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Evening star., 1947-09-29
Dreams in Baseball Come True
Newsom, Harris, McQuinn Find

sistant to Larry MacPhail, presi-
dent of the Yankees. When Mac
Phail sought a manager for the
Yankees, he scanned the field, then
focused on Harris, convinced he
was the best man for the job.
Harris Took Long Chance.
Reluctant to return to uniform,
Harris informed his boss he would
think it over. He returned to Wash
ington and at dinner one night
popped the question, How would
you like to see me manage the Yam
kees?" He kindled a fire of enthu-
siasm among his youngsters, so he
accepted and tomorrow he'll lead
the Yankees in quest of an 18th
world title.
The fellow who probably is hap
piest about 1t all, though, is &c.
year-old McQuinn. born in Balls
ton, Va, once a student at Wash
ington-Lee High and a firm be-
lever in Santa Claus. Here is a
man classed as washed up" this
time last year and presented the
ultimate insult-a release from the
cellar-dwelling Philadelphia Ath-
letics-heading into World Sc
ries he helped make possible for
the Yankees with his spectacular
early-season hitting.
McQuinn waited years for his
dream to develop, for when he was
10 years old he hooked on with
Wheeling of the Mid-Atlantic
League. It was link in a vast
Yankee farm chain and he rose
finally to Newark, only to find first
base at Yankee Stadium unavail-
able due to the presence of sturdy
fellow named Lou Gehrig.
McQuinn Gains Peak.
The Yankees had sent him back
to the minors three times, so the st.
Louis Browns drafted him and
George spent eight long years there
and another Philadelphia. When
released by the AS McQuinn called
Harris at home, requested a chance
and. ultimately, was signed by the
Yankees.
Now it's baseball history. How
the Yankees failed to make deal
for the Mats first baseman, Mickey
Vernon; how McQuinn's ailing back
responded to treatment and how
George staged a stirring comeback
from baseball's junk heap.
World Series aren't new to them.
Harris experienced the thrill at
Washington, Newsom at Detroit
and McQuinn at st. Louis. but this
is different. They're with the
Yankees now and to each 1t re-
resents fulfillment of a dream.
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Bills Lass Gains Horewood Vase
With Bride Trails FinoIW

GCldaciouS, Mrs. William T. Gary's
Tom Tom and Harry De Mawby
jr.'s Day Dreams.
The stable-oWned division re-
suited in a clean sweep for the
Potomac Riding School as Brownie
with Clara Kretzinger in the saddle,
amaSsed a total Of 18 points fol
the tricolor, his third consecutive
annual championship. Brownie won
the stable -owr1ed hacks and the
stable-owned jumper events. Run
ners-up in this division were Poto-
macs Sister and Pegasus Stables
Sunbeam. Sister was ridden by
Katherine Fiske and Sunbeam had
Barbara Jacobson up.
The large junior class, limited to
riders under 16, was won by Tuck
erman Bays on Crucifino. Tucker
man placed over Barbara Grave
ley, Marian. Parker and Joan
Ostrow, who finished in that order
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Syracuse Seeks Third
In Row Over Brewers
BY the Associufad Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 29.-
Syracuse will depend on the right
arm of Herm Wehmeier, its most
dependable hurled of the Interna-
tional League final playoffs, when
it tries for three-game lead over
Milwaukee tonight in the Little
World Series.
The Chiefs, who added a II vic
tory yesterday to their 7-6 triumph
in the opener Saturday, will travel
to Milwaukee tomorrow for the final
games Of the series with the Ameri-
can Association winners.
Wehmeier, who defeated Buffalo
twice in the International League
finals, will be opposed by Glen
Elliott, who won none and lost one
in the Brewers final series with
Louisville. Elliott had a season
record of IA won and lost. {.
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Series at q Glance
BY the Associated Press

