Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1929, Page 18

SPORTS. Mar PRESENT TOUR OF NATS . TOUGH ON 2-MAN STAFF ‘VFH‘" Hurls in Six Tilts and Garland in Five Since ' Club Left on This Trip—Clouts by Judge and Goslin Aid Griffs to Victory, B. KELLER. ETROIT. Mich.. August 22.—-Nowadays the Washington ball club seems to have a two-man pitching staff. Manager Walter Johnson is giving Fred Marberry and Garland Braxton all the work he can find for them to do. It was only day before yes- terday that Marberry relieved and unfortunately lost a game in Cleveland. This afternoon he was supposed to make the Tigers like his flinging. This tour of the Nationals has been a tough one for the /big ‘Texas right-hander and the slight North Carolina left-hander. Since the club left Washington, not quite three weeks ago, Marberry has participated in six games and Braxton in five. That’s plenty of work for these pitchers when the club has been in only 17 éngagements since leaving its home lot. Marberry has triumphed in: both his starts. He has suffered defeat in one of his three relief | tricks. As a starter Braxton has| won twice and lost once. In re- lief roles he has twice saved games. Quite a record on the trip for the pair of them. In fact, Marberry and Braxton have bean the best bets of the Washington mound corps this season. Each has won 11 games, and the Nationals are credited | with only 51 victories this vear. And these hurlers, with Miles Thomas, who did not. join the club until the cam- paizning was well under way, are the only ones to show a winning percentage above .500. That's doing well for a club that is so far below the 50-50 break as is the Washington club. Held Harris' Outfit. | Why Braxton has been of such worth to the Nationals this season was re-| vealed vesterday,.when he hurled his clib to & 6-to-1 victory over the Tigers and put it within three games of this fifth-place aggregation—the one it is most eager to beat out. The left-handed North Carolinian held Bucky Harris’ outht to nine safeties, three of them be- ing socked after the first three innings. 2nd he vielded only two bases on balls. After the second session. when the Tizers backed a brace of blows with a eacrifice loft. thev never were in the yunning. so effective was Braxton. The Nationals had a slant at hurling of two Detroiters. Owen Carroll. | of right-handed persuasion, was the first they swung their bats against—and they swung them heartily. During his aix sessions on the hill they connected | for 14 safeties, and these got them all their tallies. The left-handed Yde in Ric: his three innings of work allowed them nothing more than one pass, and it was allowed after one was out in the eighth round. Joe Judge was the sturdiest hitter of the Washington side. socking the ball to safety three times in his first five ef- forts. It was Goose Goslin, however, who was the spearhead of the offensive. He got only two hits, but one of them was his fourteenth homer of the year, which accounted for two tallies and put the Nationals ahead in the third round after two were out, and another was a single that shoved over a marker in the sixth round. Between these Gos- Jin smote a sacrifice fly that meant a| run. The Goose was not alone in home- | run_hitting for his side. Jack Haves| BY JOI BRAXTON IS MASTER = WASHINGTO! B e T ) =3 OTPPNETOR Totals. DETROIT. Johnson, If Rice. cf Gehringer. Potheraill. 1 Alexander. 1b MeManus, 3b. Shea. ¢ 0 Y emsaaunasd O 4 PRSI T Westiing, Carroll. D.. Yde, D 2r599323335" ol 3323303327 | 020004530350 & *Hellmann Gl couarsnsnsm> £ swusmuss-> ol s300umonuns 27 1 Totals. *Ratted f Washingion Detroit ... Runs hatted i ven. Two-base i 2000- 000 0- Carroll. Goslin (4. —~McManus. Br. 8 5 1 Myer, fon! | Messrs. game—1 | | the | RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN | | | Umpires Losing _piteher Time of Campbell and Owens, hour and 45 minutes. Batting. G.AB R. . 