Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1924, Page 26

r 26 SPORTS. riffs May Clinch Pennant Today : LOSS FOR YANKS OR WIN FOR BUCKS MEANS TITLE Nervous Strain Handicapping Nationals Is Dissipated —Due to Grab Banner by One of Four Lowest Percentages Ever Recorded in League. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OSTCN, September 20—Big le. today B to mcet in Shibe Park. ague base ball history may be made Nationals and Red Sox are scheduled to clash in Fenway Park here. while down in Philadelphia Yankees and Athletics are A victory for the Nationals or a defeat for the Yankees would give Washington the highest honor in the American League for the season of 1924 and its first major diamond circuit cham- pionship. The Nationals, as champions, would have earned the pennant by one of the four lowest winning percentages ever recorded on the books of the expanded American League and by one of the six lowest in the an- nals of both big circuits. Th best percentage the Nationals can get by beating the Red Sox today and tomorrow is .603. But three American League champions have ended their campaigns below that percentage, while in the National League one got a title with that percentage and another with smaller gures, In the past 24 vears in the can League, Detroit and teams have been champi winning pe troit gralbed the laure in 1908, r a terrific_strugg finish a game ahead of Cleveland. In 1916, Boston. with .391, nosed out Chicago by two games, and again in 1918, with 585, beat out Cleveland by a game and a half. The National I old before Ameri- Boston with De Sue was 25 years Pittsburgh won a pennant in 1900, with a winning average .603. the mark th ationals may reach. A Philadelphia club has been the only one not to break .600 and Eet a pennant in the older organiza- tion. The Phillies of 1 when they rode to a With a winning average nship Nervous Strain Disappenrs. Revived by Saturday’s triumph over the Red Sox. while Yanks were bowing to the Macks. it is quite like- 1y the N: will step out and ch the an League pennant today. Just before the sevond h with the Red Sox, the Bucks wer. noticeable depressed, and another jolt Saturday afternoon may proved a knockout so far championship aspiration were cerned But the week end ings in this stirring American League title proved a wonderful tonic for Manager Bucky Harris' aggre ga- tion That nervous strain, due ten. drive through the s the mental depression following day’s loss here, have disappeared and the morale of the club has improved wonderfully. This reaction to the re- moval of the pressure, under whi they have been battling, really, more than half the season, ought to make a marked difference in the play of the Bucks this afternoon In Friday's engagement, the club showed only too plain the effects of their efforts to stand off the deter- mined rush of the Yankees, and though they seemed to have a better chance of victory Saturday, their work was far below the standard they had been playing to. Moral courage, though, and the inspiring leade: of Harris, pulled them throu Now, stimulated by suc their fighting qualities intensified truly brilliant playing by the Bucks today would occasion no surprise. All are eager to end the race as quickly as possibl and once again the men realize they can win if they have the will to win, for their mechanical abil- Ity is great enough at least to match that of the opposition here. Grif°s May Face Ex-Griff. Today the Bucks may have to bat &gainst a pitcher who was their team- mate the early part of this season. Fred Wingfield. who gave promise of becoming a fair hurler while at the Tampa training camp last Spring, but failed to show much ability after the campaign got going, is likely to be sent to the slab by Manager Lee Fohl Ameri clas their con- as of | have | happen- | Since coming to the Red Sox from Chattancoga, whence he was farmed | by the Bucks, Wingfield has pitched | well. Manager Harris was expected to choose Jez Zachary, who practically pulled Saturday’s game out of the fire, for his pitcher in the third game of this important series. Right now, Zachary appears to be in better form | than any other hurler on the Bucks' staff, and has a splendid chance to gain the distinction of having pitch- ed the Bucks to victory in the de- cisive game of the pennant struggle. Much of the Natiomalx' playing in the two games here was decidedly below par, considering their play in the West as a standard. But two of | them performed in fine style. Bucky | Harris was steady in his fielding and | executed several noteworthy plays in |each of the engagements. Ossie | Bluege had no chances Friday, but | Saturday was kept busy around the | hot corner, and in both games batted | creditably. 