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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935. A-1S~
Nats9 Showing on Trip Elates Harris : Ringer Battle Down to G. W., Terps
BETTER THAN EVEN
Stand 9-6, With Two Left
With Tribe—Sees Faster
Pace on Home Lot.
BY JOHN B. KELLER,
ftil Correspondent of The Star.
CLEVELAND, May 14.—If his
ball club gets home as good
as two games above an even
break, Bucky Harris will be
irell satisfied
That is how the Nationals stood
today as they were scheduled to tackle
the Indians for the first time this
season after twice being balked by
Inclement weather and with two
games to go before winding up their
initial jaunt of the season around
foreign fields.
"We’re really in better trim than
our even break tn the West so far
seems to show,' the Washington man
ager said today. "When we get back
to our own lot I am confident we'll
move along at even a better pace
than we have since leaving home last
month.
"And don't forget that on this trip
we have won nine games while losing
six. No matter what happens here in
Cleveland we're bound to return to
Griffith Stadium with better than an
even break for the tour. I regard
that a fine record for a traveling club
•t this stage of the campaign, the
way most of the clubs have been play
ing."
A Pleasing Performance.
COMPARED to their road perform
ance last year, the manner in
which the Nationals have com
ported themselves this time Is good
enough to please Washington fandom
as well as their field marshal. In
their drive to the championship in
1933 the Nationals were a high-grade
lot when away from home as well as
on their own grounds. Last season,
however, the best they could do away
from the Washington ball yard was
check up 32 victories against 46 de
feats.
This time there Is more power, more
aggressiveness In the Nationals. The
improvement is great enough to lead
Harris to believe his club will make a
decided spurt in the race when it set
tles to the grind in Washington. Home
cooking and friendly surroundings
should make his ball club a formid
able contender in the championship
race, insists the dynamic leader.
*T’m not kidding about that ‘home
cooking’ either,” said Bucky. ‘ There’s
a certain something about the food
one gets in the refreshing presence of
his family that keeps a ball player
In better trim. I can't explain just
what there is about it, but I know
It was always so in my case, and
from what the other boys say it goes
for them. too.
“We stop in the best of hotels on
the road. Excellent tables are pro
vided. But there isn’t the delightful
atmosphere of the homeside. Perhaps
much of this may be mental," the
manager admitted. “Anyway, I find
ball clubs are usually at their best
when they are eating at home.”
Also Helps Bank Roll.
O DOUBT the officials in charge
of the Washington club’s treas
ury also find it better for the
ball players to be eating on their
own at home instead of getting their
meals at the expense of the ball club
on the road. While the Nationals
generally are careful as to diet, they
number among them many good
trenchermen.
Their choice of food with respect to
proteins calories and vitamins is
carefully considered. Quality is up
permost. But many are not so squeam
ish as to quantity. Especially on days
when they Idle. A ball player never
bas to work up an appetite.
The Nationals had no way to work
up an appetite yesterday, other than
by their imaginations. The Cleve
land club management called off the
game before the slight precipitation
that merely moistened the ball yard
had fairly started. There was a
■prinkle at 12:30. the game was called
at 12:45, and at 1 the sun was on
the job In earnest.
So when the Washington crowd gets
back here next month it will have two
double-headers at least to put on dur
ing its three-day stay, unless the
league boRses have mercy and juggle
the schedule to spread out the twin
billing. Otherwise It might be quite
rough on both clubs, for in another
four weeks the pitching staffs of the
Nationals and the Indians are apt to
be well worn down by the play-off of
postponed engagements.
Indians’ Slab Staff Shaky.
THE hasty calling off of yesterday's
date by the Cleveland manage
ment might have been due to
the ragged condition of the Tribal
twirling corps. Walter Johnson has
not at his command the flock of fine
pitchers with which he started the
season. Injuries and illness have taken
their toll of the local hillmen. Per
haps Johnson figured it would be bet
ter to take the chance of having the
pitchers in better trim when the Na
tionals come around the next time.
The double postponement has not
changed Manager Harris' pitching
plans for the series at all. Earl White
hill was to southpaw against the Tribe
this afternoon If a game was put on_
the weather man still was forecasting
rain—while Walter Stewart, who took
the Johnson jousters plenty last sea
son. is scheduled to left-hand against
them tomorrow.
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Griffs’ Records
BATTING.
