Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 25

Braxton-Pipgras Duel Promises Thrills SLAB ACES' CLASH | S DUE TOVORROW Griffman’s Record Is Better Than Yankee Star’s in Interclub Set. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ATIONALS vs. Yankees—Gar- T land Braxton. left-hander, vs George Pipgras. right-hander That's the bill to be offered the fans tomorrow afternoon At Griffith Stadium. The battling will be- §in at 3 o'clock The clubs are likely to be on edge for the scrap for both misted today. After the long workout » Wednesday's heat and the strenunus engAgement vester- Gay. the Nationals couid stand a 1 LS Manager Stanley Harris believed. For the league leaders it was the first re- lief from work in several days. Before opening their series here, the New York- ers were sent through two exhibition games and their road secretary. Mark Foth. declared it was hotter in New Engiand. where the tilts were staged. than here. Mavbe Garland Braxton will make #¢ill more torrid for the cl 33ling th stave off the stampeding White Ele- phants who are right at the heels of the stagaring league leaders. If he pitches to the form he has displaved nst them 1n previous starts this sea- n. will Braxton has appeared in four games egainst the Yankees this season, twice #s & starting pitcher. Fach time he rarted, he won. His first victory over he world champions was scored in the xee Stadium in New York on May southpaw yislded but and a pass and won, 5 to 0 Lou Gehrig and Joe Du: s to get the hits, wir Ben Pasch»l. He won a5 d eig the Y pass went to e on Julr the N: mes this s ur tin er 2nd once 25 a His ord for ths set with the I sggregation reads 3 wins and 1 Eowever, in one of the games in he was creditad with victery Pipgras was driven from the hill by a2 fi bombardment in the fifth victory Recexds of hits and runs given up by ton. 2nd Pipgras in th= Naticnal- Y emkee screpping in the p Peign follow yraston .. Pipgras ... 32 respective clubs appears like! morrow afternoon. Braxton will heve had plenty of gince his last start when he tak- hill tomorrow. His Jast appearance was on Sundav when h~ set back th> T dians. 5 to 1. grenting them but f safeties Another effort like thet Yankses, and he'll take a £ e 355833 mmmismma 234smmmmsuay wls3335mm=a® nl 25033380 35m350p » LewnasBonud Bl oesesnsnmuumon <l 333232055™ slass3s332333325" Blenasunnnnl Blummsosummmnnasy Bl ancurisnpall Slusassnsse a 5o *Batted for Bengough in sevent chth “Batted for Durocher in ninth. $Ruel out. hit by batted hall New York XIS Washinsten . 0nn60300 Runs batted in—Goslin. Iudge. Rerve Twe-base hif Three-ha. Sacrifices— s 1. Stroek o by Meimach. 1. Hits—Of H mings: off Heimach. 1 cher—Hoyt. allin_and Barrs. wnd 35 minutes. ovt, in 1 innin mpires—Mesars. 4 Time of same—1 hour | Combs, Yankees. ARLAND BRAXTON. | This brl left-hander, who has| trimmed the lrague leaders in his tvo ctarts against them, is primed for Sat- urday contest. | | | | Hitters. G. A.B. 108 346 Baves.. 193 382 X ankess. . 136 461 P, {y2ne ‘es. 115 592 Manuzh, Browns. 128 324 Trailing Stars. G. AB. ¥ . 126 443 A’k 92 359 ch, Cardinals. 111 428 mann, Tigers. 125 45) Run Score: Tuth, Yankees.... P. Waner, Pirates. Gekrig, Yankee L. Waner, Pirates Bottomley, Cards Ceslin, Semators. He! Base Stealers. Cuyler, Cubs.... A!o:lll, White Sox . Hoxt, Yankees Benton, Giants. .. Grove, Athletics. . Quinn, Athletics Crowder, Browns.. MOBILE SELLS PITCHER. MOBILE, Ala.. August 31 (#).—An- nouncement of the sale of Pitcher Tony Welzer to the Louisville American As- sociation team was announced here to- day by the officials of the Mobile | club of the Southern Association. Jones Again Helps H is Record At Hoyt’s Expense in 3-1 Win ILLER HUGGINS' band of ball players may seem world cham- plons to some pitchers, but | 1o Sam Jones the Yankees are just a ball club. While pitch- ing the Nationals to a 3-to-1 sictory yesterday Jones found his former team- mates about as easy to subdue as on some other occasions this season. He let them down with seven safeties and two passes and made his record of pitching sgainst them in the present eampaign read three wins and one loss It was Babe Ruth who averted a Yankee shutout. The Bambino picked the start of the seventh inning as the oot for his forty-seventh home run of the year. He