Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 20

20 SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1925. SPORTS. Griffs Play Final With Sox Today : Pace of Mackmen Provesa Stunning Surprise CHAMPIONS TO HAVE DAY OF IDLENESS TOMORROW Washington Moundsmen Appear to Poor Advantage Sunday in Contest That Eddie Collins® Ag- gregation Wins by Count of 4 to 2. BY JOHN B. KELLER. A The la on Wednesday, they are to encounte for the world champion Nat frained from booking an exhib MERICAN League schedule makers made tomorrow a day of rest ionals and owners of the club re- ition engagement for the open date. k of enforced competition is welcomed by the locals, for, starting r Ty Cobb’s Tygers on four succes- sive days in Clark Griffith Stadium, and encountering those wild wallopers is not calculated to be anything easy The Detroit Club, it will be reca an advantage over the champs in int after a protracted slump, the Tygers the first team this season to best The best the White Sox can do to- day with a victory over the Nationals n the final contest of the set here is ain an even break in eight meetings. Such an outcome was made possible | yesterday when Eddie Collins' crew took the measure of the champions in | a rather uninteresting 4-to-2 tussle In all likelihood Dutch Ruether, southpaw, who has been going won- derfully_well for the Nationals, and Hollis Thurston, White Sox right- hander, will be mound opponents in | the last tilt of the series with the Chi- cagoan If Reuther toes the slab it will be with but three da his last showing, while Thurston has not performed since early last week. However, the left-handed Dutchman ought to be quite ready for the task. Local Hurlers Off Form. Several of the local hurlers used yesterday by Manager Stanley Harris did not appear to be fit. After a snappy first inning, the venerable Vean Gregg, who hurled so splendidly in New York last Wednesday, lost his cunning and control, and before he was relieved by Curly Ogden with one out in the fourth the White Sox had gone to the front never to be caught by _the champs. Ogden was ineffective in the ffth round, so Jez Zachary went to the hill in the sixth. He got along until the eight when, with one White Sox out of the way, he yvielded two hits, then issued a pass, intentionally, to fill the bases. F Marberry was hustled to the slab and pitched well the remainder of the way, but the damage had been done. In sharp contrast to the perforn ance of the National mound cor was the pitching of Red Faber ball veteran. Although he was pink ed for nine hits, just two less than the Chicago total, and three of the blows were doubles, he hurled with such art that only a trio of safeties counted for anything. But one Na- tional run was earned, and two dou- bles were needed to put that one across. Kamm Wields Wicked Stick. Willie Kamm, who had made but a single in seven times at bat in| the first pair of games in the series, was the biz gun of the White Sox attack. Twice he whistled singles by Mike McNally, who assumed the third base job when Qssie Bluege had to move to shortstop after leg injury forced Roger Peckinpaugh's retirement in the second inning, and each single chased a run in. And in the eighth Willie lofted a sacrifice that sent the last Chisox tally across the plate. Early Sheely began the making of the first White Sox run when he reached Gregg for a single at_the start of the second round. Bib Falk lifted to Bucky Harris, but Harry Hooper walked. Then Kamm poked the ball past McNally and Sheely counted. z In the fourth frame the Sox scored again. Sheely popped to Judge, but Falk singled to center and Hooper once moré drew a. pass. Again Kamm slammed a single down the third base line to tally Falk. Ogden then was called to the rescue and he stopped the scoring for the inning. Sox Errors Aid Griffs. In the Nationals' fourth batting turn the Sox played some sloppy ball and had one of their markers offset. Faber failed to handle cleanly a topped ball from Harris’ bat and | Bucky was safe at first. Sam Rice's retirement advanced the pilot a base and he counted when Goose Goslin slashed a single over Collins' head. Joe Judge forced Goslin, but there were two Nationals on the paths when Ike Davis foozled Bluege’s roller. McNally, though, gave