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. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 7. 1930. THE EVENIXG STAR, WASHINGTON, D SPORTS. ;Spencer Justifving Griffs’ Gamble on Him : Max Savage With Sparring Partners " ROV NOW PROVING WHICHONE FAVORED ONGE BOASTED HE WORTH $15000 TAG OVER GALLANT FOX USED THEM KINDLY Erstwhile Holdout Beats Out Pheakriess aad Derby Wihner| bt & Ruel and Tate as First- Seeks 3-Year-0ld Title | realing on the $15,000 it| String Catcher. at Belmont Today. 3 gave Roy Spencer to sign The bell rang again today | sparri artners, with it last year. In the 1929 c.fl_m<E for the sparring par | | SPORTS. —By BRIGGS Cops Seek Alexgnder! (As Base Ball Pitcher) OMAHA, Nebr., June 7 ().—The Omaha Police Department base baill team needs a pitcher, and they know who the man they want is. He is Grover Cleveland Alexander. To secure Alex the police team would have him tendered a job pounding a beat so that their oppo- nents could pound the air against Alexander’s slant: Alexander lives in St. Paul, Nebr. i /,/‘f/( [ /—\ Seventeen Come and Go as Teuton Whangs Away as He Would at Sharkey. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. NDICOTT, N. Y., June 7.— BY JOHN B. KELLER. LEVELAND, June 7.—Wash- ington's base ball club Is INDIAMOND TILT aign Spencer did little more e those battered, patched, dis- ha. wars the bench while illusioned youngsters whose Mué‘dv }’{augl1 and Benny Tate did thankless task is to con?&lk’rrll ;V{:yx the bulk of the receiving for the Schmeling Im'l *‘h?wrfl ht ewiih Nats. Now Spencer is rated the }’figfih‘sfifififlg or:’s] ;:heg Yankee first-string member of the catch- Stadium Thursday night. ing staff and, despite a late start, They meander aimlessly around his l!-filsl caxég}'lrt 'anlg Algan‘cwflplil)::; training camp during layoffs such as el and ate togeiher S | the German has taken, unnoticed and erformed brilliantly behind 1h<‘“ apparently unnoticing, some with swolle at, too, and though he boasts no| noses, brujsed eyebrows and court-pla: iy 3 A po R e e tered’ cheeks; others, the newcom: he has done has been timely. He| Wreco and Pepco Teéms to i Clash Tomorrow——Other Attractive Games. LD diamond rivals will hook up when Washington Railway & | “Flectric €o. and Potomac Elec- | tric Power Co. nines have it out tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on | the St. Paul's. diamond, Seventh and | By the Assoeiated Press. i EW YORK, June 7.—William sought clear title to the Amer- fean turf’s 3-year-old cham- | of the Bplmont Stakes today, with | Harry Payne ‘Whitney's Whichone a Derby and Preakness ,winner. Despite his impressive victories in the Downs, Gallant Fox was a ond | choice in the betting. Latest odds| at 4 to 5. Gallant Fox was held at 6 to 4. | Woodward's Gallant Fox pionship in the sixty-second running| formidable fhreat to the Kentucky| big stakes at Pimlico and Churchill | placed Whichone in the favorite’s role Whichone, champion juvenile last| SN fresh and anxious for a punch at a title has produced frequently at bat| challenger. They live apart, eat apart ith t th and make no public_appearances until with teammates on the runway | awaiting aid. | President Clark Griffith regarded as | & great gamble the payment of £15,000 | to Spencer for signing after the catcher | hed been made a free agent when Com- missioner Kenesaw Landis last year de- cided to punish some base ball moguls for juggling of players. True, Spencer had done some good minor league catching, but he had failed to make the grade as a big Jeaguer when tried by the Tigers some years before and several trials had not convinced the management of the Pi- rafes in the senior major circuit that Roy had the goods. As Spencer was employed last season 4t looked as though Griffith was to be the loser in the gamble. The catcher was given little opportunity to prove his worth and was not so impressi~> at bat in his few games. He could t ow and at times he impressed as a re- ceiver. But, all in all, he certainly did not seem to' be a first-class backstop. HEN Spencer held out for a higher saliry the past Winter it generally . was belicved the Washington club was justified in not granting a raise. His 1929 record surely did not entitle him to a heavier salary, it was argued. President Griffith stuck to his original terms to the finish and Spencer, who BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. Associated Press Sports Writer. HE younger batters of the Ameri- | Hitting of Sam Rice Provi(l;s High Light of . | Major Lea gues, 3 | into a three-way_tie in games with | the Cards and Pittsburgh for third| place in the National League. Pitts- Sothern’s Four Doubles Equal Big League Mark Denny Sothern, Washington sand- lot product, today has his name em- blazoned in the records alongside those