Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 22

22 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 21 1923. SPORTS. Open Dates Now Due Boon to Champions : Nats’ Stiffest Opposition Is in West GRIFFS PLAY ONLY THREE GAMES IN NEXT SIX DAYS Stage Exhibition at Utica This Aftérnoon—Covey’s " Defeat of Tribe for His 12th Straight Win Gives Nats Even Break in West. BY B. KELLER. July 21 et the Jersey City club of the International League in the benefit of the American Legion, then move to New York for the final series of the season there with the JOHN TICA. N. ¥ we " hition contest here for ment is such that the champions to- schedule arrang enter but three tilts within the next six days, ind next Monday being listed as days of rest mpleted an arduous Western trip, in which they were en break in 14 games, the champions need Cleveland last night feeling a trifle better v arrived. That 9-to-1 win that gave them a sweep in the captured in the West naturally brightencd But all sting left by unexpected reverses is not gone, ays of idleness are at hand for them ; COVEY SHOWS TRIS ust in other event the ing a great finish eland, however. nd timely hitting in other series were n the work of the Indis Bacl three = hurlers completed job in excellent style and the bat ters enjoved a Roman holiday with the Tr g, me men cast in the role of m: Covey took sa0®> ationa the Seaved Ruel, - Covelesiie. | 293992002-37 2| cmmmiomn-m in Fine Form! ond time poor who was rood with the Indians this e had given them a num her ¢ ons capable service, pitched the Nationals to victory over his former team. And Covey did it just ns effectively the second time he did the first. When he won over the Trit month. he held it to a lone tall n vielde For the se ley enon; vear i old Stan- AMRgIr Cov Speaker. cousssr 3las: of Buckere, Knode* . |2522:293992™ ~[ssss:2522" x| 230-20u-: 20y Totals . “Batted filler in Afth inning. Washington. 6 1 6 1 2 0 1 4 0—f Cleveland. 00006000 0—1 Two-base hit—Judge. ~Three-base hit— Bluere. Racrificrs—s. Doable plays—S. Left on bases— 6. Bases on balls off Buckeye, 1: off Cove. Sirnck out—Ry Coveleskie, 35 by iller, 8 in 5 innings: in 4 ioniogs. Hit by bitcher e, % (Coveleskie and MeNeely) piteher—iller. U mplres—Measrs. Time of zame—1 heur las i esterday’s but engagement, Covey elght hits—all sin except Speaker’s double—in and his thirteenth in 14 ampaign. He passed on After the opening frame. Iribe scored, the veteran was in real danger v damaged., of th one batter in which the shitballer ne of being sever With Jam the first short center Speaker base line way in Nulty singled to nd took third when slid a_double down the first McNulty then counted as forced out Spoke. Effective Thereafter. all the Indians got w Myatt's single in the session, Speaker's hit in the Burns' swat in the fourth Joe Sewell and Burns in the Jamieson’s pass in the eighth Bur third xock of the after on in the nintt Opposing Covey a hander. wi battle and 50 minutes. single past Joe Sewell and raced to the far corner when Scott popped one-baser to right field Ruel’s single sent Bluege home and Scott to third but Muddy and the Deacon were stranded, for Covey bounded to the pitcher and McNeely lifted 1o Jamie son i Bucky Harr ning—Miller's a stroll to first safely, but Moon Speaker. As e after off is opened the fifth in on the hill—with base. Rice bunted Harris hoisted to Judge forced out Rice Boss Bucky reached third and scored with when Bluege bounced triple over McNultv's head Run the first month. Miller did not do so well this | Budkeye's It came in the time. He reached for eight hits | sev Stan Harris be and four runs in the first five innin 1 with a walk. Rice forced out his then g 1v to another southpaw, manager, but after Moon Harris « nd Buckeye. who was hit 0 sav. | popped to Fewster Sam raced home as ely by the Natlonals last Saturday.|Judge looped a two-bagger to center. addition to being wild, Buckey ve up four safeties. so the Champs »t five markers off him during the four frames he was on the hill. he Nationals went into the run.| ows by last of the Miller the outset Walter gave the veteran in Washington gast h a 0. s ing that 5 made off Pl >nth_inni Four Runs in the Eighth. Buckeye was generous in the eighth, when the Nationals got four more | markers. With Bluege out of the | making business in the second Inning. | way, Scott and Ruel singled and the e began that round by scratching | pitcher hit Covey, filling the bases. e past Burns and Bluege sacri. | McNeely also was pinked by Buckeye, Scott’s single to left put Judge | S0 Scott strolled to the plate. Ruel from where he scored while |tallied after Speaker caught Bucky Lutzke, who fielded Ruel Harris’ fly, while Rice's one-baser threw for a force place on Scott | counted Covey and movea MecNeely | v : to the far corner. ‘A throw from Ruel's Single Is Timely. Buckeye to Burns trapped Rice off | Jud sed in round 4 before | first base, but before Sam was run the next National tally arted. | down McNeely crossed with the last Rluege began its manufacture with a irun of the encounter. G. AB. H.SB. riced At third . Pet. Tate ... Ruether Johnson . Rice Goslin McNeely 1 s place today N. V.. July 21.