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English Maid May Reach Net Heights: Bolton Looms as Main Catcher in 535 FEAR STAMMERS AT FOREST HILLS U. S. Title Threat, Playing Like a Man, Is Hardest Hitter Since Moody. BY BOB CAVAGNARO, Associated Press Sports Writer. Forest hills, n. y„ August 17.—John Bull’s tennis con stellation boasted today a third star to add to Fred Perry, who won the Wimbledon title for England for the first time in 25 years Bnd Dorothy Round, the first English girl to capture her nation’s cham pionship in eight years. Katherine Stammers, an attractive 20-year-old Briton, has burst out un expectedly as a definite threat to the home-bred players in the United States women’s championship. Playing in America for the first time in her career, Miss Stammers has become one of the most fancied players ever to come to this country from England. Tennis disciples de clare she has the most powerful fore hand drive seen on these courts since Helen Wills Moody was at the peak of her game. Has Unusual Stamina. HER whole game is built around a murderous forehand driving and volley attack. Miss Stammers Is possessed of un limited stamina. She revels in a close match and the harder her opponent smacks the ball she sends it back al ways a little harder—a feature of her game that has made her an out standing favorite with the galleries. She has no particular designs on the American championship, although she won’t pass up an opportunity to cop it. Her opponent in the quarter finals today was Carolin Babcock, the sun-tanned star from Los Angeles. "My first ambition is to win the English woman’s title at Wimbledon,” Miss Stammers said today. “After that I’d like to win your champion ship. Of course I wouldn’t object to reversing the order of my plans. Plays Like a Man. MISS STAMMERS’ rugged phy sique, enabling her to play more like a man than a wom an, was not altogether developed on tennis courts. She plays lacrosse In the Winter. For a time she played cricket. "I liked cricket at first, but it got to be boring. It’s a silly game,” she smiled. With the Stammers-Babcock match holding forth as the stellar singles attraction of the day, the other quar ter-final engagements find Helen Jacobs, the defending champion, against Elizabeth Ryan, Sarah Pal frey of Brookline, Mass., against Freda James of England, and Dorothy An drus of Stamford, Conn., against Baroness Maud Levi of Minden, Nev. PLAY FOR SECOND PLACE Victory Post and Home Loan to Cl&Bh Monday and Tuesday. Victory Post and Home Owners’ Loan Corporation soft ball nines will meet next Monday and Tuesday In the Central High School Stadium to determine the second-place winner In the Capital City League. Each game will begin at 5:45 o’clock and will consist of nine Innings In stead of the usual seven in soft ball. REACH DIAMOND CRISIS Legion Tournament Semi-Finals Slated at Charlotte. CHARLOTTE. N. C.. August 17 <A>).—Norfolk meets Memphis and Charlotte plays Columbia today in the regional semi-finals of the American Legion junior base ball tournament. Winners of today’s games play again Saturday to determine the team to represent the Legion in the Eastern American championship eliminations next week in Gastonia, N. C. MALEVICH GETS JOB Former C. U. Star Is Named Head Coach at Eveleth College. EVELETH. Minn., August 17.—Jack Malevich, former foot ball and boxing star at Catholic University, has been named by the school board to succeed J. L. Christian as head coach at the Eveleth Junior College. Malevich will be In charge of the Eveleth foot ball, basket ball and track teams. Christian resigned to accept a similar position at the Con necticut State College. SportScope (Continued From Fifth Page.) the tenth, with a left-handed at tack and nothing to go with It, Galento was tired, and his south paw sock had dwindled to a tap. On the other side, Gallagher was under full sail, the reefs behind him. Marty a Game Guy. ON MARTY’S late showing in this bout, plus the Irish man's eagerness to accept a return battle. Miller predicated his judgment that the policeman fireman feature wouln't be the Pasco nearly all the critics have predicted It pill