Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 24

oy SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921 SPORTS. \ Yankees Open Series Against Griffs Here Tomorrow : Approved Senate Bill Hits Landis RAIN PREVENTS BATTLE | ¢ SCHEDULED FOR TODAY! _ Johnson Listed to Oppose Battering Babe Ruth © and Supporting Cast, Which Will Include oy Frank Baker and Bob Roth. GIANTS BATTER BRAVES | %7~z | JUDGE MUST RESIGN ONE, CREDIT THIS TO JUDGE ] s Sre Sostpmes 77 TOREGAINLOSTGROUND, gtz | JOB, IF MEASURE PASSES T White ox yesterday. Every | o o | man on the team batted lefc- 4 BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | nat the fomr Chien- it 3 d pitchers. Youns, 1 EW YORK. May 4—Aiter the Giants lost all of their bacon to the Lodie, St {1 Brooklyns they turned on Boston and deprived the bean caters Milter, rf. & Harris HICAGO. May 4—The action of the Senate judiciary committee ‘ at Washington in indorsing a bill drawn by Senator Dial of South Carolina, making it illegal for a federal judge to accept any other position of pecuniary profit. today aroused again the rumors of the resigna tion of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, who accepted the post last winter of I high commissioner of base ball at $42.300 a year. V't grow into its majority this | | “Have I got to be denying this report y . fevery week?” asked the judge wHen the | = . - 2 will keep others from zotting | et 'was brought to nis atrention. || What's What in Base Ball ! re far away from them | “Th it is not true”™’ he was asked. . \lANGDUN IN mu GAMES‘ “I will not be quoted on the subject.” | BY BILLY EVANS !the Judge answered. *“When 1 get ready | 1 rhen o pitcher is anmounced w | Bush snd Biue take either xide . of the plates s occasion de | mandw. Shorte inweried in of everything they had. The Bostons seem doomed to a desperate Faland never-ceasing duel with Phifadelphia to keep from ladging in the vational League cellar bunk ! | serhack that the n New Yorik t counter-b; BY DENMAN THOMPSON. ajreceived in lrookls 0lanced by the ASHINGTON fans will have to wait till tomorrow for their sec- Lianced be ihe clean fween seain: | ond peek of the season at Babe Ruth and his supporting cast | Moore. ot it again to try to wrest the| The White Sox have drifted little by the Judge’answered, XWhen | getready & mait of New York Yankees. the opening battle this afternoon of the | *Weich e brom the (Ehamptane: dnd| ivie, (o the, hottom. Bhieky fancl you'into my cont\dsfi(e." e L ies of i i riff i | o1 8 SYREENN |t b 3 ., !|""Judge 1andis said the present rumor| 2. series oi four contests listed with the Griffmen having been called off. | RTINS . e R which was so thoroughly stripped | Plays at Home Sunday Against ,m«‘:m"m: '_":i“'“m" :n-hnbl: L M e o o s B | e Vne DR e Un Woiof fw puentih gk he od. and one Arisen through conversation he had| 3. If the umpire is hit by a throws ball Profiting from the experience of last Sunday. when, to demonstrate the | efficacy of the canvas protection for the infield and to please some fans who braved the elements and insisted upon seecing a ball game, the games for the first round of b league | ithe res h bixi, ‘waht is the proper ruling’ pabior L b s s rumter on frit aad the 3 S tter hits a home run. and the russer on first told Nagl that when I left this i Patter M s home tus. snd the rusner on frst does that affect the status of the bats- with Charles Nagl, custodian of the but early results go to prove . impossible even in these | Saibia Prluters | Federal building L iehclase ha . court 1 wished to take some of the | i} nnant It i auite the opp predictions of the prophets. The Na- are almost ove te of the ! these d he will have it back | People's Drug Store and Co- Nationals were ordered into battle against the A's in weather fit only ior i inal Lo e Tt wis con- | 4TS ; i 4 S it in -y T s S Gory | player minor leagues p etic (" i s chairs with me. as they were cher-)many polar bears—and with results disastrous to their ambitions to retain the | Jndge” ana | Bdently asserted would be avery | rerdit which ‘will