Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1926, Page 36

SPORTS.’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO c SPORTS. “THEY’LL HAVE TO CATCH MOUND VETS WILL FACE US TO BEAT US"—HARRIS [ e % sz A’S IN REMAINING GAMES DYk i Besting Rommel in Box Duel Before 23,000 Chilly Ko : Fans on Joe Harris’ Timely Hit, Walter Adds to Laurels in Starting 20th Campaign. L T H | msomBanuas | sausesccar Covey Slated for Second Encounter With Bush and Ruether to Follow—Fine Play Afield Marks Washingion, 45 Palind Iohin, Inaugural—Joe Harris Shine E saEis & H st. Louls AT e —— New York 1 Cleveland, -2 SRS e Chicags GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. BY JOHN 'B- KELLER. Fhila_ at Wash. (3). Fhila._at Wash, (3). OUTH will have its day in big league base ball, but probably this =S BY DENMAN THOMPSO Sports Editor. The Star. Ol'l to a flying start in their quest of a third straight championship Clevetund ut Betroli. Cle will not apply to the young men of the Nationals' pitching corps > ‘I PR | (R 22530300=0F ol cooscscsss: les- D = | ol ssoesmiunmmu® ol comsonainE s 04 22 =i sossmssss0e® alece ] eee——— l»},\‘ reason of ‘,'") nsational 1-0 verdict. Walter Johnson earned at 83939989982 : | o o s during the present series with the Athletics the expense of the Rommel-led Athletics in the I3-inning season’s| *One out when winning ran weored. e 3 & ; ‘. / i . The venerable Pole, Stanley Coveleskie, was slated to toil against : . . ‘. B . +Butted for Ruel In twelfth inning. inaugural yesterc ¢ Nationals this afte cre bent on ine Y i gg is aff i ugural yesterday, the Nationals this afternoon were bent on increasing oaltn, | Stelen Mack’s sometime sluggers this afternoon in the second contest of the sea- . ¢ advantage g m‘VI ver the aggregation generally rated as their most o Galioway Judee, Goxdin, N H > . - 4 - s 5 3| son here, and, inspired by the duccess yesterday of his famous clubmate, ormidablc opponcts | Pouble \..."“,.._“"f:..n'u'.‘.'.{.'q‘;‘:' e, I : / . b . |» - : 300 | Walter Johnson, Stan was expected to show that his spit ball i as pusziig “They'll have to catch us to beat us,” was the gleeful chirp of Stanley | 14 Bases on balin—of : 4 g as ever. 2 Johnson, 3 Struck out—By Kom by § 4 o Ne ' For the remaining two games oi the series, Manager Bucky Harris Harris this morning as he directed preparations of his charges for their | dohmwon: UmpiresSeantn. Co . . ; > g Py 3 ges Tor their | tind Geisel. . Time of pame— § 3 A i 2 E :000 | has in readiness Joe Bush and Dutch Ruether, also old-timers, but he has scmr"‘g'::ifl“'- 435.31’?1',001\\\3,:.&;' t pilot it big leagus base balliglowing | — 4 : ! & R L G a8 S k 000 | not determined the order in which they will be used. However, if Bush . unges g leag ase ball, glowing . i i ] appears to antage in his workout today, he probably will be nominated over the triumph registered against its oldest manager, “14 of our total |Sprawled after rounding second whea ; ey A % ¢ i S RE: 3 lgrptomorroa\g':dcu Eer’mrn‘; l‘:’fvirg uflf lrlhhms](r fc lxx‘v\'vl\]»nm’x‘( Frida, of 22 games with the Athletics are scheduled for the first six weeks of the | Bluege followed suit. Myer then drow ; : y o VI v e i i ot SRR B N b g wete! e campaign. We got off on the right foot sterday. and ii we can keep | ® Pass of the uni tentional varlety, 4 S . 