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...only thing everybody clearly agreed on was that Paul Pettit was "out of this world" as a pitching prospect. A southpaw, he stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 205 Ibs., and throws a fast ball that "takes off." For four years Paul Pettit has completely befuddled schoolboy batters, once struck out 27 in a 12-inning game. In 1948, he performed the authentic Frank Merriwell stunt of pitching six no-hit, no-run games, . three of them in succession...
...Southpaw, 15-game winners Eddie Lopat (lost 10) and Tommy Byrne (lost 7) will probably pitch the third and fourth games. Lopat is cagey, Byrne fast, but both are erratic. Lopat was invaluable in the last weeks; Byrne's greatest contribution to the Yankees was in the first ten weeks of the season...
...Boston Red Sox pulled back out to one full game in front with a 6 to 4 night win in Griffith Stadium, Washington. Joe Debson gave up one run in the seventh and stumbled in the eighth as the Senators scored three runs. Walt Masterson preserved the southpaw's fourteenth...
Before the week was out they were paying attention to big Bill Betger, 26, a left-handed policeman from San Francisco who patrols the city's waterfront at night and golfs on the city's jampacked Harding course by day. It was rare for a southpaw to do so well in tournament play, and he did not get to the finals without incident. In the fourth round Policeman Betger graciously conceded a 12-in. putt to his rival Lewis North of Denver (for a halve), gave the latter's ball a swipe with his putter. Cried North...
...Alex Kellner, 24, a Navy vet whose father once pitched a no-hitter for Tucson in the Arizona-Texas League and whose grandfather once fought John L. Sullivan in a New Orleans exhibition. Last week at Shibe Park, exploiting his breaking stuff and a fast ball that "takes off," Southpaw Kellner won No. 10 by limiting the White Sox to five hits. With a 10-3 record, he is well on his way to becoming a 20-game winner his first year...