Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1922, Page 22

" SP Nationals in Benefit Contest Today: Browns Show Yankees They Mean Business ORTS.™ GAME RECEIPTS WILL GO TO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL President Heads List of Notables to Attend—Zachary Yields Only Five Hits as Griffs Pound Courtney to Win Third Straight. - BY DENMAN noon B that they apparently have launched THOMPSON. § 1G doings are on the program at American League Park this after- The Nationals will appear in a regularly scheduled cham- pionship game with the Chicago White Sox, of course, and the fact a*new winning streak by annexing three victories in succession will mean something to the fans who like only a winning varicty of base ball extra inducements for visiting Clark by the home talent. But there are Griffith’s stadium today, as may be surmised from the fact that President Harding will attend, in addition to Commissioner Rudolph and many ot her high officials of the federal and District governments,” with the entire Marine Band on hand to enliven the occasion with snappy tunes. In the urance that Urban Faber, the very best pitcher in the major leagues last season, or Charley Robertson, the sensational rookie, who recently sprang into fame by hurling a no-hit, no-run game at the ex- of the Tygers, will_be pitted against the Griffmen, the capital’s pe base-ball-going populace will find sufficient attraction for attendance, even though it is Monday, usually conside icular game will.inter- gtonians, regardless of are devotees of e. for it has been ar- the | red a poor day for base ball. JEZEBEL JOSTLES ’EM d that the entire proceeds minus | the expenses of the two clubs ) Children's Hospital o{’.hj,,’[f,’:_ o0 AD. RBARO: an institution which meets | rainson, ss 5.0 0.3 1 ative requirement of the .4 0 1 5 o 11 which is embarrassed for 4 0V1 3 1 0 < of funds Sl S A e 2y The *game today will be conducted G308 D AR under the auspices of the Lions Club 2 08 21 0 which has as its goal 1 00 e 0D 00 tic those ac- 2.0 1 0 4 0 1 of the distribution e o 6 '@ '€ being M H. Westcott. Mrs, e e e Frederic H. P. Fair- L sEat1m e bank e S ::!UHE\\,”I:}!\-UEUO AB. . H. P.O. A. E. ¥ 7 3 1 8 &0 >r being president of i A rs of the hospi- i12 2 000 40 110 00 purchased means a ‘11w ooe ldren's Hospi- . ho attend ball L8 Tl or a vear. t3 32 3 a0 presence, in 30 o0 0 ntertainment = 218 mean needed financial «...32 8 13 27 13 1 hy charity. , .10000000 01 14010020 x—8 x May Climb Today. If they contrive to win again this evening the Nationals will climb a in the per ge table, regard- of the outcorge of any other games in the circuit, and should Bing il his mates in Philadelphia again - Tygers nightfall will see the Is perched at the top of the ection, just half a a from the first divis| 10oted outfield-shift s notable suc - Cleveland club, to t been adopted by Manager Milan. Hereafter. when a right-hand hurler works for the op- position. Goslin and Brower will be stationed in left and right fields, re- * to Smith and v a left-hand hitter, itching over to the d of batting against gers. He has had con- and is s an ef- t defensively the is bet fortified with him in sunfield than with anybody else. excepting Shanks, and the latter is| making the most of the chance given | him to rveturn to third base wren Bush was injured last Friday. Goebel probably is fielding gardener n the roster. as the makin's of hitter, and with his speed and arm couldn’t’ be blasted cut of a regular job if he displayed a little more pep and enthusiasm in his work. Criffmen Upset Courtney In recording their third aight | win yesterday the Nativnals disturb- | ed the poise of Harry Courtney, for- mer Washingtonian, in a rude man- | has ta orthodox the ner. ed the lanky one for five hits as many runs in the first two innings. after which Harry left the scene to the mingled boos and cheers of the close to 12,000 paying guests, They pecked away at “Shovel” Hodge. his successor, for the re- mainder of the pastime, and when it ended the coun stood iffs, Sox, 1, with Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary the outstanding figure of tne day. Jeztec's control levers got jammed in the opening round, when he walk- ed Hooper. who scored on Collins' single. following a sacrifice by John- son. Thereafter the Sox were docile, getiing only four additional safeties ! off the southpaw and never more than one to an inning. Courtney