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22 S! CHAMPIONS HAVE O MORE TILTS Harris H PORTS. NLY 21 LISTED HERE s Comparatively Few Recruits to Try Out even Weeks of Season Remaining—Must Hustle to Land as High as Third. BY JOHN ASHINGTON'S American League season is on the wane. cluding today’s double-header with the Y. have only 21 games . mor this year. After the Yankee contest next Sunday. around the Georgia avenue diamond B. KELLER. In- nkees, the Nationals ¢ to play in Clark Grifith Stadium depart Friday the Athletics will visit for a lone Then the four Western clubs will kick up the turf for approximately a couple of weeks. Afier them the Red Sox will come here for three tilts, one on September 5. and in“a dual sketch on Labor day will assist the Monday, September 6—the Fohlmen ionals in ringing down the curtain on the local campaign The dizzy schedule drawn for the 1926 flag race then will send Bucky Harris and company to the West, w and Athletics will conclude the seas here all other clubs except Nationals on. The unfortunate exceptions will have to trip hack to Philadelphia for a wind-up series that probably will a corporal's guard. not draw < n weeks of the season The 1 it mea had a deal of recruit talent to try out. But they haven't and there's little prospect they will_have in the future. The Washington club well tak 1 from the k. In the s 1 game Saturday’s double-header in Citythe Indians demon just what wredness in ball means. the game was very old they had on the field a team that with the exception of one man was entirely different from the team that had s ted the game. And the Indians could have put on the field an entirely new club had they not used a utility outfielder as pinch bat- ter earlicr in the fray. It was an up and going voung team, too, that the Tribe trotted out Must Hustle to Land Thi m The lust seven weeks of the season | to the the present About the at the con- third place along at a than attain to mean much fan concerned can hope for the season is have to step one much_livelier been following—to aren't Nation flag best they clusion of and the ¥ pace have zoing Is in is outfit probabiy will job to pick up the remainder of Four of the seven due t hold advantages the Nationals in annual series. Yankees, Indians, Tyie and »x have been tough customers for the locals all the way and neither of the last two mentioned seems to have slowed as much as have the Nationa recently. What the Nationals must wade through during the remainder of their e son is shown in the follow g sehedule Yankees—August 12, 13, Athletics—August Tygers—A\ Indians—. ow ns— AU, clubs d 11 (two games), Red games) Sox—September 6 (two Yanks Pro Much Trouble. Plenty of trouble was anticipated the Nationals in the string of six mes with the Yankees, starting this afternoon and _including a double- header in New York Saturday. Neither Stan Covelesk nor Al Crowder, slated AR the Hugmen in the dual bill this afternoon, has been steady cecently, although Covey did find the Tribe ¢ v in his last Tomorrow Geor Murray may take @ turn against the Yanks, for which outfit he pitched when he first came to the American League in 1923, oes, it will be the first Was appearance for the ne whose pathway thro Was not S0 rosy With Dutch Ruether pitching perbl the first time on the trip the Nationals yesterday wound their Western swing with a 4 to 1 win over the Indians. In scoring his twelfth victory of the season, the veteran held the Tribe to six safeties, all in the last five nuings. He scored against until the nin su for southpaw made With Hits. frames Buddy 1 on at the out- Duteh Stingy en In g0l no farther | seaker walked fourth and clung Homer Summa t the start of the 1t trying o swipe ov led at bt v With one & Sewell and Clif Lee, the Summa, singled suc red 1. but Clff when he bd o After Rube Lutzke Cutset the eighth an for him o and was the middle ans were 1 bit obstrep he play by M Ker doubled sunded over hind the 1 pick-up and threw poke went to third s home, then the quickly snuffed ) he the begin ver got be- me in the sixth Sewell ngled ters were Till Ninth. Levsen Strong ovser hits, th Moon Harris bunched against_him woduce @ tally. Then < single was followed by re were mixed with throw in the With two and Bluege 1ser crowded the ped his cause by lonz single to center that two of Lis teammate: nd 1 to third. When tt made a g to first after : meNeciy's Benny coun much to the Nationals if | up | Myer's | t the | RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTING. AB. H; SB.RBLAve. 