Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 36

36 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926. SPORTS. Nationals in Danger of Gelting Rusty From Long Period of Enforced Idleness INDIANS HERE TOMORROW FOR THREE-GAME SERIES Cob Reeves Outsprints Stuffy Stewart in Impromptu Foot Race—Griffith to Make League Issue of Written Attack by Ty Cobb. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor. The Star 2SS the weather man relents and alters his wet program, the Nationals are likely to be thrown off their stride entirely. by en- forced idlencss. Where they were in danger, just a short time back. of going stale from too much toil in the blazing sun, they row are apt to get rusty. irom sitting around and doing nothing, duc to a ccmbination of open dates in the schedule and an excess of moisture. Marking tsme Mouday, when no work was assigned them by the schedule makers, and doing the same thing this afternoon for the same cason, the bad weather which postponed their contest with the Detroit Tvgers Tuesday and also prevented the double-header listed with the Bengals for yesterday, has caused four straight days of inactivity, both as gards actual contests and practice, too, and there is no assurance that Tape Pluvius will call a halt and make possible a start on the three-game -t with the Cleveland Indians, which is billed to open tomorrow. If the sun gets on the job and dries | commented on the delay the next day. out the soggy grounds at Georgia | Evidently you could not reach the avenue sufficiently to make play pos-|other sport writers until the following < ble tomorrow it is day. Smiler” Murray will be given the| The only time that I approached hance to try and duplicate the three-| the umpire in this double-header liit effort he flashed last week against the New York Yankees, but for the remainder of the set Manager. Harris’ pitching program is indefinite. ~All| wished to get a ruling on. I am quite his flingers have had a long enough sure that the umpires’ reports will surcease .to Le.available. for teil and ' bear me out in my statement that I was when Catcher Woodall was put out of the game and Pitcher Collins had made an unusual balk, which I vhat he i3 worrving about now is,was not insulting and neither did I whether the protracted lay-off will | hold the game up. The game of the serve.to take the edge off their ef.|double-header that vou made your ectiveness. charges on took 2 hours and 45 min- ey " utes to be played. Fans Sce Sprinting Races. T would like to ask Mr. Griffith what Although the small .crowd that |was wrong with (he Washington club hraved the elements in the hope of obtaining a farewell glimpse of the Tygers vesterday was doomed to dis- appointment. the afternoon was not a total loss for them so far as action was concerned, due to the staging during its last visit to Detroit. One of the single games ran 2 hours and 37 minutes, and in the header one game went for hours and 28 minutes, and the second game of the double-header 2 hours and ol several impromptu foot races|minutes. Now. in this series, Mr. among the athletes. Griffith. the only time I left the bench This unscheduled feature had its|was to go to the coaching box. { Inception in a gabfest on the Detroit | I will state vour boy manager ap- vench, during which Ty Cobb chal-|proached the umpire, also held up the lenged Jack Warner to a test of |game while he conferred with his sprinting ability for a stake of $25|pitcher and catcher. ow, we did #nd which vesulted in the pllot being | NOt attack your manager or v ur team sadly outdistanced by the voung | for the length of these games, and third.sacker. all of them were longer games. Keen interest was manifested in| The 2-hour-and-52-minute game was the race by the members of both |S€veral minutes longer than the game clubs, in addition to the damp specta- | YOU raved so much about which we aan. and led to a match being mndo‘\"“:\!ed In Washinzton. e ee o Sod Munwsh Tael (S B PO vouuis vy dn qulte a. specaster na i abeiE of having the reputation of sy b has rather fancled himself as 4 ran | SOWest and most aggravating pitcher ner. Goose proved he has some justi, | CVer In the game. In fact, I have fication tor his confidence, too, for|€Ard