Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1929, Page 20

20 Seventh Place Yawning for Nationals : Shoe Pitching to Feature Carnival THREE NETMEN WHO HAVE ENTERED SEMIFINALS OF MUNY TITLE TOURNAMENT I SPORTS. LESS THAN GAME AHEAD OF SOX AFTER SET LOSS Series Defeat Due Solely to Weakness at Bat, but 18 Hits Being Made by Johnson Band in Trio of Tilts—Drop 10-Frame Final, 1-3. BY JOHN B. KELLER. o American League. INCE coming home from the West, the first of the week, the Nationals have had their batting eyes dimmed, and the dim- ness threatens to throw the club into the seventh hole in the In the three games with the White Sox the \vashington outfit had pitching good enough for a sweep of the series ha it been able to bat to any extent. But it banked only 18 hits in the trio of contests, lost two of them, and went into the set with the Indians that was L0 begin this afterncon less than a game above the seventh-position Chicago club. In the Indians the Nationals gling to hold to fourth place—the and are apt to find the going in encounter an aggregation strug- last money place in the league— the series rough, even though the Indians were badly battered by the Athletics during the past few da Walter Johnson's band may stick in sixth place, though; for while it is battling with the Tribe the White Sox will be up against the league-leading Athletics. Not since the season of 1919 has a Washington club finished as low as seventh in the American League race. The Nationals that year were | beaten and buffeted about by most | of their rivals, just as they have been this year. In the first game with the White Sox but three Nationals drove the ball to| safety, in the second game only four | That may help some. | property of the Nationals, but who never has performed for them, had his ton- sils removed yesterday, and when he recovers from the operation probably will be shipped to some minor club. He already has been tried and turned back by Columbus of the Southeastern | League and Cumberland of the Mid- Atlantic circuit. In addition to whacking the hit that | won for his club, Cissell had a big and in the final it of the set | Hon for nis cuib, Clssel Bad, & Plg x of the club got one hit As a result only six runs were which is no way each. made during the ce to back good pitching. Marberry's Work Wasted. In the last game with the Sox, played ., Fred Marberry hurled well enough to carry the battle into the tenth inning, but with the Nationals unable to solve the pitching of young Ed Walsh or the pair of moundsmen that followed him for a brief time the decision went against Fred, 3 to 1. The Nationals had two good scoring chances before they put over their run in the ninth, in the fifth frame leaving on second base a runner who had made that station with one out, and in the eighth leaving on third base Muddy Ruel, who had started the inning with a double and advanced on a sacrifice by the t batter, Jack Hay But he Nationals gleaned only four safeties ©ff Walsh before their scoring session. ‘The White Sox got seven safeties off Marbarry in the first eight rounds, but only once during that time did they threaten trouble, In the second inning Willie Kamm doubled, with_one_out, and pulled up at third when Bill Hun- neficld singled with two gone. Moe then filled the sacks, but struck out Walsh. All Scoring Late. One was out in the ninth before the| Sox_began the ng of their first Art Shi: who twice had drilled into a double play, blazed the way when he bounced a triple off the right-field wall. Sammy West had to go far back for Carl Reynolds' hoist, and Shires raced home after the catch, although he barely beat West's fine throw to the plate. b In their half of the ninth the Na- tionals quickly put over the tying tally and managed to chase Walsh from the slab. Sam Rice walked as a starter, and, after Goose Goslin lofted out, scorcd when Buddy Myer rified a two- bagg board. West fouled to Berg, but Joe Cronin and Ruel drew passes. This sack-loading brought Harold McKain to W relief. McKain threw & strike by Hayes. Just as the newcomer was about to start his second pitch Myer headed for home. McKain's throw was low, but it got to Berg in plenty of time to flag Myer & yard