Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1927, Page 29

TO REGAIN S Thurston Loses Mound Tussle to Harriss of Red!? Sox, 5t0 3,in 11 Inni Fumble and Pair o BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor, The Star. ASHINGTON'S next view of | its American League repre- sentatives will he afforded Thursday of this week when “Shrine day” will be ohserved at Clark Griffith Stadium with the White Sox here as the ad-| vance guard of the season’s final | Western invasion of the East. | 1t is possible that loyal followers of |y regulars who can be counted on to support the Nationals regardless: of how they are .faring— augmented by thousands of the Ma- sonic {raternity, sion to express their appreciation of the aid given by the local management | the Harrismen—th annually in donating the park for |p tern Star Home benefit contest— will be rooting for a second-place club that day All the Griffmen have to do to as-| sure is to make a clean sweep of the four games which starts with the Ath- Jetics in Philadelphia today. an im- | Myer. who will take occa- | fee: ECOND PLACE ngs, Due to Speaker’s f Homers by Todt. “T00” BAD BOSTON. AB. Rothrock, s -8 Flagstead. Regan, | Todt. 3 Hofmann. ¢. . B e SR mmanaS B T TS 23333333335 93 oore. Harriss, Totuls E. [ « 1 o V 0 1 o o Reuass & Ruel. . Thurston, » Totals | samism o 02000 01101000 hits—>lver. Speaker. Home bases-—Shaner, G probable, but not impossible feat. Despite their 5 to 3 setback in 11 in- | nings at the hands of the lowly Red vesterday while the Mackmen idling the Harrismen retained | place over the Tigers, who again | succumbed 1o the Browns, and ed off at Shibe Park this morn just four games in the rear of the runner-up . Four-Point Margin Possible. A bit of figuring discloses that in the event Washington should hag the entire quartet of hattles in Quaker- town. a rather unlikely thing in view of the fact that the Macks to date have a one-game edge over the Griffs in 17 tussies, the Harrismen will re- turn with a four-point edvantage over the clan of McGillicuddy in the battle for second place. But, whether they stand second, or third, or fourth, the Nationals are as- sured of a fine reception Thursday ren they, with five Shriners in their ranks—Tris Speaker, Sam Rice, Nick who boast of four temple mem- bhers—Manager Ray Schalk, Roger Peckinpaugh, Ted Lyons and Aaron Ward. Owing to the fact that numerous features and stunts have been planned for the day, including a concert by the Almas Military Band and Drum Corps of 60 pieces, the double-header tentatively scheduled for Thursday due to a postponement necessitated by rain in_Chicago last month. has heen moved ahead to next Saturday, =0 that the Pale Hose will appear in inzles contests Friday and Sunday | as well as Thursda i ‘Tristram Speaker and a pair of clouts | for the circuit by Phil Todt, agile first | baseman of the Red Sox. sent the Stewari, Rogell. Double play—Stewart Reeves (o Judge. Left on bases—Boston, shington, 11, First base on balls— i off Thurston, 2. : by Thurston . Umpires—Messrs. Time of game—2 hours to pite an minute Griffmen down fo defeat in the extra inning battle before some 4,000 of 1he faithful at the Georgia avenue in- closure yesterday. Hollis' Thurston was pitted against Bryan Harriss. He deserved to win the argument by a count of 3 to 1 in regulation time, and would have but for the considerations mentioned above. The first of Todt's pair of four-base smashes was evolved in round 2, when the bases were totally devoid of occu- pants, and addcd to this tally was the pair presented to the enemy by Speaker in the fifth, when he muffed a flv from the bat of Ira Flagstead for what should have been the final out of the round, when there were tvo hostiles roosting on the runway. MWith the expenditure of nine hil evenly divided, in addition to a wild pitch and a couple of passes, the Nationals had succeeded in chalking up a lone tally in each of the second, third and fifth frames to knot the count, and from then on to the end they threatened Harriss on numerous occasions, while Thurston ifaproved to the point where nary a bingle was recorded against him in the seventh. eighth, ninth or tenth, but there was a different story to be related about the following frame. Then Rogell singled with one awax and stole second after Shaner had died Thurston worked hard on Tod: count of two-and-two when jously *“‘grooved” one and hopes sail over the right field barrier for what was the twenty-fourth homer achieved on the local grolmds’ this season. CAPITAL CITY LOOP RACES GET LIGHTER @t G as the| TRaces In peaciicalle. 