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18 RENO EVENING GAZETTE October 5, 1944 Morf Cooper Still "Cousin" To Americans Jinx Follows Big Boy for Third Year Flag May Quiet Rumors Browns To Be Moved Club Lands In the Dough Over Night By WHITNEY 31ARTIN NEW YORK, Oct. 5. UP) Every year for years and years the St. Louis Browns have been kicked around. The Browns' franchise, that is, although until this year that might apply to the ball club on the field, too.

St. Louis was too small for two major league clubs, they said, so the self-appointed long-distance trucking concerns would pack up the franchise and cart it off to Los Angeles, or Milwaukee, or Baltimore, or some other community which could support the club in SPORTSMAN'S PARK PACKED This was the scene in Sportsman's park, St. Louis, in the first in baseman, struck out in the last half of the Initial inning. Denny Gale crowd of more than 35,000. (AP wirephoto) FOR OPENING SERIES GAME ning of the opening world series game as Ray Sanders, house is hurling for the Browns.

The Browns won, 2 Cardinal first to 1, before a Hit I ess Wonders" Win Opener McQuinn's Homer With Moore On Base Pays Off for Browns By JACK HAND M'QUINN GETS A WELCOME George McQuinn (running towards camera), Browns first baseman, gets a welcome at home after hitting a home run in the fourth inning of the opening series game at Sportsman's park. Meeting him with outstretched hand is Gene Moore, Browns rightfielder who scored ahead of McQuinn for the two Browns tallies. No. 6 is Mark Christman, Browns third baseman who was waiting to bat. Batboy in foreground is unidentified.

The Browns beat the Cards, 2 to 1. (AP wirephoto) RUSS NEWLAND Ernie Nevers Back from Pacific Area Reports on Athletics and Snakes SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. UP) South Pacific Special) Our distinguished visitor the other day was Capt. Ernie Nevers of the U.

S. marine corps and if you can't place the bulky blond you are either not a football bug or were not around when he was Stanford's line battering fullback twenty years ago The big fellow returned not long ago after ten months in the South Pacific battle area where he had charge of the ground personnel of a ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5. UP) They Hitless Wonders today because they copped the opening game of the first all-St.

Louis world series, 2-1, on two hits and a team batting average of .069 but Manager Luke Sewell will take three more of the By F. W. CRAWFORD ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.

UP) When Mort Cooper watched his hopes for a first-game victory against the Browns go sailing away yesterday on the wings of George McQuinn's two-run homer, it was just another link in a chain that has shackled the Cardinal righthander in his campaign against American league hitters. Cooper picked up right where he left off last year in the Cards losing series with the New York Yankees. Bill Dickey two-run homer brought the bombers a 2-0 series-winning game and sent Cooper to a sixth-inning shower. TOO MANY HITS Three times in the big series and twice in the all-star game the Cards' ace fireballer has bounced too many hits off American league bats. Only once has he gone to the winner's circle in the second game of the series last year.

Big Mort never had any trouble plunking his swift one by National leaguers and into the big mitt of his brother, catcher Walker Cooper. But Mort has relatives in the American league, too. Most of the junior leaguers have found they are his country cousins at the plate. Just as an indication of how manager Billy Southworth's pride toys with the National league boys. take a glance at his 103-to-50 won and lost record over a seven-year stretch.

His 1944 report cards says 22 won, 7 lost the same as it was in 1942 when he was voted the most valuable player in the National league. He was the most valuable in the National league but he was little help to the Cards in winning their world series championship that year. He lost the Redbirds' only start against the Yankees, 7-4. And he was fast blowing a 5-run lead in the fourth game of the same set when stocky Max Lanier came along to save the day. BIG NO.

13 After the Brownies had made away with another "Cinderella triumph yesterday, big Mort sat disconsolate in the dressing room, his chin cupped in his hands. "You can't win unless you get runs, was his only comment. It's true the Cards have scored only one run in their last two world series games both of which Mort lost but all those other tries against American leaguers make superstitious ball players shake their heads. Maybe it is that big No. 13 on Mort's broad back.

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WENT NOWHERE FAST There never was a club that traveled farther standing still than the Brownies, and nobody was quite as bewildered by this furi ous, if purely ersatz, activity than Don Barnes, the round, effervescent little president. He says he never received even one offer to transfer the what's more, he isn't so sure he would have listened if he did. And as things have turned out it vouldn't have been very good business to listen, anyway, as nobody is going to make a heavy-sugar offer for a broken-down jalopy that won't start unless it is pointed downhill, a direction the Browns always seemed to be going. The Browns today are a shining' new up-to-date model fully equipped with a championship and all, and could command a pretty good figure. Mr.