2b.3b HI 117 456 100 157 31 0 42 6 69134 201 20 62 65129 » RBI Pt ) & ey eorounssranilolan GBI D IR TIBIORT VORI~ NP | ©2935mo=250unounoRuaws: ronin 109 376 (o 029350500 Tun 108 smma %! Cuu—amso-auIBoR DR Ier ol PEYSHUNR Pitching. | Q 7 | i Veteran Cardinal Twirler Ap- | ’ GROVE AND BUSH ARE SETTING PAC BY JAY VESSELS, stirring _ pitching performances he he has produced in leading his club in_moundwork. Grove is in the forefront not only because of his won and lost, rating, the best in his league, but because of his colorful style. Fighteen months ago Bush was just another pitcher. Pirst indica- tions of his climb came in 1928, when Mississippi Guy picked up 15 victories against 6 defeats. In three other seasons with ths Cubs the HFERE'S always nne pitcher on a club that stands out. in the Associated Press Sports Writer, long. hard fight pennant- ward. This vear it is Guy Bush for the Cubs and Lefty Grove for the Athlefics. They have contributed heavily to the most unexeiting pair of pennant “races” in a decade. Bush stands out because of the ALEXANDER LIKELY T0 GO TO MINORS BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associater Press Sports Writer. LL the big winners in American league history have felt, at least once in their respective seasons of supergreatness, the sting of as many as three | straight defeats. The Athletics of 1929 | qualified under this rule of base ball | fate yesterday—presuming that the A's not only will win, but will win by a margin great enough to place them in !a class with the Red Sox of 1912 and the Yankees bf 1923 and 1927. | Jake Stahl's 1912 Red Sox stampeded Washington by 14': games at the fin- | | A pears Through as a Big Leaguer. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ROVER CLEVELAND ALEX- ANDER may pitch again for the St. Lou Cardinals next A’s Drop Third Strdight Game, in the sixth inning rapped the ball over the left-field wall for his second homer R of the year. K McManus Opens for Tally. Marty McManus opened the way to the Tigers' lone tally, which was regis- tered in the sccond inning. He got hold of one of Braxton's fast ones and | sent the ball to the left-field corner for | two bases. Cronin made a fine stop of | Shea's smash, but it was good for a| single, although McManus could not | Jeave the middle statjon. Westling whiffed, but when Hayes ran in for a bunt that Carroll did not put down it was casy for the Detroit runners to work a double theft. There was no one | at. third to take Tate's throw and make | something of it. Then Carroll lofted a | deep one to West and McManus crossed afier the catch. From_then on it was the Nationals' game. Braxton opened the third with a corking two-bagger down the right-field | line, and after two were out scored ahead of Goslin when the latter parked the ball in the right-field bleachers. A Tun was thrown away in the fourth when Cronin, who had walked, with one down, neglected to touch second while on his way to the plate after Hayes doubled to left. But a real brace of Tuns was hung up in the fith. Judge began the inning with a single,” and raced to third when Rice hit for # base. Goshin's sacrificial lott scored Judge and | moved Rice to second. Myer’s one-baser | t Sam to the counting block, | Carroll Is Yanked. ‘The sixth, Carroll's last inning, saw | the last Washington tallying. With one out. Hayes hit his homer over the left- field wall near the foul line. After Braxton was retired, successive singles by Judge. Rice and Myer were good for !‘.ho Johnson band’s sixth run of.the ray. On the way to Washington with a Kore elbow, Lloyd Brown may not be of much pitching value to the Nationals for some weeks. The left-hander com- )‘l!}\mv‘(l of a stiffness in the joint of his Ditching arm shortly after starting the game in Cleveland Wednesday, and had 10 turn the battle over to Marberry.