be. Moit of the custom i era will be looking with scrambled in terest* for a knockout by Galento, but would be thrilled by a victory or XoDy 0a)nU. any sort for i • the lad with the red badge | (probably unconscious of it I himself) blazing on his chest. ' Any way one may regard it, the bout ought to be interesting, and Maj. Miller will find at least a cor poral’s guard to agree with him that Gallagher deserves an oppor tunity to prove to his own satis faction that he is or is not a better man with his mitts than Galen to. All of which, so far as boxing business goes, m^» sound a bit un professional, but Marty's Irish is up. :• - < Net Surpriser ELIMINATES WOOD FROM NEWPORT TOURNEY. BERKELEY BELL. BEGIN DIAMOND SERIES Competition In the city champion ship soft ball series was to get under way today, weather permitting, with two games slated for 5:15 o’clock. In the Roosevelt Stadium the Northerns and the Playground Super visors were to clash, while on the N*val Air Station field the Navy out fit was to meet Farm Credit, ALLISON AND BELL CLASH FIFTH TIE Parker, Grant Also Renew Feud in Semi-Finals of Newport Tennis. By the Associated Press. Newport, r. i.. August 17.— Two of the most interesting tennis feuds of the current season will burst into flame again today while the New port Casino singles tournament is be ing reduced to the finals stage. Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., runner-up to Francis X. Shields In last year’s Casino play, will meet the greatly improved Berkley Bell of New York for the fifth time this season in the lower half semi-final. Bell sprang a surprise yesterday by defeating Sid ney Wood in straight sets. In the other second last round match Frankie Parker of Spring Lake, N. J., will take on the new national clay court champion, Bryan "Bitsy” Grant of Atlanta. Have Broken Even. ALLISON and Bell have shared the victories in their four previous meetings, the Texan squaring accounts last Saturday when he gained A four-set win over Bell in the Lockwood Bowl final. Grant col lapsed after his duel with Parker at Southampton two weeks ago and he has high hopes of erasing this straight-set back from his record. Although yesterday's rain washed out most of the scheduled double program, this competition is well in hand, and in today's feature match the four members of the American Davis Cup squad will be involved. George Lott and Lester Stoefen, who will defend their national titles at Philadelphia next week, will try to gain a final bracket at the expense of Shields and Sidney Wood. THE SPORTLIGHT Ruth Intends to Stick to Base Ball, Tigers’ Spirit Tells, Says Cochrane. _BY GRANTLAND RICE WHAT will happen to Babe Ruth when he retires next month as a regular. The August air has been full of rumors. Including the tip that Babe might turn to professional golf for a living. The Babe himself isn’t quite sure but he expects to make his living out of base ball. "I am going on a base ball tour of Japan this Fall.” he said in the Yankee dugout, “and this will last two months or longer. If there hap pens to be an opening, I’d like to manage a major league club. “I am going to keep on playing golf, but I don’t expect to make any living out of it. That slice I had the last time out might turn and bite me again. “Base ball happens to be my main game. It has given me a great break in the past and I’m not worried about the future.” Ruth's base ball tour of Japan should be one of the greatest of all sport’s expeditionary forces. Jimmy Foxx also is going, and Lou Gehrig hopes to be on hand. Few know that Japan has at least two ball parks with more seating capacity than any base ball plant in the United States of America, outside of the Yankee Stadium. These two Japanese parks can take care of more than 60,000 spectators each, and they will be packed when the Babe reports for action with an all-star cast. Japan is one of base ball’s keenest sectors. The Japanese know all about the Babe. Foxx, Gehrig and other stars, and millions will be waiting to see and hear the cannonading of these famous sluggers. Anyway, Ruth is all steamed up over the Oriental jaunt. What Next? HERE are three ways