made the art, as his rival, paving the |with & walk to Smith in the initial session for the tying run when Judge uncorked a stinging single to left. Harry made a far different fin his brother left-hander, however. It came ond_inning. got life on Johnson's fumble, Shanks drew a pass and both tallied on Gharrity's_double to left. Peck singled over McClellan's head, send- ing Gharrity to_ third, and Pat tallied on Zachary's fly to Hooper, whose | once trusty wing seems to have lost much of its power. Peck reached sec- ond on the throw-in, took third on Smith's single through the box and tallied on a safety to left by Rice, on which Smith was flagged sliding into third - With Hodge serving ‘em up the Griffs registered once in the fourth gn 2 pass to Gharrity and singles by Zachary and Harris, and twice in the seventh, when Smith's safe bunt was heaved to_right field by Schalk, and followed by Rice's two-bagger and Brower's single. Mogridge ix having trouble with his back again. The ailment has been diagnosed as neuritis. _This may mean he will blank the Sox if used this afternoon. G. AB.H. SB. RBL Pet. 8 2 7 0 3 56 28 0 17 136 30 6 19 2 37 1 20 38 2 29 2 13 86 0 1 0 5 e 2. 0 1 3 30 3 13 o 3 .8 18 01 A a8 120 sa7 2t ! Milan . L1 26 0 0 19 Johnson SE A 0 = (18 Goebel 713 o 1 11 Phillips 8 13 0 o0 o Gleason s 13 o Lo il Erickson & '3 0 0 Brillheart 6 3 0 0 Woodward Gy o 0 Bluege T o 0 BY SEA Oon TO Way $20.40 . BOSTON 1830 PROVIDENCE 24.78 SAVANNAH 3096 JACKSONVILLE “Meals and stateroom sccommodations on steamer included. Extra charges for pre- ferred space. : Through tickets to principal points. Full Imm:g.n.ll‘(lm- - Pler 3, Pratt St. Tel. Plaza 4500 BALTIMORE. MERCHANT TRANSPORTATION CO jm o — ¢ 0 six innin Losing pitcher—Courtney. | Umpires—Messre. Nailin and Hildebrand. Time of game—1 hour and 45 minutes. CAUGHT ON THE FLY It Mogridge cagpot work, as is feared, Erickson, Phillips or Gleason will get the call. It might be a good idea to give Kid Brillheart a chance, for the Sox seem made to order for a southpaw. Courtney was givea the razz, both when he started to pitch and on leaving the di#mond, but he received a lot of applause, too. Sentiment| fur” and “agin” him seemed to bej about equally divided. I Announcement been made that a postponed game with the Yankees | wili be played here next Friday. an open date im the schedule. This means Babe Ruth and his gang will be on hand three days in a row, being listed to show here next Sat- urday and Sunday. It also means five gamés in as many successive| days with the Yanks, for the Na- tionals visit at the Polo Grounds Wednesday and, Thursday. Marris gave a fine exhibition of ground covering and throwing in the | fourth when he traveled back of the midway for raps from both McClellan and Hodge. His peg failed to flag the latter. but the wonder was that he was able even to reach the ball, much less get off an accurate toss| to Judge. Smith was a busy lad in the gar- den. He galloped out, in and over for drives of all descriptions, and at least one of the eight he handled faultlessly was a noble effort—that on McClellan in the ninth, which he snared in short center. Peck still is plugging away in an effort to find favor with the fans,| who have been on his back more or less consistently since the season opened. He got another pair of bingles vesterday in additfon to a walk and ade a throw from deep short in the sixth to flag Schalk that would jgve Gone credit to a Long or a Wagner at his best. STATISTICS OF MAJORS AMERICAN LEAGUE. L Pct. Win. Lose. New York 12 .657 639 Louis. 13 .608 588 Philadelphia . 15 520 500 Detroit 17 469 455 Roston . 15 464 448 Cleveland 15 18 455 441 Washington . 1519 441 429 Chicago 20 375 384 GAMES TODAY. Chicago at Wi St. Louis at N. Detroit at Phila. Phila. Cleveland at Boston. . Cleveland at Boston. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. Washington, 8: Chicago, 1. St Louts, 5 (11 tanings), GAMES TOMORROW. Chicago at Wagh. 8t. Loul LY. 3 at Detrolt New'York, 6; NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. Win. Lose. New York 20 10 667 67T 845 St Louis 1 18 o4 318 Pittaburgh . 6 12 7 . 532 Chicago L1614 388 548 518 Cincinnat] 16 18 471 488 457 Rrooklyn 13 18 419 437 408 Philadelphia .’ 11 18 407 429 898 Boston .. 9 10 321 345 310 GAMES TODAY. Brooklyn at Chic: Boston at St. Louls. Y. at Clocinnati Phila. at Pittsburgh. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Boston, 4; 8t. Louls, 3. Brooklyn, 8; Chlca - Ciocinnati, GAMES TOMORROW. Brodklyn at Chicago. %; New York, 1. Round ‘Trip Atlantic City Sunday, May 28 SPECIAL THROUGH TRAIN Via Delaware River Bridge Eastern Standard Lvs. wnu.t.- s Lo 3"3.0: AN, Tickets on %sie beginniny Friday ceding date of excursion at Consolidated Ticket Office, 13th and .F Streets, and at Union Station. Returaing, Leaves Atlantie City - - 5130 P.M. | Similar Excursios Juse 11, 86 R Pennsylvania Syste em The Reuts of the Brevdwiy Limited. | YANKS SENT 10 ROUNDS Two-base hits—Sheely, Gharrits, Rice and | Mostil. Sacrifices—Johnson and Zachary. Dou- | 3-t0-1 victory over the Giants, the Vie piays—Hodge to Johnson to Sheely, Left|third straight setback for the world n bases —Chicago, 8; Washington, 4. Base on | champions, who are finding unex- [plis—OF Zachwrs, 40 off Couriner. 2 off | pected opposition in the west. Jesse O Spurntes 3 h ol By Hodge, 3 ohite— | Barnes, who recently pitched a no- N, *D. C, A MONDAY, MAY 22, 1922. After Smith had sent Peck home with a single in the second, that big inning the Griffmen enjoyed at the expense of Courtney yesterday, Rice singled Smitty out, for “Qil” failed to shove hi s trilby against the sack. Fi| to right and Smith legged it for the far corner. He arrived ahead of Hooper's peg to McClelian and was motionless on the ground before he was tagged. To a vast majority of the spectators this meant he was safe, but the camera of Carl Thoner, who was right on the job, proves Umps Hildebrand was correct in ruling 1 | T0 OVERGOME BROWNS With the league leadership at stake, the New York Yankees turned back St. Louis, 6 to 5, in the second game of the series, and had a margin to- day' of two games. It took ten |innings to subdue the Browns, who | {hit Waite Hovt hard. Babe ' Ruth got his first hit sinte returning to the game, a double, out of five times at bat Donohue pitched Cincinnati to a hit game, was knocked from the bo: McGraw who has not been hitting, Bill Cunningham in center. The St. Louls Cardinals were una- ble to' gain on the Glapts, the vet- eran Rube Marquard of Boston hav- ing the better of Sherdel in a hurling duel, while Southworth’s home run, with one ‘on, helped the Braves to win, 4 to 3. Brooklyn pounded three Chicago pitchers,” including Aldrige, for eighteen hits and won easily, 8 to 4, behind Dutch Ruether's effective hurling. Tommy Griffith had a perfect day at bat, with four hits. | PAIR OF POLO GAMES BEING DECIDED TODAY Semi-final matches of the War De- partment Club's-annual spring polo tournament were to be played this afternoon in Potomac Park. Aiken Wanderers and Fort Myer's first team were scheduled to meet in the first game at 3 o'clock, and the War.De- partment first team and Fort Myer| second team in another tilt starting; at 4:30. The final probably will be held Saturday. Line-ups for the first game follo benched Ralph Shinners, and put Aiken Wanderers — Ziegler. No Belmont, No. 2; Hulbert, No. 3; Beth- el. No. 4. Fort Myer firsts Barden, No.-1; Lieut. Jonme: 5 Maj. Patton, No. 3; Capt. Coles, No. The second semi-final teams prob- bly will be composed of the follow- g: War Department firsts—Lieut. Jadwin, No. 1; Maj. Newman, No 2: Capt. Rodes. No. Maj. Burr, No. 4. Fort Myer seconds—Lieut. Sibert, No. 1: Lieut. Kitts, No. 2; Capt. Waters, No. 3; Capt. Thayer, No. 4. Games other than tpurney matches are planned for this week. A team including War Department players not membars of that club's first or second fours probably will encounter Camp Meade tomorrow and Fort Myer's third team Thursday. There also may be a special match Wed- nesday. —_— PURDUE NINE LEADING IN BIG TEN TITLE RACE CHICAGO, May 22.—The western conference Big Ten base ball cham- pionship is expected to be decided this week with Purdue and Illinois the chief contenders. Purdue now heads the percentage column- with Ilinols apparently the most danger- ous rival. Purdue and Illinois meet at Ur- bana, III, tomorrow and Ohio State also will'go_to Illinots Friday. Vic- tory over Purdue and Ohio State would virtually mean the champion- ship for Illinois, which has lost only two games. Defeat of Illinois should give Purdue the championship. Purdue also has games with Iowa at-Jowa City and Chicago. ATHLETICS ARE BOOMING |(REB IS BIE FAVORITE IN ARMY 3D CORPS ARE MY sport activities are booming in the 3d Corps Area. Box- ing, base ball and tfack and field are in full swing. -The boxers are