or| iwo away from the plate. Marberry weakened in the tenth, walking Hunnefield and yielding a single to Berg after one was out. Watty W cod picked up McKain's bat and whiffed, but Fred loaded the cushions by passing Alex Metzler. Along came Bill Cisscll to become the only Wh“e! Sox getting as many as two hits in the I He singled Hunnefield and Grady Arkins (who ran for Berg) over the counting block. No Help for Gooch. The left-handed Bob Weiland pitched against the Nationals in the tenth, and ailowed but one hit. That went to Charley Gooch, batting for Marberry. There was one out, however, when Gooch singled, and_neither Joe Judge | nor Rice could help him. McKain made only two pitches and | 10 one was legally at bat against him, yet he was, credited with pitching the Victory. He checked the Nationals’ yally with the score only tied, and the ‘White Sox were ahead when Weiland took up the mound burden in the tenth. Harold Cates, pitcher, who is the RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN Batting. . AB.R. H.2h3bHR.S.SBRBLPct 157 5070 0 0 1°.333 40 32 13 42 34 3 32 129 30 1273 N T 1 2 2 B 2 27 42 L R e 5 PRSI - 5-Jei0 ROt 48 Hadley. 2 138 raxtn 2 05555 INAHHASHOANEOND P R Pitching. (o] ] Eamconmonaal s Q) 530aatERn tarberry... raxton. . PIETECY Gliomhnel ] ] S jesell, 8S.. Shires. 1b Reynoids, TT.. Kamm. 3b. . Hoffman. cf, et sAdkins . {Watwood . Totals . o for Berg in Lo for McKain 1 N, | onsosoonessrasi 8l nocouou o} cocomonrormmm! %! coconommoronmc® 1 1 FEw 55 & ing. It ER g e @ oroasaumwad R 8l ooccosuammacan wemws ol Hayes, 3b.. Marberry, *Gooch .. | cocccosonal ol kronmonnosh Bl onunuonoon® 58l H n R *Batted for Sashfteton e in—Cissell (2), Reynolds, hits—Myer, Ruel. Three- Sacrifices—Reynolds, Cro- Hunnefleld to Pi5” Sudse, Cronin 0 ‘hica : Myer. base hit—Shires. Hayes. Double Myer to Cronin to Judse, :dge. _Left on bases—Chic: .. Base on balls—Off Walsh, Struck out—By Walsh, rherry, 6. s—Off Walsh, § in 8% ;' off McKain, 0 in %3 inning: of ipniig, Winning sitchers Pes—G and. “5¢ minutes. M r against the wall near the score- | T | shortstop made four putouts and had | | five assists credited to him. Six of his| nine plays were crowded into the first three innings. CUBS FIND GIANTS ARE EASY PICKING Use Old Rivals to Increase League Lead—Mackmen Also Gain Ground. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. UCH to the embarrassment of John McGraw, the New York Glants' current Western tour to date has been a constant £ source of satisfaction to the growling Cubs of Chicago, traditional foes of McGraw teams. For the third straight day the Cubs yesterday administered a beating to McGraw’s punch-drunk Giants, 8 to 5, thereby increasing their lead over the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates to one full game. In justice to the Glants, it might be said that they put up a fight to save something out of the wreckage of their series with the Cubs. They gave red-thatched Larry Benton a two-run lead in the second inning; then, after the Cubs had tied it up in the sixth, scored three more runs in the seventh and held a 5-4 advantage as the Cubs came to bat in the last half of the eighth. Cubs Pound Out Victory. Then the storm broke. Singles by Grim and Pinch-hitter Hazen Cuyler brought another pinch-batsman, Gabby Hartnett, to the plate. McGraw then yanked Benton and sent Karl Hubbell to the mound. Gabby's sacrifice fly brought home the tying run. A walk, an error by Andy Cohen, an infield sin- gle by Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wil- son's screeching double brought in three more runs and decided the game be- yond a doubt. Wilson, incidentally, hit two doubles and his twenty-sixth home run during the daye Mel Ott drove out homer No. 27 in the second inning. Blake started on the Cub mound, but gave way to Mike Cvengros, who received credit for the win, although he pitched only the eighth inning. Guy Bush finished up. ‘The St. Louis Cardinals, now oper- ating under the personal guidance of Bill McKechnie, advanced to within 31, games of the third-place Giants by trouncing the Phillies for the third straight time, 10 to 3. Jess Haines held the Quakers to four hits, one of which was Chuck Klein's thirtieth