|C Jater. After reaching this town, Brown | declared he could riot bend the pitching | arm, and Manager Johnson decided it best to send the hurler home for treat- He went both ways for sensa- stops, his play on Johnson' ;‘mnundtr in the seventh béing especially e Everybody n the line-up except Cro- nin got a whack off Carroll, and_ Joe went hitless for the fray, being unable to solve Yde the only time he faced him. Fothergill with a one-hand catch held Goslin’s liner in the fifth to a sacrifice instead of a hit. - Bob stuck up his gloved paw—and there was the ball. Westling was a® wow as a flelding shortstop, but he was no great. shucks | &t bat against Braxton. He fanned the first two times up, walked the third| time and forced out a runner in his| last appearance at the plate. But they | like Wostling here. BUSMEN AND'CHERRIES MEET IN COUNTY GAME | The A. B. & W. Busmen will meet, the Cherrydale Club Sunday at 3 p.m. on the Arlington field in an Arlington County championship game. Warren Snoots or Jerry “Augusine will_pitch for the Busmen and George McDonald or Reese Hair for Cherrydale. _PLASTEREHS.WILL PLAY TWQ TOUGH BALL CLUBS ‘The strong Union Plasterers’Ball Club will play Bolllns Field at Bolling Pield tomorrow at 2:30, and will e il cevnmatargd P e Saussmoan] o i | it more persistently. Hadiy Savidg I BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS l American League. YESTERDAY'S RFSULTS. ‘Washington. 6: Detyoit, 1 St. Louis, 10: New York, Chicago. 4: Phil hia. Boston at Cleveland, rain. STANDING OF THE CL G season and again he may not. Mozt likely he will be perform- ing for the minors. 1t all depends upon old Alex's physi- cal condition. The situation is thal | no pitcher ever was given more libert than Alexander, and none ever abused He simply couldn't | stand prosperity and the results are telling. | Grover might well have been the star | pitcher of the Chicago Cubs.as he was of the Philadelphia Nationals. He wasn't because he thought, he could defy Joe McCarthy. Alex had fooled other managers and had been well treated by them. But he tried to bluff McCar- thy and the bluff was quickly called. ‘After St. Louis had_claimed the old ish, but had one run of three straight defeats against them. Huggins' 1923 champlon had two strings of three re- verses bunched on either side of & lone | victory in early June to make up a slump of six defeats in seven engage- ments. The 1927 Yankces lost four straight just after midseason, but other- | wise never hesitated. First Run of Three. Connie Mack's first run of three straight losses for the current season was accomplished in Chicago yesterday, when the White Sox nosed out Mose Grove in the ninth by 4 to 3. Grove ran into Ted Lyons at his best, and was | fortunate not to meet & 3-t0-0 reverse, as the White Sox booted three runs into | the Athletic batbag in the eighth with | New Clev St. Loui ik 1461600 | 1551.526 | s 1 Detroit _ Washingt Chicago Boston . Lost GAM Boston 1170741 81 41 61 81—110/47721.395 | 120 5141 81 71 61 6/—i40/761.345 36/46/55/57 6316472176 £S TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. | L S AL Clevelal | The Giants had been advi twirler from Chicago the Cardinals won a pennant and McCarthy was criticized | the surface-thinking crowd for pel mitting Alexander to go. But it was the best thing that could happen to the Cubs. From that time on they knew who was manager. lapses from training | after that simply weren't tried. The younger players recognized their boss, | and after that Chicago was a different | : | day Alex was a rival of | Mathew: It was 18 years ago that Philadelphia took him from Scranton. ed to get iraw didn’t feel the need. three artistic errors. | The excessive heat in Chicago told upon Grove in the home half of the | same round, and the Sox scored two Sport Slants BY ALAN J. GOULD, | | | EW YORK takes its champions come, usually with reservations. Bui give the big town a good, fast, hard After that the Philly players were wou't punching light-weight to get w John MeGraw whenever: Alex- | excited aboul, and there's all the home- ander pitched a winning game over lis | town nolse gvailable for any arena, | players. { whether it's in the old Ploneer Athletic But_when Alex began to be very suc- Club or the stff-shirled Madison Square cessful, he likewise found himself very Garden. popular. He couldn't say “no.” Metropolitan fans have been brought | In the year the Phillies won the pen- | up on good light-weights. The scrappy | nant—1915—Alex pitched 31 