Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1926, Page 27

SPORTS. Circuit Swings Show American League Stronger in East and National in West RATING GF HIGHER CLUBS LITTLE AFFECTED SO FAR Improvement of Chicago Louis Teams Season Surprises, Lieb Figures. Still Thinks Bue: BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. ITH the East and the West tional clashes, we soon sh “ ‘ good i on how the va can tell how a team will size up until the Horn,” is the picturesque way i puts it. aking a trip around the H of the circuit. Connie Mack say! concentrated in the East. tionals. That's how my group 1 of the Ameri Leaguc. parently has the stronger clubs. has to of * week of intersectional warfare may but eventually the clubs will settle in Two of the early season surprises | are the two Chicago clubs, both of which are nlaying well above their expected form.” This is true especial- 1y of th n were one of the few did not see in the training but reports from Catalina were pretty nan who had seen them sure of only one thing, was that the ( “gain | 1d be tail-end Having seen the lies, I wasn’t so sure. The Phil- were then and still are th et for National | Leugue | Cubs Get H e He_ mean Th T anced them to .350, and have jumped them ahead of Boston. It easure to see a young, : its. Bn- -1 _morale s to Joe Me- i tire cre 3 in the Cub camp belor Carthy, the new pilot. Then Mack Wilson, who broke in with the Giants with a crash in 1924 | 1 lost his hitting kr king them _or pot_in last w Eddie Cc worked the same kind with the Sox as McCarthy has this year with the Cubs. He had the tailend club of 1924 in third place for the greater part of 1 Eddie's own injury in the stretth dropping the club to fifth. This Spring the Nouthside club <again is getting off to a fine start, and looms as the best bet of th four Western Americ It Collins holds up White S rour division, 0ld Rivals in Spurt. last week has seen the two nerican League contenders of last year, the Nationals and Ath- letics, step out. Both of these clubs got going about the same time. Wash- ington went on a winning spurt the moment Roger Peckinpaugh was re- stored to the lineup. In his first game he hit a triple, a double and . single, and Roger has been a big tactor in his club’s spectacular climb. With the warmer weather Johnson and Coveleskie are showing better. Goslin never played better ball in his lfe, and McNeely is doing well in center. Philajelphia got started when the anks made their first visit of the r to Shibe Park, the Athletics Sweeping the serles. It was the first real setback for the clubbing Yanks, who up to that time had not suffered a losing streak of more than one game. The Mackmen are now show- ing something like last year’s punch and fighting ability. Several recent games have been pulled out of the fire in the late Innings. Lefty Grove w is proving his worth to Mack, old Jack Quinn, the marvelous ar-old vete: , continues to pile up victories. Tor this week T have given the ank and Washington the same srcentage in the pennant percentage 5 with the Athletics 10| The strong points behind Yankee Youngsters Slump. The Yankees fell into a slump, but it was necessary to prove whether the club really is there, or whether its rly run of success was just a Spring flash. Koenig, Combs and Gehrig have fallen off in their hitting, but the playing of the three veteran stars, Ruth, Meusel and Dugan, has been magnificent. Ruth was slowed up somewhat following a collision with Lazzeri, but it hasn’t stopped his hitting. no longer is any loubt about the comeback, 7 gue, I still stick eader in the te: their failur great mistuke about it any club in the I sver the 154-game The Cincinnati play u r their good the runner League m dent that picking the Carding Ohioans. One of the surprising things about +the Cardinals is_that they are mot litting better. The club actually is getting better early scason pitching than any Cardiy aim in years, but it fen’t scoring. Hornsby shaken up his entire outtield in an effort to shake more hits out of his aggrega-| tion, but the new combination is working no better than the old | T still find it difficult to figure the Brooklyns, though their pitching en- titles them to first division considera- tlon. Petty, the lefthander, continues as the outstanding diamond figure of ar, but, on the other hand, Vance, former ace, is the big ist.” Outside of pitching, the | Dodgers, have a mediocre ball club, Aaranvile is holding the infield to- to ball_club, nd T don't 1 e W cours Reds d make no e how 1 beat i continue to e, and with prove ational v is evi- s made in s ahead of the an illness of 10 days, McGraw is buck on the Giant bench, but his 11 shows inconsistern His is not ities believed. + second stringer season, has e Y. at the start of the doing the best work. continue to disappoint their well wishers, and the Phillles are gradually sinking to the Boston level. Cleveland has fallen off badly in the American League since I said some RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AN