Davis an easy chance for a force play on Bluege. Ogden got his in round 5. With Faber out of the way, Johnny Mostil doubled to left and Davis walked Collins lifted to Goslin back of short- stop, but Sheely singled Mostil home. The sixth session was a scoring one for the Nationals. Goslin started it with a double to right and took third when Judge grounded’ out. The Goose came home when Bluege shot a twobagger. to Hooper's territory. Joe Harris went to the plate instead of McNally and walked, but Muddy Ruel arilled into a doublé play. Zachary Solved in Eighth. The Xationals got a hit in each of the following innings, but each came after two men had been retired. The Sox, though, made use of their wallops. off Zachary in the eighth. Collins rolled to the pitcher, but Sheely and ‘Falk singled to right, Farl getting to third on Bib's hit d Bib reaching second on the throw to the far corner. Evidently to give Marberry more ‘time to .warm up, Manager Harris ordered Zach to walk Hooper. That filled the bases. Kamm, first to face Marberry, re- lleved them of one occupant by fiving so deep to Rice that Sheely got home after the catch. L 17 HOMERS IN TWIN BILL. PORTLAND, Oreg., June 8 ().—In two games played by the Portland and San Francisco club here yesterd 17 home runs were registered. The| San Francisco club collected 11 and Portland 6. San Francisco won both games. DISTRIBUTORS Wholesale and Retail Sales and Service 1709 L St. N.W. Wallace Motor Company the D first to beat them in two consecuti'h rest since | X. | Goslin, 1f. |3 | Buel, "¢ for pitchers of the opposition. lled, is the only league rival holding erclub series this year. Last month, awakened and gained recognition as ionals in a series as well as the games. TOO MUCH FABER CHICAGO. ki L] [OTOTONPS S finu‘.‘ 1 Rumm: 3b. PRI Prrrm———. cowmiuoant P T moocooomel 5 <l > Eice, rf Judge,’ 1 Bluege. MeNally, eckinpi Adams, % Harrls* SookBumand Grezg, D Oden, Ruether: MeNeelys achary, p. Marberry, ... Matthewss . —OMOROOUSHSERREAULT & cosese HOT PENNANT RACES IN SOME OF MINORS The race of the Southern Associa- tion tightened up in the past week and the separation between the first club and the last shrunk to a sur- prising point. New Orleans got to the 'top and Memphis continued to be a red-hot threat despite the fact that it stuck around fourth place: In a race as close as that of the Southern, a fourth-place club is so near the leader that a spurt of a couple of weeks can put it at the top. St. Paul hung around first place in the Amerfcan Assoclation, but it is by no means certain that it will be there ‘two weeks from now. Its lead has been shortened, showing that Louisville, Indianapolis and Milwau- kee are still very much in the fight, and some of the second division clubs are doing their bit in the victory line. Columbus is the laggard. It is & pity that Syracuse and Provi- dence aren’t doing more than they are in the International League. Syra- cuse took a spurt recently and show- ed that it could win sometime: the club has too little that is sub- stantial. Haltimore hag been outsprinted by Toronto in the Internatjonal, and that should awaken the circuit to the fact | that it is being presented with a new | Kind of show. It is certain some of the league members resent the loss of the franchise at Newark, and it is | possible that Newark will get back | eventually with something entirely in- dependent of any other club in the cir- cuit, The entrance of Albany into the Eastern League fight means a race { worth while in that organization. This race may turn out to be the finest | four-cornered affair that the Eastern hasy, had in some time. The Western League is as full of sensations as all of the minors seem to be this season. They need only to_have Wichi and Omaha get into | first place to give all the boys a taste of league leadership. Six of the eight ‘clubs have held the lead and all six of them are still in the pennant chase. ©l| ocoos000002000momoW u ol coco=osssgs0nmuonR © Sl oomoonsusnnionssas) 35 n sixth. Totals - *Batted for McNeely +Batted for Ogden in fifth. Ran for Ruether in fifth. Batted for Marberry in ninth. Chicago 01011001 Washington 00010100 Two-base hits—Goslin, Bluege, S. Harris, Mostil. Sacrifices—Ramm, Gregg. First buse on bulls—Off Gregg. 