The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-14
Ferriss Last Season Red Sox Sta Really Great Pitcher
Has w 2O,L4 For Best In 1946 BosebaII

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 New York, Aug. IA. (UP)-About this time year ago, the skeptics sized up the drawling kid as pret- ty good wartime rookie who would never stick in the majors when all the top flight pitching stars came back.
 broke his heart, nor did they real ize then that each time he took the mound he was in misery from the asthma that had caused his own discharge from the Army Air Forces.
 Today, Dave (Boo) Ferriss, one of the really great stars among the Red Sox players who are dashing to the American League pennant, has proved how wrong they were.
 Had Shaky Start
 For awhile it seemed that the skeptics and not Ferriss would be right. That was after he ran up an unbelievable mark of IT victories against two defeats in the first half of the 1945 campaign, then slipped to a final mark of 21 wins and 10 losses.
 Moreover, he wasn't too impress sive at the start of the 1946 cam paign, but after a couple of shaky appearances he settled down and today his percentage of 20 wins against four defeats is the best in baseball.
 Ferriss, who thinks that his big gest break in this much tougher year of competition has come from a relief of his asthma through spe- cial medical injections, scored his 10th triumph at Philadelphia last night, defeating the Athletics, ' to 5 Although he wasn't as effective as usual, he bore down effectively when he needed to for his Fist complete game, his eighth straight victory and his 18th straight com plete game. Johnny Pesky, with two doubles and a single and Ted Will Hams, with two doubles, paced the limit Red Sox attack which boosted their lead to 1872 games.
 Cards Repulsed
 The Chicago Cubs prevented the St. Louis Cardinals from taking over the lead in the National League when Lefty Johnny Schmitz scored a l to 0 three-hit victory, shading Harry Brecheen in a duel. Schmitz, the only Cub hurl- CT who takes the Cardinals consis- tently, scored his third triumph over them. A walk, a sacrifice, an 1nfleld out and a dribbling single by Mickey Livingston down the third base line gave the Cubs a cheap run in the second.
 Paul DiZ) Trout of the Tigers won similarly brilliant 1 to 0 duel from Bobby Teller of the h. dians at Cleveland. Trout yielded but three hits to gain his 10th vic- tory against II defeats. Teller, suf- tering his seventh loss against 21 victories, also gave up but three hits before going out in the eighth He famed seven to bring his strike out total for the year to 262.
 Teller now is ahead of his pre- vious high of .261 strikeouts set in 1e40, but still is Il shy of the rec ord of 343 held by Rube Waddell Of the 1904 Philadelphia Athletics Eddie Lakes single drove in the only Tiger run in the eighth after Hoot Evers made the first hit off Teller in the seventh.
 Sox Continue Drive
 The White SoX, who now. have won 10 of their last 12 gameS took a twilight-night double header at St. Louis, 3 to 2 and to l with late rallies clnching each contest. Frankie Hayes hit a t5pO-r1lr1 sit7ple in the seventh to give Lefty Edgar Smith the opening victory, while singles by Luke Appling, Joe Kuhel and Taft Wright in the ninth clinched the nightcap for Orval Grove, who hurled a four hitter.
 The Pirates won their fourth straight game, each by a one-run margin, topping the Reds at Pitts burgh, 3 to ?. It was Cincinnati's eighth straight loss. Jack Hallett retired the last 10 batters in order to gain the victory. Grady Hatton accounted for both Cincinnati runs with a homer and triple while Jimmy Brown singled in the de ciding run for the Bucs in the eighth.
 American and Philadelphia at Bos- ton and New York at Brooklyn in the National were rained out.
 YESTERDAYS STAR-Lefty Johnny Schmitz of the Cubs, who pitched his third straight victory over the Cardinals, a 1 to 0 three-h hitter.