NEW RADIATORS FOR T AURhR WITTSTATT'SR. & F. ) 9 Your 0ld Hat Q Q Ylade New Again Cleaning. Blocking and Temodeling by Exports Vienna Hat Co. 435 1ith Street the strength of the American League this year is dope figured them, In the National League, the We. er, but good pitching also is keeping Brooklyn up. j team, but cne which is c NINTH STREET-TEAM Outfits and Failure of St. s Will Cop Flag. in the thick of their first intersec- all be in a position to get a pretty rious sections measure up. “Never you take at least one swing around n which Uncle® Robby of Brooklyn orn means making a complete swing s his Ath etics, the Yanks and Na s I put these three clubs in e Giants are the best that the East Another riddle this allignment full of holes, their normal positions. HOW LIEB RATEgCLUBS AFTER MONTH OF PLAY AMERICAN LEAG Cleveland. St. Loutls. Boston. NATIONAL nice things about the team last week. The original estimate of the club, placing it seventh, probably was the right dope, but 1t looks as though the | ns and Tygers are in for a lot ings. Cleveland may beat out of these clubs. Cobb still has a fighting, hustling | iderably | removed from u contender. His pitching staff is as unsteady as ever, while neither Warner nor Gehringer, his new infielders, are showing much. Gehringer fields well, but doesn’t seem to be a big league hitter. - It is hard to say whether St. Louls is more disappointed in the Cardinals or the Browns. The Browns seem to have gone completely to smash, and injuries to Bennett and Gerber have complicated Sisler’s troubles. The Red Sox remain just the Red Sox, nothing more, (Copyright. 1926.) TAKES DUCKPIN TITLE Besides turning in the best per. centage for the season and winning the right to represent their circuit in the annual series for the champ- ionship of the District church leagues, bowlers of Ninth Street Christian No. 1 team captured a majority of the honors in the East Washington loop. As a team they took high game and high set prizes, and scored the highest number of spares and strikes. Horner set the high individual set mark for the season, and Andrews was second to Seaton of Ingram in the race for individual game honors. g Final statistics on the series fol- low: Standing of Teams. W.L. T ) a ERRREE: SEGIDARTGIIN, X 5 B 5D IS P RIS B RIS D IR DS SESTEBI IS 2ESARSRIRES e Five higheet individual sete—Horner of Ninth No. 1, 411: Soude: of Douglas, 380: Ernest ‘Anderson of Ninth No. I, 387: Streit- o of Eastern, 383; Mitchell of Ninth No. Five bigheet individual games-Seaton crom, 156: Andrews of Nigth No; 1. 168; ntennial No. B er of . 1. 154: Souder of Douglas, 150, Most strikes—Stephenson, ~Ingram, B4: orner., Ninth No. g Ay Migchell. Ninth No. 2, °48: McFall, Ninth No. 2, 47: Ernest Anderson, Ninth No. 1, 44. Most _spares—Seaton of In Stepbenson of Ingram, 206: Sou las, 204; Mitchell of Ninih No. 190; Streiter of Eastern, 182. Five highest team games—Ninth No. 1, 60K:" Ninth No. 2. 595: Keller, 592: DOug* las, 582: Centennial No. 1, 577. 208: 01 Doug: 3 Frnest Anderson. Miller, Epworth Lilley. Douslas . Bruton, McFall, Hughes, Ninth N ocs, Ingram . Hawley, Epwort F. Donaldson. Gorsuch Patterson, Keller .... . Cordell, Centennial No.'1"%. Weber. Centennial No. 1 Jefiries, Centennial N . Waugh ... R32352225232222555 555555555 3 2222222283 Douglas . uantrille, Ninth oss, Enworth 3 2299 233 D Johns, Ninth No. Lickner, Keller ice, Epworth At bt b o s g GIANTS RELEASE GROH. NEW YORK, May 12 (®»—Heine Groh, veteran third baseman of the New York Giants, has been released unconditionally, says a special dis- patch to the New York Telegram from St. Louis today. Waivers were ob- tained on him from all the other major league clubs. INKEL says they ure the best val- ues in town. Stanley Clothes Shop 1209 Pa. Ave. NW. - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1926. TENNIS STARS HERE FOR PLAY ON FRIDAY Play in the Chevy Chase Club’s annual invitation tennis doubles tourney will start tomorrow after- noon about 4 o'clock, but there will be only a few preliminary matches staged then, the “big stuff” not be- inning _ until Friday morning, Kl‘tllur Hellen, chairman of the ten- nis comnmittee of the club, has an- nounced 5 R. Norris__ Williams, Watson Washburn, Manuel lonso, the Spanish ace; Takeichi Harada, the ranking Japanese netman; Sam Hardy, Harry Johnson, Cedric Ma- jor and other visiting stars will tuke part, along with Connie Doyle, his son Fred and Tom Mangan, home talent. 2 Matches will be staged Friday morning at 10 o'clock, and in the afternoon about 3. Saturday’s play will be confined to the afternoon, | starting at i BRITISH RACKETERS ELIMINATE POLAND HARROGATE, England, May 12 (). —Great Britain has eliminated Poland from the Davis Cup competition. O. G. Turnbull, England, defeated E. Kleynadel, 6—1, 6—0, and | also won from S. Czetwertynsky 6—0, 6—2, 7—5. J.'D. Wheatley, defeated Czetwer- tynsky 6—4, 6—3, 6—4, and Kleyna- deldel 6—2, 6—4, 5 In the doubles G. R. Crole-Rees and C. H. Kingsley won_from Kleynadel and St. K. Stelnert 7—3, 6—4, 6—3. MALMO, y a8 the second round of the Davis Cup | play, European division, Sune Mal- strom, Sweden, defeated Wuarin, Switzerland, 6—i, 6—1, 6—2, and Mar- cus Wallenberg, Sweden, defeated Aeschliman, Switzerland, , 4—8, 6—2, 6—1. LONDON, May 12 (P).