Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1929, Page 22

GRIFFS MAKE -BUT 21 HITS IN LAST THREE CLASHES Failure to Sock Twice Keeps Club From Soaring to Top of Second Division—Errors Help Chisox to Score 4-t0-3 Win in Sunday Tilt. Y JOHN B. KELLER. S out of fifth place. Their failure to OME clearing of batting eyes must occur if the Nationals are to overhaul the Tigers and head the second division of the Ameri- can League this week. Lately Johnson's charges have lacked punch in attack, and twice this batting weakness has kept them hit well in the last game with the Red Sox in Boston on Wednesday prevented them from moving into a tie with Bucky Harris’ horde, and having no wallop yesterday in the second game of the White Sox seri of the Detroit club. . In the last three games les they lost a chance to go ahead the Nationals have made but 21 hits, get- | ting 7 in each engagement. They were somewhat fortunate in lick- ing the White Sox Saturday—fortunate in getting such good pitch- ing from Fred Marberry. Seven hits are not likely to win a ball game often. At that, the Washington club would not have taken a 4-to-3 beating yesterday if a heave by Benny Tate had reached Jack Hayes at third base instead of landing on a White Sox runner darting back to the sack. This error let in two runs right off the reel. Thereafter the White Sox | had difficulty making headway. Myles Thomas and Urban Faber were the opposing pitchers at the outset of | hostilities, and after a rocky time in the first two rounds both pitched well for five innings. a pass and & triple off Thomas to give the visitors a trio of tallies in the first frame, and ther clustered two safeties for a run in the second. After that only two hits were yielded by Myles. Heat Too Much for Faber. In his seven innings the veteran Faber | was nicked for only five hits. He walked three batters, though, and one of the walks was turned into a run in the| opening round. A hit paved the way to“ another marker in the second, and in the seventh a pair of blows accounted | for the Nationals' final score. That| Faber went only seven innings was due to the excessive heat more than any-| thing else. Ted Lyons finished for the | Sox, and was found for a hit in each of his two innings. | ‘Thomas was withdrawn in the Na-| tionals’ seventh batting turn, Red| Barnes being sent in to hit for him. It| looked as though Myles was able to go| the route, but Jack Hayes had just singled, and Manager Johnson wanted more strength at bat than Thomas usu- | ally has. Barnes made good as a pinch | batter, and Bob Burke performed well | as a relief hurler for two innings, but | it wasn't Thomas’ day. and he took his | first beating after winning six games in a row. | The Washington slabman was quite | unsteady at the outset of the contest, | and walked Metzler, first White Sox up, pitching only one strike to him. Along came Cissell with a triple to taily Alex. Reynolds should have been thrown out, but his grounder was juggled by Cronin | long enough to put him on first, al- | though Cissell did not dare leave third | base on the rap. Error Means Two Runs. Shires took a third strike and Tate heaved the sphere toward Hayes, hoping to snare Cissell off third base. The ball bounced off Cissell's shoulder and rolled far down the foul line, letting both Cissell and Reynolds count. It was a tough break for Thomas and also for Tate. Benny's throw was right at the base, but Cissell was in the way. Of course, the White Sox runner had the right to the line. Just a good throw that went wrong. The Nationals came back to get one run off Faber. With Judge out of the way. Rice walked and took third as ?h?lén‘,;:ngll{’:. ‘When :?!r forced out . Rice scam, to - tln: block. N M dount A steal of second by Kerr played a big part in the making of the fourth White Sox run, which was registered in the second session. Johnny singled to -open the round and swiped the base hefore Berg hoisted to Goslin. This put ¥im in a position to score when Metzler | slngled after Faber had become the .8econd out. But for the steal there | %ould have been no run. The Washington club countered with & run in ifs half of the round. Tate A brace of errors followed | R | Fabe l BAD FIRST INNING I CHICAGO. Metzler, Cissell. Reynolds. ! Shires, ib. Hoffman, ci Kamm, 3b Kerr, 2b. Berg, . Faber, p. Lyons, p. Totals .. WASHINGTON. 