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Evening star., 1941-09-19
Griffmen Seek Sixth
Place in ; Games
Over Week End
Fuce CeIIorite Mocks;
Beot Brownies, 9-8,
In Uphill Contest

Only game removed from sixth
place, the Nationals will attempt
to close that gap over the week end,
meeting the cellar dwelling Phila-
delphia Athletics in a single game
here tomorrow and a double-header
on Sunday.
Dutch Leonard. victorious In II
of his last 13 games, will pursue
his 18th triumph tomorrow. The
Mats, incidentally, will be seeking
their seventh win in eight games.
having swept a brace of 9-8 en-
gagements from st. Louis.
Sid Hudson staked the Browns
to a four-run lead in the first in
ming yesterday. but the Mats grad
ually closed the gap and finally
assumed command with a four-run
outburst in the fifth inning, taking
TO lead.
Cecil Travis played a prominent
part in swatting the Mats into the
lead, contributing pair of doubles
to drive home three runs, and in
the eighth inning Roger Cramer
thumped a double with the bases
loaded to give the Mats 9-6 ad.
vantage.
Alexandra Carrasquel, who had
replaced Hudson. weakened in the
ninth to allow two runs. however,
but with the potential tying run on
third base and two out Walter
Masterson entered the game and
whipped third strike past Pinch
hitter Johnny Lucadello.
Washington delivered 10 timely
blows off Bob Moncrief, Denny Gale
house. Clarence lott and Bill Trot-
ter, while the Browns cuffed Hudson
and Carrasquel for IA safeties.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Leaders Reiser
for
Personality
Best Youngster Ever
Soys Pilot Durocher;
Pete Is Modest
By the Associated Press,


PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19.-The next
nine narrowing days will decide
whether the Brooklyn Dodgers will
wear the National League crown,
but there's a lad in their midst today
who already seems a shoo-in for a
bunch of individual honors.
He's Two-Gun Pete Reiser, who
may end his first full season as a
major Lacquer wearing the triple
plated crown Of batting champion,
outstanding rookie and most valuable
player to his team. And to this
record might be added the title of
personality champ" for this un-
assuming kid.
The extra honor Is not due to high
powered assets such as glib tongue
and q glad hand, but rather to
Pete's consummate modesty over his
astonishing deeds.
Reiser resembles the fresh-faced
youngster next door, but he hits
baseballs like a demon and currently
ranks among the greatest clutch
hitters IN the game for his habit Of
inserting his base knocks when the
fighting Flatbushers most need EN-.
Lippy Leo Durocher, manager of
the Brooks, calls Outfielder Pete one
Of "the best young players I ever
saw"
Hes going to be an even better
hitter because he's going to get
smarter the longer he's up" Leo the
Lion added just before the Dodgers
finale with the Pittsburgh Pirates
yesterday.
Opposing pitchers in the league
are quite willing to concede that
Harold Patrick Reiser is smart
enough now. He has belabored them
for an average around 1886 so far,
topped off by a squirt needed in the
Dodgers stretch drive
Discussing his hitting, Pete said
in dead seriousness:
Il wouldn't mind batting five times
and going hitless. If I got up that
many times in a game it would
mean somebody on the club was
hitting"
That friends, is modesty in large
way.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Dodoers Aces May Be Davis and Fitz

Brooklyn the records would seem TO indicate
These records could be mis-
leading Brooklyn pair winners WhitoW Wyatt
20game winners Yet on the
Buns? NOT
decision Hgbe didn't snare
all
killer the Giants OF course aaoy
being dead pitcher when they their
nvers at night beg for like Hgbe AS Tor
wyatt either with without Keller ano
Role
able gather Curt Davis and Fedoe
the home run hte
generally called doWners In other words DAVIS
oeat
of lifting the fences
this not good Fz ADMITS tnat ne
older Now he
opened the series he might as well
up probably won't be used DAVIS
assignments This would seem 10
Hamln Allen klmoa and Aoo
class ball. This isn't precisely rosy OUTLOOK
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Lopez's Strategy Probably Won Game

