Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 30

30 THE FVENiXG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Mackmen Again Muff Chance to Climb : Goslin Reveals Ca BOW T0 BROWNS A YANKEES LOSE A’s Once More Falter at a Critical Point and Still Trail by Two Games. By the Associated Press. to compare with what 1928 seems to have in store for him. | bitter disappointment, but none ¢, AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 8; Chic: 5o, 4. Cleveland, 4; New Yark . Louis, 6: Philadelbhia, Detroit, 8; Boston, C. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. shington Philadelphia Sk Lert: 5W: | |New York Chicago E st. Louls ..... Washington CONNIE MACK has had many a To fail at the very edgs of splendid triumph will cause him more | grief than he knew when his Philadel- | phia Athletics were chronic tail-enders,’ And fail it seems the 1928 Athlencs‘ must. Connie built this year with the | utmost diligence, carefully blending vet- | eran experience with fiery youth so that | the qualities of both were used with the | = advantage. That product of his| genius battered its way to the top of the | league only to slip back after a tenure of only one day. | Since that late series with their dread rivals, the New York Yankees, when the Athletics lost three out, four and their hold on first place, nie’s charges have been presented with, 2 number of opportunities to overhaul the leaders only to fail at the most critical moments. Miller Subdues Yankees. Take yesterday for example: Miller, tricky left-hander of the Cleve- land Indians, set the Yankees down with five hits and beat them, 4 to 3. Presented with a golden chance to snip the Yanks' two-game lead in two, the A’s, instead, were bowled over by | St. Louis Browns, 6 to 2, leaving the| relative standing of the two clubs un-| changed. It was the second time in three days that the A's passed up an opportunity to gain. With only five| games on Philadelphia’s schedule and six for the Yankees, Connie’s chances of winning his first pennant since 1914 seem slim indeed. For the third time on the present| Western trip George Pipgras failed the vYanks. He started against Cleveland, but was pounded by them for all their runs before he could be removed in the | &1 middle of & sixth-inning rally. Lefty Heimach finished. Alvin Crowder hung up his twentieth victory of the year at the A’s expense. giving them only four hits, three of which came in the ninth and. scored the A’s two runs. Jack Quinn was the victim of bunched hits in the sixth and seventh innings and made way for Ossie Orwoll in the latter frame. The Boston Red Sox focund Sam Gib-~ #on for only five hits and Detroit coast- ed to an 8-to-0 victory. Jack Roth- rock, Red Sox outfielder, started in left field, then played shortstop and ended by pitching the final inning, giving the Tigers no hits. Cardinals Protect Ltad. Meanwhile the St. Louis Cardinals | protects ¢ Natior.ui League by trouncing Brooklyn, 9 to 2, while the New York Giants home-runned their way to a 7-to~4 vic- tory over the Cincinnati Reds. Old Pete Alexander kept Brooklyn batsmen subdued all day while the Cards were ripping three Dodger pitch- ers for 14 hits, including Jim Bottom- ley's thirty-first homer of the year. ‘That drive, with none on in the fifth, gave Bottomlev the league lead, his nearest rival being Hack Wilsen of the Chicago Cubs, who has hit 30. All of the Giants! were scored on homers, Lefty it two with one each for Mel Ott an vis Jackson. Jackson's came with-twe on ir: the eighth and broks'a 4-4 tle that existed at that moment. Outside of these home runs, Ray Kolp pitched well, outpitched Larry Benton, in fact, but those long clouts enabled the Giants’ redijead ,to record his twenty- fifth victory of the year. theirtlzr’trtxreplnic‘:l pennant mming es, 7 to 6, although Braves, 3 to 1, in 10 innings, but were beaten in the nightcap, 4 to 2. By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—O'Doul, Giants, Bottomley, Cardinals, 1; Ott, Giants, Cuyler, Cubs, 1; Jackson, Giants, 1; Heilmann, Tigers, 1; Goslin, Senators, 1; McGowan, Browns, 1. National League leaders—Bottomley, Cardinals, 31; Wilson, Cubs, 30; Hafey, Cardinals, 27; Bissonette, Robins, 23 Hornsby, Braves, 20; Harper, Cardinals, 19; Hurst, Philies, 19. American League leaders — Ruth, Yankees, 50; Gehrig, Yankees, 24; Hauser, Athletics, 16; Simmons, Ath. Jetics, 14; Blue, Browns, 14; Foxx, A letics, 13; Goslin, Senators, 13; Heil- 635 Le N, W., Washington, D. C. walter | | e Cine the | ® Piitsb's at Boston. Chicago at Phila. their one-game lead in the | Jones Zedlacki, Jersey City (5). TOMORROW No games scheculed. GAMES TODAY. Wash'zton at Chicago. New York at Cleve. Phila. at St. Louls. NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. : Brooklyn, 2. 