Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 69

The Sunday Stac " Part 4—4 Pages Standing, left to right: Zahniser, Chesbro, Prothro, Shirley, Smith, Bluege, Egan, Marberry, Mogridge, McGrew, Johnson, Russell, Goslin, Speece, Altrock, Ric: ’STATEMENT BY LANDIS | ONLY YANKS . HAVE BIG EDGE ON GRIFFS AND INDIANS Tygers Weak at Keystone—Macks Depend on U proved Punch—Browns Rely on Ailing Sisler. Red and White Sox Seem Doomed. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. LEGATED to the second hardy experts who annual 0 Amer: irtual un n moder Ther first cl will s do; individu vhich causes The to win Vanke e!d s come from Cleveland him to lean toward his t New t orid cha is no apparent good reason why ) run one-twe c 3 the i i for the I which _carried mpionship last entitled to be in_the race, with the greatest © game, improved their one infield hole Geofge Burns, loom as formidable rivals of the After that it will be a n the TPygoers, Na- Athletics and Rrowns, with osier t Red and from that world ch Vankees are or pitching plugged nd by lef been ving his \igh no as- the | Der- £ forth ne better 1 hit. but doveloped into e of melting fat be best of the re- available is ney, and ard found Mack Iteliex on Minor Leagners. Much publicity has been given to the pdded strength acquired by the Ath- ‘tics through the acquisition of Sim- mons. Strand and Bishop, but the ex- tant to which they will ada punch to a “lub sadly lacking in it remains to be seen. The first two named were bear- cats with the wand in class AA circles, nnd the latter unquestionably proved imself polished in the mechanics of second-basing in the same company, but they have yet to prove their worth in the’ big show. The extent to which the trio has bolstered the Mackmen remainis to be seer Browns Depend on Sisler. The future of the Browns depends en- tire on the playing ability of Grorze Sisler, and the most authentic informa- btainabie is that the greatest of «l players of 1922 cannot hope to even «pproach his form of the season before S It seems assured now . that Sisler will be ab'e to personally lead his men on the field in his initial venture as a pilot, but the effects of the sinus trou- ble that kept him idie throughout last year probably will serve to make an ordinary performer out of the former Superstar. The vision of Sialer’s right optic is said to be o impaired that he has become en- stirely a one-eyed hitter. Having to rely on the eye farthest from the ball when pitched has necessitated an altered I'Lanne in which he almost completely faces the hurler. This greatly changed Style of swinging is caleulated to-tum- ble Sisler from the heights as a bats- and the moral cffect of having their er_constantly struggling ‘against, @ great physical bandicap and the loss of his magnificent .400 Datting ability makes u fate similar to tuat met by the Browns last season seem like: Boston Stronger, Chicage Wonker. The Red Sox generally are rated as the most improved club in the eircuif, with a classy young shortstop in-Les to fill a gaping hole in the. infield ‘and their attack bolstered by Bobby Feach, not to mention able direction from Lee Fohl under the new owner- Ship regime; but the Hubmen were 50 badly in need of improvement that it is dificult to see how they can climb far from the cellar position - that »claimed them last year. Owisg (o disorganization due to | Memphis (Southern) division by a great majority of the s regale the fans in April with advance n how the teams will stand in October, Washington’s | League may p: nimity on the score that New York will provide | base ball history to corral four flags in a row and | prophets generally are agreed that the sternest opposition for the{‘ . The remainder of the to finish in various and sundry niches, the perspective of seer being affected in most instances by unconscious bias rovide a genuine upset this year. and Detroit. home town club. York should repeat and that the Indians ought pions do falter is a well founded one, but there e Tygers should be regarded as sure Nationals haven't as good a chance as the Athletics or Browns, i ich lead in the pol the illness of Frank Chance, y saw in action for the first spring the players he is to cliques among the athletes over r Comiskey's action in_going e the ranks of the club to pick a manager and dissatisfaction be- cause of salary dispates that resulted in prolonged holdouts, the White Sox will start with the poorest prospects of the entire lot. They seem doomed to get off to a poor start, and uniess the “peerless leader” can live up to the title _he acquired another league nearly two decades ago and | restore harmony the Windy city brigade may be flirting with t | ment all summer. First