Evening star., 1944-11-28
Award Goes 10 Loop $
Slab Ace by Points;
Mats Spence Eighth
BY JOE REICHLER,

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NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Harold
Newhouser. brilliant Detroit left
handed pitcher, today was named
the most valuable player in the
American League in 1914 by a four
vote margin over teammate Pau,
Dizzy Trout in the annual ballot
ing of 24-man committee of the
Baseball Writers Association.
The 23-year-old native of Detroit
who won 20 games for the Bengals
In one of the most thrilling pen
nant races in baseball history, re-
ceived 236 votes to 232 for Trout
Trout, however. picked up 10 first
place ballots to 7 for Newhouser
who pulled ahead by polling 10 Sec
onds and thirds. Trout's votes
spread down to sixth choice.
Vernon (Junior Stephens of the
pennant-winning st. Louis Browns,
whose los runs batted in led the
circuit, finished third with 1913
points. The slugging shortstop was
named on four first-place ballots.
Far back were Second Baseman
George Stirnweiss, sparkplug of the
New York Yankees, loop leader in
runs, hits and stolen bases, with 129
points, one more than Dick Wake
field. who led the Tiger offense with
a .359 batting mark in 78 games,
after joining the club on July 13.
Boudreau, Top Batter, Sixth.
Lou Boudreau of Cleveland, whose
1927 mark made him the first man
aged to lead the junior circuit In bat
ting. placed sixth with "a, followed
by Bobby Doerr, Boston's 1925 hitter,
IS: Stan Spence. Washington out
fielder, 56, and Nelson Potter, the
Browns 19-game winner, 81. The
Red Sox's Bob johnson rounded out
the first 10 with 81 points.
Newhouser became the second
southpaw and the fourth hurler to
qualify for the most valuable desig-
nation in the long history of the
American League award. Washing
tons Walter johnson (twice), the
Athletics Lefty Grove and Spurgeon
Chandler OF the 1943 Yankees being
the only others so honored.
The 6-foot IL Inch former Amer
lean Legion sandlotter also is the
fifth Tiger player to be named.
The others are Ty Cobb, who re-
ceived the first award in 1911; Hank
Greenberg (twice), Charley Geh-
ringer and Manager Mickey Coch-
rane in 1884. He is the first member
Of a non-pennant winner to be Sc
lected since Jimmy Foxx of the 1898
Boston Red Sox.
The tireless twirler, who had
never won more than nine games
in a single season and who, in his
four previous years in the majors,
had never received a single vote for
most valuable, was the leagues big
gest winner since the AS Lefty
Grove notched 81 in 1881. His %
wins equaled the previous Tiger
high, set by George Mullin with the
1909 pennant winners.
Newhouser Poison to Yanks.
Hurricane Hal led both majors in
strikeouts with ls7, and his 3l2 in
nings, Is complete games and 6
shutouts ranked second only to
Trout's totals. He beat the Yankees
six times, the first time that has
been done since johnson defeated
the New Workers seven times in
1912.
Trout likewise won a place among
Detroit's greatest stars by pitching
his heart out in 352 innings, the
most since the Indians George
Uhle's 358 in %. He also hurled
50 complete games, of which seven
were shutouts. His n victories en-
abled the Newhouser- Trout duo to
better by one the 55 victories &C
cumulated by Stan Coveleskie and
Jim Bagby of the 1920 Indians.
On the basis of IA points for a
flrst-place vote, nine for second,
eight for third and so on down to
one for 10th, the totals of players
receiving 10 or more points in addi-
ton to those already named were:
Mark Christman, st. Louis, ~; Tex
Boston, %; Doc Cramer,
Detroit, IA; Frank Hayes, Philadel-
phia, 13; Pete Fox, Boston, IL.