Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 41

he b ASHINGTON, ‘D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1930. 'WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION w ening Sfaf. - at Pinch-Batters Hit for Only .063 : Mackmen LONE SINGLE MADE BY GRIF RESERVE West Has Best Record of f Sub Swingers—Bengals | Down. Nationals. BY JOHN B. KELLER. M LD base ball sharps declare | that in emergencies in at-| tack a club is no stronger than its reserve. Lack of utility players with fair batting strength is a handicap to a club trying to get somewhere, might hit nearer the mark. When the pinch comes the ball club must call on all it has, and when that all fails to produce time after time | it is just too bad. Recent emer- | gencies have found the Nationals | woefully weak in reserve battmg} talent, and this weakness has had something to do with the loss cf four of the last five games by them. Thus far the pinch-batting depart- ment of the Washington club has been of little help As to_hitting, it boasts an average of only .063. As to its mem- bers getting on the runway, without erasing a player already on, its aver- age is somewhat better. For that it shows a rating of .167. Eighteen times this season the pinch- batting department of the Washington club has been called upon in emer- gencies. One time only has it produced 2 hit. Sam West once singled after icking up George Loepp's bat. West, E, the way, is the only one who has served as pinch-hitter who has reached first without sacrificing a runner. In addition to singling, he has walked twice immediately after taking a team- mate’s place in the batting order. W Seven players have been used as|B pinch-batters. They are Red Barnes, Jack Hayes, Benny Tate, Bill Barrett, George Loepp, Roy Spencer and West. Barnes has been up six times, Hayes three times, Tate twice, Barrett, Loepp | B and Spencer once each and West four Haze times. Barnes has forced out a runner twice, | T, grounded out once, lofted to the outfield once and had a third strike called on him twice. Hayes has drilled into one forced-out, hoisted to the outfield once and grounded out once. Tate has grounded out and watched a third strike go by. Barrett has put up an outfield fly, Loepp an infield pop, and Spencer has whacked into a double play. ‘This makes West's record look pretty good. Getting to first three times out of four when handed another fellow’s bat gives him a big edge over the other members of the Nationals' pinch-bat- ting department. NOTHER player has been turned back to the Nationals by a minor club, but if he reports here, he very likely will not be made a member of the pinch-batting department. He is Paul Heidelbach, right-hand pitcher sold conditionally last October to the York club of the New York-Pennsylvania League. He was with the Nationals ~nlv a short time last season, having beeu purchased late from the Gadsden club of the Georgia-Alabama League. Heidelbach did not show enough to warrant York turning over the remain- der of the purchase price to the Wash- ington club, so President Griffith now Is casting about for another minor berth for the pitcher, 'OOSE GOSLIN'S batting slump has dealt the Nationals a serious blow. He has not been hitting since the Ath- letic_series, when he pounded the ball to all corners of the lot. In the last seven games here the Goose has col- lected but four safeties, to give him an average of (148 over the stretch. All told, he has been to the plate in the seven games 32 times and has reached the runway nine times. In addition to his quartet of hits, Goslin has drawn three passes and been hit by the pitcher twice. The Nationals need the Goose's hitting. When he is in stride he is the big punch of the club. He is trying everything he knows of to shake off the slump, but usually getting back to hit- ting form takes a deal of time. ! A GAINST other clubs in the Ameri- can League the Tigers were not so impressive, but they showed the Na- tionals enough yesterday to bag a 3-to-1 victory in their first appearance of the season here, ‘They had pitching and defense, things they had not had in other games, according to report, and they had just enough punch to over- come the Johnson band. For six innings the game was a splen- did tussle between Elon Hogsett and Lloyd Brown, left-handers both, but in the seventh the Tigers, who had been restricted to five hits in six innings, mixed a trio of singles with an error by Loepp, to stake themselves to a 2- run lead. The Nationals immediately got _back 1 of these tallies, thanks to doubles by Brown and Loepp after two were out in the home seventh, but the ‘Tigers countered by nicking Brown for & single, saorifice and double in the eighth for another run. That ended the scoring for the game. 