Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 19

' SPORTS. - Judge REACHES FIRST 25 TIMES IN 47 CHANCES ON JAUNT Joe Slams for .349 in Ten Games Played Since Club Left Capital—Burke to Face Chisox Again—Griffs Win by 9 to 4. BY JOHN B. G exactly 25 the 10 games played to date During the trip Judge has made hi KELLER. HICAGO, August 16—Joe Judge, veteran first-sacker of the Nationals, is doing very well these days as lead-off batter.” In on this trip Joe stepped to the plate exactly 47 times and made his way to the initial sack times. That was getting on for a percentage of 53. is way to first base 15 times by socking the ball to safety. He has drawn five bases on balls. Only once has he reached the sack because of an error by a member of the opposition, and but four times by forcing out a teammate. As a lead-off batter he has performed remarkably. Judge’s work in the Nationals’ offensive has been sensational. In only 1 of the 10 games played since the club left Washington, the night of Monday before last, did he fail to drive the ball to safety. He slammed well enough in the others to amass a batting average of .349 for the trip to date, which is hi; off batter. Batting in the position he does, Judge doesn’t get many opportunities to drive runs across the plate. But he has re- vealed a fleet foot on the runway, and tallied at times in tilting the Nationals have done since quitting Griffith Stadium. This means that he has com- pleted the circuit twice in every five times he has had chances to get around. Burke to Face Chisox. Assured of an even break at least gh-class slamming for any lead- BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 9: Chicago, 4. Detroit, 3, New York, 0. St. Louls, 3; Boston, 0. Philadelphia-Cleveland, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. with the White Sox in the four-game series here by virtue of their second successive victory, scored at 9 to 4, over Lena Blackburne’s bunch yesterday, the Nationals were to go after the edge this afternoon with their young teft- hander, Bob Burke, on the hill. Burke Philadelphia seems in fine fettle these days, anc | Manager Walter Johnson figured Bob | g would be right at home against the local lot. New_York hiladelphia . %38l Percentage 8 10/ 7116/ 9'58/541.518 Burke has done right well as a starter against the White Sox this sea- Washington son, two ot the four victories credited to him as a beginner of contest having been scored over Chicago’s American | B¢ Chicago oston Lost . League representatives. The White Sox have licked him bu? once. That was when he first appeared against them here, in May. Then they put over tallies in the ninth round to trim the string- bean southpaw, 3 to 2. Bob up to today had won five games and lost seven this season. One of the wins and one of the defeats came when he was working in relief roles. He had begun 13 games, and was withdrawn from three in which the results went on the records of other hurlers. To date on the trip he had started twice, losing to the Yankees and winning over the | Wash. at Chicago. Boston at St L Bostoj New York at Detroit. New Yo Phila. at Cleveland. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORRO Wash. at Chicago. Tk at 5 Ehila. at Cleveland. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 9; St. Louls, 7. Chicago, 9-4; Brooklyn, 5-5. Philadelphia. 5: Cincinnati, 4. Boston, 2; Pittsburgh, 1. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Browns. Griffs Slam Way to Win. TIn winning for the eighth time in 10 starts since leaving home, the Nationals yesterday wielded their bats in a lively manner. They gleaned 16 hits off the | New York. Trooklyn. Philadelphia deliveries of the veteran spitballer, Red | Chicago | Pittsburgh. =[St Louts. =i Cincinnatt. Faber, and young Grady Adkins, the | young right-hander with the pump- N handle-like motion. All but three of | St seven innings. | Fred Marberry started for the Na- tionals, and pitched mighty good ball | p} for six innings, during that time al. ol |i3| Boston. tsburgh 5[5 | lowing the White Sox but five hits and @ pass, the pass going to the first bat- ter up in the first inning. But Fred still is weak as a result of the tonsilitis attack he suffered not long ago, and had to turn a two-run lead over to| Garland Braxton. Before Braxton went to the slab, in the seventh, the National had increased | the lead to five runs, which was just as | well, for the left-hander was none 0o | strong himself. He was found for five | |& nings on the hill, and in their last bat- | ting turn the Chisox got to him xox} three markers. Three Fatten Swat Marks. Judge, Sam Rice and Jack Hayes in- creased