Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 27

Features and Classified dhe Foening Sial WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929. PAGE 27 Nationals Now Far Shy of .500 Goal : Race in American League Continues Close FIVE TRIMMINGS IN ROW -~ SEVERE BLOW TO GRIFFS Club Has Litile Chance to Show Even Break Until Late in June—More Hurlers Ailing—Double Bills Start in New York Tomorrow. BY JOHN B. KELLER. EFORE the game of April 26, 1928, the Nationals had a winning percentage of .500. They took @ licking that day and never have been as high as 500 since. And it looks as though many more days will pass before theéy reach a 50-50 break in wins and losses, the goal they have set for themselves in the first half of the campaign. Now nine games shy of that break, they have little chance of making it in the 13 engagements remaining with the world champion Yankees and American League are encountered. the Athletics before other rivals in the Eleven wins in these 13 gamses are needed to boost the Washington club to .500, and only th> greatest form reversal in base ball history could bring this about. ' Not until late in June does it seem possible for Manager Walter Johnson's charges to get to the goal they have set fcr themselves—end the chances are strongly against them doing so by then. When the club returned from the West last week it was but five games below the .500 break. Any decent kind of base ball would have left it near an even balance. But dropping four to th2 Athletics and thereby raising their losing streak to five games has the Nationals now floundering almost helplessly near the foot of the league once more. During its last'week in the West the Washington outfit played we!l enough to cause its followers to believe it was about to return to the splendid form it showed during its Spring exhibition season, a playing form that made many feel the club was to be an important factor In the American League flag chase from the outset. But evil days have come upon the Nationals once more and they appear to be going from bad to worse. Rough Going for Any Club. And the club at such a low™ebb is about to plunge into as severe a sched- ‘ule as could be found. During the next six d,‘,f,: the Nationals haye no less than e engagements with the league leader and runner-up. Following dou- ble-headers with the world champs in Col. Jake Ruppert’s big plant in New York tomorrow and Wednesday, the Nationals will move to Philadelphia to * battle with the venerable Cornelius Mc- Gillicuddy’s Athletics in two tilts on ‘Thursday and single games on Friday and Saturday. Next Sunday Johnson ‘will have his charges home again for a stand against the Philadelphia leaders. ‘What a slate for a skidding squad. * For this tough tussle Manager John- son has but eight pitchers available. are Sam Jones, Irving Hadley, d Braxton and Fred Marberry, accounted regulars, and Bob Burke, Lloyd Brown, Scotty Campbell and Paul Hq?um, reservists. Of the regulars, not one finished in his last start, al- though in justice to Hadley, it should ‘be mentioned he failed to finish only because Manager Johnson deemed it best to lift him and send a pinch-bat- ter into action. Hadley went out of the scene after pltching eight fine in- nings against the Athletics. Not one of the reservisis has revealed any piich- ing of real worth. It 'l*hu.lid at club, headquarters ves- terday it Adolph Liska. promising mlt rocured .last Fall from upa&. ‘would not be available for duty-gntilghe club gets.back to Wash- M next week. ESIO * ankle-sprain suffered last Friday is even more seyere, gngm of the Nationals may become so ble during the brief trio they ‘? t to take that Liska. if ‘he is a y see some service. Right gh, there's little hope of get- work from him. He is not to New York with the club to- now, h leave night. 