Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1928, Page 25

INVADERS TAKE 24 | L ree OF 44 GAMES HERE & 1. Dorman. .. = 3 [P Smitatasana e dlin. Totals WASHINGTO! West, el R 21 arommponiisn ~l222832-222" Tigers Only Westerners to| Drop Annual Series at Griffith Stadium. b PP - | - = - =l 355222223525 Omosuemms ] eeve Cronin, ss. | Bl "¢ | Hadles. | Weaver. ». | Tate® Jonest the | | i s03-=223325-" ul somsaussu® | smsunnnanasnad | sssusaus-sss> Totals *Batted for Weaver in the ninth. 1Ran for Tate in the ninth. eveland 001 1 ashington 00001 Runs batted in—Jamieson. J. Sewell (2), Goslin. Rice, Judge. Uhle (2). Two-base hits —Lind. I. Sewel Stolen base— | S 3. Sewell, | e 2 03 0 03 ff Weaver, none in 1 innins. ‘mpires—Mesrs uthrie, Time of BY JOHN B. KELLER. ASHINGTON has seen last of the American League Western clubs this year and Washington isn't shedding | any tears because of it. For | Ck the Western clubs were not such pl - ant guesis in this championship cam- paign. Of the 44 games in which thoy engaged here, they took 24. and that certainly did not help the cause of the Harns horde Only in their third stand of the year t the West did the local athietes 3 & e better of the argument. In the | off Hudlin. ne string of contests ending yesterday, the |in R innings: off tWeav Is were victors in 8 of 13 Starts. | Grmny. Hilachrand and G\ cver, when the Western | same—? hours. gootinge t invaded the Capital, it | agged 9 of 14 tilts and last month it | triumphed in 10 of 17 battles. ' | RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN The Tigers were the only Westerners | to @xop a series here. They were licked | % tumes in 11 clashes with the Nationals : But the Browns took 7 of their 11 games | gostin in Washington and so did the Indians. | Rice The White Sox were almost as good | Kenna sgainst the Nationals, collecting 6 | perses . wins Much At home, lower at Home. the Nationals played at a| 455 clip against the West. 1In the| enemy's own territory, the Natjonals | thus far this season have traveled at a | much faster pace. Of their 30 engage- | ments ‘in the West, they have bagged | That's moving along at a 567 rate. by 115 points than followed opposition in the circuit since the beginning of the champice ship campaign. And_with 14 more | games to play in the West, the Harris horde has a great chance to show up % i:r- clubs of that sector on their own s Grady Adkins of the White Sox and George Uhle of the Indians were the poison pitchers of the West against the Nationals here. Each won three games and lost none. Other White Sox win- ners were Al Thomas, with a two-and- one record, and Ted Lyons with a one- | Hadle: and-nothing record. The Nationals de- feated Charley Barnabe once. Ed Walsh once and'Ted Blankenship twice. For the Indians, Willis Hudlin won two | games here, Verne Underhill won one and Joe Shaute won one and lost one. ‘Walter Miller, John Miljus and George Grant each took a licking. Al Crowder and Jack Ogden pitched to clean records here for the Browns. Each won a game. Sam Gray and Wal- ter Stewart each hurled to a record of two wins and one loss. Ralph Blae- holder won one and lost one and Harold Jones cssssssuscmnsy PSPPI <+ CLUB BATTING. SH. 133 1928 PITCHING. 1 Gam. Com. Inn'es sam, pitched. W. emuneast] 168 8134 123 13834 Player and club. G. AB. E. | Goslin, Senators.. 107 342 58 Hornsby, Braves.. 99 348 71 Gehrig, New York 125 460 114 P. Waner, Pirates. 123 491 116 Simmons, Athletics 90 347 58 Trailing Stars. G. AB. R. . 124 439 138 89 347 172 374 182 371 127 .366 H. Pet. 148 337 113 .326 127 .300 134 298 138 | What Griff Hurlers Did. el Now for the Nationals' hurlers against e est winni percentage, but figured in so far g b Esg Indians Helped to 5-3 Victory As Hadley Plays Bunts Poorly pitchers in | Ruel's double, Hadley's walk and West's bunted single. As Rice forced out West. Ruel tallled. A pass to Goslin again led the sacks and Hadley crossed Summa got Joe Judge's in the eighth. Summa began it with a single and Burns bunt- ed. Hadley, finally getting to the ball. OME schooling of their the handling of bunts might . Several men have been siow to such taps and after have been uncertain by the Indians. Irving virtually handed the Tribe. its first run that was registered in the third inning when he was none hassocks. too fast in getting to George Uhle's tap, then hesitated before throwing to sec- ond and let a force play chance go by the board. After the Nationals had loading 7 bounded a single over Ossie Bluege's shoulder and two runs crossed. No game today, only a practice session for the Nationals tomorrow, then the Yankees will arrive for games to be played Thursday, Saturday and Sunday gotten to the tottering Uhle for two runs to deadlock the game in the sev- enth Hadley got himself in serious LEE MEADOWS. | By the Assoctated Press. EW YORK, August 28.