Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1926, Page 22

_G—rszs Pointed for Drive in West : Seco | THE STARTING NEXT SATURDAY| Champions ‘Must Hustle to Improve on Record for| Season to Date in Chicago, St. Louis and Cleveland—Additional Slabmen Due. BY JOHN B. KELLER. | ASSILLON. Ohio, September 8.—Having fought their way to third | place after spending the greater part of the season in the second | division, the Nationals now are pointing themselves for a desperate . drive through the West. The exhibition games scheduled here to- day and at Akron tomorrow, Manager Stanley Harris figures, will serve ‘to keep his club in the fine form in which it has been the past two weeks. And if that form is maintained, the erstwhile Champions will breeze through this last tour to a most respectable record for 1926. ’ The first two invasions of the West this year were disappointing to the Nationals. Their initia) tour of this sector of the Johnsonian circuit was most disastrous. Then but 4 of 13 games played were won by them. | Tn their second trip they managed to take 8 of 17 engagements. ‘But on | neither of those trips were the Nationals in as fine fettle as they now are. By playing in the 18 games they have out this way at anywhere near | the speed they have been traveling since August 25, they'll move into Phil- | adelphia the latter part of this month for the final series of the year with | GRIFFS OBTAIN CATCHER ENNIS:OF ELMIRA CLUB To take the place of Catcher Brandon, just turned back to Portsmouth, President Griffith to- day announced be had acquired the services of a young backstop named Ennis from the Elmira club of the New York-Pennsylvania Le: , who has been ordered to report to Manager Harris at Akrou tomorrow, or at Cleveland by Sat- urday, when Pitcher Decatur Jones of Chattanooga also is scheduled to check in. In a(lflilltln to Jones Boss Bucky will have the services of Joe Carroll, Lefty Thomas, Pat Loftus and Bump Hadley on his Western tour, but Clayton Van Alstdhe will not be available till Spring. Griff asserts that in view of the fact that the base ball commission- er's office already is in possession of complete data on Washington’s facilities for world series crowds he does not plan to attend the con- ference called by Judge Landis to be held at Cleveland next Satur- day, where preliminary plans for the title games are to be made. more than 80 victories to their credit The alize that this las filng at the o be no casy proposition, thou The Americar Teague representatives of this section | have given the two-time champions a | tough fight of it all Of the 70 games played to date with the Indians, | Tygers, White Sox and Browns, the Nationals have won but 32. And in the 30 times they encountered these clubs out this way, the National able to win only on a dozen oce Punished in West. They have found the going especial v rough in three of the cities to be visited during this tour. Eight games have been played in Clev «a series will be many have been staged | and a like number in St. Louis. Inj each of these places the Nationals | have triumphed but three times. Their best work in the West has been done in Detroit. They took three of the half-dozen tilts with the Tygers in the center of the automobile indust On past perform: s the Nationals | figure to win 8 of the 18 zumes due | with the Wi Prospects according to the statisties are that they will bag one of the four games to be played | with the Indians, four of the seven |. with- the Tygers, two of the three | with the White Sox and two of the | L = fo(f.f-’ with the Br Even that ;I“I‘*M‘-,':('L 0 ”:rr;x‘: u\l‘\‘fi:n‘;: d"n this | De B 9 D10 —! 812113 .final Western trip is rom :’hlf I,‘\ LB ::: :m the outfit that made the fivst two [ St Loul ‘,*‘JN tours of this section this year The | Boston. . work of reconstruction taat began in | L July has about been completed and | Bucky 1 now heads a_ much | smoother- Discord- | ant elements nated so that now there is no hint of a lack | of harmony in the organization. | This Western swing is expected to afford an opportunity for provement of the club. able Manager Harris to g2 estimate of the value of the recently added to the Nationals ter and also a chance to take a g look at material that has heen pur- chased for the upbuilding of the club next y Two ionals West is rear. OST OFFIC Terminal Railroad Y. noon at 4:45 on the Ellipse in t each have won one game. Public Buildings and Public Parks, and Fashion Shop, which captured th will face tomorrow. s were | sions. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YVAITERDAY'S RESULTS. " 6110.10118132/60! 