winning East Side prides itself on turning out | him, but M b;“ry and Braxton Have Been Sent to Mound in 11 E TOWARD A SIZZ 25-year-old right-hander pitched just. ordinary ball. For three vears he won 19 snd lost 22, which left him far short of the front ranks. But Grove has been up there with the high winners in three of the five scasons he has spent with the A's. Lefty has been a 20-game pitcher for 1wo vears—that is. he reached that mark in 1927 and 1928. ‘The | actual figures show he won 20 and | lost 13 in 1927 and won 24 and lost 8 ! i in runs to tie. In the Chicago ninth wml singles placed men on first and third, | nd Grove passed the next man to {make a force play at the plate. The great Shires nullified this strategy with a single to left. Lyons gave the Ath- | letics only #ix hits. | Grove is finding his nineteenth vic- tory aimost as elusive as his eighteenth proved to be. He has sought it twice in vain. His fourth defeat of the sea- son, but his second by the White Sox | came yesterday. | The Yankees and the Browns were | the other lucky boys. With August on the wane, Mose has accounted for onlv one triumph for the month, but wil have about two more chances to better his record. The White Sox already have qualified as the jinx team not oniy of Grove, but also of the Athletics themselves. The Chicago _victory _yester brought Blackburne's boys up to within one of a tie against the A's in fifteen games, and left the coming champions faced by the necessity of taking at least the odd game in the remaining seven to win the season’s series from the lowly Sox. The Browns batted hard against the Messrs. Hoyt. Pipgras and Nekola yester- day as Sammy Gray stopped the Yanks with 7 hits to win by 10 to 0. The Browns got 15 safeties. Cubs Score Heavily. After 10 days or more of good pitch- ing, the Cubs were forced yesterday ta through an afternoon of hard slug- ging. The Bruins adapted themselves to the job in hand, pounded four Phiia- delphia pitchers for 21 hits, and won by 16 to 7. Fred Blake wilted under a five-run Philadelphia rally in the fourth, and Mike Cvengros expired in the seventh when Cy Willlams hit a homer | and two other Phillles walked. Guy Bush finished, allowing one hit. Mike got the victory for no particular reason Hack Wilson's thirty-s was a feature of the Chicago attack. The Cubs made no advance, as the Pirates defeated the Giants by 6 to butule for second place. Johuny Morrison pilched well enough to win a 13-10-9 decision vver Cincinuati in Brooklyn after Watson Clark had per- mitted the Reds to pile up a lead of 5 10 0 in three rounds. ‘The Robins celebrated with nine runs | in the third, their biggest inning of the season, and so were in the lead when Morrison entered the box. Clark was NG WORLD WOMAN OWNERS - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €.’ FRIDAY, ATGUST 23, 1929 Out of Last 17 Games NONE OF BIG SIX CLIMBS MOST OF THEM DECLINE By the Asrociated Pross. With Al Simmons and Chick Klein still sofourning, the four remaining members of the big six nlayed into th ~with ths was 1ift- SERIES Babe Heiman held his own a by getting two out of five a. Brookiyn, byt Rogers Hornsby lost a point through getting two out of six at Baker Bowl. Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx had to be content. with ene safety apiece, and each lost & bit of gronnd, Ruth falling to_last place behind the idle Klein. The standing: | Herman. Robins. | Poxx, Athietics.. Rimmons, Athletic Hornsby.' Cubs. Kiein._Phillies. Ruth, Yankee: PULLMAN foictod Y $ RGBS S Potomac Yards Defeated, 7-1—Naval Hospital Plays Gas Team Today. Potomae Yards, the , Pullman team today tops the stahdings of the week-day league champion- ship series, It was the Pull- man's second win. they having humili- ated the Union Printers the other day. Naval Hospital, which has many sup- porters to win the title, today takes on Washington Gas Light Co. piay on | the Union Station fleld stariing at 4:15 |gclock. ~The Gusmen were besien i . | Wednesday by Calvary Baptist, an o s 1030 toral this seasan, | they lose today they wil be eliminated. D