Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 26

g SPORTS. THE EVENIN Griffmen Passing Up Scoring CHAMPS SEEM TO LACK THE TEST OF TIME. PUNCH WITH RUNNERS ON Excessive Number of Nationals Stranded on Bases During Stand Against Western Clubs—Tribe Defeats Johnson in Series Final. BY JOHN B. KELLER. LTHOUGH the Natjonals are rated high among the American League clubs in club batting, they do not seem to be getting as ich out of their attack as are some of the other outfits trailing The Champs, while amassing an imposing in't” very often. N A them in the hit-making list total of safe swats, are not hitting the ball where they As a result, they are losing games that ordinarily should not be lost, it would appear. Almost every the Nationals® figure against the left-on-base item in the summary is iter than the figure for the opposition. This seems indicate that the Nationals have been getting on more often than the apposition. but that they are not taking any great advantage of their scor- } ing opportut In yeste day agement, which the Indians grabbed, 4 to 2, giving them a twc game advantage for the series, seven Griffs were | stranded. while only three of the Tribe died on the sacks. The decisive | punch was not there. In the se with it opened the 7 e Nationals ha hases, an ave pel A were 42 stranded in fou Yet in two of the thre tionals won from the slermen the had to battle desperately, and in th one they lost they matched the oppo tion's 14 safetles, but had 13 runners | Jeft on the paths and were well drubbed. Few Griffs Getting Around. There were 22 men left on the run ways during the thy nes W Cleveland, wl stranded. Tk ing them on thes not getting so md. at loss vesterday weakened con- ably the Nationals’ hold on se nd left them three game x Yankees. When of the circuit 1v's en the nt i White Sox | home stand 1 left on the| ore than seven | > Browns there | ngazement the TOO MANY STRANDED CLEVELAND. Jumicson o | Burns, 1 | Summa, " 2| sossmcs0e® ~ozunuad S but they | of them |Joh Totals . ceena Cleveland 000200 0 0—4 | Washington. 02000000 0—2 Two-base hits—McNeely (2), Judge, John- | Smith. Three-base hit—Rice. Saeri- | jce—S. Harris. Left on bases—Cleveland, - Washington, 7. Bases on balls—Off tands against the Western | Smith, 2. Struck out—By Johnson, 1. Wild the Hugmen had but | pitch= [ hnson, lbmuldm_fi\lmn.'. Rowland, half a game & - over the F e . e rismen, so it will be seen the latter have lost plenty of ground in the last 12 days. In a scramble such® as this | #ar’s pennant race promises to be, two and a half games lost within such a brief period is something to think about. The Champs 255==2000% &l oommomnse? are ar T side ond place, RALPH ROSE il mmommomou® @l mmmtommoo® OVER 17 YEARS AGO Considering the frequency with which athletic records are broken these rapid days, it is surprising that any mark lasts long enough for the ink to dry. There are a few left, however. There are just three men wh have %tood the test for vears—>Maxey Long, Alf Shrubb and G. Larner. All the others have seen their marks shattered long ago. Maxey Long's quarter mile in 47 seconds flat, made on the old Gut- tenbe straight-away track in New Jersey on October 4, 1900, has never been touched. And since the day of Ted Meredith it has not ™ VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Portemouth, 9: Richmond. 3 Wilson. 7: Norfolk, 6. o) Petersburg, 10: Kinston. 8. started vesterday as | PIEDMONT LEAGUE. though they would knock the props | ?‘«"r}\":'»"\‘ Raleigh, 7. from under Sherrod Smith without | Gint Greensboro, Shuch trouble; while ithe swencralile| Ciisouiy: 1€sI(nson 4. Walter Joknson opened fire as thoush | games. But the Indian southpaw, aft-| §t. Augustine, 12; Columbu o 'a Stormy pair of sessions, became | Kyairomery. 