Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1930, Page 18

SPORTIS. LEADERS SERENELY AWAIT BIG SERIES Hadley and Liska Held Out|®% of Set With Yankees to Annoy Champions. BY JOHN B. KELLER. EW YORK, N. Y, May 20— With the important series| with the Yankees tucked N away, the Nationals are looking forward to the tussling with the Athletics due to start in Philadelphia tomorrow. Well they might for the four-game set with the world champions to be| ushered in with a Memorial day | double-header will give Mack's minions an opportunity to under- mine seriously the first-place gosmon now occupied by the Na- fonals and one may be certain that the Philadelphia represent- ative in the American League will battle desperately to seize the op- portunity. However, the series also will afford | the Nationals an opportunity to| strengthen themselves considerably in their berth at the head, and right now with the pennant bee buzzing around them they feel prepared to battle it out with any contender for the league lead. A chipper bunch is this Wash- ington club at present. It believes in itself. It no longer stands in awe of the A’'s as it did all last season. | Bowling over the world champs seven times in nine attempts has brought about a remarkable change. The Nationals do not overestimate their strength. They are far from being overconfident. But they firmly believe their pitchers are better than | those of the A’s, at least at present, and that they are likely to outgame the A's. Outgaming a club that made so many winning finishes last season may sound | odd, but it has been noticeable this | season that the A's are not so peppery when trailing. 'HAT the Nationals might start the series tomorrow with the kind of pitching that has been distasteful fo the A's, Irving Hadley and Ad Liska were kept out of action in the series with the Yankees here. These are the hurlers who upset the world champs in a twln bill ln Philadelphia not so In the first part of the upset Hadley gave the A’s 10 safeties, but only six were made off him in the first seven rounds. It was his second win of the campaign over them. In his third start, though, for once he was lifted after ylelding four hits and as many passes for three tallies in six frames. Braxton Telieved, to get the victory. In the second part of the recent up- set Liska gave the A’s but three safe- ties and shut them out. It was his pearance . He had once relieved Jones and hurled two innings. Since that double-header Hadley and Liska have been in one game each, and each has gone a route to victory. They seem in fine trim now and ought to give good accounts themselves sgainst the A's. NE of the plichers Connle Mack |is will send against the Nationals tomorrow is Robert Moses Grove, re- nowned left-hander. Grove has started twice against the Washington club this season. The first time he had to retire after several innings of good work and the Nationals ran away with the game ‘when Connie set his second stringers on the slab. The second time was in n recently, Then Grove got 1-t0-0 decision over Brown, despite the latter’s fine hurling that yielded | (. the A’s but three hits. Incidentally, it Yesterday’s Stars By the Associated Press. Walter Stewart, Browns—Won seventh glme of season, holding Tigers to six its as Browns won, 4 to 2. Pat Malone, Cubs— Relieved Guy Bush on mound in sixth and held Reds to 1 hit in 2'; innings, Cubs winning, 5. Socks Seibolds, !nvu—ahned and completed his game, defeating Phlmu. 5to1l, Ior his seventh victory f_season. Wlllcer Berger, Braves—Hit eleventh home run of season to help Braves de- feat Phillies, 5 to 1. BALL SERIES MEAT FOR EASTERN HIGH Wins All Games Decisively to Take Championship Third Time in Row. I : school base ball title without the loss of a single game, humbling Western, 13 to 4, was clearly the class of the series. The Light Blue captured all its games in decisive style. In addition to the victory over Western the Lincoln Park schoolboys drubbed Tech, 23 to 4; Central, 21 to 5, and Business, 13 to 6. In all departments Eastern presented clever performers, though it was in pitching, catching and the infleld that its strength was most pronounced. In Dick Lanahan, slim southpaw, and Bob Snyder, catcher, the Light Blue had a nifty battery, one that was by far the best of the series. Bennie McCullough, little first-sacker, was a consistent per- former, both offensively and defensively. | Lyman McAboy and Danny Kessler, who alternated at second base and ristop, also put up strong games, though Kessler's flelding was .somewhn erratic, and Toby Taylor, third baseman, did well. Jimmy Hayden's work in the outfleld was of high order but the other Eastern gardeners did not show so much. ASTERN, which