the Babe can carve a living out of base ball. One might be in the role of a pinch hitter, playing occasional games. The second would be some man agerial post. The third would be a barnstorming tour next Spring and Summer, which might enable him to pick up as much cash as any ball club could afford to pay. He could play to big business, especially in the smaller towns where he hasn’t been seen. The role of pinch hitter hardly would appeal. The managing Job still is his top choice, and. if that should fail to work out, he might take a shot at touring the hamlets and the smaller cities. Ruth carried a deep yearning to get one more shot at world series gold and glory—then the Tigers exploded their double-header bomb as they opened the five-game series in New York. So far as professional golf is con cerned, there would be no important money In this field. The Babe could work his game into the fairly low 70’s, as he has done before, but he began too late to have any show against the Sarasens or Runyans or Armours. He might do fairly well on an exhibition tour with a star pro as a playing partner—but some form of base ball would pay much larger dividends. About the Tigers. I ASKED Mickey Cochrane what he considered the leading feature in regard to his astonishing Tigers. “I'd say It was spirit,*' he answered. “You’ve heard a lot about college spirit—but this Detroit ball club has as much spirit as any college foot ball team I ever saw. It has a spirit and speed, and that makes a hard combi nation to stop. It also has the punch. OLDSMOB1LE Tha New S“ and "in At Low at $780 Delivered POHANKA Olds Salet-Sqvica Since 1923 1126 20th St. DIst. 9141 If some rival team piles up a lead of four of five runs, we never worry about it We all have the feeling that sooner or later we’ll get those runs back—and maybe a few more. “There hardly is a spot in our line up where a rival pitcher can afford to loaf. He must keep bearing down every minute of the game—and that isn’t an easy thing to do. We spotted as fine a pitcher as Lefty Gomez 13 or 14 runs in his last two starts against us—and still won out. The average ball club would be discouraged with a Gomez holding that big margin. This club of ours doesn’t get dis couraged We play it out—all the way through. "The same thing goes for our pitchers. Even when well behind, they keep on pitching, figuring the bunch will get them runs enough to 4rin out “After all, it goes back more to spirit—team spirit—than anything else. It isn’t an easy job to keep hustling from April to October, through 154 ball games. There al ways is a strong temptation after June or early July to coast here and there—to loaf a little. No other com petitive sport calls for such a grind over so long a period of time—day after day for nearly six months. But we haven’t done any loafing or coast ing. The entire bunch has kept hustling since the first game of the season, and it will be cut there hustling just the same until the race is over.” Mickey Cochrane’s own spirit and keenness have been big factors In holding up this Tiger spirit. He started the fire and he has kept it burning in the base ball breast. Mickey is a great mixture of both head and heart—extremely popular all around the circuit. He appears a trifle thin and drawn, but there has been no mental let down—no sign of going stale. . His remarkable ability at the job of handling pitchers has been another reason for Detroit's success. (Copyright 1934 by the North American Newspaper A'llance. Inc.) Minor Leagues International. Albany, 4; Rochester, 1. Montreal, 6-1; Newark, 2-7. Toronto, 8; Baltimore, 3. Syracuse, 8; Buffalo, 4. Southern Association. Memphis, 7; Nashville, 6. Knoxville, 4; New Orleans, 2. Birmingham, 3; Chattanooga, 2. Little Rock, 7; Atlanta, 6. American Association. No games scheduled. Pacific Coast. Oakland, 13: Sacramento, 2. Seattle, 4; Portland, 3. Hollywood, 5; San Francisco, 4. Los Angeles, 6; Missions, 0. Texas. Tulsa, 10-9: Houston, 5-10. Dallas, 8; San Antonio, 5. Oklahoma City, 5; Beaumont, 4. Galveston, 5; Fort Worth, 0 (15 in nings). Western League. Omaha, 9; Des Moines, 1. Rock Island, 3-0; Topeka, 2-1. St. Joseph, 