Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1927, Page 19

S ’ PORTS. THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927." 'SPORT Races for Individual Batting Championships in Both Major Leagues Are Close Woman Champion Finds Links SWIMMING MARKS Easiest Place to Rear Family TRIS SPEAKER IN RUNNING FOR JUNIOR CIRCUIT TITLE Griffman Now Is Topped and Ruth—Paul Waner of Pirates Looms as Likely Victor int BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, Augu vidual batting ch in the major leagues ha almost been lost sizht of this season in the e the home run-and the general fever of interest in the four-base clouters. Babe Ruth, or any other plaver, make 59 home runs in a season win but 10 games with them hard-working chap who places his hits here and there, batting with scientitic intent and helping his team eve; y by his skill, got a lot a credit very long ago, but in many inst he now is overlooked because standing in the shadow of the home run kings. 1t things go well with Paul Waner ot the Pittsburgh team, he is likely to be the National League batting cham- plon. That delightful fate was pre- dicted for him last Winter when his skill was forecast for 1927. leading his league today. batting at a .386 clip, and of his 162 hits games, only six have been home ru Waner Excels Hornsby. Rogers Hornsby is steaming up more than he was, but he must,go far to catch Waner, who is a better batter. That is the plain truth of that com- parison. Paul Waner is one of the| greatest young plavers developed in vears and his brother Ll also of the Pirates, treads so closely upon his heels that the National T. ue should | kneel and give thanks for having ac quired these two Oklahoma hoys. The American League could have had them It would be a shame to tell the names | ot the American League clubs that | could have had them. Howe er clubs are on the list, so it may har be necessary to recite the names. There are other players of the Pitts- | burgh team who will string along with | c Paul Waner, but they are not likel may and Rl © | because Simmons has been a better Paul is | Only by Simmons, Gehrig he Parent Loop. great batting. the league in | 01 |season is over. Th jrown of Boston hits in 1926 In the Ameri ea; |mons of the Philadelphia * Athletics leads the boys toda but he will have | 1 o do better than he has done to hold that Jead he end, Lou Gehrig of {the New York Y#nkees has made a | er total of hits. It Gehrig can ontinue his pace, he can make 200 | as his total to date is | whila Simmons has 138. Sim- may get him on percentage, led with ue, Al Sim- mons ! waiter and perhaps will continue to | be so. Babe Ruth Is Close Up. Babe Ruth jogs along closely behind | both of 1t Ruth were batting | s well as he batted in he could carry the fight to Sim- and Gehrig. But he isn't. Ruth have to get three or four more s per week than he has been swat- ting if he expects to be the leading ter at the end of the season. In her words, he s a full 20 behind hat figure which he needs to advance \im to the top and hold it with se- e isn't apt to be serious rivalry on the part of any other batters of the American League unless Tris Speaker goes better than he has. The batting of Speaker has been one of the biggest things in the league this year, sidering the long service of the player, and yet mo one pays much attention to it. Instead, there is no end of daily blah-blah about the home run joust, which is the private side of the kees, Next to the excellent work of the veteran Speaker, the batting of Bing Miller of the St. Louis Browns and of Bob Meusel of the Yankees stands »ut, and not far behind them is Harry Heilmann of Detroit, who always in- to catch him. He has and he is apt to have more than 200 by a margin of about 10 when the WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINN NITIAL matches of the interplay- ground tennis doubles tourna- ment were played yesterday after- noon, despite the heavy courts. Bloomingdale, Takoma Park, Garfleld and Twin Oaks racketers were the victors in their respective “sections, with the feature encounter being staged on the Bloomingdale courts. In this match the home team of Emily Harrington and Bertha Ryan defeated Margaret Moore and Rose Brill of New York avenue in three wets, 6—4, 3—6, 6—1. This was a sec- tion 1 encounter. Doris Ehrmantraut and Lucy Ross, representing Takoma Park, won the initial victory in Section 2, defeating Bessie Buchanan and Sal]v Aman of Iowa avenue, 6—2, 6—3, on the Jowa avenue court. In Section 8, the Twin Oaks repre- sentatives, Kathleen Stead and An- toinette Edwards, triumphed over Betty Story and Gertrude McDonald of Park View, 6—0, 6—1, while Loveye Adkins and Helen Breen, representing Garfield and rated one of the strong- est teams in the tourney, blanked Irene Hunter and Roslyn Teichman of Van Ness, 6—0, 6—0, in the Section 4 vontest. Two matches are scheduled in each of the sections today, according