Evening star., 1939-10-02
Brooklyn Gains Goal,
Risking Third Place
In Ti|tin Rain
Majors Campaigns Drob
So Far as Records Go;
Newsom Gets 10th Win
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer,


With as much fanfare as mouse
entering its hole the 1899 baseball
season expired yesterday and shortly
will be buried in the history books.
Well-beloved while 1t was living,
boisterous being, the season left a
surprisingly small estate to posterity.
Appraisers in years hence probably
will find it is indeed buried when
they go thumbing into the records
Chiefly 1899 was the year the New
York Yankees won their fourth con-
secutive American League cham
pionship and the Cincinnati Reds
battled through to their first Ma
tional League pennant in 20 years.
The Yankees devoured their op-
position like some dread dragon.
They took the lead in the first week
Of the season and after one short
struggle, in which they were up and
down with the Boston Red Sox,
gained permanent control May H.
They clinched their championship
September 16 and finished with a
17-game margin.
Dodgers Gamble for Crowd.
The Reds had a nip-and- tuck
scramble with the st. Louis
Cardinals at the start of the season
and gave an encore of the same
routine at the end of the show, al
though they led the senior circuit
all the way from May 26. Their
final margin was AZ games.
The Cardinals and the Brooklyn
Dodgers provided the years major
surprises. Both were deep In the
second division last year and figured
to stay there, or thereabouts. But
the Cardinals only briefly yielded
second place to the Cubs and the
Dodgers wound up third in their only
first division finish since 1882.
Larry MacPhail, mogual of the
Dodgers, handled his teams posi-
ton for million attendance yes
terday and won The club had
drawn some 100000 paid admis-
sions and wanted to reach 100000
for the season.
Rain fell all day and the club
had third place clinched if 1t
didn't play, but ran the risk of
losing its position If defeated. The
Dodgers nosed out the Philadelphia
Phillies in the rain, 3-2, and reached
both goals. A second game was
cancelled.
Newsom Hurls Goth Win.
Inclement weather cut heavily
into the final days double-headers,
but Harry Gumbert managed to
come up with one of his best pitch
ing performances, four-hitter, to
give the Giants a SO shutout over
the Boston Bees. the Chicago Cubs
nosed out the Cardinals, 81. and
Cincinnati's champions divided
meaningless double bill with the
Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-1 and 80.
In the only American League
games Joe Grace hit a homer in
the ninth and drove in another run
in the 10th to beat the Chicago
White Sox, 4-3, for the ST. Louis
Browns. and Cleveland and Detroit
split a twin bill, 8-3 and 10. The
first game was victory No. "a for
Bob Feller and the second Buck
Newsoms Goth.
Besides this pair the seasons 20
game winners included Cincinnati's
great combination, Paul Derringer
and Bucky Walters; Curt Davis of
the Cardinals, Red Ruffing of the
Yankees, Dutch Leonard of WASH
ington and Luke (Hot Potato)
Hamlin of Brooklyn.
Sluggers Not So Strong.
There not only was no double
no-hit" spectacle this year, but
also no single no-hit performances.
Slugging reached no peak COM
parable to the 1888 season, when
Hank Greenberg knocked SO home
runs. The best this season was IS
by Jimmy Foxx of the Red Sox.
Joe Di Maggie of the Yankees
sauntered out in quest of hitting
Immortality as represented by a
400 batting average, but had to be
satisfied at the end with a .381
figure, accompanied by the Ameri-
can League hitting championship.
Johnny Mize of the Cards topped
the National with $40.