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[ spores s | @he Toening Stap Classified Ads Griffs Leave Tonight for 20- URBAN THE RED. PLAY YANKEES TWIN BILL IN NEW YORK TOMORROW Short Series in Boston and Last Invasion of West This Year Follow—Nationals’ Pitching Poor, Are Defeated Twice by Tigers. BY JOHN B. KELLER. FTER winding up their series with the Tigers this afternoon, the Nationals will leave for their last long trip of the season. Before returning to Washington, on August 26, they will visit the fields of six of their rivals, and—weather favorable—will dispose of 20 games on their schedule. The road battling will begin tomorrow in New York with the Yankees in a double-header, the only one listed for the trip. From New York the Nationals will proceed to Boston for two games in as many days with the Red Sox, then will invade the West for the last time this year. Four games are to be played with each of the four Western outfits, with the Browns, White Sox, Indians and Tigers to be encountered in the order mentioned. WASHINGTON, D. C, The Nationals will leave with little hope of bettering themselves in the league race. They are weil behind the fifth position now as a result of the two-time beating _— FIRST ‘;Q“‘;- e EAE they took from the Tigers yester- | jonnson, If.. _ 38 4 0w day, and unless they brace up}g!hm&e&rd Al ) il suddenly are likely to be well sunk | Heiimann. i yre e 0 in seventh place before they get peXfnder e back from their tour. Hargrave, C.. e The White Sox are strong on their JERUEIS; S5 I gl home field, and are certain to fight | P e desperately’ for the sixth berth they| Totals ..... 10 17 27 11 2 now occupy. The Nationals are in no | , WASHINGTON. VB M Q& E great danger of dropping into last place, | g*R{ce %000 3 3.3 0 of for they had an advantage of eight 9 3w el games over the cellar Red Sox this My g 8 A morning. But they must struggle from s 3 a Sl now on to finish the campaign better Soe a2y 21 than seventh, |3 2483 o Grift Hurling Atrocious. |l {48 I i G The kind of pitching they showed| Totals . T TR yesterday in the double-header with| i for in seventh. the Tigers must be dispensed with if the Nationals would make some head- son’'s band, 10 to 5, was woefully weak, while that in the second sct-to was atrocious. The most plcasing feature of the pastiming was the reduction of the nightcap. in which the Nationals were beaten, 13 to 10. to seven innings by Umpire Red Ormsby. Any more of In both engagements the Nationals got away in front. They hopped on the Detroit .. Washington Two Alike—Both Bad ...000701011-10 1200000210-5 John- v on the road. The hurling in the| Runs m;‘u? in—Myer, .z;r}umeemm o 4 = ciimann (31, Gehringer (2). game, which went against John- £ "Hice, Goslin. Haves. . Two-base u E. Rice (2, Johnson, Schuble. ‘Three-base_ hit—Alexander. Home Johnson tolen bases- Double Spencer to_Judge. McManus . Haves to Myer to Teft on bases—Detroit, 10 Wash- Bases on balls—Of Whitenill. Struck out— —of ) Judge. ington. 8. off Braxton, 3; off Thomas, 2. e o 72} y Braxton. 3: by Whitehill. 4 Hits such en affair would have been unen- | BY, Braxton. i, b HhE Sl durable. | Passed ball—8pencer. _Losing raxion: Umpires —Mess 1 rs. Dinneen Time of game—2 hours and 5 VETe OF “THE CHICAGO RAN SPITAALL TITCHER X/HITE SOX., For Red Faber—for that was the bold sack-pilferer—won three games from the hated Giants in that hec- tic 1917 series, and lost one. In the 1919 world series, in which many turned Black, Red Faber did not pitch, but it is safe to say that if he had he would everything_he had on every pitch. Men like Faber, Schalk, and Collins weren't even approached by the gamblers behind the Black Red Faber, please notice, is still pitching and winning games, even with as weak support as the 1929 Alabaster Hose sometimes give their This is the big boy's six- teenth major league season, and | Mezropolitan Newspaper Service his twenty-first in professional base | ball. Yessir, Red started back in | 1909 with Dubuque of the Three- | Eye League, and was sold to Chicago | by Des Moines in August, 1913, for | $3.500. i Since then, not counting this sea- son, he has won 216 games for the Pale Hose, which is about $16.00 a victory, not counting in Faber's salary. Red's best years were 1920, 1921 and 1922, when he won a total of 69 games and lost 45. Coupled with Ray Schalk, Faber made up one of the most famous of modern batteries. He is one of the few remaining spitball hurlers left in the game. DOWN THE LINE With W. 0. McGEEHAN Defending a Title, MONG those introduced