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Nationals Must Look to West for Gain : Koenig and Lary Join Meusei on Be Ball Players Are Debating Relative Worth Of These Two Stellar Recruit Flychasers LITTLE CHANCE TO CLIMB AT EASTERNERS’ EXPENSE i {More Than Third of Season Campaigning With ¢ | Clubs of Seaboard Has Netted Griffimen But 8 Wins—Jones Is 'Off Slab Indefinitely, BY JOHN B. KELLER. O badly battered by the Athletics that their record for brushes h Eastern rivals in the American League this year is pitiful, the Nation: now turn to the Western contingent, hoping—and not faintly hoping, by any means—to find a soothing salve for their bruised seives in the 18 days of battling due to start this after- noon at Griffith Stadium. And it is to the West the Nationals must look for relief. They have been so severely punished in the East that little chance is left to recoup losses in this section. In all, 25 games have been played with Eastern rivals and only 41 remain to be played. As Waiter Johnson’s charges were licked 17 times in the 25 games, it will be seen how slim a chance they have to make a brave showing against this part of the circuit for the full To get as good as an even break with the East for the year, the Nationals would have to play against their rivals of the section at a .610 pace and that would sa asking much of them. True, they have 18 more games with the Red Sox and 14 more with the Yan- | kees. But it does not seem likely | Johnson's charges will be able to move fast enough against these outfits to make up the ground lost by the repeated lickings handed them by the Athletics. And the | Johnson bunch has 9 more games to play with the House of Mack. It's the West the Nationals must look ! to for a lilt, and their chance is at hand. A good stand against the | Browns, Tigers, Indians and White Sox | | during the first half of this month may | mean much to the Washington Club | in the remainder of the campaigning. | Should the Johnson-led team manage to | | take as many as 10 of the 16 engage- | ments in the series with the Westerners, | #t will have made a fine stand, indeed. It is likely the Nationals will have | to do without the services of Sad Sam Jones much longer than at first thought, | The injury the pitcher sustained in New York early last week has not responded the slightest to treatment | and no one seems to know what to do ! about it. To make matters worse, Jones { has become quite downcast, and though | he is trying in every way to come back | 1o the game he makes no progress. ‘The nature of Jones' injury is some- thing of a mystery. First it was thought | the pitcher had wrenched a muscle in the small of his back. Later, though, the pain moved from that spot to the left hip and now it is centered in the left side of Sam's abdomen. Jones cannot run and he cannot throw. In fact, almost every sudden exertion causes him intense pain. He's through as a pitcher, 1t appears, for no one knows how long. His loss is & severe blow to the Natlonals, for | Just before he was hurt Sad Sam seemed ‘on the verge of becoming the valuable | Burler he was Jast season Diseased teeth may be responsible for Irving Hadley'’s slowness in rounding J into good pitching trim. The chunky Lynn chucker, who has displayed his wares to advantage only three times in a ‘number of starts, has, according to his ! dentist, two abscessed molars. One of ,the teeth is impacted and its extrac- {tion would mean a serious dental opera- tion. The pitcher has said nothing of ‘this dental trouble, but others have hinted the diseased teeth may have poisoned his system and reduced his energy to such an extent that it has been impossible for him to give his best to the Washington club. campaign. If this be so, it might be well to turn the young hurler over to his dentist for a time while the Nationals carry on with what other pitchers they have. Hadley's loss during treatment ought not to affect the club more than it has been affected by his inability to give a good account of himself on the hill, and should the dental work make him more fit for duty the Nationals probably would gain in the long run. When in proper trim, Hadley is an excellent pitcher. He has demonstrated this in other seasons and he’s too young | to be slipping now. There's been plenty of punch in the left side of the National's infleld lately. Not only Buddy Myer, but also Jof Cronin has been banging the ball con- sistently, Cronin hns nothing like Myer's 24-game streak to show, but the | young shortstop has driven the ball to safety in his last 13 games. Which 1is| some achievement for a player who was not accounted a hitter when the season began. Ad Liska is r'arin’ to go. Even though he still shows a slight limp in his walk as a result of the injury to his left ankle suffered more than two weeks| ago, the submarine rookie wants to chuck in a regular game once mor He has looked good in workouts this week and may be able to bowl over the | opposition even though his portside Prop is yet a trifie wabbly. Johnson thinks the alternation of Flagstead and West in center field ac- cording to the kind of pitching the op- position is using will benefit the Na- | tionals considerably. “Flagstead, despite | his years of service in the game, still is fast and a great judge of lofts.” says Johnson, “so we'll have good flelding in center when he is out there, just as we have when West is used. 