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Sports News - @he Fuoening Starf Classified Ads WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1929 PAGE 29 Liska’s Return Apt to Boost Nationals : “Slide Ball” Makes Uhle Tiger Sensation WITH AD READY TO HURL MOUND PROBLEM PASSES Submariner, Slated to Face Browns Tomorrow After Long Lay-off Due to Injury, Is Expected to Round Out Winning Slabbing Corps. BY JOHN B. KELLER. DOLPH LISKA is ready to pitch once more, according to Man- ager Walter Johnson and Adolph himself, and he will be sent into action tomorrow, when the Nationals wind up their series with the Browns, the manager says. This may mean much to the Nationals, who have been fighting desperately, but making no progress, with a sadly crippled pitching staff for some time. Had Liska been available while the Washington club was playing its last nine games with the Athletics, Manager Johnson might have realized more from his hurling corps. But with the recruit submfriner, accounted a regular-turn artist from the season’s start, laid up with a sprained ankle for more than two weeks after the Nationals returned from the West, the | pilot was forced to work his pitchers out of turn, and the club really is fortunate in not suffering more than 11 lickings in its last 15 starts. Liska's return gives the Na- tionals at least three fairly de- pendable starting hurlers, now that Irving Hadley at last seems to have reached the pitching form | he was supposed to have at the | McGow outset of the campaigning. Gar- | ¥ land Braxton, Hadley and Liska | constitute what should be a strong | trio, and there’s Fred Marberry | at hand to start games when hc | isn’t called on to do the great| amount of relief hurling he had | to do while the box staff was shot |, to pieces. : | Even though Sam Jones still is trying | to get the kinks out of his left side and | - abdominal muscles and may not be| SQUEEZING TO WIN T. LOUIS. e.” 3b. b1 | marsmrswned Melillo, Kress, ss.. Blaeholder, p. Totals wwwanonul | soooscomaR ol comoonmna® 5| wwnoosson> olosossc00e™ = WASHINGTON. AT i o available for duty for some days, the Nationals probably are far better equipped in a pitching way than they were at the beginning of the American League scrapping. Liska from the start has been rated the pitching find of the year in the majors. Braxton has been going great guns the past two weeks, and Hadley, having gone a route—and a_ tough one—to victory after many efforts, very likely will make trouble for the Washington club’s rivals from now on. Reserves May Help. Back of these the Nationals have the Jeft-handers, Bob Burke and Lloyd Brown, who may prove much more| helpful than they have in the past. ‘Burke has looked better with each ap- pearance, while Brown, once he ac- quires control, should puzzle many bat- ters. Yes, the Nationals' pitching pros- pects are much brighter these days than in the first part of the season— 80 much so that Manager Johnson no lgnger has to sit up at night trying to re who he will send to the hill the next day. “This rejuvenation of the pitching staff may bolster the game of the Nationals in general, although lately the club has batted gamely, despite the hurling luck. ‘The many reverses suffered since the return from the West has raifed to take" the heart out of the Washington band. It has fought whole-heartedly—and often brilliantly—in the past two weeks, but almost always with fate against it. Gameness, and plenty of it, is needed to battle back always when a club is repeatedly licked, as were the Nationals by the Athletics. And the Nationals never faltered. They entered the un- Hadley’s Fine Hurling Backed By Squeeze for 2-1 Victory HIS Irving Hadley can pitch. The Washington__club _has some bunters. These were made known yesterday at Griffith Sta- out the Browns, 2 to 1, in just about the most interesting base ball game played here this season. Hadley, after taking his licking most regularly since the beginning of the season and never finishing anything he started, performed like the capable itcher he can be, and went a route to is initial victory of the campaign. Bump allowed the Browns but five safeties and two s, course of the pastiming struck out seven. dium, when the Nationals nosed | After the first inning, in which the | Browns did their scoring, the going was not al