The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1931, Page 10

‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1981 DEMON MENTOR I PESSIMISTIG OVER CHANGES OF TEAM R. D. McLeod, Local High School!" Athletic Director, Unde- cided on Starters TO RETURN SATURDAY NIGHT Will Be First Track and Field Event for Capital City Out- fit This Year Ten members of the Bismarck high School track and field team embarked Saturday morning to participate in the annual Central North Dakota event at Fessenden. R. D. McLeod, athletic director of Bismarck high school, still was un- certain on leaving as to which men would enter in the various events, al- though it is certain that Captain Gil- bert Benzon will represent Bismarck in the dashes and possibly in the high jump. Members of the Demon squad in- clude Captain Gilba't Benzon, Harold Tait, Wade Green, Tod Potter, Lloyd Murphy, Marvin Welliver, Carol Bak- er, Johnny Spriggs, Harvey Erlen- meyer, and Lester Dohn. If McLeod follows the results of the inter-class tourney held last week he may use Potter and Dohn in the hurdles, Erlenmeyer and Spriggs in the weights, Welliver, Tait, Baker, and Green in the distance runs, Spriggs and Dohn in the broad jump, Murphy in the pole vault, and Benzon | and Tait in the high jump. The Demons were to compete Sat- urday with representatives of more than 20 high schools in the state. The Capital City crew won the event in 1929, but McLeod is pessimistic over Bismarck’s chances thts year. During practice sessions the last week, Lester Burton, Dale Brown, and Leo Benser have been showing up) well and may see action in the an- nual high school meet at the Agricul- tural college at Fargo next week. Following the Fargo meet the Demons will be entered in the Capital City track meet the next week. ‘The Capital City event this year is ex- pected to be the biggest Bismarck has | ever had, according to McLeod. The | >) Demons also will enter the annual meet at Grand Forks, McLeod said. Accompanying McLeod and his 10 Demon tracksters was W. H. Payne, Bismarck high school principal. Payne is one of the officials at the Fessen- den meet. With all the events of the mect fin- ished late Saturday afternoon, the Demons are scheduled to arrive home from Fessenden late Saturday night. Louisville Wins Tilt With Millers | Brewers Win First Game on Home Lot; Columbus Rallies to Beat Blues Minneapolis, May 2.—()—Louisville won its third successive game from the Millers, 9 to 5. Louisville -. Minneapolis Marcum and mp: Cullough, Morgan and McMullen, BREWERS TRIUMPH Milwaukee—The Brewers won their first game on the home lot this year when they defeated Toledo, 4 to 3. Toledo ..... il Milwaukee 5 020 010 10x. 9 3] “Oachman, Ry and Kies, Polli and Bengough. | SENATORS RALLY TO WIN H Kansas City—A rally for five runs in the ninth enabled Columbus to de- feat Kansas City, 9 to 8. E. 100 000 035—9 3. 310— d Hinkle, De- Hankins, Columbu: jee, sautels; Fetfe and Fete SAINTS GRAB ANOTHER WIN St. Paul—St. Paul made it three in| a row over Indianapolis by defeating the Hoosiers, 13 to 9. R.H.E, Indianapolis’ ....010210113— 9 14 2 St. Paul . 230 620 00x—13 18 0 Hildebra: h, L. Barnhart, Hall and Angley; dhomme, Bream and Fenner. White Sox Rally to Beat St. Louis CLOSE FINISHES WILL MARK FINAL STAGES OF Grove Giants to Face Kensal ‘Sunday OLD-TIMER Expect Large Crowd at Peni-| tentiary Diamond; Prison | Band to Play || When the Grove Giants, prison nine, meet the Kensal team Sunday at 2 p. m. on the prison diamond, one | of the largest crowd this season Is | expected to attend, according to Clar- | ence E. Orton, manager of the prison club. Both the Kensal squad and the Giants have been putting in long Practice sessions to get ready for the game. The Giants will have the same lineup as during the last game. Stoller, Johnson, Evenson and Lo-j dahl are working together much more smoothly than during the game with the Fort Lincoln nine. Garver, Tay- Jor, and Holland will take care of the outfield. During practice sessions this week the trio have been doing! their share of