of Pop Anson, Ed Delehanty and other celebrities of base ball for his feat yesterday in clouting four doubles for the Phillies as they grabbed a 14-to-5 decision from the P0L0 CUP EVENT TOSTARTHONDAY season, raced impressively to win the | Withers last Saturday and the betting fraternity seemed convinced that the at. son of Chicle-Flying Witch .could | | hold his speed over the longer Belmont | fielq at Russell and Glebe roads. route—a mile and a half, There were three other entrants for the $80,000 stake, of which $66,000 goes to the winner. James Butler's Questionnaire and Walter J. Salmon’s Swinfield and Mr. Woodiary string, Flying Gal, were listed as prob- able sta but none was expected to seriously threaten either Gallant Fox or Whichone. Big Money Winners. The two favorites each was con- fronted with the opportunity to pass into the golden circle of thorough- brends which have won $200,000. Whichone earned $135,000 as a juve- nile and $27,145 more this year. ‘Gal- lant Fox, a son of Sir Galahad, 3d- Marguerite, earned $19.890 as a 2-year- old and $117,800 this season. A battle of jockeys also loomed, with the veteran Earl Sande on Gallant Fox and Sonny Workman on Sande was cut about the face in an auto aceldent Thursday night, but did not expect his slight injuries to be a handicap. All colts in the Belmont carry.a 's secand | Whichone. | Irving streets northeast. Hume Springs, Va., base ballers will host to Prospect A. C. nine tomokr- at 3 o'clock on the Hume Spring Abel | or Prince will pitch and Via will catch | for the Prospects, while Curtis or God- | frey will do the flinging for Hume | Spring, with Von Dike behind the bat. | ~"Von Dike has just been added to the Hume S$pring team by Manager Rob- erts. Ted Mills, second baseman, is | another late acquisition to this club. The pair have been playing on Alex- | andria sandlots the past few seasons. | play Tow Palisade A. C. will meet the Seabrook, Md., nine tomorrow at Seabrook, at 2 | o'clock. Palisadcs are to meet at Man- | ager Hager's at 12 o'clock tomorrow in preparation for the trip. Kensington Firemen are after a game for ‘temorrow. They have thelr own diamond. Call Kensington 134. District Grocery Stores diamonders | will go to Bryantown, Md., tomorrow to | meetthe nine of that place. Players | are to report at the D.G.S. warehouse at/12:30 o'clock. National Circles ate without a ball | game for tomorrow. Unlimited teams are asked to call Lincoln 9892. called upon to face the clouting Teuton in his boxing drills. For the most part | they are absolute unknowns to the fight game, and 17 of them have come and | gone in three weeks. Schmeling, planning_an_aggressive. punching fight against Sharkey, is more than rough with his spar mates. He | fights them as though each was Sharkey | nimself. He cuts and mauls and bat- ters, punches them groggy and then turns loose all the power in his short | right hand to finish them as quickly as possible. The eagerness with the first workout, and from then on the chief fight 5 against time. To most of them the $25 a day pay is important money, and_the longer they are useful | the bigger the stake. - Max Changes Methods. i When Schmeling first trained in the United States he was proud of the fact | that he never had to punish’a sparring | partner unnecessarily. During prepara- | tion for his triupmhant parade through Paulino Uzoudun he boasted that he | had never in his life tried to knock out a helper, Apparently circumstances have altered cases, fcr Schmeling today 1is setting a record for treining savagery that only Jack Dempsey ever has equaled. “I pay my sparring partners to get * me in condition,” Schmeling reasoned out loud as he discussed the situation. “For this match I fight all the time to get in shape. I must go at top speed, throw puncl every second, hit hard. If I hurt tl I cannot help it. That Eight Teams Are Slated to! Compete—Invitation Play burgh gaincd the post by a 1-point margin, defeating the Boston Braves 410 3. A ninth-inning homer by Adam | Comorosky gave the Pirates the game Cincinnati Reds. Sothern, cavorting in the middle pasture tor the Phillies, got a total of five hits in as many times at bat, did not report to the ciub until the opening day of the season, had a sus- nsjon imposed upon him while the can League haven't much chance to make names for themselves s long as those two old timers, seale weight of 126 pounds, with Flying | Hereafter Chevy Chase Grays will Gal, the Woodward filly, assigned 121|play on the diamond as the A. B pounds. | Loffler'’s Chevy Chase Grays. ationals were training in the South extended until he could convince the management he was in good enough condition to play. It did not take Spencer long to show he was ready for action. Roy had trained with the South Atlantic League club at his Augusta, Ga., home several ‘weeks before arriving in Washington the middle of April. 