Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1929, Page 64

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 14, 1929—PART 5. Scope of Mule Boot Prizes Widens : Loughran Faces Tough Customer in Braddock HORSESHOES ARE PUT UP AS TROPHIES BY PLAYERS Contestants Are Purchasin, g Slippers and Pegs, With Victors in Preliminaries to Become Owners., Playground Cou T In some of the preliminary rts Being Built. | HE Washington Star has announced that it would furnish all | prizes for the District, Southern Maryland and Northern Vir- ginia championship horseshoe pitching tournament, but it turns out now that this isn’t exactly the truth. tournaments, to be held in nearly 200 towns and communities of Washington and 18 counties of the neighboring States, the players will put up an award to supplement the championship medals presented by The Star. They intend to shoot it out for ‘the goldurned hoof protectors themselves. In some of the communities where regulation shoes must be pur- chased (only a set or two are needed for most of the preliminaries) the entrants are chipping in a mite apiece for equipment. The question of who would own the shoes after the tournament is over has been settled by putting them up as a prize. This, however is not the only solution. Other groups of pitchers have decided to form permanent clubs and the equipment will be- come club property. The usual -cost of a set of four shoes and two pegs is $3.50. They may be obtained at most sporting goods stores and from leading hardware houses. Any entrants in The Star's tournament hav- ing difficulty locating equipment should phone the horseshoe editor. His phone, by the way, has been kept hot. If a host of people aren’t planning to take part in this tournament then they at least are burning up with curiosity over the old game. Capt. Albright Hustling. Down at Culpeper, Va., where Capt. J. C. Albright is chairman, the folk are coming in from the mountains to| show those town fellahs how hoss shoes | really ought to be flung. Albright,| who is commander of Culpeper’s big| American Legion Post, is bent upon| staging one of the largest town tourna-| ments in the whole affair. He's plaster- | ed the town with posters procllimm;i the event and is collecting entries right and left, t A similar condition exists at Manas- sas, where Maj. Frank W. Patterson, publisher of the flourishing Manassas Journal. is chairman. But Maj. Pat- mson hasnt stopped with Manassas. He's ing up the whole county to the ucn that here's a big sporting event which promises a great time for every- body, with absolutely no cost to any one, if you count the purchase af regu- lation shoes and stakes as an invest- ment. Inquiries why the ordinary barnyard zhoes shouldn't be used in the prelimi- naries are answered easily. They would vary in size and weight and make for unfair competition. Then, , The Star’s tournament is here to stay, and it would facilitate matters for all in the future if only standard equipment were used. 1 Playground Bosses Busy. ‘The playground department here \s busy putting in regulation courts on al its stations for use in the mumlmem Equipment will be supplied for all th: community events, but pitchers ownin official shoes are urged to lend them | to the department when tournament time comes. With Raymond Gtilbert, an enterpris. ing member, as the guiding spirit, Burroughs Citizens’ Association is lin- | ing up strong for The Star's tourna- | ment. Four courts will be bullt on the | Burmugm playground and they likely be needed. Gilbert looks for a ]lrge entry. | Entry blanks have been placed in the hands of all Washington playground directors and the blank is being printed | daily in The Star. Entrants should turn their applications over to the éi- rectors, each of whom will ~serve as chairman of a neighborhood tourna- ment, or send them to the horseshoe editor. Any one desiring further in- formation on the event should phone the latter at National 5000. E. X CONAHA;J, VETERAN UMPIRE, IS DEAD AT 52;? PHILADELPHIA, July 13 (.