'And he looks as though he is as good as ever at bat. He ought to hit the left-hand pitchers and I know West can hit the right-handers. “If we had had Flagstead or some other like him from the start of the| | season we probably would be much | better off in the standings today. For a handy fellow_to have around, consider Jack Hayes. He's always ready to leap from the bench and fill in at second base. Being a substitute doesn’t lessen his spirit at_ all. Called on to take care of Ossle Bleuge'’s berth when the regular hurt & knee in last Tuesday’s engagement, Jack played through the Yankee series in snappy manner afield and at bat Incidentally, Jack s one of the few Nationals able to put down a good bunt. He may not have the stamina to withstand the gaff of regular campaign- in the big show as yet, but he surely the bill in emergencies. Whites Defeat Blues in Annual Track Carnival at St. Albans 1 i | NEAR clean-up in the relay races featured a triumph of the Whites over the Blues in the annual track and field meet | of St. Albans School. The Whites won five out of six relays and were victorious in two tugs of war. | For the yearly games the school is divided into two sections and each ! gection subdivided into six groups. ac- | cording to age, size and athletic ability. |/ _The Whites, captained by Edward C. Crouch, scored 171'> points against 941, for the Blues, caplatued by William G. Galliber, jr. TLeading pojmr scorers for the Whites | were: John McGee, 15; Ted Dougherty, | 9; Edward Crouch. 9: Francis Sommer, 8: John Beard, 7; Wade Cochran, 6; | Charles Bachman, 6; John Dryden, 6; ule Smith, 5. | i vereth Kent led”the Blues with 12 | points, Tyler Kent was second with 10, and Bayne Castle third with 5. The order of the finish in the various | events follows: CLASS 1. —1 3 , Crouch. 107ard dashKent Mnliern Smith, “legged _race—Crouch and . Hasard. o TR aRa W Clifford. Shuserman and fvey Hazard, Smith snd Relay—Mattern, Crouch. High Jump—Kent. Smith. W. Clifford. Ball_throw—Rudd, Crouch. Galliher. Running broad Jjump—Hazard, Crouch, Galliher. CLASS 2. 100-yard dash—Thompson, Ehippen. ¥. Sommer, 220-vard dash—Thompson, ¥. Sommer, Weedon. “iegred race—Chesley and Weedon. 2 Berrett ‘and ¥, Sommer, "Beasley and T Shippen, G. Clifford Reiny-_r. Sommer, ' terre "Nien Sump. Thompson, F. Sterrett. with ¥._Sommer and G. Clifford tied for third Ball throw. Thompson, F. Sterrett. Dilley. Running broad jump—Thompson, Shippen, ¥. Sommer. CLASS %, G irhorst. B. Castl icGee, B. Castle, Zur- horat Theee-logzed rTace -Oliver ard MeGee, Jtowell and J. Bogley, J. Henderson and Plsy—B. Howard, McGee, Patton and or =h jumo—McGee. 1. Whilehead, with Jans and Hovell ted for third Fian Hhrow Howell. B Cestle. Slimp - McGee, Evans, 8n-yard dash 100-yard dash—M BATSMEN. G. AB. Player, Club 38 143 Foxx. Athletics O'Doul. Phill Cochrane, At Hendrick, Robins . Stephenson, Cubs JOME RU Klein, Phillies, 11: Ott. Giats, +10; Jackson, Giants, 10; Hafey, Cards, 10. RUN SCORERS. Douthit, C: 39: O'D: Phillies, . Phillies, 39; Thompson, Haas, Athletics, 38. BASE STEALERS. Cuyler, Cubs, 11; Frisch, Cards, 10; Swanson. Reds, 10; Herman, Robins, 9; Reds, 9 PITCHERS. Philljes, | A< ;G inger, Tigers, O on. | opposition, but, 1+ takes the slement of | CLASS 4, 80-yard dash—Bachman, Henderson. J. Beard. potanding broad Jump—McDaniel, J. Beard, “Fhtce-leced rece—R. Bommer and McCor- mick. W. Bogley and Dotterer, E. Rafter and McDaniel Relay—J. Davis, Bachman, E. Rafter, J. Beard. Shoe race—J. Beard. Burke, F. Wright pByll throwMorrissette, " R. ~ Sommer, urke. Running broad jump—Bachman, J. Beard, R. Sommer, CLASS 5. B0-yard dash- Heasty, Ulman. Mackall Standing broad Jump--Cothran, J. Rice, Mackall “Three-letyed race-C. Henderson and J Casker, W: Whitehead and Biair Lee, Hows and Gill. Relay—0. Henderson, Kaufiman, Heasty and Mackall hoe race -Blair Les. Cannon, L. Massey. Ball throw—E. Beard, O. Henderson, Drinkard. Running broad Sump—Cothran, Jordan, Mackall, CLASS 6. ard dash-—E. Dougherty, Brand, J. py tanding broad jump—R. Dougherty, Dry- den. Wood. race—J. Birchby and Rawls, d, E. Dougherty Dryden; Relay—I erty, Rawls, Brand and irchby. 