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SPORTS THE E 5 WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 1926. SPORTS. Mound Staff Seen as Yanks’ Weakness : National League Race Similar to 1925 . SLUGGING NEW YORKERS LACK STEADY PITCHERS Lieb, Though, Still Figures Hugmen Will Vie With Harrismen and A’s for American League Flag. Considers Pirate Defense Stanch. BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. r N otk f £ ; i HE New York Yankees, my pick for pennant honors in the American League, continue to show that terrific offense which I predicted for t L believe, suspected the amount of dynamite which S injected into his line-up last Winter. The Yankees have had some mauling “Murderers’ Rows” in the past, but cven in their championship years they had nothing to compare with this 19. 5 It is a line-up which is no respecter of pitching reputation, and the anks are just as likely to shoot up the briliiant star as some unknown | rookie. On’their training trip with the Dodgers they rolled over nine runs | . in one i g on the Brooklyn ace, “Dazzy” Van and the next day lit | into Burleigh Grimes for six in the first inning. In both the opening | American League nes in Boston and New York the capable Howard Ehmke was knocked loose irom his moorings, while even the great Walter Johnson was a victim of their devastating fire. It is a team which feasts on speed. However, 1 can't s Yankee pitchir cause of the t so far am’s great early Sprinj edition of bruisers | | dia {on MIDGET BALL TEAMS TO ORGANIZE TONIGHT tlon of midget base ball for the Capital City Base Ball que series will be completed to when the managers of nines en- the championship race gather at ashin, /s Club, Third and C streets, 30 o'clock. had their innings last night, 17 teams reporting and receiv. ing their final instructions fo series openmg on May 16. The have until May 8 to pay their hise money, which is apporticned in mounts just sufficient to cover the cost of umpiring W at Jerry's verage. F. Robbins, bowling in Class A doubles, turned in a_new high game score with 158, supplanting Dr. Sulli- van's score of Meaney and Fri toe moved up to second place in the Class A doubles, with a score of T while Heller and Meyer did likewis in the lower , with 623. hould 1,775 win the team prize in A, it will be the highest score - rolled by a team in the 16 tou ments conducted by the association, ; being high previously. Joe Toomey has rolled on the three pre- vious winning teams. Should the mark 1,775 stand, it will be four for him. Eight teams have signified their in- itions of going to Baltimore Satur- lay night to take part in the Wash- ngton night bowling program, at the Baltimore cnampionships. In addition the team play the members will tuke part in singles and doubles play. The teams are: King Pin, Conven. Mount Rainier Base ballers, win- ners over Arlington in a 10-nning thriller that opened the schedules of both teams last Sunday, will play a return game with the Virginians on the coming Sabbath at the Arlington ond. Members of the Mount Ral nier team are being d together to night at 432 Bucha street for special meeting Base ball makes its bow at Benning Sunday, when the Benning Ath- letic Club entertains the White Sox nine o'clock. Dick Hy of Cleveland will start on the mound for the home team. Blackwell, cgptain of the ter nie, is booking games unlingted teams. Challenges hes pitching, sive battl Yanks. and Pen ent. Jones I young Thomas, of 1925, has b ment. In Dixie Braves, P’hi one run first leagu sufficient to w on balls in t tressing liber ing out pas Still Likes Same Clubs. 1t still is my conviction that Wash- dngton, the Athletics and the Yankees will be the three outstanding Ameri can League contenders. It will be re called that 1 placed these three clubs $n my group 1, and each was wiven sbout the same chance. The Athletics, made many, still are having gett under way. It is though it has been overrat cne thing, 1 doubt it Mack again will get the batting strength out of this that impres- I picked the twiriers Hoyt most cons together with array, that Of the regular any inter _ Outfielder mith, d from the Cardinals t week, | | should bolster club on t o L] d bolster the club on the attack. " | oronto’s big win Dodgers Need Vance | 1 distinet