Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 20

VICTORY MEANS FOURTH / * PLACE IF BROWNS LOSE Encounter White Sox This Afternoon in Inaugural of Three-Game Series—Griffs Shut Out by Tribe After Blazing Way in Batfest. BY JOHN B. KELLER. N opportunity to crash into A afternoon, offer another chance for {led Sox will have to lend a helping hand if the locals are to make the ourtlr position before sunset. Should the Nationals take the ‘Chancemen topple the Browns today, Donie Bush sway places, with Jimmy Austin’s ‘gan, the Mound city men would be slight, t 492754 The dual bill with the Indians, the first ever played herc on a Sunday by big league clubs, was a lurid affair, especially the first portion of it. There was much loose base ball in it, but both teams fought tooth ana nail, and the outcome was doubtful up to the final play. Mogridge and Ukle Pounded. Neither George Mogridge of Bushmen nor George Uhle of the Trf sjarting hurlers, weathered the gale. Both were hit freely, but wildness hastened their departures. Uhle passed in the fifth after pe mitting the Griffs to grab a substan- tial lead, and Mogridge in the sixth after the Indians had deadlocked the | ™! Boone succceded Uhle and Allen Russell followed Mogridge. The N lost little time in 5 and Speaker ' tried Jim Suilivan, ' former Washington sandlotter, and Logan Drake, a pair of recruits, on the hill before the fray. Daniel game ended. Russell kept to his task | to_the The Edwards all the way. southpaw completel. ter Johnson He gave but six safe- ties, half of them made by Roger Peckinpaugh and a couple. by Stanley Harris, while Johnson had three poor innings, two of them productive of runs. In the sixth, Bush sent to the mound Fred Wingfleld, a rangy right- hander, recently procured from Chat- tanooga by the Nationals. He did the little he had to do well. For five and & half frames the {nitial %battle was a seesaw affair. The Na- tionals garnered 4 marker in the first ession that was matched *by Tribe in the second. In their part of the latter inning, the Bushmen chalked up two scores, but the In- dians made as many in the third, and in fourth took the lead by ting in a tally after two men had bes retired 2 Three singles, finish. second encounter was Jimjoe a couple of walks and a hit batter accounted for four National 1uns and cha:2d Ulle in the fitth. Mogiidge, though, became gen- erous in the sixth. Two singlee and a pess loaded the bases with Indians after two wure out. Then*Wamby knocked cut Mogridge and knocked in a trio of points with a heflthy double, and the game again was all- even. Nationals Win in Sixth. In their section of the sixth, how- ever, the Nationals went wild. Two singles and a frank off’ Boone filled the sacks before Judge tripled to right center. Judge and drove Boone to the show- Ere. A run not meeded, was made off Bullivan in the seventh. The Indians, helped by some odd fielding, threw scare into the Bushman camp in.the ninth with a rally that was not nipped until three runs got across. After the first frame the Bushmen Aad no rcal scoring c¢pportunity in the second game, while the Tribe had thres. It flunked in the second in- ning, but combed Johnson for two singles and a triple and two tallles in the third, and made four runs in the fifth when two one-base blows and a double were mixed with an error and a pass. From now on the fans may expect to see some of the National recruits in the line-up. Carr Smith, new out- fielder from Raleigh, who played for 2 time vesterday, 1s to be used this week, as well as Jake Prothro, third- sacker from Memphis, and Mike Riley, ex-Shreveport first baseman. League was lost by the National: yesterday when they took a 6-t0-0 beating from the Indians in a six-inning, darknes game after winning, 12 to 10, in the first part of the double-header. ever, Kid Gleason's White Sox, duc to open a three-game séries this the | The big Indian | outhurled Wal- | the | bat- | Ruei's double scored | the first division of the American -halted | How- the Bushmen to climb, although the measure of Gleason®s crew and the | aggregation would f. The Nationals’ advantage over | hough—a matter of .492958 against (FIRST GAME.) WASHINGTON. Gostin, 1 { Tuige, "1 uige, 1b, | Ruel."e. i ae ] Megridge, 5. Russells ... Totals.... CLEVELAND. j‘ THE USUAL RESULT " ol 0] e [UTUR—1 5l omoonmismms! &l ormonnrnnw! cossucoonal | Lutake, 3b. | Browor, 1b ! Knode. ' 10, 0'Neill Moate, | so000mroomomnmaammm | c0000mmmrcnoommmnll | o80ororooomroononal |-Connolly | Totals... s | *Batted for Brower in sixth inning. {Batted for Eullivan in eightl Inning. § & in ninty inning. | 01210300 310 12004410 x-12 | _Two-base hits—Rice. Speaker, Wamby, Ruel, Géslin. Throe-base hits—Uhte, Judge. Stolen i basss—Lutzke.