'HERE was a parade of pitchers to |4 the hill after Brown and Hogsett left. Garland Braxton relieved Brown in the eighth with two gone, and Carlos Moore pitched the ninth against the visitors. ‘The Tigers got all their 10 hits off Brown. Moore, by the way, was impressive as & finisher for the second successive day. Hogsett was lifted in the eighth when the Nationals threatened to knock the gmp! from under him. They reached im for two hits and he went to the showers, leaving two on with one out. ‘There followed a quick shifting of De- troit hurlers due to Manager Harris® efforts to prevent any good coming from Manager Johnson'’s juggling of pinch-batters, Johnson sent Barrett up to bat for Ruel, expecting Harris to have Page, & Jeft-hander, relieve H tt. Instead Harris sent in Herring,-a right-hander, 80 Johnson yanked Barrett and picked West. A walk to Sam filled the sacks and Tate was sent in to bat for Brax- ton. Harris countered by lifting Herring and rushing Page to the box. Johnson withdrew Tate and substituted Spencer. And Spencer drilled into a double-play. When the Nationals got gay with Page in the ninth, he passed out leaving two runners on with one gone. Sullivan, # rookie right-hander, came on to have Barnes bat into a force-out and to throw a third one by Cronin. URING the fray the Nationals got | eight hits, were handed six passes and had a batter hit by a pitcher. The Tigers also were charged with one error. On three occasions the Johnson band had as many as two on the run- way at once and twice they had the bases fllled. But it had no punch in such pinches. Thirteen runners stranded ls the story of the third defeat in a Fow. ! SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. 1Wo sames sched MANY ON; FEW OVER Page. p.... Sullivan, “Unle ... tJohnson . Totals “Batted for Stone in t tRen for Uhle in the seventh. WASHINGTON. cepp. cf. .. ce, 1. Haves. 2b. Cronin, st Judge. ‘1b Bluege, 31 Totals *Batt Det: roit ... Washingion Runs _batted in—Uhle, Loepp, Brown, Two-base hits—] Stolen base. Funk. Doul to Judge. Haves to Judge. ed for Ruel {Batted for Haves in the AB. 5 Rice, e P iexander. Cronin to Myer to Gehringer to Alexander. Cronin Cronin to Judge to Blues to Rogell nger to 2] omooouuwstssss sl 2| ooronusumenma: in the e wl so000mass0mmene 3| srooomuosssmummnit s b1 8l sos000mnscnmmand 5 he sevent £ o nl ooos0n0000000000 L =l ooscoronnroosun B o 22 oo 7F °s Py = - 01 to_Cronin, to, Genrt Left on bases—Detroit. 4 15—Of roLamsaanDacsiS2EE22233,3 £ Marberry B U e T [ETOROI S R i it [Uprrorery P ) cunrswilond B Sos000000monoumRoI-a. By the Associated American Batting—Cissell, Rice, Senators, =acoeSiaal T Sullivan, 0 7%_innings; [PRSpeeey 005000900 - m-BanaaBEiENy! Press. t. innin m % 0 in 1 eossseoaesconioncasharnil atsdostonsoassaiactimal) & o°s00009000000uaruumus oronucmaunil League. White Sox, and Runs—Bishop, Athletics, 21. Runs batted in—Simmons, Athletics, 6. 26, Hits—Oliver, Red Sox, 28. Doubles—] “Triple Red Sox, 3. Stolen M Red Sox, 9. in, Senators, and Regan, Home runs—Simmons, Athletics, 5. bases—Rice, Sena us, Tigers; Cissell, White Sox, and bs, Yankees, 3. tors; National League. Batting—P. Waner, Pirates, .500. v Robins, 18. Herman, Robins, 21. Robins, Runs—Hermal Runs batted Hits—Frederick, Doubles—Flowers, Robins, and Dout- hit, Hafey, Cardinals, 8. Triples—Suhr, Pirates, runs—Jackson, ome He Klein, Phillies, 5. Stolen bases—P. Cuyler, Cubs, 5. | Sandlot Base Ball ‘Waner, RESULTS. LEAGUE. ‘Terminal—Washington Terminal ern Railway Government—Navy Yard, 5; Interstate, Church - Eldbrooke, 15; Baptiat, 2 partmental—District of Colum| pair ‘Shop, 6; Government Printing q ). Industrial—W. B. Hibbs, 10; Tile Set- Georgetown INDEPENDENT. 1, 6. Whi; Underwood. 1. Crandall Midg inds, 3; Rem ets, 12; ‘Walker Chapel, 8. 13; Regls, 5. n{,lom. 12, ‘ruxton, 11. GAMES SCHEDULED. Government_ League—Union Ggernment Printing Office, today, South League Treasury. today, North Industrial ‘Western Electric. Georgetown Chi copal_vs. East Ellipse, West. 15, By the Associated Lengu: today, ure imes ' Bakery _vs. West Ellipse, 5:15. e agu hintton Bap Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Boley, Athletics Haas, Athletics. Simmons, Athletics Goldman, Indians . Grantham, Pirates . Lazzeri, ‘Walker, Giants Yankees Kamm, White Sox. Berger, Braves ... The Leaders, Jackson, Giants Klein, Phillies .. Simmons, Athletics .. National American . Grand total MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, St Paul 4 Ind Toledo, 9; Kansa: Cojumbu it tanapolis, 1. iiwaukee,’ 3. 