Division for Griffmen. | AltHough there is something to b desired in two positions, the 192 eaition of th en is a far more formidable combination than that of st year. Granting that most of their rivals also ara sfronger, the extent of the improvement effected in the Nationals should enable them to hold the position thev attained in | the season that ended in October and | pozsibly advance them a notch. The most notable betterment |achieved is in pitching. This is the most important department of a team, especially at the beginning of |a campaign. With half a dozen really | capable fingers available the Na- | tionals should met away to a fiving ! start, in striking contrast to the mis- | erable showing they made at the out- | set last spring, when they had only {one reliable hurler on the roster. How adequately third base and right field will be cared for is a mat- | ter of speculation, but these positions re sure to be as well filled as they re last scason, With every prospect that greater strength will-be show: and in the matter of morale there will be no comparison between the | Nationals of this year and last. Next | to the bolstering of the box corps, the | spirit of hustle Stan Harris has in- stilled into his charges is the most valuable asset the team has. The Na- tionals impress us as a first division ball club, and if they fail to prove just that in the campaign opening next Tuesday it certainly will not be for lack of forever trying. EXHIBITION BASE BALL At Cincinnati— R H.E. Cleveland (Ameriean) Cincinnati (National)........ 4 8 1 Ukle and Myatt; Donohue, Lugue, Mays and Hargrave, Sandbers. At Indianapolis— Indinnapolis (Amer. Assoc.).. 5 7 3 Fubr and Heving., At Louisville— Pittsbargh (Natienal) Louisville {Amer. Ansoc.) Morrison, Meadows Sehmidt; Koes, Baylin and Brottem. At Kansas City-— Chicago (National) Kansas City (Amer. 811 5 Alexander, Plerce and Hartnett; Thormahlen, Ahmai and MacCarty. At Memphis— . - Detroit (American). A3 15 2 .81z 1 Pillette, Danas_ and Bassler; Fowlkes, Mitchell and Kohlbecker, At Charlotte, national); 8; Charlotte (Sally), 2. : At Richmond, Va—Syracane (Inter- mational), 8; Richmond (Virginin), 2. ‘n—Rockester who | e base- | {are Paul Zahniser and Byron Speece, .314 3¢ .48 1| . C,~Buftalo (Inter- WASHINGTON, D. €., SUNDAY MORNING, WHITE SOX DEFEAT GIANTS IN THE 10TH CHICAGO, April 12— Manager | Frank Chance of the Chicago White |Sox, wrapped up in a big overcoat, | | today saw his club even up the series | with the New York Giants, National | League pennant winner, | ten innings, the seri | five-all, with one game tied. After tho game Chance expr himself as well satisfied with team. which has been Johnny Evers since the ing started. Recruit Fir an | Terry paved the way for the White | Sox victory. After Mostil had opencd | the tenth inning w 2 doub Hooper sent a_bunt_to n trying to nall Mostil rew wild and Mostil scored. Seore: B X e oy New York (Natiomal Americas 0 Chicago (. ). MoQuillan, Gearin and Sayds or; Rol Connally. Lysas snd Schalk, Bura. UST hLow well the get under way Tuesda J The most notable defect sidering the perform: clubs—games certainly a fair b reserve talent. Third base, though, s There is rason to beiieve that the Nationals will have pitching far superior | 0 any they have had in several sea- sons past, “Of prime importante to the Nationals is the condition of Welter Johson, dean of major league hurlers and long looked upon as the best bet of the local club. It seems that in past years the Nationals' pitching effective- ness was particularly dependent upon this moundsman’s status, so much did it affect the morale of the remainder of the corps. With Walter poor the other hurlers falter, but with Waiter zood they gen- erally prove equal to the occasion. And £00d physically Walter is this spring. He seems absolutely sound in every way. That wobbly underpinning that reduced his stamina last year is so strong again that Johnson does not hesitate to put all effort into his work when the odds seem against bim. Johnson probably is rearer his top pitching form this spring han in the four or five years just past Walter Will Have Help. The ability of this sterling moundsman o withstand the strain that might be expected to wear down huriers much younger in years means much in itself to the Nationals, but there is every pros- pect that the veteran will not be called upon to bear the brunt of the battle as often as has been the case. George Mogridge, another veteran and probably the most crafty southpaw in the Ameri- can_League, appears to be in superb condition, perhaps better than last year when he was the Nationals' most ef- fective pitcher on the earned-runs- | allowed basis. Supporting these two