1b. = L] | ooowoorommi bl moosm000ss! sonoronsso—0d &l onorossmm-d seasousnssned | onosnussnnd oss0uaronsss? il onusrowcws? Srommmmosnool o Totals st el *Batted for Thomas in seventh. Batted for Burke in ninth. Chicago .. 3100000004 Washington . Runs battec ell, Myer, Metsler. ayes, Judge. Two-base hits—Tate, Goslin. Kerr. Three-base hit—Cissell. Stolen bases —Reynolds. Myer, Kerr. Sacrifices—Cronin, Hayes, Judge. Cissell. Double play—Cronin to Judge. Left on bases—Chicago. 3: Wash- ington, 6. Bases on Thoma; off Faber. 3. Struck out—By Thomas. 3: r, 1. Hits—Off Thomas, § in 7 innines: oft A Faber, 5 in 7 innin pitcher—Faber. g pitcher—Thomas. Umpires—Messrs. Moriarty and Geisel. Time —1 hour and 56 minutes. doubled to start the inning and was chased home on successive sacrifice hoists by Cronin and Hayes. The Na- tionals got after Faber again in the seventh for a third marker. Hayes singled with one out and checked in at the far corner when Barnes picked up Thomas' bat and singled. Judge's loft to Metzler was deep enough to enable Hayes to tally after the catch. Get Goslin Off Second. It looked as though the home side might do something in the eighth when Goslin, first up, laced a double off Lyons. But the Goose was picked off second by Berg, who made a fine throw to Cissell while Myer was at bat. Lyons easily disposed of Myer and West. In the ninth Cronin singled with one gone, only to be forced out by Hayes, but there were two on when Lyons, covering first, dropped a throw from Shires and gave Pinch Batter Boss a life. Judge, how- ever, could do nothing more than loft to Kerr. Kamm was charged with an error in the seventh inning when he muffed a foul Rice had put up. But when Rice fouled again Willie froze to the sphere. Goslin and Thomas were the only Nationals to help their batting averages to any extent. The Goose, with a single and a double, had a .667. day, and Thomas smote a single to show .500 for the fray. Kerr was a busy second baseman for the White Sox. He raced over a deal of territory to take care of eight chances. Garland Braxton underwent an opera- tion yesterday to reduce the lump on his left leg that developed after he was hit by a-batted ball 10 days ago. Some bruised blood was drained from the lump, and as there were no signs of infection the southpaw slabman is expected to be on the job again in & few days. Big League Leaders ’P] Hitters. layer—Club. G. AB. R. H. ©O'Doul, Phillles. 133 546 127 ;{1 Herman, Robins. 128 500 93 196 120.522 87 198 136 531 136 200 aynor, Pirates. 109 474 112 169 XX, Athletics. 13¢ 474 112 176 Pet. 398 392 379 377 1 371 Run Scorers. 1250y, Cubs, 136; O'Doul, Philles, i son, Cubs, 125; 117} L. Waner, Pirates, 125" O Base Stealers. pouyler, Cubs, 34; Swanson, Reds, 27; ich, Cards, 25; Gehringer, ) 22; Herman, Robins, 31, oo 1 8erS 22 | Pitchers. Player—Club. w, Zac] . Yankees ] Al 1,000 833 818 13 50 | SLIM LEAD IS HELD BY DIXIE PIG NINE Dixie Pig nine today still holds glender lead in the rgd-hnt b-cflewln: the title in the unlimited section of the Capital City Base Ball League as a re- sult of a 4-3 uphill victory yesterday ! over Auths. St. Joseph's continues to press the leaders, being just half a game behind, féllowing the Saints’ 3-1 tri- umph over the Aztecs. In other unlimited division engage- ments. National Press Building Cardi- nals defeated Tremonts, 14 to 6, after sthe Edmonds Art Stone Co. had for- feited to Tremonts by 9 ; wood Hawks walloped Browns Corner, 19 to 7, and Edmonds got a forfeit over Capitols. Failure of Edmonds to appear for the scheduled game with Tremonts cost the former its league franchise. Team Standing. W. L. Pet W. L. Pet. Dixie Pigs. 13 3 .813 B. Hawks.. 9 7 .563 Bt. Joes... 12 3 (800 Br. Corner.. 710 .4l M 8 Tremonts .. 