-—Another base ball fans, has passed ou H. Lee Meadows, first bes) been placed on the voluntarily re Meadows, in the major league arch-foe of diamond stars, sinus trouble. this complaint for several y Pirates. He has won only one game t others. It has been his failure to deliver th for the difficulty the Pirates have experience Last year he won 19 games and lost 10, a winning machine Denie Bush developed. Meadows, born at Oxford, N. C., in career with Durham of the Carolina As: Durham he was sold to t five years. In 1919 he was traded to the Phillie: d Jechnny Rawlings w division team for the first time in his career, In that deal Meadows an and Glazner. With a first at once jumped into winning For the Pirates he never form. urned in of the present season the bespectacled right- | and 54 defeats. For his 13 complete seasons of base defeats, although most of his career was peared twice in world series, and was eight innings of the opening game agains 1y winning, 4 to 1. He was matched agal third game of the 1927 series, Yankees won, 8 to 1. Meadows, Bespectacled Hurler, Put on Retired List by Bucs t of the major league picture. pectacled pitcher in the big leagues, has ears. This year he has been prac! his season and appeared in but one or two he St. Louis Cardinals for whom nst Herb Pennock of the Yankees in the retiring after 6 1-; face, long familiar to National League | tired list by the Pittsburgh Pirates. for 14 years, is another victim of that Meadows has suffered off and on with tically useless to the has been responsible in part at least d in trying to get into the running. importnt cog in the pennant- at nd was an 1894, started his professional base ball sociation in 1013 After two years with he tolled for nearly s and then to the Pirates in 1933. ere exchanged for Cotton Tierney Meadows | sing record. From 1923 to the start hander's record showed 88 victories 7 victories to match 179 spent with second division clubs. He ap- beaten both times. In 1925 he pitched t Walter Johnson, Washington eventual- a los ball he had 18’ 3 innings, in a game which the Some Hot Going Before Flag Chases Are Over BY WALTER TRUMBULL. IFTEEN nations may sign peace in Paris, but 16 major e base ball clubs are still in a highly developed state of war. The standings in the major leagues make the well known tides of the Bay of Fundy look stationary and fluctua- tions in speculative stocks seem as in- finitesimal as the rise and fall of an amoeba’s chest. Tt is true that the Phillies in the Na- tional League and the Boston Red Sox in the American cling as closely to the bottom as a pair of mushroom anchors. It is also a fact that the race in the American League is between two clubs, but there are five teams in the Na- tional League which still have a chance. although a couple of them might need the aid of a small miracle. At the top of each circuit the leaders are playing a continuous game of leap-frog. Huggins Has His Worries. A tew weeks ago #fappeared that the Yankees could turn around and walk in backward. It also seemed that the im- mortal Babe was sure to beat his home- run record. Now, nothing is sure, The Yanks, thanks to the enforced idleness of the Athletics, some timely hitting and a little luck, did gain a full game on their nearest rivals, but the present state of health of such players as Laz- zeri and Pennock and the speed at trouble in the eighth by not hustling for George Burns' bunt. Where he might have gotten the ball and tagged out the siow runner on the line, the pitcher ambled to it, picked it up and threw It against the runner’s back. That put two on with none out and H-:xey became a losing pitcher in short order. { = | Hadley nicked for 11 hits during | By the Associated Press. his eight on the hill, but the | HE St. Louis Cardinals and New hits should not have been as ng | York Yankees at last can take s they were. It was siow flelding by | time out for a breath without fhim that hurt his cause more than the e their hold on the Indian blows. The Nationals collected leadership positions in the two 10 bingles off Uhle and several times | major leagues. were in a position to bag the battle. | Bolstered by the return of “Sunny But their bingling was not done on| Jim” Bottomley, who totes a mighty these 0CCRsIOns. i powerful bat to the plate, the Cards After the Indlans had assumed the | have won four straight games, their 1ead for the second time Manager Stan- | last triumph coming at the expense of y Harris sent Jim Weaver, latest | the contending Chicago Cubs yester- cher to join the Nationals, to the | day, 11 to 3. 