Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 30

SPORTS. 30 Griffs Battle for Lead in A DUAL WIN OVER ST. LOUIS WOULD GAIN FIRST PLACE Zahniser and Zachary to Pitch Against Browns in Twin Bill—Harris Back in Game—Taylor to Be Kept at Third—Miller Reports. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ITH the Nationals just a hali game behind the league-leading Yankees, but hard pressed by the Tygers, the six-game series e e e N e standing of the first three clubs in Ban Johnson's circuit. The clan of Griffith certainly will have to take a majority of the contests from the Sislerites to keep itself in the thick of the pennant argument, and that cannot be looked upon as an easy job. Although the Nationals swept a three-game series with the Browns in St. Louis last month, when the Missourians visited Washington in May they took the only two games played. Despite their recent poor :show- ing against the Yanks, the Browns are not particularly weak. regular Brown outficld and three of the four infielders are smacking the ball at a rate above .300. The Sislerites were to be encountered twice this afternoon, and a dual victory would restore the Harrismen to the top of the heap, regard- less of the outcome of the world champion’s lone engagement with the Indians in New York. Another double-header will be played Saturday while single games are scheduled for tomorrow and Sunday. While they have been called upon) plate, later declared he had heard the for considerable work lately, most|entire conversation, and that Harris of the National hurlers are with- | had not used any’ profanity in his standing the strain well and should | argument with the umpire. Z scted to try both right and left- National pinch-hitters would he slabbing ji to Paul Zahniser and : Ralph Miller, infielder purchased turned in a great game against the i last two innings, when the opposition | be available for duty this afternoon st fully healed, ms to be in|anq very likely will get a Chance to pressive manner last Saturday weighing well over 180 o right’ side. Alder with Fred Marherrs probably will toe the | lteading, being used at second, third e A e a very welcome addition to the by The big er had to put Wad on the age hitting mive the visiting sluggers a good Miller Ready for Duty. tussle. Manager Bucky Harris ex- . Should the battle wax so warm that hand flinging against the westerners this afternoon, having assigned the | Canea” upon today. the fans may Jez Zachary glimpse a new Griffman in action. in Louis last month hnny Hiowns SHe heidithem to gevenihital com ) Reading § of sithelinternatonal four of them being rexistered in the | League, arrived yesterday and will averted hutout. Zach: jeven | inpiier i has ibeen bangiag e _ u LE as bee Eusing §he gihall though an injured fielding flipper has | in" hardy fashion in the Int clrcuit slendid form. He certainly south- | chow h e -rouinbanie ey pawed the Indians to defeat in im- | geney fl Marberry Hurls Tomorrow. | swings at the ball from the In tomorrow’s single encounter [He proved a versatile inf slab for the Nationals. Fred, too,|and shortstop e Worked against the Browns while on | If he can wallop that apple, he w £ ationals, who are not so well forti- hurler after & couple of pitching [ fATIONILS. Wwho o mates had dropped the wayside. fled with pinch-hitters 15 vounzs everything he ball, for happened ihe Browns were ina say- | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS o that day, but he came throush with colors flying Wi AMERICAN LEAGU w. 4N Although Manager Harris, suspend- after Sunday's game because of verbal tilt with Umpire Ducky has been reinstated and was his regular position at se this afternoon, the Nation- | als were not to take the field with the same line-up that carried them to the head of the league. Tom Tay- lor, recent acquisition from Memphis who has revealed some punch at the ! his few trials, was to be kept at third 1 where he went when Ossie Bluese had to be shifted to the middle station as his manager's un- derstudy ed his Ho New York Washington Detr -xue ond base 400 GAMES TOMORROW. St. L. at Washington. Datroit at Boston. Chicago at Prila Cieveiand at N. Y. GAMES TODAY. St. L. at Washington. Detroit at Boston. Chicago at Phila. Cieveiand at N. Y. ¥ e ball = since becom hax flashed a bases. He has yet to worth afield, for so far but once chance at the and that a pop fly. But irs to be an agile athlete and ought to be able to move fast | New York “nough to mive a good account of |Chicago himself as a third baseman. Bicoliyn Blucge, though, may be sent back 10| pifihurgh his regular job soon. Manager Har- |cincinmati ris figures a brief lay-off is good for | g /oy i some players and that the rest may | ppladeiphia .. help Ossie recover his batting e Donie The strain of the double-hea lately has not hurt Bluege's fieldi GAMES TODAY. 