Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1926, Page 37

SPORTS Connie Mack Looks for Late Decision in the American League Pennant Race - _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D..C., TUESDAY, JUNE .1, 1926. LATE SEPTEMBER VERDICT NAVY CREW IS ONE EXPECTED BY BOSS OF A.’S| OFBESTIN HISTORY Philadelphia Tactician Opi Make a Spurt and That nes Tygers Are Likely to the Browns Now Are Showing Signs of Waking Up. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Tune 1 FW YORK. manager to hiff the Yankees i Yet Connie M N the Athletics could not w ack was the first American League 1 a series on the New York grounds. in the entire series, despite the fact that they were smart enough to grab the double-header which started all the disturhance against the Yanks Flated at taking three games out concede the terrific fight in the New compliments hefore. Did yvou see the way they cam aquevied the Philadelphia manager. "1 games before, he alone nearly wiped argnment May. Fvery game was fought with to that team. “We are pretty good, 1 think, and | am nf the impression that we can an same of the st heginning 1 hnid the pace Ionger 1 others hecanse we are j te make good. But if that New Yor team doesn't have Injuries it will go tn the stretch fighting like herserkers all the way. They plaved rugged hase | hall. which means base hall of in tensity and force and power—perhaps not smooth all of the time. hut with a Kick in it that would fell an ox." | Will the Ath'etics stand the pace batrer this vear than last? | Looks For Late Decision. “1 think Connie repl think we have had onr jolt the season tnstead of late. Rut not think the championshin of the Ameri League will he wan this vesy until all the Fastern clnbs have Snished in the West. That means that pennant is not likely to he won late in September. How can you sypect otherwise? If oane of the clihs of the first six braces, and can £et the least ndvantage by weak piay Ing on the part of the others it is eIy to go through to the tof rDetroit is as apt tn make a spurt any of them. and here is St. Lo emingly waking np now that it Aome and has heard a few thing Connie earries what might be called full rigged for left-handed pitchers as well as one for right handed pitchers. His left-hand hit ting hoarders are a nifty and slashing fit. They hite inta pitchinz by the right-handers as a hungry bhoyv hiting inte doughnuts. Perhaps in all hase hall there is nn team which | has a foreeful ent hoth ways as the Athletics Only Star Pitching Stops “Em. It voun rlg over 1o try te stop fhem with a left-hander.” save Miller Hugsine of the Yankees, ‘viu ean pseive vourself that you have a fight | on hand. hecause Mack throws three o four batters into the fray whe ciean up on lefi-handers without wait- inz 1n see whether vour pitchers ave Wwild or have eontrol. They hit any thin Weich, Miller and Hale will knock daylighis out of left-hand pitching unless it is top-noteh piteh- | Ing."” Analyze the Philadelphia team and 1t will easily he ascertained how well | it has provided for two kinds of at-| tack, one for righyhand piiching and | the other: for lefi-hand pitching French. Simmons and Lamar ave the | regulars againet the right-hand piteh- | ers. and Welch, Miller and Hale are fully as efficient against left-handers | 2% their side partners are azainst the chi-handere. Perhaps the left-hand cowd is the more efficient against their pet aversion. Any southpaw who can hold the Athletics 10 a small | marzin must he going exceptionally | well for that particular game. From the start of alternate left and rizht hand pitching, Mack always had toward switchinz batters the change in hurlers. but has he heen so well fixed to as he is this season vy in ! 1 de A erew ven against never meet i Holiday Results Meag Twecaration day didn’t leave ag much landmark on the base ball cam- 2ne as anticipated. 1t was in part ched awayi by rain. Insiead of fwo games. two donble head- sulated here and there. and the tax of plaving deuble Headers may take a lot eut some of the teams when they can leagt afford to have it exiacted from them. Rack in 1919 the Gianis were forced | in nne way and another into double | headers until they had three of them | scheduled for the Polo Ground against Cincinnati. When the games were to he plaved the Giants were not in the | hest of condition to play them. Pat | Maran knew it and he fed his plaver Gl of helief 1 the Giants were | afiaid of the Reds. It was a lot of the nsvehology stuff that helped the | reds to succeed in that series, assisted werhaps. by questionahle plaving on part of a very had actor in base Anvhow. the double series thing crimped the nts beyond power to endure and when the <pason wi the Reds had won the pennant NAVY TENNIS CUP TEAM DEFEATS BALTIMOREANS The all-star | will rep- veally over =hi. 19280 June 1. team t inst a similar Army displayed t order in defeat- | ington aggrega- | here yesterday, ANNAPOLIS Leech cup tenni resent the Navy gregation from the ability of. the hizhe inz the Mount \ tion of Baltimore £ 10 1. Capt. Bob Van Vliet s timoreans a_ shutont | Watt in the No. .1 singles. Summaries ved the Ral- | conquering GNGLES ut | Washington VT defeated Hofmeister, Fawards, B =1, Van Viet. M defeat Warl. 4k, §-t Andercon. Teerii « 5. 