G AB. R. H. 2b. 3b. Hr. Rbi. Pet
Unite.. 5 2 110 0 0 1 600
Hadley.. 6 13 2 5 2 0 0 5 .385
Russell.. 83210000 .333
Weaver., 4 3 1 loo o o .333
Bolton. . 20 65 12 21 4 1 1 10 .323
Myer .. 10 73 13 23 5 1 1 13 .315
Powell.. 20 84 11 26 3 1 1 14 .310
Burke .. 6 13 1 4 0 0 0 0 .308
itanuab. 20 85 11 25 2 0 0 10 .204
Travis. . 18 74 9 21 4 1 0 6 .284
Kuhel. . . 20 80 15 21 3 0 0 9 .263
Kress.. 12 19 1 5 2 0 0 3 .263
Stone... 18 78 9 20 3 3 0 8 .256
Slngton. 88020002 .250
Whitehlll 5 14 2 8 0 O 0 1 .214
Lary . . 20 87 4 13 4 0 0 6 .194
Schulte.. 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 167
Bluege 10 25 2 1 0 1 0 2 040
Redmond 55100001 .000
Holbrook 24000000 .ooo
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Coppola. 410 0 0000 ooo
Stewart 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
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PDADT O Flow °* Bun^ on June's
\i UKI \rnpF Two Heavy Scraps
1^ UvUi Lt Is Laughable.
__ BY FRANCIS E. STAN
THE heavyweight boxing situation
has come to a pretty pass when
it is necessary for a couple of
fine, upstanding, honest gentle
men like James Joy Johnston and
Mike Jacobs to debunk fighters like
Max Baer and Joe Louis as they have
debunked 'em.
M'sieu Johnston, who still hangs his
iron hat in Madison Square Garden,
and Mr. Jacobs, promoter of the new
! Twentieth Century Club, also have
j something else in common. Not that
| anybody cared much, but when ths
Washington delegation of so-called
fight writers swooped down on Man
| hattan for the Tony Canzonerl-Lew
: Ambers fight and asked the promo
torial gents what Baer-Braddock and
Camera-Louis will draw, respectively,
the answer was $300,000.
“Baer and Braddock is a great
fight.” declared James Joy. who
will perpetrate this particular
heavyweight offering on the
public June 13. “It will easy
‘do’ 300 grand. That Carneri
Louis thing? Phooey. It will
be lucky to draw $100,000.”
Both Battles Have Weak Spots.
MR. JACOBS, a sour-faced gent
with a dead-herring hand
shake, cannot see how even a
community as gullible is Gotham will
swallow Braddock and Baer. So,
without any originality at all, he con
cedes M'sieu Johnston’s fight not more
i than 100 "grand” and talks of at
; least a $300,000 “take” for his own
i Carnera-Louis affair, which will be
committed June 19.
Both fights seem to have their weak
spots, as Messrs. Johnston and Jacobs
appear to feel. They are laying 8 to 1
against Braddock right under Mr.
Johnston’s window.
This is very distressing to
James Joy. but he is making
the best of it. Baer is being
debunked and shot while Brad
dock saves people from drowning
and has ringwisies calling him
“underrated.”
Mr. Jacobs' chief headache at pres
ent is caused by the general feeling
, that dusky Joseph Louis will grind Da
; Preem into fine hamburger. Con
sequently he concentrates on the
' Detroit Destroyer—unflatteringly.
Kingflsh Not Warned.
OF THE two promoters James J.
Johnston seems to have the
tougher assignment, notwith
standing the fact that the heavy
weight title will be at stake in his
fight. The fact that Louis never has
met a guy like Camera, who might
ward off Joe's rushes with that tree
trunk left, does lend an lntrlgueing
aspect to Mr. Jacobs' fight. But
Braddock has very little to offer as
argument for his presence In the ring
against Baer.
"But wait a minnit,” M'sieu John
ston was arguing. "This Braddock
can hit and if he tags Mr. Baer on
the lug—goodby Maxie. You oughta
see the guy. This time last year he
weighed 183 pounds. Today he weighs 1
210. His right arm is as big as your
waist. Why the gain in weight? i
Simple. He's eating regularly.
"And who has Baer ever
knocked out? One guy—King
Levinsky. And he had to catch
him unawares to do that. He
beat on poor old Camera for 11
rounds and couldn’t knock him
out.
