Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1926, Page 29

< THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESD'AY: MAY 5, 1926. SPORTS. . Dodgers and Indians Upsetting Advance SHOWING TO DATE PROVES SURPRISE OF BIG LEAGUES Pirates Rallying as LmuL-. Ellco’u’l’l’l;‘l‘ Trouble—A’s May Prove Biggest Disappointment of Year. MISS BRADT HEADING TWO DUCKPIN EVENTS comfortable mar- gin for the highscore in all events in the Washington Ladles Duckpin | Association Tournament, Lorraine | Gulli, the Hilltoppers ace, last night howled far below her standard in her After enjoyving a KING PINS BOWL 180% = \U5igeiuriiitn - MILLER GETS 406 TOTAL OR the sixth time since the start of play in the sixteenth annual tour- F nament of the Washington City Duckpin Association the all-time mark for teams in Class A has been broken. The King Pin five of the District League turned in 1,809 last night for a total that should stand RS B! Micaiizzi . M. Pearson SINGLES, 7 P.M. e Dyer. .| & Dope on Major Base Ball Flag Races BROOKLYNS HAVE EARNED TOP POST IN OLD CIRCUIT Robins Have Batted Against Giants, Phillies and Braves for .290 Average, While Their Pitcher: doubles with Marjorie Bradt, and re- linquished the lead to Rena Levy, who hoosted her mark to 842 by cetting 331 in_the cluss A singles. This also put Miss Levy in front in the singles. Had Gulli howled a 302 score, an ordinary sot for her, it would have heen sufficfent. As is wasx Marjorie Bradt nosed Miss Gulli out for second place with 819, Miss Gulli's score iy 004, Mabel Jenkins and Catherine Fort ney moved into second and third places, respectively, in the doubles in Class B, with scores of 206 and Have Held Rivals 1o a .223 Mark. for this season at least. The new leaders morited the high A X mark. Bowlers of the type of Camp- | Jaire, - o8 Willram. Kesaler bell, Burton and Megaw rolling in & 2 & Rony .. form ate capable of turning in high M Posn o scores any time, while Welsh and Joreph Motykia"" Harville rank with the best, although AL A e the last named struck a snag when A P tie bowled 88 in his first game. It js altogether probable that the marks made thus far in class A will stand, unless some one shows a phendmicnal performance or the Mount Vernon team of the Masonic League has a good night, Frank Miller of the Convention Hall team bowled a new high set, ) Johnson 406, and incidentally gets a new hat. TE. poifa .- CLANS A, avidge ; 328 | K MEYER DAVIS. I 101 A Logan s 108 100 Armiger 08 Both St. Louis Clubs Seem Doomed. CLASS A. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, May 5—How come the Brooklyn team stuck its head N above water and began spouting like an angry whale after the Yankees in Spring training games had nearly erased the name of Brooklyn from the map of Greater New York and the fans were thinking of changing the name of the club to Gowanus? The answer is the casiest in the world when you put it to the test of figures. Brooklyn played base ball at the start of the year without an infield and with precious little of an outfield. Stock wouldn't do. He is gone now, and it was just as well for the Robins when they let him drift. “Hi temperament and his years are against him for major league base ball. But that wasn't 10 per cent of what ailed Brooklyn. The pitcher weren't goinig and they weren’t receiving any support At length Rrooklyn managed to anvthing but back up pitching all of crawl up to .500 in the daily stand-|the season, has been outwitting and ling. From that time on conditions |sutmaneuvering other Western mana- | changed all around. The handicap |gers und the Cubs are where no ene | of Stock's slowness departed from ‘hou would be. They are | the infleld—and that. with the tardi |much like Erooklyn in that they have ness of Fournier, would be too much |pitchers and not much more. for any team to carry The out-| Perhaps neither Chicago nor field began to come to life. The|Brooklyn will keep the pace. It jen't chances are that the ontfield now is!li Yet 8o far as their strength playing above its speed, but Brook- ied, they are as alike as twins. |1yn” doesn't_care, because it needs all hers. Both have fair |the speed it can Nelther has a reliable in- Robby's Pitchers Effective. nd outtield, and both have rs who are supposed to exert Brooklyn's jump from the .500 perch |an influence over their players that to its .667 standing today was accom- | brings rainbows out of clouds. plished because its players have been vright. 