5 Braxton and Marberry Ailing. Two cthéds of the mound staff are Brexton pulled at first thought. Yet the |3, It "able to stand and make a few | Bostor And there’s no help in sight. fact, Braxton's arm has been of little use to the club for some time. The fork- hander complains that lack of warm weather has handicapped him more than anything else. Marberry, who was idle for a day in Chicago when his ton- sils began to kick back at him, still is suffering with a cold that affects his throat mainly and cannot do himself justice. It seems the Washington club ‘ds in for one jolt after another these ays. Despite his arm soreness, Braxton is one of the two slated to open fire in New York tomorrow. ‘The other starter will bc Hadley, according to Manager Johnson. ybe one of these pitchers will get the Nationals their first victory of the season over the Yankces. After this pair the New Yorkers may look at the wares of Jones and Marberry. And after that no one knows what Johnson will have to send against the Athletics. Braxton, Hadley, Jones, Marberry, Burke and catchers Muddy Ruel and Benny Tate leave this afternoon for New York that they may be thoroughly rested before battling with the world champions begins. With them will go Ossie Bluege, second baseman. All others of the reguiar line-up went to Annapolis this morning for a scheduled exhibition with th: Naval Academy nine. The active squad will return to Washington after the game and depart for New York at midnight. RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES Last week's' record ‘of major league games wen and lesi, runs, hits, errors 2nd cpponents’ runs follows: NATIONAT, LEAGUE. e R n @SR awsan! Chieago Plttsburgh’ Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louls... Boston, . Brooklyn . 4 New York." ) AMERICAN LEAGUE. ehaneSca EVERS IS SUSPENDED. NEW YORK, May 20 (#)—Suspen- sion of Johnny Evers, assistant manager of the Boston Braves, for three days for “umpire-baiting” was announced today by President Heydler of the National League. Nationals Still Wedk at Bat, Easily Blanked by Walberg HEN a ball club is hitting only around the .250 mark it can- not be expected to win often. And that's what the Nation- als have been doing this season—hitting around .250 and show- ing liffle in the victory column. In ond session. Mixing bunts with drives, they contrived to get three more rui across and chase Burke from the hill. Hopkins came in with two down and two A’s on and two balls pitched to Simmons by Burke. Paul completed the pass to Al, then Sammy Hale skied to their last five games Walter Johnson's | Gosli charges have batted at exactly a .234 clip. And they have lost their last five games, The fifth successive defeat was sus- tained yesterday, when the Nationals leaned but seven safeties, three in the two off the left-handed Pred Walberg, while the _Athletics reached Bob Fred meerz“{:e' Eric e iy order for socks, and won hanc four-game series here. , 7 to 0, to sweep their In addition to their seven safeties the Nationals got four passes from Walberg. ‘Yet only five of the local players reached second base and but two advanced as far as third. Two gal.ed the middle sack by socking doubles, Capt. Joe Judge making two of these smacks and Joe Cronin one. The first of Judge's doubles opened the fourth inning, but Capt. Joe never left second. Cronin the fifth with a double, and got to third when Bam Rice singled after Hopkins and Buddy Myer were struck out. Rice made second base by virtue of Jimmy Dykes’ wild chuck in the opening round, and moved to third as Goose Goslin was thrown out. This was the extent of the Nationals” attack. ‘The Macks won the game at the out- set. Haas doubled off Burke with one out in round one, and scored as Al Simmons crashed a two-bagger after the second out was recorded. The visitors clinched the game in the sec- P N1 8l o, o onocowmnorson? @l meuoncoNOR? | cosconaronors & onwusmmen® e Jicoeesurnxaoncti Nl aiaiiaret) | sooscosscencol ul mummnoonol "y 13 inning. b inning. a0 00 Wall (2). ykes, XX 5 asssesdt ° *Batted for Hopkins i seven! Batted for Marberry in nint| 0 Philadelphi 1300 ‘Washington.. 