to Maude Parker, director of girls' play- ground activities. Health stations, which have been opened on five of the municipal play- unds have proved a boon for more mn 1,200 children, according to the director of the grounds, who are co- operating with the child health edu- cation department of the Washing- ton Tuberculosis Association in op- erating these stations. The youngsters are keeping tab on their physical con- dition through periodical visits to the stations, learning when they are under welght and when over weight, and to what extent they should participate in sports. Since the opening of the stations four weeks ago, it is estimated that 1.384 children have been weighed, measured and examined on the five grounds as follows: Rosedale, 369; Hoover, 195; Virginia avenue, 324: Georgetown, 332, and Willow Tree, 164. ! poorly right now. ses his output as the season draws to close, and who isn't doing so E FRAZIER. the fine sense of sportsmanship which is developed among followers of the green—or in fact, devotees of any sport who are in it for the sake of the game. Two feminine golfers who are known to thousands, according to the story told by the editor of “Women’s ports,” a magazine devoted to the athletic activities of the fair sex, had met in a number of tournaments, Miss A always winning out over Miss B, who was an equally strong golfer judging from their medal scores and irom the play of the two against other opponents. On one occasion, however, Miss B triumphed and Miss A, in her defeat proved herself a genuine sports- woman. On a critical green, with the two balls lying just a few inches from the cup and strokes apparently even on the hole, Miss B said: “We'll halve the hole, if you like, T belleve we are even.” said Miss A, “Sink your putt, my ball turned over as I was addressing it for my second stroke, giving me one extra. The two players were unattended except for a caddy. As the editor put it, “Nobody but God and the caddy knew about that ball turning over and the caddy may not have been looking!”" Miss A lost that hole, and Miss B, given an edge, carried on to win the match. On the local tennis courts yesterday one equally fine was given, however. Two well known racketers were scheduled to meet in a critical match one of them had “upset the dope” by eliminating a seeded player. The one viously offered to postpone the critical match until this morning, giving her opponent time to come back, which in itself was a sporting thing to do. she felt fit and preferred playing at the time scheduied. She was strongly favored to win, as her past perform- ance indicated supremacy over her rival, But she lost in straight sets. Fol- lowing the match, sympathetic friends suggested to her that had she walted she might have won. following an exhausting one in which | ge, who had not had any hard play pre- ll-:'fl But the other player insisted that | 6w VETERAN NET STARS SCORE AT SEABRIGHT By the Assoclated Press. SEABRIGHT, N. J., August 5.—A man and a woman old in the ways of tennis today held most of the spot- light in_the invitation tournament here and had within their grasps a clean sweep of all the honors. \\Ulnm T. Tilden and Mrs. Molla Mallo ldest of the entries in point of experience, were the only ones to rea the finals in both singles and dou’ and the semi-finals in mixed doubles as well. Having triumphed yesterday over George Lott of Chicago, and over others of the country’s prom- ising youngsters in previous rounds, Tilder today was to face his doubles partner, Hunter, in the finals singles trophy. Hunter mi-final victory was hard won over young Fritz Mercu former Lehigh player, 7—5, 3—6, In the women's singles final sched- uled fop tomorrow, Mrs. Mallory is to meet a real test in the young Cali- fornia player, Helen Jacobs, who de- feated her a few days ago. While Mrs. Mailory was beating Mrs. A. H. Chapin yesterday little Miss Jacobs was soundly trouncing Eleanor Goss, third ranking player, on an adjolning court. The Tilden-Hunter palr, champion doubles team of England, at the same time reached the final, where tomor- row they meet Richard N. Willlams and Lewis N. White. OARSMEN CONTINUE TITLE MEET TODAY By tha Associated Press. DETROIT, August 5.