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Nats’ Failure at Bat Puzzles : Indiana Sparkles at Penn Meet
Attack Nets Only 21 Hits
in 3 Games—A’s Again
Upset Griffs.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
JUST a bit bewildered at the turn
of events Washington's base ball
firm readied itself for a hectic
week end at home today. The
Athletics, who were supposed to be
doormats a la 1936, twice have struck
home now and the Griffs’ hopes of
getting off to a flying start in the
American League flag chase have gone
e-dwindling.
One look at his 1937 batting order
convinced Bucky Harris long ago that
his hitters would “carry" a fair-to
middling pitching staff into the first
division. Now he is beginning to won
der if the Nats’ batting power hasn't
been overrated. The recapitulation
for three games now is 7 runs and 21
hits and a ball club can't go far at
this kind of a pace.
First it was Almon Williams, an
unknown Athletic pitcher, who set
back the Nats. He did that last Mon- 1
day, which was opening day. The A's
won, 4 to 3.
To win their only victory in the
derby to date the Nats got help from
faulty Yankee outfielding and a gal
lant pitching performance by Monte
Weaver. This game they wron by 3 to
2. No club figures to win many games
from the Yanks by scoring only three
runs.
Yesterday one George Caster, a
rookie right-hander, stopped the Griffs
cold. Officially, the Washingtons were
credited with four hits. Actually
they made only three—a gracious
scoring gesture w'as no drawback—
and dropped a 7-to-l decision.
No Early Drills Slated.
VVTITH the sinking of their batting
averages has followed a sinking
of morale. The Griffs can't figure
why they're not hitting. The two-day
lay-off in New York didn’t help, of
course, but prior to the opening of the
season the team had not been hitting.
Manager Harris, who has been
known to order such sessions in the
past, refuses to consider morning bat
ting drills. “The team is getting
plenty of hitting right now,” said
Bucky today. "I don't know what's
wrong. They’re not hitting, but I
don’t think batting drills in the morn
ing and afternoon will help. Either
the club will come around and start
hitting, as expected, or else a lot of
people, including myself, have over
rated its power.”
Hoping for the typical luck of Buck
Newsom to hold, Harris today was to
send the “forgotten man” to the box
in the second of the three-game series
with the A's. Newsom originally was
booked to pitch fifth, but Harris be
lieves that holding him out of action
too long will hurt the big fellow’s
control and so Buck was to work today
and Jimmy DeShong will be held back
until tomorrow when the A's will be
met in the final game. Immediately
after this game the Nats will entrain
for Boston, where they will play a '
two-game series before returning to j
play host to the Yankees.
Appleton Off to Slow Start.
'J'KE Grills never were in yesterday's
game, which was witnessed by
approximately 15,000, chiefly women.
The tilt marked the first official “open
ing game” for women. With band
music echoing and bunting flying,
Miss Ruth Robinson, president of the
Professional and Business Women's
Club of the District, threw out the
first ball and Owner Clark Griffith,
elated at the feminine turnout, prom
ises to stage such an “opening" every
year.
Pete Appleton, the Nats’ leading
percentage pitcher of 1936, was a vic
tim of his own wildness, lack of sup
port and the A's healthy hitting. In
the second inning the Philadelphias
hopped on Pietro for three runs. They
made it 4-0 in the sixth and wound up'
by scoring three more runs in the
seventh when Bob Johnson hit a drive
out of the park with two mates on
base.
The Griffs’ only run came in the
sixth when Travis walked with two
out and Buddy Myer tripled. Travis, j
with two hits, led the feeble local
attack. Chapman was the only other
Nat, besides Myer, who hit safely.
During the course of the afternoon
Caster fanned nine, which should
give you an idea of how the Wash
ingtons are doing at the plate.
AIR BOXING CHARGES
—
Commission to Sift Complaints of
Irregularities Here.
Two specific charges, unsubstan
tiated by witnesses thus far, will be
sifted at the meeting of the District
Boxing Commission next week.
Both charges were made by boxers.
Unless more definite proof is forth
coming, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, chair
man of the commission, admitted the
hearing merely will pitt the veracity
of one man against another’s.
The commission voted to reinstate
Teddy Loder on May 23. Loder was
suspended for a runout on Match
maker Goldie Aheam.
Apathetics?
PHILADELPHIA. AB. R. H O. A. E.