4 270 500 16 404 2. %3 23, EEE P $5233%3R0ARE3 1948 SE332TE23 2288 Ruether Morrell Covelexkie Johnson Marberry Crowder Lehrineko 05290325 uS00uSR=B R Kuethe: Marberry Morrell . Johnson Crowder _ Coveleskie Uchrinsko. 3 M cosuse®a0n=S ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 4; Cleveland, 1. . New Yerk, 3 (7 ionings. to ohifa, 4 Chicago. 3 (11 innings). Boston, 4. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. i St. Loul 1391501521551 174 TODAY'S GAMES. New York at Washington (two zames). Detroit at Kt. Louis. Chicago at Cleveland. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 10: Brooklyn, . Boston, 1 0: Cincinnati, 8. Chicago, 0. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Pittsburgh. St. Louls. i 611441581 Pittab'gh _—1 31 AUGUST 11, 1926 AMERICAN LEAGUE FLAG By the Associated Press. left the New York Yankees we League. doubtedly would have been acceptabl! leaders and another league pennant. ‘Where a month ago Cleveland had to play .667 ball to tie the Yankees playing .500, the Westerners' per- centage for the remainder of the sea- son must be .750. In other words, if the Yankees win 22 and lose the same number the Indians must reg- ister 30 conquests against 11 losses to_tie. Yesterday Dettoit took another shot at the leaders and won an abbrevi- ated game, 6 to 3, with a three- run rally. Ty Cobb, batting for O'Rourke in the seventh, singled home the winning score. The game was called at the end of the inning to permit the Yankees to catch a train for Washington, where a double- header was scheduled today. Meanwhile Cleveland fell before Washington, 4 to 1. Ken Willlams’ sixteenth home run of the year gave St. Louis a victory over the Red Sox, 6 to 4. The Athletics downed the White Sox, 4 to 3, after 11 innings. More- hart’s fumble of Grabowski’s throw in the final frame to catch Hale IS IN GRASP OF YANKEES IFTEEN games in the West, widély regarded as a crucial test, have 11 ahead of the field in the American Ten victories against five defeats, .667 base ball, where .500 un- e, show on the Huggins' record for the invasion and only one more foreign tour stands between the present stealing was followed by a Cochrane single which settled the issue. Johnny Mostil of Chicago recorded a homer. A shifted infleld failed to hamper the New York Giants in the National League and today they are secure in fourth position as a result of their victory over the Chicago Cubs, 2 to 0. Freddle Lindstrom, their third base- man, has been called to Chicago by the death of his father and Frank Frisch is at third base. Frisch’s home run in the sixth yesterday won the game. Brooklyn succumbed to the Pir- ates, 10 to 2, the ninth straight de- feat for the Dodgers. Thirteen hits by Pittsburgh and eight errors by Brooklyn tell the story of the con- test. Boston bowed to the St. Louis Cardinals, 3 to 1, when four straight hits in the ninth accounted for two runs, Philadelphia topped Cincinnati, 10 to 8, by counting 17 hits off Donohue, Luque and Lucas. . Curtis Walker of the Reds hit a homer in the fifth with two on base. St. Louis | 3/—I 71 81 _9/Gol4n|. TODAY' Chi t New York. Cincinnati at Philadelphia. S at Boston. TVERAA LEADS GOLFERS. CHICAGO, August 11 (P)—Art Tveraa, the 18-year-old Minneapolis boy, who came to fame by putting Chick Evans out of the Western amateur tournament last month, wept through a_field of 250 young- sters in the qualifying rounds of the Western junior golf _tournament. turning in a 35—38 3 for medal over the par 72 course of the ater Golf Club. | scored in 13 starts, POOR HURLING HANDICAPS ' NATS WORST DURING TRIP L.THOUGH not so poor as the first trip, when only 4 victories were the Nationals' second Western swing of the vear, that ended yesterday, was another “washout” for the club. | But 8 victories were achieved in 17 engagements, leaving the Na- | tionals five points poorer in winning percentage than when they em- barked upon the tour on July 25. with the White Sox, Browns and Tygers, Even breaks came in four-game series in order, but only two games of five played with the Indians were won. the seventeen games the Na- got 187 hits for 114 runs, their opponents got 173 hits runs; The White Sox, out- 20 to 15, got 41 hits to the iomals’ 40. The Browns were outscored, 36 