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...third contender was another old hand: Detroit's curly-headed Southpaw Hal Newhouser. In his first five major-league seasons (1939-43), he had little control of his curve, less of his temper; he won 34 games, lost 52, threw away more than he likes to remember. Then one day he told Manager Steve O'Neill: "I'm going to win for you next year." He was voted the league's most valuable player in '44 and '45. Last week Hal shut out the Chicago White Sox with four hits for his 21st...
...Marine Joe Phelan, who has done a large share of the pitching this year, will start on the mound for the Crimson. Although his won and lost total is an unimpressive 2-2, he has often been sabotaged by unearned runs, and his E.R.A. is only 2.97. Southpaw John Knowles will be ready for relief duty if necessary. The lefthauder has won two out of his last three games, the defeat coming at the hands of Dartmouth, when he lost 1 to 0 but allowed only five hits...
...strikeouts, three walks and 105 minutes later, Papa Head had pitched Brooklyn's first no-hit, no-run game in six years, the first in the National League in two years. It was even more phenomenal for a right-hander who was originally a southpaw until his left arm was crushed in an auto accident...
...mound corps, greatly weakened by the graduation last fall of Jack Wallace, is currently headed by Johnny Knowles. The lean southpaw will be starting his third campaign for the Crimson, having spent the past two years carrying the Jayvees and turning in valuable relief jobs for the varsity on occasion. Other prospects for the pitching staff include Norm Wholley and Dick Morris, with several other candidates also in the running...
...little too early to tell. But Foxworth, fresh out of the Navy, and fighting in the 175-lb. light heavyweight class that ex-Golden Glover Joe Louis once dominated, looked good. For two rounds, against Eastern Champ Robert Isler, Foxworth studied his rival's tricky southpaw stance, saved his ammunition. Then, in Round 3, he fired two hard rights. The first one rocked his opponent; the second knocked him out. It was Sailor Bob's 76th consecutive...