Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1926, Page 26

COVEY AND RUETHER DUE TO HURL AGAINST MACKS Nationals Thus Far Have Performed Far Below the Standard They Set Last Season and Must Brace to Avoid Finishing in Ruck. BY JOHN HILADELPHIA, May header was to be played by t ] the club barely able the business of crowding the entire noon bill with the Athletics was not The extra work today and Macks clask to stagger through a single game these B. KELLER. For the first time this season a double- he Nationals this afternoon, and with day: two-game series here into one after- likely to be relished by the Champs. was forced upon thc athletes because the Mackian management decided that yesterday w gentle pastime of base ball, and called off the malmee not as cool here vesterday as it was in Washington Sunday, whe But there were nearly 20,000 cash customers in the as too cold a day for the In reality, it was Griffs stands waiting for the Sunday game to start, while before vesterday's § In theit )ntemplation_of zloomy 3 gement the Na- nsolation was that one of the pitchers slated for use got an extra day or rest and might be more effective than when he last topped the mound. Stanley Coveleskie was 1o unlimber his spit ball propeller with five instead of only four days of idleness back of him. Dutch Ruether was to starting pitener roles with Stan, Man- acer Harris not having changed .his | original plans for the series here. Bush and Johnse Bucky intimated Bush and Walter the flinging at home tomorrow and Thurs when the Nationals and Athletics will transfer their tivities to Mr. Washington. did in t the T to Follow. Boss today that Joe Ao If Bush performs as he | e five frames he tofled against ers last "!uvd.lv the Macks are not apt to be so ¢ afternoon. Johnson. |hmu.'h slump and seems to lack the strength needed to go a full route. As with Johnson. so with the Wash- frcton ball club. it seems. The Na- tionals. as a whole, have not been £howinz much of that up-and-at-'em Manager Wins have been scarce within the past two days to satisfy him, but until the pitchers get | more pep in the the other play spirit that for salary wings and rs regain the fighting some time made the chare |he’ Johnson would | Harris plainly | too | ostponement was ordered there had been no rush of fans for Greater hibe Park nor any heavy advance sale of tickets. | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Clevelund. New York ut Boston, NATIONAL L YESTERDAY'S RESI : Pittsburgh, 1 11; Cinelm 6. Brooklyn (cold) Nationals one of the most dificult of | clubs in the game to beat, there'll be little improvement. Griffs Must Take Brace. This early in the campaign, the time has come when the Nationals must step on the zas and shoot ahead briskly to avoid being in the ruck when the season begins to wane. The time for the launchinz of the big drive is now. but, unfortunately the club does not appear for such strenuous endeavor. way the Nationals season have performed far below the standard set last vear. when they captured their second successive pen- nant. In 1925 company plaved and .364 ball on the road. this vear they have plaved on their home lot and .345 ball on alfen fields. That's not pennant-winning base ball. It is not even fast enough %o beat out the Yankees should the latter home So far #7107 “ball at to be prepared | this | Harris_and | 556 Dball | Percontage. Pittsburgh at n-m:n | Cineinnati Brookiyn at 'YANKEES NOW SEVEN GAMES TO THE GOOD immediately reduce their present fast | pace to an even .300 for the remainder of the season. G. W. GIRL RACKETERS | END WINNING SEASO George Washington’s tennis team closed another banner season over | the week end with one-s ded triumphs | over Fredericl Norma! and ! William and ) College on the courts of the Virginia schoo Victory in the two encounter: 5 of which went to the Hatchetite | racketers by a 5-0 score, gives the| G. W. girls a clean slate for the gait second year in succession and gives | three one them a record for the past years that is marred by only defeat. National Park Seminary, Marjorie | Webster School and Holton Arms are among the local teams to be defeated this season. The William and Mary team also was defeated in the first engagement of a home-and-home se- rles. e members of the team. along with Manager Marie Didden, will re- ceive the school letter. The players are (am Frances \\ alker. Al_vs Ewers. riam Da: and El zal;elh Garl Teesults of the matches with Fred- urg and William and Mary At Fredericksburg—Frances Everett, f—2, 6—0 ‘sled. Lena Johinson: 0-—3. 