yesterday won its third straight public high Wins Twelve in Row. Yesterday’s win marked the twelfth l.u&:nt in diamond championship com- for Eastern. The Light Blue hogged the diamond spotlight and it will have a good nucleus at hand again next Spring. the first two innings against Western. ‘The scholastics from out Georgetown way struck back to come within a run of lu.stem at 5-4 in the fourth but in its half of that frame Guyon's team tallied three runs and then added three more in the seventh and two more in the eighth to lock-up the &ehlan. As usual the Eastern bats lustily -nfl ofleeuvely cCullough and Bernie Smith, reserve outfielder, each clmlwd for the circuit for the & runner on eac] " Snyder also xo_tn’l' daubh and m dulu. Millar, Hayden.rf.. ...m-......u..t suencomesume | 3| cunosoreSaand 2| sooosoommmun® PO oemunsond L o o (2), McCullough foonan, Smith ( i :rron.—l(mler. was only the second time in his major | MCA league career that Grove had full route against a wunmzum HILE it would be great to sweep v.hn four games with the A’s or e three of the four, the Na- fionnuwmbelnnflmmmm!orthe start of their initial Western tour of the campaign if they get nothing more than an even break. To date only the Nationals and the Yankees have mauled the world cham; the Western s find the they have in . At any rate, Shey are not likely to make any better showing than the Nationals in the far sector. Should the Washington club return home the latter part of June in first place and with as much ad- vantage over the Athletics as it now bolds it should be very much in the pennant running to the finish of the Tace. ’s minions will AIN and cold forced the postpone- ment of the third game of the series with the Yankees the local management announced, but when they made the announcement a half hour before noon yesterday it was not cold or had it rained much. In the after- noon there was a heavy shower that would have prevented a meeting, but when the Yank management called off hostilities for the day there still seemed a good chance to swing into action. ‘When the home club isn't lnl s0 well, however, therea little delay in post- poning a matc] Lack of hur]ers has the Yank man- agement worried. In his pre-season pitching alignment Shawkey figured on Pipgras, Hoyt, Sherid and Wells to carry the burden. So far Pipgras is the only one of that quartet who apnears sble to go a complete game. Out of the 35 games the Yankees have played this season only five have been finished by the same hurler that started them. Not the sort of pitching that will keep the ‘Yankees in the first division, let alone a contending position. 'RECTION of bleachers in the right and center field of Griffith Sta- dium is contemplated by the owners of the Washington club. A stand that would shorten the right fleld foul line about 35 feet may be built. Not only would the stand add several thousand cheap seats to the plant, but it also would afford a fine rlrklnl place for drives propelled by eft-handed swingers. Seems as though all clubs are going home-run crazy these EMERSON'S NINE BOWS TO BUSINESS HIGH, 10-9| Business High diamonders today are boasting & 10-to-9 victory over the stal- ‘wart Emerson team. A home run by Outfielder Bill Flynn with two on and two out in the last| inning enabled the Stenogs to down Coach Sanborn’s charges yesterday in & game which went only five innings. ‘Two other Business boys, Chase and Risley, also hit for the circuit. The score: Business. ABH.OA Bch'der.zb. mum it Emerson o > O 2 51 oommaommmel ol escsonsnon® Summormaol BmMmono ooo000000! T : *Batted for Emerson Business ,.Son' s | Sovde: Sacrif 8n; but probably during :";"" going et rougher than | the East. Turnd i axtin, 5, Umpiree=Mr. W. Watt. FINAL sERIES STATISTICS. Team Sta THE EVE The High “C’s.” ALTER CHRISTIE is one of the best track and fleld coaches in the world, but his University of California teams, which once ruled the country for three consecutive seasons about eight years have not been successful of late. i) The fact is that track has suffered uite & slump at Berleley. ‘where Sir alter has ruled the roost as men- tor for 30 seasons, but those who are in the know will agree that Christle has worked miracles with the mea- ger material that has come his way. Hlnfliclgfid by a poor track as well h school athletes to work on, and by the fact that the tre- medous interest in foot ball (includ- ing smx practice) in recent years, has killed a great deal of the for- mer interest in running, jumping and weight throwing, Walter Chris- tie has done wonders with the raw mm-lal he has had and has devel- oped more stars than many other eouhel would have done under the NG _STAR, WASHIN anfs Hold No Brief for Mackmen : —By Feg Murray same discouraging conditions. Christie was a successful athlete for 26 years, first as an amateur ball player, then as an amateur and professional runner. He was an “iron man,” no foolin’, making money in every event in the program but the pole vault. He ran 100 yards in 10 seconds literally “hund of times” and once stepped off 200 in 19 2-5. ‘Two of Walt's stars for the last two years have been Emory Curtice and Ken Churchfll javelin throw- ers etraqrdinary. If a coach hu one athlete who can throw the close to 200 feet he considers hlm.elf lucky, but Christie has develo) two lads who are consistent at ti distance. Curtice, who was captain of the team in 1929, has s record of 204 feet 1 inch, made in winning the California intercollegiates on May 16, at Pola Alto. Churchill’s best heave is t & foot farther, made in meet with Stanford in s beat 200 feet to ‘ast make a clean sweep. javelin throw in the 1929 I. . A. A. meet, CA Full Sandlot Schedule Carded For First Holiday of Season ANDLOT base ball teams here- about are looking to a big day tomorrow. A flock of games are booked for the first holiday of the campaign. Many of the contests will be staged in nearby Maryland and Virginia, Chevy Chase Orlys and District Grocery Stores nines will have it out in s doub!e-he-der on the Chevy Chase playground, starting at 1:30 o'clock. Diamond Cabmen wfll out to Be- the firemen’s bfll starting at 1:30. o'clock. 'l'he cnbmen were forced to go 14 innings before conquering Be- thesda last season. Diamond players are to report at noon at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue. Nearby Virginia teams will clash at Va., when Vir- Pl B ‘Roads, trn, | ginia White Sox and Park Lane teams fhy a bargain day card, beginning at :30 o'clock. The Sox have booked Co- lonial A. C. of Alexandria for the Bal- leys Cross Roads fleld Sunday at 3 o'el Foxall A. C. will entertain Palisade | A. C.at 3 o'clock on the Foxall diamond. In the Palisade line-up are several play- ers who formerly played with White Haven A. C., Foxall's bitterest foe at one BY FRANCIS E. STAN., IRLS will be boys! | Those fair rooters who turn out Sunday after Sunday to cheer for Brooke Grubb's Sil- ver Spring Giants may be sorely tempt- ed to voice their partiality for the New York Bloomer Girls when these unde- Spring field Sunday at 3 o'clock. The men, of course, will redouble their efforts in the cheering section. It would never do for these Bloomer Girls to win, yet the Glants had better watch their step, for these young ladies play a snap- py brand of base ball if advance press notices mean anything. T is unfortunate (n a financial way) that this rare novelty of boys vs. girls must come on the same day the game between the league-leading | Nationals and the Athletics at the local | | | there'll not be many empty seats in the Silver Spring Park. HE female champs come here her- alded es having quite an array of sluggers, featuring “Babe” McCut- tun, Toots Andres, Ethel Condon and Eveiyn Lynch, the latter & Washington girl. Again we must warn the Giants to | look outt ESLEY McDONALD'S Interstate team had been going along in the Government League almost un- noticed, while the other four teams, | rated as much superior by the so-called Exp!ru, were busy bumping each other off. But in the ninth inning of their game yesterday with the league-leading G. P. O. team fans woke to the real lon that if Reese Hair, Interstate pitcher, could retire the next three batters, his team would be tied for first place. Two unfortunate errors by Second Baseman Rittner of Interstate in this inning lldbd G. P. O. to put over the necessary three runs to end the game in a 7-to-7 deadlock. | port Hair would have pitched In- terstate into first place. Frank Corkins started for G. P. O. and retired in the fourth after the McDonaldmen had G Jacobso: ) 5—P. R arner. i col jome_runs—Flynn, K, Snase '.Blnmk out—By Buscher, 3; by scored their seven runs off of him. Bob Lyon, undoubtedly the best south- feated champions appear on the Silver | y,, ball orchard, but is a safe bet that | time. As a result the game has attracted more than unusual interest. Phoenix A. C. will meet the Damas- the Montgomery are asked to house at 1 p.m. e for Sunday. tween 4:30 and 240 Tenth street Call Lincoln MIS-J 6:30 p.m. or address southeast. Pick-Ups From the Sandlots scoreless inning, although 10 of the 21 batters to face him got on base. Lyon also singled twice in two times up, his base hit in the ninth with two out starting the three-run rally. 