smooth for Bump. The first two Browns to bat in the fifth frame got on the runway at one time, but then a double play relieved the situa- tion after Hadley had hurled a third strike by George Blaeholder. In the sixth, when the Browns re-| sorted to bunting, Heinie Manush beat out & tap with one gone, but he was hooked when he tried to swipe second as Fred Schulte missed the ball with a vicious swing. It was well Manush was hooked, for Schulte with his next swing tripled. But Fred was stranded at third base, for Capt. Joe Judge deftly snared Wally Schang's liner to retire the side. And in the next three rounds the Howleymen were retired in order. For seven innings the Nationals had gleaned but five hits and a pass off Blaeholder. He was pitching good ball, . Goose Goslin had made two of the hits—one a double and the other a triple—but no one could help him. And in the seventh, when the Nationals clustered two_safeties and had two on bases with only one out, Blaeholder was too much for them. It was a pass to Buddy Myer, though, that paved the way to a tying tally. It was issued at the start of the eighth, and Sam Rice followed with a two- bagger, driven under Red Kress, St. Louis shortstop, to score Buddy. Then in the ninth it was revealed that the Nationals have some bunters. Joe Cronin began the round with a lusty double, driven to the right-field corner. Judge, with a neat_sacrificial tap, moved Joe to third. Here Man- ager Johnson sent in Stuffy Stewart to run for Cronin, for Stuffy is_much faster afoot than Joe. The Browns clustered about Blacholder and much powwowing ensued, but what they told him did not help their cause at all. Jack Hayes, sent up with orders to bunt, let a widé pitch go by, to be called “Ball one.” Then Blaeholder served a hook that cut the heart of the plate, and the game was over. Stewart, rushing toward the plate with the pitch, was across with the winning run before Hayes' bunt reached the pitcher. It Was the finest type of squeeze play. It really looked as though Stewart| might have scored even had Hayes missed the ball, so fast did he move in from the far corner. And Hayes got a hit with his bunt, for Blaeholder, after picking up the ball, found no one at first_to take a throw. much urging by Schang, the pitcher shot the ball to Lu Blue, but Lu was yards off the sack when he got the sphere, and Hayes was across it. Cronin ran his consecutive game hit- ting streak to 15 games when he singled in the seventh inning yesterday. went to a three-and-two count time before meeting the ball. Prior to bunting a single in the sixth, and in the| Finally, after | § Joe L ulnesensaasntt ol sssusuennsl U ondmmnannd ul somunuosser ol cocsoscesslt Totals xOne out when winning run_scored. zRan for Cronin in ninth inning. St. Louis .............. 1000000001 Washington 000000011-2| Runs batted _in_Rice. Manush, Haves. | g ase hits—Goslin, Heyes, Rice, Cronin. | base hits—McGowan, Goslin,' Schulte ces—Rice. Judge. ' Double plays— | Cronin to Haves to_Judge: Melillo to Kress. | St. Louss, 4 Washington. 7. | Braeholder, | Blacholder. | Umpires_— Messrs. W onnolly nd Campbell. Time of game—l hour and 4 minutes. e e hr Sacri Left on b B WHEN THE GRIFFS EKED OUT THAT 2-1 SABBATH WIN OVER THE BROWNS Cronin sliding safely into third on Judge's sacrifice following his double in squeeze-play tap. Buddy Myer sliding home in safety on Rice’s bingle in the eighth with the tally that tied up the ball game. E Manush out trying a ringing triple. to steal second in sixth inning on Ruel's good heave to ninth inning. Stewart then ran for Cronin and scored winning run on Hayes' Crenin. This retirement proved helpful to the Griffmen, as Schulte followed with BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 2 St. Louis, 1. New York, 6; Chicago, 1. Boston, 13: Cleveland. 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Cleveland Washin'ton s/ Chicago | 2l Percentage BUCKY GIVES DOPE ONNEW DELIVERY | Other Bengal Pitchers Learn- ing Trick That Helped George Win 9 in Row. 8t L. at’Washington. St. 1 Chicago at. Chicago at N_ Y Detroit at Phila. Detroit at Phila. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 4; Chicago. 1. (Other games postponed—rain.) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. 