Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 28

~ ~ SPORTS. Yanks Floundering in Batting RHEM HAS JOB TO MATCH | HIS TEAMMATES’ HURLING Hugmen Baffled and Murderers’ Row Is Ineffectual as St. Louis Slab Corps Works in Good Form. Cards Are Cockily Confident. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, t Snorts Editor The Star T. LOUIS, October. 6—Still floundering it the slump that almost lost them the American lLeaguc pennant. the Yankees today entered the fourth game of the world serics doomed to the <hort cnd of the | spoils unless thev can get their sights adjusted and display a more effectual attack. Stymied yesterday by Jess Haines, huge right-hander of the Cardinals, who not only limited them to a handful of well scattered hits while apply- ing a thick coat of kalsomine, but assumed the leading role in Dutch | Ruether's downfall by hammering a home run ®with a mate on base, the | Yankees prepared to resume hostilities this afternoon in a mood directly contrasted to the confident attitude of the cocky Cards. The fact that, as a result of the!keeper's crew a busy period. but when 4400 reverse inflicted on them yes- play was resumed Huines proved just terday, they took the field today with | as “effect betore e was com- | but one victory In three tilts o their | pelled y 5 th being left credit would not in itself be so dis-| stranded by Gehrig and Lazzeri. couraging to their supporters were it | Koenig hit info a double play after | not that they are in the doldrums so| Combs started the sixth with a hit, far as attack is concerned ! the pass to Ruth that follc being | This was apparent in both of the|inconsequential. Gehrig was anchored messions at the New York Stadium,;at the kevstone aiter opening the when they achieved « total of only 10| seventh with u bingle The same| mafeties, and became even more pat- |fate befell Ben Paschal. who got a| ent yesterday, when they failed to |free ticket in the role of eighth-i register more than a solitary bingle | pinch-hitter, and 1 in any one frame, to now stand with'a two-ply demise to an average of only five hits and one | battle afier Gehrig's and orethird runs to the game, as|in the final frame. against the Cardinals’ average of | All the N nearly four runs and more thentwo sesslons, Southworth's single . seven hits per contest the opener and Hafey's double in he second coming to naught, while | Haines Given Little Char Douthit was left at the midway after | Regarded as equally significant is|drawing a walk to start the third. 3 the consideration that It was Haines| who so completely baffled them ves terday. Of all the available regular [y was Lester Bell who paved the starters on Hornsby's roster. this way for that productive fourth | right-hander was conceded to have the | frame by connecting for his first hit poorest chance, and considerable sur-{of the serles, u clean single to cen- | prise was occasioned when he waster. Hafey promptly sacrificed, | nominated for duty. According to the jO'Farrell was franked and then came dopesters, Haines, whose principal | the break that launched the uards! reliance Is a fast ba 1, figured to prove ! victoryward | easy pickin’s for the Huggmen. who ! Tevenow. whose freak home run; Just dote on speed, but he confounded | was one of the features of Sunday's | the experts turning in a better | skirmish in New York. bounded to| job on the face of the returns than |Lazzeri, who forced O'Farrell al sec either Bill Sherdel, a lefthander who|ond. In pivoting for a double play specializes in siow floaters, and was | Koentg heaved wildly past Gehrig, | nosed out 1o 1 in the opener, or ! due possibly to his fingers grasping a | Grover Alexander, the crafty veteran |mud-slippered spot on the ball, and | who earned encomiums by fanning 10 | Bell raced to the plate with the first | of the Yanks in recording his triumph | tally of the contest as the 38,000-odd at Gotham, yet was tapped for a pair base ball frenzied fans of the .\lnundl of tallies. | City raised a terrific din { Many will find in what huppened to{ The noise was but a murimur in Ruether yesterday the answer to the | comparison with what followed, how- question of why Dutch was not used |ever, when Haines lunged at Ruether’s by the Nationals in their title clash | initial offering and sent it sailing far with the Pirates last I Phe south | over Meusel's head into the serriee paw appeared noue too ive ar|vanks of humanity ensconced in the stage of the proceed yester: tfleld stand and trotted around | ¥ and was yanked midway of athe | the bases to follow Thevenow (o the | tilt, after it was almost hopelessiy lost. | counting block | Bob Shawkey and Myles Thonias hoth PURARE | displaying much gre: effectiveness, by Advances Southworth. being his successors. 