—It Nationals 10 regain first American Leazue race h they afe not playin me. In the event feated in St. Louis would fall to .644 figures remain for the Athletics present lead by 1A is pos the in the Althons a championship & the Ma their while 548 e it . Hurris the char A victory yild increase their half ame, while rain or a tie con- | test would keep them three percent ace points ahead of the Harrismen PEPITTHERTIES 1 Rice and Scott fattened their bat ting averages vesterday, each socking hree singles. One of Rice's was 4 bunt down the third-base line made in the fifth frame when Sam was tryving to duck an inside pitch. Russell Coveleskin . Marberry. Johnson Ruether Zacha Oxden Gregx Kussell SKelley | . *Mozridze . Jamieson made a4 spa he fifth to keep a bingle The Indian left fielder speared the Deacon’s long drive with gloved hand while sprinting toward the stand. | Kling catch in from Scott. the ninth was a | zlove. When Os- | the ball, threw it { urns tried to take | sphere rebound YANKEES BUY HURLER. | and barrier so | up in| SAGINAW, Mich., July, 21 0P Bucky . pefty Jacobs, leading pitcher of the Mint League, has been sold to the New v York to report at the 1l line far back of first base | 1,0 of the local season. Jacobs was Moon Harr fiy. It was an ) i | effort signed by Saginaw six weeks uzn} after beinz released by Bloomington | the Three-Eve Leagne. He has| won seven and lost two games in| 22 2F T RCEPIE T T T that time, |5 Burns' single in scratch off Bluege a recoveri idge’s head but the grand; Judge scooped it retiring throw to *oMwmRan= Lost. second base from the auickly that for a Mar In the he f llent seventh inning, Fewster ran Americans to exce Speaker was credited with a hit on grounder to Judge in the third in when Covey, who took the throw beat the batter to first base jed 1o touch the sack Moon Harris made a couple of bril- | eatches against the right field Gne at Speaker’s expense in the and_another at Buckeye's in rventh o of nin: th fa he HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AS YANKS LOSE IN 1924 A pitching freak that will live long th fans in general and the New ork Yankees in_particular is that vear the Yanks were wild- tched out of thé pennant in much ne same manner that Jack Chesbro, when a star pitcher for the Highland- rs, many ¥ ago wild-pitched the sxton Red into the champion- | I Sox awkey 20 and 4 Bush, respectively, for the Yanks by cutt a wild pitch that spelled was Bush’s miscue that out of the running for mber saster. It the Yanks vod and all ROSENBERG MEETS SHEA | IN TITLE GO TOMORROW oA cigar you'll like NEW YORK, July 21 UPL.—Another | boxing crown will be hurled into the | *What luck?—Bag full o’birds- 1 1 ¥ |Leathernecks to a lof 17 | together. Metropolitan arena tomorrow night and enough ROI-TANS to last when Ch (Phil) Rosenberg of mehome., Why hunt further?” - New York world bantamweight champion, meets Eddle Shea, fighting PANETELAS (10c per) mite from Chicago. in a 15-round af- fair at the New York Velodrome. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. (Reg. T. & Pat. Office.) The JIVARQ HAS THE STRONGEST BREATH IN THE WORLD NE CAN BLOW A POISONED ARROW OVER 100.YARDS WITH A SINGLE PUFF OF HIS BREATH | This afternoon the world champion Nationals EcvADOR, . PEDRO CANDIOL: SWAM F T 1 otherwise | CHARLES PETERSON RAN 151 POINTS INONE MINUTE AT BiLLIARDS Phiadelphia, 1218 ROM SANTA FE To ROSARIC MILES IN 75 HOuRs, I MINUTE Rio de la Plata — Argert Feb 25 1925 “UTTLE oD LADY ™ ™E 23 YEAR OLD HE Owned by M5 fmema Larsor o Ouiva, TLL —BY RIPLEY. N [ e ~ (Ou - R COVEY REALLY HAS WON ECUADOR — $25,000 RACE DRAWS 14 INSTEAD OF 13 GAMES MANY GOOD HORSES BY FW YORK July gam pitchers N Coveles when MARINES NOW LEAD POTOMAC PARK LOOP Louis or credited as pitched and D et seven thi he retired Marines stepped out to take the lead in the Potomac Park Base ¥ yesterday when Stolle hurled the 10-to-0 victory over Department team ine twirler came v ing in a no-hit ance. No War batter reached first base until the ninth when two were out, Biggins connecting for a single, which llowed by another base blow from Lemeric's bat Registers continued Treasury Interbureau loop. with a 5-to-1 triumph over Liberty Loan. The Liberty Loan batters tallied in the first, but were blanked from then on Potomac Park won from Bureau in the Departmental League. 