Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 14

MACKS ARE FACING FIVE, AGAINST TWO FOR GRIFFS Twin Victory Over Browns Puts Champions in Po: tion to Regain Lead Today in Event Athletics Drop a Pair to the Cleveland Indians. BY JOHN B. KELLER. WWURBLE for the -HEADERS are likely D' American Leazue pennant the race the to bear importantly The Nationals, upon who heat Browns. 5 to 4 and 10 10 3. in vesterday’s dual sketch here to put themselves within one game of the leading Athletics; who got only an even hreak in two tilts with the Indians in Philadelphia. now have but one double-header awaiting them, while the pace-setters have at least five of them remaining on their string of two-time bills. A back to the hill be and, if the form out ser games are keenly of turn. Despite their schedule Nothing upsets the balance of a club’s pitching staff more than a < of these dual sketches brings pitchers sre they have had sufficient rest aiter an engagement, contested. vaunted strength on the slab, the A's frequently forces hurlers to per- may find themselves in hot water during the arduous drive through the stretch in September, while full use of their monndsmen withou The the loeal the Red t only postpor list are those the White Rox apen dates in the schedule per mit the plaving of the Red Sox an off day, Septembher 4 though. will he faced twice in one dav here late next month Now consider the Athletics’ plight ey are to tackle the Yankees five times in three days. startinz Sep tember 10 Beginning September 16 they will meet the White Sox four times in three days. The Browns are to he encountered four times in three davs, startine September The Macks also have a postponement with the Tygers to get rid of. but that may he played off on an open date. It does seem the Nationals will be better off than their arch-rivals in the stretch run menis on club’s with Sox and post ponement o The Pale Hose. T Griffs Ca The leaders Take Lead Todsy. were to face the Indians twice today, while the champs battle with the Browns in a lone zame, so first place for Bucky Harris & by nizhtfall is a possibility But for that to come about the Na tionals w Id have to trounce the owns while the Mackmen were los both ends of their double-header to_the Tribe. Trouncing the Browns may complished if the Natlonals pitching and batting they got terday’s two-ply hill. The twe ters—Ruether and Johnson—held the Mound City bunch at bay while the champs clubbed their way to vietory in fine style Ruether. though. was too wild for he ac. zet the in yes. Wal- the good of his team, and | the Nationals probably was withdrawn in the ninth inning of | when the Browns had with but one out, a potential run that would have sent them ahead. Fritz Marberry, haled to the hill, quelled the uprising. John son went the route in the mnightcap and won handily The Nationals solved .Joe Bush's slants =o easily in the first game that he left after four inni of toil, in which the champs ot all their hits and runs. Ernie Wingard was a com- plete puzzle the remainder of the way. Frank Davis and .twao left-handers Dave Danforth and Chester Faik. well battered in the second Fight hits and six runs were garnered off Pavis hefore he retired with one ont in the seventh. Dan forth. wha finished that frame. vielded three more safeties and as many tal lies, and Falk was slammed for two hits that produced a marker in the eizhth the first fray, on first base, match Reuther Rather Wild. wildness offset the results early efforts in the Singles by Eari Me- Neely and m Rice, followed by Goose Goslin’s long tly to Bill Jacob son, netted the champs a tally in the opening inning, but the Browns came tuether's of the Nationals first_encounter | bases, back with two runs in the next round. | With Ken Marty McManus and ed to first. Dixon's poke t ed Marty, and after Gene was erased Joe bust same territory red Jake also tried to get home. but ged hy Goslin's fine throw The champs lost no time knot ting the count. After Ossie Blue was nipped at the ouiset of the ho ond frame, Rozer Peckinpau doubled to center and raced home when Hank Severeid lined a single thron Robhy Lamotte’s raised paws. Ruether sinzled Hank to third liase. but neither McNeely nor Bucky Harris eould help the runners In the