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Spo rts News The Foening Star WASHINGTON, Tt THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, Griffs May Win Five Series This Year : Mack Has Confidence in His Pitchers FIREMEN WHO HOPE TO MAKE POLICEMEN “ALL WET” IN BALL GAME AT GRIFFITH STADIUM MONDAY ONLY MACK, INDIAN SETS ARE LOST BY NATIONALS anks, to Be Plélyed Today Washington, Even With Y. in Sixth Double Bill Between Them This Season. Red Sox Again Li cked in 7-4 Tilt. BY JOHN B. KELLER. N EW YORK, August 29.—Although the Nationals have been well | below the .500 point in winning percentage throughout the season, they still have a chance to finish ahead of all rivals excepting the Athletics and the Indians in annual series. And they still have a chance to make the battling with the Indians for annual interclub honors close. The set with the Browns already has been clinched by Johnson's charges. They have won one more Howleymen. A and victory in two means this ser than half the tilts listed with the Six more games are to be played with the Red Sox, ies for the Nationals. The White Sox are to be encountered for more times, and two wins would clinch | the yearly set with this club for th To win the annual series wuh‘ the Tigers the Nationals must take | four of the five games they are _10‘ play with Bucky Harris’' club in the Capital next month. And they | could make a brave showing| against the Indians for the year by sweeping the four-game set | Peck’s pack is to play in Griffith Stadium soon. Such a sweep would leave them only two shy of tHe Tribal victory total in the an- nual tussling between the clubs. The Nationals are entering the four- game set with the Yankees that was to e opened with a twin bill in Col. Jake Ruppert’s big base ball plant this after-| Toon all even with the foc for the year. Each club has scored seven wins over the other. Following the quartet of engagements here, the Nationals and Yankees are to meet four more times this saeson, their final series being listed | for Washington late in September. Sixth Twin Bill With Yanks. ouble-header opening the series h«?:’;vfl L elxth between, Johnson's es and Huggin i fact. “these clubs have met in single bills only four times durire_-he campaign, three in_Washington. Here on May 2 the Nationals (mut Jhe ranks twice, and they scored twice over l\h‘:nl‘i'ew Yorkers in Washington on May 30. Playing here on July 4. the Wash- ington outfit was licked in both games Since the clubs have split one twin bill in Washington and another here. | Before leaving their home lot yester- day the Nationals made more headway in their struggle to overhaul the Detroit club and assume the second division Icadership. While the Tigers again| Jaled, Johnson's ambitious athletes once | more licked the Red Sox. and their 7- to-4 victory, which earned a sarles sweep, left them but one full game back | e Harris horde. o e Catrigan crew outhit the Johnson | men, 12 safeties to 11, but four times| the Nationals clustered clouts off their former teammate, Milton Gaston, with| telling effect. while only twice did the Red Sox manage to make headway by bunching blows off Myles Thomas. The Fed Sox stepped to the front in the| cpening inning. but, aide fPam Gooes Gosiin's bat. the Nationals had the score even before the inning ended. Then the home crowd forged to the front, only to have the Hubmen rake Thomas again in the seventh for enough runs to tie. | Win Game in Eighith. | This deadlock was shattered by the Nationals in the eighth. They hopped on Gaston for three healthy clouts in & row and chased him to the shower be- fore a man was retired. The left- handed Bill Bayne assumed the mound duty for Boston, and he, too, took pun- shment to the extent of two hits. ! Thomas felt the lash of the Red Sox bats right off the reel. Reeves, first to face the Washington hurler, singled sharply and raced home when Scarritt | followed with a double whipped down | the left-feld line. Scarritt was caught at third when Thomas picked up Roth- rock's grounder, but Rothrock swiped second as Barrett whiffed, took third on \a wild pitch, and counted as Regan singled. Judge was quickly erased in the Na- tionals' first turn, but Rice drew a pass and crossed ahead