Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1929, Page 12

SPORTS HARLEY FOR TEST AT BAG Recruit Will Get Into Few Innings Every Game or Two if He Shows Batting Strength—Tinkering With Inner Cordon Still Going On. BY JOHN B. KELLER. INCE the start of the season the Nationals’ infield has been tinkered with from one side to the other and the end of this tinkering is not in sight. After yesterday’s contest, Manager | Walter Johnson announced that Buddy Myer instead of Jack | Hayes would be at second base at the outset of the double bill sched- quled for this afternoon with the Red Sox and after another week rolls by Harley Boss may be relieving Joe Judge at first base for a few innings frequently. Johnson, however, did not say the latter move ‘would be made. It is no secret, though, that the Washington pilot would like to have some one at the initial station who in attack shows more power than Judge has during the greater part of the season. For some time President Clark Griffith has been searching the outland for a likely looking first-sacker to turn over to Johnson, and now that Boss, all but counted out of base ball after his influenza attack last Winter, has returned to the club in fine physical trim it is certain the youngster will be given every opportunity to prove his fitness for a big league post. Johnson during the two days ‘Boss has been here has paid par- ticular attention to the recruit in work afield and at bat. Harley has given his chief plenty to fl““ in fielding drills. The agile uisiana boy has scampered about the first sack to dig 'em out of the dirt, pull 'em down from the | & air and take ’em full in the paws and he has heaved the ball with and accuracy. He's just as ine a looking prospect afleld as he was last season when he came up from Little Rock and then President Griffith was certain the Nationals had a great first sacker in the making in Boss. Johnson has not yet had time fo gauge Boss’ hitting ability. for the mt has anything on it. But in the wand drills Harley has been Thealthy cuts at the ball and smacking confident there only question concerns eye. Can he follow fast ones and curves and follow them well enough to tima swings? That's what Johnson intends 1o learn during the next few days, for he will have Boss swinging at that is not merely throwing in special batting practice. Depends on Batting. Should the youngster indicate that he ‘The Washington infield has been ex- inne: s ter has yet to look over pitching | Gro taking | Mye: perimental from the . Coming unmmmm.w" the r cordon was THEY CAME BACK PR rE—— 0] o el sooanorsossss? ommnmauoUSLLA> comnerHoscouman 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 2 Pl coomommnrmunn; 5 5 1 5 ~ Batted for Gerber in nin! iBatted for Ruffing in ni 2 h E1 2 1 w > “® m S Sl Sabtmagya PROPRO ol cooroosesmwmx ~! cooerssecsssl 5 %! coonon 2 5l econne~s-scsr = 5 *Batted for Marberry in -3 H - oot L Boston Washingion Runs_ batted in—Searritt, Berry, Rice (3), Goslin (3). Two. Williams, ) , Y £ (D), Rice, Gos odt, 50" minutes. | Batting. G. AB. R. H. 2b.3b.HR.S.8B.RBI.Pct. 5221530 7410 4 0 7 3 31 4 1 llg 1112 38 128 31 8934 4819329 5712 3 71 5 48 186 21 4811 3 1 6 4415116 42 7 1 0 ¢ 52176 2¢ 4811 1 211 10236 2 7310 2 .3 7 9 321 5003 13 33 5 6 1 0 0 2 RERBIILL 42 10 16 3 1 1 0 13 3 1 5 0 00 0 4 191 41 ° 16 31 2 ;0 2 Boo3e ° 43 20 1 fiitde " ] o1 T 7 000 30 000 o0 o 000 Pitohing. G. M. BB. 80. LP.GS.CG.W.L. | : 7 7 | 15 108 7% 10 5 6 § 74 9 10 3% 6133 Bea @’ 8337 20 17 83% 2 0 1 3| 16 86 3 47 ERER 41 e 13 3% 3 4 Thom o e Vol Sl B Judge, Rice, Goslin Blast Way To Nationals’ 5-to-4 Victory IGHTING to the finish, the Na- tionals pulled s out of the fire yesterday a three-run rally in the eighth and drew to long enough to move Rice to third had | the ball been cleanly handled. Scarritt, Red Sox left gardener, kicked in with an error, however, let- even terms with the Red Sox in | ting the sphere bound by him and Rice the current series “The score was 5 t. 4 and it was Goose Red berry’s Nationals’ eighth 4-to-2 oount. les by Judge and Rice followed -mflgm the dust settled Barnes was over the plate, e at third base and Rice at first. then surprisingly lined the ball to left field for a double that scored Judge with a tying run, but was just American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. shington, 5; Boston, 4. Fhiladetoni, 11-3; New York, 1-8. BTANDING OF THE CLUBS. batt the wrong end of & 4 5 35 R4 —1 &l 4131 51 81411141.745 311 81 41 1| 31 7110134i32,.607 1) 1i—1 71 71 31 331 511 6 41 6 2 4] 3) 5i—| 41 4| 413639].473 1513 3] 3i—| 41 3131331.389 ~1°3101 31 51 6 3i—|_4/33138| 367 U 31 6 3, 31 3| 3] 3|—I191401.522 .