'ODAY’t! feature in the week day leagues will be the Pullmsn-Wash- ington Terminal game. A win for Pullman will virtually assure it of first-half pennant in the Terminal ague. The other big attraction will be the Navy Yard-Naval Hospital contest. Navy Yard, although out of the race, put the Union Printers out of the run- ning, and may do the same with Naval Hospital, though Sailors are favored by many to win the first half. —_— THREE HOLIDAY GAMES IN CAPITAL CITY LOOP Three Capital City Base Ball League games are scheduled tomorrow. Colonials and Kensington Firemen are to face at Wheaton, Md., at 3 o'clock in a Montgomery County section game of the unlimited class, Olmstead Grill and Miller Furniture nines are to meet in the senior class and Lionels and Spud Colemans in the insect division. King's Palace and Pontiac A. ©. nines are to face at 3 o'clock on Plasa field. A game has been listed between Holy Comforters and Michigan Park Seniors for Henderson's fleld, Brookland, at 2 pm. Columbians and Holy Name Insects |by are to have it out at 1 p.m. on the Phoenix fleld. Earnshaw Peewees after catcher. Call Joe Hnnley, ‘West 0097. Northwest Cardinals will trek to Indian Head to meet the Cardinals there in a twin bill, getting under way at 1:30 pm. Card players are to gather at Wisconsin avenue and Hall Pplace at 10:30 a. Boys' Club Optimists and Insect nines will drill tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at Third street and Missouri avenue. Georgetown Midgets and Peewees will hold a diamond meeting wnmm at 7:30 o'clock at 3506 T street. De Molay tossers are after a for Sundny Lincoln 4386. el A contest with an out-of-town nine for tomorrow h wlfln by the Shady Oak team, an, Lincoln 8136, atter 6 p.m Lionel Midgets seek a contest for to- morrow at 1 o'clock on their diamond. Adams 0485, Results of games yuuredny' War College, 18; Medicos, 6 Naval Hospital, 7; i Beamen uunnm, 2. | DeBstart & Saia, 7; Disrict A i LY, 7. Monarons,_5. 28 ENTER SPEEDBOAT EVENT AT SENECA, MD ‘Twenty-eight have entered the s boat regatta to be held tomorrow a: ter- noon at Seneca, Md., under National Outboard Association rules. ~Entries | 5 must be in by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning_ at Seneca. There will be six races, the program starting at 1:30 o’clock. The entrants: Mac Phebus, Benny Grove, Buddy Hahn, Charles Plerce, J. Paul Delphy, Franklin Shipley, Oliver H. Kieffer, Dorsey Shipley, Dr. J. M. Baxter, G. Ralph Kline, John Locke, Medinth Painter, John B. Landis, Toad Bargtls, Durk Hoffman, Nig Grove, Carol Murray, Joe Pasderski, Maurice Unglebaurer, Pete Engle, Ray Kieffer, Lute eBall, C. E. Hahn, Bruce G. White, Edgar Frank T, Smart and G. C. Graff. HYATTSVILLE‘- METHODIST NINE LISTS TWO GAMES|¢ 29— (¥ HYATTSVILLE, Md., Ma Hyattsville Southern Methodist base ballers will play tomorrow and Saturday on the Riverdale fleld. They will en- |4 gage a combination assembled by Carl Frey of Beltsville tomorrow at 4 o'clock and Plerce A. C. Saturday at 3 o'clock. Charlie Plozet is slated to pitch for the Methodists tomorrow, with Morris Flory and Manager Vernon Clarke ready tc hurl Saturday. Standings in Major Leagues American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 8t. Louis, 4: Detroit. 2 Other games postponed, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. National League YESTERDAY'S l.lll'l.‘l‘L HE combination of Hair and Mudd | Sleve worked well, and with better sup- T Pittsburgh ool 81 1/ 4|11 11 71 0119116548 Ghicago__ 41 30 41| 1| 1[ 4] S/80/19].61: New_York -oc. 0] 31 3] 3 31 11 61111181486 —ove oo L O 41 311 4i—1 1[_3118(161.468 .1 110 81 31 30 Si—| 731141331.389 3| 2( 11— 1120 388 Lyl 3 'l'olulm '?T‘;”" ToMoRROW GAMES TODAY. oAh;l TOMORROW. . Y. at Brookiyn, ton. BineisGot seneduied. an ¢ B 8. Landis, Willlam D. Bowers, | E: | “Frightfully Lucky to Win”, Says Jones ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON 38 MOTORS TUNED FOR GRAND ROAR Greatest Field in History of Indianapolis Race Goes Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. NDIANAPOLIS, May 20.—Roaring motors, scheduled to bark their battle cry at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tomorrow in the eighteenth annual 500-mile auto- mobile race, were given their final in- spection today by their 38 drivers and mechanics. ‘The track was closed for & chemical bath intended to remove all the oil that has dripped from the cars during the last 30 days’ practice period. Following a drivers’ meeting late today, however, was a likellhood that the boys would be given a chance for a few final tuning spins. ‘The 38 cars which qualified for the event mark the largest field that has participated in a 500-mile race since 1911. For many years the racing au- thorities limited the number to 33, but the expansion came with the elimina- tion of the supercharger and the pass- ing of the single-seater spdeester models. Qualifying trials, which