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Travis Only Point Off Batting Lead : Base Ball Now Widespread
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NATSOARSTO.374
ON WESTERN TOUR
Cecil Presses Gehrig, Goes
by Di Maggio With His
St. Louis Splurge.
BY FRANCIS F. STAN.
Bteff Correspondent of The Star.
T. LOUIS, July 24.—Gangling
Cecil Travis, the battle-scarred
23-year-old veteran of the Na
tionals, today served notice
upon the Yankees' Lou Gehrig and
Di Maggio that he must be considered
tn the race for the American League
batting leadership. He surged to
vithin a point of the top spot in
thooting his average to .374.
Climaxing a fruitful tour of the
Western cities, Travis moved up on
Gehrig and passed Di Maggio wit?!
a batting spree against the Browns
In the first three games of the current
eeries.
In the series opener yesterday he
singled twice in four trips. Today, in
the first game of a double-header, he
singled twice and doubled in five times
at bat.. In the second game he dupli
cated this total in four tries.
No thunderous drives come off
Travis' bat. but he is getting his daily
Finglps »nd as far as averages go they
count as much as the home runs of
Gehrig and Di Maggio.
De Shong, Ferrell Hurl.
1IMMY DE SHONG and Wesley
Ferrell will do the pitching for
the Nats tomorrow, when they wind
up their Western swing with another
double-hea'der against the Browns.
They will be opposed by Lou Koupal
end Jim Walkup.
r^HARLES (GABBY) STREET, one- 1
time Washington cateher and
battery mate nf Walter Johnson, re
ported today for his new duties as
Brewns' coach. When Rog Hornsby
was fired his first assistant. Coach
Charley O'Leary, also got the sack. 1
Jim Bottomlev, who succeeded
Hornsby, chose Street as his new j
first lieutenant.
s
AMMY WEST, the rx-Nat. hit safely
in both cames to run his con
secutive game batting streak to 20
straight. West collected three hits in
the first gamp and led oil the nightcap j
with a scratch hit
He received some help from the j
ecorer on this blow. It was a drive !
to A1 Simmons, who got plenty of
glove on the ball, but dropped it. A1
was credited with an error, but two
innings later a revision was made.
Davis* Streak Ended.
1 TP UNTIL today Harry Davis had
tied West in consecutive hitting.
He also was shooting for his nineteenth
straight game in the opener, but was
held hitless by Linke and Appleton.
TOMMY HEATH, the Browns' !
second-string catcher, caught
β wild pitch in the groin early in the
second game and dropped to the
pround for a long count. He con
tinued to play, however, and on his
first trip to the plate pounded a
home run.
DUDDY LEWIS played a grand
game afield and was no palooka
at bat, but he was caught napping
on the base paths in the second same.
The kid walked with two out in the
fourth and strayed off first base. A j
quick throw from Julio Bonetti to 1
Davis nailed him.
THE Browns' club house boy, who j
was "fired" along with Hornsby J
end O'Leary, has been reinstated. !
President Donald Barries originally
decided to let him go because he
was running Hornsby's race bets to
the bookmakers.
·
Takes Nats to Do This.
TN THE fifth inning of the second
game the Nats made four singles
end a triple . . . and scored only
two runs! It is quite a trick.
'AL SIMMONS' hot batting streak
had to be ended by, of all people,
the Browns' pitchers. AI went hit
less the first two games and not until
his bounder struck Travis as Cece
was running the bases in the fifth
Inning of the nightcap today was he
eble to pick up a blow.
TOMORROW will be Jim Bottom
' ley day at Sportsman's Park. To
the new Brownie manager "days" are
en old story. He made his "fare
well" visit in every city in the Ameri
can League last year and several of
them held "Bottomlev days." Here
thev gave him a Jersey cow for a
"retirement present," but now he not
only is back with the Browns, but also
their manager as well.
COLORED TITLE IS GOAL
All-Star Nines Will Battle in
Chicago August 8.
CHICAGO. July 24 The fifth
annual East-West Negro professional
base ball championship game will ne
plaved August R at Comiskey Park,
home of the Chicago White Sox.
The Eastern team will be selected
from the Negro National League clubs,
the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Homestead.
Pa.. Grays, New York Black Yankees.
Newark Eagles. Philadelphia Stars and
Washington Elites.
The Western squad will be picked
from the Chicago American Giants.
Kansas City Monarchs. Cincinnati
Tigers. Detroit Titus Stars. Birming
ham Black Barons. Memphis Red Sox,
Indianapolis A. B. C.'s and the St.
Louis Stars, members of the Negro
American League.
Both clubs will be selected through a
newspaper poll.
PITT TO START EARLY
West Virginia First Foe on Grid
Schedule of 10 Games.
PITTSBURGH. July 24 (/PV—'The
Pitt Panthers will open the gridiron
Reason in 1938 against West Virginia
at Pittsburgh on September 24.
The remainder of the 10-game
schedule released by James Hagan,
new director of athletics, follows:
October 1. Temple at Philadelphia; R,
Duquesne: lft. Wisconsin. away; 22,
Southern Methodist; 2S>. Fordham.
November ft. CarneRle Tech: 12. Ne
braska. away; 39. Penn State; 28. Duke,
away.
YOUNGSTERS SEEK FOE.
Takoma Tiger diamonders want a.
Junior or midget game for today.
Call Jack at Georgia 2000.
A Couple of Shots in Warfare Between New York and Chicago Teams
Li7ius Frey, shoved into the game when Stan Hack, regular third-sacker was
shewed by an injured leg, proved the hero of the Cubs' win over the Giants in Gotham
yesterday. He is shown here tagging the plate on a homer and he later singled across
two runs. Ripper Collins is congratulating him on his Jour-baser.