7 Boston at St. Louis. Nowever Harrix Caxe Soo ~ted. Biklya. at_Cincinnat arrix Case Soon Adjusted days, due | Ny’ Pittsburgh. hedule, had | RESULTS OF ¥ well so¢ the a r his re. he has had hot corner Tom app show 395 GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at St. Louis. Bkiyn. at_Cincinnati. Phila. at Ch.cago. N. Y. at Pittsburgh. RDAY'S GAMES 5 Perhaps the rest of th to the suspension and the s benefited Manager Harris. He been working hard and could afford to idie for a period thing he would not have dd forced to. Little time was required to bring about Harris' reinstatement once President Clark Griffith of the Nationals got in telephonic communi- ‘ation with President Johnson's Chi- | cago_ office Johnson hospital und slight infection cretary relayed n that Harris was not responsible fo the trouble that followed Sunday's game with the Indians, and that the manager had not used language culated to warrant such drastic p jshment as an indefinite suspension. | Word soon came from Chicago that pilot would Lo eligible Whether Tris ker, chief of the Indians, voluntarily interceded in Harris' behalf, as has been reported, is not known to Griffith. Thr‘lucal president, though, said that Spok who was at bat Sunday when Bucky and Holmes exchanged words at the Chicago, 2. —11: Boston, +—ik. FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. Otlando. 3 Rrudentown. 4: St. Petersbarg, 1 Cleurwater ut Lakeland (rai Philadelp! 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Ave. N.W. . | II====] Oren All Day Saturday I—==1E1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1924. ARMY POLO FOURS TO STAGE MATCHES Washington polo enthusiasts should be well entertained from now on, as the War Department Polo Associ- ation has decided to stage a series of games in Potomac Park on Tues- days, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the summer. Practice tilts will be held on Tues- days and Thursdays, starting at 4:45 o'clock, while regular matches will hold the stage on Saturdays with teams from the War Department and Fort Myer competing. Two teams will represent the War Department Polo Association—the White and the Green: The line-ups for these two combinations have not vet been selected, as a number of new players are striving for posi- tions. Col. Babcock, Col Morris, . Marketts, Col. Palmer, Maj. Parker, Maj. J. Johnson, Maj Capt. Wipprecht, Capt.’ Rich , Capt. Walsh and Lieut. Jad- n candidates for these f Reports from Fort Myer indicate the 16th Field Artillery of the Vir- | ginia post has been considerably trengthened by the acquisition of Maj. Hoyle and Capt. Tate. It is ex- pected that the 3d Cavalry also will put a team on the field later in the season.. i Do Armand, Col. 'EPINARD BEST HORSE | LEIGH EVER TRAINED Spinard, the brought to for three races, will be Saratoga next week to Meanwhile he at Belmont NEW YORK, July 17.— which was | | French horse | this country | shipped to | continue training. | having Svorkouts | Park. Te has many visitors daily. Among his callers yesterday was Georges Carpentier. “The French horse and the French boxer were photographed in the act of kissing each { which prompted a_ wag to remark | that their next kisses would be leather—a whip for Epinard and & glove for Georges from Gene Tunney Eugene Leigh, trainer, is pleased with the showing which Epinard has | made toward regaining his condition Epinard is the best that I have ever trained” said Leigh Even when he has been a little under t weather he has never refused his 5. He needs no tonic of any NEARING 'BLACK GOLD RECORD FOR DERBYS July 17.