8t Washipeton. i N_ Y. Cleveland at RBoston. Cleveland at Boston. ol New York | Brookiyn 2l Percentage GAMES TCDAY. Boston at Cincinnati Brooklyn at k. L. | N. York at Chicago. Phila. at Pittsburgh. N. York, at Ch Phila. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at Cincinnati Brooklyn at St. Louis. icago. at’ Pittsburgh. BY ALAN J. GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. | EW YORK, June 3.—The | Detroit Tigers owe a sub- 11 stantial portion of their early season progress to the good right arm of George Uhle. And George Uhle can at- tribute a good share of his bril- liancy in winning nine successive games to the perfection of a new delivery—the “slide ball.” That, at least, is the conviction of Bucky ' Harris, pilot of the famous champion Washington Senators of 1924-25, who is guiding the current destinies of th: Tigers for the first time. “Uhle has done wonders for us,” de- | clared Harris, now on his first Eastern swing. “Of course, he has everything, control and lots of stuff as well as a | fast ball whenever he needs it. But he has something new this season. You can call it a ‘slide ball.” It's neither a curve nor a fadeaway, but is a fast one that ‘slides’ away from a right-handed batsman as the ball nears the plate. Uhle perfected it this Spring. | “Sammy Gray, one of the mainstays | of the Browns, has developed something | like it and several of our pitchers are getting the hang of it, but Uhle is the | Reading Judge out at third on Ruel's attempted sacrifice in seventh inning. Joe failed to make it because he slid wide. AL LEAGUE. | only one getting real results.” Baltimore, 6-9. innings by agreement.) | Bucky Respects Yanks. - | After watching the Athletics batter it | his club to defeat twice in a row on | Friday and Saturday, Harris was quite ct; | willing to share the View of critics who :838 | see the pennant prospects of th» Mack- 24 | men through rose-coiored glasses. 24| “Connie has a great ball club, but I 3% | think it will be a much closer race in {405 | the American League this year than a* 385 any time since the Yankces gained the ascendency over my old Washing- ton Club. “Don't make any mistakes abous counting the Yankees out now. They have too much power to be discounted, even though they. are far below the spo; INTERNATIO! Jersey City, 11-0; (Second e game 7 Newark, 10; Reading, Buffalo, 8; Toronto. Rochester, 6; Montrea Standing. Rochester Orioles ... Toronto . Newark Montreal Buffalo Jersey City. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 5. 7-2; Sacramento. 5-4. Francisco, 6:5: Portiand, 0 i Los_Angeles. 4. 376" Oakiand, 10-0 even fight—uneven because of their pitching_inferiority—daily like a vic- torious instead of a beaten battalion, and almost daily carried the fight right to the finish. Five of the nine games they lost to the Athletics were lost only by a run._No yielding without struggle | there. The opposition ever to strive earnestly for what it gained. A Fighting Club. Now, with better pitching the Na- tionals may play more like they did during their exhibitions in the training they were rated as flag contenders by virfually all who saw them in action against the clubs of the senior major eague. These days the Washington club is a club with a fighting heart, no matter how many reverses it suffers. It can and does play a good game, and fortune cannot always be against such a spirited lot. | Manush, who last year gave Goslin a great race for the American League batting championship, had gone to bat ' 10 times without hitting safely. | Rice did a deal of legging to keep a I hit from Blue in the eighth. The right | fielder chased back to the scoreboard to drag down Lu's drive. Blaeholder had no fancy for Hadley's pitching. The St. Louis hurler twice fanned and once let a third strike go by to be called. Hayes got three of the Nationals’ eight safeties. In addition to his fine bunt in the ninth, Jack doubled in the fifth and scratched a single off Kress' hands in the seventh. Nearly 12,000 turned out for the Sun- day pastiming. They were given great | base ball entertainment. Both clubs | were on their toes all the way. Joe Engle, the wolf of the tank towns, is the proud possessor of a spiffy | new automobile. The scout of the Washington club was formally presented with the auto by representatives of a local concern while thousands in the stands at Griffith Stadium raved and Ichccred. |GOSLIN