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Sports News
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Griffs Picked to Beat Yanks for Second Place: East Dominant in American League
TACKLE FOES HALF
GAME TO THE GOOD
Gain Edge Beating Chisox in
Final —Nats Fortified by
Return of West.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sport* Editor. The Star.
NOT since ’way back In the
Spring, when they had
visions of annexing the
championship, has any j
series loomed as important to the:
Nationals as that starting today!
In New York. Second place Is at
stake, and with several hundred
dollars per man as an incentive,
in addition to the satisfaction of
landing the runner-up berth,
Johnson’s men can be counted on
to put up a determined fight.
That the current edition cf the Griff
men is not of pennant caliber, at least
not while a club of the crass of the A's
is in the field, already has been estab
lished. They are a bit deficient in
several respects, but there never has
been any reason for questioning their
courage, and it is due to this all-im
portant quality, plus the return to serv
ice of Sam West, that leads to the
belief they will get what they are
By re3son of the 7-to-2 shellacking
they handed the White Sox yesterday, to
sweep the set of four tits, run Chi
cago's string of ccnsecutlve defeats to
10 and cop the season's series from the
Windy Cltyans, 15 games to 7, the Na
tionals enter the acid test a half game
to the good over the YaVikees, who were
Idle.
It id pcssible this slender advantage
may prove to be that by which they ob
tain their objective, for if they split
even at New York and then defeat the
Bed Sox in the final fracas of the cam
paign here next Sunday, while the
Yankees conquer the Mackmen that
day, the same margin will separate
them. And a stand-off in Gotham,
while both Griffs and Yanks are losing
the last day of the season will bring the
same result.
Manager Johnson vouchsafed
before entraining for the big town
immediately after yesterday’s
game, that he would intrust the fling
ing in the opening struggle this after
noon to Lloyd Brown, the game little
southpaw who usually hurls in credit
able fashion against McCarthy’s maul
ers. He will have his hands full if op
posed by Lefty Gomes, who has turned
jn2s wins for the Yanks. Both Hadley
end Marberry are available for
eP Wi?h n an ofT day Thursday, when tha
Yanks and Brooklyn Robins - are to
tackle the New York Giants in a dou
ble-header benefit for the unemployed,
Walter will be able to call on Alvin
Crowder, victor in his last n< le starts,
for the single contest Friday and have
either Marberry or Hadley and Fischer
primed for the bargain show that will
end the invasion of • Col. Rupperts
stadium Saturday. Jones. Burke and
Weaver are not expected to see action
in the set unless something untoward
occurs. . .
With this pitching program Johnson
is confident of giving Ruth, Gehrig *
Co. plenty of trouble, and the fact that
West will be on the job and in pretty
good shape, despite his ailing elbow,
was a source of great gratification to
the pilot. Sammy not only is the big
gest bit of punch the team possesses
right now. but he is a veritable tower
of strength in roaming the spacious
outer garden of the plant In the Bronx.
TTTEST demonstrated during the sub
jugation of the Pale Hose here
1 yesterday that his questionable
wing doesn’t affect his fly-chasing by
grabbing everything within reach, and i
Sso proved his recent lay-off has not
affected his batting eye. He met the
ball solidly on each of his four appear- |
suices at bat, and
one hit. it was produced to thefiuit- j
ful first toning, wh en the NatioMls
salted the game away by driving Red
Faber to the showers and amassing half
a dozen tallies.
Myer, Rice and Cronin also con
tributed btogles to the veteran spit
bailer's downfall, the latter’s being a
double, and when A1 Thomas was calted
to the hill Bluege completed the job
by connecting for a two-bagger that
emptied a fully peopled set of sacks
after Kuhel had walked.
This splurge put the Nationals five
up on the Sox. who had nicked Carl
pfscher for a counter right at the out
set through a single by Blue, his steal
of third as Fischer uncorked a wild
pitch, following Sullivan’s sacrifice and
* Tb<? Hose could do nothing with the
loose-jointed portsider thereafter until
the ninth, when they grouped a pair of
rape for their second run. however, and
in the meantime the Nationals had
picked up a tally to the fourth off A1
Thomas. Faber s successor on the hill,
when Myer and Rice singled OiU sac
rificed and West connected for a long
drive to Norman.
