The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-28

les, each voted TOT
 10 players and the
 votes ranged in
 point value from s....... IA points for HaI Ne"1VA first place ballot, nine for second choice, eight for third and so on down to one for 10th.
 Newhouser received only seven first place votes, but 10 second place ballots and six third votes won for him. No writer placed Hal lower than third.
 Second Choice
 Trout, who combined with New houser to pitch the Tigers to within one game of the pe1nant, polled 10 first place votes, the largest number of first place ballots received, but only three second place votes, two third, three fourth, three fifth and two sixth for a total of 232 points. Dizzy won 27 and lost IA during the campaign.
 Vern Stephens, shortstop of the l, pennant winning St. Louis Browns, trailed Trout with 193 points for third place. The Brownie short stop, who led the league in runs bated in with 1O5 and hit .295 over ! the season, received four first place choices, three second, eight third, |, three fourth, two fifth, two sixth and one eighth. It was the first time since the selection of Jimmy Foxx in 1888 that the pennant win- ming team has failed to possess the most valuable player. sa
 George (Snuffy) StirnweiSs of the New York Yankees was fourth, his 129 points being one more than those voted to Detroit's sophomore, outflelder, Dick Wakefield. The Yankee second baseman hit .319 for the season and led the league in stolen bases with 55. Wakefield, who joined the Tigers in mid-July after being discharged from the Naval Aviation Cadet program, hit .359 through the remainder of the year and was major factor in the clubs near winning drive. He and Stirnweiss were the only other players to receive first place consideration George getting one top 0t111Ok anu WdACl1CIu tWOs
 Lou Boudreau, youthful manager of the Cleveland Indians and the leagues official batting champion, was sixth with 84 points. One of baSeball's top Shortstops, Boudreau hit .327 while piloting the Tribe to fifth place tie with Philadelphia. Bobby Doerr, Boston's second base- man who left the club in August to enter the Army, was seventh with 75 points. Hit hitting average of .325 was the second best official mark in the league.
 Stan Spence, outf1elder of the last place Washington Senators, was eighth with 56 points. Nelson Pot ter, l9 game winning pitcher of the Browns was ninth with 52 and Bob Johnson, 1924 hitting Boston out fielder, was 10th with 51.
 More Votes
 Other players who received votes were: Mark Christman, St. Louis, 27: Tex Hughson, Boston, 22; Roger Cramer. Detroit, 14; Frank Hayes, Philadelphia, 13; Pete Fox, Boston, 12; Jack Kramer, St. Louis, g.; John Lindell, New York, 8; Paul Richards, Detroit, 8; Don Gutteridge, St. Louis 2: Pinky Higgins, Detroit, T; George McQuinn. St. Louis, 2; George Kell, Philadelphia, 6; Roy Cullenbine, Cleveland. 5; Nick Etten. New York, 5; Rudy York, Detroit, 5; Rollie Hemsley, New York, 4; Mike Kreev- ich, St. Louis, 4: Wally Moses, Chicago, 4: Eddie Mayo, Detroit, 8; Dick Siebert. Philadelphia, 8; Hank Borowy, New York, 9; Frank Cro- setti, New York, 2; Ralph Hodgin, Chicago, 2: and Bob Muncrief. St. Louis, 1.
 The committee which voted on the players included the following writers:
 Boston - Melville Webb. Globe: Harold Kaese, Globe: Arthur Samp- son, Herald. Chicago = Edward Burns, Tribune; John Ryan, Daily News; Milton Woodland, Sun. CleVe- land Gordon Cobbledick Plain Dealer; Ed. Macauley, News; Frank lin Lewis. Press. Detroit-H. c. Salsinger, News: Leo MacDonell, Times; Charles Ward, Free Press. New York-Dan Daniel, World -Tele- gram; Charles c---ar, Daily Mirror; Will Wedge, Sun. Philadelphia -- Edwin Pollock, Bulletin; Stan Baumgartner. Inquirer; Walter Smith, Record. St. Louis-Gle Wallar. Globe Democrat: w. J. Mo- Googan, Post-Dispatch; Donald DreeS. Star-TimeS. Washington - Frank O'Neill, Times Herald: J0bp Keller, Star and Shirley Povich, Post.