3; Cincinn, Philadelphia 25 Boston, 1—4 (first game GAME New Chic, 7o, Pittsburrh, 10 innings). STANDING OF THE CLUBS. S Kool Bl Brooklyn Percentage ittsbureh 99 106/ —/—| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Cincinnati at N. Y. St. Louis at Brooklyn, Louis' at Brooklyn. Piitsbureh at Bosto Chicago at Phila. RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN AB. H. SB. RBIL 6 166 16 96 sssssscmssoRuRanal. PEYRTyRr o B IR SB. 615 1440 101 PITCHING. Total Gam. Com. Inn'gs re. gam.pitched. 17 208 209 162 w. 5 % 1724 8% |Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. — Tommy Grogan, Omaha, outpbinted Sammy White, New York (10). BUFFALO.—Freddie Mueller, Buffalo, |* outpointed Pete Petrolle, Fargo, N. Dak. 10). CINCINNATI.—Augie Pisano, Brook- Iyn, outpointed Vincent Hambright, Cin- cinnati (10); Harry Kreindler, Cincin- nati, outpointed Kid Monk, Huntington, W. Va. (6). JERSEY CITY.—Sailor Tiny Debolt, Califorpia, won on foul from Barney OIL CITY, Pa.—Freddy Fitzgerald, ‘Youngstown, Ohio, stopped Civi Osburn, Cleveland (3); Al Brown, Youngstown, stopped Johnny Orr, Oil City (3). RACES TODAY | Havre de Grace Seven Races Daily Special B. & O. train leaves Union Station 11:45 A.M. Special Penna. train leaves Union Station 12:00 noon. (Eastern Standard Time.) ADMISSION: Grandstand and Paddock, $1.50 FIRST RACE at 2:15 P.M. | York on May 30, had he performed as i | choice had put Reynolds on first and 1 over West's head in left center. HICAGO, September 25.—Gar- land Braxton had done much fine pitching for the Nationals this season, but not since he shut out the Yankees in New well as he did yesterday when he rush- ed to Bob Burke’s rescue and helped the Nationals toward an 8-to-4 victory over the White Sox. He entered the game in the fourth inning when it was deadlocked at 3—3, a Chisox runncr was on second base and but one out. And through the remainder of the fray, the home side got nothing more than three safeties, two passes and a run. The run put the White Sox ahead temporarily, but it was a run charged against Burke. One of the passes was started by Burke, for he left the hill in the fourth after pitching a wide one to Moe Berg. The other pacs Brax- ton issued, came in the sixth after two were gone and Jolnuy = Mostil promptly drove into a force piay. And that run coming while Braxton was on the hill was somewhat flukey. Two were out and he had a two-strike count against Mostil, when Chalmer Cissell at third and Berg at first start- ed a duel theft. Jack Hayes' return of Muddy Ruel's peg was good enough to get Cissell at the counting block, but Ruel dropped the ball when & finger was spiked by the sliding Chisox and Cissell was called safe. And Braxton’s next pitch was a third strike thrown past Mostil. The Nationals had two sound innings later to cop the pastime, while Braxton held the White Sox in the palm of his hand. As a result, the Washington Club this morning was one up on the Chicagoans in _the battle for fourth place and can leave this city no worse than tied with them if beaten in the series final this afternoon. In scoring their win, the Nationals subdued a man who had jinxed them all season, Grady Adkins. For a time would check them again, for his club got away to a good lead off Burke, while the Harris horde was doing little against Adkins. Two were out in the first frame when the White Sox set about making two runs. A fielder’s Metzler walked. Then Kamm drove two runs home with a double shoved The Nationals went ahead in the fourth with Rice's single,. Goslin's double, fielder’s choices that put Bluege and Ruel on the runway and Hayes’ single past Cissell. But the three runs this attack netted were not enough for a lead in the face of what the White Sox did in the latter part of the frame. With qne gone Burke was found for successive singles by Redfern and Cis- SIMONIZ Keeps Colors from Fadin THE sooner you Simoniz the better, because Simoniz is the way to make the finish last longer and keep col- ors from fading. TORISTS WISE SIMONIZ Simaniz Co when buying cig ars” s IT made entirely from ripetobacco?” 1 don’t wantany under-ripe top leaves of to. bacco plants to put bitterness into my smoke taste. 