—Ed- |Gk ward J. Conahan, major league base | ball umpire many years ago, died today in a hospital at Ridley Park, near here, after an operation. Conahan, who was | 52, resided in Chester, Pa. He had spent more than 30 vears 2s an umpire. | Bt After starting his career in the old | South _Jersey into the National League during the regime of his close friend, the late Nick Young, president of the league. he served the American Association, the International League, Southern, West- Cl ern, Tri-State and New York Leagues. RUNNER POR 15 YEARS. When Charley Paddock donned the spiked shoes this year it marked his fifteenth year of competition as a eprinter. He started at the age of 13 in Pasadens, Calif,, High. The Stakes. The stakes shall be of irom, about 1 inch n ciameter and preferably 3 to 4 fest in length. They shall project inches above the d and lnc!nl '.0- ward each other 3 inches. Pitehing Distance. the stakes shall be 40 feet ‘apart, E‘e’:w&:d from the front at the e stake the gro POoE "women the distance shall be 30 The Official Shoe. follow- oreshoe shall exceed the f i iations: Seven-and-one-half s lennhA 7 inches in width and 23, pounds in weight. No toe or ealk shall profect more than threequar- ters of an inch. The the heel calks shail oot SBRES s inches ~inside measurement No shoe constructed in a freak design a regul o iceasted ohes enall SeTtied a8 :ox;u:&l 1o determine what & freak shoe No contéstant shall ma or utter any sounds wi i1 t, e St o‘e’!““’x‘n llh! lntlr re '\lh '.h. 'S 1ying. P pena fiz for violation of this ruls ~anall be the deciar both sh mt‘cr‘:e‘: %o be Ditched by the ofllng:: lained of. The re e et sudee of & vioiation of i ross the op- NB cenustlfl:nlahlu '.‘{.ulhl X g:"l". fihll pitel M Y- st o Any player ICPEIMY lating rules unsportsmanlike enndut or Ot DL ed rom Turiher perticivas The Foul Line. Ml)lulhluhm.d’h'ttl fl:l‘ 0! each stake. In delivering the de the um m"::l’:fl‘l:!’fi: 2 i ness 'hu:!: shall ?t.llflt in the forfeiture d % the _foul e shy An! shoe striking short of leclared fol m! shall be ‘r‘:i;enc e equest ‘opponent. *° Interfering With Pitched Shoes. shall touch his own lhoo atter they nave 7o Besn a5 been at decision bas ‘45 to the scoring values of the hoee. tlure to comply with this rule shall ruru.lt u:' ‘both shoes of the offender 2'3;: to an -fln'#’ m"n'u'"u" 52" So Tar 'S8 Rox Vhods 't Toe’ pes ‘shall War- League, Conahan broke | (3 Later | §5 The How, When and Why Of Horseshoe Tourney Entries close next Saturday. Play starts July 29 in all pre- liminaries. Territory embraced—District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland. Local title at stake in each town and community meet. In Maryland and Virginia the town and community winners will play for the county championships and county champions will meet for State honors. In Washington a neighborhood championship tournament will be layed on each playground. Neigh- hood victors will play for division titles (there are eight divisions), the division champions will toss for sec- tion honors (east and west sections) and the section winners will meet in the city final. The Maryland, Virginia and Wash- ington survivors ‘will clash here in the grand finale with the metropoli- tan district crown at stake. o All prizes will be furnished by The tar. ‘There will be no entry fee. Entry blank published daily in ‘The Star, but procurable also from playground directors in Washington and from tournament chairmen in Maryland and Virginia. Only regulation equipment will be Omv:hl horse shoe pitching rules will govern. BUCS BEAT PHILS 10 SWEEP SERIES ; 'Kremer Hurls League Lead- ers to Fourth Straight Victory, 10 to 2. July 13.