8, Savanrah, = STAR, WASHINGTON, D_C, Chances : Cincinnati Daily Looms More Dangerous —By RIPLEY g % TE FINNS HAVENT GoT ALL OF SHRUBE'S MARKS YET LARNER ~the Engts) HOLDS3 A FEW! WALKING RECORDS| THAT HAVE LASTED OVER 20 YRs | / G & THey HAVE BeeN “TRYING To BEAT MAKEY LONG'S QUARTER-MILE MARK FOR 26 YEARS. MAXEY DID 47 FIAT SET TWE SHOT-PUT RECORD AT 51 FEET Ralph Rose, the Healdsburg, Calif., still holds the record for the shot—51 feet—made 17 vears ago. However, there is a great chance that this mark will be bettered at the nationals in Philadelphia this Summer, when the best bunch of weight-heavers ever gathered together will com pete. Ryan and McGrath s ords with the weights m dozen years ago, and, by the way Dan Kelly's time of 0:9.6 for the 100-yard dash, made 20 vears ag has been tied but never officially beaten. even been threatened. big boy from mark has lasted 26 probably safe for a few more. Shrubb, the great little English- man, still holds a few distance rec- ords that the flying Finns—Koleh- mainen, Ritola and Nurmi—have not bettered. Shrubb set his marks in 1904, Larner, also an Englishman, made his walking records about the same time and at about the same distances as Shrubb—trom 1 to 10 miles. Goulding, the great Cana- dian, shattered one or two of them, Remer, the American, grabbed one, and Frigero, the little stepping son of Italy, may break a few more. 11l hold rec de over all but invineible. On the other hand, Johnson, a vic tim of some loose fielding by Earl Me Neely in center that enabled the Tribe to knot the count in the fourth frame, was not so effective after a 24-minute cessation of hostilities due to a showe: that broke while' the Nationals wi at bat in the fifth. Smith was reached for seven safe- ties by the Harrismen, six of them being clustered in the first twg in- nings. One of the swats off the south- paw was a triple, and four of the blows were good for two bases each And the Tribe slabman threw in i couple of passes. But after their b ting flurry at the outset the Nationals were not there. Smith’s Hit Beats Champs. up eiel good for game seri Peckinpaugh Johnson % b Szl 222000~ s~5 Nationals’ respect. Joe Bush, who broke into the win- ning-pitcher class at the expense of his one-time teammates, the Browns, last week, was expected to do the slabbing for the Champs in the series starter. Cobb has been chang- ing pitchers so often®in recent con- flicts that his selection for today’s en- counter probably will not be known until shortly before hostilities get under Bob Reeves, Georgia Tech short- stop, who has been signed by the Na- tionals, is due to report here tomor- row and will be in uniform for the second tilt with the Tygers, Presi- dent Griffith says. Reeves' college base ball career ended yesterday, when the team he captained defeated the University of Georgia nine for Johnson gave only one be! hase. It was that hit, however, that sent the veteran to defe and it socked by Walter’s mound rival Smith leaned @ t the sphere for a double in the seventh round after a couple of his clubmates had sin gled. It was the only time bl were bunchea by the Indians. Some odd base-runn cost the Griffs at least one run in the open- ing innin when they combed Smi for a double and a triple. McNeci Slammed to the sun parlor wall and to second Jami n's return vay Joe Sewell fumbled r roundi ed for t though, was on the ball in a flash and heaved to Smith, covering the far corner, in plenty of time to cut cown the runner. After Bucky Har ris rolled out Sam Rice shot a triple 10 left-center, but Goslin’s best was a low liner to the pitcher. Two doubles and a brace of singl in the second produced all the Na tional scores. Judge started the round with a_two-bagger to right and moved to third when Bluege bunted single vast Lutzke. Peck's foul gathered in by Joe Sewell afte -un, but Ruel singled Juds i Johnson’s two-base socl counted uege. With two on the ses McNeely lifted foul to Luk well and Smith d out Bos 1ky. All the Nationals got off Smith there- after were two passes and a doubl Bluege drew a walk at the start of | Cleveland I..| 2i—I..1 3] 41 3| fourth, but never got beyond |phirphis | 31 3I_./—I 31 2| 3 first base. There were two down i .2 Bl Ti— 4l 1] he seventh when Burns' muff of 2 |petrolt.. | 2I..1 11 1] Si—1I 3] H15/161.484 pop fly put McNeely on first. Bucky | goston.. 121 11 11 311 1i—I 1| 9/201.310 Harr rolled, but Rice lifted to g youls I | 11 21..1 21 31— 81231.253 Summa in right. McNeely began the | > To | pialis{4T16[1620/23/—— a two-bagger and Bu = = arris sacrificed. Then the rain forced a suspension v and the athletes nearly hour rest. It didn’t help the ationals’ batsmen, for McNeely lan- iished at third while Rice lined to e Sewell and Goslin popped to the <h op’s brother. McNeely's Errors Hurt. When McNeely had a rough time afield in the fourth, the Tribe matched the early National scoring. Spurgeon was it of the way when Speaker lifted to center. Barl got under the ball, only to let it trickle through his hands. Johnson cut loose with a wild pitch that let Tris take second. Joe Sewell rified a single to