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ationals Hand A€H’S EFFORTS NULLED BY WRETCHED SUPPORT ’Rourke, Milgn and Brower Present Fohl- men With Three Runs, Shocker Annexing Second Victory of Series. 3 BY DENMAN THOMPSON. T. LOUIS’ American League representatives today are en ‘route to the expense of the Nationals. Detroit in undisputed possession of a first-division berth and thor- oughly satisfied with themgelves for having attained their objective Any time the Browns have anything bfinite to achieve the schedule makers could confer no greater favor n to pit them against the Washington club. When they reached the pital Sunday they were in the second division, but as a result of land- three out of four from the Grifimen by taking the farewell contest sterday, 5-2, they now are in select society.ahead of both the Red Sox Jungaleers, their rivals for fourth place. Lee Fohl played a mean trick on local contingent in the geteway me. He gave out the information Elam Vangilder would be the led to slaugtter, while Urban jocker’s transportation to St. Louis osed In his pocket at tFe time. jbbe Fohl was afraid to let his star Inger, visit the Michigan metropolis. time Shocker was there he got dutch for a week through acquir- g & coat of sunburn or, perhaps it indoor tan. In consequence the e St. Louis pilot decided to use fm here, and the result is the spit- YANKS AGAIN IN FRONT Hold Lead of Nearly One Point as Result of Win Over White Sox, While Tribe Loses. . The Yankees again went into firft place in the American League, with 1l star garnered two victories in |Dractically a one-point margin over one series, with only to days’ in- jrmission for recuperate, and, will l'llllble to welcome the Tigers hen they reach St. Louis Sunday. ~Bach Miserably Supported. 'Washington yesterday displayd a nd of base ball typical of its ef- the Indians. The Hugmen, as a result of their victory over the White Sox yesterday, have a winning percentage of 617647, while the Tribe stands at .616822. The Indians were slaughter- ed by the Macks. The Tigers moved up to fifth place in the standing by against the Browns. Xachary|toppling the Red Sox for the first hrled in very fair shape, but was|time in eleven engagements between orded miserable support., none of | the teams. Browns' fistful of tallies being thout some taint, ‘were out-and-out - wrile three of |beat the White Sox, gifts, | crashing two homers.” Ruth got one, Frank Baker helped the Yankees 14 to 8, by rke, Milan and Brower being the | also. The victory was the sixth in a prits. The alien boxman, on the [row for Pitcher hand, pitched a regular Shock- que game, which means McBride's | Collins easy. ollins. Johnson was the only one of fhe losers who found The White Sox short- can consider itself lucky to have | 5t0P made three hits in five efforts. ered two runs. The first of the local tallies devel- in round 2, after Harris left on third and first in the opener, hen Judge's single was followed by ller's two-bagger. Shanks started second with a real hit to right, ced on Gharrity’'s death and Seven hits, bunched h four er- rors, in the seventh inning, gave the Macks seven runs, enough to upset the Indians, 9 to 5. The victory gave the Athletics an even break with the Tribe in the series. Tilly Walker crashed a four-baser, his second in two day! Pennock and Thormahlen were lied when Zachary slid a bingle{marks for Tiger batters and the Red Shocker to center. In the sixth|Sox were trounced, 8 to 4. Veach bat- ks uncorked a triple to the jury |ted and flelded sensationally. Oldham x following a safety by Brower for|checked the Boston hitters after the other score, Turkey being left on | third nnnhzg ird by Gharrity. At no other time d the Griffmen appear dangerous. n got no farther than the vesti- @ when he Starteq the third with m! Brower whlmn: Miller pop- to McManus and Harris' rolling Shocker, while nei her Judge nor filan was able to get the ball out of infield e scoreboard in the seventh. ‘Browns Keep Plugxing. Turned back