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~ FAUL A RUTH CLOUTS 4 MORE HOMER, NEARING LOU Bambino Now Only Two Be- hind Hitting Partner; Wal- lop Scores Three Men ATHLETICS STOP SO x Mudhens Beat sat Brewers, 7 to 3, With ‘Irish’ Meusel Doing Heavy Work (By The Asso Closing their r to victory over the Pi nts were in New York today for their final home stand, during which, Manager McGraw hope: the team; can whittle down the 8» ame m gin that separate the Giants from! the first place Cubs. Giant hopes are rather faint, how- ever, for the players have failed to! play consistently good baseball. The} Cubs profited’ by idleness. The! Pittsburgh defeat boosted MeCar- thy’s Bruins back into game margin for the leadership position. Phillies, Braves Split Philadelphi vided a double. took the opener, Pruett southpa inevtne: with six hits ton winning five to one. ated Press) the Braves d ader. The Phils| to 0, with Herb ing the ‘Braves into th let the Phils down n the aftermath, Bos- The Brave: and. pounded Ferguson for 13 hits in this| contest. { The Yanks gained a full game onj the Senators when they Buck Harris’ outfit in the capital,) 4 to 8, Babe Ruth supplied the w ning punch, a first inning single that scored Combs and a homer in the third that sent two runners over the} plate ahead of him. Ruth Nears Gehrig It was the Bambino's 36th circuit clout and it enabled him to get with- in two homers of Lou Gehrig. Um-| pire Clarence Rowland had to be given police protection after the game. He had banished@ Manager ris from the game in the third ning for disputing a called strike. Pop bottles were hurled from the stands. The six game winning streak'of the Red Sox was halted by the Athletics at Philadelphia, Welztr was pounded for 13 safe hits and the came out with the long end of a 12 to 2 score. Ty Cobb smacked out} three hits including a triple and a double. Lefty Grove struck out nine} batters and pitched hitless ball un- til the seventh frame. Three double plays helped Detroit | pull out a 2 to 1 decision over the} Browns, Owen Carroll was accorded | better support than Milt G: ceived from the Brown. Meusel Helps Hens Increase Due largely to the bat of “Tri: Meusel, the Toledo Mudhe games ‘ahead of their neares nosed out} » Mackmen| S$ Foreign Net ‘Slars 5 eo Weakens Pat awford Changes Mind About Playfng Ball on Sundays Gre C., club effort to buy him. He best infield n the $ and is hitting well above ing the winter, he is hi petitors, the Milwaukee Brewers, in the American Association race. In the third game of the with the Brewers hit a ho registering tu Hens beat th Kansas City and Columbu their twin bill, nbbing. the first Blues taking the afterm ristop Smith, of the Blues, sp in the defense by faultles: ng 13 chane ilers. Indians Bre Minneapolis and Indi divided their double bill. took the open eight run rall while the Ind to 2, behind effec Shortstop 1 in the ninth 3 to 2 win over the up a pitching duel be and Holley. series] § stand orde JACK DEMPSEY TO BEGIN GRIND IN SHORT TIME |'Tunney Won’t Start Train- ing Until September, His Manager Declares Chicago, Aug. 11.—()—Jack Demp-| sey expects to sturt swinging hooks and jabs in a Chicago training camp) but Gene Tun- “aw ght before their cham- pionship fight at Soldiers p-| tember the fine in § h manage “and if the rules ing commission time for the figght.” we want to come here s the people here who the fight, for Tinney » open to the} of the Mlin permitted i there untii the the most trains, his public free of charge. Flynn to Arrive Soon Dempsey’s manager, Leo Flynn, is expected to arrive soon to look over he places he h Tex Lincoln course is Flynn's probable; son predicted that the match, uid not go the full 10 rounds, Tunney fought Dempsey with Jeal of caution at Philadelphia “He knows now what he is up against and he will fight dif- ferently. I regard it as a cinch that Dempsey w not last the full 10 rounds with Gene the time.” je ibson said, next The estimated size of the throng, which