Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 25

WASHINGTON, . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, ' 1929. PAGE 25 Griffs Open Set in New York Tomorrow : Spitball Pitchers Near End of Trail FOUR-GAME YANK SERIES STARTS WITH TWIN BILL Nationals Visit Boston After Facing Mackmen Here Sunday—~Gain in Fight for Fifth Place With Win Over Red Sox in 14-Inning Tilt. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ARELY settled at home after three weeks of touring, the Nationals are to hit the road again tomorrow. Shortly after midnight tonight they will board a train for New York, where during the next three days they will engage in four games with Miller Huggins' Yankees. The series will be opened with a double-header, with single tilts listed for Friday and Saturday. It will be the Nationals’ last visit to the big city this year. Sunday the Johnson band will be at home for a scrap with the Athletics, who are all but in as champions of the American League, then hustle to Boston for four games in three days with the Red Sox, its present guests. The set in Beantown will start with a regularly scheduled twin bill, next Monday being Labor day. Then the Nationals will return to spend the remainder of September on their own lot. If the Washington club is as|fense. Myer singled at the start of the THERE WAS NOVEL AND KEEN COMPETITION IN GIRLS’ TRACK MEET YESTERDAY successful during the next week as |tenth. and following West's sacrifice | it has been in tge past three, it is| Cronin walked. Rhyne, though, made a t € leaping catch of Spencer's liner and likely to be in fifth place in_the | yyer was doubled off second base. Rice league when it begins its final|singled at the outset of the twelfth and stand against the West in Griffith | took second as Myer became the second | Stadium. This morning the Na-lout. Here MacFayden deliberately tionals were only a game and a |Passed West to get at Cronin. Only a half behind the Tigers, who headi the second division. They had lost no more games than the Har- brilliant catch by Scarritt retired Joe. Rice started the telling attack upon | MacFayden in the fourteenth with a| triple wallop over Rothrock's head in b1 msnSeannsd L] S 2l cono0mmmn 5! moss00ss! s 0 0 [ 4 2 0 2 2 13 R. 2 oD 1 0 0 I 0 1 0 i 3b Jones. ... Braxion, p BB to3: St tainn ris horde and won only three less. |right center. Goslin was intentionally | Three wecks ago Johnsons charges|walked. but the strategy failed to work. | were in seventh place and eight games for Myer atoned for his error that had back of the Tigers., They had won 10 helped the Red Sox to a tie in the less games and lost 6 more than De- eighth by whacking the ball to deep| troit's club. So they picked up ground | center. Buddy was credited with a sin- on the Tigers at an average rate of gle only, for Rice had but one base to | two and one-sixth games per week. An- advance to score. The clout looked good other week with such a gain would ! for at least three bases, however. mean the second division leadership for | the Nationals. | Gain as Tigers Tdle. EXTRA WELL DONE A half game was galr}\ed x_wiswrm:y by Washington on the outfit it is particu- < Jarly eager to overhaul through its stir- | ReoION: . A ring 5 to 4 victory over the Red Sox in | Scarritt. If. 14 innings of flashy base ball while the Rothrock cf schedule had the Tigers idling. No!Rezan. 2b... other game played here this season was| TodL 1b ... jammed with so many thrills as Was| Rhyae or C ihis opener of the bricf series with the | MacFayden, p Beantown bunch. It was replete with| o = = Frilliant pitching. snappy fielding and | 1000 10 39 speed on the runway. A more interest- one cut when winning run scored. i 11 t have bacn wage ASHINGTON. ;r:gl‘?mle could not have b2cn waged to J"d“.”m < -~-AF‘§ 1«5 r;\? A Sad 8am Jones started on'the hill for el the home slde. end for <even innings kept pace with Danny MacFayden, his Boston mound rivel. Sad Sam du: this period i hits to, made off M- ¥ nd each pitcher was found for one earned run. Mac- Fayden mede a wild chuck over Bob Reeves' head at th'rd bas~, which ac- “ounted for i on mar omoesem—w carn 0 0 0 5 12 42 20 in thirteenth inning 90000103000000—4 0002011000000 1—5 in--Regan (2). Todt. Goslin, TWo-baze hits—Regan, Judge, Three-base hit—_Rice.’ ‘Home n. Stolen Lases—Rothrock. Regan. | ) Regan. A. Gaston. MacFayden, | West. Jones. Double play—Rhyne to Regan. | Left 'on bates—Roston, 9; Washington, 14. B: Fayden, 6: off Jones, | Struck out--By MacFay- | . 3: by Jones. 3. by Braxton, 1. Hits— | Of ‘Jones. 6 in 7% innings: off Braxton. in 6% innings. Hit by pitcher—Jones (Bar. ; Winning pitcher—Braxton. Umpires —Mesérs. Campbell. McGowan, Owens. Time of gams—2 hours and 48 minutes. I RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN Eatting. G.AB.R. H, 2b3b.H 3i 43 52 116 476 105 163 33 10 430 70 140 27 24 3 11 19 BEOARIS s ol *Batted for Spend while Shor or paved e way to an With this tiv Tooked as theugh Jon; to vietors. In th- e < error by Buddr liyer followed a single. ‘Then, with one out. Jones filled the bases by walkinz a baiter. Here Man- | ager Johrson walked to the box for a cenference with the hurler. but Jones must have convinaed the pilot he could | carry on. Bill Regan, that pushed over {wo 1uns. spiked Jones’ argument, though, and Garland Braston was rushed to the r | Braxton Shines as Rescuer. The left-hander was immediately reached for a hit that chased over the | tying tally, and only a greai picce of | plate-blocking by Catcher Roy Spencer, after taking Sam Rice's return of the | Gooch. hit, prevented the scoring of the run | Rice that would have put the Red Sox|ias ahead. From then on Braxton and |Tate. MacFayden engaged in a brilliant pitch- | §o%1in 1 ing duel that did not end until the Hub | Hayes. hurler weakened in the fourteenth and | Cron granted two long safeties which enabled | 895, - the Nationals to put across the decisive | Thomias 16 34 tally before one had been retired. lipne In the last six innings Braxton was | Mcon found for three hits to raise the Red |Barnes. B2110 Sox total for the game to 10. He also |Liska.. 21 27 izsued two passes. In fact, in five of | Bioacer 32 the six innings the Red Sox had a run- | Burke. 28 3 ner on the paths, and in four of the|{ones. 20 innings it was the first man up who| Savidge -2 got on. Yet only two of these runners progressed beyond first base. Braxton pitched the last five rounds under & Brown.. handicap, too. In the ninth inning a| Thoma drive by Russell Scarritt struck the | Sraxton. pitcher on the left leg just above the | .Jjones ankle, inflicting an extremely painful | Bu bruise. But Braxton stuck at his task, | Hs even though he had to have the injury | Savi treated between innings during the re-| 2 ik L BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | mainder of the fray. MacFayden pitched a good game for American League, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Boston. That he went the route shows he did. The Nationals combed him for an even dozen safeties and he issued Washinaton, 5: Boston. 4. New York, 2, Philadelphia, 0. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. e oh. s | Washazton it brecze on however, an Run: s Dbatted Judee. Myer. Suramacomuncs R Tt 443 63205 20 12 438 6421y 35 s 37 34 33 Sr o n e R [ 1 3 2 o 5 H 2 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 [] 1 0 0 0 0 ©00000oNo RN IHBSARaSSS! Pitching. Q cavavoonal crvaalBnad simaacoan” six passes. Three of these passes were purposely given. MacFayden really was hit harder than the Washington total indicates. Five of the hits off him were for extra bases, one being Gose Gos- lin's fifteenth home run of the year. The Goose drove the ball to the top of the right-field wall, where it bounded beyond the park. Many Washington drives went directly to Boston fielders, however, and others were checked by s=nsational catches. Griffs First to Score. The Nationals were first to score. Rice opened the fourth inning with a| iwo-bagger and Goslin walked. Myer tried to sacrifice, but his bunt would have meant nothing more than a force- out of Rice at third had MacFayden made a good throw. As it was, Danny chucked the sphere far afield, and both | - Rice and Goslin got home on the