1026.) batting .290 against all rivals, while opposing teams have been batting 293 against the Brooklyn pitchers. No better proof than that is neaded to explain why Brooklyn is in first place. If the Robins continued that pace all year they would win the pennant by a bigger margin than any club has copped it since before the war. The Brooklyn pltchers against the batters of New York, Boston and Philadelphia in less than 10 games have been holding the joint efforts of the stick men to a batting average that wouldn't take a dime's worth of plug tobaceo out of a bargain sale. As an example of Brooklvn piteh- ing consider Jess Petty's fifth vic. tory yesterdav in five starts, when the Fobins beat out the Braves, 3-2. in a npinth-inning rally that saved the twirler's winning streak Rivals Held to . at Bat. The Giants and the Phils have been | batting hard all year and the Braves | haven't hecause they have no hitters to amount to much. But the big | berthas of the Giants and the Phils | and the how ers of Boston com bined have only been able to hit the | Brooklyn pitchers to the small degree | of 232 | When a club mets under .225 in batting it had better look out that | the bogey man doesn't catch it. When three clubs are averaging no better | ) Your Old Hat fi/ ~ Made New Again P than that against a fourth in their ” group, the fourth will go ahead as Cleaning. Blocking and sure as a log will careen down a |* Remodeling by greased chute. # QUALITY SERVICE Vienna Hat Co. ADAMS MOTOR CO 221D AAR e S FREDERICK G. LIEB. O f n Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians have dealt the stitfest w The average fan and most cri also will include the Yankees among the real surprises of the oring. 1 do not, having picked lluggins' team to win and early recognized its remarkable otfensive and defensive possibilities. However, 1 will frank enough to say that I never expected the Yanks to get off It will be as casy to stop that club as to check a runaway locomotive on a downgrade. _ Returning from the South, the Brooklyn Dodgers were a sorry-look ing aggregation. Losing 12 straight to the Yanks took most of the wind out of their sails. Yet judging from the form shown by the Yanks since the championship scason got under way, they could knock a lot of clubs for a row of 12 goals. l‘inl'.u:u strength, Rabbit Maranvilie, s al timely home runs by Jack Fournicr, and Robinson’s patient, painstaking handling of the Brook- lyn team has shot the Dodgers up through the percentage column. mows s W i | | PENNANT PERCENTAGE CHANCES UP TO DATE that “Dazzy" Vance big cotk AMERICAN, Howder Palmer the Brookl Spring dope lops. AR TE > > > > > > 0 I E> W ot Lang o AR TEAMS, 8 P ‘Washington Printing (o. . Ransdell, 13 s o as Nilrice avee Forraning o Nationa) ‘Birbiisning Co- - . - T E petvelien National Capital 1 Packwand Melbtng o . Columbian Printing G0 Washington Mouotype Co P. Andrews Paper Co Stanford Paper Co Standard Engraving Co DOUBLES, 10 P.M H. Zier and 8. Sweenes and F. Stanley. . ... le and Ferguson. d Bailey o Billheimer. I ol Weidnian carly Urban be Weidman to such an auspicious start HRE>> 0390 McGolrick Kiine Franklin Nell O'Brien Tevy . Fowd .. Malcolm Free .0 Anderson Ackman Myers BoSoxasnesie ao; MeGolrick Pratt Armiger Watson Logan .. Totals.. CLASS B ton 88 103 o1 8 DOUBLES—CLASS A, S0 107 80 rs is even Watson S A8 Hiser .. 1 b - i. Steele and H. Ol TERMINAL . - M Phitomy and P Eilest. ] DOUBLES, 10:45 P.M. C. Mitchell and N. Falk SINGLES. 