be'; Lansdon. Athletic, Club, which has chalte wUR me. g8 AR e O e “5 saqien itaier & sght o3 tabe s posts .. league leadership—President Grifiith wasted no time in canceling to- | bt )" a el b, Seaes 4 moeng fable o hold pwn against the | 7 e season, believes It s in the) BOVernment. and I asked him if I, tien f the rubber. and feiat & delivery of the - day’s battle. Reaching his office at the park at 9 a.m.. Griff unbuttoned . balis it Zachary i 1 eg | EEONRIN Shat has;been gettiod in the b' o0t condition mow. and 1 pre.] could purchase them. | bail te the batemaa? his ulster. cast a trained weather eve at the leaden skies, took a squint i ol Kesarry 0 sae au Jokiyi orf maleriicagUes, B at-ased o e Lanith, weuld ol sey %oy ANSWERS at the thermometer and promptly announced there would be no game ' Struck ot~y Zacuary s T with nine in the District. Sunday afternoon | cases beyond June 13, @ fact which | L Whes & pitcher mmpunosd -in . the today. exare.Counoily w4t real e ‘ Wt Gemrme 1 and George B seem (o be | 8L lktons i1 Crauiier s Dalr of | chuaed Teporta ihat he would restan. | NS, B matt, Pk Ba] 80 least ene bate e " , . i 5. September. having quite a time in the American 0od clubs. The Prople's Drug Stor Last pe when m hment Wil & PrOnus O igke "“‘"'”‘""1{;‘;’ At o epoan I talling Wia o1 Assei) [and the National. Reigning prinees | foam and the Columpia 101 Brinters | chisges were fled sainst Judee Landis | beli on which na piey-is mads. the bessman is weather conditions there should be some | 10W townsman, {ieorge Kellv. In a stir-| o0 0| The Ameriean League rac of the house of Homerun. are to be played on the suburban fleld, ! Ly Reprexentative Welty of Oh | entitied to first base. but no runners can ad- notable assemblages at the Georgia :\\'--i dded zest to the efforts the Hambing | inflelder who has attracted attention | strugsie between (leveland and Nw | - the first game starting at 1:30 o' term has since expired, the judg: said, yasce unless forced to make reem for the nue stadium the remainder of the week. | Wil make to increase his string of Mara- | With the Balboa cluo of the Canal|York, is not that kind of inf Wil of attributes hiap /The club swill meet tonight a They will ever impeach me. 3. If the umpire is hit by a thrown ball, the starting tomorrow. The Yankees still | thon swats at the expense of McBride's | Zone League, and who sports the | the least no indication of lenceess in 1520 to changing his style | G100k at 2315 20th strect northvast | vI€ both houses of Congress, by & ma- |y is_considared in piay. must be regarded as dangerous con-|ging.ys euphonious cognomen of Ralael Dela- | getting The present sur-|to an nd delivery. Me was | members. are expected to 3 -1jority resolution, - express disappomi- | "4 “The failure of a p runser to tenders for the Ban Johnson gonfalon | ' o' carte Jon i crican Leagne race rfully successtul. Indeed, if he |39 Much important business will be |ment at my attempt to benefit 10.000.000 | touck & base, and who is declared eut for 10 despite their loss of four out of five | Visitors €an Pass Griffs. . = - fpr fnd / flrnngeld il 1w discussed. people Who have a wholehearted inter- | doing. in ne way gffects the status of & swc- u ve 5 Our old friend Tody Riggs. formerly | hav and Detroit. both of 1wt heen stocked up so well with | 4 Midzet Ny defeated the in ba ; : . Bames to the Griffs last week. | Right now the Yankees are only two|of Maryland University, aiso is again | which are better than predicted. while ‘ess the chances are Cleveland t‘::r';'."?rluan \1‘:1;“:‘1 l’o 4‘ antl'\\ :n‘\'r :‘:lnl'!.;"-:"r,'f.fl‘{a{ ;::‘llg.‘”m '{’\’Jfii'.'