error. The Red Sox came back for a run in the sixth, scoring in'a double steal. ‘With Rothrock on third and two_ out, Regan set sail for second as Jones started a pitch to Todt. Cronin took Spencer’s throw and turned to go after Regan instead of hurling the ball back to the catcher immediately. ~Cronin missed Regan, and when he did get the ball home it was too late. Goslin's homer at the start of the home sixth offset the Red Sox counter, and in the seventh the Nationals picked up another marker. - Hayes got on at the beginning of the frame when his grounder was booted by Rhyne at short. Jones sacrificed and Judge sent Jack over by lining a one-baser to center. Reeves began the Red Sox tying at- tack in the eighth with a single. Then Scarritt drove the ball sharply at Myer and reached first when Buddy fumbled. Rothrock hoisted to Goslin, but a pass to Barrett crowded the sacks. Regan cracked the bell against the open stand | back of left center, and two runs| crossed. Jones was derricked. Todt, | ™ first to face Braxton, lashed a single to| right and Barrett tallied. Regan tried| 5, \pg 7oDAY. to get home, too, but Spencer, who took | Rice's throw in front of the plate, | Chicago at Pittsbureii 5 stepped back to get between the count- ing block .n:uéhéo runnelr and there gy was no more X scoring. BILL Rice and Myer Get Big Run. . WILL PL:YKT:xllnd v i It looked as_though the Nationals va{n“h};n'cm Frrmgti x A dfl“.y o might end the game in the ninth, for :‘ et e By Unmwl’i &g 53 Hayes opened the inning with a double, 1. “;"' ;'Sfle- ‘clock, The Sox "fll Tace But Braxton, after vainly trying to sac- A“‘ A 00 Tebae aay. rifice, fanned, and after Judge was AnNacos . C. . passed purposely, Rice and Goslin weu} — Both Sam and the Goose hit! Henry Ford m Philadelphia New York. Cleveland. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at N. Y. (2). Cleve. at Chicago. Detroft at St. Louls. Boston at Phila. at Wash. at New York. ‘Boston Phils National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Phiiadelphis, 7: Pittsburgh, 4. Chicago, 4 Cincinnati, 1. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Philadelphia Cincinnatt. Boston. Won. 4 3 3 @ Srooklyn. § 16/10/12/82137.. St_Louls Phy Cinel Lost_ _13715155/60/65169171721—|—I GAMES TOMORROW. jew York at Brkiyn. % 750,000 to|game for ¥Friday through Potomaz ffl?&lmfluflcfi.fihgmu-um.mmmun":xium/ fi:rv J OLDRVALSMEET | I‘ ! s: Coleman White Sox-Monroe | Upper: Dorothy Burgess is seen winning the 60-yard dash in the 100-pound class. Below shows one of the heats in the potato race, in which there were nearly 100 entrants. IN“RUBBER” CLASH A. C. Winner to Claim Brookland Title. Saturday at Clark Griffith | Stadium when Coleman’s White Sox and Monroe A. C., neighbor- | hood diamond rivals, will clash in the rubber game of their series. The winner will claim the unlimited class championship of Brookland, Woodridge I and Langdon. Proceeds of the game will go to Bernard Claveloux, Coleman player, who suffered & broken leg in a | recent game. The White Sox-Monroe battle will start at 2 o'clock and will be followed by a comtest between the Sox and Diamond Cab Co. ‘Washington Red Sox, who have listed a game with Maryland A. C. for Sun- day at Seat Pleasant at 3 o'clock, are after contests for Saturday and Mon- day. Call Lincoln 4594, Henry Hiser's Hyattsville All-Stars were to drill this evening at 6 o'clock at Riverdale Park, Md. in preparation for a game Saturday with Galesville, Md., at Galesville at 3:30 o'clock and their Prince Georges County champion- ship series double-header Sunday against Lanham A. C. at Riverdale Park. Virginia White Sox have booked games with Ballston A. C. and Hume Spring for Sunday and Monday, respec- tively, on the diamond at Baileys Cross Roads, Va. Both contests will start at 3 o'clock. The Sox were * originally scheduled to meet Little Sam’s Wonders Sunday. iz Victory Post and Potomac Junior base ball nines were to meet this eve- ning at 4:30 w'clock on Monument diamond No. 3. Webco diamonders are to meet to- night at 8 o'clock at the home of Man- ager Garner, 617 Quincy street. Triangle A. C. of Largo, Md,, is