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Sports News Che b ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, APRIL 99 1930. Classified Ads PAGE C—1 No Double-Bill Bugaboo for Griffs : National League Hitters Go on Rampage SLAB STAFF READY FOR HEAVIER WORK - Seen as Peer of Any Other in Loop—Nationals Give | A’s First Licking. BY JOHN B. KELLER. PRIL showers bring May flowers and also promote May double- heading, but thus far the ex- cessive moisture of base ball's| early season has not hurt the Nationals | particularly. There have been but two postponements in their schedule, and the play-offs will be so well spread that the club's mound corps should feel no strain. Other clubs in both big leagues are moaning about many postpcnements | last week and wondering just how seri- ously the play-offs will affect their pitchers. So it seems the Nationals have had the best of the breaks to date That postponement last Friday of the game with the Athletics will be played as part of a double-header in the City of Brotherly Love on May 16. That of last Thursday with the Red Sox will not be played off until July 7, when next the Nationals visit Beantown. Not at all bad for the Johnson band. In fact, Manager Johnson believes his pitching staff is sturdy enough to with- , stand the strain of a string of double- headers such as are soon to come the ways of the Athletics and Yankees. He points with pride to a corps that in- cludes such likely looking young hurlers as Lloyd Brown, Bob Burke, Bump Had- ley and Ad Liska. He also is proud of the veteran line of Fred Marberry, Gar- land Braxton, Sam Jones and Myles ‘Thomas. Johnson regards his lot of slabmen as really worth while, much better than last year and capable of do- ing a_considerable amount of extra toil i such 1s necessary. This does not mean that the pilot would welcome more _postponements. Not at all. Idleness is not good for highly-conditioned athletes so early in the campaign. But the Washington field general does not fear his pitchers would be unable to shoulder the burden of Hadley Does It 3 S ol os0omrscosos> Bl munonacss? Bluege, 3b Ruel. €.... Hadley, b Totals . PHILADELPHL Bishop, 2b...... Haas, cf Cochtane, ¢ Simmons. 1f PPN 2 ol norounsood 2l ounFosous! Ehmke. D. “Harris. Mahaffey, p. OIS v s *Batted for Ehm Washington Philadelphia Runs batted in—Judge, Rice. Ha cronin 3). Hass (1), Tyo-base . Hadley. Myer. Rice. Double @l o0osmcourone® ol memmmmons® P PR | csoenmumessd g - = 5 o 2 o a8 dley, West, hits ~Haas ge. delphia, balls—Of adley, 2 off 'Ei Struck out—By Hadley. 2: 1 by Mahi innings; of pitch — Hadley. Earnshaw. Umpires—Van Graflan, and McGowan. Time of game—1 hour and 45 minutes. HOW THEY STAND AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Teams. W. L. Philadelphia ... Washington . Chicago Cleveland Boston . Detroit St. Louis New York YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. Washington, 6; Philadelphia, 3. Cleeviand, 6; Detroit, 1. Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 2'(10 innings). GAMES TODAY. Boston at Washington. Chicago at Cleveland. Detroit at St. Louls. Philadelphia at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Teams. w. New York double-heading. He looks upon his staff | gog as the equal of any other in the Ameri- can League right now and superior to some. OOSE work on the bases by Nationals irks Johnsn, and h> has issued orders that the runners must keep their heads up when moving about the paths. Too many through careless the pilot peints out, and he hopes to have the Nationals so well drilled in base running that catching them nap- ping will be no easy task. Last season ‘Washington’s players were not so snappy in this respect. Too often a runner of - the Johmson band was picking daisies when he should have been watching the pitcher, and frequently results were dis- astrous to the Nationals' cause. Those of the Nationals who have been too prone to wander off the sacks in an aimless manner are to be tutored carefully as to how they may protect themselves instead of leaving the pro- tection entirely up to a coacher at first or third base. Al Schacht and | ce Nick Altrock, who in their pitching | 9 days were expert at picking off too | daring runners, will assist the pilot in the tutoring. When the big boss and | his two hands are through with the | Jessons, pitchers of opposing teams | should find the business of Snaring' Washington runncrs off the bases | something difficult to accomplish. 