10:45 P Forney £8 Jenkina the Ingraham P robln of the Robins, been in pacitated since the season got under way, “Dazzy” has one of the ch assortment of hoils since t raised by Job. Jesse Pettv ociation south tife real savior four br this art help from Vanee 1 is possi ) o end the'| Jodgers well up the n - this | Do week's pennant percentage table I b \,.; the Y advanced Brooklyn well ahead of Bo ton. By another weck they'll probut dexerve u Pittshu the P ing defea 10 runs in one innin, ciame the next against Cineinnatd inone Yde, Pittsburgh's left-handed 1924, has been a big disappointy bhut ows meelves ming o Warks Nolan Tooniey Weidman Friend Brad Whiniéprorne NATIONAL i b3 l“ilhhur:h, f Pergus 1w 90 & F2 oo Lyles eevenses K, Totals Gulli .. Miner . Totals STAN Lewis an forme W v n. has been the Dodgers, with tories up to the time Totals. . Yarnell . Parmor . Huftman Frederic on which has a chance to stop Fices. Totals 663 Rurrows CORNELL LUNCH Weidman ] Tolbrook Stanford Mace i Logan Armiger Hreen Gleason Svel Olso hletics and Wash- s the tailend Red T am afraid the Athletics will be one of the big dis- \pointments of the vear. The Ath s never have been the samne since stratght losing streak of the part of last senson. That was the losing streak which ended their [ 1925 pennant dreams. iz 'l;;|A ;\Ilhlcll"s also have lost their remer | wallop. Up to a few days age they working | had scored 42 runs, .\guxmqnfinnmr:'r form Tt the Yanks and were tting b 1gainst 336 for New York. And a | vear ago, with practically the same | pgenton line-up, Mack had the hardest-hitting | Abronmvitz team in the Amerlcan League. The| 03 | pitehing of old Jack Quinn. nearly 42, 0 1 is the bright spot of Mack's Spring | TEAMS—CLASS C—SPECIALS. campalgn | Seeley Washington still has its snappy. | Paine. rvessive team, one with lots of [Frve . inch and fizht. T do not think that | Winter . th fohnson or Coveleskie will| Total | Prove the pitchers they were last sea- | zor. bt it is a team which will take | = i a 1ot of beatings. In an effort to | Stantor speed up the aggregation Hm\lm‘h;s W. L.D. A. EVENT LEADERS h’".’"‘""’“ CLASS A | Siness Hilltoopers., 1,500 Rosenbers Columb — | 587 | Lowry Jenking Totals. Qunites Quizley At Philadelphia—Pennsylvani: William_ and Mary, 2. At Chapel Hill—=North State, 8; North Carolina, 6. At E . Mary's, 9; Virginia ¥ Fellows 5 | Thorpe . e Supples Carolina when the uinn drick R S T T TP ) BRCSSScemransanmas: ek day, with & run Spartanburg—Wofford, terian, 8. Emory—Emory Bluefield. 1. Durham—Walke MeFall Meader 9% WAR POLOISTS ACTIVE. War Department Association polo- 2 |ists practice tomorrow at 4:30 at the Potomac Park fleld for Saturday's match games with Fort Myer teams. 5 | Yesterday In 2 round robin the Greens defeated the Whites, 3 to 0, and won from the Reds, 3 to 1. Reds and Whites tied, 1 to 1. Morgan 114 119 Fitrgerald W.D.A.T LEADERS| Pappas . P, Jerry's Sport La Fayette, 70, —Burtner and Camphell, 783: Frye Wand, 741; Morgan and Friend, H and Henry, 5 £hitford 115 McCarthy | 7 Totals S Forest, Megaw Harville Welsh Burtner’ Campbell McKay Dyer VIRGINIA TAKES MEET. LEXINGTON, V ginia defeated Was {in a dual track meet here yesterday 159 t0 37. g weaken choice After a seven find the goi Ya 636 Curtin Totals. T CONVENTION HALL. sl M was broken 2 ed from 1l cold. mr | the dof RADIATORS, 'FENDERS AW Al SroRs o aUihe WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. Teams—King Shop. 1775 Doirhle: wd ROB 132 Sinel A 403 Wor Jo0 1411 Creager Hughes - MeGraw Giant bench with ing his absence « started to pile up. The ¢ have had heavy walties, Meusel Lindstrom and Jackson being in- | capacitated | week. Both Lindstrom | and Jackson are provingz to be brittle | ers, the type whic ficult | to stand up well over 154-game course. Reds Holdi Cincinnati, aided nt and Brave dis up pretty well. The troublesome all vear, side chance of win The Cardi- nal ady are flopping. The club’s advertised punch is not materializing s St. Louis ranks fifth in National | Hornsby's hitting | ¢ the team. afraid that both of the St. Lou Totals fants already Casey Weidman. Preusser benched his names:ke, Joe Harrls, hero of the last world serles, and In alled Earl McNeely in the outfield. 1. Chisox Depend on Vets. 2ddie Collins still has his White | 302 going nicely, and Chicago als has been boosted in the pennant-pe centage table. The club Is playing | Lo with a lot of snirit, but if either of its | - Donbie veteran infielders. Scott or Collins, | Thomo: shou'd fail the club will find the sled: | SUJVA dinz very to ! Eoth Ty Cobb and George Sisler continue fo shake up their respective iino-ups. trving to hook together win ning o ion Neither of these | Corentte CLASS B. Teams—Hadley. 1.861: Brunswick, 1,648 Construction (€. & P.)