‘‘He couldn't keep Schmeling down j
after hitting him with everything but I
Ancll Hoffman. He knocks out one
good fighter in his life and they make j
him an 8-to-l shot.”
Mr Johnston neglected to say that j
Braddoek’s chief knockout victims !
were only a coupk. of light-heavies,
Jimmy Slattery and Tuffy Griffiths, j
AIDS SHRINE REGATTA
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. ‘
Roper has ordered the Georgetown i
Channel closed to navigation June 9
from 11 a m. to 7 p.m. in order to give
the Shrine regatta a clear course.
This announcement was made last
night at a meeting of the committee
in charge of the regatta. It also was |
announced that C. Marshall Finnan, j
superintendent of National Capital
Parks, has promised co-operation.
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Sports Program
For D.
TODAY.
Base Ball.
Washington at Cleveland. 3.
Temple at Georgetown, 3:30.
Richmond vs. Maryland at Col
lege Park. 4.
Montgomery Blair High at Alex
andria High, 3:45.
Track.
Hopkins at Maryland, 4.
Tennis.
St. Albans at Episcopal High,
3:30.
Major League Standings
MAT 14. 1033.
American
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Detroit. 3; New York. 0.
Boston. 2: 8t. Louis. 1.
Washington at Cleveland, rain.
Philadelphia at Chicago, rain.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Wash, at Cleve. (31. Wash, at Cleve. (3).
New York at Detroit. New York at Detroit.
Phila. at Chicaao Phila. at Chicago.
Boston at St. Louis. Boston at St. Louis.
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National
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
8t. Louis. 3; New York. 2 (10 innings).
Chicaeo, 3; Brooklyn. 2.
Pittsburgh. 10: Philadelphia. 1.
Cincinnati. 3: Boston, 1.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
8t. L. at New York. St. Louis at N York.
Chicaeo at Brooklyn. Chicago at Brooklyn
Pittsburgh at Phila. Pittsburgh at Phila.
Clnci. at Boston. Cinci. at Boston.
G. W. GAG MAKS
BACK ON GRID LIST
Supplant Wichita and Tilt
Will Be Played Here on
Thanksgiving Day.
NTVERSITY OF NORTH DA
KOTA, the only foot ball
team that scored an unex
pected victory over Oeorge
Washington last Fall, will return to
Washington to meet the Colonials
again next season.
According to Assistant Athletic Di
rector Max Farrington, the Nodak
eleven will appear here on Thanksgiv
ing day, November 28, in the closing
contest of the G. W. schedule. This
game, he stated, will take the place of
the one proposed some time ago with
the University of Wichita, and will
give George Washington a home slate
of eight games instead of seven, since
the Wichita tilt would have been
played away had negotiations ma
terialized.
North Dakota, coached by C. A.
West, one of the most successful grid
mentors in the Middle West and
Northwest, captured a 7-0 decision
from George Washington in 1934 in
the lone form reversal of the Colo
nials' campaign. The game was played
at night under extremely adverse
weather conditions, but the Nodaks
proved themselves better mudders
than the Buff.
The forthcoming contest will be the
fourth between the two schools, and
will provide each an opportunity of
gaining an edge in their series. The
first game in 1931 resulted in a 8-6
deadlock, and the second was won by
George Washington, 27 to 8.
The remainder of O. W.’s 1936 foot
ball schedule follows:
September 28. Emory and Henry;
October 5. Alabama; October 11,
Catawba; October 18, West Virginia;
October 26. Wake Forest at Wake
Forest. N. C.: November 2. Rice Insti
tute; November 8, Da vis-Elkins; No
vember 15, Tulsa.
Minor Leagues
International.
Montreal. 5; Newark, 3.
Rochester. 4: Albany, 0
Toronto, 4; Baltimore. 3.
Buffalo, 4; Syracuse, 3.
Southern Association.
Atlanta, 12; Chattanooga, 3.
Nashville, 6; Knoxville, 0.
Memphis, 2-10; Birmingham, 1-11.
Others not scheduled.
American Association.
Milwaukee. 10; Columbus, 3.
Others postponed, rain or cold.
Pacific Coast
No games scheduled.
New York-Pennsylvanla.
Reading. 3; Binghamton. 1.
Harrisburg. 5; Elmira, 3.