disappoint- | Brooklyn, with the expensive Johnr this fellow held the |Butler on the infield and Jacobson in- wd Do stalled as a regular in the outfield, oing better, thanks to the good pitch- | ing by Je: Petty, the 34-year-old | | teft-hande; ce is not vet himself. | Bothered all Spring with boils, he did | not start until the season was 10 days | and then was knocked out by the Grimes is in good condition nd will win a lot of o | kind of batting support he Cubs continue to show Wprovement * the capable han- | iling of Joe Me ¥, their nev | put the contidence back Wilson. former Giant out fielder, who started out with a rush of wse hits with MeC and then fell at. The Phillies, after a brief so- journ up among the elec re g tating to their customary niche in or near the cellar. (Copyright. 1926.) exhibition ers to | his were in- len bases contest showed a ity in the way ot deal- much favorit tion Hall, Terminal Ice, Coliseum, remples, Cary, Stanford Paper wid Mount Pleasant. TEAM: CLASS A, JERRY'S be addressed in care of the the Red Cross pastimers of St.| he: Hospital, ma ith the Shamrocks for a game tomorrow, registered tneir fourth win of the L son by nosing out the Lafayettes, 8L to 6 Northeast played 10 innings to a ANOTHER POLO CONTEST IS CARDED TOMORROW War Department Polo Association players, who opened their season yes. terday with a practice encounter, will make their second appearance at the Potomac Park oval tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock. In the initial encounter the teams designated as Blues and Whites bat- tled to a draw, each side getting four Capt. Wipprecht accounted for two of the goals scored by the Blues, while Maj. Parker led the Whites with L pair of counters. rs Montellos 1 tie, Goslins and 16.4 100 105 cbiert 98 Miltne 111 Totals Manni Speer chib which he did last year, when the Athletics led the American League With a team batting average of .307. So far Rommel has been the only pitcher to show consistency. Sam ¥, who opened the 1925 season with a sensational winning st is ‘finding the going much harder this son, Grove is as undependable as was in his freshman year, and is starting badly. Ability to Washington always has been one of Han sréatest assets, but this year he already has fallen twice be- fore the N infire. Washin taken some bumps, but it remains a fighting, hustling well balanced club. Johnson had di ficulty in coming back after pitchin great 15-inning 1-to-0 opening® battle, but Ruether has been do ing nobly. Bush, too, looks as though he has a ot of good pitching left. I see where my good friend, Hughie rron s the ationals second division. won't be convinced that gton pennants were team with one hard- se OWLING the second night of Ladies’ Duckpin Association, moved into firgt place, with L B Class, with 1,367. Transportation of 1 Aura Cardin of the Post Office team set a new high-game score when she volled 128. Margaret Woodling and Lynn Wet- | zel were successful in the nightly drawing for the flowers presented by a local florist. Jim Baker is introducing a novelty Friday night. He will the six Baker girls (count ‘em), Mary, Ger- trude, Bertha, Estelle, Esther and Lil an, in the team competition in cless for Hughie those two W The *Comebacks, composed of for- | mer stars, will roll in Class A eome time next week. The organizntion is headed by Billie Williams, who plays | o tonm overithe B : along with Elizabeth ard Frances place team over L uis too high. The | Rawlings. Anna McCormick and an- Bt ave Lt B pall, | other entrant yet unknown. i o e e Four teams, Columbtans, Washing- have hit well, and have give 8 PO | ton, Comumercial and Collseum, have good account of themselies, b N cague | sent in their entrios for the Washinz- i s oo O ot faith |ton night contests in Baltimore Sat- e Jows, Fort Worth star, when | urday evening. Like the men. indi Yoo turned in o three-hit game against | viduals will enter the eingle Cieveland iu Mg givst siart, But ihs | doUIestas walliRs team play. ook @ bad lacing the mext time he bR Taced the Indians, oMM EADIS, The Browns will show up better 2 Jater on, but I rather fear Sisler's b team will be the big disappointment g8 of the vear. Sisler has changed his e snfield, s Mellilo to third and Tamotte to short, but infielders can’t eck that stream of base h h o being Jolted out of the St. Louis team’s collection of pitcher: Bischer . “The White Sox are showing more ~ Yatting strength expected of them, but I can't sce the club as an @ctual contenter. Cleveland is get- fing oft o the same good start which ft'dld a year ago, and L figure its pen- Shant stock advanced. Red Sox pre showing substantial rovement, but the club eventu bound to hit bottom 2 Tygers Loom Stronger. Detroit/ now is fourth- Forney . Burley y . iltner Bradt . ASS B. REET CHURCH. 