AND BOTTOMLEY DROPPED FROM BIG SIX By the Associated Press. The sensational work of Jimmy Foxx | | of the Athletics and of Frank O'Doul of the Phillies in leading the major leagues in batting entitles them to representa- | tion in the Bix Six, and as a conse- | quence they are admitted this morning | as Bottomley and Goslin are dropped. | The two new men, inactive though they were yesterday, occupy the first | iwo places in the standing. Lou Gehrig's twelfth home run was the Big Six feature yesterday. The standing: Athletics. Phillies Foxx, O Dol Hornsby, Gehrig, Cubs Yankees ner, Pirates.. P. We Ruth, Yankees (Including games played to date.) BATTING. R. H. 2b.3b HR.S.5B 37070073 g G | Flasst'd Rice. .. 3 Cronin. | RBI Pt A% 50 348 3 gt QEacouNCREHLaNe R DY s amo PR e [T ) S i Rue | Liska . Jomes. . 23 e Hopkins. Stewart 15 |Garrity '3 ©0055000630000001Hw 15=5: OO OO OBNwe s 0000000000 oNaRGRLSI G60T0OIHBOHEI NSNS aRIn 0000000000000 - D! ©00000NE OB §333333 IR PITCHING. Q Snavwaneayn Q oS uuasnaat Braxton. . ones ... salobaias! oo | S EERE RN S szgusLEtey PRI S ur !’({:D'(Inl ooncommna] cororuunaZ o aunewne * | at Wimbledon. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN Dress and Sports, T seems that they have come to the conclusion that it would be immodest, if not positively immoral, for the women tennis players in the British tour- nament to apj in the presence of Mrs. Boffin and the crowned heads d what not at Wimbledon without stockings. In fact, there has been almost as much furore about the very idea of such an exposure as there ‘been over the 3 ‘Washington.. The discussion has become so violent that Mies Helen Wills, who appeared | on the French courts on several occasions with no stockings whatever, has been | forced to make a statement on the subject. The statement is to the effect that she will wear stockings if they are compulsory in the rules of outdoor court as well as indoor court etiquette. The traditions of Wimbledon call for stockings for women tennis players, and if it called for Oregon boots they would be wearing them, too. At the current writing the women tennis players are less hampered by dress than men. The game demands freedom of limb play, and it strikes me that the costumes worn by the women tennis players give much more freedom than the costumes worn by the men. Certainly, the conven- tional long flannel trousers look as though they would hamper the action of athletes who have to move with much more speed than the lightly-clad boxers. I think that if somebody sets the fashion it will not be long before the men tennis players are wearing costumes about as abbreviated as those worn by the young men who practice the manly art of modified murder. The grandmothers of the women tennis players of today used to play the | game in hoopskirts and crinoline. After that they were impeded by long and | voluminous skirts. If I recall correctly, Mrs. Sutton Bundy won the champion- ship while wearing the tennis costume of the slightly post-Spanish-American War days. Probably in the very near future the women tennis players will be wearing a costume patterned after that worn by the girl track athlete Putting it frankly and disregarding the feelings of Mrs. Boffin entirely, this will amount to the wearing of shorts. At the current writing the notion of women wearing shorts at Wimbledon is not to be mentioned and not even to be thought of in public. While on this subject consider the difference between the costumes worn by the girl swimmers of today, compared with those worn by their grand- mothers. Look up some pictures of the bathing beauties of three generations ago. They run some of them now and then, when other illustrations fail to get laughs. In those costumes the wonder is not that the wearers could swim, but how they escaped drowning. I am wondering how far off Cape Gris-Nes Gertrude Ederle would have reached if she had been clad in a bathing costume that would have been compatible with the Victorian notions of modesty or even with the notions of the guardians of modesty at Wimbledon. It is only since women dispensed with some of the archaic notions as to what constitutes modesty in dress that they have been doing things in an athletic way. The tennis game of Helen Wills is faster than that of all but a few of the leading men players, and tke