26, and outhit, 51 {to 41. The Tvgers were outscored, 31 to 26, but outhit the tionals, 49 to 41 In the Indian serfes the Na- tionals got 27 rums and 52 hits, | while the opposition got 25 runs and 48 hits. | While weakness afleld was largel: responsible for a_couple of defeats. | the main trouble lay in the National pitching corps. Too frequently for the goed of the club, the hurlers would have especially weak innings in which their offerings were slammed to all corners of the lot and too often they developed wild streaks. Barney Alone Finishes All Walter Johnson was the only slab- man to complete all engagements he started. He beat the White Sox and the Browns, then bhowed to the Ty and” the Indians. Dutch Ruether started four times and pitch- ed two complete games. He won one game and lost one. Al Crowder, who started three times, but never finished, and was in four games. won two and lost two Stan Coveleskie started three times nd went the route once, then scoring | over the Indians for his lone victory of the trip. No losses were charged | against the spitballer. | “George Murray began three games, but failed to last in any. One defeat was charged against him. Bill Mor- ell got into three games as relief pitcher and got one victory to his credit. Fred Mayberry broke into 9 of the 17 games in a relief role. He went through _with one victory | | tionas | while | for 1 scored, on with the Memphis Club of the South- ern Association, according to word from local headquarters today. The fiychaser brought here from Buffalo of the International League goes to the Chicks on_option and probably will rejoin the Nationals this Fall. At the conclusion of Monday's game in Cleveland its time was announced as 1 hour and 30 minutes. Later the official time was recorded as 1 hour and 27 minutes, making it the short est nine-inning game in Natio have y Taylor, utility given permission to | his il wife at their home in Pitts. | burgh. may be absent from the Na tionals longer than expected. Word has been received that Mrs. Taylor is more seriously ill than at first thought. Danny who was | In his first turn at bat vesterday |Myer had a_hit taken from him |by Lutzke. The Indian third sacker jumped high to drag down with his bare hand Bud liner. Rice drew a h from the 6000 erowd with a eircus catch of Spur. | geon’s low liner to right center in the first frame. Sam had to dive for the i ball and took a long slide after grab- | bing it. which the | rticipated this year. | outfielder, | isit | TRIP IS ENDED RIGHT . 13 | o | ib. 4. Sewell, ss. Summa, rf. eosuemimanSEE=22 Uhlet .. Bichrodi Totals . Washington. | Cleveland slessms0cmnis-225F ol amsuimomanE ~losss-9520290225% ~losssamz0a™ ~ls2223202050-222% ul= o Speaker. Thre is. Sacrifices—Bluege, Lutzke, Jum Double plays—Burns’ to L. Levsen to 1. vell. Lef{ . Coni our and |MISS EDERLE IS GUEST | OF VICE CONSUL TODAY BOULOGNE., France, August 11 (#).—Gertrude Ederle leaves Gris-Nez this morning for Calais, where she will attend a luncheon given by United States Vice Consul Smith of her brilllant channel swim of last Friday. After the luncheon Miss Ederle will entrain at Calais for Stuttgart, Ger- many, where she will visit her grand- mother. l MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Syracuse, 3. Jersev City. 2 Baltimore, 9 Buffalo, ¥ Toronto, : Reading. '3 Rochester, 11; Newark, & AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Indianapolis, ¥: Kansas City, 6 St Paul. 2 Toledo. 1. Louisville, 8: Milwaukce, 0 Minneapolis, 5: Columbus, ¥ SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, Atlanta. 4-0: Little Rock. 0-0 Birmingham, 10: Memphis., 4. [ New Orieant, §: Chattanooga. 3 | Only ‘three scheduled H SOUTHEASTERN LEAGU! ! Montgomery. 8: St. Augustine. 3 | Cotumbus, 4i: Jacksonvifle.”3 | SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. | Augusta. Asheville, 1-8 Columbia, 5: Charlotte, 4 Spartanburg,” 5: Greenville, { Macon. 5: Knoxville. 4 | PIEDMONT | réensboro. | inminge) | HiFh Point. 13; Durham. 4 VIRGINIA LEAGUE. 10: Petersburg, 0 14: Portsmouth. 