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Griffs, Who Aid Macks to Tie Yanks for Lead, Ope BEDSOKTOVIST |BRAXTON AIMS TO HAND = ORTIEE G ¥R ANOTHER LICKING e n Last Home Stand Tomorrow Nervy Youngsters Have Placed | A’s on Even Terms With Yanks | They must stop the Athletics in this final series or become one with the Gust. If the Mackmen take the major- ity of these coming games they should capture the flag NATIONALS BUY CATCHER BOOL OF NASHVILLE CLUB The Nationals yet may have a fairly large squad of new talent for inspection at the Tampa training camp next Spring if acquisitions to the roster continue to be made. The latest is that of a catcher named Bool, whose acquisition by purchase from Nashville of the Seuthern Association today was an- Tech’s Quarterhack Faces Rear at Snap BY WALTER TRUMBULL EW YORK. September 8.—For many years the Philadelphia club, which had Collins, Barry, AT Would Emulate Hadley and Marberry, Who Assist AFTER_I-UNG HGH]" Two Frays Will Be Staged {First Time Since 1914 They Tomorrow, With Closing Clash on Monday. men Lone Run EW YORK, September 8—This| Washington ball club is no bar- | BY JOHN B. KELLER. EW YORK, September 8. —With a fine record for their last seven series back of them, the | Nationals will be at Griffith | Stadium tomorrow to start | their final home stand of the season. | The stand will consist of a three-game get, with the Red Sox, an outfit that has toppled the Harris horde with astonish- | ing case, cven though in last place in | the American League standings. But with the Nationals playing so much bet- ter base ball now than when they last | encountered the Carrigan crew—which, | by the way. happened at Boston in June—they have a great chance to get the better end of the argument conclud- ing ithe season in Washington. Jones Due to Piich. Tt is fairly certain that Sam Jones. | who has registered six victories in a row. will huri one of the games for the Nationals in the Sunday double-header | that will open the Red Sox series. The left-nanded Lloyd Brown may swing into action in the other. The Boston pitching choices for the twin bill can- ot be foretold very well. so busy are Bill Carrigan’s moundsmen being kept by the Athletics in the Hub these days. | Monday the curtain will be rung down on Washington's 1928 season, with the Nationals and Red Sox mingling mn a single engagement. To Milton Gaston, who pitched against the Boston club in the campaign started on April 10, may | fall the honor of facing the same club | in the Capital finale. By taking both ends of the double bill with the Yankees yesterday, the N tionals not oply pulled Miller Huggin: club back to a first-place tie with the aspiring Athletics, but also clinched the five-game series here. It was the third victory in four starts for Bucky Harris' band in Col. Jake Ruppert's stadium this trip and made certain the winning | of six of the last seven series it has| played. Playing Fine Ball. | Since ending a long road trip on| August 11, the Nationals have bagged 15 of 23 games in which they have participated. In Washington sets were grabbed from the Browns, Tigers, White Sox, Yankees and Athletics, each by a two-to-one game count. The only series not captured was the one with the Indians and that was halved, each side winning twice. And this morning the Nationals were two games up on the ‘Yankees with only this afternoon’s con- test to go to complete the visit to this town. A record to be proud of. Bob Reeves, who played at second base in the double-header yesterday, may remain at that station during the remainder of the Nationals’ stay in the East. Bucky Harris is nursing an abscess on a knee and does not expect to be ready for service before several days have rolled by. Otherwise the club will line up as it started in this series. YANKS SIGN THOMAS, | OKLAHOMA TWIRLER| By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 8.— The Yankees have bought Fay Thomas, g}wmr. from Oklahoma City of the ‘estern League. John McGraw signed Thomas in 1926 upon the recommendation of Sam Craw- | ford. He was farmed to Hartford and Buffalo, and then Oklahoma City claimed him. ‘Thomas, while still in college, had earned a bit of vacation money in the Mississippi Valley League under an as- sumed name, and Oklahoma City had drafted him under that name. | Base Ball Commissioner Landis ruled | favorably to Oklahoma City, made ‘Thomas ineligible for a year and order- ed him to repay the Giants the money they had advanced him for signing as a free agent in a California college. OAKLAND NINE WINS " IN LEGION CONTEST CHICAGO, September 8 ()—A| team that has never encountered de- feat, the Scrappy Wards of Oakland, Calif,, today was but one victory from its goal—the national American Le- gion junior base ball championship. Playing in “big league” style and amidst a major league setting, the ‘Wards conquered the champions of the East, Worcester, Mass., 4 to 0, in the opening game of the junior world | series at the White Sox park yesterday | and needed to win only today’s game to_clinch the title. | Yesterday’s victory, which was the| seventeenth straight for the Western | champions. was a triumph for 16-year- | old Al Silva, who stopped the hard- hitting Worcesterites with five scat- tered singles, while he scored one run and drove in another with a long drive to center field, which was good for two bases. Wilson Dunlap, star Worcester hurl- er who started for the Easterners, al- lowed only four hits, but all of them| were doubles and he was relieved by Curran, who A a pitch as well as play | third base. (vyran gave two hits in two innings. | Dignitaries ¢! the American and Na- tional Leagues and Base Ball Commi sloner Kenesaw Mountain Landis wi nessed the contest, which was umpired by Red Ormsby and Hank O'Day, vet- eran arbiters of the American and Na- tional Leagues. In today's game Oakland | “Lefty” Hardt, who has pitched 38 consecutive scoreless innings, for mound duty. while Worcester was to start with Curran or Dunlap. MIDGET SEEKING FOES FOR GAMES TOMORROW Corinthian Midgets and Vie's Sport Shop Midgets are seeking foes for to- morrow. Corinthians will book at Co- lumbia 7504 and Vic's manager can be reached at. Franklin 9985. Joe Judge Peewees continue their | quest for the championship of their | class yesterday by downing Panthers, % to 6, in a heated contest. SMITH AT NEW HAVEN. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 8.— |M With the completion of the New Eng- #and League schedule, Kermit Smith, zocal youth, who has been pitching for ithe Lewiston (Me.) club, has becn Te- called to finish out the season with New Haven of the Eastern League. Smith won 11 and lost 4 with Lewiston. PIRATES CANCEL GAME. Pirate A. C. nine of Ballston, Va, is forced to cancel its game scheduled to- morrow with Cabin John, Md., Junior N | with the Harris horde. | ful. gain for a flag chaser these| days. Yankees and Athletics | have discovered this to their | sorrow, the Yankees more so than the| Athletics. When they shoved the Hug- | men down to a first-place tie with the | Macks yesterday by copping the dual | sketen in the big stadium here with | ers during the past nine days to seven | victories against three defeats. This afternoon, the left-handed Gar- | land Braxton, who has twice subdued | the Yanks this season, was to get & final | fling at them. Huggins gang overcame Braxton in Washington last Saturday, but the lanky leit-hander was expected | to turn the tables on them today. Man- | ager Huggins, with a double-header | slated with the Athletics tomorrow, was | in a fix for a pitcher for the last brush/| There was a| chance he might send back to the hill| Rosy Bill Ryan, who broke into the first | tilt yesterday for a short time. Nats Have Everything. The Nationals had everything yester- day to make them winners. ‘they got super-pitching trom Irving Hadley in the first game, & brand of nurhing irom Fred Maroerry in the second game that would have been hailed as a great bit of work had it not been for his team- mate’s performance earlier in the bill and at bat and afield they were power- Hadley in the opener of the bill yielded but three hits spread over as many innings and four passes. Lou| Gehrig got one of the safeties and Babe Ruth got two. Five strikeouts were credited to Hadley. In but two innings did the Yankees get as many as two on the runway. Ruth doubled with one gone in the seventh and after Meusel took a third strike Dugan walked. Then Lazzeri batted for Durocher and whiffed. With two out in the ninth, Ruth singled again and Meusel walked. Dugan’s best was a grounder to Cronin that ended the fray. But 33 batters faced Hadley and only 2 got as far as second base. Sixteen hits rattled off the Wash- ingion bats in the first game, ail but three of them being made while their former teammate, Tom Zachary, was on the hill. Every man in the Nationals line-up hit safely, Cronin and Reeves Jeading the attack with three hits each. It was a triple by Cronin that followed | Ruel's single and Reeves double that accounted for the first two Washington runs that crossed in the second inning. Cronin’s single put Ruel over with a| run in the sixth. As it turned out, these runs were more than enough to cop, but in the eighth the Nationals took all the pen out of the Yanks with a seven-run offensive. Bluege and Ruel singled be- tween the retirements of Judge and Reeves, then Cronin’s stroll filled the bases. Hadley picked this spot to poke a single to left center and three runs were registered. West singled, Rice led and Zachary left the scene, Athletics to Tie for Lead by Yielding Hug- in Two Frays. first three runs. He sent in the tying tally in the second inning without driv- ing theball to safety, however. Then Judge, who had opened the inning with a triple, scored as Koenig threw out Bluege from deep short. Successive singles by Goslin, Judge and Bluege brought the run in the fourth that put the 1ationals ahead. In the sixth Goslin singi~d, Judge walk- | scores of 11 to 0 and 6 to 1, the Na- | ed and Bluege's double sent in the third i tionals ran their record for baitles with | run. the American League pennant contend- | runs being registered before the round This started a rally, three more ended. Singles by Tate and Cronin fig- ured in their making. The inning clinched the second game of the day for the Nationals. Goslin pulled well ahead of Gehrig in the race for the American League batting championship _during, the double-header. The Goose went up eight times for four hits, while the Yankee clouter was up seven times for one bingle. Ruel did the only stealing of the day. He pilfered second base twice in the first game. Tate was the peppery little catcher during the second setto. He was all over the place behind the bat and in the sixth inning ran to the steps of the Nationals dugout to drag down Gehrig's difficult foul. Benny also pulled a good one on the bases in the second inning. Third base was left uncovered when Robertson dashed against a field box to get Reeves' foul, so Benny raced there after_the catch before the Yankees re- alized what was going on. ‘West made a great throw in the first frame to get Ruth at the plate. Robert- son’s drive to center seemed long enough to score the Babe from second. but Sammy winged the ball on a low line to within a few feet of home from where it bounded into Tate's hands well ahead of the runner. Eight times up for six hits and three of them triples. This boy Cronin may develop into a hitter. As the games progressed both Hadley and Marberry were roundly applauded by the 20,000 fans at hand. e New Yorkers, of course, want see the Yankees win the flag, but they are fair sportsmen and appreciate fine efforts G. P. 0. TAKES LEAD IN WEEK-DAY PLAY Although out-hit more than 2 to 1, Government Printers defeated Berg- mann’s Laundry nine in a week-day league series game yesterday. 