socked the first pitch to him and the ball soared over the right- field barrier While Jones found the Yankees just & ball club, Waite Hoyt, temperamental vight-hand ace of the Huggins corps found the Nationals anything but such 25 he had hefore. The licking he took was the fourth of this campaign, the second from the Washinglon club and the second in & scrap with Jones. Hoyt has defeated the Nationals only once this vear Ten hits and a pass were gleaned off Hoyt before he called it a day at the ens of the seventh inning. Then Pred Helmach, lately-acquired left-hander, went & round for the Yanks and he yielded nothing more than a two-bag- m and a pass after two were out in eighth. The big frame for the Nationals was the cixth. Then they bunched e of thelr hits off Hoyt and made four of them count for all their runs Rice opened the round with his sec- ond successive single, a slash to right Goslin checked Rice in at the plate by slamming the ball over Ruth’s dome to the fence back of the right garden for a triple. Along came Judge with his third single in a row. also & sock 1o right. and the Goose counted. Bluege sacrificed then Reeves slid a single past Koenig near second base and Judge tore home Reeves was snared when he endeator- +6 10 plifer second, so the fifth hit of the frame, 8 wallop 1o left by Harris, wa wasted Bucky tried 1o make s double | ef the blow, but got 1o the midway sta- tion just oo late In five innings other than the one in ~hich Ruth cracked his homer the Yankees made threatening gestures. Each time, though, Jones rellied nobly or his support pulled him out of trouble | in brilliant manner. Ruth opened the second session with a | single, only to be caught with Meusel in a double play. Durocher began the third with a one-base blow and took second as Bengough was tossed out. There Leo remained, for Hoyt fanned and Dugan grounded to Reeves. Combs started the fourth frame with an infield single, a bounder off jones’ glove. Rice, however, made a glittering shoetop catch of Geh- rig’s liner and Ruth forced out Combs. Had Reeves heaved accurately to Judg the inning would have ended then and there. But Bob chucked the ball to the dugout and Ruth reached second. It did the Babe no good for Reeves came back 1o throw out Meusel Koenig opened the fifth with a single Durocher tried to sacrifice, but poppd a bunt that Ruel bagged on the fv in front of the plate and Koenig 0 hustie back to first hase. Bengough's Inft was easy for Judge and Hoyt grounded to the frst-sacker A cingle put Gehrig on at the outsat of the ninth and with the migaty Ruth up danger loomed But Harris grabbed | the Babe's scorcher and o two-ply ! erasure followed Meusel got a single 214 Koenlg walked to put s potential tying tally on first base. Huggins sent Robertson up to bat for Durochsr and the Ihnw Gene did was lofi the ball 1o Goslin Two cther Yankee pinch-batters fail- | ed to produce Durst batted for Ben- gough with Durocher on first as a re- | sult of & pass with two gone in the {seventh. Cedric was thrown out by Bluege. Paschal batted for Hoyt at the start of the eighth and fanned. Jones followed by striking out Dugan. His two other strikeouls in the game were at the expense of Hoyt and Meusel Judze, with singles made in his first | three trips 1o the plate, led the attack | of the home side. Every one of the Nationals except West and Jones hit the ball 1o safety Jones sacrificed twice in s three batting efforts CLAIM DIAMOND TITLE Bancroft playground nine defeated | Cook, 8 to 3. for the third time this season and claim the city hoye' play- | ground title. Reynolds, Bancroft pitch- ex, gave up only four hits, » 'HORNSRY T0 'REMAIN AS PILOT OF BRAVES By the Associated BOSTON, Mass, August 31.—Rogers Horn:by has signed a contract to man- | age the Beston Braves for the mext years, Judge Emil | nounced. Fuchs has an- | The judge also tcok the opportunity | to put an end to stories that the Bos- ten club is contrclled by New York atement Judge Puchs sald by rigned th» contrast during th* Summer and »dded Hornshv will stav with the Braves. | He i neither for sale nor for trade In declaring the independence of the Braves. Judge Puchs pointed out tha the team bad just knocked the New Yerkers out of the pennant race and said the records showed that the Brave: vlayed better hall azainst McGra team than against any other club in the leagu=. RED 80X TO BE ACTIVE. Bill Jenkins' Red Sox tossers face four games in three davs. Tomorrow they will engage Takoma Tigers on the Silver 8pring. Md. diamond at 3 o'clock; Sun- day will tackle Chevy Chase Bearcats on Friendship Field at 2:30 o'clock and Monday will travel to Indian Head Md., tn face Indian Head Marines in a double-header, starting at 1:30 o'clock TIP FOR FISHERMEN HARPZRS FERRY, W. Va 31.