- ι
Red Rolfe of the Yankees slides into third base in the game
icith which the Chisox won in Chicago yesterday, 6 to 5. xn 10
innings. Bozie Berger is covering the bag. The victory gave the
Chisox a 7-to-5 edge over the Yanks for the season.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
"Independable" Sub, Linus
Frey, Is Hero of 10-5
Win for Leaders.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 24.—Pitchers
rame a dime a do7*n at the
Polo Grounds today — and
weren't worth much more—
but the Chicago Cubs backed up their
ineffective defense with heavier hit
ting and walloped the Giants, 10 to 5, \
to stretch their National League lead I
to three full games.
They made it two in a row over the |
crippled New Yorkers by clubbing out j
13 hits to the Giants' 11. and bunch
ing their blows to make runs when
they counted.
A pre-game bad break turned out
to be a piece of luck for the Cubs.
Stan Hack injured a leg during bat
ting practice and had to be replaced
at third base by the fielding undepend
able. Linus Frey. But Linus played
errorless ball afield and was the No.
1 man on the defense.
Eight Pitchers in Battle.
UE TOUCHED off the winning
three-run rally in the seventh
with a homer, and clubbed out a
single in the ninth to bring in the
final two runs.
Each club sent four pitchers to the !
wars, and not one of them could do
anything in the way of muffling the
opposition. The Cubs staked their
starter, Roy Parmelee. to a five-run
edge in the fifth, and he promptly
blew it in the sixth as the Giants tied
the score. Curt Davis helped him
kick the lead away in this frame, and
Larry French finally was called on
to stop it. French later was replaced
by Clay Bryant, but received credit
for the win.
Rookie Cliff Melton opened for the
Giants and was tagged for the first
five Cub runs in the fifth. He was
followed by Dirk Coffman, Hal Schu
macher and Tom Baker, with Schu
macher losing the ball game.
Τ
Frey's Hits Productive.
ΉΕ Cubs' first rally, in the fifth,
started with a walk to Gabby Hart
nett. Successive singles by Bill Jurges,
Joe Marty and Parmelee sent two runs
in. An error scored another, and
Frank Demaree's hit produced the
other two. In the seventh. Frey
opened with his homer. Singles by
Billy Herman and Hartnett, a double
by Jurges and two walks added two
more runs. Frey's single in the ninth
brought in runners from third and
second.
Chicago. AB. H. O. A. N.York. AB. Η. Ο A
Galan.lf Η ο 7 O Chioz a.3b 5 2 2 2
Hark..'lb - 1 Ο η Ο Whit d.2b. 5 2 4 3
Frey.."lb 4 2 ο ] Moore.If 4 2 0 0
Collins.lb 4 ο β 0 Berger,cf 4 ο ο Ο
Dema e.rf 5 12 0 Ott.rf 4 0 2 ο
Herm"n.2b 4 2 3 a Leslie.lb .1 2 14 2
Hartnett.c 4 2 β o Haslin.ss 3 114
Jurges.ss 4 2 Ο Dannine.c 5 14 2
Marty.cf .3 2 3 0 Melton.p_ 1 Ο ο 4
Parme'e.p 3 2 ο ο + Davis 1 ο ο Ο
C Davis.ρ 0 0 0 0 Coffman.ρ Ο ο Ο 1
French.ρ 0 0 0 0 JRipple l 10 0
*ODea Ο ο ο ο Schum'r.p Ο 0 0 0
Bryant.ρ 0 0 0 0 SMcCart'y 10 0 0
Baker.ρ 0 0 0 0
Totals 3Κ 13 27 7 Totals 37 Π 27 18
•Batted for French in seventh.
^Batted for Melton in fifth.
îBatted for CofTman in sixth.
SBatted for Schumacher in seventh.
Chicago ooo 050 302—10
New York _ ooo 005 000— ft
Runs—Galan. Frey. Herman. Hartnett |
(2), Judges. Marty <2K Parmelee. Bryant.
Berger, Ott. Leslie. Haslin. Ripple. Errors
—Chiozza. Runs batted in—Parmelee <2>,
Demaree i2). Haslin. Ripple <2). Chiozza.
Moore. Frey (3). Jurges. O'Dea. Two-base
hit—Jurges. Home run—Frey. 5?tolen base
—Frey Sacrifices—Frey. Marty. Double
plays—Danning to Haslin. Frey to Herman
to Collins, Leslie to Danning to Leslie. Left
on bases—New York 12: Chicago. 11.
Bases on balls—Off Melton. 1 : off Parme
lee. 3: off Davis. 1: off Schumacher. 2: off
Baker. 4: off Bryant. 2. Struck out—By
Melton. 2: by Parmelee. 2: by Schumacher.
1 : by Bryant. 2. Hits—Off Melton. 7 in 5
Innings: off Coffman. 1 in 1 inning: off
Schumacher. 4 in 1 inning: off Baker. 1 in
2 innings: off Parmelee. 7 in 5 Innings
(none out in sixth*: off Davis. 1 in % in
ning. off French. 2 in inning: off Bryant.
1 in 3 innings. Hit by pitcher—Melton
(Collins>: Bryant (Leslie). Winning pitcher
—French. Losing pitcher—Schumacher.
Umpires—Messrs. Barr. Stark and Stewart.
Time. 2:55. Attendance, 18.001.
MAT WINNERS TO CLASH
Ernie Dusek, Jack Hader Head
Card Here Thursday.
