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Evening star., 1952-11-20
Picked
Despite Slump
AT End Of Year
Second-PIuce Votes
Prove Decisive in
Surprise Selection
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Hank
Sauer. the rags to riches outfielder
Of the Chicago Cubs. today was
named the most valuable player
in the National League for the
1852 season by the Baseball Writ
ers Association of America.
The selection Of the 33-year-old
slugger came as a surprise to
many. Sauer slumped badly dur
ing the last month of the season
following a brilliant start.
Sauer won his circuits highest
honor by narrow margin over
Robin Roberts, the graceful right
handler of the Phillies, and Joe
Black. the rookie relief expert of
the pennant = winning Brooklyn
Dodgers.
The Chicago Star. whose climb
to major league stardom was a
tortuous path, collected 226 points
out of a possible 1856. Roberts,
who won more games than any
other pitcher. %, finished second
with 211 points. Black, who made
Brooklyn's entry into the World
Series possible. was third with 208.
A Terrible September.
Sauer, a 6-foot 4, 200-pound
bruiser, ran into a terrible slump
in September. He hit only three
homers. drove in seven runs and
collected 16 hits in IS times at bat
in the final month.
Despite this poor showing, the
Cubs cleanup hitter wound up tied
for league home run honors with
Pittsburgh's perennial champion,
Ralph Kiner, at 81 each. He also
led the loop in runs batted in with
121, the highest of his major
league career, and batted .27O.
"Hammering Hank" reached the
peak of his career on July 8 at
Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Sauer
smashed a two-run, 45O-foot home
run to lead the National League
to a 80 triumph over the Ameri-
can League in the An-Star game
that was called after five innings
because Of rain. Sauer's other out
standing feat occurred on June II
at Chicago when he clouted three
home runs of Curt Simmons of
the Phillies.
Three writer's from each city
in the league participated in the
balloting. Fourteen points were
awarded for a first-place vote.
nine for second, eight for third
and so on down the line.
Runnerup Votes Decisive.
Sauer and Black received eight
f1rst-place votes apiece and Rob-
erts seven. Sauer won out by
drawing six second-place ballots
to four for Roberts and five for
Black.
Two writer's didn't place Sauer
Evening star., 1952-11-20

appeared in II games and better
Fifteen three lost and saved for lesser
ball club And how about Stan Musia? He won his sixth
batting championship, didn't he?
sAUER's CHIEF RECOMMENDATION his runs bat
tedn total and his home The big outelder of
the Chicago Cubs drove in 12 and tied Ralph Kner for
with ST. But take that bat out of his hands and Hank
much ball player Even letting him keep the bat-and
his runsbatted in and homers nowhstandnghe only
.270 hitter.
It's likely that Cub fans and sauer himself are surprised
especially that final horrible month September Hank
great his second team He bated
213 and drove in only seven runs.
Sauer games for the Cubs to be Thirtyseven
homers nice tidy and 12 driven home But
they remarkable performances In fact Sauer and
Kner tied for the homer title with the lowest number in eight
years in the National League.
last 80 years-or when the lively ball slipped
into play15 National League and "a American League slug
gers have hit 81 homer ranging all the to
Babe Ruts co. Jimmy Foxxs Hank Greenbergs So and
Hack Wilson's Sc.
IN THE HEYDAY of the real good suggers-Ruth Gehrg
Foxx, Simmons o Mze Klein Hornsby and oherseven 121
batted would not be considered satisfactory
those batsmen They set their sights 15o they went
above that figure 1t was good season. worthy OF reward
Anything below WELL they didn't expect most valuable
player award
sauer, like Kiner is not much of an outfeder Oh he
catch fly ball and throw it, too but not with the skill
of dozens of others Neither neither play all
outheld positions.
anywhere in the oued He outht Sauer by 66 points
and only Wagner and Rogers Hornsby
National batting championships And
last year only the hitter but he led in total
hits 94 doubles az and tied for scored lo5 with
teammate, Solly Hemus.
ROBERTS LOSS TO SAUER Of the most valuable award
might be cassed among the upsets of the He pitched
$50 innings than other pitcher in either league He
four games than Shantz sideght Roberts
up the incredibly low total of As bases basand of
those Intentional
nice, amiabe guy, Hank Sauer. fellow you wish
success especially of
out of the big leagues for dozen hitting 300
1949 Cincinnati traded Sauer and Oueder Frank Baum
speedy fielding Baumhoz who
bated 1925 second Musa in the National
League the running most valuable player
honors ironical touch.
equally personabe Roberts could have been
outvoted remains mystery The biggest winner in 18
in either league the only winner in the National
League the fellow who 10 games than his
est rival Mage of the Giants 69game winner in the
last three years and only 26 years od 1t doesn't add
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Sauer Edges Roberts, Black Most Valuable National Lacquer
IOkIohomo Players Vote Ends
Brief Orange Bowl Filtration

