inning. The storm, which blew down part of the right field stands roof, injuring several, fans, came at an inopportune moment for Manager Casey Stengel's lads. They had two on base and two out, and since they had hammered Johnny Podgajny for 15 hits up to that time, they might well have slapped a couple more had the elements allowed. The ti gave Columbus the series, two games to one.

Louisville skipped back into third spot with a double sweep over Minneapolis, 10-5 and 6-4. The twin triumph put the Colonels eight points ahead of idle Toledo, whose scheduled meeting with Kansas City will be played at a later date. Lefty Bob Logan's 3-2 trimming of St. Paul was something more than just his fourth victory. 'It pulled him and his Indianapolis Indian mates out of the cellar spot they have occupied nearly all season.

By a seven point margin they now top Kansas City, which has been flit-ting with the dungeon for some time. Hawks Expect Bid to All-Star Game Iowa City Several former Iowa football players probably will receive invi'taions to join the All-Star collegian squad foi the game with the Chicago on Aug. 30 in Chicago. Iowa hac been well represented on mos of the previous All-Star squads for the game sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Jim Youel quarterback, and Bob Penaluna guard, were in the 1943 group.

Dot Bundy Raps Miss Betz From Clay Court Tilts By WATSON SPOELSTRA Detroit (IP) Dorothy Maj Bundy, who rocked the tennis world six years ago by defeating the great Alice Marble at Fores Hills, has contributed anothei notable upset in knocking Paulim Betz from the National clay cour championship. Miss Bundy was a 21-yaar-old with a great tennis he: mother and father, May Suttoi and Tom Bundy. were nationa that day she bea Miss Marble. "Dodo" would be a national champion herself, he: friends said, but Miss Bundy' record in recent years has beei so-so. She ranks No.

5 nationally She reached another pinnacl Thursday, however, at the Detroi Tennis dlub, where she eliminated Miss Betz, 7-5, 6-3, to reach th finals Saturday of the week-long meet. Her opponent will be th winner of a match today between second seeded Doris Hart of Mi ami, and fourth-seeded Marj Arnold of Los Angeles. In the men's division, Franciscc (Pancho) Segura of Coral Gables and Billy Talbert of Indian apolis, the two top seeded players continued to make a rout of opposition. Segura gained the semi' finals by defeating Jack McMani of Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, and meets the 'winner of today's matcl' betwsen Pfc. Rex Norris of Lans ing, and Buckley Field and Sam Rotberg of Baj City, Mich.

Talbert whipped sixth setded Hubert Manire of Detroit, 6-0, 6-1 6-0, and Saturday meets Ralph Dilley ol Cleveland, who downe Wendell Chapin of Bay City, 6-2 6-0, 6-1. The men's finals, an Sunday. BROTHER EAGLES Regular Saturday Night Dance for Members, Their Wives or Sweefhearfs Music by EDDIE'S MUSIC MAKERS The Coolest Ballroom in Town NO CHILDREN, PLEASE Ohioans Visit Westbrook Home at Grandview and Mrs. Warren Berkley and daughter, Marcia of Dayton, Ohio, are visiting al the B. H.

Westbrook home. Aid In Project. The '-'Jolly Twenty'' club members painted the tables and benches at the local park on Wednesday. They also repaired the campfire furnace. Harry Graham has been doing the mowing.

Marshall Webb has receivec cablegrams greetings for father's day from his son, Everett who has been overseas for the past year and is now in Africa, where he is serving as a motor machanicss mate Mrs. Virgil Wiele, Lyndal anc Donnie went to Ames on Tuesday to arrange for college entrance for Lyndal. He expects to take up his studies about July 1. Jol-ene Keltner has been a guest at the Harlan Keltner home in Columbus Junction the pas week. Guest of Parents.

Mrs. William Temple ol Osceola is visiting her parents, Mr. anc Mrs. Earl Thompson. Lois Gochanour who enlisted in the WAVES several months ago left Tuesday for New York, where she will enter Hunter college fo training.

Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Rouch and Mr.

and Mrs. Bert Christie Wapello went to Iowa City, Sun day, to hear Jean Rouch sing a the morning chapel service. Mis Rouch, who is a music student in Chicago was guest soloist and ha: returned to resume her studies. Lloyd Rouch shipped cattle tc Chicago this week, returning home on Thursday. Round-Up Of Interesting Notes In Sports (By HDGH'FUIXERTON, JR.) New York national museum of baseball at Cooperstown, N.

recently has acquired a ball presented to Capt. Roy Smith, former governor of Guam, by the navy champion team for 1917-18, and an artificial hand which E. L. Blystone once used to play baseball. We hope the person who buys that Japanese "Paul Waner" bat when it is auctioned on a war bond radio program Saturday will donate to the museum.

The bat, you remember, was found by Marine Corp. Charlie Truitt of Wilmington, in a shell crater on Namur island, surrounded by seven dead Nips. Truitt sent it to Waner, who contributed it to the war bond drive. T'SER. Dud De Groot, the Washington Redskins' new coach, thinks he can talk Mrs.

