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Dejan and Poffenberger Big Heroes in SouthernATLANTA, Qa., Sept. 14.—(INS) Mike Dejan, Birmingham outfielder, today was proclaimed batting champion of the Southern association, While Cietus “Boots” Poffenberger, Nashville’e ace pitcher, rated the blue ribbon among hurlers.Dejan, who started the season with Chattanooga, was sold to Cincinnati in the National league and then famed out to the Barons, wound up With a final batting average of .371.Emil Mailho, the Atlanta swat-emith, chalged up an average of •364. The Cracker outfielder also set the pace for total bases with 305 and in denting the rubher 144 times, led the league in scoring runs.Poffenberger, one-time member of the Detroit Tigers, had a record embracing 26 victories and only live defeats.The 122 strikeouts of Ace Adams, another Nashville t wirier, set the mark for whittings.Other pace-makers in the circuit this season included:The Nashvtlle Volfs with 208 double plays and a team batting average of .311 and a fielding average of ^70.Gus Dugas, NashvDIe, and Dutch Meyer, Knoxville, who each hit 221 home-runs.Arnold Boser, Nashville, whose hits totaled 216; Fred Tauby, of Birmingham, who slapped out 61 doubles, and Earl Eolyavd, of Chattanooga, who bludgeoned 21 triples; Dugas Boland of Nashville and Willard Marshall of Atlanta, who each batted in 118 runs, Tony Lupien, of Little Rock, who stoic 26 bases.
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 15, 1940
Page 37
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