the players forget about bowls and
start. thinking seriously about
Nebraska and Oklahoma A. & M"
he asserted. IF we don't, we
might lose both games"
Some Committee Members
Favor Bid to Maryland
MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 20 R.-
With Oklahoma virtually out of
the picture, the Orange Bowl
Schedule Committee meets today
to resume it's search for two teams
to play in its New Years Day
football game.
Chairman r. D. Freeman
planned to call his committee into
meeting to discuss the situation.
Some members repeatedly favored
inviting Maryland, which was
penalized by the Southern Con-
ference for playing in last years
Sugar Bowl.
Were going to try and stay in
the big leagues" said Van C.
Kussrow, a committee member
who had been in touch with Okla
homa.
The committee plans to have a
representative at the Alabama
Maryland game and if Alabama
makes a-creditable showing, the
Crimson Tide might get the old.
with Pittsburgh as a possible op-
ponent.
Other teams being discussed in
clude Syracuse, Tulsa, Houston
and Florida.
Barring unforeseen develop
ments, the committee is expected
to stick to it's original plan Of
waiting until after Saturdays
games to invite two teams to come
to Miami, play before a sellout
crowd of $4,000 and pick up $1lO,-
900 each.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
BY the Associated Press

NORMAN, Okla, Nov. 90
OklAhoma's brief Irritation with
post-season football appeared to
be a dead affair today with bowl
fever cooled by the team. univer-
sity president and regents chair
man.
The formal end to the strange
episode was expected to come to-
day the same way it started-at q
meeting Of the Board of Regents
The official attitude was that q
New Years Day game, like the
Orange Bowl which had an invi-
tation ready. would be nice.
But not at the price of dis.
ciplinary action by the Big Sever
Conference for violating its bar
on post-season athletics, or sever
ing ties with the loop altogether
Decision Handed to Players.
The 24-hour bowl binge, touched
off by a student demonstration
Tuesday night, reached it's climax
yesterday when the decision was
dumped into the players laps.
The Sooners, No. S in the Asso.
ciated Press poll. voted to accept
bowl bid but only if the Big
Seven relaxed it's restrictions
which it refused to do a week ago
Players baked at taking actor
which would jeopardize relations
with the conference and thus have
far-reaching effect on every school
sport.
And so Eddie Crowder, the slick
split-T quarterback talking for the
team, executed a neat verbal hand
off to the regents, who tossed the
ball in the first place by voting
secretly to permit a bowl trip If
DR.. George L. Cross and the team
approved.
Coach Calls Vote Unselfish.
With the player decision, how
ever, DR.. Cross-who set the Big
Seven on its ear Tuesday night in
putting a bowl bid up to the team
said he saw no need for further
action.
Coach Bud Wilkinson hailed the
vote as unselflsh and loyal, and
added, Il, too. wish we could have
played in a bowl"
But with campus blood pressure
still above normal, he worried
about getting his players in the
mood for Saturdays homecoming
game with Nebraska. Riding on
the victory is a fifth straight Big
Seven title.
We've somehow got to make
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Griffith, 83 Today,
Entertoins Family
And Old Friends