in the initial session, xn Browns reached third and first ough singles by Tobin and Sisler d the latter's theft, the visitors ited until round 3 to initiate their - ‘With one away Tobin He took third on Ellerbe's | 42 PITCHERS' SWATS TELL fter Zachary trivled to!Cadore and Coumbe Drive in Runs That Bring Victories to Dodger#nd Reds. Twe National’ League pitchers proved their hitting ability yester- by batting in winning runs. le and was fagged at the plate Cadore of the Dodgers won a pitchers’ s, who took Sisler bounder. | battle from Morrison of the Pirates erbe reached third on the play and | by knocking in the only tally of the nted when Williams scratched a |contest. Coumbe of the Reds made foty past Harris at the midway. up for the runs scored off of him Louis’ second earned run came in { by the Cards when his double and fourth on Severeid's safety. Ger- lgingle accounted for three runs, the sacrifice and a liner by Shocker, I margin of victory in the second game h Harris managed to reach With |of the day between the .teams. The hand by leaping, but could not | frst ‘encounter was grabbed by the bla. The Browns were made a pres- |Ca t of their other three markers. e Dodgers beat the Pirates, 1 to Vith Bilerbe set down on strikes in |9, when Cadore's hit scored Schmandt fifth, Sisler rolled a safety Past|in the fifth inning. Zach caught him off a mo- ater, but in the jockeying on |Ine O'Rourke got hold of lhex , and threw it aw: Sisler reach- g the far corner, from where he | Tled on a soft fly to right by Jacob- which Brower misjudged, Baby being credited with a three-base Firat Base Is Uncovered. the following frame d for a starter, reached third McManus' sacrifice and Shocker's th, and counted when Zachary ided Tobin's swinging bunt, only find first base uncovered. Shan en gave Ellerbe a life with a ~iae ve of his bounder, Miller ending Tound with an acrobatic catch of pler's low liner. Louis’ final tally accrued in the ! Cleveland was Iath when Tobin doubled, sui- oved along through Ellerbe's and _walked to the ar’- little fiy. Can’t Blame Zach: Al PPN -1 commoonHnE TS CELEETA, asneooonoh ooy & II.. 51 nmlceo— chary. ocmr, l(cunu-. “Miller. NALLY HAS TO IDLE. ] D RAPIDS, Mich.,, August 11. In forced the local Central League n into idleness here yesterday for first time since the 1919 season. fing that period 138 games were on schedule. counting | Detroit Boston on Milan's inglorious muft of |cpic The latter had doubled and Kilduff had sacrificed. Both Grimm and Schmandt played excellent fielding games. 'he Cards took the measure of the Red! in & 6-to-4 game before losing a 6-to-3 engagement. In the open- ing encounter, homers were clouted by McHenry, Fournier and Hornsby. A three-run rally in the seventh in- ning accounted for the Reds' success Gerb!f in the second mfilch What May Happen in Base Ball Today New York . p4 o f Washington " 59 St. Louis 1 7 1 49 56 46 Philadelphia 0 GAMES TODAY. ew York at Phila. 5 3 GAMES TOMORRO' New York at Phila. Ghicago at Cleveland. . Louls at Detroit. Results of Yenerdzyl Games. 8t. Louts, 5 thln'tun. Detrol ton, l(uelphh' New !vrk. IC Cnlcllo. 9. NATIONAL LEAGUE. A GAMES TODAY. oun;s muommw Qincinnati at Bt Louts. Cincianati at St. Lo iphia at Boston. Philadelphja cm AV Pittsbargh. Chicago o 7n 8¢ New York, Brookivn at New ¥or Betulu of Yeuterd-y's Games. St. Louls, 6:3; Cincinnati, 4-6. Brooklyn, 1; Pittsburgh, 0. “WILD BILL” IS BACK. PI‘?ILADELPRIA August 11.—"“Wild Bill” Donovan, deposed manager of the Philadelphla Nationals, is here. He announced on his arrival that he never had received the telegram which President Baker of the Phfl"el dispatch to him asking for a con- ference. He will see Baker Tuenday ina A : f ! | Browns, 5- GETS JOB AT SHORT WITH NATIONALS BOB LA MOTTE. LAMOTTE TO SUCCEED O’ROURKE AT SHORTSTOP BY DENMAN THOMPSON. HE\' the Nationals take the field against the Red Sox Saturday in the first of two games remaining to be played before they hike west,.Bob La Motte will be seen in the shortstop’s position. The vouthful Georgian, who was obtained from the Tampa club of the Florida State League last fall, and has since been restricted largely to bench duty, is to be given the dflncz to demonstrate that he can handle the position in big league style, and if he justifies expectations, wlll be- come a regular at that post. HoanEsAreHmm; [ -] 3 .e..