.i':'(’ly. N :“.p.l::im positively has no right to Baker and Roth to Play. | and one-half games removed from Con-| WOrKing out with the team. Riggs | St 1 New York have not met Would not have won the American ox with any: twelve 10 thirteen | by telegeamn. the jurist sald then. | be off the rubber. and feint a delivery of the ue championship. If he isn’t suc- this year. presume he will at- | wute it to the fact that he was ver foolish enough to change his style of deliver (4 nie Mack" cellar occupants. But they | Was leit out in the cold when tne | also are only the same d tance in the | AKron tranchise of the International . rear of the Nationals, who are perched | League was shift to Newark. The clob in (he American that )‘»‘.' one full contest back of ker's slug- | _ SCOLL Perry’s suceess against the|turned things upside even th | ging front runners. B he Hugmen | Nationals Monday went to his head. | gers, i "‘! L) turday evening It is| He nopped Of tiw reservation yester:jlot of streagih in the W e Griffs to be out in front | &Y. and as a resuit has been sus- | team that manifests itself wh pectation m. Telephone challenges 10| At about the same time Senator eph Madden. Franklin 1 tetie Club W Miller Huggins expects to increase the | Diat|Pell ta the Batsman Buckan ook 0.0 balk, —_— efficiency of his crew through the bench- ' ing of Chick Fewster and Pinz Bod! and the installation of Frank Bobby Roth. » metropoli hurlers may come a at any d |@‘manded that the Semate investi nts - | the action of Judge Landis in criticising | Agriculture Jumlors are seeking & 5. Ior an engagement [officials of a bank at Ottawa, IIL, for |games with fourteen to fifteex write W. A. Pullin. 915 4th street | paying Francis J. Carey, aged nin. 1, | mine Send challenges to Fra ¥eiht, 1921) southeast. its teller. only $90 a month and puttng | O'Brien. 521 Bieber building. 1 Mohawk Widgets are anxious fto sums of momey in his charge. | street southwest 1 or behind —_— notable ¢ of good ones. econd division, | Pended tor ten days and fined $100 by yplavers are ahead or bel i it games with fifteen 1o six- | v confessid cmbezzling nearly $40,- | = z ¥sand Bill Piercy alone of the | Their record inst the invaders | Connie Mack for Lreaking training | 16 s @ srowi ) “Chick™ Gandil Gives Bond. cear teams. - Send challenges 10000, was sent home unguarded by Judge 1;.}::;1‘\\-9 d,!:;»rfl;!lt:: (|.\‘v\ vx.m““-;\,xm xuw \'wl)r] .’.rm, but ,\lnu nev ( |” ulu n.m:E aeie T {he. epensr: wa | e | s “ oA ek r,n; rence Tuell, K street south- | La |r|na. until -h; jut:xr (‘?u:d‘ hink || Phone F. €764 SUNDRIES | s tip Collins. Waite Hoyt, Jack | ddter Johnson is listed to tuke the | sutze’s safety - opener was HIC May 4—Arnold “Chick” | ast. lover” his punishment. and later was Quinn and Harry Harper find them- | hill nst the invaders tomorrow. The | F#D Over second that Dyk Gar Sun- | sentenced 1o a federal reform school for | Hownrd A and" & Co. selves the Gotham favorably in box streng in_the circuit & will compare | K. h with the best X s « 'k..ock:»:t! L aa former first baseman of the Weodward & Lethrep desire an held them to five hits and licked . 40Wn but was unable to hold. H ! N . | Ga ngagements. r contests ad- short term o at the Pow Grounds & week Gharrity showed some Cobbesque | Chicago Americans, who was indicted | 3o L, Tucker, 914 T street, or|> e e | Distributor for Indian y, and was heid to 4 In-inning |Ability on the runway to score from in connection with the alleged throw- ranklin 6234 Motorcycles ‘ Then, Babe Ruth has lost none of his | tie by the A's in his only Subsequent : cond on Milan's short single in the ¢ OF HE world: Sefies: 6ETa19; ap- re propared to| Aurara Club s seeking Sunday powers of atlraction for the bugs. The | pearance in Philadelphia lust Friday. . Tilly Walker's throw had hin & the world serics of 1918, ap-, OO vear teams. . Write | games with seventeen-vear-old nine | 424 9th St. N.W. but he hurdled Perkins' out- peared in court he: nd gave bond of | yiapager A. Margolius. 