88 103 08 1 81 80 85 ar 90 Compton Sty i Cardin 3 a1z CHECK ACCOUNTS G. 4 96 intend to : thelr e u son, ::lflle 1 start of the Pittsburgers Yemains a carbon copy of the start of The worid chumpions :31‘ not tarry on the road too long, as they will find McGraw's present team & much tougher aggre: ation than the “rippled New York outfit of a year “E»“"!h“ McGraw told me a mionth ago that Pittsburgh couid not repeat with its pitching staff. As a matter of fact, ‘the Pirate pitching has been quite fair—good enough to have won a ma- Jority of pittsburgh’'s early contests $had the McKechnie band showed an thing like its former ultuu'k, S fng that earl Pirate losing st find they hav Jost by scoves of 2 to 0, 2(0],3\\)2.!(05‘ I find most sola and such write d the Pirate ve strength is irate hu\: get Spring lethargy o Poill roll into | Jithmann for Pirat . * cluding myself, who pic to repeat. The defens! there, and once the out of their early those kind of Uncle Barney Giants Step Out. The Giants, following their custom of years, have taken a good hold on first place se of their Jiastern brethren of the A sea “Woard. I did expect both E Boston to show up 1 Graw’s men. The I Giants close, but d series at the P game Larry Benton I hit for eight p in the ninth. strong 106—293 7 03265 004 aves fought the | inning But Totals .. for those - | Walter .. for those ninth: LS 140—452 86—234 756—234 7 fir 6108 inning fin 161—468 The Cardinals also have been hold- ing up well, and it looks as though their Nationul League entry will give St. Louis its base ball thril The team is fighting and hustling, some- thing it didn’t do under Ricke: and has the conviction that its chance i as good as that of New York and Pittsburgh. Pltcher Vie Keen, pro- cured from the Cubs for Shortstop * Cooney, has proved a find. He already has two victories over the Pirates, won by scores of # to 0 and 5 to 3 in innings. 10(‘1nc£ngnul| is playing at about the pace 1 think the Reds will follow all Year, somewhere around .'50. Their pitching is high grade. espectally.with Maye bagk in his 1924 form, but the team lacks puach ard finish. *“The Braves are yarking up after losing six o: £ rk first seven. The MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located, 1333 ~37 ~ 14% St. COMMERCIALS SET PACE FOR WOMAN DUCKPINNERS Accounts of the General Accounting League toc Horver | Totals. Brown Douy Price Totals. the tournament of the Washington the Commercial team, in Class A, set total of 1377, while Check first place in the Middle the same league tops Class C, with Palmer Fraber Smith 4 Thomas, Quigley. Greevy. Dixon Rothgeb Feliows arthy aite )\ Sulli Teams—8:15 p. : Veter D g Debt No. 3. 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Joe Heishman will pitch for George School’s grammar grade trackmen are working diligently for | their interclass track meet which will take place on Haydon Field Friday at p.m. The program also calls for a competitive drill. E copal High School will play its v base Charlottesville Friday. Fishburne Military Academy will be the oppo- nent. TOURNAMENT LEADERS. o CLASS A. - Teams—Jerry's Sport Shop, 1.77 Fayctte. No. 1. 1430; Hardony, 14084 Pantos, 7 La 7 5: Meane: i i 374 L. No. Double g Frist ingles- Pantos, Hough_an 703 Mo i Works, 38 369: Rosenbe CLA: Washington ebanon, 1,016; Wentz, 713 Hermann and L and Evening Doubles-— Newnian Rici Teams—Regula 1549 Confe Dotibles— and M. Do 1.600; Amazons, 36, ller : Ruark, 356; SCHEDULE FOR TONIGHT IN DUCKPIN TOURNAMENT DOUBLES, 7 P.M .. Dr. J. L. Dudley. ... P Henderson 3 Helsey s, P. Metrakos H. Nelder......... DOUBLES. 7 P.M. etweiler, L. G. H Y. . J r“\'nlx‘u sk R. B. Ward . Iverbere. C. Seigel | W. 