—Tt has been announced that Austria has scratched with South Africa in the Davis Cup tennis contest g REDS OBTAIN NEHF. CINCINNATI, May 12 (®).—Fitcher Art Nehf, veteran lefthander of the | New York Glants, has been purchased | by Cincinnatl. Nehf will join the Reds | today. — i LISTS GYMNASTIC EVENT. NEW YORK, May 12 (P).—The Amateur Athletic Union has scheduled its gymnastic champlonship tourna- ment for June 25 at Municipal Stad- ium, Philadelphia. BASE BALL SECRETS y Sol Metzger. In |} WOMEN IN SPORT Y CORINNE FRAZIER ENNIS is monopolizing the interest of the sportswomen in local chools and colleges, as well as outside of them, at preseat. naments are being played, ladders climbed and round robin series T are in progress. __ Friends School and Eastern High are following the ladder system. Elimination tourneys are being staged at W as well as at Holton Arms and Eastman’s School. George Washington, Gallaudet and Marjorie Webster are engaged In an interscholastic series. George Wash- ington met the Websters yesterday afternoon in the third match on their schedule and scored a 4-to-1 victory, losing one singles match. Margaret Ackerman was the Webster racketer to score. She defeated Elizabeth Chickering of George Washington, 6—2, 2—8, 8—6. Frances Walker captured the No. 1 singles match for G. W., defeating Reatrice Zeigler, 6—3, 1—6, Miss Walker found considerable difficulty in handling her opponent’s service, which has more speed on it than the average feminine player can command. In the second set Miss Zeigler scored a nun ber of service aces and won every game on her service. Miss Walker found her stride in the third set, however, and outsteadied the Webster miss in the critical ral- lies. In the other three encounters Alys Ewe i. ) defeated Elizabeth Jones (M. ) -1, 3 Mirfam Da- vis and Edith Petrie (G. W.) scoved over Elizabeth Jones and Virginia rasley (M. W), 5—7, 6—3, 6- and ‘ate and Elizabeth Garber (G. from Miss Ackerman - easily tty Langenfeld (M. W.), 6—3, District Women's Tennis League team leaders have been advised by the ary that any matches in the first s not played by the end of this week must be defaulted or canceled. This includes all matches bringing to- gether the following teams: Mid-Ci vs. Liberty, Bul of Standards v Mount Pleasant, Columbia vs. Capitol A. C. and Wardman Park vs. Depart- mental. Leaders have been advised that be fore deciding any default, the two players involved should be given three optional dates on which to play off the match, and the plaver who {s unable to compete on two of the three dates suggested shall be the one to default. This rule will hok good in arranging any matches in the league series. Unplayed matches in series one, which will ga by default wnless the results have been reported to the retary before Saturday night, are: Mid-city-Liberty—Jennie Doolittle v: Frances Walker, Mrs. vs. Louise Whelchel, Fleming vs. E. Haas. Bureau of Standards-Mount Pleas- ant—Alice Ewers vs. Katherine Love. Capital A. C.-Columbla A. C— Peggy Gould vs. Mrs. §. O. Grelg. Wardma Park-Departmental — Cook llop vs. Virginia Olmsted. 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Langdon and Burroughs tcams are tled for the Bloomingdale division cup, and an extra game was to be staged this afternoon to decide the champlonship. Kach lost one game during the regular series. Burroughs beat Langdon, 14 to 8, in their first encounter, but subsequently lost to Brookland. A keen battle was ex- pected this afternoon. Celeste Rubino will lead Langdon into the fray. Elizabeth Beard will captain Burroughs. - Ruth Sartain manuges the former team and Irene Rollins the latter. Park View is the winner of section A in the Columbia Heights division. V. Brown is leading in_ section B, with one more game to play. Wallach-Towers will claim the Gar- fleld crown if it comes through the final game of the serles with Dent next Tuesday. Dent was defeated vesterday by Smallwood-Bowen, to 5. Georgetown di two section: S | been won b ston is divided into tion A honors have Curtis-Hyde. A tie ex- lists in section B. Weightmah will have to play Tenley to decide which |team will meet Curtis-Hyde for the trophy. Plaza division has a long’ schedule, which hout half completed. Pea- body-Hilton is leading at present, with four victo and no defeats. more games are on this t me strong tes red bhefore ¢ be claim s card be met division are tied in the = league, each with five vie- tories and no defeats, The division title probably will be decided when these two meet on next Monday. Lenox is leading the Vir; nue field, having scored three straight victories. In the colored leagues Lovejoy and Logan are tied for the Logan title. Neither has lost a match. 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