6 to 4 thereby assuming a commanding lead. while the victims cannot lose another k:{ne if they are to gain the champion- ship. Printers came from behind in the seventh, after the laundrymen had on the field regardless of who may be | trip] Goslin foun d Ryan, relief hurler, for his eleventh homer of the year, a loft into the right field bleachers, the n the Na- counted 3 runs in the previous inning and almost drove Lyon from the box. Brown held the winners to 4 hits, but a half dozen passes, a hit batsman and | R had | Za tionals called it an inning. They were | not through for the game, though, get- ting another run after two were oul’in the ninth with Reeves’ Cronin’s triplet. Tame After First Inning. | Nine hits, three of them by Meusel, and two passes were granted by Mar- berry in the second game, but after the first inning only two Yankees got as far as sccond base. Two of the hits and both of the passes came in the first frame, when the Yanks did their scoring. Combs walked, only to forced out by Gehrig after Koenig had lofted to West. But Ruth also drew a pass. Meusel’s single tallied Gehrig, but Ruth was nailed at the plate when he tried to count from second as Rob- ertson hit for a base. | The Yanks sent three pitchers to the hill. Walte Hoyt started, but re- tired at the end of the sixth inning. licked for the fifth time this season and for the third time by the Nationals. Eleven hits, accounting for all the Washington scoring, were gleaned off him. Myles Thomas followed Hoyt for a frame and Wilcey Moore for two frames. Off Moore one hit was made. Cronin got three hits in the second game also, but it was Bluege who led the attack this time. Ossie hit safely twice and drove over the Nationals’ FIRST GAME. WASHINGTON. AB. R. West, cf 41 Rice, rf Goslin, Judge.'1h luege. 3 S | muasssson? s=z22cc0e® SmnanSume H# | ; . onsssunseonnd I . Totals ..... NEW YORK. Combs. cf > NSRS 2 “Lazzeri 22333339323 ® | sammse Rvan, Tot. *Bat Washington New York.. le2sss222umssX 3 | & C] olssss22020222T m o ocher in the seventh. .02 0001073 =11 60000006 0—0| Runs batted in—Cronin (3), Reeves, Had- ley (3). Riee (2 fin (2). Two-base hits “Reeves, Ruth. Three-base hits—Rice. Cro- | . Stolen bases— ! Left on bases— | First base on | dley, 4. Struck | by Hadies: Lasi| Umpires—Messrs. McGowan, Ow: el Tim Fame—2 hours and 3 | ECOND GAME. WASHING: AB. R West, cf Rice. rf | Goslin. | 1b. s PP | O ] | | | | ve [ Cronin. s». Marberry, b... VasReaTsnE Totals . NEW YORK. Meusel. | Robertson. Duroche: mlesszss2s2325-227 alssam elessssmzmnun 8l smssasanss—ns? oless2s522299222™ wlusssssas Total T *Batted for Thomas in the seventh. tBatted for Moore in the ninth. udze. Cronin, W nlays—Koen Duracher to Gehriz: Judge (o Cronin (o Marherrv; Hovt'to Koeniz o Gehrig: Roh- rison to Gehrlg to Koenig to Durecher. Left on bases—New York, A Washington, { First base _on halls—Of Marberry, off Order team, because of a schedule mix- wp. The Junior Order manager is asked to call the Pirate pi 1337-W-1. ilot at Cldrendon |'%, Hoyt, 2. Struek out—By Marberry, 3; by Moore, 1. Hits—Of Hoyt. 11 in 6 {nnings: off Thomas. none in 1 {ning: off Moore 1 Umpires single and | = F iB | Kans. City. 80 72 526 Louisville. errors by his mates proved his undoing. Yesterday's score: ABHOA P. O A G. ABH. Mosedulert 2 Q. 02 [SURUN - PR PSRRI —Js - ssomoume Totels. 9:2910 Totals “Batted for Bergmann in ninth. +Batted for Brown in ninth. out. batted third strike foul. 8chneider L 0010030004 Gerggn awndry 9040004036 (2). Thompson, Tavlor, Bennle, Lyon. Mosedale, Simons, _ Errors—MacDonald, * Bergmann, Freed. Taylor, Homan, Lyon. Two-base hits uyer (2). Stolen 'baseHoman. Sacri- “Glotsbach. — Schnelder. = Thompson. Double plays—Mosedale to Schneider o ‘Schneider to Simons to Schneider. First base on balls—Off Brown. 6. Hit by pitched ball By Brown (Simons). Struck out—By Brown, 4: by Lyon, 3. Passed ball IS NINE DEFEATS JAPANESE TEAM, 8 TO 5 ILLINOIS N TOKIO, September 8 (#).—The Uni- versity of Ilinois base ball team scored three runs in the tenth inning to win, 8 to 5, from Wauseda University here today. The Tlini got 10 hits, while 11 were credited to Wauseda. The Japanese were also charged with three errors, one more than the total of the Amer- ican collegians. Gartland Runs—Homan, Houck, fice: Free Homan: VIRGINIA NINES PLAY. SHENANDOAH, Va., September 8. Harrisonburg and Shenandoah Shors nines were to meet here today in the second game of a series of three to de- termine the Shenandoah Vailey Base Ball League pennant. Harrisonburg won the first game yesterday at Har- risonburg, 4 to 2. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS _INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. 80 67 544 Montreal... 77 74 .5 3 71 539 Baltimore. 74 7 Toronto.... 81 71 333 New: Reading.... 77 72 517 Jers Newark. 4; Baltimore. 3. 0: Montreal.' d.” 6: Jersey City, 2. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Birm'gham 44 25 638 N. Orleans. 