Finney, cf. _ 6 0 0 1 0 0
Werber. 3b._3 112 10
Moses, rf. _ 6 12 10 0
Johnson, If._ 4 2 2 1 0 0
Dean. lb._3 10 0 0 0
Brucker. c._3 1 111 0 0
Newsome, ss._3 112 2 0
Cissell. 2b._ 4 0 1 0 2 0
Caster, p._ 4 0 0 0 1 0
Totals _34 ~7 8 27 fl ~0
WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Chapman, cf. _ 4 0 1 2 0 0
Lewis. 3b._ 3 0 0 2 0 0
Kuhel. lb. _ 6 0 0 0 0 0
Simmons. If._ 3 0 0 3 0 0
Stone, rf. _ 2 0 0 1 0 0
Travis, ss._ 3 1 2 2 2 1
Myer. 2b. 4 o 1 3 2 1
Hogan, c _ 3 0 0 6 1 0
Appleton, p._ 2 0 0 0 5 1
Linke. p. _ 0 0 0 o 1 o
•Milialic _ 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals __30 1 4 27 11 3
•Batted for Appleton in seventh.
Philadelphia 030 mu 300—7
Washington - 000 001 000—1
Runs batted in—Cissell. Myer. Johnson.
Two-base hit—Johnson. Three-base hit—
Myer. Home run—Johnson. Sacrifices—
Dean. Newsome. Double play—Newsome
to Dean. Left on bases—Philadelphia. 0:
Washington. 11. First base on balls—Off
Caster. »: off Appleton. 3: off Linke. 1.
Struck out—By Caster 0: by Appleton. 3:
by Linke. 2. Hits—Off Appleton. 7 in 7
innings: off Linke. 1 In 2 innings. Losing
Pitcher — Appleton. Umpires — Messrs.
Owena, Hubbard and Dinneen. Time: 2:06. I
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. Philadelphia,
Griffith Stadium. 3.
Maryland vs. Georgetown, Hill
top field. 3.
Western Maryland vs. Catholic
University, Brookland Stadium, 3.
Baltimore City College vs. Roose
velt, Roosevelt Stadium, 2:30.
Hagerstown High vs. Maryland
Frosh, College Park, Md., 2:30.
St. Albans vs. Gilman Country
School, Baltimore, Md.
Junior Horse Show.
Landon School, 12:30.
Hunt Race.
Maryland Cup, Worthington Val
ley, Md., 4.
Lacrosse.
Maryland vs. St.. John's, Byrd
Stadium, College Park, Md., 3.
Track.
Local colleges and schools in
Penn Relays, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bowling.
Washington City Duckpin Asso
ciation tournament. Lucky Strike, 7.
Tennis.
Hampden-Sydney vs. American
University, Nebraska and Massa
chusetts avenues, 2:30.
St. Albans vs. Gilman Country
School, Baltimore. Md.
Roosevelt vs. Maryland Frosh,
College Park, Md., 2.
JERSEY CITY’S 31 234
SETS MINOR RECORD
Crowd Makes Total for Int Loop
Inaugurals 56.834—Buffalo,
Rochester Victors.
By the Associated Press.
JF THEY even come close to the
drawing power indicated by their
opening day crowd, the Jersey Giants
should fulfill the fondest hopes of the
International League bosses for a
financially successful season.
The all-time record crowd of 31,
234, which came out yesterday as the
Jersey City club, back in the circuit
after a three-year absence, got off to
a day-late start, probably won’t be
equaled often if at all. It was the
product of a city-wide celebration
which included half holidays in public
offices and schools and which was
backed by a concerted drive to get
the fans out, regardless of the cold,
raw weather.
Jersey City is noted as a “red hot’’
base ball town, however, and the
chances are the crowds will keep com
ing large enough to make things
bright even in a league that plays be
fore more than a million customers
annually. The brand-new team was
beaten in its first start, but looked
premising as it battled the Rochester
Red Wings for 12 innings before going
down, 4-3.
Only about 2,000 chilled customers
turned out at Syracuse to see the
Chiefs take a 6-to-l licking from the
Buffalo Bisons in their opener.
FISTS FLY AS BUGS
ARE BEATING REDS
Todd, Grissom Mix in Brief
Brawl, With No Blows
Believed Landed.
Ey the Associated Press.
ITTSBURGH, April 24 — A fight
resembling a catch-as-catch
can contest between A1 Todd,
Pirates’ husky catcher, and Lee
Grissom, lanky Cincinnati pitcher,
enlivened the opening base ball game
of the season for some 22,000 Pitts
burgh fans.