We realize getting mooonos but the Buns have ways
of getting fooled Take that game yeer
lifetime only 13 defeats against the Pae
and spread over three years. Fz
knocked out.
The the eighth and then Walker Herman
Lavagetto hit safely in score
Hamn Dodger pcher look over
nd t looked in the bag.
the Pirates ninth singled and took Sec
md on Medvks fly he went third On Pinch
hitter stayed Then Lopez came to the
plate. - .. ,r. r,osa
the viewpoint The Dodgers
that stepped the box forcing Casey freeze as ne
nobody pitch to- screamed Manager Leo
purocher pitch? And how in the HI can
be nevertheless and the Pirates tied up Inen
whipped straight balls OF which three
Anderson followed with wacaroning
triple the ball game
This is team Any other club probably
episode But the Buns only have
the Bees and in and even 1t were the
Reds confident of winning AS matter OF
Tact the this Western against
solid circuit Fgure
that about figuring out the Buns Iney JUST
Amt
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Louisville, Columbus
Open A. A. PIayoff
Final Tonight
CoIoneIs Gain Decisive
Series After Tough
TussIe With MiIIers
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 19.-The
final round of the American Asso-
ciation Governors Cup series gets
under way here tonight, with the
Louisville Colonels meeting the
champion Columbus Red Birds.
1t took the second-place Colonels
six games, spread out over a period
of 10 days, to knock the Minneapolis
Millers out of the running and ad-
vance to the final. They accom-
plished the chore at Minneapolis
yesterday, 7 to /, behind the smooth
five-hit pitching of oscar Judd.
Manager Burt Shotton OF the Red
Birds picked Johnny Grodzicki, top
ranking mouhdsman in the associa-
ton, to hurl the first game OF the
four r-out -of-Seven series.
Les Fleming, who came from Bos-
ton late in the season. probably will
be ON the hill for the Colonels.
Grodzicki, winner Of two OF Co
lumbus' four victories in the SEMI
finals with Kansas City, has a rec
ord of three victories and one de-
feat against the Colonels this year.
Fleming has neither . win nor .
loss against the Birds.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
By BURT HAWKINS.

The skeleton-like farm system Of
the Washington baseball club,
financial dirk at the back of the
parent organization, next season
will be supervised by Ossie Bluege,
it was learned today,
For years one of the Mats most
polished players and cog III Clark
Griftlths three pennant-Winning
teams, Bluege will be intruSted with
co-ordinating and needing WASH
ington's minor league affiliates and
attempt to place them on a more
firm financial footing.
Now the Mats first base coach,
Bluege processes ignorance of his
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Another Griffith
Diamond Romance
A. P. Wrephoto.

Thelma Griffith, adopted
daughter of the president of the
Nationals, and Pitcher Joe
Haynes of the Chicago White
Sox, are to be married early next
month. Haynes, formerly Wash
ington hurler, was traded to Chi
cago last winter.
Clark Griffith's secretary and
sister of Mildred, who married
Joe Cronin, then manager of the
Mats and currently plotting the
Boston Red Sox, Thelma is a
vital cog in the Washington front
Office.
Haynes has been employed
chiefly in relief roles by the
White Sox this season. With
Washington last season he won
three games and lost six, suffer-
ing most of the year with a sore
arm.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Macon Hopes Buoyed
By Second Victory
In Sally P|ayoff
Defeated Three in Row
BY Columbia, Peaches
Shine in Comeback
Sy the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, Sept. 19.-The un-
predictable Peaches came home to-
day riding high on the crest Of an
ell-important two-game winning
streak in the South Atlantic Leagues
playoff finals.
When the club left for Columbia
three days ago hardly its stoutest
supporter would offer more than a
well-plugged nickel for Macon's
chances. Columbia's Reds had blast
ed the Peaches in three straight
encounters and needed but one more
win to clinch the series.
But last night the Peaches nour-
hhed jaded series hopes by rolling
from behind to capture their second
In a row from the Reds, 1915. They
did it by stint of bat and the right
arm of masterful frankie Marino,
who pitched good baseball for seven
of the nine innings he worked.
Big Cy Block, Sally all-star sec
ond sacker, did some fancy cleanup
work with his stick, knocking in
three Macon runs with a homer and
Q triple In Ave of1cial trips.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Spectators Foresto|Ied in Dodger Sale
Ticket Buyers Limited to Four Sets All but Photographed