after a game with an unlimited class nine for Sunday. Mefropolitan 7042. A game is scheduled this evening between Brentwood Hawks and Wood- burn tossers on the Brentwood, Md. field at 5 o'clock. Saturday at 4 ¢'clock | the Hawks will entertain the Little Sam ‘Wonder nine. Chevy Chase Grays are after a game for Saturday afternoon and two games for Labor day. Call Cleveland 5462 after 6 p.m. Seaton Warwicks were 14-9 victors over St. Mary’s Celtic Peewees. With Cox - pitching strongly and Rinker hitting hard, District of Colum- bia Policemen blanked Diamond Cab- men, 5 to 0. National Circles, who will resume play September 8, are booking games at Lincoln 9892. Ku Klux Kian is after a game with an_unlimited class nine for Saturday. Call Business Manager Groves at At- lantic 1533-W. * Muddy Ruel Peewees are seeking a S’P““TED Fattling will be In order | This mark, second only to_Pittsburgh's | Cubé May End Further Ahead Than Famous Outfit of 1906 BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. HE Cubs of 1929 are not going to win 116 ball games, but they nevertheless retain a chance to equal or improve upon another feat performed by their illus- trious predecessors of 23 years ago. The Cubs of the late Frank Leroy Chance, in 1906, not only won 116 vic- tories, but rested 20 games ahead of the runner-up Giants at the finish. 27Y5-game victory over Brooklyn in 1902, remains in danger before the rush of Joe McCarthy's fast-flying team. After cuffing the Reds again yester- day by 4 to 1, as the Pirates curtsied humbly before the Phillies by 7 to 4, the Cubs rested 14!, games to the good, eager to increase the edge in the | five-game series which opens at Pitts- | burgh today with a double-header. No other team in the National League has enjoyed such a lead at this stage of the race since the earlier Cubs of Chance ran wild in 1906. No other team in the league has had such an etige at any point along the trail since John McGraw's 1912 champions piled up a large early margin only to see it wither. T * Likely to Widen Margin. A continuation through the stretch of the results of the last five weeks could give the Cubs an ultimate lead of 20 games or more and most likely would land them in the .700 class. achieved by no National League winner since the Pirates of 1909 reached .724, with 110 victories. The Cubs need 26 '07‘6{ of 35 to gain 108 triumphs and Despite cool breezes blowing in from the lake, 25000 fans visited Wrigley field yesterday to see the Bruins make it three out of four from the Reds. Sheriff Fred Blake found the chill wind no handicap, limiting the visitors to six safe blows. Curtiss Walker's homer in the fourth gave the Reds their only run. Rogers Hornsby directed the at- tack ammn Lugue and Donohue with three singles and a double, and figured in every scoring rally. ‘The triumph of the Phillies was the second major league victory of Young Harry Smythe, the Asheville, N. C., southpaw, who made his first start. His earlier winning effort also was at the expense of the Pirates on their re- cent_and longer visit to Baker Bowl. Call Manager O. White at'The Phils crowded all of their seven runs into one inning, the seventh. Pipgras Subdues A's. George Willlam Pipgras entertained 20,000 Yankee clients and gave Cor- nelius McGillicuddy an uncomfortable HOME-RUN STANDING By the Assoclated Press. Home Runs Yesterday: Goslin, Senators, 1; Walker, Reds,- 1. American League Leaders. Ruth, Yankees . Foxx, Athletics. Simmons, Athletics. . Gehrig, Yankees.. National League Leaders. Wilson, Cubs. . Klein, Phillies. Ott, Gilants. Hornsby, Cubs . National American Grand total ... 