Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C SPORT . " Hadley Held Hurt by Too Early Start : British Menace Gone in Western Golf HURLER WAS USED JGoslin, Judge, Bluege Wallop Young Walsh for 2.0 V ictory v | | | ' THROUGH WAIVER CLAIM YANKS GET ZACH TODAY Giants and Cards Lose Again; A’s Gain by Nippi ng Tribein 17th By.the Associated Press Aldridge, showed McGraw some real FOUR COLLEGE MEN WIN N DOPE UPSET HEN Al Simmons wrested the American League batting lead from Goose Goslin in Philadelphia not so long ago sions that young Waish worked. He looked every whit the fine prospect I has been touted. He was especially good in the fifth, when Goslin's single, WHEN STILL WEAK WV pitching in his defeat—better than any- thing seen in his earlier efforts. He and Freddy Fitz held the Reds to six HE Giants have escaped from Cincinnati and the Cardinals have cleared their premises of . /BERG AND PETROLLE \ 2 Oporation Sapped Stamina of Griff Star and Club { Has Suffered. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NHAT I the White Sox in fine fashion | has not enjoved any s as a_pitcher obably may be attrib tly on the hill a tion for appe! ng Hadley, who blanked "It some few fans who had little | faith in the Goose's courage on the field climinated the National slugger from the race for the ball-banging cham- pionship. But the Goose has fooled ‘em. Not only has he slugged his way to the top again, but M doing so bas well outdistanced the Mackman, who 100k the glory from him in the Quaker i The Goose showed yesterday how he can hit a ball and why he deserves the h rating he has. His two wallops nade i four times at the plate in the sccond game of the series were sound ticularly that single made in h inning of the fray went to left field Bib Falk, Chisox patrolman t territory, far out of position to ich & hit that did more for Nationals' cause. But it was | | Pincl Judge's double and a pass to Blueac filled the bases with one out. Then Walsh fanned Joe Cronin and Boh Reeves got nothing more than a drib- bler to Kamm at third. Walsh gave way to a pinch-batter in the eighth. s | George Cox came on to pitch an in- ning against the Nationals, in which he grauted one hit Irving Hadley, in fine fettle for the day, held the Chisox to five hits, spread | | over as many innings, and two passe | Only twice did the visitors get as man as {wo runners on at one time. Alex | Metzler's double and Falk’s walk start ed the seventh. but Kamm's sacrificial attempt resulted in a pop to Hadley and Earl Swanson drilled into a double play. With one out in the cighth, Buck | Crouse ed. but was forced out by ttey Harry McCurdy. After ne with two out in the first in- ung and so unbalanced Ed Walsh, jr who was pitching at the time, that he | lded two more safeties in succession. | nts ad the game in hand Judge | m, Joe low roller d/\\\n} has lacked tand the stra ten has faded toward by s f engagements and too o with & 2-to Following Goslin's got A gle with a the thi year. his first fu show. Hadley work cord 14 victories and six defeats. This base line. Willie Kamm, who | year e can show but eight wins against | rirrieved the ball had no chance to 11 lasses. This failure of the YOung|make a retiring throw and his stab at | hurlei- 1o produce is directly due to a in was futile. Judge pilfered sec- 100 brrief Test taken after his operation. | gng and counted with Goslin when Os- | many base ball men contend " | sie Bluege rapped a one-baser to left.| They insist the Lynn boy shoul n have jbeen started until around May 15 instesdd of on Apr less than etter Weeks after he was on the ope ngle atter having put him | table, The t0o early start, the: 1t of commission for & time. 8ay, o weakened Hadley that 1 i di ‘ e is far from being in hose three hits the he was throughout last v ree more in the next six ses- 2 { WALKER GAMBLING IN EMANUEL BOUT BY FAIRPLAY. NEW YORK. August 23.—Mickey Walker will be gambling with his future ! Appendix Yanked in March. at the end of the first week hat Hadley. apparently near a two-week at the Tampa training camp. tricken by appendicitis and was | tied to a hospital late at night for | i mmediate operation. He rallied e ordeal quickly, but after he was «iischarged from the hospital Had- ley 9as kept with the club instead of B ) b ht :mszocod e e e e Tualt | a5 a drawing card on the coast when he the Nationals Hadley broke out with a ‘m;kohin manf‘letfim““u” at San Fran- razhgthat weakened him more and when | Cisc0 on Augus . e the VAmerican League championship | Mickey cannot lase his fitle because opengd here April 10 he was in woefully | Emanuel is a light heavyweight and poor | cendition will have the pull in_weights when the Yoty an April 22, less than two weeks | Pair come together. The loss of prestige ne reached Washington in such | Will be another matter that Jack Kearns | will have to worry about. Walker beat Mike McTigue when the latter was champion of the 175 pound- afte poor Mrim, he was started on the hill mh:;t the Rbeed Soxl.n Heddn} )x:ot last two #nnings, wit after' his