(8), Licbold. Sacrifioes—Packin. | paugh (2), Gonnolly. Left on bases— Washington, 7; Cleveland, 9. Bases on balli— Of Mogridge, 3; off Russell, 1; of Sullivan. ‘1 by Russell, 1; hy Uhls, | off Unle. 7 in 4% innings | in 8% innings; off Be Russell, 3 i 1% innin { by pitche | Bl eoisosenusssniiiunt ] etiiimi slesbusaborbesnpeiisMil consasanuall Bl ohic it mna s NSl iin in 1 jnning. Mit y beld, Harris); by | Mogridge (Jamieson). ng’ pltohorc—nus- | sell. Losing pitcher—Boone. Umpires—Kess Connolly, Dinecn and Holmes. Time of game— 2 hours and 27 minutes. i (SECOND GA! i CLEVELAND. AB. 8 » 0] ] 35| cnmmoms i, |-Bpeaks Sewell, ' ‘Wambsgans: Lutske, 8b... | Brower, 1b, coorwonncH | Totals.. | _ WASHINGTON. | Evans, cf Smith, cf. la "y $ . P Hargrave® Wingfield, p. Total *Batted for Jol Cleveland Washing Sl Two-base hits—8, hit—Speaker. S fees—Bluege, Sowdll, Lutzke, Browe pleye—Vohnsan, Peckinpaugh and Juigs. on béses—Washington, 8; Cleveland, on balls—Off Edwards, 1; off Johnson. 1. Hits | Off Johason, § in § innings; off Wingfleld, none |in 2 inning_ Hit by. pitcher—By Johnson | (Jamieson, Brower); by Edwards "(Rice). | Struck cut—By Johusen, 2: by Wingfleld, 1 by Edwards, 1. Losiog er—Joh Um. pires—Messrs. Dineex, Holmes and Time of game—1 hour | cosomooronsctt @ <l comemonconcal wl mesormacol WreiSubuanaasib Bl usrdinmusd o} sumvesssiiolt a! assenenind & 5l cocommaommon oo f u e IR T R owia er, Rice., Three-base Stolen base—Jamisson. ¢ d { GIANTS AND REDS START - | TELLING 2-GAME SERIES INCINNATI, Ohio, September cinnati Reds open ther final C result in the National League. , Peta Donohue will pitch the first game for the Reds. Manager Mc; Graw or bly will select either Nehf, Wiatson or Barnes, all of whom have been very effective against the Cincinnati team this season. Cincinnati advanced vesterday by defeating Brooklyn, 5 to 1, while the Giants and Pirates were idle. The Reds are now the only contenders for the league pennant, however, as the Pirates, even if they ‘won all their games while the Gdants lost all theirs, would still be half a game behind. Chicago defeated Philadelphia in the National League, 4 to 1, Osborne holding the Phillies to three hits. The Braves won a double-header from St. Louis, 2 to 1 and 3 to 0. In the first game St. Louis took nine hits to Boston's four, but tight fielding by the Braves won the day. In the second game the hit score was exact- 1y reversed, Cooney doing the honors for Boston. . TAKES SANDLOT TITLE. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, September 24— Bauer amateur tional feating the Christ Church of Cincin. nati, 7 to 4. ‘The vietory was the twenty-third straight for the local clgss A team. RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES The record -in major leagues for the past week, with games won and lost. Tuns, hits, errors and opponents’ ruRs, follows: % AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. R H. 2 16 39 24 71 il Clubs.. New York.. SBaxElual waaabloal the result of which will have an important bearing on the final | Meats of Cleveland won the | champlonehip of the Na- | B! Base Ball Federation by de- 28| 8t. Louls at Boston, \ | 24.—The New York. Giants and Cins two-game series here this afternoon, If the Cin- BABE AND CY STILL ON PAR IN HOMERS Babe Ruth of the New York Amer- icans and Cy Williams of the Phila- delphia Nationals, each with thirty- soven home runs for the season, went through last week without.%louting a four-base hit. ° Kenneth Willfams of tne St. Louis | Browns is in third position in the | two major leagues with twenty-eight homers, and Fournier “of = Brooklyn was fourth with twenty-one. . Players in the two leagues who have cracked out twelvé or more home runs follow: STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. | (L 8 2—1; Karl ¥, {D. V. : nockburn, 2—1; Lynn | defeated D. J. Gray (I. B. | Banzockburn. 