of the sea- son. Behind clever pitching by Red Lucas the Cincinnati Reds buried the Boston Braves under a 14-to-2 count and evened the series, with two victories apiece. Lucas held the Braves to nine scattered hits and got four safeties him- self. The Reds got 21 hits in all, five of them going to Evar Swanson. Macks Get 25 Hits. There were only two games in the American League, but in one of them the Athletics drove out 25 hits to crush Cleveland, 21 to 3, and extend their league lead to 10', games. Nine runs in the first inning decided the game and allowed Lefty Grove to win his seven- teenth game without extending himself. In the A’s hit column were two home runs by Jimmy Foxx, his twenty-first 70 |and twenty-second of the season, and four-base drives by Grove and Haas, as well as doubles by Grove, Dykes, Haas, Simmons and Burns. Fred Marberry weakened in the late | innings and the Chicago White Sox |eked out a 3-to-1 victory over Wash- ington in 10 innings. The Senators got only six hits off Walsh, McKain and | Welland. Marberry was reached for nine. FOXX GAINS TWO POINTS IN BIG SIX HITTING RACE By the Associated Press. Half of the Big Six was kept idle by the weather yesterday, but the other half did enough hitting for the full membership. Ji Foxx, the leader, registered a two-polnt gain by hitting two home runs and a single in three times at bat. He also scored four runs. Rogers Hornsby got three out of five to lift his batting mark three points to .365, while Mel Ott went up to .325 with two out of four. A semi-official revision in the figures removed one time at bat from Ruth’s figures, adding two points to_his average. The standing: Foxx, Athleti B 3 cs. : fan; ‘383 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, '.D C., FRIDAY, Reading left to right, they are: S /% Dooley Mitchell, who won the honors in 1927; Maurice O'Neil, who also s a former champion, and Frank JULY 26, 1929. Shore, District junior king. Bob Considine, present title holder and possessor of The Evening Star cup, meets Alan Staubley in a quarter-final match today to decide the fourth survivor. NEW BLOOD ADDED BY THE KLAN NINE Hopes to Show More Power in Future—Other Teams Prime for Games. K better advantage. Sunday the Klansmen will journey to Indian Head to engage the team at that place, starting at 2 o’clock. The team will meet at Seamen Gun- ners Field at 11:30 a.m. Sunday to make the trip. Holtzman will harl for the Klansmen, with Groves on the re- ceiving end. A game with Purcellville, Va., at Purcellville August 3 and with Me- chanicsville in that Maryland town the following day have been booked by the Klansmen. Manager R. W. Terrett of the Klan nine wishes the manager of the Mount Rainier team to call him at U KLUX KLAN base ball team has added several players and figures from now on to show to Metropolitan 3333 between 6:30 and | se; 7:30 pm. ‘Waters, Waple, Carter, Corkins and Duffy are Mount Rainier pitchers avail- able for use against Triangle A. C. in the game Sunday on the Mount Rainier diamond, starting at 3 o'clock. Staats or McCoy will pitch for the Triangles. Indian Head Cardinals are after a game for tomorrow with an unlimited class team. Call Sprague at Indian Head 101-K-3. Army Medico batters slammed the old apple with a will to trounce Dis- trict Policemen, 17 to 4, on the Walter Reed diamond. Garrett Waters’' Takoma Tigers, who meet Miller Aztecs tomorrow and Hess A. C. Sunday in games at Silver Spring, were to drill this evening at 5 o'clock on the home field. Tomorrow's con- test will start at 4 o'clock and Sun- day’s clash at 3 o'clock. Socking 18 hits, Brown's Corner nine routed Hess A. C, 15 to 1. . Phoenix A. C. is gunning for a game tomorrow afternoon with an unlimited class foe. Business Manager Risler is booking at .Lincoln 3370-W, between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Pop Kremb's Liberty A. C. nine has booked a game with Rockwood A. C. for Monument Diamond No. 2, Sun- day at 3 o'clock. Diamond Cab Co., which meets Chevy Chase Grays tomorrow and Bethesda Firemen Sunday, is after an- other crack at the Naval Hospital team. piio Do NATS HAVE TRIO OF TEN DOUBLE-HEADERS IN A. L. CHICAGO, July 26 (#).