Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1926, Page 38

SEDRTS. Turns of Griff Hu OTHER CHANGES LIKELY WITH CHAMPS IN SLUMP Infield Shifts as Well as Rearrangement of Slab Pro- gram Apt to Occur—Nats Drop Fourth in Row When Marberry Collapses. BY JOHN B. KELLER. A LL of the veteran regulars of the Nationals’ mound corps having suffered defeat or enforced retirement beiore they could have a loss charged against them in their last starts, Manager Stanley Harris has decided to rearrange his pitching order slightly, hoping it may break his club’s losing streak that was extended to four games yesterday, when the Tygers triumphed over the Champs, 6 to 5. Dutch Ructher, port-side pitcher, was slated to take his regular turn on the hill this afternoon, in the third tilt of the set with the Cobbmen, Dut tomorrow Joe Bush, who was driven to cover by a deluge of Detroit hits on Wednes reserving Walter I against the Athletics here Sunday. Boss Bucky also apt to do some shifting in other departments of the The use of Joe Harris instead ze at first base in Wedne: nd of Buddy Myer Peckinpaugh at shortstop vest v were indications That the positions of several players zenerally regarded as fixtures are un- stable. club. Shifts Failed to Work. Marrls has intimated that the hanges were due to the Kind of pitch- used by the opposition, the two vight-hand hitting infielders having Veen used when started for the Tygers and the left- Jund batters when an _orthodox linger began the contest. If the de- from the lineup that had larly was intended to break the spell of defeats, it was a for se the past two days than any other time this n. 'he loss yesterday must have been g disappointing to the Nationals as it was to the tew thousand fans scatter- Jout the stands of President Grif- plant. The Champs soen jumped into @ seemingly commanding lead 1 the Tygers, only to have it brush- \ aside in one inning. Then both viubs fought toe-to-toe until the ninth when a tally was virtually presented (% o the visitors. That was enough to make the fans iserable, but what occurred in the | e ionals’ last batting turn made the - of the faithful at hand more =o. The home club's first three batters in the final half of the ninth hit safely, but not one of them got be- yond second base. The punch was Ihere, but wild work on the runways offset all the efforts of a regular ba anan and the two pinch-hitters em. yloved. Marberry Lacks Caution. At that, the real turning point of the game came in the Tygers' last furn at bat, when Fred Marberry, who had relieved Stan Coveleskie, starting lurler, after the venerable spitballer collapsed in the sixth and permitted the opposition to knot the count, fall- ed lu{(ppv his head up. While lacking control in the ninth, #red may have gone through the in- ¥ing unscathed had he exercised more caution in holding runners to the hases. The big relief hurler passed . Blue, Tyger lead-off batter, but Uharley Gehringer, attempting to sac- yifice, popped to the pitcher. Red \Wingo, however, waited for a walk. AVher® the Terrible Tyrus, next up, Whaled away at the first pitch and fouled to Ossie Bluege, it appeared that the Tygers would get no run. But Harry Heilmann, fifth up in the frume, proved a stubborn batter and T getting a two-and-two count Mar- v became so intent upon the man @' the plate that he permitted Blue Bnd Wingo to take substantial leads ©ff their bases. With the pitch to Heil- mann, both runners darted for sacks ghead and Blue had such a start that e easily beat to third Muddy Ruel's hecessarily belated throw, while Win- go naturally took second unmolested. Steals Changed Situation. The pitch to Heilmann had been wide, so it was deemed good Strategy under the circu nces to purpose- 1 complete a pass to the heavy hitter, Klling the S e was Ewinging or Umpire Hildebrand was xvrong when Marberry pitched to Jack Nvarner. The pitcher jawed with the umps considerably over a couple of Eecisions, but the umps won and War- forcing Blue over the control was shot by that fter he threw two wide cener, he was vanked guson sent to the hill. 