2 ge race—F. Balsley, J. Birchby, E. Dougherty Ball throw—Qarnett. Wood. E. Dougherty broad Jump—Dryden, Rawls, ALL CLASSES. Bterrett. Rudd, Dilley, Hazard, MeGee, Wil- mimer. H. 8mith of war—Bechman. Flather, E. Crum- packer. J. Orumpacker, J. Davis, J_Beard, Hills, McDaniel. E. Rafter, W. Bogley Running Dougherty. VENING . STAR, s WASHINGTON: % D.e C1a SATURDAY . JUNE T, 1929 SPORTS. NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE IMPROVES AS IT GOES ON There appears to he small doubt, that there will be a great race in the National League this season. The farther it goes the better it looks. Not only does it look as if four first-division teams might come home under a blanket, but the sec- ond-division teams are likely to be bunched. Boston has taken somewhat of a nose dive lately, but the Braves will win some more ball games, and their good start will alwavs be an asset, no matter where they finish. CLASH TOMORROW N CITY NET FINALS | Four Title Matches Sched- uled at Reservoir—Play Semi-Finals Today. INAL play in the men’s and | women’s singles and men's and women’s doubles in the City of Washington tennis | champlonships will be staged to- morrow on the Sixteenth Street Reservoir courts. The title round |in the mixed doubles will not be reached until next week. | An unusually attractive card was | | scheduled today finals bring- | Ing together crack players listed in all| | divisions except the mixed doul Competition yesterday was confined | en’s play Judd and Holt de | feated Mitchell and Buchanan, public parks champions, 1—6, 7—5, 6—2, after the latter had disposed of Seldel and | Staubly, 7—5, 4—6, 6—4. O'Neil and | Fowler brushed aside Ladd and Ballen | ger, 6—1, 6—3, and Majs. Hobbs and Hills, Army title holders, pointed the way to Rutley and Howenstein, 6—4, | 6—2, in other matches in this division. | All the encounters in the women's doubles and the lone match in the| mixed doubles were decided in straight | sets. Today's schedule and yesterday's re- sults: TODAY'S SCHEDU Men's singles, semi-finals—2 p.m., Mangan vs. Mitchell; Judd vs. Charest Wanen's 'singles. semi-finais-—3:30 pm., Miss Krucoff vs. Miss Dunham; Miss Moor- head vs. Miss Frazier. Men's’ doubles, semi-finals—3:30 pm., O'Nell-Fowler vs. Hobbs-Hills; 5 p.m.. Man- 10:30 am., san-Considine vs. Judd-Holt Women's doubles, semi-finials Rowan vs. Miss Martine:- 5 p.m. Miss Moorhead- Miss Norment-Mis Miss Kingsbury Miss Jansen vs. Miss Ki 1iss Dunham, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Men’s doubles, second round—Mitehell and Buchanan defeuted Seidel and Staubls, 7-5, 46, 6—4. Third round—Judd and Holt de- feated Mitcnell and Buchanan. 16 75 6—2: O'Nell and Fowler defeated Ladd arld Ballenger, 61, 6—3; Hobbs and Hills de- feated Rutley and Howenstein, 64, 62, Women's doubles, first round —Moorhiead and Jansen defeated Wymore and Taylor, | 6-3. cond round- Norment and Rowan_defeated Detwiler and Irwin. 61, 6-4; Martiner. and Kingsbury defeated King and ‘Meyers, 8-6, 6-1; Moorhead and Jav sen defeated Graham and Wooden, 6 6—1;_Krucoff and Dunham defeated Jolle: and Ryan, 6-1, 7—5. Mixed doubles,” first round—Frazier and Hills defeated Wilhelmsen and Ober, 6-2, ’ BOYS’ NIGHT PROGRAM Boys’ night will be celebrated tonight at the Jewish Community Center when Joe Judge, first baseman of the Wash- ington base ball team, will be & guest of honor. There will be several boxing bouts. Leroy Bordeau and Jocko Miller, the Center's South Atlantic champions in the light lightweight and in the lightweight divisions; Joe Lesser, unde- feated batamweight, and Mike Tar- dugno, one of the city's leading feather- weights, will show their wares. The pro- gram will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Motion pictures of championship | sports evenls of the past ten years will be shown. There will be & swimming meet between the Center Juniors and the Y. M. C. A. Juniors and to close the evening the entire assemblage will be | invited to take a dip in the Center awimming pool., | track when | Bradley colt having a heart it was dis- ROY JOHNSON, EORGE MORIARTY (Big League Umpire). HE most absorbing topic among | ball players of the American league as the pennant race biazes is the relative merits of outfielders Johnson, Detroit, | acd Avel Cleveland. ‘These fly-chasers were teammates in San Francisco last Summer. They now are enjoying their first fling in | the majors, and judging by their sen- | sational performances they have & long stay there ahead of them. ‘The American League players are | about evenly divided regarding the r spective abilities of these outfielde I have heard several high-salaried BY | scouts enter the discussion, and they, too, are divided. A Cyclone on Bases, Johnson 15 Tipping things wide open for Detroit. He has a pleasing quality f showmanship. No other American League. player surpasses him in fleet- ness on the bases or in the fleld. His Tigers. spikes play a tatloo on the turf when he is going at top speed. | Johnson” won over the Detrolt fans In his first, few weeks of play. He has | an exceptional throwing arm, and wings the ball on a line instead of on a bound to the bases. That always | is a spectacular bit. Both Johnson | and Averill are comfortable .300 batter: Averill produces about the same re- sults, and doesn't give the impression that he is extending himself. He has a great arm, and runs like a gale. At bat Averili levels his bludgeon, and | takes a graceful but wicked cut at the Some batters foul too many pltches. Not so Averill. He gets plece of it” whenever he elects to swing, and the ball usually is met in solid fashion and headed somewhere between the foul lines. Of a score of tried outflelders | Averill is the only one who qualifies | to