2 Zachary, 1; off Faber, 1. Zachary, 1: by Marberry, 2; Strick out—By hi’( Faber, 1. Hit by’ pitched_ball—By Faber ( —Off" Greeg, 3 in 4 inning uel) . Hits off Ogden, 2z 124" inning Zachary, & in 214 'innings; off Marberry, 0 in ‘134 in nings. Losing pitcher—Gregs. - Double blays —MeNally to K. Harris to Judge, Kamm to Coliins to Sheely, Adams fo S. Harris to Judge. Umpires—iessrs. Owens, Nallin and Rowland. Time of game—2 hou AUTO RECORD IS MADE IN DIRT-TRACK RACE CHICAGO, June 8 —Harry Nichols of Chicago lowered the Western dirt- track record in an automobile race at Roby when he covered the 35-mile course in 24:22 1.5, an average of 74.3 miles an hour. The previous rec ord was 2850 15, made in 1923 by “Pop” Cla Chance Kinsley of Indianapolis was killed in a timetrial before ihe races when his machine skidded at a tarn and turned over three times. 0—1 0—=2 off_Ogden, 1; off in ol esosce0s3000500020M RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAIOR LEAGUES NEW YORK, June S.—The past week's major league record of games won and lost, runs, hits, errors and opponents’ runs, including games of Saturday, follows: National League. St Louls + - New York Chicago™ . Brooklyn Bhilageipnia Pittsburen Cincinnati Boston Americar. League. Washington . .... St. Louis . New York Boston Detroit 3 Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago EOR. 3 W 5 4 3 3 o sazssimm Ex3 £l i B b e BSLLENET s S@sA3RR: o 1 LANDIS WILL TOUR. DURHAM, N. C., June 8.—Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, high commis- sioner of base ball, will begin a tour of the Southern States on Saturday, June 20, at Norfolk, Va. Commis sioner Landis will witness one game in each league. Series With Slugging Cobbmen Severe Test for Griff Hurlers the Tygers breeze into town l place in the league standing, great style and in their 49 games t average of "315. They have socked ITCHERS of the world champions are due for a severe test when this week. Although only in sixth the Bengals are swatting the ball in o date have amassed a club batting 549 hits in 1,741 times at bat to top all ‘other teams of the Johnsonian circuit in_ effectiveness with the ash. While far. down in the ‘order of home-run hitting clubs, the Tygers are sctting the pace at triple-making and compare well with all others in slamming two-baggers. An idea of the batting prowess of the Tygers may b4 gleaned from the individual hitting statistics of the club. Sfx of the seven players other than batterymen playing regularly are of the .300 class and ali told a dozén of the Cabbmen belong to that select group of ¢lub swingers. Red Wingo, Tyger outfielder, is master swatter of the American League with an average of .410 and the team has two more men among thé .circuit’s five leading batters, all of, the .400 type. They are Harry Heflmanti:and Ty Cobb, each with averages of .300. Washington will celebrate its sec- ond champlonship flag raising of the season Thursday when the gonfalon emblematic of the world base ball title, will be flung to the breeze. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high commissioner of base ball, is to attend the ceremony, but no Federal Government functionaries are to take part. Spencer Adams was expected to play the shortfield for the Nationals today in the last game of the series with the White Sox and continue in that position until Roger Peckinpaugh is able .fo. resume his. regular job. Peck, who hurt-his leg Friday and had fo quit the game Saturday, tried to play again vesterday, but was forced. out of action. Ossie Bluege was shifted to Short and Mike Me- Nally sent to third, but later in the fray Bluege went back to his aceus- tomed place and Adams. subbed for Rajah. Peck was hurt vesterday when he made a fine play on a ball, hit to his left by Earl Sheely in the Second inning. Rajah flung himself at the hard-hit ball and speared. it while prone, but could not recover in time to prevent the blow from becoming a single, After two more batters had their turns, Peck left the game. Mostil and Sheely liked the offerings of the Nationals. Each hit ' safely against all of the slabmen but Mar- berry. Two Nationals got on the paths with two out in the fourth when Ike Davis, after fumbling Bluege's tap, mo- mentarily