33 34 485 Memphis... 41 27 603 Mobile...... 31 38 4’ Little Rock 37 34 531 Atlanta Chat'nooga 34 34 300 Nashvilie . Atlanta, 7—2; New Orleans, 3—1. 1 innings ) Chattanooga, 2. % Mobile. 4. ing T 5 Little Rock, 113 Nashviile, 10. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 4 570 SL Paul.... 78 13 820 564 Toledo. 73 17 487 8 553 Columbus.. 57 91 .385 57 92 (383 Rochestar.. uffa) ark, ', 71 17 480 ey City 57 94 Buffalo. 1 Reading, 31 444 27 44 (Second Min‘apolis. 88 6 Ind napolis 84 6 Milwaukee 84 6 Indianapolis. 11: Columbus. 0. Minneapolly. 7: Kansas City, o Louisville. 5; Toledo, 4 (11 innings). 50 Paul, ‘9; Milwadkee. 8 {SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION Spartanburg, 4—4: Charlotte. 2-0. S S Augusta. 5; Greenville, 1 Macon, 7: Asheville. 7 (10 innings: ness). SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Montgomery, 6—5; Selma, 0— Sel Jacksonville, 6—1: Columbus. Tampa. 2; Pensecala, 1. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 3-3: Portland. 1--L. 15 Los Angele: . Hollyweod. 5. Sacramento, 3 (10 lanings). dark- 0. 2, Seattle, Missions. San Francis Oakiand. 4; ‘WESTERN LEAGUE. Denver, 12; Des Moines, 4. Pueblo, merillo. mes schedule TEXAS LEAGUE. inning B Zaessrs, Owens, Gelsel i owal of same—1 hour and 60 tose Boretghh. T Sirbvenort, 10 , 17; Biy 5 Beaumont §—3; San Antoalo, T—4. Aot s 21 0 nounced by President Clark Griffith. The club prexy, who has agreed to hand over an undesignated sum for Bool, doesn't know the first name of his recruit, nor his age, height nor weight, but he does know that the athlete has been directed to report to Manager Harris when the Nation- als reach Detroit on September 15. and he furnished Bool's record up to and including September 4. This showed the backstopper had participated in 61 games for the Vol-, unteers, had been at bat 195 times, scored 36 runs and made 65 hits for 105 total bases. his binglts including 9 doubles, 2 triples and 9 homers, and his batting average being .327. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 11 Philadelphia, 1- Only games ‘sche STANDING OF THE CLU 2 3 3 H i eiqaPpENg asnjuaing 649 GAMES TOMORROW. Y. Boston at Washington. ila. at New Vork. &0 at Clev Phila. d. Chiea| d. St. Louis at Del GAMES TODAY. Washington at N. Phila. at Baston. Chicagn at Cleveian, St. Louis at Detroit, NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. St. Louis, 6: Pittshurch. 3. Chieago. 11° Cincinnati. 1. Philadelphia, 1-3: Boston, 0-4 (second game, 11 innings Others not scheduled. STANDING OF THE BS. 9 aoa o, uoysog, qangsig ukpno0s | erqappeny, srejuariag Philadelphia | 2| 5 8] ; _Lost - 151/54/57159/61167183] Z GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at Phila. Pittsburgh at St. 1. Pittsburgh at 8¢ L Cincinnati at Chicago Cincinnati at Chicago. N. York at Brooklyn. York at Brookl: BIG LEAGUE LEADERS HITTERS. G. AB. 117 382 135 534 114 400 R. H. PC. 66 146 129 201 . 83 150 .. 120 182 85 202 .3 Goslin, Senators. . P. Waner, Pirates. Hornsby, Braves. . Gehrig, Yankees.. 134 489 Manush, Browns. 134 549 RUN SCORERS. Ruth, Yankees P. Waner, Pirates Gehrig, Yankees L. Waner, Pirates.... Combs, Yankees BASE STEALERS. Cuyler, Cubs Myer, Red Sox Frisch, Cards. Mostil, White Sox. Walker, Reds. ... PITCHERS. Giants. . Grove, Athletics. ... Hoyt, Yankees... Quinn, Athletics Crowder, Browns. TITLE CLASH TODAY IN LEAGUE SERIES Auths and Brown & Wood nines were to clash this afternoon at 3 o'clock on North Ellipse to determine the first half champion in the Capital City Base Ball League senior class series. The victor will meet Aztecs, second half winner, tomorrow in the first game of a series of three to determine the senior division champion. Russells are now setting the pace in French Midget class diamond league as the result of a 9-3 win yesterday over Kelleys. on the Plaza fleld. A victory for Kelleys would have given it the league flag. The winners are booking games at North 4567. Sam Rice junior tossers will engage Meridians tomorrow in a Sport Mart League tilt at 3 o'clock on East Ellipse diamond. To determine the winner of the first half schedule of the Sport Mart League Lionels and Aces will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Monument diamond No. 4. e e e ALEXANDRIA PLAYER T0 GET GOLD MEDAL ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 8.-- Officlals conducting the week-day tour- nament have decided to present the most_valuable player of the series with a gold medal. The award will be decided by a com- mittee composed of Umpires Raymond Peverill, Willlam Wood, Willlam Entwisle and Robert McDonald, Chairman Gerard lEd;lnrds and Vice Chairman Jack Tul- och. Alexandria Light Infantry and Hus- tlers' Bible Class of the Methodist Prot- estant Church play today on Hayden Field at 3:30. The defeated team will be eliminated. Sarepta Lodge, No. 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, yesterday sched- uled a game for tomorrow on Giicker! Field at 3 o'clock with the Simpson's Dairy nine of Washington. Benton, Plans for_the second game of the |&ue Tats Alexandria Fire Department champion- ship series tomorrow on Haydon Field at 3 ao'clock were made last night by representatives of Columbia Engine Co. M and No. 5 Motor Co. Wet grounds forced a postponement of yesterday's week-day tournament ng: between the Police and Post Office nines. RAIN AGAIN HALTS SERIES. HANOVER, Pa., September 8.—Cham- bersburg and Hanover teams, with one victory each in the Blue Ridge League champlonship series, moved to Cham- bersburg today for a third game after 2 vented r:ry here yesterday for | g, d time rain pre: the secon as many days. Have Reached Crest So Late in Season. | By the Associated Press. HADES of Baker, Barry. and McInnis! Cornelius McG! cuddy's up there again. 