Ernie Dusek, meanest member of
matdom's fussy family, will tangle
with Jack Hader, a villain In his
own right, Thursday night in the
feature of the weekly grapple show
at Graffith Stadium.
Dusek, in his last appearance here,
pinned Joe Cox. while Hader last week
disposed of Jack Donovan. Promoter
Joe Turner Is arranging four prelimi
naries for the card, a portion of the
proceeds of which will be turned over
to the District Soft Ball Association.
Medwick Outclasses Di Mag in Field
Card Errs Only Once as Yank Makes Nine—Giants Plan to Get Di ζ Dean.
BY Sin FEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
EW YORK. July 24 —Dia
mond dribbles:
For those who are Ret
ting into this Ducky Med
wick vs. Joe Di Maggio argument,
don't overlook the fact that Ducky
Wuckv has made just one error
so far in 82 games this season . . .
and Deadpan Di Mag has fum
bled nine of em . . . One report
says Rogers ι Parlay ι Hornsby w ill
wind up running the Cincinnati
Reds . . . but the udds ar^
against it.
That big deal between the
Giants and Cardinals is supposed
to be all sealed, signed and ready
for Winter delivery ... if the
grapevine has it right, Dizzy Dean
will call the Polo Grounds home
next year . . . Gabby Street is
the No. 1 man to get the St. Louis
Browns' managership in '38 . . .
Don't be surprised if Lou Gehrig
loses the American I<eague batting
lead some day this week . . . with
Di Maggio as the likely lad to
take over . . . Oh, well, it's all in
the Yankee family.
The Cards, crying for pitchers,
might take another gander at
Lefty Bill Walker, whom they
exiled to Rochester . . . He's won
nine and lost but five for a sixth
place club . . . and he couldn't do
any worse than some of those
pitch-and-pray guys Frankie Frisch
has been throwing in there . . .
Charley Grimm gets back to his
Chicago Cubs today after β stretch
in the hospital.
Since the Giants bought Hy Van
denberg and Bill Lohrman from
the Baltimore (International
League) Orioles, neither has lasted
nine Innings . . . Incidentally, the
Giants might take a look at their
lowly Jersey City farm, where Ben
Cant well, the ex-Boston elbower,
is doing a neat job oi serving
them up.
The Boston Bees not only
rounded up the pick of the pitch
ing rookie crop this season . . .
but old Bob Quinn is on another
of those personal scouting tours
of the American Association . . .
which usually wind up paying divi
dends—to old Bob.
BEES BLANK BUCS,
LENGTHEN STREAK
Make It Five Straight Wins, 9-0.
Moore of Victors Hammers
425-Foot Home Run.
By I he Associated Press.
gOSTON, July 24—The Boston Bees
today combined a long-distance
hitting attack with five-hit pitching
by Jim Turner to lambftst the Pitts
burgh Pirates. 9 to 0, for the Bees'
fifth consecutive victory.
In twirling his tenth win of the
season. Turner registered the second ;
straight shutout for the home club j
and ran its record to 20 triumphs in
28 games.
Turner and Lou Fette, Boston's re
markable 30-vear-old rookies, have
accounted for 22 victories this season.
Home runs by Gene Moore and Tony
Cuccinello accounted for four of ihe
Bees' runs. Moore tagged Bill Sflvift
in the second inning for one of the
longest drives ever made in this park,
sending the ball 42r feet into the
center field bleachers.
Cucçinello's homer in the third with
two aboard clinched the game for
the Bees and ended Swift's term on
the mound. Mace Brown took over ;
the hurling duties for the Pirates and I
was nicked for four consecutive hits.
Russ Bauers, rookie Pirate right- !
hander who followed him, silenced the
Boston barrage.
Pitts. AB. Η. Ο A. Boston. AB H. O. A.
L. W er cf 4 1 :i ii Garnis.If 4 ο 2 11
Jensen.If 3 (I 2 ο War'ler.ss 5 1 Ο 2 I
P. W'er.rf 4 2 2 0 Di M'eio.cf 3 1 in
Suhr lb (I » 1 Cuello.2b 4 2 2 5
Todd c 3 13 0 Moore.rf 4 2 2 0
Padden.c 1 Ο (I ιι Enillsh.3b 4 3(14
Young.ss 4 (ι 1 4 Π cher lb 4 2 is 0 1
Β baker.3b 3 111 Mueller.c 4 12 2
Haley.2b 3 Ο 3 4 Turner.ρ 3 0 Ο S
Swift.ρ 1 (I II II
Brown.ρ ο ιι ι» ιι
Bauers ρ 2 n ιι 1
Totals 31 5 24 11 Totals 35 12 27 18
Pittsburgh (Kill 11(10 οικι—ο
Boston 014 400 ΟΟχ—0
Runs—Garms. Warstler Di Maggie (2),
Cuccinello. Moore (2), Mueller. Turner.
Errors—Cuccinello. Garms. Handley. Runs
batted in—Cuccinello (4>. Moore (2),
Warstler '21. English. Two-base hit —
Moore. Home runs—Moore, Cuccinello.
Sacrifices—Jensen. Turner. Double plays
—English to Cuccinello to Fletcher: YnunR
to Handley to Suhr. Left on bases—Pitts
hureh. β; Boston. 5. Bases on balls—OfT
Swift. 2: off Turner. I. Struek out — By
Swift. 1 ; by Brown, 1 by Bauers. 1 ; by
Turner. 3. Hits—Off Swift. 4 In 3i In
nings; ofT Brown. 5 in ai inning: off Bauers.