2l Capi lea Tripp and .Van | Yandingk leading their atta Hertfords took a fall out of Northe: Motors, pace setters in the tion of the unlimited class, and today ere just one game behind them. Hart- fords’ chance to tie the Motors nine will come Sund: ‘when the former meets Stephen A. C. A Hartford vic- tory will then necessitate a play-off for loop honors. Pounding out hits to all parts of the field, Moose swamped Robins, 22 to 1, in a section B game of the senior and barring a protested contest rs, moved to a tie for the National sles. Freers 10 1o 6. od rd place with ed Atlanties, Senators, n Linbbergi BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESLLTS. Cleveland, 8: Chicazo, : St. Loufs, 4: Detreit “ya0x MIN ] z New York/— (13111112112 O/18/15/90 3817 Phils. .| 8/—] 9{10/11] /1214173/55.570 Wash’ton | 8 8/—1 811012/ 8/14168/581.540 Detroit . .| 6/ 8/10i—_7/12/14/12/69591.530 THE EVENING RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. R. . O.R !Sow York. ., | Washington Philadelphia t. Louis Erwasamaan oston icago Cleveland Detroit 5 6 NATIONAL LE New York. 5 | Pittaburgh | Cincinnati | Boston . | Brookiyn | P | Chicago 3 BUCS KEPT IN RACE - BY WORK OF WANERS 30, 18 | | | By the Associated Press. When Donie Bush had his Pirates in tow on one of their first Eastern invasions he expressed the view that Lloyd Waner, younger of the famous { | brother outfielders, would have bene- | fitted from another year of seasoning {in the minors before tackling the ma- Jor league grade. |”_The Pirates almost let Lloyd out for | this purpose, but he played so sensa- | tionally in an exhibition Spring game |at San Francisco that Bush decided to_keep him. What Lloyd might have done with the extra seasoning is a bit proble- matical. Without it he is merely way into the first five in League batting list, lead. the league in runs scored and ficlding in spectacular fashion. 1t would appear that neither of the Waners needs much seasoning. They are, as Bush points out, apparently born to the game, destined to from the time they first pitched corn cobs to each other, out in Ada, Okla. until they donned major league Paul batted .335 in his first 3 the big show last vear. Llovd, around .340 now, may do even better in his debut this year. 1t would afford one of the most color- ful contrasts in base ball history if the Pirates, with the Waners, meet the Yankee combination of Ruth and Gehrig in the world series. b The brother act has kept the Pi rates League race, | home-run_trust the greatest long- | distance hitting duet the game has | ever known. There have been a lot of famous hitting combinations, such as Cobb and Crawford of the old Tigers, Keeler and Brouthers of the old Orioles, Col- lins and Baker of the old Athletics, Cobb and Heilmann of the Tigers, but none that possessed the color or any more sock than the two outstanding 1927 pairs. year 'FINAL FRAYS TODAY IN COUNTY SERIES Final zames in the Prince Georges County hase ball championship ser | were carded today. Triangles were to | meet District Heights at Largo, | Maryland A. C. was to engage Blad- ensburg on the former’s dikmond and boro A. C. at Croome. A great performance by Ryan. Maryland A. C. pitcher, who all but pitched a no-hit game against Triangle C., as his team won, 5 to 0, fra- lay in_the series vesterda ture spotless éxhibition. It was the thir ctory in the series for M. A. C. and its cecond over Triangles. District Heights defeated Bladens- burg, 6 to 2, and Marlboro turned back Croome, 12 to 10, in other gamcs. WHITAKER IS WINNER OF CHESS TOURNEY By tho Associated Press. KALAMAZOO, Mich., September 5. In the closest and hardest fought uis at O New York at to 2. in_ihe other gama played in loop. Two teams, however, were dited with, through for- Auths got the decis verlys in section A and Manhat were awarded a win over Smith- NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. < in section C. | With Batson and Brown hurling | nz-up ball in the first and second | a respectively. Ades took a Tnuble-header trom Rommels in sec- | on B of the midzet class and achieved | e with Eskimos for first place in | rour { FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN = INA N f Alireck and ic the game, pro- 0 to the widews | of the organiza- tions. | Dictrict Commissioners and other | high officials were to attend. orphans’ fund HORNSBY GAINS GROUND IN YORK. September 5 (&) of the New | into third | of by ver- capta « climbed i e points the Rajah . who occupies sec- By inc three Ruth was now is right after Paul the leader. The standing Plaver t 1 iy i 1 1 clever los . Shamrocks, 14 to 4, oir first game vesterday, but were presscd ke the Harps in the second, SMITH GETS 40TH HOMER. PORTLAND, Oreg., September 5 (). ~—Elmer Smith, right flelder of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league, hit a home run in each game > a double-header with Seattle yes- erday to bring his season's total to 40 circuit clouts, EAGLE JUNIORS TO MEET. Anacostia Kagle Juniors wiil meet tomorrow ht at o'clock at 1335 Ridge place southeast. MOOSE JUNIORS WIN TWO. Moose Juniors scored a double vic tory over the previouslv undefeated Hoffman Junior nine of Baltimore yes- terday, 16 to 1 and § to 4 RACE OF “BIG EIGHT” | St. Louis, 2: Chicago, New Vi Philad Brooklyn. 2 Cincinnati, 1. 