| 129129 GAMES TOMORROW. GAMES TODAY. Ros! 'ashington.] n at Washington. l;‘"lll.fl'ie:. st Chi t Bt. Louis. icago at Clevelanad. Detroft at Clevelas t New York. ila. al New York. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Brookisn. 7; Boston. 3 (15 innings). Cabiren, 14; Ohicago. 3. Roupre 1 ShliadSionin, 5. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Barnes picked up Fred Mar- | had nings bat and drew a pass to start the | his rival. But two hits had been ting turn, which | off the Red at Griffith Stadium. | continued home with the important tally of the fray. session ended a Ri , Boston hurler, and Marberry, in which Ruffing for seven ini completely shaded made Sox hurler before the rallying round and they were not made until the seventh inning. A pass was sandwiched between them, though, and they netted a brace of markers. Marberry in his eight innings was nicked for seven safeties, one of them & homer by Phil Todt. It was a drive over the right fleld wall and opened the second inning. The game was finished by Myles Thomas, Washington's newest pitcher. He issued but one pass in the ninth before the contest was ended by a flashy double-play started by Bluege. Marberry received credit for the vic- tory inasmuch as the Nationals were in front when Thomas went in to pitch, 50 Fred now has a record of five wins in a row as a starter. In scoring his four previous victories, however, he went the route each time. ‘Walter Johnson was given a good | luek token in the form of a four-leaf clover S an of -H Club | clover by boys and girls of the 4-H Cl before the game. The young farmers and farmerets here from all over the country as guests of the Department of Agriculture also made Walter, a fellow-farmer, an honorary member of | their organization. West showed a fine arm when he heaved to Bluege and flagged Ruffing for a double-play after Reeves' hoist to deep center in the fifth. Ruffing | Wwas & suj man when he slid into the ball in Bluege's hands. Judge made a spectacular catch of | Pinch-batter Bob Barrett’s loft in the ninth. Joe ran_ far down the right- field line for a backhand grab of the ball that was falling into fair territory. Home Runs Yesterday. By the Associated Press. Ruth, Yankees, 2; Simmons, Ath- letics, Haas, Athletics, ‘Todt, Red Sox, ‘Wilson, Cubs, Grantham, Pirates, 1; Leach, Glants, 1; Whitney, Phillies, 1; Bressler, Robins, 1. American League Leaders. , Yankees, 19; Simmons, Ath- Gehrig, letics, 16; Ruth, Yankees, 12; Foxx, Athletics, 11. National League Leaders. Hafey, Cardinals, 18; Klein, Phillies, 18; Ott, Giants, 17; Wilson, Cubs, 17; Bottomley, Cardinals, 13. League Totals. National, 327; American, 228. Grand total, 555, { ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY. JUNE 22, 1929. Stationing of Boss at First Base Apt to Be Next Griff Infield Experiment [JOI{NSON NOW GROOMING:I CAUGHT BY THE CAMERAMAN AS GRIFFS TURNED TABLES ON RED SOX I producing safety during a rally that left day night and which is to be I e Rice landing in safety at the far station in round 6, double, when Gerber crossed DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEZHAN. Evasive Experting. T strikes me that the prospective customers for the Schmeling- Uzcudun bout, which is scheduled to be perpetrated next Thurs- Reeves attaining to the hot corner in the seventh session on Scarritt’s run- the bases loaded with Hose. '.l:.wl his productive beyond second base to toss ou staged in lieu of a battle of the century, are a bit hazy as to just what it will be. The experting to date has been of a highly evasive nature. Of course, M. Georges Carpentier, the well known manufacturer |ranked Gene Tunney seventh among the heavyweights he had met. of cheese boxes, has visited both camps and has given out a little technical information of a highly complicated nature. But M. | Carpentier made this seem of little value when he added that he | | If M. Carpentier is sincere about this it rather discounts any general | experting he might be doing in connection with the impending Muss | Here's the result of Ruffing’s second useless two-bagger. He was doubled