Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1925, Page 22

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, C., MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1925. SPORTS. Superior Pitching Gives Griffs Edge on A.’s : Tygers Expected to Harass Mackmen POINTS TO ULTIMATE WIN FOR NATS OVER ATHLEICS Ruether Flashes Masterful Exhibition of Slabbing to Vanquish Philadelphians, 6-1, Before Record Sunday Crowd at Stadium. BY DENMAN THOMPSO! Sports Liitor, The Star. GR.-\N'[[?\'\; that the two-team tussel now being waged between Washington and Philadelphia for top honors in the American League is to be decided by hurling. as such struggles invarjably are, the world champions would scem to have an edge on their rivals, judged by developments to date in the current serics, or for the entire season, for that matter. With the set a stand-off at 1-all as a result of the even break obtained by the Griffmen at Philadelphia last weck end. Harris and his gang be- came 1 up with 2 to go on shifting to the local pasture yesterday, where Duteh Ruether outpitched a trio of Mackian twirlers to win by a count of 6 to 1, and boost the title holders to within a game and a half of the crest, before the largest throng that ever saw other than a world series game here In grabbing two of these three games the Nationals have outscored their rivals. 12 runs to 7. outbatted them, 27 hits to 24, and under-errored them, 3 to 4, while the cven dozen engagements between thé leaders over the stretch of the campaign show the title holders in front by a margin of 7 games to 5 Ruether flashed a masterful exhi. DUT bition of pill-propelling to turn in vi tory No. § to offset the three defeats UTCH DOES IT charged agzainst him since he was waived out of the National League.| PHILADELPHIA (Brooklyn, New York and Pittsburgh | papers please copy.) He yielded but a | Lamar. if. fistful of bingles as compared with |jimmons; ef..... the 12 amassed by him and his mates | Cochrane. ¢ igainst Rube Walbers, Arthur Stokes | Perkine, e and Fred Heimach, and with perfect | Galisway, support would have recorded a shut-| Walber, b out. | Stgkes, .2 Over the stretch of the first seven | Heimach, ' innings the Mackmen were able to get but three scattered hits. Gallowsy was St forced by Walberg after obtaining a| WANHINGTON. safety in the third, and Perkins, bat. | Ycjeels ting for Cochrane, drilled into a dou ble play following a walk to Welch in | the fifth, which nullificd Poole’s single | pioac: loway that followed V}{"“,‘i Lamar nor Simmons |Ruel ¢ . could assist Hale after he connected | RUSther:? for two bases in the sixth | Totals 3 The A's succeeded in grouping a “Batted for Stokes In pair of pokes in the eighth when they | Philadelphia Tung up their only marker, but would | Wahington . - 1 @ 1 have been blanked then but for ! p.um™ Judee. Rice, Menedts. | Double vhes miscue by Bucky Harris. Peckinpaugh te N. Harris to Galloway, the only Macklet to get | to Fool ol more than one hit off Ruether, led | with a crash past Bluege, and reached second as Heimach got u life when his roller was thrown wide by the boy hoss. Dykes skied to Goslin. and in < Hale's hopper to Judge resulted in|pirea—Messra. "Counolly. Nallin and ch being forced at the middle | minutes. 3 . Lamar’s one-baser to right b g AL sent Galloway home. and after Sim-| mons drew a free ticket to crowd the LIFE |s BEING SHOWN corners they were left that way when Ruether forced Welch to whack e | BY WESTERN CLUBS Griffs Early on the Job. | Walberg's unsteadiness got him into | a fam ull the outset and he had lo"‘llu By the Amcciated Pross some clever curving to escape with [ o ° S0 ” t , Put one run charged against him in| NEW YORK, June 20.