began last Saturday, ended at sundown yesterday. xl‘ht drivers put their hopefuls through their paces on the final day to swell the fleld to its unusual proportions. Two Foreigners Compete. America's foremost speedway drivers, & host of youths who have won their way into major racing through dirt track training, and two foreigners— Baconi Borzacchini and Letterio Cuc- cinotta of Italy—will compete for the $115,000 cash prizes. Loule Meyer, American driving pion; Peter De Paolo, wllb\lr Shaw, Shorty Cantlon, Lou Moore and Billy Arnold, who rode to recognition by Zi'lotlnf ‘his mount faster than any other y.m-monlbhonln'.hemu AN sty Enown throughout the racing world because of feats of the past. Never in the history of American automobile racing has there been such a varied collection of cars for one major contest. The lifting of the 9115 cubic inch piston displacement limit this year brought in all types of four, six, eight and 16 cylinder creations. Where some of the veterans stayed with the conventional racing car—Ilong, narrow and low-hung—others departed into new fleldl‘ ‘Two cars, which are virtually stock, and are equipped with their large sports model bodies, will pit their mnuc power and sturdiness against the spidery creations of others. L. L. Corum, Indianapolis, eco-winner with the late Joe Boyer of the 1924 | race here, will drive one of the cars. Pete De Paolo, one of the most color- ful drivers in America and champion in 1925 and 1927, will tool & medium-sized job with an eight-cylinder motor near- ly three times as large as that he had lyn.ruo. annnmlnn.-mm xhe same a5 in 1920 to four times as large. Iarge Keech’s Car in Race. New cars and old ones, rebuflt for this battle of miles, will face the mmr at 10 o'clock tomorrow mmlfi example, last ich the late Keec] Frank hmer of Philadelphis, and Dave Lewis’ old tmn drive—the first to be run in modern racing and which finished ueon! I.II 1925—will be under guidance of Willlam (Speed) Gardner of Pittsburgh. Cars will be lined up three to & row, with Arnold, by virtue of the fastest time for the 10-mile qualifying trial— 113.268 miles an hour—in pole po- sition. Others will follow in order of the s} they made and their order of qualifying. HAYDEN OF EASTERN TOPS HIGH BATSMEN With an average of .625 for the four ames Jimmy Hayden, right fielder of three-time champion Eastern High nine, led in batt: during the title base ball series ended yesterday. Up 16 umu Hayden got 10 hits, He scored five runs. Catcher Bob Snyder, also of Eastern, Was runner-up, socking at a .608 clip. Eastern's team b‘mn‘ average of 431 wu easily the highest. e figures, 2900000020000000000005009H000HE00500000000-HE00000800000000005 E T ©00H509900000H000000a000000NOOIOHHNOHOHOHOOHOOHHOOONHOHNOOHO0OH NS I P St e = A DI OO OO MO0 A AUNE R A O IARR WA ES RO Ws B WS 0o Do Thomas ( Fletcher (W) Thompson (W, Cumberl'd (C. Singman (B.). «.......,.._g“._a.-,. 09901000000500H-0HOB0000HE000H0BOHEOOHIHEOI-UOHONH N INesooool o D OO R A e A 300 D 0 O 0D O R A TN 1 AT BN W S 0 15 Sas et o3 e 283 poe 283 vomand 5 a2 352353 s, 8 POTOMAC ARCHERS HOLD SPRING MEET TOMORROW Potomac Archers will hold their an- nual Spring tournament tomorrow morning at the Polo Field in Potomac Park. Shooting will start at 9:30 o’clock. I. W. Dix will be the fleld captain. ‘There will be a metropolitan round for men and & double Columbia round for women. If time permits a clout shoot will follow. vmmux archers are invited to par- 'l There will be a target fee of BENEFIT GAME LISTED. HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 29— Hyattsville's base ball team will meet, the Columbia Heights Business Men's Association nine ‘Washington tomor- row aft on the Riverdale fleld at 2 o'clock. to the maini Memorial Cross at Bl | start of 390 | hill, taking his com) 590 | d 7| been able to | who are suppose % | whether he has & MAY 29, 1930. ORNELIUS McGILLI- CUDDY alone of the base ball fraternity out- side of Washington seems willing to admit the Na- tionals are anything but a “flash in the pan.” Early in the campai the sauve leader of the Athletics, cornered here, allowed as how the Washington telm would be “the one to beat.” With that statement the veteran mahout of the White Elephants proved he either was an astute judge, a diplomat or both, but to date these qualities have been displayed by no one else connected in an active or repertorial capacity with the national pastime. Even Mickey Cochrane, cagey ace of the Mackian mittmen, refuses to accord anything bet- ter than third place to the Na- tionals, and Manager Bob the Gob Shawkey can’t see them beating out his Yanks or the world champions. Well, maybe they won’t. But Berth No. 3 in the standing of the clubs is quite an