of Goslin, who drove a home run over the right-field wall. West's single, Cronin’s waik and Spen- |1 cer's one-baser, which came in succes- sion after one was out in the fourth, were good for the third home tally, and in the fifth inning the fourth run re- sulted from a single by Rice, Regan's hectic chuck past second base after| picking up Goslin's scratchy hit, and a | Gouble-play that got everybody on the runway but Rice. | Reeves Starts Tying Attack. | Reeves again started the attack for | the Red Sox when they hit to a tie in | the seventh. He doubled and tallied when Scarritt tripled. Along came Rothrock with a single to send over the | deadlocking marker. Then the Red Sox were stopped cold. Rothrock was forced out when Barrett tried to sacrifice, and Regan drilled into a double play. Goslin opened the winning onslaught | in the eighth by ramming a single to center. Muyer tripled against the open stand back of left center, and the tie was broken. West bounded a ground- rule double into the field boxes along the left-field line, and another run reg- istered. Bayne took Gaston's place, and was immediately tapped for a sacrifice by Cronin. West clung to third base as Spencer was heaved out, but scored when Hayes singled. baser by | Thomas and Judge's wa wded the | cushions, but Barrett ended the rally with a neat catch of Rice’s liner, Goslin’s homer, his second of the | and slightly injured a colored woman who was standing in the back vard of her home, which is just across from the | ball park, Washington club officials were informed. Beating the Red Sox, Thomas rang | up his fifth consecutive victory for the Iiauona.l& The pitcher, procured from RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN Eatting. . AB. 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Cronin made a whale of a play on | Regan's grounder in the third inning. | ‘The young shortstop rushed to the rear of second base, picked up the fast one with one hand, and flagged his man for the final out of the frame. There were two flashy bits-of fielding in the fourth inning. In the Red Sox’s half, with runners on first and third bases and two out, Cronin leaped high to get with one hand Reeves' line drive. In the home half, with the bases o by a homer | crowded and two out, Second Baseman | Regan sprinted almost to the foul line for a one-hand running catch of Judge's looper that both Todt and Barrett were racing for but had no chance to catch. Goslin kept a run from the Red Sox {and a hit from Gaston by a sparsling | catch in the eighth. ‘With two out and Barry on third, Gaston rapped a low liner to short left. The Goose tore in for a knee-high grab. . RACING APPEALS AGAIN. Horse racing is on a comeback in Montana_as & result of a 1929 legis- lative act permitting pari-mutuel bet- ting. Butte this Summer held its first meet since 1914. Big League Leaders By the Associated Press. American. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .374. Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 109. Runs batted in—Simmons, Athletics, 23. Hits—Simmons, Athletics, 176. Doubles—Manush, Browns, 39. ‘Triples—Miller, Athletics, 14. ‘Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 36. Stolen bases—Gehringer, Tigers, 21. Pitching—Grove, Athletics, won 18, lost 4. National. Batting—Herman, Robin: Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 122. Runs batted in—Ott, Giants, 124. Hits—O'Doul, Phillies, 194. Doubles—Frederick, Robins, 42. Triples—L. Waner, Pirates, 15. Homers — Klein, ~Phillies; Wilson, .405. . Cubs, 33. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 33. Pitching—Bush, Cubs, won 18, lost 3. I BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | American League OF THE STANDING CLUBS. | Philadelphia New York. | Cleveland. ercentage. | i 1 B 91 8112157 651.467 .13 7112)_6/_8I—I10/10/88/65.458 -9 41 418 6/ 120 51 81 7176 © 130150 57,58165/65/73 801—1—" Detroit Washington Chicago Boston Lost GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at N. Y. (2), 1 Chicago. 8t. Louls. Fhila. 3 Washington at N. Y. Betroit"at Boston at Phila. Boston at National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Pittsburghw 10-7: Chicago, 3-6. (Orly gamds scheduled.) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. @ Pittsburgh. GAMES TODAY. G New Yotk at Brkin. K 1a.” af Phils. 8 Chicago ton. ston. Chicao &t Pittepuren. B iren. ' 5 CUBRECULAR . | Hornsby, | | ht: per, coac Front row, left to rig Back ro F. R. I STEPHENSON LOST Joins Hartnett and Grimm on. Hospital List, but Able | E to Pinch Hit. By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, August 29.—Old Man Injury has failed to get ti Cubs down, but is still | hard. Riggs Stophenson, whose hit- | ting and work in left field, have been | important factors in the Cubs’ ability | to overpower the competition in the Na- tional League, is the latest to follow Gabby Hartnett and Charley Grimm to the bench. An_abdomenal rupture, at first be- lieved to have been a strained muscle. | has reduced Stephenson's status to a | pinch batsman and it is not likely that he will be able to play regularly during the remainder of the pennant battle. | He will have an operation to remedy the i injury as soon as the battle is over. | | Managr Joe McCarthy believes a | special harness which is being built for Stephenson, will enable the out- fielder to play, but the latter is not so | confident. | The first victim of injury was Hart- | nett, whose ailing arm has never im- | | proved enough to let him start a game | behind the bat. Tavl jonzales and | Schulte have handled the jub wel but Hartuett, vated last yegr as I league's best catcher has been missed. ! Then a fractured bone in his left | wrist put Charley Grimm out of action last week. and Charley Tolson was re- | called from the Pacific Coast League to play first base. Clarence Blair play- ed the position until Tolson arrived and | added to his, reputation as a capable utllityman. CUff Heathcote is working in right field and Kiki Cuyler has been shifted to Stephenson’s place in left. Heathcote is plaving good ball, but Stephenson's .349 batting is something the Cubs| could use. Hack Wilson also is far from being in 'good shape. The husky center field- er has a painful charley-horse in his | left thigh, along with his weak ankles, and has slowed down. i g PULLMAN, HOSPITAL NINES TIE FOR TOP Pullman diamonders. who are tied for | the lead in the District Week-day Base | Ball League's championship series with | Naval Hospital, were to face Calvary | Baptist in a series battle this afternoon | on the Terminal diamond at Union Station, starting at 4:15 o'clock. The Baptists yesterday fell before Naval Hospital in_a 5-4 struggle and as a | result the Sailors and Pullman each | has won two games and lost none to set the pace in the series. With two | wins against one defeat Calvary Baptist is third, Calvary must win today to | stay in the series. | Naval Hospital triumphed yesterd: by scoring two runs in the ninth inning | after a fine up-hill fight, | From the start it a keen fight. | After the Sailors had scored one run in | the first inning there was no more | counting until the seventh, when the | Baptists shoved across three tallies. | The Sailors, however, tied the score in the next inning only to see the Church- | men once more go to the front in the | eighth, 4 to 3. Then in the ninth| Naval Hospital came through with its two runs that enabled it to wins These came on hits by Schuster, Roberts and King and Howk's sacrifice. Miller, the Tars' shortstop, got a couple of timely bingles, one, & double, scoring his team's first run in the opening inning, and the other, a single, in the eighth, which scored the tally thateput his team even with Calvary at 3-all. Team Standing. n_(Term. Evening) Calvary Union Printers (Governm: Potomac_Yards (Term. Morning) Wash. Gas Light (Indust.) o 7 FOXX GETS TWO IN FOUR | AMONG STAR CLOUTERS By (he Associated Press. Jimmy Foxx_was the only consistent hitter in the Big Six yesterday, when four of the circle swung into action, with Herman and Klein in scheduled idleness, Jimmy got two out of four against the Yanks and gained 1 point o .374. Hornsby got his thirtieth home | run at Pittsburgh, but only one other | hit in the two games, skidding 2 points | to . Al Simmons went hitless, and Bab: Ruth’s thirty-sixth homer was his only blow, The standing: Herman, Robins Foxx, _ Athletics. G. AB. R. M. Pct.