Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 10

SPORTS THE _FEV T\1\(“ STAR, . W, \QTTT\( FO\' P € TRTD\T AUGUST 3, 1928. Clpveland Set Ends Western Tour of Nats Yanks’Lead Reduced to 424 Games SEVENTH HOLE NOW 41’?:11{11?'1]‘?1(“ YAWNS FOR GRIFFS i Must Take Final With Tigers’ Today to Avoid Further ! Slump in Standing. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ETROIT. August 3—One more serfes and this second West- ern tour of the year for the | Nationals will be a thing of the past. Immodiately after today’s engagement with the Tigers | the Washington club will head for Cleveland, where tomorrow it is to open a set of four games with the Indians, 10 be played in &s many days Thus far this season the Tribe has edge over the Harris-led aggrega- | The clubs have met 11 times and | the Indians have triumphed six times h the Nationals moving along as | : have the past four days they are to run into plenty of trouble in the I"rrkmw\\ h wigwam his Washington club has been a ves o club all seeson. One day.. yes ib—the next day et time the Na- on the verge of sturdy fighting lot tical moment in have threatened to break into the first division of the A'!\‘H\‘\l. League and once or twice nee the second week of the campaign ev have done so, but theirs have been powder-puff rallies. the Seventh Place Now Yawns. During this trip, even, the Nationals managed to raise themselves to a fourth- | place tie with the Indians. Now, after | losing four games in a row, they are in/ a position to be shoved into the seventh} notch in the circuit today uniless they | overcome the Tigers in the final en-| gagement of the series here The club simply lacks power and stability. Having lost yesterday to George Mo- riarity’s rejuvenated Bengals, the Na- tionals now must take five of the eight games remaining on their traveling schedule to get an even break in the foreign battling since leaving home the morning of July 23. They'll have to get better pitching and do more hit- ling than they have since quitting Washington to take five of the eight remaining tilts of the tour. In the past five games the Nation- als have collected 15 runs. An average of three runs to a game doesn't show much power in & club in these days of | socking the apple The Washington club must brace sud- | denly or go home so far down in the| second division that during the re- mainder of the season it will find the upper bracket berth so eagerly longed for too far beyond its reach. Merely Prolonged WASHINGTON. Barnes, < es With Jimmy Foxx, a catcher, pla are still carrying on in the American Li By the Associated Press HAT started out in the American League as just another Yankee ear may vet turn out to be the year for the Philadelphia Athletics that Connie Mack has waited 14 years for. When the Hugmen'’s pitching col- lapsed temporarily, permitting an eleven and one-half game lead to dwindle to four and.one-half games, the base ball world began to wonder if after all the A's were going to come through. The A's, the Hard Rocks from | Down Under of the American | League, have taken more punish- | ment from the Yanks than Tom | Heeney did from Gene Tunney. The | Teferez saved Heeney from further abuse. Will it be a case of just | prolonged suffering for the cour- E.| ageous Mactkmen? [ ‘When the champion Gene found # the range of Tom's chin and opened . i AB. 3 B up target practice, it didn't faze the Angac’s boring-in tactics one bit. The only parallel in this year’s major sport is the case of the A's. o The Yanks have defeated the Ath- letics in 13 of the 18 games played, but after each collision the Hard Rocks of base ball blinked their eves and squared off to trounce their next opponents. While the New York club gradu- ally has been slipping, the Phil deiphia nine has been slowly im- proving, and it has a good enough rating to lead any league. Base ball men believe that the menth of