g;enn‘:sxhcnd ?:en knocl:mlols: ers and stopped the veteran in the all icorners of Griffith Stadium. Since | first Tound recently. Emanuel boasts then[Hadley has been an in-and-outer | tW0_good showings against McTigue. in =0 far as victories are concerned, | Both contests went the distance, and 0 ' U < st | the youngster from California was the | D inee e e wou § fames and lost | 0 Yo hit the resin_ dust in the first " s - S Y roeheitias won 4 abdliost 6. -} T O Sk seod mieking | Has Had Mach Work. It was no secret that Walker has tlley ressed in v | designs on the light heavyweight title | 1:5‘“&&2&“%2"2&;5‘jfla,‘,“‘:‘;‘\;;: and if it is put up to Kearns Walker last . Although in 30 games in the | Will be sent out after the bigger crown. | 1927 campaign, he started but 14 times, | , Emanuel made a splendid showing, | This year he has been in 24 engage. |{0F one of his limited experience. | ments. 23 times as a starter. Yet to | 2gainst Tommy Loughran. Most likely date he has gone a full route but 11 | WAlker figures that he can force a| times , At that. he covered the dis- | MAtch with Tommy if he is successful tance but 13 times last season. and |0 Whibping Emanuel by & wider margin still has nearly six weeks in which | than Loughran did. The latter now to pkch three more full games to set | 'S being boomed for the heavyweight & new mark for himself. | title, and if it comes to pass that However, since July 1 he hae been | JONTY 5 o i cim for meetin more like the fine-pitching Hadley of | SOM® DASK, 10 o 13 he 1927 e e e Byl g A L Jatter stretch he has revealed little |, Should Emanuel whip Walker the stamgna. Prequently. the Lynn bo; latter will not be the drawing card he stepged along for four or al hes been on the coast. A meet- | in brisk manner only to break suddenly DESSpEL ik and B and | be deluged wWith opposition hits. | OEUTes to be the biggest attraction Three |coast_has had in years. Walker may e gone b e g ek Dot like a dose of Hudkins after the Hadley Y | sensational opposition the Nebraskan &.‘m' Sinth loning with & Wl | s nkied in Chicago recently. Hadley's lack BROWN FEELING FIT of | FOR BOUT WITH HILL 3 WINDSOR, England. August 23.-— bowl ‘em over in great style next season. | Beneath the shadow of Windsor Castle, | with Eton schoolboys in top hats and frock coats among the spectators Newsboy Brown. American flywelght whe claims the world championship. has entered the last stages of his training et e v 5 ack in the game vesterday for | 4 S¥ ¥ 1 have | Gid John Mostil singled Grady Adkins went in to run for McCurdy. who had pulled up at the midway station. Aakins did | not have to do any leg work, for A:t Shires popped to Reeves. ‘With Bluege back in the game, Reeves was shifted to second base, while Man- ager Stanley Harris did nothing more than coach beside first base. Bucky is suffering with a heavy cold and may be out of the line-up several days. No word from Bullet Weaver vet ybe the rangy hurler recently pur- from Chaitanooga does not know the way to Washington. Grifl has tracers out for him Fred Marberry was to face the White Sox afternoon in their last game { the vear here 2s 2t to be op- by Al Thom: d Faber LOFFLER NINE FACES ELIMINATION TODAY Loeffier and Navy nines were to open the second round of play in the week- day leagues series on Terminal Y dia- mond this afternoon, the former facing possible elimination The Sausage V: first game to G. P. a will mezn removal the Industrial League champions. Navy. Federal League champs, won its first game with St. Alban’s and will survive today's con- test regardless of the outcome. Navy is a favorite in the series and likewise a favorite today, although the Indus- trial Leaguers have shown real power in their own_ circuit. American Railway Express nine, title winner in Terminal Y League, dis- played championship ability yvesterday in handing Treasury, highly touted De- partmental League champs for several | seasons, an 11-to-3 drubbing. Dick Hughes held the losers to 8 scattered sefeties, while Colliflower and | April fathomed the offerings of Max | Schwartz at timelv moments. Colli- flower collected four bingles, including | a double, while the Express catcher twice hit for two bases. Erratic field- ing played havoc for both hurlers, al- though Hughes suffered the least. Yesterday's score Treasury. ABH.O.A w s or Rel TOM ZACHARY. Zachary, or Jonathan Thomson Walton Zachary, if you will ve it. no longer is a National. He has gained the heights, for to- day he became a member of the league leading Yankees. The veteran lefi-hand pitcher passed to the club now seeking its third successive American League pennant by the waiver route. According to Presi- dent Clark Griffith of the Washington ciub, all other clubs of the circuit had waved on the left-hander, but the Yanks suddenly changed their minds and claimed him, so to them he goes merely for the waiver price. With Herb Pennock suffering from neuritis, the World Champions are in a sore fix for left-handers, having only one available for service, the recently- acquired Fred Heimach. As