| 1 g 3 i 18 %flnfln p W. E. Caton, utllity; S. P. M. tcher: W Snow, third base; Capt. O. R. Moxley, T WL 1929. PAGE 41 H. Ritnour, shortstop: J. E. Walters, left field: M. H. Clark, second base; Carl Peterson, first base; J. J. Witkouwski, utility; L. D. Gately, center field. | A 3 t, right field; W. J. Banton, pitcher; R. E. Hooper, pitcher. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St._Paul. 9: Kansas City, Minneapolis, 2: Milwaul (10 innings) Louisy Columbus. Toledo, 3-10; Indianapolis, 2-4. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark, 1 Sacramento, 3 Oakland. 4 Mis: SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Atlanta. 3: Little Rock, 4 (10 innings Birmingham. 0: Memphis, 2. Nashville. 5; Mobile. 3. Cnattanooga, 6; New Orleans THREF. LEAGUE, Quincy, 5: Prorfa. 2 Springfield. 6. Bloomington. 2, Decatur. 11: Terre Haute. 6. Evansville, 13; Danville, 3. EASTERN LEAGUE. New Haven, 0:_ Pittsfleld, 1. Allentown, 2: _Springfield. 3. Albany, 6-14; Hartfor: SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Columbus, 4: Selma. 6 Jacksonviile. 0: Pensacola. 3. Tampa, 4: Montgomery PIEDMONT LEAGUE. wWinston-Salem. 2-4: High Point, 0-0. Henderson. 2: Greensboro, 4. Salisbury, 0; Durham. SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION. Charlotte, 1: Asheville. 8. Columbia. 2; Knoxville. anbury. 10: Augi lle, 7; Macon, TEXAS LEAGUE. Beaumont, 3-2: Shreveport, 1-4. Waco, 7; Fort th, 5. Des Molnes, Oklahoma City. 9. Tyls Denver, CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE DEFERS SOME GAMES As many players will be out of the city over the Labor day holiday, sev- eral of the Capital City League games scheduled for Sunday and Monday have been postponed. Unlimited section contests between St. Joseph's and Edmonds, carded Sun- day, and between Tremonts and Ed- monds, listed Monday, have been post- poned. Remaining games M the senior sec- tion race also have been deferred. Hart- ford and Try-Me Aces will face Sep-| tember 8 in a game that may deter- mine the second series champion, and Montrose and Kaufman nines will clash the same day, and the former must win to gain clear title to first series honors. Upon request of the Gallagher team its insect Section game with George- lowreldslnud for Sunday has been post- n The revised Capital City League schedule for Saturday, Sunday and Monday follows: SATURDAY. INSECT SECTION. giSam Wests ve. Lionels (two games), West, lock. Co 5 Brookland Boys' Club, South Ellipse. 11 o'clock. Easterns awarded forfeit over Milans. SUNDAY. UNLIMITED SECTION. Auth's vs. Brentwood Hawks, North El- lipse, 3 o'cloc] Browll:s Corner, Monument oc Press Cards v diamond No. 4. 1 3 ztecs, Monument dia- Browns Cornier mont No. 4, 3 o'clock. ; Tremonts’ awarded forfeit over Capitols. JUNIOR SECTION. Lioncls, West Ellipse, 1 o tcobbs vs. .O'Briens, East Ellipse, 3 o'clock Caihouns vs. Murphy-Ames, East Ellipse, 1 'clock. MONDAY. Auth's ve. St Joseph's, West Ellipse, 3 ©Brentwood Hawks vs. Press Cards, South Ellipse, 3 o'clock. Pt Dixie Pigs, East Elliose, 3 tecs vs. o'clock. |y Bro¥ns Corner awarded forfelt over Cap- ols. HOME-RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday: Ruth, Yanks, 1; Gehrig, Yanks, Lary, Yanks, 1; Goslin, Senators, Horsnby, Cubs, 1; Cuyler, Cubs, Bartell, Pirates, 1. American League Leaders. Ruth, Yankees Foxx, Athletics Gehrig, Yankees . Simmons, Athletics. . National League Leaders. Wilson, Cubs Klein, Phillics. ott, Glants Hornsby, Cubs League Totals. National American BUCS STILL ALVE, * CUBS NOW ASSERT {Pirates, Under a New Leader, Rout Bruins Twice—A’s | Defeat Yankees. [ BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, | Associated Press Sports Writer. | HE demise of the Pirates was prematurely announced, accord- ing to no less an authority than | Joseph V. McCarthy himself. The keeper of the Cubs takes | oath that the Buccaneers not only were alive as recently as yesterday after noon. but also were raiding the count in and about Forbes Field, where it was unsafe for peaceable folk to go about their business. | The Rruin band tripped into Pitts- burgh vesterday faced by the purely routiae task of going through with five of ball against a foe already The surprise of the invader: knew no bounds when the home defend- ers took not one decision, but