in the ring just before Sammy Man- defended his lighweight title against Antonio was Oscar Mathew Battling Nelson, more familiarly known It took Sam- to demon- e receipts ] Tinutes. of Fams i the Brst Inbing of the iniial | BECOND GAME NOW/ IN HIS 22ND. SEASON OF, encounter, but Garland Braxton lost his| DETROIT. AB.R. H. O A E| PROFESSIONAL. DASEBALL * cunning in the fourth frame and the |Johnson. If el Tigers banged him all over the ot for | Genringer, 3b ‘423 1% 3 o . . geven runs. Whitehill went the route, | Heilmann. rf 3 2 3 3 0 0| About 12 vears ago & big red- vielding 11 safeties: but Braxton was | jocnerglll rf D @ ns e o | hesard pitener stole s third pnse n w v sevent ’ b the world series between the Giants ithdrawn after the seventh inning. | McMenus, 3b. 11 e orging He had been combed for 13 hits, and | Ehillins, ¢ 2 2 1 ¢ 1 of and the Wnite Sox. Nothing so the Tigers continued their attack upon | giuble: & (R 10 d e e unusual ebout that, to be sure, Myles Thomas for enough safeties to H 1 8 § 8§ § e aithoughiibly ¥red-headeaipliciens | (offhe IWte SoX reise their game total to 17, the added Erudnemme, ‘5.1 1 9 ¢ o o o domt unsually steal bases, especially Fiows atcounting for more: markers, | L2 B8 88 8 8 8] Inwerld eeries ghmes w I o Az e | [ 0 0 0 0 0| gyt wait! You h have put sent George Uhle, Emil Yde. Jack| Hi : CUDIEAIDY S R e i AB.R. H. 0. A. £ | "Where are you going?” velled his Fiel R il el L LT Sy AP B %% %ol surprised matey, as they both slid | Sox seandal. hill, as named, while the National ., as ni , while the Nationals em- | . Rice, rf - T R B ES into the bag about the same time. ploved Bob Burke, Irving Hadley and | Gosiin. 11 0 3 ggpimt 5 s Lloyd Brown. The Nationals had ac- | Yy 2 (g g g e e cumulated an eight-run lead before the | Tate. ¢ e o i Tigers began sopring off Burke in the | Cromin. ol e 3 T e oo oS | ares; anes 2 2 3 9 % 7| andpitch he did, as the records will | hurlers. cover, and were making headway against | Hedis. *p: SRR SR O | ey 5 vay adiey, b Yde. Burke, though, kept getting Brown. p. R0 Y wilder and wilder, until in the sixth he | Totals TR TIR TR T TR | was relieved by Hadley. :EV,,,:‘. ; 0023801 I.IBERTY A. C. N'NE Hadley Well Licked. shing ] u batted i) Myer. Tat 2). Ci in, There followed the poorest exhibition | Goolin, Judse. Wesk Haves (3. Alexander TRIMS SHADY 0AK " 71%), McManus. H. Rice, Johnson (2), Heil- ’"' D";hindeflfllg\ S'“d“t"'k’] }:ifi: behe M| 10ann ()" Schubie (3). Phillips. _Two-base In many a day. jump pitches 0 seven hits—Wes Burke, Johnson. ‘Three-base batters. Six of them got on the runway g;'(lsx;;flg_“*;r}{‘; E, Rice Home rug ~Havet | Pop Kremb's Liberty A. C. nine was | and the six scored. Three walks and | judge. Sacrifices—McManus. Haves' Dou a 13-7 victor over Shady Oak tossers. | two hits were made off Hadley Bl plass-Cronin to Myer o Judge, West to | 2 he turned the task over to Bre Haves 'Left on bases—Detrolt, 4: Washing- Campbell of the losers socked two hom- | third walk charged to Hadley w: balls o Unie, 3,07 |ers, a three-bagger and a double in four dell puccessfully pleted by his relicl, but Bump had| LBy Burke. 4 by trips to the plate. McCormick of Lib- over for the round and the bases filled | innings. off Carroll, T "ihning: off | Union Plasterers registered & 7-5 Win a5 piain Battling Nelson. when Hadley left. Phillips' pass and a | BUTke: 8 in 5 innings (nons opt. 3 batters i3 | over Army War College. | mynM.nd,u onfi; 10 rounds triple by Schuble accounted for four | Brovn. {'ln, 15y fngipws." wid SHcRTwse | Hess A. C. drubbed Maryland A. C. | strate that he stlll was the 1 . in —Y =l 1, it a e righ | champlon, and there were ga The Nationals outbatted the TIgers, | Bicicen, Tmia i swmeea hours and" 39 | 1, but dropped the nightcap of | or'more than $125,000—not a 15 hits to 10, in this hectic set-to, but | minutes. their double bill, 5 to 6. were outwalked by the Harris horde. The Washington hurlers issued 11 passes egainst 10 the Tiger heavers handed out. It was a dreary contest, this, and. with the poor pitching, consumed more than two hours and & half, even though it went only seven innings. ‘The first game was mainly the Tigers’ | | | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS l American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. The Nationals in the second gam fourth inning. In it they tucked aw: 3 theHengagement: W Mlexanderlauniched |lanne U b aioe calls et | oo the attack in the round with a triple| Boston 8: Chicago, 0 and counted as McManus went out. ewRiotky 4t