The hustling Reds, rankling at two
straight defeats administered by St.
Louis’ Cardinals, were driving hard to
overcome a 4-2 advantage held by the
Pirates.
Grissom was pitching his curves
mostly on the inside corner of the
plate. In the sixth one ball grazed
Gus Suhr and another planked Bill
Brubaker.
Vaughan, Kampouris Edgy.
rJT'ODD came to bat and exchanged
some words with the young
pitcher, then singled and went to sec
ond as a play was made for Brubaker
at third.
Tire word battle kept up until the
third out. The 195-pound, 6-foot
2-inch catcher walked up to the 200
pound. 6-foot hurler.
Both threw' their fists, then clinched
and tumbled to the ground, rolling
over each other. Players from each
side rushed out, and for a time it ap
peared Arkv Vaughan, Pirate short
stop, and Kampouris, Reds' utiity in
fielder, would start a second fight.
Todd and Grissom were banished.
Looked for Trouble—Got It.
^jRISSOM said later:
"Hell, I was wild all afternoon.
I wasn't trying to brush Suhr or to
hit Brubaker. But this other fellow
that I fought—what's his name?—he
| w'as on me all afternoon. It w'as the
sort of thing you could take if you
wanted to—or not take. So when he
1 came across the infield we got into it.
"There really wasn't a fight. I don’t
think either of us hit the other.”
Tddd said:
"I w'as on to him. I knew what he
W'as doing. He kept shooting them in
there against Suhr. Then he hit Bru
baker.
"I went out there looking for trou
ble and got it.”
PREP NINE THOROUGH
Combining a home run with the
bases fully populated in the first
inning with a triple play to retire
the side in the ninth inning, George
town Prep yesterday recorded an
11-9 victory over Landon at Garrett
Park, Md.
■-•-- ■—
Texas.
Beaumont. 7; Houston. F>.
San Antonio. 1; Galveston. 0.
Bentley Almost Glad He Lost
Epic Ball Game to Big Train; \
Holds Mighty Minor Records
BY ROD THOMAS.
HAT a man achieves in the
big leagues determines his
niche in base ball history,
if his name be worthy of
memory, so John Needles Bentley of
nearby Sandy Spring, Md„ is known
best today as a star southpaw pitcher
of the New York Giants under Mc
Graw.
He is almost a neighbor of Walter
Johnson, to whom Bentley bowed—
with only a slight pang, we learned to
day—in the epic final game of the 1924
world series between the Giants and
Griffmen. Jack and Walter own big
farms in Montgomery County.
Ordinarily a ball player who wins
lasting fame under the big top skips
lightly over his minor league career, but
Bentley, some recent figures on the
International League reveal, may point
to one whopping season in the vener
able circuit that any star, major or
minor leaguer, might be proud to recall.
With Baltimore in the campaign of
1921, Bentley not only cracked out two
all-time batting records for the second
oldest base ball league extant, but set
a pitching record. He batted .412
and made 246 hits for marks that still
stand, and,in winning 12 games and
losing 1 hung up an International
record for percentage of victories—
.923. He doubled in brass as pitcher
and first baseman, so the willow
records represented a full season. To
be exact, he went to bat 597 times in
141 games. He pitched in 18 games,
giving 11 complete performances.
Baltimore Records Striking.
JN 20 years of minor and major
league base ball, Bentley estimated
today; he won 125 games and lost 50.
From 1913 to 1916 he pitched for
Washington, but without marked suc
cess. With McGraw, from 1923 to
1927, he won 40 games and lost 20,
but likes to remember a batting feat
with the Giants quite as much as
any diamond victory he won with
them. In 1923 he whaled away for
a mark of .427, which placed him
among a handfull of major leaguers
who have beaten .420, and Bentley's
bingles that season for the most part
were made under pressure. He was
used extensively as a pinch hitter.
When one considers the age of the
International League, Bentley’s rec
ords with Baltimore become striking.
The league is just entering upon its
54th season, only one behind the
daddy of all diamond circuits, the
National, and in 53 years untold
hundreds of ball players, many of
whom carried on to success in the
majors, fell short of Bentley's achieve
ments.
This morning Bentley recalled with
a grin that world series drama of 1924.
Not a few among the thousands who
jammed Griffith Stadium forgot to
cheer the triumphant Johnson while
pitying the unlucky Bentley. How
McNeely’s grounder, striking a pebble,
hopped over Lindstrom’s head for a
double scoring Ruel with the winning
run is well known history. How Bent
ley felt about it is current news.