8; Cedar Rapids, 6. Sioux City, 5; Davenport, 3. New York-Fennsylvania. Scranton, 4; Williamsport, 3. Other games postponed, rain. Piedmont. Asheville-Greensboro, rain. BASE BALL ?rS£“alS Washington vs. Cleveland AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tickets at Park, 9 A.M. > I < More Title Tennis Upsets Recorded Judged by pictorial evidence received from Forest Hills,-N. Y„ new court covering tactics are in vogue in the national women’s "net championships. The three exemplifications displayed here are Miss Kath arine Stammers, English ace, punctuating her con quest of Miss Helen Pederson (upper); Miss Carolin Babcock, who faces Miss Stammers today, following a spill made in achieving a difficult get (center), and Baroness Maude Levi, Inadvertently taking time out on the occasion of her triumph over Miss Betty Nut hall, the British ace, in what was the greatest sur prise of the tourney to date. —A. P. Photos. ROS BLOOPLIN Argument of Challenger’s Manager Prevails on New York Chiefs. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. NEW YORK. August 17.—Harold Scadron, manager of Bob Olin, went before the local boxing commission and per suaded it to rescind the ban on the proposed light-heavyweight championship match between Olin and Maxie Rosenbloom. But since the general public got the idea that the match was not sanctioned because the managers of the two boxers were too friendly, no promoter now cares to handle the contest. "I did not think it was a crime to be friendly with Frank Bachman, whom I have known for many years," Scadron said. “Just because I man age a fighter of Rosenbloom’s weight does not mean I have to break up a friendship. “I am the only manager Olin ever had. I took him soon after he won the Golden Gloves title and worked hard to put him in the position he now occupies as the leading contender for the light-heavyweight title. "I saw Rosenbloom on the coast and he has gone away back. He Is ready to be taken by a hard-punching youngster like Olin, and that was why I was anxious to make the match.'* Relined, 4 Wheels, Complete Ford ? 50 Chev. S 4*5U Other Cart Proportionately Low Spinach Benson Gets Chance \ On Mound in Sunday Contest JIMMY DYKES’ shredded White Sox are coming to town to morrow . . . and before they get away from here Clark Grif fith expects to know whether his pink-whiskered pitcher, Allen Benson, is anything more than a wearer of pink whiskers...a sideshow to the ball game signed to make the turnstiles sizzle. The rangy rancher with the pink 'uns... picked up only this week from the House of David team...is to dis play his whiskers and pitching wing in Sunday’s set-to at Griffith Stadium ... he gets his initial test under Are against the poorest ball club the Amer ican League has seen in years...if there was a position below eighth place in the circuit the White Sox would occupy It. After decrying the practice of West ern clubs in putting on synthetic double-headers. President Griffith has gone for the gag himself.. .the White Sox game scheduled for next Tuesday is being moved up to tomorrow that Capital fandom may have its week end bargain bill... but a double-header between Nationals and White Sox would seem no bargain these days. And this billing gives the Washing ton curving corps plenty to handle... for the Indians were listed for a twin skit this afternoon... two games having been washed out yesterday...one of them swept all the way to Cleveland by the rain...It will be played as part of a double-header on the In dians’ home lot next month. That rain yesterday set something of a season record for the Washington ball club...for the first time this season they were kept out of action on two successive scheduled playing days...which worked no hardship on the Nationals.. .with several of their actives really too crippled to be In there.. .Manush and Harris with their injured underpinning could take the rest.. .and so could Llnke, the pitcher with an ailing flipper. Double-headers today and tomorrow get under way at 1:15...and so will any other twin bills the Nationals may put on here.. .the days are grow ing shorter.. .and the Nationals play ing