Daily News from New York, New York • 306

CO Authoritative Sauce 3. Flock Shaded, 1. "Wi! By Jim McCulley The best "unemployment insurance" for a baseball manager these days seems to be a report from that old unreliable "authoritative source" of his imminent dismissal. In recent months reports had Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox, Lou Boudreau of the Indians, Bill McKechnie of the Reds, Bob Coleman of the Braves and Freddie Fitzsimmons of the Phils on the way out, not to mention Leo Durocher of the Dodgers. But all of them are still in their old familiar places today and, with the exception of Durocher, all are sure of being in the same spot next year.

Yesterday this bureau, on a hot tip, speculated on Bucky Harris' replacing Fitz. But Herb Pennock, general manager of the Phils, cooled tnat one off in a hurry yesterday by re-hiring the popular fat man for '45. As I have said many times before, they don't come any better in baseball than Fitz. I'm glad that Pennock acted so quickly to spike the reports that Fitz was out in Philadelphia. Perhaps the lengthy speculation in yesterday's pillar had something to do with bringing the situation to a head.

If it did, then some curse is taken off the bum steer. But probably Fitz can thank Mel Ott and his gang (they dropped five straight to the Phils) for taking the heat off. Now if somebody will only fire Durocher on report from an "authoritative source," the Lip will be a sure thing to be back in Brooklyn next year. That Hollywood Touch Selznick Stables' Ariel Lad, given a fast and furious ride by Eddie Arcaro, managed to get himself into a picture in Belmont's featured Highweight Handicap yesterday, and he had the leading role, too. The five-year-old chestnut gelding out-photoed Tellmenow.

after covering the six furlongs in 1:08 25 and returned $6.90. Airlei Lad Wins Mi ignhvjQBcghf 'Cop There was a real World Series atmosphere up at the Stadium Sunday. Probably the Yankee fans had an inkling of what was to come about and figured it was their last chance of the season to make whoopee. It turned out to be a first class opportunity for yelling, too, because both contests were packed with drama and thrills. That first game-winning homer by Larry Rosenthal, a Yank castoff, was a story-book swat, more spine-tingling than any Horatio Alger conquest that I ever remember reading.

And I think I read about all of them in those dear, dead days not yet beyond recall, thank goodness. By Dick Young Owned by the Selznick Stables of the late Hollywood producer, Myron Selznick, Ariel Lad gave a performance before the finish line camera at Belmont yesterday, posing his handsome profile in front of Tellmenow's to win the $10,000 added Fall Highweight Handicap in a blazing 1:08 2-5. And speaking of World Series, the stunt Connie Mack pulled on the Yanks last Sabbath reminded one by stretching the imagination just a little bit of the trick the wise and lovable old gent worked on the Cubs in the Classic of 1929. In the opening game of that bygone Series, Connie surprised one and all by pitching a second stringer, one Howard Ehmke. Everybody thought Mack had gone a trifle batty in the noggin.

But Ehmke defeated the Cubs, 3-1, and Chicago never recovered. Most of the 55,000 who came to the Stadium Sunday gathered in their pews with the idea that Connie was going to pitch two of his stars, Russ Christopher and Jesse Flores, against the Bombers. All the baseball writers thought so, too, as well as the Yankee players 6-5, in Boston, Falls to Cellar (Special to The News) Eoston, Sept. 18. The Dodgers went tumbling down the NL's cellar stairs to last place here today when they lost the odd game of the five-set series to the Braves, 6-5, in 10 innings.