'While other Bucks could put no into nap their work these two The nervous strain occasioned by the grueling flag race is not felt by plavers only. Even such veteran ball men as dent Clark Grifith and Coach Altrock be- come unstrung when fate seems against the Nationals. Several times | recently the battle has become too in [tense for Nick's iron nerve and | he has had to leave the field. Prexy | Griflith, who ing his club | this trip, likes at near the | Bucks' dugout always occupies one when affairs e running smoothly for his team on the field. When the Bucks are trailing, though, he moves to the back of the grandstand and | does not return to the front row un- | il the situation is less acute. Bill Smith, road secretar: of the club, | eats no supper the day the Bucks are |defeated. Bill is losing no weight, at that. Pres k Another one of the Bucks’ is complaining ‘of a sore arm. Fred Marberry reported trouble in his pitching wing vesterday, but Trainer Mike Martin believes it only a slight muscle strain. That Marberry's arm is bothering him is not surprising. All Fred has done this season is work in 49 games, going into 9 of the 18 during the present trip. Fred de- |clares he is ready to toil today and tomorrow, though, if necessary, and that a few days of rest will prime him for emergency use in a world series. hurlers ‘That rest yesterday was the third | the Bucks have had on a Sunday dur- ing the campaign, and it was the first this they were not Some of the ath- sight-seeing in others attended e a small party hore on a fishing pent the da bout Boston; foot ball games, wi went to the South trip. LOWER POSITIONS IN RACE DUE TO BE SETTLED TODAY September 29.— By the Associated Press, EW YORK, N a fans, deprived of r sport of “doping” win- ners in the major leagues by the victory of the Giants and the ap- parent success of the Nationals, have transferred their speculation to these two teams in the coming world series struggle, which begins Saturday at Washington unless a play-off in the American League be- comes necessary Both Griffmen and Yankees were fdle yesterday, and the latter will pursue their slim hope of a tie to- day. It will be necessary for the champions of the world to defeat Philadelphia twice while Washington loses its two remaining contests with Boston. A tie and a play-off of three games would then resuit. Otherwise the king will be dead The problem of picking his suc- cessor will be a difficult and worthy climax to a sensational year: Wash- ington, by its aggressive rise to the top of the American League in mid- season and its tenacious grip on the Pposition throughout the desperate struggle with New York and Detroit, has achieved a reputation as a fight- ing team, The Giants, however, displayed tra- ditional spirit in rising to the occa- sion with a crippled team to defeat Pittsburgh and now are relaxing with a recruit lineup in the field to prepare for the coming test against ‘Washington. It is expected that both Groh and Frisch will be ready for the classic. Brooklyn finished its season yes- terday by clinching the second-place money in the National League share of the series as Dazzy Vance won his 28th game in a 5-to-1 victory over Boston. Vance added nine strikeouts to his record and held the Braves to three hits until the ninth when they made two in succession for their only run, Pittsburgh definitely fell to third place when the Cubs drove Meadows off the mound and won, 7 to 4. Jacobs pitched in fine form. The Glants, with most regulars resting, eased up and lost a 11-6 slugging battle to the Phillies. St. Louis split a double-header with Cin- cinnati, winning the first, 9 to 3, as Rhem, a recruit, won his second con- test, but losing the next, 8 to 2, when Day, another rookie, was hit freely. The Cardinals made 16 hits off Dono- hue in the first, but Benton held them safe in the nightcap. In the only American League game played, Detroit and Chicago went 10 innings to a 10 to 10 tie until dark- ness forced the calling of the battle. It will be replayed today. The White Sox, never have finished in last place, could by winning, tie Boston for seventh if Washington trims the Red | i Box. The St Louls-Cleveland game was Aostponed bYTaln. It time in 14 years that a Sunday battle was called off in Cleveland and no holiday engagements have been in- terferred with during that period. TWO BOWLING LOOPS WILL OPEN SEASONS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT()N. D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Yankees Now Have Only Forlorn Hope of Tie Is “Prince of Whalers” Among the Griffmen GOOSE SWINGS SO LUSTILY HE OPTEN HITS THE DIRT| WHEN HE FAILS O CONNECT. THIS wj‘“fifl‘flfi FANS) Leon Goslin ORK on the farm did not annoy Leon Allen Goslin Vv very much when there was no base ball game in the neighbor- hood, but with a diamond tilt on, his father’s south Jersey agricultural in- terests suffered considerably. Leon was born in Salem, N. J., October 16, 1900, but