3, 5. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Jacksonyill 8: Montgomery, 3. 5. Golumbus, 0. ola, 4; Tampa, 3. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. : A 1 ‘A‘lhlvllll‘ ’6 con, ; Gre Columbla, 10: TEXAS LEAGUE. iehif 3 it i 36 IN HAND BALL EVENT. ‘Thirty-six mfl ‘compet; iy ball unity Center. toe wesk, 032 McManus. epp. McManus. Sacrifices—} A 8 1 in- &, off P off_Braxton, 006800008 -oouEEabsatul Giants, and Pirates; bis. omce, 6 Printers Agriculture vs. 15. in the an- ol sossasousscorma® w| 2000950050000 5l cocsonmumenasco® | s2050059000000-" 10-3 001 3 Rox Wash- inning; inning’ 23 Soommwmang - Me- First Re- ve. ul today, ent of Play No3 HAVING FIXED (P Hg. “HEe GReeC HERO, oy RLEY HORSE, Ao Ru™ , Rours THE ENI SINGLEHANDED IN THE SERIES oy S WITH THE TROTANS, HE third episode in this out- line of Ruth concerns the Greek-Trojan world series, which proved to be quite a Homeric contest, It seems that a Paris-bound champion named Helen had been carried off to Troy, N. Y., and the Greeks challenged the Trojans to a game with the fair Helen as the prize. Led by King Agamemnon, who played (and also sang) second base, the Greeks took the trip by boat to the walls of Troy, where the big series was to be played. Now the Trojans were not coached by Howard Jones, but by a foxy old gent named Priam, a spitball pitcher, who had seen better days, but still had a few victorles left in the old soup bone. Hector was the big noise on the Trojan nine, while Achilles, sometimes called the Sultan of Swat, was the clouting king on the Greek team. All the neighbors and their chil- dren came out to see the big battle, and yelled themselves hoarse shout- ing encouragement to their favorites —*"Attaboy Agamemnon!” “You know me, Mars!” and “Oh, Minerva!” etc. Harry Stevens Bacchus went around dispensing soft drinks, while Tobaccus sold smokes. The fans were much amused at the sight of Janus, the two-faced deity, eating an ice cream cone with one mouth and a hot dog with the other, To make a long story short, Babe Ruth Achilles had had a row with Agamemnon and wouldn't play; just sulked in the dugout. So Hector, the big Trojan, was getting all the glory, when the Greek board of strategy thought of the bright idea of putting in Patrochus_as a pinch hitter, wearing the Sultan of Swat's uni- form. The psychological effect was fine at first, but soon Pat died on first and then Achilles went into the game to avenge his friend. Bambino Achilles hit a terrific sock that nearly knocked the per- centage columns out from under the Trojans best temple. “Foull” yelled Zeus, the umpire. “Lyre!” yelled Apollo, who had a bet on the Greeks. Here Jupiter Pluvius intervened and Odysseus, Greek shortstop, was near- ly drowned trying to steal home. Standings in Major Leagues American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. trojt, 3; Washini few York. 4; Chic isdelphia, 4; St. tox, 18; Cleveland, 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. 3 (12 innings). National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 9: Plttsburgh, 1. ST ago. riln. Other ‘clibs mot scheduled: STANDING OF THE CLUBS. H E H E “RI0K MIN | 01111 61.647 | Chicag: 132171 7.500 Brooklyn Boston Cincinna B -1 6111.353 Philadelphia. 1. 01 31 11 11 31..1..I—I 6114.300 Bt._Louis 5151 61 71 81 9I11T4I—i—| Games lost... GAMES TODAY o Cleveland at New York. t. Louis at Philadeiphis, roft at Washingto Base Ball Mark Goes In Card-Robin Battle ST. LOUIS, May 6 (#).