—Western op- the opening round. He got but one | position looms formidably as the strike over for McNeeley and had to|twelfth week of the season opens on zroove the ball that Stan Harris lined | the major league front with Eastern to center for a single, send larl to | clubs having shoe-string advantages. third. Rice and Gosiin, the guns| Seven straight triumphs have firmly of the champs. were compelled to pop | intrenched the White Sox in third impotently, but Judge crashed a|place in the American League, while single past Drkes to right field that|the Bengals now are parked fourth [BIOPNUCHIRN - P ~oomam00085u: coc~2290000~c™ cashed McNeely. Judge executed & | workmanlike theft of second and when Walberg was unable to get three bal over for Bluege he purposely tossed the fourth one wide, filling the base: With the stage all set for him Peck rapped down the third base line to running. Chicago wrested an §-to-4 victory from the Indians yesterday. Thurston checking Cleveland at critical points with tight pitching. The Browns broke into the winning column by defeating the Tygers. McNEELY HAS A BIG DAY IN VICTORY OVER MACKS iarl McNeely had a big day against the Athletics yesterday. The square-Jawed center flelder of the Nationals was much in evidence in the 6-to-1 defeat Washington scored over Philadelphia, both in attack and defense. Afleid the speedy Californian took care of five aerial offerings, and with two hits and a pair of walks in five times up he scored three runs himself, in addition to driving in two others and stealing a base for good measure. In only one of the tallies registered by the cham- plons did McNeely fail to have a hand—or foot. AUTO RACE TO ITALIAN. SPA, Belgium, June 20 (#).—An- tonio Ascari, piloting an Ttalian car, yesterday won the automobile grand prix of Lurope. He covered the 800 kilometers (497.11 miles) in 6 hours 42 minutes. llis average time was 120 kilometers (74.57 miles) per hour. T o 1 b ». e B g ime e NP roral Plotos, second on-McNeely's hit, which also counted Ruel, who was on third. League’s Leading Mound Stars Clash Here Today and Tuesday| BIG GUNS OF GRIFFS’ WIN YESTERDAY SEEN IN ACTION Ruether, who hurled great game, also tallies. He is sliding into the plate in the fourth inning, BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS. | AMERICAN LEAGUE. McNeely, who scored three runs and batted in two more, crossing the plate with Washington’s first tally. COBBMEN, LIKE NATIONALS, e[| ARE GIVING A’S CONCERN Ability to Fight to Finish Has Kept Connie’s Men in Front, Although Pace Has Diminished in June—Pirates May Mean Business. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK., June 29.—Ability to come from behind and win out N the closing innings has kept the Philadelphia Athletics in front in the hectic American League race, although they are not mai taining as June closes the .700 percentage which they had when Jur began. Five of the Athletics’ victories this month have been won in the very last inning. Eight of their games were won by coming from bel the latter part of the contest, taking the leading and holding it or four times they came through with a deluge of runs, as, for the game against Cleveland in which they scored 13 runs in the inning, which they started 11 runs behind The Mackmen have no end of a| fgnt coming on with Washington.| SCALPING BALL TICKETS e e i | COSTS LEON A $20 FINE them on the season’s series, and they | are going to get a scrap with Detroit | Any evidence needed, aside from also. But as long as their pitchers| from the record crowd at Clark continue to go well they are likely | Griffith Stadium yesterday, that the to be either in the lead or near it| current games between the Nation throughout the season. als and Athletics have a regula R # world series _aspect was furnished Team Making ¥ itchers. in the ‘activities of ticket scalpers Connie’s pitchers have been going | yesterday. well for him because the remainder One of the elusive gentry, Nathan of the team has been going well also. | Leon, was arrested yesterday while cept Gray, who is the best young | plying his trade at the Georgia ave pitcher of the vear, Harriss has been | nue entrance to the park. Charged leading the Athletics. The success| with violation of section 50D of the which this elongated pitcher has been | revenue act of 1921, Leon today having recalls the fact that Harriss| was fined $20 in Police Court. showed so little stuff down South this Spring that some of the Athletics | — supporters were urging Connle to | far, hut Mack still has confidence i turn him_loose him. Left-handers