You discuss this subject in a after a neck and neck tussle he bested | °IY Pleased manne; the Bengal by n narrew seerd |, 15 it not a tact, Mr. Grifiith, vou By a century note Sfew | trained small Joe Doyle, who used to | himself and enriching sever: {he with the New York Vankees wi al of his 2 ankees when | backers among the Grifftmen. in varr |70 Were manager, and did you hot | ings sums totaling a similar amount, | V¢ Something to do with the Cuban | [ Pitcher Acosta's slow work? ~Now. | Iiseves Outruns Stewart. Mr. Griffith, how about Pitcher Mo | BY i time the performers were |Rridge and Pitcher Zacha Did &1l hopped up on the subject of ankle [ YOU ever rave about the slow manner work and an opponent was sought for | " Which” fhey worked” Truly, Mr.| Btewart, whose flashy work on base lines ha the [Griffith, vou “are most inconsistent. stamped him as one of Another thing is your many outbursts the fastest ball plavers in the business, | A0 the fact that your feuds are None of the Tygers was willing to Many. take him on. but Bob Reeves, the | have read several times about rookie from Georgia Tech, where he the harsh eriticisms ou on Connie | did some creditable work on the Your pet word for him is old | track. consented to meet the issue and Then there is your feud with | sprang o surprise by mnosinge out | Dunn of Baltimore. Ty in a nip-and-tuck sprint from | x & point close to the plate on the third | HUESINS of New York Seomeerning; | base side of the diamond to the left [SOme waivers. You not enly at. fleld bleachers, a distance of about 125 | tacked me severely, but I understand yards. |you attacked the umpires concerning Whether Reeves could duplicate his | the same game. So you hold me re- | victory under more favorable track |SPonsible and then you hold the um- | conditions is problematical. The [Pires. Tt is certainly inconsistent that ground was sogey and slippery and |both of us can he responsible. Stewart was thrown off his course in | 1f I am not mistaken, you had some ently you jumped oianager | passing over a e <pot and then was | Pertinent things to say concerning the Leaten by a matter of mere inches. | head of our league reiating to a world Tlow Reeves and Stewart compare | Series recently played. Tn fact, Mr. In speed with some of their team.|Griflith, you seem to be a very vicious mates, notably Rice and Myer, and !&entleman. even Goslin, is debatable. ther| 1 see by the paper reports that wisely. declined to risk his dogs on | YOur ma . Mr. Harris, is now un- the uncertain footing for a final num. ! der indefinite suspens Of course, her. The Washington contingent of- | this had nothing to do with delaying fered to bet the Dettroit bunch they |the game and Kicking to the umpire. could produce four men who could |While you say that I should be clean up any quartet selected from |curbed and that T am delaying the among the Bengals, but failed to in. |£ames, I wish to acquaint you with terest them in the proposition. al.!the fact that I have not been suspend: though in Neun, Rlue Warner, |ed this season. Manush and Fothergill they have a! The time I quoted in this letter con- | cerning the length of the games can be verified. It is needless for me to add, since vour criticism through yvour press in Washington, that I have lost respect for you, and if veu will go over my letter carefully you will realize that you are guilty of prevarication. quint who can step along at a lively pace. Cobb Pans Griff in Letter. Clark Griffith had little to say to- day for publication regarding the let- ter received by him vesterday from Cobb, in which the Detroit pilot severely arraigns the Washington club president as a result of the complaint Grifith lodzed with league headquar- ters against Cobb's dilatory tactics in RIVAL FOR BABE RUTH. the game the Tygers played here July | MARSHALL, Tex., August 10.