—The Amer- ican League has reduced its indebted- ness to the schedule to 10 games, & new schedule of double-headers issued today by President E. S. Barnard reveals. The revised schedule follows: July 31—Cleveland at Boston. - August 3—Detrolt at Washington, ug 365 346 332 325 SR Sy 2 A MILLER, FIRST CATCHER FOR REDS, DEAD AT 76 CINCINNATI, July 26 (#).—The Cin- cinnati Reds’ first and oldest catcher, George Miller, 76, is dead at his home here. Miller was & battery mate in 1877 of Robert Mitchell of the Reds, first left-handed pitcher, to & curve HELD HAS 62 CARD. POLAND SPRINGS, Me., July 26.— Eddie Held, nationally known goif play- er, shot a sensational round of golf at the Poland Spring course yesterday, registering a remarkable score of 62, which broke the coyrse record by three ‘bwoku. Included in Held's card were Pitching, Not Lively Ball, At Fault, Hickey Asserts By the Associated Press. tontans vs. Roamer: Yo Hock. RESULTS YESTERDAY. LEAGUE. Departmental. Naval Hospital, 21; G. P. O., & Termina) Morning. Potomac Yards, 1; Capital Traction, 8. Church. West Washington, T. Terminal Evening. Express, 13; Terminal, 1. Government. Union Printers, 5; Navy, 4. Cavltal City, (American Lesion Serles.) Vietory Post, 7; George Washington, 3. Departmental (Colored). Navy Yard, 5; Asriculture, 5 (tte). French Insect. Ruels. 3. Eastern’ All-Stars, 7. ; ltess, 3. Shapiros, 12. Independent. Army Medicos, 17; Police, 4. Brown's Corner, 15; Hess A. C. 1. GAMES SCHEDULED. TODAY. Terminal Morning. \Washington Terminal va. Ratiway Mail rvice. Departmental. Treasury vs. Bureau of Engraving. Indastrial Western Electric vs. Thompson's Dalry. Terminal Evening. Southern Railway vs. Pullmen. Departmental (Colored). @. P. O. vs. Agriculture. Vaceation. Insect Section, Division A. Warwicks vs. ‘Yankees,” Missouri avenue, Sam Rices va. Nye Houss, Mlissourl ave- e, 9:15. Corinthians, Corinthians. Benators, 1 Webcos, 20; TOMORROW. Capital City. Insect Sectio Lionels vs. Eastern All-Stars, Monument diamond No. 3, 12 o'clock. Corinthians, Monument o aiSmona No. & 11 o'etoc S ‘Wesis " vs. “Brookiand Boys' Club, Mohiment diamorid No. 3, 11 o'clock. HUNDAY. Unlimited Section. Tremonts vs. Dixie Pig A. C., Bladensburs, 3 o'cle e Ruths vs, Edmonds Art Stons Co., College Park. : o’clock. Miller cs Brown's Corner, Plazs, 2 ‘Miller Astecs, Plaza, 4 oclock. ' 8t. Joseph A. C. :::Bnniwnod Hawks-National - Press Cards = Se Sec East Ellipse, 3 Try-Me Aces vs. Kaufman, Monument. dia- mond No. 10. 3 g'clock. ‘Montrose vs. Miller Furniture Co., Monu- ment diamond No. 4, 1 o'clock. ‘Hartfords vs. Brookland Boys’ Club, Monu- ment diamond No. 4, 3 o'clock. Junlor Bection. Murphy-A . Vic's Bport Shop, Mon- umen Hamond No. e § Olock Lionels vs. Calhouns, West Ellipse, 11 o'glock ‘Gobbs ye. Lancless, Monument dia- %is 'vs. Fotomiacs, Monument Dia- 3 o'clock. . * American Lexion Serles. Jines Spengler, West Ellipse, 1 O@bencler vi. Walcott, West Elliose, 3 5CK: ©'Delano. vs. Victory, Monument diamond ekt - Bokiy ve. Georse Washinston, Monument diamond No. 3, 1 o'clock. Insect Section. Georgetown vs. Onll:fher A. C., Monument diamond No. 4, 11 o' 005. Independent. TODAY. Brookland Boys' Club vs. Pepcos, Monu- mept aiamond Mo, 1, & 0ok, laza All-Stars vs. Brown’s Corner, Plaza, 5:15 0 clock. TOMORROW. ond Cabmen vs. Chevy Chase Grays, Chevy 'Chase plaveround, 3 o'clock. Mackay vs, Northern Juniors, Monument dilamond No. 7, 11 o'clock: Mackay vs. White Havens, Monument diamond No. 7, 1 o'clock. Hess A. O. vs. Public Health Hervice, Fair- lawn diamond_No. 3. uttisers "All-siaxs "vs. Bethesda Firemen, , ‘g o'clock. Takoms Tigers vs. Miller Astecs, Silve Spring, 4 oclock: . SUNDAY. C. vs, Takoms Ti Fair) - %) peloay ek Palreyn Fetown A G Ve, Bt Marye Celtics. Baggeil's Field, Alex clock. ferson District Firemen vs. Addison A. 2 Bilver pring . iy ‘o'clock. O Vo Cherrydale, - nt’ Rainier vs. Triangle A. C., Mount er, 3 o'clock. u‘.figxl-u V5. Columbis Engine Co., Hay- !ASII eld, Alexandria, 3 o'clogk. g’xunn Red vs. lericksburg 'Kreny a3 . Mt A C. Ortenfal. Tigers Vi Suilsiac a8 South Capitol street and Poto” southwest_diam ra; Ku Klux Klan vs. Indian Head, Indian Head, Md., 2 o'clock. ibert [ Rockwood A. C., Monu- Liberty A. C. vs. ment diamond