the Athletics still threatening seriously to wrest the lead from his club, Manager Huggins evidently deemed it wise to grab even a 31-year-old southpaw who had been none too successful with a rival club this season. Zach has won six games and lost nine for the Nationals in this cam- paign. The New York clul adors dropped their n today al for b will be the fourth for which Zachary has pitched in the American Lea e first broke into the circuit in 1918, pitching for the Athletics under the alias of Zach Walton. In 1919, Zachary came back from the war and joined the Nationals in June. He ed with them through six seasons, thereafter, being sent to the Browns in a trade after the 1925 cam- paign. In July last year, the left-hander came back from the Browns by the waiver. He pitched in both world series in which the Nationals participated, beat- ing the Giants twice in the 1924 classic. In his major league career, he has | pitched to 114 victories and 124 defeats. Benton Is Big Ace of Giants In Bid for Another Pennant ARE gs.rfp. / Caspar.lf. 4 Wom'sley.th Whailey.ss. R Nen Collifl er.se Hell.2b R H'zhes.n Morris.if Boucher.ah sueamupmanD N - 5 P I ey m22ambem00 . Schwariz Wolfe.rf 2135 Bt D a AWRENCE J. BENTON vory red-headed. pitches for the New York Giants and was born in Cincinnati. He first saw Walnut Hills in 1897. Maybe he didn't see the hills until a little Jater, but very | early in life he saw Fountain Square, for that is the center of Cincinnati. To date Benton has won 20 games for the Glants this season. He has lost only four. He is apt to pitch the Giants into the pennant. 1f they win, he will get credit for pitching them into the National League pennant A Pitching Machine. | This same Larry Benton is the most | Losing pitcher—Schwartz. precise bit of pitching machinery now onerating in the National 1e, and MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS | he can hold his own ngainst anything | the American Lesguc. The Amer-| is indifferent pitcher. one bad acting pitcher—now out of the major leagues— and an infielder who, Rogers Hornsby said, would not do. And Hornsby has him now. Before leaving Boston, Benton had made a record as follows: In 1923 he won 5 games and lost 9; in 1924 he won 5 and lost 7; in 1925 he won 14 and lost 7, and in 1926 he won 14 and lost 14. The record that he made in 1925 and 1926 should have endeared him to Boston. Any pitcher who could win 14 games in a season for a team like the Boston Braves was worth more than a mere promise elsewhere: yet Boston let him go. In 1927 Benton pitched for both Boston and New York and his record was 17 victories and 7 defeats. He toiled u “Batted for Treasury . ; Amer. Raflway Express Runs—Heffelfinger. Blakeman, W. Hughes (3). April (3). Colliflower. Hal Hilleary. E: 82418 Totals. ..351132712 Chamberlin in ninth. 3 ton, Hall. Pirst b 3: off Giddings, 3: off Hughes, 2 Schwartz, 7 in' 2% inning Btruci . wild 3 by (2), g3, Passed ball—Newton | l Brooklyn marauders—but neither of these events transpired one minute too soon. If things had gone on much longer as they were going, the National League pennant necessarily would have been awarded to the team capable of the most expert back- pedaling, which would have brought the Phillies in for serious consideration. Shaded at Redland Field yesterday by a score of 5 to 4, the cohorts of Me- Graw left for Pittsburgh shorn of dig: nity, but able to walk. The New York | | expeditionary force still owned a margin | over the Cardinals in the pennant race only because the deceitful Dodgers nip- | ped the Red Birds at Sportsman Park by 3 to 2 The suspicion grows that John Mc- Graw jumped from the frving pan into the proverbial fire in moving away from the comparatively peaceful reaches of the American Rhineland. The situation cven more complex for the when it is realized that the Cardinals will be frolicking three times with the Phillies while the Giants ar taving off four rushes by the Buc: caneers | Idle Cards May Climb. If the Cardinals cannot regain first place under these circumstances, there | would seem to be small use for them to continue their efforts after Sunday. An even break for the clan McGraw today would restore the leadership to Sam Breadon's boys, who lie idle wait- ing the arrival of the Phillies tomorrow. The defeat of the Giants yesterday, the second in three games at Cincin- nati, was due largely to Jim Welsh's uncertainty of foot as he dashed atter a fiy ball from the bat of Bill Zitzmann | with the bases filled in the fifth. The ball fell safe for a triple. and the Giants lost, never to regain, a lead they | had taken in the first half of the same round when Mel Ott drove in three mates with an honest triple. Doubles by Lindstrom and Terry produced an- other New York run in the eighth, hut Dolph Lugue bore down on the next | three batters and his danger had passed. | The veteran right-hander, Victor hits, and Aldridge might never have been behind but for Welsh's misstep. | Jess Petty and Watson Clark col-| laborated in tossing the Cardinals for another loss—the second Robin victory in the three-game series. Between them they gave the Red Birds just five hits. while their support was pecking at | Clarence Mitchell for just enough early runs to eke out the victory. The Cards | bunched doubles by Douthit, Frisch | and Hafey into their sixth inning for both of their scores. after having gone hitless for five rounds. Clark then was called in to put down the disturbance ‘While the contending teams were so Left With Quartet of Ex- perienced Linksmen in Title Tourney. By the Assnciated Press HICAGO, August 23.