'HIS Boston team in our midst for a three-day stay is an odd one. | On paper it does not look 5o strong. On the field, it frequently is not. Yet | it 15 a team quite likely to step out at | any time and give another a whale of a tussle. Manager Wagner has in his | command several clever curvers and while the Red Sox are not flashy on defense the pitchers with fair support are not easy to beat. Its a club worth looking over, despite its lowly standing | for many seasons. In Jack Rothrock and Russell Scar- ritt, the Hub olub has a pair of cork- ing outfielders and right good stickers. ‘Tom Oliver, outfield recruit brought up from the South, has yet to prove him- self in the big show, although he per- formed impressively during the Spring exibitions. Excepting Bill Regan, sec- ond baseman and a good one, the in- fieid still is experimental. Manager , though, was a great infielder is a clever teacher. If anything good is to be made from the infield material at hand he’ll have the Red Sox inner cordon stepping soon. 'HERE'S one memher of the Nn-i tionals Washington fandom _has | seen nothing of in the champion- ship season, but should he get his | chance base ball followers here will look | at a brilliant young player. Jimmy Me- | Leod is the boy. What a ball player. Brought from Little Rock last year after servnig but three months in pro- fessional base ball, this 19-year-old already is little short of being a mar- Vel afild and he promises to become a pretty good batter. Johnson thinks him the best-looking youngster the ‘Washington club has picked up since Ossle Bluege was grabbed from Peoria nine years ago. Nowadays McLeod shows his stuff only when the rescrve infielders drill, but it's worth getting oui to Griffith Stadium early to watch him perform. 7 NCCKING Irving Hadley to Guinea | N was onc of the casiest things the | Athietics did last year, so_their | over:hrow by the chunky Lynn hurler | vesterday in Philadelphia must have | jolted them severely. They set upon Jrving at the outset of hostilities as | though they would mak> short srift of | him, but the Washington slabman stuck | to his guns, and though at times his | marksmanship was wild he went on to | 2 6-t0-3 victory. Cincinnati Philadelphia . Brooklyn Marberry. 1 Brown ... ley Braxton . Thomas . L O'Farrell, Gial YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 8; Philadelphia, 6. Chicago, 9; Cincinnati, 1. Brooklyn, 15; Boston, 8. Pittsburgh, 6; St. Louis, 4. 'GAMES TODAY. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. New York at Boston. Cincinnati at St. Louls. Chicago at Pittsburgh. RECORDS OF GRIFFS BATTING. 2b,3b.HE SH. = ©0Omasa e BNt SB.RBLPet. 2 1.000 333 278 250 238 190 000 eou BEGEE LS an] W S e O ST ———— aesssmecomonuasH SnSasnerpastined 2000 Liska.... +000 PITCHING. In'ss Gam Comp, BB.SO. pltch.s tart.gam 2 2oz . Derry _"., Sheetug onon 000"y ennooal iska. By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Jackson, Giants Leach, Giants . i Bissonette, Dodge: 1 Comorosky, Pirates. Wilson, Cubs. Hartnett, Cubs... Beck, Cubs... Cronin, Senators. Kamm, White Sox Leaders. Simmons, Athletics. Cronin, Nationals Jackson, Giants. . Comorcsky, Pirates Allen, Reds League Totals. 1 National American Grand total Yesterday’s Stars By the Associated Press. Del Bissonette, Robins—Hit single, triple and homer to drive in seven runs as Robins beat Braves, 15-8. Hal Carlson, Cubs—Pitched Cubs to 9-1 victory over Reds, allowing only five hits Travis Jackson, Giants—Smashed out two home runs, drove in four runs, o help Giants whip Phils, 8-6. Irving Hadley, Senators—Scattered Athletics’ eight hits and gave them first defeat, 6-3. Ted Lyons, White Sox—Held Browns to five hits in 10 innings and tripled to start rally that won game, 3-2. Clint Brown, Indians—Held Tigers to five hits as Indians won, 6-3. Incidentally it was the first trimming of the campaign for the world cham- | pions in four starts, and the Nationals’ | win took much of the sting from the | shutout handed them last Saturday by | Mack’s maulers. [ Hadley allowed the Athletics just | eight safeties and distributed them among five innings. He also issued two passes, one in each of the first | two rounds, and uncorked a wild pitch He was exceptionally wild at the