5 uthit | Haines' hurling was a~ meritorious ' lined to Koenig. but a single by South- | as that of Ruether was reprehensible. | worth, the second of the game to| Not only did he limit the Vinks to|be made by the fiychaser whose homer mere singles and thereby main velled ory for the Cardinals Sun. | their unwelcome distinction of failing | day, pried open the fifth and started | to make an extra-base Llow Ruether toward his bath. Hornsby's | met to date, but kept the five they|roller over second base sent South.| made scattered over as many v {worth to third, from where he tallied while flashing control of a ‘hile Bottomley was being retived. | able brand. In five of the nine rounds | and Duteh then was on his way. | Haines set down the Hugmen In order. | Shawkey finished ont the = in matched his three bases on talls effective style. bulking the @s many strike-outs, and permiited|the next two rounds nary a Yank to advance bevend sec-! Thomas, who slubbed in - ond base, while only three of them | ning, aiso Leld the home talent at attained that far | bay. but the dimage had heen done, | Dugan First o Get to Second, 107 the Yankees could locate no flaws | in Haines' defensive armor Dugan was the first to reuch the) Now speculatfon has switched to midway, the Initial safety o Huines | whether Flint Rhem can watch the in round three, followed by “Scvereid's of his predecessors in the Car- | sacrifice, putting him there. However, | dinals’ curving corps, or how efrective | Ruether then popped foul and ater | Sherdel and Alexander will prove in | Combs coaxed a pass Koenig proved |come-back efforts ugainst Waite Ho: tmpotent. {or Pennock. Home-town enthusiasts uth opened the fourth with a|are convinced that only the weather eatety and advanced only because. in|man can prevent St. Louis from flelding Meusel’s bounder. Haines elip- | achieving its first world championship ped and had to devote his retiring |by tomorrow evening. but Miller Hug- throw to the batsman. It was then|gins and his henchmen not only con-| that the proceedings were halted for | tend that a return to New York will | more than half un hour by the show-|be necessary. but that they will yet er which drenched thousands in the find their hatting eves sand pound the ground. ' their wind second up safety was confined to N Bell Starts the Fireworks. Horr The sortie was snuffed when | Ha o' {to start off the th Ruth, L. Meusel, T. Ruether, p. Shawkey, Paschal® Thomas. p. tor Shawkey They M alamco-ss-s; Totals New York (A St Loals (N T T hit—Hafey Haines., Hafe k to Lau + o Hornsby to Bottom- Vork. 6: Nt.! Dases—New Vorl Nt Boees on balls—OT Halnes, 3 Paschal) ; off Ruether 2 3 ruck _out—By Lazzeri, Combs): by Dout in. B (Combs,” Ru (Douthii. 0'Farrel faines, 3 (Koente, Ruether 1 (L. Bell); by Shawkey, 1 i), Wits—ON Ruether, 7 in 4% off "Shawkev. none in’ %34 Innings: Thomas, 1 Winning_pitcher— Hainex. 1 Mewnes’ ( ; d Base: 0'Day (N. of game—1 hour an SOUTHWORTH HEADS Dineen ( . at at third base. i1 minutes. LIST IN SWATTING| Acsociated Press LOUIS, Getober 6.—Billy South worth. veteran Cardinal righi flelder a monopoly on batting henors so Figures for the first three games show he is now leading both teams at bat with .455. He is tled with Jim Bottomley for the most hi* made, five: deadlocked with Thevenow in runs scored, three, and leading the, total huse column with eight. Both teams speed. but not been registered. Severeid and O'Far- rell have cut down what few at tempted thefts have been made. By th ar. ve reputations for The playing fleld was a quagmire vesterday when the game was re sumed In_the fourth after 32 minutes’ delay. Koenig was the first to feel the effects of it when he threw the mud-spatt mitting Lester Bell to score the first Cardinal Tun on home grounds simultaneously earn a $500 watch of fered by a St The game was the third in which one team made one error and the other played perfectly. St. Louls was charged with a miscue in each of the games in New York. The Cards shunned the error column today. shunned the error column today, while Yesterday's crowd was most enthu siastic. Haines was generously cheered for every strike he threw, and