1 for an inping, and the big boy| 'The Cards now lead the National from Chattanooga set back the Tribe procession by four games, but that ad- 5 order. The first two batters to face | vantage may dwindle considerably or him sent bounders o Bob Reeves at | disappear entirely during the next 18 pecond. and the third batter lofted to | days when St. Louls’ opposition comes Goose Goslin. Weaver seemed re- ' not only from the Cubs, but from the on the mound, byt more | other two Western contenders as well— | ork must be oeen before his| the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cin-| v be_ascertained ! cinnati Reds r did Uhle finish what he had 9 4 After becoming the big noise | Winaos St Sieosess. ns' elghth-nning rally when | While the Cards thus were consolidat- le drove over the two runs that \Dg their position at the top of the ited the Tribe’s margin of vic- | senior Ez’r’.fiu"' th:m\{-n’ke:;," were d‘omu he was reache or =l 2 1l exact same ng in e American. e e | bie-barreled triumph over the De- twn Nationals up in the ninth and | A dou! oyl i~ vl S o | trott Tigers sent the world champlons The relief | pitcher quickly quelle - et four full games ahead of the Athletics, D i, Auickly auelled the Jocal, by yere Torced to sit idle at Philadel- { phia and watch the raindrops patter Luke Sewell's single opened the way | down. to the Indians’ counter in the third With Bottorley again in the lineup, Uhle bunted but Hadley after getting, the powerful punch of a month or so the ball slowly held it before heaving 1o | ago shows signs of reviving. It was second and Luke got in just ahead of | manifest in the last game of the Car- the throw. Came a single by Charley | dinal series with the Phillies on Sunday Jamieson, & rather puny one to left, that | when “Sunny Jim" first got back into was enough to get the younger Sewell| the game. Yesterday Sheriff Blake and home from second mainly because Gos-| Charlie Root were pounded for 13 lusty lin_can't throw | drives, ll\Cl“dllli‘l sack-cleaning double Each side put over a run in the fifth by Bottomley himself. This blow-—in v had two Indians out of thelihe seventh inning—clinched the game sen Carl Iind and Joe Bewell for the Cardinals Flint Rhem and Syl- doubles Bingles by Sam West | vester Johnson were cuffed about by the am Rice and Goshin’s infield! Cubs, but McCarthy's men could not + accounted for the Washington | bunch their 11 hits to any advantage | In the only other National League Yankees and Cards Now Lead Leagues by 4-Game Margins | hits, while the Champlons bunched 10 turn, lead the Reds by only one gam~ and trail the second-place Giants by half a game. In other words, the Pirates, who have won 36 of their last 50 games, are in fifth place, but only two and a half games behind the Giants .nld six and & half behind the Cardi- nals ‘The Corsalrs beat the Reds by bunch- ing their 10 hits in effective fashion. Fred Fussell, young southpaw, gave Ci cinnati 14 hits, but was practically un- hittable in the pinches, In addition ke received air-tight support from his mates, who have committed only two errors in their last eight games. Zachary Comes Through. “The double triumph of the Yankees was featured by the first sppearance of the veteran left-hander, Tom Zachary in a Yankee uniform. Pitted againat him in the opener was Earl Whitehil!, another southpaw, With better con- trol Whitehill might have bested Zach- ary, but four walks in the fourth in- ning gave the Champlons two runs and put_them in a position to win, 4 to 3, with one-run splurges in_the sixth and efghth innings. George Pipgras showed @ return to form when he pitched the Yanks tp # 5-10-2 victory in the night- cap. Ppgras gave up elght scattered | off Owen Carroll At_Boston the Bt. Louls Browns beat the Red Box twice, 8 to 6 and 4 to 0. The opefler was a free-hitting battle, which the Browns won by scoring seven runs in the sixth and seventh innings | Jack Ogden, former Baltimore ace, held the Red Sox to four hits in the night- cap, while MacFayden was touched for | nine. Three of these, one a homer, wen' | to Bchulte, Brown center fielder. BRAVES WIN EXHIBITION. TORONTO, Ontario, August 28 () | . scoring by hoth | battle the Pittsburgh Pirates downed e menpt Ot basers by | the Cincinnati Reds in easy fashion and Tind and Joe Bewells| 9 to 4, gained an even break in the 5u i Goslin netted the Tribe | two-day series and advanced Lo within e e Nationals illed the bases | one game of the Reds, who hold fourth ot the outset of thelr half with Muddy place in the lundlnc. The Cubs, in Shut out for seven innings, the Bos- ton Braves rallied for four runs in the Inst two sessions and defeated Toronto of the International Leogue, 4 to 1, yesterday: 1 day to pack the Yankee Stadium with | Still Certain which the Mackmen are still traveling don't give Miller Huggins and care- free repose. It looks more and more as if that batch of games between the two leaders, which starts a week from Sunday, would aptly deserve the title of a cru- cial series, Both the Athletics and the vanks will make a desperate effort to do better than break even in those four battles. That coming Sunday double-header needs only a fine sunny a record crowd. | Meanwhile the race in the National League continues to be closer than the skin and bones of a living skeleton. The Giants appear to have had a bad attack of nerves. They have been toss- ing away b?ll games with great aban- don. After they cleaned up in St. Louis they were what is known as