Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 28

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925. SPOR1 S Griffs Now Will Prepare for Pirates : Corsairs Given Margin on Nats in Center MACHINE NEEDS PATCHING AFTER GRUELING CAMPAIGN After Series With Browns 1o Re: VETERAN SPEED MERCHANTS SLATED TO GUARD CENTER FIELD IN TITLE SERIES Though Flag Is Clinched, Harris Will Wait Umil! 1’ Players. How Title Was Captured. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OW for the big scrap with the Pirates next month! With the 1925 American League peanant sai cked away as a result of 4-tod | and 6-t0-2 vi . the first scored in 10 innings. over the Indians | in Clark Griffith Stadium while the Browns humbled the Aethetics in | Philadelphia yesterday. the Nationals will undergo special preparation for | the defense of the world base ba'l laurels they garnered at the expense | of the tnants last Fall. Wear_and tear of a campaigr such the Nationals have been | through make necessary much repairing and patching of the cogs of the machme that had 16 withstand the terrific ‘grind. Some vetcran alhlcle:’ were compelled to give way before the finish, while practically all of the | younger athletcs nced relaxation, now that the first big fight is ended. [ Durmg the next 10 days. Traincr Mike Martin wi.l find plenty to | do. His s the task of r ng the casuals to fit playing form and keeping | those players now s ble at the peak of condition. It's a real task, | but if any one is ¢ accompli:hing it, Martin is the man. Immediate r s w0t to be had 20 went into fiv all of the men who eat throusa thereafter. tie struggle for the circuit tiide. ‘ine ‘he acks broke even browns, he cme series ¢ Sox while the tionals did | va prace with |t same with the Tygers in four - over sames. Three in a row were dropped | the Browns by the Griffs, but the | Auzusc it st p! by g with the will send National line-up he that series therc w weary, a briel rest p of the diamond classc. Given Battle by e same time. victories for : Chicago while the A's took | sive drubbings from ihe | I the Champs came home West three and one-half in the lead. mber 1 and the tlonais carried the fight to the d beat them both times then won two of ved with the Red Sox Then came | for the the Na. | to the start A's. 1 with the| ihe most . mjo 1d com- « their ionship g tie | showinz of the cam. | tion of time and company | would reped winners. And vesterday they made their triumph a mathematical certainty. | After a four-month Athletics that was one thrilling in the ann leagues, the yaratively e Na Ath The three | 1 while wilose tion au seven-game lead into | 2 on Labor day. The | ere vanquished .in both of | i oliday engagements. but they | won the next two games of the series, to send the Griffs back to Clark flith S.adium with a seven-zame After the Athletics, Nationals and | jiantage, Indians had each taken a turn at!' Afier ih leading the league during the earl stages of the season, Nats and A’ went into a first-place tie on April Several days later the Nationals took | the lead and on May 2 the Indians | (pev hold went to the front. | over the Ma On May 3 the Nationals beat the = Red Sox to tie for the lead the Indians. | oy Who were held to 3 draw by the|"\oy Harris' troubles vgers. te A's made it a three- | o i ' wol series starte. cornered tie the next day. The dead. | V6" Ul the world sel lock lasted until May when the | Nationals bowed to Vhite Sox and gained undisputed pos- t place by trouncing the | Thereafter the first-place battle was solely between Griffmen | and Mackmen. . Mack’s crew was a game ahead on | §ir May 10 and by May 15 had increased | ¢ig . t. . its advantage to two and one-half |3, Herris. 1b. games. Its lead was decreased to | poey : two games on May 16, when the Na- | Biun tionals beat the Indians ard rain kept the Macks idle in Ch: On_ May | Rusther., 13 the Natlonals moved to within a “Stewart game of the top by trimming the | Tribe as the A's fell before the White | Sox, but Connie Mack's bunch raised | (LEVELAND. AR. R. its advantage to two games the next| g, iiccon. if day., when it beat the B s while | Bichrodt, ef. the Tygers bumped the Nationals. - b Macks Lengthen Lead. On May 24 the Athletics lengthened | 1" hunes their advantage to three zames. Home | Sith, from a rough Western tour, the Na- tionals beat the Mackmen here on May 26 to reduce the leader's ad- vantage to two ga and eut it to one the next day in Phiiadelphia with { a_ stirring 10-t09 victory. But in S “the Macks trimmed the Griffs in a double-header to resume a threc-game lead. ; g e i lead which the Ath | :3.::.’