Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1926, Page 26

SPORTS. Wealkness on Offense Has Proved Disastrous to Nationals in Recent Contests MUST IMPROVE TO AVOID A SAD ROAD TRIP RECORDi Lack of Timely Bingle Nullified Johnson’s Fine Four-Hit Effort Against Tygers—Grifimen Toda Open Series With the Indians. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ND. June 8-—This fou C series with the Indians that w pions will carry into Chicago, their next stopping point after leaving this | town, a sad record for their work on Since leaving home the night of Ma pr-day visit here mcans much to the Nationals. Unless they can get better than an even break in the s to start this aiternoon, thie Cham- the road. 30 che Nationals have played THE STAR., WASHINGTON, D. T, TUESDAY. JUNE 8 T9%. | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS ERICAN LEAGUE. New York, Boston, 5. Percentage. New Vork 5in four league championship games and have but one victory to show for | The two tilts dropped . probal un theirefforts. in Detroit yesterday. howe: sor the Champions had the: Weakness at bat hurt since they left their Washington ba “the Nationals fearfully in a! to the Yankees and that 1-to-0 loss by could have been turned into wins | wered a trifle more punch. | three games lost 1l yard. Their attack must become more consistently forceful if they would not be shoved deep into the second division during this tour. Walter Johnson, still ene of the cleverest pitchers in the game al-| though in his twentleth season as & big 1 again was a vietim of his club’ bility to sock the spier: at opportune moments. The veteran | pitched his best game this season | azainst the Tygers in the series finzl In many ways it w more finished performance that Walter gave ye; day than his brilllant_effort that van- | Quished the Athletics in_the extra- | tnning season opener in the National | Capital this vear. ! But Walter v to be opposed by Detroit southpa: rare good days. portsider had the Nation: from start to finish whenever 1op would have been dangerou Champs made only a few meas its during the pastime, so stron Wells’ hurling. Johnson's game remarkable, but Well's was jusc as much so, and the Tyger slab never had a break against throughout the fray. Barney's Fifth L The defeat was the fifth in a row for Johnson. Fate certainly been unkind to Walter recently. He is one of the few pitchers in the league | who has been going the route in most | of his late games and he has heen | stingy with hits most of the time. | But for nearly a month whenever | Walter has toiled the punch has been missing from the war clubs of the Nationals. As with Johnson, so with Washing- ton, it seems. The great hurler has not ‘scored a mound victory since May 12, when he overcame the Browns in 2 7-to-4 engagement at Washington. Since that time the Nationals have heen in a woeful slump and Walter has had his troubles. Johnson's string of defeats started on May 18, when he was toppled by the Indians in a 4-to-2 contest at Washington. Five days later, while pitching on his home lot, he was de- feated by the Athletics, 5 to 3. And again on May 27 the A's scored over him, 3 to 2, in Clark Griffith’s Stadium. Last Wednesday in New York Walter was vanquished, 5 to 4, in the second part of a double header with the ankee: Facing Ed Wells, young on ome of Wells' The husky bahled | him | in Row. the Tygers for the first time this season, he hurled magnifi- cently yvesterday, but to no avail. He did all he could to bring victory to his club, but his clubmates were unable to back his masterly performance with anything resembling an offensive. First Inning Tells Story. The whole story of vesterday game, in so far as the result was con. | cerned, was in the Tegers' first turn | at bat. Then they clustered a brace of hits and registered the only run of the day. Neun had sazed at a third strike before Gehringer skidded the ball down the right field line. Judge | hurled himself at the skipping sphere, but it went by the first sacker to be- come a two-base hit. Wingo walked, but it seemed that | Johnson would check the Tvgers when their leader, Ty Cobb, did nothing more than 1oft a foul to Myer. Heil. mann, however, was to be heard from. He shot the ball toward right. center. Bucky Harris tried desperately to in- tercept the sphere, but it rolled to a single that tallied Gehringer and put Wingo on third base. Walter then | fanned Warner to end the scoring | frame. | Thereafter but five Tygers got on | the base paths. Neun opened the third