Williamsport, 7: Wilkes-Barre. 6.
Scranton, 10; Hazleton, 7.
Texas.
Oalveston, 3: Fort Worth, 1.
Dallas, 6; Houston, S.
Others postponed, rain or wet
grounds.
Three-Eye.
Springfield. 2; Decatur, 0.
Peoria, 8; Fort Wayne, 5.
Terre-Haute - Bloomington, wet
grounds.
Western.
All games postponed, wet grounds
and cold weather.
Boss of Yankees Soon Will Be Back on Job
Joe McCarthy, manager ot the pennant-ambitious Bronx Radium outfit, here is seen opening ^ood cheer
messages at his suite in a New-York hotel, where he is convalescing from a severe attack of influent,
i 7 —Wide World Photo.
ROWE’S WINS’
Pitching First Good Game
of Season, He Scores
Over Gomez, 3*0.
BY HERBERT YV. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
LLYNWOOD (Schoolboy) Rowe's
pet stooges, it appears, still
are the New York Yankees.
The schoolboy hasn't been
getting along so well this season, but
Mickey Cochrane, manager of the
champion Detroit Tigers, tossed him
in there yesterday against the in
vading Yankees, surd Rowe responded
with a brilliant performance that re
minded Tiger fans of his sensational
1934 pitching.
Arrayed against Vernon Gomes.
Yankee star. Rowe held the New
Yorkers to four singles and shut them
out, 3-0.
Yanks Completely Subdued.
ROWE, who had won 24 games for
the Tigers a year ago. beating j
the Yankees five times in a
row, has had all kinds of trouble get
ting started this campaign. He had
won only one game, in a relief role,
and lost three, pitching only one com
plete game up until the Yankees came
to town.
Against his pet ‘‘cousins," however. j
Rowe was invincible. Red Rolfe beat
out a bunt In the sixth and got to
third on Lou Gehrig’s single, but
Tony Lazzeri hit into a double play
to spoil the only chance the Yankees
had to score.
The Tigers got to Gomez for one run
in the first on a walk, Gerald Walker's
single and Charley Gehringer's long
fly. They picked up another on
Walker’s home run in the sixth and
scored one off Pat Malone in the
eighth on a double by Gehringer and
a single by Hank Greenberg.
In the day’s only other American
League game Wes Ferrell held the St.
Louis Browns to five hits and wal
loped a home run in the seventh to
account for the Boston Red Box's
2-1 triumph.
West Makes Clean-Up.
A FULL schedule in the National
League saw the four Western
club*, now Invading the East,
score a clean sweep. Leo Durocher's
tenth-inning home run broke up a
great pitching duel at New York be
tween Carl Hubbell of the Giants and
Bill Walker of the St. Louis Car
dinals and gave the Cards a 3-2
victory.
Walker allowed only six hits and
might have had a shutout had he
been able to take care of Joe Moore,
who clouted two home runs, to keep
the Giants in the game. Hubbell also
wag in good form, but was nicked
for single runs In the first and sixth,
wild-pitching the second Cardinal
counter across the plate.
The seven-hit pitching of Young
Bill Lee, plus a brilliant defense, car- |
ried the Chicago Cubs to a 3-2 tri-!
umph over the Brooklyn Dodgers, who
found their second-place lead over
the Cub6 cut to four percentage points.
Cy Blanton stopped the Phillies
with four hits for hie fifth victory
In six starts aa the Pittsburgh Pirates
punched out a 10-1 victory. Si John
son held the Boston Braves to five
hits and Cincinnati won, 3-1.
■■■•. ..
EASTERN NINE SURE
IT WILL BOOST LEAD
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Favored Over Central Tomorrow
in Contest Delayed a Day
Became of Drill.
EASTERN HIOHS base ball team
by nightfall tomorrow expects
to have a tighter hold on first
place In the race for the public high
school crown, which It won last year.
Victorious over Tech by 8-1 in their
only series game, the Lincoln Parkers
tomorrow will encounter Oentral and
unless the dope goes completely awry
will add the Columbia Heights aggre
gation to their list.
The game originally was scheduled
today but moved back a day to avoid
conflict with the high school com
petitive drill.
Joe Sullivan, crack aouthpaw pitcher
of the Eastern team, will be on the
mound when play starts In the Eastern
Stadium at S:30 o’clock. Brick Hayes
or Lefty Rowles is expected to start
in the box for Central.