August will tell the story. If the Athletics can whittle down that once mighty insurmountable lead of the Hugmeén they will have a first-hand opportunity to wipe it out altogether in September, for the two clubs have a four-game series booked for the Yankee Stadium Showing amazing comeback pow- ers after taking repeated lickings from the Yankees, the A's have played good ball throughout the sea- son. They rank second to the Yanks in batting and are third in fielding. ‘The playing of Philadelphia in the American League in several ways rallels that of St. Louis in the ational. Por one thing, two of the oldest active pitchers in major league base ball have contributed to the success of both clubs. Just as Grover Cleveland Alex- ander has helped the Red Birds, so has John Picus Quinn aided the Athletics. Quinn, who is 43 years old, has outdone Alex, who is 41. Should the A's manage to over- take the Yanks there probably would be the world's series spectacle of these two old timers tangling in one of the early games of the con- test for world base ball supremacy. While the aged ones have been boosting the Mack aggregation along, youth has not neglected its part, especially in the offensive de- pertment of play. One of the best young players of the Philadelphia roster is Jimmy Foxx, all-around man, who, after playing first and catching, finally has wound up as a regular at third base. Jimmy is one of the five leading batsmen in the junior wheel and has been hit- ting better than 350 since he be- came a regular, ~sssmsssew® euumsinsen Marverry, Totals “Twe out when win DETROIT. Warner, 3b. enmemmun e T eomsesmmmnal and G s and 31 minutes. LEVSEN ONCE TRIBE ACE SOLD TO NEW ORLEANS| CLEVELAND, August 3 (#).—Emil | Levsen, a mainstay of the Cleveland | pitching staff during the Indians’ pen- | nant drive two years ago, has been re- | ieased to the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association. He developed a sore arm last year, and was practically useless, Lack of control made him ineffective this year. o~ SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. % Tampa. 4. 3. Pensscols & Albany. 7 Jacksonville. Cotumbn Savannah. EASTERN CAROLINA LEAGUE. Goldsboro, 4. Greenville. 3 Wilminsion. 6: Rocky Mount, 5. Kicston, 19, Fayelteville 3 Auto and Sport Goods 37c $3.49 45¢ 59¢ 45¢ 45¢ 79¢c 25¢ 49c Duco, touch-up size Duco body polish. Duco top dressing . ... Duco nickel polish . . . . Whiz body polish. . .. Whiz top dressing . . Whiz nickel poli h Renol body polish Seat cushions Matting seats . Luggage carriers Luggage carriers .. 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Al Simmons with an average of .374 is Philadelphia’s best hitter, CHIN, AND LOOK FOR Y “LEFTY GROVE ing third, gue despite the cru shing defeats administrated by the Yanks. Quinn has won 13 and lost 4. Foxx's brilliant playing has in- spired Manager Mack to use other ungsters. He is trying Pitcher ie Orwoll at first base and Joe er at «hmmnu Ossle is hit- 360 Joe 3 Both are Should this newly ting punch hold out and the an- clent arms of John Quinn and Howard Ehmke stand up, American League fans may yet have somc- thing to get excited about developed bat- n | Gostin 103 W, L Pet. | Burke . 3 54 54500 | Rice . Reading. 52 52 500 Zachary Buffalo. 49 54 476 Reeves Jersey City 4268 362 | Rarnes Reading, 6 Judge ... Montreal. 1 Cronin 12; Buffalo. 2 3 4-3; Jersey City Baltimore Newark 3.1 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION w Ind apolis Milwaukee. 3 Cit Toledo... .. St Pa 3844 Louisville Min'apoiis. 6282 544 Columbus.. 43 67 Incianapolis, st. Paul. 6-3 . 3 . 0-3, Toledo. 0-4. rain. Kansas Y. 