are Rommel is the “iron man” of the|uncertain quantity. Either they bloor Athletics, but he is that tvpe of a|like morning glories and fade pitcher. He never seems to zet 100 | quickly. or they are slow in roundi much work. Groves, Mack's ex- into fo Groves seems to bel ! pensive left-hander from Baltimore,|in the latter classification, or el Ihas not lived up to expectations £o|Mack is badly aken in him. | & % : | Pirates Annoying Giants. | e Giants in the National League unusually docile Bosto Braves., the Pirates have been toj yesterday's sandlot battles, while the champion Shamrocks were pling the Cincinn at the UA ION PRINTERS and Knickerbockers figured in easy triumphs in | contender extended to the limit to ga | Lyceum base ball team and the Alexandria Dreadnaughts were har pushed in scoring a 9-to-8 win over The Printers got revenge for an early-season defeat at the hands of the Mohawks when they turned in a 10-10-2 victory at Union League Park. Roudabush, one-time star | fiinger of Eastern High School, | let the Indians down with a trio of hits, fanned a total of 14 batters | and ended a_perfect day by clouting a double and a triple, both of which | counted heavily in the scoring. | Ross Fishier, veteran hurler of the Georgetown Knickerbockers, allowed | the Aloysius Club batters only five | hits when the Knicks slugged out a registering from| 5 ¢, win over the I street club| combination at Georgetown Hollow. |.\|i1]< and Ellwood took turn about {on the mound for the losing club, but | failed to get them past the visiting | stickme: With Nels Jett in the box, the | Dominican Lyceum nine threw a are into the rank of the cham- { pion Shamrocks at Washington Bar- 1 a 6-to-5 decision over the Dominican have held d last two sea Fort Humphrey. The Pittsburgh hits. St. Joseph's will be entertained in that the Pirates a at Maryland Park on July 4. threat in June th | August A team Davis pitched a great game when means busines the Lafayette Athletic Club defeated | — the Eastern Athletic Association, 18 MR il oot ach regis 0 | ARE TO FIGHT TONIGHT each registered one. Petworth batters hammered out an NEW YORK. June 29 (#).—Mike 11-t0-3 win over the Benning Athletic | Ballerino, junior lightweight cham Club at the latter’s field. Tom Bruffy.|pion. meets Pepper Martin of Brook who performed in the box for thellyn in a 15-round decision bout winners, allowed five well scattered | Brooklyn tonight. hits, Ballerino, a Bayonne, N. J., youth i == ” has held the title for three months Jerry’s Sport Shop had little to of-| fre d&ihroned Steve (i) Soili took the short end of a 20-to-4 score. Johnny Lavcock blanked the shop. men after Beauchamp had been touch ed up for four runs in the second National Circle tossers banged out 24 hits in winning over Seat Pleasant, 15 to 3. fer in a meeting with Arlington and|ho had. in turn, lifted the |from the veteran Johnny | The fight will be Martin’s fou |at the title. 1F- ~ $iale who gathered it in.and stepped |8 to 2, and ending the Detroit streak H on. Loat. P e D Philadel racks. Lefty Kuhnert held the : ~ TODAY IR T T G T T e Dol s - "R B g el T Romtre MR el i auai gave maisen oe|| BASE BALL ,T92AY e L e 2 B R S Tanieeb ool & mest yesterday. NG par ex s i t s rem EMORED <2 nial 3 ‘313 | vanked in the ninth in favor of Tom- | decision over Fort Myer, 10 to 2 5 P ITCHING par excellence should be on tap in the two games remain- | Detrait ‘ AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK ing here before the Nationals hike to Boston and the Macklets [Rk ouy ----- 31 37 1436 46s laip) my Thompson when the Dominicans| moying the place of Earl Matting- visit New York for week end sojourns the four leading hurlers of | Glereiand ' - Alexandria Dreadnaushts went into | % Wwho bas been signed Ly Rishmond || Washington Vs. Philadelphia GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. the last frame of their encounter pitched the Northern nine A : = i o s ; with Fort Humphreys with the score the a Tickets on sale 800 15th St N.W & deat pelljtobfnisnian G The Corsairs continue to trail the Mc Today Sam Gray, the sensational young righthander, who last week | New Yoen st Bocion: New York ot Hocion: | Standing 8 to 8. Giovannetti’s single | UmPh over the Comforters, § to 5. Southern Blds.. from 8:30 AM. to 5:00 double to right center. .Judge|Graw clan by 2 points. 