The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
|Hurler Makes
Good After
'lO-Yr. Effort
BY BEN PHLECAR

Associated Press Sports Writer
Roosevelt was president and LIE,
Durocher was managing Brooklyn
when 15-year-old high school DO,
from Hamilton, Ohio, took tn,
mound for the Cincinnati Reds on,
gray afternoon In June. 1914.
The youngster missed the catch
er completely with eight of hi.
first nine pitches and finally stag
gered through one inning witt
five runs scored against him OF
five walks and two hits.
Ten years later Joe Nuxhan ha:
made the grade in the big time
The lefthander, who was the
youngest player ever to wear {
major league uniform and proba
bly, the widest, has conquered his
control problems and has a tidy
12-4 won-lost record for the fourth.
place Redlegs.
His IL victory came yesterday
and was the best of the dozen. He
gave the Milwaukee Braves only
six hits, struck out six and walked
but two in winning his third
straight complete game and his
first shutout, so.
Nuxhall pitched only one other
inning in 1914. 1t was for Birming.
ham in the Southern Assn. and il
was even worse, five walks and
six runs. The youngster dropped to
Class D in 1945 then quit for a year
and went back to high school.
The road back has been a long
one - Muncie, Tulsa, Columbia,
SC, Charleston, VIVA, Tulsa
again and finally Cincinnati in
1852. In the past two seasons with
the Reds he won 10 and lost IS.
In the American League yester-
day the New York Yankees set a
record and the pennant-winning
Cleveland In ians didn't. The
Yanks beat Washington 81 for
their 101st victory, the most games
ever won by a runner-up in the
junior circuit. The Indians, need
ing only one game to tie the all
time mark of ITO victories in the
league, lost to Chicago 81.
Bob Grim, a 24-year-old bar
tender from Brooklyn, became the
first Yankee rookie in "a seasons
to win 20 games. He gave up only
four hits, all singles, in running
his record to 2O-6.
Grim, unlike Nuxhall, made it
in one big jump. He was pitching
in the Glass A Eastern League
when he went into the Marines
three years ago. He caught the
eye of Pitching Coach Jim Turner
during spring training and stayed
with the Yanks despite his mex
perience. He is the clubs biggest
winner.
In other action yesterday the
New York Giants continued their
winning ways with a So triumph
at Brooklyn. Chicago took a dou-
ble-header from the st. Louis Car
dinals, 4-3 in 10 innings and 3-2 in
619. The Boston Red Sox beat the
Philadelphia Athletics twice by 4-3
scores. The first game ran 10 in
nings.
The double loss and a 4-3 Balti-
more victory over Detroit con-
signed the Athletics to the Ameri-
can League cellar.
The Philadelphia Phillies and the
Pittsburgh Pirates were rained out.
Bobby Holman hit a grand-slam
homer in the first inning for the
Giants and Ruben Gomez and Jim
Hearn held the Dodgers to five
hits.
Gene Baker singled home the
winning run in the 10th inning of
the first game at Chicago and
Ralph Kiner and Steve Bilko hon.
cred in the darkness-shortened
nightcap.
Jackie Jensen won a popularity
contest as the Red Sox' most val
liable player and celebrated by
driving in the winning run in the
first game and hitting a S-run
homer in the second against the
Athletics.
The Indians committed five err
rors as their 11-game winning
streak came to an end. Larry Dolby
drove in six runs but it was not
enough to overcome the leady de-
Tense which allowed three Chicago
runs to score on a wild pick-off
play, a wild pitch and passed
ball.
Bob Turley drove in one run,
scored one and struck out five as
Baltimore clinched seventh place,
one notch higher than the club
finished a year ago when it was