Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1927, Page 32

“Higs sPORTS Housecleaning Among Nationals Looms : Cubs Near Eli REALIGNMENT IS NEEDED ~ IN RANKS OF HARRISMEN Club’s Steady Decline Since Start of Last Season Apt to Result in Many Cha nant Campaign ( BY JOHN B NOCKED off their pins by disastrous tour of the Nationals now little more string. To n League is little else € 24 more hall games. | club is staggering to |I\P; President Clark | nty of thinking e cagey prexy is 1ehts just yet < ‘that th als will bear ot now per in the Wa iform. | ing pitchers, the club today 1ly the same club that took A for the 1926 season and since | art of that season it has declined | lv. After winning two succes- | mpionships, the Nationals last | year dropped to fourth place in the | American League standing and this | Year e not apt to finish any better | than a poor third, if that | Many Marked Weaknesses. The 1926 club was noth to boast about and the club this year has beon | n both infield and outfield have been marked weaknesses all scason. Fiom first base to th base in the inner cordon there has been no concerted play during the | greater part of the campaign, and flaws have been noticeable i the work of those flanking the middle field throughout the year. The s did not develop a real winning spirit | during their training grind in Florida, | they failed to got away well in the ' KELLER, | the the | than resemblay worse |@ | other nges Before Next Pen- sets Under Way. ‘hamplonship campalgn and, after a brief splurge during June and July collapsed completely. Under such circumstances, President | ifith must realize there s much rebullding to be done. On paper the) Nationals loomed strong, but under fire they have failed and failed mis erably to measure up to their paper | strength. A ball club that has gone | to pieces as have the Nationals since | the latter part of July cannot be ex:| pected to come back again for an season. New hlood is needed | sorely and the sooner the infusion | oceurs the better for the club. | Good Trading Materials. Undoubtedly several of thé veterans of the Nationals still have some sea- sons of base ball usefulness remain- ing in their systems, but they prob- ably would go better under other than Washington colors. They constitute trading material that very likely would bring good bids from other major league outfits and there is | a great chance that some who have boen around the local organization | for several years will he on the mar- ket when Winter comes The Nation: have been rather | fortu e this year in getting to- zether a number of promising younsg pitchers. Probably no other outfit in the American League has acquired | as many promising boxmen. With | one or two additions, the Nationals | should have little to worry about on | the pitching score. But with the § field, outfield and catching staff, it's something different. There's much to be done and it certainly appears one Clark Griffith is in for a busy Winter. GIANTS NOW TRAIL BUCS | BY ONLY HALF A GAME ' Br the Associated Pry Pittsburgh's lead at the top of the National League stood at only one-half game today, and the New York Giants, the only club among the four contenders to be idle yesterday, gain- | ed more ground in the dash pennant- ward. Chicago’s Cubs and the world cham- pion Cardinals came to grips again at St. Louis and the net result was a standstill. Frankhouse, a rookie pitcher from the Texas League, held the Bruins in check in the first game of a double-header and St. Louis won by a score of 6-2. Orsatti, another Texas League product, banged out four hits in five trips to the plate agzainst Hal Carlson and Nehf. Sheriff Blake gave the Cardinals only seven hits in the second game and beat them by an 84 score. Haek Wil ®on hammered his twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth homers of the season in the nighteap. Cards Hold Third Place. St. Louis, in hyeaking even, third place over the Cubs. The Pirates howed again fo Cincin- nati, “Red” Lucas had the better of Carmen Hill, ace of Pittsburgh’s pitching staff, and emerged with a €5 decision. The Bucs stayed right in the @ekfjpnd, out in however, was costly, and after deal- ing out five passes in seven innings g;s was removed, Lawson taking his ace. The seventh-place Brooklyn Rob- BIG LEAGUE LEADERS HITTERS. Player—Club. G. AB. R. H. Pet. Imany, Tigers 119 417 95 165 Gebrig, Yankees. 