center deep enough to send his chief to the plate. McNeely, coming in for a quick ), let the sphere get through and olled to the fence, allowing Joe to follow Speaker to the counting block. The next two Tribesmen were easy Jutsewith iofts to the centerfielder. Burns had been disposed of in the seventh when the Indians staged ‘helr winning rally. Summa singled urd took third when Lutzke shot me-baser to right. Luke Sewell fouled to Ruel, but Smith doubled to left-center to tally Summa and I.utzke. TSP L Total = games. Games 0090auuane amey, Complete Z rames. Innings pitched. Marberry .. Johnson Ruether . Coveleskie. % 3 i 3§ 0w erwe Lost. 235 FRERIR oodo=nnuna~ Wea. [ECE TP CYLTEETEEELY - UV S When Joe pulled up sack, d; Lutzke, NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. [Pittsburgh, 4; Brooklyn, 4 (10 innings, rain) . All others, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Cleveland, 4; Washington, 2. New York, 5: Ohicago, 3. Ehitnaelohis Louls, 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. toss New York Cleveland | Philadelphia St. Louis Percentage Cincinnati | Chieago 5| New York T_. 1211 9700 3120/141.587 5/171131.66% 4[18/141.563 New York I—] bl 13 Wash'ton | 2i—I 11 61 2. .| 6| Pittab'gh | 8] 2] 3/—I fl_bflln\l\l"flb 1. .1 31 " 'ow York | 11 4] 1|. .| 2/—I 3] 3(14/16/.467 PhIFphia_| 11 2.1 1. 2— D11118.379 3 | Boston . ... .1. 1 2.1 81 3/—| 8121276 Lost.._110/10/10/141171618/21/—I—| GAMES TODAY. New York at Pittsburgh. Brookiyn at Cincinnati. Boston at Chicago. Philadelphia at St. Louls. GAMES TODAY. Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at Philadeiphia. St. Louls at New York. Chicago at Boston. SUPER- Wallzwgflo_tor (,'p. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 . COLLARS Are entirely new—They look like linen— They are flexible yet starched—And they outwear any starched collar ever offered 35¢cach 3 for $1.00 CLUETT, PEABODY & CO.INC. MAKERS Bush Will Oppose Ty’s Tygers; Reeves Joins Griffs Tomorrow Y COBB'S Tygers, who came to life yesterday and beat the Athletics after an in-and-out tour through the East, were to open a four- < here this afternoon. acking the punch it formerly had and Ty has had to do a deal of ng in his infield since the season started, but it still commands the COLLEGE BASE BALL. At Auburn—Auburn, 3; Mercer, 3. At Atlanta—Georgia Tech, 4; Georgia, 3 (10 _innings). At Durham—Duke, 17; North Caro- lina, 9. At Philadelphia—Penn, 10; Rutgers, 0. At Georgetown — Georgetown, 9; | Loyola, 8. At Tufts—Tufts, 8; Catholic Uni- versity, 1. ‘At Hanover—Dartmouth, 18; Middle- | bury, 6. | "At’ Swarthmore — Swarthmore, | Ursinus, 3. The Bengal bunch apparently is the second time in two successiv days to clinch the Southern Confer- ence diamond championship. Walter Johnson’s defeat yesterday Columbus .. was his second of the season and |Toledo .. o ended a fivegame winning streak.| McQ , Neubauer and Meuter: MecCul- By fanning Burns in the second in. | loush and Heving. ning Johnson raised to 3,348 his big | Leuisville .. league career strikeout total. | Tndianapolis '\ { . Tincup and Devormer: Johnson showed plenty of speed on | Florence. the hoof in registering two putouts in | 5 St Paul. the last game with the Tribe. He|~ hustled to first to take throws from | Midieten and Bejer. K .{ud[:P that got close decisions over ansas City-Milwaukee—Rain. Jamleson in the first inning and Joe | Sewell in the second. | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. R. H much of center field as well as right, | Newar i 78 % his particular territorv. He made | Henderson. Farnham. Jackson. Carlton and seven putouts yesterday, repeating his | McKee: Zubris and Wilson. flelding record of the day before. Sat | _ First game: also slammed three safeties. Mulln%".y cene % fi Jersey For the third time this season | Ellis. Chambers. Swaney Marquis Burns had a consecutive-game hitting | U"Zmaan. Lynn: Cantrell and Freitag. streak ended at nine games. He was | g agiond £8m® helpless before Johnson in four turns yesterday. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. B H 5 11 & 5 13 1 5 Nurwell. Niles and o 6 2 4 i 12 B 10 Schupp and Hoffman. This Summa person plays oOver| gajimors 1 H 9 0 Chambers, May el yracuse ... e 1 Moore and Devine: Dickerman and Mor- row. Bluege made the banner fielding play of the game when in the third inning he went back of third base to grab Luke Sewell's wicked smash. Ossie followed with a lightning throw that just did get the Indian. Huettner, a local sandlot product, pitched to the National batters dur- ing practice. The .youngster is to join Hagerstown of the Blue Ridge League soon. While the tarpaulin tuggers were struggling_to cover the infield when | rain interfered with the game in the | fifth inning, a couple of youngsters staged Charleston exhibitions before the Indian and National dugouts. The little fellow who danced before the Tribe bench was showered with coins by the appreciative crowd in the third base section of the grandstand. | Fountain Pens Repaired Keys Duplicated, 25¢ Adams’ News Depot, 902 G N.VW. BASE BALL J3%% 3:30 P.M. American League Park Washington vs. Detroit TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. YOUR STYLE IS HERE— Come in and Get Measured for a TAILORED TO SUlT YOUR MEASURE 835 and Upward This_Includes Our Famous Blue Serge Suitings Guaranteed 100% Wool Newest Styles—Superior ‘Workmanship—Correct Fit I. HAAS & CO. Merchant Tailors on the Avenue 1211 Pa. Ave. N. W. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, | 8; 0 and Unszmann; Parke and | 1926. SPORYES. REDS MAY GIVE PIRATES TOUGH SCRAP FOR TITLE | Giants Should Hold Up Despite Rebuilding Now On. | Yanks Still Slugging—Source of A’s Power a Mystery—Griffs Rated Steadiest Club. I week. ‘They present a real menace to the World Champion Pirates in the efforts of the McKechnie band to repeat its 1925 triumphs. It now is quite apparent that there was a tendency to underrate the Reds during the training season, and that there was no justification for placing the St. Louis Cardinals ahead of Cincinnati in the early Spring dope. ! Perhaps 1 was guilty of it myself. In doping league races and world | series, T always place much stress on the quality of the pitching, and on the basis of pitching Cincinnati outranked any team in its league. But he club showed such a weak offense in its March games with the Yankees and other American League teams that 1 feared pitching alone could not hold up the Reds. However, with the 1926 season over a month old, the Reds are yielding | to no one in the art of knocking out base hits. They rank second to the | wonder Cubs in National League tcam batting. The Pirates, with their supposedly invincible attack, fifth, and the so-called “Slugging Cardi nals” are last. Unlike the Cubs, whose early spurt resembles a Spring flash, there is something substantial behind the consistently steady playiniz of the | running. In one recent game with Reds. It isa veteran club, and should | Cleveland he scored four runs and ret better as it moves along. Eppa | drove in six. Those weeks spent in a | Rixe; unquestionably the leading | New York gym last Winter, kicking left-hander in his league, was incapaci- | his feet into the air by the hour, are tated during the first three weeks of | nOW reaping a rich reward. the season and has just started to Lazzeri the “California wop.* take his regular turn on the twirling has been on a spectacular hitting e Muque. convalescing from an |tear. while Meusel continues to play eeration. in’ March, 1 just now re. | the best hall of his career. There has gaining his full strength | been a slight improvement in the box e e 1 ie lacking a good | Work of the veteran Yankee hurlers, sHortstop, and, In my: opinion, it made | \CUER thelr pitching is not yet what a stupid move in giving up Jimmy LR T L D Caveney for Emmer. The fogner is IBTE Reclithe Withi b ey it fie laiter player However hio -0 kAMG sEminel Claveiand. b ERdie e e rently | York. There was a recent Yank ‘win 0 adva ) second pl: i stk D 13400 Etocis iy pennant chanées percentage. Cin- | I gt RIS wilihovd 1 1 icior s e n.’:li has been jumped ahead of the Griffs Are Steadiest Club. siants. Pirates Face Tough Job. Washington, playing its smooth. re lentless game, declines to be shake Pittsburgh still is favored to repeat, | off. The Griffmen play the smoothest but it will be a tough grind. With | 5ame in the two major leagues, and I Yde knocked out in every start, it | consider them the steadiest club. is working a hardship on the re. | may take a bad defeat, but the next mainder of the Buccaneer staff. In | day it comes back as good as ever The past two weeks the club has |Johnson. Ruether and Coveleskie con been hitting beiter and showing some | !iDue to win, and Marberry remains of the dash which featured its spec. the best relief man in the major: tacular play of 1 c The White Sox contrived to stop Quite 2 bomb was thrown into the | the Mackmen's winning streak after | Glant camp last week when the vet- | It had gone nine g In dissect Ot e mander. Attie Nehf, was | i€ the Athletics one finds it difficult | passed along to the Reds for walvers S0, 8scertain the secret of their power. and Heinie Groh w handed his un 'l,"’:" "_‘; ‘;‘”*\“h*‘ batting averag conditional release. McGraw doesn’t |, uf. 0 f“’.