However, Broolkyn made a battle of it, staging uprisings in the eighth and ninth that netted five runs and sent the pastime into extra frames. ONLY 407 CASH CUSTOMERS The all time low in attendance of 407 cash customers saw an exciting game through. With one out in the 10th, the Bostonians DODGERS b.av. ab. r.

h. tb.bb.rbi.po. a. e. 0 Miksis.3b.ss J31 5 Owen.c 3 1 a-Galan Aderholt.lf Durrett.rf Kosen.cf Schultz.l Bollingr.lb Brown.

ss b-Walker Stankv. .310 .000 .048 7 .2 Ml .354 .1 73 3 (I 0 1 0 1 2 t7 HO BM'ir Channian.p .37 Sunkel.p .000 Team MtjS 37 6 6 7 3 OC28 13 aSinirled for Owen 8th. b-Lined out for Brown in Oth. c-One out when winmnic run fccored. BRAVES b.av.

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e. :41 1 .304 .2 IS .191 .257 083 .110 .250 13 1 2 3 2 1 0 6 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 Holmes. ef Nieman.lf Wkman.rf Hofferth.c Phillips. 3b Drews.b Andrews. lea i Totals 39 6 13 20 8 5 30 10 3 Including- yesterday's same.

DODGERS 000 000 032 5 Braves Oil 010 110 1 tS Earned runs Dodsrers 5. Braves 3. Two-base lnts Wietelmann. Phillips. 3Iiksis.

Holmes 2. Home run Workman. Slolea base Holmes. Cauirht stealimr bv Owen 2 (Wietelmann. Masil.

Sacrifice Hofferth. Double play Dodtrers 1 Basinski-Brown-Schultz). Left on bases Dodders 5. Braves ltj. Bases on balls elf Chapman 7.

Hutch- in's 2. Andrews 1. Struck out by Chap man 4 IMeman, Phillips. Mast. Andrews).

Hutehinsa 4 Durrett 2. Sehultz. Brown). Andrews 1 (D'Antonio). Hits off Huteh-inirs 4 and 5 runs in 8 inns, (pitched to two batters in Chapman 12 and rt in 94 Sunkel 1 and 0 in 0 (pitched to one batter) Andrews 1 and in 2.

Passed ball Hofferth. Winning: pitcher Andrews (14-14). Losing pitcher Chapman 13-3). Time 2:15. Umpires Steuart.

Jlauerk urth and Dunn. Attendance 40tj. went to town on Ben Chapman. Three hits rattled off the outfield fences Masi's long single, a double by Holmes and Butch Nieman's pays off safety over Red Durrett's head in right off Tom Sunkel, relieving Chapman. Johnny Hutch-ings had a no-hitter going into the sixth, but had to be rescued by Nate Andrews.

Charley Workman hit his ninth homer in the fifth. Chapman was wild throughout, walking eight, and the defense on both sides was sloppy, the Dodgers making four misplays three of 'em by Tom Brown and the Braves three. As a consolation the Dodgers took the season's series, 13 games to nine. NO HITS BUT TWO RUNS The Braves tallied twice on Chapman without the semblance of a hit. A two-base wild heave by Brown in the second and three passes in a row gave the locals their first run.

A pass to Holmes, Durrett's muff of Nieman's drive and Workman's long fly went into the manufacture of their second marker. Workman's homer was their first earned tally. Brown threw Workman's grounder away in the seventh. A sacrifice and Phillips' double scored him. Hutchings had two out in the eighth when he passed Basinki, and Chapman got his second hit to right.

A passed ball advanced the runners and Miksis' double to center scored them both. Galan, pinch-hitting for Owen, singled to right, scoring Miksis. Durrett walked in the ninth and Rosen singled, so in came Andrews and Boiling, batting for Sehultz, singled to right, scoring Durrett. Walker, swinging for Brown, lined to Drews, but Bordagaray, the third pinch-hitter of the frame, was retired by Phillips, Rosen scoring the tying run. DIAMOND DUST: It didn't pay to- pen the park.