—The Potomac River was cloudy and Shenandoah was this morning. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS August very muddy AMERICAN WL Pet 81 61 563 ans s Citv 0 &4 556 thd'napolis 79 1 5 2ilwankee 98 ASSOCIATION WL 6 8% .5 0 73 81 87 34 83 st Paul Toledo Columbi Loutsvill Golumbuy 6 1nd'znapoli 5 Lousville. Toledn. 2 Minneapolis 3 Kansas Cily Milweuten At Paul. 3 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE 72 88 70 &7 A4 78 56 8% l-A' Montreal maltimore Nrwnr raey Cit Buftalo Rochester Torontn Reading SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION L Pet 24 Al 7 a0 3h 0 32 pet Birm gham 7 . Littl= Rock 33 N. Orleans 32 Meniph Chatnonsa Hobile Nashville Atlants 418 27 5 25 10 385 Birminzhem 2, 9. Nashville Littls Brck 0: Mobile, 0 Tcalled end 1 BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE bu Wavneshora, | town, 3 ambersburg. 4 MIDATLANTIC LEAGUE Cumberland, 9 Whesling Jeannetie-Beottdals (rain) Fairmon Clarksbur, TEXAS LEAGUL. Fort Worth, 6-1 5 b Dallss, 7 (et 11 innings) Hovston, 6:3. Beaumont, 0-1 Wichita Palls, 1. Shreveport Waco-Ban ABtonio (rain PACIFIC COAST LEAGUL 1 0 Holly 2 14, Beattle ) Francisco. 6 Oakland. b Sacramento, 8 Los Angeles. 5 (12 inniv WESTERN LEAGUE. Omahs, & Des Moines, 6 Deaver. 8, Puehln, 3 gk shoma City, 11 Wichita, 10, Amariilo, 1. woor 1 a0 | 4 38 410 | GEORGE PIPGRAS. With a record of three wins and cne loss in ciashes with the Natlonals this ceason. 1 uggins' right-hand star looms as a trouble-maker tomorrow. HOME-RUN STANDING ] By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Ruth, Yankees. Willlams, Philli Preigau, Braves. ... S American League Leaders. Ruth, Yankees. . . Gehrig, Yankees.. Hauser, Athleties Simmons, Athletics Blue, Browns. Foxx, Athletics National League Leaders. Chicago ley, Cardinals tte, Robins Phillies Cardinals Braves League Totals, National League American Leagie 1 1 47 22 Wilson Hurst Hafey Hornsby Grand total i RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN Goslin Rice Kenna Judee Reeves P - DEER HUNTING POPULAR SPORT IN PENNSYLVANIA In Pennsylvania a total of 114,002 special doe licenses will be issued to | hunters in 54 counties. The number | of licenses is based on the number of | buck deer killad Inst year ‘ From the 54 counties 14374 bucks were shot during the 1027 season and the State Game Commission has de- cided elght licenses shall be issued for each deer. The special licenses will cost 42 each and will not be issued to any non-resident of the Btate. \ 3 | Auths. % | & Wood and Aztecs are to meet on West itlon A winner. UGUST 31 : Low Clubs Depress Flag Contenders 1928 EAST BESTS WEST Stronger in Intersectional Series—Seaboard Clubs in National Weak. | | | By the Associated Press EW YORK, August 31.—Fast is ‘ East in the American League | and West is West in the Na- | tional, so far as the intersec- | tional games in the major cir- s are concerned. but it begins to as though the twain shall meet in | the world's series. The slump of the New York Giants | in the last 10 days has all but elimi- | nated the chances of an Eastern club representing the senior circuit in the | post-season games. | " The composite records of the inter- | sectional games show the Athletics of the American League continuing their supremacy among the 16 major league teams in battling the clubs from the opposite side of the circuit. Connie Mack’s boys have won 54 games and lost 17 of their tilts with the Western quartet of the American League, giving them an average of .720. Their position, however, has been chal- lenged by the fast travelling Pirates of | Pittsburgh boosted its figures to 50 victories against 24 defeats for an av- | erage of .676. | The Pirates still have a chance to | press their challenge in the final inter- | sectional series, starting September 14. In the American League the Eastern quartet has won a total of 164 games to 132 for the Western four, while 1n the National League the margin is much wider in favor of the Western Clubs, whose combined victories total 185 to the seaboard clubs’ 103. The composite records of the inter- sectional series to date follow: American League. Won . 