lyn customers would be taken
care of first, followed by Man
haitian supporters and then the
country at large.
He estimated about 100000
fans would like to see the games,
but that, with only about $4,000
reserved seats or less available,
about $4,000 applicants would be
disappointed if two sets of tickets
were allotted each of the 10000
successful applicants.
To remedy this, he is arranging
to set aside 5000 seats which will
be sold on a single-game basis
to those who applied but were
unable to get sets of tickets. In
this way 1900 fans will ~ at
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Protect Deous Dodgers Who Toss Away Ball Game Wild Rumpw
Win, Lose or Draw
BrookIyn's Buns: What Are Their Series Chances?
By FRANCIS {. STAN,
Star staff Correspondent.

BrookIyn's Buns: Whut Are Their Series Chances?
ROUTE LOUIS, Sept ls-I Dodgers the right
Yankees the World Series how much of chance do they
stand? At times there impulse bsky OF the
qualifications
the can't be ignored.
minds they confident
anybody We left them night take look at the
4game with the Cubs Some of the Buns
SERIES of them said,
a line the Cards for year?'
of 940
playing borrowed time There is
the club nothing approach the power
Greenbeg York Gehringe McClosky Co.
pitching sreaky.
aren't alike in temperament
No CALAMITY than Brooklyn
neders hl their faces into the cleaning spikes OF enemy
Walker
crashing the fences
The lucky times they good that only sheer
inspiration could be the
Evening star., 1941-09-19

least one game, whereas only
5000 would see all the games II
the seats were sold for the series.
Apparently disturbed by re-
ports that the sale was being
handled improperly and with
little consideration for the loyal
fans, MacPhail asked a commit
tee headed by Ford c. Prick, Ma
tional League president, to in
spect the arrangements.
Frick issued a statement to the
effect that the committee had
found the tickets were being
handled fairly and competently.
The Brooklyn fan, it added, "is
the first concern Of the club In
I'll ticket allotWants."
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Stars Yesterday
BY the Associated Press.

Walter Masterson Senators-Choked
off Browns ninth-inning rally by fan
ming pinchhitter with tying and win
ming runs on base.
Alf Anderson. Pirates-His triple
drove in winning run against Dodgers.
Frank Demaree. Braves - Socked
homer with two on In first inning to
point way TO victory over Cardinals.
Jake Mooty. Cubs-Pitched four-hit
ball against Giants
Ray Starr and Frank Mccormick.
Reds-Former shut out Phillies in first
game, Mccormick hit three-run homer
to help win nightcap.
Bob Feller, Indians-Beat Red Sox
with eigbt-hit hurting
Evening star., 1941-09-19
SondIot Teams Stage
Tourney Twin Bill

Maryland Sports Club and WASH
ington Apaches meet tonight at 7:30
to open a double-header at WASH
ington Stadium in the Metro sandlot
tournament.
The closing contest will be be-
tween Hume Springs and Petworth
Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19-Every
person who purchased ticket for
a World Series game in Brooklyn
will be all but photographed to
prevent speculation.
The name and address of each
purchaser, together with the
ticket number, will be placed on
file, and a limit of four sets is
placed on any one order. Presi-
dent Larry MacPhail announced
yesterday.
MacPhail said the club already
has returned certified checks and
money orders totaling more than
100000, submitted for blocks Of
seats. H sid the regular Brook
Evening star., 1941-09-19
st. Louis
washington