Contestants: New York Yankees. Ameri-
can League champions; Brooklyn Dodgers,
National League champions.
Site: Games one and two. Yankee
Stadium. New York; games three, four
and Ave df necessary, Ebbets Field.
Brooklyn: games. six and seven uf neces-
saryl. Yankee Stadium. Barring postpone
ments for weather, the games will be played
consecutively, with no 'idle days, starting
Tuesday, September 30.
Time: 1:30 pm. tEST except Sunday.
which is 2:05 pm.
Broadcast: Mutual and sfiliated sta
tions.
Announcers: Walter ORed) Barber and
Mel Allen. n
Weather: Cloudy with possible showers.
Probable opening day crowd: 10000.
Probable opening day gate: 5000 900.
Opposing managers: Stanley (Bucky)
Harris. New York Yankees; Burton Edwin
Barney shotton: Brooklyn Dodgers:
Probable starting pitchers: Frank
(Spec) Shea. twon IA. lost 81 New York
Yankees; Ralph Branca, (won 81, lost
12l Brooklyn Dodgers.
Umpires: Ralph Pineli and Larry Goetz,
National League, and Ed Rommel and
James Boyer. American League.
Seasons record: New York. won 81,
lost 81: pct $3.50, won by IL games;
Brooklyn. won "a, lost 80. pct. $40.
won by games.
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PIoyoffs Stort Sunday
In Montgomery Leooue

Colesville, Rockville, Gaithersbure
and Potomac are the four top teams
in the Montgomery County Baseball
League ready to start the playoffs
next Sunday. All four were winners
yesterday as the regular schedule
ended.
Scores: Potomac, IS; Sandy
Spring, 3. Rockville, 8; Silver
Spring, 4. Gaithersburg, 6; Morn
tngside, 2. ColesviIle, 4; Bethesda. 2.
Cissel-Saxon, 9; Greenbelt, o (for-
feit).
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Bears Outlook Spotty
In NFL;Yanks in A-AC
Earn Eastern Lead
BY the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-The Ma
tional Football League rounds out
its first full week end of the 1947
season tonight amid indications
that the once-mighty Chicago Bears
will have to hustle If they return
to the championship they won for
the fifth time last year.
Games tonight will find the New
York Giants opening the defense Of
their Eastern Division title against
the Boston Yanks at Boston and
the Los Angeles Rams invading the
home field of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All other teams saw action yes
terday when the Green Bay Pack
ers knocked off the Bears, 1920,
and the Chicago Cardinals trounced
the Detroit Lions, 1921.
Jacobs Sparks Packers.
Jack Jacobs, an Indian triple
threaten from Oklahoma who landed
with Green Bay this year after
playing with the Washington Red
skins and the Cleveland Rams, was
the leader of the Packer uprising
against the Bears.
Jacobs didn't complete as many
passes as Sid Luckman, the Bear
ace, but he connected twice for
touchdowns and scored the final
Green Bay marker himself at the
end OF long drive in the closing
seconds.
Paul Christman, former Missouri
star, led the power packed Card
inals to victory over the Lions,
completing 16 of "a passes for 800
yards. Two of them went for touch
downs and three others set up six
pointers
A-AC Yanks, 49ers Shine.
Meanwhile, the All-America Con-
ference reached the end of the
first month in its second champions
ship race with the New York Yank-
ees and San Francisco 49ers
strengthening their positions on
opposite sides of the loop.
The Yankees took over undis-
puted possession of first place in
the Eeastern Division by dumping
the Baltimore Colts, 21-7, at Balti-
more while the 49ers, runners
In the Western Division, stopped
the Buffalo Bills, 41-24, at Buffalo
for their fourth win in five starts.
A total of 1882 fans saw the two
All-America Conference games,
compared to the combined attend
ance of $4,000 for the three National
League contests.
LITTLE WORLD SERIES.
syracuse International 4; Milwau-
kee (Amertcan Association, / (Syr-
acuse leads
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By Burton Hawkins
Sfur Staff cofKsspondenf