sitting pretty, but they slipped with all the grace of a bathtub bather stepping on a cake of soap. Thereby they lost a very peal advantage, for now St. Louls is the club which has lost fewer games than any of its rivals. Pittsburgh, a really powerful club, is striking its real stride and may yet have something to say about where the flag shall fly. It took the Pirates a long time to get started, but they cer- tainly are showing speed in the stretch. The games between Pittsburgh and St. Louis will form another hlu‘ series. Chance for Giants. If the Giants are going to pick up their step again it looks as if their best chance is to do it while they are playing the weaker Eastern clubs and while the Western teams are fighting among themselves, When it comes the turn of McGraw's men to take on the Western clubs they will have the ad- vantage of playing at the Polo Grounds. In some Instances, playing on home grounds 1s an advantage and In some it is not. In thelr home town the local players are spared the discomfort of railroad Jjourneys and also of moving from hotel to hotel, with changes of beds, water and food. On the other hand, they have more to distract their minds from base ball than when they are on the road, and the players are not in thpl same constant atmosphere of base ball | when off the field. I can remember one Glant team, a | team which had on it such players as ' Matty, Wiltse, Marquard, Merkle, Doyle, Fletcher, Herzog, Meyers, Murray, 8nod- grass and Devore, which used to sit around hotel porches and lobbles and nlan strategy between games. That team made a miraculous road record. | and the reazon was that, like the old | Baltimore Orioles, it used to think, eat , and sleep base ball. Road conditions | are an actual ald to a team such as| that. At any rate, the fans should be satis- fied this season. Some of the moge | rabid may be in dnn1ar of apoplexy, but they sure are getting a great run for thelr mo:ey. Nouth American News- ance.) | (Copyright. 1928, by l HOME-RUN STANDING | paver By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday — Schulte, Browns, 1 Natlonal League leaders—Wilson, | Cubs, 30; Bottomley, Cardinals, 26;) Bissonette, Robins, 20; Hurst, Phillies, | 19, Hafey, Cardinals, 10; Hornsby, | Braves, 18, Ameriean League leaders—Ruth, Yan- kees, 46; Gehig, Yankees, 22; Hauser, Athletics, 15; Simmons, Athletics, 13; Blue, Browns, 13; Foxx, Athletics, 12, | Leagie totals—National, 488, Ameri- can, 401, Grand total 8o, fw, vl R | ADAMS CLAIMS RECORD | Louis Bell, Edward Gorman, Benjamin + of Capital City high school ranks, are AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York .. Philadelphia GAMES TODAY. Cleve. at Detroit. St. Louis af Boston. Chieago at Phila. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. St. Louis, 11: Chicago. 3. Piitsburgh, 9; Cincinnati, 4. Only games scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. | | | = Percentage St. Louls . New York | Chicago Cincinnati Pjtishurgh Brooklyn Boston_. Philadelphia 10011—| 6 191 8 pi— 12110110/ | 4110, 8 .18 6l 8l 9] 1418/ a1 641 41 8171 3/ 5l 4k _Lost_ 54(54164/771811— GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Phila. at Pittsburgh. Phila. at Pittsburh. is at Chicago. St.-Louls at Chieaxo. St. L | Boston at Mew York. Bokton at New York. | FOR ACCEPTED CHANCES | PITTSBURGH, August 28 (®).— sparky Adams, peppy little infielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has set what local base ball writers believe is a modern record for accepting successive chances without a slip-up. When the last man went out in the ninth inning of the Pirate-Red game in Cincinnati yesterday, Sparky fad hung up his 174th successive chance. ‘Horace Ford of the Reds accepted 135 chances without an error and Fresco Thompson' of the Phils took in 149 before he foozled one this season. ALEXANDRIA CREWS FOR REGATTA PICKED ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 28.— Coach Walter Thrall has selected the three crews that are to row for the Old Dominion Boat Club Monday in the annual shell races of the Middle States Regatta Association on the Pa- tapsco River at Baltimore. ‘Walter Plerpont, Paul Howard, Tay- lor Rudd and James Trout form the junior four-oared gig combination, which will be coxswained by Louis Hoy. The junior quadruple sculls quartet is Minor and Parke Bell. Lionel Beeton and Parke Bell are picked for the senior 145-pound doubles. Julian White- stone will fi carried along as a sub for the junior gig and Magnus Bales as & substitute for the junior squad. Sarepta Lodge, No. 