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Today the St. the older circuit by six and a half games, The Yankees, on the other hand, have seen a 13-game lead crumble day by day until the galloping led Mc- ball. A v none other than the tall Mr. cuddy. are but games Lo the rear of the champions. With Simmons, Orwoll, Foxx, Coch- rane. Haas, et al. showing a crushing power on the offensive and Grove W'xlhv‘ly Quinn, Ehmke, Rommel and ng opposing batsmen few runs, the A's have run up a > winhing str of their last 18 games and they've plaved since July 3. Over the same period the Yanks have won 19 of 34, a clear gain for Conni¢’s boys of cight and a half games Farnshaw Puzzles Indians. George Earnshaw was a puzzle to the Cleveland Indians yesterday and the A's had no difficulty registering their tenth straight win, 6 to 0. Earnshaw allowed six hits, half of them going to Carl Lind. George Uhle was hit hard by the Mackmen. After pitching great ball for 14 in- nings Herb Pennock weakened in the fifteenth, and the St. Louis Browns trimmed the Yanks, 4 to 3. Stewart's single with the bases filled and none out in the fifteenth sent the champions down to defeal. Stewart had relieved Jack Ogden in the ninth, and allowed only x hits thereafter, striking out Babe Ruth twice. The Babe, in fact, failed to get the ball out of the infield all day Ted Lyons shook the jinx that has pursued him for two weeks and pitched | the Chicago White Sox to an easy 6- to-3 win over Boston. It was the White Sox's sixth straight victory. While the Cards continued their win- ning_ways at the expense of the Bos- ton Braves, 6 to 1, tional League standing suffered a shake-up, the New York Giants taking Flint Rhem held the Braves to sever at Boston and was aided by snappy | Marberry, | session the Tigers got Louis Cardinals lead | four and a half | | respectively. the rést of the Na-| ETROIT, August 3.—Looking at a game when one should be warming up isn't so good. During the ninth inning here yesterday when the first two bat hit the ball hard and | were retired only by exceptionally good catches made by Red Barnes, Fred | who had been ordered to the | prepare himself for an bullpen to | emergency—as ‘the Nationals had only @ one-run lead when the frame start- ed—viewed the proceedings on the field instead of loosening his arm. AS a re- sult, the steadily weakening Irving Hadley had to stick to the slab until | the Tigers had knotted the count at | 4-all before Marberry had warmed up | sufficlently to be called into the game. That proved fatal, for in the twelfth to Fred for a three-bagger and sacrifice after one | was out and carried away a 5-to-4 vie- tory It was Marly McManus, versatile | member of the Tigers, who upset the | Nationals. Marty came up in the | ninth when Owen Carroll and Marvyn | Shea were on_second and first bases, Carroll had_singled and Shea, batting for Jack Warner, had walked after two were out. All Marty | did was sock a double to right center | and score Carroll with a tving tally that let Hadley out. In came Mar- berry to retire Charley Gehringer, but | Marberry got his in the twelfth Then after throwing a third strike past Bob Fothergill Fred was banged for a triple by McManus. The next bat- ter, Gehringer, sent a long fly to Barnes and the game was over, for- it was an easy matter for MeManus to score after the catch | How different it might have been | had Marberry been ready to relieve Hadley when the latter first showed signs of weariness in the ninth inning. But Fred wasn't. He wanted to see the game. | Carroll didn't linger in the box after | passing Barnes at the outset of the Washington twelfth. Elam Vangilder | Ao s \ | infield support. Delaney was a victim of bunched hits in the first and eighth innings. Cincinnati's Reds dropped to third | place when they were nosed out by th Giants, 7 to 5, in a free-hitting game. Joe Genewich was hit hard, but he was good enough to outpitch four Red pitchers. Red Lucas was charged with the defeat. | Hal Carlson, making his first start | of the season, pitched the Chicago Cubs | to a close decision over the Dodgers, 3 to 2. Doug McWeeny and Rube Ehr- | hardt