ALONG session to the locker room
yesterday made the Nationals m'ss
most of their pre-game fielding
drill... The question of how Washing
ton’s share of the world series financial
«ot should be split was settled, but no
deta*U°were given out Gill went to
the outfield in the fourth in place of
Manush. who was bothered by a touch
of lumbago.. .Fothergills fly to the
first was on the line so close to the
field boxes Heinie feared to venture
more than one hand to attmottog the
catch, but that proved * u «£ le "V ' '
Fothergill was charged with an error,
although making an assist. wh.ni h
first fumbled Cron to’* atogte and then
flagged Manush sliding to*® the far
corner to round 2 because Cronin was
able to reach second on tbejMJ...
Rice was guyed by the crowd he
forgot which field he was playing and
started toward right, instead of left,
in the fifth.. Holding a big lead, John
son to the fifth put Bolton into the
game in place of Spencer, who had
been well shaken up when he collided
with a concrete railing in chasing a
foul fly the day before... George Bowl
er, third of the Hose hurlers. is a right
hander who attracted attention of Sox
scouts out in the Rocky Mountains sec
tion .
Homer Standing
©
B r the Associated Press.
Home runs yesterday—Foxx Ath
letics. 1.
The leaders—Gehrig. Yankees 45-
Ruth, Yankees, 44; Avertll. Indians 33 '
Klein. Phillies. 31; Foxx, Athletics’ 30:
Ott. Giants. 29.
League tools--American, Ml; Na
tional, 485; total, 1,046.
Sehmeling to Fight Walker,
Then Dempsey, Jacobs States
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 23.—Joe Jacobs, American manager of
Max Sehmeling, world heavyweight boxing champion,
said today that Sehmeling would sail in November for the
United States to make an exhibition tour and that he
wo’ild fight Mickey Walker either in Miami or Los Angeles in
February.
Jacobs said Sehmeling then would take on Jack Dempsey
In June at a place to be picked later.
Jacobs said he was sure Gene Tunney, who retired unde
feated in 1927, was returning to the ring and that “we’ll accom
modate him.” „ T _
Sehmeling and Jacobs were in Paris for the opening of Jeff
Dickson’s new sports palace.
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Back in Saddle
CHICAGO. AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Blue, lb i 11 f 1 j
Sullivan. 8b * 0 0 1 0 0
Jolley, rs j } 0 0 1 0 0
Fothertlll. If * 0 1 3 11
Watwood. cl 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norman, cl .. ♦ 0 0 * 0 J
Ker" n Vb“; .V.V.. , .V.::: J I
j
Bovierf* • l | 8
•Fonseca 1 0 0 0 o 8
tGrube 1 8 • • • 8
Totals ..............M 115-11
•Batted for Thomas in seventh.
• Batted for Bowler In ninth.
WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. Pp. A. E.
Myer. 3b. 4 3 3 8 0 0
Rice, rs-ls. J 1 ? ? 2 S
Manush. if f 1 I 1 2 2
Gill. rs.. iff I 2 2
West. cf.. 4 11-400
Cronin, J 1 8 4 8 0
Kuhel. lb ! i 2 2 2 2
Spencer, I 2 2 « 2 2
Pischer, J _® jO
Totals *4 7 II 37 1 •
Chicago 1 J 8. 6 8 8 8 8 1 3
Washington ...8881#0#8 x 7
Runs batted In—JoUev. West (3). Cronin.
Blueae <3l. Garrity. Two-base hits—Cronin.
Bluege. Appling, stolen base—Blue, Secrlt
Gill;.Double plays—Blueae to
Cronin to Kuhel: rtue to ® lu S
BKt o g.s^ S ;r C b h JSSTT off
Bowl?/* 3 1 bf^cher^Hit/“raber b 4
REDS BARRY BILLED
WITH FRANKIE WINE
Wsihington Lifht-Heavy Will
face Formidable Opponent in
Fort Feature Monday.
Reds Barry, Washington light heavy
weight boxer, haa been matched with
Frankie Wine. Barberton, Ohio, heavy.
In the eight-round feature bout Mon
day night at Fort Washington.
Wine is reputed to have twice floored
Willie Stribling and is said to have
been auccesaful against various other
nationally known battlers.
Barry's followers figure he faces an
unusually tough match.
Jack Pollock and Henry Irving will
meet to a return bout to the semi-final
at six round*. Pollock won their Arst
meeting.
Soldier Clark and Jack Cody also
are listed to go six rounds.
Four-rounder* are scheduled between
Soldier Shasburger and Willie Basinger,
Frank Vance and Jumbo Eggleston and
Joe Bruno and Joe Piscatelll. One
more four-round tilt will be arranged.
• GALLAGHER BOUT OFF.