3 | rt, ” 4- | called end seventh ini three hits yesterday as the champio) nosed out the leaders by 2 to 0. Pip- gras made as if to pitch & no-hit game, allowing_no safeties until the eighth when Simmons and Miller singled. Cochrane tripled in the ninth, but died trying for a homer. An error by Boley gave the Yanks their. first run, but they earned the George Earnshaw permitted only ~six safeties before retiring to permit Le- | bouveau to bat for him in the elghth. | Bob Grove closed out the final inning without incident. Babe Ruth retired after striking out in the first inning. He was suffering gul expected to take another fling to- ay. Washington and Boston, star East- érn performers in the recent Western invasipn by the seaboard clubs of the American League, hacked away at each other for 14 innings, with the Sena- tors finally winning by 5 to 4. Only four games were played in the major leagues yesterday, and only the same number, two in the Pittsburgh double-header, were on the schedule today. Minor League Results AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Paul, 3; Kansas City. 7. Minneapoiis, 8; Milwaukee, 3. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Jersey City, 3: Montreal, 5. Newark, 5: Buffalo, 4. ading, 7; Toronto, 4. Baitimore, 2; Rochester, 5. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Sacramento, 4: Hollywood, 12. Oakland. 4: Missions, 2. Los Angeles, 8: Portiand. 9. San ‘Francisco, 8; Seattle, 4. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Atlanta, 3: Little Rock. 2 (14 innings). Chattanooga, 8: New Orleans, 5. Nashville bile. 5. Birmingham, 4-2; Memphis, 3-3. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Columbus. 5; Selma, 4. Jacksonville, 5; Pensacola. 1. ‘Tampa-Montgomery, wet grounds. SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 14; Henderson, 3. High Point, 5; Greensboro, 3. Winston-Salem, 2; Salisbury, 1. WESTERN LEAGUE. Omaha. 6: Topeka. 2. Des llasnel 8; Wichita, 4. ‘Tuisa, 3; Denver. 2. y, 8; Pueblo, 3. Oklahoma Cit; EASTERN LEAGUE. Springfield. 3: Providence, 5. New Haven. 8. . Hartford, 21 Bridgeport, 7; THREE EYE LEAGUE. Terre Haute. 4; Decatur, 3. Evansville. 4 Sprineflel EX Quincy, 11- e TEXAS LEAGUE. 4; Houston, 2. rnhfi- (San Antonio, 3. 0, 3. ‘Beaumont, 2-4 (second ining, darkness). Dallas. Wichita Fort Wortl Shrevepo: Monroe A. C. has listed a game with Chevy Chase Grays on the Chevy Chase hmund for Sunday at 3 o'clock and gn ked a contest with Army War c«:ug: for the same time Labor day on the War College fleld, from a heavy cold in his back muscles, | UNBENTEN TEANS afternoon by holding the Athletics to second on a pass and two singles. | | CLASH IN SERIES Naval Hospital and Calvary Baptist Strive to Keep Abreast Pullmans. AVAL HOSPITAL and Calvary Baptist nines were to face diamond at the Union Station in another crucial game of the | city Week-day Base Ball League's cham- | Neither has lost so plonship _eries. far in the competition, though Naval (Rosedale): third. Mari Hospital _has twice been held to a tie score. games and the Sailors one. Naval Hospital figured in its second | , Throw for tie yesterday when it fought to a 3-3 deadlock with Pullman. Darkness halted the game, which was a thriller all the way. Fee Collier, Pullman catcher, socked a homer in the seventh that enabled his team to gain the 3-all tie with the Sailors. Pete Ingram for the Sailors and Ed Collifiower for Pullman both showed strongly on the mound. FEach was handicapped through uncertain support. Pullman opened the scoring in the second inning when after one was out Stahl singled, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and counted on an in- field error. A pass to Buckley, Hall's one-base knock and a squeeze play ac- counted for the Trainmen's second run in the third. In their half of this in- ning the Tars counted their first run. Howk walked and went to second on Ingram's single. After the next two batsmen had been retired, Hicks walked, filling the bases, and then Howk scored as Buscher erred on Miller's infield tap. ‘Wild throws by Plifer, Collifiower and Collier were mainly responsible for two runs scored by Naval Hospital in the sixth, though Roberts came through with a robust two-bagger. Then in the seventh Collier contributed his homer that put Pullman on even\terms with the Sailors, Neither team was able to dent the counting block in the final two innings. Team Standings. . P (Terminal Evening) ¥ Eulvae Eiotm Ry Naval Hospital (Departmen; Union Printers (Government).. . Potomac Yards (Terminal Morn. Washing. Gas Light (Industriai) WGINNITY IS IMPROVED FOLLOWING OPERATION NEW YORK, August 28 (#).