3 in 4 2i innings Wild pitches—Swift,
Brown. Losing pitcher—Swift. Umpires—
Messrs. Parkei Moran. Macerkurth. Time
—1:55. Attendance—5.2H3.
INDIANAPOLIS FUEL
RESTRICTION IS OFF
New Regulations Are Designed
to Make Auto Race Fair
for Foreign Pilots.
By the Associated Press.
TNDIANAPOLIS, July 24—The door
to the 1938 Speedway 500
mile race here was wide open today
for foreign drivers and automobiles
after the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way Corp. lifted fuel restrictions and
revised other regulations.
Capt. Ε. V. Rickenbacker, corpo
ration president, said "there has been
some complaint that foreign cars have
been handicapped under our rules, so
we are changing them to allow any
car which wishes to complete at In
dianapolis an even chance.
The new rules provide that any
fuel mixture may be used, single-seat
speedsters may be entered and per
mit superchargers on cars with 183
cubic inches piston displacement.
The maximum limit on all motors will
be 274 cubic inches, without super
chargers.
This year all cars were required to
use stock gasoline, thus eliminating
foreign speedsters not built to attain
high speed with stock fuel. Since
1930 all cars in the Speedway classic
have been two-*eaUrs.
»
Ri ngC/ar Urgent,
Deinpsey Asserts
Bs the Associated Press.
J OS ANGELES, July 2«.—What
this country needs is a good,
touch boxing czar, Jack Dempsey
said here today.
"There's too much politics and
phenagling going on in boxing
these days," said the New York
restauranteur and former heavy
weight champion. "Every State
has its own champion and Its own
rules.
"Take the recent Braddock
Schemling-Louis mixup. for ex
ample. Take the featherweight
division. Bel lois is the world
champion in New York. Armstrong
is champion in California and Sar
ron is champion of the Ν. B. A.
It's killing the game."
PHILLIES CONQUER
BATTLING REDLEGS
Klein and Arnovich Lead Attack
in 13-11 Game—Losers Get
Four Runs in Ninth.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July 24 —Led by
Chuck Klein and Morrie Arno
vich. the Phillies scored 10 runs in
the sixth, seventh and eighth in
nings today to hand the Cincinnati
Reds a 13-to-ll setback in the sec
ond game of the series.
The Reds put on a last-ditch rally
in the ninth inning to score four runs,
but Wayne la Master finally came
in and got Myers for the third out.
Klein walloped his seventh homer j
of the season for the Phils and also
connected for another safety. Arno
vich collected four hits in four trips
to the plate. .
Cinn. AB. Η. Ο A. Phila. AB. Η. Ο A
Jordan.lb 5 1 S (> Noms.2b 5 ο 4 5
Godm'n rf ft Ο 4 ο Martin ci ft <) 1 <» j
Srar la.lf ft .1 1 Ο Klein.rf ft 2 2
Hafey.cf ft 2 2 Ο A'ovich.lf 4 4 ft ΟΙ
Lo'bardi.c 4 .1 ft Π Camilli.lb ft Λ 11 <ι |
Rice.ν .'lb ft 4 *2 (i W'tney..'?b ft 4 Ο
K'ouris.2b ft 2 1 .'t At wood.c ft 2 M 1
Meyer.ss Π ο 1 'Λ Rch'ein.ss 4 1 1
Der'err.p Π Ο «> 1 Mulcahy.ρ 2 <» Ο ο
Schott.p Ο ο η (I Joreens.p 0 η ο ο
•Walker 1 Ο Ο Ο +Moore 1 Ο Ο η
Mooty.p ΟΟΟΟ Kelleher.ρ ο Ο Ο Ο
IBrowne 1 Ο <* ο
Passeau.ρ Ο Ο Ο Ο
La aster.ο Ο Ο ο Ο
Totals 41 1ft 24 7 Totale 42 16 27 10
•Batted for Schott in eiahth.
•fBatted for Jorgens in sixth.
tBatted for Kelleher in seventh.
Cincinnati . . . 200 140 004—11
Philadelphia 0:»<i 002 ft.'tx—1 Π
Runs—Jordan. Searsella. Hafey
Lombardi <2>. Ripes <3). Kamnouris,
Klein (2). Arnovich i4>. Camilli
Whitney (2). Atwood i2). Errors—Jor
dan. Scarsellft. Kampouris. Norris. Klein.
Camilli. Runs batted in—Hafey. Riggs
• 2). Kampouris <4 ). Lombardi. Atwood
i2>. Scharein. Whitney <4). Camilli.
Browne. Norris. Klein. Two-base hits—
Hafey. Riggs. Atwood. Whitney <2). Ca
milli Home runs—Klein. Kampouris.
Double plays—Norris to Camilli. Left on
bases—Cincinnati. β: Philadelphia. ft.
Bases on balls—Off Mooty. 2: off Jorgens.
1: off Schoot. 1: off Passeau. 1; off Der
ringer. 1. Struck out—By Derringer. 'Λ',
by Passeau. 1: by Mulcahy. 2: by Jorgens.
1 : by Mooty. 2. Hits—Off Mulcahy. ft in
ft innings; off Jorgens. 1 in 1 inning: off
Kelleher. 1 in 1 inning: off Passeau. 4 in
12r. innings: off Derringer, lî in fi1; in
nings: off Schott. 1 in inning; off
Mooty. 'Λ in 1 inning: off Lamaster. none
in S inning. -Hit by pitcher—Mulcahy
«Lombardi*. Wild pitch—Mulcahy. Win
ning pitcher—Kelleher. Losing pitcher—
Derrinser. Umpires—Messrs. Klem. Sears
and Ballanfant. Time—2:18. Attend
ance—3.500.