—If Black Gold. America’s leading contender for pre- mier thre laurels of 1924, wins the Raceland Derby, at Ashland Ky.. next Saturday afternoon, the lit- |tle black | will have eclipsed the Claude, which, AGO, ear-old son record of the famous in four Derby cla Later, in the same vear, Claude add- ed to his _racing glory by finishing second to The Picket in the American Derby, the famous Washington | Park course here. p | " The only Derby Black Gold has fail- |ed to win this season was the Latonia on June 26, when he finished third to Chilhowee and_Giblon. Later, how- |ever. Black Gold triumphed Gibfon by six lengths in the Chicago | Derby. Black Gold started th | by annexinz the Louisia Derby Then he won the $50.000 Kentucky Golden Jubilee Derby, the Ohio lh-.rh,\ Jil”l] last Saturday captured the Chi- {cago Derby. | After ne Saturday's race. Black Gold will rest up at Latonia until the fall season, when he will start against Epinard, the French champion, in the international race. to he decided at Latonia in October. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE reenville, 3: Charlotte. a, 8 Spartand Macon, 924 season t o] famous Reserve Your Canoe MARME 1] [e——o|— 0| e R | Ll — [0 ][c———[a[——[n] 1903, won | over | | other, | ters. | { { kind | | | side smacked six safetie | City Post Office outfit, $ to 0. of Black Toney-Useeit | &2 | out TUXEDOS MUST SPEED UP UXEDO ATHLETIC CLUB of the Benning-Prince Georges League TO STAY IN LEAGUE RACE I Fourth in the race, with five victories and four defeats, the Tuxedo nine has the opportunity of stepping into third place if it takes the meas- ure of the Maryland Park combination in a league 'match Sunday, starting at 3 o'clock, on the latter’s grounds. The Marylanders are quite for- midable, though, having won five of their eight games to land in third place, and they are apt to prove bothersome to the Tuxedos. Fans interested in the two teams| Novy Yard Marinex disposed of expect a mound duel Sunday. Lefty | Bolling Field in a 24-to-8 engage- Kagle, Al Rector or H. Newkirk is|ment. The winners gathered thirty- likely to hurl for Tuxedo. Ryon and | five safe dri , with Siveigert, Greer W. Moreland_probably will be called |and Chedley in the limelight. upon by the Maryland Park pilot. If —— Tuxedo is victorious Sunday, it still will have a rough road to travel. Ben- ning Athletic Club is leading the league with six wins in as many starts. Lof- | the Moduc Athletic Club today at 5:30 fler tossers are second; Bradbury on the Tenleytown field Heights, fifth; Plerce Athletic Club, N sixth: Capitol’ Heights, seventh, and | shamrock Semfors will be Seat Pleasant Federals, eighth. against the Park Seniors tomorrow at 5 o'clock on the grounds at Fifth and L streets southeast. The Sham- rocks. are casting about for a game Sunday, according to the manager, who can be telephoned at Lincoln 1815 after 6 o'clock Eastern Athletie Assoclation pla: ers were leading Standard Oil, 5 to Yankee Athletic Club, reorganized and fortified with a bunch of clever tossers, expected to point the y to matched Mount Rainier Junfors are to meet tonight at 8 o'clock at 3525 Eastern avenue. Challenges to the Mount Rainiers are being received by Mana- ger Bellman at Hyattsville 379-R. Wentern Electric Co, nine of the Commerclal loop broke into the win column yesterday by downing the |in the fourth inning, when the latter Western Electric Installation team, 7 | walked off the field after objecting to 3, in a six-inning match. The win- | to a decision by the umpire. * ners slammed five wallops, including — a double by Smith. Dominiean Lyeceum players planned = to practice today at 5 o'clock on the Clark and Shirley of the Cardinal | Washington Barracks diamond. nine clouted homers when their team nosed out the Eagles, 4 to 3. Peters of the losers also accounted for a circuit drive. Perry, on the mound for the Eagles, yielded but four safeties, the Independent d to attend a night at 8 o'clock Managers of League are expec meeting tomorrow at 424 Ninth street Bureau of Engraving was offered little opposition when it downed Veterans' Bureau, 10 to 3, in the Colored Departmental loop. Brooks and Yeargin of the winners hit e fectively, while Flippin of the same team was touched for only three drives. Genernl Accounting Office players continued their winning streak in the Government series by beating the Con- over, who toiled on the mound for the winners, held City Post Office to a pair of bingles and fanned five bat- i Smithfield diamond athletes, who will entertain the