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has signed Catcher Wilson Davis, Outfielder “Honey Boy” Peyton, Third Baseman “Coodles™ Owens and Pitcher Douglas Hewitt. A meeting of the Hustlers’ Bible Class base ball team will be held at 8 o'clock Thursday night at the home of Capt. Ralph Scrivener, 606 Queen street. Alexandria Police will play a_team from the Washington Navy Yard on Bu?d;y in Dreadnaught Park at 4 o’clock. St. Mary'’s Boys' Club will practice | every afternoon this week, beginning tomorrow, on Harlow Field at 5 o'clock. | | Alexandria Gun Club s planning to | hold a registered trapshoot in Janney's lane before the hunting season opens November 15. Washington, Winchester, Richmond, Groveton and other nearby places will send teams. Managers of week-day teams entered in the local tournament will meet to- night at 317 King street at 7 o'clock to post franchise fees and submit eligi- bility lists. Mechanical Department’s victory over the Trainmen in an R, F. & P. Rail- road League game Saturday gave the Mechanics the second-half title and the league championship. It had already triumphed In the first half. Columbia Engine Company will seek its third straight triumph Saturday in its game with Southern Railway Co. of Washington on the Haydon Field dia- mond at 3 o'clock. George Hoeft eliminated Robert West in the feature of the municipal tennis tournament matches played on the Haydon Pleld courst yesterday. Hoeft won, 6—3, 68, 6-—4. In the class for girls Margaret Gor- man was defeated by Mary Caton, 6—3, 6--1, and Mary Carne won from Helen Waddy, 6—4, 60, WASHINGTON PLAYERS CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., August 28.- Mickey Kelliher, well known to Wash- ington sandlot fans, and Mike Stevens, | former Maryland athlete and a product two of the “big four battling for the batting championship of the Blue Ridge | League. Stevens has a 352 average Mickey's latest figure is 341, Sparky Thomas of Hagerstown leads the league | with a .354 record, and Hammen of | Hanove) and Kelliher with a 346 mark. | Herb Young, Washington boy with | Prederick, has been in & slump and his Iatest batting figure is .200 | Reggle Rawlings, who came to the Blue Ridge circult from Washington's sandlot ranks in 1014, is having his worst season with the st His aver- age to date is 268, Reggle led the league in batting six times. WASHINGTON BOY PROVES| STEADY FOR HAGERSTOWN HAGERSTOWN, Md, August 28— Bernie Connell, former Washington |base running and Mosedale’s | triple featured. | ABchder.c and | Ei is sandwichied between Stevens | CARDS AND GIANTS ONLY HELD IN RACE St. Louis Can Lose 11 and Giants 10, Yet Reach 95-Game Mark. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, August 28It is more than likely that the Na- tional League pennant of 1928 will be won by fewer than 95 games, which is a fair average figure of total victories for a champion- ship team in the major leagues. Five teams are still in the race as the clubs lined up today, but none of them appear strong enough to win 95 games, The St. Louis Cardinals have the bet- ter of the situation at this moment. St. Louls to win 5 games can afford to lose 11 games out of 31 remaining. The New York Giants can afford to lose 10 out of 37; the Chicago Cubs can lose but 5 out.of 28; Cincinnati but 5 out of 30 and Pittsburgh but 5 out of 32. Of course, if the Cardinals slump bad- Iy again they will be beaten out In the final drive. If the Giants can clean up on their remaining series of 12 games | with the Boston Braves they may par- alyze the other leaders. The chances | for Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh | are almost identical and all three of them must take severe toll from St.| Louls to win over that club. West May Lick Cards. Chicago has two more games with the | Cardinals, Cincinnati has six and Pitts- | burgh has seven. As the Pirates have | not won anything like a proportionate sharc of games in the St. Louis series it may be that they will now turn on the Cardinals as they did on the Giants and knock the leaders off the top perch. When Chicago, Cincinnati or Pitts- burgh makes a spurt the National | League race tightens and excitement | seizes the fans. But the figures haven't | tightened very perceptibly against the Cardinals during the past week, nor| will they unless the other Western clubs take St. Louis into camp before the final | Eastern pilgrimage begins. St. Louis won the pennant cheaply in 1926 with a total of 89 victories, and both Cincinnati and Pittsburgh never had an opportunity to win a pennant cheaper. The Cards finished that year with the gad being put to them to| make them go, and they may have the | same punishment laid over their shoul- | ders this year. It St. Louis can win two pennan in major league base ball by 89 or 9G | victories within a period of three years, it will be as novel a record as any club has ever made in the larger and more colossal show. A’s Lick All Except Yanks. The Athletics have an impressive record of victories for the season to date, except In their series with the Yankees. Connie Mack's boys have won 14 games from St. Louis and lost 5. They have won from Washington by 11 games to 8. They have beaten Detroit 13 to 6, Chicago 10 to 5. Cleveland 14 to.5 and Boston 12 to 2. They have won only 5 games from New York in 18 starts. That is why the Athletics are in second Klucl‘, Thoroughly