BROOKLYN. N. Y., September 33.
A 10-round bout between Marty Gal
lagher. Washington heavyweight boxer,
and Stanley Pored, scheduled here last
night was called off. Neither was to
shape.
Yesterday’s Stars
• , ' , • yj' <|
By th# Associated Press.
; Heinie Metoe. Pirates—Held Phillies
to five hits in 13 innings and won nine
teenth game. 3-2.
Frank ODoul, Robins—Drove to pair
| of runs against Cardinals with double
• and two stogies.
Ossie Bluege. Senators—His double
with bases filled to first inning was high
spot of six-run attack on White Sox.
George Blaeholder, Browns —Pitched
effectively to pinches to beat Red Sox,
5-2
Jimmy Foxx, Athletics—His thirtieth
homer with two on aided to defeat of
Tigers.
Records of Griffs
: L a,
BATTINO.
G. Ab. R. H. 3b Ib.Hr.Sh.&b.Rbl.Pct.
Phelps, i * n lon.no a.m
Wear 137 505 75 185 41 IS 4 3 « *1 .833
i Harris. 74 315 48 71 14 8 5 1 S 43 .330
Jones.. 28 47 8 15 1 0 8 • 0 5 .318
M’n’sh 144 812 108 I*B 41 11 5 8 3 70 301
Cronin 151 5»1 183 183 43 13 13 4 8 137 .308
Rice.. 113 387 81 118 19 8 1 11 8 37 .300
Bolton. 32 37 2 11 11 0 0 8 7 .387
Myer.. 134 573 118 185 21 8 4 7 11 63 .388
ttv 137 502 iirU 33* mi •;.;??
01U... 7 28 77 2 1 0 1 0 3 .269
Sp’cer 140 483 18 134 15 4 1 8 1 81 .388
Blueae 148 558 83 148 34 7 8 8 18 84 .388
K®:. 8,8 li 8 n \ I I l i
Burke.. 8848 3 10 18830 4 .308
, re&ljs j a n ; \i if®
!i«gsrol ? linn tm
■ Andrus 1 3 8 8 8 0 8 0 0 8 .808
I Weaver 1 3 8 8 8 8 8 8 0 1.800
• I prrcHiNo.
i' ln'*a. Oa. Comp.
> G. H. 88. 80. pitch. st't’d.Oa. W. L.
! Weaver 1 0 4 8 0 ,1,1 ,1 ?
1 Marh'y 42 203 83 83 3H , 38 12 ,8 4
> Cr wd'r 43 347 78 83 245% 24 13 18 10
, Burke. 30 125 64 41 138«* jJ If 3
Piacher 44 302 78 88 186 33 7 13 8
> "Sdl** 5*143 58 118 173 10 J U »
. Brown. 41 350 7# 78 383 38 15 14 IS
Jonea.. 37 185 61 88 130 33 6 8 16
Standings in Major Circuits
WEDNESDAY. SEFTEMBEE 23 1881.
i . American League
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
■ Washington. 7: Chicago. a.
I
1 Other clubs not scheduled.
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OAKSES TODAY. OAKSES TOMORROW.
Washington st K. Y. W«»MnRU»n at *•. r.
S*s.?r.d.a- fe4’, c .rat
W\t %uvi\m Skf.
L * W V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Lmg
iPLAY-OFF DECIDES
SANDLOTHONORS
G. P. 0., Eldbrooke in Three
Tilts, Following Defeat
of Latter.
AVERY forlorn Commerce team
and nine happy, bewildered G.
P. O. base bailers today were
to take the South Ellipse Field
at 4:15 o’clock to the first of a three
game series to decide the city series
championship.
Anything might happen, but noth
ing short of an errorless game can
make any of those 3.000-odd fans ex
pected at the tut raise an eyebrow
after what has happened.
Those, and there were many, who
were foolish enough to make predic
tions, conceded the title to the Con
structioneers. which stUl is rated the
most powerful team to the field—on
paper. Yet the Constructioneers won
only one game to aix and were the
flrat to be eliminated.
Commerce, picked to be to the cellar
battle by most “prognosticators,” swept
over all opposition after losing to the
Constructioneers early to the series.
When the Clerks defeated G. P. O.
last week the series was believed over
as far as most sandlot folk were con
cerned.
When O. P. O. downed Eldbrooke
Monday and pinned Its chances on its
victim upsetting Commerce yesterday,
there was little G. P. o. support. To
day there is plenty, for Eldbrooke, scor
ing four runs In the first toning, won
a 4-to-3 victory over Commerce, giving
G. P. O. a first-place tie, making neces
sary a three-game series and string
ing out an already too long series.