third stanza the Nationals went to the front, never to be headed again. Sam Rice began the run-mak ing with a triple over Jacobson’s dome, and romped home after Jake Goslin's loft. In the fourth frame Buck Harris drove in the runs that clinched the battle. Peck started the session with a walk, but was forced out by Ruether after Severeid popped to Robertson McNeely, though. strolled, and Boss Bucky sent his mates home with a two-bagger to cen ter. Williams out of the way Jacebson stroil- left count Robertson to the Dixon was flag- sh's in Pecking Away the hill when the champs came 1o bat in the fifth, and | they failed get a hingle off him during the remainder of the fray. But the Browns kept pecking away at Tuether. and threw a scare into the fzns before the struggle ended. M Manus® double and Dixon’s pass inithe fourth were wasted. but the made good use of two blows in the sixth. With one gone in that Williams doubled to right, and, after McManus fouled out, ran home as Jake singled (o center. Joe Evans batted for start the seventh, and drew Wingard's sacrifice and Harry Rice's erasure put Joey at third base, from where he counted when Lamotte bin-| gled to left. Ruether ended the frame by fanning Sisler, and in struck out the side, although Jacobson managed to break the string of whiffs with a single. But_Dutch that Walter entered the game, gle to left. Herschel Bennett, pinch- hatting for Wingard. tried to sac but merely forced out Gerber. Dutch walked Harry Rice, and Boss Bucky decided to walk Dutch. Mar- berry came to the slab and Lamotte skied to McNeely. Fritz got two strikes on George Sisler latter knocked a flock of fouls, then | the Browns' hoss lofted to Mr-\pp!\ in short center. Browns Keep Winzard was on Robertson to a pass. wavered in the ninth, Gerher, who Browns Take Lead in Final. The Browns twice held the lead in the second engagément, but never held it any length of time. reached Johnson for a marker in the second session, Willlams' single, Mc- Manus' intleld retirement and Jacob son’s one-baser doing the work. The Nationals came right back in the third inning to deadlock affairs. Johnson singled to rizht and McNeely was hit by a pitched ball. Bucky Harris bunt- ed and forced out Johnson. but Sam Rice’s hit to Williams' fleld counted MeNeely. The Browns forzed ahead again in the sixth, when Rohertson singled after Harry Rice had heen retired. Sisler Iofted to Sam Rice, but Wil liams crashed a two-hagger Against the rightfield fence and Robertson tal- lied. . Willlams tried to reach third visitors | the eighth | had just | opened with a sin- | hefore the | They | will_be able to zm working them overtime bhase. but was cut_down Bucky Harris to Bluege. Then the Nationals launched a sav \ze attack that continued for three innings and produced nine markers. ™ e rotted 1o Gerhar fo start the Champs' sixth. hut Sam Rice sin # <hinele. seManus got in front of Goslin's sizzling drive. but could not handle it and it single that put Rice at second. Judge sent hiz clubmates home when he rat- tled a double off the rightfield barrie Bluege's looper that landed near th rightfield foul line bounded by Harry Rice for two bases and Judge scored. Five Runs in the Seventh. Wild Brown pitehing and free Na- tional hitting accounted for a flock of | five tallies in the seventh. Johnson | was out of the way when Davis again walloped McNeely. Then Bucky Har- ris waiked, so Sisler replaced Davis with - Danforth. Sam Rice’s infield erasure advanced both runners, and slin's stroll crowded the stations. With his mates under way, Judge socked a zrounder to Sisler, who was plaving well back on the grass and too far from the first sack to run there for the out. McNeely and Har ris scored and Judge crossed first he fore Danforth ran across to cover. Goslin had turned second when Sis- ler heaved the ball wildly past pitcher. and the error let him make third base. Bluege's single to left chased the Goose to the plate and Judze ta the far corner. Pack then doubled to left.center to tally Joe and Ossie. Pinchbatter Tobin doubled at the start of the Browns' eighth. and Hen nett. who batted for Danforth. walked. Harry Rice flled to Goslin: then Rob- ertson’s grounder to right filled the As Sisler forced our Robertson, Tobin got home with the Browns' la: run The Nationals combed Falk for a marker in the eighth. Johnson was out when McNeely singled to center. Earl pilfered a Rice shot a two-hagger to left. Jacob- son doubled off Johnson in the ninth, but McManus had fanned and Har- grave and Ta Motte were easy marks for the Old Master. Sam Rice to RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTING. 6. AB. H. Y 24 63 SR.RRL Pet. Tate dohnson Ruéther Harris .. Peck 3 Barris.. 