Cleveln gy 0 Hargrave's walk, Hayes' boot of Schu- STANDING OP THE CLUBS. ble's grounder and Whitehill's bunted Py single then filled the bases. Johnson Saae 18 s singled two runs across, and after he 8548 4% s was forced out Gehringer's hit sent EE E 4854 H Whitehill home. Up came Heilmann 2y~ LS8 Sdy 2 with two mates on the runway, and he £§288E8808 & poled the ball into the open stand back | e T s ey of left fieM for his eleventh homer of | S BI=1121 41 1121 ei141611381 87 SheYeearcn: 1731 31— 9/10/15/ 6 853461535 Lead Means Nothing. (] 131 N [ got seven runs off Uhle before he was 61 9/ 4| 4] 71— 638/50.392 yanked in the third inning. and before | g this round ended they picked up an-| other tally at Yde's expense. Wi(hl 121 51 51 41 41 41 6 126/36146/48152153159170/—I— three passes. a single and a misplay by Hayes, the Tigers made two tallies off Burke in the fourth and picked up| three more off the same hurler in the fifth with three hits and two walks. The home side came right back for three more in the fiftth with singles by Mpyer and West and Hayes’ homer, that o Gehrig, Yankees..... 26 came after two were out. Hayes'drive| o , YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. BUiR A = was & liner to center and became a| Ehicago. 8: Brookivn. 4. sfxx, Xthrf 5 = home run only because Harry Rice lost| Cincinnati, 7; Philadelphia, 1. immons, JeRies . the ball in the sun and never saw it again until it had bounded by him. 3 Then the Tigers stepped out to win. - &lflu:h Pg‘;‘g‘ ‘g; Phillips began the sixth with a single £ d:’ Z £ | ott, Giants 209 and Schuble walked. When Burke gEsdgs 2 3 | Ekiomter. Oiidinais 2 pitched two wide ones to Shea, who had 32 e B A : grabbed Yde's bat, he was derricked 22 g8sSdyg & League Totals. and Hadley sent to the slab. Johnson oK ACR &e S & |National . . . ' /1110 7110/12/66/311.680 | American singled two runs over. Harry Rice crowded the bases. ringer forced out Shea at the plate, but Detroit at Wash Bt. Louis at Phiia, Then a pass to Shicage Geh- | Pittsburgh New_York GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. A Detroi Clevela St. Louls at Phila. National League. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 6111 8110/ 8 815937..615 191 6 8] 5/13/56/461.549 Heilmann’s single tallied Johnson and §t._Louis 110141 7/10/531491.520 Rockwood topped Pierce in a weird, 19-18, struggle. Hume Spring turned back Mercury A.C, 4 to2. ‘Washington Railway & Electric nine | swamped Seabrook, 32 to 8, at Sea- brook. Lou Robey and Tom Groves laced homers for Wreco. Ku Klux Klan, after winning over Purcellville, Va., nine Saturday, 3 to 2, bowed to Mechanicsville, Md., 6 to 7./ vesterday. The Klansmen will meet Navy Saturday and Silver Spring Giants | Sunday. Repulsing an enemy rally, Army Medicos_edged out a 9-8 victory over Chevy Chase Grays. .The losers had three men on in the last inning, when Chance fanned for the final out. ‘White Havens took a 3-2 thirteen- inning thriller from Columbia Engine Company. Swistack, winning pitcher, gave up just three hits. HOME-RUN STANDING By the Assoclated Press. Home runs yesterday—Williams, Red Sox, 1: Hayes, Senators, 1; Heil- mann, Tigers, 1; Lazzeri, Yankees, J. Sewell, Indians, 1. Orsatti, Cardi- nals, 1; Stephenson, Cubs, 1. American League Leaders. National League Leade: in these days of million-dollar gates, or talk of milllon-dollar gates. After being introduced, Battling Nel- son seated himself at the ringside and watched with a brooding look. It might have been that he was reminiscing and thinking about the days of the long fights and the short purses. In 10 rounds, when he was champion, Bat- tling Nelson rarely even got started. If the bouts of his time had been limited to 10 rounds, he never would have been champion. He would have been merely a good “catcher,” as the boys call it. 1t took Battling Nelson something like 57 rounds to win the lightweight championship from Joe Gans, the greatest lightweight of them all. There was first the 40-round fight at Goldfield, Nev., which Nelson lost on a foul after being battered until his face looked like nothing human. Then there was the bout in San Francisco, scheduled for 45 rounds but which Nelson won in the seven- teenth, after Gans, who was a victim of tuberculosis in an advanced stage, dropped from sheer exhaustion. For acquiring the championship in this fight Nelson received only a few thousand dollars and a broken rib. There was a return bout with Gans, in which Nelson successfully “defended the title,” and for this one Nelson prob- ably received