core piciing him 10 capture | _Rain ended yesterday's game after six 80 games until an early Auguse |InDings. The Pullmans required only E | n the decision. slump put the blonde southpaw on | 55 They seated 8"ripa.” Bt for 2 skids. b | poor throw by the usually accurate Fee o LAt chicagn FHlade| o i woe] Colliere, catcher. Pitcher Buckley would L ikl 3 ave a shut-out. Guy il b A there {ying for | _ Walter Hughes led the winning attack L dfl Y‘ o e "thy | with a double and single. Huck Stahl. make their bids no later than the | a4 ¢hirg base, was a fielding star for the first day of the championship pro- | victors. Dave Henderson, Potomar out- gran fielder, galloped zll over the place to capture half a dozen flies. The series standings follow: Pullman (Terminal Evening) v Galvary Baptiat (Ghurch). 1 0 0 ° HAVE STAKE RACE Event for Two-Year-Olds to', Be Staged at Saratoga Next Tuesday. CUB FANS TO SEE CLUB IN CINCINNATI BATTLE CHICAGO. August 23 (). —Plenty ot upport will be with the Cubs when they invade Cincinnati for their ‘grudge” meeting With the | Reds. So great is Chicago interest in the sort of reception Hack Wilson will re- ceive in the home fleld of Pitchers Ray Kolp and Pete Donohue. with whom the Cub outfielder had physical differ- ences on the occasion of the Reds' last appearance in Chicago that excursions have been arranged. RY OELO L. RORERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer, EW YORK. August 23.—On the brown racing oval at Saratago Y _virtue of & 7 to 1 vietory over ' {Ii is only a condition affair this sea- second homer | lowning at leas 208 . 136147155 /58/63167/67170/—|—! GAMES TOMORROW. ¥, Bittsbureh at N. ¥, . Cincin. rooklyn, it Chicaxo at Phila. * Chicag: St. Louls at Boston. St. Louis at Boston. | HOME-RUN STANDING By the Assoclited Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Wilson, Cubs,” 1; Wilson, Cardinals, Williams, Phillies, 1; Swanson, Reds, : Goslin, Senators, I; Hayes, Sena- tors, 1. American League Leaders. Ruth, Yankees. Gehrig, Yankees. National League Leaders. HAWTHORNE TO CLOSE RACE-MEET TOMORROW on_Sunday meet, the crack La Salle Club of Balti- more on the Frien diamond. contests are likely to sizglers. Paul Harrison, first baseman, ot hnowa games and was defeated 10 times. That was nothing compared with his earned- run average, which was 1.22. When a pitcher gets below “2” in earned-run percentage he is sensational, and it was in 1915 that the Giants finished last in the National League, giving the Philadelphia outfit more chances to cast Jibes at McGraw. That year strikeouts than any other National League pitcher, using a combination o speed and side-arm slant. Later the famous pitcher started his ride through the majors. He remained with Philadelphia until 1917 and then was sent to Chicago. There were radical differences of opinion over the trade, with Willlam F. Baker severely criticized for letting him get “‘J" Just as Mec- Graw had been criticized. But Baker didn’t lose by the deal and neither did Chicago, when after using Alexander it traded him to St. Louis. ‘The Cardinals got more out of him than any one else. Now they must send him home because he isn’t dependable. The record of Alexander for 1915 is not the best that ever was made in the National League, but it is one of the best. He pitched more complete games than any of his cotemporaries season after season and then had to be sent home licked by New York, licked by Pittsburgh and licked hy Chicago, his old rivals. He hasn't won a game from them in 1929, REUNIONS ARE DUE IF MACKS, CUBS WIN By the Associated Press. ‘There probably will be quite a reunion of the old Chicago Cubs and Athletics, rivals in the world series of 1910, if the modern editions of these teams, now doing the pace-setting, meet again in the world series. The rival second baseman of two decades ago are still in harness, Johnny Evers with the Boston Braves and-Eddie Collins as a fitst lieutenant of Connie Mack, although Evers was ke] the 1910 series by injury. Eddie’ is now on the third base coaching Frank Chance, the one-time peerless