8137137147 New York. ' Chiy Hurlers Come Back. Of the quartet of slabmen slated to join the ranks this week and next Manager Harris has a fair idea of | the capabilities of two. Lefty Thomas, who 18 to come back from Rechester, whence he was sent by Birmingham that had proeured him from the Champions, was with the club long enough last season wnd this year at the Florida training camp and during the championship campuign to re- wveal just bLout what he has as d‘ pitcher. And Bump iadley, recalled from Birmin \so had a lengthy stay with the Nationals in the Spring. Thomas' great trouble while he was in the big league was lack of control o common fault with vouthful south OF TENN'S TOURNEY paw flingers. 1f Thomas has over come this defect he may land o permanent job with the Nationals, | " e for they need portside pitching. | By ,nw Assoc mm,n. .. Glowing reports of Ifadley’s great im- ’l HIL .\DE_LI HIA, ) ; provement have come from the South Brilliant ps_mnlrnun km! hnll h m;u. D 'this ‘stocky 'ex-Brown University | bles -and isingles ‘marked the Py and this stocky ex-Birown &RV [in the women's middle States cham- e ™ plonship tennis tournament at the drcuit service, o knows now Pat | Philadeiphia Cricket Club. e Eongnt fromn oW Hevensiana | There arcHTORISY s ol huamassa romiits |ories) inGUIMEERsSOt M R Rock, are just minor league ul((‘hn‘":. | ingles: Mrs. George V. Wightman, But both of these fellows are to be |ppokline, Mass., and Molly Thayer, with the club soon and the manager|ppijadelphia, turning in victores, Wil give them a careful looking over. | \ij < Ryan easily disposed of Mr v ing Tale: - {W. W. Brown, Philadelphia, 6—0, At |‘n:‘:\‘x:lt“$txrdtl::io:::h‘-(‘@ con- | em B0 R At pres Nationals o it Dl i oerned with munding up a few eateh- | goce oo g o cgll e e ets. Their backstopping staff once [pe first round, and Gladys Hutch- more is reduced o two )\‘)om:v:“m s Tt haugton Of Bediie, Brandon, recently brough 63 eyt i sthe wetonial Portsmouth. having been returned to | \liss Thayer advanced to the third that club. Apparently he did not|round by defeating Helen Westfall, show enough worth to warrant con- | New York, in love sets. adderation just now. So Muddy Ruel | The doubles furnished some of the and Benny Tate will be forced to do | most sx\erlflcgl:\r tennis of the day, Blenty of bullpen work as well as take | especially th® contest between Mrs. furns behind the bat in champlonship | Charlotte Hosmer Chapin, ~Spring- tlits for a week or two at least. {field. Mass. and Penelbpe Anderson, Richmond, Va., and Miss Hutchings and Clara L. Zinke, Cincinnati. The former pair won after three hard- fought sets, 6—1, 3—6, 11—9. Mis$ Zinke, Cincinnati, here caused surprise with the all-around brand of tennis she displayed in the girls’ national champlonships. She sent her odd chop strokes sizzling across the cdurt close to the ground defeat- ing Virginia Hilleary, Philadelphia, and district girl champlon, 6—4, 6—1. | Chieago. 111131 York | 8130 41 7 Boston. _ Lost. Brooklyn at Philadelphln. New York at Boston (2 games). GIRL IS SENSATION I September 8.— 1 the fa- “HAGERSTOWN WINS FIRST. FREDERICK, Md.. September §.— Hagerstown took the first game of the post-season play: off in the RBlue Ridge Base Ball League here vester- day, winning from Frederick, § to i e HORNSBY SEES BONESETTER. PITTSBURGH. Pa.. September § ) —Rogers Hornshy, manager of the St. Louis Nationals, today V “RBonsotter” Reese at Youns Ohio, in an effort to obtain relief from a &pine injury received early in the eeason. He will rest until Friday. - Your OLD FELT MADE NEW Again Cleaning. Blockl d Remodeling by Fxverts Vienna Hat Co. 135 11th Street INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Panl, 40 ‘Mllu it Louisville. Standard MakeTires ON CREDIT Phelps Auto Exchange 1625 14th St. N.W. 5 qumn'mu-. Memphis. 14 Nashville, 2 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. . Macon, 3. Columbia © reenvitle. 4 Asheville. oxvilla. 6-2: Charlotte. & Bpartanburg. 6-1: Augusta PIEDMONT LEAG bury, 8- High Point. 7-7 Rl 57 wihion Sadem” T2, VIRGINIA LEAGUE. All games postponed (rain). < PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Hollywood, 6: San Franciseo. 4 Only one game scheduled WESTERN LE 7 Lincoln, 1 Tulsa. 7. (10 innings). 5. Wallace Motor Co. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 2o ity she. 7: Lun ahita, 67 Si. Joseph. B Dea Moines. Denver. b FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. 3: Sanford. 2 O erabre s Tamba. 1. aracota. 9: Bradepton. d Jeland, 4 Fort Myers, 2. TEXAS LEAGLE - Wichita Falls, 6-4° Shreveport, paumont. 4-1. 