Yankee Sunday in a double-header, have acquired the services of E. Peacher of Virginia Kanawhna Juniors registered a total of 11 safeties in showing the way to the Hess tossers, 17 to 3, in section A of the junior class of the W. B. B. A. A. series. Ruppert, Tash and Har- véy each smacked a pair of clouts. Schatz and Sykes of the winners were nicked for seven blows. Carlye Insxects t ing from KFreer Midgets. Royston of the winners and Quinn of the losers displayed their wuares to good effect |Games with the Freer players, wh average sixteen years, may be ar ranged bv alling the manager at Franklin 2983, MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE . 114 R 45 Washington Barracks sorbed a 16-t0-10 beating at the of the Army Medical Corps. A r: ¢ ided the Howard of the victors led both at the stick with four blows many times to the plate tossers ab- hands | bar- | issu teams in as | Company was eIf to eke out a the Alexandria Company in _the al League. h The losers the count in the pushed over five Jerser « over Light and Power e Yo Alexandria Commer BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE. cerstown, 743 Tinsburs, N: Haniver, 4 hambershurz, 6-3: Fraderick AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Paul. %: Indianapolis. Minneapolis, 5: Louisville Kansas City, S: Columb, Milwauk Toledo, S, SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Mobile. 6.4; Atlanta, 1-3. Memphis, 4: Nashvile Chattanooga, 6: Little Rock, 3 VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Rocks Mount, Wilson, 5: R Portsmontli, 10: Petersbur; MARKLE QUITS YANKS. EW YORK, July 17.—Cliff Markle, | recruit- pitch of the New York Yankees, has deserted the ranks Bradbury Helghts Athletic Club will | the world champions. The reason for hold a lawn fete on the lawn of the | the twirler's unexpected departure Bradbury Heights School next Mon- | clothed in mystery Man day and Tuesday for the benefit of | gins was at sea as to the its ball team | tive. but expressed the hope | soon return LATE 7GAME AT TORONTO. TORONTO, July 17.—The Baltimore- Toronto International League game scheduled for tomorrow will begin t 6 p.m., daylight saving time. This threatened to tie seventh when they markers, Waynesboro 34 Government Printing Office had an time with the Registers winning, 13 to 4, in_the colored de- partmental series. Peace and Dixon droe homers for the losers, while Butler and Irving shone at the bat for Government Printing Office. Shamrock Junlors of section A, jun- ior class of the W. B. B. A. A. series, will strive to topple the Wintons tg morrow in game starting at 5 o'clock on the Plaza field. The Sham- | rock Juniors are to meet tonight at 529 11th street, while the Midgets will gather at the same place tomor- row might. Jack Mooney of the District Fire- men’s base ball team is on the look for games tomorrow, Saturday and Sund: He can be telephoned at Lincoln 1944 after 5 o'clock Circle Widgets, who downed the| Carlyle Midgets in an 11-to-8 match, would play the Hess and Handley |innovation wil be introduced at the nines. The Circle pilot may be tele- |request of Toronto fans, who have phoned at Lincoln ames Kane [complained that their vocations pre- of the Circles hurled well against the | vent them from attending games Carlyles, arting at 0. safe | vk a 10-to-3 beat- | of | MOUNT RAINIER NINE AFTER LEAGUE LEAD Mount Rainier diamond athletes will strive to advance in the Wash- ington-Maryland League Sunday at the expense of Snyder-Farmer Post nine of Hyattsville. The game will be played at Mount Rainier, starting at 3 o'clock. Irving Batson or Bill Hoffman, who have been hurling so effectively for Mount Rainier, will face the Hyatts- ville combinafion. At the present time Mount Rainier and Interfor De- partment are tied for the lead in the second series, each having won two games in as many starts, Representatives of the Washington- Maryland loop have agreed to.call off all postponed games In the first series, which was won by Mount Rainier. Manager Baldwin of Mount Rainier ants all players to be on hand for practice tomorrow at 5 o'clock on the Mount Rainier diamond. Inside Golf | Good golfers have different ways of xtarting the clubhead back from the but they all have one tralt In — they keep it low to the 77| kround and straight back with it all the way from a