—The league-leading Pittsburgh team | defeated the Phillies, 10| today ! to 2, and made a clean sweep o the four-game series. Kremer rang up his fourth successive victory and the seventh in the last eight | starts when he held the Phillies to eight | scattered hits. One of these hits was Chuck Klein'’s twenty-third home run of the season. Stewart Clarke, rookie infielder sub- bing for the injured Pie Traynor, poled a circuit clout into the left-fleld bleach- ers. “Sad Sam” Dailey, who pitched the first eight innings for the Phillies, was H hit hard by Pittsburgh. Pitts. ABHOA, Phils A ABHOA dams:3b. 5 2 2 TN | cosoromnmnonon; ) aaaau—aua‘_nu McGraw.p *Afiller +Collins. Totals .. 411827 8 Totals .. *Batted !or Dailes in eighth. 'lrx mx Klein in ninth. .00&100 10000010 L. Waner (2). P. Wane; Clarke, *Hargreaves, 'Doul, Thevenow. aner (2) o] osorsnuussse™ 2| oromm, B Runs—Adams_(2). 42)“ !ArteL Sheely. ein, Tor: Mfl‘l‘ blt!efl !u—l. ‘Waner. P. cwmu Knm Klein, Two-base 3 Bases o 3 bluu—flullll tsburgh, 5. Dou- ble piay—Sheely mn-umea\ Losing pitcher —Dailey. _Wild pitch—Dailey. Umpires_— Messrs. Quigley. ~ Stark and McCormick. Time—1 hour and 46 minute Tom Mason, 1930 track captain at Harvard, is expected also to star with the foot ball team next Fall. Definition of 2 “Ringer.” that encire A ringer shall be & shoe Looees off and ‘Whent a player knocks X ’"“'-n,er,"“:em::":.‘:s o the ringer is t's shoes from non- ringer lflon. the s G i singer for its owner. Moved Pitched Shoe. ‘When s thrown lh?! mo' already at the stake, all shoes in their new positions. Games and Matches. (For Men.) A game shall consist of 21 points. ex- eeBtfl;n fina] hen a game shall s, is divided into innings. ande constitutes the pitching 57 %our snocstwe By cach plaver.) Seoring Points. (For Men.) Al shoes shdll be within @ inches of the stake re. Closest 0e%s the stake scores one Two shoes closer than opponent's scores twe pof One ringer scores three points. o Tingers score six points @ vinger and closes r scores four point & Contcatant shell Mive two ringers $1s opponent one. ‘the plaver hav: g two ringers shall score three points. Al.l equals count as ties and no points fn’case each contestant has s rins B ok e aare. 0 § 1K of_the 1f eac dtestant has & double nwr ”':“,‘}“ Tingers are canceled and no there is a tie of all { four ringers or with a distance from the stake. be recorded and the con- pitched last s entitled to next throw. unmt the stake in all have no adventage flat A?]n "the sround and Ich tosses are la 1’x b 4 t A shoe leaning againgt the stake. i R the closest 1 case of otest. or where the rules do not m"fl-’ a disputed point. tourna: Chatrman shail “have o8 power 'ena Anal jurisdiction. For Women.) for woman players shall be seme as for men, Texcept that @eliversd. shoe sh counf hat from the e Rether o'r"n'n 12" struck -0 the lmfi'um. Points Remy | ey, | 1in, Ward, Morton, Shi | HORSESHOES MAKE APPEAL IN SUBURBS | |Heavy Out-of-Town Entries| for Colored Event Reported by A. A. Greene. A pitching tournament for the metropolitan District cham- pionship is assured, it was announced |ll6t night by Arthur A. Greene, physi- cal director of the Twelfth street Y. M. C. A. and chairman of the colored tournament. Applications for participation in the colored event have been received from the following communities: Maryland— Pomfret, Branchville, Hyattsville, Brent- wood, Lakeland, Bowie, Un&er Marl- boro, Rockville, Lincoln, Vir- inia—Manassas, Alexandria, Leesburg, | Halls Hill, Falls Church and Rnsslyn’ In the meantime the pre-tournsment | Lz:mnpemnm here waxes warm. The col- ored employes of the Post Office De-| | partment, Bureau of Engnmz and| Prlnting and Government ting Of- | | fice are among the latest to form teams. | A tune-up tournament preliminary to| the championships will be held on th:| | courts of the Rareback Club. | _The colored women of the Bureau of | Engraving and Printing are organiz- |ing for a tournament of their own and lhe\t“fll compete, too, in The Star's even The G. P.