fill the shoes of Tris Speaker, and just now it looks as if those shoes | would be filled amply. | ball HUGGINS Robhertson and Durocher Today—Yankee BY WILLIAM come in handy on the bank: i not altogether fiew, faces w stance. in the line-up. Miller Huggins admitted this | forces retreated to home fortificat While confessing that Meu: either of the last two games in due to no mistake in handing in t social interest. third b t td. He disclosed all this juggling with the attitude of some one who intends to close his eyes and hope for the best, topping off hi: tion that he would bench even Ruth if the exigencles of the situation seemed to demand it. First Shake-Up for Bob. est since the seventh-place year of 19: It included Bob Meusel for the first | time since the big Californian joined the club in 1920. The desire of Mr. Huggins to get a new deal for the Yankees no doubt was inspired in part by the pranks the Athletics have been playing. Fighting fire with fire in a sort of curtain-raiser to general outbreak of intersectional strife scheduled today, League lenders matched hard knocks Billy Evans, general business man- | With the Tigers at Shibe Park yester- ager of the Cleveland club, showed rare |92V, Due to a ninth-inning ambush of judgment in Janding Averill . He |Eddle Rommel, who nevertheless | made @ special trip to the Pacific Conss | €scaped with his life, the Bengals out. last. Winter for this sole purpose. Other |$hone the Macks on safe hits by 15 to clubs liked Averill, but when it came |14 but Mr. McGillicuddy marched to the actual purchase they failed to |Screncly from the premises with the put the money on the line. It will |decision in runs, 9 to 6. be interesting to- follow tne struggle. |, ThiS victory stretched the Athletic Averlll and Johnson are waging: for | 1°ad to five games over the Browns and Supremacy. Just now It seerss o be | O elght over the Yankees. Jimmy Foxx EARL AVERILL, Indians. again won the hitting halo with hi ninth home run, a triple and a single. ‘I—/i(:tory in Withers Boosts; Blue Larkspur’s Stock for Belmont BY ORLO L. ROBERTSON, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 1.—In atoning for his poor Ken- tucky Derby showing by winning the Withers Me- morial day feature, Blue Lark- spur has given Kentucky a real treat in the rich Belmont stakes to be run at Belmont Park next Saturday. The thrusting of the son of Black Servant-Blossom Time into the $70,000 Belmont picture changes the aspect of hat heretofore appeared to be an ustern-controlled race. Blue Larkspur clearly demonstrated his liking for a dry tepped the mile in the Withers in the sensational time of 1:36, the fastest mile of the season and only two-fifths of a second off the track rec- ord. If there ever was any doubt about the | | pelled in that thrilling trial to Belmont Stakes run before 40,000 persons Thurs- day. Like a true son of his great sire, he came from behind to outgame two other great 3-year-olds, Chestnut Oak and Jack High, in a driving finish, And the 1';-mile route of the Bel- mont appears to be made for E. R. Bradley's Standard Bearer. When he finished the Withers’ mile he was going stronger than either Chestnut Oak or Jack High, which faltered in the final | strides after setting a burning pace to the final sixteenth pole. But if Jack High and Chestnut Oak were the only two horses to face the pride of Kentucky in the Belmont, Blue Larkspur would have easy salling. In defeat they looked good, and at a longer distance the tables may be turned. Then | there also is Dr. Freeland, W. J. Sal mon’s great router which won the Preakness, but finished fourth in the ‘Withers, 8 lengths back of Jack High. Some “experts” claim this big son of Light Brigade will find the longer route much more to his liking. Eligibility rules, which bar geldings, | will_prevent Clyde Van Dusen from clashing with the best of the East. If| Chaffee Earl decides to ship Naishapur East, and Panchlo joins the three D.'s stock-farm _contingent, now at Belmont Park, the Belmont Stakes starting list probably will include every leading 3- year-old barring Clyde Van Dusen. When it comes to handing out honors | 5-year-old gelding, Osmand, should come in for a good share. The great son of Sweeper yesterday accounted for | his seventh race since last May. The | only two times he failed to win he fin- ished out of the money. Winner of in excess of $150,000. Osmand is the third ranking money-winning gelding of all times on American turf. By the Associated Press. ELMONTE, Calif, June 1—A 19-year-old _ boy, who won paternal consent to his recent marriage and with a seat on the Los Angeles Stock Ex- change by trouncing his dad at golf, is a finalist for the 1929 California amateur champlonship along with a 40-year-old veteran of the links. Their 36-hole semi-final victories yes- terday were the greatest upsets of the present tournament. Francis Stevens, jr. of Los Angeles defeated Fay Cole- man, from the same city, 2 and 1, and Jack Neville, Monterey Peninsula Coun- try Club, edged out John McHugh, de- | fending champion from San Francisco, by the same score. In