will be able to squeeze into) Field for the night, mounts s fast the pile of chee at fight headquarters Hotel. plans for a crowd of! now been revised to‘ care for more than 160,000, accord- ing to Tex Rickard’s latest set of blue prints, corresponding 10,000. F — Tonight almost in ty —% burg probably will be in right field, Jack Delaney vs. Pau- ‘cudun (10). . lino U Dundee, welter- Pinkey Mitchell Milwau Joe Lenard vs. Babe aI i Ruth (10). : from Chicago un-| ne the . {haven't prepa a ay ee Boardman to Be On Mound. When Parshall Play Hurler, Signed With Bist marck for Rest of Season, Expected to Produce Re- sults in Game Sunday ; Heh- | sley and Bennett Coming With Nortre | i | i 1 Charley Boardman, signed with | Bismarck for the rest of the season, to be on the mound Sunday when hall journeys here to play the arck team for a second time, ¢, Fans on both sides are predicting Ja different ending to this game than Ito last Parshall-Bismarck game,}' ended in a tie. Local fans are ‘onfident that Charley, backed up by}; a strong group of players, can turn tables on the northerners and come through with a victory, while}, Parshall is relying on Hensley and | Bennett, its famous colored battery, to produce the necessary punch "to jput Parshall oh the winning end. Eddie Tobin is to hold down first base for Bismarck and will give” Par-' {shall players ‘plenty of worry. Pheyi forgotten his scuaationslt fi Gent and fast work in the last ¥ Bis \ "Shorty Fuller will be on second and can be relied on to give a consistent: ly good account of himself, as can, {Mohn at third. Sagehorn ‘will. be playing shortstop and should prove in |this game, as he has in the past, that || anything coming his way is going to]? jbe stopped in a hurry. Kelly Will Catch Kelly Simonson will be in as catcher and is going to prove trou- blesome to Parshall, while Chagley, jon the sending end, ‘should be shoot- ing tet dibauiee curren and. inet i dentally garnering some good hits in ‘his turns at “bat Jones, in left field, can be depend- ‘ed on to take care of his section of ithe outer gardens and ould pro- duce some hefty wallops in his turns at bat as he ha: past games. More or less the Lou Gehrig of the local team, he can be relied on for sin- gles,’ triples and three-baggers and there is gocd reason to hope he may jadd another home run to his total. Webster will be in center field and, e Jones, can be relied on for some ; Fights Night | (By ‘The Associated Press) New York—George Courtney, Okla- joma, won by_ technical knockout from’ Italian Joe Gans, Brooklyn Cleveland — Benny Bass, Philadel- hia, defeated Johnny Parr, Cleve. fond’ (10), Sammy Dorfman, New York, defeated Tony., Ross,, Detrott Meadville, Paterson, N. Xeny (8 Pa, — Jackie Shupack, 4., knocked out Young lengthy hits and fast playing. Lena- New Haven, Conn.—Tony Marullo, New Orleans, defeated Pat McCar- where he has acquitted: himself more thy, Boston (10 than creditably, Love will not be with the local team this Sunday, being booked .to pitch for Zeeland. Toledo—Tommy Freéman, Erie, Pa., Knocked out Billy Plitz, Tulsa (9). Boston — Monte Munn, Nebraska, t| knocked out “Lightning” Dick Fer- guson, Boston (1). The use of nitrous oxide, “legate ing gas,” as an anesthetic, was | attempted by Horace Wells in 18 ‘Here| * bi ¢ it Prmmrrsns sory, 4 WiLL ATTEMPT NO WIN RACK WIOHTHAN CUP Kity dada a7 Visitors; Cochet, Lacoste Conting in eptember’ gy pet Fay , BY ALAN J. GOULD Assotlated Press Sports Bil tn New York, OM 11,—W— ‘greatest ‘tide of invadiig tennis Ri L that has preted ‘America’ in more: than a decade starts. rolling tomor-, Ww B Its first evidence will be tl tempt of the British women’s team, led by Kitty McKane Godfrée, to win \back the Wightman cup in the team Hola es yy the home foyer yey, Be st ary Forgat th tes jurday,. lenge to the mes in the’ natior inpioneh hype, alga, at vor “week 0! The “crest Ay the tide‘ will ‘be reached in September, when-Franc Davis eur tres the American ve “Big Bill” ’ Tilden. ae “Little * Johnston, at Phila jai. 7 ¢limax will be the battle ee naive ra bees at Forens, eeateh wit! len seeking to regain ,the ois ‘that Cochet Knocked off’ picked, up, in ; championships. _U. 8. WO! ‘MAY INVASION, Slanting at prospects from this point: of view, the United States ap- to have a better chance of successfully repelling the women’s invasion eon) ot ey the men’s, chiefly for the reason that in Miss Wills, America has. the star eeety recognized here and abroad as the successor to the world’s title that Suzanne Lenglen “held for so maby years. he 21-year-old California girl in her, triumph at Wimbledon’ has al really shown her mastery over most of ‘the players who will be her main rivals in the Wightman cup as well as the national championship matches. TILDEN AND JOHNSTON. Tilden and Johnston have written America’s most brilliant tennis his- tory. They still are a formidable pair but the conviction has egrown that they cannot,much longer repel France’s threat of greater youth as well as perhaps equal ski Together Tilden and Johnston won ‘America for 7 Grabowski i Has Been for Huggins? Outfit— it it Enters 1928 at J Wis ats Sert py me 1 — i wilt the Nowy. Ave mi the United % States in the Olympie in 19287" That is the question that. fs, being axked here, dince Richard A.(“Old Dick”) Glendon consented to. return to the ueval Academy as chief. thentor avy crews. - ' pe to Have some peal for, you P aithire a xen pin his yy Samewhat cryptic rema his "return, Althongh “Old ‘Dick® Wetheed to go into details on:.his bps wht (there. was basis fen believing that: he [referred si eet lp rabie which pes” of, Sopa » in ving detent er.of|emy and the splendid crews he gm veloped.- The most notable of the: plate and has borne the brunt of the|.was the eight of 1920 which won the duties... The. ex-White Sox| world’s. championship from all some of - she. beat segotes | = in the Olea and also gui rms it majors ani ‘epal oughkeepsie honors the next: two recelver.- His hitting borders around = the .280 mark. jenden took charge of rowing at the Naval, Academy in 1904 and sery- ed. continuously until 1922 retire! three out of four singles matches in| went into succended ch it Columbi; {wo joined forces the Davis cup challenge round last year, enough to clinch the defense of tu gear ieind Coteenie te ‘the famous trophy. They: may do markable victory at: Poughl ies so again this year, wild Tilden aim-|, Asked why he a. Pousheepe ing at a comeback Johnston ipottee the elder Glendon said, conserving his staminia for the big|,, “Love: for ‘and> ol battle, but the odds will be less pro- toundings is na cog T suppose unced in their tremendens Rowe? mags Glendon. wejohtiston always tre mast mateh h # ereat soph- sis to the Fre m but ‘Tilden has | omore-elght' in” the. Poughkeepsie had. to. give and take in his joust next year and meet the best-of with them. ‘western shells. He will have this In a five-match series such as the inn great plebe crew as material. Davis cup challenge round, America’s must: Noe the stroke of -the vetetans may uncork enough stuff to again check the French thrust but it will be more difficult for either Tilden or Johnston to wade succes: fully through the week of national championship singles completition afterward. Tilden, eager to. regain his crown, wilt be the main American hope in the nations, but “Big Bill’s” resources will:be severely. taxed. On. any’ one day he may be capable of disposing] , any of France’s stars—Cochet, La. coste or Borotra—but it would take the Tilden of his super-days, in. all probs: to turn back their com- ined attack, ent Ni arsinen, and therein greniet task. The Washing- must be supplanted by the long, eetinig eT knwn as the ‘Glendon stroke, is what he is teaching the new freshman elass this A. Ingram, summer. die at-the Academy, * as the greate: crew eoach that ever lived. pescaninitai abn "Additional Sports Will Be | eRe Brae THE SUN NEVER SETS ON CHESTERFIELD’S POPULARITY BA eer in all 42 d-comers