000000 Runs _batted in—Simmons, Bishop, Cochrane, Foxx. Miller base hits—Ti Eimm @), ‘Three-base h fice—Cochrane. Double Cronin_to Judge. Foxx to Left on bases—Philedelphia, First base on ball oo a k. Hapkin, 4 ©] cocoooonosomo niorsssscsst L 7| Gharrity in. Hopkins then held the visitors to one hit for four frames, but was bumped after retiring the first two men up in the seventh. Then Hale'’s single, Jimmy Foxx's triple and Bing Miller's one- baser accounted for two tallies. Mar- bel'g. pitching the last two rounds, yielded a marker in the ninth. Suc- cessive singles by Hale, Foxx and Miller before a man was retired turned the trick for the A's. In the fourth inning Bluege made a poor chuck to Cronin that probably lost a double-play chance, but Ossie re- deemed himself later- in the frame. Simmons was purposed passed to fill the bases with one out, and Hale socked a wicked grounder to the second base- man. Bluege scooped up the ball clever- ly. and a lightning two-ply killing, Bluege to Cronin to Judge, followed. Two pinch-batters were tried by the Nationals. Jones batted for Hopkins in seventh and lofted to Haas in cen- . Gooch took Marberry’s place in the ninth and fanned. ‘Rain delayed the start of the Sunday engagement nearly 15 minutes, but when the teams went into action the playing field was in fairly good con- dition. Despite the early afternoon shower and the overhanging clouds at game time, nearly 12,000 attended the contest. There’s no chance of a deal with the Red Sox for Flagstead, according to President Griffith. Now he is looking elsewhere for a right-hand swinger, who may prove beneficial to his Nationals. (Including games played to date.) Batting. G. AB. R. H. 2b.3b HR.8.SB.RBI Pct 9 3070 1.333 R worssconnarmaonSeiSobies s coscoccunmocoonSul, Ruel.. C'mpbell Spencer R. 0 1 0 [ [ 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 [ 3 2 0 [ 2 3 v 4 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 coooooorOucOHONLER AL cosooooooRooRaeNEHOoHRS B L LT TPrp e y Pitching. Q off A 2 innings. T mpires.-Messrs. Dinneen And Nal- Zims of same—2 houts maasaaond u -0 TR ‘Coarmsoal ‘oocostmmLd P WHICH NAME IS NEXT? A very grave and serious predica- ment faces the donors of the Muldeon-Tunnzy trophy, who are strangely enough, 80-year-old Wil- liam Muldoon and 31-year-old James Joseph Tunney. From the looks of things, onc of three names will have to be added to the already famous trophy—either Max Sieg- fried Adolph Otio Schmeling, which is much too long to he. engraved on one side of the statye's base; Pau- lino Uzcudun, which féw san apell | _8s if he were going to do and if he FAuLING ok ScHMELNG \ \WiLL ONE OR THE OTHER HAVE HIS NAME INSCRIBED ON THE MuLPooN-TuNgy “TRoPHY ¢ Mewopolitan Newspaper Service correctly (I've seen it Paolino Uxou- dun in an important picture maga- zine); or Jack Sharkey, who has been around so long and been booed so much that nobody can think of his name on the same trophy with the names of Suilivan, Corbett, Fitz, Joff, etc., without bursting right out crying. So, the only thing remaining is for Jack Dempsey to come back to the ring and knock a few of these galoops kicking, which it looks does—well, that’s another story! ‘Anyway, Senor Paulino, the bare- foot trece-whittler of the Pyrerees, is to fight Herr M. S. A. O. Schraeling, the pretzal-bender from Klein- Lucknow, Germany, at the Yankee Stadium on June 27th, with the winner probably to meet Jack Sharkey in September. Max's recent entrance to this country via Mon- treal proved quite a contrast to his first appearance in America. Then he was an unknown foreign heavy- weight with a very unimpressive —BY FEG MURRAY. | record. Now he is the biggest draw- ing-eard fighting today, with knocl cuts of Jo» Mont2 and Johnny Risko and & victory over Joe Sekyra to his credit. But Maxey is going to be up ageinst a tough proposition when he macts the aggressive, willing Paulino, who has taken the best shots of Delany, Godfrey, Hansen, Wills and Von Porat without flinching. The German Dempsey is no cinch to win, if you ask me, and is probably l:.!r_llt;‘or a rough night cf it on June THE SPO The Lone Eastern Barrier. HE Far West has been cleaning up the East with fairly steadily regularity through late years. Stanford or California or U. S. C. has been taking charge of the intercollegiate games at Cambridge or Franklin Field. Last Summer Califor- nia’s big crew rowed away from the rest in the East, at Poughkeepsie, and then in the Olympic eliminations. California