-..==..aa=...=:=.=:==.5 contuabBzeart.gBaxERE, o1 3 e BABBEBBARE R IREREEE S ) P13 TE 3308 130 coissenrshbessuBReRUGpal =13 =14 BT B+ HUGGINS MAY 60 S00N Rumored That Yankees Will Let Out Pilot Before Taking Last ‘Western Trip. NEW YORK, August 11.—According to a rumor here, Miller Huggins may be deposed as.manager of the Yankees befQre the club leaves on its last western trip. This rumor has it that ome of the owners of the Yankees, dissatisfied with the way in which the mite man» ager has been handling the team on its home stand, is to consult with cer- tain veterank of the club as to their opinion whether or not the team could win the pennant under other leader- ship. In case the players favor a change, the story goes, this half-own- i er will attempt to wean his partner into turning the club over into other hands. During a recent illness of Huggins in the west the Yankees, under the Jjoint management of, Capt. Peckin- paugh and Coach Charlie O'Leary, won nine straight games. They arp said to have made the boast to news- l":?:ptern:nen amommpzn‘dnw the club 1. ey woul show up Hi during his absence. R Husems —_— YANKS BUY CATCHER GREENVILLE, 8. C, August 11.— Emerson Caspion, hard-| -hitting catch- er of the Brandon team, Piedmont Textile League, has been signed by the New York Americans. _— INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Syracuse, 8.0: R’llflmon. 7., 3 Toronta: 6; Newark. 5. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. ew Orleans, 7: Little Rock, 2. Amnu. 2; Birmingham, 1. AMERICAN ASS ASSOCIATION. bus, 1. lle, ol Kansan ity (ratn). MinnesBolis-Milwaukee (rain). VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Wilson, 5: Ni News. 2. Richmond. uffe Mount. 10: Poctemouth. 9. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. ~ Bet. F & G Sts. August Clearance of ‘Genuine PALM BEACH SUITS Sizes 33, 34, 35, 36. Regular, $15 suits. In tan, gray, and green. Met's and young men’s models. “A snap for men who can be fitted. *8 Despite the game efforts of Frank O'Rourke his erratic work, due to a weak throwing arm, has so handi- capped the team that Manager Mc- Bride finally has been forced to make a change. O'Rourke’s wide erperience and his aggressiveness are of such value that had he proved able to hit major league pitchers consistently his defensive shortcomings would in a measure be condoned, but although he attained an average of .327 with To- ronto of the International League last year, he has proved unequal to the task of solving the hurlers in Ban Johnson's circuit and now is a bad last among the regulars of the Griff- men, with a mark 100 points under that he madé in class AA base ball last season. Harris Has Been Hampered. Inability to line the ball across the diamond with the speed necessary to retire a reasonable quota of base run- ners has not been O’'Rourke’s sole fail- ing. Knowledge that his arm was weak caused him to hurry plays in many {nstances to such an extent that he fumbled, but one of the most costly results of his deficiency in the wing has been the bad effect on Harris of having to work with him. Much of the value of either a shortstop or sec- ond baseman depends upon how one teams up with the other. With a shortstop of the ability of an Everett Scott or a Walter Gerber, Stanley Ha! ris would be one of the most sensa- tional second-sackers the game ever produced, but this season, and particu- larly in recent weeks, Harris has been slowed up and thrown off his stride S0 often in - collaborating with O'Rourke that he frequently has ap- meared to be a very ordinary per- former. La Motte has a great chance to achieve a profitable place in base ball. He'has youth in