4 9 ) i up the good work one of our strongest rivals may be cffectually disposed |4 When the speedy John Tohin was il | ; 4 g v & g sy cleskle ousht to | tributed by Ossie Bluege, Chick Gallo § . inserted to bat for o e s P give a good aceount of himself, Man- -, 2 of before the season is more than a quarter finished | sensed the dectding Iml)l\lxlln'fv’llu.'h“\l;\‘v 3 4 ; | xor Tharris helteves. e hieky | WaY and Ed Rommel. Bluege did his "I hope I'm not unduly optimistic. | siven added brilliance by his perform. | medium of the squeeze play. Tueky 4 ; ; GAMES TODAY. AMES TOMORROW. | right-hander who set the pace for |Stunt at Galloway’s expense in the but it seems to me that the bovs|. oo \hich hoosted hiy agen of | had other plans, however, and ti s G % ¥ j B i T Brorkiyn & Niu) O | other hurlers of the American League | cighth. There were two down when Proved yesterday that they are not| . .. VUl i } | st was that Tobin drilied to . § y A Oh ut Chicago at Cineinn'ti. | last season came out of the Florida | se wing toward only in good physlca! condition, but e ok -1 [\fl'l‘ '\r ; ised | wyy, who nailed Judge at the plate, i 2 : f ’ Pittsb’gh at St Pittsburgh at St. L. | conditioning campaign in fine fettle . S heasaa have the rame old will to win ' that |hi record total of shutouts 10 111, & | fainson’ then failoning sl w 1ot o et 1 5 and in his last workout on Saturday . b : : . has meant much the past two|fisure fi f Vi French, 3 i 5 ; : ? 3 5 held the Glants hitless during the four | UI vears. They sav t is half | Johnson was not ser menaced | Ling ‘Grives by Myer and Severeld| & i vl g 7 6 RIGKARD AND KEARNS frames he pitched. e Epped sha Ay AmEn = the battle, T belleve that with & fair | during the first elght f inehich iy e tourtmentts; although they b ; 3 4 Bush has been striving diligently to "“',“‘,""‘”‘ “,”,‘,”; e oty break in luck we will make one.|he Was solveq for bl 8 by only leleq directly into aller ~. X Bt z repan self for prascrs & et clear out in front it will take|of whom advanced hevond the initial | \aikening. When Rice lod in the ul| & & B 3 # Trom the. Browns in a mte’ wiired | with one hand a ripping liner. Chick gome, tall plugging to haul us back, | station. o got into u jam in the |{ii O AT WAEH THEE el tn the ul =2 feren traie Lok control dusine i oier [ gudged the fight of ¢ , phere 1o a They'll have to catch us to beat us.” ninth when Myer contributed the | pratiser barels contuiv g i S o > nicety. Severeid was the victim of 1 87 o | MLyer 1 auser barel ntrived to clutch ; » e i . ing season games in the South, but [ ICSLY. ~Severeld was the tictim of senl s veteyan Apithall manipuatol. | Wik heare of Lamar's boungers Lies |{Ih one hand the ‘tmpression that | g5 . \ i W NEW: OB AL S MoJack| recantly seamsito have overcome thit | o ribi T, Coian. Y. Remmel i the send his veteran spitball manipulator. d heave Lamar's bound r [ o St g O h i o ; < is swn and the way he| 5 b L 1 shot Stan Coveleskic. o the mound this | Bishop walked. hut. the ntter gor g | Bommel was on the brink of defe " 7 ; "Tex Rickurd are hobnobbing in | f2ult. Ruether apparently is In as | toward right-center a mile a minute afternoon to contend with either Sam | farther than third on French’s long | VA% strengthened, and corroborative| 5 B : ¢ concluve suggests that Tex | £00d form now as he was at any |nue Ed got down in time for a gloved or Lefty Baumgartner. one of |fiy and Simmons’ best was 10t 10 | 11 Fobed g ity o wton e sinmie| 0 I8 5 Y o has more respect for Kearns' in | time lust vear when ho demuch 10| band grab at his shoetops. is expeet o represe: *hil: | Gos | o ‘ s 4 % S e o el a sec successive penn: o L A o ol through the box and galloped to third fuence. o far ‘as Jack Dempsey is | 3N & secon AT R B B W P et e e e A L A's Theaten in Twelith. {when Goslin lined*a_double again b I e e L —— he livery of the Athletics for sl el i etk 100 {the right field wall. Then Joe Harris B 2% £ g 1 e T ey ceighting | Buddy Myer, youngster, purchased |years, and Joe Mauser, back in the et reee