up, following Reeve’s fiy to center, on West's long and perfect peg to Bl LHE SPO with the count of 286 for 72 The courses have been made at Scioto with 295. Armour and with 301. Jones and Farrell tied | Also there will be so many second |shots caught in the green-guarding traps that flank either side that prac- tically every card will have a number of 5s, where 4s are the correct figure. | A 74 at Winged Foot is nothing | to upset any goifer in the field. It is first-class scoring from the back tees, Four 74s will produce 206. Any one who can turn in a 205 ought to be good enough to win. Any one who can beat 300 will have s good chance to win, at least a fair chance. | ‘There is a question as to whether 70 | * will be broken. It will take great golf | to break a 70 over this course—fine | golf up to the and s fine put- | ting touch for the day. For the shots to the green are too long to count on | many approaches close against the pin. | y GRANTLAND RICE. ACK in 1916 Chick Evans won thenational open at Mlmkahdnj uege. RTLIGHT holes. That figure has never been touched. Gene Sarazen had 288 at Skokie in 1922, and Jim Barnes had 289 at Columbia in 1921. harder and the scores have been higher ever since. Bobby Jones and Bobby Cruickshank tied at 296 at Inwood in 1923. Walker won at Oakland Hills with 297. Jones and Macfarlane tied at Worcester with 202. Jones won Cooper tied at Oakmont in 1927 at Olympia Fields last June with | 204. Par is hard to beat at Winged Foot, for the par four holes are nearly all long and well guarded and the par three holes are difficult | | threes, where three of the four one-shotters are well over 200 yards. underpinnings. He had gone just a step beyond the human limit, as it | applied in his own case. The same . thing happened to him a year ago. It also happened to Charley Borah. | The speed was there, but the legs | could not carry this speed the full | distance. Paddock had the most powerful- | looking legs in the game. They looked | as strong as marble columns. But even | Paddock never felt that he could give | them all the game from the first stride to the finish, It takes a world of leg power, driving power, for & human being to cover 30 feet in less than a second. To run the 100 in 935 one must spin along at the ximate rate of 32| feet a second, t means more than | of the Milk. The customers in the making Schmeling. From Hoosick Falls, where Senor Uzcudun is bounding after the fashion of Basques in or out of the Pyrenees, we | read that Mr. Willlam F. Carey, the general manager of Madison Square Garden, was deeply affected and almost moved to tears by revisiting his old home at that place. This is very touch- ing, indeed, but to get away from the sentimental the fact remains that Mr. Carey is not going to fight Max Schmel- ing for the milk fund or for anything else. Also we learn that Senor Uzcudun plays the guitar. But the meeting with Schmeling is not advertised as a musi- cal duet—though it might turn out to be something along that line. Also there is some earnest discus- sion among the financiers as to what the gate will be. Mary of the p tive customers recall some- ‘what sorrowfully what they con- tributed to the battle of What of It at Miami Beach to get the 600 mil- lonaires of Madison Square Garden out of the hole, Some of them are rather fearful that the muss of the milk might curdle in the same fash- fon to the tune of two big lumps tap-dancing in the rosin dust, ‘They are not at all reassured by the optimistic attitude of Mike Jacobs, who offered to buy all of the $50 seats at face value, trusting to his business acumen and high pressure salesman- ship to make a fair profit on the same. ‘There is nothing new in this. Mike never loses on these things. One press agent announces that the proceeds will purchase plenty of the | “nourishing lacteal fluid for the kiddies | during the torrid season.” This, too, is touching, but the main idea of the customers in paying more than ever was paid for any alleged exhibition of the manly art of modified murder is to see a fight and to see somebody’s block | knocked out of plumb. | What we want to know is, is this going to be a fight? I don't know.| Neither does anybody else. Soccer Slave Sale. ‘The English are applying business methods to professional sports, which MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Minneapolis, 7: Louisville . Paul, 3;’ Indianapoli: Milwaukee, 3; Columbus, 4. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. seldontreal. 2-8; Reading. 8-5 (second same, apreement). Bu! 1: Bal timore, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Los Angeles, 2. Hollywood, Oakiand, 37 Seattis, 3. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Hew Btisan: Akt inooss Little Rocke, 3; ‘Bl ham, LEAGUE. Mont d Yapme ‘Tampa, 6; iR AR TEXAS LEAGUE, s 10; Beaumont, 1. e o 3. Sag Antonio, 5. aco, 6. EASTERN LEAGUE. B Allentown, 6, Pl Springfeld, 3. riford. 6; Providence. 4. ew Haven, i Albany, 6 read that Max Schmeling is an intelligent pool player, a prospective Walter Hagen, a precocious pinochle player and very bright at:the game of authors. The aetivities | of the camp seem to consist of the merry pranks of Mr. Pete Reilly, one of the “Black Uhlan’'s” regiment of managers. | himself applying lighted matches to the shoes of visitors and decoying others into a chair which is wired after the fashion of electric chairs. This is edifying, but it gives no line on the condition of Herr Max Mr. Reilly busies is a recognition of the fact that any professional sport essentially is & busi- ness. Perhaps the English realized this even before we did, for the English. 100, are a business people and might as well be frank about it. Announcement comes from London that Alex James, a “brilllant” soccer player, has been sold for $40,000 by one soccer club to another. Not being fa- millar with the values of the white slaves of soccer, I do not know whether this is a very high price or not. judge that it must be or the news would not come over the cable. Base ball players bring much higher prices. The Yankees paid $150,000 for Babe Ruth. At one time the late Charles Ebbets offered $275,000 for Rogers Hornsby. This plece of ivory has changed hands several times since, but not for any- thing like that sum. Mr. Ebbets was bidding on a rising ivory mar- ket. The New York Yankees paid Harry H. Pragzee, the ivory broker, who owned the Boston American club, something like $500,000 in all for base ball players, Mr, Frazee had bought the Red Sox for $40,000 cash, the rest being in notes. Mr. Frazee was refreshingly frank in his dealings. He bought the Boston club to make money and he did, The other magnates are not quite so frank. ‘They buy base ball clubs to make money and do, but they will not admit that they are connected with the national pastime from any such unromantic motives. Mr. Frazee once said to Col. Huston, then half owner of the Yankees, “You can get yours through the gate. I have to get mine over the fence.” - It's a Business, One idealist complained recently that our national pastime was being ruined by the monopolistic tactics of some of the club owners. The monopolixiny tactics are part of big business, and base ball, as has been indicated be- fore, is a very big business. ‘The idealist, evincing an indignation that is highly dangerous in this apo- plectic weather, calls upon Commis- sioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the somebody to prevent Jacob Ruppert and Charles A. ham from grabbing up all the best prospects and holding them. This, he says, constitutes a monopoly, Certain- ly it does, and that is just what the liberal spenders among the magnates are trying to do. ‘The idealist says that this will ruin the pastime. This is a ques- tion. It would seem that the liberal magnates might force the more parsimonious to liberality under the threat of being forced out of the pastime. If these monopolistic tendencies were checked the result ‘would be the revision downward of the better and higher priced clubs to the level of the tail-enders. It is & business. The Yanks and the Gilants can spend liberally for prospects because the seating iy of thelr plants enables them to get their money back through the turn- stiles. In the Philadelphia National lme park the small seating capacity we not permit the owners to spend any lasge sums for players even if they were spendthrifts, which they are not. If there is any evening up of the base ball clubs it should be attain- ed by forcing the ones to build up rather than to make the liberal ones tear down. The Human Limit. HARLEY PADDOCK said a little while ago that he always believed he could have run 100 in 92-5, and possibly faster, if he had been willing to gamble on his legs. I asked him what he meant by