about one-fifth of what Mandell was paid the other night. ‘The Battler must have had some poignant memories of his unsuccessful defense of his title against Ad Wolgast, who used to be called by the euphonious name of the “Cadillac Bearcat.” That was at Point Richmond, Calif.,, and not so long after Nelson had acquired the title over which Mandell and Canzoneri held their petting party the other night. As was the custom in California at the time in the event of a championship contest, this bout was scheduled to go the conventional 45 rounds. It almost did go the limit. It was stopped in the forty-second round, when Nelson, with one eye completely closed and the other reduced to a narrow slit, staggered— Rice. Alexander fanned. Then a pass Brool E 81 8] 7/43/58/.426 but staggered forward. to McManus loaded the bases again.|cCincinnati . | 71 61 31 8I—| 9] 6/431581.426 All the time Wolgast continued to Hadley followed with three wide heaves | gosicn . B1 51 71 6/ 9] 5I—I 5/42/61].408 hammer the battered face. For four to Phillips, u% torldthde t:econd time l:n Philadeiphia .| 3/ 6| 3| 4/ 6/ 6/11/—39/611.390 rounds the crowd, a comparatively st focmplsd¥tne B orein | Lot .. BIBTHSHOSBIsBIOIIG1— Battine., S St "ihe “eadition wes thap Gehringer over the plate, and Schuble) — o T T - AB B H 3h3nHR.8.E8REL B ciing (e et o socked a triple that meant thres more s . 3,12822 8 1 9 7 and it was the unwritten law of the markers. Boston at St. Louis. Boston at St. Louis. 5 4710 0 0 3 O riod never to take away a cham. 5 Brookiyn_at Chicago. Brookivn at Chicago. 3 2.3 910 00 0 P = Schuble tried to make nhhomer of | N vat Pittsbureh. .. N.'Y. at Pittsburen. 210022 8 313 8 ion#hi while the champion was on his hit, but was flagged as he slid in, 3 347 50 105 1 4 0 eet. igh nave been'going on vet. R RERRE Golng completely Biind, Jor. as he came : MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS TR e e W out of his corner for that round, he PR B R seemed to be feeling for his opponent. EASTERN LEAGUE. fwe R730533 7810 7 2 9 7 Wolgast was weary enough, but he had ;',rm'l'dienct- 5-01 Albany, 7-!,‘-‘ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. |§-m. ;: fig’ 3; g; xg 3 { lg ; his eyesight and some spring left in his B rttshed: i10: Allentown. 8-1. (Sscond ) Louisville, 4-3: Indianapolis, o-1 o, 28 28 3 8 10011 legs, while Nelson was coming forward same called law.) { St. Paul, 4; Minneapolis, 21 271 5000 01 with legs wide apart to keep himself Btidgeport, 13-0 Sprinefield, 11-¢. Columbug, 0-3; Toledo, &4 Jones.. 17 28 3 4 0 0 0 10 from fallin Sk Kansas City, 4; Milwaukee, 8. it 40 8 1720010 8. 4 e —_— Braxtn 25 38 3 5 100 20 Finally the referee stepped between SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Burke’2¢ 3 1 410039 them and pushed Nelson back into his flante, o5, Nashaile; Lo Rochester, 5-0: Montreal. 1-3. l — A { corner, where he slumped against the i obile New ‘Orleans. 5-0 (1st game 11 | Rogr el g TR B BR S0. I crCOWY, ll':wep;s‘.d .llztl:': ;1; &3‘7{5".‘}1’.‘& lgner:"g: Bt fatnsham, 13-7: Chattancosa, 3-0. Baltimore, 5-0; Newark, 188 By ! l through bruised 1ips. o 103 39 321000 11 4 X " 4 ¢| Yes, watching Mandell defend the it e N e, 1o 3 8 5 8™ 31 8| uentweight title must have brought & 10-7. 85 38 8 0% 8 3 ] §]fiood of memories to that former de- ai dan, 3% 8 3818 1 3.3 tender of the lightweight | vast sum | ‘Why Wolgast Was Absent. 'HEY did not have Ad Wolgast in the ring, because that former light- weight champion is confined in a home for the hopelessly insane. He would not have been able to moralize on the change in the fight game and on the change in the methods of defending championships. The title and the de- | fense of the title would not have in-| terested him. ‘Wolgast defended the title shortly after he acquired it in a bout set at the | more humane limit of 25 rounds. He | was defending it against a rangy light- | weight of San Francisco, Willie Ritchie. 1t looked as though the defense of the lightweight championship that day would have been quite as certain as’ the defense made_ by Mandell against Canzoneri. ‘Wolgast was piling up the points and Ritchie seemed bewildered and outclassed, but suddenly Ritchie tried a wild swing. It caught Wolgast on_the point of the jaw and the little “Cadillac Bearcat” dropped face forward on the canvas. Almost before a count could be started he rose and spun about, crouched almost double. As he swung he landed two palpably foul blows on Ritchie. That ended it. The referee gave the lightweight championship to Ritchie. Wolgast was still so stunned that as he was shoved to his corner he did not register a protest. It was not long after this that Wol- gast passed out of the picture. For his unsuccessful defense of the title he was paid perhaps as much as one of the| preliminary fichters at the Mandell- Canzoneri thing. ‘Willic Ritea.. .ost the title over which the boys wcre quarreling in the pine- | apple belt to Freddie Welsh. This bout was held in London, and it scems (hat.