No. 2, 3 o'clock. Diamond Cabmen vs. Bethesda Firemen, 3 o'clock. GAMES WANTED. Sundays—Rover (insects). Lincoln 8289-W after 5 p.m_ Opponents must have diamond pBunday—Bowie Motor "Co (ualimiteds), owie Tomorrow — Phoenix A. C. (unlimiteds), Lincoln 33° between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. undsy-—National Press Building Cardic (unlimiteds), Harrington, Cleveland er 5:30 p.m. Opponents must have diamond. Sundsy—Rambler A. C. (unlimiteds), call Keys, West 323. SUNDAY SCHOOL LOOP HAS A RED-HOT RACE HYATTSVILLE, Md, July 26— Hyattsville Methodists are setting the pace in the red-hot race for the pen- nant in the Tri-City Sunday School Base Ball League, holding an advan- tage of only a fraction of a game over the second place Savage Baptists. Trin- ity Methodists of Laurel are third, close behind the leaders. Centenary Metho- dists, also of Leurel, are last and are Jjust about out of the running for the title. The league schedule will continue through August 31, with postponed games to be played after that date. Hyattsville will visit Laurel tomorrow to meet Trinity Methodists and Sas Baptists and Centenary Methodists will face at Savage. Both games will start at 3 o'clock. Henry Hiser's Hyattsville All-Stars have booked two attractive base ball gomes for Riverdale Park over the week-end with Montgomery County teams. Tomorrow Bethesda Firemen will be entertained and Sunday Brooke Grubb's Silver Springs All-Stars. games will start at 3 o'clock. ‘The base ball team representing der-Farmer Post, No. 3, of Hyattsville, in the Maryland State American Legion champlonship series will engage in a semi-final game August 2 at Clifton Park. Baltimore, meeting either Elkton, Cumberland or Baltimore. The winners in the two semi-final contests will meet August 3 in Oriole Park, Baltimore, for the State title. Hyattsville defeated An- napolis recently, 9 to 8. Last year Hyattsville reached the final, but. was then eliminated. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. hington, 1: Chicago, 3 (10 innings). Protadetsnia, 41 Cleveland, 3. 8t. Louis at Boston—Wet grounds. Detroit at New York—Rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ton. Cleveland. Detroit. Washing Chicago. Boston. Won, Last. | percentase | 1 1107 81161 6/14/68281.73 19/ 31 8| 6/1014/55231.625 31—/ 91101 5/151_8/52/401.565 71 5i—I 8171 8| 6146 s/St. Louts. 1| New York. Philadelphia New York /6! v/ eoen | | Philadelphta. I} 1761 7i—| 8/37/571.994 .1 3| 57 5 3| 31 6/ 3/—I271641.207 ..135/33/4014614715315764]-—|—| GAMES TODAY. Cleveland at W St. Louls Y. St Louls at N. Detroit at Boston. __ Detroit at Boston. Nationa-l_l.eague. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS, St. Louls, 10; Philadelphia, 3. Sheinaly 1y Poson. Hrookivh at Pittsbureh—Rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 5 g i THIE HH T—I 8] 8/111 91 61 7|_7Ti561301.651 ~1 8/—1 61111 81 61 7/10/56/321.€36 Pittsburgh, New York. st Louts. Philadelphia. Cincinnatt. (Chicago. x | New York 6] 5/—|_61 6| 91131 61511431543 Louls . 41 2] 51| 61 5/10/14/46{45I. Si E'Zuofl!n 131 4110/ 41— 8l 71_71411481.461 Boston . 4131 7]_6] A1 51 5/39/541.419 Philadeiphia .| 3 31 31 4| 6/11/—| 6/36/63].405 Cincinnatl_...| 4 71 41 31 4] 0 4I—[35551.389 (30132143145(48154153(851—I—I HE TEAMS T0 BATTLE FOR LEAGUE TITLE Printers and Navy Yard to Start Government Loop Series Monday. I O determine the champion of the Government Base Ball League, Navy Yard, winner in the first- half serles, and Union Printers, victor in the second half, wil clash in a three-game series beginning Monday on the North Ellipse. The games will start ap 5:15 o'clock. Printers won the second-half flag yes- terday, vanquishing Navy, 5 to 4, in a keen battle. Both Roudabush for the wu‘x!nen and Niedfeldt for Navy pitched well. Navy Yard won the league title last year and the Printers would particu- larly relish setting them down in the comi series. The winner will repre- sent Government League in the week- day “:‘euue championship play next mon! Naval Hospital added to its big lead in the Departmental League, nnmg- ng G, P. O, 21 to 3. With Crews pitch- ing three-hit ball, the Sailors socked the baill for keeps. Miller, the winners' shortstop, twice