will soon be headed East again and if California is to be stopped the answer seems to be Columbia. Glendon’s fast crew has already shown enough speed. If it can stand up under the 4-mile test there will be something to watch at Poughkeepsie, where at this moment the entire show seems to be Columbia and California. If Columbia’s fast crew can't stop the Far Western charge there is small likelihood that any other university can turn the trick. - The Harder Goal. ECENTLY some 250 igolfers met at Muirfield and Gullane to qualify and decide the fate of the British open. It is a far different story over here, where the goal is much harder to reach. y Over here there are 8,000,000 square miles to be accounted for. In place of 250 entries there will be something be- tween 1,100 and 1,200. It is for this reason that qualifying rounds must be American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 3; Boston, 0 (5 innings, rain), Philadelphia, 7; Washington, 0. Chicago, 1t troit, 3. Cleveland, 10; St. Louls, 6. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. g 5| g E Chicago Percentage o =|Cleveland s, | Detroit Cleveland . Chicago_ GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at Phila, Washington at N. Y. Chicago at Bt Louls. Chicago at St. Louis. Cleveland at Detroit. Boston &t Phila. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York-Brooklyn, rain. 8t. Louis, 2; Cincinnati. 1 (11 Innings). Chicago. 1. | New York w/es|Phila'phia = es/Cincinnatt 1111 09114301 1701 0/ 21 3| 21 1/—I 8/181.308 GAMES TODAY. N. Y. at Brookiyn, Phila. at Boston 7 f Pittsburgh at Chicago. 8t L S Cluinnatls GAMES TOMORROW. Phila. at Boston. . Y. at Brooklyn. Bt. L. at Cincinnatl, Pittsburgh at Chicago. y GRANTLAND RICE RTLIGHT played in many different sections— North, South, East and West. There will be just one lone sur- vivor on the aftérnoon of June 29, and he will be the survivor of some 1,200 shock troops. ‘Walter Hagen has accomplished a marvelous performance in winning four British cpens, but winning the U. S. open is now the high spot in golf. 1t is the toughest of all golfing jobs. In addition to all the star professionals there will be such amateurs as Bobby Jones, George Voigt, George Von Elm, Chick Evans, Jess Sweetser, Harrison Johnson and others to consider. Over here it is not so much a battle against the elements. Cold winds and rains rarely attack a June tournament. The fact that no golfer has repeated over here for 17 years, shows how strong the barrler is.” To be the sole entry left out of 1,200 starters from the best in the game is something to shoot at. Rockne’s Angle. Dear Sir: They were telling this Rockne story at the Ohio relays. When Elmer Leyden, fullback of the Horse- men, finished school, he came to Rockne for advice. He was undecided as to whether to take up coaching or become a bond salesman. “What are the requirements of the jobs?” he asked Rockne. “To be a successful bond salesman,” Knute replied, “you have to be well dressed and dumb. To be a successful coach it is not necessary to dress quite so well.” RED T. Dear Sir: Now that you are keeping bees, why not challenge Warren Brown to a race with his roaches? Warren staged & famous roach race in Youngs- town several years ago and has some speedy ones. Such a race would amuse the boys when they grow tired of fol- lowing Horton Smith in the open at ‘Winged Foot. F.JP For that matter there may be a few of the boys also following Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen. They seem to have done fairly well in this respect for the last 10 years, where one usually needs a periscope to watch them swing at anything like close range. A fanatic writes in to suggest that it might be just as well to keep an eye on St. Louis in the Natlonal League race. Why not? St. Louis won in 1927, came close to winning in 1928 and came back to win in 1929. Any team that has Haines and Alexander pitching, with Frisch and Bottomley around the infield, is no slight part of a set-up. The Cardinals line-up may not quite figure with the Cubs, but it won't be so far away when the final standing of the clubs is thrown into print. “You might think,” writes H. K. F., “that with a million targets to shoot at we would get a better run of heavy- weights than the gams knows today. That much money usually draws out something to look at it.” You might think so, but it wouldn’t mean any- thing. Apparently most of the heavy- weights can't see why they should be bothered with any real fighting for only $1,000,000. They take a bow for that much loose change, but not much more. ALL ALEXANDRIA GAMES ARE PREVENTED BY RAIN ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20.