5 in honor | The Cvening :fitar BOY S CLUB T would be a good idea for groups together and stage its field day. track and field events, throwing the basket ball and base ball, ctc. too many events and be poor in all you can scatter your strength. For jumps, etc. Save your strength for the big and important test is a point you must never overlook. For instance, if you are going to run the hundred yards tomorrow practice starting and strid- ing today and run the hundred once fairly fast, but don't strain yourself and don’t run it fast twice. When a pitcher is scheduled to work in a game he doesn't wear himself out pitching to the batters in batting prac- tice. He warms up slowly and &ra ually increases his speed. He saves his best for the game {tself. A foot ball team rests up the day before a big game. It is so in all sport tests, Don’t leave your game in the gym- nasium or on the practice fleld. Have it with you when it counts. But, on the other hand, don't make the mistake of not practicing or keep- ing in shape at all. (Copyright. 1926.) DEPARTMENTAL LOOP TITLE TAKEN BY P. 0 Another twilight base ball league championship was decided and an- other entry in the week day play-off series listed yesterday when Post Of- fice copped the title in the Depart- mental circuit by making it two straight over Treasury in the league’s post-season play-off. The Postal tossers followed up Mon- day's 6-to-p victory with a one- sided triumph, 8 to 1, Emil Pfeil fill- ing thé mound job and Ritnour lead- ing in the stickwork. Clatterbuck was sent to the hill for Treasury at.the start of the fray but |gave way in_the second to Henry | Phipps. The Post Office batters col- lected a total of 14 hits from the pair's offerings. Pfeil granted eight bingles and fanned three men. Chevy Chase and Mount Rainier | nines inaugurate week day play in the unlimited division of the Capital City League with a game tomorrow at Mount Rainier diamond. The start- ing hour is 5:15. Irving Claude or Jack Batson will hurl for the Bear- { cats, while Dick Hughes or Big Jim Sullivan gets the mound assignment for the home club. Mount Ranier plays at Arlington Sunday in the next league contest. American Rallway Express drew first blood yesterday at Terminal fleld in the start of the series between ! the runners-up in the first and second halves of the Washington Terminal Y. M. C. A. League schedule. South- ern took the short end of a 3-to-l count. The hits stood 6 to 5 for the winners. Shipping Board base ballers, who plaved to an 1l-all tie with Public Buildings and Public Parks Monday | in the Potomac Park League, showed | the way to War Department yester- | day, 10 to 5. Edelin, the winnin | hurler, struck out eight baters, while | Burke fanned six. 1 Managers of teams competing in the Northern Virginia championship | series meet tonight at the Post Build-! ing to revise ther schedule. ; | With August Hecke Mount Vernon's entry in the Sunday | School League series yesterda de- ! . feated the Clarendon Baptist nine, | Tto2. and then a couple of other running events, of members of the Boys Club to get There should be sports of all sorts— and kicking the foot ball, throwing ,Urge such a meet and then try to take as many points as you can, but don't be piggish and “bite off more than you can chew. Don't try to enter of them. Pick those events so that instance, don't try all of the sprints Mix up the runs with FLAG CHANCE RATINGS IN THE MAJORS TO'DATE AMERICAN LEAGUE. New York .. . Cleveland .. Philadelphia Washington Chicago Detroit . St. Louis Boston . 800 . 300 . 100 . 085 . 085 . 080 NATIONAL LEAGU Pittsburgh St. Louis New York Cincinnati Chicago . Brooklyn Boston . Philadelphi TANK MEET IS"WON BY ROSEDALE TEAM With Arvin' White and Sam Hook | their high point scorers in the un- limited and junior clases, respectively, swimmers of Roredale playground yesterday swamped the team repre- senting Georgetown pool in the an- nual intersectional meet, 64 to 25. White placed first in the 25 and 50 yard freestyle évents and was a member of the winning relay four. Hook captured the junior 25-yard free style and ard back stroke events. Dick Turner earned George- town's only first place when he won the 25-yard breast-stroke swim for unlimiteds. GRANGE HAS RETURNED | | TO JOB ON ICE WAGON CHICAGO, August 11 (#).