the hitting and Orton | | Editor's Note: This is the firth Of a series of stories written tor the Tribune by a real old-timer in North Dakota who always has been interested in sport and spsrting contests, “Boys, ye're gettin’ me all tangled up with all your questions about the old-time fightin’ men,” said the Old Timer, “I was agoin’ a tell you about our first crop o’ northern-grown ring fighters, but I see I'll have to begin back further than that. As I was tellin’ you, we did our own fightin’ in the pioneer cays—partly because it was necessary, and partly because it was one of our main forms o’ recre- ation. is relying on them to break the mor- ale of the Kensal hurler, Clarence! Jensen, one-time Fargo league pitch- er. Glenn will get the call for hurling against the visiting club while Beau- | 9! ce dry again will be at the receiving end.| ,.“"Wonder if you ever heard of the Orton can use some of his many | fightin’ priest down in the Red River reserves to fill in the ranks of the! Valley? He was a big-hearted chap, Giants should the Kensal club make | With a helpin’ hand for everybody, it necessary. ! and some day his name is goin’ to be During the game the Prison band | “Tit into the history o' the state. He will entertain the Giants’ baseball | Used to feed all the hungry hoboes fans with music. ‘The band is com-| that come along, and whenever one posed of 20 pieces. | showed up that was good an’ husky, Pirates Defeat | the good Father would get him to { pull on the boxin’ gloves, bang him | around for a round or two, and then | take him out and feed him. parish heard of a noted heavyweight = | pug on a huntin’ trip in that locality, H id i and it gave ‘em a good chance to put Giants "Pound Out 3 OiWin' Over up a joke on the priest. They got Braves; St. Louis Enters . | hold o' Mr. Prizefighter, dressed him Fi | UP like @ bum, an’ sent him to the rst Place | parish house to ask for a hand-out. | “ ‘Ah,’ said the priest, lookin’ him Pittsburgh, May rroll| up an‘ down, ‘ye’re a foin lookin’ lad Fave, a bi ou Dalts : jes | —yes, Till give ye @ good dinner, but ed in the 11th inning, forcing in| ye 1 ye tis winning fan, ttsburgh | Ze ll have to earn it—I want ye to box me a couple o’ rounds.’ “They put on the gloves, and the big ‘harvest hand” gave the little ms | short- sawed-off minister the surprise roll and Suke-| 0’ his life. made it two straight from Ci tit 5 to 4. | senee 001 000 120 00— 1 Cincinnati Pittsburgh | *.::000 120010 01—5 13. 2 1 inn Johnson, Lckert, forth; Freach, Spencer | fiddle in that kind 0’ game. When it its | Was over, the puffin’ padre patted his new-found tiger cub on the back. told Gt. New pounded over the B. AN # my 1 of a boy, handed him five dollars and New York ee? Sherdel, M. Walker | sent him off. and O'Farrell. { ‘Over in the northeast corner o’ the | state they are still rememberin’ how | this minister, when he was old and gray, took a neighborhood bully by { the ear--led him around and tamed :-\ him, The feller couldn't break away ST. LOUIS TRIMS CURS St. Louis—St. Louis gained undis- puted possession of first place by de feating the Chica : Chicago . 011 900 900. oO 5 Beotenie’: “30d O18 O3e ° | without losin’ his ear. Smith, Teachout and Bartnett; “I want to stop right here an’ tell Johnson and Mancuse you younger lads what a snap you havin’ in school, compared to the Sroskiyate inary titiiae, ‘harsh treatment the boys used to get steady pitching gave the Brooklyn) in the boardin’ schools 50 years ago Robins their second straight over ’ | Now-a-days, if a teacher so much as Phillies by a score ofS to 4. RHE: | iooks cross-wise ab ye, ye run home [000 03: i {and tell pa. In them days the boys behind [000.035 00x —S 1 Hott, Schesler and La-! had to take whatever was handed out betaine to ‘em, and they learned among other things how to fight. They had to, to keep from becomin’ slaves in mind and heart. Lauds Old-Timers ‘IT am goin’ to tell you about two |lads who wete products of such | schools—one o’ them was John Moore i. te an Davis of Phillies Has .522 Average How Pioneer