--Rain caused the abandonment of the entire Alexandria sandlot base ball card| yesterday. Leon Riley, former Alexandria High School pitcher and captain, left today to join the York team of the New York-|get class nine is after a game for Fri: Pennsylvania Base Ball League, wh!th day |is managed by Al Watt of Washington. / SUMMARY OF SPORTS FOR PAST WEEK END By the Assoclated Press. Racing. LOUISVILLE. — Kentucky Derby goes to Clyde Van Dusen, Naishapur is second and Panchio third: race worth nearly $54,000 to*winner. TORONTO.—Shore Lint captures King’s Plate at Wcodbine cpening. Rowing. ITHACA, N. Y.—Yale conquers Cornell and Princeton in varsity event of Carnegie Cup regatta. ANNAPOLIS.—Pennsylvania var- sity beats Navy by two feet and Harvard 'by a length on Severn. NEW YORK.—Four _Columbia crews down rivals from Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. Tennis. PARIS.—American women'’s tennis team triumphs over French squad, four matches to three; Mme. Simone Mathieu carries Helen Wills to deuce set but loses, to American, 8—6, 6—0. HAVANA.—Cuba enters final Tound of American zone Davis Cup play, eliminating Mexico. SCHEVENINGEN, Holland.—Hol- land reaches third round of Euro- pean zone Davis Cup competition by defeat of Egypt. COPENHAGEN.—Denmark _takes two-to-one ludlsmt’:" G"li'ecce in sec- ond round Davis Cup tle. MONTREAL. — United =~ States makes clean sweep of first round Davis Cup tie with Canada. DUBLIN.—Italy wins all five matches against Ireland in second round of Davis Cup. SALTSJOEBADEN, Sweden— South Africa defeats Sweden in Da- vis Cup tie. Base Ball. NEW YORK—Two killed, many hurt, in panic at Yankee Stadium; Yankees win as Ruth and Gehrig hit homers. Dl-:‘l;'nol’r‘—.]ohnny Mostil, White Sox outfielder, suffers broken ankle. Track. LOS ANGELES—Harlow Rothert, Stanford, tosses 16-pound shot 51 feet 1% inches, bettering national in- ‘tercollegiate record; Emory Curtice, California, betters record in javelin with toss of 209 feet 333 inches. EMPORIA, Kans—Elwyn Dees, high school youth, betters world's record for 12-pound shot with heave of 58 feet 1% inches. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Conference title goes to Louisiana State for second year in succession. AMES, lI.—Elebrlskn captures Big ix champlonship. SPRINCETON—FM' fourth succes- sive year, Yale conquers Princeton; Ben Hedges, Princeton, wins three ts. eV(S‘.]Axm;mn(‘-I‘:——!-Im'vm'd barely de- ats Dartmouth. 1 CHICAGO—Ohio State }wats Chi-. cago, Northwestern and Wisconsin in easy fashion. Miscellaneous. RENO, Nev.—Jack Dempsey will attempt another come-back, says Gene Normile, his former manager. NEW YORK—Preston North End team of English soccer league plays to ties with Hakoahs and Giants in first two games of American inva- sion. PITTSBURGH—Pitt and Army will meet on Gridiren in 1931 and 1932. LEGION NINE SEEKS FOE. Victory American Legion Pcst mid- afternoon at 4 o'clock. Call Lin: 3667-da = I MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Minneapolis. 6; St. Paul, 4. Toledo. 6; Columbus, 2. Louisville, 4-4; Indianapolis, Kansas Oity, 4; Milwaukee, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark. 5; Baltimore, 3 (5 {nnings, rain). Other games, rain. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, New Orleans, 7-1: Nashville, 1-2. ttle Rock. 5: Birminghem, 0, Mobile, 3; Chattanooga, 2 Memphis, 4; Atlanta, 2. EASTERN LEAGUE. Pittsfleld, 5; New Haven. 