."" T camerthoue "and 10 get during the en- | minates. nes, and that n that separated them | the games | Riee, of May 30. onals trounced | /. the Athletics here on Sunday, May @ & 31, to bring themselves within three | Brel. games of the top, and the Macks were | BIE® ! left with only u two-geme lead after | Adame. the games of June 1, in which they | Fersuson. lost to the Red Sox and the Nati Totals heat the Yankees. CLEVELAND. Through June keen. The Athletics of three games on June 12 ‘their ady cut to a game and < On June 14 the Macks were on'; half a game | Wo in front, but on the foillowing day they | increased the margin to a full game. Three days later they were two |y games ahead and on June they | widened the gap to two and a half | games. Then came that ci series between Griffs Philadelphia on June were beaten, but they couapse of the was one of the ser paign, it was only when Buck nd took delphia the Nationals plaved = the Ted and Indians than thietics against the Yankee. Tygers and Brown | a’ nine- advantage . who have but seven play to complete more FIRST GAME. WASHINGTON. AB. Riee. b1 FEYN=FTN | E. (3 o Semausuauan 293322-309= 7 Y lsucanssssss 3l osumu =l s82535-25. Ron for Nevereid iIn eixth § 3 SR 1 Snurzeo Fodeon, 3. ol Totals ... +0ne out when winni Washinzion Qieveland ‘base hits—Barna (2) D e e Gostin, - Naceificerr | "o Blueze. MeNeely. Lot Dnei—Cleveinnd. 5: Washington, 3. o halla—0ff Smith. Brnck ‘out | Smith, T: by Ruether. 1. | 39300-222 =230a3-3=F3 0 alusmwaisss > al233995390 ™ Severeld. Lee. « I SECOND GAM WASHINGTON. AB. T 5 : 3 was the ma from the PETNATESey | was d a lead . but by had been sim00a09 > 3| vunesuas- » | 593-=2325 @ al 020mrmi=no A7 | nsmanunas @ #loa=m2933=¥olo35099005 ™ 9 2] samu3aims 34| mummoams 3 ] e 10010004 Hodan, Three-base hit—Hendrick. | hases—\eNeely, Goslin: Jymieson. “Ferguson (). ucial five-game nd Macks. In | Riex to Hlueze; Hod 26 the Macks | 2 5wott tad: Harris "L won the next 2 te, 13 off Fergunon, 1. | day, so the Griffs opened a three-day | Bv Shaute. 23 by Ferzasos. Umpires— stand here on Sund:v, June 28, still Messrs. Hildebrand and Evans. “Time of | two and one-half gumes behind me—Lisariand Abiminwes: i pacesetters. The Nationals the | swept | that series, winnin 4-1 and | with Walter Johnson allowing the | mauling Macks but two infield sin- | les in the last encounter. That vic. tory of June 30 put the Macks out of | first place for the first time since | May 8 and the Griffs at the top by | half a game. | Nats Increase Advantage. | The Nationals continued to increase ! their advantage until by July 9 they were three and one-half games in front. They were on their nd | Western t of the year then and| had troubles a-plenty. ~Johnson, their | veteran pitching star, had been so| weakened by an attack of tonsilitis that he could not be used, and in- juries kept Shortstop Roger Peckin- paugh and First Baseman Joe Judge out of action durinz most of the tour. | They held their three-und-gshalf-game | lead through July 12, but by July 15 it had been reduced to u game and a half. On July 15 the Sox twice as the C St. Louis n s beat the White iffs Iost a game to the Tygers, the A's taking first place by the margin of three points. Theyvin-| ga creased their advantage to a full game | g, two davs later, but on July 21 the|Cleve, Browns defeated the A's, and the Na- | Detroit at Boston. tion who had swept a scries in Cleveland. went to thg front by half | 4 game. Then the Griffs moved to New York and the Macks went home | to play the Red Sox v 23 the Yankees downed the s and the A’s went into the d by a half game by beating. the Fohlmen. The Griffs did not play for two days and in that time the Ath- letics increased their lead to one and a half games with a brace of victories. On Sunday, the Nationals re- at NV, Chieago at Boston. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 4-6: Cleveland. 3. ) . Philadelphia. #: Chicago, 3’ ( (first (11 innines). 0 Innings). Pittabgh New York Cincinnati by beating the Yankees in both ends of a double-header, but the next day the A's made their lead a full game by trouncing the Red Sox while the Nationals loafed. Go Into First Place. The Nationals came home in none too good condition to take a_terrible licking from the White Sox, but they made a brave stand against the other Western clubs and the Yankees, and when the arch rivals started their last invasion of the West on August 18 the Macks were just two games in the lead. The Macks took three straight lacings from the Browns, while, the Nationals won _thres straidht froma the Indians, and on ! 166179 niongn .112] 210! 