53 ST start: ope r s a 2all deadlock yester: ! ing. | cut the Knicks' advantage over them |day games for the rems month. CLASH IN SERIES TODAY winner in the Departmental League, and Pullman, M. C. A. loop victor, will clash this after- he twilight leagues play-off. So far winner in the Potomac Park Leagve, e gonfalon in the Commercial loop, Fashion Shop Is still in the van in the series, with two wins in as many The Haberdashers and Public Buildings and Public Parks fought to ay. MacDonald for Fashion Shop and Hamilton for the Parkers both hurled fine ball, although Hamilton was nicked for nine safeties, while the Parkers were able to gather only four from MacDonald’s slants. Auth pastimers, who have clinched the title in section C of the Capital City League, lost their first game in eight starts’ in the loop yesterday, when they fell before the last-place Concordians, who, oddly enough, were winning their first engagement. The score was 12 to 5. Hellen, victorious moundsman, held the losers to four hits in the five innings played and fanned five. He clustered three of the strike-outs in the fourth inning, re- tiring his opponents on nine pitched balls. Simpson, Auth hurler, gave up nine bingles. Knickerbockers and Shamrocks, leaders and runners-up, respectively, in section A of the Capital City loop, will battle Sunday at American League Park at 3 o'clock. The Harps will strive to avenge the defeat handed them by the Knicks in their first meet- Victory for amrocks would to a game and a half. The Knicker- bockers will be out to run their con- secutive win string to 10. Modern Woodmen quished National Independents, 12 to 4, vesterday. The victors counted even runs in the fourth inning to ake the lead and were never headed. Woodmen reached Giddings, losing slabmen, for 11 hits, while their mounsman was limiting the Independ- ents to seven. Kanawha Seniors have use of a diamond Sunday and would like to book a fast senior or unlimited team. Call Lincoln 9. Liberty Athletic Club tossers, ners over Takoma Park on Labor day, 1 to 3, are seeking Saturday and Sun- inder of the Pop Kremb Is arranging the schedule at Columbia 4165-J. In the' game with Takoma two Liberty pitchers, Kremb and Elllott, scored 16 strikeouts between them, while Bladen of the losing nine fanned nine batters. An increasing interest in golf is be- ing di d in Italy. CARDS NOW HAVE A LEAD OF TWO GAMES ON REDS By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS fans today looked eagerly toward a pos world series, since the Cardinals were leading Cincinnati in the National League by two games and Pittsburgh b Cincinnati fell yesterday before Chicago, 8 to 5, while the Cardinals g b It was a blow to the Reds, for Cincin- nati must face the Pirates again and the Cubs when St. Louis has departed to the comparative quiet of the Boston Braves’ bali yard. The Cardinals will close the season at Cincinnati September 26 ‘after an Eastern tour. The Cards have 16 more games to play and Cincinnati, 20. were pounding Pittsburgh, 8 to 0, BANKERS WILL PLAN_ FOR DUCKPIN SEASON Mogu's of the Bankers' Duckpin League will fire the first gun of their seventh season Friday night when they gather at American Security & Trust Co. to plan for the opening of their schedule on September 17 at Convention Hall, The entire menibership of the cir- cuit will roll at the inaugural. There- after the teams will bowl on Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday nights. Eighteen teams will make up the roster this season, each bf last year's clubs having retained its franchise and four new quints having been added to the list. The new teams will be known as Federal Reserve Board, Amerlcan Security & Trust Co. Branches, Park Savings Bank and John L. Edwards Co. Bowlers of the District League last night re-elected John S. Blick as their president. Charles Benson was named to_the office of vice president and Charles Quant elected secretary, treasurer and officlal scorer. The league season will open on Septem- ber 27, Curb Cafe and Government Print- ing Office teams were admitted to the circuit, taking over the franchises formerly held by the Regulars and Mount Pleasants. King Pin, Stan- ford Paper Co., Petworth, Temple, Cornell Lunch, Meyer Davis and Con- vention Hall remain in the loop. The Terminal Ice team will be known this season as Arcadia. Directors of the National Capital League hold their first meeting to- night at 8 o'clock at King Pin No. 1 alleys. Junior Order of United American Mechanics bowlers meet tonight at Convention Hall alleys to arrange for the coming season. Pinspillers of the Washington Ladies’ Duckpin League gather to- morrow night at City Club. KENNEDY NAMED PILOT OF QUEENSBERRY CLUB Frank Kennedy, formerly assistant manager of Congressional Country Club, has been appointed managing director of the Queensberry Club, which will soon start the construction of its new home on Fourteenth street. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Fothergill, Tygers, .380. Hits—Burns, Indians, 190; Rice, ‘Washington, 19 Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 124. Doubles—Burns, Indians, 60. Triples—Gehrig, Yankees, 20. Homers—Ruth, Yankees, 41. Stolen bases—Mostil, White Sox, 21. Pitching—Dauss, Tygers, won 1 Tost 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Hargrave, Reds, .368. Hits—Brown, Braves, 179. Runs—Cuyler and Waner, Pirates, Doubles—Bottomley, Cardinals, 36. Triples—Walker, Reds, 20. Homers—Wilson, Cubs, 20. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Pirates, 29. I"lg’hing—l{remer, Pirates, won 16; 91 a Better Clgar than the MANUEL Danatells - Degardless of Price .| Carl Mays proved the undoing of Cin- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 nd Division Teams to Decide N. L. Race 1926. ble East-West four and a half. Lefty Bill Sherdel was the guiding genius for the Cardinals yesterday. He permitted but one man to reach third base. With Douthit and Hafey hitting opportunely, the issue was never in doubt. Four errors behind cinnati. - Rogers Hornsby is visiting Bonesetter Reese for an old injury to his spine, but expects to play in Bos- ton Frida; The New York Giants, with Capt.! Frank Frisch in the line-up, won and | lost at Boston. The Braves dropped back into the cellar when the first game went against them, 7 to 2. They won the second game, 7 to 5, but failed to get out, as Philadelphia beat Brook- Iyn, 5 to 0. The Yankees decreased the slight doubt as to the winner of the Ameri- can League pennant by running their lead over Cleveland to seven full games. They had no trouble squash- ing Boston, 4 to 2, for the Red Sox's seventeenth straight loss, while the Indians bowed for St. Louis, § to 3. The margin of the Yankess is now so wide that If they win but 9 of the 19 games remaining, Cleveland must win 17 to get the pennant. Chicago won the last game of the season with Detroit, 4 to 2, and set the season total in the serie; at 14 vic- tories and 8 losses. GIRL GOLF STAR WEDS. CHICAGO, September § (#).—Dor- othy Klotz, society girl and former Chicago district golf champion, and Rev. Austin Pardue, Episcopal rector of a school for boys, were married last Saturday, it has been disclosed today. The rector, like his bride, is! an_athlete, having competed swimmer for the Illinois Athletic Association. I | arives FLAG CHANCE RATINGS IN THE MAJORS TO DATE. . AMERICAN LEAGUE. New York cemneea Cleveland . Philadelphia . Washington Retroit Chicago St. Louis Boston NATION. . Louis . Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago New York Brooklyn . Boston ... Philadelphia . JANSEN-COOK ANNEX GIRLS’ NET DOUBLES Carolina Jansen, paired with her schoolmate, Dorothy ~Cook, newly crowned junior tennis champion, won the doubles title yesterday when they defeated the defending champions, Clara Alderton and Virginia Olmsted in a close three-set encounter, 6—4, 6—8, 6—L. The first two sets were played last Friday before rain halted action. In the deciding set, staged on the Dum- barton courts yesterday afternoon, the Alderton-Olmsted team was unable to get started. Numerous errors in the first three games on the part of the 1925 champions gave the Western High School team a substantial lead, which they were careful not to lose. Cdok played n clever deep game, angling her strokes to gooc advantage. Miss Jansen scored a number of telling shots by line Neither of the winning pair advanced to the net in the deciding set, although they had played in the fore court when drawn in during the first two sets of the match. Miss Olmsted did some net work which marks her as a coming doubles player, and in the second set, espe- claily, was backed up well by her) partner in the back court. Individual cups, awarded by Pear- son ,& Crain, loca jewelers, were pre- sented the championship pair. E . 250 . 100 015 .. 010 L LEAGUE. BOY The Coening Star S CLUB 113 sports, for athletes in boxing, activities.” So today we may kill two birds with one stone, as the old saying goes, by staging an interesting race, and at the same time be getting our legs and wind in shape for foot ball, basket ball, soccer or whatever the pro- | gram calls for. Today's event is a three-mile walk- ing race with a 100-yard sprint at the finish. A Dboy should be able to cover a mile in 10 minutes and three mi 30 minutes. Mark off your mile and carry the watch in your hand to see if you are getting the right pace. Select a course through an inter- esting country and you'll enjoy the race more. Add today’s three miles on to your distance in The Star Boys’ Club 500- mile walking race. Be sure to keep your records. in your athletic diary, ALKING has been my one sport, but I am interested in all said Dan O’Leary, the & last birthday, “and I know that walking is a fine