0. Other games postponed (rain). SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Tampa, 12; Pensacola, 7. Montgomery-Selma. (rain), Only games scheduled. PACIFIC GOAST LEAGUE. Hollywood, 6-2; Missions, 3-4. Sacramento, §:4; Oakland, 4. Los Angeles, 10-9: San Fra Seatle, 3-7; Portiand, 2-6. WESTERN LEAGUE. Topeka, 9-1; Denver, 2-2. Oklahoma_City, 5-0:' Omaha, 3-3. Tulsa, 5-13; Des Moines, 1-8. Wichita, 8-7; Pueblo, 6-6. TEXAS LEAGUE. San Antonio, 5; Dallas, 3. Shreveport. §: Waco, Fort Worth, 5: Beaumont, 0. Tcuston, 4;' Wichita Falls, 1. THREE-EYE LEAGUE. Danville, 2; Terre Heute, 1 5-4; Peorin, 4 uincy. ur, 13-2: Evansville, 1-2 zame 11 {nnings; called, darkness). SCHOOLS IN PRINCE GEORGES PLAN MEET HYATTSVILLE, MD., May 20.—Plans are being completed for the annual championship track meet for the high schools and larger elementary schools of Prince Georges County, to be held next Saturday on the fair grounds at Upper Marlboro. As usual the meet will be conducted under direction of the Playground Athletic League of Mary- land, of which Dr. Willlam Burdick is director. It had been planned to hold the meet in the University of Maryland Stadium at College Park, but because the run- ning track there is being regraded it was decided to stage it at Upper Marl- boro. Fair officials will scrape the track in preparation for the meet, which will SLS;\? at 10 a.m. ore than 2,000 will compete, it is believed by Nicholas Orem, county sup- erintendent of schools. Hyattsville High, which has won the meet for several sea- sons in a row, agvain looms as the fayorite for top honors. ‘Winners in the county meet will. earn | the right to compete against winners from other counties in the annual State Olympiad to be held in Baltimore. ] Rain broke up the sandlot base ball! program generally yesterday in Prince Georges County. Bill Walton's Picrce A. C. base ball team of Hyattsville, which was leading St. Peters, 7 to 4, when rain halted their game yesterday in Washington, will face Rockville A. C. next Sunday at Rockville. The Plerce tossers wiil drill Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the Hyattsville High School diamond. WINNING BALLSTON NINE IS SEEKING MORE GAMES Ballston, A. C. nine defeated Home | Laundry tossers, 14 to 4, yesterday at Ballston, Va. Milton Kibler pitched strongly for the winners, who hit the ball hard. Games with senior class teams are 1-2. 2. 0, 5-10. (second NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADS IN ALL-STAR BERTHS By the Assoclated Press. On the basis of Spring slugging, | here’s how an all-star major league team might take the fleld: First base—Blilly Terry, New York Giants. Second base—Frank Frisch, St. Louis Cardinals. Third base—Willie Kamm, Chicago ‘White Sox. " Shortstop—Barney Friberg, Phil- es. Catcher—Heving, Boston Braves. Outfield—O'Doul, Phillies; Steph- enson and Cuyler, Chicago Cubs. ‘This gives the National League a wide edge, but there would be no particular loss of hitting power by the subbing of Clancy of the White Sox or Foxx of the Athletics for Terry, or Gehringer of Detroit for Frisch. SANDLOTTERS HIT BY WEATHER AGAIN Number of Games Played, but Many of Contests Are Abandoned. trict group are certainly getting a rough deal so far this S from the weather man. They have had good weather on just one Sunday so far. Rain agaln yesterday forced abandon- ment of many contests, thoug\ quite a few teams managed to get enough innings to make it a game. In one of the best contests of the day Avenue Valet Shop and Junior Order Mechanics’ team of Capitol Heights, Md,, battled to an 8-8 tie on the Marylanders’ field. Friendship A. C. vanquished Jefferson district, Va., Fire Department, 5 to 4, in a well contested match on the Vir- ginia Highlands diamond. Next Sunday Friendships will again invade Virginia, having an_engagement with Del Ray A. C. at Del Ray. ‘With Stubbs, Kensington Fire Depart- ment pitcher, limiting No. 5 Engine Co. nine of Alexandria to three hits, the SANDLOT base ballers of the Dis- 4 to 0, at Kensington. Columbia Heights senior tossers hung an_8-0 pasting on Hadley Juniors in a five-inning game. lan, winning pitcher, gave just two hits. The vic- &%s_ ;re listing opponents at Adams 5-J. Staging an uphill fight Hartford un- limited class nine took the measure of the Huntingtown, Md., team, 11 to 6, on the latter's diamond. coming an early