81 Leibold Greze Adams Zachary Marberry Russell Coveleskie. 2522-8~~3222-5255 Sl ZBLRRIRIR Innings pitehed. 2umes, -t PR3 3 @ H 3a Admmcwzuuy Lot ws_s-uiined *Record while with Nationals. |PITCHER BURDINE LOST ught | | 1 | | | round, | | series to Camp Holabird, 4 to 1, ! | TO THE MOHAWK CLUB | Mohawk Club base ball toss be without the services of Bitcher Sunny” “Burdine for the remainder of the season, the star finger of the champion Eastern High School nine having left Washington for an ex- tended stay in Florida. Sunday. the National Heights, MeCo the mound will Circles at Congress or McLean will ssignment. Manager Mackey also is anxious to get Waters | back into his fold, and should the former Indian twirler show up he is tikely 1o et into the game. THREE NINES ARE TIED IN ARMY TITLE SERIES CAMP MEADE, Md., Dropping its third start Corps Area championship August 7 of the 3rd base ball the Tank School nine went into a th cornered tie for the lead with 12th Infantry and the Holabird tossers. The 6th Field Artillery team failed to break into the win column when it encountered the 12th Infantry nine and took its third straight defeat, 9 to 1. . MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, M .m-znou-l 3: JTolede, Cotumbue, 11 st 6. Indian Milwaul 1: Bonavinie, INTERNATIONAL LEAG Jersey City, ‘6.1 Rochester, Reading. 4-3: Toronto, 2-5 Baltimore, 4: Buffalo. Syracuse-Providence ( R a4, 3, t grounds). SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Liule Rock. 10-5: Atianis 4 irmingham. 4: Mempuis, 0. Nashville-Néw Orleaus. rain. SOUTH Knoxville, ATLANTIC LEAGUE. . Columbia. 0. Charlotte. 10: Asheville. Spartansburg, 9: Augusta, 3 Macon. 16: Greenville, 6 VIRGINIA STATE LEAGU Norfolk, Portsmouth. 2.2, Kinston. : Richmond. 5. Wilsgn. 8: Rocky Mount, 3. EASTERY SHORE LEAGUE. Crisfield, Cambridge, 1. Dover. & Eumn, 3. Salishury. 5: Parksley, 1. . BL Hagerstown Hainover. 5 Martinsbur became a | his | cond before Harris took | third strike and scored when Sam | when the Hawks go against | get | VERY SATISFACTORY FIRST GAME. - we3mm Evan Rennett+ Totals @ 43 2l 23-s0uus & Goalln, ‘g 2l s-ars08-2u2 ale- 8l ssuussan: sl 52932332 5 “Batted for Robertson In sev +Batted for Wingard in nint ta—Peek, McManus, 8. Harrt i L Rice. 2 aloubie, ol 8 -‘ 4. Bases | sh. 22 off Wingard, 2 HE traek oui—ny by | an” balls—0f Bush. Hite—0f Bush. 8 in ¢ inninge ] | Ruether, 5. Kuether! 1, h f McManos, | dacohson. | Hargray | omsoumisnnnsnnsl H| 2l 23399s- 2 2 I'All!lh’i'rfl\ » -4 no-n g dndge.’ th. wass-n2® X 2333u--23uss527 Johuen. 298=wi—mu? ul2-29222333-3~02; . Totals. ... . “Butted for Gerber in righth inalig. #Batted for Danforth in elehin Tanine. © 00101 0—3 1060331 x—10 [[ESTRRESE T PR — lounonamas 2l eses20220™ | 33302333352 E.' Rice, Double ""h on 1 daeabaun. laya—Me- eManus to basea—st. T inning: 2 in 7 inning. Wit b pitched ba By Pavia * (eweels) itcher—Davis. Umplces—Wenar. Eeany "ona Eonne i\ | of Camé—1 hour and 53 minntes. ¥ sl 3082520055000 4 (of two REDS HOP INTO THE THICK 'OF NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE | | By the Associated Press | | N 19 to 1, | starts. For the first | periods of | were ready time since the early the race, hase ball men to admit that the struggle i W YORK. August 7—Cincinnati today jumped with both spiked feet into the thick of the National League pennant fight. | Only three and one-half games behind the second-place Giants | as a result of their sweeping triumph over the champions yesterday. | the battling Redland host set forth on the rugged climb to the ! summit with a record on their backs of 15 triumphs out of their last 19 Kremer, opposing Vance on the slab. | hucking the Walter Reed gave nine hits, but they only scattered that pavers are not all | blades to spring up for their annual terday, the Firemen | meets return game today Terminal Field and were so well | | nine. one Robin was| “\While the Fire Police and Fire Department base ball owing the grass under their pedal American going against the Black and White Taxicab outfit that | the Police comiyp: tion in 7 vashington John Laws a the Fighters sét the {for the pennant could no longer be|able to complete the trall from plate|-raximen down with the short end of | considered a two-team contest be- | tween New York and Pittsburgh. Catching the Giants in a slump As | v retreated under a withering s fire straightened out | New York hurlers for 14 hits, | seven of them for extra bases. A gen [ lerous share of the bingles were clus-| |tered in the second inning for six | runs, at which time Rentley driven from the pitching mound. 1 The Pirates took advaniage of the New Yok relapse by routing Dazzy | Vance and the Robins. 5 to 1, |triumph Increasing their lead to two and one-half games Vance had MQI\ saved and primed for the series opener, although the Pirates had heaten’ him twice in three previeus starts. He paved the way fto his| dafeat, however, hy uncorking a wild pitch, jwhich sent what proved to he |the winning run over the plate in the |fourth inninz. UNLIMITED SERIES NINES IN THREE BIG CONTESTS T Tennyson, Jim Sweeney the undeieate | National Circle clash at Congress He The game at Rarracks Field is sched uled for 5 a'clock. while the other twe | battles will begin promptly at 4:30. unday the National Circle tossers meet the Mohawks, the Knickerbockers. Section A leaders, the Shamrocks 20 against Aloysius | Covey, Seeking New Win Streak Slated to Face Browns Today ANLEY COVELESKIE is afte S with 13 consecutive victories, third game of the series. Manager Sisler of the visitors this | morning announced that he would use | either Joe Giard, southpaw, or Elam Vangilder. orthodox flinger. Giard heat the Champs.when he opposed them in | St. Louis last month. | Outfielders of the Nationals had a strenuous time yesterday with 19 | chances in the twn engagements. but they aecepteq all of them. Gonse Gos lin tok good care of eight. Sam Rice made the hanner play of the day when he hacked against the | right fleld barrier to drag down with ‘hi& gloved hand Red Hargrave's {drive in the seventh inning of second ‘en(-ounler | In the same frame Earl McNeely | turned in a flashy catch of Bill Jacob. | | son’s liner. Earl got the ball about | | knee-high. Jacobson also gave Ossie Bluege a | chance to distinguish himself in the same game by shooting a hot grounder to the third sacker in the fourth frame. The drive almost took Ossie {off his feet, but he recovered in time to make a retiring throw. Bucky Harris was the man with the timely ‘punch in the opening encoun- ter. With two gone in the fourth frame. he doubled to center to ta Dutch Ruether and MeNeely I runs that clinched the contest. Sam Rice was the heaviest of the day with five hits totaling eight hases in nine times at bat. Three of his blows were made in the nighteap. Joe Judge went hitless in the first tilt, two singles that drove in four runs. Passes are dangerous things to hand {out. Ruether issued five in the open. ing encounter, and three of them | were turned into runs In addition to catching well, Hank Severeid socked a single to drive in the fnitial match. Muddy Ruel made Red Hargrave | dizzy with a bunt in front of the plate in the fitth inning of the second af- | fair, and got thatched former National could get a | throw away. | | Red Hargrave drew a round of ap- | plause when he stepped to the plate | the first time. His best then was a force-out of Jacobson, but in the fifth inning he cut the first ‘sack with a two-bagger off Johnson. Walter Gerher, out of action since June on account of a leg injury, broke into the Browns' line-up yesterday after Gene Robertson had been dis- placed by a.pinch-batter in the first zame and started at his old position in the shortfield in the second tilt. BOBBIE PB.EVAILED UPON. NEW YORK, August 7 (#).