Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 25

K5 SP Both League Champions Shyin Hitting: U.S. Pro WEAK BATTING ORTS. HANDICAPS NATIONALS AND CORSAIRS Yankees and Giants Alone of Pennant Contenders Are Slugging Up to Form, Slump of Pirates Be- ing One of Most Notable in Years BY JOHN plight of the Pirates, an Champions are not po "N B. FOSTER. EW YORK, April 27.—~Woefully weak with the stick describes the 1 it a g the ball as they should. > may be said that Washington's Both major Ieagues are having unlimited fun with their title-holding teans for the time being. Pittshurgh and Washington have been the tail- ends of the procession more than once as team batters since the season began. Tis sad to think of in batting of less than the end ght. This is the tea which so n Young bload and the steel in the arms to draw this 1 Carey can't hit a lick, Cuyler little better, Barnhart s completely off halance, and the general rout of the Pirates is such belleve the team has batting influe! za or distemper the eyesight or | something of the sort. ! , , The Pirates showed something aki @ to a sign of life for about the first | time yesterduy when they defeuted the Cubs, § to 6. They rapped out | 12 hits, which is no mean feat for | Pittsburgh in its present condition. Giants Alone Are Hitting None of the National League clubs | is as to make o xeept New York, that the Glants ure thick of the battle to the end. Phillies are batting hard- demonstrated yesterday in beat Giants, 6 to 5 in 11 inn batted hard last year, hit the ball to hold their owt s for fifth place or bet St. Louis ix a mile under for | batting, and Pittsbureh is still farther | down. Both of these teams therefore be tigured to advanc they shortly hit up to percentage 1 dmalily expected of them. Pirates a Surprising Club. i cham- | 1t is mot probable that pionship team in years has t: & terrific header in batting as has | Pittshurgh from th ark the team | t the end of the 1925 world se- and the standing it has now. In > respects, this team can show a greiter variety of surprises than there are dollars in bank. When 1 bad that it b irtue i i | Wash i batting strength if it expects to fin at the top this yew. The Athletics | as ud, perhaps worse, because | the Ati than | the Griffmen to win a . Wash fnglon hegan in 19 « punch | and added v _put Joe old Joe them i More Infield Hitting Needed. ield batting ill have to Champions are going 1 they can get iling ~ Yankees, ardent ad Timely of the season natural batting and good handling teams at the beginning of a are the factors that help the second-division outtits. Ulti | serable batting average until its outfield 4 v : like Pittshurgh having a team percentage 1 of the first 10 d; of the pennant nuch has been written concerning its of its batters. It is likely to continue n find the ball. find thelr a littie higher level than in a preceding season, but if they have reached the top they will turn the other way. Cubs Exceeding Expectations. The surprise of hoth races is the work of the Cubs, & team with less to start on than any other in the major )t as to its bat- terie struck f use they outplaying nd fooling I with the little on his team. Wihning plays and by pected manmpulation of weal b he has shown that the other m: had better keep a weather e . s10n hecas v has heen stern man n- ye ' HARDWORKIS FACED BY GLENNA COLLETT| LONDON, April (). —Glenna Collett, the Amercan woman chim- plon, is in the upper half of the draw for the British women's golf cham- pionship tournament, where also are a number of other star players, In cluding Cecil u de- feated last yvear by Joyce Wethered and Mlle. Stmon de la Chaume, the vear-old French champion. Miss Wethe is not entered in the tournament, which begins May 10 at Huriech, Wales. Miss Leitch carried Miss Wethered to 37 holes last year. Saturday with a half-stroke e. de la Chaume defeated of the British Walker Cup team o D. C. ROLLER SKATERS SCORE AT HAGERSTOWN roiler Hagerstown's at Hagerstown. In_mile . M. Owen won trom B. Kline seconds, and W. Fer- . L. Smith in 3 min- kuters recentl and Smith minutes 421 nnual smoker of the Catholic v Athletic Association takes Monday in the University srookland. place on dining hall at D. C. PROS MAY QUALIFY FOR OPEN ON TWO LINKS States and the qu A tes Golf may qualify on June 14, cither at the Va., or at the Me The qualifying rounds will be at from cach district to he determined b entrics close on May 22, the champi Of these. the who returned low pionship last vear, American Walker American profession: in the British open chumplonship| chall all be exempt from qualifying. Tom Armour of Congressionai und Fred McLeod of Columbia will both | compete for the tish open and | therefore are automatically qualified in the American open be played | at Columbus, Ohio, in Ju | fying roun Sta Associ ounds on Jul cup team Armour, acting as host to mionals from Baltimore and - ton clubs at Congressional yesterday led the group of wmore than 30 paid| for the of the players with a card of sweepstakes event held as pa ay’s program. Armos « shot | in front of Tom Skipper of Rolling | ioad. who had a Roland 1t Mac | Xenzie played in a fourball match in the afternoon with Fred McLeod as a | partner against Armour and Bob Bar- | nett of Chevy Chase. The latter pair| won by 2 and 1. | A 36-hole team competition in which the Baltimore players pitted arainst the Washington pros was an.