Clark Griffith is SO today and al
least two score close friends and
old cronies will drop around to the
ball park Office to wish him well
Unlike most octogenarians who
spend such days quietly, Griff will
be host to his friends at a buffet
luncheon.
Joe Cronin, general manager OF
the Boston Red Sox, and Joe
Haynes, coach of pitchers for
Washington, both Griff's sons-in-
law. and his adopted children and
grandchildren are scheduled to at
tend. along with such Washington
baseball veterans as Manager
Bucky Harris, Joe Judge and Ossie
Bluege.
Griff has been the oldest active
man in baseball since Connie
Mack's retirement three years ago.
AS pitcher he won 233 games and
lost 1873 and after his active career
was ended Grif went on to greater
fame as a manager and owner.
Called the "Old Fox" because of
his trading activities, he proved he
still has a keen nose for good
bargain last summer by trading
Outf1elder Irv Noren to the Yam
KEGS for Outfielders Jackie Jensen
and Archie Wilson, Infielder Jerry
Snyder and Pitcher Frank Shea.
Wilson didn't last long and
Snyder spent most of his time on
the bench. but Shea and Jensen
had good years and gave the Mats
the punch that kept them in the
first division most of the season
and landed them in fifth place
Most experts expected. the club to
finish either last or one rung
higher.
Evening star., 1952-11-20

(See SAVER, Page C-2.)
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Toneff Gets Draft DeIuy

SAN FRANCISO, Nov. 20 R.-
The San Francisco Forty Miner
pro football club announced
Tackle Bob Toneff, star rookie,
has applied for and been granted
delay in induction into the armed
forces until the December call.
Evening star., 1952-11-20

6OO4 O41OU641 VIII 3OO01k1 Viz
most valuable player award.
The American League baseball writer's
who voted Bobby Shantz the most valuable
did lot better than their National League
brethren. Hank Sauer is the most valuable?
Oh, no.
Roberts figured over sauer. So did a.
rookie relief pitcher who appeared in Sc
games for the Dodgers. Without Joe Blacks
1874 record, plus dozen or more additional
games saved, Brooklyn would have won no
pennant.
Another first-year pitcher, Hoyt Wilhelm
Alon r. HnA fallnxrl
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Win, Lose, or Draw
By FRANCIS STANN

IF ADMIRERS OF YOUNG Robin Roberts are perplexed
today it's with good All Roberts this
Phles mdding club, % But his 1877 record
the majors since Dizzy Deans feat of winning
tGaad
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Trigger, a Nghtfghter, Sends Four Ships Down
And Hits Another One in Single Evening

ship-the only other ship-opens
fire behind us.
Then, as shells from both
parties scream overhead, we real
ize the truth. They are shooting
at each other.
We are still undetected. so we
make four separate attacks on
this bird up forward, use up all
six OF our remaining torpedoes
and get only two hits. Finally we
are forced to leave him, sinking
slowly by the bow.
Score for the nights work,
Three big tankerS sunk. one
freighter sunk. one freighter prob.
ably sunk. Total, five out of six
and a very unhappy good evenine
to you. Tojo!
(Copyright. 1852. by Edward L. Beach
Published by Henry Holt & Co., Inc.
Distributed by The Register &
Tribune SyndicateD
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Morse Gets Turkey,
Is Urged to Use Bird
AS Party Symbol
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