7—6; James A-drew White (B.) | defoatod 3. V. Brownell (L. 8.); 7—6: John T By winning both games the New Yorkers would cinch the pennant, | even if the Reds should win their four remaining contests. nati team should win bath games the champions still would have a chance to land the flag, but it would be a nip-and-tuck affair. "TOM TURNER ENRICHING BANNOCKBURN GOLFERS LEAD IN TEAM- MATCHES B man team golf competition, in ANNOCKBURN GOLF CLUB now holds a commanding lead over | the four other organizations represented in the interclub twelve- progress for several wecks, as a re: sult of its 16-to-1 victory scored over the Jndian Spring contingent yes- terday on the Cabin John links. mer't total to 67, several Chase. R. Clifft McKimmie, Bannockburn club champlon, established a new rec- | ord for his course in defeating Tom Moore, making the second nine in 4,3,2/3,4,3,6 3and 6 for a 33, one under par. The match summary follows: R. C. McKimmie (B.)®defeated Tom Moore llerman, jr. (B.). d feated L. L. Stecl (L 8. ‘best 2—1; ¥. R. Bpeelman (I, Titon (k. B and. George %, Cumningham (B, son (1, 8.) and George T. Cunningham (B.), { g e o P rauss (B.) def Enox (1. 'Klyn (B.) defeat . ted P. C. 3. B. De. 2 up; best ball, Ba bura, ¥ . R. Tilley Bono (B.) defented A. . (I 8.). 1 up; best ball, Ban- aines (B,) defeated A. 5—4: E. J. Doyle (B.) 98; best ball, D. V. Burr (L 8., Harris (B.) defeated H. B. Pope (I S. best ball, Bannockburn, b—4. Tots kburn, 16; Indian Spring, 1. Columbia Country Club's team went to Washington Golf and. Country Club and noséd out a 9+to-7 win. The summary follows M. B, Stevinson (C.), defeated G. P. Lynde 5. %55 Rolana MacKensis (0., defested E. W. Freeman (W.), 3—1; best bail, Colum- . 3—2: George (C.), defouted J. ite Wright ( 3. Davis, ir. wnd G- @ Du Gamme (W.j, sl square; be ball, Oclumbia, £ up: J. H. Davidion (W.), defeated B. N. Hart (0.), 4—3: G. H. Chas. mar (0.), defested George Howard (W. S—1; best ball, Washington, 4—3; H. E, Doyl (C.) defeated’ A. W. Howard (W), 2 up 3L Fower (W), dotestad 3 ¥ Brawnse . (C.), 6—5; st ball, ‘ashingten, up: £ daton (O dofeated K. S McHugh H, C, Train (C.)), a M. R. L), #ll square; best ball, Columbia, p; J. C. Davidson (W.), defeated J. W. Brawner' (€), &-2; ©. . ‘Daing, fr. (WO defeated P. E, Brengle (C.), 6—5: best ball, Washington, 3 up. Totals—Columbia, 9; ‘Washington, 7. Play in the professional-amateur series will be resumed at Bannock- burn today with a good field -com- peting. Class A and B golfers yes- terday finished first-rofind play in club championship tournament with the following results: CLASS A, R. C. McKimmio defeated Les Crandall, ir., 2—1; R. Hayes defeated Evert L. Bono, 4—2; H. Stonier defeated Carl ~Heokstadt, 1 up (ninteen holes); George T. Cuntingham de- foated Charles 'E. Felton, 4—3; Harry F. iddleton Beaman, 1 up; azard won from W. Frank Turton Karl F, Kellerman defeated Lynn 1up (twenty holes). CLASS B. E.S: Slvord: dpfeated C. M, Mark defeated Munros E. ip; L. 8. Pautz defested W up; Fred B. Moise dofeated Capt. )3 Wil Qarey, jr. Olark, 1 up (twenty defeatod H. Grifin, 5—4. i PORTLAND BY HIS SALES Tom. Turner, who acted as agent for the sale of Portland players to Brooklyn, is the best little agent the northwest has. He it was who made | the deal for Portland which landed Sam Hale at third base in Philadel- | phin. If they give him time; Turner w that will carry them through the ext five years in base ball. Jones, the Portland shortstop, is one of the players Brooklyn néeded worst. He should hit the ball in the | National League for about .25, and he may be the man to put up the bars that have been down so long that cattle stray all aver the Brooklyn infleld. Ty D —— OF MAJOR NATIONAL LEAGUE. 14 453 13l Tieu s . 10 /13! 57/83(.407 | gl Gamos lost....|48|63168]09]72|76/78 83 /—|— i 496 489 | SN ! T "GAKES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Chigago st Weshia'n, Chi > at Washin'n, € st Now York. - Detralt at Now York. Louis at Bosten. Oleveland at Cleveland at Phila. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. Wasl 12-0; Cleveland, 10-8, GAMES TODAY. GAMES nl‘(:now. B'klyn; at St. Touis, , B'klyn at Bt. Leuis. Eniait Eridee Y. st Oincianatl. . N, Y. at. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. Chicago, & The points ahead of its closest competitot, Chevy in a short time. {Kunkel "will land Portland a bank account | | win boosted Bannockburn’s tourna- ” Ba Babe Ruth has made his choice and he is sticking to it. When the Bambino finished the 1922 world series in a blaze of ignominy he promised faith- fully to mend his ways the forth. coming year. He chose to work hard and be- have himself. You all know the answer. . + Ruth has played the greatest game of his life in every way. No better all-around perform- ance has been seen since Cobb was in his prime ten years ago. Babe reported in excellent con- dition at the start of the season, and has kept himself that way all the year. He has been hitting around .400, and has nearly forty home runs (he wonld have more . if the pitchers had given him a ‘chance). The season’s close may find him leading both leagues in e o e S T e ll Has Come to Stay NO REAL DEMAND EXISTS FOR DEADENING SPHEROID Records for Current Big League Season Prove Talk of Big Scores Being Due to Lively Pill Is Not Justified by Facts. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK; September 24—The “Jack Rabbit” ball has come to stay. In opinions carefully gleaned from those who handle the destinies of base ball, the writer discovered, on a canvass com- pleted Saturday, that there was no real desire on the part of presidents of leagues, manager or players to change the ball in general use from its present construction. & The present base®ball is the result of experimentation that began when base ball was beginning to be important enough to be played from city to city. The game had barely begun to show those indications which augured nation-wide interest before it became evident that to be a high- class and equitable sport it would have to be played with uniform stand- ards. . So the ball itself went through many stages until it came to its pres- ent size and miaterials. The earlier ball was more like the cricket ball than the one in use today. There is a good deal of hokum in both batting and home runs. Ruth the most valuaple player in American League. (A CAR NE: HIGH L1 T DIFFERENCE. PRO GOLFERS BEGIN ANNUAL TITLE PLAY PELHAM MANOR, N. Y., September 24.—Professional golfers from all over the United States arg entered In’ the arnual tournament for the American | professional golf title, which opens | today at the Pelham Country Club. | Sixty-four professionals won their | entry right in sectional tournaments | and most of the leaders in the coun- | v are listed to start, except Bobby | Crulckshank, who carried Bobby | Jones to the thirty-sixth hole at In \TALK OF NEW PILOT FOR WILLS IS BUNK BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, September 24.—Billy Nolan, now! a rancher near San Fran- | clsco, has been in town the past few days. The rumor is that he may take over the handling of Harry Wills, That he would like to the writer has learned from Nolan's friends, but no one close to Wills has any idea that he wapts to oust Paddy Mullins, his present “manager. Nolan says that if he were Wills'{Je manager he would force Dempsey into a battle with the big negro with- And maybe he would. Billy is some forcer when ‘he gets down to work. He will be recalled as the former manager of Battling Nelson, handling his affairs in the Goldfield fight when | he compelled- Joe Gans to make the lightweight limit equipped with full ring paraphernalia. This fact was generally credited with causing Gans to_develop his fatal tuberculosis Since Nelson retired Nolan has been livink upon his ranch and pay- ing little attention to the fight game. If Wills were dissatisfied with Mul- lins, Nolan would have a golden op- ortuniy, but underneath the sur- ace it seems to be the idea that both Mullins and Wilis know@where they are at with respect to future en- gagements and that nejther man has any cause to worry. As to fights leading up to one with Dempsey, Wills' handd are said to be aualified’ to last through one more battle and. if this is the case he would not be likely to use them up on a small battle. (Copyright, 1923.) PALMS 13 TENNIS BALLS, DESPITE A'SMALL HAND Despite the fact that his hand only measures six inches from heel to finger tip, William F. White, in- structor of tennis at Merion Cricket Club, near Philadelphla, Pa., can hold thirteen regulation tennis balls fn one hand. TENNIS AT DUMBARTON. Play in the singles final and doubles semi-finals of the first annual invitation tennis tournament at Difm- barton Club will be held today. John Temple Graves, jr., and Clarence M. Charest ¥re to' clash in the singles at 2:30 o'clock and in the doubles starting at 4, A, J. Gore and Jack Dudley will oppose Charest and Wait Johnson, and Tom Mangan and Ray encounter. Roland Bal- linger and Holt: POLO 'HONORS DECIDED. DETROIT, Mich., September 24— Onwenteia poloists of Chlcago won the ‘midwestern champipnship, , de- feating the Miami Valiey Hunt 'and Polo Club of Dayton, § goals to 6. Sixth Army Corps . Area team won the trophy offerel by L. A. Young. president of ‘the Detroit Pglo Cluh, y defeating the Miami Vailey Free booters of Dayton, 12 to 4. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Septem ber 24.—The Potomac river Whs mud- dy and the. Shenandoah very thia moriing. P oAy -804 g8se EEbERERaASEEERE) SZu-gRESE 3 COMC TR 1 11 t3 BaonSeookiB. 188383 EeEEE| 24528588 ‘vo-flsl tH dotoz.ctsct e - ;_ wood. He failed to qualify in_ the | | *sgtional trinl The defending champlon, Gene Sara- {zen, is matched against Lloyd Gul- | lickson of Columbus, Ohio, today. | The tournament will be match play | at thirty-six holes throughout. Fred McLeod of Columbla Couptr Club and Rotert Barnett of Chevy |Chase are représenting the tional 1 Capital in the tournament. The forfn- cr was to play Wiliam H. Cox, Marine jand Field Club, while met- was | {to encounter Pat Doyle. Champlain | Club, today { —— e i ;iGUlLFORD SETS COURSE | RECORD AT CLEVELAND i | CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 24— Guilford, Boston, established a | new amateur record for the West- wood course here yesterday when he turned in a card of 72. HIs most ‘pectacular shot was mhde on the | 31%-vard 4-par No. 3. where he made | an eagle 2. Guilford stopped off here i while en roufe to his home from the national amateur golf tournament at Chicago. |CONFLICTING NEWS HERE . OF BRITISH TURF STAR: CHERBOURG, September 24.—Wire- less reports received fror the steamer | i Aquitania, which salled Saturday | { from Southampton, say that the race | horse Papyrus, which 15 on thy wuy | i to the United States to meet the best | | product of the American turf, is !rroving to be an admirable sailor, ialthough the weather on the English | channel is tempestuous. | LONDON, September 24 —The derby winner Papyrus, on board the steamer i Aquitania bound for New York, is listless, according to a wireless me#- sage sent to the Daily Mail. He is refusing food, and his condition is {thought to be due to the sewre ! weather. | other hurle: received the award for the FOUR RECORDS MADE BY BALTIMORE CLU BALTIMORE, Md., September 24.— In winning both games from Jersey City yesterday, Baltimore closed its season in the International League, | MARSTON FAIRLY EARNED HIS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP HICAGO, September 24—Flossmoor golf links rested yesterday from the battery it sustained duri C ship that Saturday, after a holes, placed the premier crown of of Philadelphia, who outplayed, out champion, Jess Sweetser of New York, although last year he failed to qualify for the event. Sweetser had recovered from wearied him on the final eighteen holes to a point where he fell off fron'; his usual crisp and deadly iron shot: daze that resulted from his wonderful concentration on‘the game he had to play to down the doughty Yale st JONES AND PENNOCK MAY SET RECORDS If Jones and Pennock 0{ the Yankees maintath their winning per- centages for the rest of the season, they will set a pitching record that has not been approached since the war was over. They will have a per- centage of about .700 each. This is such a pronouncedy departure from the pitching of the last four years as to constitute almost a base ball phenomenon. . There was only one pitcher in either league last season with a percentage as high as .700. That was Bush, in the American League, who stood head and shoulders above them all with .785. The best the Nationals could ‘show was Donohue of Cin- cinnati, who had 667, The figures set by Pennock and Jones so far demonstrate that there can be pitching despite the yowls of who sald they -could records because of the “rabbit ball,” as they call the present horse hide. It may be well for sev- eral managers to begin figuring on getting better pitchers than some of those who have howled vociferously and pitched weakly this year. (Copyright, 1923.) not set an Of the. 104 recruits who trained at the southern camps of the big league base ball teams last spring, only twenty-three made good. |World Series Leaflets BY JOHN B. FOSTER. DEI'ROIT was a contender for the third time in the 1909 world 1 the Pittsburgh Pirates who series, but thg famous Cub League. !bzt { going to_the full limit of seve | ChariesB. “Babe” Adams on jgames if} W i Where Played | Pittsburgh, October 8 i Pittsburgh, October 9 Detroit, October 11 ' Detroit, October 12 ¢ Pittsburgh, October 13 Pittsb | Detroit, October 14, | Detroit, October 16 | The players for Pittsburgh were {¥Frea J. Clarke, man Abstein, first base: Miller, second base; Byrne, third base; Leach, third base, center field; Wagner, shortstop; Clarke, left | fleld; Wilson, right fiald; Hyatt, right field; Gibson, catcher; Adams, pitcher; Camnitz, pltcher; Willis; " pitcher: Maddox, pftcher; Leifield, pitcher, Philiipe, - pltcher; O'Connor, catcher, and Abbaticchio, 'substitute. Players of the Detroits were: Jen- nings, manager; T. Jones, first base; J. Deiehanty, second base: Moriarty, i O'Leary, third base; Bush, left fleld; D, 1 Crawford, right field, 'first base; Cobb, right.field; Schmidi, catcher; Stanage, catcher Mullin, “pitcher; "Donovan, pitcher; | Summers, pitcher; Works, Dpitcher, and Willett, ,gucher. 'This series brought into use the fine new stand which had been erected in Pittsburgh, and. it established an at- téndance record on the first day with its crowd of 20,577. From this game in. Pittsburgh the popularity of the world ‘series 'began to increase, so Barney Dreyfuss, the Pittsburgh owner, is entitled ‘to credit for what he did to make comfort greater for huge buse ball crawds. “Babe” Adams saved the Pittshurgh when series for .V“dfifll two games i Detroit, one s shu Tygera. é Detroit Pittsburgh machine had cracked and it was did the honors for the National Pittsburgh finally won, but’ the Tigers gave them a tougher e than they had given the Cubs in two preceding years, the series n_games. the road to fame, as he won all three hich he pitched. The record: . ‘Winner Pittsburgh Detroit Pittsburgh Detroit This is the series that started Score 4—1 7—4 86 5—0 84 Loser Detroit Pittsburgh Detroit Pittsburgh Detroit Pittsburgh 5—4 Detroit 80 Cobb and Wagner ' played against each other and there was tremendous urgh interest ‘to see what the rival stars | of the two leagues might do. Wa, ner played to form. He batted well and flelded well and stole as many bases as the entire Detroit team. Cobb, as u tell down in the world serles after burning up the league in the regular season. But he made a clean steal of home in the second game and hetped his record some. Jim Delehanty of Detroit was the best batter of the serles, with a ercentage of .346, even leading vagner, who hit .333. Detroit batted slightly better than Pitts- burgh, but the latter fielded better and stole bases with ease, Gibson of Pittsburgh was much stronger back of the bat than his rival, ‘and Cobb had little chance to run wild on_ the pathi In the first game Tommy Leach made a wonderful catch in center off Cobb at a time when a home run, as it was labeled, would have tied the score. "Fred Clarke tied the scor in the fourth with a home run, the first_ever " in a world series. Camnitz lasted’ but three innings for Pittsburgh in the third game, and ‘Willis, who succeeded him, was little better. Schmidt and Delehanty be- tween them drove home six runs for Detroit. Pittsburgh started the third same ‘with fiye rune in the first inning. Clarke hit @ home run again in the fiith game. putting his team in the | . (Copyright, 1928 . | Oriole team. the winning of the fifth t the holder of four modern base ball records. Parnham pitched both games, bring- ing his total number of successive victortes to twenty, breaking the record held jointly by Rube Marquard and O'Keefe, who were tfed with nineteen in a row. Parnham also broke the Interna- tional League record for successive victories held by Jack Ogden, a team- | Tnate, who turned In eighteen last seagon. Parnham won thirty-three games this season, breaking the league record held by Rube Vickers The fourth record was made by the ng the national amateur champion- record final contest of thirty-eight American golidom on Max Marston lasted and outlucked the defending a digestive disturbance that had s, and Marston had come out of the udent. Sweetser. had not, howeder, over condemnation of the stymie, which aided Marston in bringing about a victory, although it was to the same. widely condemned golf obstacle that he owed some of his victories in gaining the title last year at_Brookline. While Sweetser had to contend with five stymies in thirty-eight holes, three of them