—Harold Grange, galloping ghost of the grid- iron, has returned to his trade—the ice wagon. Equipped with the solid silver tongs presented him several months ago, Red called on his old custemers to- day and was given a royal welcome, along with admonitions not to track up the floor nor upset the cream. Archie MacKinney, another Wheat- on athlete, is teaming with Red on the ice wagon in preparation for fur- ther foot ball conquests. E. MEMBERS OF SEE BIG GAME TOMORROW OMORROW is_the hig day Evening Star Boys Club. are tackling the New York certain to win the American League It is very likely that Pitcher Ge Washington. came into the big leagues, has not ye his work will be watched with interest by all the fans, young and old. The young fans who make up The Evening ‘Star Boys Club membership have been given four sections of seats In the upper grandstand along third base line from which to witness the contest. They will enter by the upper Fifth street gate, the northeast corner of the park, and are expected to go to their places in the second deck of sections Q. R, S and T in an orderly manner. As the club's reput: and future invitations to the big e games depend a great deal on the attitude shown by the hoys toward the park property and the manner in which they conduct themselves before and during the game, it is highly im- portant that each member be on his best behavior. The gate at which wearers of the club button may enter will be opened shortly after 1 o'clock, and the best seats will naturally go to the fi arrivals. Each boy must have his club button in order to gain admis- sion. Another group of boys anxious to get in on the big privilege being ex- tended The Evening Star Boys Club by the Washington Base Ball Club have made last-minute applications for membership. Their names follow John Jonea, 640 H street northeast. Bernard Carter. Alexandria, V. Julian Burke, Alex: 2 Charlton Rose. 'Alexandria. V G. Anderton Burke, Alexandria. Va John Lasley. 1531 Olive street noriheast weslewart. Sondtsimer. 916 F streel. south- rl Donaldson. Cherrydale, Va. Herhert Harves. Lanhiam. M. William Salter. 1227 Tenih stroet . Ted and Henry Pierce, West Falls Church, Virginia. iltor Arrington. Alexan Arthur Zinnamon, Brent at od, Md. William Redman.” Brentwood. Md George and Raymond Yates, 527 street southeast. John Oscar Bell. Cherrydale. Va. Burton Hawkins, 03" Thirteenth street George E. Matthews, R1 S street. John Callahan. 414" F street northeast. Ravmond Hammer. 1343 Columbia road Billy Alder, 234 Bryant street. e!la(mnld Gates, 1437 Irving street north- ot l%ubert Porter, 3207 Fifteenth street north- east, Edward Le Compte. 1430 N_streat. Clarence Robbins, northeast. ‘Albert ‘Wirz. 1313 B street southeast Charles F. Corcoran, 655 Pennsylvania avenue southeast Frank Ross Chaimson, 1833 S street Ninth GOLFERS ARE SELECTED. DAYTON, OHIO, August 11 (®).— Steve Zappe, Springfield: nmet French and Al Alcroft, Youngstown: Larry Nubholtz, Cleveland, and George Howard, Canton, wlll repre sent Ohio at the Professional Golfers Association tournament, to be held next month at Garden ( Sm NU They are to go in a body to their first base ball game at Clark Griffith Stadium, where the Nationals Murray, who played ball with the Yankees when he first 1238 “Monroe street | BOYS CLUB of the season for members of The Yankee club, the team that appears pennant this trip. orge Murray will start the game for t hurled a game in the local park, and BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. | By the Associated Press | AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Fothergill, Tigers, .404. Rune—Ruth, Yankees, 105, Hits—Burns, Indians, and Rice, | Nationals, 138. | Doubles—Burns, Indians, 52. | Triples—Gehrig, Yankees, 18. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 36. Stolen _bases—Rice, Nafionals, and | Hunnefleld, White Sox, 18. | Pitching—Reuther, National | 12 tost 4. I NATIONAL LEAGUE | Batting—Bressler, Reds, .353 Runs—Cuyler, Pirates, 80. Hits—Brown, Braves, and Cuyler, Pirates, 141. Doubles—Wheat, Robins, 31. Triples—Walker, Reds, 17. Homers—Bottomley, Cardinals, and Wilson, Cubs, 15. Stolen Bases—Cuyler, Pirates, 21. Pitching—Jones, Cubs, won 8; lost 2. 