812 2 | Ruth, BOWIE LEADS WAY IN BASE BALL RACE Bowie Motor Co. diamonders today are setting the pace in the interesting race for the championship in the Prince Georges County, Md., base ball series, as the result of a duel victory yesterday over, Capitol Heights Junior Order, 11 to 3 and 8 to 5. Mount Rainier, which had been tied for the lead with the Bowie nine, won only one game from Hyattsville, the second contest being halted at the end of the fifth with the score tied at 5-all. ‘The Mount Rainier manager, however, protested the second contest, alleging n|m Hyattsville. used an ineligible player. TE. 'ANDING. it Bowle . Mt.Rain] 3 3 Berwyn_ .. 7 ‘Hyatssvilie 545 0’DOUL BOOSTS HITTING MARGIN OVER HERMAN ‘With four hits out of sixtimes at bat in two games at St. Louis, Prank O'Doul of Philadelphia added three points to his average, jumping to 398 and in- creasing ‘his margin over Herman of the Robins six points in the race for the batting championship of the Big Six and the National e. Herman got only one hit out. of four against Pitts- burgh. and ‘dropped one point to .392. Rogers Hornsby added four points to his average with four out of five against the Braves, mh!n; the 200- hit mark, and Babe Ruth picked up one point with two out of four against the Tigers. One was his forty-second homer. Foxx and Simmons were idle. ‘The standing: P 186 3 176 ¥ 1 Pet. 308 b R i Pankees . 113 Astecs.. 11 5 f P, Cards: 11 6 847 *Edmonds.” 413 TRY-ME ACES NEAR SECOND SET TITLE Montrose nine Has won the first ries title in of the the senior section Capital City Base Ball League, but the victor in the’ second series has by no gneans been decided. Kaufman tossers yesterday farfeited to Montrose, to give the latter the first series crown. In the Eht for_ the second series championsinp Try-Me Aces vanauished Hartfords, which had been heading the flag race, 6 to'4. in a stirring battle that w led when the winners chased r four runs in the eighth. By winning thé Aces gained the right to meet the Mflm&mlmnmca. d::!‘ldi Brookland Boys' nines in a dou- ! ble-header next Sunday, with'a o clinch second half laurels. 3% | HOME-RUN smnmcfl By the Assoclated Press. LR Home Runs Yesterday. Ruth, Yankees, 1; Gehrig, Yankees, 1; Dickey, Yankees, 1; Hornsby, Cubs, 1; O'Doul, Phillles, 1; Ricl 3 Braves, 1; Hafey, Cardinals, 1. American League Leaders, Ruth, Yankees . Foxx, Atpletics Gelrig, Yankees . K Simmons, Athletics - National League Leaders. Klein, Phillies Wilso! bs. National so005mumosssa 1100001003 [ b6 LEAGUE STATISTICS | American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. | | | st Louss 3 called in teLth, darkness). STANDING OF THE CLUBS. | Washington! 91 49l 4l 710 |B "3l 871101 7/ GAMES TODAY. Chicago at Wash. Chicago at Washing'n. De! New York Detroit at New York. veland at Phila. Cleveland at Phila. uls at Boston. St. Louis at Boston. National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. ~ Pittsburgh, -1; Brooklyn, 2. Philadeiphia, 8-3; St. Louis, -4 (second darkness). ston, 13; Chicago. 11. Cincinnati-New York, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. £ 5 H New York. Philadelphia 3| Cincinnati. Chicago Pittsburgh New_York_ 8t._Louts Brooklyn Philadelphis .. 3/11! 4| | Cincinnati | Boston_. | _Lost 1311 8/13(11/ 8113(11/76! 7110|—I11] 7114110/ 9i68i 111113115/10/63! 8I—11/64175 419 91 51_71—I51/191.392 -143156/60/66170/73175 9] —I—! GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Py Brooklyn at Pitts. Phila. at 8t. Louis. Neg York at cine 3 Phila. at 8t. Loui SANDLOTTERS GIVE KEEN EXHIBITIONS Though not as many games were played yesterday by independent sand- lot base ballers hereabout as compared with Sundays during the height of the season, some highly interesting pastim- ing was in order. | Washington Red Sox took its second | straight game of the campaign from | its old rival, Foxall, in an 8-2 tilt on | the loser's fleld. With Brown pitching well for the Sox, his'team gathered 12 ‘hits, including homers by Usilton and Joseph. . — Chase s_tool - trom. Unon Plasterers. Phe scores were 8 to 4 and ¢ to 0, lz!;kl‘ diamonders drubbed Ramblers, A, B. & W. Busmen, who squeezed through to a 2-1 victory over Ku Klux Klan nine yesterday, are after a game for next Sunday with an unlimited class nine. Call Clarendon 1280-W after 7 p.m. Bennett, pitching for the Busmen yesterday, let the Klansmen "dfnwn with a lone bingle and fanned nine. Walthers