licked at the beginning of the season with their slower and less efficiont team, the Athletics might now be standing at the top of the heap had they shifted their players earlier. It has been proved that while a_combina- tion of young players and old players has its merits, there comes a time in heard vespers. ‘The Yankes thundered along with the machine of 1927 until the machine began to creak in its joints. The Ath- letics started with lagging rheumatism, and having got that out of their system they are on the heels of a team that, going at its best, probably can thrash them. But the Yanks haven't been go- ing at their best—and that's why so much excitement has developed in the American League race. (Copsright, 1928) G. P. 0. TOPS SERIES; ST. ALBAN'S PUT 0UT St. Alban’ S Vi Government Printing Office nine's gain. The George~ town Church League team was elim- inated yesterday from week-day base ball league champlonship series by los- ing to the Government Printers, 10 to 1. The victory placed the Printers in front with two wins in as many starts Mechanical Department nine finally copped the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. League title and will meet Bergmann's Laundry of Mer- chants’ League today. Mechanics have just completed a spirited title scrap and promise to give the Laundrymen a real battle. The Laundry nine will survive today regardless of the outcome. It is the first series tilt for Mechanics. ‘The Rallroad champions will meet & stanch foe tomorrow when American Rallway Expressmen of Terminal Y League are to be met. Tomorrow's game completes the first-round sched- ule. A draw for the second round will be made tomorrow night provided both games are played today and tomorrow. Larry Schneider, Saint hurling ace and Corkins, G. P. O. moundsman, en. gaged in a hurling duel for four in- nings yesterday before the former col- lapsed and the Printers made a walk- away of the contest. Corkins held the Churchmen to two safeties. Homan's Tusty Score yesterday's game: nomanan, 3 34 Mosedale,r{ w0 —osuosLos Corkins.p. . oDt brareisD ] L Sch'der b’ A Duryee.rt Totals. . 1000820 0000010 (3), Mosedale (3), Gart! Wiison, 'Glotah vilson. Plerce bise hit- Mo Mosedale. o bl Fl 1| soncomsoccssx 5| comoansuwmsnm i Totals.. 34 127 8 M poes ar o St Alban's Runs-— Hon H m Corcoran, Oft Schneider. 4 3 3 innings. off Schneider in 6 innings; off Corcoran, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L Pot W. L Pet 63 530 Baltimore . 68 64 515 63 530 Montreal, .. 170 68 68 539 Newarl 6371 ohester.. 0863 533 Jersey Cliy 55 84 Buftalo, 6: Baltimore, 3. . 7; Rochester, 2. Reading Taronto 80 Buffalo 474 396 + Jersey City, 4. 3. Toronto, 3. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Pot. 74 68 871 89 71 493 34 84 301 an W. L Pet. apolis 78 60 568 olle 78 63 553 ansas City Milwaukee. 7 8t. Paul /6 64 540 Lnllllv“‘lll ndian Mini sandlot pitcher and converted into a first-class first baseman by the local Blue Ridge League club management, | has the distinetion of being the only | member of the local team who has | played in every game his team has | participated in this season. In 86 games Bernie has collected 95 hits in 311 times at bat for a 405 | average. His record shows 21 doubles, | 0 homers and 1 triple. | Although Bernie suffered a broken nose early In the season, he was back on the 19‘ the next day, Milwaukes. 14; Loutsvi I I MIDATLANTIC LEAGUE. Clarksburg, 8 Wheeling, 1, Soattdule. 4: onarlerol, Palrmont. 3 Jeanneite. Johnstown, 4. Cumberland, 3 EASTERN CAROL}NA LEAGUE, Kington, 8: Greenviile, 8. Roeky Mount, 3 Favetteviile, 3. Wilminglgn, 8 Qeldsbore, 1. the lives of old players when they have | Collegians Must NE foe stands between Collegian A. C. nine and the District In- dependent Junior title. Hav- ing defeated Vic’s Sport Shop nine on Sunday, Don Grist's charges are now_confronted with the disposal of Sam Rice Juniors, who now have an enviable record. Collegians and Rices have arranged to stage_their title contest on Septem- ber 8. The winner will be awarded the crown. Grist is willing, however, to send his Collegians against any team disputing his nine’s 1ights to the champlonship. Teams desiring to meet his team should call Lincoln 8618 after 6:30 o'clock to make arrangements. Georgetown A. C. appears destined to bag both unlimited titles this year. Haley's stars have won the Capital City A class honor and will be strong favor- ites to win over the class B champion- ship nine, which has not been selected as yet. A victory over Dreadnaughts Sunday put the Haley charges on top of the in- dependent heap in this section Chase Bearcats and Annapolis A. C. are the only teams to gain victories over Georgefown A. C. The Bearcats were twice defeated in one day by the de- fending champs and Annapolis A. C. has also been vanquished by Haley's nine. Washington Red Sox under Bill Jen- kins appear to be the only logical con- tenders for Georgetown A. C.'s title. Red Sox have a_winning combination and