Homer Standings
By the Associated Press.
Yesterday's homers—Gehrig, Yan- j
kees, 2; Bell. Browns, 2; Heath,
Browns, 1 ; Padgett, Cards, 1 ; Lava- |
getto, Dodgers, 1: Frey, Cubs, 1;
Klein. Phillies. 1 ; Kampouris, Reds, 1 ;
Moore, Bees, 1; Cuccinello. Bees, I;
The leaders—Di Maggio, Yankees,
26; Foxx, Red Sox, 23; Trosky, In
dians, 23; Greenberg, Tigers, 22? Med
wick, Cardinals, 20; Ott, Giants, 19.
League totals—American. 436; Na- |
tlonal, 386. Total. 833.
FELLER IS FAILURE,
BUT TRIBE PREVAILS
Bob. Behind. Replaced in Seventh.
Newsom Retires in Ninth.
Bosox Bow in 11th.
Ey ;hf Associated Press.
(^LEVELAND, Ohio, July 24 —The
Cleveland Indians defeated the
Boston Red Sox here today, 6 to 5. '
in the eleventh inning to even their ]
series when Rov Hughes, running '
for Pitcher Joe He-ving. slid across ;
the plate after a fly by Roy Weath- 1
erly.
Frankie Pvtlak started the winning
rally with a single but was forced |
on Heving's bunt. Lyn Larv doubled |
against the right field wall, sending !
Heving to third Then Weatherly !
came through with a fly to center
that sent Heving's substitute home. |
Bob Feller was the Indians' starting !
pitcher but was replaced by Heving
in the seventh with the score 5 to 4
against him. Feller fanned seven
and allowed seven hits.
Buck Newsom, on the hill for Bos
ton, retired in favor of Wilson in
the ninth afteT Pvtlak singled and
was sacrificed to second. Wilson cut
loose a wild pitch on which Pytlak
tied the score
Boston. AB H O A. C'.ev, AB Η Ο Λ
Mills.If Λ 1 Λ Ο Lary ss tî 4 « Λ
C'pman.rf 'Λ 1 1 ο Kroner "b Ί ο 3 '.
Cronin.ss 4 <) .S 4 We erly '$b Ί η ο η
Foxx lb 4 1 Id . Averill.cf tl 1 2 <»
H'gins,.'lb .'t 1 ο Trosky I b 'Λ ο β ι
McN'r.'.'b .*> 0 4 4 Solters.If 5 1 *! ο
Cramer.cf ή 'Λ 4 0 Ca bell rf 4 1 η ιι
Des tels.c r» Ο 5 1 Η le lb lb 5 1 4 Λ
Newsom.ρ 4 2 ο ·1 Pytlak c 5 1 in ·_'
Wilson.Ρ Ο Ο Ο 1 Ppîler ρ *! Ο ο 4
îSulllvan 1 ο Ο ο
Heving η 1 « » ο 1
+ Hughes ο Ο Ο ο
Totals .'{Η Οχ.τ! 15 Totals :ο» 11 Xi i
•Two out when winning run scored.
Boston <»«)·: 300 000 00—r> ;
Cleveland 200 101 001 01—« j
Runs- Foxx, Higgins. Cramer. De<=au-j
♦ els. Newsom Kroner Averill. Solters.
Campbell Pytlak. Hughes Errors— j
Kroner Trosky. Runs batted in—Weather
lv Hale Pytlak. Chapman <'!>. Cramer
(']). Newsom. T\wo-base hits — Mills.
Campbell <'M. Lary. Thr^e-base hits—
Cramer Solters. Averil1 Stolen bases—
Mills. Chapman r:>. Sacrifices—Cronin.
Mills Heving Double plavs—McNalr.
Cronin and Foxx: Hale Kroner and
Troskv: Hale Lary and Trosky; Cronin.
McNair ind Foxx. Left on bases—Boston,
β: Cleveland. 0. Bases on balls-—Off New
som. .V off Wilson. off Fe'l^r 5. Struck
out—By Newsom. 4· by Feller 7: by
Hrving 1 Hits—Off Feller 7 in 7 in
nings: off Heving *2 in 4 innings: off New
som. S in innings: off Wilson. 3 iiT'!1*
innings. Hit bv pitcher—Bv Having
'Mills>. Wild pitches—Newborn, Wilson.
Winnine pitcher—Heving. Losing pitcher
—Wilson. Umpires—Messrs McOowan
Ormsby and Quinn. Time—3:"20. Attend
ance—15.000.
DROP TITLES QUICKLY.
Only two hea\-yweight fight cham
pions sir.ee the reign of Gene Tunney
have defended their title successfully
—Schmeling against Stribllng at
Cleveland, in 1931, and Carnera
against Loughran in Miami, In 1934.
10 JINX MIST
Ten-Inning Victory Is Fifth
Over Champs This Year
for Lee of Chisox.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 24 —The White
Sox called on their Yankee
jinx, Leftv Thornton Lee, to
day and Lefty came through
with a 10-inning 6-to-5 victory over
the New Yorkers.
Chalking up his fifth victory over
murderers' row this season. Lee made
it two straight for the Sox over the
Yanks, three straight setbacks for the
New Yorkers, and cut the Yankees'
American League lead to five games.
Fails to Stop Gehrig.