623" s defeated M. Smith.’ 6—0. Frantes Waiker and Elizabeth Garber defe: od Everett and Peters, 6—0, Al Ewers and “Jimmie, Cate defeated Fox and inlman. i amahure— Frances Walker defeat- od Helen Osmond, 6-0. 6--3: Alys Ewers Davie qefeated 2. Frances Walker and ber defeated” Wilkine and 6—1: Marie Didden JtacDaniel 'i--mw and e, m:x and Whitchead, DBEADNAUGKTS ACTIVE. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 25. Manager Edward Allen of (he Dread- naught base ball nine has scheduled a return game with the Severn Ath- letic Association of Annapolis for the Marylanders’ field on July 3. Dread- naught players will practice on ¥ri- day. e Government Printing Office chalked up a 10-to-2 victory over Treasury in yesterday's Colored Departmental Base Ball League game. Brown al- lowed only 6 hits during the seven innings. Valker de F { By the Associated Press. Seven full games, a lany time of the year. now separate New York Yankees from their nedlest American League rivals, the | ‘(le\eland Indians, and the winning Istreak has been extended to 13 con- \lesu. Perhaps the Yankees believe in un- lucky numbers and perhaps mnot, but it is recorded that they need 13 more before they will tie the modern record established by the New York Giants |a decade ago. And —— the Giants |failed to win the pennaht that sea- son. Yesterday’s thirteenth victory was | gained at the expense of the Boston Red Sox, who solved the delivery of the veteran Urban Shocker only five times, one of their hits a home run |by Carlyle. Only six safeties were |registered by the Yankees. but Laz- | zeri’s_single in the opening inning scored three runs, enough to win. Cleveland failed to hold the pace, going down before George Sisler and |his St. Louis Browns, 8 to 5, Wally of Indian box men. The Browns had Levsen off the mound after five innings. Shaute lasted only one and Norman Lehr, a recruit, proved the -best of the Cleveland selections, holding his opponents safe for three frames, Falk, Mostil and Barrett hit home runs for the Chicago White Sox and the men of Collins had little trouble beating the Detroit Tygers, 10 to 4. Mostil's and Barrett's efforts came ! with two men on the bases. The Chicago Cubs binched bingles to defeat Pittsburgh, 3 to 1, Vie Al- dridge allowing all the runs and giving way to a pinch hitter in the seventh. Heathcote inserted a homer for the Cubs. Eleven runs in the last three innings gave the St. Louis Cardinals victory over the Cincinnati, after the battle appeared to be lost. The Reds started the game with four and added two in the third, but could not score there- after.” Lester Bell of the Cardinals added a homer to his Jist. EEE—— COLLEGE BASE BALL. At Boston—Bo'Mm College, 11; Genrlewwn, . At _Chicago—Indiana, 8; Northwest- 1. iAtl Madison—Purdue, ‘Wiscon- n, 1. 5 At South Bend—Notre Dame, 4; Georgia, 2. COLLARS Perfect ficti I t do not shrink anded collars LWL inkle nor curl, Eastly laundered Made by the Makers of Arrow Collars 4 | Its first defeat of the season. long lead at | Gerber leading the assault on a trio ! T«E faMous STAR, WASHINGTO! ** SenenecTapy Putrer ™ used by Travs at Sandwich n 9o+ WAS AFTERWARDS BARRED By THe FNGLISH THE ONLY AMERICAN To win THe BRisH AMATEUR GOLF -CHAMPIONSHIP | away | right for G. A. 0. CALLS HALT | ON THE G. P. 0. NINE General Accounting Office opened the fourth week of the Government Base Ball League series vesterday by handing Government Printing Office The game was a shutout for Nied- feldt of the Accountants, the scol being 1 to 0 in- 10 innings. Heany opposed him on the mound, zoing the entire route. i In the Commercial T.eague Fashion | Shop retained its place near the top of the heap by taking the T-lephone | Co. team to camp, 10 to 7. 'The Phonemen went into the seventh and | {last frame with a 10-to-2 handican | :}nnd staged a batting rallv that for a time threatened to deadlock the count. Tie games were reporfed in the Potomac Park and Departmental cir- cuite. In the former loop Labor and ,thnmnx Board battled to a 3.all | deadlock in 10 innings. Commerce and Post Office failed to come to a decision in the Departmental race, the count standing at 4.all at the end of nine frames. Black and White turned in is mflv victory in the current series heing | staged by Washington Terminal Y.