—With th- British menace removed by the process of ruthless elimination which also effaced the defend- ing champion and the qualify- | ing medalist, a_quartet of experienced engaged, the Pirates put the Braves golfers and a like number of college lnxrfiut again by 10 3) 3 in a game | youths settled down today to determine which saw the Buccaneers collect 16| Who is to wear the Westarn amatour hits. These up-and-coming Pirates, in- | g0lfing crown. cidentally, are only five games removed | Apparenily with no regard whatsoever from the summit and are intent upon | for experience and forecast, a group of climbing—as impossible as it seems. In the remaining National League game. the Cubs finally broke their Philadelphia jinx after s successive failures. It took all of Art Nehf's cun ning to win by 3 to 2 in 12 innings. Haas’ Homer Wins for A's. The American League fell behind in its half of the campaign to restore the world series to the basis of a 5-cent fare for New Yorkers, thanks to the bat of Mr. Mule Haas, late of Montclair, N. J.,, but now a resident of Shibe Park, Philadelhpia. The Mule plucked one of Johnny Miljus’ choice offerings from the ambient with fat black bat and gave it a ride over the rightfield fence, winning for the Athletics by § to 5 in the seventeenth inning. Haas' performance entered a game won into the books for Eddie Rommel who relieved George Earnshaw after an | Indian outrage in the eighth. The smash | also enabled the Athletics to shave half a game from the lead of the Yankees, who, lying idle because of rain, now have a margin of five games—no mean consideration and less and less mean with every day which passes without ts being materially reduced. The Tigers swept both ends of a bar- gain at Boston, 7 to 6 and 4 to 3. LEAGUE NINES HOLD GEORGETOWN CHURCH; A MEETING TONIGHT | To determine what teams will meet to | decide the pennant in Section B, Un- Ellmlted Class, Capital City Base Ball | League, a meeting of the managers of Auths, Douglas Athletic Club, Army War College and Ross Council nines will be | held tonight, at 7:45 o'clock, in the | Post sports department | Both Ross Council and Au who | are now tied for the lead, have one | more game to play, the former with | Armv War College and the Iatter with | COntests, while the present leaders have | Douglass, the ganies being set for Sun- | day. However, Army War College has to play in a 3d Corps Area contest to- morrow at Fort Monroe and will be un- able to meet Ross Council Sunday | Georgetown A. C.. which won the flag | | in Section A. Unlimited Class, will meet | the victor in Section B for the league | erown. | - 1 Three games are carded Sunday in the senior class of Capital City League. Brown & Wood and Aztec nines are to meet on Monument diamond No. 1 at 11 o'clock, and the former will engage Hartfords on the west Ellipse at 3| o'clock. Auths end Hartfords will hook | 1up at 11 o'clock on north Ellipse in the other tilt carded. Palace has forfeited | its scheduled game with D. J. Kaufman | team - Pushing across two runs in the twelfth inning, Brookland Boys' Club tossers squeezed out a 9-7 triumph over Speak- ers yesterday, in the insect division of the Capital City League, and achieved a tie for first place with Speakers. Royals, which meet Jewish Community Center Friday in the final e of the section, also can tie for the lead by winning. A play-off series will be staged to determine the pennant win- | ner. HERE'S HOW IT STARTED. Jesse Burkett, Lena Blackburne's first manager, called him “Lean." along NINES PLAY FOR FLAG West Washington Baptist and St. Alban's Episcopal nines are to meet tomorrow on No. 3 Monument diamond at 5:15 o'clock in a game which will determine the championship of George- town Church League. St. Alban’s nine held a game-and-a- half lead until yesterday, when the Bap- tists struggled gamely to down Eld- brooke, third-place club, 3 to 2. The victory narrowed the Saints’ lead to one-half a game, each having lost three won 16 contests to 15 for the Baptis Although Fletcher held West Wash- ington batsmen to four hits yesterday. the contenders took advantage of every opportunity to score. By winifing tomorrow's contest. West ‘Washington will clinch the league title and also replace St. Alban's in the Week-Day League's series now in prog- s. St. Albans uine won the title last year. TWO CHICAGO GIRLS PLAYING GOLF FINAL By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 23 —The ninth annual women's Western junior golf championship crown today rested be- tween