54 46 Lost Pet. Philadelphia 21 a2 Washington Boston 27 164 ot .22 i3 .31 132 National League. Pittshurgh £t. Louis Chicago Cincinnati st. Louis Cleveland Detroit Chicago New York 2 53 185 'FOUR TEAMS REMAIN IN WEEK-DAY SERIES But four of the contenders for the week-day league championship re- mained in the title scrap as Berg- mann’s Laundry and American Railway Express teams planned to meet today. Navy, one of the early favorites, was removed yesterday by G. P. O, 2 to 1, in one of the best games of the series. Government _ Printers, Bergmann's Laundry, American Railway Expres: and Loffler nines will contine the battle for honors next week. Neither of the contestants carded today can be elimi- nated by a loss as neither has been defeated in two starts. Government Printers tep the and no defeats. split even m two Hutchinson_of and Henry Phipps of Navy in a mound battle. Phipps was touched for two counters in the first inning and settled down after that, but the damage had ‘been done Navy ralliad in the last inning, but could ‘muster but one tally Hamilton of Navy led the batsmen with three safeties, Both teams per- formed well afield. Score of yesterda G PO ABHOA | Homan.ab 0o | Mosadate.rf 3 Gartland.ss 3 Simons 1 | Glotzbach, it | Ritenour.2b Hollis.cf Schneider.c Huteh'n.p Loffler tossers have games. engaged 's game Navy Bellif Bleier.rf Chaconas.cf Robbins 8¢ Matt'ly.3b Fox.2b Hamilton.1b Charles.c Phipps.p Totals 0000 > 0 1 Totals A - Navy Runs. ~Robbins. o 0 Error harles. 0 00 Mattingly. ase hits—Simons. ses—Mosedale (2). Si- hit—Bleler. Double plays ns to Mattingly, Mo: base on balls— off Phipps. 3. Btruck by Phipps, 3. dale Off Hutchinson. | out—By Hutchinson. 4 'ROSS COUNCIL TEAM ! IN IMPORTANT GAME| Ros¢ Council and Army War College nines will meet tomorrow afternoon at Washington Barracks in a game which it won by the former will send it into a tie with Auths for first place in Seetion B, Unlimited Division, Capital | Citv League and necessitate a play-off | with Auths on Sunday for the division crown However, if Armv War College \ipseis Ross Council the title will go to The game tomorrow will start 1 o'clock If a confest hetween Ross Council | and Auths s necessary Sunday it will | | take place on Washington Barracks | diemond at 3 o'clock | Clovers and Army War College are | | rarded to meet in another Section B | tilt Bunday at Washington Barracks at 1 o'clock Theee games are scheduled in the final week of play in the Senior Class of Capital City League Sunday. Brown | at Fllinse at 11 o'clock. Auths and Hart- | frrds will face on South Ellinse at 11 | a'clnek And Hartfords will battle Brown & Wood on West Ellipse at 3 o'clock | Palace has forfeited to D. J. Kaufman | nine | At a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in | he Post sports department dates for the serles hetween Georgetown A. C.. Sec- nd either Auths or Ross Council. representating Section B, Ifor the Canital City unlimited Ol lcrown, will be set. The meeting was originally fixed for & o'clock Staging & Ane uphill fight, Rayals squeezad out a 0-8 eleven inning triumnh | aver Trin Bpeakers vesterday in the first of the series nlay-off games for | the Insect Class title of Capital City |Leagus The Royals will meet Brook- 1and Boys' Club. probably next Thurs- day, for the champlonshiv, Royals, Speakers and Brooklands all were tled | | IN JUNIOR LEAGUE. the National League. In the last series. | {ibusy week end list with three wins | Government Printers | | inning, rain) | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, August 31-—Base ball fans of the metropolis are talking in sorrowful tones of the decline and fall of the Giants and they wonder what ails the club. Hopes ran high in New York for a time when the Glants made their sensational spurt at home before making their last Western trip. In the West, the Giants began badly t Chicago, triumphed at St. Louis and mped, sloshed and sloughed in Cin- cinnati and Pittsburgh. Reaching home