two, in the dual skirmish which marked the opening of this happy party. | Blow to Cubs’ Hopes. | ‘While this double dent put into Bruin lines can hardly be said to have restored the Pirates to the dignity of contenders, the fact remains that the Cubs them- selves are headed nowhere in the gen- eral direction of a 20-game lead, which seemed not improbable just 24 hours | ago. The men of McCarthy still lead | by 121, games and rate as coming champions, but the mathematical cer- | tainty is at least a bit further away. Playing their first game under *the management of Jewel Ens, successor to Donie Bush, the Pirates larruped Perce Lay Malone for 14 hits and 10 runs in | seven innings to win by 10 to 3, after | Kiki Cuyler's homer had given the Cubs a 3-to-1 lead over Burleigh Grimes in the third. Nine of the runs were earned, which did Mr. Malone's record no appreciable good. ~ Charlie Har- greaves batted in five of the markers to help Mr. Grimes to his seventeenth triumph. All of this was understandable. Even the best of them must have an off day. a momentary slip. The Cubs dashed into a lead of 6 to 2 in the seventh round of the nightcap on Rogers Horns- by's thirtieth home run, and order seemed to be restored. In the home half, however, the Pirates assaulted Ken Penner, the Hoosier recruit, for three runs and continued the bombardment in the eighth for two more to win by 0 6. Penner gave way in the eighth to| Mike Cvengros. who in turn surrendered | the reins to the ace, Guy Bush. The | defeat was plastered upon Mike's record, but he has ‘two recent easy victories| over Philadelphia to balance it. Remy | Kremer was the winner. The other six National League clubs were inactive, Has to Call On Grove. Connie Mack righted the fortunes of | the Athletics once more, but he had to call upon Bob Grove to clinch a 9-to-7 decision over the Yankees at the stadium on the Harlem. Walberg and Quinn had been roughly used and Eddie Rommel had been removed for a_pinch batsman | atter one good inning. Grove got noth- | ing but the exercise, as the game was won by a five-run rally in the seventh before he entered it, forcing the credit | upon Rommel. After several brilliant if losing games, | Roy Sherid was hammered into a state of helplessness, and three succeeding Yankee pitchers fared little better. | Babe Ruth returned after a layoff of part of one game and hammered out his thirty-sixth home run, increasing| his lead. Gehrig hit his twenty-eighth and Lyn Lary his fourth. The victory gave the American League leaders an even decision of the two engagements in'New York and restored their margin to 13 games. ‘The Senators rallied at the end to defeat the Red Sox by 7 to 4 in the second and final game of the short se- ries in Washington. Walter Johnson's men took both. The four remaining American League clubs were idle. BETTY CARSTAIRS TESTS SPEEDBOAT AT WINDSOR ‘WINDSOR, Ontario, August 29 (#).— Betty Carstairs, English challenger of the Harmsworth Trophy, took her New Estelle IV on a fast test run in the Detroit River yesterday, later expressing great delight at its s . Her new boat is said to be more sea- worthy and speedier than the ill-fated craft sunk last year in the race with Gar Wood of Detroit. ‘Wood's new Miss America VIII is re. puted to be able to smash the 92-mile- an-hour record established in_ Florida last Winter by Miss America VII, but Miss Carstairs and her party, despite this, appear very -confident. ONE IS SOMETHING. University of Montana has won one Pacific Conference foot 1 organization if Vine on Trail Of Celts and Naval Hospital Maryland A. C. ARYLAND A. C. base ballers| are hot on the trail of the | St. Mary's Celtics of Alex- | andria, Naval Hospital and' other leading nines. The Marylanders would like to engage the Celtics on Sunday, September 15. | Manager James McCallister of the | Maryland nine is receiving challenges at North 0386. Police and Firemen base ball teams, whi¢h are priming for the annual Labor day benefit game at Clark Griffith Stadium, each had engagements today. The Bluecoats were to face Potomac Yards at 4:45 o'clock at Alexandria and the Firemen were to meet Navy Yard at 4:30 oclock on Fairlawn diamond No. 3. The games should give some tdea of the comparative strength