themaclves in the| In the twelfth Lamur reached'the |did his stuff. He smashed & solid i o : i T y rickard's enr With songs concsEHUES froim' Naw: Orisans;. whos Toported (0 | garhe Aftei & adason Bawolr: Deroimiea initial Oit of the season. “He wan|far cornoribn the econdl satotysand | saacito oanter, andiit Was. o ve. . i s néw heavywelght, NepoWOoW|,nq Natlondls toward the fag end of Imobly for (he oppositton. Jimmy took hinico Glvanity e e e el el senin, guly o s 5 3 oAl N oaaroToing to DApPer| oy geason, will continue to take care | care of all ten chances that came hi ‘ormance given by Johnson. and none |be left after Hauser” walked, when | o . . ; % H ack, is the world's best. (o e vty of the 23,000 who braved pneumonia |Cochrane flied harmlessly and Dykes | SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION ( - T ? | A 7 4 So far as Dorval is concerned it l\:\rp;l‘[‘r‘l"\‘l’ h;‘:?fiffi:‘:«"“i‘x‘;n::x«?;-ml‘}nr':;: was f'-l ””nl’lo.”‘g(?n"Jd Got. ;.\1' :r‘.‘;‘.‘»’. othe ool mreezes of the Georgla|was marooned at the Keystone mack % s 4 , ; Ty e e e e i car | sald after yesterday’s game. Bucky | Nationals' who batted in the thind pvenue stadium will cast a dissent-|in the thirteenth following his single | , . ROHE K ’ > b B0 e o o ot metos ‘5 wosid| 414 nat decide to use Buddy in the |round. Heuser played as was to be s and Galloway's sacrifice, when Rom- | Naahvitie':[: 21 150l 1f § . i v Baater. AWE hevis Dedh Nis Maste season inaugural until he discovered |expected of a really fine first-sacker Few Leave Before the End. mel and Bishop both died aerially. Baghy, Bayne, Love and Brock; Lindstrom § 4 3 |t e D fathemi e P o that the Nationals seemingly were in |He had to go after a number o French's double with one away in | and Kena. y : 4 o | 4 tor a lot of Arctic league base ball, | hectic heaves in making his 23 put .t 4l that throng, a huge one con- | the fourteenth looked ominous, as he | pirmngham ... .. e el o (o8 AEEE RUTH HAS BIG TIME Rien He® aid notlouse to exposstha | ot Fidering the low temperature and for- advanced on Simmons’ sacrificial fiy | Chutianoora */11111. ] s 13 & . . B veteran Roger Peckinpaugh to the| (oo oo vidding clouds that hinted of snow,|and Hauser agaln drew free trans.| Mers, Judd and Yorgan: Bates, Rogers > ; : Shipping delay compelled the u O . Ut when warmer Jave | hires to wear old uniforms vesterday less thar 500 failed to stay through |portation, but Johnson subjugated | Heran. Jones and Hinkic. | coomad B Cir Lok - day Jug . b et ‘Q’ ekt ON INAUGURAL DAY | arrive the Rajah will go to his post Pt Cotitoll b Hit hurder (Ben ee i1 the more than two hours and a half |Cochrance and then forced Dykes, |Memphis ................ 28 o e sond and third Bases that elapsed between the time Vice | Galloway and Rommel all to lift easy | Litth Rock . 1 0. i 80 Drewen (he mecond (4nd third bases: |the two other arbiters when the new President Charles G. Dawes, pinch- |little flies in the fifteenth, Morton. Bonnelly. Brillheart and Koh! i Mhilanl s B 'lf' b e BWAT | garments failed to arrive. He had to hitting in_the enforced absence of] Until subjected to the machine gun | becker: Caldwell and Mayer. | b th ed Press -jiocupati of the: posttion. the Chief Executive, uncorked & wild | fire that wrecked him in the final | New Orleans . p 61 ALTER PERRY SON. y April 14.—Babe Ruth has| There was plenty of brilliant field heave in the time-honored stunt of | frame Rommel had given an exhibi- | Mobile . o..0. 1101 b 14 0] oo WALTER PERRY JOHNSON. % league season With 4| ing in “the. inaugural and not the ssing out the first ball. tion which fell but little short of John. | , Bo¥. Tos. Austin and Lingle rling m'r-'tu.'hl |.;.