,NLY Lou Gehrig, who accounted
for all five Yankee runs with two
homers, was able to do any damage
to Lee. Gehrig's first circuit blow,
his 17th of the year, came with two
aboard in the first inning. His sec
ond was clouted out of the lot with
a mate on base in the seventh.
Lee bested Lefty Gomez in a tight
mound duel when Rip Radcliff's sin
gle brought in Dixie Walker with the
winning run in the tenth. Gomez
wits tagged for 11 hits by the Sox.
The Yanks collected 10 off Lee.
After the Yanks got away to R
three-run lead in the first frame, the
Sox came bark in their half to score
two on singles by Jack Hayes and
Mike Kreevich, Walker's double, a
walk and Luke Appling's grounder.
Radcliff Make* Deciding Hit.
'J'HEY tied it up in the second with a
run on Luke Sewell's single. Go
mez's error and Hayes' grounder, and
went ahead in the sixth with two
more runs on successive singles by
Zeke Bonura, Radcliff and Appling,
and Lou Berger's fly.
After Gehrig tied it up again with
his homer in the seventh, things went
along smoothly until the tenth when
Walker opened with a single, Bonura
sacrificed him along, and Radcliff
broke up the game.
Chicago. ABU. O.A.N. Y. AB. Η Ο. Α.
Hayes.'.'b 5 ·ί 3 ocrose'i.ss ft <> .! ;i
Kr vch.cf 5 1 β ο Rolfe.3b ft 3 2 2
Walker.rf 5 2 .'Ϊ lDiMag.-cf 5 ~ 4 ti
Bonura. lb 3 1 !» 0 Gehrig 1 b 3 3 »> 1
R cliff if ft " 3 (I Dickey.c 4 1 3 (I
Applng.ss 4 11 tfJorgens.c J 0 3 ο
Berger.3b 4 1 1 .iPowell.lf 4 ο 1 ο
Sewell.c 3 14 lHoagrl 3 1 3 ο
Lee.p _ . 4 0 0 2 Heffnr.'ib 4 Ο 3 3
Gomez ρ 4 ο ο ο
Totals 38 11 30 10 Totals :18 Iti'JH 9
χ—One out when winning run scored.
New York .'too ooo ·:οο ti—ft
Chicago _ ;io otr: ooo l—(i
Runs—Hayes. Kreevich. Walker, Bo
nura. Radcliff. Sewell. Rolfe <*'►. Di Mag
g,o, Gehrig Ci). Errors—Gomez. Crosetti.
Runs batted in—Gehrig 15'. Walker. Ap
pling c.'t, Hayes. Berger, Radc'ifï. Two
base hits—Walker, Rolfe. Berger. Three
base hit—Di Maggio. Home runs—Gehrig
rl ». Sacrifices—Powell. Bonura. Double
plays—HefTner to Crosetti to Gehrig: Cros
etti to HefTner to Gehrig. Left on bases —
New York. ; Chicago, '. BSses on bails—
Off Gomez, off Lee. 3. Struck out- By
Gome?, ti: by I.ee. 3. Wild pitch—Lee.
Umpires—Messrs. Owens. Hubbard and
Moriarty. Time—2:06. Attendance, 2':,
500.
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
'T'HE Griffmen still are holding
down sixth place, 21 games
behind the league-leading White
Sox.
Dave Burgess. Jim Spencer. How
ard Beckett and Fred McLeod will
stage an exhibition golf match on
the Washington Golf and Country
Club course.
The war has claimed another vic
tim from the ranks of boxers in
Gunner Hewitt, the famous English
heavyweight.
Talks Himself Into a Homer
Pitcher Psychology Expert Wins Own Game After
Convincing Self That He Could.
By the Associated Press.
HATTANOOGA, Τ e η η.,
ecology, a lot of sinew, a
good ball—a home run.
It was as simple as that to Chat
tanooga's pitcher, Kit Sauerbrun,
who for a time was better known
as Prof. Sauerbrun, psychology
Instructor at Washington and Lee.
The slim, young hurler who
throws from the wrong side won
his own game Thursday from the
Atlanta Crackers, 8 to 7, with an
eleventh inning home run.
"I told the boys that It takes as
much effort to lose a ball game as
It does to win it," said Sauer
brun. "In a kidding sort of way I
told them I mi going tç get up and
July 24.—A little psy
hit one. Well, I convinced myself
I was, and I did."
Sauerbrun, 24 years old, was
graduated from Washington and
Lee in 1934 after specializing In
psychology. He taught for a time
at the university and has written
numerous articles and papers on
his favorite subject.
"Psychology helps me a lot In
my pitching," he said. "Every bat
ter is a different individual, over
confident, shy or afraid. I usually
can classify them by their expres
sion or how they walk to the plate.
Then I know in a manner how to
pitch to them."
On a last-place club Sauerbrun
h*a won tlx &nd loat nina games.
China, Argentine Taking Up!
American Pastime—Liked
by English Workers.
BY DRt:\V MinDLKTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. July 24.—The
American base bell fan, who
considers the game as native
to the United States as corn
on the cob or Thanksgiving, today
can visit Tientsin, China, or Orizaba,
Mexico, and find his favorite sport
flourishing under exotic conditions.
For the brainchild of Abner
Doubleday, born and bred in the
American tradition, has. 92 years after
its birth, reached across the Pacific
into Japan and China, spread south
ward in the Western Hemisphere to
Cuba. Mexico and the Argentine, and
crossed the Atlantic to England, where
it's nearest relative "rounders," was
once a widely-played sport.
In none of the base ball colonies j
has the game approached the techni- i
cal perfection enjoyed in the major i
leagues of the United States, but it has. !
at least in Japan and Cuba, become a
part of the national life.