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-Dreams
come true. For convincing proof,
three mellowing New York Yankees
in whom Washington fans are
considerably interested - Manager
Bucky Harris, Pitcher Bobo Newsom
and First Baseman George McQuinn
are presented as evidence.
Newsom always has been adept at
engineering his dreams, cultivating
a fondness for greener pastures and
maneuvering to leap fences OBJ
structing the way TO his goal. His
latest broad Jump, from the seventh
place Mats to the pennant-winning
Yankees, required the cooperation
Of script writer from heaven.
In mid-July, when 1t was obvious
the Mats weren't destined to be
factors in the American League
race, Clark Griffith peddled New
som to the Yankees for the waiver
price of $4,000. The circumstances
behind that sale bordered on the
fantastic.
Grinith was % eager to unload
Newsom's high salary (2) not
charmed with the jealousy Bobo's
presence promoted among the Mats,
as illustrated by a testy telegram
dispatched to Newsom by other Nat
pitchers 60 not fascinated by his
refusal to pitch batting practice, to
be relief hurler or to exercise
enough to defate a blubbery waist.
Newsom Gets Big Break.
The Yankees, on the other hand,
were suffering with an epidemic of
sore arms, in addition to which they
didn't relish the colorful Newsom
being signed by the New York Giants,
who needed any sort of experienced
pitcher. due to box office repercus-
sions.
So Newsom landed with the
Yankees and If he hasn't been sensa-
tional he at least has been adequate.
He'll get his World Series chance
against Brooklyn and that's an event
not even the imaginative Newsom
dared dream when the season was
launched.
Bucky, the "boy wonder" who
steered Washington to its first world
championship in 1924 and won a
pennant again in 1925, has waited
20 years to come up with another
winner and he owes at least a por-
ton OF it to the gleam he detected
in his children's eyes.
Harris was plucked from Buffalo,
which had promoted him to gener-
al manager, to become executive as
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l m p o r t a n t
games, I'm sure
that I now can
be rated as an
expert, having
picked the wrong
team in each in
stance. However,
the ov err all
prognosticat / on
picture could d
have been worse,
there being 10
victories against
6 defeats and l
tie.
Probably tn e
biggest upset was
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Durocher gone they're deadgame why
l. They lost manager Of the opener
had buck racial problem when Jackie Robinson be.
They sold guys including Kirby
they looking good
They kept losing Reiser doesn't to
Brooklyn than D Maggie means to the Yankees
lick the world champions in order to qualify for
the series.
jackie Had New Position to Master
suspension by Commissioner
Chandler just before the start of the was bound blow
eptomzed baseball He his players and they in turn
knew the style of ball expected OF them
Thus it must when day opening
quiet elderly in wnkled suit and battered hat
appeared dugou Shotton,
who had been semeemnt Palatka Fa called pinch hit
for the explosive Drocer He didn't know his players much
those of rival clubs.
When President Branch hickey signed shipped
him to the Montreal
otspoken against the
Dodgers last spring the opposition prece
en 70 broken and took time Besides Robinson in addition
blazing the trail the first Negro the majors
position because the besshor
stop and second base-were too good to be ousted
Concrete Is Proved Very Hard
The sale Of Hgbe and four other players Pittsburgh
May wasn't calculated to help morale Hgbe Fabush vori
His teammates respected his ability him potential
game winner The anickey made much of the fact that
hickey getting 100000 and suggested that Bron
chances thus sold for cash.
Losing Reser twice injuries keeps running
quality of cemen not only hurt the BUNS but hurt Ree
too The Buns
ball club and Reser that he's getting DID,
physically by each crackup showed his performance chart
Finally Brooklyn Cardinals best team
baseball according everybody them knock off the
and cavort in the South The the Jump
wasn't unusual but then charging
class would tell Maybe class did tell but Brooklyn
emerged triumphant and the Buns disposed the the
which beating the
West
Yonks' Big Edge Is Di Maggie
Thus a World and find Brooklyn
club immune adversely lightly regarded
speed and spirit his team established
1oy of soaed experts amateur professional
the side having the big and the pitching depth
This Yankee isn't the great
admit themselves they starting pitchers Beven
Newsom and Reynod than the Dodgers
Maggie
Lots of times the best hitter doesn't through
Ted Williams didn't which
tons defeat But D Maggie hitter
ball player and he doesn't hit at least it's
the part Of the club which him
mighty comforting, in fact
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1916 series, which consisted Of spotting the Red
Sox power and depth in the box and winning on
speed and nerve.
But this is strange team Brooklyn is sending
against the Yankees In fact the Dodgers don't
seem to like team so much as they seem a squad
of faceless athletes who don't figure to be win
ming club, much less series contender. Perhaps
this is one reason why there is tendency to under
rate BROOKLYN to establish DID, brittle Yankee
club nearly 2-to-1 favortte.
There is tough fiber to the Buns, despite
their youth. There must be for them to have sur
vived series of crises and still come out on top.
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A-AStundinqs

Results Yesterday.
San Francisco, Al: Buffalo. "a.
New York, 21; Baltimore, Z.
Coming Games.
october 3-Brooklyn at Chicago tnighG
October 5-Buffalo at Los Angeles.
October 5-New York at Cleveland
October 5.-San Francisco at Baltimore
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Tukomu Decorators Win

BALTIMORE, Sept. 20 (SpeciaD
-Takoma Decorators Of Washing
ton topped Pulaski girls softball
team. To. here yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
FinoI Major League STANDINGS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER % 1qa.
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
Results Yesterday.

