OCR Text |
Show T ! trne overlooked because ai 2 Wd to latey : No--hi, name j Spud Ch .ndlerotTa, II a wiry Uft. 1 bander by the ! name of Harold M j Newhouser of the Tigers. Newhouj. I er was the best M : Pitcher bj baje. j baU In 1944 when he won 29 games ll They threw 9 j that one out. A I ' war year. Newhouser was i the best pitcher Na ! In baseball last season when he won 8 I took over the World i j threw that one out as, war year. Wait until the bi y t back, they said iw , Williams, Joe DIMh, i Maggio, Hobby Doerr Charlie Keller, all gd others. So what hiW houser has been viam out of svven. ! And Newhouser has bt these games with i M club a ball club that i houser would be in fifth j houser was the best 2 ball in 1944 and 1945. j diction that he also pitcher in baseball in i season of 1946. It's Newhouser, 9 We decided to make n on Newhouser in his o We took a survey fro : known veterans who way around. Nine gai houser, one gave uj I asked Bill Dickej thought about the matte kansas quail hunter gait smile. "I'm already trouble," he said, "will into another argument came back to baseball I I heard that Newhousen other wartime pitcher. "Our league happeni stocked with fine pitchet i Chandler, Hughson, Fen ' Trucks, Kramer and i But so far I haven't w pitcher than Newhouser. ( how hard it is to win Newhouser has won 54 : two years. It wouldn't l j to see him win 30 or mor "What has he got? J takes. A good fast Nj curve ball. Good contra confidence in himself nation to win. A good he of heart." Unless something dm pens suddenly, it if a bet that Hal Newhousa both leagues on the pitcli is also a pretty lair b will pass the 25-game a and threaten the 30 I few have ever reached. Two 40-Game fj So far as so-called I ball goes the only 40-gU I can recall at the M to be Ed Walsh and J Among the 30-or-more ners, we've had Mar? Smokey Joe Wood, I Grover Alexander, LeftJ possibly one or two l Matty and Alexander hi or more games three g past 40 years. You caul if our memory is slippiH Newhouser has yet gamewinmr. But theiri left-hander has the MJ reach this mark for IS so close to being the in the game that son need a spur to crowd fore the stretch run end! Bob Feller. Spud 0 Tex Hughson are all M Among the best. But have to put on extra stei back Newhouser, baseball's best pite1 years. ( , , About the Tico U Several queruW come in since W" from National leag asking what has naPP veteran circuit. -Why is it." one American league with most of the j P men as Ted Willia lex, Bob Feller, Kgj dler and so many &i ently outclass most league's best men. The sad facts-- ' are that the older Vl son can match tne Mitt in ji playing strength- j pitchers to rani. houser. Chandler. W er.. Outside ' has no po h classed with Keller. DMO 0 more. Th.s It would have " bell, a Dizzy De Alexander to remj A. L. bats thii as |