connected for the cir- cuit. Victory and Lincoln Post teams today are tied for first place in the battle for the pennant in the Capital City League American Legion series as the result of 8 7-3 win scored by Victory over George Washington. Victory and Linceln now each has won two of three games play- ed. Peregoy pitched strongly for the h | winners yesterday. Grace Episcopel squeezed through to an 8-7 victory over West Washington Baptist in Georgetown Church League. Booker socked & homer and two singles in four tries for the victors. Print Shop Gas Light vanquished Bi in ‘I: 1"-'0 Industrial - e thriller. Panella and Gooding, hurling for the winners and losers, respectively, ylelded only six hits each. Potomae Yards nosed out Capital Traction, 1 to 0, in the Terminal Morn- ing League. Express routed Terminal, 13 to 1, in the Terminal Evening League. The winners gained an early. lead and soon had the game in the bag. Drubbing Hess, 10 to 3, Senators maintained their lead in the flag race in the French Insect League. Corin- \thians triumphed over Ruels, 4 to 3, and Eastern All-Stars, 8 to 7, and Webcos defeated Shapiros, 20 to 12, in other league matches. Navy Yard and Agriculture fought to a 5-5 tie in the Colored Departmental M’GRAW MAY TIE MARK HE DOES NOT RELISH John McGraw will tie his own record if he fails to win a pennant this year and the prospects now seem very much against the Giants in finishing on top. It has been five years since McGraw won a pennant. At only one other riod of his career, 1906 through 1910 clusive, does the Giant leader’s record show a five-year period devold of championship honors. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Press. AMERICAN. | ‘Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .390. Runs—Ge 5 rs, 87. Runs batted in—Simmons, Athlet- , 95. Hits—Manush, Browns, 145. Doubles—J , Tigers, 34. Runs—Ott, Giants, 90. ted in—Ott, Giants, 98 , Glants, 145, / Doubles—] Robins, 30. ‘Triples—L. Waner, Pirates, 14. FHomers—] Phillies, 30. 5 r, Cubs, 26. won 13; lost 1. SPORTS. H TOW. A score or more of the out-of-town tion with carnivals and outings. Next Monday has been set as the date of play for the tournament in general, but special dates have been granted those commupities having events scheduled early in August into which a horseshoe tournament would fit. All preliminaries in Washington will start next Monday. Pairings were being made and the list of matches will be Sunday. ent in Loudoun County, Va., reports section. Round Hill, aquiver over the tournament. R. Rogers Thomas, Clarence Willinghan, G. T. Ainsworth, L. S. Moreland, Chester Gordon, Jack Myers, Cornelius Simpson, Ross Poulsen, Virgil Copeland, J. Holmes Thomas, Owen Thomas, jr.; Frank Wil- son and 8. J. McMichael. Other towns in Loudoun County have long strings of entries. The lists will be kept open through tomorrow night. ‘The tournament at Silver Hill, Md., where Willlam H. Clifton is chairman, will be run off mostly at night. It will be a real barnyard affair, for the court has been pitched beside Clifton's barn. | ment will be held. | | | y published | Xarl | SILVER SPRING ENTRIES HELD OPEN FOR A WEEK Many Preliminaries in Star’s Tournament Listed for Outings—Round Hill’s Leading Citizens Warn Rivals—Rockville Event Grows. ORSESHOE pitching will be a prominent feature of Silver Spring’s big carnivul, to be held starting a week from tomor- Charles B. Clark, chairman of the Silver Spring section of The Washington Star's tournament, announced today that it would be staged as part of the carnival. is arrangement makes it convenieiit to leave the en‘ries open for another week at Silver Spring. The communities affected are Silver Spring proper, Blair, Blair Takoma, Woodside, Wynnewood Park, North Woodside, Sligo, Burnt Mills, Seven Oaks and Colesville. The carnival will open on Saturday, but the horseshoe tourna- ment will not be started until the following Monday. Lights from the barn and from auto- preliminaries will be held in conjunc- | mobiles will flood the court. More entries from Rockville, where one of the largest events of the tourna- The latest to file applications with _Chairman _Roger Shaw are William, Benjamin and Patsy