—Oarsmen from the BEast, Middle West and Can- ada were matched in the second day’s events of the national amateur row- ing championship regatta on the Wyandotte Boat Club course. Chief among today's events is the championship single sculls, with Rob- ert Agnew of the Undine Barge Club, Philadelphia, and ‘W, E. Garrett Gil- more of the Bachelors’ Barge Club, Philadelphia, national singles cham- pion, among the entries. Entries in the intermediate and se- nior double and eight events include the Argonaut Rowing Club, Toronto, Ontario, with Joe Wright, jr., cham- pion sculler; the Vancouver Rowing Club, Vancouver, British Columbia; the Penn Athletic Club, Philadelphia, and the Nassau Boat Club, New York. Yesterday's summaries: Junior 145-pound, singles—Won by, Lee Clennanan, Wyandotte Boat Club. ~Tige. 4 Edward Flinterman, De: Gait ot “Giab. Tunior 143-pound fours with coxswains— Won_ by _Wyandotte Boat Club. Time, 6:47%. " Second. Detroit Hoat Club. Junior einglos—Won by Lee McClénnahan, W:,anduue nauu‘luh Pime: Sec- on S 6—2, 6-—4, 3% . C. J. Dinkelkamp, Centry Host Chab, s, vunm doghle geulls_—Won Detrott 8%. " Second. Lincoln Bank Som ciub. onie Intermedisto single scuils—Won by B, W. reeman, Nassau Boat Cub. New York: Time, 7 H. Carleop, Lincoln PArk’ Boat Cluby Chicaio: " third: W, Smih: Lingoln Park Boat Club. Chicago: ' fourth. Thompson, Lincoln Park Boat Club. Chi- cagi Junior 1£5-pound sighte—Won by Petrolt e, 6:38%. Second. Detroit No: SWIMMING POOL LISTS MEET, ONE TOMORROW Swimming meets will be held at HEY! MA YOU WON EVERYTHING OONMT YA WANT Che was T2 FiRST WOMEN'S CHAMPION DF THE CAROLINAS \N 1921 ITS HARD FOR US BATCHELORS TO 'GET UP A FOURSOME BUT NOT POR uOE OvER THERE 1M GONNA 2IM YA 2 y A Now TRAT THE GAME HAS BECOME A FAMILY AFFAIR. MAIDS MIGHT BE FURNISHED ON THE LINKS IF FAMILY GOLF IS POPULARIZED By the Associated Press. Learning to play champlonship golf and raising a family at .the same time is not nearly as hard as Scapa Flow Pool tomorrow and Au- gust 13 and 20. Medals are to be presented to each winner and a silver cup will go to the highest point scorer. Men, women and boys will compete. Tomorrow’s events are: For men, 50 yards, free style; 440 yards, free style; plunge for distance. For ‘women, same as for men. Boys, 50 vards, free style. The meet will start at 3:30. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN BATTING. E’ " ssseommotnuRonSonnaling . RBI. Pet. 371 340 337 332 301 ausuen B uSEE seea 23 PP 13-t ST ™ - mouomasrbaBiRonSal Zachary I’I‘I'CHING otal ‘ompl. Innings zames. mrt ‘Rames pitched. 4 ; i Zachary S EF.’.‘:.%;; “I was not tired,” she declared. “I well rates We just heard a golf story ssing on because it ill d_the best that I am capable i /ing and am satisfl Marberry Braxton pameeme’ .2 New Hudson n /8 inch wheelbase With the New High-Compression Anti-Knock Motor that turns waste heat to power On Display Saturday and Sunday Also a full line showing of New Hudson 127-inch models and New Essex Super-Sixes B D All Hudson-Essex Dealers Open Sundays and Evenings it sounds. Take it from a woman who has done both. Mrs. W, L. Plerce of Charlotte, N. C., who has won the Carolinas’ womens' title for the second time after six years, started raising her family and then switched the scene to golf courses. “The country club is one of the easiest places I know of to raise children,” Mrs. Plerce says. “When I started learing the game, I took a nurse and the children along. ‘While I learned golf the children were out of doors, and as soon as they were old enough they, toqg, be- gan playing. Now we often have a family foursome—Bill Senior, Bill Junior, Shelton and myself. Bill Junior has become so good he has to give me strokes nowadays.” Mrs. Plerce became the first women’s champion of the Carolinas in 1921. Before repeating recently she reached the finals and semi- finals a number of times. She has played twice in the champlonship division of the Southern women’s tourney and once took a shot at the national title. Her game shows & steady improvement. D. C. SWIMMERS TO RACE AT BAY SHORE TOMORROW N announcement from the board of directors of the Washington Canoe Club to the effect that members of the Capital A. C., composed of the leading wom- an aquatic stars of the District, could not be permitted to compete under the name of that organization, has been followed by the resignation of Everett B, Ansley from the club. Ansley is a member of the A. A. U. national Swimming committee and was in charge of swimming at the club as well as chairman of the com- mittee in charge of the President’s Cup race, to be held here next month. Members of the club board stated that it was impossible to admit the glrls as members of the club, as the constitution denied that privilege. The zonsolidation of the Capital A. C. stars and the Washington Canoe Club swimmers was sought in order that the combined teams could com- pete for the South Atlantic trophy, at Bay Shore, tomorrow. The trophy is open to mixed teams only, and neither of the local teams was eligible to compete as separate clubs, Ansley has been associated with water sports since 1911, having held the all-around swimming title of the District in 1914 and 1915, and in the former year was all-around canoe champion. He holds the present record for the 3-mile swim from Chain Bridge to Key Bridge, cover- ing ‘the course in 1 hour 17 minutes in 1915. ‘With David M. Lea, president of the club, who is now in Europe, he secured the indorsement of the Presi- dent of the United States for the 3-mile swim, now known as the President’s Cup champlonship race. He has promoted the event each year since 1923, Directors of the