Evening star., 1949-09-03
Husky Hur|er Making
Big Price Tag Seem
Much Too Small
By RoIph Roden
Associoted Press Sports Writer


Assoeioted Press Sports Writer
The baseball world laughed
when Branch Hickey hung
$500,000 price tag on Don New
combe before the big Negro right
handler ever donned a major
league uniform.
Laughter turned to snickerS
when the head man of the Dodg-
ers "slashed" the price to 100000
this spring. Today they're not
even smiling, just wishing that
they owned Fort Knox and its
gold.
Newcombe is the solid" men,
ber of an otherwise shaky Brook
lyn pitching staff.
Since he joined the Dodgers in
mid-May Newcombe has displayed
the wares that brought fame and
fortune to such former Dodger
mound stars as Dazzy Vance, Van
Mungo and Whit Wyatt.
Like his illustrious predecessors
Newcombe can fog the ball past
the batters, daring them to try
and hit it.
Has No Trick Pitches.
The husky Negro hasn't any
trick pitches, no sliders, screw
balls or junk. Just hopping fast
hall sharp breaking curve and a
change of pace.
Last night Newcombe pitched
the Dodgers to an 80. five-hit trl-
umph over the New York Giants
in the Polo Grounds.
The victory was his third
straight shutout and his 14th OF
the season against six defeats.
The triumph also moved the
second-place Dodgers to within
a game and a half of the idle
front-running st. Louis Cardinals.
Newcombe now has pitched 80
consecutive scoreless innings. He
previously blanked the Cards and
Pittsburgh and held Boston score
less in the last three innings OF a
game.
"Newk" struck out seven Giants
to run his whif total to 119 and
tie Boston's Warren SPAIN for
the league leadership in this de-
partment.
Also Gets Two Hits.
Besides his brilliant pitching,
scored twice and
banged out two Of Brooklyn's II
hits, a double and single.
Brooklyn wrapped up the game
in the first inning, scoring three
runs off Dave Koslo.
The Dodgers sent Koslo to cover
with another three-run blast in
the fourth.
The defeat dumped the Giants
out of fourth into fifth place, the
Philadelphia Phillies taking over
fourth as a result Of their 6-3
victory over the Boston Braves.
The Phils won the game in the
eighth inning. scoring three runs
to snap a 3-3 tie. Willie Jones
singled across two of the runs.
Meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox
made hay in the American League
pennant chase, crushing the Phil
adelphia Athletics, "a, under the
lights in Boston. The victory cut
the New York Yankees lead over
the runner-up Sox to two and
one half games. The Yanks were
idle.
+. The Sox jumped on Phil
Marchildon for five runs in the
first inning. Bobby Doerr key
noted the uprising with a three
run homer.
Zarilla Slams Homer.
Philadelphia got back into the
game in the fourth. scoring three
times to kayo Jack Kramer. But
the Sox came right back with
three in their half on Al Zarilla's
three run inside -the-park homer
to sew it up for reliefer Joe
Dobson.
Virgil Trucks pitched the De-
troit Tigers to an 80 triumph over
the Chicago White Sox in the
majors lone day game. Trucks
yielded 10 singles. but kept them
we'll scattered to gain his 10th
victory.
George Kell and Vic Wertz
drove home three runs each to
lead Detroit's 10-ait attack that
included four doubles and a triple.
Besides the Yanks and Cards,
the Cleveland Indians, st. Louis
Browns, Washington Senators,
Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati
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