Coleman, F. Muliican, Izzy Steinberg, George Lamar, Morris Glick, Frank Marshall, Fairfax Waters, Karl Tucker, Ramey, William Boulc, Joseph G, udson, Charles Murray, Wiliam snd John Gandy, Charles Merry and Rich- Grace Brooks, The Star'’s correspond- | ard Roland. Chairman Shaw was referred to the considerable horseshoe pitching in that | other day as president of the Reckville where Mayor ' A. A. and a correction is in order. That Charles J. Ford is chairman, is quite office is held by F. Barnard Welsh, who, to quote Shaw, “is about the livest wire “The rivalry is especially keen among | in this section, being at the head of the town’s leading citizens. Among the | the Fire Department and a leader in entrants are the mayor, Dr. J. S. Pat- | SPorts in general. terson, H. H. Cooley, Charles L. Payne, | the athletic field, which bears his name, M. Luther Poulsen, Joseph S. Melton, | Through his efforts was built.” Seventy-two complete sets of horse- shoes and pegs have been distributed among Washington’s playgrounds. The courts were ready today for practice. More than 50 pitchers had entered the Hyattsville tournament up to this morning and the total was mounting rapidly. John Henry Hiser is the chairman. Several towns have asked to stage the Prince Georges County final. Dates and places for county play-offs will be named next week. BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umpire. AVE BANCROFT, veteran shorte stop of the Brooklyn Nationals, has changed his batting style, and in so doing he has given batsmen who range from .240 to .275 something to think about. |, Bancroft, heretofore known as a weak biffer, recently began the experiment of gripping the bat near the nub of the | handle to emulate Ruth, Gehrig, O'Doul, | Stephenson_and others, who find the biggest_profits in taking a country cut at the ball. Result—Bancroft has become one of the leading sluggers of the senior cir- cuit. Gone is his attitude of looking them over carefully. He now puts the premium on the swing. Bancroft is putting the finishing | touches on & career which has estab- lished him as one of the greatest short- stops of the last 25 years. Being slight of stature, Bancroft began his profes- sional career with the idea of being a scientific batsman and leaving the slug- ging to the huskies. But that was be- fore hits went like rifile shots through the infield. Upsets Old Theory. Now, by taking his wallop at the ball Bancroft upsets the theory that “an old dog cannot be taught new tricks.” Too many ordinary batsmen have ad- hered to the ancient style of taking a modified cut at the ball. ‘Willie Kamm, brilliant third baseman of the Chicago White Sox, discarded the half swing for a vicious wallop last season and finished in the .300 class for the first time in his major league experience. Oscar Melillo, slight second baseman of the St. Louis Browns, is trying the swing with wonderful results. Ty Cobb Was the first major leaguer to realize the possibilities of changing his style at bat because of the lively ball. For years Cobb was content to have his hits roll against the fences. Then he suddenly began hitting the ball on the fly, and often lined it over the wall. Tris Speaker, always a smooth, even swinger, next was sold on the idea, and he began swinging with terrific force. This increased his num- ber of long hits. I recall vividly one of his exhibitions of long hitting. One afternoon two years ago Detroit was leading the Philadelphia Athletics, 3 to 2, in the eighth inning. Speaker, at bat, flashed the hit-and-run signal to the runner on first, and with a mighty swing deposited the ball over the right- field wall, which won the game for the Mackmen. Fifteen years ago it would have been laughable to “start the run- MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Cotumbiy: 6 Bt PavL 3. (10 inhinen). Toledo, 7: Ml 5 Jersey City, 1: Newark. 3. Toronto-Rochester (wet grounds). Montreal-Buffalo (rain). PACIEIC COAST LEAGUE. Los Angeles, 10. o Franciseo, 3. Seattle, 2. Memphis, Little Rock, Mobile. 0: Chattanoos New Orleans-Nashville (rain). EASTERN LEAGUE. Providence, 6; Springfleld, 5. (Only game played.) 'WESTERN LEAGUE. Pn;!;ln. 2-8. Houston, 4: Dallas. 