simpie ‘catches in the outfield called for an ovation for the Cardinals. The home folls like the National Teague champions Southworth, home-run hero of the second game, received a terriffic ova- tion when he stepped to the plate in the first inning. He obliged by rap ping Ruether's first offering on a line o center for a single, but was left stranded by H ind Rottomley half of the second inning. he was. the .twenty-seventh New Yorker 1o go out in order. Alexander had vetived 1 in a row in the last ! seven Innings of the second zame and Haines added six more. Joe Dugan tinally broke the spell with aysingle d Inning Ruth had a strange experience, even for hostile territory. when he walloped a hit to center in the fourth, amid s silence that thick National Circle base ballers will visit Eastport, Md.. Sunday to meet the strong nine representing that place for the second time this season. Circles won, 2 to 0, in the first en- counter, a thriller. Right on the counter / It's called B. Popper & Co., Inc., Manufacturers POPPER'S EIGHT for so often / Daniel Loughran Company, Washington Distributors ‘ 1347 Penna. Ave. N.-W.—Phone Main 391 8 CENTER ITS ALL RIGHT m . + stolen base has vet | d ball wild to Gehrig, per- | and | Louis fan for this event. | was dense and | Slump SERIES STATISTICS. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Pet. Won Lost Pet. New York Yankees... 1 2 333 1.000 |8 Louls Cardinals...2 1 666 k RESULT OF GAMES. First—Yanks, 2; Cardinals, 1. Second—Cardinals, 6; Yanks, 2. '4; Yanks, 0. TUESDAY'S TOTALS. . AB. R. H. 2B.3B.HR.TB. Avg. PO. A. E. ST. LOUIS. Douthit, cf ° oo 20 - Hafey, If. . O'Farrell, c. Thevenow, ss. Sherdel, p. ... tFlowers Haines, p. . Alexander, p. Totals e TR D S353s38ss L] —oomao0 | momm s mnmnn @ 'O—Qflfi—.-..aflu |eeee=o.oe=eo | cnoonuwumauens leooma © M 3 - x TOTALS FOR THREE DAYS. Attendance (three games), 162,966. Total receipts, $563,802. Players’ share, $287,539.02. Advisory councils share, $84,570.30. Each club’s share, $47,923.17. Each league’s share, $47,923.17. ? 8l ass: scesesosssosscse W o <) wmismte g @ EETETITOE T YPE S PY A7 ZeaFae ccuseus~—uvmswDR DEMPSEY ACCUSES KEARNS OF FORGING By the Associated Prees. ATLANTIC CITY, N, J.. October 6. —Jack Kearns was charged with forgery by his former protege, Jack Dempsey, in Chancery Court yesterday after the former had identified a con- tract as having been signed by Demp- Rey. The_former champion appeared be- fore Vice Chancellor Ingersoll to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed. The application had been made by Kearns previous to the recent champlonship battle. In August, 1923, said Dempsey, Kearns visited him at Saratoga Springs, telling him that he, Kearns, had forfed Dempsey’s name tc a con- tract and that he had been caught by the New York State Boxing Commi slon and feared criminal prosecution. Feeling sorry for Kearns, Dempsey testified, he affixed his signature to contract, though, he testitled, it was only in a spirit of friendship, and it was understood the contract was worthless and not binding. Kearns introduced a letter written to Dempsey In March of this year, in which he charged Dempsey with hav- cconvu—wmw B Bl cnoswummnnwens | Pennock, Shocker, p. . Shawkey, p. . §Ruether, p. . Jones, p. ... | Thomas, p. Totals Holm batted for Sherdel in eighth inning of first game. “Flowers batted for Southworth in eighth inning of first game. :Paschal batted for Severeid in eighth inning of second game Shawkey in eighth inning of third game. 5 8Ruether batted for Shawkey in eighth inning of smind' game. | Score by innings: cocccsszocseomom ulmoscscs~cocon o lecescsocsccscsosl ol ccccon~sonson lesesasessassssasil ullo } s rgrom im0t 2a 2020 lzscscoscoui lescssems wlesccocsescmcmmon® | eccos =l ® ] - E 86 e and for 0— 4 Sacrifices—Pennock, Meusel, Thevenow, Hornsby, Severeid, Southworth, Hafey. Double plays—Thevenow, Hornsby and Bottomley (2); Alexander, Thevenow and Bottomley; Hornsby to Thevenow to Bottoml Koenig to Lazzeri to Gehrig. Left on bases—St. Louis, 17; New York, Bases on balls—Off Sherdel, 3 (Combs, Ruth, Meusel); off Haines, 4 (Meusel, Combs, Ruth, Paschal); off Pennock, 3 (L. Bell, O'Farrell, Douthit); off Jones, 2 { (Douthit, Hornsby); off A ander, 1 (Combs); off Ruether, 2 (Douthit, O'Farrell). Struck out—By Sherdel 1 (Lazzerl); by Pennock, 4 (Sherdel, Bottomley, Hafey, Bell); by Shocker, 2 (Douthit, Alexander); by Shawkey, 3 (Bell, Douthit, Hafey); by Jdones, 1 (Alexander); by