Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1922, Page 31

S PORTS. NATIONALS MAKING FLAG | WHITE SOX INSURE LIF PATH EASY FOR YANKS| (F KAMM FORSIZS 000 Francis Blanks Fohlmen With Four Hits, While His Fourth Straight D lates Get Bingles in Double Figureg to Inflict efeat on Shocker. with the Nationals writing th LOUIS, September 21.—Step by step the Browns are dropping out 1s an official contender for the American League championship, e words and music. Southpaw Ray is, plus seventeen whistling base hits, buried the Browns in a $&-10-0 defeat in the second game of the series.yesterday, and made the . journey of the Yanks soit and easy The Browns, refusing to adm upon their premier b hits against his record. down the stretch. J that they have been licked, called il periormer, Urban Shocker, but he retired at the end-of the eighth inning for his fourth succe: ve defeat and fifteen base The Nationals couid not miss—there was a swing at the plate and ficlders would scamper around tryin the other side Ray Francis was pitc periormer. Matched st the seventeen hits for the Nationals were four for the Browns, with one coming in the fifth, 1wo in_the seventh and one in the nin The only hitless inning for the Griffs w tne sixth. The run scored in the second would have been sufficient for the victory. Peck gled to center. La Motte sacrificed, and, after Francis fanned, Judge wheeled @ double out to cen- ter, Peck oss. Howe ‘be conteny “dded refused Iy, and r two. Brower i 9 the third. with his + me run of the s noon a the rightticld bleachers, Browns Negleer ening. t opening for the Browns e HifL vercid lmed a triple itened when fanned Pat . with one out, when to centér. But ed it The Nit tion in the runs. Jud, started Lut was de d going down to a4 as Ha fanned.. Rice tripled xlin and Brower singled, and the } tion ith had Te wi mor v H oW i th and Rice ei bun Francis had almost perfect control walking only Shocker. ik AT O The Seasdn Witk ke Will be staged today with > pitted against Ray Kolp. Collins had a long chewing with ump: was e allin ed with Sovereid nd one out in the fifth. * of the thumb informed t that unless he wanted to close his day’s work to move on to the bench and thove with spesd Ban Johnson attended the game in company With president Rall of the Browns. The last time the American 41 cague wis h the park was £d with pennant enthusiasts. About 00 attended yost Francis started in strike-out fashion Foster and Williams in the t and Jacobson opening the second hout as much as 4 foul against his hpaw shoots. LaMotte put on a play that usually * Ixvorks, but Is seldom tried. When Severeid chucked down to Fat Collins 1o pick him off first in the fourth he Aashed for second and’was on the bag while Colling was_sweeping around Jooking for the spikes. Not a bad day for Samuel Rice— three singles and a triple, and several Tris Speaker catches out in center. Gerber and McManus had a bus: afternoon around second on force play The Griffs featured their of- Tens attack with the hit and run play. rher had six assists and five put-outs while all of McManus’ chances were on plays at second bas This was the fourth successive de- feat for Shocker. The five runs were earned on fifteen hits. Brower now is two behind.Judge in the home-run ra among the Na- tionals. With Gharrity returningyto the game there was au change in the batting order. Gharrity swinging in sixth place behind Brower. THE HOME-RUN RACE St. Louis is_having a Iittle world series of its own. It ix between Rogers Ifornsby of the Cards und Ken W Jinms of the Browns. The former ticd Williams® home-run record for the sea. son yesterday, circlying the baxes twice in the second game, Each has 20, Circuit drives popped off the bats }in John Heydler's wheel yesterday. Yonseca of the Reds, Bigbee and Coop- er of the Pirates, Statz of the Cubs, and Parkinson, with two, and Wil- linms of the Phils drove the ball out of the lot. In the American League Brower of the Nationals and Meusel of the Yanks turned the trick. The leaders: Ameriean. Willinms. St. Louis. C. Walker, Phile. Huth, New York. Hejilmann, Detroi Miller, Phil Meusel, New Falk, Chicago McManus, St. Bpeaker, Clevelan National. Hornsby. St Louis.. 