round with a single that Bucky Harris knocked down and got to third | means of sacrifices made by r und Wingo. Cobb's best at a fly to Jean: | One was out in the fourth inning | when Judge’s boot put Warner on the | vener's scrateh hit off | i hand, the fourth| of the zame off the veteran, advanced Warner a notch. and he made third after Judge caught Manion's foul hoist far down the right- field line. Wells third strike-out of the i Heilman Fails This Time. Neun got Johnson’s second pass of | the day in the eighth inning. i ger sacrificed, and after Ruel the pitcher’s box for Wingo's pop, Cobb franked to first. Heilmann, though, flied to Rice. Natio vere on the ha times. s vielded five h two of them doubles, gave two p: es and contributed an error that put a batter | on first. No National passed second base, and that station was reached but four times. Goslin opened the second round with a single and swiped the middle sack after Judge lined to Heflmann. Bluege walked, but v caught in double play with Jeanes when the lat- ter's drive was stopped in spectacular manner near second base by Gehrin- ger. With one gone in the fourth frame, Rice strolled and pilfered second. Gos: | es eight unfortunate enough | 3 ‘center. WASH HINGTON. . th G 55 I Ruel, ¢... 001! ‘ Johnson, .. 7 olesss Warne 5 Tavener, s .00 01 o o b 00000 s 01100 -base hits—Gehringe: ases—Goslin ngton Sucritlces— « Double | wlay—Gehrl Dases lin, though, fouled to Warner and Judge lofted to Gehringer. Arter Bluege ned at the begin- ring of the fifth, Jeanes singled to Tex remained at first, as Ruel skied to Heilmann and Johnson pop- ped to Tavener. Myer was out of the way when Bucky Harris bunted in the sixth. Wells failed to field the ball cleanly and Bucky got to first safely. The pilot was caught attempting to steal before Rice grounded to the pitcher. Two were out in the seventh when | Bluege rifled a two-bagger down the | left field line. Heflmann, however, after a hard run, dragged down Jeanes® liner. With Ruel gone in the eighth, John- son drove the ball against the score- board in left center for a double. It was a terrific hit into the teeth of a gale sweeping across Navin Field. Had there been less breeze the ball prob- ably would have had enough carry to clear the wall for a homer. Peck was sent In to bat for Myer, and the Rajah_fanned. Tavener took good care of B ¥ Harris' grounder. was retired in the ninth lin got his second hit of the game, a single to center. The Goose danced oft first base, drawing veral throws from Wel then set sail for He was a victim of a fine heave 1 Manion, loft to Gehringer. E, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Minneaj i olis na Twaukee .. )1 3 1 Hollingsworth, Harris and Byler: Da anyGilingsworth. Harrls and Byler: Danforth Toledo o g Indianapolis .00 8 13 MeCullough and Heving: Hill and Hartlex Columbus .. 1% 97 1 Louisville .. < 1 4 s aeth and Mueter: Cobb, Tincup and De- vormer. Kansas City. o 20 2 Ste@anl. . Uil g0y '3 Meine. Olten and Shinault; Kolp. Roettger and Hofiman. TEXAS LEAGUE. Dallas. 14: Wichita Falls, San Antonio. Beaumont, 8 Fort Wprth. 5 RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTING. AB. H. SB.RRBIAve. Shréveport, 2. Morrell Goslin M Ruether deanes . o SRaanIand H 2co0800nuBa: 00 e P ot o, Kelley ... Hadley Thomas EEEEESE Total . zames. Games started. zames. Morrell ... Ruether Marberry .. Covelenkie. dohnson wISR=EORR corzakRIoRS eoomuianwUn Won, esoawiaw=no Lost. ecoonotnnous —THE NEWEST VAN HEUSEN ‘There’s no other coltar likea Van Heusen. Not a grain of starch. Nota seam or a band. Justa single piece of immacu- late, crisp, multi-ply fab- ric, woven on a curve with the fold woven in. Put one on today. 12 SMART STYLBE! 50 CENTS EACH PHILLIPS-JONES NEW YORE CITY second. | Judge ended the game with a 3 |in th o | Brookls | New York Louix tor st GAMES TODAY. AGAINST THE INDIANS CLEVELAND, June 8—Joe Bush s likely to be Bucky Harris' pitch- e for the series opener here although the pilot Intimated t he might switch to Curly Ogden rter against the Indl Stan e probably will be called upon spit ball against his former to hurl h: ates Lomorrow 1how that received » ma Rochester spe- list 10 days ago seems to be O. K uin, and the portsider hopes to re turn to the game while the Nationals are here. Dutch ma the slab Thursday or Friday Dutch Ruether’ some treatment fi Sam Rice, executed a nifty delayed | steal of second base in the fourth in Ining yesterday. He timed Wells' pitch- ing motion to a nicety, and dug for the middle while the pitcher