old-timers the pair Manager Harris expects to use with the veterans as the main stafft of the club. Zahniser gave splendid evidence of his worth after joining the Nat‘onals early last sea- n and tois spring has demonstrated that none of his cunning has been 1ost. - Speece i3 touted by some of the more enthusiastic coaches of the club as a second Carl Mays—the bafing Mays of former years. He may not be this, but his record with Omaha inst year was most impressive and against the National Leaguers in training he gave some remarkable exhibitions of pitching prowess. Othors in the younger Eroup sre Fred Marberry, Fred Wingfield and Walter McGrew. Of thefe MeGrew at present appears the best prospect. Up for the third tlme with the Na- tionals, McGrew now i5 attacking the task -of making himself a big leaguer with more datermination and a far betfer spirit than- ever, and with this spirit has & more tiorongh knowledge of pitching craft. [t has baen some time since the: club- was3 i blessed with younsg talent Of such | igh quality. g H Pair of Good Rescue Men. ? The staff includes also a couple of wily tists, perhaps not strong At Petersburg, Vi (In. Petersburg ternational), 0; (Vir- [asis—~Torento (Im- | Springfield (East- | cellent record:as: | (Sally), 3 High enough to'go @ full route, but very ef- fective for a few imnings. They are Allen' Russell,"who' nfade such an ex- reliet ‘hi last. ‘With “the , former season, |his first ufl;loe‘-lnnfin ‘warhorse . of: Nationals are | the soreness had departed. A RECORD FOR BREVITY| CHICAGO. April 12—K. M. Lan- din, who gets 4,000 a year the supreme dictator of base ball, tonight issued one of the short wtatements on the opening of the | season ever made by amy executive | comnected with the game. He sald: | “I have nothing to say. These | pre-season statements are bunk. Good-bye.” | MR. MUTT RUNS FASTEST | KENTUCKY DERBY TRIAL ; ‘ran_ a mil fastest trial for the dis- an spring training season at_Louisville race tracks. Mr. Mutt is in the Bud Fisher | string and _ Altawood is in the C. Bruce Head stable. Altawood, | word fro track said, finished | w ing any sign of distress. | BY JOHN B KELLER. prepared for the long grind of scarcely can be determined until several other aggregations in Ban Johnson's circuit are encountered in championship contests, but*a resume of the accomplishments of the club du ing its training campaign that really ended when the Florida camp was struck indicates worse—if not better—than the outfit that represented Washington last year. the 1923 organization wiis the poor pitching staff. Other drawbacks were an experimental outfield, instability around third base and a lamentable lack of reserve material b nces of the Nati : sis for_conclusions, for the group met in i of the circuit—it would seem that the Washington club this year has a far stronger pitching corps, a_better chance than it possessed at this stage last spring to quick als in the cleven pre-seas v round into for till remains a problem. in fine fettle now, although last week | it was feared he had received a seri- | injury to his pitching arm. Mar-| has been troubled to some extent lame back, but after vesterday's workout against the Braves he declarec With pair_in_shape, the Nationals are well | fortified for rclief measures. The most impressive feature of the pitchers in the contests with the Na- | tional League clubs has been their ability to “come back" after a poor inning, something none of the staft seemed able to do last season. Mog- ridge gave a good demonstration of | this yesterday and several of the oth-| so in the engagements in the Florida training fields. ' In sharp con- trast to the pitching of last year, the present moundsmen have exhibited fair control. True, none of the corps has gone a full route yet, but all seem so well conditioned physically that Manager Harris probably has| little to fear in this respect. | Afield and at bat, the Nationals ap- pear to have lost nothing in com- parison with their work in 1823. At one position in the infield they un- doubtedly are stronger, for Joe Judge is much better prepared. physically and mentally, to tackle his first base task. His flelding against the Na- | tional League clubs has been sensa- tional most of the time, and at bat he has an average of .325 for eleven engagements. Judge probably will be able to withstand the grind of his job much better than last season, when weaker physically he fre- quently was out of* the line-up. Double-Flay Team in Form. The keystone combination that cre- | ated double-play records in two suc- cessive years has about rounded into form, and from what it has shown in the major exhibition contests soon should hav that two-play kiiling | system working in