was taken to the farm at a tender age, and as soon as he was old enough was turning fur- rows. The farm got much from Leon each year until bast ball got under way then Leon was as apt as not to leave plow and horses in the middle of the field and hustle to the game. That Leon’s father disciplined the son severely for such acts failed to dis- courage the young man. He just had to be around base ball. When about 16, Leon had become such a pitcher and batter he was in- vited-to join the Salem nine, then one of the leading organizations of south Jersey. To belong to that club was indeed an honor, according to the youth of the countryside, and when Leon after a short time had estab- lished himself as the best player of the club, he was hailed as “The” ball player of the southern section of the State. A couple of years later his fame had so spread that semi-professional teams were bidding for his services and_he prospered considerably as a pitcher. ~ Finally Bill McGowan, who had been and still is umpiring in the Southern Association, saw Leon in a <couple of games in south Jersey and thought the young pitcher good enough for a minor league trial. Leon, known far and wide as “Goose,” was quite ready to take a chance when Bill told him of a job open at Columbia in the South At- lantic League, so there the Salem boy went in 1920. He did some fair pitch- ing in the Sally League, but proved much more formidable at bat than on the mound and the next year Columbia used him in the outfield as much as in the box. That started Leon upon a “fence- busting” career in the hill region of the Carolinas and ended his pitching job. He hammered the ball so hard that his fame spread to the big leagues and the Nationals lost no time in picking him off. He came to Wash- ington as an outfielder only in the latter part of the 1921 season and has done much to strengthen the club, topping all the Bucks at the business of driving in runs. se” is a free swinger. The fans even enjoy see- ing him strike out—he does whole-heartedly. HOME-RUN HONORS REGAINED BY RUTH CHICAGO, September 29, — Babe Ruth, stellar slugger of the New York Yankees, has regained the home run crown that he shared last year with Cy Williams of the Philadelphia tionals, and which he lost in 1922 to Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Na- tional With the season virtually ended the Babe has 46, while his nearest competitors, Joe Hauser, Philadelphia Americans, and Jacques Fournier, Brooklyn Nationals, have 27 each. Hornsby and Williams are next with ece. it so EAST IS STRONGEST SECTION IN THE A. L. By the Associated Press. GOSLIN WORKED HARD AS A FARMER BOY,BUT NEVER COULD RESIST THE CALL OF BASE BALL. LEON 1S5 KNOWN EVERY- WHERE AS“GOOSE” BUT HAS NONE OF THE CHARAC~ TERESTICS OF MOUNT RAINIER IS OUT OF FEDERATION SERIES Mount Rainier's championshi nine of the Washington Base Bi and Athletic Anxociation hax wit! drawn from the National Base Ball Federation titular series, due to the lateness of the season and its preference to meet the victors of the Independent L e for the undixputed unlimited title of Washington. NEW YORK, September 29.—The Eastern and Western divisions of the National and American Leagues have retreated to their respective sections to wind up the campaign with the season’s honors divided in intersec- tional games, so far as divisions are concerned. The Western brigade carried off the honors in the National League by a margin of 25 games, while the fine work of Washington during the last six weeks enabled the Eastern contingent to come out on top in the junior circuit. The New York Yankees also during the latter weeks played above their previous intersectional strength so that the Eastern quartet as a unit finished with an advantage of 26 games. The Brooklyn club, which has been making a game fight for the National League pennant, was the best inter- sectional performer in either league, with a mark of .591. Washington and the Yankees were tied for second place, with .580, and two National League clubs—Chicago and _Pitts- burgh—were even for third, with .575. The Boston Nationals proved the weakest intersectional performer, with a mark of .356, four points below the Phillies. Two big duckpin circuits—the asonic Bowling Association and the Knights of Pythias are to open their seasons tonight. Twenty-four of the thirty-three teams in the Masonic League will take the drives at the new Coliseum alleys, over Center Market. Grand Master of Masons Charles F. Roberts and Lloyd Tenney of the Department of Agriculture are scheduled to make addresses. The largest prize list in the his- tory of the Masonic League has been arranged and competition~ of the keenest brand is expected. Major H. Robb is president of the loop, A. C. Bovd vice president, A. L. Ebersole secretary-treasurer and H. B. Halley representative to the Washington City Association. Ten teams will compete in the Knights of Pythias circuit at the Recreation alleys as follows: Capital vs. Webster, No. 1; Columbia, No. 1 vs. Century-Decatur, Calanthe vs. Ama- ranth, Mount Vernon vs. Hermione and Rathbone-Superior vs. Webster, No. 2. -— NEW TO CLEVELAND. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 29.— For the first time in nine years rain yesterday prevented an American League Sunday base ball game in this city, the final contest of the sea. son between the Cleveland and St Louis clubs being canceled. Havre de Grace SEVEN RACES DAILY Special B. & O. train leaves Union Station 12:10 p.m. Parlor and Din- ing Oar attached Bpecial Penna. R. R. train leaves Union Station 12 o'clock noon—direct to course. Eastern Standard Time. Admission — Grandstand and Pad- dock, $1.65, including Government tax. FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P.M. “LITTLE WORLD SERIES” UMPIRES ARE SELECTED NEW YORK, September 29.—Ollie Chill of the American Association and Harry C. Geisel of the International League arbiter etaff have been selected to umpire the “little world's series” be- tween pennant winners of the rival leagues starting next Thursday at Bal- timore. THREE HOME RUNS MADE BY FORT WORTH SLUGGER FORT WORTH, Tex. September 29.—Fort Worth of the Texas League | made it two-all in the Dixie “world | series” by taking the fifth game from Memphis of the Southern Association vesterday, 7 to 3. Kraft got three home runs on his first three trips to the plate. RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES The past week's summary of major league games, including games won and lost, runs, hits, errors and op- ponents, runs, including games of Saturday, follows: AMERICAN LEAGUE. . Ers.0.R. 4 16 3 23 10 41 7 15 8 25 10 34 10 48 16 42 S a5 0 35 23 48 ., LEAGUE. W. L. Rns. Hits. Ers.0.R. - .19 38 11 16 41 15 16 41 10 21 36 26 23 45 14 30 71 27 25 60 34 New York. Boston . Brooklyn st. Louis. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago 4 3 3 2 3 2 1 Philadelphia . 17 38 30 The Largest—Most Economical—Most Reliable Takoring Shop. “Wonder What Merts Will Say Today” At the Sign of the Meon —Select that Suit or Overcoat here and get the benefit of this big value. —The kind of fabrics you want are shown. —Our own tailoring ez- perts serve you. Full Dress Suits silk lined, to order $50, Bt viliwertn, . D0 Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc., 906 F Street Clese Daily at 6 P. M. . Mertz Tailoring Meets the Individual Requirements —High class; not —High priced. Special SUIT or Overcoat Made for You at NW. T PROVES TRYING- 29, 1924. Py J Mra‘fi —FE BIG () 4 HIS NICKNAME. SHAMROCKS CLOUT BALL IN BEATING DOMINICANS HAMROCK tossers established S terday that loop. Leity Kuhnert, the Shamrock hurling ace, had the situation well in hand. He vielded but five safeties a Sixteen blows combed off Brayton, Mills and Grazzini made it e; the Shamrocks. Haas led the attack with four wal- | lops in five times at bat. Crescent Athletic Club bagged the title in the junior competition of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association by triumphing over the St. Martin’s, 4 to 2, yesterday. Corson was mainly responsible for the vic- tory. He held St Martin's to four bingles and struck out ten would-be sluggers. A home-run clout by Miliwit of the Herzls gave his team a 4-to-3 victory over the Kanawhas and the Hebrew championship of the District for 1924. B. Sauber of the Herzls and Ottenberg of the Kanawhas both hurled in steady fashion. J. Sauber smacked a double, triple and a homer for the winners. Effective flinging by Frank Corson enabled the Pierce Athletic Club to down the Wesley tossers, 3 to 0. Each side accounted for five hits. Benning players nosed out Mount Rainier nine, 4 to 3. C. Brown and Shellan led in batting when Bradbury Heights took the measure of the Tuxedo tossers, 11 to L N SON, LEON ALLEN GOsuUN Independent League by downing Dominican Lyceum, 11 to 2. yes- in the first of a three-game series to decide the title in for | MANY WHO STARTED AS A PITCHER . HE WAS AGOOD ONE O. N ~ ~N PUNCH OF THE NATIONALS. themselves as favorites to cop in the nd victimized four batters on strikes. | Plans for a banquet will be dis- cussed by Linworth members at a | meeting tonight at 8 o'clock, at 1310 C street southwe: 'FANS EXPECT ACTION IN BARRACKS FIGHTS ‘Washington c fans expect 12 ashing rounds of milling when Honey oy Finnigan and Goldie Ahearn meet in the feature attraction tomorrow night at the Washington Barracks. Both scrappers are reported to be in fine condition. Plenty of action should result in the four six-round preliminary bouts. Jack Cafoni of Walter Reed and Gardner Johns of Baltimore 1 be opponents, while Jack I.ee of Gaithersburg will tackle Joe Rivers of the Washington Barracks. Kid Groves of the Mohawk Athletic Club and Frank Humphries of Fort Myer and Kid Hogan of the Mohawk Athletic Club and Louis Guglimento will figure in the other two bouts. Miss Helen Cort, clever girl sculler of Worcester, Mass., cannot swim a | stroke. In fact, she is afraid of the | water. Capital Cigar & Tobacco Co., Inc,, 604 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. _ Waahington, B, 6 SPORTS. MUST WIN TWO AS GRIFFS DROP PAIR TO GET A DRAW Standing About Settled in Old Circuit With Pirates the Worst Flivver—Inability to Cop Proves Bitter Disappointment to Ty Cobb. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, September 29—Three-fourths of the anxiety of the Washington fans was abated Saturday by the victory that the Nationals pulled out of defeat at Boston. There remains, how- ever, a final fourth that may continue right up to the last inning of the last game of the season tomorrow. For the Yankees still have a chance to tie the standings and necessitate a play-off for the title. It’s still the old story of “if win today's game and if the Nation. than ever. However, if the Griffmen the worst that the Yankees can do. _In any event, the edge in For even if the Yankees won tod: in the American League. If the Yankees als Jose, the race still is on, hotter win, the pennant is clinched, despite the race is decidedly with Washington. ay and tomorrow and the Nationals lost, the energy the Yanks expended in catching up would count against them in a play-off. The standings are about settled in the National League. The Giants have their fourth straight champion- ship clinched. Brooklyn is sure of second place and, considering the Brooklyn club's season-long record, the Brooklyns did extraordinarily well to finish second. They began the sea- son as if they would do well to finish at the top of the second division and they narrowly escaped finishing there It was due mainly to the fine work of the Brooklyn pitchers that they came along as well as they did. A change or two in the line-up helped, and no change was more helpful than that| which sent Brown to center field, a move that propped up a team that | was all too shaky in the outfield. | i Pirates Flivvered Badly. Pit urgh is sure of third place | and it is no particular credit to the club that it finished that well, for it is a nine which did not meet the ex- pectations of base ball men when the opportunity was before it. Detroit will capture third place in the Amer- ican League, but while there is honor in being third, it is not a finish that in any way can appease the longing | Ty Cobb had to win a pennant this | year. Cobb was especially eager to cap- | ture the pennant this year because,| as he said frankly to the writer, “I don’t feel as if 1 would be able to| play much longer. { That's the first time so far as the | writer knows that Cobb has ever| admitted feeling the strain under| which he has been laboring for years | on the field, expending his vitality | more freely and in greater volume than almost any man in base ball. | The fans had almost come to believe | that he could go on forever. Once last year he scemed to falter, but| this Spring he came back to the game with all the fire of youth apparentiy rekindled. Cobb has surpassed the record of Kecler for batting in consecutive vears and is the maker of so many records that he is the sweepstakes winner of records since they been kept in base ball. thinks the Detroits failed cause Heilmann fell off so badly batting. He was disappointed in Manush. He admits that the team had no second baseman until 'Rourke helped out, and, of course he suffered a body blow in the loss of Blue, whose injury deprived the club of a first baseman without su- periors. ha (Copyright, 1924.) ORIOLES TAKE FLAG BY 19-GAME MARGIN BALTIMORE, Md., September 28.— The 1924 International League season closed yesterday with the Baltimora Orioles, piloted by Jack Dunn, win- ners of the pennant for the sixth consecutive year. The Birds again made a runaway race of the campaign, winning 117 games as compared with 45 defeats and finishing with a margin of 19 games over the Toronto Maple Leafs, in second place The final s Club. Raltimore Toronto Euffalo .. Rochester Newark Syracuse Reading Jersey Cit Won 117 a5 8 Lost Iy N uoBujqeY, 555 pr— % A 56 7131111 12" CEEEE L — Games Tost 611636778 8118686 87— — 1 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS, Detroit, 10; Chicaxo, 10. (10 innings, darkness.) St. Louis at Cleveland (rain). w SAMES TODAY ~ GAMES TOMORROW. ashington at Boston. Washington at Boston. Now York at Phila. New York at Phila: Detroit at Chicago. i RALEIGH HABERDASHER — THIRTEE Boston, 1 Pittsburgh, 2. 11\ New York, 6. 3 Cincinnati, 3-%, GAMES TOMORROW. Season Over. Philadelph St. Louis, GAMES TODAY Phila. at New York. Boston at Brooklyn Cincinmati at St. ‘L. 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