foot to eighteen inches or wo. Meantime their weight goes over to the right leg, though with || some of them you can hardly ob- xerve the xhifting movement. It goex over, however, be acse it In me- aanically impo: ible to hit a golf bail without first metting in behind it with welght. One good way of “xhoving off” with the clubhead ix to “carry it back.” By | ix I menn tha | hela d distinetly thumbx and forefingers, you ximply {1ift it backward alonx the ground, and | then let it continue without break or | | hesitation into an outward, upward and backward sweep. Thix method of | 1ifting the clubhead back ix a good becauxe it promotex wrixt re- e th xtx munst be | you can feel the club- | head’s weight in your fingers. | 1924.) START OF BACKSWING felt—in the | Copyright QUALIFIERS ARE LED | - BY GUILFORD-OUIMET | NEWTON, Mass., July —Jesse | | Guilfora and Francis Ouimet, Wood- | land’s famous golfing sons, led a field of 144 starters in the qualifying rounds of the state amateur cham- ionship gver their home course yes- erday. Guilford had rounds of 7 {and 67, the afternoon score setting a |'new record for the Ouimet | had a pair of 72s. | cond in lin ‘!r‘:«dwr.\. was A. P. brook with and The unusually low score of 159 was necessary to qualify for match play, resulted, with four playing | | off today for three places. The tour- | nament ‘marked the return of Fred J ‘\\‘ru:h to N England competition after a three-year absence in Cali- fornia. He qualified with 75 and 77 AT HOME. 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Thirteen-Ten F Street SPORTS. merican League Today as Pennant Race Tightens Up * ONLY A GAME AND A HALF NOW SEPARATE TOP TRIO Southpaw Slants of Shaute Principal Factorin 4 to 3 Reverse Suffered by Front Running Yankees From the Indians Yesterday. [RST place in the American League race threate F the New York Yankees' buttery fingers tod conspiracy f Tygerish brute force, India diplomacy. The world champions hold a precarious lead over Washington by only half a game and over Detroit by a game and a half, as a result of their defeat by Cleveland, the double win of Cobb's followers over Boston and Washington's judicious lay-off. Through their victory and the Red Sox's two-ply loss, Speaker's Tribe took undisputed posse sixth place, and is only one game behind the fifth-position Browns PRINCETON GOLFERS |%5 i s b IN WESTERN EVENT who displayed Huggins' boxm | et goat of the Indians’ hurler. Shaute | passed Ruth three ‘«m...“ new lert vindicated strat CHICAGO, July 17.—The entire golf | : team of Princetdh University has en- | W tered for the Western amateur golf |, . championships which begins at Hins- | {0 ) dale Golf Club on Monday. In addi- [\ P% {0 () tion, Rudolph Knepper of Chicago, [ 4P (7 Geiciency formerly a star on the Tiger team, | % YOS, Py will be among those who contest the | oG %1% 1 A0t 11 1 right of Chick Evans to win the title |£d from b - for the ninth time. e s This is not so much of an Eastern | l." b invasion as it’seems, for the Atlantic [ sihtiadel Coast school selected its team from |from the Western golfers mostly, the quartet |CUit Dby being Robert Stearns, T. M. Green of [While the scve attle and Burton Mudge and George |Ped a dou Hackl of Chicago. scores were In addition to the Princeton stars, |the Athlet Edward Cornish, champion of Exeter, | another o his & has entered. In fact, many univer- | Dressive sity golfers will be represented either | White Sox by students or alummni. Among the | obener. Connic alumni are Bob ‘Gardner of Yale, |th d game Rial Rqife of Illinois, George Hart- |a two-run nint s to slip through y in consequence of a wiliness and Senatorial ion of Yankees s Shaute. ir of ore st n at fiel called trimmin man of 'Chicago and Chick Evans of | The Giar Northwestern. Many State champions | Pittsburgh 1 will compete, including_J. O. Ken- | tinued their w nedy, Oklahoma; Joe Wells, Ohio:|nexing an John' Simpson. Indiana, and H. R.|daily homer Johnston, Minnesota Cuyler drov Among the early arrivals for prac- [runs with two it tice is James D. Standish of Detroit, | Erooklyn vice president of the Western Golf |five points Association and a director of the [one game bel United States Golf Association. He |honore with was twice runner-up to Evans in the |header. 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