62 Voung. leech cun, = Eliint ) Godtrex. Leech cup, defeated Archer Beuchelt, defeated = ‘eoch en, defeated Tiiden, Leech cup. defeated OUBLES Anderson a feated Yan Vet an IS NEWS TO MULL}NS. CLEVELAND. June 1 (). Paddy Mulline. manager of Harry Wills. negro contender for Jack Dempsey heavyweight title. has denied he had any knowledge of Wills being matched 0 box Jack Sharkev at Providence this Summer; Wallace 7Motor_Co. means NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave, Main 7612 O " winning streak. of four, Mack was willing enough to York team, to which he had handed e hack at us in the fourth game?” f Meusel had not done much in the us off the blackhoard in the fourth <avage energy. There is no let-up ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 1.—-After a preliminary season of unbroken suc cess which has placed the Naval Academy crew in the leading place in Hastern collegiate rowing. it will set- tle down to nearly a month of prepa- | ration for the final test. the Pough- | keepsie regatta on June | The Naval Academy varsity | met. Massachusetts Tech, Penr | nia. Syracuse, arvard and ¢ | the hardest schedule of any | crew, and defeated them all with ease. |1t ix likely to meet crews of high. clase at Poughkeepsie. in _whic | Washington, California and Wiseon. | =in will have entries. At present it appears as if the Navy | had the only eight which will kerious v threaten the Western crews, and on account of its victory in the Hud. son eclassic last vear and itx splendid showing during the present season, prohably will be the favorite. Thera is no overconfidence at An | napolis. however. It is realized per re. | I . ] S e she fectly that the races which have heen | The series made me think more of a world series than one in 1015 40 not indi e any certainty of the other crews at particularly against | victory _over Poughkeepsie Golf Strategies That Won Some Important Struggles “By Bunker” ANDERSON'S MANEUVER AGAINST TOLLEY BUILT LP - IK DIRECTION OF WIND “%—ROUGH LENGTH OF HOLE-340YDS. G p of 1024 executed John French champion by NE of the smonthest strategies ever seen on a golf course was that Anderson, the American, in the , plaved at La Boulie veteran Washington, which is regarded here as the Navy's most dangerous rival. Still, the early races have shown that the Navy crew has never indi- cated ite poseibilities. 1t has met every challenge in thess races with ease and without raising its stroke above 32 coped with the most desper- ate efforts of its opponents, and rowed away from them when it raised its own stroke. &0 far as the longer distanee is con- cerned, it is generally belleved here that the Navy's superiority over other Eastern erews will he still more de cislv The strength and stamina of the Navy oarsmen this vear is superb, and it is, in fact, a stronger crew than that which rowed away from the Washington crew in the latter part of the Poughkeepsie regatta of last vear. 1t in helleved by those in touch with avy rowing that this year's crew fs | the ‘strongest which has ever repre sented the Naval Academy, with the possible exception of the erew of 182 which contained four of the veterans | of the Olympie championg of 1920 and | was stroked by the pawerful Ed Fraw- | IBRITONS LEAD FRENCH IN SERIES AT TENNIS PARIS, June 1 (. -International | tennis matches hetween teams repre | senting France and Great Rritain got [ under way yesterday. | England ‘scored the first vietery |when Mrs. 1. Shepherd Barron de {feated Mlle. Descleros, 75, 6-—-3. Mrs. Katherine MeKane Godfrey of | England defeated Mme. Mathieu. f-—4, |80, while Mile. Deve defeated Mrs. | MeTlquham. 6--1. 6-—4 | " Didi_Viasto. the French star. Joan Fry of England, 6—1. 