JACK BENTLEY.
“You'd think that a pitcher losing
the deciding game of a world series
like that,” said Bentley, "would be
just about heart-broken:
“I would have been except for one
thing—the man I lost to was Walter
Johnson.
Took Sting From Defeat.
‘‘Y'know- Johnson to me was an
Idol. And here I am. standing
there, with 40.000 people yelling their
heads off for Walter, and the thought
struck me how much he deserved it,
not so much on account of that one
game, but because of the great record
behind him, as a pitcher and as a
man. It sure took a lot of sting out
of losing.”
We traded a bit of unwritten base
ball history with Bentley. Two days
before the epic wind-up of the 1924
series Johnson was beaten, 6 to 2. It
was his second loss to the Giants, and
gave them the lead, three games to
two. The great Johnson, after 18 years
of striving for the opportunity to pitch
in a world series, was a failure.
Bentley, by the way, was the winning
pitcher that day.
After the game the Big Train ap
peared before Clark Griffith. There
was nothing for old Barney to say—
verbally. But the tears that streaked
down his bony cheeks spoke eloquently.
"Forget it, Walter,” said Griff, with
an affectionate pat, and added: "Go
get some rest. We may need you.”
And sure enough the Griffs tied the
series the next day and Johnson got
another chance. No pitcher ever put
more heart into a job than did Walter
Johnson, when for four innings as a
relief flinger, he held the Giants
runless as the Griffs won the pay-off
game in 12 innings.
"Gosh,” said Bentley, ‘‘you make
me feel almost downright glad I lost
that game.”
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Towns Goes to Town, as Usual, in Penn Relays Hurdle Race
PHILADELPHIA, April 24.—Forrest Towns, Georgia's be
spectacled track star (extreme right), here is shown capturing
his heat in the 120-yard high hurdles at the Penn relays yes
terclay in 14.4 seconds. He also annexed the final, although in
2-10 second slower time. Others shown here are, left to right,
Tolmich of Wayne, Dillingham of Columbia. Rossiter of Cornell
and McFarland of Boston College.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Giants’ Ace Picks Up Where
He Left Off in ’36 to
Whitewash Bees.
BY SID FEDER.
Associated Press bports Writer.
QUAREPANTS” is back with
all his stuff, so all's right
I with the Bronx, the Polo
Grounds and the New York
Giants. But it’s not so hot for the
rest of the National League.
Squarepants, for the benefit of those
who’ve missed the treat, is the Na
tional League's leading pitcher. King
Carl Hubbell. He got the nickname
from his extra-leg-length base ball
jeans which stretch three-quarters of
the way dowm to his ankles and appear
for all the world like two stovepipes
painted white, when he's out there on
the mound.
He also is noted for his portside
pitching, his screw ball specialty and I
his 16-game unfinished winning streak
last season.
Bill Terry threw King Carl at the
usually throublesome Boston Bees yes
terday as the league champions made
their debut at their own Polo Grounds.
And Hubbell picked up where he left
off In ’36.
Invincible in Crisis.
1JIS screw ball did everything but
x sit up and laugh right in the
Bees' faces. The rest of his stuff fol
lowed suit, and Carl pitched himself
a three-hit, 3-0 shutout for the
Giants’ second straight win of the
season and his own seventeenth
straight in league competition. He
fanned five, walked three and the
only time he was threatened, he struck
out two men in a row with the bases
loaded.
Kubbell's top-flight flinging topped
a day of generally fine pitching along
the big-league front. Right behind
him were Young George Caster of
Connie Mack's Athletics and old Waite
Hoyt, opening his 20th year in the
majors as relief pitcher extraordinary
for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hoyt, picking up in the second in
ning when big Jim Weaver weakened,
allowed three hits the rest of the way
as the Bucs won their third straight,
nosing out the Roughhouse Reds from
Cincinnati, 4-3. in a game marked by;
the season’s first fist fight. Rookie Lee
Grissom of the Reds and Catcher A1
Todd started it, and several others ;
joined in before it was over.
Feller Pitching Today.
ID OY HENSHAW fanned nine in
1V close to eight innings as the
Dodgers topped the Phillies 4-3 in the
Philadelphia National League opener.
Roxie Lawson muffled the Chicago
White Sox with half a dozen hits as
the Detroit Tigers, headed by Hank
Greenberg and his first homer, clubbed
out a 10-2 conquest to remain unde
feated.