fine order. Stan- ley Harris is in fine fettle, as usual, and Roger Peckinpaugh, though at! times threatened with trouble by a lame back, still is able to make many other shortstops as second- | raters in the fleld. These two, how- ever, have nof, been impressive in attack, Harris“so far having batted only at a.238 olip and Peck at .200. Theése three men probably are équal { to ‘the task of keeping up an infield defense éven with a weak link in the combination, that at third base. Doc Prothro certainly is not yet in good physical trim, ~ although striving earnestly to make himself so. Prothro never has been regarded as a_ high- class fielder, according to big league stapdards, but in the Southern Asso- ciation established a great reputa- tign as _a - hitter. As .a_ National, | though, his batting stride in' the ex- | ihitions, with thc majors, has been | .350, nothing uch with which to boi- ster an iniéld quartet attack that without ‘Judge will-not go-far. But this batting wenkness of the | MACKS TAKE FINAL GAME FROM PHILS| PHILADELPHIA, April Philadelphia Athletics today won the final game. 5 to 1, from the Philadel- phia Nationals, making the series | stand three victories for the Phillies and two for the Mackmen. The Ath- leties drove Glazner from the pitch- er's Lox in the segond inning after scort: rce runs. Wilbur Harw former Lehigh Univer: behind the byt for the did well, Score . )+ R H Philadelphia (National). Fhiladeiphia (American) Glazner, Hubbell, Lew! line; so! Wen Heimach and Harwe. Umplres—Keehan and Hart. and Hen- ell, Hasty, TO BECOME FACTOR IN PENNANT RACE Ameri ague season that is to on games with five National League luded the champion and runner-up rm an outfield and start dest| is hit George Fisher, who seams get the right ficld berth, past two prove soon. Fisher Learning Rapidly. Harris has about decided upon making these men fixtures in his out. fleld. Fisher is learning rapidly the mechanics of taking care of an outer garden, while Rice is becoming more at home in center with every game. icate he Goslin has been sluggish, but a few | days more of training ought to bring him arount. This combination gives the Nationals something they dld not have last year, a pair of good arms in the outfleld. Goslin's strength of wing is well known to fans here, but sher probably can get more on the ball than Goose. B < talent still is scarce. hand/is of high quality. hick Gagnmon revealed great worth an inflelder and hitter when Peck's indisposition afforded an opportunity to break into the line-up last week. Mule Shirley, although fresh from college ranks, gives promise of be- coming a capable understudy for first base and a dangerous man at bat Carz Smith and Lance Richbourg are bright outfield prospects who can cover ground with speed and are formidable at the plate. And then there is the old, reliable Nemo Lei- bold. He lacks a sturdy throwing arm and has not so much punch at bat, but is a brilliant fielder and a difficult man to keep off the paths. The Nationals probably are much better off behind the bat than last year. Muddy Ruel is beginning to bang the 'ball in the manner that made him such a power in attack”in 1923—and, though few who followed the fortunes of the Nationals last year may realize it, Muddy failed only once In the past season to hit after stepping to the plate when runners wero on the paths. Ruel probably will catch most of the games this year, but he will have an able assist- ant in_Red Hargrave, and little Ben- nett Tate, obtained from Memphis, can give a good account of himself as a receiver. . How the Team Sizes Up Summing up, it is found that the Nationals in the major exhibition games revealed that they had three catchers who can handle pitchers and throw to bases well, and two who may be rated as formidable hitters; four dependable pitchers, three promising recruits and a pair of cool and crafty relief men; a first-class fielding and hit- ting first-sacker: a brilliant_flelding combination around ~_second base; & none too certain third baseman; @nd an outfleld better than that which finished the season for the club lnst aps. likelier | . but his averages | rinor leagues the | APRIL 13, 1924, Nationals Merit First Division Rating : Score Victory in Initial Appearance Here Seated: Wingfield, Richbourg, Fisher, Ruel, Harris, Judge, Hargra COMING FROM BEHIND l Sper! Cunais | Tiera ] cconcunmaonuocseal ccccosurniussces! | O'Keil,’ c.. | Genewich, ». | Hermaan® I AR A eosscnartinesesanil cccocermunoHessnil 8 » | 1Batted for Marquard in seventy. Batted for Barnes in niath. WASHINGTON. " m b " esase s PROIFIRR T oslin, | Bisber, “”____,...... asssnanlinnkid conwnpHNnacual Totals .. *Batted > 9 6 Mogridge in sixth. Boston.. ...... 