The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-05
DEFEATS INDlANS,7 TOP
TELLER IS BEATEN
BY HOMER ATTACK
Rowe Gets 18th Win As Tigers
Regain Second Place; Geh-
ringer Leads Hitting
BY DALE STAFFORD

BY DALE STAFFORD
DETROIT, Sept. r. Up Fire
baller Bobby Teller may be the No. !
annoyance Of the rest Of the Ameri-
can league but to the Detroit Tigers
Of 1910 he's a pitching cousin
whose Sunday throw is a nice home
run ball.
With the assistance Of three hon.
ers, the Tigers %plastered Feller and
the pacesetting Cleveland Indians, z
to 2, today, regaining second place
and moving to within three games
Of the Tribesmen.
Teller now has lost but eight
games while winning % and three
Of his losses have been at the hands
of the courageous Tigers, who played
today with a patched lineup because
of a string of injuries. Bobby has
defeated Detroit twice.
Heroes of the Tiger victory were a
couple Of old-timers - Pitcher Lyn.
wood Rowe and Second Baseman
Charley Gehringer. Rowe allowed
seven well scattered hits in fashion
ing his thirteenth victory of the
year. He has lost only three games.
Gehringer, in and out Of the lineup
this eason because Of injuries,
swatted a homer and a double that
sent four Tiger runs across the plate.
Hank 0reenberg and Bruce Camp.
bell also homered off Feller before
he surrendered at the end Of the
seventh after allowing all of Detroit's
II bingles.
A roaring crowd of 17,710 partisan
customers cheered the Tigers and
boaed the Indians throughout the
contest. One rabid Detroit follower
reminded the throng Of the Indians
recent internal squabbles by placing
a filled baby's milk bottle and a
nipple on top Of the Cleveland dug
out. In the fourth inning the pa
irons cheered when Ken Keltner,
Cleveland third baseman, collided
with a newspaper photographer while
going after an easy foul fly and
failed to make the catch.
The Tigers landed on Teller at the
outset. In the first Campbell dashed
a single to right and scored on Geh-
ringers two Dagger to the same spot.
Greenberg went down on a long fly
but Rudy York drove a line single to
left that scored Gehringer.
Hal Trosky slapped nj of Rowe's
slow pitched balls into the right field
stands for his oath homer of the year
to open the second and in the fourth
the Indians tied the score on their
last run. Trosky singled after a long
argument in which the umpires up
held a Detroit protest that he should
remove a fingerless glove covering a
wound on his right hand. Hal
reached second on an infield out and
came home when Campbell dropped
Ray Mack's long drive for a triple.
In the Tiger half of the fourth
Greenberg sent a low liner into the
center field stands for his 9th home
run, and in the fifth Campbell hit a
homer inside the park. q
The uprising that finished Feller
occurred in the seventh. Rowe
started it with a single. Dick Barte,l
forced Rowe and was safe at first
when Oscar Grimes, who had re.
placed Trosky, dropped a throw from
Lou Roudreau that would have COM.
pleted a double play.
While Teller stood on the rubber
preparing to pitch to Campbell, Bar
tell raced to second and the incident
apparently upset the Cleveland
finger. Bob failed to throw to first
a moment later when Campbell hit
a high bounder in front Of the plate.