the background of these two matches are sketched bits of human | Blazing the BY ALAN J. GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor. HE New York Yankees, quite pos- sibly the greatest base ball team of all time, in the last two years have discovered & positive method of extracting most of the thrills from the world series. By taking eight successive games from National League opposition in this pe- riod, the athletes representing the house of Ruppert & Huggins have aroused concern as to when some opposing team will win a game, let alone a serles from them. The hufling of Pennock and the wild | pltch of ill-fated John Miljus in 1027, the tremendous hitting of Gehrig and Ruth, capped by the Babe's three home runs in the final game of the 1923 | serfes—these features have furnished ‘mmflhing to get & trifie excited about | competition to provide any real thrills. as big a thrill world series ever knew. as any L. Pl 0 Uhle, er Grimes, Firates. . Johnson, Cards . Grove, Athletics Haines, Cards 0 1.000 0 1,000 1 1 LEAGUE. [} 5 WESTE Preb othe s, ved out. 875 | 1857 tense, eager and emotional as the sev- enth and deciding game goes into extra | bird shot at 'em now. | Thirty-five thousand Washington fans, innings. The Glants fighting desperate; | as the Yankees have steam-rollered all | O back to 1924 and you will find | tobacco Old Barney Johnson out there on the hill beaten 1.000 , twice before by the Giants, but hurling Sports Trail | that preceded the championship. The | Nationals spurred on by their first pen | nant, fighting back just as flercely be- | hind their beloved pitcher. Johnson, in | danger, but with enough of the old | “smoke” left to save him. Then the| twelfth, Earl McNeely's $50,000 hit that bounded over Freddy Lindstrom’s head and scored the winning run. Ofd Bar- ney and the Nationals triumphant. Fans delirious with joy. A celebration that lasted into the early hours of the next | morning and which for sheer riotous | outburst of feeling rivalled that of Ar- mistice day. No world's serles trlumph ever has been geined under more dramatic cir- ! cumstances. It was ghe peak for John- son, 23 great a popular favorite as ary in the game's history. The following | jear, 1025, et Pitisburgh and agoin in | the "final’ game, the Big Train was battered to defeat by the Pitisburgh Pirates as he tried to turn in his third { triumph, A | | | I | { e | NOTHER year and another picture, | The herolc mantle shed by John- son Is picked up by the rawboned, | chewing Nebraskan, Grover Cleveland Alexander, the man who had been “sold down the river” to Louis by the Chicago Cubs for mis- vior. “Old Pete,” as the players know him, is in rare form, twice stopping the Yankee sluggers, his second victory in the sixth game, deadlocking the series and forcing it to the limit once more. Comes the seventh—and drama again. Jess Haines has a sore b after Wins Bride and Sjtock Exchange | able to swing a club. He has stroked a | brilliant path through this tourney in | interest almost without parallel in golf. Stevens entered the tournament unsung and unheraided, but Temained to brush aside favored opponents in three of his four matches. Four weeks ago he broached the subject of marriage to his father, and wes informed that consent depended on the result of an 18-hole match. He not only defeated the senior member of the Stevens family, but did such & thorough job of it that a seat on the exchange was added to the matrimonial detail of the agreement. Neville, four times winner of the State crown, was a star before his prospective opponent of tomorrow was | a remarkable comeback that yesterday saw him put out the favorite, McHugh, | holder of the champlonship for the past | Lwo years. | has pitched a full game the day be- fore, but he is back again to face Lazzeri, the hard-hitting young Italian, with two out, and the Yankees only one run behind. A roar goes up for the veteran. New York appreciates its dramatic circumstances, win or lose. One strike. A foul drive, savagely hit, that is only a few feet from being fair and breaking up the ball game. Two strikes. A viclous swing for the third strike and Lazzerl is out, the Yankees stopped and the game Jjust about clinched. | A mighty rosr agatn. Old Pete | shuffles in to the bench, doffs his| ilfitting cap, tal a drink. All in a day's work for him, but he has| aved the series and, as Jobnson did| for Washington, given St. Louls its first world’s championship. It has always been such achieve- ments as these that have lifted the base ball classic to its heights. Baker, Ruth, Gehrig and the other great hit- ters have had their day, but the pitch- ing feats of Mathewson, Adams, Coombs, Coveleski, Pennock, Johnson and Alex- ander will be more often recalled. ! | VET BUREAU MEN WIN. Veterans' Bureau took Agriculture to | camp, 9 to 3, in a Colored Departmental | Leogue base ball league game, SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Pensacola. 5; Tampa. 8 Montsomery, 7. Jacksouville, 2. Selma, 12; Golumbus, 15 (10 innings). SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION. Augusta. 