Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-11
Major All -Stur Choices Match
"A. L. Hurting and N. L. Hitting

COLl6pdCk year DuG bOSLOUS FQll
Mast, hitting 1886, and Ken ODea,
ST. Louis vet, would have been avail
able.
Mort Cooper Top Pitcher.
Billy the Kid would have his old
ace, Mort Cooper, to do the throwing
with Brooklyn's Hal Gregg and Chi
cago's Claude Passeau in the. front
line. Other pitchers named to the
squad were Hank Wyse of Chicago,
Charles ReO Barrett of st. Louis,
Preacher Roe and Rip Sewell of
Pittsburgh and Van (the New
Mungo of New York.
Tony Cuccinello was robbed of
the opportunity of becoming the
first man to play on both sides of
the all-star feud. He was elected
this year from the Chicago White
Sox on his leading 1913 average and
was picked for the National when
playing with Brooklyn IL years ago.
Nick Etten and George Stirn-
weiss of New York, Vern Stephens
of st. Louis and Cuccinello would
have given the Americans a for
midabie inf1eld with Lou Boudreau
of Cleveland, the 1914 hitting king;
Eddie Mayo of Detroit. George
McQuinn of st. Louis, and Oscar
Grimes of New York to back them
up.
Greenberg Is Given Place.
Hank Greenberg of Detroit, dis
charged from the Army about a
month ago, received enough votes
to be named for the third time al
though he has played only one week.
Sewell couldn't match South
worth's outield in hitting averages
but trio of George Case of Wash
ington, Doc Cramer of Detroit and
Bob johnson of Boston, or Green
berg, would have packed a solid
wallop. JEFF Heath's powerful bat
would have been available as would
have been the skillful veteran Wally
Moses of Chicago.
American League catching would
have been handled by Rick Terrell
of the Senators, Mike fresh of the
White Sox and Frankie Hayes of
the Indians.
Managers Southworth and Sewell
of st. Louis and Joe Mccarthy of
the Yankees declined to make any
selections on short notice although
Sewell listed his personal all-stars
as Ferriss and Cuccinello.
American Au-Stars.
nakr
Ferriss, Boston Q4-2); Christopher. Phila-
Gelphis Q1.5): BoTowy, New York Q0-5);
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ard, Washington (s-3). Honorable men
tion-Benton. Trout, Detroit; Jakucki,
kr easeher $. Fenlsi washington tass,;
fresh Csicaso s6s) aayss Phadslphia
Quinn: 81 LOUIS GssSl Maze, petroit
saSsss sfS s xsaa Gsos louis ssa
df Hsssi. ssS m xSsE Torres. wash
ipngton; York. Detroit; siebert, PhiIsdsl:
Ross Shrs Wasbps e. L0qis
Gs97}; Moses, Chicago 1;a7sJ; Heath,
cl sysl Cal6)' dreenbers. Detroit
Honorable mention-Estalella, Philadel-
phia Krevich, St. Louis: Metkovich, La
zor, Boston; Martin, New York.
National All-Stars.
70 pitchersmco0pe5: St. Louis Boston
Chicago G0-2);. Wyse, CHICAGO l10-5);
Sewell, Pittsburgh go; Barrett. Boston,
st. Louis 900; Roe, Pittsburgh (6-6l;
Mungo, New York (9-4.
Honorable mention-Stincevich, Pitts
burgh; Burkhardt, Brechen, st. Louis;
Tobin, Boston; Derringer, Chicago: Lee,
PHILADELPHIA; lombard, BROOKLYN.
Catchers-Lombardi, New York (.296l;
Masi,, Boston $3.50; o'Dea, st. Louis
Honorable Observation-Disclosures, Chi
cago; Lopez, Pittsburgh.
Infielders-Cavaretta, Chicago (.372l !;
Mccormick, Cincinnati (.29Sl; Verban, st.
Louis (.2S1; johnson, Chicago (.309);
Marion, st. Louis $3.50; Elliott, Pitts
bursh l.2SD; Kurowski, st. Louis (.330);
Hack, Chicago t.327).
Honorable mention-Hausman, Kerr,
New York; Schultz, Brooklyn; Cutler, Bos-
ton; Coscarart, Pittsburgh; Sanders, St.
Louis
outfelders-HoImes, Boston l40D;
Walker. Brooklyn t.292); Rosen, Brook
Ign (3631; OFT, New York l.325); Pafko,
Chicago (.30D; Nicholson. Chicago (.259)
Honorable mention Galan. Dino,
Brooklyn; Adams, st. Louis; Di Maggio,
Dinges. Philadelphia; Workman, Boston
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