—Joseph J. McGinnity, noted as & Giant pitcher 25 years ago, was resting comfortably at Brooklyn. Hospital today following a major operation for an intestinal dis- 320 el i-0 0 1 0 2 0o 2 ROSEDALF'STEAM ONLY FOUR REMAIN WINS GIRLS” MEET - INMAJORLEAGUES |Victor for Third Successive‘They, Though Explode Theory Year; Having Big Margin | of Wet Delivery Being Over Nearest Foe. OSEDALE playground girls are | wearing the laurel wreath of interplayground track and field honors ‘this morning for the third successive year as a re- sult of their walk-away in the title mee | held yesterday on the Plaza field. Rose- dale scored 36 points, while Georgetown, in second place, was collecting 14, and | New York Avenue, 13, to ‘take third honors. While this marked Rosedale’s third win, it did not give that ground perma- | nent possession of the challenge trophy because it is a perpetual cup. They will have the privilege of retaining the silverware for another year, however. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of playgrounds, presented the cup, a gift of the Washington Post, to Mrs. Rith Britt, director of the winning ground, at the conclusion of the meet, expressing her pleasure in the large number of entries and in the excellent sportsman- ship shown by the young contestants, “tiny-tot” class. | Harder on Arm. BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umpire. | Four mow remaining, Mitchell Grimes, John Pincus Quinn and Urban *Red” | Faber; Embattled spitters to hear farewell | chimes; | Who'll'be_the last to feel time’s keen saber? Spitball pitchers have written many stirring chapters into the history of the !game. The pitchers named above are all | veterans nearing the end of the tral. Suffice it to say that they have lasted | to_explode the old theory that thc spitball taxes the arm more than any other delivery. The damp fling first came into promi- nence a quarter of a century ago, with tge advent of Jack Chesbro and Ed Walsh. Chesbro was distinguished for and many of whom were hardly out of the having kept his team, the New York More than 1,200 giris Highlanders, in the race till the very competed this year, an increase of 500 | last day of the 1904 season, and then %v}:;dl:n year's entry list, declared Mrs. | for throwing away the pennant with a 5. | weighing more than 70 pounds, One of the most interesting pictures in the colorful affair was that present- ed by the 78 youngsters, none of them lined up for the 40-yard dash, the first event positions with the discipline of vet- erans and each ran her heat with all | tor’s standpoint was the sack race with | | its 50-odd entrants bobbing up and | the enthusiasm and intensity that could be crammed into one small body. Another high spot from the specta- down in heats of four over the 40- yard course until Rufina King of Rose- |dale had finally bobbed home for the | final decision. | Chevy Chase Playground hopped her | way to the finish ahead of the fleld in |a similar novelty event—the hobble | race—in the 70-pound class to add still another bit of color, leaving rivals strewn here and there along the track, | where they missed a hop and went tumbling. In none of the novelty races did the contestants know what they were going to do before the preliminary | whistle blew calling them to the start- ing line. Margaret Simmel of the title team at 4:15 o'clock on the Terminal Murray, Florence Rhodes): Calvary Baptist has won two |iown); Petite Anna Bono of | broke “the only record that tumbled | during the day. She threw the quoit 1101 feet 7 inches to better last year's mark of 97 feet 7 inches set by Mildred | Hook of the same playground. Summaries: ! 70-POUND CLASS. rd_dash—Won by Mildred Hodskins : second. Betty Lasley (Kenilworth): Louise Sheridan (Happy Hollow). Volley ball throw for " distance—Won by Brown (Wallach): second. Dorothy Reamy (Rogedale): third, Mary Smith (Park . Distance. 67 feet 3 inches. Potato race—Won by Reba Lerry (New nue): second. Agned Ready (Reser- : third. Catherine Collins (Georgetown ). Novelty race—Won by Anna Bono (Chevs hase): second. Louise 'Hilgenbein dale); third, Mary Atwell (Stanton). $5-POUND CLASS. ard dash—Won by Helen Higgs (Vir. Avenue): second. Mae Nalley (B i third, Katherine Huichins (Fill y Mary Hunter (Georgelown): second. Rose Herson \Rosedale): third, Alice Gabardini (Bennings).” Distance. 