golf game of Miss Joyce Wethered and Miss Glenna Collett is close to being on & par with that of some of the leading male golt players reedom of dress the women have been devloping physically, there are no signs of any harking back to sartorial fetters. © One of thie days it will not only be proper, but fashionable, for women to shed stockings | mote elsewhere where there is more | room to promote. There is something significant in this. Gentlemen who claim to know insist that the Coliseum in Chicago is affiliated with the Madison Square Garden Corporation in the promo- tion of hockey and other sports, It was one of the projects of the Mad- ison Square Garden Corporation, sponsored by Tex Rickard, to es- tablish a chain store of arenas all over the country with the laudable and businesslike plan of cornering all the professional indoor sports of the country. There is a Madison_Square Garden Mr. Dempsey Is Deceitful. I'r is with deep pain that I note that Mr. Jack Dempsey hastbeen deceiv- ing his trusting and enthuslastic friends, the sports writers, all along. Mr. Dempsey admits this in his state- ment, giving the reasons why he has | several relations with .Signor Umberto | Fugazy and Old King Cole, the fight | promoters, who have not yet dbegun to | promote. They had no arena, whatever, Mr Dempsey announced, though they had told him they would have the Polo Grounds. “But it developed later,” Mr. Dempsey writes, “that they could not| 99 | confidence. get the Polo Grounds, and that the Polo Grounds were actually under the con- trol of other parties. You know in the city of New York there are few avail- able spaces. The three of us realized that fact at the time we made our contract. At first I was insistent that they should get a lease for such a site be- fore 1 would even sign the contract; then when the newspapers were carrying the story from day to day, and we were being pressed for news. we decided that, we would sign our agreement and we would put a pro- vision in that agreement which gave m> the right to terminate it if with- in two months from the date of the signing Fugazy and Cole were un- able to secure such a site for an arena.” But it scems that Mr. Dempsey did not take his trusting and enthusigstic friends, the sports writers, into his’ full He posed for the signing mures, and he managed to gather for self a considerable amount of bally- | ¥ hoo, which, it now seems, is to be wasted entirely. His excuse is that he was “pressed ) for news.” Perhaps the alibi is sound. The boys should cease pressing Mr. Dempsey for news—that sort of news at | any rate, The Chain_ Store System. T secems that Mr. Dempeey now plans to join the Coliseum forces in Chi- cago as a promoter, leaving Signor Um- berto Fugazy and King Cole to hold the bag. Some of the insist that this will not be mich of a strain for these t 1s wo , as the bag said to be nryhlllsht, which may or | may not have something to do Mr. Demgsey's decision to pro- ! trank in the first place with his pals, in Boston, and with the Coliseum af- filiation assured the professional sports magnates seem well on the way to realize Mr. Rickard's dream. Mr. Demp- sey, it would seem, then, is back with the old firm, the Madison Square Gar- den, only this time. he is performing the role of manager of the Chicago branch of the great caulifiower and ice trust. Mr. Dempsey might have been more the sports writers, who are now to look a little foolish because of Tx.'fl? faith in the statements of Dempsey. They should resolve never again to press the former heavyweight cham- pion for “news.” That seems to have caused all the misunderstanding. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS l BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE. Standing. S gerstown . tinsburg Chembersburg Erederick - Hanover Waynesboro EASTERN SHORE LEA Standing. A w=SBoE: L 7 9 1 1 4 5 UE. PR | o AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City, 11; Milwaukee 5. Minneapolis. 6: St. P BATSMEN. Player, Club, G. AB. R. H. Foxx, Athletics O'Doul, Phillies Hendrick, Robins . Cochrane, Athletic Stephenson, Cubs....36 138 29 51 . HOME RUN SLUGGERS. Kleir, Phillles, 137 Gehrlg, Yankees; 12; Simmons, Athletics, 11; Hafey, Car- dinals, 11; Ott, Giants, 1 RUN SCORERS. Douthit, Cardinals, 41; Gehringer, Tigers, 40; O'Doul, Phillies, 40; Thomp- son, Phillies, 40; Hass, Athletics, 40. BASE STEALERS. Cuyler, Cubs, 11; Frisch, Cards, 10; Swanson, Reds, 10; Herman, Robins, 9; Allen, Reds, 9; Flowers, Robins, 7. PITCHERS. . Pe. 1.000 1.000 1.000 875 857 Uhle, Tigers Grimes, Pirates. Johnson, Cards Grove, Athletics . Haines, Cards —_ B EASTERN LEAGUE. Providence, 9: Pittsfleld, 3. Albany. 