are anxious to make arrangements with Chevy | Down Rices To Gain Junior Championship C. Jenkins will book games at At- lantic 3777-W. Garrett Waters has listed a meeting tomorrow night for his Takoma Tiger players at his home at 7:30 o'clock. Tigers are to meet Red Sox at Silver Spring _ Saturday, Bowie Motors at Bowle Sunday and Hiser’s All-Stars in a double bill at Riverdale Monday. Ross Council nine, still nursing a hope of copping the Capital City class B unlimited title, will drill often this week. Practice sessions have been listed by Pop Hessler for tomorrow, Thursday and Friday at 5 o'clock on West Ellipse diamond. Several teams have week end dates open and would like to schedule games. They include Petworth Eagles, Adams 4987; Colmar Manor A. C., Hyattsville 816; Capitol A. C.. Lincoln 1628; St. Joseph's A. C., Lincoin 10441; Petworth Yorkers, Columbia 5008-J and Monroe | A. C,, North 10494. Peerless Insects, who downed Royals, 6 to 4, are ready to meet Tris Speakers. Arrangements can be made at Lincoln 9530 after 5 o'clock. All Rex Insect players are asked to | report tomorrow on Mount Rainier dia- | mond to engage Woodridge Insects. Herndon Fairlous continued their winning streak by upsetting Leesburg, 8 to 1. W. Howser held the losers to 6 hits, fanning 10 batsmen. R. Lynch held Crescents to 3 hits vesterday, while Cleveland Park slug- gers collected 15 safeties for a 10-to-3 Warren Hilleary for 2 game with G. A. decision. By the Associated Press. OREST HILLS, N. Y., August 28. —Helen Wills has made two na- tional tennis championships grow where but one grew before. Her straight set victory over Miss Helen Jacobs of Santa Barbara, Calif., yesterday, 6—2, 6—1, in success- ful defense of her national singles crown was surprising only because of its overwhelming one-sidedness. But her victory in the doubles championship paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman of Boston was more unex- pected. Not for three years had Miss Wills been able to carry off both titles. While Helen of Berkeley has now performed the unprecedented feat of winning the championships of France, England and the United States in one season without losing a set, she has never gained such wide acclaim as a doubles player. Yesterday the 6—2, 6—2 victory which she and Mrs. Wight- man were able to score over Mts. Law- rence A. Harper of Los Angeles and Miss Edith Cross of San Francisco in- dicates that the margin of this team’s superiority over the nearest American contender is about as great as that of Queen Helen in singles. Much of the credit for the tandem victory of course must go to Mrs. Wightman, that canny 42-year-old veteran, herself a former singles cham- Helen Wills Annexes Singles And Shares in Doubles Crown pion, who paired with Helen back in 1924 to win just such a doubles victory. If there is any one who can make Miss Wills as formidable in tandem play as she is in singles, it is Mrs. Wightman, and with the Boston player leading the attack at the net and Miss Wills driving from the back court theirs was a smooth working combination which fully deserved its easy victory. There was none of the “singles on a double style of play court” which results when Bill Tilden tries tandem play. Miss Wills has now been doubles champion four times and singles title holder on five occasions. In doubles she scored in 1922 with Mrs. John B. Jessup, in 1924 and 1928 with Mrs. Wightman and in 1925 with Mary K. Browne. In singles she has won every year flimce 1923 except in 1926 when she was {ll. Never in all that period has Miss Wills shown her supremacy in indi- vidual play more decisively than she dia against Miss Jacobs. The player who had come through {o the final without loss of a set and with Mrs. Molla Mallory, former champion, among her victims. never threatened after the first four games, when she brought the count to 2-all. There are few more worlds for Miss ‘Wills to conquer, but she now hopes to add the mixed doubles crown at Boston paired with Jack Hawkes of Australia. By the Assoclated Press. ROOKLINE, Mass., August 28.— Thirteen pairs of Americans, British today were prepared to uphold tennis traditions by keeping all non-English-speaking play- doubles tournament now being played here on the Longwood Cricket Club courts. ever, faced a tremendous task in pre- venting the marvelous Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, the Frenchmen title, from adding the American cham- pionship to their collection. Cochet and Brugnon were slated to of England, and there were few who doubted that the French court mar- vels would fail to come through and 2d; Watson Washburn and Fred and Don Dixon match in the third round on Wednesday. of Australia, who reached the finals of the national doubles tourney three years ago, were opposed by John Doeg Canadians, ~ Australians and ers out of the final of the national The English-speaking allies, how- who recently won the British doubles oppose H. W. Austin and G. Gregory meet