on the last four | holes, it was not conclusive that he could have holed all or even any of the-putts that were stymied, except | the one on the thirty-sixth hole. which he did curve around to stali oft defeat. The first stymie was one of eight feet, which he had partly created by being short on the seventh hole, and_eight-foot putts are not always holed by even 5o good a putt- er us Sweetser. The next was on| the twent nth green, where | Sweetser twelve feet away and | twelve-foot putts are even more treach- | erous. Again, on the thirty-fifth hole, Sweetser was woetully short on his run-up and had a dozen feet to putt| for a half and that, too, in the face | of a bright, low sun. | The fourih stymie was a great test, for it meant defeat it pot negotiated and the play was on @ hillside. It was the siope that made the five-foot tt possible. . PUfhe last impediment that ended the given t on the second extra hole i.“..‘,,él’mu, but as Sweetser was eight | feet from the cup it probably was an even chance that he would not have holed evén if unstymied. But Sweetser might handily have won against Marston's game, despite the stymies, had he not gone stale with his short {ron shots in the after- noon round, for he threw away no fewer than four holes by missing approaches after having been deadly in that department in the mornms,l Marston played good golf whenever he met good golf. When he ran into Bobby Jones and the open champion shot the first 70 ever made on the Flossmoor links, Marston not only | hung on with a fine 73, .but in the afternoon went out and duplicated the super-excellent golt of Jonts' forenoon round. He was good enough on Friday ‘to defeat Francis Ouimet, who was above 30 to the 18 most of the way, as was Marston, and then on the last day, when Sweetser was shooting a good 75 for so late in the long grind, the Pennsylvania champlon tightened and shot 78 in the morning with a 7 oh one hole and went out in par 36 in the afternoon. . Marston never before reached the| finals, but he outplayed his every opponent this vear and his victory was no accident. 'SCOTTY MAY BOOST | WIS R It looks now as if Ecott would try llo breeze through the season of 1823 for the New York Yankees. He ready has passed the 1,000-straights games mark and has a chance to push the figure to 1140 If Munager Huggins lets him ride. Of course, the talk of benching him | was not started becauge he {s not playing well, but “with' the idea of giving him 'a rest for the world séries. But Huggins had better not let Scott or any other player get off | edge while they are playing out the finish and waiting for the National Zeague championship to be decided, Almost without exception in the major leagues it has been the case that a player retired for a consider- able period during the season never came back to first form that year. If Scott should drop out for a week, the mere absence or routine m "his whole game upside down. WORLD MARK LOWERED IN GIRLS’ TRACK MEET PARIS, September 24 — English women yesterday in Pershing Stadium defeated French women'in a series of athletie events. The visitors scored 60 points against 37 points for the local athletes. A French girl, Violette Gouraud Moris, broke the world record for throwing the eight-pound weight, making 21.01 meter: lof the best games of ECORD T0 1,140, without missing a game at shortstop | al-j all the talk about a lively ball being responsible for the big scores in many of the big league games during the season now drawing to a close. When players on certain teams were unable to hit anything except the trail to the east or to the west there was a ot of palaver on the subject of' the “jack rabbit” base ball. The idea was that this ball, differing radically from all other balls of recent years, skipped from peak to peak in gigantid leaps and that its limberness of in- sides made the batter better in some miraculous way. 0dd Part of Discovery. The 0dd part of the discovery was that when two teams played with the same ball and one of them hit base hit after base hit it was a “jack rabbit” ball for that team, while the other team that hit nothing much except the ozone knew it jyst as a plain ball. Another strange thing is that as the season wanes pitchers are tak- Ing the same ball and pitching no- hit games with it! There was a lively ball, so called, in use last season, but it was only this season that the “jack rabbit” ball was