5:' Allentown. 13-12 Springfield. 7-8. Hartford, 2-9. WESTERN LEAGUE. Topeka, 8-4: Oklahoma City, 2-8. Denvi -4, Pueblo. Omaha! *Tulsa, Des Moines, 3-2. 8-5; Wichita, 7-6. | exactly one-half of a normal day’s Both Big Leagutua‘ Leaders Help Themselves by Sabbath Loaf BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. HAT with postponements | and gaps in the schedule ~“in‘the non-Sunday. cities of Pennsylvania, the Sabbath program in the major leagues yesterday was reduced to campaign. Both the Athletics and the Cardinals, the two league leaders, helped themselves by doing nothing at all, and the cause of the Pirates certainly was not injured by inactivity which prevailed in Pittsburgh. Although George Pipgras, alded by Lou Gehrig’s twelfth home run, pitched the Yankees to their second straight de- cision over the White Sox by 6 to 1 at the Yankee Stadium, the Browns were | nosed out in Washington by 2 to 1.| This defeat dropped the St. Louisans to | a position four and onc-half games be- | hind the Athletics as the Yankees crept | up to within seven and one-half ccn- tests of the leaders. Connie Mack nevertheless gained an | important game over St. Louis in the lost column, where he now has a margin | of seven contests over each of his near- ’ est competitors. It is well known, of they occupied at this time a year age, The realization, however, that ths Yankees are not quite so tough seem3 to have acted as a tonic for the rest of the league. “The Athletics look like the club to beat now, but the Browns are in the thick of it and I hope to have my | Tigers closer to the top afer we get { through in the Easi. We hi lost course, that base ball players and man- | mmyggames il L geva'fi“"g They reason, with much justification, | PIt¢hing support. Johnson a Big Help. that an advantage in the won column | means_only that one contender has| “«Roy Johnson is-a great addition to | the outfield—a real star—and, believe taken & few @ecisions WHIEH @ rival con- tender may match upon catching UD \me, cur new first baseman, Alexander, can bust 'em, even if he 't a Joe with the schedule. . In defeating the White Sox Pipgras|judge on the defense. Harry Heilmann is driving in more runs than. ever. allowed but six hits. Kerr's single and Metzler's triple in the third saved Chi- | “I am keeping in shape, ready to fill cago from & shutout. Gehrig's homer |in at second base in an emergency, but you can figure wlat a fine chance I with one on in the first helped to tear young Ed Walsh loose from the mound, | have with Charley Gehringer playing the ball he is. If there’s a better sec- SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, Little Rock. 5. New Orleans, 2. Memphis. Mobile, 2-6. Chattanooga. 4: Birmingham, 4. {7 innings: rain) Nashville-Atlanta_postponed (rain). English Derby Is Not Only a Stirring Horse Race, But Annual Event Also Is a National Pilgrimage * THE RACE FOR THE DERBY IN BY WADE WERNER, Assoclated Press Feature Writer. EPSOM, England, June 3—It's a clever politician who can be sure these days that the English are as excited as they seem over the gen- eral election. Much, and maybe most, of the excitement may be due to the nearness of a horse race. The Derby, England’s greatest turf classic, will be run June 6, a few days after the date set for balloting, and even Britons who always forget to vote will surely be there, . Paul, 0. Louisville-Indianapolis _ postponed (rain). SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Montgomery, 10: Jacksonville, 5. Pensacola, 7; Tampa, 1. COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Vicksburg, 10; Laurel, Jackson, Monroe, 1. & g For in England every one foel to the Derby. It is a national pilgrim- age in_which all classes participate, from King to ccstermonger, from landed lord to wandering 3 Londoners turn their backs on their shops and offices and go to Epsom 1791. but both Hal McKain and George Con- nally, who followed, encountered mis- | ond baseman around than Gehringer, T