his favor, is fast of foot and has a strong throw- ing arm, in addition to being a good felder of ground balls. How well he will hit remains to be seen. He is not an accomplished batsman now, but has no glaring weaknesses so far as is known, and, kept in the game regularly, should nadnllly improve. Idle today, (he Natlonals will play an exhibition at Richmond with the Virginia League team tomorrow, with Jim Shaw doing the box work. Shanks ' was indirectly responsible for the first St. Louis run in the third inning yesterday. Receiving Brower's throw of Ellerbe's single |3 too late to flag Tobin at third, How- ard paid no attention to Ellerbe, who sneaked on to second, reached third on Tobin's death at the plate and was in a position to tally on Williams' single 't Harris. Brower looked bad on Jacobson's easy fly In the fifth, his complete mis- judgment of it giving the Brown a three-base hit and costing a run. Tur- key probably will play at first’until Judge's bad leg improves. Milan will continue in center and Earl Smith will be stationed in right field until Sam Rice recovers from his sprained Automobile PAINTING “The Semnies 7.7 ay” The sort ef work that has earned the indorsement of the motoring public—the sort of work that can be done only by competent workmen, working under ideal conditions and under the direction of a leader who personally supervises every job, and takes pride *in making every job a per- fect one. 613 to 619 G St.-N.W. T. SMITH GARGES P of its players by i injuries. battle at the same moment. is likely to snap the halyards that carry the colors, and for a week or two they droop fluttering toward the ground. Slumps Seldom Last Long. Usually a slump lasts about ten days. Bome have been prolonged to a fortnight, and therp have been & few instances where they continued indefinitely. In the latter case the team did not win the championship. Each of the leading clubs in the major leagues has made a gritty and determined battle to date. For most of the time each of them has led its league since the beginning of the year. It is a physical strain and a mental drag to set the pace all of the time. This becopies more of a task to bear when some of the other teams begin to show indications of improvement. Players of the leading teams grow worried over trifies. They fear they will blunder, and that always seema to bring the blunders on. The lack of a base hit for two days in suc- cession has stirred a phlegmatic slugger so profoundly that he couldn’t hit anything. bntht luck, as the player called it, rned the other way a Star was not m\lch better than a novice. Both Cleveland and_Pittsburgh are suffering, or have suffered, from two causes. They aren't getting hits when there are men on bases as often as they did. They are not sagging 80 much in their team batting as they are in the timely hit column which doesn’t ‘show in the score. The second cause is an evident lack of pitching strength in pinches. Pitts- burgh shows this more than Cleve- land, because the Pirate pitchers were better to begin with and they wére a bigger factor in thelr team’'s success than were the Indiap hurlers. It was the Cleveland batters who held the zeun up while thé pitchers were go- bad, and, of course, if the champions i thelr hitting they are doubly smitten. Pitehing Is Problem. The wearvand tear/ on pitchers, where only a few games constantly separate the leaders from the team next to them, is terrificc The man- ager must try in some way to produce a winning pitcher every day. He can try to do it, but whenever he fails he is_ worried, and he is doubly worried when he Is compelled to take a pitch- er out of the box and finish a game with a second and perhaps a third. That upsets the routine of his pitch- ers and If he has two or three men who need at least three days in which to rest before they are fit to go ahead again. he is in a fair way to lose about as often as he wins. That is one rea- son why Cleveland and Pittsburgh have been playing not much better than .500 per cent and a while ago they floated along with base ball of the .650 kind on tap at all times. If this is what is known as the champlonship slump, it is fortunate for them that it has come 5o early— PLAYER BREAKS LEG. LOUISVILLE. Ky. August 11 Bruno Betz, secon on Toulsville team. broke his lett ankle while sliding into second base in the game with Toledo yesterday. — VAUGHN JOINS BELOIT. KENOSHA, Wis, August 11.