3 OF THE CLUB: Philz. at Brooklyn. cinnati at Pittsh’h. t. Louis at Chicago. Boston at New York. Boston at New York. Cincinnati at Pittsb’h, Chieago at St. Louis. |KEANES AIM TO TURN TABLES ON TREMONT T. T. Keanes and Tremon for the lead in the Petworth § League, were to meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock on South Ellipse Field in the second tilt of a proposed three- game series for the title. Socking 14 hits Tremonts won the first game yesterday, 13 to 9. A big clomed in | third-inning duriniz which the winners rang up 8 runs told. | Tremonts used three pitchers and ! Keanes two, and Baker and Colli- flower, last ‘moundsmen for the win- | ners and losers, respectively, alone | were effective, D. Clango and Kilroy were leading hitters, | Gont Thurs | Ruet dge | Johnson Berger . . Tate . i3 Sunl $1338%.3 25222595 R0,ak=00Rco x0T ven Hadley Harris | West Braxton Burke i Marberry Lisenbes Zachary . Atkinson aves | Van Alstine | PITCHING. | Total 6. Comp. Inningzs (art. games. vitched. 23 12 193 i 535 B bl on samecl PETIRSPING M S N ek PETIFPTE Thurston Marberry rke match of the National Chess Federa- tia tournament, Norman T. Whit aker, Washington, D. C.. defeated 1u gene Roesch, St. Louis, Mo, and won th> championshin. ¢ will now chalienge Frank Tsing an irregular Sicilian defense, W tage during the opening moves. OLD DOMINION CREWS IN BALTIMORE REGATTA BALTIMORE, September 5.—Old Dominion Boat Club of Alexandria was the only club of the Washington vicinity entered today in the thirty- sixth annual shell races of the Middle | States Regatta Association on the Pa-| | tapsco River. | Potomac Boat Club. though it is a | member of the associatlon, was not represented. By the Associated Press. New York’s rainy Summer, upsetting all outdoor sports programs, may have influenced Tex Rickard to pick Chi- cago for the Dempsey-Tunney fight, as well as the prospect’of a $3,000,000 gate there. Tex’s weather luck for his hig fight has been proverbial, but it would have difficulty surviving the downpours that have ruined tennis, polo, horse-racing. base ball and boxing schedules in the Metropolitan sector. Rickard has never heen obliged to postpone, hecause of rain, one of his | big shows outside New York and only ! two have fallen afoul of bad weather here. These were the Berlenbach- Stribling bout in 1926 and Maloney- Sharkey contest this Spring. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS HITTERS. Player—Club. G. AB. R. H. Pct. Heilman, Tig. 116 6 Simmons, Ath. 89 | P. Waner, Pir. 127 Gebrig, Yanks. 129 E Harris, Pir. ....101 114 3 HOME-RUN SLUGGERS. Ruth, Yankees.. . | Gehrig, Yankees | Williams, Phillies Hornshy, Giants Wilson, Cubs RUN SCORERS. Gehrig, Yankees... Ruth, Yankees. . Combs, Yankees. L. Warner, Pirates . Hornsby, Giants BASE STEALERS. Frisch, Cardinals Hendrick, Robins Sisler, Bro Carey, Robbins. Adams, Cubs LEADING PITCHERS, Hoyt, Benton, ¥aukees. . Giants be stars | in the thick of the National | while the Ruth-Gehrig | s | Herndon Fairl Croome had an engagemnt with Marl- | L stoady STAR, WASHINGTO |JACK PUMMELS SPARRERS | ' AS GENE TAKES A DAY OFF By the Associa 11l., —The baptism of new ng partners with a knox out, a usual ceremony in Jack Dempsey’s training camp, goes along as the former king of weights prepares for the strug that will either place him again the throne or relegate him to the order of ex-champions who have tried | and failed. When a new prives in camp hother to check sparring partner ar- Dempsey does not fistic records to de- | termine the newcomer’s ability to take |and give punishment. Jack calls the | elected into the ring and finds out for himself. Yesterday's sacrifice, one Angelo De Lorenzo, from the stockyards, arrived in camp just long enough to absorb {two and a half minutes of clubbing. Angelo left shortly thereafter and probably will not be back. Johnny Link, a_160-pounder from Indiana who boxes for fun and not gold, worked one round with Jack, but was spared the discomfort of a knockout. As the time shortened for Dempsey's great effort to regain the heavyweight crown from Gene Tunney at Soldier Field, Chicago, on the night of Sep- tember his workouts grow in length. Yesterday Jack boxed five rounds instead of the usual four and worked five more on a punching bag and at ring exercises. Dempsey slowly is | pulling his weight below the 198-pound | notch Despite the holiday, Jack planned today to continue admitting the publi |to his workouts at the customary [$1.10 each. More than 6.000 specta- | tors, the a training mer titl By the Ase amp workout, saw the for older in action yesterday. ciated Press. Septem- | rgest crowd ever to witness | fONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 199 Shrine Day Set For Griffith Stadium Thursday : Cubs Drop to Fourth Place NATS MUST CLEAN UP A’s | AKE VILA, T, September 5.