'avener popped harmlessly to Myer, put the damage had been done. What followed, though, was infinite- v worse. Ruel opened the Nationals’ lnn\h by socking E. Wells, southpaw labman, who had succeeded the right- Janded Sam Gibson, starting hurler, n the third inning, for a single, a L)umlm' oft Warner's glove that Short- ¥top Tavener tried desperately to turn into an out. The speedy S i gls' total thefts for the x Tex Jeanes was called upon tc T RN PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. N.W. 9th & P Sts. N.W. ; 12th & H Sts. N.E, { 2114 14th St. N.W. uthpaw slabman | * the Nationals | s | 1. will come back for revenge or more punishment, thus hnson, leader of the Nationals' slab staff, for a start A STOLEN GAME B. R. H. 3 1 #l oumcuuanua 7 olesscses » ommsomianAtEaLIE 0207 %l musmanmmonni s0ceomosanSnsucd Sl eosumasiuads oscesemec090=x *Ran for Ruel in ninth inning. $Batted for Ferguson. in ninth inning. #Butted for MoNeely in ninth inning. #Ran for Ruether in ninth inning. Detroit. .. .. .2 0000300 1—8 Washington' . 3010000 Gehringer. Three- . Stolen baser—S. - lue, Wingo, ces—McNeely, Judge, War: . Double pluys—Ruel’ to . to Myer to Judge, Cobb to dge to Myer to ses— ses on bails— . 1; of Coveleskie, Marberry, 6. Struck out ibson. 3 . Hitw—Of _Gibson, 3 in 4 innings: off Wells. 7 in 6 lnnings: off Duuss, none in 34 inning: off Coveleskio. 1 in' 5 innings_(nane out in sixth): off ) berry, 2 in 334 innings: off Ferguson, none in 34" inning. Hit by pitcher—By Gibson (5 wrls). Winning pltcher—Wells. ~Losing teher—Marberry, _Umplres—Mesars. Hil, ime for Ferguson, but before Tex could swing into action, Stuffy strolled far off the midway station and was trap- ped in a rundown, finally being tag. ged out by Blue, who had crossed the diamond to get into the play. Jeanes followed with a slow roller to Gehring- er and beat the latter’s throw to first. Here Cobb removed Wells and sent the veteran George Dauss to the box. Hits Are Wasted. Dutch Ruether went to bat for Earl McNeely and greeted Dauss with a line single to right. Jeanes, never hes- itating at second, was an easy out at third, for Heilmann, in on the hit in a flash, whipped the ball to Tavener, who relayed it to Warner for the re. tiring tag. Johnny Tobin was picked to do the running for Ruether, but Johnny got nowhere, for Bucky Har- s ended the fight with a bounder to the pitcher. Both starting pitchers had been treated roughly before all this ninth- inning furore. Covey was whacked for four hits and a pair of runs by the Tygers in the first inning, but Gibson was reached for a tally in the Nation- als’ starting frame and in the third they drove Sam to cover with two hits and a sacrifice that with another sacrifice at the expense of Reliet Pitcher Wells netted three markers. Buck Harris' triple and Rice’s single in the fifth accounted for the fifth National run. Covey lost all his pitching cunning after five frames and the first four batters to face him in the sixth hit safely. Warner, first up against Mar- berry, who had been hustled to the slab, knocked a long sacrifice fly-to send in the third tally of the round and put the Tygers on even terms with the Nationals. GOLF Good Hickory Golf Clubs $1 .50 Ench ..... Albert Golf Balls Imported Scotch Offi- cial Golf 49c Balls Per Dozen, $5.50 Golf Sets Burke metal bottom bag and four hickory shafted clubs, Very special, e Tennis Racket Cover 98c Harry C. Lee & Co. Tennis Rackets $1000 value, $6 w Special price, s2000905~029520 ol coocecsece ball finished bright red. Special 880) rlers Again Shifted as Harris REEVES BATS WELL IN INITIAL WORKOUT Bob Reeves, Georgia Tech