If anything, base ball is nearer to
being the national sport in Japan than
it is in the United States. It does not !
face the competition of golf, foot ball ι
and tennis and the popular appeal is j
tremendous. Crowds of 90.000, top
ping all big league attendance records. ■
have parked the Koshien Stadium,
near Osaka, for 'championship games. ,
Pro Clubs Few in Japan.
rJ*HE sport is almost wholly ama
teur in Japan. Since its intro
duction in the 1870s by American
teachers in Japanese schools, base ball
has been the property of colleges,
junior colleges and high schools. The
best base ball is found in the Univer- [
sity League of Tokio. The teams play '
round-robin series for Spring and
Autumn championships and attend
ance at these games seldom falls be
low 25.000. The crucial series usualy
fills the Meiji Shrine Stadium, which
holds 65 000.
The largest crowds, however, are
those which attend the high school
tournaments. These may last for a
week, morning and afternoons. An
intercity tournament draws teams
from cities all over the empire and its 1
colonies, Formosa, Manchuria and ;
Korea.
Professional base ball is In its in
fancy. There is a prole.ssional eight
club league with teams in leading 1
cities, but the teams do not have the ι
following of the university teams.
Pro base ball got ite inspiration from
a visit of big leaguers in the Fall of i
1934. when Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig :
and a dozen others played to capacity
crowds for five games.
Base ball is played all over the
country and the kids start in playing
in the primary schools, just as they
do in America. The familiar sandlot
games of the United States have their
counterparts all over Japan.
Service Teams in China.
A MERICAN residents furnish China
with almost all the base ball it
has. but the games make up in spirit
what they lack in popular appeal.
The 15th United States Infantry at '
Tientsin, the Marine Guard of the
United States Embassy at Peiping and ι
the United States Marine Regiment
at Shanghai all have teams, which
compete with teams of Japanese resi
dents. The same situation exists in
the Philippines, where Army, Navy
and Marine nines vie with native
teams from the big schools, the Philip
pine Scouts and the native con
stabulary.
Cuba and Mexico are the Latin
American strongholds of base ball.
The game has been played in Cuba
since 1876, when Emilio Sabourein
founded the Habanas. In the 59 years
since then base ball has become the
national sport.
Cuba, frequently visited by Ameri
can big league teams and birthplace
of Mike Gonzales of the St. Louis
Cardinals and Adolfo Luque of the
New York Giants, pays as much at
tention to the fortunes of major league
teams in the United States as it
does to local teams.
1 Despite this, there is a 4-club pro
fessional league. 2 semi-pro leagues
' with a total of 20 teams and 2
amateur leagues with 19 teams, as
j well as hundreds of local teams,
; amateur and semi-pro.
Kew l uoans tteacn .Majors.
IRST big league team to visit Cuba
ι was the Cincinnati Reds, brought
there in 1908 by the astute Clark
Griffith. The world champion Ath
letics arrived in 1909 and 1910, and
the New York Giants trained in Ha
vana last Spring.
Outside of Luque and Gonzales, few
Cubans have become fixtures in the
big leagues. Manuel Cueto played
with the Reds for three years and
Roberto Estalella had a tryout with
Washington two years ago. Usually
Cuban players are too small to make
the big time and spend their profes
sional careers in the minors. Yearly
Cuban teams barnstorm the United
States, playing local prides in the
whistling-stop towns.
Much of the disgust of veteran de
votees of bullfighting, the bull pen is
replacing the bull ring in Mexico. The
"Liga Mexican" has 12 teams in widely
separated cities and plays on Satur
days and Sundays to crowds up to 5.
000. Ernesto Carmona, president of
the Mexican Federation of Base Ball,
puts at 1,000 or more the number of
players in organized base ball and be
lieves the game is the coming sport of
the nation.
In addition to the "Liga Mexican"
there are several minor leagues. Chief
encouragement for Mexican base ball
in recent years was the Spring train
ing visit of Connie Mack's Athletics
this Spring and the tour of major
league stars in 1936.
Argentine Youths Like Game.
TN ARGENTINA base ball is spon
sored by large Buenos Aires ath
letic clubs as the ideal Summer sport
and the club teams compete with
Japanese outfits in amateur leagues.
The game has made little impression
on the aciult public, which is addicted
to soccer, but the youngsters are en
thusiastic.
Until recently base ball in Europe
was almost entirely in the hands of
expatriate Americans in Italy and Eng
land. In Italy student priests from
America play on the grounds of the
Missionary Training School on the
Janiculum Hill, Rome, and near the
Pope's Summer palace at Castel Gan
dolfo, where the North American col
lege has its Summer headquarters.
Base ball is almost unknown to Ital
ians and attempts to introduce it have
met with the criticism that base ball
is a foreign sport.
Base bail in England has become
more popular in the last few years
and is now played to some extent in
the manufacturing centers and in Lon
don. Cricket, traditional bat and ball
game of England, has always been re
served for the aristocratic and upper
middle classes and the working people
are beginning to appreciate the Amer
ican game.
CARDS PILE UP GRID
SCORE ON DODGERS
Brooklyn Makes Seven Errors in
Most Humiliating Defeat
of Season. 20 to 2.
Ey the Associated Press.
jgROOKLYN, July 24 —The St. Louis
Cardinals knocked the ear* oft
three Brooklyn pitchers and walloped
the Dodgers. 20 to 2. in the most hu
miliating defeat of the big-league sea
son.