— After four days of leisur travel and receptions, Gene Tun- ney elected to return to work | on Labor day, when the rest of the Nation, as a whole, declared a holiday Last Gene turned from Speculator, N. ! where for five months he had |tramped through the Adirondack foot- | | hills and hoxed easily on occ |fit himself for h Dempsey in Chicago, September 2. | Since then he has whirled to Chi- cago, whisked through a reception in which a quarter of a million peo- ple offered up the sentiment of the Midwest metropolis and rested for two days at his new quarters on the shore of Lake Villa. The roaring greeting accorded the title holder, the pleasant quarters, flanked by rolling hills, lawns and shrubs, already have taken away much of the regret Gene felt on leaving New York's own mountains. Tunney thinks his new training place the finest and prettiest he ever has secn. Three sparring partners, Chuck Wiggins, Billy Vidabeck and Frank Muskie, are quartered nearby, ready to bear the burden of conditioning the champion for his first title de- tense. Two training rings, one for fair weather and another for the rainy {kind, have been set up in a grove of re- | N | | | [ H t | fee of $1 will be charged. |WOMAN’S GOLF PLAY STARTS TOMORROW Fair golfers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps whose husbands or fathers are stationed in Washington and the vicinity will begin play to- morrow morning on the War College course at Washington arracks in the first tournament for ‘service” women held in the Capital. Play in the 18-hole qualifying round cording to Mrs. Charles Bundel, | chairman of the committee in charge Entries will be taken at the tee. A Further information concerning the event may he obtained through Mre. Bundel at Washington Barracks. WESTERN OPEN GOLF HAS 270 ENTRANTS By the Associated Prass. CHICAGO, September 5.—Pairings for the Western open golf champion- ship to be played the last three days of this week at Olympia Fields Coun- try Club show that 270 contestants, including three score amatures, are to compete for the title won by Wal- ter Hagen last yvear at Indianapolis with a score of 279, Some of the star players have been paired for the first two rounds and |oaks a quarter of a mile from the country club. | Weighing about 192 pounds after his lay-off, Gene planned at least 10 | rounds of work today. One or two | rounds of hoxing are scheduled with each sparring partner in addition to severa rounds of ring exercise and bag punching. ANDLOT teams were scheduled to round out their last week end holiday schedule of the season. Many double - headers listed this afternoon. Chevy Chase Bearcats halted the championship march of Knicker- bocker A. C. nine yesterday by hit- ting hard in the first few innings to registered a 11-to-8 triumph. Adelman of the winners had four hits in five trips to the plai, and Jenkins of the losers got four in four tries. It was the first loss in eight starts for the | Knicks. | Dick Hughes' pitching and the bat I'ting of his battery mate, April. en- !'abled ‘Georgetown A. C. to defeat Alexandria Dreadnaughts yesterday. 7 to 3. Lee gathered three of the losers’ eight hits off Hughes. | s went 11 vesterday o defeat Brooke Grubb's ilver Spring nine, 5 to 3. Smith out- pitched Heim and Claude, the latter weakening in the final frame. Hanes and Harnsberger led the winners at bat. innings Hiser’s Hyattsville All-Stars scored | two one-sided triumphs over Wash- ington Red Sox vesterday. 9 to 0 and 10 to 2. Fenwick and Bladon' hurled i ¢_ball_for the winners, | mer ;151%1ng‘tm Toaatts Tt | zam With Lefty Stevens holding Che: | 15, Addison A. C. scored a 3-to-1 win vesterday. Hair accounted for two of the Cherries’ hits. Hance, Finescy and Brown each gathered two hits for the winners. Hess A. C. counted 7 runs in the fourth inning to defeat Berwyn yes- terday, 8 to 6. Dunning hit a home run for the winners, Ku Klux Klan clubbers gathered 18 v, Powell and Carson defeating Takoma Tigers replaced Ne: vesterday defeated son’s Dairy nine, 4 to 1 ate imp- 'SANDLOT NINES SPENDING THIRD BUSY DAY IN A ROW were | the e | rydale batsmen to 3 hits and fanning | . in a 10-inning ' | zame at Bailey | day. Cross Roads yester- | Hilltops counted thrice in the first) | inning and defeated Arlington All- | Stars yesterday, 3 to 2. Wheeler and Hardy pitched effectively. Bowie Motor Co. nine defeated District Engineers, 10 to 7, yesterday. Brown had three bad innings on the mound for the losers. Sonny Burdine got 5 hits in as many times out yesterday, when Eastport | hit Columbo Sams hard to defeat An- | napolis A. C., 17 to 3. | s National Cirel gathered 21 hits | vesterday. defeating Cabin John, 15 to 2. Batson, Dillon and Frank Waple limited the losers to 4. Dove held Fort Myer batsmen to eight hits yesterda himself. as Annadale won easily, | to 5. Via hit a home run. Manhattans broke the tie in the ninth to win over Seabrook A. - terday, 5 to 4. FE. Wade starre bat and on the mound. 