two 1§-year-old Chicago girls, June Beebe and Rena Nelson. Upsetting the two fasorites, the Chi- cago girls won their way into the finals of the championship to meet in an 18- hole match for the title. Miss Beebe eliminated Patricia Ste- phenson of Minneapolis, 4 and 3, and Miss Nelson ousted Mildred Hackl, one of Chicago’s best junior feminine golf- ers, 4 and 2. SEEK SUNDAY BALL GAME. college club wielders and former cham- pions descended on the championshir {course at Bob O'Link yesterday and | turned the play into 2 series of upsets. | Remaining, however, was Chick Ev | of Chicago, eight times winner of the | Western championship and former hold- ler of the national amateur and open titles; Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland Oreg., a former member of the Ameri- can Walker Cup team; Frank Dolp, the Lanky Portland youth, who was Western title holder in 1927, and Ira Couch of Chicago, former junior champion. Quartet of Collegers. Arrayed against this experienced con- tingent was a quartet of college go! | including two former Western Confer- | ence champions and a runner-up—Ria | Rolfe of Chicago, winner of the B Ten title in 1923, while a student at the University of Illinois, and Kenneth Hi- sert, formerly of the University of Chi- cago, who captured the championship two years later. Gus Novotny of Chi- | cago, who eliminated Bon Stein of Se- attle, the defending champion, in the | first round of match play yesterda was runner-up to Rolfe for the confer ence championship in 1923. Lawrenc Moller of Quincy, Ill, a junior at Notre Dame, completes the collegiate army. Novotny was paired against Willinz in the opening match of today's round with the all-college twosome of Mollor and Rolfe in the second match in the upper bracket. Hisert met Evans and Dolp matched strokes with Couch. To- day’s matches were over 36 holes and were to cut the fleld to four con- testants. Play in the opening round yesterday developed into a seemingly endless storm for the British members of th- British members of the Walker Cup ‘Team who qualified, Stein. the defen- ing champion: Johnny Dawson, th medalist, and many of the favorites Stein First to Lose. Stein was the first to go down. quict slipping in for his match with Novot:: |and two hours later just as quiet | slipping out for Seattle. Dawson cam | next, with Hisert the victor. Then the contingent of collegiate clubbers le loose and in rapid order William Twed- dell, E. F. Storey. T. A. Torrance an: T. Phillips Perkms. current Britis amateur champion, passed out of the tournament. The storm of upsets swept before Phillips ‘Pinlay, the long-driving Cali- forntan: Don Moe, the 18-year-oic ol | Portiand youth, who scored a 69 th | first dav: Don Armstrong of Chic: E J. C. Ward of Kansas City Evans, with two brilliant victo: over R. E. Bockenkamp of St. Loui and Russell Martin of Grand Rapids was a favorite to meet Frank Dolp in the semi-finals of the lower bracket, while Willing was picked to meet the winner of the Moller-Rolfe match in the upper half. HADLEY BUMPS 'EM CHICAGO. Mostil, et Shires. ib. Metzler. rf. Falk, Kamm. Swanson, Redfern. rouse. Val g | : : 1 ” General Baking Co. Bond Bread nine E itchers who are ) e Giants, v g " g ead nin . Tox'a woiaaiwith Shinny ) Hrtin| - "AMBRICAY ASSOCTATION. |lcan Leagus has same pitohars Rap.ate | soalously fos th nts, for he worked ts.” “Slim,” etc. So the fans | is. because of a cancellation, without a | ‘MeC ¢ i { i BOX FOR TITLE SHOT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 23.—Jack Berg ome of England’s best lightweights since | the days of Freddie Welsh. and Billy | Petrolle, the “Fargo Express,” will meet st Mills Stadium tonight in an effort to | determine which will tackle Sammy Mandell for his lightweight title. They fought a 10-round draw here recently. Odds were even on tonight's match. Both are hard punchers and possess plenty stamina for a grueliing fight. In their last bout Petrolie piled wide margin in the early rounds b body attack, only to lose it by a de perate rally by the Englishman in final round. Promoter Jim Mullins said he would snnounce the date of the championship bout with Mandell following tonight's fight unless it results in another draw He said he had Mandell's signature to| the contract and that the title match | would be held here some time in Sep- | tember. GOLF PROS CAN'T AGREE, SO MATCH IS CANCELED| Failure 1o arrive at an agreement over the terms of the match today caused definite cancellation of the scheduled professional golf exhibition match Sep- ' tember 8 and 9 between the two Armour brothers of Congressional and J. Monro | ¥ 5 Diffenbaugh of In- ason for cancella- atch other than inability | ns was given nas been in process of weeks, byt a hitch 20 Over payme members Y Sp ’ RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN s ) iny 143 BATIING »H i 1 Members of both teams will meet at|0Ver Colonials yesterday. champion, at Clapton, August 29, Brown is quartered at the Star and | Garter, where John L. Sullivan stayed | 40 years ago. British boxing experts are considerably impressed by his train- ing. They style him “The Pocket | Hercules.” Although only a flyweight, sports writers credit Brown with arm and| leg muscles worthy of a featherweight. Comparing the styles of Brown and Hill, the experts say Brown is “more of a boxer” and Hill “more of a stylist.” Brown declares he is feeling fit “They told me I would put on weight in this country. but 1 am keeping down nicely.” he said today. He brought a horseshoe all the way from Los Angele to assure himself of good luck EASTERN CAROLINA LEAGUE 7, Kinston th innine. wet grounds) Fayetieville, 6: Greenville. 