From a Brooklyn standpoint the
game was a comedy of errors, the
Dod<<ers committing seven to help the
Cardinal cause along, although it
needed little help, since even· mem
ber of the Ga.s House Gan« hit safely
at least once and drove in at least
one run.
Lon Warneke. backed up by Brook
lyn fumbling and St. I,ouis larruping,
breezed along to his eleventh win of
the year, allowing only six hits.
Don Padgett hit a hormpr for the
Cards with two mates aboard in the
fifth, and Cookie Lavag^tto belted
one with the bases empty in the same
frame.
It was only the second time this
year that, a team had hit the 20 mark
owwijf.
St. L AB H O A B· klvn AB Η Ο A.
T. Μ γρ cf r; 1 ό ο Brack ri 4 0 2 0
G ndtf .tb 'i .'i M cooney cf ·_ <· .'i ♦>
M îzp ! b 4 17 1 Win set τ ci 1 η ] Ο
M wick.if « ·.: 1 η Hasseti.li 4 2 0 0
Pa'Eett.rf *: '2 'Ζ η PhPlps.c .Ί 1 3 1
Bor'ray rf 'Λ 1 1 π Che'nko.c 1 ο ? ο
J Β \νπ \'b 4 .'{ 4 4 Daniel, lb 4 l l.'t ο
Du cher..>s 4 1 1 1 τ aptto -'h 4 ·? 4
Owen c 4 ·.' *2 1 Buchpr.itb Π Ο Ο 3
Ryba c '1 ] t> ·' Englisn.>s 'Λ «· 1 ο
War'eke ρ 5 111 Butcher.ο 10 0 1
Η shew ρ 1 Ο ο ο
Hoyi.p 10 0 1
Total 5 40 is·:: 10 Totals 32 fi 27 14
Sr. Louis *'no :M5» 14 1—*^0
Brooklvn 000 οίο 100— 2
Runs—T. Moore >'l · Gutteridpp «*?·.
Mi/p <·.>. Medwick 1. Padsptt ··?». Borda -
cary rj j Brown <4· Durochpr ·*:·. Rvba.
Warnpkp. DaniPi. LavaePtto Error5—Ha*
5et Brack. Lavagptto Brown English,
WinsPtt. Runs battpd in—Mizp. Padcptt «4·.
Durocher Ou· ρ η «.*>>. Gutteridee,
Brown LavaePtto >·.'>. Mpdwick. Warneke.
T. Moore. Two-base hits Daniel Ryba.
J. Brown. Thrpp-basp hit—J. Brown
Homp runs—Padeptt LavaePtto. Sacriflc*
— Durochpr. Doublp plays- Butcher. Lava
ePtto and Daniel. GuttPridse J Brown and
Mizp Lpft on bases — St. Louis 7: Brook
lyn 0 Bases on balls—Off Butcher. C:
off Henshaw. S: off WTarnPkp. Struck
out—By Butcher 1: by Warneke 1: bv
Hoyt. 1 Hits Off Butcher. .*» In In
nincs: off Hpnshaw. S In *?'■* innlnev off
Hoyt. * in :i'i mnines. Losing pitcher —
Butchpr. Umpire1 —Messrs Reardon Pi -
nplli and Goetz. Time—'J: 15. Attpndance
—4.00H.
CRACK TEAMS BATTLE
Cnirs Hosts to Milwaukees in Soft
Ball Gamie Today.
The Carr Bros, ft Boswell soft ball
Ifam of Hvatts ville will entertain the
Old Milwaukee team today at Ma
gruder Park at 2:45 o'clock. Old
Milwaukee is considered the best all
round team in the District, possessing
a record of 17 victories aeainst a
lone setback, the latter at the hands
of the District soft ball champions.
Ehrlick Poultry, by a score of 2 to 1.
Carr Bros, also has a fine record with
28 wins in 35 games and Is the flrst
half champion of the Sherwood Play
ground League.
The game will follow the Art's
Diner-Harvey Dairy Prince Georges
County League contest at 1:30.
PRIZE FOR MONTGOMERY
Scores P. B. C. No. 5 Win in Box
ing Y. M. C. A. Takes, 3-1.
James Montgomery, Police Boys'
Club flyweight, has been awarded th·
trophy as being the best performer
on the card when the Police Boys'
Club No. 2 boxing team suffered its
second defeat. 3 to 1, at the hands
of the crack Y. M. C. A. mittmen.
in the other bouts Johnny John
son decisioned L. Thomas In the
135-pound class, Tony Kelly defeated
Henry Jefferson in the middleweight
set-to and in the 175-pound battle
Henry Johnson scared a technical
knockout over Bill Gordan to tc
count for the three Y. M. C. A. vic
tories.
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Probable Hurlers
In Majors Today
Bs the Associated Prus.
TVTEW YORK, July 25.—Probable
pitchers in the major leagues
tomorrow:
American (Ail Double-HeadenO.
Washington at St. Louis—D«
Shong and Ferrell vs. Walkup and
Koupal.
New York at, Chicago—Pearson
and Malone vs. Lyons and Stratton.
Boston at Cleveland—Grove and
Marcum vs. Harder and Whitehill.
Philadelphia at Detroit—Cast-er
and Turbeville vs. Poffenberger and
Bridges.
National.
Chicago at New York—Lee vs.
Gumbert.
St. Louis at Brcyiklyn (2)—Wei
land and Dean vs. Frankhouse and
Fitzsimmons.
Pittsburgh vs. Boston (2)—Blan
ton and Brandt vs. Fette and Bush.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia '2) —
Hollingswnrth and Davis vs. Lemas
ter and Johnson.