Kept Birthdays PRIEST’S BOUT WITH BUM It was the first time he | and Phillips. | had ever been forced to play second | | him he was @ mighty promisin’ broth j REMEMBERS of Bowbells, who grew up in one o’ the eastern states; the other was Patrick E. Byrne of Bismarck, who got his early trainin’ in readin’, 'ritin’, ‘rithmetic and ‘rasslin’ in a boardin’ school in Dublin, Ireland. “When Paddy Byrne landed in America after them four hard years in the Dublin school, he was small for his age and’ rather shy, but oh, how that boy could fight! Of course, the boys down in Lanesboro,. Minne- sota, didn't know about that, and when Paddy started in school there, one o' the gang met him’on the street and handed him a black eye, without warning. That was the initiation, “It was sure a bad beginning, he thought—and for hini that had learned to fight in Dublin! But the next afternoon he sent the other lad sayin’ “Meet me back church after school —T'll fight you. “The boys got tagether as. arranged and the gang was all there to see the fun. They ‘strippéd- down ard went at it, and Pat not only give the other boy a@ boxin’ lesson but a real drub- bin’. A few. days later another kid, bigger an’ stronger than the first one, begin to pick on the new-comer. ‘Might as well have it over with, thought the young Irish lad, so he sent the second boy a note when teacher wasn't lookin'\—‘Fight you after school—same place.’ -Pat Wins Bout “There. was-the usual turn-out, and the boys-lost no time gettin’ to busi- ness, It was a harder and longer fight than the first. one, but Pat finally put his opponent down for the count. | After that he was taken in as a re- spected member o' the local crowd o’ youngsters. “When John Moore was a lad in school, it was his ambition to become | @ circus performer, and he and some o’ his pals would sneak out a night and practice tumbling. They swiped the sheets off the beds and twisted em up into safety belts while learnin’ to turn backward summersaults. “Well, to make a long story short, 20 years ago Moore. celebrated his 50th birthday at Bowbells by turnin’ 50 back-flips that day. I don’t mean back-handsprings, I mean backward summersaults, which is a good deal harder to do. ‘Course, John didn't turn them flips all at once, but would | turn two or three in a row, whenever he felt like it. Folks who didn't know what John was up to thought he'd gone batty. “Last year I met Jobn ¢ had a real talk-fest about old' times. Just: to show me, he was still. spry, he put two chairs together, front to front, sat_ down in the middle. jumped up} and turned a right-about-face in the air, cracked his heels together and sat down facjn’ the other way, with- out movin’ the chairs a particle. If you youngsters don’t think that’s hard to do, just try it! And if you bark your shins and can't learn, just. remember there's an old guy 70 years old at Bowhells who. can show you how. in National Loop Chuck Klein Is Leading Scorer With 15 Runs; Wally Berger St Five Bases New York, May .—(P)—After two E.; weeks of campaigning in the National | players are tied in collecting hits with | both respects. New York is second in Teague only Virgil Davis of th: Phil-|19 each. They are Vergez and Lind- | batting with .292 and Cincinnati in lies has a batting mark of better than -500, testifying to the potency of the!and Paul Waner of Pittsburgh. Six new ball or of the National League pitching, only two more regulars are! respett aswell as. the batting lead.!games without_a defeat to share the credited with marks above .400 in the ; Hornsby. third in the average, is first Head. ‘They are Burleigh Grimc:, St semi-official averages which include | in two places. He has his five homers | Louis; Charley Root, Chicago, Harry Wednesday's games. Davis leads the circuit with .522;! Wally Roettger of Cincinnati is sec- | other first place. Pive players, Worth- | leads in strikeouts with 17, two ahead ond with .447 and Rogers Hcrnsby | ington of Boston, Orsatti of St. Louis. lof Root, while Larry French of *itts- Chicago manager, third with .409.'Suhr of