‘ Ritchie lost it by something like a frac- tion of a point. The English point system of scoring boxing bouts is quite as incomprehensible as the one estab- lished by the New York State Boxing Commission. ‘The man agaisnt whom Welsh un- successfully defended the title also was in the ring the other night. He is no other than Benny Leonard, retired champion, aftor and author. Mr. Leonard very wisely did not re- main in the caulifiower industry to defend the title unsucessfully. He did defend it many times quite suc- cessfully for almost as much as there was in’ the entire house the other night. Ttgis begins to sound like a boresome history of the lightweight division. Per- haps it is. The point—if any—is that it is much more easy to defend the lightweight title in the latter days than it was in the days when Nelson was defending it. (Copyright, 1929.) o LIBERTY CLUB CONVENES MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929. l HORSESHOE RESULTS CLEVELAND PARK. Pt PR Capt. Frank Stone: 9 17 George Larkin.. 94 5 0 George Heckert. 12 4 4 W. C. Hoppe.. 12 T8 Charles Sardino. 00 0 1 W. Hoppe, J e 100 0 3 i Christoph 198 13 2 Fadeley, Jr 198 1 3| Capt. Stoner. 140 7 2 W';’lntales 140 14 6 8. 8t 0 6 8 Yt Soenie 00 8 5 W. 8. Bteels 132 3 5 Christoph 132 L L | 8t us 9 7/ gg:’fil’e‘& Bodeee 27 146 18 1| ARNOLD HORSESHOE GHAMP AT MLEAN Tournament Chairman Sent| E | preliminaries here. The divisional | not a few Washington horseshoe pitch- Five Games to Defeat |ing fans will be on hand this evening Kearns in Final. CcLEAN, Va. August 5—Worth Star’s horseshoe-pitching con- test in the McLean area emerged as its champion Ewhor after a -hard struggle, defeat- g Arthur Kearns in the fingl. The contest roused much interest and the shoes have rung each night on several courts scattered through the commun ity. Enthusiasm has spread as prac- tice games went on, and many of the rivalries are to be fought out again this Summer. The opening games were played Wed- nesday night. The semi-finals were staged Saturday afternoon, two courts being set up on the school campus. The program, planned as part of the athletic events of the annual McLean day, got off to a late start because of rain. The finals were fought out Sun- day morning. The games attracted an enthusiastic_gallery. Results follow: m E. Arnold, sr. defaulted to L. P. reekl Norman L. Knauss defeated T. B. David- 15, 7118, w son. 21 ne. rth H. Arnold defeated Alex Moshe: 1521, 2114, 2118 Ben'Mackal! defeated Leith Kidwell, 21—, ,)ansuey defeated J. Hunter Mack. ' Marbury defeated John C. m H 1l 21—13. 21 A Mackal omb. 319, 2115 Everett Rivercomb won by default from Edgar Jenkins. rthur K rfi d]ezle!(ed J. H. Davidson, Arnold. Ir., defeated Will Mackall. 21—9. In the semi-finals William E. Arnold, i won by default. and the result beiween Mar- ury and Porter A. Mackall was a bye. The ther scores were! 1 Phat 211121 Arthyr Kearns comb, 2114, 21 In the next round Worth Arnold defeated L. F. Weekly, 21—12. Arthur Kearns defeated C. K Mansuey, 21—14, 20—21 and 21—18. The finals were played for three games out of five instead of two out of three as was the case in the pre- liminaries. The scores which left 1l defeated J. H. River- mb. 3 e a8 b o 2 1 =25 th 1. 21 an: defeated Everett River- 18—21, 21—20, 21—16, 21—12, MUIRKIRK P K PITCHERS SEE VICTORY AHEAD ‘Barnyard golfers at Muirkirk, Md. are preparing to sweep everything be- fore them in the colored section of the Washington Star's metropolitan tourna- ment, they say. Felix Brewer, Muirkirk chairman. says Leon Gaither will take the county and State championship. Brewer re- ports the latest entries: Leon Gaither, ‘Will Jones. Felix Brewer, Walter Taylor, Pathen Taylor, Sam Crump, Henry way and John Jones. are laid at Muirkirk. Play at Halls Hill, Va., will start to- morrow_at 5:30, announces Chairman T. W. Hyson. Croquet has held sway at Halls Hill all Summer, but has been laid aside for the barnyard golf tourna- ment. All Halls Hill is looking forward Pitching courts | to the meeting of T. W. Hyson and Charles W. Chinn, local merchants and old rivals at croquet. Regulation