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AUGUST 1938 
Baseball 1 
Only two games v;ere played in the Major leagues. The 
Philadelphia Athletics shut out the Detroit Tigers four to 
zero behind the brilliant nine hit pitching of Lee Boss and 
Edgar Smith, Boss was credited with the victory which snapped 
an eigi 'G game Detroit winning streak. Roxi e Lawson was 
chargee, with the defeat. In the only other American League 
game , the second place Cleveland Indians were tied with the 
Washington Senators eight ail at the end of nine innings. 
No o the"* American League clubs were scheduled. 
There were no games scheduled in the National League. 
Close of the Washington Cleveland was as follows: 
Washington 11 14 2 } 
Cleveland 
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7 1 ) Eleven innings. 
Boston 
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The veteran American 'League pitcher, "Lefts?*” Grove, left 
Boston for Cleveland, Ohio tonight to join the Boston Bed 
Sox. Lefty remained in Boston with an ailing, arm when the 
Bed Sox loft Boston last week on a -western trip. Grove has 
been out of action since July 14th, when his arm suddenly 
went dead during a game between the Detroit Tigers and the 
Red Sox at Fenway Park. Lefty may return to the Rod Sox 
lineup during the Cleveland Boston series which opens tomor 
row. 
Seabright. N.J . 
Bobbjr Riggs, twenty, Chicago, Saturday won the Seabright 
Tennis singles championship for • the second straight year beat- 
ing Elv/ood T. Cooke of Portland, Oregon, six three, six one, 
six three, in the finals. 
Arlington Heights, Chicago . 
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Thingumbob, a horse its owner couldn’t find a name for, 
Saturday made one for himself by winning the Arlington Futurit 3 r 
by five lengths. Mrs. Ethel Mars’ ”No Compoition” Was second, 
Hal Price’s "Headley Heats" third. 
Berlin 
Germany’s Davis Cup team of Honner Henkel and Georg Von Metaxa 
rallied Saturday to beat the Yugoslavian doubles team 1-6, 
7-9, 8-5, 6-4, 6-4, and moved out in front two matches to one 
in the inter zone finals. Germany needs victory In only one 
of two remaining singles matches to clinch the European zon< 
vie tory . 
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