of the Police and Firemen, as Navy Yard lost to the Police earlier in the week and Potomac Yards recently nosed out | the Firemen, 5 to 4. Yesterday the Firemen fell before the Army Medicos, 2 to 6. Previously the Firemen had downed the Medicos. Isherwoods, who have & diamond, are | after an unlimited class_opponent for Sunday. Call Lincoln 5233 after 7p.m. | Isherwoods meet the Hall, Md, nine Lebor day at Fall. Games for Sunday and Monday with _unlimited _division _teams _are | sought by the Cabin John Junior Order tossers, who are booking through Man- ager Higgins at Bradley 660 between | 7 and 7:30 pm. Higgins' address is Cabin John, Md. | Muddy Ruel and Garland Braxton | looked on as the Ruel Insects downed the Wonders, 9 to 5. | ‘Walther Midge! ho overcame Con- | gress Heights, 14 to 6, yesterday, are seeking games with leading midget class | SPORTS | in an insect class game. teams for Saturday and Sunday. Walthers boast 16 wins in 19 starts. Corinthian Juniors, who have can- celed their game carded with Mackays for Sunday, are booking at Atlantic 4290 between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Georgetown A. C. and Foxall A. C. have arranged a_double-header for Monday on Friendship Field starting at 1 otclock.” Foxalls want a game for Sunday. Army_ Medicos will meet Friendship A C. Sat.rday and Pepsoc Sunday. both games to be staged on the Walter Reed diamond. Shady Oak tossers have Looked the Wreco nine for Sunday, and the Friend- ship team for Monday. Both games will be played on the Shady Oak diamond starting at 3 o'clock. Samoset Tnsects are gunning for games for any day this week. Call Man- ager Miller at Atlantic 1536, Cronins downed Killarneys. 12 to 10, Leslie Herbert starred at bat, Howard Herbert shining afield. Ignatz and Alley Rat A. C. nines will have it out Sunday morning on Monu- ment diamond No. 5 at 9 o'clock. Mer- rill Gaff will hurl for the winners. St. Mary's Celtic Insects, 11-to-9 vic- tors over Potomacs yesterday, are list- ing opponents at Metropolitan 4264, be- tween 6 and 7 p.m. Games are being sought by Langdon | Insects at Decatur 5578. Jesse Peewees are after opponents Call North 2843-J. Miller Axtecs, who have & game Sat- urday, want a contest for tomorow aft- ernoon. Call Lincoln 8624. SLANTS BY ALAN J. GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor. Shsk§s eare. S OME one asked Jack Dempsey once if he knew anything about ave never had the pleasure,” the Man Mauler replied. No literary issues were at stake that September evening in 1923 when Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo of the Argentine slugged each other around and even out of the ring at the Polo Grounds. Newsgaper stories apfpeared under blllxt they were quite fr: them. the “by-lines” of the contestants, ank to disclaim the authorship of any part of It was not until the era of Gene Tunney that literary pursuits, the study of Shakespeare and other masters ybecame assoc}iya?ed w}th the manly art of battered beaks. Now it develops the successor of that other slugger, Firpo, goes in heavily for poetry. Not only does Victorio Maria Campolo, native of Italy and fistic product of the Argentine, translate the gems of Keats and Shelley into either Italian or Spanish, but he writes his own newspaper copy. Where Firpo ‘would have snorted at the idea of using a pencil for anything but figures, con- fining his translations to the shift of dollars into pesos, Campolo's friends say he tackles a portable typewriter con- scientiously every evening to fulfill a contract with La Nacion, Buenos Aires newspaper. . ‘Towering around 6 feet 7, 27 years old and with a reach a good 10 inches longer than either Dempsey or Firpo possessed, Campolo is one of the most colorful of th> heavy- weight contenders, whather or not he fulfills any of the promise he has shown is far in whipping DeKuh and Heeney. ‘The Argentine giant was six months in & hospital with brain hemorrhages after being badly beaten by Monte Munn, the Nebraska collegian, in Buenos Alres, but resisted the appeals of his family in order to continue his ring career. Unlike Firpo, Campolo comes of a well-to-do family, son of a retired cattleman and one of a family of 11 children. One of his brothers is his camp chef. N