131 510 138 199 Simmons, Ath’s. 90 P. Waner, Pi'tes. 131 held rig, Yarkees iams, Phillies Gehrig, Yankees.. Ruth, Yankses. Combs, Yankees L. Waner, Pirate: Hornsby, Giants BASE ST Frisch, Cardinals Hendrick, Robins Sisler, Browns Carey, Robins Adams, Qubs . PITCHER Player—Club. Won. Lost. Pef. Benton, Giants, 5 4 189 Hoyt, Yankees. 60 | Haines, Cardinals. 333 Shocker, Yankees. kit Meadows, Pirates. . 08 | 6 8 6 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. ork, 12: Boaton, 10. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ouls &t N. V. X at Boston, Detroit ut Phila. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RE g ) 71 6131701 b|_7111—I48i84),864 11578 73/1/84 [—/—] GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW | Haines and O'Farrell. | Philadelphia bins and the tail-end Phillies engaged | in a double-header with honors even. Jess Petty pitched scoreless ball for the first eight innings of the opener, but Melnnis' men came to bat in the ninth and hammered in three runs to win 3-2. Jumbo Elliott, Brooklyn's ponderous southpaw, led his team to a 9-1 win in the second contest. Ruth Again in Limelight. Babe Ruth again was the whole show in the American League. The Yankee slugger hit two home runs and ran his total for the season up to 49. He now is 10 behind his record season of 1921, when he banged 59 circuit hits. The Yanks needed all the hit- ting they could produce, for they had to hustle to beat out the Boston Red Sox, 12-10. Ruth's second homer of the game was his fifth in two days and it brought the Yankee total for the year up to 140, which ties the mark set by the Chicago Cubs in 1884. Ruth made four hits in five times at bat. Gehrig, who now is four homers be- hind the Babe, made two doubles in five attempts A summary of yesterday's games: AMERICAN LEAGUE. 10000632012 10 Boston 100080011 0—10 13 Thomas Giard, and Bengough: MacFayden, Harrig: s and Hofmapn, Hartley. New York Sharkey , Gygmin: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnatl ..... 003201000—8 8§ ¢ Pittsburgh “.10 002001011—5 8 3 Lucas and Sukeforth: Hill, Dawson and Smith. o s 000100100—2 8 1 et 0005608303=3 13 Carlton. Neht and Hartnett: Frankhouse. H E Second game— Chicago €. Louis” .0%00 Blake and_Gonzal hart and O'Farrell, Brooklyn 00020 0000000033 0 Petty. Ehrhardt and Henline: Ferguson and Wilson, Second game. Brooklyn Philadelphi Elliott by and W 10 0003—9 10 0 D0000—1 7 2 eetland, Willough- | has a schedule advantage in m | Buttalo BUCS ARE FAVORITES ATODDSOF7T05 By tha Associated Pross. NEW YORK, September 8.—Tnter- est in the National League pennant race in New York has reached a point where followers who back their opinions with money have given the field a final survey. Pittsburgh has been established as the favorite, probably because of the fact that jt eting more second division teams than any of its three first-division competitors Against the contenders odds have been established as follow: Pittsbhw h, 9 to New York, 11 to St 1 8 to 2 Chicago, 315 to 1 Odds of 2 fo 1 have been sot that Babe Ruth does not surpass his record home-run vear, 1921, when he hit for the circuit 59 times; that Lou Gehrig does not surpass the 1921 mark there are odds of 13 to 6. Iven money pre- vails that neither slugger passes the record mark. | The first wager on the Tunney fight was made at odds of | 7 to 5 on Tunney. AGUE. w Baltim're 18 Rochest'r Jer. Cit Reading. INTERNATIONAL W. L. Pet Svracuse Newarl, 8 Toronto.. 