Although touched for eight and ten
hits, respectively, the Cardinals' Lon
Wameke and the Cleveland Indians’
Johnny Allen showed lots of stuff in
the pinches. Warneke, pennant hope
of the gas house gang, kept the Cards
in the unbeaten column with a 5-4
victory, St. Louts’ third. Allen's Indian
mates did most of the work in the
Cleveland home opener, banging five
pitchers to wallop the already slipping
St. Louis Browns. 9-2. The Yankees
and Boston Red Sox were rained out.
The Indians, tangling with the
Browns again, are slated to present
their rookie sensation, young Bob
Feller, to the home folks in today’s tilt.
Varied Sports
COLLEGE BASE BALL.
Maryland, P: Virginia. 5.
Wisconsin 6: Michigan State. 8.
Western Maryland. 7: Dickinson. 3.
N. C. State. 5; North Carolina, 0.
Wake Forest. 5; Davidson. 2.
Elon, 6: Lenoir Rhyne. 6.
Providence. 11: Dartmouth, 5.
Holy Cross. 5: Princeton. 6.
Pennsylvania 4: Columbia. 0.
Roanoke IS: Emory and Henry. 7.
Armour Tech. 11: Elmhurst. 6.
Iowa 3: Michigan. 2. _ „ _
Oustavus AdolDhus. 4: River Falls. 3.
Hamline. 14: St Thomas. 13.
COLLEGE TENNIS.
George Washington, 7: West Vir
ginia. 2.
Bucknell, 7: Georgetown. 1.
Virginia. P: Maryland, n.
Western Maryland. 6: American Uni
versity. 3.
Lenoir Rhyne. 4: Erskine. 3.
Furman. 4; Wofford. 3.
Clemson. 7: Presbyterian. 0.
Michigan. P: Toledo. 0.
Michigan State. 7: Ohio State. 8.
Catawba. 4; Guilford. 3
Chicago 6: Wisconsin. 0.
High Point, fi; Loulsburg. 1. _
Pittsburgh. 5: Grove City. 2.
Nebraska. 3: Iowa State. 8.
COLLEGE GOLF.
Clomaon., lltA: South Carolina S'A.
warns 161*4 Wuuia SMaxva. 71a.
"POPPING I
OPPStarJ
They IT ore the Apatheties.
Y NOW it has become evident to the Washington base ball firm that 1
poor old Connie Mack isn't so bad off. after all. Twice now he has
led a hustling Athletic team to victory over the Nationals and it is :
beginning to hurt. A year ago the Nats won 16 of 22 games from the
A's, who were powerful, unwilling factors in Washington's finishing in the
first division. The Griffs took almost everything except Mack’s store teeth
in 1936 and they don't relish the idea of things evening up so soon.
There are some shrewd newspaper men traveling with the A's and when
| they said that Mack's current entry was worth watching, earlier in the week, i
the tip seemed worthy of keeping in mind. ‘‘Tney’ve got more hustle than
any club in the league." one of the writing boys said, "and don’t believe that
! stuff about the A’s not getting into condition in Mexico. Connie s gonna fool
a lot of people. He isn’t gonna finish last again, either. Not even next to last." ,
After watching the A’s for two games now’ yon have to be convinced
that, after all, there is a chance of Philadelphia climbing out of the cellar.
ror one item, noooay is caning mem*;
the Apathetics any more, which was j
a name Mack inherited involuntarily .
last season after he shipped most of |
his big-name players to Boston for i
cash consideration. Secondly, Mack
has taken two games from a highly
touted Washington club and. in doing
so, used two pitchers the Nats didn’t
even know were in the American
League until the games were won.
“You should have seen the
club In Mexico,” supplied this
department’s informant,
“Spirit? I never saw anything like
it. This Werber. for one guy. has
i done a lot. When a fellow fails to
' slide at the right time, the whole bench
gives him a going-over. They call 1
; each other so-and-so's and cuss all
| over the joint.
“And Connie ... he just sits back |
and grins. He's happier now than at
| any time since his last pennant win
ner was rolling over the rest of
the pack.”
A's Infield Has Class.
I A NALYZING the club, it isn't hard
| to see where it has improved.
Mack traded Frank Higgins for Werber
last Winter and a lot of people said
he lost power. Maybe he did. But
where Higgins sulked, Werber is a
veritable pepper-pot. Berwyn Bill
passed from one of the richest clubs
' in base ball to probably the poorest and
| in doing so he looks as if he got the
| best break of his life. And maybe
I he did.