2 0 ; T s iy g i L i Y ' | Detroit at Clevelund. Detroit at Cleveland. | to left scored Lee to bring in the | o 's single | | P-M- Tickets on sale at Hecht's. twice bunted foul with the sque The Pirates' victory, however, back. | Fesumed service and recorded his ninth straight victory after a mo Chicago at SC L. Chicago wt St 1 winning run. Kermit Smith, the ‘“,:'""l’hm”".: - ;‘,!".“:;',f”":"" 5 - 5 e sign displaved and then bounded to|ed Cincninati into a deadlock for third | absence due to a fractured thumb, was hooked to face Stanislaus Cov 3 Dreadnaughts’ rookie hurler; gave a|in ‘a game with the White Sox 51 (L% 6% Lis S e e Dykes to register Harr: Goslin was | place with the Robins, who could not | leskie. the veteran moist ball manipulator of the Griffmen. who stands Washington, 6: Phil: = 3 s E ’! lavelan great exhibition during the last four| o 1p ! Jeftion thitdfwhen Bluege olledyto Uy Ui Litlies rceipe o raln. second to Gray in the percentage column, with 8 wins and 1 loss | papalk ifities rarl e e eHevE AR Ol Galloway | By taking both sections of a double | : 1 e of the series tomorrow | F < since conc | a e B e CHbeES T s aple the final of the series tomorrow | For the first time since the concrete | Three Tallies in Fourth. St. Louis rose threateningly n Harriss. pet jinx of the Ng-|structure in the outfield was erected NATIONAL y Lo e tionals, who is third on the list of |it was necessary vesterday to stretch - 4 e hree big. juioy tallies Tewarded the| tender fox thitd Hotors. league hurlers with § triumphs and 2|a rope in front of it to accommodate | e vork t. ‘Win. Lose. | day, the Eastern Athletic Associa-|Cjyb, 20 to 9. At the Sign offensive efforts of the Nationals allowed the Cubs but three hits in the |setbacks, will be pitted against Walter | the overflow from the stands. A | Pittburgn & 613 5 Gag|tion team taking the short end of a L of the Meen round 4, when a_ quartet of bingles|opening fracas. Bottomley’s home |Johnson, who rates fourth place among | ground rule limiting hits into the fans | Cincine £ » 40ai12-to-5 count on its home diamond.| Hess Seniors took the Modocs to re bunched with errors by both of | run with all the bases occupled scored |the boxmen, with 11 wins and 4 de-|on the field to two bases was adopted, | Broghl 4 -482 | Sheehy accounted for four runs by|eamp. 10 to 2, while the Juniors were the alien hurlers in service. With|half of the Cards’ runs in the second |feats. Bt 10806 Dinvo {oiT5) Axe ol BTG | P = 2 clouting the circuit in the fourth |taking the measure of Bryantown, 4 Hetabitebed Pack disposed of Ruel singled to left | game. Sl R i LT ool : e ore and moved up on Ruether's looping - = goikins so o dhatifas 1398 tafety to the same sector. Walberg i S I e R e e - >| Maryland Park Athletic Club chalked | Mount Vernon M. E. will attempt to x 4 7 Open Datly i fone s e N i b Pelundls ' b Hundreds of fans from nearby States a New o Gew York. | UD & Victory over the Virginia Grays |take the lead in the Sunday_School then fired wildly in an effort to mip | e il sl e e 3| =s welliaal= cenerons delagationjfrom ™ ar’ Phila, at Alexandria, 2 to 0. Fowler al-|League today in a game with Douglas ’ ST N from the Mackmen. something which | Ruether out of a shutout. It enabled b > PRas it Ghimmati. Proe st Chicaor | Towee iekini s BTy Tuel off the middle cushion, Mudd games in the serles and boost them to [and runwavs after every available YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. s b Bttt Rt 3 isn’t being done this vear; taking the |Bill Lamar, leading citizen of Rock 2 " measure of one hurler that no club yet | ville, Md.. {o beost-his string of con.|the Tetirement of Rice following a = 1. and Ruether both hdvancing a notch. the top of the pack with half a game (seat had been occupied. The paid at I Rube was lifted here, his place being e o R to spare. tendance was exactly 30,328. Pittsburgh, has been able to vanquish, and routing | secutive itting games to 28, after|bingle by Bucky in round 3. He raced Reductions You have cholce of our magnif- taken by Art Stokes, the righthander The difficult nature of this assign- St. Louis.” 