0 1 0 Washington 000 Two-base _hits—Meclnnis, Pockinpaugh to Judgs: Padget to Mclunis, Left on bases—Boston, asking: ton, 5. First base ou balls—Off Gevewich. 2; off Marquard, 2; off Martina, 2. Struck out— By Genewich, 2; by Johnson. 1: by Marquard, ina, ‘3. " Hits—Off Jobasen, 4 in 3 Barnes, 2 in 2 innings. Lesing pitcher—Marquard. NcGowan aad Deviin. Time of and 55 minutes. DODGERS NOSE OUT pi ra. game—1 hour NEW YORK, April 12. of the s the nkees lost, 10 to §, to the Brooklyn Dodgers today, when Roettger, a re- | cruit pitcher. blew up in the ninth | inning, the Dodgers scoring five runs, Everett Scott hit a home run and a triple. Catcher Fred Hofmann of the Yankees was forced to retire from the game when a foul tip split his finger. Score: B Brookizn (Natiensl). .. 1813 New York (American) e o Rusther, Vance, Dickerman acd Deberry: Sbawkey, ‘Jomes, Roettger and Schang, Hof- mann, Autrey. SOUTHERN LEAGUE READY FOR OPENER H E ATLANTA, Ga.April 12.—With rain breaking into training game activi- ties in most camps of the Southern Association base ball clubs managers are busy trimming down their players to the proper figure preparatory to opening of the 1924 schedule, April 15 The Atlanta club, forced into idle- ness all but two days of this week because of wet grounds, will depart for Nashville tomorrow night, where they are billed for the opener. Season starts will be made at other Southern Association " citles as fol- owi Birmingham, at Chattanooga: Mem- New Orleans, at WOODRING IS INJURED IN OLYMPIC WORKOUT NEW YORK, Apeil 12—Allan Woodring, former Syracuse .Univer- sity athiete and present Olympio 200- meter champion, has pulled a tendon in training for the Olympic tryouts, it_was learned ‘today. Woodring was working out at Co- lumbia _ University with _Tommy Campbell, former Yale. star. under the direction of Mel Sheppard, former Irish-American - middle distance _star and Olympic winner in the 500-yard trial, when ‘the accident happened. The 'extent of the injury could not be_determined today, but it is feared that it will keep him out of Olympic competition. BATTLING SIKI'S PILOT occooconssonescel! YANKS AT STADIUM| year. The club was strong enough.to win eight of eleven games played with other big league outfits. One of the LEAVES BOXER IN CUBA HAVANA, Cuba, April 12.—Jose Maria Lombardo, Panama featherweight, infield regulars ought to-be so coun- |other tilts went twelve imfings to a ter-balanced by the. Ritting of . the | tie score. The attack that made this outfield tfio as to give the Nationals |record averaged just thirteen points and his manager and trainer and pro- moter, salled today for New York on an attack equal to that of 1923. Goose | Goslin, even though not yet in good physical condition, according to Man- ager Huarris, bas been able'to wallop the ‘bajl at a .345 gait, while Sam Rice has'slammed for the graund aver- age - of 4495 ‘and that after a poor- better than the season batting average the steamer Siboney. B. H. Levy, man- o,l the 'Nationals last year—287 to| .274. The batting and pitching of exhibition series, if carried into American League Qc.ht-mp f - Battling Siki, also .de] on e iones. leaying. Sl 1 Cuba. a8 the e | e i that. whsnover ki - e anarecihe Nationels s Tals | cided o take up training seriousiy” ho atelesst e i . lwouid coneback or send for him, Leibold, Gagnon, Martina, Tate. CELEBRATE HOMECOMING BY JOHN RAYMOND HARRIS vy of base ball talent t of two exhibition games of the national capital just now to get the upper hand and did not when they fell upon the venerable and as many runs The portsider had yielded a t: the bunch collected off him two the oped th id Sped e ningham and Cooney, de were trying to would retrieve the sphere. pushed Harris home with a single to center and after Goose Goslin backed Casey Stengel, last world series’ herv, to the right field barrier for a start- ling catch, George [Fisher, recruit outflelder, drew a pas: Fisher, tholgh, was forced out by Doc Prothro, another new National, but Roger Peckinpaugh, returned to the line-up after a week of idleness singled to le counting Riece. Pro- { thro @lwo scored, and third when Cunningh h ve after recoveri | Peck got home when one-baser into right. That healthy frame ed by the Nationals two pichers had Braves. Johnson quite himeelf du innings. He alio three of them go of batters in the netting a run. Mc and Stengel and Padget did the damage. Mogridge, Who twirled throug! three rounds following Johnson parture, was a mark for the B tonians in his first turn. With two gone, they fell upon the southpaw for four walloj in a row, one a slashing double by Padgett, and three tallies. Mogridge, though, had every- thing his way the remainder of his stay on