their batting averages substan- tially, each getting three hits. Judge got his the first three times he stepped | 1o the plate, and Rice in his last three | turns, Sam now has batted safely in | his last 20 games. Hayes socked his| safeties between his first and last ap-| pearances at the plate. Goose Goslin helped himself to two | 3 hits, and one of them was of great help. | It was his thirteenth homer of the year | A that came in the seventh inning, when | Rice was roosting on first base with two out. It was the Goose'’s slam into the Jower right-field stand that probably accounted for Faber’s failure to come up for the eighth inning. There was some snappy fielding done | by the Nationals and some poor, too. Three double plays were made against the Chisox, the last being completed | with a dazzling one-hand catch by the stretching Judge of a wide throw from Joe Cronin. It was odd that the only three putouts Judge made were on the finishing ends of two-ply erasures. Cro- nin was charged with three errors, two of them boots and one a weird chuck. But at that the Nationals’ shortstop clame up with four putouts and five as- sists. W Start Scoring in Fourth. Scoring by the Nationals started in the fourth inning. Tate’s triple and West's single accounted for the first run, made after one was out, then Gooch singled Sammy to third base, but be- came the second out when he tried to stretch the hit. Cronin walked and tried to swipe second. There was much heaving of the ball by the Chisox in- field and finally Clancy tossed to the Ri Cronin reach third. Hayes singled Joe home. Kerr and Berg singled in suc- cession in the home fifth and Kerr crossed as Faber drilled into a double play, but the Natlonals came back in |} the seventh for three more markers. Hayes’ single, Marberry’s sacrifice, Rice's one-baser and Goslin’s homer did the work. Cronin's double and Hayes’ single put two on in the Washington eighth “with two out. Braxton then shot_a double to the right-field corner to chase over two runs. In the ninth singles by Rice and Goslin and Tate's sacrifice meant another tally. ‘The White Sox had threatened to make trouble for Braxton in the sev- enth when they had the bases filled | Furve with only one out, but Metzler relieved the situation by driving into a double | 1 made at the plate. It was different in the ninth, though. Then a pass to Kamm, Kerr's two-bagger, Pinch Batter Thomas' walk and singles by Metzler and Clancy were good for three runs for the White Sox. Cissell Given the Air. ‘Umpires players these days, it appears. the Chisox, lasted only one inning yes- terday because he slandered George Hildebrand’s umpirical ability. Bill had objected to a called strike while he was at bat in the opening round and on his way to the home dugout after hoist- ing to Rice he paused for a moment 1o tell George more of what he thought | Kiein, Phillies, Ott, Giants. of the decision, and out went Bill. . | Pittsburgh hits and two passes in his three in- | Ficf M Braxten, C Metzler, If. Shires, offman, Kamm, 3b. 1Thomas Ch: Jue Tal Myer.. 97 397 Goslin 101 393 home dugout, letting West count and |Zhomas 3 27 Boss...\ 16 38 Bluege. 64 219 Cronin 102 348 Hayes. Wesf raxt'n 28 ipencer 30 5 Burke.. 26 Hadley. 26 Savidge Lisku. play, in which the first retirement was | Saciase ki back talk from | Hornsby, Cubs, 1; Cuyler, Cubs, e R O'Doul, Phillies, 1; Prederick, Robin: Bill Cissell, regular short fielder of | 1; Rice, Detroit, 1; Goslin, Senators, 1. | Ruth, Yankees. Foxx, Athletics. Simmons, Athletics. Gehrig, Yankess. GAMES TODAY. at B GAMES TOMORROW. n. Pittsburgh at Boston. ing Phila. 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Home runs yesterday: Ott, Giants, }; s, American League Leaders, 31 28 27 27 National League Leaders. 33 31 That brought & shift in the White | Wiison. Gubs Sox infield, With Bill Hunnefield, Who | fornsby, Gubs. has a sore leg, unable to go to the short, fleld, Kerr was moved to that position, Shires shifted from first to second base | National and Bud Clancy sent to the initial sack. American . Should Cissell draw a suspension, which was considered likely this morning, the Chisox may have to use the makeshift infleld the remainder of the series, SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. ek, o 7; Montgomery, e INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Playing his first full season as a regular for Manager Donie Bush, the young Pennsylvania Pole has been a promi- nent. factor in the Smoky City team’s success, and right now he is even outhitting his fellow outflelder, the famous Paul Waner. In fact, at this writing the little known Comorosky has made