Barnes was in town while the club was teeter tottering around first place, and doing more tottering than teetering. He still was optimistic, though, and dreaming of how pretty he would be sitting if the Brownies came through. DRIVER'S SEAT "We'd be in the driver's seat," he said, "and maybe there wouldn't be this talk about moving the franchise. We'd be champions, the same as the Cardinals. Why shouldn't they move the Cardinals, then? Why pick on the Browns?" He has something there, at that, as if the town is too small to support two clubs, and both champions, it wouldn't be fitting and proper to single out one of them to get the heck out of there.

If the Browns continue to be at or near the top every year, it is conceivable they might out-draw their National league rivals. As a matter of fact, the Cardinals for a while in the '20's were the homeless St. Louis club. They rented the park owned by Phil Ball, then owner of the Browns. Both clubs now rent from the Ball estate.

NOT FIRST FLAG As a matter of fact, just to stick to facts, this isn't the first pennant the St. Louis Browns won. The catch is that it is the first since the organization of the American league. For a couple of decades before that, as explained by Fred LieB in his fine book: "The St. Louis Cardinals," the St.

Louis club of the National league and the American association was known as the Brown, and it wasn't until around 1899 that the name was changed to Cardinals. And those old Browns won four straight championships in the old American association. NOW in larger and belter quarters 555 E. FOURTH ST. No job too large REFRIGERATOR SERVICE R.

E. WARD Day Phone: 22166Nights: 22395 Orioles Land In Title Series BALTIMORE, Oct. 5. UP) The Baltimore Orioles forged their way into the little world series for the first time since 1925 last night by taking the seventh game of the final International league playoffs from Newark's Bears, 6-3, in drizzling rain and fog before 14,747 fans. Three home runs plus a collection of other extra base blows and sterling pitching by righthander Stan West paved the way for the Baltimore victory.

The Birds will meet Louisville in the opening game of baseball's minor classic Friday night at Louisville. Army Ball Team Defeats Navy MAUI, T. Oct. 5. Capitalizing on the breaks, the army sneaked out a 6-5 baseball win over the navy yesterday with a nineth-inning rally in the touring "servicemen's world series." It the second win in nine games for the soldiers.

Cincinnati Johnny Vandermeer's pitching wildness and navy errors handed the game to the army, after the sailors had held a 4-0 lead until the sixth inning. SPORTS MIRROR Today a year ago AP football poll ranked Notre Dame first, Michigan second, Army third, Navy fourth, Duke fifth. Three years ago New York Yankees defeat Dodgers, 3-1, and capture world series, four games to one. Five years ago Crowd of 59, 791 saw Yankees cop second world series game from Reds, 4-0, as Monte Pearson hurled two-hitter. Ten years ago In football up sets, Michigan State shut out Michigan, 16-0, and Texas shaded Notre Dame, 7-6, with Elmer Lay den coaching the Irish for first time.

TROJAN LINEUP LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5. UP)- Jeff Cravath's Southern California Trojans will field the same lineup against California here Saturday that they used against UCLA in the season opener, when they got a 13-13 tie. Don Hardy, end who was kept out of last week's Col lege of the Pacific game by in juries, will be back at left end. FEATURE RACE NEW ORLEANS, Oct.

5. (IP) The Fairgrounds announced today the billing of the Pontchartrain handicap, a $2500 added six-furlong contest for 2-year-olds and over, as the feature for opening day of the 75-day racing meet here, Saturday, Dec. 23. EXPERT TIRE RECAPPING Work Guaranteed ONE DAY SERVICE NEVADA RECAP COMPANY 119 East Fourth Street Phone 2'4674 Reno TEX HUGHSON ii PITCHES" AGAIN SHEPPARD FIELD, Oct. 5.

UP) The right arm of Tex Hughson, the American league's leading pitcher last season, has tossed its first pots and pans. The ex-Boston Red Sox ace got his initial taste yesterday of kitchen police. Hughson, a private, is taking basic training in the army air forces. SERIES BRIEFS By BEN F. PHLEGAR ST.

LOUIS, Oct. 5. UP) The Brown's first game victory was the second time in less than a week that they won a ball game on two hits. Last Friday they beat the Yankees, 1-0, with only two safe blows, a single and a double. Hal Newhouser, Dizzy Trout, Dick Wakefield and Bob Swift, four members of the Detroit Tigehs who had counted on playing in the series instead of watching it, were in the stands yesterday.