—A mod- ern major league record was broken and & National League record equaled in the second game of Sun- day's bargain bill between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers. ‘The new market was set when the Cards and the Robins went to bat officially 103 times, the Dodgers with 52 and the Red Birds with 51. The all-time_record was made June 9, 1883, when the Boston and Detroit Nationals batted 110 times, but the more recent record was 99 times be- tween the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds on June 9, 1901. ‘The National record, which was equaled, was by the Red Birds em- ploying 22 players, the same as was used by the Phillies against the Cards on September 16, 1926, and by the same club against the Dodg- ers May 17, 1920, SAKS DIAMOND SQUAD WILL TOIL TOMORROW Dick Mothershead’s hustling Saks base ball team will drill tomorrow eve- ning at 5:30 o'clock on Monument Dia- mond No. 4. Saks will engage an old foe Sunday when it hooks up with the Diamon Cab outfit on the East Ellipse at 1 o'clock. Last season the team met three times and on each occasion the Dia- 5/ mond nine was a winner by one run. Two of the games went 13 innings. The year previous the situation was just the opposite with the Saks boys taking the measure of the taxicab team in several hard-fought matches. Blaeholder May Settle Troubles With Browns ST. LOUIS, May 6 (A).—George Blaeholder, holdout St. Louts Browns hurler, is likely to sign & contract before the week is out. He reopened negotiations with Phil Ball, Brownie owner, last week and is now reported en route to St. Louis from his California home. Accord- ing to Ball, Blacholder was offered $5,000, the same as last year. and 1000’ bonus if he held strictly to training rules in the original con- tract, but later the document was T a0 sei .n!ll-':hzlu&‘:?-o'uked to Ball also said proe b Blaeholder was automatically sus- mmvhnhehmdwm'fl Browns within 10 days after NINES MUST HUSTLE TO GET INTO LEAGUE ‘The zero line is near. Sandlot base ball teams wishing to join the senlor, junior, midget, insect and peewee classes of the Capital City Base Ball League must do so by to- morrow night. That's the dead line, say league officials. Only teams which have posted their franchise money by tomorrow midnight will be included in the schedules. R. J. Atkinson, league secretary, will receive applications for entry and franchise fees in the Post sports de- partment. D. C. Repair Shop and G. P. O. put on a hot 6-to-6 five-inning tie in the Departmental loop. Hibbs got off to a 6-run lead and was never headed in the Industrial League, winning, 10 to 4. Buck Grier’s Northern A. C. team will meet St. Elizabeth’s Hospital tossers to- morrow evening at 5 o'clock on the lat- ter’s diamond, and Sunday will journey to Alexandria to meet St. Mary's Celtics on Baggett's Field at 3 o'clock. Comet Peewees downed Hornets, 13 to 6. Pitcher Pillsbury and R. Glocker were | the brightest performers for the winners. Victory Post tossers are seeking a d | game for tomorrow at 3:30 o’clock and one for Sunday at 11 o'clock. Manager Kleindeinst may be reached at Lincoln 3667-J after 5 p.m. Lloyd Brown Insects are after players and games. Call Cleveland 5025. Acme junior tossers will meet tonight at 1316 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and will face Lionel Juniors Sunday at 3 o'clock on the West Ellipse diamond. Roamer Seniors have changed their name to Holy Comforter Seniors. The team will gather tonight at 343 Tennes- see avenue northeast, and will hold a benefit dance Thursday night in Holy Comforter auditorium. Yesterday’s Stars By the Associated Press. Horace Ford, Reds—Hit triple and three doubles, drove in 4 runs and scored 2 as Reds trounced Braves, 10-6. Vernon Gomez, Yanks—Held White Box to five hits and beat them, 4-1. Bill Walker, Giants—Held Pirates to six hits and smashed homer with bases filled as Giants won, 9-1. Al Simmons, Athletics—His fifth homer of the season in twelfth inning enabled A's to whp St. Louis, 4-3. Milt Gaston, Sox—Stopped In- g{::&'n wmnirx,:g streak ng(h st;;ren-hlz pe ince, bing 143 F an ingenius and elaborate wind- up will help a pitcher win ball games, Paul Bryan of the Wash- ington Terminal club will turn in a lot of victories. Any one who wants to climpse a good imitation of a windmill in a 100-mile- an-hour gale should trek to the Term- inal » Ball Park some day when Bryan is slated to pitch. An unsuspecting passer-by may be amused by what might very easuy be mistaken for a new step in the St Vitus dance, but to the Southern Ral way boys there was nothing funny about Bryan's “windmill” wind-up. Bryan’s pitching motions propably can pe best described as the determined effort ot a player 0 tie himself into a knot and, faiing by a close margin, throws the ball irom whatever posiuion he happens to be in at that moment. ‘The siartled and perhaps hypnotized batter may see the ball coming up to him propelled by an arm which aimost wouches the ground, or the sky. Anyhow, from the second inning on, even though Bryan was relievea by rom Rennie, who is a close rival when it comes to