6: Greenville, 5. Knoxvilie. 4-3; Charlotte. Macon. 4" Spartansburg. Asheville-Colimbia. rain TEXAS LEAGUE. Dallas, 7: Shreveport. 6 Port’ Worth, 11; Wichita Palls, 8. Houston at San Antonto. rain. Waco, 4; Beaumont, 2. 57, 1 - filling the bases with Yankees. Out 1v, keen to offset the stigma of scandal of the gloom shuffies Old Peie. He SAM WESTS PLAY GEORGETOWN NINE QGeorgetown and Sam West nines, both of which won their first games in the insect division of the Capital City Base Ball League last week, will clash tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock on Monument diamond No. 9. Two Flmes were listed among the in- sects today. Gallagher A. C., was to make its debut against Clyde Milan | A. C. and Brookland Boys' Club and Eastern All-Stars were to face. Both games were carded for the South El- lipse diamond. A contest scheduled be- tween Lionel and Corinthian nines has | been postponed on request of the latter team. No further postponements will be permitted, league officials have an- | nounced. Delano Post nine is now tied with Lincoln and George Washington Posts for second place in the American egion series race of the Capital City League as the result of a 9-8 triumph over Wal- | cott tossers. Each of the runner-up teams now has won two games and lost one. Delano won yesterday by scoring two runs in the last inning after Wal- cott had tallied once to gain the lead. Southern Railway eked out & 3-2 win over Post Office in & Terminal Railroad | Y. M. C. A. League game that was the most interesting staged in week-day league play here yesterday. G. P. O. conquered Navy, 4 to 1 in the Government League; Big Print Shop was a 11-5 winner over Chestnut Farms Dalry in the Industrial League and Naval Hospital cleaned up with Agri- culture, 21 to 2, in the Departmental League. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Paul. 6: Minn Louisville, 8; Indin Milwaukee, 2; Kansas INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Jersey City. 7. Newark, 4. Rochester, 12: Toronto. 11. Baltimore, 14; Reading, 9. COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Baton Rouse, 4: El Dorado, 5. Vicksburg, 11: Laurel, 7. Monroe. 8: Meridian. 8. Jackson, 3; Alexandria, 8. FASTERN LEAGUE. Albany. 6 Providence. 2. Bridgeport, 5; Sprincficld, 8. Hartford. 8; New Haven, 7. Allentown, 4; Pittsfield, 3. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. 15; Salisbury. 5. oro, 18; Henderson. 3. High Point, 7; Winsion Balem, 6, SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta. 1 Inv Birmingham, 2 " New Orleans, 4. Mobile. 8. . . Exhibition Games. New York Yankees, 8; Chambers- burg, 1. Chicago White Toledo (A. A), New York Gilants, 11; St. Bonaven- San’ Franei Los Angeles, Sox, 8. ture, & | signing an opponent for Otto von Porat, | the taxpayers highly dissatisfied. PYLE RUNNERS FACE 42-MILE DIRT ROAD By the Associated Press. DUNCAN, Ariz, June 1—The sixty- third lap of the Pyle bunion derby to- day takes the 19 surviying runners over 42 mil ! AT ey o B Tt Aty various details will be standing | 5 Pagl Slmpecn; Horls ) on the backs of thelr necks. Iekeiboy, Wi eI s ik |In addition to the usual base ball tur- from Lordsburg, N. Mex, in 4:57:50, | moil, racing, etc. June closes out with Giusto Umek. Iialy, was second. Pete | the Schmeling-Paulino fight, the U. S. Gavuzzi of England, leader in elapsec | OPen golf championship, the boat race time, and Johnny Salo, Passaic, N. at Poughkeepsie and the Yale-Harvard tied for third place. clash at New London. The leade; The golf champlonship, the two boat 1-Date: Clavustls ? ; races and the heavyweight elimination 3John SHOVRLIIE N BT, [l take place in less than 10 days. oSN Umecks, G G s Any survivors after this hurricane is 5—Paul Simpson, Burlington, N. |over will be sent to the mountains or {0 the sea to recuperate. 447:10:43, | Ten-Round Fights. FOEMAN FOR VON PORAT ! O ring bate of auy importance ls SOUGHT BY HARMON‘MQstShGUd be limited to 10 rounds. of these 10-round _affairs have CHICAGO, June 1 LHE SPO The Dizzy Month. Y the time this month is over the average camp follower of sport and those who record the | finished with the argument in an un- () —Except for | decided state and with the mafjority of The Norwegian heavyweight, Promoter Paddy | announcement. that any fight is to be | to veteran thoroughbreds J. E. Widener's | Harmon's line-up of 10-round bouts for | for only 10 rounds indicates in advance | that it isn't highly important in any | respect. A 10-round fight is nearly always indecisive and unsatisfactory. The two principals just about siert to warm up when the final bell rings. The place to prove any superior stuff is through the last 5 rounds of a 15-round contest. The late La- barba-Chocolate meeting was a fair sample. Few of the judges or critics ever agree on_how the rounds went in any close fight, but they have a better chance to reach some faner agreement at 15 rounds, where class as well as stamina has a betten chance to show liself thoroughly. At the prices being charged, 15 rounds is short enough. It has been said that many of the fights are so bad