."1.644 Toubles—Humohrey * and _ Wemtz, 713 Foearty and Warthen, 707: Frost and Hyde. o L. Weidman, 356: Team Washingtons, Doubles—Boston and Parker, 608 ingles—Levy, Stoner 2. Totals Shah Rrront MoKay . Daley Manley 8 o Rell 0 “Ammon and Winter. 351 | Totals.. ... 310 635 B and Re; 541; Federline “and | eisinger .U Columbia. il Regan. 542; Federline “and MOUNT PLEASANT. = Doubles- Fendes. abel Jeukins, and Bladen, e ok SReRat, : 18 Tait . 0 Smglam- Campbell Bl 1 J rites and’ Quigley Bradt, 524 Singles Sanders, | 3. Clark, 356, Up Well Ehlis by Daoud ard, club she CLASN B, crAss ¢ Ame—Regulars No. 2 (Post Office). Reculars No. 1 (Post Offiee), 1.661 0.1 (1.0. 0. F.). 1.581 Diydlay an y. 660 [ Gal. #4n. 9: Ruark, A0 1367 Post Office (G eane- 435 11th Street Booth 436 |coming into another test. They must go West and face the batters of the four clubs in the section which wis thought to he stronger than the and which may b | Cubs Proving a Surprise. In the West there have been dis appointments and there also has beer quite a surprise party. The Cubs have been ¢ surprising 3 392 [ MeCarthy with zo players, ®43 who didn't look 2 could do Seltzer Naplos Nay Pins Capone, 120 K0 316 39 150 338 15 501 1,500 ot - 203 Specials Wolstenholme Crop Estimate Abronovity, Fox and Carr, Team Transportat Dorthle. | 208! Eatherine Fortnes | Alcorn Crampton ostello e and Totals Teen CLASS B. RECORDS wil Has Neumeser ¥ Pearson hauhn T bauh 205 105 604 conr: 1090 80 312 Terber Farlee ngley Whelan | Smoot 2 400 STATISTICS, 100 D 10n 106 R Totals O'Brien Kurtichanov Seignoski Hamann Geisler Totals ...... 503 805 SINGLES—CLASS AL e McPhilomy Doltis .. Davidge Brewer .. Weinbers Omer Jeter vs Piscatelli vs. Roby vs, Kid bouts of the Tygers or Brow re hiv- | nant hubbles already up to thelr sincging ions. | S"ehic) The Braves man Tygers are siv with | Green. games from the ¢ !lh(" owns are points ~ =y they won them on e s the Browns also are last in | Boston team has a big suppiv | fielding and have an unsteady set of | FOREMAN AND BARBER hut grit alone can’t. win 1y voung pitchers, it isn't hard to under- However, Baneroft's pitchers are im- | stand why the: floundering in WILL HEAD FIGHT CARD proving and his team soon should start | the second division. Cobb has return T elimab. The Cubs continue to hold | ©d te his own line-up in an effort to | Al Foreman of Fort Myer and n Jater than their supporters had rea- | Spruce it up. The grand old veteran [Charlie Barber of Baltimore and Phll- gon to expect, but the Phillies are | immediately started to hit with his adelphia are scheduled to appear in slowly sinking. old fervor, but it probubly will take |the eight-round bout that heads the Tn “the American League, I have {more than his hittng to Ift the Tygers |boxing card being arranged by the given Cleveland another substantialout of the second division. District Athletic Club for Washington B n s pennant mercentage table, | After holding up pretty well for the | Auditorium Monday, May 17, and have shot them up to .500, only | first fortnight, the Red Sox have fold | Buster Dundee vs. Kid Nick, Jack 70 points below the Athletics, March |€d up and now are prepared for the | Cody . Billy West, favorites for the junior league penant. | Worst. It didn’t take them long to Marty Gallagher, Joe A ear ago Cleveland started the sea. | find their proper niche in the stand- | Buck ebelin and Toby son in great shape and ripped off a Mitchell are the other Jot of victories, but they couldn’t keep L) program it up. Uhle The r George all the d Indlans. pitche and Shaute Help. n to form on the part Joe Shaute has made nce he world to the Both of these pitchers have at bull in the past, and 1 stars. Uhle but fell off ) It looked as S This was even a harder pull than it appears—often startin, iad thrown out his arm . 4 . S e Lut now he is back axles in soft dirt before reaching the stiff ircline, ood as ever. The . e . - e getting good hitting, > 2 1a Young Spurgeon, Summa and the Sewells leadi the charge. Since my last article the Yankee pitching veterans have struck their stride, and Sh " 1loyt. Pennock and Jones now ar working with clocklike regularity. 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