0. ‘Antonio, 10; Fort Worth, 3. Shreveport-Beaumont _(rain). Wichita Falls-Waco (rain). SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Columbla, 3: Au Knoxville, 7; G Asheville, Charlotte, By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday: Foxx, Athletics, 2; Haas, Athletics, 1; Grove, Athletics, 1; Ott, Giants, 1; Klein, Phillies, 1; Wilson, Cubs, 1; O'Doul, Phillies, 1, and ‘Walker, Reds, 1. 5 American League Leaders. 26 22 | | 22| Bancroft Becomes Real Hitter By Changing His Grip on Flail ner” and then hit one over the renve. Todlny l:flig common. “I col kick myself for not taking advantage of that golf ball long ago,” said Bancroft. “Here am I, a slugger all these years and didn’t know it.” The Brooklyn veteran is hitting around .350, and promises to finish the season with the fattest mark of his career. As a result of his improved hitting his flelding has become increas- ingly brilliant and reliable. Many of the experts believe he has outshone any youngster in improvement. It is difficult to understand why more batters fail to take advantage of the lusty wallop. Clark Griffith used to say If your style at bat is detri- mi&!& keep changing till you get re- sults.” The lively ball has completel changed the old order of thlnpgs. My, much so that the perfect strike through the heart of the plate is not nearly as essential to the batter as it used to be. The modern batsman has made & business of converting pitches a_foot outside or inside into glorious three- baggers and home runs. C'mon, you .250 hitter! Stand a bit farther from the plate, grip the blud- geon near the end, and hit the ball over the fence to some of the neighbors’ children! Even Aunt Julia will be saying, “That boy certainly can sock the old apple!” (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newse paper Alliance.) POLICE DUE TO FIND MATCH IN FIREMEN It appears that the District Police have a good ball club, and it would seem that they must have if they are to take the measure of the Firemen in their annual Labor day battle, as the Smoke-eaters are showing strongly. It appears that the Firemen have one of the best teams in the annals of the department. , Among their victims this season are Bolling Field, St. Elizabeth’s, Army Headquarters, Public Health, Dia- mond Taxi and Fort Humphreys. Hull, Hooper, Bunton and Quinn make up the Firemen's pitching staff. Burthe and Peterson are the catchers. Peterson or Hooper have been holding forth at first, Morris Clark at second, Rittnour at shortstop and Snow at third base. Making up the outerworks are Watt, left field; Gately, center, and Walters, right. J. E. Clark, Davis and Bus Hager, captain and coach, are re- serves. Capt. O. R. Moxley is manager of the team. Moxley is after games with stron unlimited class nines. Call National ANOTHER NINE BIDS FOR COUNTY TITLE Capitol Heights Junior Order team has been added to the teams which will compete in the series for the Prince Georges County, Md. unlimited class base ball championship starting August 4. Laurel also may enter. Dixie Pig and Brentwood Hawks have had to withdraw from the series because of inability to arrange their Capital City League schedules to meet the approval of the other teams entered in the county tournament. Oscar K. Hiser of Hyattsville has been elected treasurer of the series committee to succeed Hugh Waldrop of Dixie Pigs. Another meeting of representatives of teams entered in the series will be held Monday night in the bowling alleys at Mount Rainier when the fran- chise fee of $25 for each team must be posted. OWNER OF SACRAMENTO WILL SELL FRANCHISE LOS ANGELES, July 26 (#)—Lou Moreing, owner of the Sacramento Club of the Pacific Coast League, sald in a statement here he would sell his fran- chise, and that it probably would go to a group of San Diego financiers. Sacramento fans had deserted the m'sén because of reverses this year, he said. “Lack of support in the club in its one year of distress is more than I can stand. I want to retire.” CLASH AT MOUNT RAINIER. A game between D. J. Kaufman and Mount Rainier nines has been arranged for the Mount Rainfer, Md., fleld for tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. SEEKS UNLIMITED GAME. Rockville's unlimited class nine