club stated today that swimming would be continued as a sport at the canoe club and members of the team will go to Bay Shore tomorrow. Florence Skadding, president of Capital Athletic Club, stated that it was understood that the teams would combine and that they would com- pete at Bay Shore as one organiza- tion, although it was undecided what name would be adopted. Twelve girls and 15 man swimmers will com- pose the team. TRAPSHOTS WILL TAKE PART IN TEAM EVENT Two-man team matches will feature tomorrow afternoon’s shooting on Benning rangs by Washington Gun Club gunners. Drawings will be made to_determine the teams. Each member of the high team will receive a spoon trophy. Hellen and Four Month’s trophy matches will fol- low the spoon event. Local gunners are preparing for the grand American handicap matches to be held August 20. A registered shoot of 200 birds will be held then, with the first 100 at 16 yards and the remainder under handicap from 16 to 22 yards. Hunting turtle eggs is the popular sport now around New Smyrna, Fla. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, August 5.—Records fell as swimmers from the East and Mid- dle West splashed in the Detroit Boat Club’s first outdoor meet to be held under electric lights "hursday night. Johnny Weissmuller of the Illinols A. C. accomplished his aim of several years, crashing the world record for the 220-yard free-tyle, long-course event, covering the distance in 2:01 15, lowering the record of 2:13 3.5, held for 13 years by Duke Kahanamoku of Honolulu, Walter Spence of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. falled by nearly three sec- onds to lower the 100-meter breast. stroke record. His time was 1:21, and the record 1:18 3.5 George Kojac of the Boys’ Club of New York, who has beaten Welssmul- ler in back-stroke swimming, knocked 3 seconds from the national junior record in the 300-yard medley. His time was 4:34, The 440-yard national junior cham- plonship went to Robert Cannon of the Cleveland Y. M. C. A.. His broth- er Willlam was second. The time was 5:47 1.5, Marie Ililligas of Philadelphia took the 100-meter national junior breast stroke title in 1:41, while the Wom- an's Aquatic Club of Detroit won the 880-yard relay in 12:43 to bring the national champlonship her —_— WOMEN’S NET EVENT IS WELL ADVANCED Delphine Heyl proved conclusively yesterday that she has “come back” after the noticeable slump in her game which occurred last Summer. She pro- vided her second surprise in the Women's District of Columbla tennis championships by eliminating Laura Pittinger, runner-up in the recent Delaware State clay court tourney and is picked as one of the probable | ma finalists in the District event. Miss Heyl scored in three sets, 6—4, 1—86, 6—4. Today Miss Heyl was to meet Frances Bethel in the semi-finals. Lillian Rixey, after taking the measure of Helen Sinclair, seeded favorite, yesterday in another three- set affair, 1—6, 6—3, 8—86, lost to Miss Bethel in the quarter finals, 6—3, 6—3. In the upper bracket, Frances Kru- coff eliminated Sara Jane Taylor of Haddonfield Club, New Jersey, 6—2, 6—1, to reach the semi-finals, while |, Frances Walker took the measure of Mary Ryan, 6—2, 6—3. These two were to meet this afternoon at 2 o’clock in_the other semi-final encounter. It is expected to have the finals in the singles tomorrow afternoon and in the doubles, either tomorrow or Sun- day. Two courts at Columbia Country Club have been made available over the week end in order that the flnals of each event might be played oft without delay. The tennis committes made this con- cession because of the inclement weather the first part of the week, which delayed the tourney. Prizes will be on exhibition tomor- row morning at the club. They in- clude trophies for the winner and runner-up in the singles event and for the winners and runners-up in the doubles. Today’s schedule: Semi-inale—Heyl vs. Bothel: Krucoff ve. Doubles—Southgate and Wheeler vs. M: {inez and Dunham: Heyl and Olmstead v Pittinger and Ta Berrall and Snyder v Kiaphaak and Claude Fragier and Rixey vs Winner " Kiappaakc - and - Claudebether and Bethel match: Krucoff and Walker vs. winner Southga d Wheeler-Martinez and ham match. YESTEBDAY'S RESULTS. Third round—Sarah Taylor defeated Mrs. Winslow., 6—1, 6—2: Mary Ryan defeated Margarei Ryan. 9—7. 6—1: Frances Walkor Gefoated Katherine Bethel. s, ilan, Rixey defeated Helén ' Sinclair 10, Se: gfTances Bethel defeated Eliza’ 430, N e oo il uarter fina Sarah Taglor 'o:z.r ’3—'- Franges Walker Brai 6=5"" Frances iman m defeated Hothel. defeated ied x B tt] 3 el atra nger, Delphine Heyl 6—4, 1. LADIES’ DAY TODAY BASE BALL %% AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. St. Louis TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. They run tire Fisk Tires mounted without charge st Floor Baleony.) mileage up--- They drive tire costs down. 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