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Bluege was at second and Hayes at first with two gone in the sixth session when Cronin lofted the ball to short left. Cissell barely missed a sensational catch and the sphere dropped for a double, scoring Ossie and Jack. To clinch the game the Nationals tallied three times in the ninth. Brax- ton got his second single with one out and pulled up at second as West hit. Rice’s hoist to Mostil let Braxton get to third, then Goslin smote his thir- teenth homer of the season. It wag driven into the lower stand back of right center. Bucky Harris was suffering with a boil on his left knee yesterday, so he sent to second base Jack Hayes, just back from Minneapolis, whence he had been farmed. Hayes played a good game afield and at bat got a hit that drove over two Washington runs. Mostil and Metzler collided violently when the former went after Rice’s loft in the ninth inning and both hit the turf. Mostil, though, got the ball and clung to it. Sam Jones was to pitch the Nation- als’ final game of the year against the Chisox. Victory today would mean the annual set with the Chicago club for the Washington outfit, 12 games to 10. ALPHA CHAPTER TENNIS TEAM IS EASY VICTOR In an interfraternity tennis match yesterday Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Phi Fraternity defeated Beta Chapter, 3 to 0. Summaries: Singles — Meininger (A.) = defeated Wil- 6—3; Riley (A) defeated Em- ) 6—0. Doubles——Corder and Keller (A.), defeated williams and Cumberland, 6—1, 8--6. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., Septem- ber 25.—The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers were very muddy this morning. The B lin D‘IRECTOR: D i C First Cigarette . Second Cigarette . Third Cigarette and throat.” Richard Barthelmess “‘The Noost used in OLp Gorp. ~lts Ripe Tobaccol WING, NOW STRONG HURT BY PITCHING Tossing Hooks in Praclice at Camp Last Spring In- jured Shoulder. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HICAGO, September 25.—Now that Goose Goslin's throwing arm is in trim once more, the story comes out as to what really made it so useless to him and the Nationals during most of this base ball campaign. It wasn't that the Goose insisted upon trying to emulate the performances of school boy discus throwers and shot- putters who practiced upon a portion of the fleld used by the Washington club when it was in training in Florida last Spring. It wasn't the result of a foolhardy throw from the outfield in the course of a game in the last exhibition series the Nationals played at Tampa. ‘The whole trouble came about through the fact that the Goose was once a pitcher. When Goslin came up to the Na- tionals from the Columbia club of the South Atlantic League some seasons ago he came up as an outfielder. However, when he first was on the Columbia pay roll it was as a hurler, and he was shifted to the pasture of the Sally cir- cuit outfit solely because, of his hard- hitting. The Goose was a fairly good boxman for Columbia, but that club at the time needed socking more than it did pitching, it seems. But it was dif- ficult for Goslin to forget he had been a pitcher. H In pre-game warm-ups the Goose was wont, to show his pitching stuff to all and sundry spectators. He would insist upon flinging fast ones and hooking ‘em, too. The habit persisted even after he graduated to the main show as an outfielder. And it brought about his downfall as a thrower this past Spring. ‘Toward the end of the training period in Tampa, Goslin went through this same pitching stunt as he always had Fourth Cigarette . . . . in a warm-up and something happened THE CAST X Y z «+ . endeared to movie-goers the world over for his superb acting in such First Ni pictures @s, *“The Patent Leather Kid,”" * and ‘‘Out of the Ruins.” Why you can pick them ... Three types of leaves grow on the tobacco plant . . . coarse top-leaves, irritating to the throat . . . withered ground-leaves, .without taste or aroma. . . and the heart-leaves, rich in cool and fragrant smoking qualities. Only the heart-leaves are to the wing. “I threw a curve,” the Goose declares, “and I felt something tear in my shoulder. I tried another, and the second time I actually could hear a rip. It sounded to me just as though I was skinning a_rabbit. There | was no pain, but®when I attempted a third throw, I discovered there was no | Blue power in my arm. And wasn't I a frightened person? I made no more throwing efforts that day and that night was a sleepless one for me. “1 was afraid to say anything about it, just hoping I was wrong. But a cou- ple days later when I tried to make a throw during a game against the Cardi- | g, nals, I knew I was in for a tough time. Not only was the army weak, but it hurt terribly. Still, I thought it better to keep quiet about the trouble. But it | was not long before everyone with the club knew that something was wrong with my arm, although they knew only that it hurt me to throw. I never for a moment believed my arm was gone, | but naturally I was scared. This right wing means a lot to me. “Although I told none of the physi- Judge.’ 