501 [ street, or llenges to Manager A. Gold- | Loea Motorcycles Repairing hi Ite ain 563 frer 5 H street northea stretched arm v, tug- e | Sch Hits Well as Yankees Win. ss.000 JUDGE’S TRIPLE GIVES GRIFFS 4—2 LR I | i ond. when, with i thel Leonard's Pitching Too Much VICTORY OVER A’S IN TEN INNINGS =i b Vritins® s iyt for White Sox. | N Walker with a line peg squarely into serey of the Yankees and the mitts of Shanks. Perkins was| Bill Piercy of th ‘r e killed off with J. Walker when Hank | Dutch Leonard of the Tiger Wm{ a shifted line-up the Nationals yesterday emerged from a | pomaer (C''C PV o1 (he lattersjsmart yitehing 1o sesrdy S r san League games. The husky New slump which included a drawn battle and two defeats at the |, Gharrity's single past Dugan and a otk anundsman completely bafed " § 2 . ~ . s, % ree ticket to ) an in the fourth hands of the Athletics. By nosing out Connie Mack's chronic |ware wasted when Perkins got nnder ory. d tailenders, 4-2, in ten innings yesterday at Shibe Park, McBride's qt | Rice's foul. L omiskey's new White hd -~ b . A outfit ki was outhit. Comi n . split even in four games played to a decision with the A's, and finished | ink" Tachary out ot o hote crented | Sub O do nuthing azaingt feons Y v 1 ing Zachary out of a hole created|urd's hurling. They were lucky to a road trip, which embraced two Sunday visits to the home lot, with a Py, ("Rourke in the fourth. Witt|grah a taily in the final inning Red Sox and scored u shut-out th nite the fact that his team record of six games won and four lost. Teached second Shen Mickey heaved| 'Schani, Plercy « nutie ite, Help- 1 o rap over Judge's . Dugan's|ed to give t ank 0-0 win | The change in personnel had little again jam the corners Moore gave | attempt to_bunt resulted in agllun '.,l ',..,:',‘. two dout Sl bearing on yesterday's victory, how-; Way to Dave Keefe, who victimized |y that Judge dashed in, ht nnliu four tin at | ever. It consisted of the benching of | Miller on strik his shoetops and whipped to O'Rourke, | two-base blows was crashed in ihe! Duffy Lewis. assigning Zeb Milan to| Strategy forcing Witt. | third innin It followed Ward's Frank Walker's muff of Shan me through | then Pierce: ¢ left field in his place and the placing| Weil | singl uted strategy of Bing Miller in the right pasture| a. a and O'Rourke’s second safety [with 2 bl ath was pa The former home run fing’:r the | Mackian rally that knotted the count | hopes In the fifth that Peckinpaugh clouted | Bouthes ¢ i in the eighth With one cal- | when Dugan gathered in, Fiber, Da 3 - -1 outhern Association failed to supply | ! i ne out, J. Wal O, e ia tne] i arrity’s bouncer and stepped on | kinson and { third for a force-out. [ could not ke r five appearances at bat resulted in) Milan's peg to the plate having | chary and Judge singled in suc-ja 13-te-1 s b crew made , three Hies to center, an infleld roller| Meither force nor direction. Shanks | cossion to start the sixth, but Jezebel | fcurteen hits tahet of . th - and a strike-out. On three occasions | T4ced back of third to nab Keefe's | was forced at third when Keefe fer- team excent Ieonard getting one or one or more of his mates were on|&!*MD at a bunt in foul territory. |ried Milan's bunt to Dugan. and both |more. Four of the runs w 1o the paths awaiting succor which never, D¥YKeS was purposely passed to bring | Rice and Miiler raised easy flies. off Faber. forcing his retirement in (icame and the Whiff referred to de-|UP Witt, a left-hand hitter. That| Milan left Gharrity on second after | the first inning .veloped with the bases loaded. But| Was the first bit of strategy. The |Galloway's error, and Judge put him | 5 BENTON, IN DEBUT, HOLDS ! although no mopping up was done in‘:w.ond consisted in Judge hopping to | there in the cighth arv's ‘toss caught Dykes oft first and| AMERICAN LEAGUE. BRAVES TO THREE HITSi the clean-up position, Joe Judge was!firt on a prearranged signal. Zach- {¥hen Galloway dashed for third he any of the punch. lack of which led: Ker doubled to left TWto Lewis being given a la . ter and scored s single to short left, ay from _off. Bing's; N Gallowa) son the job to remdey this deficien. It was the first sacker who made vic tory possible, with a good brand of| W% run down, Harris finally get- WL P W.L Pet | Rube Benton made his 1921 debut hurling by Zachary and a defense that | iNg the put-out at second. Cleveland. 12°5 .70¢ Detroit.... 8 & 0| with the Giants at the National encompased four double plays as fac-| , MOTe strategy wWas in evidence in|Washing's 1L & 041 St Louin) 6 9 '800| League game on the Polo Grounds in rppsg ithe ninth. which Witt opened by |Boston.... 