\‘;‘1:~|x(. hold on to the old timber long after |yt i At he sees it slipping. There will be ' [ colt “HeRor B Bl other changes on the Giants. But | picpenSURRe Pl OF 8 Ard old | Gon't make the mistake of putting the | J (08 ORI Lefty’ Grove and old Giants down too low. McGraw has ally have stood out. | changed two complete ball clubs since 11916 without ever dropping below sec: | ond. | Robins Bound to Drop. | Uncle Robby of Brooklyn continues to get the best pitching in either league. Bob McGraw, a former Yank, | and Doug McWeeney, a former White | Sox, now are riding the wave of pros- perity, with Jesse Petty turning in one sensational pitching feat after another. However, the rest of the Brooklyn club not of pennant caliber, and it can't keep up its pres- ent clip. The Cardinals coptinue to flounder in the second divisidn, again blasting the fond ho of St. Louis fandom. Only Hornsby is hitting. Bottomly knocks out an occasional home run, but he is down around the ) mark. The Braves remain a sad disappoint ment—one of the outstanding disap- pointments of the vear. Carlson and Dean win occasional gzames for the Phillies, but the Fletcher tribe is pointing for a nose dive to the bottom. Yanks Slug Out of Slump. In the American League the slug- | ging bats of the Yankees have lifted | Huggins’ pennant hopes out of their slump of a week ago. The club, the only one in the two majors to hit over .300 is making a merry effort to keep in front of the fast-coming Nationals and Athletics. Ruth has been a revela- tion. Not only is he giving h 1921 HE Cinémnati Reds are looming nfore dar home-run record a great battle, but e is playing magnificently in all depart ments, fielding, throwing and base H Chisox Strongest in West. The White Sox demonstrated dur ing their Eastern visit that they are the strongest representative from the West in the American League. Col lins getting good pitching from Lyons, Blankenship, Thurston. and Faber, and has built up a pretty hitting_club. In last week's aver- ages they were outhit only by the bifing Yanks. Cleveland found the going pretty | tough after the Indians invaded the East. Speaker has a better, more wideawake club than his sixth-place aggregation of a yvear ago. Infield in. juries to both Hodapp and Lutz proved an especial hardship. Tt was necessary to grab Padgett from the Braves on interleague waivers to patch up the third base hole, but weakness in that position cost the Indians several games before Lutzke got back. Detroit has been hitting well in the East, and Cobb, playing his twenty- second season, is full of his and dash, but weak pitching ing the Tygers down. With the ex- ception of the Browns, Cobb appears to have the poorest pitching staff in the American League. Browns a Sad Spectacle. ‘The Browns have come to be a sad spectacle. The morale of the club is broken. With each passing week I selves together, but they are going public d E. Popper & Co., Inc., Manufacturers. 1 1347 Penna. Ave. N.W. POPPER'S EIGHT It expected to see the Browns pull them- | FLAG CHANCE RATINGS IN MAJORS TO DATE AMERICAN LEAGU NATIONAL LEAGUE. gerous with cach passing | from bud to worse. Along with other | writers, I thought Sisler had the mak- | ings of a fair young pitching staff in Ballou, ston, backed by the veterans Zachary, { Davis and Van Gilder. However, pitching ix not entirely to blame for St. Louis’ sad pereentage. The club sevel in hitting 4 last in ling. That, too, tells a_story Hal Wiltse, a young pitcher from Mobile, has brought a little joy to Boston with well pitched victories cuinst Cleveland and Detroit. If th Browns keep falling, the Rex So may get out of the American League cellar th That truly would be a base | Giard and Jonnard id fie (Conyri LAZZERI HITS HOMER WITH BASES LOADED By the Associated Press The hero of the major ay is Antonio Lazzeri. it Lake City Club of Coast League. With Hollis Thurston righthandir an approved sort of base ball fo Chicago White Sox at the Y. 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