They’ll never name little Lamar
Newsome on the American League
all-star team, probably, but just the
same Mack has the best fielding short
stop in the circuit.
Newsome never will hit a lot,
but he adds class to the infield
and so does Chalmers Cissell, at
his present pace.
Cissell, of course, is no youngster.
He came up to the American League
some years ago and the White Sox
paid a pretty penny for him. But
Chalmers was a Good-time Charley
and he was sent to Boston and, from
there, to the minors. When he stops
being a playboy he can play base ball.
Right now he seems to be playing ball.
When Mack picked up Lovlll Dean
from the Duke University campus, he
apparently did the A’s no harm. Last
year the kid was neither fish nor
fowl in the field, but he could hit.
He proved it, too, when he led the
pinch-hitters of the league. This year
Connie installed him on first base and
it is beginning to look as if he’s got
one of the rising first basemen of
modem times.
Outfield One of Best.
rpo THE casual observer, his pitching
staff is composed of a lot of guys
named Joe. But Connie’s Finks, Kel
leys, Williamses, Smiths, Casters and
Rosses are better than they’ve been
given credit for being. Smith’s sup
port on opening day didn’t help him.
I Williams didn’t need much support,
after he relieved him, to win, 4 to 3.
And Caster, who held the Nats to four
hits yesterday, owed no thanks to his
supporting cast.
In back of the plate the A’s have
Frank Hayes and Earl Brucker. The
former is a kid who was rough as
the queen of spades in a hearts game
a year or so ago. But Hayes has
acquired polish and he can hit.
Brucker is a veteran minor
leaguer who seems to be some
thing of an Appleton behind the
bat, JQmU la to aaj, he appar
entlv is ready to blossom a little
late.
The A's outfield need apologize
to none. Bob Johnson is always
dangerous at the plate, particularly j
in the Spring. In center field Lou '
Finney looks to be ready for the full
time test, at last, and there isn’t any
ball club in the league that couldn’t I
use Wally Moses, the right fielder.
May Attract Much Attention.
'T'HE A’s of 1937 are likely to at
tract a good deal of attention
before they are finished. They
haven’t the power of the outfit that
had Simmons. Haas. Dykes. Cochrane,
Grove. Walberg, et al. That team
had experience and maturity. It was
refreshing because of the sheer per
fection it attained, but once the gang
began to slip the Quaker City fans
began to grow tired of looking at them
and they, in turn, began to tire of
looking at the Philly customers.
Mack then came up with a club
that seemingly had stars but never
went anywhere. These he happily
sold to the Red Sox for fabulous sums,
tided the A s over a financial hurdle,
and began to develop a flock of barn
yard and college campi fugitives.
It is this collection he proudly
presents now . . . the collection
which a majority of writers’
polls pick to finish last.
Somehow, when you think of it.
that seems a little too low. The A s
are better than that ... or else the
Washingtons aren't what they're
cracked up to be.
MAYER AGAIN RULES
FAIR U. S. FENCERS
Proves She Stands Almost Alone
in Field by Taking Title
for Third Time.
By the Associated Press.
^EW YORK. April 24 —On the basis
of the 1937 championship results,
Helene Mayer, the Oakland, Calif.,
girl who won the 1928 Olympic wom
en's fencing title for Germany and
competed for that nation again last
Summer, stands almost alone in Amer
ican women’s foils play.
Miss Mayer found only one trouble
some opponent last night as she won
the title for the third time. Mrs.
Joanna De Tuscan of Detroit, who took
the 1936 championship when Miss
Mayer didn't compete after winning in
1934 and 1935, has become a pro
fessional. The No. 2 ranking fencer
in America, Mrs. Marion Lloyd Vince,
missed the championships because of
a honeymoon. She recently was mar
ried to Joseph Vince, New York fencing
instructor.
That left only Carrol Alessandroni,
member of another famous fencing
family, to give Miss Mayer competition.
She lost one semi-final match, but
was unbeaten in the final round
robin until she met the Californian.
She was defeated, 4-2.
Behind Miss Allessandroni Mrs. Dolly
Punke and Maria Cerra of New York
placed third and fourth. Madeline
Dalton of New York, national junior
champion, and Madeline Sarvis of
Philadelphia tied for fifth.
Homfcr Standings
By the Associated Press.
Homers yesterday—Greenberg,
Tigers, 1; Rogell, Tigers, 1; R.