3.8: 3 from Emmittsburg, Md., who was ob- Philadeiphia-Brooklyn, rain. tained by the A's from Des ana!v.her “'rl(\o has .Furr:e.\‘;ftlill)‘ resisted | three unsticcessful attempts to punch|into the angle bevond the right-field such an effort on four of the six o a ball fnto safe territory. With|p, a ar Sam’s v 2 sl v 0X seats to spear Sam'’s fly up against sions Washington has essayed the t Bucky's miscue deleted Lamar would|(he concrete barrier. icent stock of fabrics, ineludinc mohair and tropical cloths, and ths gervices of our talloring experts. »f the Western League. McNeely this season. not have come to bat a fourth time. v greeted Stokes with a shot to left that scored the Washington batter: Lt ords,and reputations mean ¥er¥| MeNeely fell for an old dodge atter| Harris and his gang will hige north- Made for-You Ry To Order INTERNATIONAL LEAG! Norelage men and took second on the throv ing, however, and if Gray and Harriss | SCratching a safety to Hale in the|ward immediately after tomorrow’s ] ¥ that tumbled him from the charmed IR e Baltimore, 10-3; Providence “Record while with Nationals. circle of .300 hitters to his recent .288 & 5 Rochestar: 5-7: Buffalo. 3.5 mark. ¥ R - s 50 Jereey Ciiy. 5% 1s = AM Kll"l\' ASSOCIATION. 2 " % . - DR «econd led to nothing. but the Griffs| Pittsburgh took toll of three Red sired sufficient ammunition in the fol- | twirlers and won, 5 to 2, keeping pace Jowing frame to boost their run total | with the Giants. who defeated the Bucky Harris opened with | Braves, 6 to 5. Meusel's triple scored to left and after|the winning run in the eighth inning. |the circuit being slated for duty. = Newkirk and Coombs each connect- | — Magee pitched the Warwick nine 0 | g for four safeties when Seabrook | *On4eT What ! (AN SRy Tod its seventh straight victory vester-|annexed a game with the Post Office | ment may be judged from the fact th That bum chuck by Stan Harris in it would entail landing three in a row|the eighth did more than euchre Rice that just eluded Gallow: B grasp. Sam pilfered second with AEhmEN - Stokes holding the ball and continued | | Greee to third on the pitcher’s poor throw to Severeid Toole. only to be stranded when Gos- lin_ lofted safeties by Judze and Ruel in the| | Russell lifth were wasted. Ruether taking u 299235950=~2u5s | he put some steam on the second toss | O 11 Boston Q4 % = e third strike for the final out, but the | to Poole and nipped Earl. goebe < on Rwie L ondiRo pmem | hamps registered in the succeedinz . 5 iieat play th | then return to the Capital fo clash ¢ ression_without benefit of bingles, , soaililis Judge at first base ARAINSL) Ganenas o et Iy 10 ULl | \ith the Yankees next ®unday befora | when MeNeely walked, stole second the left-handed Walberg vesterday. first hit obtained off Ruether. Rog|undertaking their second invasion of | iecause no one got there in time (o d of the orthodox-hitting Moon | grabbed Walberg's roller directly in|the west. An exhibition game for the ake Perkins' perfect peg, and then Lovaleskin . but his confidence in Josephus | bhack of fecond and flipped it back- | Nationals against the New Haven club negotiated the remainder of the route| | Jerberty - was vindicated when that worthy came | handed to Harris for a forceout. of the Eastern League at New Haven wn the infield deaths of Harris and| | Ruether through with two hits and a walk in besae has been tentatively arranged for next Rice. e four times up and drove in a pair of| Welch displayed nerve in effecting ' Wednesday. tallies. Judge himself feels sure he has emerged from the hitting slump Won. ssamm Lost Greeg Rusaell . woso0aR: GuommaRoaR (Cumberland ot schduled.) ¥ ris’ death, on a liner to left and tomorrow they will have|lim off the bage was an easy job, but | (.5, goston on Thursday. a_single | more than a million Buicks in use today? NEW YORK-PENNA. LEAGUE. $DD.50 Regular $35 Values S e ROLLROOFING STRIP SHINGLES #5. 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