COUNT IS NAVY PHOT.
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ May 14.—J. M.
Court of Washington, D. C„ has been
elected manager of the Naval Acad
emy fencing team, with J. H. Car
michael of Atlanta, Oa.., captain. J.
H. Terry has been chosen captain
of the gymnasium team, with W. T.
Oronar, «r*,<ntft*u>l Ohio, manager.
THE SPORTLIGHT
_
Johnson Conceded Fastest Boxman of All Time;
Ross Possesses Too Much Speed for McLarnin.
"V GRANTLAXD
GOLF REVISIONS.
"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn”—
No one will give me 2-foot putts, which leaves me quite forlorn
The heights by winning golfers kept
Were not attained in daylight fight:
But they, while all the duffers slept,
Were smashing chandeliers at night.
Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see our swing as others see us!
This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
That cost more strokes than the bunkers, the hazards and pits and the ditches.
Let this be marked from Golden Gate to Hub—
Hell hath no fury like a bunkered dub.
If you can bow your head when those about you
Are lifting theirs—you'll cop the swag, my son.
It isn't raining rain to me on drives and other free shots,
It fjn’t raining rain to me—it’s raining shorter tee shots.
Full many a dub of purest ray serene
Can top his second and still reach the green.
Fogging 'Em Through.
IN THE outburst of pitching, which
has featured the Spring campaign
so far, the old argument blows in
concerning sheer speed—the fast
est of the day in comparison with
the fastest of all time.
When you say "all time,” you can
write down the name of Walter John
son and stand pat. Grove and Vance
were no slow-ball entries. Today you
won’t be far wrong on Van Mungo
of Brooklyn and young Paul Dean of
the Cardinals when it comes to fog
ging ’em through, as Dizzy describes
it. And Dizzy can whistle a few fast
ernes when he gets in a hole. The
same goes for Roy Parmelee and Hal
8chumacher of the Giants.
McLarnin and Ross.
“ a S I recall It,” writes L. F., “you
figured Ross the winner in
both McLarnin fights. I liked
McLarnin in both fights. What's the
matter with Jimmy in your book?”
Not a thing. Once they step into
the ring they all look alike—race,
creed, old or young, previous condi
tion of servitude.
Roes had too much speed for
McLarnin. a far better puncher, just
as Sammy Mandell, the Rockford
west wind, had years ago.
Punchers always have trouble hit
ting a fast target, Ross isn't much
of a puncher. He never has been.
But he is much faster than McLarnin,
and a far harder target to hit.
In my opinion, he won going away
in both McLarnin fights, and he still
has the same advantage he had be
fore—too much speed.
As you get older you can match
many things—but speed isn’t one of
them.
On the face of past returns. Mc
Larnin will have to lug out the old
tagging bolo to get safely by—unless
the third meeting leads to the same
monotonous debate that followed the
first two shows.
Spring Golf Tips.
IF YOU had the chance around
some locker room to talk with
Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Tommy
Armour, Walter Hagen. Paul Runyan,
Horton Smith, or almost any other
consistent performer, and started ask
ing for some golf advice, the first
question asked would be about your
trip.
And the chances are your grip
would be wrong. And a bad grip
won’t work, even with a correct swing.
It is the right grip that brings the
face of the club Into the ball in the
right line or plane or manner.
And the right grip is largely in the
fingers, with the left hand fairly well
over the club shaft—far enough over
to show three knuckles—with the right
hand about facing the line of flight.
The knuckle and forefinger “V" of
the left hand should be pointing
slightly inside the left shoulder, and
the same “V” of the right hand should
be pointing toward the right shoulder.
The overlapping grip is much the
soundest, where the little finger of the
right hand overlaps the forefinger of
the left.
This is the grip used and advocated
by almost every leading star.
Get the picture well in your mind
and develop the habit of gripping Just
this way. Don’t take It for granted,
but see that your hands are placed in
the right way before you start your
swing. It is a detail much more im
portant than you might think.
Two more points—be sure that the
last two fingers of the left hand are
gripping firmly—and also the first
two fingers of the right—thumb and
forefinger. The grip should be firm
—especially in the left hand—but not
tense or tight, always leaving the
wrist action unlocked.
The First Month.