61 feet 7 inches. Runnin O Pranklin (Edmonds): second, tie —between Ethel Peden (Bancroft) and Jennie Martin | {Buchanan): fourtn. " Dorothy Cochrane (Maury) Novelty race—Won by Mae Nally (Bu- chanan): second, Kathaleen Aheran (Hayes): third, Gertrude Douglas (Columbia Heights). 100-POUND CLASS. 60-yard dash—Won by Dorothy Burgess (Gilmore): “second. Marion Quinn (Iowa): third. Jean Pearson (Bloomingdale). Running high jump-Tie betwein Hazel Wolfe (Rosedale) and Marg e field); third, tie between Elizabeth Whitney (Maury) and Ann Kuhnpert (Virginia Ave- nue).. Basket ball throw—Won by Margaret Hook | (Rosedale): second. Angelina Stasulli~(Rose- | dale): “third. Catherine Miller (Columbia | Heights). Winning throw. 72 feet 1 inch. 220-yard_rel: n by Plaza (Margaret rgaret Phil nell Kitchen): second. Virginia Ave. (Rose- ). F lips. Vi 8Y | nue (Anne Kuhnert. Lorraine Farran, Paima third. Rosedale «Mildred Vivian Shrieder, Hook. Henrietta Maxwell, Hazel Wolfe!. POUND CLASS. h—Won by Evelyn Lingebach Avenue): second. Rufina King on Shipley (Stanton) Quoit thi by Margaret Simmei (Rosedale): second, Anna Wilner (George- third, Clara King (Rosedale). Dis- t 7 inches. | tance. 101 fee curacy (base ball)—Won by Anna Wilner (Georgetown): second. Mary Garner (Virginia Avenue); third, Lovey Ad- kins (Garfield). Novelty race—Won by Rufina King (Rose- dale): second. Evelyn Lingebach (New York Avenue); third, Jeanette Adamson (Takoma). 'D. C. TYPOS SET PACE IN DIAMOND TOURNEY INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 28.— Washington Union Printer nine, de- fending champion in the International Typographical base ball tournament, and which now is heading the battle for the title in the annual series in progress here as the result of a 10-5 victory over Pittsburgh yesterday, was to face Detroit this afternoon. Cin- cinnati was to engage New York and Pjttsburgh was to come to grips with Cleveland in other encounters today. In downing Pittsburgh yesterda ‘Washington hung up its fourth victor: in as many starts in the series. The 60-vard d (New York row—Won Capital City nine as the Smoky Cit: Washington team to another cham- pionship and a sixth leg on the Garry Herrmann_trophy. Stellar pitching by Roudabush, who gave up olny seven bingles: lusty hit- ting by Edwards and Hutchinson and clever base running by Goldsmith, Holbrook and Edwards were factors mainly responsible for WasHington's win over Pittsburgh. John M. Dugan of Cincinnati was re-elected president and Edward Springer of St. Louls secretary and treasurer at the annual meeting of the printer base ball commission yesterday. It was decided that the diamond tour- nament next year would be held at Pittsburgh and the Winter meeting in January at Cincinnati. TEAM STANDING. L. Pet. order yesterday. Physicians reported a | Clevels marked turn for the better in the con- dition of the “iron man,” who has been ill for almost a year. First known as a star in Brooklyn in 1900, McGinnity cast his lot with the Baltimore team of thé American League in 1901, and jumped with John J. Mc- Graw to the Giants in midseason of 1902. It was at the Polo Grounds that the big right-hander earned the title of “Iron Man Joe” by pitching and winning three double-headers within a brief time as the Giants of 1904 moved toward McGraw's first pennant. iron man lived up to his name The by continuing as a minor league pitcher | lopf and mana til about five years ago. Jor leagu n TO HELP BUSMEN’S NINE A. B. & W. Bus Co. base ball team will stage a carnival tomorrow, Friday and Saturday nights on the Arlington, Vl:. diamond for the benefit of the nine. A feature of the m_tomorrow Jump-—Won by Margaret | win was particularly pleasing to the | club_looms as the chief threat of the | | wild spitball delivery. | Three of Them Gone. | A few years ago_there were seven spitball specialists doing duty in the oig show. Suddenly three of them |to be run off. They