motions, the Southern bat- smiths swung about 45 seconds betore the ball was ready to be delivered. Southern Railway was able to get only two bingles and as a consequence 00K a 9-to-0 beating. So upset were the Railway players by their inability to fathom the weird ac- tions of the two pitchers that they were unable to do anything in the way of defense, either, except to show how strong their throwing arms were, Judg- ing from the way they threw the ball against the wire fence that surrounds the field and the grandstand, there are no sore arms in the club's roster. ‘Take the third inning, for instance. Right Fielder Collier of the Terminal nine hit a grounder to Second Baseman W. Snelling, who gracefully let the ball g0 through his legs. M. Snelling, tak- ing the cue from his brother, picked up the ball in center fleld and threw it against the wire fence. The ball was recovered and thrown somewhere in the general direction of third base where it again bounced off the fence, allowing Collier to round the bases on what should have been an easy out. HEVY CHASE CLUB golfers have reached the fourth round in the competition for the French High Commission Cup for men, although only one of the survivors of the first two rounds has played his third- round match. The balance of the third- round contests were scheduled to be concluded today, with R. P. Whiteley to meet John Britton; C. A. Fuller to clash with Harrison Brand, jr, and W. C. Crane to meet Dr. T. M. Foley. Here are the complete results of the tourney to date: Pirst round—R. P. Whiteley (14) defeated iral M. M. Tayior (12), 4 and 3; H. P, ht (16) defeated L. B. P) hn Britton (1) defeated C. V. Whee! £ McGrew_(13) defeated . B. Poe (18) ed G. E. : Maj, J. H. Hinemon j. Walter C. Gullion (11). 3 Brand, Jr. (15)_defeated t (15), 2 and 1: I J. Carr W. C. Crane s g 5 et and 3. Harrison 3. 83 1) a bye: ed A'S W Knauss (18) drew a bye: Emmons 7) drew a bye; E. O. Wagenhorst (17) drew a bye. Second round—Whiteley defeated Wrigh! 1 up: Britton defeated McGrew. 1 up: Full defeated Poe, 3 and 2: Brand defeated mon, 4 and'3: Crane defeate: 27 holes: Foley defeated Ri MacFariane defeated Kna defeated Wagenhorst, § Third round—Ma 2 and 1. The tournament committes of the Chevy Chase Club has been enlarged for the forthcoming invitation event, which will be held next week over the splen- didly conditioned course. The committee now consists of the following members: Robert Stead, jr. chairman; Irving J. Carr, A, McCook Dunlop, Comdr. F. 8. Craven, George E. Elliott, Richard P. Davidson, C. Ashmead Fuiler, W. Jasper Du Bose, Emmons S. Smith, jr, and Ross D. Thompson. The tournament is open to members of the Chevy Chase Club and invited guests, and entries will close with the golf committee next Sunday, when pair- ings will be made and announced im- | mediately. The event is to start on Wednesday, May 14, with a one-day qualification round, to b= followed by the conventional four —match play roux;(ds on Thursday and Friday of next week. For the last two years Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club has won the tourna- ment defeating Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia in_the final both years. The winners of the Taft Cup include many famous names in golf, including Walter J. Travis, Walter R. Tuckerman, D. Clark_Corkran, Roland R. MacKenzie and George J. Voigt, Glenn 8. Spencer, the gargantuan hit- ter from the Maryland Country Club, nosed out a fleld of the best profes- sional golfers from the Washington and Baltimore sections in the 36-hole sweep- stakes tourney staged by the Middle At- lantic Professional Golfers' Association yesterday at the Congressional Country Club. Spencer turned in a 36-hole card of 72-70, which is 4 under par, to lead A. L. Houghton of the Harper Country Club by 2 strokes. J. Monroe Hunter of Indian Spring finished third, missing a 4-foot putt on the thirty- sixth green to tie with Houghton for second money. One stroke back of Hunter, who led at the end of the first round with 71, Spencer played the first nine in the afternoon in 35, getting back 4 strokes from Hunter, who was out in 39. Spen- cer continued his steady golf over the final nine, turning another 35. The 35 over the back nine included a birdie 2 on the short sixteenth, where a lengthy putt found the bottom of the tin and a birdile 3 on_the thirty-sixth, where Houghton and Hunter both missed short ones. Hunter's trouble cam e—strangely enough—on the long holes. In the aft- ernoon he took 6s on the first, eight and twelfth, all of which he should play well because he hits so far from the tee. Hunter's rounds were 71—74 51425. 