the hill. | After going ahcad, the Nationals ysent -Joe Martina, veteran of the { Southern Association, to the slab, and ke provided one of the thrills of the | contest after filling the bases in the ninth. With one out, Padgett got the only hit off na. Then came an error by Harris that gave O') 1 life. Barnes fanned, but Bancroft Zot a pass. Sperber, a formidable - hi ball nto short d_while Boston decide Sam T he @rst trio ession and h a double ith singles th art; )atter, had a count of three and two | when, with all the runners moving oward the plate, Martina sneaked a third strike across. - The Nationals were outhit, eleven safoties to nine, mainly through their nability to solve the delivery of Joe Genewich, the Braves' starting hurl- er. Two blows in three innings were all_he gave up. But Marquard was casler, a pass to Fisher and Prothro's louble accounting for a marker b fore the Nationals raked ths south- | pay in the big sixth. Harris' men faced Jess Barnes in the seventh and eighth rounds, and in the former sin- gles by Judge and Harris and R sacrifice added a score. INSISTS CARPENTIER FIGHT TUNNEY FIRST NEW YORK, April 12.—Georges Carpentier must fight Gene Tunney before he fulfills a contract to meet Tommy Gibbons or an injunction will be sought against the Gibbons match, Billy Gibson, manager of Tunney, de- clared today in commenting on the reported plan of Floyd Fitzsimmons, Michigan City, Ind. promoteer, to shift ‘the date of the proposed Car- pentier-Gibpous match from July 4 to May 31 . Gibson said his contract with the Frenchman had a clause in it where- by Carpentier's first fight in America must be with Tunney. This match slated for the week of June 16 in New York or Jersey. City. R e A G At New Orieans— New Orleans (Somthern), 4; Shreveport (Texas), 3. At Ral N. Co~Rocky Mount (Virginia)/ 3; Raleigh (Piedmont), 6, ‘At ‘Baltimore—Baltimore (Inferma- tiomal), 7; Newark (Imternatiomal), 4. by trouncing the Braves, members of the elder r prior to the opening of the American League champior At times, both teams played nearer to midseason form than as clubs ¢ returned from preparatory work in a clime more balmy than that The Nationals had to battle all the way am s | BY BEATING BRAVES, 64 Stage Rally in Sixth Inning That Gives Them Verdict After Boston Obtains Early Lead at Expense Of Johnson and Mogridge. B. KELLER. e Nationa ed their homecomin or circuit, 6 to 4 Grifith Sta ip campaign. new boss of terday celebra scheduled for C! forge ahead until the sixth inning Rube Marquard for a quartet of hits in the fourth round and that with s later more than offset the effort n and George Mog expecte his season CAUGHT ON THE FLY Nationals and Braves are to meet again_ this afternoon in Clark fith Stad The game will at 3:30 o , un |t that time. | Paul Zahniser and Fred Marbe |are slated to pitch for the hon m. { Possibly Byron Speece, newcomer to the Nationals, may go to the slab {1ate ntest. _Larry Benton | Tim amara or Jimmy Ye probal B start alling Dave Bancroft, new Braves, and Ernest P |tea the fielding thri {noon, the former with Istop ‘and throw of a dri the fourth and Padgett with his | marvelous ficlding of Peck's smash |down the third base line in the eighth Padgett, trial at third, wh | have beer 3 | fellow not only fielded ! four hit {and dro to scoring another. by was gettin e Braves, tr Boeck e The littie but mads | _Arthar Devlin, former Georgetown athlete and Giant star i1 now a scout of the Bra |a s base umpire and had | troubles. And most of the yelis | against his work ne from the | Boston crowd. 'BAN SEES BROWNS DEFEAT CARDS, 4-1 ST. LOUIS, April 1 rowns defeated the iibition game today, open ason here President Ban Johnson of the Amer an League was among those wha cered George Sisler, new manager {of the Browns, when he took his old place at first base. Sisler got two hits in four times up and played a stellar game throughout. Rogers Horneby scored a home run for the Cardinais in the fourth, with on one on, and Ken Williams did same for the Browns in the sixth. Score: St. Louls (Natienal) 8t Louis (Amerigan). Sherdsl ani im; " Proett, ing the B. H E ATE A 3 & 1 Shocker =ad McGRAW AND COMISKEY PLAN EUROPEAN TOUR CHICAGO, April-12.—John J. Mc Graw, manager of the Giants, today discussed with “President Comiskey jof the White Sox, In the hospital where the “old Roman” is recovering trom &n operation, the plans for an- other European tour of the two clubs next fall. 3 McGraw sgid he especially pleased that the Sox had obtained Frank Chance as manager, and pre- dicted that theiold interest and rival- ry of the New York and Chicago clubs, ‘when Chance was the “peer- less leader” of the Cubs, would be transferred te the Sox and Yankees. | was