improve- ment over the seventh place as- signed to them almost univer- sally before the season started. And they’ll prove a distinct sur- prise to the Winter book dope- sters if they land in the first division. THERE is no such thing as a corner on sagacity so far as pennant races are concerned. I distinctly recall a confab with Connie Mack following Washington’s initial triumph in 1924, in which he dubbed the Griffmen a one year’s wonder. While not attempting to take any credit from them for their victory, he opined they did not constitute the type of team capable of remaining on top. That was the season Bucky Harris’' gang ended New York's second three-year reign. Mack proved wrong then, for the following campaign they again triumphed in the Ameri- can League, and this time it was Connie’s crew that the Griffmen nosed out of the championship. ¢ A REN'T they playing over their heads; batting bet- ter than they know how?” Sure they are. Pennant win- nlnz teams usually do. No one xpects Rice to continue flail- the ball at better than a .400 p or the club as a whole to SPOR maintain its flce of batting far in excess of 300, any more than they think Jones, Liska and Burke will go through the season undefeated. Slumps come to the best of them and the Nationals, indi- vidually and collectively, will have theirs. But there is no law against recovering* from them. And that’s where the margin they now are piling up will prove helpful. They can skid, when the time comes, but if they come out of it will still be among the leaders and in a contending position. extent to which the Na- tionals can flop and still have a chance for first prize becomes apparent from & glance at how titles have been acquired in the years gone by. Washington’s present win- ning percentage of .730 never has been achieved by any Amer- ican League club over the course of a season. The near- est approach was by the Yankees in 1027, when they chalked up .714 in setting their high winning record of 110 games, as against 44 defeats. Those 110 wins equal the feat of Fred Clarke’s Pittsburgh Pi- rates in the 1009 National League race and stand second only the 116 victories achleved by Frank Chance’s Chicago titleholders of 1906, so far as major league competition is concerned. As a matter of fact, the 1927 Yankees are the only club in the American League’s 30 sea- sons of existence which has at- tained as high as a .700 mark, and in only eight of the three decades has the flag winner registered 100 or more victories. On the other hand, the pen- nant has been won, under a 154-game schedule, with a per- centage as low as .588, which were the figures set by the De- troit Tigers with their 90 wins and 63 losses in 1908. In the past 10 years, durin; which the so-called rabbit bal and other modern playing con- siderations figure, the average of the pennant winning teams has been 98 victories and 55 de- feats for a percentage of .641. To equal that the Nationals would have to maintain a 612 pace over the remainder of the rouu, winning 71 while losing Don’t bet they won't do it. Socks Seibold, Thought Done Decade Ago, Stars for Braves BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, Jr, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. HE current performance of Harry Seibold, veteran pitcher of the Boston Braves, is one of the most amazing things in the Na- tional League struggle. Back in the days when Washington had a pair of pitchers named Nick Altrock and Al Schacht and a young left-handed hurler appeared on the Boston Red Sox roster as G. Ruth and was considered & good enough batsman to appear in a world series game as & pinch hitter, Bocks Seibold was & regular hurler with the Philadelphia Athletics. A decade ago Seibold disappeared into the minor leagues and little more was heard of him until he appeared at the top of the International League list with Reading in 1928. The OChicago Cubs called him in from their farm to use as trading material and sent him to the Braves. Seibold had a fair sea- son last year, winning 12 games and losing 17, but it was not until the the 1930 race that he really began stepping out. ‘Wins Seven Games. 