| texed by the golfers trom the Monu-| n match will be play timore course in the near future. ynes of Columbia, won | in the first miniature | 926, beld yesterday un. | der the auspices of the Women's Dis- trict Golf Assoclation at Columbla. \irs. Haynes defea A Xnox, 4 and 3 1 round. | Mrs. Knox won lification | RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NE! RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS N 1 310 13th Sure Way to Get There is one surc way that never | fails to remove dandruff completely and thatis to dissolve it. Then you destroy it entircly. To do this, just get abeut four ounces of plain, ordi. nary. liguid arvon; apply it at ht when retiring ; use cnough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. 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This simple remedy has never been known to fail. est in a series | THE EVENIN( ILLINOIS NINE TOPS BIG TEN TITLE RACE CHICAGO, April (P).~1llinois i out in front, with Minnesota and Wis consin close behind, as Big Ten teams move through the third week of the Western Conference base ball season. The Illini clinched the lead by tak- ing its second game of the year yes- terday, defeating Iowa. Wisconsin and Minnesota each have won a single game to tie for second place. The Purdue Boilermakers are fourth with three victories and one dcfeat. Ohio has won twice and lost once and Micuigan has broken even in two starts. Northwestern has lost three and won one game. Indiana lost in the Hooslers' only confer«nce tilt to date. and Iowa and the Chicago Maroons have each lost two game: BRITONS ARE BEATEN. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., 4pril 27.— The Oxford-Cambridge lacrosse team was repulsed vesterday when the St. Stephen’s Coliege twelve triumphed, 64, after 10 extra minutes of play. The British team led until almost the final minute, Rogan shooting the ball into the cage from a sharp scrimmage in front of the goal to tie the count. Stolp and Weeks scored In the extra perfod. 8T AR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, The Coening Sta BY DICK COX, Outfielder Brooklyn Nationals. HE first thing I do on entering T the base ball park before a game is to look at the flag to see which way the wind is blowing. That's an outficlder’s business. Never loaf on a ball. Know the wind and be in position to run either in or out, according to the hit. Take the catch so you will be in position to throw, being on balance at all times. Get to know the tyy every hitter the first time you see ain. play. Keep this in mind, so that you'll never forget how to play for a certain man. Vor example, some batters hit to the left fleld; others to the right, ete. You must know, too, how the pitcher is working on the particular of batting of N competition is expected tor Tech and Eastern track team: 3 o'clock. K Manua! The Easterners, however, are fi spring a few surprises. Eastern has shown steady improve- ment since the start of outdoor prac tice and recently scored an ov whelming triumph over Western's in- experienced squad. Coaches at both Tech and Eastern uning to send large squads to land scholastics on Satur- | day. Western's track prepping for the | Purk on Saturday, also are slated for | competition tomorrow. They tackle Gallaudet’s team in o practice meet at Kendall Green and fleld men, air at College Although having no coach and no | training facilities, a small squad of {truck and field performers at Business is prepariug to take part in the scho- lastic events that fill the program for the coming month, “Reveille” Jones, | B Lynch and Floyd Barnard are | practicing for the dashes, while Wil- lard Highie is prepping for the pole vault and high jump. This quartet at Marvland. Episcopal High School’s next track imeet is u quadrangular affair with { Gilman of Baltimore, Woodbury For- |est of Orange, Vs tute of Port Deposit, Md., Saturday mes appear in 1l plays makes its first appearance Saturday | nd Tome Insti.