3 After 14 weary,_years of waiting of endless experiments with i fields that reminded him of that fa- | mous million-dollar (present values) combination of 1914 only because they were so different; of constant and pa- | tient training of youngsters who never quite made the major league grade— after all the bitter disappointments of more than a decade, the tall taciturn tactician of the Philadelphia Athletics again is on the threshold of the pron:- ised land that has eluded him so long.| Right on top of the American League standing are the Philadelphia_ Athletics today, the first time since 1914 that | they've reached the crest at this stage | of the scason. In that year of the dim| base ball past, Connie won the pennant but lost four straight to the Boston Braves in the world series. Then the broke up his super-team, little knowing how long it would be befroe he molded together a successor worthy of the name A’s Now Hold Edge. | True enough, the A's title to the lead | is not clear. They hold it on even terms with Miller Huggins' staggerine champions, the New York Yankees. But the advantage, for the moment at least is all in Connie Mack's favor. His A's are coming with a rush. The Yankees are faltering badly, shorn as they are of the overwhelming confidence that was theirs early in July when they had blasted thier way to a 13-game lead over the field. The A's have a golden opportunity to- day to take undisputed possession of the top. They play two games at Boston while the Yankees engage in a single game with the Washington Senators. Two victories, for the Mackmen, of course, would leave them unchallenged at the top whatever the result of the Senator-Yankee clash. But regardless of how the clubs stand at the end of these battles, the real cli- max will come at New York when the A's arrive for a four-game series start- ing with a double header at the s adium tomorrow. That series may decide the American League pennant. The A's crashed through to the top with a bahg yesterday with a double tri- umph over the Red Sox while the Sen- ators were taking the Yankees’ measure | in both games of a double header. The results of those four affrays left the Philadelphians and the 1927 champions tied at the top with 87 victories against 47 defeats. Bob Grove, Mack’s left-handed ace in the hole, held the Sox to four hits, struck out 11 men and came home with a 1-to-0 victory in the first game at Boston. It was Grove's twenty-second win of the season, the last 14 coming without a break. Charley Ruffing gave the A's only six hits, but was beaten when the invaders scored an unearned run off him in the sixth inning. In the nightcap the Mackmen scored five runs in the first two innings and were never headed, winning, 7 to 3. George Earnshaw and Ossie Orwoll were handled roughly by the Sox in the first and second innings, but Eddie Rommel stopped them cold. The Senators whipped the Yankees ihnd whipped them decisively in both games at the stadium. Holds the Limelight. With so much drama in the Ameri- can League the National's pennant struggle will draw little attention until | after the Yankee-Athletic struggles next | week. The St. Louis Cardinals boosted their advantage over the field to five games by taking over the Pittsburgh Pirates for the second straight day, 6| | to 3, with the aid of three Pirate errors. | The Cardinals scored their runs on | only six hits and snapped Remy Kremer's winning streak of eight in a row. After accepting 237 consecutive chances, Sparky Adams, Pirate infleld- | er, muffed one in the eighth inning. ‘The Chicago Cubs walloped Cincin- I mati, 11 to 1, cracking out 19 hits off Luque and Lucas. Charlie Root set the Reds back with four hits. The Phils and Boston Braves divided a double-header, Burt Shotton’s men winning the first. 4 to 0. and losing the second in the eleventh inning, 4 to 3. CAPITAL DUCKPIN STARS WILL ROLL IN RICHMOND Jack Wolstenholme and Jack Whelan, two of the District’s crack man bowlers, and the Arcadias, national women’s championship five of this city, will en- gage in matches at Richmond, Va., to- night as the new Health Center drives are opened. ‘The pair of Jacks will meet the best | Richmond can muster in the way of a 2-man_team. Arcadias, composed of Mrs. Irene Mischou, Dorris Goodall, Catherine Klein, Lorraine Gulli and Mrs. Albert E. Fischer, will meet the C. & O. Stars, Richmond's best agarega- tion of pinettes. FOJT, NAVY GRID PLAYER, GETS SECOND BROKEN LEG ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 8 (). —A broken-leg jinx is following Robert Fojt, backfield candidate for the Naval Academy foot ball team. Last year, while carrying the ball dur- ing one of the first scrimmage sessions of the season, he was tackled and broke his right leg. Yesterday, carrying the ball. he was tackled in the same way, in almost the same place in the field, and his left leg was broken. He will be out of the game for nearly six weeks. GOLFERS IN SEMI-FINALS. Daniel Shervey will oppose Max Weyl in one bracket, while Leopold Freudberg will meet Dr. M. B. Fischer in the other in the semi-final round of the Town and Country Club championship toda The final round is to be played to- morrow. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN m. Com. wames.start. ga i) N BY SOL M.IZGER. The old Heisman shift, the Golden Tornado of Georgia Tech, that swept through Southern foot ball from the dawn of this century to within a few years ago like all cyclonic winds, is a thing of the past. Instead, “the rambling wrecks from Georgia Tech” adopted a brand-new attack last Fall that spilled the beans not only for Wallace Wade's Crimson Tide from Alabama, hitherto one of the great- est teams of the country, but also turned in one of the real surprises of the season at its close when it beat down the sturdy Georgia team, hitherto undefeated and proudly dangling the scalp of Yale as it entered this battle. This game was played before many of the foot ball experts of the country. What stood out in Tech's new at- tack—an attack it is to hold to this year—was the odd position of the quarterback. He was not only un- orthodox but anti-clockwise, to say the least. When the center got down to snap the ball, Tech's quarter leaned over in the opposite direction, with hands down through his legs and in a position to take the ball from the rear. From that position he could fake or pass to any back, or he could dig out before the ball was snapped, which one player may do, and thus become effective in the interference or in faking. One such play will suffice, a play in which he breaks to his right with the other backs, while No. 2, squatting low, drives through center after taking a direct pass. Such a play disconcerts the defense. What to eat, how to eat, overcom- ing indigestion, are some of ‘the questions answered in Sol Metzger's leaflet on “Diet and Training for Foot Ball Mr. Metzger will send this leaflet to any one sending a stamped, addressed envelope in care of this paper. (Copyright. 1928.) 'HOYA FOOT BALLERS FACE TEMPLE TODAY WILDWOOD, N. J., September 8.— Geongetown University gridmen were to get their first real test today when they were scheduled to trek to Atlan- tic City to engage Temple University foot ballers in a scrimmage. Just who Head Coach Lou Little would start against Temple was not certain, ‘Two hard drills were in order yes- terday for the Blue and Gray. In the morning 2 long session was held and much attention was given passing as- pirants, as G. U. must develop a ca- pable ball heaver from a dozen candi- dates for the assignment. In the afternoon session the work of Barabas, Muir, Schmidt, Morriss and Zimowski was outstanding. Schwartz and Provincial wene at ends on the offensive combination, with | Mooney and J. Murphy at tackles and Liston and Carroll at guards. Wynkoop. Zimowski and Morriss alternated at | center on the two teams and at back ing up the line. Schalzi, Dwyer, Dris- 1l, Leary, Duplin and Barabas in the backfield and Cordovano at tackle were among others to see action, as were Gehringer, end, and Carroll, guard. Johnny Bozak, 1927 Hoya freshman star and former Gonzaga all-around athletic sensation, was not allowed to get in action today because of the wet field. Bozek is being nursed along fol- dicitis. WOMEN IN SPORT OOL weather and rain have fail- ed to daunt the playground swimmers intent upon passing their beginners and advanced swimming tests before the open-air pool season closes. Nineteen girls passed their tests in the Georgetown pool this week and sev- enteen in the Rosedale tank. A largs group on each ground still is practicing for tests to be held the coming week. In addition, plans are being laid for the final event of the season, & two- day water carnival to be held Septem- ber 14 and 15 under Mrs. Ladd’s di- rection Rosedale swimmers will partici- pate on the first day., and George- town tank will be the scene of action on the second. Novel features will pe included in the program, headed by & lighted parade and an ‘“old-fashioned swim,” in which some relics of the davs of two and three piece suits will be brought to light. Those who passed their tests this week in, the playground pools are: Rosedale: Beginners’ test—Margaret O'Con- nor, Louise Miskell leen Meyers. Olga Mildred Gorman, Clark, Alethea atherine Lyden Swimmers' test—Frances Nagel. Mildred Costello. Agres Lockwood, Alva Tucker and Grace McAllister Beginners—Marian Ehrman- Rosa_Fleishman, iy, Brewster. Swimmers— Mildred Plerce. Virginia Early. Doris Bradficld, Dorothy Pierce, Anna Lupo, Anna Shafer and Ethel Rittue. The beginners’ test consists of swim- ming 50 feet free style. The swimmers" test includes a 100-foot swim, surface dive for recovery of object, back swim of 50 feet, floating and demonstration of artificial respiration. Washington girls have returned from a two-month sojourn at Camp Mont- | rose, the girls' camp supervised by Mrs. | Louis Randall in the country beyond Baltimore, Md. Mary Marx. Peggy Marx. Betty Ran- dall, Margaret Walker, Dixie Parks, | Elizabeth Walker and Peggy Randall, | the local group. report that they en- joyed a varied program of sports at camp, including tennis, hiking, base | ball, volley ball and swimming. Quoit champions were named this week on Cardoza, Payne, Willow Tree and the Sixth and L Streets Southeast | playgrounds as follows: Willow Tree Addie Jackson and Estelle es). and. 