80 First gam Buftalo Rochest Hollingsworth Moholz 120143010. 01000000 and Devine: Bogart and s, Ruifa Rochester.. . Falk and Pond Avoy game— i 3 0030122810 1 0000000—0 3 1 Shoffner, Mills and Me- nos0nt0nl 20010000 81 Reading. Chamber rich and Da nd Raltimore. Reading. Vine and Ser 00020 210 001005x—6 & and Lake: Woodgie 50 00 and 010000000 20130000x and Daly: Bentley avlin, Jackson nion. Second game— ey City 0000000—0 Newark. U 02008 0x—4 Ellis and Smith: Mamaux and Skiff. . 000120102—612 Toronto. G0021220%—713 Miller. elberz. and Abbott Fisher, Faulkner and Haj AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, W. L. Min'apolis 80 6% Ind'apolis. 04 3 Lowsville, 53 3 Coltmbus; 02000002 L 00001101 EoSchupp and Tesmer: Meeker, Zumbro and Ennis. 0 Syraense. . Pt Lonisville, Toledo.. Tincu Only SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. W, L. Pet Birm'ham R7 56 609 Atlanta. N. Orleans 83 56 603 Mobile.: .. Memphis., 8262 578 Chattan'za Nashville” 80 6° Little Rk . Atlanta Birmingham S Francis agd Koblhecker: ton. Woolfolk and Yaryan, Chattanooe. Little R Burke smith (0ly games scheduled.) KN LEA : Savannah, 1 25.) 4. Albany, Pensacola. 5: St. Auzustine, 4. Jacksonviile, 4: Selma, 1. TEXAS LEAGUE, Dallas, 2: Fort Worth, 1 Houston. '8; Beaumon Waco. 11; 8an Antonio. 9. Wichita Falls, 8-4: Shreveport, 5-3. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Augusta. 5.5: Macon. 4-1 Columbia. &: Charlotte. 6. reenville, 7: Spartanbi noxville, 10: "Ashevill PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. : Seattle. 6. 9 Portland. 3 ngeles. 7: Hollywood. 6. rancisco, 12: Missior PIEDMONT LEAGUE. ston-Salem, 0: Raleigh, 3. lisbury. 1 am. 2 High Point, 3. A LEAGUE, Woodmann, Hil. 8 8. 2 : timodn o : Robinson and Ain- E. “Columbus. game seven inn Montgoniers ninga.) (Second (Eleven in- San Portsmoutly. Petersburg. Kinston. 5° TO HERNDON NICKERBOCKERS will enter-| tain Herndon, Va., tossers Sunday afternoon in George-| town Hollow. The hustling | ds from the Old Dominion also wiil play Saturday, entertain ing Ashburne, Va., nine on the Hern don diamond. Hartfords, who are putting up a great fight for top honors in the east section of the Capital City unlimited serles, are after independent games | with fast unlimited teams. Chevy Chase Bearcats, Georgetown A. C., Knickerhockers and Dreadnaughts | e preferred. Call Franklin 6764, Penrose A. will entertain Ta- koma Tigers Sunday at 3 o'clock at‘ Baileys Cross Roads, Va. Henry Hiser has booked a couple | of hard games for his All-Stars for Saturday and Sunday. The Prince Georges County boys will go by boat to Indian Head for a game with the team at that place Saturday after- noon to be played in connection with the falr in progress there, and Sun- day will play host at Riverdale Park, Md., to Ku Klux Klan of Washing- ton.” It will be a rubber clash with the Klansmen, each team having won | over the other once this season. { The battle hetween Shamrocks and | Chevy Chase Sun prove a bang-up are drilling hard. Elliott A. C.. which s secking n | game for Sunday, will meet in special | i session tonizht at 5 Morse street | northeast 8 o'clc A Slliott chal {lenges are being received at Lincoln | | 5 i Rover Tnsects, who downed Nu-| | tionals, 3 to 1, vesterday are after more action. Call Lincoln 9191, Arlington All Stars and Annandale will meet on the former’s grounds Sunday at 2:30 o'clock. Riverside clubmen want a game with a senior or unlimited team for Sun- day on Fairlawn fleld. The manage- ment may be reached at Lincoln 7685. | is expected to i Both teams Manager Powell at Franklin 8062 is after a contest for his Brodt' team for Sunday. 