pits are laid near the new Elks' Hall. Hyson announces the following pairings: Walter Croyou vs. Wilbert White. Arthur Moton vs. Irvin Lewis. H. Chinn vs. Bennie Robinson. Clarence Thompson vs. T. W. Hyson. Eugene Watson vs. Emery Moten. Percy Reeves vs. Charles W. Chinn. Harold Mansfield vs. Chester White. Norman Hall vs. Willlam Johnson. Fred W. Ewell vs. Edward Evans. William Lewis, bye. Rockville competition promises to be keen. Chairman Henry Duffin an- nounces tournament play to start Fri- ;lay and sends in the following pair- Henry Duffin vs. Nathaniel Warren. Henson Carroll vs. Robert Waters. Frances Martin vs. James Johnson. Binks Williams vs. John Howard. Renginal Moore vs. David Yeager. Jerry Warfield vs. Philip Jones. George Johnson vs. Roland Edmonds. Jessie Meade vs. Brownell Martin. RECORDS FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES TO PLAN FOR FIELD DAY Pop Kremb's Liberty A. C. base kall team will meet in special session tonight at 718 Taylor street, at 7:30 o'clock. Managers and members of the Wash- ington Red Sox and Johnny A. C. nines are asked to be on hand to discuss ar- rangements for the Liberty A. C. fleld day program Saturday at Clark Griffith Stadium. Libertys are to meet the Red American League. . L. R. H. EORHR. 1 Cleveland. . 1 4 70 7 27 4 1 47 61 6 35 3 2 40 64 4 23 5 3 2 3 5 9 35 0 3 3 33 64 9 38 2 Boston.. . 2 5 23 68 13 49 0 *St. Louis 1 440065 7 4 2 Detroit...... 1 4 24 40 9 36 6 *Played one tie game. National League, W. L R.H EORHR. Chicago..... 6 1 43 70 2 24 6 New York 4 2 33 65 4 13 4 ] 5 3 50 92 11 54 5 5 3 321 61° 9.31 0 3 4 3 63 7 3110 2 4 25 64 7 28 3 2 7 48 96 11 61 6 1 4 19 52 6 32 1 Colored Horseshoe Results GARNET-PATTERSON PLAYGROUND. Rutherford defeated Brown. Sox and Johnny A. C. nines in games that will feature the celebration. STRIBLING TO FIGHT. KANSAS CITY, August 5 (#).—Gabe Kaufmann, promoter, has signed W. L. (Young) sm.l'fl.tnl. Macon, Ga., heavy- weight, Sekyra, Ohio, | For %8 0 Found bout here AUGust 10. pray E. Davis defeated T. Carter. 21—19 & Dovdon defeated T. Evans. 38 g‘u!l Jone.ld e 1—4 " Harris defes B Shemen, Sefenited win i ; Knde J. !mllhr‘ feated M. Di 1- 3. Gaitner ai J. 11 1—10 2:—7 I "Wfl“n fl'flf J"&a“g"w““lm 2 cteai i &, “Hanks defeated J. Harper..... 3 ¥ PAGE 25 Game Trip : Vital Games On in Horsehoe Tourney LAST ROUNDS SCHEDULED ° IN PRELIMINARIES HERE Silver Spring Opening Is Big Event on Today’s Pro- gram—Divisional Play-Offs in Capital on Thursday—Girls Play Wednesday. EMI-FINALS and finals were on today in many preliminaries o the Washington section of the Metropolitan }{ogseshoe tournns ment, sponsored by The Star. But interest centered in the do- ings at Silver Spring, where, at 6:30 o'clock, the last of the Montgomery County tournaments was to get under way. Charles P. Clark, Silver Spring chairman, has invited all Wash- ington pitchers who failed to enter on time for competition in the Capital to takp a fling at the Silver Spring title. Many Washing- tonians are going to the Maryland town any way to take in the an- nual carnival of Silver Spring's firemen. Duffers are cordially invited to shoot in the barnyard golf tournament. With one or two excep- tions, all the Capital stars were entered in local events. Only three days remain to finish with a number of tillers of the sofl, and H. Arnold, chairman of The| Norman Tucker won by default from John | E, Weekly defeated N. D. Knauss. | 1. Arnold defeated Norman Tucker, | siey defeated Ben Mackall. | 21—18 and | Crump, Raymond Jones, Benjamin Con- | | play-offs are scheduled for Thurs- day, with champions and runners- up of tournaments held on various playgrounds and a few private courts engaged. Worked on Boxed Courts. Playground workmen have about fin- ished the construction of boxed-peg courts on the playgrounds where the divisional events will be held. Some of those who slide their shoes to the pegs may_ have difficulty with the strictly regulation lay-out. The shoe must land | within the six-foot square or be thrown out as a foul. Any shoe hitting the }J\'on]d boundaries of the square, too, are | fouls. must not step over the boundary though it isn't a foul if only a part of his foot goes over. Thus far only one outstanding upset has occurred. This was the elimination | of Murray Johnson, ex-Minneapolis champion, who fell 'victim to John (Bow Wow) Myers in the Plaza pre- liminary. This victory. 