-O. colored men'’s team has |issued a sweeping challenge. Any club | desiring to accept it should communi- | cate with Chairman Greene at the | ‘Twelfth street Y. M C. A |ARMY MEDICOS DEFEAT | WAR COLLEGE NINE, 9-8 Army Medicos defeated War collele! in a hard-fought base ball game, 9 to 8, yesterday on the Walter Reed dia- mond. All-around play of Dufresne, third baseman for the losers, was out- standing. He crashed a triple, double | and single in four times at bat and made several spectacular stops. . Collese ABH.OA Army Med. ABHOA | | | | | HEAVY out-of-town entry for | the colored section of The Washington Star's horseshoes Mcnnn. ®ie Brown,’ 2b. Shielas, v Lindeay, ¢ Kearney, p. Norman, p sclr 2h’rl NOONEEsoweso) 2000 InHINS |uouuoqcon°° ‘lo—o»nunuwau . 2| onscoanonoont qlaau—uoooo—u— Totals.. .26 71811 Army War Callege.. | Army Meds 3 | Kunl—!e:k @), & (2). Dufresne, Lon: Grobper (h; Pikert (57, Withers (3). Ham elds. Two-base H® @] 0000mo oMM~ 0—8 | 0—8 Rits— ne Brown, Withers, Lindsay. Th | Base nit—_Dutresse. Sacrifce—Hamiin Eiaien bases—Pikert (3), Hi rd, Morton. Left ‘on pases—wi 3. First ba balis, of Hall, 2: of K Kem-xey, 3; oft Norm wis, 1. Struck out- 6 in 6 innings; off B oft Kearnes. 1'in 215 innings: off N 2 in 1 inning; off Heml! 2 1 GRID STADIA IN CHlCAGO SEATS TOTAL OF 300,000 | wian Chicago’s Memorial Stadium is the largest in the country. But in addi- tion the Windy City foot ball fans have Stagg Field of the University of Chi- ~ul0. Dyche Stadium of Northwestern d now myoh University is building ch!.ucau four big stadis can satnu.fly 300,000 fans. ENTRY (Qumplomlup of District Entries Close July 20. Name (print).. Address (print) cieececessnact Phone, if any (print) ccoeeee If n Washington, state the ment in which you desire to participate Entries should be mauea The mum ament. 0 tar, or delivered td the chairman of tourn: ; SOLON SHOWS: FORM IN ANCIENT HORSESHOE PITCHING ART REPRESENTATIVE GUINN WILLIAMS Snapped by a Star photographer in the courtyard of the Houss Office Building, illustrating how he tosses ringers in the game he learned as a boy in Calhoun County, Miss., from where he hails, and continued at Decatur, Tex., where he now makes his home. In the opinion of Representative Williams, hurling mule | boots is far superior to golf as a means of recreation and exercise. 'Loudoun County Is Warming U p To Horseshoe-Pitching Tourne by the number who are pitching horseshoes, Leesburg will have a large group of entrants in ‘The Washington Star’s horseshoe pitching tournament. follow when they polis] skill in the grand old game by the daily clank- ing nd'd these sportsmen in when twilight falls. Roland town and he hes obtained the Odd | which will be especially {lluminated for | the barnyard golfers. They will pl it looks now as if they coming tournament. Atwell is bubbling with enthushnn RED SOX WIN BY 4 T0 2 OVER QUANTICO MARINES QUANTICO MARINES, July 13.— ‘Washington Red Sox defeated Quan- tico Marines at base ball here today, 4 to 2. It was the first defeat of the ‘| season for the Leathernecks. Lefty Brown, Sox pitcher, limited the Marines to five hits and fanned 13. ‘Walter Curtis and Spencer Usilton each m I tnple md three singles for the Bailey, former Uni- vermy y ot u.rylmd athletic stalwart, got three of the Marines’ hits. 84-DAY ROAD TRIP. Freak schedules abound in base ball left home to play | Zo: this year. Reading in Newark June 27 and won'’t be on the home grounds again until July 31, a total of 34 days. BLANK Washington Star Horseshoe Pitching Tournament of Columbia and nearby Maryland and Virginia) Play Starts July 29 sesersnsssonee playground nearest your home. If in Maryland or Virginia, state town or community tourna- (PrInt) ..ueeesstscrssnssnnsanssnscnscosnans the Bnmlhu Editor of your town or com- Already many | ing have signed the bll-nks 1nd others will wllh cmne- J. Ford, mayor, as chalr- h thei Mayor Ford is a veteran | \horseshoe pitcher and he is rounding of horseshoes here. And one might| up a team that shows skill. by the nightly clanking, too, for Thomas of Hamilton has a number of Leesburg don't stop| entrants, which include some of the| absorb some of it. Leesburg is out to win some of these prizes and it looks now as if they will do it. Other towns in the county are warm- up to the tournament. Round Hill, man, is one. George E | leading business men of that town. twell, prominent in sporting | Purcellville, with Robert Carruthers as | circles of Leesburg, is chairman for the chairman, is lining up for some genuine with Lawrence Fellows’ lot here for regulation courts | Hutchison as chairman, is becoming sport, and Ashburn, interested in the game. Entries can be sent to wns by Grace Brooks Popkins, Purcellvule, The Star’s Loudoun | over the tournament and any one who |ty correspondent. BRAVES BEAT REDS TO ESCAPE CELLAR BOSTON, July 13 (#).