Evening star., 1944-08-14
Detroit Star Shooting
For Title Of Iron
Man Of Diamond
BY JOE REICHLER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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Paul Dizzy" Trout, Detroit's
righthanded pitching ace, probably
will be the first major league twirler
to win 20 games this year. In ad-
dition he seems a cinch to become
the first pitcher in the American
League to win 20 games in success
sive seasons since Bobby Feller of
Cleveland turned the trick in 1910
and Al.
The hard working Tiger twirler
from Sandcut, Ind, yesterday
achieved his 10Th victory, more than
any other major league hurler, when
he blanked the Philadelphia Ath-
letics, 60, in the nightcap of a
twin-bill, after the AS behind Don
Blacks three-hit pitching, had de-
feated Hal NeWhouser, also cunning
for his 10th win, in the opener, 6-1.
The Tiger defeat in the first game
ended nine-game winning streak,
one shy of the leagues high mark
set by the st. Louis Browns.
Nears Iron Man" Mark.
Besides winning the most games,
Trout has pitched the most COM
plete games in the majors, D, the
most innings, 245, and tied with
four other hurlers in hurting the
most shutouts in his league, three.
incidentally. all of his shutouts have
been against the AS. Trouts high
total of innings pitched puts him in
line to better the modern" mark of
343 innings set by Feller in l941. Ed
Walsh of the Chicago White Sox set
the all-time record of 464 innings in
1903, when he won 20 games.
The victory was Trout's fifth
straight and his 11th in his last II
games. In 27 starts, he has been
taken out of the box only five times
The leading st. Louis
Browns and runnerup Boston Red
Sox divided the first two games in
their crucial" four game series, the
Red Sox winning the opener 7-6 in
13 innings, and the Browns taking
the abbreviated nightcap 6-1. cut to
flve innings by the Massachusetts
Z PM. curfew law.
Rex Cecil, 27-year-old hurler from
San Diego. hoped off an airplane
and pitched the last four innings
for the Red Sox. giving up four hits
and no runs to be credited with his
first major league victory when
Bobby Doerr hit his 18th home run
with one out in the 18th. The
Browns second game win enabled
them to retain their six and a half
game margin.
Max Lanier gained his 18th VIC
tory OF the season and his fifth over
the Dodgers in the opener as the
league-leading st. Louis Cardinals
took two games from Brooklyn, Al
and 7-3. Harry Brecheen got credit
for his 18th win against two defeats
IN winning the second game.
Rip Sewell won his 18th and
Fritz Ostermueller annexed his 10th
victory of the season as the Pitts
burgh Pirates swept a twin-bill
from the Boston Braves, 8 to l and
3 to l, for the Bucs' fifth and sixth
straight win. Frank Colman hit his
fourth homer in five games to win
the second contest.
Yankees Chisox Split.
The New York Yankees and Chi
cago White Sox exchanged druh-
bings as the Yankees won the
opener, 10-1, and the White Sos
came back to take the second, 1l-3
Russ Derry of the Yankees Joined
a select group of seven American
Leaguers when he hit a grand slam
home run in the third inning of
the opener. George Stirnweiss stole
two bases, his 35th and 36th, to
increase his league lead. He has
not been caught stealing in his last
IA attempts.
The Philadelphia Phillies took
both ends of a double header from
the Chicago Cubs, 80 and rs, be-
fore 38,576 Wrigley Field fans. The
tWin-triumph moved them into
seventh place, one game ahead of
the Dodgers, who fell back into the
National League cellar.
The Cincinnati Reds handed the
New York Giants their fifth and
sixth straight defeats by taking
both ends of a twin-biI, 4-3 and
81. George Hausmann made three
errors in the fourth inning of the
nightcap to give the Reds four un-
earned runs. Nap Reyes, subbing
for the injured Phil Weintraub at