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Show Veteran Ace Third Tiger To Gain Top By WD FT.DER KEW YORK. Nor. 2 UVI UhaT ley Gehringer was named by the Baseball Writers' association today as ths American league's "most val-usbls val-usbls player" for 1937, thereby climaxing cli-maxing the biggest season of his It-year csreer with the game's most , cherished award. At an age when many players are on the way down a-.d out. the Detroit De-troit Tigers' "strong, silent man" thus found his thirty-fourth year, already marked by the league bat-' bat-' ting championship, topped off by two much-sought-after goals. Although his margin of victory In the writers' poll was only four points over Joe DiMagglo. deadpan dyna- " miter of the world champion New York Yankees, Gehringer nevertheless neverthe-less came within two points of a "perfect" score in the balloting. Eight members of the association ' voted on the award, each casting irnt 't '"' '- '"' ln -.Inations for the honor. Gehringer drew six first place and two second place nominations. This total, figured fig-ured on a basis of 10 points for first, nine for secondeight for third, and so on, gave him an aggregate of 78 j points out of a possible 80. Two-Player Affair , DiMagglo, with two nominations for first and six for second, compiled com-piled a total of 74. The balloting was strictly a two-player affair. Third member of the Detroit clan to win the award since the baseball writers first presented it in 1931, Gehringer was selected for the brilliant bril-liant all-round play that has made him today the standout second baseman base-man in the American league, if not In the game. Only twice has he fallen below the J00 batting mark since becoming a rrgular in 192A. He hit for .334 in 1934. .354 in 193J, snd last season clouted st a merry .369. best-in both ' major leagues. His lifetime average is .329 over his 14 seasons. Coming to the Tigers, to stay. In J925, after brief seasoning with London Lon-don of the Michigan-Ontario league and Toronto of the International league. Gehringer (full name. Charles Leonard Gehringer), has been with the same club ever sines. A native of Fowlerville, Mich., he was a major factor In Mickey Coch-rane's Coch-rane's championship combinations 1 in 1934 snd 1995, batted for .377 In two world series snd hss led the league twice in the past in run scor- J Ing and total hits. ' At his beat when the "chips sre down." Gehringer is the leading clouter among the "veterans" who have appeared In every one of the five all-star games between the rivsl leagues. Two Former Stars Trailing the two pace setters were two former winners, Hsnk Green-berg Green-berg snd Lou Gehrig of the Yanks. But Greenberg was 30 points back, with 4, and Gehrig was six behind Greenberg. The committee balloting on the award waa composed of Hy Hur- wits of the Boeton Globe. John Car-I Car-I micheel. Chicago Daily News; Gor-a Gor-a don Cobbledick, Cleveland Plain I Dealer; H. G. Salsinger, Detroit 3 News; Max Kase, New York Jours'" Jour-s'" nsl-American; James C. Isaminger, H Philadelphia Inquirer; Glen Wallar, 1 St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Francis , E. Stan, Washington Star. I 1 Those drawing one or more votes: I riav ane . I Charl.s OshrluMr. Djtrolt ...a. ' I Hank ors.ntxrj. Dstri.it I 1x,u 0nri. K Torn ' I. iks aswrll, ilcso i i Kill picks. Nsw tors ff Jo Cronin. Boston . . . . 1" rri.rls. n.itfln. Nsw Tork 1 lfiy Oomsi. Nsw York Hiks KrssMcli rhk. IXIt Trsvis. WanhlnKl'in " V'slW Moms. Philadelphia 1- Johmiy A llm. rieislsiio 1 . Hills l 't. S' , '"" Tt.v Railrllft. rhk-SM J" B'i'irty Lswts. sAf'riiiiktnii J I. I; At.-.lniB. CliKSSO J r-au Brll. HI. I.oi;l. J !lv Avsri'l. Clrvslsnd J I I.mi l.srv. rLvsmnrt J r. m. I sfn. Tis'mlt ' orrv Wnlksr. rirtroll Tork. nslrnlt 1 pets ros. Duron |