lead Hartfords stepped out in the seventh inning to count 7 runs to put the game in the bag. Mackays squeezed out a 5-4 victory over Lindberghs in a junior class dia- mond game. Adair’s pitching and hit- ting were big factors in Mackays’ win. Mackays, who represent the Postal Telegraph _nine, have challenged the Western Union team to a renewal of their diamond rivalry. In a senior division game Bostonians pointed the way to the Kentmar dia- menders, 11 to 4. Crandall Midgets, who downed the Huron nine, 9 to 0, yesterday, have booked a game with the Y. M. C. A. Midgets for Saturday. In an interesting game on the Gar- rett Park diamond Aces triumphed over Somersets, 4 to 3. A. B. & W. Busmen, who were unable to meet Washington Red Sox yesterday becaus: of rain, will mi‘ge Addison A. C. next Sunday on the Arlington, Va. diamond. Games for June with strong unlimited division teams are wanted by the Busmen, a match for May 30 with an out-of-town nine being particularly _sought. Manager Deuterman of the Bus nine may be reached at Clarendon 807-F-5. Virginia White Sox nine is_ castini about for a game for next Sunday. C: Falls Church .824-F-2 between 7 and 9 pm. end ask for George Harrison. Rover Insects are to hold a base ball meeting tonight at the home of Man- ager Coakley, 1217 G street rortheast at 7:30 o'clock. All members of the team are urged to attend. In preparation for their double- header next Sunday with Hiser's All- Stars at Riverdale, Takoma Tigers will drill Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock on the Silver Spring diamond. Tigers were leading United Typewriter Uniteds, 7 to 0, yesterday when rain broke up their game. A meeting of the Try-Me Aces nine will be held Friday night at 7:15 o'clock, at the home of Walter Fry, 1361 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. Uniforms will be issued for Sunday's game. Games for Saturdays and Sundays during July and August are wanted. Call North 3403. Eastern All-Star unlimited class nine will drill tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock on the Rosedale playground. Easterns are listing games at Lincoln 825. Cabin_John, Md., Junior Order nine, which drubbed Rambler Professionals, 13 to 1, yesterday for its,third win in four starts, is on the lookout for games with uniformed semi-pro or unlimited class teams. Manager Sadtler may be reached at Bradley 201-F-14 after 7 .m. or by writing Bethesda, Md., oute 6. W. B. Moses Sons’ nine scored over Goldenberg’s team, 11 to 6, on the Monument Lot. Foxalls and Washington Red Birds are to face Sunday on the Foxall dia- mond. Foxalls are booking opponents at Cleveland 6071. HOME RUN STANDING l By the Assoclated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Gehrig, Yankees. Ruth, Yankees. . Hoffman, White Sox. American League Leaders. Gehrig, Yankees. Ruth, Yankees. National League Leaders. Ott, Giants Klein, Philli ©O’Doul, Philli ‘Wilson, Cubs League Totals. former team blanked the Virginians, | VANKEES HANGING ON HEELS OF A'S Cards Get Closer to Tep by Defeating Reds as Pirates Upset Cubs. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. LTHOUGH rain swept out the Eastern schedule of the National League yesterday, the Yankees continued to beat the storm by a hair at the Ruppert stadium to defeat the Red Sox by 3 to 0, as the Athletics shut out the Senators in Wash- ington by 7 to 0. The Yankee vic- tory, the third over the Bostonese in two days, was a legal game only because of the early start made in view of the scheduled double- header. The game was ended by rain after two New York batters had been retired in the fifth. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig raked Jack Russell for successive home runs in the third, and Fred Heimach was turning back the Boston invaders with regularity. The Babe’s blow was his seventh, pring Gehrig’s his ninth. Although the champions gained noth- ing on the victorious Mackmen, who swept their Washington series, the Ruppert lines were established more szcurely in second place. The Browns finally ran into an afternoon of in- different pitching, and saw the Cleve- land Indians dash off with a 10 to 6 decision. That left the Browns one full game behind the Yanks and two and one-half contests to the rear of the Mackmen. The White Sox turned the tables on Detroit at Navin Field, winning by 10 to 3, but the Chicago team lost the services of jis star outfielder. Johnny Mostil, who snapped the bone in his right ankle in the fourth as he slid over the plate. Lyons pitched for Chi- cago. The Cardinals narrowed the National League fight for the by shading Adolfo Luque and the Reds at Cincin~ nati, 2 to 1, as Burleigh Grimes pitched the Pirates to a 4-to-1 decision at Wrigley Field. This turn of affairs eft the Bruins a margin of only half a game over the Red Birds. Grimes’ victory was his sixth of the season, with a defeat yet to be entered against his record. The big spitballer leads his own circult and stands sec- end in the majors only to George Uh!~ of Detroit, who has won seven. Pat alone and Arthur Nehf worked against Grimes. Sylvester Johnson had something of an edge over Luque in the battle of the Cardinals at Cincinnati, but his su- periority was registered on the score- board in-the eleventh 3 when the Natiopal League champions :n:nul! a single run to win by o 1. The Giant-Robin postponement in Brooklyn was immediately rescheduled for today, originally an open date. CAPITAL CITY LOOP SCHEDULE FINISHED have completed the schedule nior July 14, with contests carded each Sunday. The card follows: SUNDAY. Lionels vs. Langleys. Vic' MRS ATas T Gobbs. Ve, Goriainiane: Mardtcldts vs. Calhouns, Potomacs vs. O'Briens. JUNE. 2—Langl . Vie' t . - Arbes vs. Corlnthians, ‘Catbouns ve, 13 Covbe: O'Briens vs. Mardfeldts, = Potomaes vs. Lionels. 9—Corinthians_vs. Langleys. Calhouns vs. Murphy-Ames. Ty Cobbs Mardfeldts, Lionels vs. G'Briens. Vic's Sport Snop va. acs. 16—_Langleys vs. Calhouns, Murphy-Ames vs. Cobbs, Potomacs vs. Mardfeidts. O'Briens vs. Vic's Sport Shop, Corinthians Langleys. Ty Cobbs Y5, O/Briens, Mardfeldts vs. Lionels, Co- rinthians vs. Potomacs, Calhouns vs. Vie's 0—Langleys vs. Ty Cobbs. Mardfeldts ¥s. Murphy-Ames, O'Briens vs. Corinthians. Po- tomacs' vs. Calhouns. Lionels V. Vic's Bport JULY. 7—Mardfeldts vs. Langleys. Murphy-A; vs! O'Briens, T Cobps v, Potomacs. Cal: ouns vs. Lionels, Vic's Sport Shop vs. Corinthi gleys vs. O'Briens, Potomacs vs. Murphy-Ames. Lionels vs. bbs. Vic's Sport Shop vs. Mardfeldts, Corinthians vs. Calhouns. Only one game of the 16 schedulad was played yesterday in the Capital City League, that in which Eight and Forty took the measure of Spengler Post, 6 to 1, in the American Legion sectioh. The remainder of the contests will be staged later in the season. Applications for franchises in the senior and insect sections of the league will be received by the league secretary, R. J. Atkinson, at the Post sports de- partment, until midnight tomorrow. ‘With the first series now well und-r way the races in the week-day sandlot :,:uutes are beginning to attract real in- res Navy Yard and Government Printiny Office nines are to meet tomorrow mn a Government League 3ame on the Noirth Ellipse. In the Departmental League Agriculture and Bureau of Engraving and Printing teams are to face on the West Eilipse, and in the Industrial loop Big Print Shop and Western Elec- tric nines are to try conclusions on the South Ellipse. All the games are to start at 5:15 o'clock. By the Associated Press. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Balting—High (Cards), .394. Runs—Douthit (Cards), 28. Runs batted in—Grimm, (Cubs), 27. Hits—Douthit (Cards), 44. Doubles—Frisch, Hafey Grantham (Pirates), 11. Triples—Prisch (Cards), (Pirates), 5. Homers—Ott (Giants), 10. Stolen bases—Swanson (Reds), 8. Pitching—Grimes (Pirates), won 6, ‘Wilson (Cards); L. Waner {lost 0. AMERICAN. Batting—Kamm (White Sox), .404. - Runs—Gehringer (Tgn). 33. 31R\‘ma batted in—He! (Tigers), Hits—Gehringer (Tigers), 49. Doubles—Kamm_(White Sox), 15. ‘Triples—Alexander, Gehringer (Ti- gers), Biue (Browns), 3. Homers—Gehrig (Yanks), 9. National . being listed for the Ballston team by | American lenlger George Hall: at Clary 192-3-2, \g Stolen bases—Johnson, ~Gehringer ); Averill (Indians), 5. hing—Uhle (Tigers), won -7,