Johnson, Athletics, 1; Demaree,
Cubs, 1; Goodman, Reds, 1.
The leaders—R. Johnson, Ath
letics, 3.
League totals—American, 10; Na
tional 4. ToUl, 14.
GREENBERG SHOWS
HES HISOLD SELF
Big Day at Bat Makes Tiger
Star Feel Due for Year
Like He Had in '35,
E? the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 24—Big Hank
Greenberg hasn't any quarrel
with the "experts” who once
said he was through, but if
he can't make them eat their words
this season, he hopes they at least will
have to nibble on them.
The 6-foot 3-inch Detroit Tiger first
baseman, forced out of the game early
last season with a wrist fracture, feels
he is due for another season of his
1935 variety, when he hammered out
36 homers, batted .328 and was named
the most valuable player in the Amer
ican League.
Old Whip Bark in Swing.
‘,rpHERE were plenty of reports last
Summer that I'd never recover
fully from that injury,” he said today
as the Tigers faced the Chicago White
Sox again. "But the fans who took
them seriously were too pessimistic.
While I admit the wrist was in bad
shape. I never had the slightest doubt
that I'd get back in shape eventually.
"I like base ball too well to be kept
out of it for good, and I think I’ll
get going again this year. I felt great
in Spring camp, and the wrist feels as
strong as ever. I've got just as much
whip in my swing as I ever had, and,
being just 26. I know I have plenty of
good years ahead of me.”
Has Field Day at Bat.
^JREENBERG weighs 210 pounds
and appears to be in great condi
tion. In yesterday’s 10-to-2 Tiger vic
tory over the Sox his first hit, a
screaming single through short, almost
took a leg off Manager Mickey Coch
rane, w-ho was heading for third base.
His second hit was a double, slashed
down the left-field line. In the ninth
he caught one of Johnny Whitehead’s
fast balls and dropped it far up In the
left-field stands.
Hank hurt his wrist sliding into
home platp In the second game of the
1935 world series and saw no more
action in that championship duel, won
by the Tigers. On April 28 of last sea
son he collided with Jake Powell, then
of the Washington Senators, and the
resultant wrist frature ended his ac
tivity for the year. Months of treat
ment followed, and when he reported
to the Bengal camp this Spring he
was working for a job. not having a
definite contract understanding with
the Tiger management. His training
season showing soon won him a full
year contract.
DOONIS IS SLAB DEMON
Further evidence that Tommy Doonis
figures to create trouble In the inter
high series was forthcoming today, as
Tech chalked up another triumph at
the expense of Mount St. Joseph, 3-2,
yesterday, in Baltimore.
Relieving Buddy Webb in the sec
ond inning, after the Baltimore bats
men had nicked the chubby right
hander for 4 consecutive hits, Doonis
dished up only 2 hits In 7>3 Innings
and struck out 8.
League Statistics
AMERICAN.
W. L Pet GB.
Detroit _2 n 1.000
Boston _1 o l.riOil Vj
Philadelphia_2 1 .RH7 '2
Cleveland _1 1 .son l
St. Louis_ 1 2 .333 l'j
Chicago _1 2 .333 1',
Washington _ 1 2 ,333 1'2
New York _ 0 1 .000 2
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Philadelphia. 7: Washington. X.
Cleveland. 0: St. Louis, 2.
Detroit. 10: Chicago. 2.
New York-Boston. rain.
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Phila. at Wash.. 3. Phila. at Wash. 3.
New York at Boston. New York at Boston.
St. L. at Cleveland. St. L at Cleveland.
Detroit at Chicago. Detroit at Chicago.
NATIONAL.
W. L. Pet. G B
Pittsburgh _ 3 0 1.000
St. Louis _ 3 0 l ooo
New York_2 o 1.000
Philadelphia_2 1 .hut l
Brooklyn _ 1 1 .500 !'i
Cincinnati _O 3 non 3
Chicago _o 3 .non 3
Boston _ 0 3 000 3
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
New York. 3: Bcston. O
Brooklyn. 4: Philadelphia. 3.
Pittsburgh. 4: Cincinnati. 3.
St. Louis. 6: Chicago. 4.
GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
Boston at New York. Boston at New York.
Brooklyn at Phila. Brooklyn at Phila.
Clnd. at Pittsburgh. Clnci. at. Pit'-,burgh.
Chicago at Bt. Louis. Chicago at St. Louis.
Two Bagged, Four More Are
Sought Today—Woodruff,
Lash Games’ Stars.