FIGHT FOR GEN. BUTLER
Philadelphia Mayor and Public
Safety Head See King Show.
QUANTICO, Va.. September 23.
Among thos: witnessing boxing matches
here last night at a smoker given to
honor of Gen. Smedley Butler were
Mayor and Mrs. Henry A. Mackey of
Philadelphia and Lemuel Schofield,
director of public safety of that city.
Summaries of the bouts;
Joe Moran defeated Leon McNally,
knockout: Buddy Hosklnson defeated
George Coni in; Buster Medlock and
George Edwards drew; Johnny Clark
defeated Carl Ms nr an; Jimmy Bell and
Clifton Wlllougby. drew, and Bob Gus
som defeated Albert Moran.
Smith Stops Anderson.
LOS ANGELES, September 23.—Harry
Smith, Jamaica. Long Island, middle
weight Negro boxer, stopped Joe Ander
son of Louisville, Ky., to th* third
round of their 10-round bout here last
night. Anderson injured one hand to
the first round.
Alexandria Notes
ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 23
Charley Corbett, manager of the St
Mary’s Celtics foot ball team, has
booked a game with the Northern A. C.
of Washington for October 4 to Bag
gett's Park. It will be the opener for
the Celtics.
The ball game between the Celtics
and Dixie Pig A. C., postponed last
Sunday because of wet grounds, will be
staged here this Sabbath at Baggett's
National A. C. wants gridiron games
with 100-pound clubs. Telephone Owen
| Chappelle at Alexandria 828-W.
Bailston A. C. will entertain the
Sklnker Eagles Sunday at 3 o'clock.
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| Minor Leagues
i
[ . American Association.
[ Minneapolis, 10-1; Milwaukee, 7-7.
Toledo, 8-5: Indianapolis, 4-2.
Kansas City. 8-6; St. Paul. 5-7.
| Columbus, 13-4; Louisville, 6-1.
Pacifle Coast League.
' Portland, 5; Sacramento, 4.
> Oakland, 5: Seattle, 4.
San Francisco. 3; Hollywood, 1.
Los Angeles, 10; Missions, 5.
, Western League.
|j Wichita. 1-4; Topeka. 2-3.
) Oklahoma City. 8; St. Joseph, 7.
Denver, 9; Des Moines, 4.
| Only four games, one postponed, cold
j 1 weather.
National League
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
ftusburgh* S;*PhU*diiPhls, K <M innings).
Other clubs not scheduled.
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New York HOI—IIOHOimi4IISIIKISTIS4i.»7S
Chicago I Sill I—l Sliail4ll4il4;B2i7o .539
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Washington; i>. c., Wednesday, September 23, 1931.
TIfE SITUATION NOT SO WELL IN HAND. —By TOM DOERER
I 20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.
JACK LELIVELT, outfielder of the
Washington team, next season
will be found with the Rochester
club of the Eastern League if the
other American League teams waive
on him. He figured to a deal by
which the Nationals will get Foster,
Moeller and Spencer from Rochester.
Carl Cashlon gave Chicago just
two hits yesterday as the Nationals
conquered the Sox, 1 to 0. to the sec
ond game of a double-header, the
first tilt of which was won by Chi
cago.
Vean Gregg. Cleveland’s sensa
tional southpaw, and Walter John
son may face as the Naps open a
series here today,
Georgetown University’s grid team
will start, its season against the Sea
man Gunners here.
Gallaudet will not open its foot
ball campaign until October 7. when
It will engage Baltimore City Col
lege at Kendall Green.
TUFFY PUTS SCHAAF
KAYO KICK TO TEST
Bolton's Sensational Puncher Will
Have 18-Pound Margin in
Battle Tonight.
Mr the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 23.—The an
swer to Ernie Schaaf’s stirring knock
out victory march through the Amer
ican heavyweight ranks may be heard
at the Chicago Stadium tonight when
he stacks his new reputation against
Oerald Ambrose ("Tuffy") Griffith to
a 10-round battle.
Because of the Boston heavyweight’s
great sweep since last Spring and Grif
fith's budding hopes to stop him, the
battle had the complexion of one of
the best fight naturals of the year.
Chicago was so excited about the
match that 15,000 were expected to
pay 840.000 to watch it.