be- ginning. backing three Mack hits with a pass and the lurid chuck in the first session to give the A's a two-run get- away. Thereafter, however, the home side tallied only in the fifth, when it | clustered a single and a double. Irving was accorded snappy support through- | before Joe smote the ball into the lower | out, his teammates kicking in with lce two-way erasures. : The Nationals did their hitting at the ! expense of three hurlers. The gener- ally baMing George Earnshaw started against them, but he failed to last four innings. He was reached for three hits i and four passes. A safety backed a| walk to give the Nationals a tally in | round two, and a two-bagger by Had ley, an infield out and Sam Rice's rifice fly accounted for a tying marker in round three. George went bloofe in the fourth after Ossie Bluege's single followed Short- | stop Boley's boot of Joe Cronin's roller and walked three in succession to force over two runs that put Washington in front to stay. OWARD EHMKE, hero of the open- ing game oi the world series last Fall, rushed to Earnshaw’s reliet to make the out necessary to end the wild and wooly inning, but Howard got his in the next inning, the fifth. He was thumped by Cronin for a home run, and as Buddy Myer had doubled left-field stand for the second round- tripper of the season, the thump was good for two runs. RECRUIT, LeRoy Mahaffey, pitched the last four innings for the Macks. Off him the Nationals got three hits they did not use to make their total for the game eight. The Nationals’ hits | were of a healthy variety, too, six of | the eight being good for extrllbm: | wl 80850000000 ol 000050000 333 | profession has placed a pair of red- wl (9930 BC) BABE HIS is the first of a series showing how that mighty mauler, George Herman Ruth, has played an impor- tant part in the world’s history ever since the dawn of man. It is, indeed, an outline of Ruth, a pictorial history of the earth shaker himself, showing the one and only Bambino doing his stuff in the Stone Age, in the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance periods, and in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries, too. In the words of Shakespeare (or was it Gene Tunney?) “the hand that knocks the homers rules the world,” and so from time immemorial there have been clouters who have smacked the old apple harder than anybody else, and to me they are all just Babe Ruth himself, living in a different age and wearing a different kind of uni- form. No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time W] man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehis- ! MONG the most interesting around Washington is the BY WALTER R, MeCALLUM. phenomena athwart the bun- kered landscape immediately amazing way in which constant prac- tice with implements of their chosen | headed gents in the professionals’ shop | at the Chevy Chase Club at the very peak of a crowded line of labor. We refer to Bob Burnett and Gene Larkin, professional and assistant pro- fessional at the Chevy Chase Club, who between them hold the two important titles among the men of the mid- Atiantic neighborhoed who have gone to golf as a means of livelihood. And in particular we refer to Barnett, who last year instituted a regular regimen of practice which has brought what was an ordinary golf game a few years back up to the he.ghts where the sorrcl- thatched Chevy Chase mentor is just about the most consistent performer along the rough-fringed fairways we have ncar the Capital. Barnett is the match play champion of the Middle fillamlc Professional Golfers’ Associa- jon. Larkin is the open champion of Mary- | land. Between them they hold the two most important local titles in this sec- tor of the bunkered land. How has it come about that these two golfers have | risen above their professional associates in this neck of the woods in the short space of a year? | So far as we can gather, it comes | from an idea which had been running | along in the mind of Bob Barnett for many years. This idea was that if he took sufficient time to practice, he | could become a far better golfer than if he went along on the hit-and-miss path, hoping natural genius would as- | sert itself. Bob took himself in hand | last Spring and set for himself a rigid system of practice, vhich included at least an hour a day on the tee—fic- quently two hours--and permitted