short- stop, recently signed by the Harris- men, reported yesterday and broke into pre-game practice. At bat he took a good cut at the ball and drove it far, but seemed to throw awkward- ly in the fielding drill. He needs an- other month of work at Georgia Tech | to get his electrical engineering de-| gre® but says he wants to get some- thing out of professional base ball if|{leve possible, Reeves is a lanky athlete nearly 6 feet tall and weighing 165 pounds. He will be 22 years old June 24. Since the starting time of the Na- tionals’ home game was changed from 3 oclock to 330 the American League champions _have mot scored over an opponent. Nor has there been any ‘appreciable increase in attend- ance at the games. Wi clash making follows. Last year these clubs set a major league record when they made nine two-ply killings in a game. Yesterday they combined to roll up five, four being engineered by the Nationals, never Tygers and Nationals Tyger slabmen this year show a wonderful assortment of first names. Among the Detroit_pitchers’ monikers are Clyde, Owen, Warren, Jesse, Lil, Braxton, Kenneth, Carl, August and Earl. Fighting Tygers the; fighting Tygers they are when it comes to arguing points with the umpires. Wells and Blue particularly staged many wordy wars with the arbiters yesterday, and the game con- sumed 2 hours and 31 minutes, With all the hard hitting in the third game of the series, 23 swats be- ing registered by the two clubs, only one error occurred. In the eighth in- ing Myer, National shortstop, let Warner’s bounder get by. The slip did not help the Tygers. are called, and Bassler, Tyger catcher, was given the run-around by the Nationals, who stole six boses. Rice and Myer pil- fered two each, while the others were swiped by Bucky Harris and Stewart. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. First game: B B -8 L1580 18 3 : Burke and Mobile_. .. Little Rock Naylor, Sengstock. Second game: Moble .. : Little Rock ..., 7 2 peoster and Ritchie: Robinson and Whit- Lewis and Ritch 4 Nashville . 3 Atlanta .. A Alten and Mackey: Love and Brock New Orleans Memphis Martina and Dowie: Lisenbee and Kohlbecker. ) Chattanooga. . . 4B Birmingham . %% 4 Bates. Kauff : THomAx nd Yarvan, . D Anderson. Hinkle; RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN 208 Brillheart cesos-s22us Thomas Games Totu) e380uun Saried. =AaREC i umes. Johnson Ruether Coveleskie. Ogden .. “French” Bicycle " Scooters ‘Wagons Velocipedes make; bearing : in Fairy ati.....ooo Playground or Indoor Baseballs regulation 98c Well made; EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, it seems an orgy of double-play | | have done credit to a riflem: D . C. FRIDAY, STATISTICS NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Cincinnati, 7; Brooklyn, 2. New York, 5; Pittsburgh, 4. leago, 8 Hoston. 4. St. Louls, 4; Philadelphia, 1. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. BIG LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Detroit, 6; Washington, 5. Chicags, L35 Boston, 4 Philudelphia, 10, d, New York, 5 St. Louls, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 2 H T Philadelphia New York Cineinnnti &1| Washington @ Pittsburgh Clevelund a St. Louls at RUTH MAKING A BOLD BID BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | EW YORK, May 21.