'Dorothy Carter_and Tretha Sims. oith and L Streets Southeasi—Florenicé ireene PEERLESS ELEVEN MEETS. Peerless Athletic Club 135-pound foot ball candidates will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Hans Gubisch. New candidates will be welcome. AT O SEEK DIAMOND BATTLE. Hartferds, unlimited nine, is withou* a game for tomorrow. Challenges will be received at Franklin 6764, I 4 e lowing a recent operation for appen- | Baker, Coombs and Plank, has been rated as one of the great teams of the game: the best Connie Mack ever put together. It looks as if they would have to move that team over and leave room for another beside it Courage is the most beautiful, the most touching. the most inspiring qual- ity of all. Win or lose. the Athletics of this season have shown the heart of champions No gamer collection of youngsters ever wore spikes. Starting from so far back that no- body gave them a chance, these young fighting fools have battled their way to | even terms with the Yankees. Who would have believed that there was a | team in existence which could spot. the | | Yanks a dozen games and catah them in the stretch? These kids did it. Refuse to Break. Every one has waited for them to break, but they refused to break. When | veterans laid down the burden as too | | heavy they took it up and under its | weight began to run in 10 seconds flat. | | This is a ball club! | It is true that the Yankees have had tough luck. It is true that they lost | | Lazzeri and Pennock at critical moment | and suffered other misfortunes. They | | had so long a lead that half of their | former power would have kept them well ahead. But when the time came to speed up. | the best they could do was hope for| the other fellow to slow down. Those | famous clouters haven't been hitting | the size of a doll's hat. Can they still | put on speed? I don't know. But that | is what 80,000 fans will gather af the | Yankee Stadium tomorrow to find out. | The Yanks are in the last trench. Send Money Back. So it is no wonder that the reserved seats for the double-header tomorrow have been sold out and that they had ‘o put policemen at the doors of the New York offices to keep the throng from milling in to demand the tickets which are not there. It is no wonder that tne club has had an imported fores of clerks working overtime to re- turn thousands of checks which came with applications from Massashusetts. Connecticut, New Jersey. Rhode Island and, of course, from all parts of Penn- sylvania. The gates of th~ park will be opened tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and then 60,000 unreserved seats will be put on sale. In grounds the size ef the Yankee Stadium there always seems to be room for one more, but there will not be a lot of vacant space when the first Markman goes to bat. Four extra rows of temporary seats will be placed behind téle present last row of the mezzanine. Every effort will be made to take care of everybody, and if it is a gohd day, the chances are that the largest crowd which ever saw a base ball game will be on hand. World Series Tansion. This means that th battles will be fought under the same tension which always accompanies the opening game of a world series. In fact, w2 cannot remember a world series where the ad- vance excitement ran any higher. One man_who is satisfied with the situation is Harry Stevens. The famous caterer is prepared to shave several ex- tra hams and unleash innumerable hot dogs from their kennels. (Copyright. 1928. bv North American News- paper Alliance.) | Return of Davis Little Bill J By the Associated Pres 1 HILADELPHIA, September 8.— William M. Johnston, the im- mortal “Little Bill” of tennis, who is here for the Franco- American team matches, thinks | it may be five or six years before the United States wins back the Davis Cup. The former “mighty atom” of the courts, now a San Francisco salesman on a vacation, saw little ground for op- timism in the opening matches of the two-day series yesterday, when the French won three of the four played. Henri Cochet defeated George Lott, 6—1, 6—3; Jean Borotra downed John Hennessey, 6—3, 3—6. 6—4, and Chris- tian Boussus and Plerre Landry defeat- ed John Doeg and Junior Geen in dou- bles, 6—2, 7—5, while Johnny Van Ryn won the only American victory by scores of 6—3, 6—2, over Jacques Brugnon. Cochet Is Praised. Johnston was more inclined to talk of the improvement in Cochet’s game | the greatly improved playing of Cochet. “There was no one on the courts, French or American, who could come up to the standard of Cochet or the other great French star, Rene Lacoste,” Little Bill went on, “and until America develops some one who can beat them | the Davis Cup will stay in France. | *“These young French players are all right, but they are not in the class with those two. They're no better than our | youngsters. Great stars like Cochet and | Lacoste come only once in a tennis gen- eration. It's all just a regular cycle. | We had our day and were on top for seven years. Now the French are up | there. How long they will stay depends | on Lacoste and Cochet. | | “Lacoste’s game is so perfect that it requires constant practice to keep it up to pitch. But he's like I was: he has other interests than tennis. I under- | than of winning back the cup. What impressed him most of all. he said, was | | Helen Wills, 6—1, 6 Cup Far Off, ohnston Opines stand that now, instead of making this trip with the French team, he is de- voting his time to business. Lacoste probably has reached his peak, but he and Cochet should hold on for five or six years more if they keep at it. “Cochet in beating Lott so readily struck me as a very much improved player. I had not seen him in action since I played against him in the Davis Cup matches here a year ago. Cochet used to be somewhat erratic, but now I am considerably impressed by the all- around soundness of his game. You saw what he did to Lott, and Lott is consid- ered one of our best players. “I don't believe Lott and Hennessev will be able to topple the French. We'll have to wait for such chaps as Van Ryn and Coen. I think Coen is prob- ably the best prospect we have. “Doeg. I think, has gone just about as far as he will go. He really reached his peak three years ago.” “No, there's no ore else in sight out on the coast. yet some one may bob up almost any time. It doesn't take long.” Big Bill Greeted. But great as he considers Cochet and Lacoste, Johnson believes ‘his famous running mate, Big Bill Tilden, in his prime could have beaten either one the best day they ever plaved. Little Bill thinks Big Bill was the | greatest ever. The schedule for today: Rene de Buzelet vs. Hunter. Landry vs. Doeg. Boussus vs. Coen. Borotra and Brugnon vs. Lott and Hennessey. Cochet” and De Buzelet vs. William Allison and Van Ryn. verwhelmed Miss Allison yesterday . in an exhibition which showed her no match for one of the country’s top ranking man play- ers. Allison is No. 11. PFrancis T. Par Is Difficult Bv the Associated Press. EWTON, Mass., September 8.