1 after | pect A. C., KNICKS WILL PLAY HOST NINE SUNDAY A Sunday game is sought b: dale. Call Clarendon 798-W and 7 p.m. Cherry- between Auths are after games for Saturday and Sunday for their senior team and ilt for their junior nine. - Sanderson at Franklin Crandall Midgets and Eskimos were to mix this afternoon on the Brook- land diamond at 2 o'clock. ‘Wonder nine is after a Sunda ernoon game with a Telephone West 2000, tween 1 aad 4 p.m. v aft- unlimited team. branch 94, be- Colony Peewe: who scored over Muddy Ruels, 11 to 9, yesterday, are more action. Call John Bat- tista at Adams 1689 Bowlie Motor Co. nine defeated Pros- 13 to 7, in a heavy-hitting game, Diamond Midgets took a 6-2 game from St. Peter's. and play | A Car Under Control Is Worth Two in the Ditch! 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Those holding box seats for today would get the same reservations, Of course. a_postpone ment would mean a double-header to- morrpw, and as it would he ladies’ day as well, Clark Grifith Stadium likely would be well filled. The program for the celebration calls for the presentation of gifts to Shriners with the contending clubs. obles with the Nationals ave Tr Speaker of Alleppo Temple, Roston am Rice, Mohammed Temple, Peoria Topper Rigney, Moslah Temple, For Worth: Earl McNeely, Ben All Temple, Sacramento, and Nick Altrock, Almas | Temple. Shriners with the White | x are Manager Ray Schalk, Medina | Temple, Chicago: Roger Peckinpaugh, Al Koran Temple, Cleveland: Aaron Ward, Al Amin Teniple, Little Rock, and Ted Lyons, El Karubah Temple, Shreveport. Gratz E. Dunkum, grand master of Masons of the District, will have as his Shrine Day guests at the stadium the following: James T. Gibbs, deputy grand master; James A. West, senior grand arden; J. Claude Keiper, grand sec- retary; Frank M. Roller, grand lec- turer; John C. Palmer, grand chaplain. C. Fred Cook, grand marshal; Reu ben A. Bogley, senior grand deacon; Vernon G. Owen, grand sword bearer: jeorge R. Davis, grand pursuivant Robert S. Regar, senior grand stew- ard, Clyde J. Nichols, junior grand steward: Willlam J. Herbst, grand tiler; Charles R. Bartlett, grand high priest, R. A. M.: Edward Burkholder, grand master, R. S. M.; Dr. Mark F. vel | Fletche BRINGS OUT D. C. MASONS master: Charles F. Roberts, president, Masonic and Eastern Star Home; Gen. Amos A. Fries, potentate, Almas Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.: Stephen H. Talkes, monarch, Kallipolis Grotto, M.O. V. P Rn. Mrs. lLena Stephenson, Grand Ma- tron, O. E. 8.; Ernest Dulin, Grand Patron, 0. E Alvah W. Patterson, and Tall Cedar, Tall Cedars of Le- banon; Melville D. Hensey, president Board Masonic Clubs; Horace’ librarian-clerk to the grand sec 3 The various lodges resented as follow: mond E, were to be Haliday, mas- Joseph M. Marzolf, J. 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Dawson, Peyton B, Harmony, Hilliard Acacia, David J. arden; La Fayette, Nelf, master, H. Hollander, master. ancis A. Dony, junior . Whiting, Howard Pentalpha, George Edward Laws, Finley, grand commander, K. T. Ellwood P. Morey, deputy of the A. | . R.; Lurtin R. Ginn, past grand | Otto Eisenlohr & Bros., Inc. 935 H Street N.W. Washington ‘OTTO EISENLO H on, master; Warren G. Harding, Edgar B. Smith, senior warden. athedral, Alexander Bolling Galt, G. P. 0. NINE TO PLAY SERIES WITH NAVY Government Printing Office tossers, who vesterday downed Tre to 5, to win the closed week-d title, will encounter Na League winner, on Monda champion of the Terminal Y leagues also will compete. The series will de- termine the week-day crown. In taking the Money Counters to camp vesterday the Printers got off to a fat lead and were always well ahead. ‘Treasury touched Heany, the winners' starting pitcher, but was checked by Lyons. Aside from Monday's game, contests arranged for the week title p re: September 13, G. P. ve, Termi outh Ellipse; 14, v, Termi outh Ellipse; 15, llipse; 19, Terminal Terminai South 0., TWO0 SWAT RECORDS By the Associated Presa. PITTSBURGH, September 8. —Tlovd Waner, member of Pittshurgh's base I firm of Waner and Waner, bids r to smash two records in his first ar in the big league, Base ball statisticians foday re- corded