The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-05
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 New York, Aug 5-(UP) Bobby Teller, baseball's human gold mine, was laid up with muscle miseries pday which may spoil his chances D set new modern strikeout rec srd unless he recovers in time to ake his regular pitching turn.
 The Cleveland Indian fire ball
 ar won't be the only one hurt if
 is out for any length of time. In
 very tangible manner. he has es-
 plished himself as the games
 mber one box-offic attraction,
 d any lengthy absence definitely
 uld put crinp in gate receipts,
 terever the Indians play.
 With Teller the principal attrac-
 n, an all-time Major League rec
 d crowd of 74,529 squeezed into
 eveland's Municipal Stadium yes
 rday, only to see the Iowa blow
 " take himself out of a 0 to 0
 lll game with the Yankees in the
 xenth after he had given up only
 UT hits and struck out seven.
 Etten' Drives In Two
 The Yankees went on to win the
 s,ule, 2 to 0, pushing across both
 sas in the ninth when pinch
 [ Nick Etten Singled off relief
 ,rler Bob Lemon with the bases
 ,ded. Floyd Bevens gained his
 th victory, four-hitter.
 Before Teller strained back euscle, he had brought his strike hts to 246, just 97 shy of the 343 mark set by Rube Waddell of the 9O4 Athletics. Teller. who also wants to be the first American eaeuer to win 30 or more games since Bob Grove of the As won 31 in 1881, can figure on about a dozen more starts, even if he goes every four days. With 20 wins to date, he would have to win 10 of the l2 and maintain strikeout pace of more than eight per game to ac- complish his aims.
 As a gate attraction, Teller al- ready has drawn 65O,95O fans to the 27 games he has started for an average of 4,096 game. At that rate, in 12 more appearances he would draw close to million fans.
 Newhouser Driven To Showers
 Baseballs other top pitching star, Hal Newhouser of the Tigers, also was handicapped by injuries yes terday as the slugging Boston Red Sox batted him out of the box in a 2 to victory at Detroit Led by Bobby Doerr, who hit two homers, one with the bases loaded, and a double to drive in seven runs, the Bed Sox put on 14-hit attack. Newhouser idle nine days because of a nerve injury in his pitching arm, suffered his fourth defeat and his third at the hands of Boston. Mickey Harris, who held Detroit R, five hits, one a Roy Cullenbine hopner, won his 14th game.
 T<tBrooklyn Ahead Two Games
 Brooklyn increased its National League lead to two games, winning { to from Cincinnati in the 14th when Pee Wee Reese squeeze -bunt- a Howie Schultz home. Schultz had doubled and advanced on an in- field out Joe Medwick's 20Oth major league homer and his first this year gave the Dodgers three rpns in four-run seventh inning fAly. Relief pitcher Hugh Casey Sas the winner.
 The Cardinals lost ground by div ding at Philadelphia. They won 4e opener, to 0, behind Murry Dckson's two-hit pitching and three-hit batting, Dickson, who led hjs teams 14-hit attack with two doubles and a single to drive in tbree runs, won his 10th game George Kurowski hit a homer. Jim Tahor's 12th inning homer off Howie Pollet gave the Phils to ? second game victory.
 The Braves took over fourth place by defeating the Cubs at Boston, to and to 4, Billy Herman driving in the deciding runs with nicely timed singles in each contest Relief pitchers Jim Wallace and Ed Wright were the winners as the Braves came from behind to take each game.
 .e Giants Cop Two
 The Giants, giving the Pirates a display of top-flight pitching by Mike Budnick and Monte Kennedy, won 4 to 0 and 10 to decisions at New York. The Pirates made six hits in each game and the only damaging one was Frankie Gus tines homer off Kennedy in the nightcap. Willard Marshall and Goodwin Rosen hit Giant homers Buddy Blattner led 20-hit second game Giant attack with five hits
 Tom Ferrick won two games with his relief pitching while Chet Laabs took care of the offensive chores in each contest as the Browns beat the Athletics, 6 to and 2 to at St. Louis. Ferrick, a Cleveland castoff, stopped Late Philadelphia threats in each game, while Laabs doubled home the winning run in the ninth of the opener and his three-run homer provided the vic- tory margin in the second game.
 The White Sox won their first double header since Ted Lyons took over as manager, defeating the Senators at Chicago, 3 to 1 and 1 to 0. Edgar Smith and Earl Cald- well collaborated in five-hit first game triumph while Frank Papish went the route and scored his own winning run to win the second game. Papish singled in the third and eventually scored when Sen ator pitcher Early Wynn walked batter with the bases loaded to null lify an otherwise good job.
 YESTERDAYS STAR Bob-
 by Doerr of the Red Sox, who
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