Washington, S; Boston, /
New York, S; Phila., 3.
Detroit, /; Cleveland, o.
Chicago, S; st. Louis, 2.
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NFL STANDINGS
BY the kssocioted Press

Philadelphia, 45: Washington, AZ.
Chicago Cardinals, IS; Detroit, 21.
Green Bay. 90; Chicago Bears, 20.
Coming Games.
September 29-New York at Boston
September 29-Ios Angeles at Pitts
burgh (night).
October 5pNew York at Philadelphia.
October 5-Pittsburgh at Washington.
october 5-Detroit at Boston.
October 5-Chicago Bears at CHICAGO
october b-Los Angeles VI. Green Bay
at Milwaukee. m
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Umpire's Nine Scores

Otiz Printz tossed a five-hitter as
District Umpires defeated Loudoun
County All-Stars in baseball game
at Leesburg yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
By Frank leohy

UHfV8TxIFY
Having selected Georgia over
North Carolina, Navy to take Cali
fornia, and Rice to edge Louisiana
State in three of Saturdays more
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Results Yesterday.
Boston, 8; Brooklyn, 2.
Chicago, 8; st. Louis, o.
Pittsburgh, Z; Cinci., o.
n Y, Al; Phila, l.:
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Win, Lose, or Draw
Adversely and the Brooklyn Dodgers
By FRANCIS {. STANN
Sior StaK Correspond

NEW YORK, Sept 2s.-When ball club q World
Series apparent hitting pitching
My guess
will the Dodgers aren't
Evening star., 1947-09-29

LITTLE WORLD SERIES.
Syracuse UnternationaD, Z; Milwau-
kee (American Association, / (Syr-
acuse leads, 2-O.
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jcharges OF criminal assault and rob-
berry, but was permitted to plead
guilty to the lesser charges Of at
tempting to commit those offenses
| Crawford is to begin serving time
on yesterdays ofenses after COM
fpleting sentences totaling from three
to nine years on robbery charges.
Justice Schweinhaut sentenced
Ernest r. Bethea, 43. colored, Of the
1100 block OF Fourth street NV. te
serve from two to six years for man.
slaughter in the fatal stabbing last
June OF Patrick Henry West. ~
colored. of the 2200 block Of Thir.
teenth street NV.
Other Sentences Given.
In another District Court sentence
yesterday. Justice Alexander Holtz.
on gave James E. H. Neuman, Al
colored, OF the 1900 block Of Vernon
street NV. from to Is years or
four housebreaking and larceny
charges. Neuman had pleaded guilty
Justice Holtzon sentenced James
A. Curtis, Is. colored, Of the soc
block Of Gordon's Alley NE, to serve
from to u years On one robbery
charge and three charges of petty
larceny. Curtis was on parole from
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny sentences
when he was accused Of committing
the other offenses, it was said
|. william M. Hawkins, rs, colored
1000 block of Sixth street NV, was
sentenced to serve from three to Ia
years on three robbery charges.
| Hawkins forced his victims to place
money in paper bags and hand
them over.
Edna M. Cade. 23. colored, Of the
1900 block Of Columbia street NV,
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III story brick and frame dwelling.
4700 Blaine st. NE, to cost 1000.
Cohen q Burka, 2046 West Vir-
ginia ave. NE, owner; General
Elevator Co. Inc, 2514 Fourteenth
st. NV, builder and architect;
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was sentenced to serve from 8 tol
10 months for forging q signature
and cashing = Government check
of more than $500 after taking It'll
from mail box.
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Burnett Gets Term
I0f 6 10 Is Month in
Navy Services Forgery

Charles r. Burnett, 46, of the 800
block of Seventeenth place NE. yes
terday. was sentenced by Justice
Henry A. Sehweinhaut Of District
Court to serve from six to 10 months
on charges Of representing forged
certificate of satisfactory service in
the Navy and separation orders as
being genuine.
Burnett, who served as a lieuten-
ant-commander in the Navy, was
acquitted. through q verdict Of
charges Of forging the two papers.
HE was convicted last month, how
ever. of representing the papers to
be genuine.
Assistant United States Attorney
Cecil r. Hefiin, who prosecuted
Burnett, said the defendant COM
mitted the offense in an effort to
get back his old job as inspector
with the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration.
Man Gets 2 to 6 Years.
Justice Schweinhaut also SEN
fenced John T. Crawford, Is, COL
ored, 500 block of Fifth street Sc,
To serve from two to six years on
charges Of attempting to criminally
assault and rob a colored woman.
Crawford had been indicted on
Evening star., 1947-10-20
What the Hebert Bill Means
"A New Approach to the Problem of Alcoholism
Will Begin With Adoption of Program
By George Kennedy