Because of his seven straight knock
out victories, Sch&af ruled a slight
favorite. He outweighed Griffith by
18 pounds as an added advantage,
although he faced a far shiftier target
than his recent victims.
TROTTER SHOWS SPEED.
LEXINGTON, Ky.. September 23
UP). —Setting a season’s record for trot
ters in the second heat, J. P. Berry’a
Tronia Britton won the Ashland State,
feature of the Grand Circuit program.
The time for the second heat was 2:01.
The winner went the first heat to
2:o2*£ and the third in 2:01*4.
To Branch Rickey Is Due Credit
For Street’s Rise as Manager
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Bports Editor.
No. 9—Hickey, The Patron.
THE rise of Gabby Street from
obscurity to major league man
agerial heights with the, St.
Louis Cardinals is linked up at
a number of vital stages with the fore
sight of Branch Rickey.
In many respects Rickey is the most
remarkable executive figure in base ball.
He is aggressive, a r'gid disciplinarian,
a fluent speaker and an engaging
personality.
He once piloted the St. Louis Browns.
He was for several years bench man
ager of the Cardinals, without con
spicuous success, before turning his
. talents to the business office and the
development of the far-flung Cardinal
farm system.
. Rickey with amazing energy does
an extraordinary amount of work. He
is the overseer of the chain farms, keep
; ing a continual check on their activities,
juggling or transferring players for the
best interests of all concerned, always
on the lookout for the most promising
> talent for the headquarters organi
-1 zation.
Was Major Ip Army,
i During the World War, Rickey rose
t to the rank of major in the Chemical
i Warfare Service of the A. E. P.
i Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb were
captains in this branch.
Gabby Street was a sergeant in the
. combat division. It was not strange
If these four sometimes talked base ball.
Rickey encouraged Street to seek a
career as managerjfcut neither had the
’ -I.' i: naa
I'lliiiilw'
The b/g Boy has
A Lot of OUG6LIN6
To DO DURING THF
Few pav-s-
Unusual Records
Made in Pitching
XTEW YORK, September 23.
IN Pitching persimmons, ripe and
green, are numerous in the ma
jor leagues today. Just look these j
over:
Grove has won six games from
Washington. He has also won 13 1
games from the West. Crowder, for j
Washington, has won five games from
the Athletics. Ruffing, for the
Yankees, has lost five games to
Cleveland without winning one. Fer
rell of Cleveland has Ivon five each
from Chicago and Bt. Louis. Cara
way of the Chicago Americans and
Gray of the St. Louis Browns have
lost at least one game to each club
in their league, Washington has
won six from Caraway and New
York six from Gray. Washington has
won six from Stewart of the Browns.
Jim Elliott has won six from Brook
lyn. Hallahan has won five games
from Philadelphia—not the Athletics
—his turn is coming.
Fistic Battles
! By tbs Associated Press. »
NEW YORK.—Tommy Loughrmn,
Philadelphia, outpointed Joe Sekyra,
Dayton. Ohio (10), Charley Retzlaff,
Duluth. Minn., stopped Dick Onken,
Germany <2).
INDIANAPOLIS. Midget Wolgast,
Philadelphia, outpointed Johnny Ed
wards, Huntington, W. Va. (lO).''
FARGO, S. Dak—Kid Rlppatoe.
Sioux City, lowa, and Howard Shiek,
Fargo, drew (4).
ATLANTA—MaxIe Rosenbloom, New
York, and Battling Bozo, Atlanta, drew
<10).
least thought at the time that they
would hook up together, 10 years later,
with a championship combination.
After the war. Street left Nashville
and began his managerial career with
the Suffolk club of the Virginia League.
He went from there to Joplin and Mus
kogee in the Western Association, hav
ing forgotten about Rickey until the
Cardinal executive again crossed his
path. •
They talked business as well as about
their war days In Prance. The upshot
was that Street stayed on Rickey’s little
memorandum book and three years later
was offered the job as Cardinal coach.
It was the climax of a 17-year battle
through the bushes and the trenches
for Gabby. Having Justified Rickey’s
confidence, Street was No. 1 on the list
when it was decided to replace Bill Mc-
Kechnle after the 1929 season.
Rickey is the man-behlnd-the-gun, so
far as Street, Is concerned, counseling
the old backstop In player matters ana
attending to necessary disciplinary
measures.
Gabby Is Bom on Field.
On the field, however. Gabby is the
boss. He has apparently fitted more
satisfactorily into the Cardinal scheme
of operations than any of his many
predecessors under the Breadon-Rlckey
regime.