—Jim Vaughn, placed on the ineligible list for organized base ball, has joined a Beloit semi-professional team. He is to receive $6,900 a year. 30x3'2 Snap CHAS. E. MILLER, Inc. Formerly Miller Bros.” Auto Supply House. 812 14th dboor-NnrthoIHSO. At the Sign of the Moon General Reductions .Before Inventory For 'the purpose of simpli- ® fying Inventory, we have de- ? cided on most pronounud % price reduction? on our en- $tire stock. In additiony to Jight-weight fabrics we are ? ncludmg medium - weight suit- g ings for Fall wear. UITS To Order—$35 Values 20 Other Grades at Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc.. S06FSt._ eve, ana ITEAMS SUFFERING FROM LACK OF TIMELY HITTING Both Are Likely To Get Out of Slump Soon—Let-up Is Better at Present - Than Later. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ITTSBURGH and Cleveland are feeling the stress of hard work. Stress brings on a slump. If a team can get over a slump before | the season is well nigh finished, and the club is one of ¢hampion- ship caliber, it is likely to be a winner with anything short of the loss T the slump comes too close to the end of the geason, which has happened occasionally, the team dies off with slumpitis. It is a coincidence that both Pittsburgh and Cleveland should sag in the Seldom is it the good luck of any providing, of course, that they get out championship outfit to smash through |of it. Af soms' time or another a stiff galo|of Ohlo aad Penneyivania In 1023. |Lessue sesson Heiss southpaw. |and Benefit Amociation and Pennsylvanta in.-1922. and it Homers N for Ruth SOUTHPAW FOR YANKS. DALLAS, Tex., August 11.—The 5 Dallas club has sold Pitcher George If they don’t—there will be no | $4,000. Swarts to the New York Yankees for Swartz will report to New the year witfi continued success |demand for bunting in the great states | York after the close of the Texas League seaso: n. He is a southpaw. INC. Thuréday and Friday . We are Closed All Day Saturday l i sburgh Clubs Sagging: 4 ! |CHANCE FOR BETHESDA TO GAIN IN LEAGUE RACE Bethesda will have an opportunity to gain ground in the race for the champlonship of the Montgomery" County, Base Ball League Saturday when it will play at Gaithersburg. At present Bethesda is in second place, with ten victories and six defeats, two and one-half games behind the Silver Spring team, which has won eleven games and lost two. Stlver Spring is 10'entertain Boyds, ;l'ho lll!.el" l:lm;v ;m fourth tn the eague, with cight wins dereats, " Gattnersbe s third, Pav ng won seven and lost six. Rock- ville, in 8703 place, with six wins and ten losses, will oppose sington, last, with three victories and thir- teen defeats. .. N. Y. FIREMEN AHEAD. CHICAGO, August 11.—The New York fire fighters quenched the first hopes of the Chicago firemen, when they won the opening contest of the three-game series here, 5 to 2. The games are being played to raise funds for the local Firemen's Mutual Aid and Benefit Association. A TWO-DAY TROUSER SALE Thursday and AFriday Only 100 Pars Tweed Trousers Good selection—neat mixtures, 29 fo 38 95 Pair Starting at Once! Final Reduction Prices - On all two-piece Summer Suits Final Reductions All Palm Beach Coats&Pants NOwW . $ l 3 13 Final Reductions All Mohair Coats&Pants NOW Final Reductions All Tropical Worsted Coats & Pants NOwW And they keep coming strong! All 3-Piece Suits 520 $29.75 and $33.75 To our Great August Clearance of all three-piece Suits All $40, $45, $48.75 5 and $55 3-Piece Suits *30 || A Sale S of Discontinued STYLES 6 for 65¢ D. J. Kaufman Famous 4-Ply COLLARS $1.25 A DOZEN MONEY’S WORTH OR MONEY BACK