| M. C. A. American Rallway Fxpress | tossers, holders of second place in the Iea:uo standings, took the 'fholl‘ end of a 7-to-5 count. INTEB.NATIONAL LEAGUE B H R Jersey Cit: g8 0 Newark S 18 1] Smith. Parks. Cantrell and Freitag: Torpe, Mamaux. Werre and Schulte. 1 31 1 FIRST GAME Stewart and SECOND GAME, g .8 8 13 13 4 Mar and Head: Faulkner and Rochester Toronto . Reese. Brown and Devine: O'Neill Roche: Toron Mitchell, Neill. 1 2 3 3| re and Mor- | | Buffalo . Syracuse Leverenz row. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. | HOE Atlanta Little Rocl Markle and Brock: Hughes. Morrison and Whitney. Birmingham Memohis Lyle and Yaryan. Brown and Kohlbecker. Mobile .. Nashville Fubr and Ritchie: Frey and genna. New Orlean: Chattanooga outh, Hilton and Lingl Renis and Hingle. 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THIS HIGH SCHOOL NINE BATS FOR MARK OF .492 DETROIT, May 25 (#).—Royal 0ak has such a hard-hitting high school team that at least one op- ponent has forfeited the game be- cause of inability to retire the side. Royal Oak was leading Mount Clemens, 23 to 2, in a recent game when the Mount Clemens coach conceded the defeat because his’ team could not get three men out in the seventh inning. The Royal Oak team batting average is .492. The leading hit- ter's average is .609, and there are four others who bat better than .500. The team has scored 108 runs in 37 innings of play in the Southeastern Michigan High School League. AS RING CHAMPION | | { NEW YORK. May 25. East Side bel New York's’ and helieves right- | Goldstein has alf the one of the greatest | Last week's kavo victory over the tough Tony Vaccarelll was the one thing needed to confirm belief in | Ruby. | And Goldy the fact is that each stagt | has made has brought ot At this period in ably and Leonard, suffer by | to the great Benny his record does not comparison considering the short time he_has been performing. | Beating the rough and readv Ray | Mitchell was prettv work. There is | talk that he might have put Ray had he not been saving his | Vaccarelll. In knocking out the Italian. who never had taken the count hefore or had a fight stopped to save him pun- ishment. Goldstein added a brilliant | feather to those he wears in his cap. ear In mind that Dundee was Vacearelli's mentor and that he had held his own with such boys as Sid | Terris, Jack Bernstein, Mickey Brown. Mike Ballerino, Johnny Leonard and others of that class. Goldstein is one of the few lads This is a difficult art to master. Dancing in {and out on his toes with his head | bobbing in and out he offers a tempting mark to shoot at. But the is not there when the lead | comes and Goldy quickly shoots out a quick left followed by a sharp-, shooting right. There you have style of milling. He is fast as chain lightning with either hand. His left jab is so power- ful that it ean bring down an oppo nent. while his right crose i the ! prettiest one in the ring today, not | barring Dempsey's. Willie Lewis, a great fighter in his | day, save that all a fighter needs to make good s a one-two punch, with plenty of power hehind the right. That Is just what Goldstein has and | it will bring him a mlo before lonzg. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT | “Young™ heat Ray Neuman, | Jersey City (10). “Farmer” Joe Coop- | er. Terre Haute, Ind.. and Larry | Avers, Atlanta. fought a draw (10). ‘ MILWAUKEE-—-Russie Leroy. Far- N. D.. defeated Billy Bortfield. | Milwaukee (10). i BALTIMORE -Nate Carp, Balti | more, beat Wilbur Cohen, New York | NT <ll1bllnx Georgi: NEW YORK--FEddie Burnbrook. | Raltimore, ‘scored a technical out over Willie Dillon, Cuba G | the world series YANKS’ .750 PERCENTAGE EXCEEDS 1923 HIGH MARK ffs and Mackmen Likely to\Meet Same Fate as Indians and Tygers That Year Unless They Soon Can Contrive to Gain om Leaders. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. 