the winners of the R. N. Williams, Gerald Patterson and Jack Hawkes and W. F. Coen, jr., the youthful home- BY CORINNE FRAZIER. HOSE who have seen Helen Wills play. tennis might feel inclined to take exception to a certain statement made by a well known writer in commenting on her title . match with Helen Jacobs yester- day. “She being no marvel of grace and poise at any time,"” were his words. So far as grace is concerned, Miss Wills may not have the same exquisite ease of motion that distingyished Su- zanne Lenglen, but few people in the world have; and the California girl, in action, certain! ful. BASE BALL SERIES DATES T0 BE FIXED Dates for the three-game play-off serles between Georgetown A. C, win- ner in Section A, Unlimited Division, Capital City League, and either Ross Council or Auths, representing Section B, will be set at a meeting of the man- | agers of the three nines tonight at § o'clock in the Pos: sports department. Ross Council and Auths clash Sunday { for the Section B tit In the flist game of the play-off for | the Insect Division title of Capital City League among Royals, Tris Speakers and Brookland Boys' Club, all of which are tied for first place, Royals and Tris Speakers will meet Thursday afternoon 7 | on South Ellipse at 1 o'clock. Brookland Boys' Club has drawn a bye and will face the winner of Thursday's game Wednesday of next week for the crown. Managers of nines in the Sport Mart Midget Class League are asked to at-| tend a meeting of the league to be held | tonight at the Sport Mart Store at 914 | F street at 7 o'clock. Several protests | are listed for settlement 1 A big fourth inning, when they count- ed 8 runs, -enabled Arlington Mid- gets to take an 11-9 decision from Sam Rice Midgets yesterday in Sport Mart League. i Calhouns lost two close games yester- | day In French's Insect League, bowing to Senators, 7 to 9, and Cardinals, 9 0 10. In other league Ml{.:. Tris Speak- ers drubbed Webcos, 13 to 4; Corinth- | fans walloped Brookland Boys' Club, 12 to 0; Russells defeated Capitols, 8 to 3 and Postons were 14-3 victors over Kress, Cochet and Brugnon Big Guns Of U. S. Doubles Tournament breds, who were not expected to give the Australians much _trouble, even though Patterson is suffering from a painful “tennis elbow.” George M. Lott, jr., and John Hen- nessey, the top seeded American pair, were down to play A. Unda and R. Tapia. The Mexican tennis stars. Johnny Van Ryn and his Princeton partner, Wilmer Allison, the second seeded American pair, were expected to survive their second round match with William Aydelotte and P. G. Rock- afellow. Three of the eight matches on the day’s card had non-American casts. Jack Wright and Willard Crocker of | the Canadian Davis Cup team were due to compete against their Australian cousins, Harry Hopman and Jack Craw- ford, also Davis Cup player: . O, Cummings and E. T. Moon, two other Australians had to contend with the Frenchmen, Jean Borotra and Rene de Buzelet, and Cochet and Brugnon had British rivals. W. W. Ingraham and A. W. Jones, conceded to be one of the strong Amer- ican pairs, were expected to advance at the expense of T. O. Ryall and George Shields, the Pacific Northwest doubles champions. WOMEN IN SPORT When it comes to poise! Never has the net world seen a player exhibit more consistently perfect poise than | has the present champion from her | first appearance some six or seven years | ago, when she romped about with her long pigtails dangling behind. At 15 her amazing poise caught the attention of all who saw her play. | No matter how hard she might be pressed, how far extended or into what unconventional poses her efforts might cause her to be thrown, Helen never has | been known to become ruffled or to lose that appearance of serenity, the product of her perfect poise. Suzanne Lenglen scarcely knew the meaning of the word as Helen under- stands it. The French gir!'s high strung temperament made it difficult for her to maintain a semblance of poise in crit- ical moments. She was like a high-bred race horse straining at the posts, while Helen's serenity reminds one of a bird poised for flight—calmly sure of her oft-tested wings and confident of het endurance and speed no matter how long | the flight. | It present plans mature and Miss © Wills comes to Washington this Fall to [ give an exhibition at the Edgemoor | Club, local fans will have an opportu- nity to judge for themselves of her poise and grace. And theirs will be an oppor- | tunity mnot enjoyed by those who i watched Miss Wills in the recent cham- pionship play at Forest Hills, for thers she was not once extended, while in Washington, she probably will be called fupon to exhibit her entire stock of “tennis wares” In at least one of her | matches, where it is planned to match her with a racketer of the opposite sex--— and one of no mean ability. W h ¥ H SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. W L Pot w. 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