him | v:“filay for pleasure two afternoons a | Larkin Follows Suit. So convinced was Barnett that such a scheme of practice would do the job that Gene Larkin took up the same | method. Day in and day out, rain or | shine, in high winds and in no wind, | this pair of i)rofossmnnls pursued their rigid schedule, right on through the cold blasts of Winter and the heat of Summer. Today they hold both the major professional titles about Wash- ington. and today Barnett is just about the most consistent scorer inthe ranks of the paid mentors hereabout. From | wooden clubs right on down through | the list of irons to the putter, Barnett |and Larkin have practiced, hitting | | thousands of golf balls until they know today just where their shots are going. We recall a similar progression of | skill which brought to a former Wash- | ington professional a national open championship. Tommy Armour, who came to this country as an amateur from Scotland in 1920, rated as just another good amateur until 1924, when he turned professional and began_the career of assiduo practice, which landed him at the top of the profes- sional ranks in 1927. Tommy was a 8ood amateur, but he didn’t go any- where in the amateur ranks in this country. Only after he, became a pro- fessional and gave himself over to se ous and consistent practice did he be- | come the great golfer he is today. And | Tommy Armour today believes so sin- cerely in the virtue of constant prac- | tice that not a day goes By does not | hie himself out to the practice tee for an hour’s confidential session with his clubs. Tommy Armour’s iron shots are among the classics of the game, the model all professionals try to emulate. He didn't acquire that skill by an oc- | castonal friendly round of golf. There is no doubt in the minds of Barnett and Larkin, and those who have watched their steady progress, that the constant regimen of practice they have | Insisted upon has played a major part in their rise in the ranks of profes- | sional golfers. If professionals need practice and are willing to put them- Ruth Throughout the Ages. SOCHS THE FIRST HOME RUN IN ALL HI: 3 e D RAsSIC PANSIES mmmmmmwwnmx%zsm.m Ju ot —By Murray 51 toric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops. Well, it seems that the tribes ruled over by Ugly, son of Ug, was at war with the tribe led by a mighty warrior named Bam, and after throwing rocks at each other for several years it got 50 there was only one rock left (must have been Fred Stone!), so they de- cided to have a ball game with it. Now it came to pass that Bam, otherwise known as Babe Stoneclub, came to bat in the ninth inning with the score tied and the umpires threatening to call the game on ac- count of darkness. The pitcher for the tribe of Ugly shot over a low curve which Bam tipped off his bat and into the valley below. “Fowl bawl,” yelled the umpire, “I didn’t know Phil Scott had been invented yet,” chortled Babe, at which three Tryannosauri laughed themselves sick. Then came the next pitch, right down Bam's alley, and he walloped that rock so hard that it wasn't until 11,860 years later—1930 A.D. to be exact—that learned scientists discovered it float- ing around in space and labeled it “Planet X.” STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE might not amateurs who hope to get somewhere in golf adopt the same theory? RS. ALMA VON STEINNER of the Beaver Dam Country Club to- day holds the Phylls Keeler Memorial golf trophy, won by her yes- terday in the annual tournament at the Washington Golf and Country Club in a manner that left no doubt of her right at the top of the 55 women who competed ingthe annual classic. In addition to winning the chief prize—that for low net—with a net score of 78, Mrs. Von Stelnner spread- eagled her field to annex the low gross honor “also. However, she elected to take the net prize, which is the Keeler trophy, and the gross honors went to Mrs. Hugh T. Nicolson, the District women'’s champion, who' played from scratch and scored 90. Mrs. Von Stein- ner's name will be engraved on the scroll in the club house as the winner of the trophy. The winner was out in 44 and back in 43 for her winning card. Mrs. Wil- liam E. Hall of Washington finished second in the net event, with a card of 96—14—82, Three players, Mrs. Mc~ Cook Knox of Chevy Chase, Mrs. Everett Eynon and Mrs. William . Corby of