thaf. “The legs can carry only so much | strain and pressure,” he said. “Few men dare put on full pressure for the entire route. When I finished a fast | 100 T could feel the muscles in my legs jumping and I knew they had been | close to the limit. Yet I put them | under full pressure for only part of the ! way. I also was afrald of wrenching & | muscle or a tendon, snd so ending ! my running career. One has to start | smoothly and work up to his full speed. If I had ever tried to put on full speed from the jump I might have broken all records, and I might also have ruined my legs, without being able to | finish, I don't believe many can under- | stand the killing strain put on every leg muscle in running the 100 around 93-5. Nerves and muscles are often | jumping and jerking for minutes after the race is over, Simpson proved this statement when he ran the 100 in 9 2-5 re- cently. Apparently the strain did not tell until the next race, but it was the pressure of his record- | breaking rush that undermined his three strides to the second. It means | almost. every half ounce of power the | leg muscles can stand before someth | snaps. Sheer speed isn’t all that is | also be enough durability to carry this | ‘The motor speed. | machine apart. ‘The best pair of legs in base ball { belonged to Ty Cobb. He put them under pressure for 23 years and they | held up most of the route. But yet they were at the finish the factors that closed out his career. aver- age legs, would not have lasted 10 years {at the pace he set from 1905 all along | the road. There are sald to be something be- playing golf in this country, but it is impossible to get any accira‘e count as 95 per cent of them are concealed from sight in bunkers, traps and thickets, rarely emerging into the open spaces, If Connie Mack can't win a pennant | this season he might as well set the |alarm clock forward to 1946. Or per- | haps throw the clock away and take up golf. ‘What several milllons of golfers would like to have the U. 8. G. A. put through removed from ponds and traps and then have rubber inserted. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. geles, knocked out S8andy Seifert, Pitts- burgh (5); Billy Jones, Philadelphia, :(nlx;polnud Rosy Rosales, Cleveland e DES MOINES, Iowa—Ray McPeck, Columbue, Ohio, outpointed Jack Her- man, Cleveland, Ohlo (10); Tommy North, Waterloo, Iowa (10). { Hawkins, San Diego, stopped Seal Har- | ris, Chicago (7). 'SMALL FIELD TO GO "IN LATONIA DERBY | By the Associated Press. LATONIA, Ky., June 22.—The forty- seventh running of the Latonia Derby at a mile and a half today offered purse of $25,000 added to a small field of 3-year-olds competing in the feature event of the Covington track’s Spring meeting. Clear weather and a fast track were in the forecasts for the only Spring race of note at this distance excepting the Belmont, which was run this year in the mud. ‘Ten entries were listed, but eight or possibly nine horses were expected at the barrier at post time. One of th favorites was African, R. T. Wilson's Olambala colt, which ran second to Blue Larkspur in the Belmont. African finished ird to Windy City and Nais- phaur in the American Derby, easily defeating Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the Kentucky Derby. Other thoroughbreds to face the is- sue today were Plumbago, The Choctaw, Braedelbane, Buddy Basil, Ben » H. P. Headley entry, Paraphrase to run in case of rain and m if the ha in the event Clyde Van Dusen is turned the winner, the Latonia Jockey Club will the & value of about $30,350 and re- ERIE, Fa—Tony Fuente, Los An-| Carulla, Kansas City, outpointed Ernie 1| West Potomac Park, TIsherwood A. {INDIAN RACES HORSE IN 100-MILE EVENT By the Associated Press. PECOS, Tex., June 22.