—Pres- sure from National League club own ers brought about the decision of Wil- bert Rohinson to relleve Zack Wheat lof his temporary command of the Brooklyn Natlonals, developménts in- dicated. Belief that the absence of Robinson from the bench would seri- ously affect the gate receipts was responsible for an undercurrent protests, which had been taking form for the past few weeks. COMMERCE NETMEN WIN. Commerce Department netmen scored a clean sweep over Veterans' Bureau in a Departmental Tennis League match, 5 to 0. Only two of .the en- gagements went to extra sets. g and Jndd (C) deteated Johnson elson (V. 61 6—1: Crose and e deteated Pickett and . Shaw 1. 9—7: Haring and Strock (C.) ted 1. BABNE&HBTC]{ DEFEATED‘ SEATTLE, Wash., August 7.0P): Jim Barnes. British open champion. and Jock Hutchison, former British title holder, were defsated vesterday by Bon Stein, former State champion. and Lee Steil. city champion, 1 up. in an 18-hole goif match, - the | with the | clouter but in the second got a double and | the tying run in the second session of | to hasé before the red-| ra new winning streak. The veteran spitballer, who has lost two in a row since setting a scason record | was to be trotted to the hill at Clark | Diamond No. Griffith Stadium this afternoon to open fire against the Browns in the BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. —_—r— Win. Lose. : ‘axe Won. Lot Pet. Philadeiphia a3 Washingtan | GAMES TOMORROW. Nt. Lonis at Wash. Cleve. at’ Phila o at_Roston. Detrofiat New Sork. Detrot at New Vork | | YESTERD AY'S RESULTS. Washington, 3-10: St Louis, 4-3. | Cleveland m.u..aemm... 66, | New Vork. 10: Detroit. | Chicago, 10; Boston, 0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. A F—— | Pittsbursh | New York. Cincinnati . . Wan. Last Pet. .39 535 | a0 R & R GAMES TOMORROW. Bkin. at Pitishurgh. Phila. ‘at Chieago. | Boston at_St. Louis. | NOY. at Cineinnati. | YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. ‘6w | aan AMES TODAY. Riin. at Pittabnreh. hila. at Chicazo. on at St. Louis. | Philvaeishia, a2 | Cineinnatl. 8: i TUNNEY-WILLS BOUT NOW SEEMS LIKELY By the Assor NEW ated Press YORK, August T—An- nouncement of the signing of Jack | Dempsey by Promoter Floyd Fitz | simmons of Michigan City. Ind. to| | ight Harry Wills, his colored chal-| lenger. some time next year, aroused | only mild interest in the East. | | Dempsey's previous statements in- | dicating that he expected the fight |to he promoted by Tex Rickard and | the s=ilence of Jack Kearns. coupled | | with the champion's desire to remain |inactive this Fall, turned the atten- tion of metropolitan boxing enthusi- asts to the hoom for a fight hetween Gene Tunney and Wills for next month. i Two promoters are in the field for this fight Rickard, following a conference with Paddy Mullins, Wills' was at Saratoga Springs, conferring with Gene Tunney. He seeks the battle for the Yankee Stadium. Polo Grounds A. C. officials also opened negotlations with Wills and! Tunney. Mullins announced he w satisfied with the offer of the club, but that the consent of Wills, now in Europe, would be necessary. He said he would cable the negro fighter. MARYLAND U. GETS STAR. HYATTSVILLE, Md.. August 7. University of Maryland is expected to receive a promising dthelete this Fall in Jefferson Dix of College Park, out- standing all-around star, last vear at Hyattsville High School. Dix, who was graduated last June from the local school after starripg in base ball, soccer and rtack, plans to enter the Old Line institution. QUITS HYATTSVILLE HIGH. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 7. Cevil G. (Tubby) Branner has resigned as member of the faculty of the Hyattsville High School, where he coached basket ball, soccer and track. He has not decided on his future plans ! and has a number of offers under con- sideration. He is a former University | of Maryland foot ball and lacrosse star. PITCHEX WOO]);WAVRVD SOLD. to plate. Afder elght allowing innings. blanked Chieago final score reading 3 to 1 Boston Braves rose from the depths | for of the pit under was |12 hits and smote St. Hin the fourth game of |6 to 4, driving Rhem from the mound. | Club on August 16, TWO BIG CLASHES IN SANDLOT LOOPS. The Athletics, the |header with the Indians, Five Quaker pltchers were hammered for a 9-to-6 victory in to Washington. but into the opener. Tribe back game, 6 to The New York Detroit Tygers in 10 to 4, while R Roston Red Sox them out for Chic ITH the assigning of umpires to the various diamonds by Dick