Columbia, finished in a tie for third net, with cards of 86. EMBERS of the executive commit- tee of the District Golf Associa- tion are to gather at the Congres- sional Country Club tomorrow as guests of Dr. Bruce L. Taylor, president of the association, for a round of golf and dinner. A meeting of the committee will be held following the golf, at which the application of a local club for mem- bership will be considered and several other matters will be acted upon. OHN C. SHOREY, Bannockburn amateur, and his brother Mel, East Potomac Park professional, shared honors with a Baltimore pair in the amateur-professional tourney staged vesterday over the course of the Roll- ing Road Club, near Baltimore, by the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers' Association. The Shorey brothers tied with Ernie Caldwell, amateur, and Warner Mather, professional, with' cards of 73 for the round. The Shorey brothers were put- ting poorly, having no fewer than five three-putt greens. Charlie Betschler and Irvin McCourt of Rodgers Forge, had a 74 to win third place. A. L. Houghton of ~ Harper and Howard Erench, spolled their score by a trio of s on the last nine, after hav out in 36. it TesEn Scores of the other Washington en- trants were: George Diffenbaugh and J. W. Harvey, Indian Spring, 78; Tony Sylvester, Bannockburn, and M. F. Mc- Carthy, Beaver Dam, 81; Gene Larkin and Comdr. J. K. Richards, Chevy Chase, 75, Walter Cunningham and Clyde ‘B. Asher, Burning Tree, 77; CIift McKimmie and Charles Cole, 77; J. M. Hunter and J. M. Hunter, jr., ‘Indian Spring, 75; Al Price and Roger Pea- cock, 77; Al Treder and Harry G. Pitt, Manor, 78; A. B. Thorn and Morris Simon, Woodmont, 79; Sandy Armor and Page Hufty, Congressional, 76; Bob eve v AL erly Mason, Chevy 'OLFERS from the high schools of G Washington were playing today in the interscholastic championship at East Potomac Park. A small field of young- sters started early this morning and | were to play 36 holes for the title now held by Francis Horton of Central. |BOROTRA IS DEFEATED BY LOW-RATED PLAYER BIARRITZ, France, April 22 (#).— Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup tennis veteran, was beaten, 3—86, 6—4, 8—6, in the semi-finals of the Biarritz tournament yesterday by Raoul Rodel, No. 16 in the French ranking. With Henri Cochet out of the French champlonships May 19 and perhaps absent from Wimbledon, and Rene La- coste out of tennis altogether, the de- feat of Borotra increased the gloom Which has been settling around French | selves through such a course of sprouts, | lennis headquarters the last few weeks. MANY CLOSE SHAVES DUE IN THIS LEAGUE Ak | Sandlot base ball players must appear on the field these days with the old locks trimmed and the whiskers shaved. That is, if they would keep with the nines which are being sponsored by various barber shops around town. ‘Tonsorial establishments are sponsor- ing ball teams this season as they never | sponsored them before. Several shops of teams representing them, and the | members of these nines invariably are | barbered to within an inch of their| lives. As a result the barbers are getting some advertising and members of the | teams doubtless are getting some free | hair cuts. Olmstead Grill Seniors is one of the newest nines hereabout. It will play in the Capital City Senior League.| Snitz Nau is managing the team which | will drill tomorrow on Monument | diamond No. 5, and meet the Miller nine Sunday on the St. Elizabeth | Hospital diamond. Games for Saturday and Sunday are wanted by . the Spengler American Legion Post nine with midget or junior | 0548. teams. Call Decatu Manager Cole’s Rockville A. A. tossers are after games for Saturday and Sunday with unlimited opponents to get in shape for the Montgomery County race of the Capital City League which starts May 11. Challenges are being handled at Rockville 231 during | the day or at Cleveland 3051 after 7 pm. Victory Post diamonders who were to meet Vermonts this afternoon on the West_Ellipse at 3:30 o'clock will meet tonight at 1336 D street northeast. Games have been arranged by Phoe- nix A. C. with District Grocery Stores nine for Wednesday and District Repair Shop for Friday, both to be played on Monument diamond No. 1 at 5 p.m. The manager of the Anacostia Kagles is asked to call Lincoln 8433-J between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday. ALEX SMITH’S DEATH GREAT LOSS TO GOLF By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22.