again, the New York team was handed some knockout drops by the Brooklyn | and Boston clubs. | The Boston Braves probably have put | the Gianis out of the National League race this season, just as they wrecked the chances of the Chicago Cubs in the closing days of the 1927 campaign. When Manager McGraw was most urgently needed to direct the fortunes of the Giants, he came down with 2 cold. The coaches of the team did everything they could to steer the Giants properly but the old boat that had weathered many a storm leaked badly at the seams and seems lkely now to go on the rocks, although it has plenty of opportunity to finish in the first division. What ails the New York club very much is the trade of Grimes for Ald- | BRAVES HAVE PUT GIANTS OUT OF BATTLE FOR FLAG SPORTS ridge, the lack of a stable and cham- plonship outfield and some other things. McGraw led the outfit as best he could until its failings keeled him over with a cold—and he was not present when the Braves clouted his boys all around the Polo Grounds this week. Pittsburgh lost 60 games last year and won the National League pennant. The Giants still have 34 games to play and they may lose but eight of them if they expect to be considered candi- dates for the world series. It seeming- ly isn't in the wood for them or for any other but a superhuman team, and this year's Giants are not superhuman. n interesting item for Amer- fcan League rooters. It tells one of the reasons why the Yankees are not float- ing away with a pennant as they did in 'S AND GIANTS HIT BY BOSTON TEAWS Red Sox Rally Halts Mask Advance—Braves Crusi Clan McGraw Hope. 2- 1927. Last_year the St. Louis Browns won one solitary game from New York. The Yanks won 21 from the Browns. This vear to date the teams are even, each having won 9 games frcm the other. Four games remain to be played. There is a big net gain for St. Louis and the American League in general. If the New York team had been going | against tha Browns at the rate that it |did in 1927, the current pennant race | would be as good as over. The Ath- | letics may thank Dan Howley's team for doing them a large favor. OP KREMB has completed ar- rangements for the eighth an- nual field day and double- header base ball game to be | held under the auspices © | Liberty A. C. at American League Park September 15. | In addition to the dual clash between Libertys and Monroe A. C. and Simp- son’s Dairy nines, a number of events, | including “fungo_hitting. throwing for | distance and a 100-yard dash open to | members of the teams and to any | athers desiring to enter. will be staged. | These will precede the first game, which | gets under way at 2 o'clock. | Sam Rice and Collegian nines, lead- ing contenders for the District junior | champ! | Monda; |1 o'clock. | for this clash, which will probably d | cide which shall wear the crown. | “'Rices are to meet Brcokland Boys' Club nine at 3 o'clock tomorrow on y on West Ellipse diamond at Both teams are prepping - | South Ellipse diamond and on Sunday | good unlimited team Sunday at 3 o'clock | | will engage Langlevs in a Sport Mart League game at 3 o'clock on East Ellipse field. Brookland Boys' Club nine, which | has only lost 2 games this season. will | meet. Collegians Sunday at 1 o'clock | on No. 1 Monument diamond. landers have not been defeated by | Collegians in the past four years. Don | Grist would like to hear from the Brookland manager at Lincoln 8618 after 6:30 o'clock Dnx A. C. nine will have another Indian Head Marines I'wiil be met tomorrow and Centennials are listed for Sunday. Both games :start at 3 o'clock. Saks-Kroydens and |Petworth Eagles will be met Monday, starting at 1 o'clock. Manager Ingram bas cerded a game with Marlboro A. C. for his Addisons on Sundav. He renues's all olavers to mest at 7:30 o'clock at his home. Addisons are listed to meet Arlington Busmen on September 9. Having listed games with Bolling Field Airmen tomorrow and Fort Wash- jonship. have arranged to meet| Brook- | LIBERTY A. C. IS READY FOR ANNUAL FIELD DA | ington on Monday. Manager Scanlon of the Anacostia Eagle nine wishes to book a foe for Sunday. Call Lincoln 4989 | One of the leading Labor day dia- mond programs will be staged on Silver | Sprine diamond where Bond Clothiers and Petworth A. C. are to meet in 2 | games., Bond players