that 10 rounds are long enough. That might |also be said for one round. But the only way to prove a verdict Is to give them the longer route. Hagen and the U. S. Open. DEAR SIR: It has been since Walter Hagen was last. able |to win the United States open cham- | pionship. vears he has captured the British open | four times. What in your opinion, is June 7 today was complete. Harmon yesterday signed Von Porat, and is seeking Jack Renault or Ernie Schaff as his opponent. Two other 10- rounders already have been arranged, Earl Mastro, Chicago featherweight, meeting Midget Mike O'Dowd of Colum- bus, Ohio, and Luis Vicentini, Chilean lightweight, taking on Tommy Grogan, Omaha puncher, Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 1—Vir-| |glas A. C. and the Georgetown Blues | of Washington, a newly organized | unlimited club,“will play here tomor- | row afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Ship- |yard fiel 3 Del Ray A. C. will give & dance in | the Potomac Town Hall tonight to | raise funds to purchase new base ball | equipment. ~ Carlos McCullough is | chairman of the dance committee. The suburban tossers will entertain the Savage A. C. on Edward Duncan field tomorrow at 3 o'clock. No. 5 Motor Co. won & 4-to-3 de- | successes abroad? cision from the Warrenton A. C. in a| My own idea is that Hagen has | Memorial day en ®| the British field stymied from the Favas . AR BRI || L L ritiaiava senciiha e Haig perform so many great feats St. Mary's Celtics and, the Bolling — = = Pleld Aviators were to play here t afternoon at 4 o'clock in Baggett Park. The Aviators dropped a de- cision to the Celtics last season, 5 to j«. and are anxious to avenge the in- ury. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS 'NEW SANDLOT NINE SEEKS OPPONENTS | White Sox A. C. is the name of a new unlimited division team which has been | organized by Edward D. Coleman, who has resigned as the manager of the fonroe A. C. nine. Coleman is ar- ranging games for the Sox either on their home diamond at .Brookland or for out-of-town fields. He can be | reached at North 6238, American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadeiphia. 9: Detroit. 6. STANDING OF THE CLUBS | A game between Bolling Pield and Potomac A. C. nines scheduled for to- | morrow has been canceled. | = | Indian Head Cardinals have nounced they are forced to cal | their_scheduled contest tomorrow with the War Department nine. Phila'phia St. Louis w New York Washin'to, > B oston & Won 1s/Detroit 32 Percentage an- T o Lost 3 T8i11: 25 731731_820i16/.556 "61-20 3124/31 "21°2(191201.487 611/ 215261366 | Pecrless White Sox, who were to face T17117571/ 16 31— 2013231361 | Try-Me Aces today on the West Ellipse 2711 4170/ 1/ 11 211127239 | diamond at 3 o'clock, will meet Mocse 115116121(20/26123(27) A. C. tomorrow on Fairlawn Field. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. St. L. at Washington. St. L. at Washincton Chicago at N. Y. Chicago at N. York Cleveland at Boston. Cleveland at Boston. Detroit at Phila. 3 jCleveland Chicago_ | A game for tomorrow is sought by Lucky Strike Peewees. Call West 1144-J | Gaithersburg Independents are cast- {ing about for a game tomorrow with a nine having a diamond. Farl Burdette {is listing for the Independents at | Gaithersburg 72 between 3 and 8 p.m. Scoring heavily in the late innings Twin Oaks triumphed over Iroquois nine. The winners seek an unlimited ifoe for tomorrow. Call Adams 561, National League. YFSTERDAY'S R! Philadelphia. 10: Piltsb Bt. Louis. 8; €incinnati, 1 ANDING OF THI the eleventh inning Libertys triumphed {over Chevy Chase in a midget division | game, 15 to 13. Percentage 3 Boston w Brooklyn 31131261151.634 2072/ 4123/141.622 2073/ 4/22(141.611 7151 2/181171.514 641 01171171.500 | 407 11151231.305 170,010/ 61 41 31—} 21141221.389 -1 207107311731 2] 1/—1121261.316 e 118114/14)17117/23,22126/— | GAMES TODAY. ~GAMES TOMORROW. Bosion at Cincinnatl. Boston at Cincinaa'i Rrooki/n at & L. Brookiva at St Lowis Yorid' ot chicako. N ¥ork 3 Phila. at Piltsburgh, sopik adhoeatiip (RIRINIXY 1_3i_1i 11 31 By the Associated Pre: FORT SNELLING, Minn.—Dick Dan- iels, Minneapolis, knocked out Tom Pi- vac, St. Leuis (5); Honeyboy Conroy, St. Paul. outpointed Benny Stanley Kansas City (8). Habitues of the Ruppert ramparts may strain | their eyes, but they won't find Bob Meusel, for in- today under cover of benevclent d: Mr. Mark A. Koenig, he said, w emarks with the asser- | The Yankee shake-up was the great- | the American | 10 years | But during that span of | | the reason for his failure at home and | Coming through with three runs in | nch’ DECLARES BABE ISN'T SAFE IF HE LAGS Are Slated to Play Infield hake-Up Greatest Since Club Finished Seventh in 1923, J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports W HOSE gargantuan numbers on the backs of the Yankees will s of the Harlem today. Scme of the boys are going to be missing, and strange, if vill appear in their stead. as his shattered ions before dawn rkness. failure to start Washington was he batting order, the midget manager surrendered other items of