leader, is dead and so is Harry Stein- feldt, Cub third baseman, and Eddie Plank, Mack’s great southpaw, who saw no action, however, in the 1910 series. ‘But Joe Tinker, Cub shortstop, forsake his Florida real estate Alexander made more real fighters in this class. Leach Cross was one of the old favorites, s great | “club” fighter. Beriny Leonard knocked | out Freddy Welsh for the title and re- tired as the undefeated champion after |a career studded with masterful per- | formances. ‘The Ghetto has started several out on the trail to pick up where Leonard left off, but none has yet combined the peed, craft, hitting ability and endur- ance of Benny. Sid Terris was flashy, | a fast-stepper, but fragile-chinned. No | prospect looked brighter than Ruby | Goldstein, a terrific” hitter, but Ace Hudkins stopped him in 1924. Terris knocked him out in 1927, and the cele- brated “bright lights” did the rest. ‘The latest sensation is Al Singer, 21- year-old Hebrew. As the result of a string of knockouts, one of the latest over Andre Routis, the Frenchman, who holds the feather-weight title. Singer is now the biggest “ ” in Gotham. In his upward climb he has taken con- siderable counsel from Leonard. His match with Kid Chocolate, the “Lico- rice Stick” from Cuba, is anticipated as one of the most, attractive frays of the yea ‘The Madison Square Garden Co - tion thinks so well of the Singer- late match, in fact, that, rather than run any risk of being upset by disci- plinary action of the boxing commission, the head man of the “600” mill fres, Bill Carey, quite cheerfully gave ground in the heavy-weight controversy over Max Schmeling. Big-figured price tags often work to the ~disadvantage of major league rookies, of whom big things are expected from the start. But three of the cost- C. Ia deprived of the victory, however, by the National League rule which forces a :otlr"nl pitcher to work five innings OVER 1,000 STRIVING VANDALTA, Ohio, August 23 (#).— Comprising a field officially estimated at more than 1,000 entrants, trapshoot- ers from all parts of North America today faced the pits in competition for the grand American trapshooting cham- plonship, most coveted title of the clay P Gay o ‘preiinary shoo y of ary shooting estab- lished a his g“msrk for the candidates for national honors to surpass if they are to_come near championship score. John B. Fontaine of Philadelphia yes- terday broke 99 of 100 targets from the 21-yard li to win the practice shoot, defeating a fleld of 980 who took part in the prechamplonship events. ‘Today's entrants were placed, accord- at_distances be- tween the 16 and 25 yard' lines, Among the favorites for the cham- plonship were Fontaine, L. A..Ludwig of St, Benedict, Towa, who turned in a score of 98 in yesterday's preliminary matches; ‘Troeh ‘of Portland, and Gus Payne of Oklahoma Hi , Winchester, Ky, was second Wil o4 i, The, grand. American handicap con- cludes a series of championships which FOR TITLE AT TRAPS i the fiying hoofs of nearly a ' score of juveniles of the Amer- ican turf will be celled upon to settle & verbal argument when the | women thoroughbred owners match | their best 2-year-olds in the Lady Own- | ers’ Handicap at five and one-half fur- longs next Tuesday. For many vears women owners have | played an important role in thorough- | bred racing. but this season they have | forged ahead 5o fast in sending winners to the post that male sportsmen are looking anxiously to their laurels. Time after time, on metropolitan tracks, men owners have seen their prize runners eat the dust of defeat from the hoofs of a thoroughbred carrying the silks of a woman. | Saratoga, especially, has felt the in- | fluence of the woman-owned runners. | In one day last week four of the six | winners were owned by members of the fairer sex. Out of the rivalry was born | an argument as to which lady owned | the fastest 2-year-old in training. | And to settle the argument Richards T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga | Association, arranged for a race exclu- | sively for youngsters owned by women. | n. but is