are to meet at | noon at Eleventh and M streets. Vie’s Sport Shop plavers will meet at 2 o'clock on Plaza field to go to Falls Church for a game tomorrow at o'clock. Southern Railway nine has found it necessary to cancel the game carded with Columbia Engine Co. nine at Alex- andria tomorrow. { Frank Cinotti is ing trouble land- | ing a Sunday game for his St. Joes | nine. Call Lincoln 10441 for arrange- ments | Manager Sam Gordon would like to { send his Petworth Eagles against a on South Ellipse diamond. Call Adams 4987. Chevy Chase Seniors have been un- able to list a game for Monday. Call Cleveland 988 after 6 o'clock. Manager Paul Pizza announces that Corinthian Seniors, recently graduated from Junior ranks. want to book games | with teams in their class at Atlantic | 3493-J. | Mavis Midgets will convene tonight at the home of Manager Marshall, 439 Marviand avenue southwest, at 7:30 o'cleck. After downinz Hess A. C. yesterday, 4 to 3. and Bond Bakers the day be- i Seamen Gunners hoped to con- tinue their win streak by downing Folicemen, who were to be met toda Farrington held Washington Gas Lighers to one hit yesterday and Kane's | All-Stars bagged a 14-to-0 triumph. Rittenous was an all-around star yes- | terday as Panther Insects routed Col- lins Insects, 18 to 4. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washi Roston, Detroit. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 2 1 2 o} 3 Percentage New Yorl Philadelphia 13 5 1117305 8—l4682 T445/60/69/30/52 30 82 — — GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Detroit at St. Louis. N. York at Wash'ton. Boston at Phila. Cieve. at Chie age, Roston at Philad'phia Detroit at St. Louis. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadelphia, 5. Cineinnati, 0 (called in sixth ) Louls-Pittsbursh, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Boston. Chic, St. K Chicazo Pittsburch H 3 7 -1 77 1 o0l - 12(10/10/12/30/35 . LURON B0 3130 96064484 4740861 41 310130371 2843 48 3484208 TARIB 52138155 6471184 GAMES TOMOR! Phila. at Boston. 4 Louls at Pittsbureh, Philadelphia . Lost . at Roston Brooklyn at N. York. Brookisn at N. Vi BOATS ARE HAVING FIVE-DAY CONTEST By the Assoclated Pres NEWPORT HARBOR, Calif., August 31.-~Crack star boats from all sections of the United States, Cuba and Hawali, today begin a five-day sailing series over courses off this port for the interna- tional championship of their class. Entries in the five-race regatta num- ber 17, 16 of them challengers intent upon wresting the championship from the Tempe III of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club. Craft flying the Burgees of Eastern Star fleets were much in evidence, that section having nine representatives in an effort to recover the honors it held for many years. The victory last year of the Tempe ITT on Narragansett Bay, R. L, was the first for the Pacific Coast in the history of the international com- petition. Foreign challengers are the Aurrvera 1V, skippered by Miguel de Sena of | | | at the end of the regular schedule Wehcos whitewashed Brookland Boys' Club, 8 to 0, yesterday fn & French's Insect League diamond tilt. Raiford, winning pitcher, gave up only two hits, Cuba: the Auriga, G. H. C. Phillips’ craft of British Columbia, and the Hoku, tverardus Bogardus' three-time challen- r hxm the Pearl Harbor Yacht Club, wall, ol 6 | ALEXANDRIA TEAMS LIST TITLE SERIES ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 31.—Man- agers of ths St. Mary's Celtics, No. § Motor Company, Columbia Engine Com- | pany and Serepta Lodge. No. 46, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows have agreed to stage a series on September 9 with the winner to play the champton of the week-day teams “double loss knockout” tournament for the Alexan- dria amateur title. Present plans call for two games at 2 o'clock on September 9 with one on | Corbett Field and the other at Havdon | Pleld. The two winners will hook up on Corbett Field at 4:30 the same after- | noon and the nine surviving will meet the week-day champion A meeting will be held at 7 o'clock Wednesday night at 317 King street. Joe Kleinman provided a surprise v terday when he defeated Willlam Jes- | ter in straight sets in a second round match of the municipal tennis tourna- ment for boys 16 years of age and above. He won 