Approaching the end of the first
month of the two pennant j
races, the White Sox and the
Dodgers have been the two leading
feature*. I
Th» Qjjtofg Radians
were supposed to belong around the
attic. The other two were not.
But a brace of young fellows named
Casey Stengel and Jimmy Dykes have
jolted the talent more than once by
giving out what they had to give.
They have both given out the idea
that, while they can be taken, they
are not push-overs. It so happens that
Messrs. Stengel and Dykes are the
types base ball need* wherever their
hired men wind up.
(Copyright, lflits hr th* Ncth American
Newipaper Alliance. Inc.)
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BY BEING FOURTH
Vets Say Club Will Start
When Experiments With
Farm Hands End.
Br th® Associated Pres®.
NEW YORK. May 14.—You never
would guess from visiting with
those St. Louis Cardinals
down in the dugout that the
world champions are running a weak
fourth in the National League.
■'It's too early to say anything yet,”
ventured Manager Vrankie Frisch
cautiously, "but we better not get too
far back, that’s a cinch.”
From the way the rest of those
Cardinals barber and fool you'd think
they were still playing the Tigers in
a world series.
’’This club never gets oft to an early
start,” suggested one veteran, "and no
one has guessed the reason yet.
They’re so busy fooling around the
first couple of months experimenting
with guys from Rochester and Houston
and the rest of the farm places that
it isn't a major league club at all
until midseason ”
Frick’s Visit Brief.
It being the cardinals' first visit of
the season to the Polo Grounds, the
dugout was honored by a visit from
the league president. Ford C. Frick
He was met by a concentrated blast
on the subject of National League
umpires.
It seems that Bill Stewart, umpir
ing in Philadelphia Saturday, refused
to allow Burgess Whitehead to take
first as a hit batsman, although the
ball broke one of his Angers In three
places. The argument revolved about
Stewart's expectorating on the wound
to heal It, and then slapping *25 fines
on Leo Durocher and Mike Gonzales
for protesting
“Please, Mr. President.” begged
Durocher. in mock humility, “won't
you send that $25 back to me for
Christmas?”
Frick didn't stay as long as when
he was a newspaper man. He left of
fering to place on display the waivers
received from National League clubs
on Pat Malone If there’s still any
belief that the Cards’ right-hander
was waived out of the league so the
Yankees could buy him. and the Bos
ton Braves could get Babe Ruth.
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Homer Standing
Br tbe Associated Press.
Home runs yesterday — Moore,
Chants, 2; Suhr, Plratee, 1; P. Waner,
Pirates, 1: Durocher, Cardinals, 1;
Walker, Tiger*, 1; W. Ferrell, Red
Sox. 1.
The leaders—Ott, Giants. 8; Foxx.
Athletics. 8: Johnson, Athletics, 8;
Bonura, White Sox, 7; J. Moore, Phil
lies, 7; J. Moore, Giants. 7.
League tot#—American, 111; Na
tional, U. total. 106. I
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Four Old Liners and Two
Colonials Survive in
Star’s Tourney.
THE battle for the District inter
collegiate horseshot pitching
championship, in a tourna
ment sponsored by The Star,
today brings together George Wash
ington and Maryland, in semi-final
play.
Georgetown, Catholic University,
American University and Gallaudet
all were eliminated in the first two
round*, contested yesterday on the
municipal playground courts beside
the Tech High School swimming pools.
All four of Maryland’s represent
atives reached the semi-finals and
George Washington placed two.
Here’s how they were to square oft
today, at 3 o'clock:
Charles Oland, Maryland, vs. Henry
Vonder Bruegge, George Washington.
James Whalin, Maryland, vs. Tem
ple Jarrell, Maryland.
Joe Sanders, Maryland, vs. Red
Rathjan, George Washington.
Jarrell Appear* Best.
THE tournament barely was under
way when it was discovered that
Jarrell, who for several years
has been one of the best ringer flip
pers in Maryland, was the class of the
event. He began by shutting out Joe
Mlnarski of Georgetown, 50 to 0 and
made short work of Ernest Levin of
American University, 50 to 12.
His opponent in the semi-finals.
Jimmy Whalin. recently won the
championship of the University of
Maryland in a tournament hot par
ticipated in by Jarrell. Together they
won the Terrapin doubles title.