was acing Goslin. Wells turned toward first and, 1 his arm, had to | throw to that base or have u balk de- clared, Neun's relay to Tavener of the hurler’s heave was well back of Rice at second. Jeames made 4 remarkable catch at Tavener's expense in the seventh in- | ning. The National: rdener had to Irun to the flagstaff in extreme center | field to drag down J lines | g | Gehringer made a couple ¢ | stops to hurt the Nationa use. His ! arab of Jeanes' hot grounder to start ide-retiring double play in the sec a whizz, and in the ninth he r to hi: om Rice. whiffing four batters Johnson 1 to 3.363 his big league career | strikeout total. Neun had a _quiet afternoon at first se, with only four putouts The | Tyger made his inftial retirement in | the second inning, registered another sixth, then n of the last two rounds. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. R H 811 710 Bates, | Birmingham Chattanooga .. : 3 Crowder and Yary and Hinkle. (11 innings.) n: Judd 14 12 Lindstrom d Brock: Alten. 21 20 s 11 Bovnells. Lizenbee and Kohlbecker: 7 12 § 11 Robinson Cvengros, . Warmoth. R Lakeland, Sanford. 5: Bradenton. 2. COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Gulfport. 7: Vieksburg. 4, Hattieabiirg. 6: Jackson. 3. Meridian. 8: Alexandria. 1. Laurel, 9: Monroe. 5. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Asheville, 9 Klifl)\'i‘“l‘. 8. Columbia, Augusta. 9: Macon. 3. Two-Day Sale of Discontinued Lines get a chance on brilliant | left for a stop that kept 1de an out in each | A’S GAIN ONLY WIN FOR EASTERN CLUBS By the Assoclated Pross, Rain pouring down upon the East. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ern seaboard has added to the double header list of National and Interr EW YORK, June 8—Paul Strand, the famous home-run hitter of e Pk oot Letge R e e hi tional League bas I teams. All| st League some years ago, is returning to his own. | zames scheduled in fhose cireuits yes His release has been purchased by the Portland, Oreg., club of t v were postponed. | hich were Strand has been playing with Columbus in the Ameri- i Lo B moisture, furnished four good pitch- ing performanc The most interest- ing struggle was Detroit defeat of ashington. 1 to 0. Kd Wells of the Tygers pitched his twenty-second con secutive scoreles in the vie- tor COAST HAILS THE RETURN N the coast circuit. can Association. Out on the coast the return of Strand to Portland will kick up a lot of enthusiasm from Secattle to Los Angeles, because many think that | Strand will be as great a ball player once he gets back to the West Coast | s he was when he was taken from Salt Lake City by Connie Mac It has been pretty well known that |is in t Atlantic City, going | homesick for the | over the routine of disputed | n idea that | claims for players. The members pres- e he would have heen bothered s |little about the resin bag rule and have v found no occasion to Worry over d home vuns that Connie Mack | provisions. le a special trip to Salt Lake CIUY |5 ee g e who Is the exe paid hand \Zue sensation | 1eagues, which he |t thot. veir: | declares the vital need in b | "But Strand never succecded for the |NOt resin bags, R Athletics. The home-run charm failed | the #reatest difficulty his ley him. He fell far below expectations | PReounter 1 and his own ideals. Tom Turner, who | In& you aking him from Columbus for Port- | ¥ think they s Strand became discouraged | Willing to pitch. Tt is his impres se of a bad start. The out- |that in a short time some | fielder will meet the Portland team in entering the minors W | Los Ange Thus a famous home- | cting as to demand that they be | run buster goes back to the scene of 1 not much oftener than twic is earliest triumphs and his new boss fortnight. lieves he will help to win a pennant | 1t is und ght that promises to be one of | president of the ’ the sensations of the base ball s | electe The Portland club is said to hoard to succe S e in iron in the fire for Duster Mafls. | former president of the If it can get the St. Louls Cardinals | League. The rules provide that to release Mails from Syracuse, where | ‘o s o e A easi | Lie was sent because of his erratic boy. | Other member of 5 s 4 s |ishness, Turner thinks his Portlana | must-sucsecd to ONCITE POSTRL o0 outfit has a chance to win the coast | i§ considered “that it pennant. Rl‘;‘fl;“l'zxx‘lll-"; ‘;If ‘V“llyllz ]. is entitled to P representation on the The National Board of Arbitration ' ‘opyright. 