21 to 6, made Mvers of Mercury Athletic Club foot ball fame, a consplcuous figure in the Plaza division pay-off, and some of his admirers see him as a formidable con- tender for the Metropolitan crown. Looks for Farmer to Win. “When you're talking about the | Metropolitan championship,” observed Myers today, “don't overlook those farmers from Maryland and Virginia. | I'll lay a nickel to a peanut that one of those boys from 'way out in the sticks will finish in front of the pack.” The line-up at Silver Spring is dotted In delivering the slipper the player | | to see ‘em perform. The Silver Spring | event, for which entries will remain open until 6:30 p.m. today, is expected to draw more than 80 pitchers. The tournament is expected to last as long as the carnival, or until next Saturday night. | Arrangements are being made for | county play-offs in Maryland and Vir- ginia, with places and dates to be an- nounced shortly. The winners and runners-up _of town tournaments will qualify. When the county events are over the winners and runners-up will engage. The Southern Marvland and Northern Virginia championships will be at stake. The triumphant pitchers in these and the Washington champion will have it out in a grand finale here that will give the Capital its first taste of big league barnyard golfing. Girls Toss Wednesday. Chairmen of preliminaries, both in Washington and Virginia and Mary- land, are requested to turn in the names of their champions to the horseshoe editor immediately on the conclusion of their tournaments. They should be careful to spell the names properly and write them clearly, for they will be en- graved upon medals to be presented by The Star. ‘The Washington women's champion- ship tournament will be held Wednes- day on the Plaza Playground. Entries will remain open until the start of play, at 5:30 o'clock. The girls will toss on a 30-foot court, regulation for women, with lighter shoes than those used in the men's tournament. The courts will be equipped by The Star. BY WILLIAM J. CHAIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE week end fighting along the | major league front was all in | favor of the two leading teams: | not very much, it is true, but | still in their favor. | with the Pirates rained out on Sat- urday and idle yesterday. the Cubs oc- cupied their time by turning back the stretching the Chicago lead to six and one-half games. p ‘The Mackmen played a bruising 8- to-8 tie with Browns on Saturday and took their ease yesterday, while the Yanks were dividing a pair with the industrious Indians. This left the mar- | gin of the Mackmen at eleven and one- | half games, just where it was 48 hours ago, but with the important difference that one game of the lead was trans- ferred from the relatively non-essen- i tial won column to the vital line eof figures detailing games lost. The Yankees now have lost 10 games more than the flying Macks. who moving at a gait which might possibly level that 23-year-old record of 116 games won by the Cubs of Frank | Chance. 55,000 Fans at Stadium. | Some 55,000 of the faithful turned | out on the Sabbath to see the Yankees {fend off their current jinx team, the | Cleveland Indians. The champions hit | hard behind old Tom Zachary in the | opener to win by 12 to 0, but a gen- | eral pitching blow-up in the second | | clash saw the Indians score by 14 | to 6. Young Wes Ferrell was knocked | from the box. but so were Herb Pen- | nock and other Yankees. The Indians got nine in the ninth to pull out the decision. THE SPO T pitching staff in base ball. Both Major Leag Profit by Week End F ighting By GRANTLAND RICE HE merry-go-round of sport is always cluttered up with a flurry of arguments, but there is no great argument left as to the best this same staff will have a v: No other club can offer such a trio as Grove, Walberg and Earn- ue Leaders Ed Morris held the recumbent White | Sox to two small hits to win by 8 to 0. | The Red Sox had a fine hitting after- | noon, with 17 safe drives. The Detroit Tigers closed out the American League | program by winning a rough double- header from the Senators at Washing- ton, 10 to 5 and 13 to 11. ‘The mad dash of the Cubs continued vesterday, when Uncle Wilbert Robin- | son dared to expose a left-hander, Wil- Arnold champion of McLean were 5—21, prooklyn Robins in two games, and %0 liam Watson Clark, to the fire of the Bruins. Clark did very well against the heavy guns of the Chicago array. but | succumbed by 6 to 4 when Charlie Grimm, the only left-handed swinger on | the McCarthy club, connected for & single with men on second and third in the seventh. Riggs Stephenson contributed a home run to the Chicago attack, while Kiki Cuyler came