2% EW YORK, Ma -The New York Yankees having carried their winning streak to 13 straight games vesterday by subduing the Boston Red Sox, it hegins to look as thoug,h nothing short of an N | earthquake would stop them. The Yanks last won a penant in 1923. In that year they also captured Giants. And now, carried away by the success 12 slapstick, knock-'em-dowvin team—some de- clare that the Yanks of oday never have been equaled ot their own play- ground or by playmates of other grounds. The big_figure of 730 .which decorates the percentage scheme oi the Yanks is said to be the topmost record reached on a May date. Tn 1923, which is not very far back. dating toward the.days of Rameses 11, the Yanks had a percentage standing of .744. which :really <hould he rated as a hetter standing than the prescnt one, since it was farther along toward the goal of world series high financing. The Yanks won their pennant in ' year, if he was correctly quoted, he 1923 with 2 percentage of .649. attributed some of his success to that Cleveland was second with .531 and | old willo-the-wisp, the lively ball Detroit third. The gap between New | Ruth is batting hetter this year hy far York and (‘leveland was wide and |than last year, and so is Cobh, many deep. The Yanks won 96 games and | things considered. and vet the 1926 Cleveland 77, while Detroit, with 77 |ball is said to he dead. victorles also, was thrashed two more | If a “lively ball” increases mes than Cleveland when the |batting averages and a ‘“deadened whistle blew and the boys laid down [ball” increases others, what's the their bats. |answer? Leave it to Sweeney to trv Folks who are predicting a .700 per to explain. He can't and doesn’t cent triumph for the Yanks on the want to. face of what they have shown to date are going too strong. It isn't in the wood. Any team that can stand at .700 in May is lucky to have .650 | in October. ~The games that the | Yanks have heen able to win on their | home grounds by a combination of fair pitching and whirlwind hatting may not be so easy to win on other fields rom the of this year's tcam-—-a_bif some (Copyright, *026.) HURRICANE FOUR WINS. gland, May playving with s, defeated the Argentine polo team, 11 to % Stephen | Sanford. American. and Capt. C. T. I. Roark plaved particularly well for the winners. Yanks Going As in '23. s The significant feature of the May ¥ ing of the Yanks is that they mp running much as they did in 1 COLORED RIVALS SOUGHT. s Senalien n 3 (he Atuieies e e ndlrs of Acinkun don't gather their girdles around | ypjimited hase ball teams of the city their loins and dig their cleats into | Tra team to uritoreed and ran e the mud they will meet ahout the | n% GEam 18 VEOTed Ao drene M same fate as Cleveland and Detroft | A Richaraion ae hoy o8 o met in 1923. The world seriex then ' Xp 5 Banaton. va would have the Yanks as party of s the first part. the other party heing all guess work now. 5 CHICAGOAN HONORED. The next thing the National League | s knows. Joe McCarthy, manager of the | CHICAGO. May 25 Cubs, will be nursing that outfit into | A. Kernwein, halfbac the pennant. He had a habit of do- |00 the University ing funny .things like that when he ball team. has been was_with the American Association. |medal given annuall At the beginning of the season it was |Collegiate Conference Athletic |ciation to a senfor who has shown superiority in athletics and scholar- the custom to count Louisville out a fini e season it was {and at the finish of the season it was | U F % by e in also won a letter in track In 1925 as a sprinter. by the the custom of Louisville to count the profits and the number of wrinkles in the pennant. The only team in the American League that has been able to stand off | the Yankees in more than one series | {is Philadeiphia, which has held the | ball maulers to an even break in six games. The only western nine that has won a game ‘from the Yanks is Detroit, which took two out of a series of four. Good batting by Detroit did it. too. The way to catch that New York bunch napping is to set a trap for the pitchers and hammer them until they wince. More on the Lively Ball. Cobh has been batting nearly as well as he ever did. Hellmann will he alongside of him before long and this | vear's batting championship in the American League may be run between Cobb, Hellmann®and Ruth. Speaker | can’t find himself. Tt is a long time | since he had such a poor start. Last N\ : MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St Main 5780 THE For year after year, Cinco has been . the ‘favored cigar of millions of discriminating - smokers. The secret is wine —for every leaf of tobacco used. in making Cincos is cured and mellowed in gen- uine claret wine. Smoke a Cinco yourself —the difference in taste will win you. Wm. H. Warner Washington, D. C. J. S. Blackwell & Son Alezandria, Vo