1\'hfle Houghton's scores were 72— —144. Robert T. Barnett of Chevy Chase had 74—75 for a 149 total, while Alex Armour of Congressional, who has 72 in the morning, took 78 in the after- BASE BALL ;7024 AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK WASHINGTON vs. DETROIT TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. Bryan’s Wind-Up Amuses Some, But Not Railway Nine Hitters STRAIGHT OFE THE TEE Third & b dete T: | prine) defeated M Comics and Classified PAGE D-1 Tie Indians for Lead in Race One of the queerest cases on record | is that of Walter Curtis of the Navy Yard nine. Curtis is known to sandlot fans as a “Sunday ball player.” When he plays on Sunday, Walter usually | connects for more than his share of | base hits. but when on week days in | the Government League, his work is| only mediocre. If he could only stretch | his imagination and make himself be- | lieve that every day was Sunday, he| probably would lead the league in bat-| ting. Willie Andrews’ National Circles, who were to have merged with the Mount Ranier team, are to play again under the name of Natlonal Circles. Mount Ranier fans expressed dissatisfaction | over the non-participation of local players of that ninc which Willie An- drews _was asked to manage this sea- | son. Willie brought some of his Circle players to- Mount Ranier, and while | they compiled a creditable record in | the games they played, the surburban | fans have asked that the team be al- | lowed to retain its original players in the Prince Georges County race this year. Andrews is booking. games at | Lincoln 9892. | Navy Yard, by virtue of its 5-to-3| victory over Interstate, is tied with | Naval Hospital for the runner-up po- sition in the Government League. kid- | brooke showed lots of power at bat in swamping First Baptist, 15 to 3, in the Georgetown Church League. District of Columbis_ Repair Shop and the Government Printing Office nme battled to a 6-to-6 tie in the De- partmental League game. The Government League will provide the big attraction for fans today, with the Union Printers and the league-lead- ing Government Printing Office play- ing. The Typos, despite their slow start, still rule as one of the favorites | Either Mal Simons or Hutchinson will | pitch for the Printers, while Bob Lyon is expected to toe the slab for G. P. O. In the Industrial League, the Holmes Bakery team will meet Western Elec- tric. ~ Agriculture and Treasury will hook up in_the Departmental League | game and Grace Episcopal will tangle | with West Washington Baptist in the | Georgetown Church League. All games will start at 5:15, noon for a 150 total. Twenty-four pro- fessionals played. Entries for the coppetition for The Evening Star trophy will close with Mrs. Frank R. Keefer, president of the Women's District Golf Association at noon next Saturday. Nearly 40 entrants already have sent in their names. Play | will be at Indian Spring Monday and Tiesday. There will be no entry fee and five prizes will be awarded. The course of the Indian Spring Club will be open for practice Friday morning. Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia not only won the qualifying round in the miniature tournament of the Women’s District Golf Association at Manor yesterday, but annexed the first fight as well. She scored a 26 for the six-hole medal round and then de- feated Mrs, Perry B, Hoover of Indian | Spring in the first flight final. | ‘Winners of the other flights were as follows: Second flight—Mrs. 8. P. (Colum- bia) drlelt!d' M’l’;i H. ; clo(‘rlu‘)?{lylcgl::}!";- Sionat): 1 flight—Mrs. Everett Evnon lCo\u‘. -~ ated Mrs. W. Corby (Columbia\ i | ackeried BT By Sirdes Eolummien. | by_default Fifth flight—Mrs. Jerome Mever (Wood- mont) defeated Mrs. H. K. Cornwell (Colum- bia), 2 and 1 Sixth flight—Mrs. J. F. Gross (Indian J. L. Fieser (Washing- J. O. Rhyne (Ban- d Mrs.'W. A, Foraker, 1 up. fiss L. N. Claytor defeated B Letis, 2 up ght—Mrs, Granville Fortescue de- feated Mrs. P. D. Peyser. 3 and 2. Tenn Aight—Mrs. K, J. Kane, ., defeated a dy, 2 jeventh flght—Mre. H. K. Beck defeated Mrs. Barrett. 