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Chicago is crowding weak sisters | out’ of the first division as the Cubs | did in 1925, only to get an awful belt amidships as time wore on. St. Louis is higher up, but starting no better | against the Reds than last season.| The finish of 1925 found St. Louls| with 10 victorles over Cincinnatl, and if the Cardinals are to be smart | little pennant chasers in 1 they will have to defeat the Reds one more than 10 because the worst they must | figure on is an even break on the| season. Closer Now in Precentages. It is interesting to note that the National League teams are much closer together in presentages than | last year. If the West would continue | to fight all season as it is fighting now, there might be expectations of a race closer than that in the Ameri- can League, and ma i1l be such a race anyway, and St. Louis peter out. Cincinnati batting pretty well, but not championship-well. The Pirates are worse and, nddly enough, the St Louis team, which has possib es of slugging its way through if an that probably will be owing some thing to the batting averages by oak | heam, is not hitting as well as teams (and who re« BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, April 28—Tt is remarkable that as April makes its fade- out, the National League is lining up pretty much as it was in 1925— with the noteworthy feature that the race is tighter. to be sure, but the bulk of the team standing I it were possible from this to dope out anything about the 1926 scrap, Brother Owl could begin to hoot for all he is worth. the next time the Reds and the Pirates meet there trouble for the Reds than at the first session. the end of the season. It is pretty much of a jam fortnight of work in the N: It does show what after a League. would be likely to last out as well wins another pennant. On the face of things the Phillies it club in the National League. Yet if they get trimmed three or four games they will immediately become normal and from that time on will can and where they Pitching Is Forte of Reds. the fans want to know can. If one doing so well let them consider that the Reds' pitchers have been tossing a lot better base ball than most twirlers Their percentage of ames in which they have held op. posing clubs to ba: hits in single figures is about .750. Imagine get tings pitching like that often. If a hard-hitting team had it the slug- would run away with the pen- nt—so one reason the Reds not now doing the running i se of lack of hits to correspond with silky pitching. The Phillies could take the Cin- cinnati pitching and keep in the first division all year, because the Phils have enough natural bombarding ability to help the pitchers make port against all kinds of land defenses. is bue much Without question they mighty good reason why Cincinnati | as Pittsburgh is expected to go if | Tennis for the moment are the best improved |as any 20 the rounds picking up what they |Dis | der Clubs Considerably Closer Together in Percentages, However, and a Tighter Race Than in American Circuit May Materialize. o owed what it had to the fact that it had been able to put it all over St. Louis. This ycar the Reds haven't 1 it over any club to any great extent, but they have divided enough all Their pet pick has been Pittsburgh, but n putting is apt to be more Three shifts of the have been made in both the Reds lead in their section as the Giants do in the Fast. When the change comes, witl meeting and tr we the be iittle the better Il be hosts dur- ad of living in Eastern el inst (Coy 1926, \FRENCH GIRL'S VISIT ISUPTOU.S.L.T. A By the Associated Prese. EW YORK, April 28.—Suz Lenglen's proposed visit to Ame for tennis exhibition matches starting in August pproval of the United States Lawn ciation. Application for perm made by C. Pyle, d Grange's ‘oot b ently arr Lenglen to come to t motion picture A possible obstac developed in indics nne &till awaits the nnis Asso sion has been who m: contract to the tour has ns that Suzanne jonal | has decided not to play in the Ameri- could [can women'’s champlonships a: Forest happen if the other Western clubs |Hills Refusal of the United States Lawn A ation to sanction an exhibition tour would leave few op- ponents for Mile. Lenglen on this side, under the jurisdiction n would be barred ist her, if precedent of the from is followed. 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