A 39-pound turkey that was
championed as the symbol of
political independence was given
yesterday to Senator Morse of
Oregon.
The man who presented the
bird told Senator Morse he hoped
he would select the turkey as the
symbol Of his independence.
Senator Morse bolted the Re-
publican Party in the recent pres
idential campaign. He signs his
mail "Independent" now.
The bird was given by William
Courts, Oregon turkey farmer and
Utah businessman.
While the turkey gobbled, un.
aware of his impending Thanks
giving Day date. Mr.. Guerts peti-
toned Senator Morse:
ITO give recognition to the
three centuries of the association
of the American turkey with oul
rich traditions of independent
thinking and action by citing
that noble bird as the symbol OF
the hundreds of thousands of in.
dependent voters who are looking
for leadership to help make their
voices effective"
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Warning Signs Ordered
For New Jersey Turnpike
BY the Associated Press

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Nov.
2O.-The New Jersey Turnpike
Authority has ordered electric
warning signs to tell motorists of
adverse weather conditions on the
roads northern section.
The action of the authority
was taken Tuesday in the wake
Of the rising death toll on the 49,
mile high-speed highway. It re-
suited from a series of weekend
crashes of fogbound automobiles
which took four lives and injured
scores of motorists.
The signs, which will be in
stalled within a few weeks, will
tell motorists what to expect.
whether ice, snow, fog, accidents
or repairs ahead, and warn them
that 35-mile-per-hour speed
limit is in force. The normal
limit is go miles per hour.
Evening star., 1952-11-20
$500 Seized in Kenyo
In Drive on Mou Mous
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON, Nov. 20.-Colonial
Secretary Oliver Lyttelton said
yesterday police and troops ar
rested $500 persons in Kenya
between October 20 and November
Is in the drive to break the back
of anti-white Mau Mau terrorism.
Replying to question in the
House Of Commons. Mr.. Lyttelton
said 81. .450 persons were screened
and released in the same period.
OF those arrested. 2.871 were re-
leased and charges placed against
1888.
Evening star., 1952-11-20

to the bow, where the fire has not
yet reached. It must be awfully
hot over there.
We shift our eyes to the second
tanker and see torpedo hit with
a flash of flame right amidships.
A fire starts. but he steers around
the brilliantly blazing pyre of his
leader and continues on his
course.
The second ship in the farm COL
umn is hit with soundless catas-
trophe. He folds in the middle
into a big v and starts down.
Evidently he caught a torpedo
which missed the first or second
tanker. We had figured on that,
hoped it would happen. Three
ships hit. two down for sure, in
the first Salvo!
In the meantime, the Japs OBJ
viously can see Triggers black
hull. too, and their ready guns
begin to bark. A few shells scream
overhead, but not very close. They
are probably too excited to settle
down, and we ignore them, in
tent on getting our stern tube
salvo off.
But the third tanker pulls a
Joker and sheers out of line direct
ly toward us. BY this time we
are running directly away from
him, and he is coming. bows on,
TOO yards away.
We are still increasing speed,
but so is he, and he's gaining on
us with his initial advantage of
speed. A gun on his forecastle
opens up, and this time the shells
whistle fairly close. One or two
drop alongside, not too close yet,
but no doubt he'll improve.
Trigger Is Stubborn.
Maybe he thinks he has the
drop on us: he cannot know that
We have the drop on him, too.
We could dive, but Trigger is stub
born. Standby aft! Continuous
aim. Angle on the bow, zero.
Range, 700 yards. We're starting
to hold our own now, as we pick
up speed.
Fire SEVEN! Nothing hap
pens. Fire EIGHT! Nothing
We must hit him! Check every
thing carefully. 1t must be the
tumultuouS wash of our Straining
screws throwing the torpedoes off
Fire NINE! Still nothing.
Now we are in the soup. One
torpedo left aft. It has to be
good. He is coming much too
close with his shells now. Give
him one more, then dive!
Fire TEN! clear the bridget"
"Honk. honk!" goes the diving
alarm. Dive! Dive! Take her
down."
Down we plunge, listening for
that fateful crack which tells us
he's found our pressure hull with
a 5-inch shell before we could get
under. We pass 40 feet and
breathe easier.
AS we pass IS feet. a good loud
WHANG reverberates through the
water. Targets screws have
stopped" This from the sound
man. "Breaking-up noises"
Control! Sixty feet!" The
order snaps out and feverishly we
get Trigger back to periscope
depth. put up the scope and take
Evening star., 1952-11-20