71101111~ IABIAI443 Phitonia | 81 61 8 71161 8i11i—i62i8al428 | Tost. 135/631T07AI81/70'83881 | | GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORKOW. N. V. at Pittaburgh. N. Y. at Pittaburgh. n wt Cineinnil. Bilyn. at Cinclanati. Boston at St. Louls. at St. Lonis. Phila. ut Chicago. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, Cincinnath, 0. (i1 innings). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, ledo. Indianapolis. 1, ..".'.éau I | taking a | He got | slam over the | son | the Champ BY FREDERI 'CAREY FIGURED TO HAVE A SLIGHT EDGE ON RICE Pittsburgh Veteran Is Accorded Preference as All- Around Player and Garden General Over Speed Demon of the World Champion Griffmen. Doping the World Series Article VI . CK G. LIEB, World Series Official Scorer, 1922-1923 Former President Base B: YEAR ago. a lot of persons root all Writers' Asso. ed for Washington to win the Amet ican League championship for no other reason than to sce that hase ball nobleman. Walter Johnson, in a warld serics rooted for Pittsburgh to get into the world serics thi "]w}' wanted to see Max Carey, 35-v series chance in the world series of 1919, |calll‘d “the Tri | Carey. t Speaker of the Natio compliment for an outfielder. | color of Cobb. Carey has been and st |of this generation. | ability to patrol center field. He has However, good as Carey is, he will find himself opposed by a worthy op- | ponent in Sam Rice, veteran flychaser | of the American League Champions, and a player of muck the same type A COOpS Rice played in right field a good part of the present season, and | | also was in that position in the 1924 | | series, but Bucky Harris probably will | | use Sam in center and Joe Harris in | in the coming series. That is the line-up which gives Washington its hardest kick Sam a Slick Fielder. The fact that Rice a few vears ago broke the records « oth Carey and Speaker for chances a pted in cen ter field, a record which again was beaten by Jacobson cf the Browns in | 1924, is sufficient proof that Sam is no | slouch as a fielding center fielder. He, | to n go out and get ‘em ‘ Over a stretch of vears Rice has been a better hitter than Carey. Rice. who went to Washington iginally as | a pitcher and pinch hitter, has bee i4 .330 hitter ever since he came into the American League. while the pres- | ent is only Carey’s sixth .300 year in | 15 seasons. | Rice's fielding was one of the out standing features of Washington's TRIBE PROVES TOUGH FOE, | IN FLAG-CLINCHING TILTS N clinching their second sucec had to fight against the lowly cason l against any other club all paws. Sherrod Smith and ] mound cfforts of .Dutch Rue Champs to staye off defeat 4-10-3 loss in 10 cisive advantage, so good was Shaute Goose Goslin's swatting was the big feature of the first encounter, other than the fine toiling of the pitchers 3 hits in five efforts, his eighteenth homer of the season, right-field wall, send ing the Champs away to a. lead in the opening Inning. and his two-bag ger driving Sam Rice home with the decisive tally in the tenth Tribe Twice Ties Score. Both Smith and Ruether allowed 9 safeties. but the former passed two batters and the latter none. Goslin's first-inning homer was offset by the Inlians in the second inning with Burns’ double and Spurgeen’s single, The Nationals bunched singles b; Goslin and Bluege with Moon Harri: double for a brace of markers in the fourth. but in the Indians’ sixtn two- | baggers by Lee and Burns with a fielder's choice and Spurgeon’s one baser deadlocked the game. The break came in the tenth Rice started by walking to first Neely sacrificed perfectly and G banged the ball to the temporar stands back of center field for ground-rule double. In the second cl up a dozen hits and a pa in 10 hits and a walk vielded by Fergu McNeely's singledand theft fol lowed by Moon Harris’ double netted ally in the first inning. purgeon’s single, Hodapp's two-bag ger and Myatt's sacrifice let the In- dians tie the score in the second. Another National marker was rexi tered in the fourth ingles by Harris, Ruel and Scott manu ing it. In the seventh the Nationals had the bases filled with none out, hut | Shaute was too clever for them. He was not so good in the eizhth, when | an error, pass and bunt again jam-| med the sacks with Nationals hefore | a man was retired. Bluege's double | knocked two runs across, Scott erasure accounted for a thi and | Hodapp’s wild heave after fielding Rice’s rap let the fourth get home. | The Indians, who had heen held! to three hits after the second inning. | pushed a second tally over in the ninth that Hendrick opened with a| triple to center. He held third while | Spurgeon was thrown out and Hodapp whiffed, but Myatt singled him to the | plate. 