70-POUND ATHLETE SETS PACE IN MEET John Costello, a 70-pounder. led the point scorers yesterday at John Eaton playground when the elimination trials for the city track and field meet were held. Costello took the 50-vard dash, the running high jump and the running broad jump in his division. | Fletcher Sheffield won the broad jump and high jump for 100-pound- | ers. Honors in the 85-pound class | went to Floyd Willlams, who won t! high jump and placed second in the | 60-yard dash and broad jump. WINS LOG-BIRLING EVENT. WASHBURN, Wis., August 11 (). i —Gilbert Thompson, Cloquet, Minn., remains the only contestant in the world champion log-birling meet who has not yet taken a wetting. Thompson yesterday won the West- ern championship. SPORTS. Nationals Open Last Home Stand : Pirates Can Lose Only by Beating Themselves NATIONAL LEAGUE VICTOR LIKELY TO TIE LOW MARK Progress of Race Indicates Champion Club Will Match Record of Phillies in 1914, Only Club in 50 Years to Win With Less Than .600. BY' FREDERICK G. LIEB. HIS merry National League scramble is full of might have beens. For instance, if Cincinnati could have walloped the Giants after the fashion of Pittsburgh, the Reds now would be well in front On the other hand, if the McGraw band could have polished off the Pirates as consistently as they have mopped up the Reds, Pop Knicker- bocker now might prepare for another one of his all-New York world series. But the Giants have been soft for the Cubs and Braves. Recently I Neard a National Leaguer remark: “If any other club but Pittsburgh captures the 1926 National League pennant, it will be because the Pirates have tossed it away, not because the other club will have won it." ) That pretty well describes the its vicissitudes. and upsets. How P National League situation, with all of tsburgh lost five straight to Cincin nati, a foot ball all year for New York, about a month ago, still remains a mystery to me. Not that I intimate there was anything wrong with that series. It simply isn't in the cards that a team like Cincinnati should down the present world champion five times hand-running. In 50 years of Natiomal League ball, only one club has won the cham- plonship with a percentage of less than .600. That was the Phillies of 1914, who managed to scramble over the finish mark with a percentage of 592. For the past two months the leading National League club, wheth- er it has been Cincinnati or Pitts. burgh, has zigzagged between .565 and, 580, considerably below the lowest pennant gait ever struck i the N: tional. This indicates the absence of any outstanding team, and is responsible for six clubs still having a pennant look-in in the second week in August. T have heard it sald that this is the easfest race to win that ever has been staged by the Natlonal League. If that means the low number of per- centage points needed o win, the statement may be true. But there is another angle. The National League field is so evenly matched this year that no club has a decided advantage. There are no pushovers, as can be at- tested by the Pirates and Reds. The Pirates find their hands full every time they take on the Phillies, and the Braves have been almost as .|tough on Cincinnati this vear as the Giants. Giants May Be Runner-Up. Even though I looked for Pitts. burgh to do better in the East, the pennant percentage of the Pirates has been hoosted to .580, 100 points above St. Louis, the club I place sec- ond this week. However, there still is a strong chance that the Giants will be the runner-up by October 1. Remember, they finish the season at home and that McGraw hasn't been any lower than second since 1916. He's a hard man to keep down. St. Louis blew up with a thud last week In New York, but recovered some lost ground in Brooklyn. The Cards. with Hornsby back, also should pick up at the expense of the Braves this week, a club which has been soft for them all year. The Reds are tot- tering around. not which direction the next blow fall. I have dropped them to fourth, the position T originally picked for them, After losing the first five games of this present Eastern trip to Boston and Brooklyn, the Cubs are going better and are struggling to keep above .500. They have been the Giants' nemesis this season. Uncle Robby slipped into the second division last week, a slip which was inevi- table. The Braves again are playing the kind of ball T expected from them, but they go only in fits and starts. The Phils_are not reconciled to the cellar, and Boston will have to keep plugging away to stay out of the coal hole. Yanks Have It Sewed Up. In the American League there is nothing to it but the shouting and the Yanks can shout as loudly as they please. The lowly Red Sox jusf about took the last kick out of the American League race when they beited the Cleveland Indians in both sections of a double-header just be- fore the Yanks reached the Ohio city. The Yanks were 10 full games ahead when they started their “cru- clal” serfes in Cleveland. last and two out of three shoved the lead up to 11 when