ould give up asing for a time in favor of Gene Robertson, the bench hand. Leo Durocher also would replace Mr. Lynford Lary at shortstop, Corpl. Hugg s con- : 3 Miller Hugein Howard Ehmke started, but left the game after gaining a good lead in seven Innings. Owen Carroll and Emil Yde offered no puzzle to Athletic batsmen. Other American League clubs were en- gaged yesterday in moving their forces | to the sccnes of today's battles. Cardinals Regain Lead. Only two skirmishes took place along | the Natlonal League front, but these nevertheless offered the Cardinals & | chance to regain the lead, which they did. The Red Birds again repulsed Cincinnatl without frills or ceremony this time by 8 to 1, es the heavy guns of the Phillies fired a broadside which sent the Pirate craft to the bottom. { The figures were 10 to 7. The result of these baitles sent the Cardinals into first place again, with a margin of one game over the Corsafrs. | The Cards cleaned up five straight against the unhappy henchmen of Hendricks, regaining almost all the | ground they lost while dropping four jout of five to Pittsburgh. Fred Frank- { house pitched for St. Louis yesterday. The Philly victory over the Pirates | was marked by Chuck Klein's twelfth {home run and Frank O'Doul's tenth. Klein took the inter-league lead. Claude lellaushby was unable to finish, but f) on, RTLIGHT y GRANTLAND RICE along their fairways that they be- lleve him & practitioner of the black arts and are beaten before they start. Walter has much the same hold upon the professioral brigade of America, and may be called the complex of professional golf. | But, I believe that Hagen has an in- | surmountable complex in the American |open in Robert Tyre Jones. He ha never won an open title when Jon‘ “'a! competing with him in the same fl_eld and has led Bob ve few times |either at home or abroad. I believe that in Jones, Hagen sees his superior; the one man ‘'who always is capable of throwing Walter's fastest round back |In his face and bettering it. I may be | entirely wrong. You may have some better explanation and I would like to | hear it. OVERLAND RED. The Return of Bucky Harris, EAR SIR: Bucky Harris no longer | is ®ie “boy manager” of base ball, | but he is still a very capable base bali |leader. He has the Detroit Tigers up | there fighting for the lead in the Amerie |can League race. and how the turn- | stiles at Dunn Field ere spinning. Do not laugh at this, but Detroit might win the American League pennant. The Tigers always have been a poor Spring team and usually were so far down at June 1 that the fine drives of Midsummer were lost. This year Harris has the Bengals around the top in Mid-May, and it they can put on_their cusiomary late season rush, Detroit will be a contender down fo the last game. No team with sluggers like Heilmann, | Fothergill and Johnson; Alexander, Gehringer and McManus, can be taken lightly. If George Uhle can find some pliching aid, Detroit’s ball club will be us good as there is in the league. | J.F.K. | The early rumor ihat New York was |to have another exclusive world series | this year remains unverified. One trouble about. golf medicine is that a cure that will work one day may not work the next. And if it doesn’t work the next it is promptly abandoned in the search for another cure. Just about one out of ten will quali- |ty for the next United States open at Winged Foot, and this means that nine out of ten will be explaining the num- ber of short puits they missed. (Copyright, 1920.) \WHITE HAVEN TEAM " TAKES ON AVIATORS White Haven A. C. one of th sturdiest base ball teams hereabout] will meet the Bolling Fleld tossers to- morrow at Bolling Field at 3 o'clock/ In their latest engagement the Hav managed by Ray J. Kaldenbach, quished the I s denbach's charges are planning ) strong bid for the Condult road cham- plonship and probably will meet thel winner of the series between Foxall A. C. and National Press Building Cardi-| | nals, which now stands even at one| victory each. Vienna, Va, Fire Department nine has a diamond, but no game for to- morrow. Manager Phillips is handling challenges at Main 76. | — Avenue Valet Shop tossers, who were booked to meet Miller Aztecs this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Monument Diamond No. 4, are after a game for| tomorrow h an unlimited class nine, Call Mike Freschi at Franklin 9511, Following their ,10-t0-7 victory over Calhoun A. C., their seventh straight,| Red Shields are after more opposition. Manager Gearing may be reached at Main 9672 After bei game by S b osed_out_in a 10-to-9 Peter’s, Try-Me Aces came to bsat the same team, 15 to 0, | A game for tomorrow with an unlim.| ited division nine is sought by Won-| der Bokers, Manager Dennison may be reached at Lincoln 10490, branch) 107-North, during the day. nent Plasterers are gunning for an class _opponent for tomor- Manager Jim McClellan may b i reached at West 1730-W. § Avalon Eagles, who squeczed out 17-6 victory over Langdo yesterda: | are booking at.Atlantic 1753-J. © row 1 Webeo Insect class nines li:s afternoon at 3 o'cloci pse diamond.