hung up a scormg over Swanees, Smi 1d Juniors, 13 to 3. Anascostis Eagles took a 5-4 decision from Cherrydale A. C. in a keen battle. Doing all the scoring in the first two innings, Hess A, C. drubl hady Inn tossers, 8 to 1. et pitar coming an early enemy lead, topped Mercurys, 12 \‘::miyo Corinthian. Midgets conquered Foxx | Midgets in & 7-6 un-lnn!ngu thriller, Potomac Juniors drubbed Corinthians, 16 to 2, and then went on to defeat Palisades, 5 to 1. . Carrick pitched Isherwoods to a 7-1 { victory. over Coleman: White Sox. He | allowed only five hits. Chevy header pair of twins, 10 to 4, and Rovers Gedrgetown A. C. came through with a 13-9 victory over Cabin th‘lll!.lunm Ordermen, at Cabin John, Md. Games with nines in ‘their class are by Rover Juniors. Call Lin- mes, . The Ballston managet may be ,f:u,hgd at Clarendon 1282, v RECORDS OF GRIFFMEN coomuscarusBa L BRERLEY 5 -} sousutcrBuaneny . 3 ol conssectaciBulSuEBaNE.EE g Eseitalisko LI -saBatol onsogermnonvossadiuc oo selcasE BunmAEOo—anEo R Rexds: Sosrslimtantiata0d282 ©5000000aHNENABSOR@ 3332 3548534 237758 wdBsREPRR £ cavanls! » 4 E 53 oseco-ono: 2 3 PREER -] 3 wstusead { GAMES TOMORROW. . HAROLD R. HEIDELBACH, Twenty-two-year-old right-hand pitching aspirant from Lore City, Ohio, who worked out with the Griffmen for the first time Saturday. obtained from the Gadsden Club of the Georgia-Alal obtained his first professionai experience this year. Heidelbach was bama League, where he By the Associated Press. | DARK and rainy week end on | A coming champions in the re- spective circuits march some- what closer to the armistice not so much closer as they might have marched with better luck. This advance |and Babe Ruth's assauit upon Detroit | second home runs heid the attention. of | such customers as appeared before the turnstiles. tendances at Chicago, where the Cubs took two from the ives on Saturday by 13 to 6 and 9 to 2, only to see the to 11, but larger crowds have been known at Shibe Park than the one which saw the Macks divide two with the major league front saw the which will precede the world series. but | pitchers for his forty-first and forty- No fault could be found with the at- Bostonese grab & Sunday slugfest by 13 Cleveland on Saturday. The week end A‘:'ghmfl 'Cubs Now Need 8 and Macks 9 Victories to Clinch Pennants was a total loss for the Reds and the Giants at Cincinnati, where three scheduled games were washed away, ne- cessitating a doubleheader today and a single engagement on Tuesday, which had been an open date. The week end campaign left the Cubs in need of eight victories and the Ath- letics in need of nine to clinch their re- spective flags. Every defeat for the Yankees or the Pirates, of course, ies- sens by one the number of victories re- quired by the Athletics or the Cubs. At the present clip, both should gain the mathematical certainty early in the week beginning next gundny end the Cubs may be able to do it sooner.. Rogers Hornsby entertained crowds -at Wrigley Field with run on each afternoon, tal for the season to 35—one behind Wilson and Ott and two behind Klein, the league leader. N - PNOTHER FAMOUS MEMBER OF A FAMOUS FAMILY OF RIDERS. Guy GARNER, '&flg’rg \DER SN T °0 - the family, - when double on Buddy race. Then Mack. rods ners on August 15, # . In the Grab had the I on Blue Larkspur, Col. E. g “%ndlq'l ,l-yfir—g‘d e the. he :b&n" . JUNIOR SECTION TITLE TO VIC’S SPORT SHOP Vie's Sport Shop nine todsy boasts ni. ‘:‘hnmc plrmlup of the junior section of apital City Base Ball League. The team won the title yesterdsy by drubbing Lionels, 9 to 2,” the victory also . giving the Viemen the second ey Tasalan, Vic n, 's pitcher, let o p Tuns in the sec- P R RENOVATED ‘HALL OPENS TONIGHT Fancy Lights Are Discarded by Stocking—Gardner’s Outlook Is Bright. ‘ night under the management of Earle D. Stocking, who succeeded A. Dudley Gardner as pilot of Washington's second largest bowling house, One of the Zrst changes made by Btocking was to chuck out all those fancy colored lights that graced the spacious ceiling. They have been re- pl with buibs of sunshine hue. “We're cleaned up, polished up and relit, if you please” chuckled Stocking