1t FASHION SHOP NINE ADDS TO LEAGUE LEAD MARGIN AIN spoiled the program for a number of twilight base ball leaguers yesterday, the Commercial and Government loops being the only ones to stage their scheduled games at the Ellipse. The Departmental League will hold the center of the stage today, a Treasury and Post Office nines, leaders in the pennant fight, are booke for a clash. Treasury has a sfight advantage at the present time, but the winner of the match’is likely to gain the honors for the first s | Fashion Shop h stepped into BASE BALL SECRETS | the lead in the Comme circuit la By Sol Metzger | week as a result of an To Hide Ball From Batter. wards, serving 4-hit INH! had been batied from | the mound in the opening fr the White Sox a2 10-tod vietor the wearers of the red hose from The Chic ins gained the n the sixth after an up- | and refused to relinquish | | mar I | to look him ov { with what he s | somely for the minor le: of “Durham tive head of has made pro tle rett of the Pale Sox had a per: fect day at bat with 4 sir George Uhle of Cleve upon himself to give th York ind he was_sue ore. Besides hoid- tern batsmen to of his | teher Tes, and took it can pitch, but 1o blows V's runs with in a 4 Philadelphia over St Lot o found a p base-hit colum wzar of the i of singles and now has hit safely 11 consccutive contests. FIGHTS LAST NIGMT. By the Assoc CINCIN George (' Burke, in ninth of purse. LIMA ad Al W Roberts ie, will be ational n O'Neill Sastern | ood that 1 Le of t ed Press CATI ol stopped lin and Martin heavywe orl Tima Ohi A hoxed Tich BALTIMORE. — ¥oung Bob itz simmons and HBob Roper were halted by referee in sixth after warnings against stalling, RICKARD T(i PRESENT PLANS NEXT TUESDAY June, tate 1 to S.—Tex Rickard Athletic Cof suspen: Union Printers by | pany nine. added to its margin ye. terday by trouncing the Phonemen, 1 to 8. The H lashery erew now credited with half a dozen wins & two losses Government Printin of Government League also made best of the intervals between showe pped farther out in front wi to-9 victory over Treasury. Lyon as the winning hur and the 2 mission h of hostili The co a_full b ard is 1 business is pressing Therefore the prospective discussion of the Dempse Wills matter will go ov week. able aj an. r another Sailors of the Naval Receiving St | tion outel day by a Royal Athletic meet tonight at § iscuss their zame with | Sunday. Clashes with the Roy | be booked with the manager : 2900, | Washington Athletics and Comfort ers play today at 5 o'clock on diamond No. 4. Frank plans next Tuesday FIGHT MANAGER FINED. AKRON, Ohi 8 charges of using his hoxers. Huey Welch, promoter and manager, ha $100, ary Avers of ton boxing Club The good pitcher hides the ball nth street R from the batter when standing on J the rubber. He covers it with his glove. That enables him to hide his grip so that the batter has no ance of telling what sort' of a 1 is coming. Furthermore, the tter is further handicapped it he can’t get his eve on the ball until it actually leaves the pitcher's hands. Never start your pitch th the ball in view, as is the player on the right in_ the illus- tration. Keep the ball covered until you get it pretty well hehind you on the hack swing. It will add to your effectiven: COLLEGIANS GRABBED BY NEW YORK CLUBS By the Associated Press. H \EW YORK, June 8—Collegians| lare making their annual bow | major league 1 ball, with the York teams, always partial to players of higher education, well up in the race for recruits. George Davis has | New York Universi Three large figure: i , led the . The mark was gained | in batting, not in the languages. | John Mc ¢, who captured Flash- | |ing Frankie Frisch from Fordham {and Dentist Eddie Farrell from Penn has obtained the Villanova captain, Joe Connell, who bats 450 collegically |and shunts'a ball with his left hand. Al Smith, Villanova hurler, will re- ceive a tryout with the Giants. local fight Barber . Joseph’s nine plays at th nd Athletic | diamond Sunday, and on the follow Sabbath will go to Annapolis to tac the Eastport semi-pros. I the Saints turned in a 9-to-4 win | the Eastport club. Louis Naples, who has been out of the line-up since the ! St. Joe-Knick clash, will be in uniform | in in the match with the Maryland | Athletic Club. Sally Hanback and Joe | Sweeney, former Warwick performer: also will play for St. Joseph' PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Salishury, 10 Winston Salem. 6 High Point, 4 SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. St. Augustine Greenshoro, 9 (11 innings) Durham. 