6—3, 7—5. Rain halted the afternoon’'s proceed- |ings with E. W. Schreiner leading George Hoeft, 6—1, 6—2. In a first round match, Stanley Dreifus eliminated Sidney Abramson, 6—4, 2—6, 7—5. Because of the death Tuesday of D. J | Howell, chairman of the greens commit- tee, the Belle Haven Country Club will not hold its regular weekly dance to- | morrow night City Manager Paul Morton has an- | nounced that the municipal pool will be | open from 2 to 6 p.m._each afternoon | By the Associated Press. HE open season on pennant c© tenders is here again. The L month or so of the base ball son usually is rich in drama, for it's then that cellar or near- cellar dwellers delight in knocking thz props from under pretenders to base ball's two major crowns. The Boston Braves, notorious in the | last few years for their ability to tak the wind out of sails apparently | a_pennant-winning criuse, crushed th. | New York Giants in three straight | games this weck in a series that saw { most of the fight gone from the Clan McGraw just when it needed a few vic- tories to bolster its shattered confidence. The fall of the Cincinnati Reds from the heights they held earlier in the year in the National League dates to a series | they played against the last-place Phil- lies. The Reds lost four straight | that time and their play for weeks aft- | erward was below form. | Yesterday the Philadelphia_Athletics and the New York Yankees, fighting two-club battle for the America | League pennant, were cut down by foc; | they figured to defeat. The Yanks | bowing to Washington and the A5 ) | the last-place Boston Red Sox. Thes> | reverses left the A's two and a ha'f games back of the defending cham- pions. A’s Suffered More. In the final analysis. of course, it = the A's who suffered more. As lon3 ° the A’'s don't win the Yanks lose no'l ing but prestigz when they themsel are defeated. OF to put it anot! you can't gain ground in a pennant ra< by losing game: Relief pitchers, in the end, decide? the issue at Philadelphia wherz th | A's were forced to accept a 3 to reverse by the Red Sox. The Red &: | took a onc-run lead m ths fich 1 | ning off George Earnshaw who w2 | relieved by Howard Ehmke in th~ eight. In the last half of that frame the A's scored two runs off Jack Rus- |s2ll to go into the lead. But Car- rigan’s crew cracked Ehmke for two runs in the first half of the ninth. Ed Morris, relieving Russell in the Jast half of the ninth struck out Joe Hauser, Tris Speaker and Eddie Col- | lins in succession, to make the Sox’ | one-run lead safe. Detriot took the final game of the season from the Cleveland Indians. 5 to 3, clubbing Willis Hudlin for three runs in the first inning. The Tige's thus gained 12 victories in the 2 itmes they've played against the In ans. Cubs €linch Second Place. | The National League’s crucial series | between the St. Louis Cardinals, the leaders, and the Pittsburg Pirates, one | of the many contenders, developed into | a filzzle temporarily for rain halted the clash after the first inning had | bsen played. The Cards were leading then, 2 to 0. The Chicago Cubs took undisputed possession ot sacond place and advancad to within five games of the Cardinals by downing the Cincinnati Reds, 2 to 0. | in a battle stopped by rain at the end ! of six innings of play. The Reds. as a consequence, dropped back to 2 | fourth place tie with the Pirates. The Cubs won the game in the fifth inning when they put together a double, triple and a sacrifice fly for both their runs. Charlie Root gave the Reds only four hits. one less than Eppa Rixey allowed The Braves hept up their winning streak by delenun&thu Phils, 6 to 3 | Bell's double with the bases full in the | sixth inning being the decisive blow of | the game. —a {COSDEN TO DISCONTINUE | BREEDING, BUT J0 RACE NEW YORK, August 31 (# —Joshua S. Cosden, who established the Rappa- hannock stud neaf Warrenton, Va. a few years ago with the fleet French | horse, Snob, 2d. at its head. has de | cided to give up the breeding of tkor oughbreds and confine his turf inter- | ests to a small but select racing stable. | The nucleus of this stable Cosden believes he possesses in nine vearlings. | most of them Snob, 2d, winner of the Withers stakes and other good races. Accordingly. 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