8o far in a race only $wo months old, Seibold has pitched nine complete ‘l’: games and has won seven of them. He has not yet been removed from the complete turn every five or six days with s nm-rhlflo ee of success In & cl race. He d the Phillles to six hits yesterday nnd won his seventh victory by a 5-to-1 score in the first game the teams have play this week, giving usually only one hit an inning, Seibol STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY W. R. McCALLUM. OW would you like to have your opponents think so little of your chances in & golf match that they are willing to lay 2-to-1 odds that you will be on the losing end of the combat? Tommy Bones, the youthful southpaw 00 | golfer of Columbia, didn't quite “savvy” 00 | why Harry Pitt is willing to lay 2 to 1 that Pitt and Norman Frost can trounce Bones and Everett Eynon, and Tommy is going around among men d to know golf and golfers wondering whether he 1s being 83 | given what is called among the ge tility the loud and raucous “razzberr: ‘Tommy is convinced that he and Eynon can trounce Pitt and Frost, but when he gets in that frame of mind he remembers that 2-to-1 odds offer and is not so sure. So in the | attempt to bolster up his courage, he is seeking the advice of others on just how much to wager on the match and good c‘:xlnc‘em LOI;Q golfer told Tommy yes\er ay at- trmhe odds mean nothing if the match is lost. They will play the match as soon as the two coming tournaments are out of the way, for Pitt is to be tied up next week with his bid for the Middle Atlantic title, and the following week will come the Columbia tournament. Entries for the Columbia event will close with the club golf committee next Tuesday. Invitations already are out and from the interest shown in the coming event the number of players entered for Q.hz medal-round may run as high as 400. Columbia’s noem, which were very fast during the early Sprtng have m allowed to grow long, main complaint, around the e hones Toonl is about the slowness of #he putting greens and hard the ''1l must be struck to get up to the cup. But O. P. Fitts, the course supervisor, knows what it is all about, and how warm Weather and brown patch come almost over- Bt e g ey G prase can lve & slim cor vlltwtundsrfiuhmn:l“r“”m a steady pace while his Ifle.nd uuy llovxy at the hurling o! Phil Collins and Grover Alexander for ht blows, Berger's eleventh home run one of them Wllhl' ‘the the recel 18. REGRETS STYMIE DECIDED BATILE Declares He Felt Six Years Older After 19-Hole Match With Tolley. BY O. B. KEELER, For the Associated Press. T. ANDREWS, Scotland, May22~ There have been better golf and more protracted battles than in the big match of the British amateur championship yesterday, when Bobby Jones defeated Cyril Tolley at the nineteenth hole, but I have never witnessed its equal for fighting spirit | and unbridled ferocity. Never more than one hole apart, the | match was squared six times and un- squared finally by a long-range stymie at the extra hole. Immediately after the battle Jones said: “I was frightfully lucky to win. All through the match I had an uneas feeling that Cyril was hitting the hfi better than I was; certainly he was driving better. I never had any confi- dence in my putting and I must confess this was one match which I felt all along I was going to lose. Praises Tolley's Pioh. “Tolley’s tiny pitch over the bunker close to the flag at the seventeenth was the most exquisite shot I ever saw. After outmaneuveri and aided by a found myself with an 8-foot putt for a half to keep the match level. I'm sorry the match ended in a stymie, but I guess its just as well for me that it ix years older than I did 18! champion said he en- joyed every minute of the mateh. “It | was & great battle,” declared Tolley. | “That little pitch over the bunker at the road hole was the shot I ever rlny:d in my life. As for the stymie, I 1t myself open by loose play. It is the fortune of war.” Outdrive !fl.. To the Americans scattered through the gallery of at least 13,000, it seemed incredible that Bobby was bel out- driven with such devastating effect as at the ninth, twelfth and fourteenth holes. Tolly reached the green at m 306-yard ninth while he was across the green and near the pin le the no—yna twelfth. At the 627-yll'd 1 ith, he _was 100 yards ahead of Bobhv'l pulled shot and four !oe'. from the with his pitch for an eagle are the match once more lfi. Jones' 12-yard putt lt the '.hl.rhmth had sent the Ameri open holder out in front. At the home hole, two hufc 340 yards through the even breess puv. both clipping range, but was 0 yards in front of Jones. The battle 'n witnessed by the second largest Bl e incer s Brgnt sy on. grens gale under a sky so hard and fast ‘B:” would have held a pitch as well. Bobby was lucky to win, but I have never seen finer than his tremendous fight to fini: with & e 80 nearly out of control and & magnificent adversary, who met him point for point and hole for hole. DEADLINE SET TONIGHT FOR LEGION BALL SERIES Midnight tonight is the deadline for ipt of team entries and plllc contracts for the District American ‘wallops glon base ball champit series, Ying | slated to_ start June l‘m:::f.m six ent , tra rignt along behind ~him yesterday, completl.n is eight contest in 10 games with a 