3 Goldshero, 2; Rocky Mount Wilmington (ealied middie | W. L. Pct W. L. P indianapolis 76 56 .576 St. Paul 5 Minneapolis 76 59 563 Toledo Milwaukee. 7162 363 Columbus Kansas City 70 63 526 Loulsville St. Paul, 8 Loulsville, 0, Toledo. 16 Milwaukee. 1 Minneapolis, 8: Indianapolis, Only sames played INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Toronto Baltimore Reading Montreal 81 68 473 88 63 519 Jersey City 33 80 308 Baitimere. 5-0: Montresl, 41 Toronto, 6- 5. Jersev City. 30 0. 5. ) W L Ppet Birmin‘ham 32 20 .615 Cittle Rock Vemphi N. Orlea Chgitana 509 Mobile 8 451 120 364 Atlanta ittle Rock, 1 Nashyilie. 2. Mobile, 0 New Orleans, 15: Chattanooga Only games scheduled 4 L 2 5 UNLIMITED NINES PLAN FEATURE GAMES SUNDAY HREE important games head the t of an attractive program ar- ranged for independent sandlot teams for Sunday Al threc contests will be staged on sub- dlamonds errydale and A. B. & W. Busmen attle on Arlington, Va., diamond o'clock in the tecond of a three- eries with the Arlington County d title at stake. Busmen were winners in the opener last Sunday 4 by winning today will win the right meet Alexandria Dreadnaughts for ¢ county fiag. Albert Hull Busmen ¢ ace and Pete Ball are Lo oppose each other on zan he mound Pete H Georgeu Dre awalted ake his ster ne 1o Alexandria to A C Haley's crew opnortunity w meet je Lermics Nanghts feited a crucial Capit ame o the Westerners %o because of a dispute | drians carry a grudge | priming for the big chance to defeat the District champlonship nine. Play will start on Baggett Pleld at 3 o'clock | Mount Rainier and Phoenix A. C. will | clush in the other important fray at {Mount Rainfer at 3 o'clock. Managers {of both nines consider thetr charges {ax prospective independent unlimited | champions, Es team has an impres- sive record for the sewson. Bellman and McMahon, are prepared to take the nound for the Mounts Distriet Heights aud Capitol Helghts nines, rivals in eastern suburban sand { 1ot clrcles, are to meet in the second Lwame of thelr serfes on | Pranklin Manor field. District Heights won the first game clinch the series A C aught i ague several we and have been this week end District. Heights &t 12:30 o'clock, Yankee A, C. players are to mee! 4 Cherrydale | ol 0 ed the The Alexan- | 9ropped their Sunday at | 10 1o 4, and hopes y at 311 Thirteen and one-half e 130 o'clock to journey to Brentwood, Md., where they will battle the Brentwood Hawks Warren Hilleary, business manager | of Georgetown A , has announced a meeting for all players Friday night al 1227 Wisconsin avenue at 9 o'clock Al players are asked to report on tme Al Corinthian Junfor players are asked 1o report tonight at 8 o'clock at 812 Farragut street for a special meet- ing. Sam Rice Juniors will gather at the same hour at 1161 Neal street northeast al the home of Clyde Wenzel Joe Rattery is booking games for latter team at Lincoln 848 ‘s Modern Woodmen stretehed thelr Josing streak yesterda by bowing to Seamen Gunners, 6 to 1 Woodmen are in a slump, having Jast four games lai ties Bunday 0 book u game at Franklin 2047 after |5 o'clock A Saturday game 15 wanted by Bouth- Aztecs and other ke arrangements 133, Several midget nines seek games | hey. are: Bpaldings, Lincoln Potomacs, Cleveland 3063, and Corinth- Hang, Columbia 7504, ern Rallway Benlors. senfor teams can l-" Main 4461, Brai Lyon Village Insects hurl a challenge 10 all teams 10 that class. Call Claren don 1334-J-2 i 3-t0-1 Gibson while Armstron: Kenliworths took a lowed but three hits led at hat with a single in as many tries. the | After several weeks of Idiness, Bond othiers nine plans to resume activi- Earle Moser would like 6009 | deciston Al- iriple, double and pretty strong themselves, none in that circuit who bears more marks of a really great winner than this stout, strong, stubborn, red-headed | son of Cineinnati | Of course, he got away from Cincin- in a total of 29 games Incidentally it was another former Boston pitcher, Joe Genewich, who pitched a winning game for the Giants on Monday at Cincinnati. enlarged it to “Lena.” Lena Styles, with Toronto, got his name in a differ- ent way. He played in college and could hit. The Alabama fans would yell “Lean on it.” And that started it. game for Sunday, and would like to book a local or out-of-town unlimited class team. Call Business Manager Gubisch at Pranklin 5350 during the day or at Atlantic 4127 after 8 p.m. ;i nati, That is the usual