39 38 Williams. Phila. aves Your Shirts { Seves YourTies when the j g to locate the sailing ball, while on hing as effectively as a world series YEAR ENDS FOR SISLER WITH AVERAGE: OF .420 ST. LOUIS, September 21~ Five victories for the Yamkees, and ali-hands will move in the di- rection of tBe Polo Grounds for the 1922 world weries. The Na- tionals have ;ln;n‘ul'l‘;r::lrfle-(: rom 1he Drovne whe zames on their sched ning their seven they ca the Yankeen if the New York get five out of the elght they yet to play. With one more with the Nationals, three with the A Ieties starting tomorrow, three with the White Sox the pect of finishing with sevy vi toriex ix not very encouraging for the Browns. 1ST_ PAUL AND ORIOLES OPEN SERES OCTOBER 4 CHICAGO, September 21.—The in- ter-league series between St. Paul, pennant winner of the American As- sociation, and Baltimore, winner ot the TInternational League flag, will open in Baltintore, October 4, Presi- dent Hickey of the American Asso- ciation has announced. fter four games have been played in Baitimore the clubs will invade St. { Paul to conclude the series. The schedule calls for nine games, with the championship going to the club winning five. Games will be played in Baltimore October 4, 5, T and §. provided weath- er conditions do not interfere with the schedule. The Octéber 6th was left open so i game could be played in case rain forees a post- ponement the first two days. _first game to be played in St. Paul‘is sheduled for October 11. e ATTENDANCE RECORDS SET BY TERRE HAUTE CHICAGO. September 21.—Attend- ance records for the Three I League were shattered by the pennant-win- ning Terre Haute club, which drew 80,056 paid admissions for the 1922 season, President Tearney has an- nounced. Decatur, which finished second in the pennant race, also was second in attendance, drawing 62,671. The Evansville club was third in attend- ance,, with 62.442, and also third in the pennant race. ! REDS PICK 1923 CAMP. CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 21.— The Cincinnati’ National League club will train next spring at Orlando, Fla it has been announced. Carl Finke, auditor of the club, has returned from an inspection of the grounds at Orlando. I SETTLING OLD SCORES ' WASHI AB. R. H.P0.A. E. Judge, 1b 13 70 ¢ Harris, 2b. 4 0 1 1 3 o Rice, ef. 1.4 [ Goslin, 1f. e 2 3.0 0 Rrower, rf. 4 ¥ ¥ A 9-¢ Garrity. ¢ 5 0 0 6 1 0 Peckinpaugh, es. 5 2 3 2 1.0 La Motte, 3b. 3 & 3 & X '0 Francis, p. 4 0 0 0 0 0 40 5 17 27 6 O ST. LOT AB. R. H.PO.A. E 4 0 0 0 0o o Foster, 4 &2 0 2 1 Williams, 4 0 1 0 0 o Jacobson, cf. 4 003 0 0 McManu 4 0 9 3 0 Severeid, e, 3 0 2 4 1 0 Collins, 1b. .8 0 012 1 0 Gorber, & 3 0 05 0 Shocker. p. o 0 o0 1 o D, o 0 0 06 0 0 *Vangilder 10 0 0 0 9% Totals +:seasvmvevso 0.0 42714 1 *Batted for Shocker in eighth, Washington ....0 1 1,0 0 0 1 2 05 St. Louis . 0000000000 Two-base hit—Judge. Three-base hit—Ser- ercid. Home run—Rrower. Stolen base—La Motte. _ Sacrifices—La Motte (2). Double plays—Gerber and Collina: Severeid and ber. Left on bases—Washington. Louis, 5. Bases on ball Steuck _out—] . 51 by \ 3. Hits—Off Shocker. 