Pittsburgh, Jackson ot New | burgh has given the most walks, 13, Trailing this trio in the upper sec- | York and Bartell of Philadelphia} tion of the .300 averages are Berger. | have hit two triples each. | |Boston, 396; Vergez, New York, .388:/ Wally Berger of Boston has added | ‘Leach, New York, 385; Stephenson. pase stealing to his batting, having |Chicago, 381; P. Waner. Pittsburgh. | stolen five sacks to lead the league. |.380; English, Chicago, 378; and Wat-| As a culb, the Chicago Cubs are the kins, St. Louis, .372. jall-around leaders. They have a team | Chuck Klein of Philadelphia is; batting average of 204 and a fielding jleading scorer with 15 runs, and four| mark of .984 to take first place in fielding with .980. A Sixteen pitchers have 1.000 averages doubles give Davis. first_place in that | but only-five of them have won three strom of New York, Berger of sosion, | ito top Babe Herman of Brooklyn by Seibold and Ed Brandt, Boston; and one, and has driven in 15 runs for an- | Clarence Mitchell, New York. Brandt Detroit Noses Out Cleveland 4-2; Athletics Blank Yan- kee Club Chicago, May 2.—(#)—A seven-run rally in the sixth inning gave the White Sox an 8-to-2 victory over St. Louis, .H. BE. St. Louis 000 001 010—2 9 3 Chicago 100 007 00x—8 10 1 Coffman, ‘Hebert and Ferrell; Frasier and Tate. TIGERS BEAT INDL Detroit—The Detroit Tig ed Cleveland in the second row, the scoring being 4 to 2. 2 H. 0001000102 7 4 11001 00x—4 7 1 and Sewell; Sulli- Cleveland . Detroit KS BLANK YANKEES PhinAsiphia~ Philadelphia held the New York Yankees to three hits while the Athletics pounded Pipgras tor a 4-to-0 triumph. 1. H. Ne York 000 000 000-0 3 1 Philadelphia 10 00: 9 0 Pi 101 03 ras a! ickey, Jorg: naw and Cochrane. BOSTON ROUTS SENATORS BeeteR Te OTe ea and det a im 10 to 4 R “BUT You HAVENT SEEN TH’ GHosT ~~ You"VE ONLY HEARD (1 + oR IMAGINED You DID! ~~ TH” WELL DRESSED ‘SPOOK WEARS A SHEET OH COME, Mow DOW MAKE SITUATION f HAVE “TO SEE “THE APPARITION “ KNow “THAT MY Room IS DEWELRY ~~ SPO0KS ARE ALWAYS SKINNY -~ FAT ONES ARE RARE ~ ~—~EXPERTS SAY “THAT FAT SPOOKS \ ARE A SOCIAL SPORT OF “THE EGAD, I ‘DOA I WAS -TeLLna ¥ Doc GRAHAM 7 SAYS YoU HAVE A BRAIN- Hotta we A VACANT SPACE , WHERE NUTTY IDEAS 0 Bismarck High School Tracksters Leave for Fe JARRETT 1S TRACK ' LUMINARY OF MEET IN FRDAY EVENTS Nodak Red-Head Sets Pace in Century, Half-Mile Relay and Broad Jump FORECAST NEW RECORDS Yankton College Is Only Double Wirtner in Preliminary — College Trials Sioux Falls, 8. D., May 2.—(®)—The ninth annual Dakota relays came in- to the final stages Saturday with close finig-es in first-day events forecast- ing new records. From throughout the north central states came athletes for the two days of track and field tests. Yankton college, victor in two relays, was the only double winner in the college events Friday. “Red” Jarrett, backfield ace on North Dakota university's grid teams, established himself as a track lumin- ary by winning the broad jump, mak- ing the fastest time in the 00-yard dash preliminaries and starting a half mile relay team to victory. Jarrett, a favorite to win the dash finals, took the fastest preliminary in 10 seconds even. In the othet heats, Grier of Iowa State Teachers, and Kramer of South Dakota, were a 10th of a second slower. Grier was second to Jarrett in the broad jump finals. “Smokey Joe” Mendel, Yankton col- lege ace, was kept out of the dash and broad jump, but anchored his half mile relay team to victory in the South Dakota college class and ran the 440 to start a winning med- ley quartet. Wayne, Neb., normal approached class, while Augustana was second in this event as well as in the South Dakota division. Willert of Iowa State Teachers triumphed in the discuss throw, com- ing neatly within three feet from the mark set last year by Weert Englemann, South. Dakota State “iron man.” Arnold, Dakota Wesleyan, made the fastest time in the high hurdles pre- liminaries. The other heats were won by Welch of South Dakota State and Wirth of South Dakota. Ferrell Is Glad He Did Not Get Hit Off Brother Browns’ Catcher Disliked to Spoil No-Hit No-Run Record of Hurler Brother Chicago, ‘May 2.