ST. Louis -----401 100 002|S
WASHINGTON ----012 040 02x-9
Runs batted in-Cullenbine, Grace go,
Berardino co. Ortiz go, Travis 80, Cliff,
Early Cramer t2), Ferrell. Two-base hits
-Cullenbine (2), Travis .(2). Layne, Early,
Cramer, Grace. Three-base hits-Grace,
Ferrell. Stolen base-Cass. Double plays
-Berardno to Stevens; Travis to Blood
worth to Vernon: Heffner to Berardino to
Stevens. Left on bases-St. Louis. 10:
Washington, T. First base on balls-Of
Muncrief, 3 off Galehouse, 1; off lott. l;
off Hudson; 3; off Trotter, I; off Carras-
ouel, .. Struck out-By, Muncrief, /: by
son, /. Hits-Of Hudson, 6 in 3 innings;
off Carrasauel. 8 in. 52s innings; off Nun,
Grief. in 4ls innings; off Galehouse. 0
1none out in eighth: off Trotter, 2 in /
inning; off Masterson, in ls inning.
Winning pitcher - Carrasquel. Losing
pitcher = Muncrief. Umpires - hubbard,
Geisel and Grieve. Time-2:35. Attend
ance (estimated), 5000.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
No Ground Lost
By Mad Brooks
AsCards Bow
WrongIes With Ump,
HurIer Cosey's Fury
Mark Leaders Loss s.
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


If the Brooklyn Dodgers don't win
the National League baseball cham
pionship maybe they will go after
Joe Louis heavyweight boxing
crown.
They took their minds off baseball
lorg enough yesterday to lose a
critical game 10 the Pittsburgh
Pirates, 6-5, and they also lost their
preliminary venture into the heavy
weight class to Umpire George
Magerkurth, man mountain weigh
ing about 225 pounds and feet
inches tall.
But the fates which protect little
children-and the Dodgers-Saw
them through their hours of travail
once again by bringing the Boston
Braves a Al victory over the st.
Louis Cardinals. This kept Brooklyn
in front by one game with the
standings:
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Game Tense All Way.

OdHt IcHSc AL way.
The rumpus at Pittsburgh was one
of those wild si0eshows for which
the delirious Dodgers have become
famous.
The game was tense all the way,
with the Pirates hopping on Fred
FitzSimmonS, their old nemesis, for
four runs in the fourth, and Johnny
Lanning holding the Dodgers II two
singles through seven scoreless in
ningS.
There was a rumbling of trouble
in the seventh when Larry French,
who had relieved Fitz, hit Frank
Gustine with pitch and Gustine
threw his bat at the pitcher. But
the volcano really erupted in the
eighth.
The Dodgers dug up five runs in a
breath-taking rally after two were
out, and then set out to hold their
5-4 lead.
Luke (Hot Potato) Hamhn went
to the mound and gave a single to
the first batter. Vince Di Maggie,
who reached second as Joe Med
wick fumbled.
Casey Goes Wild.
Big, chubby Hugh Casey was
rushed in and got the next two men
out, with Di Maggie moving to
third Then he baked. and Umpire
Magerkurth waved Di Maggie home
with the tying run. There was a
mass protest by the Dodgers which
lasted for five minutes then sub
sided.
Casey was infuriated, however,
and threw the next three balls over
the heads of Magerkurth. Lopez and
his own catcher, Mickey Owen
Magerkurth went to the mound and
told him, You can't make a trav-
etsy of this ball game"
Durocher rushed between the two,
showed Casey out of the way and
stormed at Magerkurth in language
that the umpire later modestly
termed bitter" Finally Mayer
kurth ordered the manager out of
the game. Casey walked Lopez, Alf
Anderson tripled and a potential
Brooklyn victory flew through the
pearly gates.
Cards Beaten at Start.
The feud with Magerkurth con-
tinued under the stands after the
game until tough little Bill Stewart,
whose pugnaciousness is respected
even by the battling Brooks, broke
up the wrangling. Durocher broke
up some chairs and odds and ends
after he got to the dressing room,
too, but this didn't do the Dodgers
any good.
What did do them some good was
Boston's beating the Cards. Frank
Demaree got his only hit Of the
series at ST. Louis in the first In
ning-a homer with two on-and
Gene Moore clouted another with
the bases empty in the sixth. With
this backing, Nanny Salvo held the
Cards to six hits and won easily.
The Redbirds WOULD have taken
the lead by 2 percentage points if
they had won. They play the Chi
cago Cubs today while the Dodgers
have an open date, but victory still
would leave them half game out
of first place.
Reds Again Win Two.
In yesterdays other games the
Cincinnati Reds swept their second
straight double-header from the
Phillies, SO and 90. Ray Starr, a
seasoned minor Lacquer, pitched the
shutout and Frank Mccormick hit
a three-run homer to lead the at
tack in the nightcap
The Cubs took fifth place awav
from the New York Giants by beat
ing them, IL, on the four-hit hurl-
ing of Jake Mooty and a six-run
rally in the seventh inning.
Bob Feller acquired his Oath VIC
tory with an eight-hit pitching job
that led Cleveland to a 6-1 triumph
over the Boston Red Sox. jeff
Heath hit a three-run homer in
the first.
Washington repulsed the st. Louis
Browns, 9-8.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
Blair Out as MANAGER

JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 19 R-
Clarence v. Footsy) Blair, former
Chicago and Knoxville inflelder, has
been released as manager of the
Southeastern League Jackson Sem
atorS.
Evening star., 1941-09-19
DODGERS Visit AnnunduIe

Arlington Dodgers meet AMMAN
dale A. C. in game Sunday at 8
o'clock at Annandale.
Evening star., 1941-03-30
Ex-Represenfative BixIer
Killed in Mill Accident

By TIE Associated Press.
JOHNSONBURG, Pa, March %.
Harris J. Bixler, CT, former Rep
resentative from the 28th Penn
sylvania district, was crushed to
death against a wall by a small
electrically driven car In the Cas-
tanes Paper Mill today. He was an
official of the mill.
Mr.. Bixler, who was a Republic
can, served in the House from 1921
to 1927. Previously he had been
president of the City Council and
Board of Education in his home city.
He also had been Republican county
chairman and member of the Penn
sylvania Republican State Commit
tee, and during the World War was
a member of the Draft Board.
He was born in New Buffalo, Pa,
in 1870 and was graduated from the
Lock Haven State Normal School.
He had been a teacher in the pub
lie schools, and had been identified
with banking and manufacturing
interests in his home city.
Evening star., 1941-03-30

airplane, a truck. a native canoe
or on a burro.
And finally the American scien-
lists induced their patients to sub
NIT to vaccination, using combi-
nation of logic, threats, bribery and
prayer.
The vaccine, given in q single
dose, produces a very mild case of
yellow fever in each patient. When
he RECEIVERS from this disease
which he doesn't even feel-he is
immune to the real, deadly infec-
ton borne by infected mosquitoes.
How long does the immunity last?
Nobody knows yet for sure-at least
four or five years, maybe six, maybe
10, maybe for life. 1t is too early
to decide.
Its Value in Other Terms.
And nobody knows for sure how
deadly yellow fever can be without
the vaccine. If you get the disease
If you get it so severely that you
know you are sick, that any doctor
can diagnose 1.-THE Rockefeller ex-
perts say you have one chance in
two of living through it.
But, they add. many people get
yellow fever without knowing it
perhaps they have Slight fever for
few days, perhaps they merely feel
uncomfortable-and then they feel
all right again. They might have
had yellow fever, even though it
can be diagnosed only by a blood
test, yet their chances of survival
are about 19 in 20.
This Colombian laboratory is only
one of a series Of medical fortresseS
established by the Rockefeller
Foundation throughout South Amer
ica. Its actual value, in terms of
lives saved may not be known for
SO years. But right now it has
served at least one purpose-it has
proved in this country that Colom-
bianS and Americans can cooperate
in an effective alliance against a
common enemy.
Evening star., 1941-03-30