longer...the extra 15 minutes might come in handy. J. B. K. WORLD RECORD BOAT LIST. Ninety-two boats, a world record field, started In the recent Seattle to Namalmo, British Columbia, cruiser race. 10,000 Tires—New Stock—Low Prices < CASH DISPOSAL ! Sale by Consolidated Sales Co. 2801 Georgia Are. CO. 4138 ^ In American Storage Co. ^ Warehouse ^ PAY CASH < AND ; S A YE DEALERS-NOTICE Lots to Suit You — One to a Carload i Open Evenings to 8 P.M. Sundays, 9 to 1 ^ Every Size in Stock Every Tire Guaranteed ^ ▲ >a ▲ A A A A A A A ▲ i —-<0 Stagg, 72, Plays Tennis With Son By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 17.—Amos Alonso Stagg. sr . head foot ball coach at the College of the Pacific. Stockton. Calif., who drilled University of Chicago teams for 41 years, yesterday celebrated his 73d birthday anniversary with a tennis match and a plate of home made fudge. The candy. Stagg's favorite con fection. was a present from his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Stagg Laaren. He played the tennis with his son. A. A. Stagg. Jr. KEEPING UP PACE Rest in Muny Singles, but Welsh-McElvenny Annex Doubles Match. Special Dispatch to The Star. Minneapolis. August 17.—in doubles, as well as singles. It Is apparent to rival netmen that Washington's rampaging trio of tennis representatives will take a lot of beating. Barney Welsh and Ralph McElven ny, who, along with Dooly Mitchell, are carrying the standard of the Na tion’s Capital, Idled in singles compe tition yesterday, but teamed up In the doubles to win a quarter-finals match over Arnold Simons, defending sin gles champion, and Donohue, both of Louisville, Ky. Today Walsh and McElvenny were to meet Kronman and PeckofI of Buffalo in the doubles semi-finals, while In the singles Welsh was to en gage Jess Millman of Los Angeles. McElvenny was to meet Ted Drewes of St. Louis and Mitchell was to op pose Simons. Make Good Impression. IN DOWNING the doubles team ol Simons and Donohue yesterday, Welsh and McElvenny Impressed as one of the smoothest duos in the tourney. The scores were 6—1, 6—2, *—4. Charles Britxlus and Billy Schom mer of Minneapolis, defending dou bles champions, remained in the run ning by defeating Scott Rexlnger and Gene Quinn of Chicago, 3—6, S—4, 6—2, 6—8 and 6—3. The other semi finals team is composed of Norton and Heuerman of St. Louis. Mrs. Ruth Prosser, defending wom en's champion, was to play Louise Hoflmeister of Chicago today in a semi-finals match, with the winner to face the victor of a match between Helen Germain of New York and Mrs. Katherine Rose of Cleveland. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Manush, Senators, .380; Gehrlnger, Tigers, .374. Runs—Gehrlnger, Tigers. 110; Wer ber, Red Sox, 105. Runs batted In—Gehrig, Yankees, 132; R. Johnson, Red Sox, 103. Hits—Gehrlnger, Tigers, 162; Ma nush, Senators, 160. Doubles—Greenberg, Tigers, 43; Gehringer, Tigers, 39. Triples—Chapman, Yankees, 11; Manush, Senators, 10. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, and Foxx, Athletics, 37. Stolen bases—Werber, Red Sox, 30; Fox, Tigers, 23. Pitching—Gomez, Yankees, 19-3; W. Ferrell, Red Sox, 10-2. National League. Batting—Terry, Giants, .366; P. Waner, Pirates, .364. Runs—Ott, Giants, 99; Terry, Giants, 93. Runs batted In—Ott, Giants, 121; Collins, Cardinals, 91. Hits—P. Waner, Pirates, 161; Allen, Phillies, 159. Doubles—Allen, Phillies, 38; Vaughan, Pirates, 34. Triples—P. Waner and Suhr, Pirates, and Medwick, Cardinals, 11. Home runs—Ott, Giants, 30; Collins, Cardinals, 27. Stolen bases—Martin, Cardinals, 17; Cuyler, Cubs, 13. Pitchers—J. Dean, Cardinals, 21-5; Schumacher, Giants, 18-5. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Jim Collins, Cardinals—Scored win ning run in eleventh Inning of first game, belted twenty-seventh homer in second. Billy Herman, Cubs, and Flint Rhem, Braves—Herman’s tenth-inning double won opener; Rhem pitched Braves to victory in second clash. WORK IS PRAISED By NATS' BOSSES Griffith, Cronin See Great Possibilities in Much Improved Receiver. BT JOHN B. KELLER. HE HASN’T been of much help to his ball club this season, but Clll Bolton seems slated to become the Nationals* first-string catcher In the next. Both Clark Griffith and Joe Cronin see great possibilities In the stocky North Carolinian who took his own sweet time In reporting to the Wash ington outfit this year. Coming to terms less than three weeks ago after a long wrangle with President Griffith over salary. Bolton has surprised those in charge of the club by his vast Improvement as a receiver and has really hit harder than his average of .277 appears to Indicate. "Bolton fits Into our rebuilding scheme nicely.** said Griffith yester day after rain had for the second successive day compelled the Na tionals to Idle. "We propose to look more to youth and power than we have done In some time to give Washington a live ball club next year. And Bolton has both. Wfll Be Ready. Sayi Griffith. “'W'OU will recall that when ha jf first came up to us a raw youngster from the Piedmont League he was perhaps the poorest catching prospect we had had In many a year. And despite frequent shipments to minor circuits where he could get a lot of work he failed to gain polish behind the bat. He had the power at bat,” Griffith admitted. “But as a receiver he didn’t measure up to big league standard." This time, though, Bolton has sur prised us greatly. Of course, he still has a little farther to go before he may be regarded a first-class worker behind the bat. But he has improved to an extent that makes me believe the work hell get with us the re mainder of the season and at training camp next Spring will get him up to the mark. “And when he reaches that mark, I’ve an idea he'll be In there catching regularly,” Orlfllth declared. "With youth and power in his favor he would be hard to keep out." Cronin Lavish With Praia*. Manager cronin, too, was strong In his praise of Bolton. "Why, he looks entirely dif ferent behind the bat to what he did last season," the pilot said. “The im provement really Is startling. The manner in which he has handled him self after Jumping Into the game with so little preliminary work Is remark able. "Right now I’d say Clif is catching fully as well as any of several catchers heretofore considered his superiors be hind the plate,” Cronin commented. “And that boy has an arm. He can peg to the bases. He was wild with his throws at the start. But that was only natural. He hadn’t had much practice. Clif Is steadily gaining in accuracy, though. "And I’m confident he’s a natural as a hitter. That fine average h* had last year was nothing fluky," Joe In sisted. "Clif has the goods. He ought to be a catcher with a regular rating next year.” Should Bolton continue to improve as his booses seem so confident he will, the young fellow probably will be tougher than ever for Orlfllth to t_»iir turkey with when contract time rolls around. Griffs’ Records Batting. „ . o. AB R. H. 2b.3b.H R.Rbl. Pet. Manuih. 103 421 76 160 30 10 10 70.380 Travla... 00 347 43 115 21 4 1 49 .331 Stone- 73 200 61 80 10 6 0 42 .308 Myer... 101 393 84 119 23 7 3 43 .303 Burke... 30 34 5 10 1 1 0 8 .294 Schulte. 108 411 68 120 25 6 2 01 .293 Cronin.. 107 422 62 123 30 9 0 94 .291 Kubel... 03 203 60 70 12 3 8 34 .889 Bolton... 14 47 * 4 .277 Bvako... 13 48 t .371 Bitten.. 60 ill 3 25J Sewell... 43 128 * Harr la... 71180 Kress... 65 170 Thomas.. 24 33 Stewart.. Linke.... Whltehin Weaver.. Russell. . McColl. . Pitching. O. H. BB. SO. IP. OS OC.W. U Thomai. 24 115 41 29 101 IS 7 M Weaver 24 308 49 37 158 24 9 10 9 Whltehin 20 202 81 64 179 25 9 10 9 McColl.. 28 79 25 16 06^ 10 2 3 Stewart.. 17 122 29 24 103 10 6 0 7 Burke.. 30 110 49 39 106'] 8 2 4 5 Linke.. 8 38 6 13 34 4 2 2 2 Rusyll. , 43 110 33 24 98Mi 2 0 2 0 ► •yfesj! “For Old Timet? Sake?* MG HOOTING th* Chut*.- at ^ Luna Park (b*t. Washington and Alexandria) waa the ‘Thriller" par excellence In 1905 . . . when Theodor* Roosevelt wax President. HEURICH’S 111 LAGER BEER (LIGHT) Popular Prices —was the leading light brew At Leading THEN, and it i* the favorita TO Dealert DAT.. .because of its Purity. Aye and Good Taste! 9 There is no substitute for •going . . - Henrich’t it never •old leu then tix months oldl Pre-Wer Strengthl . WASHINGTON, D. C. FAMOUS FOR QUALITY BINCK 18TI ^