11 to 4, and in the Government circuit Interstate Commerce Commission handed a neat trouncing to Patent Office, 10 1o Center Market and W. R ttled five innings tmen the decision the War The ace of thin an serform to lead the Moses he 10 Marke ROBINS PAY BIG PRICE FOR PITCHER McGRAW NEW YORK. -July 21 (®).—The Brooklyn ionals announced today n stiations had been closed for the purchase of Bob McGraw, right-hand "d pitching ace of the Minneapolis Jub of the American Association, for $25,000 and two Pitchers Nel son Green and Vilson By the deal will remain with Minneapolis until the end of this season, reporting to the Robins next Spring. He has been one of the sensa tions the Ame: Association season so far, scoring victories in his ast 10 starts and showing a record trlumphs and only 6 defeats al tting Green will be released at once to Minneapolis by Brooklyn, but Wilson, now out on_option -with the Reading club of the International League, will not_report to. the Millers until next vear MACKS SELL STOKES PORTLAND, Oreg., July 21 President Turner . of the Club of the Pacific Coast League has announced that Arthur Stokes, right hand pitcher, had heen purchased | from_the Thiladelphia Americans. ®). Portland | Specialists in the Care of Automobiles On Our. Repair Benchj we are accustomed to work on many different makes of "auto engines.” Let us ook ‘over, ,your car and moter hefnre estimating. | ‘Sheridan- Garage, Inc.. A. A. A, Service Station " 2516 Que St. N.W. (@ Street Bridge) JOHN B. “NASH FOST of a complete rev ision of t illustra by 14 i ted the game wni June ning rd Yet : the ninth, W in the last ha 'y gets the st hington winning of that inning, M vigtory If he hadn't 4 St. Louis th score that run m the ninth Coveleskje would have | had the victory and his Season record | to date would he 14 games won and| instead of 13 won and 1 los ords now show Louis fied- it fi out the work of the ¢ defeated when he retiry no credit whatever. who worked only tull credit. Tk tem has been gene the old-fashioned adhered to. A similar situation came up in the world series last vear, but the Au- thorities wisely decided to award the | victory to Zachary, who had done the | bulk of the work, instead of this same | Marberry, who was the on this occasion An incident of here Sunday aptly tremes to which the p lead. A pitcher w winning a game althe pitch a single ball was called into th in the first half But.he gets while the pitche 12-3 innings gets | injustice of this sys- | ally accepted, but | method has Mpr‘ relief pitcher an an Nustrates teur game nt rule may ven credit for zh he did not 1o a bs Tie game with {wo out he ninth with run ners on first_and second. His team was trafiing by one run -at the time He nipped the runner off second bases before Re had thrown a single ball to the batter, thereby retiring the side Then his team went to bhat and won the game in the ninth President Heydler of the \mmm!‘ League belleves. the rule should be revised to give every pitcher some credit, even if his team uses five pitchers in a game. | MITCHELL WILL FIGHT [ HARMON ON AUGUST 14| MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 21 (®).— | Pinkey Mitchell, junior welterweight champion, has been matched to meet Willie Harmon of New York - here August- 14, ~ They - will meet at 147 pounds | The bout.is regarded by Mitchell's | supporters as a stepping stone to a match with Mickey Walker, welter- weight_champion. who has refused to meet Mitchell until he disposes of Harmon.s L RS N ] Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service 1337 14th Sl Main 5780 | “ountless thousands FIEAS, i C LICE: other PE T< torment- ing DOGS am.l . 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Harvard foot ball Selfridge, Annapo]is were collecting bets today result of the pair's feat in wherry from Boston to New 4 300-mile trip-in five daye Selfridge and Richards left the | Unfon Boat Club float in the Charles | fafled to start in | helieves he will be | River last Tuesday and landed at the fetropolitan Beat Club on thesHar | lem River yvesterday They lost one day én route because | of storms, but made up for lost time Supday by pulling from New London to Rve Beach, a distance of 100 miles, between sunrise and sunset Throughowt the trip they wore only rowing trunks and when they arrived | both were hurned a_brick red. otherwise in the best of ndition They told friends at the Harvard Club all about it last night, much to the discomfort of some skeptics who | had not expected them for a week. Ifridge is 57 years old Dr. Rich ards is in_his early thirtles. A wherry seats and racing shell, PITCHER KEEFE FARMED. PORTLAND. July 21 (P President Turner they were like & outrigged sweeps but heavier. Oreg., Thomas 1, gt ue has Pitcher Dave Keefe to the Wg , Conn., club of the Eastern on an eptional agresment Lea sent terbu Philadeiphia Washington . Boxton GAMES TODAY. Boston at Chicago. NV at Detroir Phila. at St Louis. YESTERDAY'S RESUL Washingten, 0: Clevelund. 