last night, “and all set for the biggest bowling_season ever.” ‘The Electrical and Knights of Co- lumbus Leagues will be first to shoot at the Hall this season, having matches listed for next Wednesday night. All ONVENTION HALL, renovated, will be re-opened formally to- x?t‘g‘t‘m of Columbus will swing into action. On Thursday the vast Masonic mglre' will get under way and the Jewel e, with 16 teams, will start Friday night. Stocking is organ a league (five- man teams) to shoot Saturday nights. Any team desiring a franchise should communicate with him at the Hall. Charlie Swan, former Washington sports writer and now a big shot in the newspaper fleld at Roanoke, Va. was a visitor here yesterday and talked a front tooth loose over the bright out look of Al Gardner, who left Conve: tion Hall to become proprietor of Roan- oke’s foremost bowling establishment. “Gardner is off to a great start” chatted Charlie, “and I don’t see how he can miss$ He made a lot of friends quickly. His opening night was s big success. The Roanoke bowlers got a kick out of Lorraine Gulli's exhibition. Glut‘x. how that girl can shoot duck- | pins!” All the bowling proprietors and man- agers are agreed that the new season is |likely to see a great growth in the | game but some of the fellows are not so confident there L3 responding increase in profits. “Too many little places in the sub- urbs,” they sigh. Only one new alley will be opened in the city proper. This will be Tad Howard's on_uj Tad leased the Park Theater Building and will have 12 drives. P2 Ben McAlwee, human encyclopedia of things bowling, has called a meeting of the Athletic Club League, of which secretary and astorer, “for “to- morrow night at 7:30 o'clock at Con- vention Hall It is likely that several Siring them should Rave representatives ve tatives at the meeting. B ONE OF T LEROING 'He feceved $i6.000 FOR FIVE RACES RE- ceNny(10% OF BLUE LARSPURS WINNINGS.) C A Metropolitan Newspaper Service (In fact, I have read that the gen~ erous Col. Bradley paid Garner $16,000, or & little more than 10 per cent of Blue Larkspur’s winnings in five races!) Well, Mack Garner had ed before the day’s racing, his Johnny . MARYLAND SHOE PITCHER FEARED IN METRO FINALE Coolness in the Pinches ‘The newl, Southern Marylan hereabout. County. Peake appeared hopelessly beat- en in the first game, when Crane had a lead of 14 points with only a few to go. But he suddenly straightened out his game, and for several innings Crane was unable to score a point. Peake caught up 30 quickly it was almost astonish- ing, and at the critical moment, when a ringer meant victory for either, it was Peake who made the perfect shot. It was a brilliant recovery the Be- thesdan made in the first game, but his skill and courage were to be put to a stiff test once again before the colorful Crane was vanquished. The Washing- ton man took the second game with little resistanice, and it -gpencd to many that Peake had shot his bolt. It was midway the third and decid- ing game that the Marylander began finding the peg again and he never lost it. He warded off a threat by the strug- gling Crane by tossing two double ring- ers in succession, one of which Crane 14 teams of the Electrical and 12 of the | covered. Peake may not be the most mechan- ically skillful player in the grand finale of the Metropolitan tournament, in which he will meet the champions of ‘Wasington and Northern Virginia, but neither of his rivals is likely to have an_edge on him in cool courage. The Charles County representatives, Pete Reklis and T. W. Posey, were stiff- ened by & long auto ride and this told on their games. Both lost their first- round matches by decisive scores, but this was to be expected. Neither has had more than.a few weeks’ experience in championship competition. “Next year,” grinned Posey, “Charles County won't be so easy to deal with. The game has just taken hold down there, and we figure it'll take a little time to develop some stars.” ‘The Prince Georges County cham- pion, Merle Heilman, never was able to strike his regular stride and easy prey for Crane in the semi-finals. rather | p! Saves Him in Battle for Southern Maryland Title—Washington