6~ 1. |7 In the women's donhles Mrs. 1. A | Godfree and Kvelyn (niver defeated Miles. Deve and Conguet | 7 Mre. Rarron. paived with Mrs. Me | Dauham, defeated Miles, Cousin and Charnelet, -3, 67, | b 0 | heat Boving is replacing student duels with, sahers ae n mainr spart in Ger | men universities | The championship practically was decided hecauze Andercon, at a| critical stage of the finals, in which isher, Cyril Tolley, ered a slight breeze. It was a mere whisper of a hre cap. Anderson had not suspected. making use of it in a technical way he was ranged against the great Brit- took off his cap heneath a hot July sun and discov- cze. which, Rut, by taking it he gained the edze over Tolley. inta account, and | rior to the dofinz of his | Jnhn executed his strategy after ona, the fourteenth, the last of them being | of the bitterest uphill fights on record Tolley never once allowed him to get the lead from the first hole ugh the thirty-first. Semetimes the American wanld sncceed in squar ing the mateh. But again the Brit isher wonld slip away from him though his lead was always a narrow | one. Trailing for a time in the afternoon, Anderson finally fought his way along side Tollev on the thirteenth hole (thirty-first of 1he match). Five holes remained which in to { decide the championshin. Weather Was Hot. The weather was unusually warm. Climbing # hill on the thirty-Arst hole, Anderson took off hig cap as he reach- ed the crest 1o wipe his damp brow. But hefore he could apply hie hand- kerchief he suddenly felt on his freshly exposed forehead the feather- like pressure of a cooling hreeze. “Up to this time T hadn't thought there was a breath of air stirring.’ explained Anderson. “Because of the situation that would confront us on the fourteenth hole I considered my discovery highly important. What w 1 tossed up wisps of grass a couple of times and alse dropped my hand kerchief. These tests showed that, as we plaved from the fourteenth tee, the wind would be hinwing 10w hut not head-on. Its direction he slightly from left to right. quently, if one drove a bit right of the fairway, he could play his second shot, to the green, directly into _the wind. ‘Now, here is the explanation of why this was an important considera- tion: The fonrteenth green at La Boulie was haked hard. Also, stretch ed across the front of the green, was a stiff built-up_bunker. In plaving ta the green vou'had to pitch over this bunker, hut didn’t dare to do much more than clear”it hecause. with the ground glazed, vour hall wonld run clear over the green. Figured on Breeze. There was just enough force to the breeze. 1 figured, to help hold hack the ball. And, as T knew the rough at the right of the fairway was not very bad. I purposely plaved my spoon teeshot into the rough, so as to play my second directly into the wind I believed a par four wonld halve the hole and might win it. This helief was reached despite the fact that Tol- ley had had almost miraculous sue. ecese plaving it. Rix times in sueces- sion Cyril had made hirdie threes on s the exact direction of this breeze” | Conse- | off the | me in the marning 4 na. Rut former ¥ against 1 didn’t helieve that even the ftish amateur champion conld make another hirdie. 8o 1 played for a four. And I might add I held my spaon shot short so [ would not have to s in playing 1o the to me that the hreeze Increased my freedom of action hy at least 30 per cent “There hadn’t heen anv hitherto during the tournament. and Tolley had made all his driving to the left side of green the falr. ton delicate wrist ac- | 1| retarding | hreeza | threes hy | way. thence pitching over the bunker. | Now, not havinz discovered the hreeze. he plaved a< he always had done. But when he got up to his ball he noticed the wind, which from his | position was almnst cross.w Play Was Delicate. “He realized that he had a delicate | play before him and took off his cap and coat to make ft. Meantime I dropped my mashie shot 2 yards past | the bunker, and. although the ball ran | considerabiy | the pin. | “On the right side a trap. If Tolley’s hall drifted with the I lip off into this hazard. 1nse the most extreme ¢ The result was tragic for him. looked up, topped his hall and vanced it only a few vards, “Hig third yan over the green and He had to ad |and sank o five. 1ran my putt 3 feet from the hole and played In for a | tor “This put me In the lead for the | first time during the match. 1 made [t two up on the fifteenth by sinking I 20-foot _putt. We halved teenth. Tolley won the seventeenth Then I captured the eighteenth. a 10-footer to do “I'm certainly ough 1 had to sink glad T took off my ap at the right moment on the thir- | teenth hole.” | George W. Bradiey, aged in the National League, is now a po liceman in Philadelphia, Pa. | RADIATORS, FENDERS | R WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. T —— The modern tenni the p by Sp s ball . .. lugless ball alding MobEeRrN because it is absolutely true. No plug, no uneven seams to throw the balance of cente Livelier, too! 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