The appointment of the Citizens Advisory
Board called for in the Hebert bill marks a
good time to state what this legislation, which
is soon to 60 into effect, means.
IL means new departure in dealing with a
very old problem, alcoholism The Hebert bill
authorizes the courts of the District of Colum-
oia to take judicial notice of the fact that q
chronic alcoholic is a sick man and in need of
proper medical, institutional, advisory and re-
habllltative treatment"
1t means one of the first scientific attacks on
what is called the Nations fourth public health
problem. Its success will cause other COM
munltes throughout the Nation to take up the
fight. Its failure-and any advance too small
to have social effect will be failure-will mean
going on in the same old stupid way, way
that no one defends.
A good job will mean that this community will
be respected for its own virtues and not thought
OF only for its architecture and its parks. It
will gain much grace for its resurrection of
human dignity and nobility among alcoholics.
The District will not be the first to start such
program. The State of Connecticut was the
first, and its plan is now being put into effect
Connecticut has one advantage. It has the
Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology where
the studies on alcoholism under Doctors H. W.
Haggsrd and E. M. Jellinek began to reveal
how little is known about this problem which
has plagued so many generations
But Washington has two advantages over
Connecticut as laboratory for public health
program. 1t is compact. The clinics, which
are to be established will be within reach of
every citizen. And it has the national spotlight.
Voluntary Attendance Expected.
Alcoholism as public health program is
confused by the constant spectacle Of drunken
ness as police problem. The Hebert bill had
its beginnings in the Jail breaks. Investigators
were surprised, as they always are to find that
it is drunkenness that fills the jail But the
program proposed in the bill goes much further
than trying to reduce Jail commitments It
plans to aid the whole mass of alcoholics in
the community, not only those who are
repeatedly arrested but that group thought to
be much larger that never falls into the hands
OF the police Men have quietly died of
alcoholism without ever being stimulated into
those alterations Of conduct common among
drunkards. The clinics are planned to attract
voluntary attendance on the part of a sizeable
portion of this latter group.
The occurrence of alcoholism is explained by
Or. Jellinek in this way: II you took 100000
adults and gave each a pint of whisky day,
only small percentage of them would become
what we know as alcoholics These would
have psychological or a physiological de-
f1ciency or both. These are the people in
society who cannot drink but who do drink to
ease some pain of existence They can be
helped.
Their percentage OF the population Is small
but in large communities their numbers are dis
heartening. And as they all must die of
alcoholism, unless they can help themselves or
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these areas that have amply demon
strated their worth. There are approxi
mately 615,OO0,OOO acres of forest land in
the United States. OF this figure. some
100000 are in private commercial tracts
and about 15O,OO000o in farm woodlands
OF the balance only 100000 acres are in
community forests.
There Is an opportunity for thousands of
towns and cities to operate town forests
to economic and social advantage Forests
already in operation show that a we'll
managed woodland will return a cash
profit to the community. In many in
stances they protect the watersheds of
municipal water supplies. They also serve
as public recreational areas and as sanctu-
aries for Wildlife. The American Forestry
Association has campaigned for COM
munity forests as living memorials in honor
of those who gave their lives in the war.
The project is challenge to service clubs,
women's clubs, oranges, Farm Bureau
groups and the All Clubs More COM
munity forests should be a part of our
planning for a better future.
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and the nan-made canyons Of New York
and Chicago, the falls OF Niagara and
Yosemite, the peaks of Otter and of Pike
Hollywood and Portland, Maine, as we'll as
Portland, Oregon, and Sarasota are filed
in their memories. They are acquainted
with Detroit and New Orleans, Dallas and
Rochester, San Francisco and Charleston.
Above everything else they have gone to
school, to America as working organ
ization. They know what wheat fields and
coal mines are, they can tell about steel
mills and oyster fleets, they have been
instructed to understand the elemental
meaning of railroads and telephone lines,
motor arteries and radio networks, air
carriers and the universal postal system
Perhaps no college will give them degrees
for their studies of the Nation but they
are educated young Americans in the best
sense of the phrase.