4-to-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Stewart also has won seven games, but has been defeated three times. Brownles Advance. Giving away two runs in the first inning, Stewart pitched shutout ball for the next seven frames, while his mates pulled up into & tie in the seventh and won out with & two-run rally in the eighth. The victory put the Browns in sixth place, moving the Chicago White Sox to seventh by a few points. In games, the two rivals of yesterday and the White S8ox are tied for the head of the second division, 12 the leading Washington The Chicago Cubs mov-d u) place in the almost safe l'.wnll League's first dlfl.lwn winning the | gets mah ” the three which | on Monument femaining contest of ain made their margin over fhe kew Yvrk Giants a full game. Ohi- cago assaulted Benny Frey, the young- ster who had held them to one run in lwo previous games, for four counters in flu first inning. Hack Wilson hn le with two on base and Kiki followed it with a fluke home run t bounced along the right-field foul line and into the stands to get the Cubs off to & lead that the Reds could not quite overcome. 80 he is letting the grass remain fairly long so the greens mz be brought up to wum-mmt. time with that keen edge which has always made the Columbin | greens at their best for the invitation tourney, UT at Indian Spring the club is| preparing for a busy week end of golf, which will be followed Mon- day and Tuesday by the big tourna- ment of the Interdepartmental Golf | League, in which 51 four-man teams are | entered. J. Monro Hunter, the club| professional, will run the event under the supervision of the executive com- mittee of the league. Two days will be required to run off the tourney, which will be followed by a dinner ‘t‘ the club Tuesday evening. Members of Indian Spring have been asked to refrain from play during certain hours on Monday and Tuesday in order that the Government league tourney may not be interrupted. M. A. Shipley of the State Department will defend the in-|H. dividual title he won last year. ANOR CLUB golfers are to com- pete Sunday in the initial match in the two-man best ball com- petition to be staged by the club. Teams are to be made up and listed with the club professional, and the tourney will be run off on a handicap JAGE HUFTY of Congressional and ‘Tom Boml of Columbia were to ther today in a best ball match at Conxuulnnnl against Clarence B. Murphy, the club title_holder, and M. Parker Nolan, the big hitter of the Congressional Club. IOLFERS of the Chevy Chase Club are to play next week in the com- petition for the F. Oden Horst- mann Trophy, emblumlt.lc of the club champior vy Chase is the club to hnld 1'4 1930 champion- ship for the title now held by C. Ash- mead Fuller. The event is run off at 72 holes medal play, with 18 holes lch!d\fid each of the four days June :'1:.!, luppofl.l this uugn t'.lan. eonhln: now pla under name King's Palace ots. SKINKERS PLAY SAKS. Skinker with the Saks an o' ok l"rlend:hlp diamond °:t 2 Eagles are asked to report at 1 o* SAM WEST MIDGETS PLAY. t. Jasper Post, American 'onlllerl will face Sam West i uwmoozh at 3 o'clocly diamond No. 3. RESULTS IN MINORS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, glflllh‘lll.l: “'1‘\53‘&'?""‘ L B 87 Miiwackes, o, INTERNATIONAL LEAGUS. "fln‘? 1L 10-1; 3 . Baltl .o.n Roading” bouponed, wat s1oun a Buff Roghester (postponed, rain). at Jersey City at Newark SOUTHERN hatiotte. 6: Augusta, 6 e it = (448, 10 innings, vald:nc.g PO NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA LEAGUE. Hasleton, 6: York, 8. All other games Dostponed, ratn. TEXAS LEAGUE. ichita Palls, 8; Dallas, Shreveport, 1; “Fort wor& 1 i lo-umom. 3 Houstons be played June 2, 3 and 4 handicap match play, bqlnn at . ID o'clock each day. e ICE presidents of the Hecht Co. stores in Wi , Baltimore and New York wil ther at the Woodholme Club of Baltimore next ‘Thursday in the annual competition for the M. S. Hecht “President’s Cup.” The tourney will be a handicap tfll.lr with the following men com Moses Goodman, Col. Malcolm Hecht, Harold H. Levi, Henry Hecht, C. Benjl- min Dulcan, Robert Hecht, J., Jefferson Miller, Samuel Hecht, Stewart Hecht and Howard Hecht. Permanent pos- session of the troj player who wins tourneys. OLFERS with less mu.!tv;epon at the first tee at the ‘ashington Golf and Country Club by 9 o'clock tomorrow hy will ee of bers with higher handicaps will report later, All fl’:‘:‘u!her cluh about Wash- ington are to stage tournaments on Memorial day. — BEN HUNDLEY| 2, 3, 4 and 5. A small fleld usually enten the event ¢ th time the woman are to start next nnd.v to of mmmf.lml for the Siamese Cu TIRES 3436 14th St. NW. Adams 8100 Road Service—Charge Accounts Invited