—Joe Dugan’s | pinch hit single in the tenth scoring Bell from third kept the Braves out of the National Leegue cellar today and gave the Tribesmen a 7-to-6 win over Cincinnati. Richbourg and Sisler aided the Braves by batting in two runs each. Sisler's two hits were two-baggers. Cincin. ABH.OA, Boston. ABH.OA 'n,3b,3b Walker.rf.. Kelly, OO EEIPIRS e OrooomRONO ”— B| 00000HENHOQNR? o in; i'nm out when winning run scored. Giacinnats 10000023008 Boston . 040020000 1—7 | Runs—pressen (2), Walker, Allen (), Bit- Maranvill Epnhrneru:!flu'zl: 'l:r(k !P'C!lrs h u‘"le bourg (2). Sisler (2), Du::xrf. o Wllk!Y.Allen Sukeforth, Kell e Tt Bacrifices—Kelly, l'e!fi Bukelon uble m.r,e.—ul:"n“ue !s Maguire to Sis- ; Ma ville to Sisler. Left on bases—Boston, 8: Gineinnatl, 4, Bihardr: 3% Bases on 1i Donoh: Cantwell. 2; Struck_out—By May, 1 cu ningham, 1. Moy 4 inning: n R Ly e R D e nnines. Winnn! teher—C 1 iich Tdhh;;’dct "Um_i'fi.”—':'m Forane Jords, Magerme me of game—1 hour Aute Bodies, Radiator: Repaired; also N-w Radiators Harrison Radiators and Cores in Stock Wmnnm. lm l4th th 1l1'l . Fenders SWIM IN THE Y POOL Spectal Rate 4 Months—$8.00 1738 G 8t. N.W. any of the until the wee hours of the morning and | above chairmen before July 20, or if will make com- | other towns in the county want to | petition keen for my entrarts in the enter l:hlirmln will be appointed in un- BOXER VS, FIRHTER IN THURSDAY BOUT Question Is Whether Tommy ', Can Retain Strength in Making Title Scale. l | | | hooks in the business. | stand-up fighter with a crashing right.! that some men take off weight lrcre easily than others. Look at Johnny Dundee. He could strip off 10 or i5 pounds in a week without any -ppmm trouble, and still strong and toug! as a bulldog. In that sense I am no Johnny Dun- dee, but with the diet and exercise laid | out for me I'm sure that I have tumed the trick. Fools His Opponent. Braddock bolstered up his confld'-nce lot in the belief that I wasz umm to weuken myself getting down to 175. When he finds that I am strong th! | reaction isn’t going to do him any Some of the sports writers have becn comparing this scrap with the Delany- | Berlenbach battles which furnished so| much excitement a couple of years ago. | in a way the comperison holds up, for it is the boxer-slugger angle all over again. Aside from that there really sn't much basis for comparison. Ber- lenbach was a thick burly fellow, who plowed in, hooking with his left, and | there haven't been many better left Braddock is a Paul crowded. Jimmy hasn't, though| BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, July 13.—Temmy | | Loughran will pit his clever- ness against the right-handed onslaught of James J. Brad. dock in defense of his ligh! heavyweight laurels next Thursday | night at the Yankee Stadium. Braddock will have 15 rounds in| which to park his right-hand blow on | |the angular jaw of the genial Phila- ‘del hian, and the champion will have | e distance in which to prove to the | Hnu that a smart boxer, with more than the usual run of intelligence, cnn nullify grim determination and healthy w-uop by the simple expedlem of keeping one thought ahead of the | walloper. That Loughran faces a trying ordeal when he meets Braddock cannot b denjed. Tommy has been having trol ble making the class weight, and un- less he enters the ring in the fullness | of his strength hé will be hard put to forestall the charging rushes of the challenger. | Hot days in the training camp have |been a boon_ to the light-heavyweight |champion. Packed in heavy wraps, | Loughran has been able to sweat easily, | | and his chances of losing the title by | being able to tip the beam at 175 pounds | have been minimized. Whether or not | | Loughran has lost any strength during | ‘the hot days is hard u) decide, as the | champion is able to flash through his | boxing tilts without any appreciable | outward effect. A smart boxer like the champion can hide his faults and keep the experts in the dark as to his true condition. 