feelings, with even the pro-British
newspaper Politika saying, Many of
the cries heard in demonstrations
are by no means in accord with
Yugoslav neutrality and tend to
cause difficulties with our neighbors,
with whom we wish to remain on
terms of peace and friendship"
Three Courses for Premier.
Three courses are open to Gen.
Simovic:
/. To renounce publicly an un-
popular pact. No one believes that
will be done. 1t would satisfy
Thursdays demonstrators, but no
one believes that would be tolerated
by the axis and most agree it would
be premature from a military view
point.
2. To announce publicly, in veiled
diplomatic language, thai Yugc-
SlaVia, desiring the friendship of
all, would live up to any open" pact
This might displease Thursdays
demonstrators, but it PROBABLY would
be satisfactory to the army 1t
would not fool Berlin, but it might
even serve German interests mo-
mentarily.
3. To go the whole way in agree
ing to recognize all commitments,
public or otherwise, made by the
ousted government. This is what
the axis wants. but it would be
suicidal if observers correctly esti-
mate Yugoslav Army and popular
sentiment.
By a process of eImina ton. most
observers believe the second course
is the most likely. Government
circles say German-Yugoslav con-
versations are proceeding along that
line.
This policy may involve refusel
to demobillze the army of 100000
men massed on the Kingdoms S
northern and eastern frontiers and
Evening star., 1941-03-30
BY MILTON SILVERMAN.

ROGOTA, Colombia, March "a
(By Airmail to NAN.AO yellow
fever has done more to make friends
between Colombia and the United
States than all the goodwill tours,
congresses and trade missions to-
gether. Yellow fever is the dreaded
death of the iungles' and the
Colombians have battled it for
decades.
The Germans couldn't help them,
not even with all the learning of
the best German scientists. The
japanese couldn't help them. Even
the British could not do much. But
the primarily young
sters from the Rockefeller Founda-
tion-are turning the trick.
And" say Colombian officials,
you cannot hate a man who helps
you fight death"
In four years more than 100000
Colombians have been given the
Rockefeller anti-yellow fever vac
cine and only three of them have
died from the fever-three out of
100000!
shouldn't Have Lost Those"
1--WE shouldn't have lost even those
three" the Rockefeller scientists
declare, but they probably had the
infection even while we were vac
cinating They died within day
or two after We injected them"
Here in Colombia's capital, which
Is $500 feet above the sea, the
Rockefeller men make their vaccine
in a laboratory that looks like
cross between a hatchery and an
ice-cream plant.
They grow the yellow fever virus
inside chicken eggs and transplant
that bit of invisible death from one
egg to another, scores or even hun
dreds of times, until it has lost
its danger for man. Finally the stuff
is filtered, frozen, concentrated and
put up in tiny sealed vials.
There is the yellow fever vaccine
1t can be made here by the gal
was even rushed to the United
states to protect American SoldlerS
on their way to tropical posts.
But in Bogota there is no need
for yellow fever vaccineS, for there
Is no yellow fever in these attitudes.
There Is Another Problem.
The deadly plague RACES down in
the jupgles, between the sea and
the mountains, where mosquitoes
can live an dbreed and sting help
less human beings.
To deliver the vaccine down there
the Rockefeller men had to do more
than hack their way through nearly
inpenetrable wilderness. They had
to fight heat-the sticky, sWeltering
heat that would destroy the vaccine
in a few hours. They solved that
problem by using portable ice
box-a keroesene-powered refrig-
orator that can be carried in an