allowed the Cubs only five hits, | but Jake Flowers' two errors in the sixth gave the Invaders two runs and, | as it eventually proved, the game. | The Pirates pounded out 20 hits to | sink the Phillles, 18 to 4. Wright and | Grantham hit homers, each when two | men were on the bases. FIRST MOTORIST— | sure drew the joker when I bought this XYZ car. There goes Bert Smith —same boat-—same model-—bought it the same day—and look at him— passed me like a rocket. SECOND MOTORIST— Soft pedal, big boy, don’t blame the car—it’s what you feed it. I just saw Smith filling up with Lightning down the road. And Lightning sure delivers the goods—DOES give 25 per cent to 35 per cent extra power— extra miles, and up the road is the proof. olL | Hellmann, Tigers. | Myer, Red Sox. | Bluege, COMPANY rberry s Fallure to Warm Up Costs Nat Another Loss had been working strenuously in the bullpen for two innings, and as soon as Carroll_faltered in came Elam. The three Nationals to face him in the twelfth went out pronto. Hadley and Carroll staged a fine bat- | | tle in the first nine innings. The Tigers | got nine hits off Hadley. and bunched four of them in the fourth for three | runs to take a lead. The Nationals got six hits off Carroll in the first nine in- nings. ‘Doubles by Barnes and Sam Rice were good for a marker in round one. Two of the three bases on balls isued by Carroll in the fourth, mixed with two pitches that got by Red Har- | grave, produced another run for the Na- | tionais. In the seventh, Hadley singled | and scored ahead of Barnes when the | | latter drove & homer into the right-field | bleachers and put his club in front. | After the Tigers knotted the score the | |in the tenth, but Ossie Bluege whiffed. Muddy Ruel walked with two gone in | the eleventh only to watch Marberry | line to Bill Sweeney. And Barnes, who | walked ‘at the stari of the twelfth, got | no farther than second base during the | inning. | BIG LEAGUE LEADERS HITTERS. yer and Club. G. Goslin, Senators 36 Hornshy, Braves 88 Simmons, Athl's 69 P. Waner, Pir't's 96 3 7 Grantham, Pr't’s 78 263 2362 TRAILING STARS. | G. AB. R. H. Pet. | 103 363 113 121 .333 86 344 54 113 328 | 87 336 68 110 327 | 98 371 52 108 .m\ Ruth, Yankees. .. Cobb, Athletics.. . Frisch, Cardinals. ‘(‘lnzln-nll at Louis at Bo; burgh RUN SCORERS. Ruth, Yankees. . Gehrig, Yankees Bottomley, Cardinals. Combs, Yankees. ... P. Waner, Pirates. Douthit, Cardinals. BASE STEALERS. Cuyler, Cubs. Mostil, White Frisch, Cardin Rice, Tige . Senators. . .15 PITCHERS. Pe. | Hoyt, Yankees. 867 | Benton, Giants . 810 Rhem, C: . 76! Quinn, Atl . Sherdel, Cardinals.. Crowder, Browns. Towing, Pr. 6-8-0-5. Central Auto Warn.fi —Advertisement, a2 a2 ll i "WA 0N BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Chicago. STANDING Chicago _ eveland . | Washington . Detroit Boston _ _Lost | Nationals got but one hit and two |ppjla. “c | passes.” Joe Judge tripled with two gone | Wash'ton at Detroit. (¥ e . Do i 4 N. Y.Pl at Bl"filli Phila. at Detroit. = /o [ New York "Roston. 3. OF THE CLUBS Cleveland S Washington 22 Perce: 33 H 4 "GAMES TOMORROW. Wash’ton at Cleveland. N. York at (‘,hlv Boston at St. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Chicago. New York, St. Flitsburen. Brooklyn. STANDING OF THE CLU Pittsburgh Bro Bost P Lost_ 2% s g 5 Pittsbursh < Chicaso 2 Brooklyn GAMES TODAY. rates, 1; Giants, | By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Wright. Grantham, Pirates, 1; Zitzmann, Reds, 1; son, Cubs, 1; T 15 National 5 Cubs, 24; Bot! | sonette, Robins, 18; Hafey, Cardinals, | 17; Hurst, Phillies, 17; Pi- Welsh, Stephen- Barnes, Senators, 1. League leaders—Wilson, tomley, Cardinals, 23; Bis- Hornsby, Braves, 16: Harper, Cardinals, 15. American | Yankees, leaders—Ruth, 19; League Gehrig, Yankees, Hauser, Athletics, 15. MIDATLANTIC LEAGUE. Clarksburs Jeannette. Fairmont. Johnatow MUTOR fi £L 0 .'. Charlerol. 4.