—(7)—“Just an- other time at bat,” was Rick Ferrell's effort at the plate in the eighth inn- ing of a memorable game at Cleve- land the other day. Yet, though “Ab’s” are the bane of a ball-player’s existence, Rick is pleased that the official scorer called this particular effort just a time at bat, with no credit for a base-hit, aceite the fact he arrived safe at st. Rick's kid brother, Wes, Stellar hurler of the Cleveland Indians, was pitching, and the team for which Rick is catcher, the St. Louis Browns, had failed to scratch anything re- sembling a base-knock off his speedy delivery: in seven and two thirds inn- ings. With two out in the eighth, Wes on the road to baseball's brightest hurl- ing achievement—a no-hit, no-run sgame—and the Indians nine runs to phe good, Brother Rick strode to the plate. “I didn’t want a base-hit,” says Rick, recounting the incident, “but 1 had to get up there and try my best. Even if it hadn't been my , 2d rather not get a basehit at that stage o’ the game. Ball players are like that—most of ‘em. They know they got all summer to get them base knocks, but a no-hit game—well, they only come once in. a lifetime. say nothin’ but I knew he was gein’ to bear down plenty, and he’s never been any easier for me to hit than any other pitcher, either! i Buffalo of the International League. "| Loop in Batting the medley record in the open-college ; ual batting list, according to unof- ——— ssenden Meet DAKOTA RELAYS Earnshaw Recove _2s tte STARS, lay it Left Hand Relinquishes Command to Right Hand as Club Swings Into Ball uch faster the clubhead travels at lowest arc of the right hand swing. It is true the right hand is kept out of control until the proper hitting region is reached. It is then that the Jeft hand relinquishes command and the right hand takes control, whip- ping the clubhead and al the line of flight. I repeat that the golf swing is a one-handed forehand LEFT SHOULDER Dale Alexander Leads American HOW THEY STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit First Baseman Boosts i a Average to .490; Vosmik in Fifth Place Cleveland . Washington Chicago Detrolt emer mrce! wraaase: Chicago, May 2.—()—Hamzering an even 100 points onto his average during the second week of the cam- Paign, Dale Alexander, first baseman of the Detroit Tigers, soared to the top of the American League individ- c E sburgh Philadelphia . Brooklyn ficial figures which include Wednes-| Cincinnati’. day's games. Alexander's terrific clip boosted his average to .490, 62 points better than the second place mark of Charlie Berry, Boston catcher. Joe Vosmik, young Cleveland out- fielder, who‘ roared through the first 10 days of the season at better than a .500 pace, tamed down to the extent of losing 171 points, and fell from the lead to fifth place among the regu- SSocmam ace AMERICAN ASSO! Louisville . St. Paul . Columbus . Milwaukee Kansas City Toledo .. Minneapolis . Indianapolis . FRIDAY’S RESULTS American League. Chicago, 8; St. Louis, 2. a mernceney aenaime’ ° lars. Following Alexander and Berry.) Detroit, 4; Cleveland, 2. the regulars, lead :| Philadephia, 4; New’ York, 0. —s. » the leaders were:! Boston, 10; Washington, 4 Spencer, Washington, .415; Ruth, New York, 400; Vosmik, Cleveland. .396; Hodapp, Cleveland, .381; Fonseca, Cleveland, .360; Falk, Cleveland, .357; Cooke, New York, .353; and Melillo, St. Louis, 353. Six Cleveland regulars battcd .300 1 League Cincinnati, 4. Boston, 0. hicago, 2. Philadeiphia, 4. Nati Pittsburgh, New Yo American Aasociation or better and the collective average | Toulsville, 5. of the pace setters was .331, two! Columbus, & points shy of last week’s mark, but| St. Paul, 1) 9. miles in front of Washington's .292 for second place. The Athletics boost- eq their team fielding mars four points to .987 and retained the lead with New York second at .979. Alexander headed the individual list in total hits, with 24, had the most total bases, 36, and was tied with Vosmik in belting