If Luke Sewell and Billy South-worth need any advice during this series they won't have to look far Frankie Frisch, former Cardinal pilot; Gabby Street and Rogers Hornsby, who led both St. Louis clubs; and Jim Bottomley who once headed the Browns, are attending the games. Marty Marion, who sported only a .269 batting average for the season, was the only Cardinal to get two hits in the first game, both two-baggers. Marion was the leading batter in the 1943 series with a .357 average. The records say the Cards will have to win today's game to stay in the running.

Never has a team lost the first two contests of a best four-out-of seven series and come back to take the classic. In 1921 in a five-out of eight play-off, the Yankees beat the Giants twice, but lost the title, five games to three. Umpires Ernie Stewart of the American league and Lou Jorda of the National have two of the best seats in the park and get $500 plus expenses for just watching the They are reserves and will work only if one of the four regular arbiters is sick or injured. Utah Gridders To Play Denver SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 5.

UP) Utah's all-freshman backfield of Ben Zundel, Morris Ficklin, Dar-rell Hafen and Joe Dobaran of Boise will respond to the kickoff against more experienced Denver university at Denver tomorrow night. The Ute squad leaves tonight. Ficklin, last year a Grand June iwm pmunn on me same griuiron iL. rnere a weeKS aS ne PJa'ea an oioraao prep game. Return of Letterman Jack Ok-land at tackle has strengthened Utah's line.

RAZORBACKS SET FAYETTEVILLE, Oct. 5. GBThirty-two University of Arkansas Razdrbacks will take off Friday morning for Fort Worth, where they tangle with the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University Saturday. his eyes open for a course and finally found one on Espiritu Santos island, a 9-holer which he deduced had been built by French colonists "It was surrounded by jungle, flat and bare and looked like it hadn't been played on for years. Anyhow we had no clubs or balls." MEETS GRIDDERS Capt.

Nevers came into contact with a number of former football players, notably, Dave Rankin, an old Purdue end now a marine fighter pilot; Bill Morgan, ex-University of Oregon and New York Giants guard; Bill Cole, former University of Oklahoma back now piloting a torpedo bomber, and Lt. Ira Campsey, who once played right half for Texas Tech. Another lad whose name was very familiar to Nevers was Tommy Killefer, a navy pilot and son of Wade "Red" Killefer, former coast league and American association baseball manager Nevers pitched for the old San Francisco missions when "Red" Killefer managed the coast loop club. EEEK3ID mmmm RUDY VALLEE RICHFIELD REPORTER MAJOR BOB JOHNSON Air A NBC ORCHESTRA A Great Special Events Broadcast TUNE IN NBC mmm squadron Military reasons, I necessarily, caused Capt. Nevers to be very guarded in his talk but we don't need that kind of information to complete this stint, it's a gift, folks We led off by asking Capt.

Nevers what was the most popular sport of the servicemen in the areas he was assigned to and without much deliberation he decided it was softball, with volley ball and basketball running neck and neck in second place This was in the secured areas TOUCH FOOTBALL "They played some tough foot ball between the tents and were beginning to put on boxing shows when I left." Being interested in snakes from way back, and I don't mean the kind that come out of bottles or those who take verbal socks at you when you aren't within hearing distance, it was natural to inquire into the serpent situation I never saw any big snakes. The only ones I saw were pink coral snakes. They are little but they pack an awful wallop. I heard there were big snakes in the jungle but I never went looking for any," Nevers related. As an honorary member of the California golf wrriters association of which Yr Obt Svt is the president, Nevers reported he had kept broadcast sponsored by ttETTS Razor Compaq COAST-TO-COAST Tune in Station KOH 11:45 A.

M. WOftWSEffiS 61 5i Safety are calling the St. Louis Browns the straight over the Cardinals today, Potter, his top winner with a 19-7 WORLD SERIES FACTS, FIGURES By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STANDINGS Team Won Lost Pet. St. Louis (AX.) 1 0 1.000 St.

Louis (N.L.) 0 1 .000 First game at Sportsman's park: K. H. E. Browns 2 2 0 Cardinals 1 7 Galehouse and Hayworth; M. Cooper, Donnelly (8) and W.

Cooper. REMAINING SCHEDULE (All games at St. Louis) Second game Thursday, Oct. 5 Third game Friday, Oct. 6 Fourth game Saturday, Oct.