12 Auth Senlors came from behind ves terday to defeat Hume Springs, 6 to 4. | Keefer and R. Godfrey each hit for | the circuit. Lo Terminad-Jeamen - divided -a—daubls hill. Aztécs bowed, 12 to 4, but St. | Martin’s triumphed, 7 to 5. Holy Rosary Seniors scored their fifth consecutive win yesterday over Western A. C., 13 to 3, Hardesty hurled Capitol Juniors to {an 8-to-2 win over Arlington Juniors yesterday. He yielded four hits and fanned 11. Maryland Park Midgets were swamped by the Sam Rice nine yes- terday, 15 to 3. Bray allowed but five scattered hits, Northern Midgets counted 10 times | lefeat Brookland Boys' Club nine, 10 | to 9. and made four | !0 Play. in the last three innings vesterday to | spread through the field so that gal- leries will not crowd each other and vet may see two leading plavers at once. Half of the entrants will play over No. I course and half over No. 4 on Thursd changing links day. The 64 low sc for the two days will compete at 36 holes over the fourth course on Saturday. The defending champion is paired with Gene Sarazen of New York, for- National open title hold Cooper of Los Angeles, w tled with Sarazen last year for second place at 288, will team with Bill Mehl- horn, who is rushing home from a European _campaign. MacDonald Smith of New York, who won the event in 1925 at Youngstown, Ohio, with 281 and was fourth last year, will play with Laurie Ayton of Chi- cago. _The only foreign entry, Don Car- rick of Toronto, Canadian amateur champion for the second time, al- though only 20 years old, will meas- ure mashies with Emmett French. The National and Canadian open champion, Tommy Armour of Wash- ington, has no less famous a partner than Chick Evans of Chicago, who won the Western open title in 1910 whe a stripling. Other noted pairs in- cludes Jock Hutchison and Leo Diegel, Mike Brady and Al Watrous, Al Espinosa and Eddie Loos, Joe Turnesa and Johnny Farrell and Harry Hamp- ton and Cyril Walker. Among the few famous absentess will be Bobby Jones, who finished fourth in this event to Hagen in 1921, and Bobby Cruickshank, who wired that his health would not permit him 0 This pair tied for the Na- tional open in 1923 at Inwood, the Georgian winning the play-oft with 76. GOOD ELEVEN LIKELY AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH candidates - will - receive ‘workout tomorrow afternoon on H don Field at 2:30 p.m. J. C. Wilson Who starred four years on the var: two as captain of William and M: College, will be coach. | ary from last year's team. They are Capt. hen, halfbacks; Lester McMenamin, fullback; Harry Barnett and Julian ‘Whitestone, guards; Garland Sisk and nis and Marshall Smith, ends, and Wilson Davis, oenter. Thirty newcomers will report. St. Mary’s Celtics were to play the No. 5 Motor Co. in Dreadnaught Park today at 3 p.m. Eskimos turned 23 hits into 25 runs vesterday, shutting out the Calhouns. - the United States cham- | itaker was at a decided disadvan-| | Connie Mack’s Valiant, Patient Struggle To Build Another Pennant Winner. * ok ok W Another Collins-Barry Keystone Combi- MORIARTY HE PICKED OUT CHICAGO| | AT BAT 900000000000 BY GEORGE hlflRl:\liTY, Manager_ot the Detroit Base Ball Team, Former Big Leagus Third Baseman and for Ten Years an American League Umbpire. ONNIE MACK has made the most valiant and patient struggle of any big league manager to win another pen- nant. He won his last flag in 1914. The following year Mack sud- denly decided to fear down what many believe to have been the clever- est offensive and defensive base ball machine in history. Starting with Ed- die Collins, the famous Mackian in- fielders were sent one by one to other cities. In a few seasons only a skele- ton of the once premier aggregation remained. Plans of rebuilding lie deep in the heart of every manager, and Mack, with hopes burning high, sent a call to all parts of the country for re- cruits. They came in droves, and he scrutinized them with expert vis- ion in the hope of seeing another Col lins, Barry, Baker or Mclnnis step out and burn up the league. But the intervening years have proved that an infield of the caliber of McInnis, Collins, Barry and Baker cannot be plucked from campus or hush league orchards for one single club. Neither have the gods of the minor leagues surrendered to one single team a pitching trio of the brilllance of Bender, Plank and Combs. Year after year the opti- mistic Connie was disappointed. Replica Not Essential. It is my contention that it is not necessary to have a replica of the old Athletics’ machine to outplay the American League teams today. Connie was trying to mould a repl But I do think a Collins at_second and a Barry at short would carry the team mighty close to a pennant, while the absence of a keystone pair of the caliber of the two mentioned would make the going rough. There have been pennant-winning teams that lacked a great pair at second base, but they had good pitching and batting power to offset the weakness at second. The 1926 Yankees were an example of this. Collins and Barry always performed with velvety smoothness, mentally and physically, and in so doing