Alexander, 10 (Shocker (2), Ruth, Severeid, Kmnfg. Gehrig, Lazzeri, Dugan, Meusel, Paschal). Hits—Off Sherdel, 6 in 7 innings; off Haines, 5 in 10 innings; off Pennock, 3 in 9 innings; off Shocker, 10 in 7 innings; off Shawkey, none in 3 2-3 innings; off Jones, 2 in 1 inning; off Alexan- der, 4 in 9 innings; off Ruether, 7 in 4 1-3 innin, mas, 1 in 1 in . Winning 'lll('hfl's—l-‘nr New York, Pennock; for St. Louis, Alexander, Haines. Losing pitchers—For New York, Shocker, Ruether; for St. Louis, Sherdel. Time of first game, 1:48; time of second game, 1:57; time of third game, 1:41. { Umpires—Messrs. Dinneen and Hildebrand (American League), 0'Day and Klem (National League). that he, Kearns, was managing the “future heavyweight champion of the world, Napoleon Darval. Declsion was reserved for three weeks to permit counsel to file briefs. POLO GAME PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW Wet grounds have made necess: postponement of the match between 16th Field Artillery and 3d Cavalry of Fort Myer carded for this afternoon in the low-goal tournament of the War Departiment Polo Club that has been in progress on Potomac Park oval for some time. |N REAP'NG HARVEST Malone acts in the same capacity for Gertrude Ederle of English Chan BY FAIRPLAY. nel fame, and, judging by the way he {s handling the mermaid NEW YORK. October 6.—Champion Gene Tunney s breaking all prece- { fairs, Tunney will get every cent com dent for titleholders, especlally heavy- ing to him. Dempesey did something of this sort | welght champlons. Two weeks have passed since Gene dethroned Jack when he tled up with Roy Cannon, but the partnership seems to have Dempsey and he has not cashed in on his newly won honors. been a faflure. The advent of Malone gives rise to It 15 safe to say that any other man would have appeared on the public the suspicion that all is not as it should be between Tunney and his stage at so much per evening within a week after the fight. manager, Billy Gibson. A pointed out before, the agreement binding the Gene Tunney is in great demand. Far more than any other champion pair expired early in the year and in the history of the fight game. Tele- some sort of an agreement was reached before Tunney was able to grams, cables and letters are pouring in at a tremendous rate. This only get his license in Philadelphia. | goes to prove the popularity of moi played tomorrow or just as soon as | the” grounds permit. clash with 6th Field Artillery of Fort | Hoyle in the final. In yesterday’s match 6th Field Ar- |tillery_riders scored an easy victory over War Greens. WHITE SOX AND CUBS fore arine. COLUMBIA AND LANGLEY TO RENEW HOSTILITIES Gene favors the silver screen. The CHICAGO, October & (#).-—Yes- chances are that he will work on terday’'s game of the city series be- tween the White Sox and Cubs was another serles of pictures this Winter 5 and then get into shape to defend his ; PLAY A TIE AT SOCCER washed a’ v In a drizzling rain, which Heel s ; | “Superb work of Dooling at goal for title when the warm weather ros|fell Virtually all day. It will be | umbia yesterday enabled that com- around plased today at White Sox Field, Tunney has taks | bination to hold Langley to a score. (he enpetenas taken a lesson from | with that club having an opportunity | less tie in the opening battle of the time Chience of Jack Dempsey. Any | to clinch the Chicago title. 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LOUIS, October, 6—There is a chance, of course, that the Yankees will turn around to ‘*;nt" the Cardinals on their beaks and get the better end of this w series. But it's a slim chance—mighty slim Leading, two games to one, as the result of a second consecu tive victory scored yesterday with a 4-to-0 count, the National League champs will take a deal of beating, especially by a club that in the first three engagements of the titular set scemed to have forgotten just what a base ball bat was made for. The Cards appeared much better in the second game than they did in the first of the series, and in the third they appeared to greater advan tage than ir the second. But the Yankees have not advanced in form. It's been just the opposite with them and probably it would take more than a victory to get them in good running form once more. The Cards have been as spry as|to go the nineinning route constst- could be desired, but the Yanks ay And Dutch did not pitch parently have been at a loss to under- complete games during the stand fust what is going on. League campaign this The Cards seemed to change imme- diately after Billy the Kid Southworth made that homer over the right-fleld screen in the home of the New York ers in the seventh inning of Sunday’s battle. ~ Never dispirited since the start of the serfes, they took on more fire then and have been flaring bright- ly since. 