through with two singles and a double. Sheriff Fred Blake at- tended to the sniping for Boss Me- Carthy. and although the Robins swung at him persistently. he rose to each emergency. Some 40.000 happy Chi- cagoans saw the battle. Cardinals Blank Braves. Pitching his side-arm ball from what- ever background of white shirts a small inday crowd at St. Louis provided, Sylvester Johnson blanked the Boston | Braves by a score of 5 to 0. Art De- Janey was something of a problem for the home boys, but permitted the Cards to bunch their few blows. Ernest Or- | satti struck the home run zone. Jakie May subjugated the hard-swing- ing Phillies to -win by 7 to 1 at Cin- cinnati in the remaining National League contest. The Phils mustered only five safe blows against Johnson | while the Reds were combing Willough- | by and Collins for 11. RTLIGHT It belongs to the Athletics, and ital effect on the next world series. ngs: ‘Theodore Martin vs. John Washing- | on. B shaw as a leading trio, and these in turn are backed up by Ehmke, Rommell and Quinn, who are not the worst in the world. If any pitcher is to turn in 30 victories this season and bring back memories of Mathewson, Walsh, Johnscn, Alexander and Chesbro, it will be a member of this Athletic cast. The top three mentioned all have a chance, with Grove favored to lead the pack. The big left-hander is not only traveling like the west wind, but he is backed up by a hard-hitting ball club that can provide him with the supporting runs. One star pitcher is usually about all | had to offer with Fitzsimmons, Ketchel most ball clubs can claim, but thre | and Greb. Here are three of the great- make pennant winning fairly simple. est in any class. This isn't the first time Connie Mack hlsfl galt;tze;ed toge:lher the 11;(;:;. ;;‘m;r;lxng ase ball. In 1905 he ha ; W adaan, Piauk: Eender and: Cosklep (0 w2, TOILEYS ueturn (o the In 1910 he had Bender, Plank and | United States recalls the rasping Coombs. The Chippewa Chief, the Get- | Juck he suffered in his last invasion tysburg Guide and the Colby Carbine | when he failed to qualify at Merion by are still remembered. a stroke. It was on this same oceaston ==t that Jess Sweetser slipped by a single Another Department. I thot, ana Sweetser was then at of near 'N addition to pitching strength, what : his_height of golf fame. _| The luck that Tolley suffered came other ball club can match the Athr!“wn D et 1o hae letics when it comes to & board oftest he had something like 10 putts to {strategy? What other manager can|pole that were less than an inch or show two smarter aides than Eddie Col- | fwo from the cup. In other words. he The Luck of Qualifying. lins and Kid Gleason? Columbia Eddie | and the Kid know more base ball than most teams will ever learn. This goes from the physical to the psychological side. They are two of the smartest of all time, and you can go back beyond Comiskey. If any club directorate can out-think Mack, Collins and Gleason it will have to start its pondering before | daybreak. The Better Class. FIGHT fan wishes to know which has furnished the better talent, the heavyweights or the lightweights. ‘The lightweights—by a span. In the last 40 years the best of the heavy- weights have been Sullivan, Jackson, Corbett, Jefiries, Fitzsimmons, Lang- ford, Johnson, Willard, Dempsey and 1| Tunney. Through this same period the light- weights have offered Lavigne, Erne, Mc- Auliffe, Gans, Britt, Nelson, Wolgast, ‘Owen Moran, Ritchie, Welsh and Leon- ard. And Sammy Manadell. Yet no class has presented three bet- ter men than the middleweights have had 10 putts that wavered or rimmed or flluuercd around the tin without drop- ng. i The putt for an inch or for half . an inch counts as much of a stroke as a full drive. To have 10 of these in one round that you can knock in with cne hand puts a heavy burden on the rest of the game. There can be a big difference in the play need- ed to get a score around 78, for ex- ample. At one time the 78 can result from a series of putts rang- ing from 3 to 10 feet. That is the type of 78 that might easily be an 85. The 78 got where putt after putt is tapped in at close range might just as easily have been a 73. Only a stout soul can stand the strain of watching putt after putt from a rea- sonable range roll up to the cup and turn away at the mast, spin or flutter in and then pop out. There is, of course, & big premium on putting skill. But there is also a big premium on the “luck of the green,” a factor that can make a terrific difference in any round at any given time. i | |