He has already broken all records in
this organization by holding the mana
gerial post for two winning years and
obtaining a contract for a third.
Until the old sergeant took hold.
Hornsby. O’Parrell, McKechnle and
Southworth came and went in rapid
succession. No wondef the boys laughed
when Street took charge. But the old
sergeant has the last smile. 7
Tomorrow—The Incomparable Cobb.
THCIR. POSVTXOIA TOOAV
w TO ftSD FABER
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Griffmen Have an Incentive
, Up There in "New York to Grab Second Place Coin.
BY TOM DOERER
WITH a hairline grasp upon
second money, those
Griffs are in New York
today ready to do or die
for dear old bank account or the
price of a new Winter overcoat
for the missus.
1 Yes sir, our pride and hope Is up 1
there In Babylon to play a ball club i
that never arises unless there is coin I
at stake and while second-place money
was never much to the Yanks it is
different these days.
During the next tour days both teams
of ball players will be window shopping
in the evenings and trying to make the
dream come true with their war clubs
in the afternoon.
When the reception committee greets
! those Senators next Sunday afternoon
!at Griff Stadium, as they meet the
Red Sox, it wilt either cheer a second
placer or an outfit that stumbled by
i the wayside.
Mr. General Crowder, the better-late
than-never twirler for the Griffs, in
—■ formed me that
jr T ths Senators were
> \ . j sure to cash those
. a \ \ checks. Since then,
( 8 I i however, our boys
ft aVi l J J floundered and
> » ' J J* slipped and then
Xv/ skidded into third
place. Whether the
- G ene ral changed
his mind after he
saw what the ln
y side of third place
S looked like I can-
I I /via w/M not lell you.
f \ But the lowdown
\ V \ this afternoon is
that base ball is to
see one of the moot spectacular series
of the year, better, probably, than will
be the combat between tbe Cards and
the Athletics. When those Yanks and
Griffs think about what 3800 per man
win buy they will shoot an umpire ench
afternoon between 2 and 3 o’clock to
win the aeries. 4 f
England may pass up the gold stand
ard, but a dollar Is still a dollar In
the American League and none of those
ball players in the Yank-Griff series is
going to lose a dime without a terrific
struggle.
The bird who invented money surely
knew what to use to make ball players
play ball.
Mr. Bed Faber, the pallid-hose
spttter, contributed more than hh share
Major Leaders
Br ths Associated Press.
American League.
Batting—Simmons, Athletics, .321;
Ruth, Yankees, .373.
Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 158; Ruth,
Yankees, 144.
Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees,
178; Ruth, Yankees, 155.
Hits—Gehrig, Yankees, 205; Averill,
Indians. 202.
Doubles—Webb, Red Sox. 66; Alex
ander, Tigers, 45.
Triples—Johnson, Tigers, 18; Blue,
White Sox, 15.
Home' runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 45;
Ruth, Yankees, 44.
Stolen bases —Chapman, Yankees, 61;
Johnson, Tigers, 23.
Pitching—Grove, Athletics, won 30,
lost 3; Mar berry, Senators, won 16,
lost 4.
National League.
Batting Hafey, Cardinals, .350;
Terry, Giants, .348.
Runs —Klein, Phillies, and* Terry,
Giants, 120.
Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 120;
Terry, Giants, 113.
Hits—Terry, Oiants, 313; L. Waner.
.Pirates, 210.
Doubles Adams, 'Cardinals, 45;
Berger, Braves, 44.
Triples—Terry, Oiants, 20; Herman,
Robins, 16.
Home runs—Klein, Phillies, 31; Ott,
Giants, 28.
Stolen bases —Frisch, Cardinals, 37;
Martin, Cardinals, 17.
Pitching —Haines, Cardinals, won 11,
Sit I; Derringer, Cardinals, won 17,
Classified Ads
toward keeping the Yankees from
pocketing second money In the Amer
ican League race when he gave the
Griffs a trayful of runs in the opening
toning yesterday.
Although the guinea pig of the
American League during the Tatter part
<cf this season, Chicago more than
! offered itself for science, advancement
of the Senators and plenty of time to
! catch a train to yesterday’s skirmish.
Mr. “Uncle” Red Faber could not
have been more solicitous as to our
welfare than if he had been our
uncle. He was more than a cousin
as he offered up a ball that begged
to be larruped as it wobbled up to
the platter.