training for the national junior championships at New York next iweek; the track and field men for the American Legion meet in Philadel- phia, June 9 and 10, and the base ball men are going through Buck Her- | A zog's new system of sprints. The boxing championships will next Wednesday and Thursday. Though there are a gfeat number | of amateur boxing teams in the 3d | Corps Area, all of the men have been | selected from Camp Holabird ’I‘hey‘ re: Private Paul Minnick, bantam- weight; Private Robert A. Tidwell, lightweight; Private George E. Dodd, welterweight; Private Otto C. Collig- | non, middleweight; Private Charles | A. Hoffman, light-heavyweight. Private Emory Ward, heavyweight. The 3d Corps Area track and fleld | chamwpionships will be held in the| stadium at Camp Meade May 27. The | best men emerging from this compe- | tition will be put into intensive | ) training at once for the Philadelphia events later. % The «Marines will be represented at' Philadelphia and so will the Navy. That makes it more interesting for the Army men. Herzog, has just completed work with the/base ball men at Camp Hol: abird and now is at Edgewood arse-| nal. Meade. In August Herzog will concentrate about twenty-five of the best in the! area and schedule will be played with somef of the best teams in the east. The games will be divided between Amer- | ican League Park in Washington and | Oriole Park in Baltimore. One of the Army-Marine games will be-played | in Washington. WESTERN AND EASTERN WILL PLAY TOMORROW Nine of Western and Eastern will end their high school base ball league championship schedules to- morrow when they tlash in Central stadium. They are to start play at 2:30 o'clock. Western has not been Qdefeated in the series, while Eastern has been traveling at a speedy clip recently. Tech has an engagement with St. Alban’svon the latter's field. Gonzaga and Business were ex- pected to be opponents this afternoon on a Potomac Park diamond. Both teams have good records. Londos and Caddock Matched. MOBERLY, Mo., May 22.—Earl Cad- dock of Walnut, Towa, and Jim Londos of Greece, have been matched to meet in a wrestling bout for the light- heavyweight championstip here July " 4. - Giants Sign Shortstop. CHICAGO, May 22.—Fred Lind- strom, shortstop for -Loyola Acad- From there he will go to Camp | & in September a ten-game | A be held in Madison Square Garden RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES The past week's record in the major leagues of games played. won and lost, together with runs, hits, errors left on bases and opponents . including games of Saturday, is | as follows: Te New Detrot Philadelp] Boston Chicago Vashington . e m d e b BRITON WOULD AT LEDNARD NEXT MONTH NEW YORK, May Jack Britton, welterweight champion, will be ready to defend his title in a match with Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, early in June, according to word re- ceived by Tex Rickard from Dan Mor- gan, Britton's manager. Rickard is understood to have made tentative plans, as a result, to start the contest on June 16 or 20. Two sites were said to be under con- sideration, Boyle's Thirty Acres, in Jersey City, and the newly built New York Velodrome. If the former is chosen a twelve-round, no-decision con- test may be staged, but if the event is staged here it may go fifteen rounds to a decision. Tie for Sally League Lead. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 22.—The sixth week of the South Atlantic As- sociation finds Columbia and Charles- ton tied for the leadership. TEXAS LEAGUE. emy's base ball team, has been signed by the New York Giants. He will be farmed out te the Toledo club of the American Association —_————— INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Baltimore, 5-2; Newark, 2.0. Reading. '5-9; Jo 8; Byracuse,s Buftalo-Toronto, rain- DISTRIBUTOR Used snd Bopuilt Matocysles Bold . -HOWARD A. FRENCH &CO. 424 9th Street N.W. 1321-23 L ST. N.W. Phone Malw 3400 manship plus blend. That’s the story of El Producto’s distinctive quality. Anditis quality that never varies. You can count on it inevery El Producto you smoke— whether it is the 10¢c Bouquet shape, the 3 for 50c Escepcionales, or any other of the many sizes. Distributor D. 