Andy Farkas into letting: her fullback husband play football again next fall. "The clincher, I think," says Dud, "will be the fact that we are using the formation. She's alarmed about the battering; Andy takes trying to run against major league lines from the single wing for- matian." PAGE. Hanover's Bertha only mare to win the Hambleton- ian and produce a winner of that trotting classic, died last Sunday at the Hanover (Pa.) Shoe farms. Hanover's Bertha won in 1930 and her daughter, Chirley Hanover, in 't 1937.

Billy Petrolle appeared at the Armstrong-Davis punchfest Thursday night and the Garden crowd really expressed approval of the old Fargo loud. Head shaving, long a tradition for freshman footballers at Georgia, has been ruled out this year. Coach Wally Butts says ball players are too valuable to risk having any skinned heads in scrimmage. HEADLINE HEADLINES. Today's headline: "Yanks Bomb Japan With Super Planes." The old way of sayinff the same thing used to be: "Ruth Hits Another." Kent Golf Team Nips Opponents in Club Match Golfers captained by Paul Kent on a three stroke victory over a team headed by George Newton in matches played Thursday afternoon at the Geneva Golf and Country club course.

Plyaing with the Kent team were Paul Kent, Walter Molis, Fred Messenger, Ed Hagermann, R. St. Clair and Warren Davis. On the other team were Mr. Newton, Carl Umlandt, Walter Freebern, C.

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Johnson Herb Lewis. Fight Results (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) New York Henry Armstrong. Los Angeles. technically knocked out Al Davis, 141 3 New York (2). Brooklyn Frankie Terry, 154, Brooklyn, outpointed Oscar Suggs, 143.

Xew Bedford, Mass. (S). Scranton. Harold Smith, 155, Philadelphia, knocked out Coolidge Miller, 163, Xewark, X. J.

(2). Fall River, Mass. Georgia Martin, 15-f, Boston, knocked out Billy Morris, 158, Xew York (4). Lewiston, Me. Maurice (Lefty) T.aChance, Lisbon, out- pointed Armands (Flash) Dutil, 13SU, Lewlston (S).

lowan Eliminated in Net Tourney Detroit OP) Joanne Dunn of Des Moines and her teammate, Betty Ruth Hulbert of St. Louis, were eliminated from the national clay court tennis tournament Thursday. The doubles combination of Nancy Corbet, River Forest, 111 and Shirley Fry. Akron, defeated the Des Moines-St. Louis duo 6-1, 6-4.

"Windy City" Hit by Wind Storms (IP) and firemen were swamped with hundreds of calls Thursday night as a sudden wind storm swept the "Windy City." One of the oddities reported by police: A two-ton truck was blown from its parking place into the center ol a busy near north side street. IOWA ONLY HOOSIER VISITORS Iowa City Indiana has seven conference football games next fall but only the Iowa game, Oct. 26, will be played at Bloomington. When Hawkeyes last appeared in the Hoosier stadium in 1942 they squeezed out a 14-13 win. A federal Itand Bank Xtoan is made from the farmer's point of view.

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Muscatine and Xoulsa Counties). Iowa City Eight consecutive weeks of practice will prepare Ibwa's football squad for the opener with Ohio State at Columbus, Oct. 7. Buckeyes now are starting six weeks of summer drill with a squad of 105 players Armstrong Puts Davis Out With KO in 2nd Round (By TED MEIER). New York Wi Henry Armstrong still is one of the best fighters in the business.

The for- mer triple champion demonstrated it Thursday night by flattening Al "Bummy" Davis in less than two rounds at Madison Square Garden. A crowd of 16.084 (gross gate screamed as Hammerin' Henry from Los Angeles battered the Brooklyn bad boy to the canvas four times, twice in the first round, before Referee Frank Fullan stopped it after 69 seconds of the second stanza. Davis was stretched full length, fiat on his face, when Fullan, without bothering to count, waved Armstrong to his corner. From the start Armstrong, a master at infighting, pinned Davis against the ropes. He didn't give Bummy an -opportunity to use the left hand punch that kayoed Lightweight Champion Bob Montgomery.

"I felt pretty sharp," explained 'v Armstrong later. Both he and Davis weighed pounds for the scheduled 10-rounder. Armstrong's next bout 5s in Washington on Wednesoay night against Corporal Nick Latsios, of. Boiling Field. Father and Son in Infield for Peru Ball Team Peru, 111 The Peru baseball team has a father-son combination in its infield.

Alex Gorgal, a city policeman and former semi-pro player, has taken over the first base job while across the diamond at third is his son, Ken. TAKE A LOAD Off HY MIND POT IT IM THE TOMS PREMIUM LPCOM. -AtWflME THIS SPRING OR. YOU CAN'T SUM of having enough coal next winter if you wait to order it War demands have continued to has continued to shrink. So take a friendly tip and order without delivery mine shipments and truck facilities permit PREMIUM COAL Harry (Casey) Jones Coal Co.

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