the exclusive, if not exactly clois- tered atmosphere of the Princeton Club a few years ago, Gene Tunney. and William Muldoon were the principal guests of honor. ‘The heavyweight champion talked of the advantages of education, of the les- sons to be gained from boxing—in other words of the supremacy of mind over matter. Muldoon, the graybread, who managed John L. Sullivari before Tunney was born, harked back to the days when he wrestled in barrooms of an evening for a purse of $5. As rapt a listener as any around the luncheon table was Tommy Loughran, then just an ambitious light heavyweight. He hardly coula be blamed for considering that the career of Tunney, who had just won the world heavyweight championship through his skill as a boxer, was pref- erable to the rough and tumble life of Muldoon. If Loughran wins recognition as the next world heavyweight title holder, and it 18 no -shot wager that he won't, it will be in no part to the influence of Tunney upon the career of the clever Philadelphian. Tommy's left jab and speed will carry him far. Most_successful fighters have pat- terned their style, or taken their ideal from some previous star. Dempsey thought Sullivan was “the works.” Tun- ney preferred Corbett’s example. Al Singer, the newest lightweight sensa- | tion. has patterned his style after Benny Leonard's. ECAUSE he has been shifted around half the National League circuit within the past few years, the idea has grown that Rogers Hornsby is some- thing of a bad actor, or at least a difficult citizen to handle. It doesn't take more than a five- minute chat with Joe McCarthy, boss of the pennant-prospecting Chicago Cubs, to dispose of any thought that Rogers is temperamental. “Hornsby may prefer his own company off the field,” said Joe. ““That’s none of my business, but on the field he is one of the best team workers I have ever had. He works for the club all the way and does everything he can to give others the benefit of his experience. “One of the great things about Hornsby is that you can always count on him. He is always in shape. He has his own ideas about training and sticks to them. He neither drinks nor smokes and lives regularly. For instance, he never has breakfast until about 11:30 every day, then he doesn't eat again until after the game. “When we get into a town early, most of the boys dash for the dining room, but Rog will go to his room, take it easy for a few hours and then have a substantial meal at his regular time.” ITTSBURGH has cashed in on two world series in recent seasons, yet no club has had as many bad breaks as the Pirates in the chase down the home stretch. Since 1921 the Bucs have been a big threat. They were on top in 1925 and again in 1927, but lost out in at least three other seasons, when they looked to be the class of the field. A few years ago they blew a seven- game lead in September. They didn’t win the 1927 flag until next to the last day of the season. This year the Pirates came home in July with a slim lead. Yet in three weeks, with Grimes out of action and Traynor, Grantham and other stars injured, the club dropped out of the race completely, From & two- g:me lead they dro ig! hind the pace-settin; Keaton and ' with | NOT EVEN WORRIED OVER TTLE SERIES 'Realizes, Too, That Hurling Is 75 Per Cent of Game in Classic Tilts. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. Yes, admits Connie Mack, he sup- posed the recent showing of the Ath- letics was the closest thing they had had to a slump all season. The Yankees hadn't been doing well either, and nobody ever ran as fast when the | nearest opponent was pretty far behind | and not gaining. It wasn't natural to | speed up under such circumstances and | he has not been driving his team. No, he doesn't think anything is the matter with the Athletics. They simply ran up against fine pitching. Fine pitching will beat any club. As a matter of fact. the Yanks should have been shut out in Tuesday's game. Bases on balls, with two out, an error and a {ball which should have been caught gave them their runs. How are his pitchers? Are they tired | or slipping? . His pitchers are 100 per cent. It isn't poor pitching which has lost games. It is a little lack of hitting and | bad fielding. Has Plenty of Pitchers. “Pitching isn't worrying me any said Connie, “and it won't worry m in the world serles. where pitching is 75 per cent of the game. I have plenty of pitchers. No batter. right or left { handed. hits Grove much when he is at his best. | “What Grove does in the series will | depend upon how he feels the days he | works. Grove is an artist in his line, |and every artist is temperamental.” 