7 Fifth game (if necessary) Sunday, Oct. 8 Sixth game (if necessary) Monday, Oct. 9 Seventh game (if necessary) Wednesday, Oct. 11. FINANCIAL FIGURES Paid attendance, 33,242 Gross receipts, $149,268 Players' share, $76,126.68 Commissioner's, $22,390.20 Each club's share, $12,687.78 Each league's share, All receipts of the third and fourth games, after deduction of the players' share, and the en- tire receipts of the sixth and seventh games, if played, go to the war relief and service fund, which also received $100,000 paid for radio broadcasting rights.

The players' share in the receipts of the first four games only while the commisisoner's office, the competing clubs and the two leagues share in the first and second games and get all receipts of the fifth game. innings but wound up by handine the Missouri husky his third series defeat to a lone victory. He struck out a man each of the first three frames and didn't allow a hit until Moore punched a single with two out in the fourth. In all, the Browns wont J-iifloce im ii i 4" vc Hi cigin ui me nine in-; ninPS. six tr Cnnrto-r anrt Donnelly.

vv Galehouse had his troubles in the first three heats when he vielded five of the seven Card blows, but seemed to get a new lease on life when McQuinn hoisted one of Cooper's fast ones out of the playing iieia. Wiien the pressure was on. Gale house was superb. After Marion smacked the first of two doubles in the second and Emil Verb an singled, he struck out Mort Cooper. Following safeties by Johnny Hopp and Ray Sanders and a pass to Walker Cooper which loaded them with one out in the third.

Dennv whiffed Whitey Kurowski and made Danny Litwhiler force Hopp. Again in the ninth, Marion doubled to lead off tut had to move around on an inrield out and score on pinch hitter Ken O'Dea's fly to center. TAKE A PEEK AT YOUR same with no squawks. In an effort to make it two Sewell named right hander Nelson win mark, to oppose Billy South worth's Drize lefthander. Max Lanier, who won 17 and lost 12 in the National After the Brownies took the opener, the series odds fell to 9 to 10 and take your choice, QUESTION MARK Although Lanier lost his last seven stars in the dying days of the regular season, and was sent home with a sore arm during the last eastern trip, the chunky Carolina southpaw can be the toughest in the league when he's right.

Whether he will be right today is Billy the Kid's biggest worry. Potter was expected to be Sew ell's first game choice but he passed him for Denny Galehouse and saw his judgment justified yesterday when the crafty curve-baller sprm kled seved Red Bird hits and held a shutout up to the ninth inning. Talk of weak hitting shouldn't bother the Brownies for there is precedent for just such a situation that is favorable to their cause. In 1906 Fielder Jones' Chicago White Sox, the original hitless wonders toppled Frank Chance's Cubs in one of the greatest of all Series upsets, doing the job in six games after winning the flag with a September streak of 19 straight victories. Although Mort Cooper and Blix Donnelly, who teamed up to gain the unenviable distinction of losing the first two-hitter in series history, outshone Galehouse in sheer brilliance, it was the former Youngstown defense worker who had it in the pinches.

Denny pulled out of tight spots in the second and third with vital strikeouts of Mort Cooper and Whitey Kurowski and bore down to retire the side after Marty Marion had scored the only Red Bird run. FOUR-PLY SWAT A crowd of 33,242 that paid $149, 268 into the kitty, thrilled to George "Lefty" McQuinn's fourth inning home run clout atop the right field pavilion following Gene Moore's single to right. That was all the American league hitting and all the scoring but it was enough to send the customers home chuckling about how their "Cinderella Kids" had upset the Cardinal "supermen." McQuinn's poke must have been doubly satisfying to the lean, quiet Virginian who spent eight years hanging around the Yankees' farm system, obscured in the shadow of the late Lou Gehrig. Although handicapped by a back injury, Mc-Quinn hit 11 homers during the campaign and made up for-a .250 average with 71 runs batted in. Even the first sacker's wallop wouldn't have been enough if Moore hadn't banged a single into right field a few 'seconds earlier.

The veteran of six big league clubs, who was obtained in a trade from Wash ington during spring training, was another example of Sewell's uncanny ability to pick the right man at the proper minute. The skipper had dabbled with the idea of using Milt Byrnes in right and had Moore in and out of the lineup in the closing diive. THIRD SERIES LOSS Mort Cooper's American league "cousins" didn't have too much en-thurinsm for their task in the early FLY1 UNITED AIR LINES AIRPORT Terington Flying Service Telephone 2757 or 24031 For Restaur ants -Dairies Bars or Any Commercial Building STEEL OTE ENAMEL The High Class ODORLESS Paint Will not crack, check, chip or blister, -when properly applied. Non-yellowing, can be washed repeatedly without injury to the surface. Dries -with a h'igh gloss.

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