look. Wonder of wonders! There
floats the stern of the tanker,
straight up and down! So we
surface, hoping to catch one of
the two remaining ships with our
last few torpedoes.
We find one. We track him.
AS usual he doesn't see us-or so
we think. until he opens fire with
both deck guns. While we think
over this development, another
Evening star., 1952-11-20
Lost Glider Turns Up
At Enthusiasts Home

HEREFORD, Germany (CDN
A model glider enthusiast launched
his plane during a recent COM
petition here. then watched it
soar away and disappear in the
thermal currents.
Disconsolate, he took a train
for his home in Unterluebbe, about
20 miles away.
The model had arrived ahead
of him. Neighbors pointed it out,
only about 200 yards from his
house.
Evening star., 1952-11-20


firel Shifting targets-second
ship. Bearing-mark-set-Fire
FOUR! Fire FIVE! Fire
SIX!
Left full rudder! All ahead
full! Stand by aft!
Trigger leaps ahead. swings
steadily left. She has nearly 1870
degrees to swing, and it takes a
long time. She is only halfway
around. broadside to broadside
with the leading tanker. range
about 1000 yards heading in op-
posite directions. when suddenly,
cataclysmically, the darkness of
the night is thunderously shat
tered with light.
A sheet of brilliant white flame
shoots 1000 feet into the air!
The leading tanker must have had
a load Of aviation gasoline, for
he has burst into incandescense.
Bright as Day.
Momentarily blinded by the
terrific fire, we recover to see the
whole scene as bright as day. On
the deck of the doomed tanker
scores of little white-clad figures
rush helplessly across his decks
Evening star., 1952-11-20
SUBMARINE:
By comdr. Edward |. Beech, U. S. N.
CHAPTER x.
Trigger.

Trigger made her name with a.
rush. She began her career as
a night fighter. and it was on tks'I
surface at night, retaining the in
itiative with speed and mobility.
that her rapierlike thruSts
wrought the greatest damage upon
the enemy,
In her ensuing four patrols she
sank a total of 19 ships and dam
aged four. Six times, single
handed, she engaged enemy con-
voys far outmatching her in es-
cort vessels. BY this time I was
the only officer left of the original
commissioning gang, and Trigger
and understood each other pretty
we'll, although frequently she sur
priSed me.
We didn't have long to wait be-
fore Dusty Dorni took Trigger into
action. On September 8, 1943.
We left Pearl Harbor bound for
FormoSa, and on September %,
having just arrived in our area,
we sighted fat target.
We are submerged off Formosa,
patrolling what our calculations
indicate should be Jap shipping
lane. For two days we have been
here, and nary a sign of ships
have we seen. Maybe we've
guessed wrong. But not this time,
for at about 1900 of the second
day smoke is sighted. A convoy,
running for Japan.
Battle stations submerged! We
start the approach. This time,
however, we are not lucky, for we
are so far off the base course of
the ships that we are forced to
watch helplessly while they steam
by well out of range.
But we take a good look; six
ships in two columns; in the near
column three big fat tankers, the
leader a new modern 10000 ton
ner; in the far column three aver
age-size freighters. What a plum!
These birds are our meat! We
secure from battle stations, but
follow at maximum sustained sub
merged speed. keeping our quarry
in sight as long as possible, wait
ing for dark.
With the last rays of the setting
sun we are on the surface, all
ahead full on four engines. run
ming down the track after the van
ished convoy. No engines to spare
for battery charge. Give them all
to the screws. Put the auxiliaries
op the battery. You can't get any,
where by halves in this business
Tense, Thrilling Chase.
The chase is tense and thrilling.
We have an estimate of target
course and speed. but if he's smart
he'll change radically. Our game
is to dash up and regain contact
quickly. before he gets very far
from his original track.
But he didn't bother to change
course. we PICK MIN up DEAD
ahead, and he's stopped zigZag-
ging. This is murder.
And so it proves. We draw up
on the starboard bow of the con-
voy, out of sight. then steathily
creep in. Slowly the biggest
tanker lumbers into our sights.
On ne comes, filling our binocu-
lars with his huge, heavily laden
bulk Looks good-looks perfect!
We plan to fire three fish at the
first tanker. three at the second,
then spin on our tail and shoot
four at the third one. They won't
know what hit them.
Standby forward! He's coming
on. Bearing-mark! We're keep
ing the sights on him nova
few more degrees. Come on
come on-Fire ONE! Fire
TWO!. Fire THREE! d.. Check
Evening star., 1952-11-20
British Sailor Sentenced By Russians as 'Hoo|iqan'