3 Adams then froze to Shaute’s pop, | and the Nationals were league cham- | plons for_another_vear. that Me a haute gave A > o/ cigar you'll like “ROLTAN? Thank you sir. I see you've been around a bit.” AMBASSADORES— 15¢, worth more. | —__FI Shaute, rer and Alex F Smith gave Ruct nnings in the first eng: [ the eighth inning of the second tilt was tac hon ve penmant vesterday the Nationals Indians as desperately as they had With the Tribe's two sterling south- pitching in great form, the best rguson were needed by the | cr a spectacular duel before gement, while not until crowd able to get a de- | s performance A’S LOSE 11-INNING CONTEST TO BROWNS' By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 2ig—The | American League pennant fle® un-| challenged at the Washington mast- | eason. ark Griffith’s team made certain | of meeting the Pirates in the world series by sweeping both ends of a double-header against Cleveland v terday, 4-3 and 6-2. while Athletics were succumbing to Browns in an 11-inning contest, to 4. Limiting the Tysers to 4 hits, Ruffing pitched shut-out hall for the Red Sox yesterday. » to 0. reducing | the chances of the Cobbmen finish ing better than fourth defeat coupled with victory over the Mackmen put De- | troit two and one-half games behind | the third-place Browns. | Babe Ruth heat the White Sox by | a homer in the tenth with the bases| filled, makinz the score 6 to 5. Babe's | twenty-fi homer of the season marked the sixth time in his career | that he had delivered a four-play smash with the sacks filled. Pittshurzh, with the National pen- nant already won. could fford to| suffer a shut-out. 4 to 0, at the hands | of the Giants. but New York had the | satisfaction of clinching second place | in spite of a 3-to-2 verdict scored by Cincinnati over Brooklyn in 11 innings. Bob _ McGraw. Brooklyn recruit from St. Paul, allowed only 8 hits. Eppa Rixey won his own game with a single which drove home the de- | ciding tally. 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September (®).—An interchange of detectives to | zuard the great matheri of fans who will see the world serles games has been arranged bi the Pittsburzh | and Washington police forces In addition to hundrec of traffic | to quite an extent officers and patrolmen, who will be| when contrasted on duty at_Forbes Field here. Supt.| respect. of Police Edward Brophy has an. The Pittshurgher. for vears, has nounced that the entire Pitishurgh de. heen the National League’s foremost tective force, assisted by sleuths from baserunner, and the passing vears ap. the National Capital. will minzle with | parently e had no effect on his the crowds at the games speed. Whether the injury which kept When the scém shifts to Wash.| him ont of the game in August and ington, a detail of local detectives will| early September will slow him up in he on hand to help the District of | the series remains to be seen. Bill Mc- Columbia squad. The detectives will| Kechnie has been nursing Care; | center their attention on pickpockets. | along carefully, and it spoke volumes Federal prohibition officers are also | for the general strength of the Pitts. | | active in preparation for the series|burgh team that it was strong enough | to win its most crucial games of the | little on Rice in ability to ground, but Max is much better balls. Rice has overcome weakness on ground balls but he still suffers with Carey in that Care cover on ground his early All Styles All Leathers All Sizes Fit. shoes yot shoes. about the fit than an THE SCIENTIFIC A business. WAY When you stand up in this new RESCO Twin- Foot Fitting Machine it sutomatically and accur- ately measures the length and width of BOTH feet at the same time. Adopted by the U. S. Government and used ex- clusively in all Regal Shoe * Stores. measure BOTH feet Fitting Machine. as well as the Style, Reg. U. 8. Pat. 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PECK DANCE TOMORROW TO BE INFORMAL AFFAIR Admirers of Roger Peckinpaugh short fielder of 1 champion Nationals n voted mak the big dance to be held tomorrow night at Wardman Park Hotel an ir formal affair decided to place the Peck testimonial cup on display todax at the weekly ladies celebratior at_the ball par Five of the fif atténded last Rajah's boc committee the dance. Margaret Laura Lo, are on sale at 1925.) last to day en fannettes whe Benning fans are looking 1or of spirited contests Sunday. when the home club tackles Bradbury Heights in _a_double-heade rting at 1 o'clock. - Oth;rwsrr;ons on Page 27. 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