1 understand he will try to crowd me. " I've had excellent = workouts with Fred _Caldori, King Solomon, Jack | | Wolfe, Harry Nealon, Frankie Cawley | trouble | and Buddy Howard. | (Copyrignt, 1920 by North American News- r Allianc | 'ROBINS BEAT CARDS E ON NINE-RUN INNING | By the Associated Press. i BROOKLYN, July 13.—Brooklyn | scored nine runs in the eighth inning | | here today to win a wild 15-to-8 de- | cision over the Clrdinl]s in the final | game of the series. Babe Hermans home run with the bases filled was the first hit of the inning and merrily be- gan an attack that ocontinued with a | | homer by Bressler, a triple by Eddie {Moore and three St. Louis errors. | Bissonette hit a home run with one on early in the game. Brooklyn scored its 15 runs on nine hits. In all, the Cardinal's pitchers allowed a dozen bases on balls, eight of which were charged to Hallahan, who started the Situation Is Reversed. | s2me i While Loughran has been paring down, Braddock has been doing the re- | verse, in that he will build up to the | stipulated poundage. A loggy fighter is |far worse off than a drawn boxer.. Braddock is hitting on all eight, and | | the extra weight has helped him rather | than slowed him down. | "The boxer versus the fighter has| {always been a subject of debate among | lthe fans. In this case the question | | should be answered to the satisfaction | | of the most exacting, of boxer in the ring today, while Brad- dock comes pretty near {o meeting th requirements of the old timers in that he will take a punch and stand up | bravely and has enough dynamite in his right hand to knock an opponent | horizontal when it lands. | _There's the rub—when it lands | Those who string along with the boxers | will tell you that a right-hand puncher | & | has no ‘business landing on a clever | boxer. But in this case the rule does ‘ncz hold good, because Loughran has | tipped the beam over 180-pound mark for the past year. If Loughran were at his full strength against Braddnck, | he would be a heavy favorite to win. BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN, Light-Heavyweight Champion of the World. HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y., July 13— My training plans have worked out beautifully and I am getting well down toward the weight limit of 175. With three or four more days of solid werk | m-re shouldn't be any doubt that I will strong and in good condition when 1 get into the ring against Jim Brad- Ock in New York next Thursday night. never worked any harder fer a Many people thought that be- | cauné 1 scaled 1853; fc EESBURG, Va., July 13.—Judging, comes in contact with him is bound ta | | | We must clear out our entire stock of Spring and Summer woolens to make room for the new Fall goods. It is our pohcy to carry noth- ing over to the next season. Your Choice of ENTIRE STOCK of Kool Kloths Silk & Wools Mohairs Tropical Worsteds inasmuch as | | Loughran represents the highest_type | Morrison pitched eight innings for Brooklyn and, although allowing a dozen hits, was the official winner. The victory gave the Robins three out of | four and pulled St. Louis below the .500 mark. | 8t Lous ABHOA, Brookn ABHOA | Bouthiter.. Fred nick.et Beiph.2 Gilbert’ u | Delker 2 b Herman,rf. | Hil Bot mley lh Hafe: B son te.1d. AT Bresster.1t . E. Moore.ss | Wilson.c... Gelbert, ETRROFI . OOrBOOH C00aIw 0000wsnos00! 