rule. A ball player who is good seldom gets a show in his home town for some reason that is not apparent. It is on the same principle as honoring the wise prophet Brooklyn has not beaten Benton this year, nor has the Cincinnati club, nor | has ‘St. Louls. He has four victories | each from Brooklyn and St. Louls. The | only team that has given him good and | hard battle is Chicago. | Every time Benton pitches he is apt {o move the Giants a notch nearer the | | pennant, and whenever he loses the | Giants wil! grieve more than they do when another pitcher loses. It will be | 1ike the old times when Christy Mathew - | son was the shining light of the Glants When Matty lost, the spirits of the Glants were like curdled milk, until in his later years when the players were enty e O oemg carcies | Arvs slipped ‘onc over on us. But this and pitching too hurriedly, Matty did | time they're giving warning in advance Iike to get through a game as quickly | and if we h,fivz: any squawks to make + as possible. now is the time to make them. | Benton was party of the first part And unless the squawks are loud and {in one of the most foolish trades that | louder this “bigger and lighter” golf | ever was made in base ball history by |Pall is likely to be soon among us. | & second division club. The Boston| And the fack rabbit ball will be as Brayes, necding assistance badly, and | jearce and O high priced as XXXX needing it more than any other team | Pourbon and rye ‘;'" the National League excepl the ' Ng one pays much attention to re- Philles, n'u‘«'m-g“s:‘;mm. sihomes 4 | formers until they're about ready to Taylor o the Glants on June 19, 1927, make s touchdown. for Greenfield, McQuillan and Farrell i) (his golf ball reform | Smart base ball men threw up thei | roq many “hole-in-one” players; too | hands and asked why. They have been | many contenders for every champion- | asking ever since. That trade was as|ship because they could drive far: too { one-sided s any that was ever made ! mapy “Babe Ruths” of the golf links \"‘lf:“:;,,""HI the fact that he was with |, ADd 50 we have & golf reform descend- | . 4 . s W g Ol S, {a team that needed strengthening in| ° " " | almost every department of the game, | | Benton was sent to New York for one BY FRED TURBYVILLE. LOT of folk think that Al Smith has a good chance of clection because he is opposed to_prohibition. And four years A some other Al Smith may be running or the presidency opposed to the un- from now popular “bigger and lighter” golf ball they are about to wish off on us. A lot of John Smiths thought the |t Some days ago an item in a Boston sports page caught my eye—The Rev | Joseph J. Keenan of St. Francls de Sales Church of Roxbury, Mass.. drove the sixteenth hole of the Pranklin Park | course, and that hole is 312 yards; and further than the Rev. Joseph J. Keenan drove each of his 18 tee shots, yards or better HOME-RUN STANDING By e A Home runs yesterday Ath teties, 1 American 1ke Haa A few days later another news item in all papers appeared—to the effect the Royal and Ancient Club of St. An- drews, the power of British golf, had recommended to the general commit- tee that a larger and lighter golf ball be adopted January 1, 1930, Following which a ‘stray item to the 1. Hornsby, | effect that our golf hero, Bobby Jones, g " was in favor of it Na- | Jones certainly risked his golf popu- { larity. The first ftem gave us a thrill; the | fact that a Catholic priest whose first | interest 1s the church, can find it pos- | sible to drive 250 yards or better on | every tee shot stimulates hope in every duffer’s heart Hundreds of thousands of golfers | never succeed in playing a course I par. They're hopeless as far as high- | elass golf 15 concerned, but they enjoy the game and hope springs eternal with “them, for every .ow and then thanks to the jack rabbit ball, a duh ets A 250 yards, or better, drive. And e thereby resolves that he won't give leaders— Ruth Yankees, 2 Simmons, At ics, 12, Blue, League 45, Gehrig Athletics, 15 i 13; Foxx, Athl Browns, 12, | Nationai | Gubs, 28; | Bissonette, 119; Hafey, Braves, 18 | League totals—American s | tonal, 477, grand total, 870 | PITTSBURGH KEEPS HOCKEY. 1t now 1s stated Pittsburgh will re- tain Its franchise in the National Hockey League. It was once reported the team would go to Philadelphia BASE BALL DID NOT PAY Ocean City, N. J.. hand municipal base ball for a few weeks. The club cost 51,200 and the refurns were $606. Re- ort visitors paid little attention {0 the afternoon program ‘l the ball park. leaders—Wilson, Cardinals, 26; Hurst, Phillies, League Bottomley Robins, 19 Oardinals, 393; 250 his clubs away but try the game again. ! And s0 on and on he goes ever hopeful ' But when they take his 4ack rabbit ball away he will lose his occasional | thrill and there’ll be nothing worth | while lelt When the “bigger and lighter" golf ball comes in half of the joy in golf- dom goes out the back door. Take the “sock™ out of the game of golf and the thrill Is gone as it would be gone by the same operation to base ball or the heavyweights. The thrill is in the driver. Only about a fourth or fifth of the soldlers of the golf links can successful mani- pulate the mashie, niblick or any other intricate instrument of the game. ] The “blgger and lighter” ball may be | - about. s easy to top it, slice it or hook 'it. And the dub will find that it will! And that's true jcut and bruise the same as the little ' luck with the sport says | ball--maybe more so, for there s more of it ! And because it is bigger is no reason | to expect perfect aceurs No matter how big it is it must be hit just right and on just the right spot | And after you hit it this “bigger and lighter” ball isn't going to cover more than three-fourths the distance the ,llrk rabbit ball covers. 