6 8 'K Chicago... 4 8 New York yesterday und considerably o Phi‘delphia 5 10 beating out a slow roller to Harr New York. Whitey reached second when Shank: annoyed the Braves to three m s tuby nd held t s wild to ’ Judge Uncorks a Tri GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. | A timely sacrifice fly by Josephus|knocked down ; ash and | New York at Wash. New York at Wash. | o ’ - on balls. | ‘accounted for the Nationaly firat tally | tocted him out. © oiary® verash and | S0 570 Decoit: Chicago at Cleceiand. || i . | in the second inning. when Milan sec- | intentionally franked at this june. | Boston at Phila. Poton AL wule . | “was well punished before | onded his effort with a pro-!ucnve[mrn. The " infield plaved back for | Deteuit aCAE AV, e gt thie in the sixth, the i s afety, and it was the first sacker who @ double play and was rewarded with | Results of Yesterday's Games. |(iiants scoring #1l their runs of him. . &'came through in to settle’ just that, Zach deflecting I. Walker' © | Ocschger followed angd giclded but | the issue. With the score tied at ierack Lo O'Rourke, who stepped on | Washington. Pliladelphia. 2 Do sdfeties ) all in the tenth Shanks smashed «|Second to force Tilly, ard completed | Sew Tolk, 3 tos, % safety through Dugan aud took sec- a dual deatih by firing to Judge. ! 18: Chieags, 1. | = ond on Gharrity's clean single to leit, O'Rourke Shakes O Stum, | i1 ¥ i fter O effort 1o v - ». { Tomorrow ey ONourkes effort to bunt kel Fenk O'Rourie eibergta from liis | NATIONAL LEAGUE. i Base Bal] 3:30 PM. | pop 0¥ Lachsty 5! hitting slump with a palr of singles, | Wl Pt W. L. Per S £ | i AGUE PARK was an easy aerial chance. but Judge 4 : A o G . @lthough he whiffed twice and pop- | Pittshurgh 1273 813 Cineinnnti. 7107 .4 AMERICAN L delivered with a liner down the rignt o 80 8 WRIICH twics and pop- 1 Hittapnreh neinnti 41 field line. good for three bases. which | v| Bredtizac A, . s ettt e o e S i g | threc trins to-tne plate. “Micicaycon- | %o Jork. 1 8 0% Pt Washington vs. New York it | tributed his daily error. t0o, but his | Chleazo . (o x| Work may be expected to improve in | GAMES TODAY. Galloway's third safety and a wal = Rion satecy X cniall departments if he fecovers his !¢ to Pinch Hitter Welch with two down batting eye. is Tickets on sale, for New York series, Spalding’s, 613 14th St. innati at ¢ . Lonis at_Pitisb'g] Does your suit fit when you sit down? | OU notice the good fit of a i Society Brand Suit even in a lounging position. Designing skill and hand-tailoring of quality fabrics are the combination that makes the collar fit snugly and the Turry fn che stander but 1t Sabsided | o grking’ drive in the tenth was so | EITL al wavion. o~ Fulte. st osun. || N:-W. from 8:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. l g et kg ot it knocke: anks fro o bl . 3 ¥ : v Jyhen ORourke backed up o cluteh | ¢z, "nal ‘Hank recovered In time to| Besults of Yesterday's Games. chtkeu on sale at the Hecht || ' | nail . X 17 7th St. x Mackmen First to Score. | ""McBride has picked up an adaition | X" Yok, T;, Bosten, 2 9617774 St Identical openings were provided: B e Tucala meglected. their oppor. 7k % tunity while the A's gat a run out of it. Judge singled over second and| advanced on Milan's suicide. This paralleled the start of the Mackmen, for whom Dykes singled and Witt sacrificed. Here the similarity ended, 'R however, for Dugan rapped a single | N to center, in the latter instance, to R score Dykes, while after Rice had| gotten a life on Dukan's fumble Miller lofted to center and Rice was forced | by Harris | It was different in the second, when the Griffs registered twice to hop into | R the lead. Walks to Shanks and Ghar- | with a bingle by O'Rourke inter- | ed. loaded the bases with none Zach's tap to Dykes resulted in | Shanks being forced at the pan. |R Judze 1o center scored O'Rourke, and Gharrity tallied on Milan's safety to left. but after Rice had walked to 7 How Griffs Are Hi(tingi 7 G. AB. H. 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