Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1926, Page 18

NEEDS STRONG SUPPORT l:heheu Too Scarce to Have Their El'orfi;Wutid by Club’s Stapid Playing—Covey’s Sad Fate. . Marberry Tackles Indians Today. A BY JOHN B. KELLER, “HIS afternoon the Nationals were to enter their last week of home - play before invading the West for the second time this season, 3 week in which they must get better than gn even break with the opposition in the eight games scheduled if they would earry to foreign fieldy a fairly respectable winning record for the campaign. : - *!" Of the nine games so far played during the second visit of the West- em clubs here the Nationals. have won five. And in get that pecord they have been hopping back and forth between' the first and second divisions like a hen on a hot griddle. Their latest hofi was backward, a $-t0-3 defeat by the Indians yesterday shoving the Marrismen back to fitth place. e e Nationals have been getting pretty good results from a meager mound staff recently, but too frequently they have not kept their heads ; while in action. “The trouncing of the Champs le example’ of what can happen to a club playing In an effort t6 climb to even terms with the Tribe In the present series, tuc- Stan Harrls was to send to the box thisafter- noon Fred g L | 4 ] i % i o é 11 i ¢ ! il a1 to check he mental il L bk i g s § i i i I £ Eili bt i L] § | ? | ie oy i i | i ' ] ! 7 | Huly ARROWS’ FAST FIELDING TELLS IN PETWORTH TILT lys went into the van in the Petworth senior race yesterday; when thé league opened its campaign with a trio of anappy- sandlot contests. i - ¥ Py The Arrows pulled & triple'play and-a pair of double killings in be: ing the Takoma Tigers, 7 1o % Hutchinson did.the hurling for the win- ners, while Nee and Moore led the team at bat. £y Falaie Rove, ARROWS.‘Clrfimh and Kent batters chalked fellie Jott and Doc in from ‘the Tremonts, 16 to-10.7 .| Jones ‘twirled for ‘the ing the game At |13 of the EeEralsl, CK'AND ST. J tossers’ took double-header, winning Orioles, 18 to 4, and trimming the Senecas, u,:n“l‘. ‘A triple play. was g\’l‘:un 9108 m-&nfimt ‘Washington Crescents, 11 te 5. " Arlington Bearcats took the short end of &'10-t6-1 count fn & clash with nosed out by rully .in the Mitchelivilie, ¢ to 3, & ninth turning the trick. Juniops -added another to HEAD UNLIMITED CLASS NICKERBOCKER and St. Josephs nines took the lead in . of the Capital City League un! Section A limited sandlot base.ball series yes- terday by adding victories to the wins registered a week ago, when . | the race opened. 3 The Knicks, whe swamped Marlboro last Sunday, took Ch over the jumps in their second league game, and, after tall times in the opening-frame, added a run here and there to get an- 1-to:6 -de- cision. CROWDER WILL GET EARLY SLAB TRIA Alvin Crowder, right-hand pitcher The' newest: Griffith and as goon as he. procured. declares 3 Ig.:mnly cannot get along with less i seven hurlers. It is likely that another recruit from the minors will ‘be brought here during the week. Nick general handy man of the Nationals 1 in addition to being showmen for the | elub on the road, was not among those .| tertain the crowd BY BILL RARIDEN, Weteran and Formar World: Series Star. HE pitcher iy a pretty impor- d tant ow on a base ball elub. He might be called the ‘mainspring, But there must be 3 balance wheel, 3nd the catcher is that. The catcher gets a lot of knecks and sometimes doesn’t get 3 1ot of eredit, but there’s a lot of per- somal satisfaction, at least; in ‘Being a good catcher. You don't have tg be any partiou- cateher. ing ' right you can avold some of "mthg'T you ot::erwlle m:ou!d m Tha earning to use mitt Learn to catch so the miltt takes bumps—not the bare hand now - does nearly all the Grifith Stadium ye: in Cleveland to en- sttending the an- day at present at Clark terday. He was nual amateur base ball fleld Dunn Field. sEib TAKES FRENCH 3,600-MILE CYCLE RACE PARIS, ‘July 19 UPLuclen Buysse '*: o Mcycla. ::n.u.':u;n began June 30. The race was in 17 stages Rainler runs acress the pan in the and eovered 3,600 ‘miles, the elapsed E o - Sa® 90, S 1 = 3 3 s ige% ' 35%; e », 'ig 5 e A Z MONTBOMERY LOOP| THE YANKEES M ZACHARY, 3-year-old:left-Nander of the Browns, | BETHESDA NOW TOPS . ZACHARYFIRST TO BLANK . of the Nationals, may well claim something of a feat in this base ball year of/ many feats, for he js the first to shut out the Yankees of 1926 The lean moundsman from N.C, ted th ugging teamt to; hit safely nhse'.mnudny.»w& -..:MS | Hi turned them back when trouble threatened. He struck a victim thrice. St. Louis won, 4 to 0, | Lazerri, from; Salt Lake City, out four, Tomy Ken Williams hitting a home run x! sent Sad Sam Jones showerward. | HARTFORD NINE TOPS |2z NORTH:VIRGINIA RACE Brown went the route for’Addisen, allowls \&u five hits; ine e nd Farmer g‘gumummtum-' teday maintains of ten and ":‘..fi."h‘"i,“ about’ oppl “-F‘ ‘with comely H WESTERN AMATEUR GOLF (B2 BEAR LAKE, Mina., July 19-Over the hilly stretches of the White Bear Yacht Ciub course, the annual campaign to de- * termine the Westerri amateur. golf . championship. got under way today. . 15 5 Before tee time for the first pair<) am.—the, entry list showed 150, crack golfers scheduled to fight it for t| ionshi; held by Keale Cartcr of Gkiahoma s ey e e P WITH 150 ENTERED rogram called for departure of pairs at five-minute intervals until after 3 p.m., with 18 holes of i . Vet P '.; of medaf pl;uflcmg them today ‘and the “Among’ the veterans ' watched by the knowing is' Chick Bvans of Chi- cago. reported again showing much %‘. _formi that wen for him. the | Western _champilonship and in 1916 earned him the national amateur and open titles, . Dr. 00 F, Willing ed a niche in ball o his ‘hy in the Walker cup competition ti . Because of their sweeping victery in the intersectional singles matches with the mid- Saturday, the group from the Pacific Nerth- west will be watehed with inf Founds. 12th and C Sts. N.W. Open' Until '8 P.M. Daily = 26 PM. Sesmiday: - -