15 in 8 in- off Kolp, 2 in 1 inning, Hit by piteher Shocker (Harris). Tosing pitcher— ‘Umpires—Mess allin and Dineen. HE foremost’ indication of good taste in dress- three hundred andsixty-five days a year. Buy your collars of a reputable retailer. He won't offer you a substitute when you ask for a VAN HEUSEN. He knows there isn’t any. VAN HEUSEN the Werlds Smartest COLLAR PHILLIPS.JONES CORPORATION, Makers, SR =y i Piper Bldg., Baltimore. date | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922. Griffs Put Another Crimp in Browns and Base Ball Sun of the West Is Da " SPORTS. "~ 31 kened 'YANKS NEED BUT FIVE ~ WINS TO CLINCH TITLE ST. LOUIS, September Zl~— George Sixler in expected te vetive with a ba verage of 420 for the 1923/ senson. Advised by physician to store the uniform u 111923, owing te & torm n--:le inler CHICAGO, September 21.—A base round his right sheulde: ball player's life was insufed for| Drobubly will mot play in & ther $125,000 when a policy was taken out! &ame this year. He was injured by ‘the Chicago White Sox, Insuring Stretching for a wide throw & the club against the death of Willie| Yeek ago last Monday againut the Kamm, the sensational third baseman | Tifers and was advised 4o Neep of the San Francisco club of the Pa- ! oific Caast League, who recently was| However Sialer risked hi TxRrg purchased by the Sox. by playing in the three games and This i3 the largest amount for which | _iFritated the muscles to such aw a base ball player ever has been in-| ~¢xXtemt that he ot e sured, it'was announced. Ray Schalk,| TiEhtarm. His batting streal wis star catcher of the White Sox club,; »{upped at 41 gamen by Jor Bush, who is an insurance agent when not{ but having passed Ty Cobb's playing base ball, wrote the policy. record Sixler ix matiafied with his Kamm, who is only twenty wol work' for 1922. Whe wouldn’t be vears old, is said to be one of the, WIith am average of .4307 today, and was purchased by the Chi- cago White Sox for $100.000 cash and | players valued at .000. Three pitchers, Douglas McWeeney, Harry | Courtney and _Clarence hovel™) ! Hodge, already have been turned over to the Seals as part payment. Kamm wlill report to the White Sox next| spring. H The amount paid for Kamm is the highest in the history of the game! with one when the New | d a like amount | Mohawk Athletic Club, which took jthe measure of General Accounts in AS THEY DOWN GIANTS is casting about for more base ball laurels. The Indians are anxious to Pittsburgh, pursuing what scem- ingly B for the tackle champion teams of other sec- tions and there is every likelihood that a series will be arranged be- tween the District leaders and Boyds, | flug winning nine of the Montgomery {County (Md.) League. If played, s will be contested here vanquished General Ac- counts, Government League pennant | inbow chance” National Leugue pennant, took theielub thet captured city interleague first of & three game series from New | lonors, for the second successive York. 4 60 1t e g 1 time yesterday, the Mohawk team ork. 4 to 1. but thiv Giants today still | il aastn Terord cuenty:elght were four and a half games in front. ! victories agaiust four defeats. Dur- Detving into the mathematies of the |iUE_ the independent elimination tournament that continued more ‘than situation. Pittsburgh two months, the Indians were set| n tie for the) top by taking all nine of its games, | back only twice. H if the Giants obtain only an even| The second win over General Ac-! break in their twelve cont count chieved easily. With McGraw can sew up the ruc Wine ielding only three hits, winning but seven more gam Government leaguers never were a poxition to score. Carroll, who hurled for General Accounts, was anything but g difficult proposition. The Indfans got to him for three runs in the first innipg and boosted their to six befdr ended. The game was called on account of darkness after five and one-half innings were played. EXTERMINATOR AGAIN JANNEXES TORONTO CUP TORONTO. September 21.