un consciously lightened Connie’s man- agerial burden. The shortstop and second baseman are the only players in immediate touch with the pitcher tand catcher, and these four can weave successfully or wreck the en- tire defense. The success of a ball team depends mainly upon the material a manager has to work with. Mack has tried out about three times as much base ball timber in the last dozen seasons as any big league ;nnuar. Certainly, | college | nation Might Turn the Trick. | * Rk Xk X | “Age” in Outfield and Pitchers “Working in Reserve” Have Been Drawback. no manager is better equipped in ex- perience, and there is no hetter han- dler of men. This is proved by the fact that dissension is almost un- known on his team. The modern style of base ball is casier for a manager than the old style, because it is less scientific. The | n idea is to maul the ball, and the Athletics can produce their full re of base hits. There is another |phase o the modern game, and that is good substitutes. Managers aim to have a capable substitute for ever position. This double defense proves successful on some teams, while, strange as it may seem, on others it proves detrimental. Many believe it has proved detrimental to the Ath- letics, although I do not say I share 1 this opinion. | Hume Springs A. C. is in the field for senior_and unlimited opposition. Manager Roherts can be reached at Alexandria 24. Charles Collum, manager of the St Mary's Juniors, is casting about for games. He can be reached at Alex- andria 1341, A meeting of the Old Dominion Boat Club will be held Wednesday night In the clubhouse at 7:30 o'clock. Members of the Belle Haven Coun- try Club golf team will compete at Frederick, Md., in the final Tri-State Golf Association tournament Satur- day. St. Mary's Celties and Hume Springs will elash in Dreadnaught Park Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Sam DeVaughan, manager of the Cardinal A. C., has several open dates he would like to fill with unlimited teams. His pnone is Alexandria |G. U. GRIDMEN SPENDING FINAL WEEK AT CAMP WILDWOOD, N. J., September 5. —Head Coach Lou Little started Georgetown University’s foot ball candidates on their second and final week’s training here today. By the end of the week Little expects to irst Base a Problem. In view of injuries that crippled his | team in previous seasons, Mack tried | {to guard against accidents this yea Joe Hauser loomed as the best first | baseman in the game just before he | ipulled up with split kneecap two years ago, and first base has been a . | serious problem with Mack ever sinc: In a desperate attempt to strengthen the position he has used ¥ox, a, catcher, and Dykes, a second base-| | man, at first. i The brilliant veteran, Collins, has been paired with Bishop at second, ! Boley and Galloway alternate at short, while Hale and Dykes were used at third until Dykes was switched to! first. Cobb and Wheat have been ad-| ding more age than activity to the outfield. These angles and the fact that Mack’s pitchers have been work- {ing in reverse for the most part make him wonder how far from another pennant he really is. Being loaded down with veterans does not mean necessarily the downfall of a big league team. Old-timers are much in evidence in both major and minor leagues this year. Mack is per- haps an unfortunate victim of circum- stances wherein the veteran program has not worked out as well as expect- ed. Just what to do is a problem a base ball magician like Mack is far better fitted to determine than any one else. (LR T PROTECTS GRID TICKETS. | CHICACO, September 5 (#).—North- | western University seeks immunity | from counterfeit foot hall tickets. | Every one of the 303,000 tickets to the home zames at the university are to be printed on a special made stock of paper so that the gatemen om te: ing off the stub can readily distin- guish any unofficial ticket. S Gl ‘Tennis professionals in Great Britaln have organized. Rl have a good line as to whom his first stringers will be, BALTIMORE WILL SEEK 1928 OLYMPIC TRYOUTS BALTIMORE, September 5 (&) Baltimore is preparing to make bid for the olympic game in 1928, Mayer Broening has an- nounced that a committee would be named to seek the tryouts for the Baltimore stadium. Negotiations for the event, which previously had been held at Soldiers’ Field, Harvard, will begin at the an- nual convention of the amateur ath- its letic union at Cincinnati on Novem- | ber 20. The Baltimore stadium will seat ap- proximately 80,000. LEE WINS LONG SWIM. NEW YORK, September 5 (#).— Edward Lee of the New York A. C. won first place in a 6l5-mile mara- thon swim from Midland Beach, Stat- en Island, to Coney Island, across New York Bay. He covered the dis- tance in 2 hours 42 minutes 51% seconds. TECH GRIDDERS GATHER. Coach Hap Hardell's Tech High foot ball squad gathered at the Uni- versity of Maryland, at College Park, today for preliminary training. The Manual Trainers will remain at the Old Line School until about Septem- ber 15. | GIANTS BUY SLUGGER. MEMPHIS, September § (#).