4 And what added fuel to the flame burning in the hearts of the Red Birds probably took about all that was ieft of the scant amount of warmth th, Yankees had when they began the 'big struggle. Then the New Yorkers were a cold lot and fortunately profited thereby. . in the next two games they were unable to work up any enthusiasm. when they began the series, they were colder still at the conclusion of the third tilt. And_there was no colder member of | these Yankees vesterday than Walter | Ruether, who hurled through nearly two seasons with the Natfonals unde the guidance of Bucky Harris bef donning the uniform of Col. Ruppert's one-time consistent sharpshooters. The performance of the portside pitcher in the third game of the series more than justified his release to the Yankees by the Nationals toward the fag end of the recent American League campaign, despite his record | The that made him seem the best pitcher | done on the Washington roster during the year. Dutch appeared none too good | when he first stepped to the rubh yesterday. He bkad to pitch himself out to practically every batsman that | inake matters more than interesting faced him before that heavy shower|for the Cardinal pitchers. —Even came along In the early part of the|though they had been in a slump for fourth frame. The Cards looked|@ time, much free hitting by the him over carefully and got a double, | Yankees was expected two singles and a pass during those| But for the third straight time they Afiveos camuloiA: failed to get anywhere with their war | clubs. All they got off the right-hand Halnes were five hits as many innings and la wio . And it had been | thought that Haines' pitching would just the thing needed to bring the nks out of their hitting slump. e v fast-ball hurler of the type they ently many American season. That Manager Miller Huggins should select this portsider as a start ing pitcher, was quite surprising to many interested in the fortunes of the Yanks. Before the world title set began, even American League partisans were willing to wager that if Dutch went to the rubber he would not remaln through five innings. Hoyt Warmed Up Twice. And they were right. Even Man ager Huggins must have doubted the isdom of Ruether's selection fmme diately after the start of the fray, for before the left-hander finished pisching to the first Cardinal at bat, the New York pilot hustled the right-hander. Waite Hoyt, to the sideline to warn up. Hoyt was sent into action in the byllpen again in the fourth, when the Cards were taking liberties with Dutch’s flings, but it was Robert Shawkey who was sent to the slab when Ruether was recalled in the fifth. This second guess by Huggine was much the better, although Bob did not finish the game. He gave way to a pinch hitter in the eighth, so the youthful Myles Thomas got an op portunity to crash into a world serfes for the finst time. best thing the Yankees have o far In the series has been to themselves remarkable dope ers. While none of the critics e the set began credited the New club with being a great ball club. they did believe the Yankees would Ruether’'s Wing Cools. And after the lay-off of more than minutes that the storm brought about, Dutch cooled off altogether. He had virtually nothing in his pitching wing in the fourth when | Jess Haines socked the homer that : accounted for two of the three runs |l so often faced during the An : | ican_ League nd they had the Cards got then. He had no more | ol o Cne 53 e | murdered those speedy moundsmen long | il o alites enough to allow the National League | x(f:";v"’,:“,n‘x',‘g' A o ,“1,1““..'.,;“'_ standard bearers their flnal marker | (hem many opportunities to do so of the da e | five times the first Yankee to step to Followers of Bucky Harris’ club| the plate fn an inning managed to will recall how Ruether generally|get to first base. Three of these ezed along in fine style for a few | Yunkees got as far as second base frames, then suddenly became in-|with but one out. Then the punching effective. It was hinted at the time | ceased. 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