conditioner & §sie EEEE i Standard Cigar & Tobacco Co. Distributors ear-old walker, on his’| foot ball, base ball and many other Now that the Fall season is here, every boy should brush up on his code of good sportsmanship. You'll need it in the games to follow. Try these “keepers’: Keep the rule: Keep faith with your comrade, play the game for your side. Keep yourself fit. Keep your temper. Keep from hitting a man when he's down. Keep your pride under in victory Keep a_stout heart in defeat cept it with good grace. | | | c- Keep a clean soul and a clean mind | in_a healthy body, | How do you st up there? Next—Ben Oswalt will help vou lay | out your fiel COMING TOUR TO SETTLE THRILLING PENNANT FIGHT Past Performances This Season in East of Three Con- tenders Indicate Cardinals Have Big Edge on Both the Pirates and Reds. BY FRF™ :RICK G. LIEB. ivd at the top of the National League, there at will happen. The National League pen- is in the hands of the four second-division Hopelessly out of it themselves, the Giants in a position where they can knock out ITH three clubs hud still is no telling w nant for 1026 really teams of the East. Dodgers, Phillies and Braves are any one of the “Big Thre; It therefore is interesting to analyze what these three clubs have done in the East so far. And this dope is particularly favorable to the Cardinals, as St. Louis has fared far better in the East than the Reds and Pirates their two stubborn rivals. Cincint has played specially poorly in the East, and did not get an even break in the games it played in the parks of the four second-division clubs. The Reds have d especially badly New York and Boston. winning oualy one out of eight games played at the Polo Grounds and two out of :igh]z in Braves Ficld. St. Louis’ “ sast ine-up gave the club a bad blow. 1 b"‘; ::";':“"':m‘l LG can point to at least half a dozen 8 games which the Pirates just gave First trip—Against 3 The one which left the worst won 2; lost 0; aga te was the game lost to the Phillles won 3; lost 0; against I er the Pirates procured an early 3; lost 1; against Boston, won 4; | Y-to-0 lead Meadows lost 0. Record for the trip, 11 vic- e st tories and 1 defeat, for a percentage | of .917. The Yankees have bean hard pressed Second trip- in the merican League, and within won 1; lost a week’s time their lead was whittled won 1: lost 4; wn from 10 games to 5. The In- 6 lost 0; a dians never stopped fighting, even lost 1. Rec after things looked blac What a and 7 def amae ¢lub th .388. Record in the East, defeats: po entage, 4. Pittsburgh's record in the has delphia, ] New York, ooklyn, won ameness. Against Philadelph against New York gainst Brooklyn, woi nst Boston, won d for trip, 10 victories s, for a percentage of < procured “Duteh™ ¥ . s though the for Washingtonian was claimed so as or the elub’s pitching in the series Bt Ructher probably il be help to Hugsins tn Septembe ampaiz He won 1e of New York's infrequent victories m _the Athletics at a time when New York fans were pretty well down n tha mouth. 1 Yankees reall ling in. as they wdelphia, | T ¢ »ston, won | 300 since the spped Yo won to the 10 The t for . per- | victories, 8| st has | Lo he world inst Brooklyn, won against Philadelphia, won against B 1, won 13 lost | ¢ New York, won 3: lost 1.| the trip, 7 victories and | are just s -arcely ave i1 ety st Western en New on their cord_for defeats, has nows t s few short months was leading the victories and centage of Record in 15 defeats; Cincinnati's been as follow And only a e Jumping Joe ek Fue It now | tean 1 nst Boston, won 0; | (41 won 0; | 0¢ . won Jast has Toc though the Amer- till will be on when lost 4; & meet {n that lost 3; lost 0; a won lost 1. Recor the trip, 5 tories and § defeats for a perce of .385. I Second trip—Against Boston, won | ¢ 2; lost 2; against New York, won 1; | lost 4 nst Philadelphia, w lost 2; against Lrooklyn, won | 1 1. Record for the trip, 8 v es | th and 9 defeats, for a percen of ATL Record in the ¥ defeats; percenta Tribe Facing Tough Task. However, Cleveland probably will bs v positio it will have to win st fi these games to seri- menace the nkees. Yet 10 »- no in the American anti such a finish as Indians Uhlo s, outstanding year and the player victories, 17 | of the American s most valuable player prize While Speaker has sur- led him with other splendid pitch- . the former sandlotter's comeback made Cleveland's great fight pos Looks Favorable to Cards. - If this record i should be the National League r entagive in the Octob g having made one trip in which it lost only one game, Louis is due { some defeats on this jaunt, for usua those things even up. 1 It may be observed that the Pir S BRI HOFF. 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