There wer iot 100. cttso'mev'ih'tke'earKls afl.the ti i 1 JlllS HCI11I1 IIZ. As '45 Manager Philadelphia, Sept. 18 (JP). General manager Herb Pennock of the Phillies announced today that Fred Fitzsimmons would be retained as field manager for '45, spiking rumors that he would be replaced by Bucky Harris, for-' mer field manager, now with the Buffalo Bisons.

has been coming in for lots of abuse, certainly made no friends among the favorite players when Swift Marine, finishing on the outside under a vigorous ride by Bobby Permane, proved more photogenic than Still Blue, 3-5 choice with Ted Atkinson aboard, in the fourth scamper. The chart callers unanimously voted Still Blue the winner, but the camera said it was Swift Marine at $26.30. Pharason, which had shown plenty of early lick at Aqueduct, found the Widener chute to his liking and scampered down the straightaway in 1:03.3, the fastest time of the year and only four-fifths off an. old record set by Chestnut Oak. IX Playoffs NEWARK Toronto Jin ion oo -12 0 () (10 1 11 8 J.

Pace. SINGLETON 2 and Drescher; Crowson and Crompton. Probable Pitcbers NATIONAL Roe (12-10) at Pirates. Roe (12-10 at CODGERS. (iregg (U-14).

Reds. Heusser (13-8 and Konstantv nt Phillies. Raf fensberser (ISIS! and Schanz (12-14). Only sanies scheduled. AMERICAN Borowv (17-9 at Timers.

ehoiiser (25-S). Red Sox. Cecil (3-3 at Indians, Gromek i-H). Athletics. Florea (K-10) at White Sox.

Humphries (ti-l(). Senaturx. JS'iircre linir (P-7 or Hnefner (11-1 3) at Browns. Galehouse (7-8). League YESTERDAY Boston BROOKLYN 5 (10 Only game scheduled.

STANDING OF THE CLUBS Furiously driven by veteran Ed- die Arcaro, the galloping chestnut gelding returned a second-choice $6.90 for his near-record dash down the six-furlong Widener chute before .32,800 who plunged $2,831,205 on the opening-day card cf the Fall season. Ariel Lad's photo-victory fell just a fifth of a second short of the track mark set last Spring by True North the same True North which yesterday led the six-horse field by a length, charging into the stretch furlong. But there the record-holder, ridden by Georgie Woolf and coupled with Cassis as the favored Howe Stable entry, Started to fade. First, Tellmenow whisked past the tiring pace-setter, then Ariel Lad, another length otF at the stretch pole, breezed by. The two strong finishers dueled doggedly over the final strides before Ariel Lad stuck his neck out in front.

True North carried his 136 pounds home third, evidently defeated by the load which compelled him to give 11 pounds away to the winner and 19 to Tellmenow. DOUBLE PAYS $117 Donald (The Duck) Meade and Jackie Westrope combined to win the Daily Double with Febridge and She Dast, respectively, for a $117.40 payotf for 923 lucky customers. Febridge staved off a closing bid by the favored Light Count, while She Dast broke on top and won by open daylight. Showtown, backed down to favoritism at the last minute, finished in the ruck. Grey Hood, which used to campaign with moderate success on the flat, made his debut as a hurdler a victorious one by outgaming War Battle in the Stonewood Hurdles.

Coupled with Mahogany Lad as the trainer Morris H. Dixon entry, the winner was the public choice at $6.10. The photo chart camera, which ilinrrirail League YESTERDAY ito statues scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS W. 78 L.

Pet. G.B. Detroit- C2 .557 63 .553 61 .543 66 75 .472 75 .468 St. Louis 78 NEW YORK 76 Boston 74 Philadelphia 67 Cleveland 06 Chicago 64 V-i 2 4 12 12', 14 2 77 .454 Washington- 60 81 .426 TODAY NEW YORK at Detroit. Washington at St.

tamis. niffht. "Boston at nitiht. I'uiludclohia at Chicago, liirht TO YANKS AuaiiiKt Tu'ers, Indians. While Sox.

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4. Total 1.1. all at home. THIERS Anainst Yankees. 3 Red Sox.