that the scintillating Pirate outfielder has banged 138 singles out of a_total of 179 hits. John Tobin of the Boston Red Sox holds the modern record for one-hase hits made in 1921, The old record, b- hed 30 vears ago by 2 Keeler, Baltimore Oriole sta Waner is striving to collect 200 kits this season, thus hecoming the only player in prsent day hase ball to at- tain that mark in his first year in the major leagues. P. Mullane, master; Chevy Chase, Frederick E. Kunkel, master; Brightwood, Cecil H. Anderson, ma Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph T. K. Plant, master. Samuel Gompers, Maurice Blum, Petworth, Richard senior warden, Vincent, A new luxury for the 10c smoker AN | games and still won. minationin Pennant Race CLOSE TO DANGER MARK ’ OF SIXTY DEFEATS NOW Cardinals Last Season and Phillies of 1916 Only Clubs Ever to Attain Championship in 0ld Circuit With Standing Below .600. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. When the Cubs drop three more games EW YORK, September 8.—Tfow |and make their defeats total 60, they badly can any of the four pen- | will have marked ve nant contenders in the Na | s :,r ?“‘m i 1 tional League race be humped 0f [defoats | (Nat s tadn and still win the precious flag charged in recent vears to a pennant and the world series cash receipts. | team. Thers is a small fraction fn The answer, based on the aver; | their favor ana it given the benefit number of defeats sustained by " " tional League pennant winners in the |°f that they might claim 61 as the last_seven vears, is 60 games, plus a | fatal total—but that is a very narrow small fraction. | margin of safety. You can run your eye down the | g standing of the “teams in the first| hE fact 18, that on defeats, which division and draw vour own conclu. (°1t the stors of base ball, the Cubs sions. On the figures, the Chicago 1V<:h‘!nv,<:h-d the danger mark and Cubs now are in the worst position v are licked a total of §0 games, | their ‘prospects will have been given of the four contenders. jisie g It is fair to take an average of the ™ PIOW that will make them appear to he hopeless contenders for the 19ss past seven seasons to try to fix some | ¥ relative figure on the amount of "6 punishment that a pennant contender | can absorb, as the National League | $ races of recent years have been | is true that the more the Cubs HEntik (et Aiialoe the oa it |can assist in bringing the pennant The average shows that when a |Winning total of victories down to 99 team has been thrashed 60 times, it [~-Which would make the season’s de has taken about all the walloping that | feats total 64—or even less than 40 it can and still come through with | ‘he "‘;““ for Jhem. _That o thet hctel |only chance. In other words, they are | fighting to win about 7183 percentage | of the games that are left to be played, is| A few weeks ago they needed to win | only 514 per cent of the games ieft in order to win 90 on the season. The difference between .7%3 and 514 will Ei\"‘ some idea of the terrific jolt . lower than any previous cham. | hier, the Chi gy s hewvea hip percentage in the history of | {iice It strted on its last Eastern trip, Philadelphia won in 1916 o0 b s ity s biow The Phillles and the Cards | "% the second to Brooklyn and never are the only teams in the senior cir- | frins aP1e t0 strike firm ground since cult that have won pennants with & | “mhe odda that Chicage will win the EEMRERE iU 800 | pennant are represented in the task fi"rh):e.-:rpm;:l;l-:: srl':::qel:‘o\:“rl?‘s:l;’:t;‘”me Cubs have created for themselves, “ubs s axi-| They had a .514 job a_while ago and mum of defeats they can sustain |they have made it a .783 job—and If and still be able to win the pennant.|they can win with that astonishing The Cubs had lost 57 games, or three [handicap they are.a better team than number N Only Chance for .. It Two Notable Exceptions. 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