1b Cronin, s Burke, p. Braxton, kins *Blackerby A GREAT FINISH l lmmssemeos? Totals ~ =%l S laas iaiinsl ulsenrnteann lisansc Totals . *Batted for Adkins 3 ninth. Washington Chicago Runs batted in—Kamm ( i (2). Cronin (2). Tw, s—Goslin, Kamm, Redfern, Cissell, n, cians that attended me just what I|Home thought had hurt me—and I should have, at that—they must have sensed it for every man of them advised me |3 to rest the arm, and rest it I have. That, more than anything else, I think, has brought it around to form agaii And in the proper form the Goose's arm is once more. He isn’t making any unnecessary throws these days, but when he needs to let the ball go, he can. In fact, Goslin regards his throwing | wing as in better trim than ever and | with a good rest through the coming | Winter he should be ready to put the fear of his arm into the hearts of base | runners of all the Nationals’ rivals. And | ‘he is through as a pitcher in practice, | 00. WIGGINS TO FIGHT BYRNE. CHICAGO, September 25 ().—Chuck Wiggins, the Indianapolis heavyweigat | who checked Les Marriner's winning | streak, will engage Jimmy Byrne of | Louisville in a 10-round bout tonight. | Bobby La Salle of Los Angeles and Jack McCarthy, Chicago welterweight, meet, | in a 10-round semi-windup. S JACK SMITH TO MARRY. | Jack Smith, former Eastern High star athlete, Anacostia Eagle crack basket ball forward and the past season first baseman of the Jersey City Interna- tional League Club, is to be married at | Baltimore today to Helen Geisbert of | Frederick, Md. | McGowan. minutes. Player and Club. Hornsby, Goslin, Manush, Browns. 149 613 99 231 Gehrig, . g!w York. . =344 hiladelphia on | Cleveland. 1: K Eraxt U 4 Time of game—1 hour and i BIG LEAGUE LEADERS I HITTERS. G. AB. R. Braves. 136 473 98 185 Senators. 130 436 73 166 P. Warner, Pirates 149 591 138 222 Yankees. 148 540 131 198 BASE STEALERS. Cuyler, Cubs .. Myer, Red Sox. Frisch, Cards.. Mestil, White Sox RUN SCORERS. Rrth, Yankees .... P. Warner, Pirates Gehrig, Yankees .. Bottomley, Cards PITCHE! Crowder, Browns Benton, ' Giants Grove, Athletics Hoyt., Yankees. . Pennock, Yankees. P D GOLD OLp GoLp “Making the blindfold test is like conduct- ing a movie tryout. But in this competi- tion I found my star ‘right off the reel.” I named OLD GoLp for the lead part the moment I tasted its thrilling flavor and its soothing gentleness to the tongue © P, Lorillard Co., Est, 1760 SMOOTHER AND BETTER “not a cougp | Browns by 6 to 2. ayes (2). o-base Cronin. H. Pe. 391 381 377 376 use of His Lame Arm \FLAG CONTENDERS 5 ALL.MAINTAIN PACE ®| By the Associated Press. | The Yankces made material prog- | ress toward their third straight pen- |nant yesterday even though Cleveland | defeated the champions by 4 to 3. The Yankee gain lay in the overthrow of the Athletics by Alvin Crowder and the At this stage of the irace a Philadelphia defeat is just as | beneficial to the champions as a victory o[ for their own arms. | To clinch the flag the Hugmen now | need only four victories of their own in six games, four Athletic defeats in five or any combination of the two adding up to four. Even if the A's should win all their five remaining contests, the Yanks could take the flag by half a game on four victories in their own schedule of rix. The standing: Games Pct. behind. 635 & remaining: New York—At at Detroit, 5; total, 6. Philadelphia-—At St. Louis, 1; at Chi- cago, 4; total, 5 (one game against Bos- ton dropped from schedule). The Cardinals and the Giants kept pace with each other in the hot Na- tional League scramble. The Cards overwhelmed Brooklyn by 9 to 2 and so remained one game ahead of the Giants, who defeated Cincinnati by 7 to 4. The Cubs nosed out the Phillies by 7 to 6, but lost ground, since the race is one day older and the Cubs are still four and one-half games from the top. The standing: o 11 Games L Pet. bening: Chicago . 61 585 4 Games to play: St. Louis—At Brook- lyn, 2; at Boston, 3; at New York, 1; total, 6. New York—With Cincinnati, 1; with Chicago, 4; with St. Louis, 1; total, 6. Chicago—At Philadelphia, 2; at New York, 4; at Cincinnati, 1; total, 7. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F W58 42| J41 2339 | JUST RELEASED FROM HOLLYWOOD... dfold Cigarette lest k Barthelmess Mg, BARTHELMESS was asked to smoke each of the four leading brands, cleasing his taste with coffee between smokes. 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