4: Athletics, Senators. 4. Total 14. all At hoiue. ft I SOX Against Indians, Timers, '4! W)iU Soa tot-i 14.

all mwt. rr themselves. It was natural to expect Connie to lead with his aces, if for no other reason than to exhibit no favoritism in this hot flag race. When Mack surprisingly announced his starting pitchers as Hot Potato Luke Hamlin and Don Black, enough eyebrows were lifted to equip every Nazi quisling with a Hitler Fuller brush. The general yell was.

"What's Connie trying to do, throw the pennant to the Yanks?" Well, of course, you know what happened. The Yanks blew two games. Both Hamlin and Black needed help before the contests were over, but while they were in there they contributed some pretty nifty flinging for a pair of second-stringers. I don't know whether the surprise of finding out that they were going to face only Hamlin and Black tickled the Yanks into a wholesale case of the jitters, but nevertheless the Bombers from the Bronx were a shaky lot against the A's. Nothing went right for the Yanks Sunday, not even Joe McCarthy's sound strategy.

To count the Yankees out at this time, even though three straight defeats at the hands of the A's is an ominous sign, would be the silliest sort of reckoning. But those games with the A's were just as important as any which will come out West in the" next two weeks. And like the Cubs in the 1929 World Series, who never recovered from the surprise beating at the hands of Ehmke, the Yanks of '44 may never recover from the stunning double defeat handed them Sunday by Connie's Athletics and started by a couple of junior varsity pitchers named Hamlin and Black. Just before Sunday's double debacle, the Yanka appeared to be their old confident, happy-go-ure aelves. Smiles lighted up the entire dressing room and everybody seemed to be in a jocular mood.

I walked into Joe McCarthy's private quarters, just off the locker room, expecting to see Marse Joe at least in a serious frame of mind and concentrating on the immediate business at hand. Instead, Joe was thumbing through a boxing magazine. He stopped at a picture ofa gory Ad Wolgast. Joe smiled. "You know," said McCarthy, "I saw him fight around Milwaukee back in 1907.

He was just a kid coming up, but I knew then that I was looking at a champion. I was just starting in baseball, but I had a fighter myself at that time. The first time Wolgast fought Bat Nelson, I tried to get all my friends to bet on Ad." Joe laughed. "They were going to send out for the wagon. They thought I was crazy.

I was crazy like a fox on that one," he gloated. Joe is a. calm captain in a storm, the way all good captains should be. Probably that's the secret behind the good ship Yankee, and why it conies through so often. W.

L. Pet. G.B. 96 45 .681 82 58 .586 13 Va 79 60 .568 16 66 73 .475 29 63 77 .450 321a 58 82 .414 372 57 81 .41.3 372 58 83 .411 38 St. Louis.

Chicago NEW Y( Boston TODAY Pittsburgh at BROOKLYN 2:30. CineiniiaU at Philadelphia, 2, twi-iiiirht. Only sanies scheduled. IL Playoffs YESTERDAY NEWARK 5. Toronto 4.

nieht. Buffalo at Baltimore, nnrht. rain. STANDING OF THE CLfBS Series A W.L. Pet.

Series W.L.. Pet Buffalo 1 MIIIO NEWARK 3 (( l.OOO Baltimore 1 Toronto 0 3 Best lour out of seven kuuics. TODAY NEWARK at Toronto, Baltimore 'at Buffalo (nit'tit). works and wild animal show tonight. Manager Leo Durocher plans to use Hal Gregg, Fred Wells and Art Herring in Pirate series beginning tomorrow at Ebbets Field.

got it yet!" yelled Frank Drews in the first inning on Ader-holt's grounder "No, you haven't!" Durocher coaching at first, retorted as the Brave's sec- Braves took their infield practice. the game had to be played as long as there was an empty date on the schedule If it had been cancelled and the Dodgers, Braves or Phillies finished in last place they might be deprived of a valuable player in the draft during the Winter The early start was because president Bob Quinn has rented the' grounds out to a fire 6ncf baseman- fumbled the'.