Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-14
Poor Starter LOOMING
As 3O-Game Winner;
Tigers Beat Teller
By Jack Hand
Associated Press Stoff Writer

Dave Ferriss, labeled lust an
other wartime pitcher" when he
Topped in his first two 1916 starts, is
taking bows today as the first hurler
since Cleveland's Yves Terrell in
1880 to win 20 games in each of his
first two complete big league sea-
sons.
When the Boston sophomore was
knocked from the box by Washing
ton and Philadelphia in mid-April,
the critics predicted he would be
lucky to win 10 games against the
mighty prewar hitters AS of today
his 20-4 record overshadows Hal
Newhouser and Bobby Teller and
gives him an outside chance at the
coveted 30-Win season.
A doctor probably deserves a good
share of the credit for Ferriss' Au-
gust success, for the soft-spoken
Southerner suffers from asthma and
Is allergic to hay fever in late sum-
mer. Ferriss underwent treatments
IN Boston last winter and has con-
tinued to see specialist all season.
Eight Straiglt Victories.
Although the Red Sox ace reeled
OH two eight-game win streaks last
season he was able to capture only
TWO OF seven starts after August IL,
This year he opened up with a 10
game victory string, after failing to
last IN his first two efforts. and now
boasts eight straight wins since
July a.
FerrlSs was not as effective as
usual last night in downing phila-
delphia, rs, with nine hits. but he
had the big guns of Teddy Williams
and Johnny Pesky booming at his
back. Williams two doubles helped
drive In two runs and Pesky's three
hits spanked the 11-hit attack on
Bob Savage at Shibe Park.
Fellers bid for win No. % failed
when Dizzy Trout BANKED Cleve-
land with three hits for a 10 De-
troit edge. A crowd of 65,765 fans
that boosted the Tribes paid total
to 860,347 turned out to see the duel.
Teller hurled hitless ball for six
innings, yielded a single in the
seventh and two more in the eighth
when the Tigers scored on a walk
to Roy Cullenbine and base hits by
Jimmy Webb and Eddie Lake.
Feller Beats Own Mark.
Bob Lemon finished up after Eel
Ter was lifted for a pinchhitter in
the eighth. He had famed seven
Detroit batters to run his strikeout
total to 262. beating his own season
mark of 261 i'll 1910. The modern
record is generally accepted to be
BAT, established by RUDE Waddell
Of Philadelphia in 1904, although
some record books show it 343.
Chicago chung to sixth place in
the American League by sweeping
both ends of the first twilight might
double-header of the season at st.
Louis. Frankie Hayes two-run
single in the seventh enabled Edgar
Smith to earn the decision in the
opener, So, and Taft Wright's
ninth-inning single cashed in Orval
oi'fC 1oA4 AL lllL SCSOlto
game, 2-l
Lefty Johnny Schmitz OF the
Chicago Cubs prevented the st.
Louis Cardinals m~taking over
the National League lead when he
BANKED them with three hits, 10,
to outpoint Harry Brecheen. With
the leading Brooklyn Dodgers
rained out of their night game
against New York, the Redbirds
could have seized first place by two
percentage points if they had won.
Clncinnatis slumping Reds, bow
ing to Pittsburgh, 80, dropped their
eighth in a row and fell to within
a single game of the sixth place
Giants. 1t was the Pirates fourth
straight Forbes Field success under
their new owners.
Pain washed out the game be-
tween the Phillies and Braves.