by a Peoples Court at the port
city of Omega. near Archangel.
He was arrested while serving
as crew member aboard the
Swedish ship Freden.
A Soviet note to the British
Embassy said the actions for which
Robinson was arrested were "hooli.
ganisms amounting to a disrup.
|tion of public order"
Evening star., 1952-11-20
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Nov. 20.-The British
Embassy in Moscow announced the
arrest and conviction in a Soviet
court of a British seaman on
charges of "hooliganisms."
The seaman was George Ed
ward Robinson, 30, of Hull. He
was sentenced to a one-year term
Evening star., 1952-09-07

was a 1911 graduate of Notre
Dame.
He had been the Washington
Representative of several ma
chinery manufacturing companies
since 1880, when he first came to
WASHINGTON. Mr.. Mullin was a
bachelor and maintained offices In
the Barr building.
A native of Malone, N. Y, he
entered the automobile business
shortly after his graduation from
Notre Dame. Before coming to
Washington he was a dealer for
REQ and Stutz automobiles in
Detroit.
Mr.. Mullin belonged to the Holy
Name Society of st. Peters Cath
olic Church, Olney. Md. the John
Carroll Society of Washington,
the Congressional Country Club,
and the Touchdown Club.
He is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Mary Woods Of Plattsburg,
N. Y, and Miss Anne Mullin of
Malone, N. Y; brother, Leonard
Mullin, also of Malone.
Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 am. Tuesday at st. Peters
Church in Olney. Burial will be
in Malone.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
|banez Short Of Majority,
But Selection IS Expecied
BY the AssoeioIed Press

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. g.
Final official returns today in
Thursdays election gave Gen
Carlos Ibanez del Campo, Chile's
74-year old strong man and ex-
dictator. a plurality of about $780,
900 votes over his nearest opponent
in the race for president.
Gen. Ibanez was still about 81
900 votes short of the absolute
majority Of all votes cast, which a
candidate must obtain for election.
Consequently, Congress will meet
October "a to name as president
either Gen. Ibanez or the second
man in the race, Rightist Arturo
Matte.
Since Gen. Ibanez is already top
man and two of his three oppon-
ents have acknowledged his big
lead. his selection by Congress is
regarded as virtually assured.
Evening star., 1952-09-07
Chinese Reds Confiscafe
Salvation Army Assets
BY the Assoeiaied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Chinese
Communists have arbitrarily
seized" the Salvation Army in
North China and has expelled
all foreign personnel associated
with it. the Army's National
Commander in the United States
announced today.
The announcement by Com
missioner Ernest I. Pugmire was
based on word from Gen. Albert
Orsborn, international head OF
the Army
Gen. OrSborn called the North
China seizure a distressing eli
max to IS years Of Jealous and
devoted service"
Turned over to an executive
council of Chinese Salvation Army
officers working under the
peoples Government" were such
assets as a girls industrial home
and a boys home in Peiping
clinics in Tientsin and Shanghai
and adult shelters in Shanghai
the announcement said.