1 inquired concerning Ehmke. | Mr. Mack confessed that he doesn't understand Ehmke. When he doesn't understand a player, that player isn't of much use to him.” He has been told that Ehmke has been worikng out and |15 in shape to pitch again, but he | doesn't know that. He hopes it may be true. Ehmke, when he wants to pitch. can win from any ball club. Did Mr. Mack think Chicago scouting his club. | _Well,'if the Cubs scouted his club in Chicago, they didn't see much. He supposes that they are scouting. or will scout him. For the past several years | clubs always have done that. He has been through this thing before. I asked whether he would rest his players and then tune them up again for the series. Not in Need of Rest. Well, his club has suffered so many injuries that the players have been forced to rest. None of the men are tired. Two hours a day on a ball field shouldn't tire men in condition. But aturallv he would rest some of them before the series. play them perhaps two or three innings a day to keep them in shape. Does he signal his pitchers in a series? No. he never controls what his pitchers throw by signs from the bench. Of course, in a pinch. if his pitcher or | catcher is uncertain, he helps him out. Sometimes it isn't much use, because the man can’t put the ball quite where he’s been told to throw it. Yes, he does place his fielders from the bench. He always has given signs to his fielders. | (Copyright, 1929. by N paper Al CAPITAL PRINTERS | LEADING TOURNEY | _ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. August 29— | Washington Union Printer nine, de- | fending title holder in the International Typographical base ball tournament, and which is setting the pace in the annual series in progress here with five wins in as many starts. was to face the New York nine this afternoon. Should the Capital City team win today it will meet Cleveland tomorrow in the final | game. The race has narrowed to Washington. New York and Cleveland as the result of yesterday's contests. when Washington defeated Detroit, 17 to 9: New York eliminated Cincinnati !in an 8-5 game and Cleveland out- is th American News- the nine from the Michigan city lead- ing. 7 to 1, the Capital City nine piled up 11 runs in the fifth to gain the edge, which it increased as the game progressed. Homan, Waple, Edwards and Hol- brook led the Washington team's attack, | with Tingstad wielding a potent bat for the losers. Edwards, Washington short- stop, socked a homer and a double, while Waple got four hits, two of which were doubles. TEAM STANDIN Washington Cleveland w York | Pittsburgn Cincinnati PSS | St g5 Indianapolis [T MRS. WHITNEY NAME TWO STAR JUVENILES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—Harry Payne Whitne ' had two crack yearlings and was confronted with the task of giving them suitable names. He as~ signed the task to his wife. The first name came easy, as Mrs, Whitney was reading Lewis Carroll's nonsense classic. “The Hunting of the Snark,” in which the author referred to a fearsome beast, Boojum, one glance at which caused the person to fade away into thin air. ‘That decision made, Mrs. Whitney accompanied her husband to the stable, ‘where he asked, “which one is Boojum: “That one is Boojum,” said Mrs. ‘Whitney, pointing to the good looking bay, son of John P. Grier, “and the other one is ‘\Whichone' ™. And so two of the classiest 2-year- olds of the year and favorites to run one-two in the Hopeful at Saratoga Saturday, were named. HERMAN IN C MEBACK AFTER TWO-YEAR LAYOFF BEAUMONT, Tex., August 29 (#)— Tillie,“Kid” Herman. former ring idol of thé Southwest and once one of the game's cleverest welterweights, has emerged from a two-year retirement. In his first return bout Herman knocked out Rex King of New Orleans.’ He is fighting at 150 pounds and claims to be in the best shape of his career,