0 1 8 1 0 & 3 ] Hol o | F house, 0 *Prisch Totals Moore.p. | owmmmnsanons) | oarommmLHoom: | 8l oomrnoosommns % Totals d for Frankhouse in ninth inni | ed for Morrison in eighth. an for Hendrick in eig! st Louis . L010104020—38 | Brooklyn /00400025 x—15 Bottomley_(2). Or- | Holland. Frederici ;, Bjssonerte, rrison. Error: Sohere. e Moore, Picin erGibers (2, Swilson. Orsatti: Seiph, Bissonetts (2). Herman (5. Picinich. Hendrick t ee-base hits—| | don't hurt the game S | pitcher's confidence.” | run_has become ler | before it is LIVELY BALL GURB URGED BY LEADERS Majority of Major League Pilots See Sphere as “Ruinous” to Game. B the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, July 13.—A majority of big league base ball managers be- lieve the present epidemic of home-run hitting is “ruinous” to the game and believe something should be done to increase the efficiency of pitchers, a survey made today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows. Fifteen of the sixteen managers in the two big leagues answered telegrams sent by the paper. That the prineipal cause of the is a lively or “rabbit ball” is the | view of & smalier majority. Miller Huggins of the Yankees. Con. nie Mack of the Athletics, Joe McCarthy of the Cubs and Emil Fuchs of thy | Braves were the only leaders wh) thau‘ht that plenty of home runs hel'- he game. Ten leaders were stout™ oaposefl to the “home-run craze” anc blamed the ball. All remedies suggested, with two or three exceptions. related to alteringtr. ball, discoloring it, or keeping it in play for longer periods. Several managers thcu:m lhe liveliness in hlt‘!btgg ‘waz due to high wvisibility of the !h- 100 frequent uss of new balls game, the employment of an lntl-[!o“ process on the ball. and too great re- | strictions on the pitehers. Following are some of the opinions of the leaders: Dan Howley. Browns: “I go along with those who think the excessive home-run_ hitting is ruining the game. To my mind tke increase in hitting is due to weaker pitching and the handi- caps on the pitchers.” Connie Mack, Athletics: “T cannot see how high frequency home runs ere hurting the game. These outbreaks are caused by weak pitching.” Miller Huggins, Yankees: run hitting, being spectacula: the game.” Ruseel Blackburne, White Sox: “T be- | lieve the ball should be reduced in | liveliness and more old balls be al- | lowed to remain in the game. Walter Johnson, Senators: “I would keep balls in the game re:lrdlesa of their condition. make pitchers more effective.” Roger Peckinpaugh, Indians: “Idon't believe there should be any changes “Home- helps | regulating pitching, but the ball should be deadened.” Stanley Harris, Tigers: “Any state- ment from me would e no effect.” Billy Southworth, Cardinals: “Some- thing should be done to curb home- run hitflng The live!y ball ruins a lbert Robinson, Robins: “The home joke. I believe the umpires should treat the ball with dirt Donnie Bush, Pirates: “Pitching is the weakest department in base ball. Anything that could be done to Relp the pitcher would be a good thing.” Joe McCarthy, Cubt: “Home runs The trouble is | not »}the ball, but restrictions on pitch- by Holland, | Moore, 2_"Hits_Oft nings: of ol 2 % mmn 2 innin Frankhouse. 5 in o 2% 1 e | T Merrion. | Winning pitcher— r—Holland. Umpires-—Messre. nd’ M n. Time of game— | L LEAGLE. Toronts. 3-3. Baltimora. 9-1. 4: Reading. 3. | DISCOUNT ON ENTIRE STOCK ALBERT EASSAN, Designer TAILORS ing. Jack Hendricks, Reds: arks instead of bank boxes. Emil Fuchs, Braves: “Build ball believe the spirit of the day demands the lively 5 | pal” shotwn Phils: “Home run hit- ting running away with the base bl‘l The ball is at fault John McGraw, Giants: “The present ryjpous to the game. There can be no 'doubt the present ball is livelier. Discoloring the balls might help some.” Summer Clear-Out Nothing Reserved Nothing Held Out D 7 Lz Blue Serges, Tuxedos, White Flannels and Top Coatings INCLUDED 42.50 Suits. 45.00 Sui 47.50 Suits. 50.00 Sui 52.50 Sui 55.00 Suits. 57.50 Sui 60.00 Suits. 62.50 Suits 65.50 Sil 67.50 Suits. . 70.00 Suits. .... 52.50 Army and Navy Uniforms Excepted assemy=SHhsin Ine. 510 ELEVENTH STREET N-W- * WASHINGTON+D+Co.