||.(|hi~ dol the base ball populace yestenlayy<orted the UE least conspicuous figure on defense . marched with Owner Clark | lowed the same number of hits. Only Al ey i dean, el e Dide it : sterday, and, beiore the sun had| player and now regular right garden- > Conter Beld. where the ‘matlons | Serney himselt had been victimized | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. |icy' Mvcyihe lean of Auerian League pitchers, who has spent miore thau | Yesterdsy, und, belors, (i wun bad| player and now regular right garden- | VAl SN e e b0 to center field, where the national|on strikes by the Quakertown chucker, ;. | €At of strike.outs to u hew top figure of 3333 AN raiy e e MEEre | {vo "doubles, a single, & steal and| When Jee. was. siven the 10 Serabie i MCKEY Cochians. wia emblem was unfurled to strains of | and he was charged with half a dozen 2| S ahat-outs to T11 b i three runs. But he was sought by| perth during the training season, it | ot vear was the best hitting cateher ~ Spangled Banner,” by ‘20 passes, but half of them were of the [S¢ Paul,. 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 6 0— 4 e s oS - | State income officials, and just when| was because of a desire to strengthen |y 4y WIS THE S ague with a bat ates A)"n»‘ Band, until the | intentional variety and served well | clarkson and Urban. Heving; Schupp, he succeeded in staving off service of! the club offensively more than any- |iirig average of .391. Mickey was at N d‘;:‘"‘ 0"5“3, e their purpose. This was true in the | Holtzhauser and Hoffman. jOHNSON W|l.|. LEAD 2]0 000 FANS SEE | warrants for tax delinquen he| thing else, for the veteran w re- | hat six time against Walter. In his settlin duwremeeinfio«ui; "mfi .| ninth after Moon Harrls, Sam, Rice | ndiahapolis. 1 0 04 0000 0—5 9 4 4 y {emerged to find h automobile | garded as only an average fly chaser. firgt three trips to the plate he popped & ove a mip-and-tuek | 20d Joe Judge each had been check- | Kansas Gty 0000040004 7 = zed. | But he more than made good in both ‘feahly. He fanned the fourth time up tato; :‘\!enhv(rent«:l toan hl;dm -tuck | 63" gt midway following singles in waurwell and Florence: Zinn, Schaack ' and LIBERTY A c TEAM OPEN'NG CUNTESTS 3 tax difficulty concerned his| departments of the game against the | ang twice In the extra innings when st oo i Wash. | earlier rounds, through failure of their [ der® vus 02 001 01 0 1—5 11 A . U ry, Mass.. farm, and State of-| Athletics. In addition to getting a | 4-s were on first and third st foh SR WeTIE a - | mates to solve Rommel's deceptive | Minneapolia 2 6 2 0 1 0.0 0 b 13 & it ) xplained that they had noj couple of bingles, one of which drove | bases, Mickey lofted harmlessly to the knuckie ball. lermo and Bird: Middleton and Krusger. = 355 |record of payment for 1923 and 1924.| in the solitary tally of the fray, Joe | outfield In the final frame of all regulation aleville-Mitwaithoe. we$ grounds. Heinie Johnson, Liberty Athletic | By the Associated Press, | The Babe demurred and was allowed | ranged all over the right field. He contests Rommel lost his bearings and Club _second -baseman, has been | Approximately 210,000 fans yester- |4 Week to file a statement in support | had five chances and took care of | Johnson made strike-out vietims of and Lamar of the A's for top | Pussed Bucky on four pitched bails. | FLAG ON STAR BUILDING glected captain of the tenm and will | day braved generally chilly weather |Of iy contention that he was not a | them splendidly. His catches of long |all members of the Mack line-up ex T tpnar Of the A's for toP| Goslin's suicide advanced his bosk; VINU assume his. new . duties Saturday | to see