went into a trance. With HOW GRIFFS ARE BATTING G. AB.H.SB. RBL Pct. Tate 2 Hargrave Matthews Johnson . Ruether Rice Goslin Peckinpaugh Ju Bl uege Harris 13 ° w . mOE RS BEROTHO 5 L LT -F - EEE Y ecesesopsua Collins waiting at- second base a few yards from Davis for the ball that would easily have nipped Judge com- ing down from first, Ike déliberately tossed to Sheely miuch too late to get the batter. a3 Both of the “secondstringers sent into the gdmes: by the Nationals started double pfays against the Sox. In the third, McNally grabbéd Davis' hot grounder to begin a two-pty kill- ing and in the sixth Adams fielded another roller from ke to {naugurate the dual play that retired the side. Ruether made good as a pinch hit- ter for Ogden in the fifth when he singled with one down. McNeely ran for Dutch and when Leibold followed with a hit, the fans perked up, but ge{ther Buck Harris nor Rice could elp. In the ninth, : Faber kinked his pitching arm_when catching one of Schalk's returns and caused Collins and tpe other Chisox ‘some concern, but Red shook it off. The kink in his arm was nothing like the kink in his pitching. Failure of White Sox batters to go through with their pgrts of signaled plays caused Harry Hooper to be caught off base twice. He was a victim of Ruel’s arm in the fourth and sixth trames. WHEN YOU SEE ONE THINK OF THE OTHER 1358 D St. N.W.—SALES AND Main 7602 . SERVICE ' SESZEEE F margin in a number of cases. Aloysius Club = tossers won from the Maryland Athletic Club, 10 to 9, in a clash in which the lead changed hands several times. The Maryland- ers forged ahead In the opening frames ohly to -have the Aloys knot the count ‘in the eighth and shove the winning tally across in the minth, when Dillon’s single was followed by Byrne's double. Linworths, senior champions of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Assoclation, all but handed a trounc- ing to the Georgetown Knickerbock- ers. The champs were ahead, 11 to 8, In the seventh, when their star catcher,. April, was ruled out of the game by Umpire Hughes. The Knicks immediately got@busy with their bats and -by “the end of the ninth frame were on the long end of a 12-to-11 score. . The Union - Printers and Herald Harbor teams made good on Virginia diamonds. The Printers annexed their contest with Cherrydale, 8 to 3, and Herald Harbor trounced Arling- ton, 9 to 4. The Petworth clubmen, who invaded Alexandria, lost to the Dreadnaughts, 6 to 1. Shamrocks, Beat Mohawks. Tommy Thompson, leading ' twirl- er of the Shamrock Athletic Club, uncorked a brand of pitching that proved too much for Rob Roy Mackey's Mohawk Indians and. set- tled for the time being the question of base ball'supremacy in the South- east. The Hawks collected 10 safe- ties, but, failing to follow up their advantages, took the short end of a 9-t0-2 count. Brightwood Athlefic Club bowed before the prowess of the Mount Rainier players and took a 8-to-5 drubbing, while thes Warwicks de- feated Silver Spring, 22 to 8, and the Lafayettes copped from Clinton, 3 to 0. Eastern Athletic Association base ballers outclassed the Plerce tea: EW YORK, June N seen in many a day. features of 1925. start of his career. ciably with his years of service. In some respects he may lack a trifle of the quick time sprint that he had when he first broke in, but it that is noticeable it is more apparent on_the bases than in the fleld. Probably Roush is a more sensa- tional felder than Carey. He has no superior as a judge of fly balls. Add to that his speed, which is only a little short of Carey’s, and the com- bination is a rare one. 'In his career Roush probably has cut off more long line drives than any center fielder of his day. He is one of the few center flelders who can judge a fly ball by the “sound on the bat.” a marked ad- vantage where the hitting has been 50 free as it has in recent years. Southworth of the Giants has come back with such an improvement over his 1924 showing that he does not seem like the same player. He was not well last season and seemed to be unable to get going. His batting sag- ged in his general falling off and he was almost completely dropped from the Giant batting order. But for Mc- Graw’s long-standing ‘faith in him he might have been dropped from the