—Extermi- nator, Willis Sharpe Kilmer's long- distance thoroughbred chumpion, yes- terday won the Toronto autumn cup at Woodbine track, for the third year in succession, defeating Mrs. J. Phil- 1ips' Guy by a length and a half. The time for the mile and a quarter was 2:051-5. . R. Bradiey's Bit of White finished gardlest of his rival's showing. The Yankecs were forced to call on'f their hest to down Cobb's Tygers | in the second struggle vesterday. Bob Meusel alt the de ive blow i with & honter in the ninth after Hug- | gins Tiad thrown into the fray his| two mound aces, Shawkey and Bush. | “Bullet Joe" tamed the Tygers in the ninth after they had tied the count off_“Sailor Bob” in the eighth. Soutkpaw Cooper of the Pirates and | and Hugh McQuilian of the Giants| battled on even ferms untll the seventh, | when Bighee delivered a homer that | clinched the game for the invaders. Cooper displayed hix versatility by slashing out another circuit drive oft ! Ryan in the ninth. Rogers Hornsh ting streak w. Grimes of Bro of a double-header with the ¢ after it had re irty tests, but th | v's consecutive hit- | stopped by Burleigh | kiyn in the first game | dinals . Louis mauler Neick in: the sscond LT, with 4 b third, while J. K. L. Ross' Boniface of home runs that hrought his xe: wag fourth, and Redstone ffth. total to tying Ken Williams of the EXxterminator, carrying top weight Browns, The Dodgers annexed the|of 132 pounds, was held back by first, & to 1. and the Cardinals the | Jockey Albert Johngon, while Red- second. stone and Guy set the early pace. Ha 4 Parkinson | Gong into the stretch. the veteran helped iladelph Nationals | elding moved up rapidly and won | take two 1 matches from the | With plenty to spare, from the tiring Chicago Cubs, 9 to 8 and 11 to 1 {Phillips entry. while Cincinnati red a double triumph over the Boston Braves, 9 to 3 and 6 to TThe White Sox climbed within a game atd a half of Detroit, in third place, by taking a hard-fought twin bill from the Athletics, 1 to 0 and 3 to 2. Cleveland captyred its second d double‘header in twd days from Bos- | championship yesterday, when it ton, 5 to 2 and 5 to 4, and uncovered | downed the Burcau of Engraving and fanother rookie twirling ‘star in Bed- | Printing team. 5 to 1, in a base ball good, giant Chattanooga recruit, who | game at American League Park. It. Won 'the sccond contest. was the second victory in a series of ! I three games for the Accountahts. | G. A. 0. NINE CAPTURES | COLORED LEAGUE FLAG General Accounting Office nine won the Colored Departmental League The Rurea# aggregation won the! I first series during the league meason and the Accountants were successful in the second. The latter took the opening game of the titular set and ithe next engagement resuited in a tie. H W. L Pet W oo Mew, Ytk 00 00 e TITLE TO GRAND RAPIDS. i i LUDINGTON. Mic] ptember 21.— Chicago . .75 72 510 614 50T, pids won the Central League Cleveland 175 73 807 510 .503!pennant vesterday in the split season Washington ... 65 78 4865 458 .4b1|Dlay-off with Ludington. by defeating Philadetphia ..... 58 85 410 414 .07, the locals, 4 to 1. It was the fifth vic- Boston . 57 9% .388 392 .385|tory for Grand Rapids to three for Ludington. The winners will meet the GAMES TOMORROW. | Michigan-Ontario champlons, as yet un- Wash, at Chicage. ! determined, for the state -inter-league Phila, at 8t. Louis, [ title. N. Y. at Cleveland. DUNDEE GETS AN OFFER. Boston at Detroit. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., September 21. —Johnny Dundee, junior lightweight champion, on arrival here received an offer for a match at the Polo GAMES TOUAY. ) Wash, at St. Louis. i Phils. at Chicago. New York at Detroit. Boston at Cleveland. | RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, | New York. 6: Detroit, 5. { Washington, b; Bt. Louis, 0. Chicago, 1—3; Philadelphia, 0—2. i ‘L'll'lll tomfirrov evening at 5 o'clock ! and a scrimmage with the reserves H Sunday morning at 11. The practices e the third session}. FANAWAS EXPECTNG - FORMIDABLE ELEVEN With more than forty .eandidates, most of them veterans of last year's squad, out for the eleven, Kanawha club’s foot ball prospects this fall are unusually bright. Coach Miller .has selected tentatively® a team with a line heavier than the forward set of the 1921 combination and a backfield which with one exception -in the same that played last fall. The Kana- whas will practice tomorrow evening at 6:30 olclock at 7th and O streets. Manager H. E. Keane is booking games with 135-140 pound elevens. He may be telephoned at Franklin 8296 between 6 and 6:30 p.m. 1 - Seat Pleasant Athletic = Associa- tion's squad is practicing every even- ing at 7 o'clock. Coach Guyon ex- pects all candidates to be on hand at that hour. 4 Mohawk Juniors will hold a signal will be conducted on the ficld at 14th street gnd Potomac avenue southeast. | « York Athletic Club has issued a call for all candidates to report at Union Station plaza Sunday morning at 10. The Yorks will enter the new sandlot foot ball federation. HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING GIANTS AND YANKS FIRST .QF ONE CITY TO REPEAT Chicago Had Chance in 1907, But White Sox Fliv- vered—Prospective Victories of New York : " Clubs Not Nationally Popular. BY JOHN T been won, but they can only be lo! paralyzed or shriveled up by a blast When -the Giants and Yank: to re cat"pcnnams togetheb he fi the national game has been paid in vain. with ghe best chance of two decades to win in their respective leagues, have oozed into the Mississippi silt with the silence of the night, and s restored to its normal quiet, and the once more Olive street, St. Louis, song of the killallo bird in the river Missouri asked to be shown and saw. The Browns were thrashed again yesteyday -By Washington. and the Yankees, as the curtain of might was about to descend. were thrown into a spasm of rapturous joy when Steel-Arm Meusel hit a home run and relieved them of a great Sus- pense. G. AB. H. 8B.RBL Pot,| Pittsburgh defeated the Giants, but Warmeuth . £ "1 "1 6 01001t availed Pittsburgh about as much Lapan .. 4 10 4 0 0 .400.2s it would a man to draw a check Goslin. . 90 315 102 1 48 .33; with no funds in the bank. The wins Zachary . 30 63 20 0-16 .317!that come to Pittsburgh now arc Judge 138 B41 162 4 75 299 only a testimonial to the fact that Rice 163 860 175 20 64 208 more might have come if the team Shanks a8 368 78 6 38 .291 had seen fit to play the ball that it Brower M9 128 6 71 285/ could play earlier in the year. The Goebel %6 15 1 5 .368| course of the Pirates since managers Mogridge 76 20 0 9 .63 were changed ik not one that should Harris 562 148 24 41 .363| warrant the awarding of any enco 4% 134 12 67 358 | miums of praise to the Pitishurgh La Mette 177 45 2 18 .384| players. It is simply a corroboration Gharrity 268 66 2 37, 84| of what many have felt. Bush 129 31 1 8°34! Part of the west made a game fight 73 16 0 4 to change the course of events. The 200 45 1 18 victories of the New York te; s are 103 21 0 17 .303| not nationally popular. The legal 72 12 1 2 .168! right for them to win is indisputable, 42 5 0 1 .119) but throughout the west there is 85 2 0 1 .057| marked and plentiful sentiment that € o 0 0 .000igambling with money to win pen- HE base ball sun of the west is darkened today. chance that any but the New York teams will play in the world series of 1922 The pennants in the respective leagues have not clinch the championships of their re- spective leagues this year they will be the first two teams of one city and simultaneously, as Col. Huston has it” nancial tribute to the turnstile of the St. Louis monarchs of FAN SAYS WITT STEPPED ON BOTTLE THAT HIT HIM DBy the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 20— “Whitey” Witt, centerfieder of New York Americans, was