they left. “I'll say this for the Cleveland fan: They are darn loyal or overly optimi: knowing from | will | week, | tic. They packed the stands last week and stirred up as much enthu siasm over that series as though the Yanks and Indians were running neck and neck. New York and Cleveland still hava eight games to play with each other, including five in_Cleveland in Sep: tember. Now if Cleveland wins those eight and the Indians go on a 26- game winning streak as did the Giants in 1916, then the Indians still have a chance. But Cleveland fans will see one miracle if the Indians fin ish second, and that looks like a cer tainty. But there their miracle will stop. What the Fans Overlooked. Talking about miracles, Huggins winning a pennant with his seventh place club of 1925 is regarded as a miracle by many. The fans apparent Iy forget that the seventh place club of 1925 lost the pennmant by only a game and a half in 1924 and that Ruth was just a shadow of his former self. That is where so many critics went wrong on the Yanks: théy judged them on what they did last year rather than by analysis of their 1926 strength. Just Teceived the following letter from a Philadelphia fan: “You sure will be lucky if the Yanks come through. Nobody had any license to pick that ‘team_to win. You must have played the Yanks on a hunch He is all wrong. Hunches nor sent | ment mean nothing to me in doping | league races or world series. And 1 go behind the-actual batting and pitching _averages of players—the mental stimulus in back of the differ ent teams. I predicted. a gredt sea son for Coveleskie that year and an in different one this year. Why? A change of scene usually works won ders for a slipping veteran, especially | when he is shifted from a second ai vision to a contender. But after one season the stimulus of the change wears off and his retrogression after that usdally is rapid. Breaks Usually Even Up. If T score two winners this vear, as I did lact, it will be because base ball analysis is a study and that over a 154-game course the breaks usually even up. And it is a hard thing to down the rule of general average. Going back to the American League. the Athletics should wind up third un less thpy wilt entirely. The White los their chance for a high rating when %>d Blankenship. pitching ace. hal @ie of his pitching fingers brokem. Then the Yanks stove in E die Colins' hopes by beating the elght times in their last nine game: Washington probably will give up its chance for a good position to ex periment with young players, but the experimenting “ must be done and “RBucky” Harris must be commended for doing it mow. The Tygers re main as unsteady as ever, but thev still_have a fighting chance for third St. Louls and the Red Sox already talking about next year. o (Copyright. 1026 ) WHITES SCORE AT POLO. \hite uniformed poloists of the War Department Assoclation yester. overcame a three-goal handicap and defeated the Red Potomae Park, 11 to 5. Maj. Parker accounted ior five of the winners' goals. rd Btimore is no on the ALEXANDRIA ROAD One-quarter mile from Long Bridge, front of The American Oil Co. SATU s, -Bulk Plant RDAY August 14, 1926 HELEN WILLS ADVANCES. RY Y. August 11 (#).—Play in the New York State woman's tennis championship has reached the quarter finals with Helen Wills, national champlon, favored to meet Mary K. Browne of Santa Monica, Calif., in the fials. EL oke (At This Station Only) 'i reé WITH PURCHASE _of five bgallons or more of AMOCO-GAS or AMERICAN- STRATE— FOUR COUPONS—each good for one quart (bulk) - of AMOCO Motor Oil redeemable | 7 2 one coupon with each subse- 2 quent purchase of five gakczs or more of AMOCO-GAS or AMERICAN-STRATE Motor Gasoline. Coupons good for 30 Aays and redeemable at any of our stations in Washington or Baltimore. i Walter Reed pastimers play hosts to the Kennedy nine of the Petworth League tomorrow at 5 o'clock. Tiger Juniors defeated the Wash. | ington Cubs yesterday, 3 to 0. i HAWKINS | Richmond, 8: Kinston, +0R HYATTSVILLE NINE |v: ity - that retired the Nationals in the | Monro | second. When Moon Harris tried to | Merig a August 11 8 e as Tate } nt a roller to Burns, of the Hyattsville | he was trapped on the.way home and the addition to his finaily tagged out by Levsen. who | vank Corkins, who | got into the play with Luke Sewell | for Mount Rainier.land Lutzke. 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