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SMgJz Kamed As Most Valuable In American Hague j NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (UP) — Pitcher Bobby Shantz of the Phil­adelphia Athletics, whose baseball prospects were laughted at five years ago because: he' was Jf'too I small,” today was named ' the | American League’s most valuable [ player for 1952, Ajjt A panel of 24 members of the i Baseball Writers > Association of | 1 America voted the five-foot, sev- i en-inch, 142-pound lefthander the j i award by a sizeable margin over pitcher Allie Reynolds of the New ; York Yankees. . Shantz, who on occasion has had ! difficulty in convincing ?’ gatekeep- | ! ers at ball parks that he is a play- i j er, won 24 games and lost seven j for the fourth-place A’s last sea- | son. In addition to leading the lea- I gue in victories, he was tops in j won-and-lost percentage with .774, ! pitched 280 innings, struck out 152 j batters, pitched 27 complete gam­es, five shutouts, and had an earn- I ed-run average of 2.48. The season ended on- a" note of j misfortune for Shantz, however, as he suffered a broken bone in his [ ; left wrist when hit by pitcher Walt Masterson of Washington on Sept, j 23. i The 27-year-old southpaw was named on 23 of jSjfl 24 ballots cast toy the baseball writers! With each j writer voting for 10 players! Shantz I received 16 first place ballots, four seconds, and one^ach ctof third, : fourth %nd sixth: place. ; . Figured on the basis ofpt4 points J for a first place vote; nine for a second, eight for a third and so on down to one for a lOtth, little Bobby had a total of 280 points. Behind him came three mem-, ! berS- of the World Champion New i York Yankees, RcynoldsWOutfield- er Mickey Mantle and catcher :Yogi Ber affwho won the award [last year. Reynolds';had four first place votes and 18&$oints; Mantle 1 was the to1Spdhc^ee||of three writ­ers and had 143;|idfiits, while Ber­ra had 104v points Second bas$na® JWeJson Fox of ithe SoxSwas. the only other j^aye^^eceive a first- j place voWf E’dxj^with 59 points, j was seventh in the voting. Between I him and Bdrra dame pitcher Early ! Wynn of the Cleveland Indians and ; first baseman tFerris Fain of the ; Athletics. ' ; Shantofis thdlfirst pitcher to win [the M.ViF. alferd since Hal New- Jhouser of ithe Detroit Tigers was honored in 1&45, and toe first A’s ; player chdsen Since first baseman I Jimmy Foxx in 1933!? Shantz will j receive toe JCenesaw Mountain ! Landis plaqug. ;;! The pintonzed left-handerW^a'.s • encouraged-to try a professional I baseball»c^0r by his: fa%err she | of the few people who ever gave j him a chance to make good. LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL NOVEMBER 15, 1952 IConferenc^.|§Ses if 2' ^ In Major Battles NEW YORK, Nov.' 14 ••(tTP) — Michigan State shoots for nothing less than the mythical National; Championship while other football powers try to nail down confer-; ence titles and bowl berths, tomor-, row in one of the biggest Satur-j day’s of the 1952 season, f it’s hard to pick a “game of; toe day” out of such a dazzling array, but apparently it’s toe bat-; tie between Michigan State ana upset-conscious Notre Dame at East Lansing, Michigan. If the Spartans, who have been rated the-nation’s No. 1 team all' season long, can get by the Fight­ing Irish, they’ll just about pack that ranking away. For the only game toe staters will have left will be against a Marquette team that already has lost four games. The odds-makers have tabbed the sizzling Spartans as 13-point fa­vorites but plenty ;toan happen in a game both sides want badly. The Irish, who may stilts be suffering from the aches of their gmjrprise win last week over Oklahoma, want revenge for their two|gtraight defeats by the Spartans, including last: year’s 35to-shellacking,j®| Decisive battles are scheduled in the’Big Ten, the Big Seven, Souths wesfpT Southeastern, and southern- Conferences: Ih addition,, such teampSas^iKIississippi, Tennessee, Pitt, Syracuse, and Holy Cross, will be striving to attract the eye of some bowl official.