3. leigh, 1. mery. 6 3 graduated from 1 ¢ to the Yankees. and a decimal| ankee owners to | VIRGINIA LE’A’(:xUEA 4: Porten pouth, 2 Richmond. = CUBS TRADE A PAIR. INDIANAPOLIS, June 8 (@), Riggs Stephenson, outfielder, and Henry Schreiber, infielder, of the Tn- dianapolis American A;su(‘i;::lnn team ave been traded to the Chicago Na- " {‘l:m.'fls for Infielder Maurice Shannon address speaks for itself . |and Outfielder Joe Munson. 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Ever since University of Washington crews have attained a position aniong the leaders in intercollegiate rowirg those versed in the irt of sweep-swifiging haye been wondering hov system so productive of results and how coaches of the brilliancy of Edwarl Leader and K sell Callow could have been developed by such 4 man as tate Hir: ar, who had never swung a sweep in a race and wac known n v as a big league trainer and track coach of sorts. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. |un the touchine o romims | up the teaching of rowing at Se: Pr and evolved not only a winning sys AMERICAN LEAGU tem, but men qualified to o elsewhere e Dagam: Yanke and transplant that system, has been ns—Ruth, Yankees, regarded as one of thos iracles Hits—Rice, Nationals, 3. Sy ot b o L sport that occastonally occur to con Triples—Gehrig, Vankees, 11, | found the eritics and to give pause to Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 19. | those who abide exclusively by the Stolen bases—Meusel, Yankees, 1 i rule and rote of the game. itching—Hoyt, Yankees, won ¢ Pennock, Yankees, won Got It From Cook. | And it has been considered extraordinary that Connibear sk have come upon a stroke so clo suggesting that taught by Yale« great teacher in the 80s, the late Bol Cook. Now it may be stated that the Uni versity of Washington's great rowing ploneer was the creature of es, 391, lost also 'TONAL LEAGU oubles—Fy ‘Triples—Wright, ifomers—RBottomley Stolen bases—(uyler, P Pitching—Meadows, Tost 0. - ates, won in the category of phe nomena. Here is what happened. In the days before the war Joe Sharp was athletic director at Chautauqua In New York State. Among his activi ties had been rowing, which he was well qualified to teach. But in course of time the rowing idea waned on ike Chautauqua. - a man with a rugged face ¢ build appeared in Sharp's office at Chaut. “I understand.” he said. “that you used to row at Yale under Bob Cook | and that you teach rowing here.” WILL FACE TONIGHT | cher vs. boxer is the line-up | main_bout at Kenilworth to hen Willle Wiggins of Tren- N. J.. makes his second appe: here in a 12.round match with > Dundee of Baltimore, iy his terrific hitting the Jer: hter has scored 18 knockouts in bouts. But other terrific, hitters, in- cludingNick Bass, Danny Gordon, | Iiddic Dempsey and Len Mahoney, il the shifty Dundea In a ring career of turned in a | tiany He had rowed at Yale under Cook, hut of late had not been rowrhing rowing at Chautauqua. Well." said the stranger, “my name nnibear and T am coach of ath the University of Washing. ton. We are beginning to fool with rowing and T want to know something ut the stroke Bob Cook taught and his methods of teaching so that I can 20 back and give the boys something Dundee percentage of 1.000. In addition to t these two w + meeting between four other houts am. An eight-rounder | Dencio into jon | worth while.” nst Jack Cafoni, who has youth, How It Was Done. ight, weight and reach on the little Filipino flyweight, and hopes to step There were no shells on the lake at into matn-event ranks by w win to-| the time but Sharp did find a pair night oared gi according to the writer's | Marty information, and the two men went & out on the lake day after day. VWhen Connihe: ad finally completed his mer r pions down for a six-rou course he returned to Seattl Two four-round matches bring work of a s _ia:,ndt‘;-‘,(»’ Di Assiz into the ring with Joe Fil: brought Washington into and Kid Woody into action with Billy int rank of rowing colleges and Harri ¥ B 3 en to the universities of the Buck Alexander or Charley country that go in for aqudtics some will referee. Dutch Miller and 11 coaches who as undergraduates huyler have been named as judges. | cwyng sweeps in the \Washington shell. iy L The Bob Cook stroke has become QUICKSTEPS WANT GAMES. |, jegandary phrase and it is probable Virginia Quicksteps, who defeated |that nine out of ‘ten who use it could ort Myer | not describe the process in detail, if before 500 fans, 6 to 2, wish to | generally. 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