—Bill Barrett, heavy-hitting catcher of the Knoxville Club of the South Atlantic Assoclation and home-run king of the circuit, has been sold to the New York Rts. will get under way at 9:30 o'clock, ac- | Iri- | ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 5. —Alexandria High School foot hali deuce and Larkin made a par 3. their first | W, 6 Twelve letter winners will return Billy Travers, quarterback; Paul Tra- vers, Rector Green and Martin Co.|2nd Robert ‘Bottles” West, tackles; Allan Den- SPORTS. | Annex Tenth in Row, By the Associated Press. ITH Chicago's losing streak standing at seven games| today and the victorious | dash of the New York Giants having mounted to| 10 games in a row the National| League pennant chase found the Cubs down in fourth place and the Giants more firmly entrenched in sec- ond position behind the Pirates. Joe McCarthy’s Cubs began a long home stand in Wrigley Park vester- day by losing a hard-fought contest to the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1. From the Chicago standpoint the contest was one of lost opportunities. Poor base running told and the Cardinals snapped up a chance and converted it into a triple play. The Cards humiliated Charlie Root, ace of Mc- Carthy’s pitching staff. _ Sherdel's southpaw slants had the Chicagoans guessing. The Giants’ tenth game in a row and the third straight over Philadel- phia was obtained by a score of 6 to 0. Burleigh Grimes' spitter was un- fathomable. McGraw’s infleld was functioning like a machine. Rogers Hornsby was in charge of the team, | McGraw being confined to his home | by illness. Pittsburgh kept vantage in first plac cinnati, 8-4. Waners’, Inc., base ball most illustrious pair of brothe; Dlasted two home runs in the fifth. Lloyd hit the ball into the left field stands and brother Paul followed suit. | Brooklyn and Boston divided a | double-header, both scores being 3—2. | Boston won the first and Dazzy Vance was the pitching victim. The Robins had to work 13 innings to win the second. The teams were fighting | for sixth place and the Braves held | on by two percentage points. | | its two-game ad-| by downing Ci UTSIDE of the club tourna- ments, which are being held today by practically all the golf organizations about ‘Washington, the big event of the week is the playing of the Dis- trict funior championship at the Town and Country Club next Friday. This event, a 36-hole medal play affair for the title now held by Frank K. Roesch of the Washington Golf and Country | Club, will find a stellar field of youth- | ful players competing. to have been played at New Market, | Va., beginning September 7. has been postponed until October hecause of parts of Virginia. Dates for the event will be announced later. Al Price, J. V. Brownell and Gene | Larkin of Indian Spring set a record for scoring at the sixth hole at In- dian Spring yesterday, which is likely to stand for some time. Their com- | bined total for the hole was six strokes. Price. holed his tee shot for |an ace. Brownell sank a putt for a 2| Another contest between golfers ana {archers will be staged Saturday at *1the Town and Country Club, where . Pratt and W. O. Robinson of the Potomac Archers Club will match their skill with the bow against the golf ability of .Arthur B. Thorn, the Town and Country Club professional, T. Barnett, Chevy Chase mentor. The contest will start at 2:30 MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL LEAGU! o Ly Pet, ime 7 Jersey €. @1 Reading. 341 R Baltimore S 020001001—4 Rochester S00%6008050 | Chambers and Freitag: Mills and Heas | Second game— | Baitimore . Rochester < . |\ Henderson, Slomy an McAvoy. e 0 0 d. 0 1 | conflicts with other tourneys in other | 29 LOSE SEVENTH STRAIGHT AS CARDS WIN GAME, 2 TO 1 St. Louis Scores Over Root, Chicago’s Ace—Giants But Pirates Maintain Their Margin by Beating Reds. The St. Louis Browns ran their winning record to five victories in six ames when they whipped Detroit Howley’s club came from b hind in the eighth with a two-run rally. McManus hit for the circuit in the fourth. The bases were empty. Three White Sox errors contributed to the team's downfall before Cleve- 1and, 6—3. George Uhle held Chicago to seven hits and cut off a ninth-in- ning rally. Until the eighth the Sox had made only two hits off Uhle. The league-leading Yankees played an exhibition game with Jersey City of the International League and took their second shutout of the season, the Skeeters winning bv a 1-to-0 coun Husgins' club turned in a triple play. A summare of vesterdav's game: AMERICAN LEAGUE. n 001010003 & rig 7t - 596001628=% & & Whitehill and Woodall: Jones: VanGildee n '!) 00002168 and Dixon Cleveland 1 i 5 0000000315 ¢ % Uhle and L. Sewell: Connally, Jacobs and Crouse. Chicago. .. NATIONAL LEAGUE. b 2 100000100—3 by 0000000101 d_O'Farrell: Robdt, Carison and nzales St. Tonis Chicago Sherdel Hartnett Pittshurzh nent Cincinnati.””