—A 'iix :\{ui \“‘)\h‘)\ »d to both Cobb and |rival for Babe Ruth home-run title mpire McGowan being warned by | joomed ton > ‘bush es the iead of the Sircult thet Ay con|1Comed, foday in the bush Jeagie! duct by the Detroit pilot which in. | -BIE Mooser Clabaugh, outfielder for terfered with the pleasure obtained by | T¥ler. in the Fast Texas League, the spectators would net be toloaes, | Smashed out his fifty-ninth circuit clout of the season against Marshall vesterday. equaling the Babe season record. have no comment to make," Griff asserted, “except to say that I'm go- ing to put this Issue hefore the league and have a showdown.” z The letter by Cobb, which will be COMPLETE LINE laid before President Ban Johns follows: res ausust 15, 1026, || @GOOD, Mr. 'l Griffith Washington Base Ball Club, Washington, D. (. Dear Sir: On our last trip to Wash- ington it fell to my lot to experience With TIRES Serviee “MID-WASHINGTON one of your many outbursts, in which | Neorth 366 1602 14th 8¢. N.W. you enlisted the aid of some of your lnocal papers in broadcasting the fact that T should be curbed. Naturally, this statement, coming from you, did not please me. I have waited until I] could gather some facts concerning this statement before writing Now the reason I know vou in- spired some of vour local papers to attack me is that they used some of the same words and expressions in their articles that you used to me in fon after the game. when | up and BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Fothergill, Tygers, .388. Hits—Burns, Indians, 170. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 114. Doul4es—RBurns, Indians, 56. Triples—Gehrig, Yankees, 18, Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 39. Stolen bases—Rice, Nationals, and Hunnefleld, White Sox, 20. Pitching—Dauss, Tygers, lost, 3. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Bamnf—lhrxr-re. Reds, .385. Hits—Brown, Braves, 151, Runs—Blades, Cardinals, and Cuy- ler, Pirates, 81 Doubles—Heathcote, Cubs, 32. Triples—Walker, Reds, 18. Homers—Wilson, Cubs, 18, Stolen bases—Cuyler, Pirates, 26. i l"ltshlng—fllln!s. Cardinals, won, 9; ost, 2. won, 8; EASTERN SHO’ LOOP HAS MORE TROUBLE SALISBURY, Md.. August 20.— Salisbury Indians of the Eastern hore League, who already have the scalp of the Faston team of that cir- cuit, which has been dropped from first to last place as the result of charges that the Farmers were using more *“‘class” plavers than are allowed by league rules. were today again on the war path, this time against the Parlesley Spuds. . s Parksiey, it is alleged by Salisbury, also has viplated the league rule by using more players of higher classifi- | cation than permitted. If the charge agalnst the Spuds is sustained it will leave only Dover ahead of Salisbury in the league race. Eastern Shore League magnates were slated to gather today at Salls- bury for the second time this week to consider the charges flled against Parksley. Tt was believed, however, that the meeting would be postponed hecause of a death in the family of J. M. Chandler, president of the Parksley Club, which will prevent him attending. e g MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. All games postponed (rain). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Louiaville. 4-4: St. Paul, 1-11 Milwaukee 14:5; Columbus, 3-1 Indianapolis. 8:1: Minneapolis. 1-0. Toledo-Kansas City game post SOUTHERN ASSOCTATION. (Only two plaved.) SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Charlotte eneville, Knoxville. Asheville, 6 Salishury, 4: Winston.Salem, 3. Greensboro. 3: High Boint, 1. Durham, 4 Raleigh, 2 (18 tnnings). FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. Tampa. 6: Sarasota. 1 (called end 5th in- ning. rain). Orlando. '10-0: Takeland. 1.1 Fort Myers, 8: St Petersburs. 7. Bradenton-Sanford’ (rain) SOUTHFASTERN LEAGU! Albany. 3-4: St. Augustine, 2-1. ontgomery. 4: Columbus. 2 acksonville, 5-6: Savannah, 4-0 (2d game iled” end th. darkness). TEXAS LEAGUI Pallas. 2-2: Waco, 1-4 game called end 6th. darkness) Fort Worth. 4-0: San_Antonin. 1-2. Shreveport, 5.5: Beaumont.. 4-0. Houston, 11: Wichita Falis, b. PACIFIC COART LEAGUE. Hollywood. 3: San Francisco, 1 Los Angeles, Sacramento, ' 8:' O; Seattle-Portland (rain). COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Jackson. 8: Laurel. 