arrangements have heen completed for tomorrow's games in the unlimited sanglot base ball series will handle the indicator at Georgetown Hollow ! Warwicks take on the Wh call the balls and strikes for Dommican Lyceum and Holy Comiorter teams at Washington Barracks and Charles Benner will officiate at the Pullman- ights Field and the Warwiel (rvrw'rfl, Benning Athletic (| the sanior branch Petworth playvs Club Sunday aftéernoon at Benning dia | mond. “Blackie” Elwood will he seen in ac tion in a Rialto Theater uniform Sun. | ' day morning wh Tnion Printers cl 4 at 11 o'clock. Southern Kailway ington Terminal yesterday in a Termi- M. C. A. game. the count stand nal Y. ing 13 to Hill mound duty for the winners. De Molay and M will battle tomor: ik Kennedy Freer Juniors for the Monument Hess Juniors wil Reservoir Field A game with Bl 3 o'clock on Handley four-game schedu Junjors. Tomorr: Ee at Monument After defea 2 to 1 hedder, Aztec 12-to-4 trimming Percy 1Cubs weakened in the ninth, and the | Kelley, Cincinnati bludgeons "ves. | Phillies crowded in three runs on four | credited with the offerings | hits and two bases on balls. to five hite and Sox nine, Juniors have booked grounds. kington Juniors will be ancountered Grounds. iors are booked for Sunday. day the Takoma Tigers will be plaved ng N in the first game of a double- | Midgets |a 6-t0-3 count, the only hit of one Jones the 4 trimming by the veteran sand the d Decatur the ‘hurling the arried oldiers. Reed went the rou after the first, the Fire Department Police were not for | <o fortunate and were handed an $-to- Medicos, - Finney ot twirler, heing efeat. Holloman burden for the ute on the mound team, op- a smoke screen of | posing Collier of Black and White. Louis Cardinals | the Natlonal Lieut. Mike Rea halving a double. | lost ground Walberg drove the! camp in the second Yankees trapped the their series apener. lankenship held the shut General Aceounting ship running in the Ball League series | tackies Government | nine cago, 10 1o 0. when | the feated Interstate, 1 creased their lead o ants to a full gam champions can turn | first land a Brick flinger against Neumann, again when the Inters nny Goetz will | Johnny Goetz will | them (0 a tou | Park for fray State, War ings and Public Par ks tackle the Com place is a close one General's Office, Navy and Col, Union nearer another championship by 7 to 2. Webh went while Cull nh is to entertain of the Hese Athletic Printers, en the Rialtos and | Bureau. ash at Diamond No. amped Wash and Dorman shared Modoc Senior nines row at 3 o'clock on Monument Grounds | B the Awsoc CHICAGO, Walker, world wel pion, is ready to a game tomorrow at |against Billy Wells Sunday the [tler, in 16 rounds, be encountered at |tonight } Training | titlist will | fisted attack, | hoxer. thinks | bohbing, opportunities to land | not regarded as a British fighter i= re, an excellent chance Five preliminaries | main hout the 1 preparat loomingdale today at ] ield will open a ile for the Cardinal| ow at 3 a'clock the he ca Yankee Jun and Mon t. Joseph's Midgets. were given a by the Saints. Cub Midgets, w thews Midgets. sames, Aloysius Midgef tional Capital Mi Park Insects are booked Lyon Villaze Insects tomorrow at 11 m_ Lose. 1nclock on the Monument Grounds. Senators added 495 | of wins when the Goose Goslin Insects | talled to show up WORLD TRO ATRORA, Trumpet, fary Tipton Tommy Murphy st a record for the $25,000 at Exposition Par e bay In a field of ten starters, the Murphy | of Detroit the first and then came back to take the third |and deciding heat-in 2:03 2.5 n fraction of a second from his former | mile record of 2:04 2.5. entry won 000 of the purse. Walter Cox, £4,000 for second Jessie, | driven by for third. Fred GAME IS Treasury hase ballers of the Colored League never look-in during their Departmental with Government Government prin the mound, turne in seven innings. the only homerof BIRMINGHARL, Ala{, August 7 (). — Frank Woodward, pitcher. has been s0ld_to Worcester, in the Eastern League. by the Birmingham Southern Association club, 12 Call Main 6000, owned and driven by | Amer Goshen, and with Thompson 1707 14th St. N.W. ho defeated the Mat to 5. are seeking branch 158. | ts won from the Na- | | dgets, 5 to 2. ing match in singl to meet listed for today in nicipal courts tenni | ton Park. another to their list | Wi for a game. | nated Clarence Rose - = {and Sluiter of New TTING MARK | fnal. The District Jacksonville 12. Ted Drewes of St champlon. meets Ed timore for Jacobs won from G Angust 7 ().