3 and Half the fleld of nearly 200 players in the Woodmont invitation tourney start- ed their qualifying round today, with the other half scheduled to play tomor- row over the fine course of the Bethesda clth. Match-play rounds will start ‘Thursday. PREAKNESS HORSES FAIL TO IMPRESS By the Associated Pre: BALTIMORE, May 6—Several Preak- | ness candidates made poor showings at Pimlico yesterday. In the Rennert Handicap, a 6 fur- long sprint, Sweet Sentiment, the Preakness chance of the Seagram stable, ran ninth and his stablemate, Sun Craig, was still further back in the ruck. In the Worthington, a mile and 70 | yards, closer to the Preakness distance of a mile and_three-sixteenths, Wood- craft, the Audley Farm’s feature hope, led Crack Brigade, Thomas Cassidy's Preakness bet, by a neck. Michigan Boy, the John L. Pontius Preakness candidate, ran third, and Desert Light, the Fair stable entry, was in fifth place. The time for the Worthington was 1:44, with Woodcraft carrying but 108 pounds. pounds. Swinfleld, one of Walter J. Salmon’s entries for the Preakness, has done a mile and an eighth in a workout in 73-5. Crazy Coot, the H. P. Whit- ney stable, did three-quarters in 1:23. Whitney and Salmon each have saddled three winners of the Preakness in re- cent years. The Preakness, a $50,000 event, will be run Friday. on). 1 up. Seventn flight—Mrs. nockburn) defeate Eighth_flight— .. DE MAR WILL RUN HERE. Announcement has been made by of- ficials of the District A. A. U. Associa- tion that Clarence De Mar, outstanding marathon runner and winner of nu- merous races, will compete in the A. A. U. national 15-mile championship jaunt to be held here June 7. VETERANS' BUREAU WINS, Veterans' Bureau scored over Treas- ury in a 7-to-5 game in the Colored Departmental League. REFERRED BY MEN | WHO KNOW STEEL—PRESCRIBED BY THOSE WHO KNOW FACES— | TRY THE HIGH-QUALITY | N E VALET AUTOSTROP SRRl BLADEI Big League BASE BALL Double Steal Defence BY AL DEMAREE, Former Pitcher, New York Giants. Probably the most difficult play to break up in base ball is the double steal. Runners on first and third base, with second base unoccupied, present more opportunities for com- plications than any other play in the game. The generally accepted way of stopping the play is outlined in my cartoon. When E, the catcher, sees D, the runner on first base, start, he throws to second base to head him off. C, the second baseman, cuts in front of the back of the pitcher and watches A, the runner on third base. B, the ¥ RUNNER ON THIRD Poes NOT START IN, SECOND BASEMAN > LETS CATCHERS = (X _THROW GO THROUGH = shortstop, has covered second base. If the second baseman sees the run- ner on third start in to the plate, he cuts off the catcher’s throw and re- turns the ball to the catcher, catch- ing the runner at the plate. If the man on third does not start, he lets the throw go through to the shortstop, who touches the runner from first. ‘This is a play that takes continu- ous practice, and while theoretically , it i s successful. Some catchers “bluff” their throw to second on this_play and then throw to third. Others throw to second and the pitcher cuts off the throw and returns it. A free leaflet on “Pitching,” pre- pared by Al Demaree, former New York Giant pitcher, will be sent to any readers sending a stamped, ad- dressed envelope. Send it to Al De- maree in care of The Star. (Copyright, 1930.) DERBY CANDIDATES IN TESTS YESTERDAY By the Associated Press. . Woodcraft, Audley Farm, won Worth- ington purse over mile and 70 yards in 1:44, at Pimlico. T. M. Cassidy’s Crack Brigade was second, J. L. Pontius’ Michigan Boy third and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt's Desert Light also ran. Ned O, Buck Foreman, ran second to Phillip in Hennert Handicap at Pimlicc, with H. P. Headley’s Ante Bellum in also ran group. Winner stepped six fur- longs in 1:121-5. PHOENIX SEEKS GAME. Phoenix A. C. base ballers, who have a field, are after a game for Friday. (GJB;}) Lincoln 8433-J between 4:30 and :30 p.m. Wethered Plays the Run-up With Midiron BY SOL METZGER. Roger Wethered, crack British amateur golfer, may prove to be Bobby Jones’ chief stumbling block in both the impending Walker Cup matches and the British amateur championship. He plays the run-up quite differently from most top- notch golfers, Most use a No. 5 iron, the newer name for the old mashie. Roger executes it with a midiron, thus in- suring a low trajectory. That is necessary when one wishes the ball to run far after alighting. Perhaps it mav be the easier way for you to improve this part of your game. We'll see in going over Wethered's method for this type of shot in the next few articles, You see, if you use such an iron you have to make certain allowances as the club is longer and otherwise different from the mashie. “I'm helpless when it comes to long iron shots.” How many times have you said this? Address Sol Metzger, in care of The Star, and ask for his free illustrated leaflet on “Long Iron Shots.” Be sure to inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Once Used With Fair Mind THEN YOU'LL KNOW QUALITY. And Means—Always Used. =g 2* £ N FOR ALL HANDS P dealer refuses you. We mail Fwe 16-03. cans for 28¢ (Inc. Postege.) — I W 4 Sall Os, FPallgn P The W. A. Shall | GRAB SIXTH N ROW WITH FOUR HOMERS | Defeat Browns in 12th as E Red Sox Swamp Tribe by an 18-3 Count. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. ONNIE MACK'S Philadel- | phia Athletics have over- come the spotty rlay that marked their early season efforts and vaulted back into the lead in the American League race. Al Simmons’ fifth homer of the sea- son enabled the A's to register their fifth successive victory at the expense of the St. Louis Browns yesterday, 4 to 3, in 12 innings. It was the sheer power ather than the continuity of the cham- pions’ batting that beat the Browns. | Lefty Grove, A’'s ace southpaw, was | pounded for three runs in the first two innings, but Joe Boley hit two home runs and Mule Haas one to tie the score by the end of the sixth in- ning. Five and one-half innings of scoreless base ball followed before Sim- mons broke up the game. Grove went the route for the A’s as did Alvin Crow- der for the Browns. Victims of a vicious batting attack at Boston, the Cleveland Indians fell back into a tie with the Athletics for | the league lead. Four Indian pitchers | were pounded for 23 hits as the Red Sox _won, 18 to 3, and snapped Cleve- land's winning streak of six straight. | The game was decided in the fifth in- ning when the Red Sox fell on Hud- lin, Shaute and Miller for nine runs. ‘Milt Gaston allowed the Indians seven scattered safeties. | Vernon Gomez, Pacific Coast League recruit. gave up only five hits as the New York Yankees won their third | straight game from the Chicago White Sox, 4 to 1. Willle Kamm's home run in the second inning accounted for the White Sox's only run. Red Faber shut out the Yanks for six innings, but they fell on him for three runs in the sev- enth. Lazzeri hit for the circult off Caraway in the eighth. In the National League the New York Giants went back into first place with a 9-to-1 triumph over the Pitts- burgh Pirates. Bill Walker was the whole show for the winners. He gave up only six hits, one a homer by George Grantham, and hit for the circuit, with the bases filled, in the fourth inning. Cincinnati pounded Burleigh Grimes for six runs in the first five innings and easily beat the Boston Braves, 10 to 6. | After tallying once in the third inning, | the Reds fell on Grimes for five runs |in the fifth. Boston came back with | five off Red Lucas in the first half of |the sixth, but the Reds put the game on ice in their half with four runs off Brandt. Horace Ford had a great day at bat with three doubles and a triple. St. Louis and Brooklyn had an off day and the Chicago Cubs played only one inning of their game with the Phillies before rain halted hostilitics. Inci- dentally it was the first postponement the Cubs have had since the season opened. CLAIREMONT RACKETERS CAPTURE LEAGUE MATCH Clairmont scored over Kann rack- cters, 5 to 2, in a Capital City Tennis League engagement. The winners took five of the six singles, but lost the lone | doubles encounter. | Summar Singles—s! (C.), deteated Brown. 6—4, & g (C), deflated Be: et 7 © Rosafy (KJ, Brien. 61, 6—4; Wassman (&), & & Vest (K. dete " man, 28, . defeated defeated ed G. b |2 SONNENBERG SAVED BY FLYNG TACKLE By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 6.—Gus “Dyna- mite” Sonnenberg, former college foot ball player, today attributed another wrestling victory to his application of flying tackles learned on the gridiron. Sonnenberg, who claims the world heavyweight ~wrestling _championship, defeated Everett Marshall of La Junta, Colo., two out of three falls before 17,- 580 fans at Wrigley Fleld here last night. Marshall’s side-stepping and straight aiming proved a good defense, and he won the first fall. Sonnenberg caught Marshall with a flying tackle and took the second fall. A little later Sonnenberg's flying tackle alldb{flarshlll on the floor for another mble. MAT BOUTS THURSDAY. 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