fell into thelr | Coveleskl, Doak and Shocker, dropped out o fthe picture. Shocker’s exit was | hastened by ill health. | One day, in the Fall of 1926, he | plainly intimated that he was about | through. Shocker was trying to get rid of a dangerous batsman in the niiti: inning of a close game, in which his | team was leading. After two strikes thc | batter kept fouling each delivery. This exasperated Shocker. Suddenly he ex- | claimed: “I'll give him everything on | this pitch!” The batter popped out, and | Shocker finished the game exhausted | It was apparent that he had lost his zip Stanley Coveleskie, for years wilh | Cleveland and later with Washington and the Yankees, merely petered out. He was about the most frugal of the spitball tribe. By virtue of his pitch- | ing economy, his career was extended | several years. His friends thought he was through when he left Cleveland. but following that he enjoyed two sterling seasons with Washington dur- ing the pennant winning days of that | contend that he never intentionally wasted a pitch. He followed a policy of using a half-speed spitter, and a | slow curve for bait. Except Jimmy | Dygert, who pitched for Connie Mack more tham 20 years ago, Coveleskie was probably the best spitball pitcher of his pounds. Faber at It 16 Years. | Faber of the White Sox has been | dispensing the damp fiing for 16 years under the big tent, but even today he ! doesn’t look toward the bench in dis- | tress when the going gets rough. Bur- leigh Grimes, Pittsburgh ace, is the hocker type, extremely craft, con- | stantly “blufing” his spitter and using a variety of stufl between damp flings. Jack Quinn of the Mackmen is the dean of them all. I officiated behind he plate for him in game against the ! White Sox about a week ago, and his stuff seemed as speedy as it was 15 years back. Mitchell of the St. Louis Cardinals is the only southpaw spitball worker in the big show. His performance in al- lowing seven hits to Brooklyn one day last week speaks volumes for his ability Ilo fool them regardless of his age. And |50 “their fellow-players in the major | leagues are asking: “Which of these magnificient veterans will be the last to make his exit from the big league?” Many believe that Grimes, through his ability to conserve energy, will out- | last his fellow-spitters. Grimes seems - |to be at the very peak of his career. and is required to pitch every fourth day. The others may take from a Test between games. by North American News- paper Alliance.) GEORGETOWN INSECTS AGAIN TOP IN SERIES Georgetown base ballers are tod again out in front in the battle for the insect section pennant in the Capi- tal City League. The West End nine gained the lead when'the game played last Saturday with the Corinthians was ordered forfeited to Georgetown by league officials. The claim of the Georgetown team that the Corinthians had used an ineligible player was upheld. Lively battling is in prospect amon, teams in the uxsnmlud.pjunx:;: and mE sect classes of the Capital City League over this week end and the first part of next week. ‘The program: UNLIMITED. SUNDAY. josepH' imonds. Tremonts awarded forfeit over Capitols. MONDAY. Edmonds vs. Tremonts Auths vs. 8f. Joseph's, Brentwood Hawks'vs. Press Cardinals. Aztecs vs. Dixie Pigs. s Comer awarded forfeit over JUNIOR. SUNDAY. s QBriens, vs. Murphs-Ames. INSECT. SATURDAY. Sam Wests vs. Lionels (2 games). Eofinthians s, Brookiand "Bove: - Club. Easterns awarded forfeit over Milans. SUNDAY. Georgetown vs. Gallaghers. Jaglmonds’ and "time to ‘be announced ater. Senators defeated Easterns, 9 to 4, and Webcos took a 3-2 decision over Corinthians in French Insect League | contests yesterday. EAGLES SEEKING A FOE. Anacostia Eagles are after a game for Sunday on the Congress Heights diamond with a fast unlimited division team. Call Atlantic 3794 between 5:30 and 6 pm. The Eagles will play the ‘White Oak team at Predericksburg, Va., Saturday. - CORRIDEN TO MANAGE. | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 28 (). | I:;(:.hnny ]}‘MAd) %orrlfl!n. coach of the inapol imerican Association base ball team, will act as man: of the -