treatment. Cedric Durst hammered one | don’t know him.” ger, of McKain's shoots into the right-field - seats in the seventh with one on base, | Harris, who keeps an eye on the base and Earl Coombs drove in two more |ball situation in general, likes the runs in the eighth with a single. chances of the Pirates in the ional Red Sox bats hammered a merry tune | League scramble. Bucky had an op- agains th> barriers at Braves Field yes- | portunity to study the Bucs as well as terday at the expense of Messrs. Shaute | the Chicago Cubs in the Spring train- and Ferrell, and Boston won by 12 to |ing season, so anything he has to say 3. Milton Gaston pitched for the Sox |is far from guesswork. and received batting support amount- | “Th= Pirates have speed, batting and ing to 13 hits, one of them a homer by ¢re getting the same greai pitching Scarritt. from Grimes that we are from Uhle. | It's a great ball club. | = . £ | Washington's independent sandlote | ters are resting up today from the bige gest week .end of the season. Nearly every club in the city and vicinity played. Cabin John's Junior Order team squeezed out an 3-7 triumph over Washe ington Red Birds at Cabin John, Md., in one of the most interesting games of the day. Hamilton proved a puzzls to Washing- ton Red Sox batsmen as that team bowed to St. Mary's Celtics in Alexan- dria in an 8-2 game. Hamilton gave up only four hits and fanned eight. Pitching and hitting of Stevens of Addison A. C. was largely responsible for that team's 5-3, 11-inning triumph over Mount Rainier, Md., on the lat- ter's diamond. Stevens limited the home club to four hits and came through with a double in the eleventh that s-ored two runs and assured his team victory. Jefferson District, Va., Fire Depart- ment’s nine pointed the way to Brooke Grubb’s Silver Spring team, 11 to 5. at Downs by train, tram, omnibus, automobile, taxicch, carriage, cart, bicycle, afcot and on crutches. And from ell other sections come as many davcut Dorby pilgrims es can scrape togother the price of a rail- road ticket. Hors2 racing, it should be remem- bered, was popular in England long before clections. It probably was in- troduced during the Roman con- quest, for traces of old Roman race ro‘zin s have been found on English soil. In more recent centuries kings have brought their royal enthusi- asm to the sport. James I was a greath patron of it; also Charles I. Epsom Downs first appeared as a popular location for horse races early in the seventeenth century. ’ Pepys in his diary mentions attond- ing one here. What is known as the Epsom Der- by, however, was first run in 1780. The Earl of D: ted it; end it vein's the earl’s hers: who wen | A chestnut colt named Diamond rau away with the purse. Since then the race twice has been won by a: Earl of Derby (1787 and 1924)—bu even more rarely by an America invader. The only Amecriesn hors to finish first in this famous rac was Iroquois, the winnor in 1881, One reason for the rarity of American successes may be that it takes so long to get a horse into the Derby. Colts are entered on the list when they are born and most of the entrios are eiiminated before they are old enough to run: Silver Spring. Jones, winning pitcher, did well both on the mound and at bat. Henry Hiser's F 'y Hiser's H; ville All-Stars took both ends of a double-header from the Canton Community b of Balti- more at Riverdale Park, Md.. winning the opener, 8 to 2, and the nightcap, & to 7. A home run by Honry himself in the last inning was a factor in his team’s victory in the second game. McDonald, Petworth-Yorke held Triangle A. C. to two hi team took an 8-0 decision at i Park. Pop Kremb's Liberty A. C. nir which bowed to Virginia White Sox a 12-2 game yesterday at Bail Roads, Va., will meet the Lanh nine next Sunday at Lapham, Md. Libertys are after a pitcher and an outfielder who would like regular duty. | Call Kremb at Columbla 4165-J. after pa. Bowie, : the i Mar, Md.. Motor Co. fast-traveling_Miller enzcunter at Bo . team upsct Aztees in a 13-7 victors over o-yland Park. Ia 5 [or the Printers cleareat filled base: Lewis pitched well for. Phoenix A. C his team hit hard as Hume Springs nine was beaten on the latter Berwyn A. C. carned a 10-3 decisio [ver Wa-hington Pailvey & Electri o. yesterday at B-rwyn, Md. A iR TEXAS LEAGUE. Fort Worth, s- 12 Housign. 0¥ Waco,