more hits than the mighty Babe Ruth and, as his fielding has been above par, it is easy to see that he is a valuable young man to have around. ‘What an outfield Barney Dreyfuss has on his Pittsburgh team! “Little Consider this Comorosky person ] | 24-YeAR-OLD PIRATE. OUTFIELDER, NOW IN HIS FIRST SEASON AS A REGULAR. g Is HIS HOME TOWN OF SWOYERSVILLE, FA, PROUD, OF ADAM - -THE FIRST MAN — NEVER SOCKED THE OLD APPLE THE WAY ADAM COIWOROéKy 1S DOING 13 CF., L WAN | Metropolitan Newspaper Service . Poison and Big Poison” (the Waner brothers) in center field and right and Adam Comorosky in left! When the Pirates won the pennant in 1925, they had Barnhart, Carey and Cuyler in the outfield. Surely their present trio of outer- gardeners compares favorably with the three who helped win the world’s championship from the Senators four years ago. Comoro: you, is more than a mere balance wheel for the Waner boys. He's an equally important cog. Many other Polish ball players have made good in the big leagues. Stanley Coveleski is one; Jack Quinn~ another. s AUGUST 16, 1920. o 4 HIM 2 RAW-THER 4 Some BUNCH % OVTER GARDENERS: F., COMOROSK RF, PWANE OH.MAMA! 7/ | Comorosky came to the Pirates after | the 1927 season from Wichita in the | ‘Western League. He played 51 games in 1928 and batted .295. At this writing he is about 50 points higher than that. Adam’s home town, | Swoyersville, Pa., is so proud of him that 300 of the natives came to see ’ him play against the Giants one | Sunday and presented him with a [ gold watch. If the Pirates should beat out the Cubs for the National League pennant, an all-Pennsylvania world sertes will see two great Polish left- fielders in action against each other, Comorosky of Pittsburgh and Sim. mons of Philadelphia. MACKS REST, GAIN; CUBS LOSE, PICK UP |Yankees Beaten as A’s Idle, | While Bruins Divide as | Bucs Drop Game. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Athletics apparently have de- | veloped the knack of advancing while standing still, but the | Cubs have gone them one bet- ter by finding & way to gain | ground while losing. The Mackian margin was stretched to 14 games yes- | terday, when the Yankees lost to De- | land; the Cubs won and lost in a Brooklyn double-header, but the Pirates obligingly dropped a 2-to-1 decision at Braves Field, tossing half a game into | the lap of Joseph McCarthy. The Chi- | cago lead now is 815 engagements. Real pitching duels were on tap yes- terday at Braves Field, Navin Field and the home of the Browns. The most | noteworthy mound performance was turned in at Detroit by Earl Whitehill, who limited the savage Yankees to two small hits to win by 3 to 0. The cham- pions went hitless until the seventh, when Bob Meusel spoiled Whitehill's afternoon by outracing Westling’s throw and getting credit for a single. Roy Snerid, Whitehill’s pitching op- ponent, got a clean blow in the next round, and that was all Sherid himself turned in a smart game, which is becoming something of a habit with him, but he was not pre- pared to meet such extraordinary work as the Detroit southpaw flashed. Harry Rice placed the game beyond Sherid’s reach in the very first inning with a home run. Hurls Three-Hit Game. George Blaeholder allowed the Bos- ton Red Sox just three hits at St. Louis yesterday to win over Jack Russell by 3 to 0, while FlitledboMnrwb;ny and g::- land Braxton collaborated upon a - hit performance, which set the ‘White Sox down by 9 to 4 at Chicago. Rain kept the Athletics and the In- dians indoors in Cleveland. They meet in a single game today, an open date on both schedules. Guy Bush trimmed Brooklyn by 9 to 5 in the first game of the Flatbush double-header to gain his seventeenth | victory of the season, but Dazzy Vance evened things ug by downing the CubsI by 5 to ‘Tll? '. edseclmgl hglt‘olgag‘g rogram. The end of the first fius enlivened by a shower of Flatbush confetti from spectators around third base in the ninth inning, when Bressler was ruled out for being hit by a batted ball. | rs Hornsby collected his twen- lty-sixth homer in the first game, and Kiki Cuyler hit for the circuit in the second. Ed Brandt turned back the Pirates with two hits at Braves Field to win by 2 to 1 from Remy Kremer, who yielded eight blows. Lloyd Waner col- lected both of the safeties off the Bos- ton hurler. Brandt was scored upon solely because of his wildness, Como- | rosky smashing a sacrifice fly in the islxth, after three men had been passed. Frank O'Doul's twenty-third homer, with two on base, enabling the Phils to win from the Reds by 5 to 4, and the Giants_just outlasted the Cardinals, 9 to 7. Ott hit his thirty-first. CHERRYDALES TO