That ball was so slow, so moth-eaten
and puerile that the cash customers in
the upper stands .
could count the . W L£ A
freckles upon it, v > * 'V.
read the stitching N./ Y
and name its teeth. .. liyT* 1
It might have been u 'SEp'' J
sun struck and it m..*
might Just have
been a ball that / '
Red tosses on his Vs
very, very bad days. (rPIBH
GAME
Anyhow, H was -Ac
something to lash j/Vr.L )
and our batting
order went into >3-
action like cham- So C
everything Faber
pitched and then looked around to see
if the umpire was not ready to th%>w
a few in to make it interesting.
But, on the other fin, remember
that Mr. Carl Fischer was not up
on the pill box tossing horseshoes,
gentlemen. That young man heaved
& heavy, steady sockful of twirling,
and to prove that he was no
bumeroo he showed how you set ’em
down when they get rough. Those
Chlguns twice made an effort to
prove our lack of right to be in sec
ond place, and on each occasion
Curlylocks smacked them down.
And for their efforts there was just
three fans shy of a corporal’s guard
doing duty to the stands. But between
the heat and, maybe, the feeling that
the Griffs were going to take a detour
toward fourth place, they decided to
stay away.
Chips From the Mapleways
LIKE the great oak that once was
a squirrel-shy acorn, the little
six - team Dynamite Duckpin
League of 1930, which tonight
will open its second season at the Lucky
Strike, promises to spring up and as
sume a place as one of Washington’s
up-and-coming bowling circuits.
The Dynamite League, which was or
ganized In December last year by em
ployes of the Bureau of Industrial Al
cohol, Bureau of Prohibition and Bu
reau of Internal Revenue, started with
only six teams. Tonight 14 teams will
roll. It was necessary to turn down
six teams because of the inability to
secure enough alleys.
The Dynamiters will roll at the Lucky
Strike. The teams include Alibi Ar
tists, Also Rans, Blow Hards, Come
Backs, Drl-Kleeners, Hill Billies, Lab
Katz, Little Potatoes, Pin Busters, Sand
Blowers, Swiss Navy, Tobacco Scrape,
Wild Birds and Wrecking Crew.
The Civic Club Bowling League will
open its third season Wednesday, Sep
tember 30, with 10 teams at the bar
rier, two new ones, the Civltan and
Reciprocity Clubs, having been added
recently. All league games will be rolled
at the Arcadia.
Perhaps no other duckpin loop in
Washington has been so successful in
keeping interest keyed up until the final
night as the Civic Club Circuit. During
the last two seasons the teams not only
have been almost evenly matched but
the pennant winners were not decided
until the final night’s rolling. Klwanis
Club won in 1929 and the Cosmopolitan
Club took the gonfalon last year.
Besides the new teams, the league
includes the Klwanis, Cosmopolitan.
Lions, Monarch. Newcomers, Optimist,
Rotary and Round Table Clubs.
Harvard and Michigan, two new
PAGE C-1
WEST HAS UPPER
HAND IN NATIONAL
Final Intersectional Play
Bears Out Earlier Dope.
A’s Win No. 105.
By the Associated Press.
WITH one game left today
before the year’s inter
sectlonal play in the
major leagues ends, the
last East-West series in the big
circuits merely has proved what
the earlier ones Indicated. The
Eastern clubs of the American
League and the Western teams of
the National, which have out
shone their rivals from the other
sections all year, wound up with
the most thorough triumph yet.
Playing on the home grounds of the
strongest sections, the American League’s
Eastern half won 40 games and lost
enly 14. while the Westerners of the
National League turned In 38 triumphs
to 18 defeats. The Chicago Cubs, which
had lost nine straight games to the
clubs of their own sector before begin
ning their stand against the East, made
the best Individual showing. They won
11 games and lost only 3. Bcston, Phila
delphia and New York shared the
American League honors, the Red Sox
winning 11 games and losing 4 and
the As and Yankees each recording 10
victories to 3 defeats.
When they closed their intersectional
stand with an 8-t:-6 victory over De
troit yesterday, the Athletics, once said
to be weaker than the pennant winners
of the last two seasons, accomplished a
feat that no other Philadelphia club ever
had done before. It was their 105th vic
tory of the season, one more than the
great A's of 1929 could win all season.
They still have five games left and the
possibility of tying the American League
record of 110 victories.
George Earnshaw, who won his
twenty-first game of the year, and Roy
Mahaffey gave the champions some
wabbly pitching. But three Detroiters
more than made up the difference by is
suing 13 walks. And Jimmy Foxx started
the A’s off with a lead that never was
overcome, when he hit his thirtieth
homer of the season with two cn in the
first Inning.