mot hit by a thrown botte in the e with S¢t. Louis here Satarday, but stepped on a pop bottie in running nfter a @iy ball, and the bottle flew up and-hit him on the forchead, mccording to a_letter made public here today by Ban Johmson, presi- dent of the American League. from James P. Ind., who stated seeking no part of the $2,050 in ewards for the arrest of the al eged thrower of the bottle, and declared he would make afdavits that the bottle was not thrown. FOSTER. There is little because it is reckoned with from the sordid point of business gain. 1f the majcr leagne teams would play the world series and give each player a fixed sum, deduct the actual expenses and give the remainder of the receipts to charity it would be a sporting event worth while and there might be less incentive to jockey to get into it. The two Chicago clubs plaved to- gether in 1916. when both won their league pennants, but they were un- 2 1907 The Philadel- st if both of the Gotham teams are from a desert. Both Browns and Cardinals, able to repeat conjointly two Hoston clubs, the two phia clubs, the two St. Louis clubs never have won championships in the same year, although both Boston and Philadelphia_seem likely to hold th privilege of beipg mutual tail-enders, Philadelphia has held it and Bosion Las got it coming. (Copyright. 1822.) bottom lands is hushed. nants is not gambling ethically for the favors of the goddess of sport. The west refers to the victories of the New York teams as the “bought and paid for” of base ball. There is a demand from the prairies for more sport and less show of cash. Once bhefore two cities have won the championship two vears in suc- cession and plaved under the Brush rules. This was fn 1907 and 1908, when Detroit won in_ the American and Chicago in the National League. Technically Chicago got the right to play in 190§ because it won mel SAGINAW GETS CLOSE. HAMILTON, Ontario, eptember 21 the Michigan-Untario League champi ship series to one game vesterday, play-off game after the Merkle epi- sode. It will never be conceded that|winning § to 2. The count is = from the standpoint of true sports-|'"1 and two with five games required manship Chicago should have had (to win. {that privilege. Technical champion? l MINOR LEAGUE R"SULTS I hips will not go down with the American public. They may be com- pelled to swallow them but no one can make them like them. Profegsional basepall cares little ) . z for technicalities when opportunity INTERNATIONAL LEAGUL. offers to get into the world series| Rochester, 8: Terouto, 5. for the financial harvest that can be| Syracuse,’s; Buffalo, gained out of it. That is one reason | Reading. 7; Newark. why the world series is not a sound sporting event viewed from ghe standpoint of sport give and take AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Paul, 14-2; Minneapolis, 4-3. (Bocond game, 10 innings.) Cleveland, 5—8; Boston, 3—4. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Grounds, in New York, with Joe Lynch for the featherweight tham- pionship, requiring him to make 126 | pounds at 2 o'clock. ‘W) L. Pot. Win. Lose. Tedw oo d 8 ool Pittsl . o o o \ (Bt zows @ e me s e | THE LEADING HITTERS 1 Cincinnati .79 66 545 548 541 Chicago . .75 68 .5%4 528 621 " Brooklyn L0 T4 486 400 483 AMERICAN LEAGUE. { Philadelphi .53 8 313 378 37| plager. Club. Boston .. .47 94 .333 338 .331|Bisler, St I.&nu GAMES TODAY. -GAMES TOMORROW. !%‘?}h,f’é{:m Cincinnati at Boston. Cincinnati at Boston, | Heilmazn, Chicsgo at Phila. Pittsburgh at N. Y. Pittsburgh at N. Y. 8t. Louis at Brooklyn. Bt. Lonis at Brooklyn, RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Brooklyn, 6—7; Bt. Lonis, 1—13. Cincinnati, 8—8; Boston, 3—5. Pittsburgh, 4; New York, 1. Philadelphia, 8—11; Chicago, 8—1. Chicage at Phils. 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