PRACTICE. All Cherrydale ball club players are | requested to report for practice on the Baliston diamond at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. CUBS GROW IN VALUE. Chicago Cubs, valued at $5,000,000, were sold to Charles W. Murphy in 1906 for $105,000. William W: has more than $6,000,000 invested in base ball in Chicago and Los Angeles. [ troit s the leaders sat idle in Cleve- | 5 :Bill Lamar Lends His Wallop ' To Rockville in County Tilts ILL. LAMAR, who has had a omewhat tempestuous career in major and minor league ball, will be a leading attraction in the Montgomery County cham- pionship series as a member of the Rockville A. A. His name was in _the list of eligibles submitted by the Rockville pilot. Bob Cole. Lamar will be the clean-up hitter. The series will open Sunday. Fol- lowing is an eligibility list: Takoma Tigers—James, Earl Baker, Ben- nie_ Mensh, L. Williams, Simpson. Rhan, Lefer, John Fitzgerald, Abe Povich, Hen- ley, Wilson, Powell, Rosser, Munro, Dutly, Pope. H. Skinner, Hughes. Silver Spring—R. Stevens, Tribby, Adel- man, Clark, Ed , Hutchin- son., G. Barber, R. Carty, Lyons. Schult: liams, E. Stevens, Ehle: Kensirigton Firemer Magruder, Milburh. Stubbs. Coves, Wagner, C. on, . ‘ar Ra Chapman, mit ., Ronsaville Rockville—W. ' Coleman, P. Coleman, B. Coleman, J. Hutchinson, E. Hutchinson, R. Bell, Keys. Ed- monston, Case, odfrey, Clark, Norris, Lamar, Esworthy. Friendship—Burdette, Rapp, Glaser, Mark- ham, G. Skinner, Burrows, R. on, Pear- son, Harry, Corcoran, Ingram. FPisher, geider, Curran, Stevens, Crouse, Schneider, rown. Kensington Guards—R. Pisher, L. Fisher, stottlemeyer, Ditney, Bass, : Smith, Jones, O. Smith, . Murphy. Leahy, Griffith, Esworthy, iamond, Watkins. Double-headers will be played Sunday with Kensington Firemen at Silver Spring, Takoma Tigers at Rockville and Friendship A. C. at Kensington Guards. ‘The deadline_fell last night for the Capital City League unlimited class. No team now may add to its roster. ‘Washington Gas Light Co. defeated Western Electric, 4 to 1, in the Indus- trial League’s final game, after which the Gasmen received the pennant trophy. They outhit the Quantico Marines, but the D. C. Policemen dropped the decision, 14 to 13, in a wild battle at Quantico. The Bluecoats made 21 hits and twice deadlocked the Marines after the latter had won long leads. Tomor- row the Coppers will play the Chevy Cha.udemys on the Chevy Chase play- ground. In a game marked by six home runs, the Washington Red Sox defeated the Union Printers, 7 to 6. Booker, Brown | MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Toledo, 3; Minneapolis. 10. Milwaukee, 7; Louisvilie, i6. Kanses City, 4; Indianavolis, 3. 5t Paul, 1; Columbus, 3. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Missions, 7; Los Angeles, 6. B ancisco, 4. 2, Portland, 6; Seattle, 2. . WESTERN LEAGUE. Denver. 7; Topek: 3 Des Moines, 10; Tulsa, 1. Oklahoma City, 5: Omaha, 4. ‘Wichita, 8; Pueblo, 7. THREE EYE LEAGUE. Terre Haute, Peoria, 3. Quincy, 7: Decatur, 6. Bloomington, 18; Evansville, 0. Danville, 3-8; Springfield, 7-2. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta, 1-1; Mobile. 3-2. Nashvils. tle X5 Birmingham, 7; New Orleans, 10. Chattanooga, ‘Memphis, 12. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Winston-Salem, 3; Salisbury, 0. High Point, 8; Greensboro, 8. Durham, 5-5; Henderson, SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION. Asheville, 16; Knoxville, 2. Charlottg, 0; Columbia, 4. Macon, 2 Augusta, 7. Spartanburg, 9; Greenville, 3. EASTERN LEAGUE. New Haven, & Providence, 1. A ngfield. 3. drer ¥ Blttstieid Bridgepori, 3 Hartford, Allentown, 4-6. b TEXAS LEAGUE. SRR Raneton PO Wortn, 2 “Alitonto, wil- Da ney, Collins. 'S Collins, Gandy. - Wi Me- | Da- | lipse. Manager Dick Mothershead of 1and W. Jenkins socked homers for the Red Sox and Simons, Hutchinson and Holbrook equaled the feat. Instead of Cherrydale, as recently an- | nounced, the A. B. and W. Busmen will take on the strong Lanham, Md., club | Sunday on the Arlington field. Cherry- | dale was released from its scheduled | clash with the Busmen to play the St. | Mary’s Celtics. | _Manager Deuterman of the Busmen | challenges the Celtics to a second meet- ing. The Celtics are 1 up on his team in the Arlington County cham- | pionship_rumpus. | Ray McGarvey's Little Sam Wonders | will meet the Saks team tomorrow at 3 | o'clock_on the South Ellipse and again on Surtlay at 1 o'clock on the East El- the Saks requests his players to report half an hour before game time. The Eastern A. A. passed into second | place in the French League by defeat- | ing the Webcos, 19 to 5. Miller and | Pearce were the winner's batting stars. The Easterns hope to tie for the leadership when they meet the Sen- ators, who have lost only one game, and that to the team whipped by the East- erns yesterday. A scheduled game be- tween the Senators and the Easterns was postponed last week. Jefferson Fire Department will hold a practice session today at 5:30 o'clock in preparation for its clash with the ‘Washington Firemen tomorrow at Falls Church, at 4 p.m. Two formidable foes will be en- countered tomorrow and Sunday by the Coleman White Sox, who have won five straight. Tomorrow they will take on the Petworth-Yorkes, and Sunday will visit Gailesville, Md. Manager Edward D. Coleman of the Sox has obtained Griffith Stadium for Saturday, August 31, and desires to ar- range games with two fast clubs for a benefit_attraction. His phone number is North 6238. * Crippled by injuries and the absence of several regulars, the Diamond Cab- men nosed out the Isherwood A. C., on the Rosedale diamond, 8 to 7. The Cab- men will meet the Hess A. C. tomorrow at 3 p.m. on the Fairlawn Field, and on Sunday will go to Del Ray, Va, for a clash with the home club. The Phoenix and Ross teams will meet Sunday at 3 p.m. on the fleld at Holbrook and Neal streets northeast. All Phoenix players are to report at 2:30 o'clock. REIGH COUNT’S JOCKEY TO BECOME A TRAINER SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 16.—Chick Lang, rider of Reigh Count for most of that great horse’s career, arrived yesterday and has turned in his jockey’s license and taken out one to train. Lang has had trouble making weight for a year, and came home from Eng- land ahead of Reigh Count when re- lieved of the mount in the Hertz horse’s last two English starts. e { TWO MORE DOUBLE BILLS CARDED FOR NATIONALS CHICAGO, August 16 ().—Eight ad- ditional double-headers have ar- ranged the American League by President E. S. Barnard. They are: August 19—Boston at Detroit. August 24—Boston at Cleveland. ‘August 20—Washington at New_ York. September 7—Detroit at New York. September 8—St. Louis at Boston. September 15—Detroit at Washington and Cleveland at New York. September 1%—St. Louis at Philadel- hia. > -Boston twin bill was to have been August 22, but was changed at s request. | play in the Eastern section final here SPORTS: Sensation as Lead-Off Batter : Herman of Brooklyn Is One-Hand Hitter Uniontown Protest Baseless, |FTS | ONG DRIVES Says Local Legion Chairman \HE protest of Uniontown, Pa., against the George Washington Post team of this city in the regional finals of the American Legion fournament at Philadel- phia was declared baseless today by William W. Watt, who directed com- petition here. Uniontown has assailed the eligibility bf the Washington entry because Frank Carter, a pitcher registered with it, has been pronounced & professional. ‘Washington defeated Morgantown, W. Va,, yesterday, 11 to 3, and today was to meet Unijontown for the Region No. 10 championship and the right to August 20, 21 and 22. Today's game was to be played under protest. It Was All Settled. “The matter was all threshed out be- fore the George Washington Post team played a game in the local series,” said ‘Watt, who continued: “Carter was de- clared ineligible because he was under contract to the Baltimore International League team. “However, Thomas L. Suter, manager of the team, insisted on keeping the boy’s registration in the hope that he would be permitted to pitch in the regional final, which is out of our Jurisdiction. “The matter was put up to Dan Sowers, national commissioner of the Legion tournament, and he upheld our decisipn to bar Carter from local play and Showed his further disposition in the matter by not including his fare in the money sent to pay the Washinzton team’s expenses on the trip to Phila- delphia. “I don't believe Uniontown has any serious ground for a protest.” The United States Marine Corps | Band will be on hand at the opening of the Eastern sectional series in Grif- fith Stadium, Howard 8. Fisk, depart- ment adjutant of the District of Colum- bia, announces. Hoover to Attend. | President Hoover, earlier in the sea- | son, accepted- an invitation to attend | | the opening game of the Washington | tournament, in which six sandlot teams | - WITH NOVEL GRIP Umpires Note How Brookiyn’s Great Clouter “Knocks Cover Off Ball.” which have won tournaments east of | the Mississippl River will compete. The Western sectional winner will be de- termined in a tournament played at Colorado Springs, Colo., August 28, 29 and 30. The Eastern and Western champions will play in a two-out-of- three-game series at Louisville, Ky., September 4, 5 and 6. Sowers and other high officials of the Legion will attend the Washington tournament. PHILADELPHIA, August 16.