team. When Cincinnati traded Harper to Philadelphia it gave the Phillies a center fielder whose work is really extraordinary, considering the fact that he is constantly engaged in fill- ing in right field and backing it up where Williams has lost his speed. ‘The big right flelder can still bat, but he has slowed down, and Harper, by his agility and swiftness, is handling everything which is hit to right cen- ter. Brown of Erooklyn is one of the cleverest outfielders in base ball. To his fine work in center last season Dazzy Vance owed much of his suc- cess, and he is doing a lot this vear. to keep the Brooklyns up in the race. Neis has been playing center in Boston, and some of his catches are described by opposing players as lit- tle short "of miraculous. Chicago is not as well equipped in center as other ‘clubs. 'The Cub outfield needs strengthening. The fact that the team would not keep Miller shows how the loss of more sureness is felt. Brdoks has made a sensational start. St. Louis has experimented much in center fleld. although Mueller fre- quently played a very excellent game. At the Sign of the Moon Established 1893 Mohair or Tropical - Cool and Smart ‘Suits Made for. Yoy, 20 Under $30. —You don’t have to sacri- fice style for comfort when you buy one of these suits. e CLOSE SCORES ARE RULE IN CLASHES ON SANDLOTS IRST-CLASS battles were the general rule in the big sandlot base ball contests yesterday with the victory coming by a single-run Playing excellent ball behind the superb pitching of Sam Simons, the Herzls came from behind to beat the Kanahwas, 6 to S, in an 11- inning game in the Jewish- Community Center series. the loop, nosed out the Dominican Lyceum nine, 8 to 7. Rialtos, leaders i from Hyattsville, 17 to 11, at the East- ern fleld, while' Seat Pieasant took !’he Agjul&nl General's nine to camp, to 3. Maryland Park Athletic Club slug- gers, scored their ninth victory in 10 starts when they trounced the Blad- ensburg team, 16 to 9. Liberty Athletic Club made its week end wins two straight by trouncing Kenilworth, 8 to 1. Sunny Kremb was on the mound for {he winners. Halg and Huff, National Circle Club moundsmen, proved too much for the Randle Heights combination, the Na. tionals getting the decision, 20 to 1. Benning Athletic Club had a little opposition in a game with Tennally- town and registered a 12-to-2 victory. Bloomingdale batters were allowed only four hits by Camburn, Riaito Theater hurler, when the Rialtos chalked up an §-to-5 triumph. i Northern Athletic Club took th measure of the Walter Reed team by the count of 13 to 9. Cardinal Athletic Club won from the Virginia Grays, 16 to 2 Southend Juniors, Meridian Juniors and the Trinity Athlétic Club teams won their Washington Base Ball and Athletic Assoclation series games on forfeits, their opponents failing to ap- pear. Crescent Juniors Centrals, 14 to 4. Montour Athletic Club took a game from the Agricultural Juniors, 21 te 9. conquered the Yankee Juniors won from the On- tarfos, 15 to 5, and the Colvers beat the Arrows, 4 to 3, in series games. York Preps were nosed out by the Freer Juniors, 7 8 to 7. Circles defeated the Argyles, 7 to 4. \GREAT RACE IN NATIONAL AMONG CENTER FIELDERS BY JOHN. B. FOSTER. —As pretty a race between center fielders is going on in the National League now as the major circuits have In many cases the play is superior to that of the last three seasons, and the fielding improvement is one of the big Carey, the Pittsburgh veteran, has been a superior player from the With the exception of Rousch of Cincinnati, there is no center fielder in the National who has helped keep more pitchers out of trouble than this tall fellow, whose speed seems not to diminish appre- If he were as good a judge of fly balls as some of the others, the uncertain St. Louis pitchers might be better off than they are. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadeiphia . . Washington Chicago Cleveland St. Louis . Detroit . New York Boston GAMES TODAY. Chicago at Wash. St. Louis at Y Detroit_at Phila. Detroit at Phila, Cleveland at Boston. Cleveland at Bosion. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Chicago, 4; Washington, 2. St. Louts, 5: New York, 2. GAMES TOMORROW. NATIONAL LEAGUE. ) Brooklyn Plttaburgh Cincinnati Philadeiphia . Boston Chieago St. Louis GAMES TODAY. Brooklyn at St. L. Phila_at Cincinnatl. New York at Chicago. Brookiyn at St. L. Boston at Pittsbx. Phila. at Cineinnati. ERDAY'S RESULTS. 10; Chicago 9. Boston, 2 (12 Innings). Louis, 2. e GAMES TOMOREOW. New York at Chicago. Boston at Pittsburgh. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Rochester. 4: Providence, 3. Jersey City. 13-1: Syracuse, 11-3. Reading, Toronto, 9. Buffalo,’ 4: Baltimore, 2. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.' Indianapolis, 4- Columbus, 3-2. Kaneas City, 16:" Minneapolis, 3 §t. Paul 18; Milwaukee. 3. Louisvi 12: Toledo. 4. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. New Orleaps, 3:' Memphis, 1. Atlanta, ‘Chattanooga, Little Rock, 5: Mobile, Nashville, 8: Birmingh: The first game of base ball ever played in the United States was at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839. 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VI Figures for the season shqw a to- tal of 150 batsmen in the four-ply class. The _ Philadelphia + Nationals have the most entries, 15 in-all, while | the New York teams, both National | and Amerfcan, each have 12'long hit- ters. The entry ,0f Babe Ruth, swatter de luxe, into. the game last Monday may have stimulated the leaders, but he failed to comnect for the circuit. The leaders: American: Meusel, New York, 15; Willlams, St. Louis, . 14; Simmons, Philadelphia, 9. National: Hornsby, St. Louis, Hartinett, Chicago, 14. PHILS BATTLE REDS FOR FIRST DIVISION| 15; NEW YORK, June 8 (®.—Fourth place in the National League, the most disputed peg of the circuit at | present, is the objective of Philadel- | phia and Cincinnati teams in a series opening in Redland today Tdleness cost Fletcher the lower berth in the first division yesterday.| When the Phillies were travelling | from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, the | Reds crowded past the Quakers by taking their third consecutive extra- inning game from the Braves, 3 to 2. The drive of the Cardinals to break from the cellar was checked again by the champion Giants, who clinched the series with a §-to-2 triumph. Man ager Hornsby did his best to turn | back the leaders by collecting three | hits, but his team-mates were. unable to hit Art Nehf in the pinches. An eight-inning rally whichbrought | five runs gave the Robins thefr final | tilt with Chicago, 10 to 9, and kept Brooklyn in the running Wwith New York St. Louis Browns took the measure of the Yankees, 5 to 2, Babe Ruth failing to connect safely in five trips to the plate. Ken Willlams slashed out his fourteenth homé run of the year and had the distinction of being the only player to hit for four bases vesterday in the majors. Tt was his fourth homer in the past three games. WAMBY OF RED SOX IS A POWER AFIELD Bill Wambsganss of the Boston Red Sox is the first big league player this season to achieve a record of 14 field- ing chances accepted in one nine-in ning ball game. There have been higher records in other years, but anybody who accepts 14 is entitled to at least three cheel Wambsganss, moreover, has accepte 8 per game in 8 games, which is a better record than any other player can claim; has accepted 9 chances twice and 11 once. Several inflelders have accepted 12 in a game, including Critz of Cincin- nati, Adams of the Cubs, Collins of the Chicago White Sox, Wright of Pittsburgh, Jackson of the Glants and O'Rourke of Detroit Of course, the greatest fielding dis- tinction that ever came to “Wamby" was the unassisted triple play that he made in Cleveland in the world series with Brooklyn. The play happened so fast that many fans did not catch up with it until the next day. Had this veteran second baseman been able to bat as well as he can fleld, he would have been one of the greatest stars of the game. Cleveland let Wamby go in a trade which seemed to be advantageous, but today if Wamby were giving Cleve- land the flelding steadiness of which he is capable the Indians might be moving on a little better. ; Wamby batted as high as .295 orce in his major league career, and five years after that got back to .290, but he could not be written down as a slugger at his best. The only inflelder in the American Teague, however, who is giving Wam- by a race in the field is McManus of the Browns. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPER'S FERRY, W. Va., June 8—The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers both were clear this morniny. Hess Shoes Excel In Style, and Value The qua.lf.t};; o!;Heus' Shoes 1 firmly established. G WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE CELLAR A YEAR AGO; ARE LEAGUE LEADERS NOW Complete Reversal of Form Is Most Notable,in: History 6f Circuit—A’s Figure to Fight It Out With Nationals for Pennant. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. N EW YORK, June 8—What chance has the Philadelphia team to wid the American League pennant? They have a grand chance if one may judge by the respect in which the Athletics are held by their competitors, including tie world champion Washington Nationals “Oh, no, we do not look upon the clfmb of the Athletics 4s anything that could even suggest a joke,” said Stanley Harris Washingtons, to the writer here this week. Any team that can hold us practically ter. almanac.” The season series between the Ath- letics and Washington stands five victories for Washington and four for Philadelphias Today the Athletics are place. The big import of it all is that on June §, 1924, they were in last place, with only 17 games won as against lost. Look at those figures, fan, because they are the figures which are making American League managers realize that the worm not only has turned, but has flopped a handspring and a serles of somersaults. They embody almost a complete reversal of form. There is nothing quite like it in American League his- tory. It represents a difference of .300 percentage points. Rivals Plotting Against A’ There’s quite a story in connec- tion with this march of the White Elephant and there is so much spec- ulation in regard to his future march that every manager is plotting ahead right now to defeat Philadelphia with the same evidence of swash- in first |buckling as all of them have plotted to defeat Washington. American League managers, earlier in the fight did not take the speeding of the Athletics seriously because they got a wrong tip from Florida. Manager McGraw of the Giants started the thing when he permitted a report to get abroad in which he| rated the Athletics as second divi- sion timber, and a certain number of National League managers, who trail McGraw quite a little, in e pressing their opinions, repeated what he sald The Athletics now are playing a little over pennant speed. Any team playing .667 base ball is presumed to be smart enough to win a champion- ship. There has been vear when the Athjetics have serious Iy let down from that standard Have Griffs and Sox to Beat. \ Evidently Washington and Chicago are to be the two teams that A’s will have to trim. a lead on New York and Boston and are likely to keep it. The Yankees have won a single game fror Boston has won four. If the Athletics play the other teams | of the league at a ratio of .667 they can afford to beat Detroit 12 to 10 on the season and win from St. Louls at about the same figure. They must beat Cleveland better than that to| hang on to the flag. Washington will | keep the Athletics busy all of the time and Washington has done as well | against New York as Philadelphia | has done against Boston,. which is| a trifle in favor of Washington in the final run because this Washing- ton team never is going to give up. Close Finish in Prospect. Judging by the rate at which Phil: adelphia has been going. and its pos- sibilities, especially if the team re- gains the services of Gray in first. class condition, the Athlefics should win about enough games this and .600, and if they do that, which is & mark based on what they already have done, they may be running neck and neck with Washington for the last three weeks of the season. (Copyright, 1925.) CHEVY CHASE CUP GOLF -+ EVENT TO WADSWORTH George A. Wadsworth won the French High Commission cup at the | Chevy Chase Club, defeating G. Chase by 5 and 3 in the fifal round Both semi-final matches went extra holes, Wadsworth defeating J. L. Suter 1 up in 24 holes, and Chase winning from H. M. Southgate 3 and 2 in 27 holes, in the handicap affair. . KEARNS IN NEW YORK. 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