| TECH AND EASTERN HOLD DUAL MEET TOMORROW morrow in the dual meet which brings | s together in the Eastern Stadium at Tech is favored to take the engagement, in view of its recent victory over the strong Episcopal High team and the great showing made by the rainers at the Penn relays. aving a good year in track and may t Annapolis, Busi- in a return game !the Navy Plebes ness meets Gonza at the Monument Grounds, and Cen- tral tackles the Georgetown Univer- sity freshmen at Hilltop. The BEast- ern nine, which is meeting Tech to- day in the title series race, was de | feated yesterday by St. John's, 4 to 2. Tommy Mudd went the route for the winners, while Quinn and F shared the mound work for Easte Tech and St. Alban’s tennis teams chalked up wins yesterday, the Man. ual Trainers downing Eastern in the high school series, six matches to one. while the Saints made a clean sweep of their engagement with Friends. Sammy Hook turned in the only win for Eastern when he defeated Adams of Tech, 61, 6- Rifle teams of Central and meet tomorrow on the Central in what will be the final match of the indoor series for both clubs. As Central's marksmen already have two wins to their credit, a victory over the Easterners will give them the scholastic title. Western and Eastern ring the runner-up position in cach having won one match and lost another, while Tech is trailing with two defeats. Trid encounter between Western and Tech the Eastern range will end the The individual indoor cham- will be shot Saturday morn- aster: ing at Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN hitter you're playing for. Different pitchers mean different hitting, de- yending upon whether' the pitch is high or low and whether it crosses the inside or the outside of the plate. At bat stand with feet spread and even with the plate. Step into a fast one straight ahead if ball is in middle, If an outside curner, step inside and ahead. Grip the bat slightly up and tight. Whatever 1 know about base ball ¥ owe to the o'der fellows who taught me, either by word or by their play- ing. 1 never missed an opportunity to watch good players working and I tried to observe their form and to copy them. I always appreciated s word of advice and never let an older fellow get an idea that I thought I w it all. No fellow knows it all. New plays and new tricks come up daily. Who is your idol in base ball? T had three heroes—Rube Marquard, Christy Mathewson and “Homerun’ Buker. I watched all three play and got good pointers from them. The above is a skotch of Robusch of Pittsburgh winning the high jump in 1924. He had good form. How far can you go in the running high? Here are erage marks for boys: Age. Height. A 5 1. 1. 1t . New applicants for membership are Charles H. Dexter, 28 Bryant street; Fifteenth and , 3914 Jenifer mas Walsh, 1041 Lawrence opulos, Fifteenth r Gordon, 1000 E alter Raymond street; Tl street; James Chi and U streets; M street southwest Ward, Garrett P Bernard Thor 7_Thirty-fifth street; Barry Sullivan, 3105 fourth street; George McKiblin, 1414 V street; John Haerer, 11 strect northeast; Frank J. W Baker avenue, Colmar Manor, Md. Bowie, 200 Danfel street, Col- r, Md. s 8. and Harold R. Hess, jr.. 86 Eighteenth street southeast; Jark Wilson, 1408 V street; Joe Gar- rett, 1430 B street southeast; Gloss Worthington, 458 I street southwest; Edmund W. Smith, Clinton, Md.; James Dixon Hospital, 4408 Seventh’| street; James M. 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At the time Smith said he would never take part in a British cham hip again, and so far as is /n he has not changed his mind. > homebreds who have hooked to cross the Atlantic include Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Bill Mehlhorn ILeo Diegel, Johnny Farrell, Al E pinosa and Emmet French. They comprise a group who should car- tainly give the British a lot of trou- ble It we only as recently as 1921 that the f big company of American vro golfers went to England, thelr expenses defrayed out of w public fund. English golfers were interest- ed, but held no idea that the invasion t anything more than the ap- ion of that interesting flavor which {nternational competition pro- vides. As it happened, one of the invaders, Jock Hutchison, won the open title and four of his compatriots landed in the first 12. Since that time an American has won the cup every year except in 1923, when Arthur Havers came through to prove that the British lion still had at least one claw_left. And as for the colonies, Joe Kirk- wood came from Australia and con- vinced the British that their far-flung sons had learned about all there is to learn ahout the royal and anclent sport, Dut even if the United States has taken the lead in proficiency in the game, the BEritish huve at least the satisfaction of knowledge that golfers TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F April 27—Speaking evidence of the development of the tingent of American professionals who will invade England this ship trophies will consist entirely of homebreds. chances of winning the cup now held by Jim Barnes. 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