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He is regarded as a light hitter, but fast as chain lightning and with a world of experience. Against him is a bigger man who certainly can wallop, but has not had too much experience, and is credited in some quarters with not liking pun- ishment. Frank Bagley, Gene's man- ager, dopes it that Harry will dance himself in the way of one of Tunney’s rignthand wallops in the course of thé fight, and then stop dancing for the evening. Maybe so. Whether Tunney wins or loses, he will drag down about $20,000 for his Ie\'en\ng's exertions. Petersburg Seeks Franchise. RICHMOND, Va., May 22.—Peters- Burg has made application for a franchise in the Virginia State League. ' Business men of the Cock- ade city are after the franchise of one of the teams said to be in finan- cial straits. SOUTHER! Nashville, 7: New Orleans, 3. Atlanta, 4; Memphis, 2. Birmingham, 7; Clattanoogs, 4. LEADERS IN HOME RUNS IN THE MAJOR CIRCUITS Ameriean League—Williams, St. Louis, 11; Miller, Philadelphia, 8; Baker, New York, 6; C. Walker, Philadelphia, 6; Dykes, Philadel- phih, 5; Judge, Washington, 4 McManus, St. Louis, 4; Sisler, St. Louis, 4. National Lengue—Hornsby, St. ASSOCIATION Drive It of our cars. New Fords cars. When you have an important appointment to keep, you will be on time if you are driving one You can depend upon our service and our Our Rates Are Right Auto Rental Company SPORTS. [PROMISE TO GIVE HUGMEN REAL FIGHT FOR PENNANT St: Louis Club Has as Much Drive in Outfield as New York, Better Infield and Catching Equally Good-Pitching Alone Problematical. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N The team that has the championship bee buzzing may be told by the enthusiasm of its players. The Brown They practice like whirling dervishes, and they EW YORK, May 22—If the St. Louis Browns have n Missouri minds to play base ball all season as they against the Yankees the Hugmen have a fight on the win the pennant again. The Browns and the Detroits look m teams than anything that has played against New York th Detroits have an air of “eat 'em up,” blood, ‘and the Browns have a distinctive atmosph de up their ed it have which is not custom attic always have a their regular honest-to-goodness play. ’ qhality. | | Their outfleld has as much drive 2s ithe Yanks have in theirs, even with Ruth and Mepsel back. They are better at first base. They are no bet- ter at the other infleld positions, but they are good. If Ellerbe, their third baseman, did not have to crank hts arm every,time he makes a throw they would be better there. Behind the bat they are as well off as the Yanks. Whether they are as strong in pitchers is to be proved It doesn’t appear that they are, yet if they can make good and win for their pitchers, as they have been do- ing since the season began, there is not a step of the long road between now and October 1 in which they will not stop, snarl and show their teeth at New York. They have the pennant thirst written all over ther counte- nances. Ruth Faces Tough Going. Babe Ruth is back. Physically, he is as much a beau ideal as ever. As a home runnmer, he hasn't hit any- thing yet and he is not going to have unlimited chence to hit. Ruth will find that the experlenced pitchers are going after him this year. The lesson of what happened in the world series has not been forgotten. The Ameri- can League pitchers do mot stand in awe of him as they did. The kid pitchers will not know how to handle themselves when Ruth faces them, but the vets do know. Shocker struck him@®ut the first tyme that he batted officially in a game in 1922. There wasn't much of anything extraordinary about a strike-out, but Shocker pitched to him all through the game and Ruth couldn’t hit him. That was significant. Ruth did little better against Davis. When the Giants are returned from the west they will have a long, long session of games on the Polo Grounds. By the showing which they are making they need home games Giants’ Big Lead Has Shrunk. The National League champio; are not having the easiest of paths with their pitchers. Other things have happened here and there, but the pitchers have not gilded the record of the National League lead- ers since they left the east. Little by little the big lead of the team has Insurance You'll find guidance in Insurance matters a big ad- vantage—and we offer our services in EVERY branch —from Fire Insurance to Automobile Insurance. Each line has its individ- ual phases—and aspects— all of which we interpret to your fullest protection. Ad- justments are made and settled between us. 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