The surprises of the competition
yesterday were Red Rathjen and
Hank Vonder Bruegge of George
Washington, both members of the
Colonial varsity foot ball team. Red
is a center and Hank an end. Vonder
Bruegge all but blanked Charley Hall
of Georgetown in the first round in
which he fired five straight ringers,
then eliminated the American Uni
versity champion. Wesley Dodge. 50
to 29 For Hall it wasn’t a question
of winning but of avoiding a goose egg
end his two points constituted a
"moral victory." He got ’em when
the score stood 48 to 0.
Rathjen had rougher sailing. He
achieved the ultimate in horseshoe
flinging to get past the Gallaudet
champ, Ted Tucker, in the first
round. With the count 48 to 46
against him. Red slapped on a double
ringer to win, 50-48, and he had no
cinch in the second round with Ev
erett Palmer of American U., whom
he defeated, 50 to 38.
C. U. Champ Falls.
George kuzma, champion or
Catholic University, was Ban
ders’ first victim—in one ot the
hottest contests of the day. The
score was 50-45. Sanders reached the
semi-finals by eliminating another
Cardinal, Jack Bruton. 50 to 20.
Whalin defeated Jimmy Cross of
George Washington. 50 to 20, and A1
Shaw of American U. 50 to 15. Oland
outpitched Bill Connolly of Catholic
U., 50 to 23. and BUI Babbington of
C. U. 50 to 37.
There was a possibility that all
three finalists would be Marylanders.
To prevent this, Rathjen and Vonder
Bruegge were putting in an hour of
practice before game time. Both en
tered the tournament “cold.” but as
the struggle progressed made it ap
parent they were no strangers to the
game The metropolitan Washington
champion, Clayton Henson, the for
mer metro titleholder. Harry Saunders,
and Joe Merryman. former champion
of Maryland, tournament officials, re
marked the well nigh perfect form Of
the tw'o Colonials.
The earnestness with which th«
collegian* battled and the 100 per
cent representation of the six schools
engaged—-there was no default—ap
peared to guarantee the future suc
cess of the tournament. It wUl be
held annually. %
Miss Baker Is Fan.
"Tk text year,” said Miss Sybil
Baker, supervisor of play
grounds. who was an enthusi
astic spectator, "we will have better
courts. This is a splendid affair."
Miss Baker has “put in" for funds to
build a horseshoe stadium on the
Bloomington Playground, equipment
the game urgently needs. For the
last two years not more than two
thirds of those who have turned oilt
to see the finals of The Star s annua)
metropolitan Washington tournament
have had a clear view of the con
testants. '
TufTy Leemans, the Oeorge Wash
ington foot bailer, now a part-time
playground director, caught the horst
shoe fever yesterday; while function
ing as head scorer of the intercol
legiate tournament. »
“This is a hotter game,” said he,
“than I thought.”
The summary;
First round—William Babblngton,
C. U„ defeated Karl Sauer, George
town, 51-6; Wesley Dodge, American
U.. defeated Jimmy Ellerhorst. Oal
laudet, 50-22; Charles Oland. Mary
land. defeated William Connolly, C.
U., 50-23; Henry Vonder Bruegge,
George Washington, defeated Charles
Hall. Georgetown, 50-2; James
Whalln, Maryland, defeated James
Cross, Oeorge Washington, 50-20;
Albert Shaw, American U„ defeated
Charles Whlsman. Gallaudet, 50-22;
Temple Jarrell, Maryland, defeated
Joseph Mlnarskl. Georgetown, 50-0;
Ernest Levin, American U., defeated
Joseph Muscatello. Georgetown. 51
40; Joe Sanders, Maryland, defeated
George Kuzma, C. U., 50-45: Jack
Bruton, C. U„ defeated Ed Wilson,
George Washington, 50-20; Red
Rathjen, Oeorge Washington, defeated
Ted Tucker, Gallaudet, 60-41: Everett
Palmer, American U., defeated R.
Brown, Gallaudet, 50-40.
Second round—Oland defeated
Babblngton, 50-37; Vonder Bruegge
defeated Dodge, 50-29; Whalln de
feated Shaw, 50-16; Jarrell defeated
Levin. 60-12: Sanders defeated Bru
ton, 60-12; Rathjen defeated Palmer.
50-38.
FROSH GAME OFF.
The base ball game scheduled yee
terday between the Maryland and
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vented hr talk.