—It is time to go nutting again for home runs. FOR NEW HOME RUN MARK Babe Ruth has found the range of the right-field stand at the N Yankee Stadium, and is bumping the ball into the slats between | the seats with such frequency that for the moment he is easily on the high | road to surpass his record of 1921. As the Bambino is pummeling the ball today—and he raised his (0(4, to 15 home runs in Thursday’s triumph of the Yanks over the l!rowm—‘ he is good for a total of 70 homers without being stretched a half inch. He can make that number cold and clean if he keeps up his swat. His‘ record is 59. At this date he is two games ahead of his 1921 mark. Ruth made his best record when|urer in the bleachers to complete he was playing on the Polo Grounds | census of the Ruthian mileage. with the rest of his team, and when| Ruth Bit one récently to_the top row of the right field stand that if he left that feld he shook his head | ot interrupted might have been the sadly and sald he was sorry because longest drive in base ball. The ball it was the easiest of all grounds on was traveling on the line, little de- 2 | flected from the moment it had left which to slam out home runs. the bat, and was still as high as the | To some base ball men it seemed | (10.DAb A0 WAS SCU S BIER S0 01 that the Yankee Stadium should be s hard as about as easy as any field for homers, when Ruth kissed it on its way. since it was designed by Col. Til Hus ome day Ruth will clear the fence ton to be a home-run ground—Col. T of the grounds and then the record being of a showman's opinion tha hunters will be unhappy until they can find some other batting wi {fie_ BlcEer (liey cameithe BikkRE thie | coll L0 SOIMe (aiSrElatHng: world following. Hix idea of base ball was : a home run thrown in whenever the The oddest part of his home run- ing E X is V] at- B Dilbte hhwetislynnict mikdinE tHe | e, ISy your I8 tiaty while il elephont. tracts local attention exactly like an | epidemic of scarlet fever attracts at- | Didn't Like Field at First. tention, it doesn't seem to be kin- Ruth didn’t like the fleld at first. | He missed the frown of the Pole dling the base ball world as it did| in other vears. (Covyright Grounds stand and perhaps he missed his sights now d then, because had a certain poise and pose, as well | as a stance for right-field batting when on the Polo Grounds that would | n. record in every 1926.) SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Knoxville, 4: Greenville, 2 Augusta, 3: Columbia, "2 Asheville, 7:_Charl Ruth didn’t make Macon, 15 3. vear that he played on the Polo| - Tounds, because there were dayswhen | FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. his sights were bad. Pete Browning ; : ; % | F vers, 3: Sarasota. 4 ( ) used fo beg for a cigarette now and | 5t MY§T: i Sneaso(s. 4 (10 toninke then to “light up his lamps suie | Bradonton, 8 St Petersburs. 4 said he couldn’t hit home runs with. | Other postooned. rain. out light and the poor chap actually | VIRGINIA LEAGUE. MAY 21, 1926. SPORTS. Seeks to Break Losing Streak FASHION SHOP TEAM JOLTS CHEVY CHASE Fashion Shop furnished some fire- works in the Commercial Base Ball Teague yesterday by trimming the first-place Chevy Chase Dairy nine, and pulling_into second place beside the Unfon Printers. The count stood 4 to 1 for Fashion Shop, the Dairymen being blanked until the final stanza of «he elght- inning fray. Hughes went six in- nings on the mound for the winners before being relieved by Fisher. General Accounting Office showed the way to Interstate, 6 to 3, in a seven-nning fray In the Government Base Ball League, while Post Office of the Departmental League took Bu- reau of Engraving to camp, 10 to 3, in_eight_frames. . War Department nosed Shipping Board out in the Potomac Park loop, 4to 2 Pullman won from Black & White in the Terminal League, 10 to 7. The Commercial League teams are | abandoning their diamond near the| Municipal swimming pools and will | hold forth on West Ellipse field in the | future. OLLEGE BASE BALL. | Georgetown — Mount St. Mary's, 4; Georgetown, 1. ‘rllza a—Mississippi Aggies, Minneapolis—Minnesota, 11; Towa, 0. Durham—Duke, 3; North ina_State, 2. New _York—Fordham, 11; Holy Cross, 5. At Philadelphia—Penn, 5; Penn State, 4. At Hanover—Marine, 9; Dart- mouth, 2. e INTERNATIONAL Baltimore Jersey City : Earnshaw and McKee: Freitag. Syracuse G | Toronto z SR | Stewart | LEAGUE. | H. E. | 3 i & of Sloan. Smith and | (e 3 5 8 H- e 3 9 Swaney and Unzmann, Lynn: Chesterfield and Wileon. Buftalo . Roch P! 1 £ e 13 LA o 9 2 nd Lake: Horne., Brown and Devine. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. | arnave. B 7 2 Cullop and Devormer: Louisrille Columbus Koob. Wilkinson. Sommers and Meutér, Indianapolis 5 14 0 Toledo - g 6 11 0 Wisner, - Speece and _Hartle: Clarkson. | Tunnes. Woolfolk and Heving. | SC PRl ... . Bl . | Kansas ity S 9 12 Schupy. Johnson, Thomas and Hoftman, i 2} Zinn and Shinault. 0l 0| Milwaukea Minneapolis Danforth Benton_and 1 0 d M b nd McMenemy . Krueger. them were crashes to the bleachers by | proved | Bresgler leading the attack with a | spiked Hollingeworth. RUTH GETS 15th HOMER AS YANKS ADD TO LEAD By the Associated Press IVE full games ahead of second-place Cleveland, after a string of 9 straight victories and 15 home runs for Babe Ruth, the New York Yankees are joyful. Yesterday they defeated the St: Louis Browns on six . but two of Ruth and Pat Co'lins. A simi belt by George Sisler put his team in the ‘ead for a couple of innings. TF final verdict was 5 to 4. & Harriss pitched well behind a heavy | barrage from the bats of the Phila-| BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. delphia Athletics and_ turned back | By e Asociated Pross Cleveland, 10 to 2. Gordon Cochrane ; . anN AGT I inserted a home run. The Indians | AMERICAN LEAGUE. made only six hits off the big right- | hander. Detroit got a 6-to-5 ‘Washington. There was a slugfest at Boston, where Chicago downed the Red Sox, 13 to 4. Eddie Collins and Eai Sheely had perfect days at the bat, | Sheely getting three doubles. Mostii also registered a brace of doubles, 18 safe blows being made off four Bos- | ton_hurlers. i Brooklyn dropped a notch in the | National League, with a setback at the hands of the circuit-leading Cin- cinnati club, 7 to 2. Bob McGraw | no puzzie for the Reds,| Runs—Ruth, ¥ Hits—Goslin, B Doubles—Burns, 3 lins, White 5. victory over | > and Col- Yankees, 9. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 1 Stolen bases—Meusel, Yankees, 9. Pitching—Pennock, Yankees, won 16, lost 1. | NATIONAL LEA . Batting—Southworth, Giants, .406. Runs—Heathcote and Adams, Cubs, Cardinals, and Cuy- ler, Pirates, Doubles—Frisch, Giants, 16. Tri Pirates. 6. nley, Cardinals, 7. Stolen bases—' Pirates, 10. Pitching—Meadows, = Pirates, and i nts, 1, lost 0. triple, double and single. The defeat put the Dodgers in third place. | Pittsburgh lost to the struggling Giants, 5 to 4, a ninth-inning rally | falling short. McGraw shifted his |~ | batting order. Vic Keen of the St. Louis Cardinals | won his sixth game of the season by | holding the Phillies to five hits and | one run. His mates scored four times off the pitching of Knight and UI-| rich. Rogers Hornsby, who was in Wednesday's game, was hack in the line-up, but failed to hit safely. | Charley Root served a good game | for the Chicego Cubs and downed the | Boston Braves, 8 to 4. Freigau of Chicago poled & homer. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. R, Columbus ... .13 St. Augustine i Other games. rais PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Wi Gnl!m‘-l' Durhy 0. e *“The Nation's Best™ | Wallace Motor Co. believed that cigarettes helped his | batting average. L In two vears Ruth had lrnuhlo\ Rirbmond. with his sights and also with any | Portsmout change in the home-run record busi- Th n year he has a line _on | the right-field stand at Yankee Sta- | . 3 (12 innings) WESTERN LEAGUE. L ¢ dium that near perfect as the zht line in r > e | as been welting 1l into_the | | stand with such tremendous force | that it would be worth while to the | Yankee secretary to leave off count up the books and station a meus nEe=——ae—=n [NASH o C Nash-Rinker Motor Co. 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