the major league base ball | Massachusetts resident. erg | drives by Simmons and Bishop were [cept Lamar and Dykes. Hauser and BRI hu s e e e | e linrsalat i Hon AT GAME GUIDE FO&FA"S when the Red Sox are met in u | races get away to a thrilling start, | Ruth left = collection headquarters| particularly brilliant. In the fourth Rommel took. the count twice each hill that kept frigid spectators in |TiS Dopped softly to Hauser and saw o WA, T return game at Plaza diamond he figures follow [pniy to find that the 55 minutes he | inning he raced across te deep right- | Five times the Big Train threw the their cold seats instead of hying to | Bluege drill info a force play after | Through the medium of a flag fly- | The tewm is on the lookout for 4 American Leasue—New York ot |had thought would suffice to transact | center to arag dawn AL'S clout and in | third strike ‘pdst’the batter 8 ying Juige had been intentionally walked. | ing from@he staff atop Phe Evening | Sunday wame iwith some fast une ton, 12000: Philadelphia a1 | hiS legal business had lengthened into | the sixth went back almost to the | steam-heated homes. < . o s . cer ” ar Ma iner. g | =y o sassing fig! an | Star B , at Eleventh: street and { limited club. Booking may be made ston, 23,000: 'Cleveland De- | IWo hours. A traffic policeman had | fence to spear Max's liner. Joe show- Purposeful passing figured to an ul nth it oking m: veland at el e e e 9 SEAT PLEASANTS MEET. Walter Adds to His Laurels. !even greater extent f the thirteenth, | Pennsylv enue northwest, fans | at Columbia 4165-J Louis at Chicage gged ! ne. ; : ‘ Johnson performed in manner | when Rice smacked a single on the | in the do wn section can ascer- Sunny Kremb, Lit ¥ hurler who al. 107,000, i '|h4- u affic offic relented “!mn‘ tional utility outfielders rated as fine Members of the Seat Pleasant . starting | first ball pitched and moved up a |tain whenever the Nationals are play- | leaves urday for his second sea- Q League—Brooklyn 1t l.mlh Ix:.nln- hnn:\n |:1.~ nl@_u_x and | defensive pla ers are not apt to do | Bovs' Club Will_meet night ar ~ s twentieth season in local livery. | notch on Bucky's sacrifice. Rommel l"i- at home. | son with Chambersburg in the Blue | 42.000; Boston at Phila- | Xplanation. but the slugger's feelings | much subbing for him as long us he | o'clock in the Seat Pleasant com- Limiting the Athletics to half a dozen | here carefully tossed four wide ones he banner has a background of{ Ridge Leasue, was given a send-off | delphia, S.000: Pitisburgh at st | had been ruffled. keeps his legs. munity hall. scatter s s, walking but three | to Goslin. before personally attend- | White, with a large greep ball super-| by his teammates Monday night Louis, 17.000; Chicago at Cineinng and fanning nine, this athlete who ing to Moon's roller, then franked |Imposed in the center. On display it |He was presented with a $5 gold | 3 < spent more than half his Sum- | Judge by design and was rewarded |Means that a scheduled ante at the | plece and_two of his favorite bats. toiling for the Washington Ball | by having Bluege ralse harmiessly | Clarke Grifith Stadium ‘on.” Its | = —— absence will indicate either that the HAWKINS lub added fresh laurels to the over- | to. Dykes. " | S oy ) ot o .| Nationals are on the road or thit flowing supply he has attained since A frown from Dame Fortune prom the listed contest has been called off. fie first came to the Capital, a gang- |ised to be the cause of victory elud | ling, awkward youth, back in 19¢ ing the Griffmen in the twelfth, when. . . | i with_one_gone, Juage_sigied_and| Wire and Disc Wheels . W. S. 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