} 14 gelding by Etawah- of Syracuse, N. Y.. himself in winning ican Trotting Derby esterday. B heat in 2:033 . clipping | He took $ Van Wie, 16. holds t \. Y., took |ship. h Hollyrood | Dillon, | Chicago. 5 and 3. annexed $2,000 | private course at She annexed Dlace w Sgan, ONE-SIDED. |Ing ineffectiveness a had = |ball s responsible yvesterday slugging nowadays. Printing Office. The ters, with Scott on d in a 16-t0-3 victory Mills connected for the game. game ecan League. is turned out prevents lop by place honors wi play-ef made proved State Sherrill's men. Printers advanced Departmental League trouncing which weaving sty Bob Considine and M. ashington doubles of Columbia IS MADE BY TRUMPET | ‘l were extended to the imit to win over | pair, the national Philadelphia, 6—4. 6—0, | Drewees lrIumph:d oves, ;Ilfln Devine eatch it in the grip at the top, then ri Big Rapids, dy's tossers are booked for a date with the Aloysius | & Office makes its final effort to get inte the champion- Government Base today. when it Printing. Office while in the Pqiomac Park cir- | | cuit the title will hang in the balance undefeated Shipping Board nines come together. Government Printers yesterday de-| Marine and to 5. and in the Account- 1 ver . the trick i1l today. be deadlocked necessary Printing Office invincible taters and held them to a total of four safe binglex Potomace | League resulted in a 9-to-7 and Navy forces of the Office of Public Bulld- | Tugers, supposedls a so0d in the win over the ks. With Marines and Shipping Board battling, for fAirst | diamand April and second honors, the fight for third | naf heen dnne between Adjutant War and a step Bureau the route for the inane hurled for WALKER AND WELLS PRIMED FOR BATTLE H ted Press August T — Mickey terweight cham- defend his title the British bat- at E: Chicago jons argely indicate on a two- Wells, a cagey n match with his t leaving few the heavy hitter, the garded as having 10 win on points. will support the DISTRICT RACKETERS. WIN AT BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, August 7.=The decid- les and the semi- | final and final rounds in doubles were | the national mu- s tourney at CIf- V. O'Néill, pair_who elimi’ and Ken Stewart | of Jacksonville, are to meet Rosenblatt | York in the semi racketers 56, 64, Louis, defendifiz die Jacobs of Bal singles title, Amsterdam of | 10—8, while TAKES LINKS HONORS. CHICAGO, August 7 (®).—Virginia he junior women's | Western Golf Association champion- | the crown vester- day by defeating Helen MacMarron, Her father has a Mich. BAN BLAMES HURLERS. | NEW YORK, August 7 (#).- Pitch- nd not the lively for most of the in the opinion of Ban Johnson, president -of the Ameri- | ‘The ball is made ex-| actly as hefore, except that the cover a machine: which idedness. CONSISTENT GODDNESS People wonder how our used cars can be so con- sistently good. “One would think you’d get a bad one now and then,” they ‘say. But after they understand the pnnc;ples on which we operate, they can se¢ how it is. Used Car Dept. Main Open Evenings and Sundays SEMMES MOTOR COMPAN 6660 DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS SELL 600D USED CARS _Hospital | If the former | a punch. Though | DIAMOND FOES PREP RESENTS BEING REGARDED FOR ANNUAL BATTLE 4 g DETRIMENT TO TYGERS | iAvemgefi Prove That Tyrus Can Afford to ].au"h at \ Charge That He Has Slowed Up So That He Is ‘ Proving Handicap to His Own Club. extremities while awaiting the gong | clash at | League Park on Labor Day. Both teams swung into action yes. | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | EW YORK. August 7—Ty Cobb N 100-game stunt he set _himself for this season he will not come right out and say <o, his friends gather the impression that some day, not so far off, the American League may become Cobbless so far as actual play is concerned Some mighty is drawing near the end of the and while radical things have been charged against him lately. He was accused, for instance, of slowing up