1. Chicago, hmq 0. Detrolt: Phitadeiphia, & 8 GAMES TOMORROW. No Games Seheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Boston GAMES TODAY. Chicago st Boston. Pittsbursh at Phil Cineinnati at N.-3. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 6: Cincinnati, 5. Boton.' 6 Philadelohi, Rrooklsn. W0 inmings) MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL 1 Srracuse Jerses Cf Vidence. 1 Rockester. into. 5. Balimere. 4 GAMES TOMORROW. Chiengo at Boaion Pittsburgh at Phil AMERICAN Minneapolis, 9 Loutsville, 9. Cohim bus, unnn';u a ananoiis rio-Rantas City SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. New Orleans, 5 Chattanooga, Nashville, 7% Mobile, 3 Memphie, 67 Atlanta & Lattle 6: Birmingbam, 1 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Macon, 9: Augusts, 7. Greenville, 8: Spartanburg, 4 ille. 8: Asheville, 4 (10 innings) harioties 4. Columbia. 3 Portsmouth, 5: Kinston.' 4 Rocky Mount. 1 Norfolk. 5 Richmond. Wilson, 4 sw- g NAORL BALANCE MONTHLY Equip Your Car With New Tires Six Months to Pay! PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. NW. 9th and P Sts. NNW. TA 1200 H St. N.E. “MAZER-CRESSMAN CIGAR CO. Inc. Detroit. Mekery DARD CIGAR AND TOBACCO C0.: Distributors iana Ave. N. \\' Washington, D. €. Thomas H. Richards. | ) mm‘ walst to neck the skin had peeled, but | is an open hoat with siiding | of the| yrtland base ball club of the Pacifie | announced he had | 'MACKS HAVE HAD BETTER ' SUCCESS ON THE FRONTIER Results to Date This Seasom Indicate Detroit Tygers May Prove Biggest Obstacle 1o Harrismen Repeating as Flag Winners. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. 21.—Should Wachin more than 1 I W YORK, July | erous Western Donova | wilt upset the apple cart. The with respect to Philadelphia, but Washington is heing co: earlier- than its rival with the danger signal, hecause to date the West- erners have made more trouble for Washingtan than for the Athictics | The margin of success of one of West, as compared with that of the other it is in Philadelphia’s favor gton will be one pennant ely pestif teams nsed em, th senatorial e thing may prove true i a little | e the Ea leaders the tern against Eastern leader small |Inside Golf | & League ation is the leader race wher the final comp! made is no likely fo be more than five games a the ‘most. Offhand, considering the By (hm!rrllnnn relative standings today, five seems i very liberal estimate Machines have been devised at golf | lkely 1o stand, unless either ball factories which, for testing pur-|ington or Philadelphia cracks poses. will drive out ball after ball. Dletel nless one or the otk | Except for slight differences in air riddled by injuri pressure dne Roth Washington changing wind | will do about alike ag currents, the balls 21l probability. and would fall within | bas 2 little more Bo | a few inches of than Philadelphia | 4 one another. The are that the | machine is aunto- in that | matic. The goal Wa Phi F has Nationals On general principles also 3 little Washington the hetter nges New ¥r the American Le: certain to de in the of the golfer is to become automatic That it can he done is proved by the fact that par vers are near- utomatic. The noticeable thing about the < of the tip- top players is the ease with which they accomplish their work. In thaf respect they resemble the machines used for te: ing. The only difference is that the machine may always be relied upon, while the human cannot be. The mu-‘hh‘r. however, sticks to its fixed method—never varying the slightest.]jjs o i § Each time the human varies his £ame | am phae s (e e ginat the varies. ';rm point, then, is adopt | Western half than Washington—ana & method and stick to it. | Washington is playing better axainst 1925 the West than some championship teams have played—the Athletics can not be the aggregation of false alarms TREMAINE TO BOX FARR. |7 (Pey were pictured before th CLEVELAND, July ® It i in the eards that the Detroit |team in particular, whether the T Tremaine and Johnny Farr, Cleveland | gers win a pennant or not, may beat bantamweights, have sigiied to meet |the Washingtons out of one—and here in a 10-round no-lecision Washington had better ride its tallest RIS e elephant whenever it goes tor Tyger hunt scheduled for July 30 (e acent WHY PAY CASH? WE GIVE YOU SIX MONTHS TO PAY EXPERT AUTOMOBILE REPAJRING PAINTING—BATTERIES ALL STANDARD MAKE TIRES AND TUBES We Buy and Sell Automobiles WE. 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