The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-24
Yankees ear Chom pions
 OfE.ust Year

forgotten WOrIG champions of 1945. the Detroit Tigers, who are travel ing at a faster pace than the one which brought them the pennant a year ago, were perfect examples to- day of the vast change that peace has brought to the major league scene.
 At this time last season. the Tigers were Tn first place with a three game lead over the second place Senators, vet they had won only 4 games and lost 36 for a .566 percentage. Today they are in third place. B games behind the leading Boston Red soX, although they have won 50 games and dropped 37 for a .575 percentage.
 The Tigers went on to win last years flag with a final percentage of .575 on 88 victories and 65 de- feats and at their present clip they should equal that figure this year, yet their chances of catching the Red SoX seem about as remote as bringing down a B-29 with a bean bag.
 18th for Hal
 There might yet be some hope of catching. the Red Sox with their great array of stars who came back from military service, if there were more performers on the Tiger roster like Hal NeWhouSer.
 The lanky lefty wno pitched De- troit to 54 victories in the past two seasons, seems bent this year on topping the performances. which made him the American leagues most valuable player in both of those campaigns
 Yesterday he gained his 18th vic tory against three defeats by de- feating the Washington Senators at Detroit on five hits, to l. That put him four victories ahead of his pitching time table for both 1914 and 1945 when in each year he had a l5 and 6 record at this time.
 Newhouser. who hasn't been beaten since he went in for one inning in a relief appearance on June 25 against the Yankees, chalked up his seventh straight win, striking out nine batters in the process. The only Washington run was unearned, coming in the eighth on an error, Wiels pitch and a double by Buddy Lewis. Third baseman George Kell mad three hits to pace the 1l-iit Detroit attack on Emil tDutch0 Leonard.
 Red SoX Bow
 The Red Sox, who dropped seven out of nine games at the start of their last western road trip, got off to a bad debut again this time at Chicago dropping to 1 decision to Johnny Rigney of the White SoX who held them to five hits, banking league leading hitter Ted Williams. The victors made five runs in the first inning, teeing off on Bill Cum Zum) Zuber, who had won three straight for Boston since being waived away by the Yankees. Thur man Tucker hit homer in the big inning.
 The Yankees missed a chance to keep pace by dropping an to 2 decision at St. Louis, remaining Il 1-2 games back. Marius Russo, mak- ing his second start after being plagued by arm trouble, was no pug gle to the Brownies However, four errors, two by rookie first baseman Steve Souchock, helped bring about | his downfall. The Browns made IA hits, Chuck Stevens, Chet Laabs, and Mark Christman getting three each.
 Allie Reynolds turned in his top | job of the season for the Indians, blanking the Philadelphia Athletics, ? to on three hits at Cleveland. | A double by Hank Edwards and a single by Heinz Becker gave him all the help he needed in the first in- ming.
 All of the National league games were rained out.