P.j the Associated Press.
Philadelphia. April 24—Un
der the leadership of Coach
E. O. Hayes, Indiana Is ex
tending its rule beyond the
bounds of the Hoosier State.
Last week end the Indiana track
crew cleaned up five championships
and victory In a “freak" event at the
Kansas relays. Today, as the fort>
third annual Penn relay carnival went
into its second and final session, the
crimson-shirtcd corn belt fivers, with
two titles and two records to their
credit, were gunning for four more.
The Hayes pupils were entered in
three of the afternoon's baton-passing
scrambles—a half mile, mile and four
miles. In addition, they had ,^nd>
haircd Don Lash, holder of the world
2-mile record, ready for an invitation
mile race against Luigi Beccali, Olym
pian from Italy; Gene Venzke, Olym
pian from New York A. C , and Erma
Federoff of New York's Melrose A. A.
Lash’s “Leg" Makes Record.
J^ASH did his standing in this “spe
cial” no harm at all by clicking
off a 4:13.8 mile on the anchor leg
of Indiana's distance medley victory
yesterday. That anchor leg was the
"works" in the Hoosiers’ time of
10:04.7—fast enough to tie the Ameri
can record and wipe out both the
United States collegiate and Penn
relay marks.
Lash had the able assistance of
Truitt, Jimmy Smith and Tom Deck
ard—the latter the new Penn relay
champion and record-holder for the
3.000-meter steeplechase—in the 4
mile relay today
Not far behind Indiana in spectator
appeal, was Pittsburgh, featuring
seven-league-booted John Woodruff,
dusky Olympic 800-meter champion
who helped the Panthers to take the
sprint medley crown.
Admittedly Lash had a difficult
task cut out for him in competing In
the longest relay and then going into
the invitation mile an hour an three
quarters later. Yet. pending definite
decision by his coach, Woodruff had
been assigned an even more handsome
row to hqe.
Heavy Duty for Woodruff.
TTHE lanky Pitt man was entered for
the w-mile, 4-mile, 2-mile and
mile relays.
Oddly enough, until yesterday In
diana hadn't won a relay since 1934,
Pitt since 1918. Today, both were
hopeful of crashing through to the
top again Hopefulness, however, was
a universal feeling as the army of 3,000
athletes again converged on. Franklin
Field.
For. besides the events already
named, there were titles and prizes to
be won in the hammer and javelin
throws, 20 high school relays, four
college relays, two prep and two high
school championship relays, a teach
ers’ college relay, shuttle hurdle relay,
class B college relay, 100-yard dash,
freshman relay, pole vault, high jump
and broad jump.
SEVEN STAR PACERS
ELIGIBLE FOR DERBY
$4,500 Event Will Be Held for
First Time During Grand
Circuit Meeting.
E> the Associated Press.
r^OSHEN. N. Y. April 24—Seven
of the country's outstanding
pacers still are eligible for the $4,500
pacing derby, which will be raced for
the first time at Syracuse's Grand Cir
cuit meeting. September 6-11.
The derby, similar in its provisions
to the $16,000 all-American stake for
trotters, also to be raced at Syracuse,
will be a single handicap dash of l’a
miles.
The side-wheelers kept eligible by
recent payments to the Trotting Horse
Club are
E J. Baker's Cardinal Prince *n1
Princess Vontan St. Charles, 111.. Paul
Bowser's Dominion Grattan Levins:
Mass. H. I) Biers s Little Pat and Le*
Hanover Putter Pn Ft M Nortot s
Colonel Torn Waterville N Y. and Her.-f
E Warwick s Running Water. New Ham
bur- N. H
Wild Tiger Away
To Roarin’ Start
By the Associated Press.
^HICAGO, April 24—It's too
early in the season to venture
a guess on whether Gerald Walker
has "reformed." but he's making
life miserable for opposing hurlers
right now.
Walker, the speedy Detroit Tiger
outfielder, whose antics on the base
paths have electrified the fans and
put gray hairs in Manager Mickey
Cochrane’s head, holds a two-game
batting average of .777. In the Tiger
win Tuesday over Cleveland he had
a home run, triple, double and sin
gle in four trips. Yesterday he had
a double and two singles in five offi
cial times at bat.
Walker, who has been known to
smack a pinch triple and then be
tagged out overrunning the bag, hit
,353 last season.
BASE BALL .,',Tpa'„.
Washington vs. Philadelphia
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