—Andrew | Chimoni, Zuni Indian, from a New Mexico reservation, pitted his speed and endurance against General, a thorough- bred West Texas ranch horse, in a 100- | mile race that started here at 6:30 a.m. | today. | The race, a feature event of the an- | nual Coal Boy reunion here today. is | SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Long Tom | peing run on a circular track. The start | | was witnessed by several thousand, per- sons. Chimoni, 29 years old, who broke the world marathon record at Gallup, N. | Mex., in 1927, hopes to run the distance ! in less than 10 hours. The blue blooded horse from the Y-6 ranch of West Texas is said to have the greatest | stamina and speed of any of his brood on | the Western plains. iINDIAN HEAD SEEKS FOES | ON DIAMONDS OF RIVALS | Cardinal A. C. base ball team of In- | dian Head, Md., has announced that | it has had to cancel all 5Imu sched. {uled to be played at Waldorf and is | now listing contests for Saturdays and Sundays with nines having diamonds. Manager John Sprague is booking at Indian Head 101-K-3. Hess A. C., which defeated Red Cross nine, 9 to 4, yesterday, has booked a game with Engine Co. No. 5 tomorrow at Alexandria and Manager Horan at Lincoln_1815 is after games for next week. Bailey hit two triples for Hess yesterday. George Wood of the Roamer Seniors wants the manager of the Bostonian nine to call him at Lincoln 9384, BICYCLE MEET LIS}ED FOR EARLY TOMORROW Century Road Club Association will hold a p of bicycle races tomor- Trow morning at 8:30 o'clock on the roadway surrounding the polo field in . C. of this city and Maryland Bicycle Club of Baltimore have enmmmm in addition to the 1 M8 | 3 method of getting more ups. | needed to set & new record. There must | hits, might tear the| tween 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 peovle | is to have the water and the sand ! SPORT [ BiG LEAGUE LEADERS | | | By the Associated Press. American. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .400. Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 57. { | ! Hits—Manush, Browns. 89. t it Runs in — Simmons, Ath- | leties, 70. | Doubles—Johnson, Tigers, 24. | Triples—Manush. Browns; Scarritt. Red Sox; Combs. Yanks, 7. | Homers—Gehrig, Yanks. 19. Stolen bases—Miller. Athletics, 10. | Pitching—Grove, Athletics, 11 won and 1 lost. National. | | Batting—O'Doul, Phillies, .397. Runs—Douthit, Cards, 58. Hits—Terry, Giants, 93. Runs batted in—Hafey, Cards. 70. Doubles — Herman, Robins; Prisch, Cards, 20. Triples—Prisch, Cards. 10. Homers—Klein, Phillies; Hafey, Cards, 18. Stolen bases—Cuyler. Cubs, 20. lPlk‘h.lnB—Oflmefl, Pirates, 11 |1 lost. ks won, | | MLWAUREE TEAN HASNEW NANACER Breghammer, Pilot of Tulsa,: Western League Leader, | Replaces Lelivelt. 1 | By the Associated Press. ILWAUKEE, Wis., June 22.—1If | | an explosion sends things up, | then the Milwaukee Brewers are destined to skyrocket from the American Association | cellar. ‘The explosion came last night when | Vice President Louts Nahin, announced | that Jack Lelivelt, its manager, had | | resigned_because of ilness, and that | | Marty Berghammer, manager of the | pace-setting Tulsa Club, in the Western | League, would replace him. Nahin also | stated that Nick Allen, former manager of the St. Paul American Association Club, would replace Berghammer. 'he announcement of Lelivelt's resig- nation was made after he had been closeted in Nahin's office for more than | half an hour last night after coming | from Columbus, Ohio, at the latter's | request. It came as a compipte surprise | to Brewer fans. | After the conference Lelivelt told the Associated Press that he had complained to the club management as long as two | weeks ago about ks iliness. He said a | Columbus physician had diagnosed n| * ivond saying that he would take & sa. rest, he issued .no .:t-umem. as to his plans for the future. Nahin said that Lelivelt's contract, | which calls for $10,000 for the season, is to be paid in full. He had mno criti- | cism to offer regarding Leliveit's han- | dling of the team. | _“The Brewers were simply not playing ‘head-up’ ball.” he said. “They lacked that extra bit of fight that makes a winner. We think that Berghammer, who is a real fighter, can move the | club out of the slump it seems to have | hit this season.” 'SHIRES RADIOS FANS | TO COME RAZZ HIM| By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, June 22 —Art Shires, who has had plenty of ups and downs since joining the White Sox, has discovered He is going to get more extra base “No yse of a great hitter like me get- ting himself a flock of skimpy singles,” | | Shires informed the world over the radio. “You never get your name in | the headlines with singles. It's distance the public wants. From now on I'm aiming for the next county. I'm going out after those home runs.” “Come out and razz me, his audience. “You'll go away me when I slam them against those bleachers. I sure can hit that ball and ,I'm not so bad around first base, | etther.” | Since Shires returned