—Golf has lost one of its finest teachers with the death in a Baltimore hospital of Alex Smith, great Scottish professional. Although a great competitive player in his prime and twice winner of the national open championship, Smith's fame in recent years rested on his abil- fame. Pro at the Westchester Country Club for many years, Smith's puplls in- cluded Jerome D, Travers, four_times amateur champion, and Glenna Collett, four times women’s champion. Born in Carnoustie, Scotland, 52 years ago, Smith came to the United States in 1898, and was runner up in the na- tional open of that year. He was run- ner-up in the 1901 open, losing to Willie Anderson in a play-off and runner-up again in 1905. He finally won this event in 1906, with his brother, Willie Smith, second.” In 1910 he won the tiile again at the expense of still another brother, MacDonald Smith. The championship that year ended in a triple tle between the Smiths and J. J. McDermott. In the play-off Alex Smith won with a 71. He played in his last open in 1915. Funeral services will be held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. C. Cary, at Rye tomorrow. DANCE TO AID BOXERS. To raise funds to help pay the ex- ! penses of its boxing and 100-pound District A. A. U. champion basket ball ity to teach the game that won him |- Big League BASE BALL Backing Up Third BY AL DEMAREE. (Former Pitcher New York Giants.) “If I had backed up third base I would have shut out Pittsburgh to- day, Mac.” I said to Manager Mc- Graw of the Giants one day. “That's right, Al and it will cost you $25 for failure to obey my or- ders.” A pitcher should make it a habit to always back up home plate and third base on all throws from the outfield. He is absolutely of no use PITCHER BACKING UP, PLAYS AT THIRD. SAVES fi PITCHER MosT BACK UP PLATE ON ALL THROWS FROM QUTFIELD - A LENATES— to himself or anybody else standing out in the middle of the diamond om throws to third and home and often by retrieving a wild throw or a ball that gets away from a third baseman he saves a run that would otherwise score. If there is a wild ‘throw from outfield to the plate, by backing up the catcher he stops the hitter or other runners on the paths from taking an extra base. He can usually anticipate the bases Wwhere the throw will be made either to_catch a runner or head him off. ‘When backing up a play don't “shake hands” with the baseman or ~ catcher, but be well back of him, from 30 to 40 feet. Otherwise you will not be in position toe judge a wild throw. (Save this Big League Base Ball Series, another will appear Friday.) A free leaflet on “Pitching,” pre- pared by Al Demaree, former New York Giant pitcher, will be sent to any reader sending a stamped, ad- dressed envelope. Send it to Al Demaree in_care of this paper. -« Copyright. 1930) DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE WILL OPEN ON MONDAY Play in the Departmental Base Ball League will open Monday on the North Ellipse with Government Printing Office and Agriculture meeting at 5:15 o'clock. | Treasury, District of Columbia Repair | Shop and Commerce are other teams in the loop. Bureau of Engraving was unable to muster a team. SETS BOWLING MARK. teams to Mount Vernon, N. Y., May 3 to_meet boys club combinations there, | a dance will be given by the Boys’ Club in its gym May 2. ! WHEN IT'S GOT THE STUFF... Shooting a 159 game Tony Schuman last night set a new Bakery League rec- ord at Convention Hall. MAKE 90 SAFETIES IN FOUR CONTESTS Nine Homers Figure in Scor- ing of 64 Runs—Different in American Loop. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. ITCHERS have been grabbing the headlines so often this base ball season that National League batsmen have found it necessary to take them down a peg or two. ‘Weary apparently of reading accounts of two and three hit games, batters in the four games of the older circuit yes- terday grasped their bludgeons firmly, took & toehold and blasted out 90 safe hits, nine of them home runs and tallied 64 times. The day's batting honors went to the New York Giants, who smashed out 14 safeties, including four for the cir- cuit, to beat the Phils, 8-6, and chalk up their fourth successive win without a defeat. Travis Jackson, Giant short- stop, hit twice for the circuit