3 Hattiesburg, 8: Alexandria, 2. Vickaburg. : Merldian, 2. Only thres games scheduled . An offer of $100,000 has been extend- ed to Pete Latzo of Scranton, Pa., welterweight champlon, for two title fights in England. Open Saturday Until 2 P.M. Washington’s Finest Men’s Wear Store Final eduction Sale o Stetson CAREY SEEN AS PROBABLE LEADER OF 1927 DODGERS By the Associated Pro: ROOKLYN fans are discussing the possibility that Max Carey, de- posed as captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will manage the Dodgers next year. Manager Wilbert Robinson of the Dodgers, who also is presi- dent of the club, tried a year ago to leave the bench for executive duties and he placed Wheat in charge of the team. A great slugger and fielder, Wheat failed to satisfy the team's followers as manager. Carey, re- leased by Pittsburgh, has been claim- ed by Brooklyn. The Pirates went into action yes- terday for the first time since Carey, Bigbee and Adams were punished for their effort to oust Fred Clarke, as- sistant manager, from the bench. An even break with Boston resulted. Pittsburgh won the first game, 4 to 1, through Ray Kremer's excellent pitching, and lost the second, 4 to 3. The St. Louis Cardinals remained a half game behind in the standin, by turning back Brooklyn, 6 to g Bob O'Farrell registered a homer and Jim Bottoniley hit safely in his three appearances, two of his blows being doubles. Billy Southworth produced a double and a single. Jakie May gave Cincinnati a 3-to-0 victory over Philadelphia. keeping nine hits scattered. The victory kept the Reds within striking distance of the leaders. Boston took its fourth straight | — from St. Louis in the only American League game played, 4 to 2, Ruf- fing permitting only five hits. Bill Jacobson hit the ball out of the park In the first inning. MAX CAREY | LEAGUE. RESULTS. Boston, 4: St. Louls, All other zames canceled (rain). « N| NG OF THI U Max Carey, deposed captain = of the Pirates, has made known thatl he, Babe Adams and Carson Bigbee, | all of whom were dismissed from | the team last Friday. had nothing to do with calling the meeting at which a vote was taken on the question of Assistant Manager Fred Clarke’s presence on the bench. which action resulted in the removal of the three veterans. Carey also said the trio bring up the matter of a that it was Insisted upon b, Carey shed this little New York. did not | New York | te, but | Clevelus Clarke, | Phil'hia_| shaft of light on the mysterious Pirates’ con- troversy yesterday while his former teammates were splitting a double- header with Boston and after Brook- Iyn had claimed his services hy the waiver route. ~Adams and Bigbee were given unconditional releases A meeting, Carey said, was_called by Manager Willlam ~McKechnie | | “after several of the older players had gone to him, not once, but several times, and advised him they thought something was holding the club back.” This was following the loss of a double-header at Boston last week. Tt was agreed by McKechnie that the meeting be held, the ex-captain said, but on the foilowing day the manager let it be known that the session had been called off. Later, Max asserted, the players were advised that the meeting would be held and he said it was at this gathering that Clarke insisted upon a vote. Carey also said the players Detroit at Philadelphia. Chicago at Boston. Philadeiphia. 0. Chicago, 1 (10 innings). STANDING OF THE CLUBS. t. Louls. | Cinelnna L. were cautioned not to discu: the matter of the assistant manager's | presence on the hench, but to ex- press their opinions on paper. GIANTS BUY PITCHER. BLOOMINGTON, I, August 19 (). —Pitcher Bdward Kalling_star southpaw of the Bloomington Three Eye League club, has been sold to the New York Giunts. He will report to New York in the Spring. TODAY'S GAMES, Thiladelphia at Pittsburgh. New York at Chicago. Brookiyn at St. Louls, WH-IT S E S0X GET COLE. L SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 19 (#).—Bert Cole, star pitcher of the BOXER HALF INDIAN. San Francisco Missions, has heen Bobby Garcia, featherweight boxer, | sold to the Chicago hite Sox. is half Indian. his mother having | Terms were not announced. He been a full-blooded Navajo, while his | formerly played with Detroit and father was a Mexican. Cleveland. PHILS BUY SOTHERN, FORMER KNICK STAR By the Associated Presa. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 19.