to Manager | | “Lena” Blackburne’s good graces he has | been hitting brilliantly. \CORBETT ADVANCES IN WELTER DIVISION| | | [ By the Associated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO. Calif, June 22. —Young Corbett, Fresno welterweight, trounced Clyde Chastain of Dallas, Te: here last night and climbed another | rung on the ladder that leads toward the welterweight crown. | Corbett was taken by surprise for the | first two rounds, but took the last| eight sessions to score & clean win over | the Dallas fighter, who was floored | three times. i Chastian's early attack seemed to puzzle the Fresno fighter for a time, but he quickly came back and buried the Texan under a series of body | punches. The Fresno left-hander beat | | the Texan to_the punch repeatedly and | | followed up his advantage with a fast | | attack, meetingq Chastian’s rushes with | | & serfes of hard rights and lefts, | X., | i 8. RUTH SAVES YANKS WITH TWO HOMERS A’s Take First, Babe Drives in Seven Runs to Win Next. Grove Shines. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN. Associated Press Sports Writer. HE decision, if any, to be reached in the current ecrucial series at the Yankee Stadium was postponed for at least 24 hours yesterday by the dod- dering invalid, George Herman Ruth. The postponement was effected by the abandon with which Mr. Ruth caressed two offerings sent up to the plate in the second game by Master William Shores, apprentice Athletic right-hander and suspected rescuer of George Earn- shaw, the starting pitcher. The Athletics had won the first game behind Bob Grove's puzzling slants by a score of 11 to 1 and were headed along the victory trail in the second with an edge of 3 to 2, when the Babe became the Babe again. His eleventh and twelfth home runs converted a 2-t0-3 Yankee deficit into an 8.to-3 advantage at the finish, and the cham- glons held on seven and one-half games ehind the Athletics, just where they were before hostilities were begun. The inimitable Mr. Ruth had done | nothing much all afternoon when the seventh inning of the second game rolled around with the Yankees in the hole. True, he had driven in a second unearned run off Earnshaw with a sin- gle in the fifth and made the game close, but no one was pre] for his magn| t gesture into right field bleachers, when Earnshaw went to the showers after placing two Yankees on the bags with none out in the seventh. Same Old Babe. Young Shores marched to the box to make the best of a bad situation, but committed the mistake of giving the Babe a good one after getting two strikes on the premier slugger, The ball sailed gracefully in amorg the steerage passengers in the crowded right field bleachers, and the Yankees were ahead. Just to prove there was no mistake about it, the Babe repeated the act in the eighth, again with two mates aboard. Waite Hoyt dazzled 66,145 Yankee clients with his finesse in the nightcap, but for all of this the Athletics chiseled three runs from his delivery in the first three innings and seemed headed for a clean sweep and a lead of nine and one- half games. Then in the fifth Max Bishop, pivot man on a possible double play, dropped Joe Boley's assist, and the champions helped themselves to two unearned runs. This was the only Athletic error of the afternoon, and if it had not been made Earnshaw would have been permitted to try his own conclusions with Ruth in the seventh. The result of any such hypothetical meeting, of course, will never be known. Ruth’s single and two homers drove home seven of the eight Yankee runs, not a record, but still no light feat to be performed by just anybody on any old afternoon. The first game was a case of too much Grove and not enough Pennock. It was Grove's eleventh victory against a single defeat. After yielding a run in the first inning, Connie Mack'’s great left-hander moved through the Yankee batting order with the unfaltering precision of & mowing machine. The Athletics, the while, were blasting away at. the shell of |8 remarkable lefi-hander with their heaviest guns. Simmons Has Big Day. Al Simmons rapj Pennock and his relief, Messrs. Sherid and Moore, for just five blows, including his fifteenth and sixteenth home runs. He failed to get six hits mainly because he was at bat only five times. But he carried punch over into the second comba! where he slapped Hoyt for two doul and a single in four attempts. Mule