— Old man par today appeared to be in but little danger from the majority of the 158 ama- teur golfers who want to knock Bobby Jones off his throne next week in the national champlonship tournament at Brae Burn. Almost a hundred of them have played the course at least once and only one of them has come home in_less | than 72, the old man’s figures. Dave Martin, a long driver from Los Angeles, had a 71, the lowest score yet. ! Jones' Best Is 74. Jones, who has probably beaten par more times than any other amateur in the game, has yet to get below 74. N George Von Elm, considered Bobby's | most dangerous challenger, has not been able to get under 75. which was equaled by George Voigt of the North | Hills Club, and Emery Stratton of Brae} Burn. Jesse Guilford, one of the Bos- ton favorites entered in the champion- <I;ip play, has also had a practice round o 74. There had been a noticeable reluc- tance of most title aspirants to discuss their scores. Many have been making high ones and, for probably the first time in the history of national amateur golf. there has been a great scarcity of stories how and why some bright-eyed golfer sank an extra long putt for a 70 or made three straight birdies for some- thing in the 60s. Many knowing veterans, after alalyz- ing the locker room gloom, have pre- dicted that any golfer who could get a pair of 78s or even a total of 160 in the | medal play of Monday and Tuesday, | stand an excellent chafice of being one of the fortunate 32 who would get into the tournament’s match play. ‘Today there were 101 entries on the scene. The last delegation to check in comprised seven members of the British Walker Cup team, who have been tour- | ing about the countryside while their | compatriot, Maj. Charles C. Hezlet, has | been trying to overcome Brae Burn's rugged hazards. Although but a few of those here were willing to concede Bobby Jones | anything but a fighting chance to re- | tain his title, all were agreed that | victory would go only to a long driver like the Atlanta wizard. Long Tee Shots Needed. ‘There are many places where a long tee shot is an absolute necessity to avold serious trouble. The keenest need is at the eighteenth hole, which most of the average drivers claim is too difficult. The short tee shooters have been meeting grief on the final hole. Drives less than 208 feet have elther dropped or rolled into the brook which cuts the last fairway and this miscue has cost from one to three extra strokes on the hole. Long drivers like Jones, Guilford and Martin said that the hole was exacting but playable and agreed that | i Auto Bodi Radiators, Fenders Repaire: o New Radiators Harrison radiators and cores in stock { | | | to Conquer On Title Links at Brae Burn the real hitters would net have any trouble. Jones and Von Elm paired up for practice yesterday. They halved every hole up to the eighteenth, where Bobby made a par 4, after getting a long straight drive which carried well be- yond the feared brook. Von Elm got a 5 because he took two putts. EASTERN GIRLS OPPOSE FOR JUNIOR NET TITLE PHILADELPHIA, September 8 (#).— The East was assured of the junior girls' national tennis championship when Sarah Palfrey of Boston and Virginia Hilleary of Philadelphia turned gnclf Western opponents to enter the inal. Miss Palfrev and Miss Hilleary will meet for the title today. ‘They won their semi-final matches in decisive manner, the Boston girl de- feating Mary Greef of Kansas City, 6—2, 4—6, 6—0. and the Philadelphia representative eliminating Evelvn Par- sons, Palo Alto, Calif., 6— Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. DETROIT.—Leo Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash., outpointed Pete Latzo, Scran- ton, Pa. (10). Tommy Grogan, Omaha, knocked out Jack Duffy. Toledo (6). CHICAGO.—Babe Ruth, Louisville, and Jchnny Datto, Cleveland, drew (10). Joe Corrado, Chicago, defeated Joe Miller, Bridgeport, Conn. (6). Harry Pierro. Chicago, beat Harold Matthews, Lincoln, Nebr., foul (4). OMAHA.—Johnny Risko, Cleveland. defeated “Bearcat” Wright, Omaha (10). Homer Shaeridan, Sioux City. Towa, won decision over Jeff Bukley. Cleveland (8). WATERTOWN, S. Dak.— Herman Datzlaff. Minot. N. Dak., and Al Van Ryan, St. Paul. drew (10). John Camp- ton, Minot, won over Steve Koran of St. Paul (10 Dave O'Rourke, St. Paul, defeated Mickey McDonough, Du- luth (6) SAN FRANCISCO.—Charley Belan- ger, Winnipeg, Canada, knocked out Mike Arncld, Denver (10). WAVERLY GRIDMEN START. Waverly A. C. foot ball candidates will drill tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock on Potomac Field. Waverlys are unlimited class gridmen. Double Header BASE BALL *3"" 2 PM. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Boston TICKETS LA SALE AT PARK Wittsatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Alse 319 13th, !4 Rleck Below Ava et AT 9:00 AM.