3 | There will be certain stars who will |get good distance the same as there | were home run hitters in base ball when the pitching was better and the balls weren't so good But the dub can't hope to be one of them. He'll be more of a dub than he now is and that may have a harm- ful_effect on golf. Citles that arve having a very hard time bullding public links fast enough to make room for the rapidly increas- ing army of golfers may sit back and rest when this “bigger and lighter” ball arrives. And it may take less area, too, where good golf land is expensive d grass is worth a dollar an inch. { The dubs and duffers are greatly in ltha majority, of course, but they're timid in the presence of the greats Just as & peasant is timid around such fello as Mussolini, Napoleon, Lenin and Jesse James. They're afrald to speak up and insist on retaining their | joys. | Offcials of the Unlled States Golf | Association for some time have been sold on the idea of & golf ball reform These mighties have just been waiting for some action In England. How do they get that way?® Seeing difficulties ahead it has been l;:moulud that those higger and lighter | ground it bounces nimbly on for many more yards, 235, 50 lnl rllfl!r(‘l gentleman around the house | thal A kind u‘m only in tournament play. so until January 1, 1 Golf Dubs All Het Up Over Losing Thrill Of Sock With “Bigger and Lighter” Ball But that is too complex. they hold There would be endless confusion and if | the jack rabbit ball still existed some- one would now and then slip one into play when a long drive was needed. It seems reasonable to belleve that it | r | inntnes g must be one or the other—the bi and lighter ball or the jack rabbit ball. Many a respectable foursome might casily become engaged in a rowdy dem- onstration if two kinds of balls made their appearance. One new golfer who hasn't yet broken 100 says: “I want—and need—all the distance I can get." A public parks golfer added: “One of the most attractive features of golf is the thrill one gets from a long drive. | I think if the game 1s made too hard 1t | 1a little easter to hit but it will be just | Will keep a good many persons from | I don’t want my drive shortened taking 1t up.” A doctor who has never had much ‘I have tried everything else. Maybe a different kind of ball would help my game " “If they want to do something help- ful” sald another, “Why don't they adopt a ball that won't bruise easil and a ball with & burglar alarm would be convenient when playing on public courses to keep the small boy from making off with it." : From a professional: “It would im- | prove the game in my opinion. The ball has been getting faster right along | and courses have been altered to suit I think it is time to halt this move- | ment which emphasizes the drive and give some of the other departments of | the game a chance.” | Bul two other pros dissented “The lively ball is better game.” said one. h “The present ball is the cause of the popularity of the sport,” the other re- | marked. for the | - | The duffer pays his way—and pays a high price for what he gets. ' He ! m?., hooks and slices. He cuts his ball. He loses it. He drives into the rough. He drives into the water. If there is a tree around he'll manage to bounce one off it. He uses a hie | and sends it into the sand. He misses & three-foot. putt. But every now and then he gets his welght behind one at the tee. The little fack rabbit ball is fast and agile. | . It travels far and when it hits the ‘The dub feels good. He's | | Ahhhhh! eveni He is considerate and It's a good old world noull will remain & 23333 0mm urdy | *Adkins | iClaney Tol ~o g et reers wl220063359% ulassssanumsoms?® 2l 333222222™ wlss3335s3~222" Bl unonnvena, £ il wzsmmuess® wlaze wlase Totals JBatted for Walsh in the eighth. #Ran Tor McCurdy in 'the elghth Batted for Swanson in the ninth. a0 000 00000 a0 ns batted in—Blu Goslin. Judge. Metal Sacrifice—Kamm. Reeves to Judee. ton. —n 2. Struck out—By Cos. Hits—Of Walsh. 6 in : in 1 inning. Losing piteh- Hildebrand Time of game—1 b | AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. %, Ghicago. 0. 3 innings) Boston, 63, . Louis. rain. STANDING OF THE CLURS. Detroit |wa [ N St A Boston « at Phita. Detroit at Roston. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. ) By A Cincinnadi.