so that he was a detriment rather than a help to his team. Think of that! Ty Cobb being charged with being a detriment to his own nine! v Taughs at it, and well he may. His lished that he needn’t mind whether Yome or not Ty isn't going to be driven out of base ball—but after all, it has hurt the grand old veteran to have people cast- ing aspersions upon him. Cobh wax mot the Cobb of old Iast season. None of them can hope to he topnotchers forever. Yet Ty today with all the alleged physical failings | said to We in evidence, can play the outfield about as well as some of the allezed stars. and a little while ago he was hatting .400. How many men in the thousands of biz league plavers have ever heen able to hat in the .400, aven in their prime? Answer thaf and you've answered Ty Cobh's place | in hase hail T When Season Started. Cobb set a 100.game play this season away back in the | Spring. At that time he thought his | team was so good it could get along | without him part of the time. And | there were others who thought o, t0o. Cobh couldn’t have started the season {in the field if he had wanted to, be. cause he turned up il when it was time for the race to start Kindiy look back and note happened 1o his team when he | forced out by “‘flu.’ By May 2, team bhark the estab- slowing up so well is reputation is folks think he bad start without Cobb in the line-up when they talk about Ty holding back the cluh. Many of the pro-Cobbiies argue that had Ty heen able to play from the start, Detroit never wanld have got as 16w ag the tail-end of the procession. RBut thaf can't he proved any more than can the akegation that Cobh has slowed the he got in' the line-up. In any event, it Ty 1o he told that he should It always has heen said of he should get in, and the more played the hatter the fans liked He is one of those players for whom even the enemy has the greatest ad miration, which expresses itseif moat deliriousiy when 10,000 fans rise and boo him—only te xive him a the next minute Had Cobb started his hase hall career in New York, and developed as Mathewson developed in New York he could have had much more ace than Matty ever z Matty one of the mogt popular j ever threw a ball in the b was a hatter and ter and a nd spirit been famous self here to hase 1 player ever even Babe Ruth. with larity, would have heen Cobh had he heen favored by and matured in Harlbm THE CALL OF THE OUTDOOR BY WILL H. DILG. President Izaak Walton League of America izers up sinee < quite novel 1 limif on his e a runner 4 runner with which Cobh would have 1 the hizhest anc the long what | wax th wer to the mischief |in last place. He but his It fortune A great many ever, averlonked critics of Cobh, how the fact of Detroit's ISTORY abounds in examples of men from sojourning alone i the wilderness accident, or any one of numerous mishaps el ek e mclid e o ol st e i srica i At the present time life is safer in the wildernes than In civilization One runs less risk of serious accident in the forest than in town. Paddling one’s own canoe, packing one’s own outfit and cooking one’s own food is excellent t ning. not only in wood craft but in an all-round seif-reliance. Those who either adve. Inside Golf | By Chester Horton. alone. Som | solitude. ~ They Cutting the clubhead across the hall if left alone for an hour because of drawn-in arms at the mo- it and look forward ment of impact may he caused by with ihe keenest possibla ant ~3ict 3 M 1a too restricted | They find. there the « back swing or by | environment needfu rgidity in arms mum of regeneration and shoulders in deed. is the proh h the back swing, ring a1 rent |which the . too cheerfully_ glowin restricted haclk swing is_likely to PRI develop. When the | [cuTs AcROSS BALL[back swing is rig- WHEN ARMS ARE |id, the forward DRAWN IN * swing is usually a | | stiff-arm body jab. There being no | throw of the club. | | 3 head, the clubhead i % is of course late to “the ball. You -WHEN ARMS ARE [sense this lateness | [oRAWN N AND UP “and have a feeling that the clubhead is likely to he poked | into the ground. To avoid that disas- ter vou pull in the arms to let the clubhead through. The cure for all | that Tx-to keep relaxed in the back swing. 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