Boston’s great spurt was checked in
the last inning of a battle with St. Louis,
but the Red Sox managed to hold on
to fifth place. Leading 2-0 going into
the ninth, Milt Gaston weakened, the
Sox committed two errors and Wiley
Moore, who was tossed Into the breach,
could not get the side out until 5 runs
had crossed the plate to give the Browns
a 5-to-2 victory.
After wasting a number of opportunl
, ties In the regular route, the Pittsburgh
Pirates finally beat out the Phillies, 3
' to 2, m the thirteenth Inning of 4&e Na
-1 tional League’s best battle. Hetnte Meine
held Philadelphia to 5 hits, while the
Pirates made 10 and got the' benefit of
13 walks and 6 sacrifices, but 20 Pitts
burghers were left on base, cne of the
passes followed by Traynor’s single and
Piet’s fly produced the winning run.
Brooklyn closed the National League
season so far as Bt. Louis Is concerned
by downing the champion Cardinals.
6 to 3, In their final encounter. Paul
Derringer’s streak of wildness In the
seventh with Orsatti* error and
ODoul’s timely single gave the Robins
three runs to put them ahead and Jack
Quinn, relieving Mungo, held the Cards
in check to the end.
The other National League clubs had
an off day.
BOAT CLUBMEN TO ROLL
Old Dominions Will Open League
in Alexandria Tomorrow.
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ September 23 -
Plans have been completed by Dr. Ne
ville Roberts, president of the Old Do
minion Boat Club Duckpin League, for
the opening tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
, cn the Health Center.
Six teams are made up as follows:
Scull!—Bill Winstead. captain: Alvin
Jones. Charles Marsh Shepperson. Jr.; T.
Brook*. Howard, Jack Robinson, Bender and
J. Earle Roes.
Floats—Dr. N. J. Roberts, captain: Charles
Grant. Louis Hoy, Nick Nicholson. Tates.
Mike Shuman and Brewer.
Sweeps—Urban S. Lambert, jr.. eaptain;
John W. Brookfield. Jr.: Denton Hoy, Ben
jamin O. Minor. Matnus W. Bales, Martin
and Hollis Nucent.
Barge Five—Stanley Dreifus, eaptain:
Chick O'Daniel. Dallas Wiley. Wood, Dennis.
Alvin Friedlander and Louis Bell.
Quads—Frank Davis, captain: Donald
Jamieson. Ashby Warfield. Scrivener, Valen
tine. Rosenberg and Whltestone.
Gigs—Jack 8. Howard, captain; Robert
Whitton, Arthur Rector. Hepburn, Robert
Howard and Wilson Davis.
Tip for Fishermen.
HARPERS PERRY, W. Va„ Septem
ber 23.—The Potomac River wm» sllght
' ly cloudy and the Shenandoah was
clear this morning.
■
teams, have been added to the Inter
collegiate Alumni League, which again
will bowl at Rendezvous. The loop will
start October 13 and in addition to'
those dubs already mentioned, will
elude Maryland, defending champlcH
Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, V. P. JH
Princeton, Navy, Lehigh, Cornell
V- M. L
Rolling 647 to their opponents’ 632, 1?
the final game. Northeast Temple too)
the third and odd gams from the Pale
Dry last night in one of the National
Capital League’s opening skirmishes.
Lucky Strike won all three from
Barnes Used Cars in another tfit.
Hokle Smith, on Lucky Strike, rolled
166, 132 and 122 for a 422 set. Red
Megaw threw in a 401 set for Temple.
WITH four new teams in line, the
Recreation Duckpin League will
get under way tomorrow at the
Recreation alleys.
The new teams are Cooks Bakery,
Sims Music Studios, Blue Flames and
Union Terminal Market. The teams
from last year are Rex, defending cham
pion; Pops, Cubs, Stantons, Dodgers
and Pox Theater.
A meeting of the captains will be
held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, when fran
chise fees will be paid up. Fop Hallev
will roll the first ball. Tomorrow Bims
will face Pox, Rex will oppose Union
Terminal, Blue names will roll Pops,
Cooks will meet Dodgers, and Cubs and
Stantons will square qff.
ORIS GAME CANCELED.
SWARTHMORE, Pa., September 23
(JP). —The opening foot ban game
scheduled for Saturday between S worth
more and St. Joseph has been can
celed. Swarthmore was unable to get
its squid started in practice sarly
have a team m condign.