—Having knocked the Morgantown, W. Va., entry into oblivion, score, 11 to 3, George ‘Washington Post of Washington, D. C., was to battle Uniontown, Pa., today in the deciding game of the Region No. 10 play-off of the American Legion base ball tournement. Uniontown will play under protest, claiming Washington has an ineligible player registered. The Capital lads got a three-run | lead off Pervola of Morgantown in the first inning, and increased it as the game went on. Everett Russell pitched effectively for the victors all the way. The hitting stars were P. Facchina and George of Washington, who got the only extra base hits. Facchina hit a triple that was good for four bases when Hodges erred. George got a double. Uniontown advanced to the final round by defeating Baltimore, 8 to 6. Bill Yosenka led the Uniontown attack, and was expected to be a menace to Washington. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. ‘Watching Connie Mack. S winning machine almost any year. OMETHING like 14 years ago Hugh Fullerton, dean among base ball experts, started the slogan “Watch Connie Mack,” by which Mr. Fullerton implied that Cornelius McGillicuddy of the Ath- letics was about to startle the base ball world with a pennant- Though a believer and an expo- nent of the dope and the figures, Mr. Fullerton, after making his an- nual prediction after the fashion Connie Mack.” Other experts disregarded Mr. McGillicuddy and the Athletics all | issuing the annual warning. The | | figures for years did not indicate that Mr. McGillicuddy was going to | get anywhere in particular with the Athletics, but Mr. Fullerton of the time that Mr. Fullerton was stuck to his guns. of experts, always added, “Watch | Having a strong faith in the figures, some time back I was one of those who listened to Mr. Fullerton and aggravated an astigmatism by watching Mr. McGillicuddy. always remembered when the Yanl the Athletics to watch Mr. McGilli the ball games. At no time during change in him. He remained the. same grave and | somber looking gentleman sitting in his box behind the Athletic dugout and watching the proceedings with the ex- pression of one afflicted by an in-grow- ing sorrow. But Mr. Fullerton knew the technique of the national pastime to the extent of even guessing at the scores of world series games, so his warning sunk in. Finally Mr. Fullerton ceased mak- ing predictions, angl those of us who felt it our duty to watch Mr. McGil- licuddy stopped doing it. There were so many other persons in the na- tional pastime that seemed to be more interesting subjects for watch- ing. It was after the watching of Connie Mack ceased that the Ath- letics started to climb, until at the current writing it looks very much as though Mr. McGillicuddy would be participating in another world series. | Something like 14 years ago the New | York Yankees visited Shibe Park at| Philadelphia to play a series with the | Athletics. Col. Tillinghast L'Homme- | dieu Huston, who was then part owner | of the Yankees, confided in me that | the Yankee share for one game was $8.75. They hardly could give away passes for that series, and the game became all the more lugubrious since | the lone customer in the bleachers, overcome by gloom at the solitude of | his surroundings, walked out during a crucial period in the fourth inning. i Circumstances have been altered con- | siderably since. The Yankee share of | a game with the Athletics at the current | writing would not be a sum to be sneezed at even by those who are ac- customed to sneezing at any sum in or out of the hay fever season. In building the present Athletic machine Mr. McGillicuddy started from scratch. As far as I can recall he spent few spectacular sums of money in the purchase of ivory. He gathered it here and there, a bit | at a time, and organized a board of | strategy that knows all that there is be known about the national pastime—not that Mr. McGillicuddy needs to be told much about the game himself. More heed should have been paid to the admonition of Fullerton to “Watch Connie Mack,” not that there is much in a prediction that takes 14 years to_ materialize, but because the process by which Mr. McGillicuddy reconstructed the Athletics after wreck= ing them is an interesting yarn. The boys will be watching Mr. Mc- Gillicuddy intently in October from all indications, for Mr. McGillicuddy is | nbgur, to master mind in another world series. Two Ways of Building. ¢ T takes years,” Mr. McGillicuddy is quoted as saying, “to build a win- ning base ball team.” To which one might say, “Yes and no.” It did take Mr. McGillicuddy almost 15 years to do it in his way, but there are other ways. About the time Mr. McGillicuddy was laying the foundation the Yankees were acquired by Col. Jacob Ruppert and Col. Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, two gentlemen with “no practical base ball experience.” But the practical knowledge of base ball is only part of the business of pro- moting the national pastime. If you cannot find players you can buy them. At least you could until the price of first-class ivory became pro- hibitive, The peak was reached when Charles H. Ebbets offered $275,000 for Rogers Hornsby, and it was refused. The purchasers of the Yankees tried the hard way of Mr. McGillicuddy, but the process seemed too laborious and practically hopeless. They T that promoting professional base ball was & business as well as a sport, most essentially a business. So they started to buy ivory on the open market. ‘The wide-open market was the Boston American club. The owner, Harry H. Frazee, found that he could not make much on his invest- ment in the way of gate receipts, so he started to sell his players one by one. ‘The first purchase of the ‘Yankees was Babe Ruth. Then they bought practically the entire Red Sox team, or at least such players, as were worth buying, to the extent of a trifie more than half a million. This gesture was received with en- thusiasm by the clientele of the Yanks. It is quite lggarent. that the customers do not care how their a winning base ball team so long as they one, and the Yankee own- ers certainly acquired one. The Liberal Mr. Wrigley. Ammmmumm Cubs will be in the world series Rolling around with the Yankees, I ks were involved in a series with cuddy as much as. possible during the watching could I detect much with Mr. McGillicuddy’s Athletics. The Cubs of the days of “Tinker to Evers to Chance” were a famous team. But the famous teams come and go. The Cubs have been out of it longer than the Athletics. Mr. William Wrigley, owner of the Cubs, has been quite as liberal with the checkbook and fountain-pen as Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees. ‘This is not meant to take any of the managerial credit from Mr. Joseph McCarthy, who is master- minding the Cubs. But it is a great aid and comfort to a base ball man- ager, no matter how great his genius for the game, to have an unlimited bank roll and miles of chewing gum behind him. ‘The Cubs now have Rogers Hornsby, for whom the Cardinals once refused $275,000, and they seem to have ac- quired all the players that Mr. Mc- Carthy reasonably could have required. Just how Hornsby eventually landed with the Cubs is one of those mysteries of base ball trading, but he most em- phatically is with them and quite happy, he announces. Only a short time ago it was an- nounced that Mr. Wrigley was in the market for other stars and would make any sort of offer for them, which’ started more grumbling to the effect that pennants could be bought. Sometimes they can in a round-about way, but here is Col. Jacob Ruppert with the most ex- pensive collection of ivory in the history of the game, with the prob- ability of having no pennant what- ever this year. It was good business on the part of Mr. Wrigley. When he bought the club he bought a deficit. Now the club is very much “out of the red,” as busi- ness men say, and it is very desirous to keep a ball club that way because running a base ball club is a business. KANSAS CITY SEEMS SURE OF A. A. FLAG By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 16.—It's a long way until September 29, but it appears as if the American Association pennant race already is decided in favor of the rushing Kansas City Blues, who haven't ti;sztaed championship pudding sinc ‘Today, with only 52 games left to be played, Dutch Zwilling’s men have a fancy 10-game lead over their closest but faltering rival, St. Paul, and get- ting stronger daily. Except in 1923, when the Blues won with 112 to 111 by St. Paul, 100 or more games always have been enough to win the flag in the Hickey loop. If this tradition stands, it means the Blues must win only 19 of their re- maining 52 contests. BAINBRIDGE TRACK CLOSES. CLEVELAND, August 16 (#).—Giving way to the Geauga County Law En- forcement League’s campaign against contribution betting, officials of Bain- bridge Park track canceled the re- mainder of a 25-day meeting scheduled to close Saturday and opened a drive to obtain a court ruling upholding the legality of their wagering system. Auto Bodi Radiators, Fenders Repaired; also New Radiators Harrison Radiators and Cores in Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Also_319 13th. % Block Below Ave. MID- SUMMER Sale of Used Cars 18 STILL IN FULL SWING 3315 % Off TODAY'S BEST BUY! 1927 Bulck, 84-0 Special Com n wze‘?cu-dmn. Looks 1 A Few More Left WATCH SUNDAY FOR MORE BARGAINS Jos. McReynolds, Inc. 1701 14th 1423 “L” Pot. 1631 Dec. 686 _dnously to a decision of the official. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ABE HERMAN of the Brooklyn team baited a home run the other day that carried like a swallow soaring over a barn. He hit it with one hand. The par- ticular umpire who happened to be back of the plate that afternoon said Her- man hit the ball with one hand end other National Leegue umpires who have been back of the plate when Her- man bats say he often hits the ball with one hand. Of course, he doesn’t actuall at the plate and hold the bat onz hand and do all his preliminary swing- ing with one hand, and all of that, but when he takes a cut at the ball he swings with such force and in such a manner that only his guiding hand holds the bat when it comes in contact with the ball. The other hand has flown loose and is describing a fierce circle with the mad force that Herman puts into the effort. Observe His Work Closely. National League umpires have a bet- | ter chance to observe him than any- | body else except rival catchers, and the | latter do not get all of the opportunity | that is offered to the umpires. The um- | pires see him hit in every city in the National League. They declare that | while Babe Ruth may be the home run champion, as far as quantity of home runs is concerned, Herman has him | beaten in every way as a one-hand | home run champion. They think that Herman can bat the ;ball farther with this one-hand swing )thab he uses than any other player in base ball. It is their belief that he can hit nearly as far with his off one-hand swing as Ruth with his golf grip and overshoulder swing, ing botn hands. Bztting in the manner that he does, | the umpires of the National League 2re | also positive that he has had no equal. | They admit that one hand often flies | loose when a batter is taking a swing at the ball, but Herman does it repeat- edly and he makes some of his hardes hits when he does it, as he made punch over the wall of the Brooklyn ground that sends the ball far into the region of lawns and flower Leds belong- ing to nearby residents. Herman aspires to win the batting championship of the National League | this year and is leading at present. His | rivals are Terry of New York, O'Doul of Philadelphia, Hornsby of Chicago and | perhaps Klein of Philadelphia. . The most to be dreaded of his rivals is Rogers Hornsby, who will continue to hit right down to the last game with | the steady assurance of a stcam ham- | mer. | Klein No Flash in Pan. Klein is not to be underestimated. has risen steadily since the beginning of the season and more and more is con- | verting himself into a dangerous batter, | because when he first joined the Na- | tional League he was not so dangerous as he was powerful. Now he is a dan- gerous young man with the stick. He has overcome some of his faults and is becoming convinced that the pitchers of the National League are not such great shakes after all. He could hammer the pitchers of the minor league in which he played until the ball was like a sponge and he is beginning to turn 1 his_attention to the pitchers of the National League with the same intent. Klein has m=de more runs than Her- | man and is apt to do so because Her- | man is a bad r star outfielder b: were he would be t | the National Lea HERMAN GAINS GROUND AS NEAREST FOES IDLE By the Associated Precs. Babe Herman rapped Guy Bush and Fred Blake for four hits in the double- goxsad;r aé Brooklin yesierday and lifted already high batting average 1 poi to a dizzy 414. : i _His nearest rivals for big six honors, Jimmy Foxx and Al Simmons, were idle in a_ Cleveland rainstorm. Rogers Hornsby got one hit in the operer and | then drew a horse collar at Ebbets Field. | Babs Ruth went hitless, while Chuck | Klein got just one | tempts. The standing: Herman. Rob! Foxx., Athletics Simmons, h Hornsby. Ruth. Yank | Klein, Paillics { — |YORK FANS, OBJECTING TO RULING, BEAT UNP YORK, Pa., August 16 (#).—Umpire Bill Randolph was beaten by angry base ball fans yesterday when he bane | ished Catcher Uzman of the York team from a booster-day game with Binge | hamton of the New York-Pennsylvania League. The York catcher had objected strene The umpire was beaten before police could rescue him from the crowd. After a delay of 15 minutes the game was re- sumed, with Umpire Randolph behind the bat. 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