Finals to Be Played Next Wednesday. quest of the Metropolitan district horseshoe pitching champion- ship in M. E. Peake of Bethesda. crowned king of the Old Liners. who won the title Saturday night in the State play-off at Rock- ville, is the most imperturbable pitcher yet seen in the tournament SOUTKERN MARYLAND sends a formidable representative in 1t was his coolness in the tight places that stood out as a feature of the final contest at Rockville, in which he defeated Earle Crane, Washingtonian, who won the open championship of Montgomery mond Panholzer, showed better than expected. He put up & game- fight against Peake and the - contest was closer than the score of 50 to 3¢ would indicate. ‘The Washington title will be decided next Wednesday on the Plaza Play- ground court, with Andrew Tallmadge, N. A. Pixton, Charles ,and Hubbard Quantrille ennaled. y will start at 5 p.m. There will be bleachers for spec- tators. County champions and runners-up of Northern Virginia look forward to a large day next Saturday at Culpeper, where the State finals will be held. A banquet, with the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce as the host, will top off the tournament. - COLORED PITCHERS ~ PLAY WEDNESDAY ‘The Prince Georges County finals of the colored metropolitan horseshoe tour- nament will be piayed Wednesday, starting at 5 pm., at Md. The contest originally scheduled for Saturday was postponed because of rain. Julius Wheeler will direet play. The pairings follow: - Thomas Selmon (Mariboro runmer- up) vs. Ben Conway. Raymond Wallace (champion of Iake- land) vs. Felix Tilgham (champion of | Brentwood). William James (champion of Hyatis- ville) vs. George Walls (runner-up of | Lakeland). Payton Taylor (runner-up, Muirkirk) vs. Dent Wilson (champion of Marl- boro). Franklin Marshall vs. runnmer-up Brentwood. % Joseph Wheeler, bye (Vista rumner up). | William Hackley, bye (Vista cham- ion). All eligible not reporting on time will The other Prince Georges pitcher, Ray- [ sPorT FT~HERE is a good chance early cago, but also restore some League at large. tour straight, embarrassed the | The enthusiasm, therefore, | sented The pas ning unusually close lops from Yankee bats year the Cubs piled up a big lead in , with the nant race virtually over by the Ist of Sep- tember. It is something new for any team to dominate the National League 3 3 for Joe MeCarinrs strengthen support for Joe 1y's outfit, formidably equipped as it is with heavy hitters and a . fine corps of pitchers. In the face of such rivalry it would be the height of optimism to expect Connie Mack's Athletics to continue the rough-shod pace of the Yankees. For one thing. the Yanks were and still are as great a “money team” as base ball has known in many moons. The A's are now a better ball club, but they are less experienced. in the big shew than Ruth & Co. The A's, in fact, are less seasoned than the Cubs, so far as world se- ries experience goes, for Hornsby, Cuyler and Wilson all have figured in championship conflict. Hornsby the to beat the mkl the world series, while Cuyler’s winning hit off Walter John- son in 1925 made him the hero of the Pirate conquest that year. The only Mackman with any real series experience 15 Eddie Collins, but Ed- die is no longer an active combat- ant. Old Jack Quinn pitched four mfl for the Yankees in the 1921 The A’s and Cubs both have plenty of heavy artillery. Sluggers like Foxux, | Oochrane, Simmons,. Hornsby, Wilson, Stephenson and Cuyler will rattle the boards in any park on the slightest provocation. Behind the bat Cochrane should. give the A’s an edge. On the other hand, the two southpaw stars of the lb’ck moux'xgmgnimarove u;d;l;:- berg, face a tougl e-up of right- handed clouters, ‘This is only the start of an argument that. will be tossed back and forth dur- ‘h;z 'trzm ne‘xt a‘fs:vuwe:ks. It will bed Just at any crossroads a on: Michigan boulevard or Broad street. CQIOMETHING should be said for the Cleveland Indians, whose fine play since the middle of the American League season, involving a leap to third place, is one of the big surprises of the year. have put together a fine young club, the best Cleveland has