out doubles at sev- en. Spencer of Washington had pro- pelled in 15 runs to lead in that de- partment, while Johnny Stone's five home runs was another best mark. Lou Gehrig, New York’s walloping first baseman, headed the field in stolen bases, having swiped five, while Bismarck Golf Champions Near Mid-Season Form Nadine O'Leary and Paul Cook Serve Notice on State Contenders Bismarck’s state champion golfers, Nadine O'Leary and Paul Cook, rap- Yankees, Pat Caraway of Chicago,| Both this week that Rube Walberg of Philadelphia, Willis| their golf is consistent! Hudlin of Cleveland, and better. With the unusual and early spring weather here they have been able to get a few more practice ses- sions than ordinary. ‘This week Paul Cook shot a 32, 35 of Chicago, had won two games, with- out losing any, but the most impres- sive record was owned by Wes Ferrell, who reached a new height Wednesday by holding the St. Louis Brown hit- ea and runless, for his fourth tri- umph in five starts. Bob Grove, the Athletics great southpaw, relinquish- ed the strikeout to Roy and 36 on the Bismarck Country Club course. Par for the course is 36 for men, Nadine O'Leary like-wise is showing up well, getting a 40-stroke score on the same course. In making his 32, Cook scored five birdies but Sherid of the Yankees, who had fanned 23 batsmen in five games. Grove's average, however, was higher for he had whiffed 22 in four con- tests. went one over par on the ninth. Nadine and Paul are under the tutelage of Tom O'Leary, Bismarck pro, Tom O'Leary is Nadine's father, and Cook's uncle. Break Six Marks at Ohio Relays Two College Records Tumbled and Four High School Marks Bested Friday YESTMRDAY'S ST S (By The Associated Press) George Earnshaw, Athletics—Shu: out Yankees with three hits for 4-0 victory. avd Waner, Pirates—Drove in ty- ing run in seventh inning, enabling Pittsburgh to score 5-¢ victory over Reds in eleventh. Columbus, Ohio, May 2.- ‘High Vic Fraiser, White Sox—His double| .nool and college track And field with bases full featured a seven run! starg give way to their university rally that won his own game over Browns 8-2. Hughey Crits, Giants — Hit four singles and homer in five times up as Giants beet sears 5-0. brothers Saturday in the eighth an- nual Ohio relays at Ohio State uni- versity but not without leaving the more famous stars something to shoot at. Six records, two in the Ohio college divisions and four in the high schoo! class, were shattered during the run- ning of the first day’s program Fri- rs Hurling Form Famed Right-Hander Turns Back Yanks With Three Hits in Friday Game (By The Associated Press) It wasn’t so many months ago thay j George Earnshaw was buzzing ‘em past the St. Louis Cardinals in the world series. For some reason or other, however, the famed rightarm that came to the rescue of Connie Mack’s Athletics last fall hes not been performing so perfectly this spring for George—or at least it hadn't until Friday. Twice Connie Mack had given his right-handed ace the starting assign- ment and twice Earnshaw failed. On two other occasions he went in as a relief hurler but was not credited with & victory nor charged with a defeat. But Friday, Earnshaw was the Earn- shaw of 1930, who won 22 games for the world champions, as he turned the New York Yankees back with three singles and the Athletics won 4to0. One of the singles came in the sec- ond while the other two were put to- gether in the ninth in a futile rally after Mule Haas and Mickey Coch- rane had put the champions out in iront with home runs. Boston Pounds Out Win Jumping into battle after a five-day layoff due to‘rain and cold weather, the lowly Boston Red Sox pounded three Washington pitchers all over | the lot to defeat the Senators 10 to 4. | Jack Russell held Walter Johnson's Nationals to 10 scattered hits while \his teammates were getting to Alvin Crowder, Bob Burke and Tauscher for 14 safeties. Joe Judge, veteran Washington . | first baseman, was forced to withdraw 64 from the game in the sixth and was taken to a hospital where he under- 3 | Went an