and Fred Leach and Bob O'Farrell each con- tributed one homer to the common cause. The Phils hit Bill Walker hard, but could not bunch their 11 safeties to enough advantage to offset the Giants' powerful slugging. ‘Wilson, Hartnett and Beck hit homers as the Chicago Cubs whipped Cincin- nati, 9 to 1. All told the Cubs col- lected 14 safe hits off four Red pitchers, while Hal Carlson set down the enemy with five. Del Bissonette was the big noise in a 16-hit attack the Brooklyn Robins launched against the Braves to win, 15-8. Bissonette drove in seven runs with a homer, triple and single. His homer and triple each came with the bases filled. Adolfo Luque pitched steady ball for the Robins, but had to retire in the ninth when a line drive from Sisler’s bat hurt his pitching hand. ‘The Braves got 13 hits. In_the other National League fray, the Pittsburgh Pirates made good use of their seven hits to beat St. Louis, 6-4. The Cards collected nine safeties, but Brame was _effective in the pinches. Comorosky hit for the circuit in the second inning. Clint Brown, rookie pitcher, held the Detroit Tigers to five hits and Cleve- land won without trouble, 6-1. The In- dians batted around in the first inning, scoring four runs on five hits, Ted Lyons was the whole show as the Chicago White Sox nosed out St. Louis, 3-2, in 10 innings. Lyons held the Browns to five hits and scored the win- ning run in the tenth when he tripled and came home on Ernie Smith's bingle. Alvin Crowder also pitched well, lowing only seven hits. Willie Kamm hit for the circuit with one on in the seventh. The Yankees and Red Sox had an open date. JAPANESE ARE LEADING AUSTRIANS IN NET PLAY VIENNA, April 22 (#).—Japan won all three matches in a serles “with | leading Austrian tennis players. | Ohta and Sato, Japan, defeated Her- | bert Kinzel, jr, and Erwin Bolzano, | 6—8, 6—0, 6--2, 3—6, 6—0, and Harada and Abe, Japan, conquered Franz Matejka and Hermann Artens, 7—! 6—2, 3—6, 5—7, 6—2. | In singles, Sato defeated Hans Eisler, 7—5, 6—4, 6—3. Japan leads in the series with four victories to one. 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Here is the interlocking grip that Ouimet popularized with his memor- able victory over Vardon and Ray in the 1913 United States open, a win that did much to popularize golf in the United States. Gene Sara- zen also used it and won the United States open of 1922 at Skokie when employing it. Note how the little finger of the right and the first finger of the left hand interlock. Hence its name. This grip never has proven popu- lar. T have heard that Sarazen has tried to break away from it, but without success. Golf students re- siding in Masschusetts have told me that it is the cause of Ouimet's failure to come through since he won the United States amateur in 1914, as it is the reason for his cost- ly hooked shots. Be that as it may, few are the pros who teach it. The claim for it is that it gives better leverage. But leverage, ac- cording to Ernest Jones, is not a factor in golf. Speed of clubhead is the reason for distance. Let's take one more look at the overlap grip in tomorrow’s article. The new illustrated leaflet on “Putting” will aid you in your game. It is free. Address Sol. Metzger, in care of this paper, and inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. (Copyright, 1930.) MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Coiutibus. 3 “Colurabus, 3. Louisville, a Milwaukee-Tndiunasolis, ais: SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Chattanooga, 5: Little Rock, 4. Memph! s, 7; Nashville, 5. Birmingham. 10. New' Orleans, Atlanta, 12: Mobjle, WESTERN LEAGUE. Des Moines, 5; Wichita. 4. Benore 8t R ¢ e, 4; Oklahoma’ City, 1. 6; Topeka, TEXAS LEAGUE. Dallag. 5: Wichita Palls. 3. Eort, Worn, ¢ ghrevenore. 2. th. aumont. aco, 4. San Antonio, 3. 12; ‘Houston, EASTERN LEAGUE. Allentown, 10: Providence, BllEaeT 1 ukgay. g & Hartior eld, 0. ew Haven, dgeport, 3 (13 innings). SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Montgomery, 7. Columbus, 5. Selma, ensi Tampa, 12—6; Jacksonville, 9—8. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Columbia, 9; Charlotte, 3. Asheville, 9 Augusta, 1. Macon, 20; Greenville, 6. COLLEGE BASE BALL N. Y. U, 5; Georgetown, 4; (10 in- nings). 5 William and Mary, 4—6; Princeton, =2, North Carolina, 9; Davidson, 3. N. C. State, 3: Wake Forest, 0. o