had since Tris ’Spenker led the world champions of 920. In Earl Averill the Indians picked up the best_outfield recruit of the ‘season, and in Wes Ferrell one of the rarest pitching finds in many a moon. - The Pirates of 1927 and the Cardinals of 1928 were groj ennant battles. It took only a few to put them down and out. Billy Evans and Roger Peckinpaugh | be defaulted. SLANTS | By Alan J. Gould Associated Press Sports Editor. next month that the Cubs not only | will regain a chunk of world championship prestige for Chi- of the self-respect of the National The last world series in which a Chicago team competed, the Sox of 1919, left no gratifying memories whatever. e in each of which the Yankees steam-rollered their opposition for National League no little: over u::d chn'?ges Oth né; C\;bs “tak:rl;g"' !the Athletics may be easily appreciated. ere e feeling tha ic: the first thney in three years the National League will be repre- by its strongest team, in good ‘health, confidence and spirits. The last two series, after win- solid wal- comeback of Lew Fonseco at first base, rounding out a capable infleld with Joey Sewell moving over to third, is another big factor in sen the Red- skins along the wa . should m:e a real fight for thé pennant in Olympic boxing class of 1924 so far has prodnced two world cham- plons, an unusu.! record and a reflec- | tion of no little credit uj the stocky | shoulders of Spike Webb, the Naval ' ,helped to de- | velop them. = The first was Fidel Labarba, winner |of the Olympic flyweight crown and | later the world championship in_this | division, although he has now outgrown it. The latest to climb the heights is Jackie Pields, featherweight winner in the Olympics, but now welterweight champion of the world .as a result of & recent victory over Joe Dundee at Otto Von Porat, the hard-hitting Norwegian heavyweight, was also an Olympic titleholder in 1924. {T'HE Big Four of Pacific coast foot | ball figure this Fall in the heaviest | slate of intersectional combat ever ar- |ranged for them. Southern California plays Notre Dame at Chicago and Car- negie Tech at Los Angeles. California | plays Pennsylvania _at Philadelphia. University of ‘Washington journeys to Chicago to meet Stagg’s Maroons. Stan- flg will entertain the Army. at Pslo In addition, Oregon plays Hawaii University at Portland before to Florida. Oregon State goes to Detroit late in November. ‘There will .be no fault to find along the big slope if the native sons do.as well t season as Stanford, Oregon did | Academy's coach, who State and Southern California last year in three of the principal East-West engagements. v YYTHO was the greatest southpaw ‘of all time? T put this question recently to Connie Mack, who has handled four of the greatest in Ruhe Waddell, Eddie Plank, | Robert Moses Grove and Rube Walherg. | Without taking any positive stand | s0 personal a dsbate, Connie, neverthe- less, seems to favor Waddell. “The Rube, when he was right, was a wonder.” sald Connle. “He had every- thing. He was big. strong and had'a world of speed. Plank, with his baf- fling cross fire, was one of the smartest pitchers of them all. Grove and Wal- berg are different types, both fine pitchers and both improving.” . LEXANDRIA, Va., September 9. “Lefty” Munson turned in one of best mound frac will ':okmpluz here Sunda; cas e the same diamond, i Althought outhit by the Vir- ginia A. C. tossers downed the Colum- Evo unton, Field sesterday to.sven [u; yesf to even the count in the series for thz amateur Munson of Naval Hospital ffi Gives Celiics But Two Hits Edward Duncan Pleld in Potomic yes- terday before a large audience. Jeff Williams, veteran semi-pro-star, who is coaching Del Ray this season, made his first appearance mond in nine years mno-iem k= ml&nfougnh In t‘ d held | one and. se nine will play ond game of its series dale L& C. for the m%um b x Sunday. The ged on Duncan Field. 'y Horne, former Alex: High School diamond.luminary, left last night to enroll at Washington-Lee’ Uni- versity, Lexington, Va. Horne will go into training with the Washington-Lee fre’;hmen {mun 'lnmedluely. orne pitched for' Hargrave Milif Academy at Chatham, Va: as one of