operation for appendicitis. His physician said he probably would be out of the game two weeks. Joey | Kuhel of Baltimore will substitute for judge. Vic Frasier had his right arm and patting eye working on “all-four” as he pitched and batted the White Sox | to an 8 to 2 victory over the St. Louis Browns, The Texas Rookie held the Browns to nine well-spaced hits and {| in addition doubled with bases loaded in the sixth—a seven-run inning for the box. Charlie Sullivan stepped out of his usual role as a relief hurler, starting and finishing a game as the Detroit Tigers turned the Cleveland Indians back 4 to 2. Charlie Gehringer, al- though not playing second because of a sore arm, got into his 597th con- | secutive game when he batted for McManus in the eighth. Cardinals In Lead The battle for first place in the National League was settled at least temporarily, when the St. Louis Car- \dinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 6 to 2. The victory gave the Cards un- disputed possession of the top of the Percentage column. Gabby Hartnett | made a valiant effort to put the Cubs in first place with a home run in the ‘second inning but his teammates failed to keep pace while the Cards took advantage of their nine hits off Bob Smith and Bud Teachout. To most teams, a two-game win- ning streak is not much but to the | Brooklyn Dodgers, it means that they Probably have hit their stride after a dismal start. Heavy hitting be- hind the steady pitching of Joe Shaute gave the Dodgers their second in a row over the Phillies. The score was 8 to 4. Hughie Critz, Giants second base- man, swung a powerful bat in New York's 5 to 0 victory over the Boston Braves. He clubbed out four singles and a home run for a perfect day at bat while Bill Walker was keeping the Braves’ seven hits well scattered. A base on balls proved to be the downfall of the Cincinnati Reds as they lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 to 4 in 11 innings. With the bases loaded Carroll lost control, passed Sankey and Paul Waner scored. i ——__ Fi TS Last IGHT (By The Asnocis sofa Ray femme, Racks ford, Ill, and Joh: Bai le cago, drew (8). Sumas ORE mney Ross, Chi. kee Jackie Dugan, yy vascteny At delphia (10), mews ‘anclaco—Young Serbere, hicago (10), MAJOR LEAGUE RS (BY The Associated Press) ea AME! Batting “Alene nee GUE. Berry, Red Som nasa? Tigers, 491; : —G Yankees: er Fi Fresno, Herman, Fonseca, and Reynolds, Whi ° Alexander, Tigers, 285 Bor: seca, Indians, Tigers, 6; Ruth ome runs—Stone, and Gehrig, Yankees: Averill, ladicee » 3. . and Simmons, Athletics, Stolen bases—a. sell, White Sox, sna Fomankeen 3 hp NATIONAL LEAGUE Dav! i an 18, Phillies, A865 pi for Brooklyn's fourth | gay, ‘uns — Klein, Phillies, 17; ot 10-4 victory over Washington, t atting ft nay epg nee Ag rsd merge, fine —Hornaby, Cubs, 5; ter. in three runs with three hits in four|in :9.1, besting the Ohio relay mark| "Stolen bases “Berger, Biles, 4 bay at Be ta — Put [DY two-tenths of ® second. He was Comorosky, Pirates, 4°” UTOVes, “6; vester Johnson, Cardinals — only two-tenths slower than the world lena Cards in first place, holding Cubs to | Pecora, Wrestling Resa’ six hits for 6-2 triumph. . Hutson comes back Saturday to|| Wrestling Results ( Michigan Starts matoh strides with Eddie Tolan,|*————__"_ NAS | Michigan's great star, in the univer- (By The ; Against Hoosiers | sity century and with weather condi- New Vermassreinted Press) — tions right, there was a possibility} Greece, threw Ray ‘tect, 314, cane Chicago, May 2—)—After «. suc; that other marks might topple. | Miien, ist EqucaHazatit tim Me- cessful week against ts 5 baseball team Saturday was at Indians for :ts sec- ‘ond Big Ten contest. The Niphverines Gatenced Western today’s bill were: Minnesota at Wis- consin, Ohio State at Northwestern | and Chicago at Iowa. o'clock in aft new California boxing commis- has ruled that main events must 10 o'clock at night and 4 ternoon cards, Cready, 226, Port (30-minute patie a ts B10 ae ttrew Omar Mule Tarkey (5155); Herb im, 218, New York, threw rm, 215, Germany