— The Philadelphia Nationals have pur- chased Denis Sothern, outfielder. who | is leading the Middle Atlantic League with a batting average of .367, for $3,500. He will report to Philadelphia Sep. tember 6 unless Cumberland engages in a post-season serie: Sothern, who starred with the | Knickerbockers and other Washington sandlot clubs both in foot ball and | base ball, was given a trial by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Spring, and | afterward sent to the Cumberland team. WINNER OF EPSOM DERBY 70 BE SOLD AT AUCTION SARATOGA SPRI N ¥ August 19 (#).—Durba I, famous | English _thoroughbred which won the | Epsom Derby in 1914 gnd for which | an offer of $200,000 was said to have | been rejected once, will be sold at auction in the paddock at the Sara- toga track Saturday. Durbar II which arrived in the United States about a month ago, is owned by Mrs. | Nellie W. Duryea. UCHRINSKO TO LITTLE ROCK.| Jim Uchrinsko, rookie Washington | pitcher, has been assigned to Little | Rock as part payment for Joe | Carroll, the young pitcher just hased from Joe Cantillon’s Southern | Association club. | POLO FINAL REACHED. NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I, August 19 (®).—Fort Leavenworth defeated Buffalo. 19 to 9, yes terday in a semi-final match of the intercireuit polo championship. To- day the Fort Leavenworth horsemen meet the Rockaway Hunt Club for the championship. LANDIS ALREADY MAKING PLANS FOR WORLD SERIES BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, August 19—Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high ¢ sioner of base ball. has looked over New York, perhaps t over the Yankee Stadium, at which he may preside at the world series. It is by no means too early to call upon ( pert, as nothing short of a cataclysm. or a divorce from the pens the grounds of incompatibility, failure to support or something of 11 kind. can keep the New York pile-drivers from winnng There are tickets to he printed, a | Both of the major league schedules lot of preliminary arrangements to be |end on Wednesday, September 29. The made for the benefit of friends and | Yanks are through at St. Lo > relatives who will attend the ohse- |Sunday. September They haven't quies, cither of the National League fa thing on their minds after that ex team or the American League repre- |cept the world serfes. They couli <entative, and any one who has been |take Monday and Tuesday to get homoe through the task of fussing with |and be ready to start on September 30 look next world series affairs knows what that |if it were necessary. The only Ame means. \ican League games of the week of . eptember are those between A. L. Gets First Game. This yvear the series will begin in New York if the Yanks win the pen on_and Philadelphia-a double n Tuesday and a third gam. on Wednesday nant, because it is the turn of the If the Pirates should win the Na American League to have the first |yonal League pennant. they will sit game under the new plan. by which | pratty fo start the world serie the start of the serles alternates. Last | cayse they end their season vear the series began in Pittsburgh |on s September and it rained on the day before it | don't need to go home. started, which was ominous. 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Teams of the Petworth Senior| League start their second round of games Sunday with the Cardinals | holding the lead. The Cards tackle the Yorke Preps on Handley field at 1 o'clock, while the Takoma Tigers face the Arrows on Handley diamond and the Tremonts meet the Kennedys on | the Plaza at 3. | St. Joseph's and Arlington teams | i and blended. MEMBERS OF TYPO TEAM i ini LEAVE FOR TOURNAME TiALTA VISTA PASTIMERS HE vanguard of Washington's dclegation to the sixteenth annual | leit today for St. Louis seeking a fifth straight championship. mous and Three others, Desper, Suess and Haney, | series for the week day.leagues cham- To smoke a LUCKY STRIKE is to not only get all that is found in any other cigarette. .... Butmore! Much more. More than the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, properlyaged and finds fault with evervbody. | tional and b e : ; might be roar Philadelphia i Boston, where they would be ex ing to slow m DOWN HUME SPRING, 4-3 Alta Vista base ballers. with 1. 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