expected to develop into a | prominent and permanent stake, be- coming one of the most coveted races run at the historic Spa course. The in- wugural will be o sweeprtakes of $10 each, with $1.200 added, and & trophy | w_the owner of the winner. With more than iwo-score women 100 juveniles, nearly a score of youngsters are expected to ac- cept the issue. Most of the sportswomen race under a stable name and are not known to the general racing_public. Of the more famous of the women owners there are Mrs. Payne Whitney | of the Greentree Stable; Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, owner of the Fair Stable; Mrs. Charles Amory, owner of the Sagamore Stable and purchaser of the $45,000 Man o’ War calt sold at the | Saratoga sales; Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, | Mrs. Kataerine Elkins Hitt, Mrs. F. Am- | brose Ulark, Mrs. John Hertz, Mrs. Wal- | ter M. Jeffords, Mrs. William Zeigler, | s. Victor Emanuel, Mrs. Samuel Rid- | dle and Mrs. T. H. Somerville. | N Minor League Results AMERICAN ASSOCTATION, Kansas City, 7: Louisville, 4. : 3; Toledo, 4. Minneapolis, 8; Columbus, 11. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUR. Reading. 5-4; Rochester, Jersey City, 9: Buffalo, Newark, 10; Montreal, 4. 9-1. 10 (i1 tnnines). PACIFIC ‘COAST . Los Angeles, 7- San Prancisco, Sacramento. 3: Mission: Oakland, 13; Hollywood, 14 (10 innings). SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. 3: Birmingham, 2. ns-Nashville, played.) WESTFRN LEAGUE. ‘Tulsa. 4-8; Puehlo. 1-3, Des "Maines, ¥ Topeka. 4 Btfanoma Gity, 117 Denver, 1. | TRREE-EYE LEAGUE. Danviile, 12: Bloominton, 1. atur, 30 Quiney. 7o Haute, 1-5; brori Evanaville, 1-9; Springfiel TEXAS LEAGUE. Houston, ‘Beanmont, 10, 3 xville, Charlotte, 3. 'EASTERN LEA 7 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. The teams will clash in s double-| header Sund: then will return to Chicago for a two-day stand. TURF LEADEBS’ABSOLVED. CHICAGO, August 23 (#).—Officials of the Hawthorne race track here ex onerated Owner W. F. Benton of St Touis and Trainer A. J. Daniels of causing & sponge to be stuffed in the nose of their horse Click. favorite in a race Wednesday, which finished seventh in a field of eight § 1 UFFALD EASTERN LEGION CHANPION | Wojtkowiak Stars on Mound and at Bat as Lishon | Falls Is Beaten. UFPALO. N. Y. is the Eastern champion of the American le- gion’s national junior base ball tournament, baving defeated Lisbon Falis. Me., in the sec- tional final at Griffith Stadium. 6 to 4 Connie Wojtkowlak, shifted from fir=t base to the pitcher's box, was the hot shot of Buffalo’s victory. He not onlv pitched well, holding the enemy to six hits, but socked a coupie of important tripies and scored two runs. The Buffalo team returned home fo- day. On Seplember 4, 5 and 6 the Bisons will play the Western champion, as vet undetermined, in a “little vorld series” at Louisville, Ky. Th> Western finals will be held soon &t Coloradn Springs, Colo. Most of the members of voung team are students at St. Joseph'= | Collegiate Institute. Their expenres | were ‘paid bz a commercial eoneern The Lisbon Falls lads aiso were financed gratuitously. They will remain here | several days sightseeing ‘The Maine team mace a valiant fight against extinction. Not until the last out. of the ninth inning was the iseie decided. In the final round, 1isbon Falls managed to get two runners on, but Wojtkowiak pulled himseli together and became invincible. His rival on tha mound was Mike Yascho, whn had heen i team time it entered th: ,gion lournament. Mike was nicked for 11 ts. COUNTY TEAMS PLAY " TWIN BILLS SUNDAY ;B Buffalo’s Six of the seven feams in the iz Prince Georze Countv sandlot will play double-hraders on Sundar, starting at 1:30 p.m. Mount Rainier will meet Bermvn A. C. at Berwyn in one of the feature ai- ctions of the ‘ncal se: le will entertain the C Junior Order tossers at Riverdale and Bowle A. C. and Lanham A. C. wil clash at Bowie. Clinton drew the bye for this week and will probably play an independent club. 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