Haas also got & homer in the first game. The manipulations of Messrs. Hug- gins and McGillicuddy yesterday cleared the pitching situation somewhat for e ctician now must call uj ‘Walberg, Rommel and either Qu.nnv;'r‘ some Jesser light in the remaining g:mu, dvllth the ,czuncu favoring Wal- rg and Rommel for duty today. Hug- gins looks to Pipgras, Heimach and | Wells, with the first two presumably on deck for this afternoon and Wells in reserve for the single fray tomorrow. ‘The crowd of 66,145 paid customers surpassed every knmown record for a week-day game, opening barred. but world series included. Another capacity gathering is in prospect today and un- ::bteflly & third will appear tomor- In the National League, the Giants again made merry at the expense of the Phillies, 11 to 5, and so pulled them- selves to within three games of the lead, which changed hands. The Pi- rates attended to this little shift in fortune by slamming the Cubs, 14 to 3, to give Burleigh Grimes his eleventh victory of the season. Brooklyn had ‘o wait 15 innings to earn s decision over the Braves, 7 to 3. GERMANS REACH TENNIS FINAL, TO PLAY BRITISH PRAGUE, June 22 (#)-—Germany qualified yesterday to meet Great Brit- ain in the final round of the European Zone Davis Cup matches by defeating Czechoslovakia, four matches to one. The Germans won both of the con- |FOXX REMAINS ON TOP | BY OUTHITTING 0°DOUL | By the Associated Press. | Jimmy Foxx of the Athletics and | | | Frank O'Doul of the Phillies continued | 28 | their merry fight for the Big Six lead- | | ership yesterday, Foxx retaining the top | place by lifting his average to an even | 400 _through a four-hit spree again: | the Yankees. | | "O'Doul got three out of five against | | the Glants and rose to .397. Babe Ruth | ran riot with a pair of home runs and | | & single in the second game at the Yankee Stadium, but had done nothing | |in the opener and remained stationary | lat_319. | The standing: | G. AB R H. Pect | Foxx. Athletics. 35 210 47 84 400 | O'Doul.” Phillies 55 219 54 87 (397 58 215 5§ 71 (330 | ! D57 a1 48 T 328 56 199 52 64 3m D40 144 36 48 319 MRS. FRASER REFUSES T0 TAKE GOLF MEDAL! i MONTREAL, Province of Quebec, | June 22 (#).—Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser of the Royal Ottawa Club, who led the qulll(z,ln( fleld here in the annual championship of the Quebec branch of the Ladies’ Golf Union, has | refused to accept the medal for having the lowest gross total. ‘The former United States champion from Atlanta, Ga. in a -distance telephone conversation with chair- man of the tournament committee, said she did not think it fair to the rest of the fleld, who continued in the title play, for her to accept the medal. She was forced to withdraw and leave 1'.0; hom!ll;nm(‘)lh'l ':mmdllleg after the qualifying round owing fliness in the family. PO R 5 o SRR THREE-EYE LEAGUE. Deeaty Peoria. 4 Sorin: Danvi g-nmde, rre Haute, L cluding singles matches yesterday, The Germans swept the two final singles matches after breaking even in the first two and taking the doubles. Hans Moldenhauer, Germany’s ace, clinched the victory in the tie by beat- A. Menzel of Czechoslovakia in straight sets, 6—4, 8—6, 6—4. Dr. Prenn, his running mate, turned in the final victory for the ROSE OF SHARON RUNS FOR 3-YEAR-OLD TITLE CHICAGO, June 22 (#).—Rose of Sharon, fleet filly owned by former Senator John N. Camden of Kentucky. had a chance to clinch the 3-year-old championship today in the renewal of g:exsm,ooo linois Oaks at Washington rk. The fleet filly was a 6-to-5 favorite over the fleld of 10, which included two ;D?;Iw-l shots, Golden Trail and Nancy eth. Jockey C. E. Allen was to be uj the Camden entry. Others mnm‘nfl good chance to win were Broadcast, Current and Altitude, dy'm ‘were quoted at 4 to 1. OWEN'S NINE TO CONTINUE. Lem Owen has joined the Baltimore team of the International ’-&‘u".mbout the Lem Owen's Pros will carry on their diamond activities under the same name. Lee Unverzagt, Pete Ball and :.:nyls;avml are remaining hurlers on e club, TAKOMA TIGERS BEATEN. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. June 22. —Held to one hit in eight innings the ‘Takoma Tigers dropped a listless ball game here yesterday to local nine wining by a count of 17 to 2. Jack Jacobs and Bill divided the n&fl% 'm)(lnmelli’b‘:‘fltm the Ant- 3 lors lone e coming in inning off Jacohs,