..." 060+ Aldridze and Gooch | Philadel 000000000—0 7 | New York 00022020x—8 9 Pruett and Wilson: Grimes and Taylor. .2 2 G 2100—8 13 10004 2 Luaue. Kolp and Har- [ L] Firat game— Boston Brooklsn . . Genewich and Gibsor Second game— oston. .. 000 rooklsn | Wertz. Golds hardt and Henlin B 0000 B 889=3% ¢t ban: Clark, Ehre | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE and the public is invited to witness the match. Homer 8. Pope annexed the monkey tourney at Indian Spring yesterday with a card of 44. Perry B. Hoover finished second with 49, Edgar Kaufman led a large fleld in the qualifying round for the annual handicap tourney at the Town and Country Club yesterday with a card of {92 8 Fischer finished |in second place with 91 | first round of match pl ney was scheduled for to —#5. The in the tour- With a card of 82, M. H. Maler led | a few golfers who played yesterday in “I\e qualifying round for the Beaver | Dam Club’ championship. The qualify- ing round will be completed this week, Byrne Curtiss was second, with 84. ‘W. P. Di Este topped a fleld of quali- | flers for the Argyle Club title yester- | day. registering a card of 79. E. E | Harmon had 86 and L. P. Di Este scored 87, | W. J. Peters. won the 13-Iiole medal play handicap tourney at the Manor | Club yesterday with a card of 88— | 27—61. George B. See finished second with 90—17—73, The miniature tourna- ment for women proceeded to the final round, which is being played today, with Helen Fay opposing Mrs. George B. See in the first flight final, whil Mrs. J. W. Geddes meets Mrs. C. Vaughn Darby in the second flight. DAVIS CUP OUTLOOK FOR U. S. IS BRIGHT By the Associated P The elimination of the French doubles teams from the National championships at Boston, on the heels of Rene Lacoste’s defe-t by George Lott in the singles, may be a good omen for America's defense of the | Davis Cup at Philadelphia this week. | _Then again it may not, if the events |of 1922 are recalled. That year the tryouts | Lake: Bogart and ;Au.!!ralinn combination of Patterson 938990—3,8 1/and O'Hara Wood was easy for Bill 10010x—810 3 Tilden and Vinny Richards in the ler and Morrow. | National doubles tournament. But a week or so later the Anzacs turned on their conquerors in the Davis Cup ’plav and gave the American pair an artistic trimming. Perhaps the French are plaving possum, just as the Australlans were —1'% 1| suspected of doinz. Wiltsie, Lever- ‘ T T , WASHINGTON CYCLISTS '\ VICTORS IN BALTIMORE 1 1 ~ _ BALTIMORE, September 5.—S |ing i points, Century Road Club s per. | CYCIStS of Washington yesterday tools el T Pei; [first honors in the Maryland Bicyels Milwawen 8830500 Juilinals 6185 §37 )| Club meet. The host club, with 3 oledo. [ 8280 577 Louisville 53 01 344 | points, was sec S : St.Paulll 7806642 Columbus 8003 350 | Onepalle nemioch Fires LMmaTies: H.E, |C R G A seond i | First ga Reading " | Syracuse | Harrison Second | Reading o Syracuse . Woodie. Fallon. Hallahan m';u)fl'n First game— Nowark 21 Buffalo 00 Mamaux and Skiff: Fi ena and Devine Second Newark Buffalo Bentlev. Moore and M Pond. Devine. = i | Only games scheduled. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. w: K 79 o 20 01 +ea 0000000—0 3 P30030x—141¢ rl;‘ Hausen and Sengstock: cuso, Fame— t 1 Kansas | City..... 0001110003 Milwaukee . 000010000—1 Sheehan and Shinault: Caldwell and Mc-| & L . A.: third. L fourth, E. Rh Columbus 000010010—2 6 2|M._B C. Toledo 00000030 x—310 ere—mll’a handlran—l‘)rwnt J. Leahy, M. B. H C. A 2 5 : second. A. H, oiggns and Ferrell: Maun. Heving and | {hirf %" Tieber i = v R G. Peters, Wash, C. R, 'C. oades. M. B. C.: Bith, ¢ Clor) First zame— Indianapolt 10000201 0—4 | 201 8} | Louisvilie L 330200005813 0% ! Schmanske. R, Boone, Floreuce and Tis- | - | mer: Mosa and Mever. g i | Indianapolis . 010000005—812 3 e ot Louisville D 30005100x—014 1O H Enecls, Jeriey bit Koupal and Florence: DeBerry. Cullop and ' man: third. Van Howe <Mulle R 3 SWIMMING POOL OPEN. onliddieton and Kenna: Zahniser and Gas-| Announcement has been mads & from the Y. W. C. A. headquarters i that the swimming pool at Seven- _! teenth and K streets will be open this | afternoon from 3:30 to 6 o'clock. The E street tank will be closed all day -~ TROUSERS . : To Match Your Odd Coats m?‘flrnll and Yaryan: Danforth and Ander- \EISEMAN'S, 7th & F ! e C. K. C. SCof second Stivers 10100000—3 i .1 T3 301300002—710 3| SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Birmin‘am 56 5i 55§ Au iemin‘am ; ¢ N.Grleans 34 88600 Aobile: M h 80 62 553 Chatt 7862 562 Firat game— | Birmingham New Orleans Wells and Coope: | Anderson | Second game— Birmingham 2@ e Atlanta Mobile winghea ashville attanooga’ thr, GI: MEEVS ahd Tarders Littls _ Rock Memphis Dumont and sineau. iy PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. i i I ment; tle. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. 1t . 72 . 8. ES Rt LRy ¢ TEXAS LEAGUE. 6.3: fi,n-onl. 1.0, by &H . 3 CRAT