heard of. Yet look at tha figures: In 1922 players in the tional League made a total of 12,57 base hits. To date this year they e made about 11,000. To equal last year's record they must work like the mischief in the few remain- ing days. Then take the American League. In 1932 the players thers made a total of 12,941 hits. The total this vear to date is about 10,200. Fewer Hits Made This Year. The St. Louis Browns made hits than any other team in the Amer. lcan League last year. With Georga Sisler to ‘help, they madg a total of 1693 hits. This year, without Sislor o help, they made only a little more than 1.300. " Pittsburgh led the Na- tional League in 1922 with a total of 1,698 hits. “The Pirates have made a £00d many less than that this year. :l"::;l?lflr;lhs will make about the same ef they made last season w they reached 1,661. s There is no 'difference in the bail that has increased batting, as the re- gults of the season will prove easily énough. Now and then a geme has been played in which a team has ripped some pitcher right through the main seam of the big tent. Ime mediately the cry of ‘“jack rabbit’ ball has'gone through the land. The lack of rain. creating dry in- flelds that were hard enough to be put away for Egyptian bricks, has helped batting tremendously. But poor pitch. ing hag had a good deal to do with it, too. Rule Changes Undesirable. The writer was unable to find any base ball man of prominence who was willing to commit himself to change in the rules that would deaden the ball. Frequent rule changes never are good for any sport. There are times when the rules have to be changed to meet developments of the game, but those times ars not often. 1f hitting has been -plentiful this season, students of the game declare that it is due to the fact that the pitchers are no better than they were @ year ago, if they are as good. As for the pgblic, there has been no wild clamor for any reguiution that would make the ball less lively. The average fan seems to like hittimg and plenty of it. (Copyright, 1823,) STAGE STILL HELD BY SANDLOT NINES It is apparent that sandlot base ball players do not intend to give up the stage untll cold weather drives them from the diamonds. While local gridiron squads were hard at prac- tice vesterday, numerous nines took the field and some good battles re- sulted. Knickerbockers staged one the season against the Purcellville team of Vir- ginla, nosing the latter nine out, 3 to 0, ‘with Ross Fisher hurling in brilliant style. Rallies in the second and fifth gave the Knickerbockers their victory McDaniels was driven from the mound Pfeil of the Virgindans relieved him and halted the Knicks' batting spree for the' remainder. Hamilton of t losers connected for three bingles- in as many times to the plate, while Ortell, Goetz, Jenkins, M. McDaniels and James each registered two blows. Lem Owen of the Silver Spring Tigers again led his team to victo: this time scoring over the Rockville inine, winner of the Montgomery |County League. 6 to 0. The veteran hurler of the Tigers yielded but three |safeties, while ~his~ team smacked thirteen wallops. Bleir, Bordan and Beall hit heavy. L) Shamrocks took the measure of the rrydale Athletic Club, 7 to 1. Tommy Thompson toed the mound for the winners. allowing but four safe drives. en bingles were garnered by the Shamrocks. .Potomac Athletic Club took both ends of a double-header, downing tife Eastern_to 6 to 3, and the Alex- andria Tigers, 7 to 0. Arlington Athletlc Club humbled the Capital Traction team,'4 to 1. Laycoek of the winners was nicked or fen hits, while his opponent, H, White, allowed elght swats, Mohawks fell hefore the clever hurling of Frank Watt of the Dread- naughts of Alexandria, losing, 6 to 0. Watt held the Indlans down' to five bingles Winegardner and Hudson were found for eight safeties. CALLS FLOOR SQUAD. Thirty candidates expected to report for first practice of the In- dependent Athletic Club's basket ball team to be held in the Gallaudet gym tomrrow night. At a recent meetin, of the club, C. Freeman was elect: captain, J. Swope, manager, - an; {Sharles Aberethy. husiness maanger; TODAY BASE BALL %% /_ AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Miss Palmer, England, equaled the SFing tne alstance in 35 45 coverin, & stance in ‘hempson,” land, e ‘recard Tor 156 Yords in Washington vs. Chicago R, T s S e Regerved Seats for Sat, and Sui. on sels ] !