1In fact, the catcher probably was in trim to take his place behind the bat when he finally joined the club. That extra time on his suspension was a discipli- nary move by President Griffith. The Washington prexy has a habit of not showing hold-outs any mercy—and he cannot be blamed for that. Extension of the suspension, though; put Spencer on his mettle. He went to Work in a determined way gnd soon demonstrated he could be of great help to the Nationals. Once given a chance this year, Roy made good quickly. Now he is of so much value to the ciub that it may figure $15,000 was pretty reason- able pay for the signing of a contract by the catcher Judge Landis lifted from the Indianapolis outfit. 'ARLOS MOORE, pitcher sent to the Washington farm at Chattanooga for seasoning, before leaving Detroit yesterday for his new club declared he was “plum tickled” to get a chance to go to the hill regularly. Moore realized le would get little opportunity to toil for the Nationals this season and that he would not develop Without regular service. Those in charge of the club are con- vinced a season with the Lookouts will fit Moore for a big league berth. He has speed, a good curve and his control is fine. What's more, Carlos already has 8 keen pitching sense and with more | steady employment than he could have . expected to get with the Washington club he should blossom into a first-rate Slinger. How much theé Washington owner- ship thinks of Moore is seen in thé price aid Birmingham for him, $20,000. it's quite & sum of money to put out for a virtually untried hurler even in these days of high price tags on minor leaguers. When Moore was lifted from the Barons last Fall the Nationals handed over $2,500 simply for a chance to try him and now they have given the Birmingham club a check for $17,500 additional to close the deal. OSTPONEMENTS again are piling up for the Griffmen, With the call- | ing off of the game in Detroit yesterday because of a heavy rain that fell an hour before the scheduled starting time | of the game at Navin field, they now have five double-headers ahead. Two are with the Red Sox, one in Boston and one in Washington. The Indians are to be met in a twin bill at Griffith Sta- dium this month and there are on the list double-headers with the Yanks in New York and with the Tigers in De- troit. 1t did not seem that the Tigers were particularly eager to get in that game yesterday. Although a storm Rad been | threatening for a half hour the ground keeper's force made no effort to have the infield cover at hand for protecting the grounds until the shower began. ‘Then the canvas was dragged only to the left field side of the infield and the work abandoned. There was no attempt to spread the smaller canvases over the | pitcher's box and the batting boxes. A | little hustle and there might have been | a contest. The shower lasted but 30 minutes. ’ The Tigers are not going so well now, though, and they might bé better when | the Nationals make their next visit to | Detroit in July. WELLS TAKES THE COUNT ., FIRST TIME IN CAREER, OMAHA, Nebr, June 7 (#).—When Billy Wells, former British welterweight king, was knocked out last night in the | second round by young Jack Th8mpson, | Negro we! t champion of the | world, it rst time that Wells | had ever been counted out in more than 10 years of fighting. The wily veteran was sent down for the count by a terrific overhand right | that seemed to come out of now 1t landed flush and the British was counted out with seconds tc Up to the time of the knock the champion and Wells had waged an even battle. Thompson was fighting his first_bout since defeating Jaciie Fields in Detroit and annexing the title. The title was not at stake, both being over- weight. KEEPS GYMNASTIb "I‘ITL}L LOS ANGELES, June 7 ) —The Swiss Turnverein feam of Union, N. J., today retained its National A. A. U. gymnastic title when the five members of the squad ran up @ total of 94 points in the annual meet here. The Los An- geles Athletic Club was second witn 60 | George Herman Ruth and Edgar Charles |14 of them spent playing baseball for | feat of the day to help the Phillies to a | hits were doubles, equaling an all-time | major league record set on July 3, 1883, {team that beats us in the second half | of the race will win the championship.” Rice continue to hit at their present rates. The Babe and Old Sam have al- most a monopoly on the league’s batting leadership, with Rice holding the high- est honors. Rice a veteran of some 38 Summers, Washington, has made a record for consistent hitting this season that no younger riyal has ever threatened. The Nationals have played 45 games so far; Rice has taken part in 44 of them; and only once has he failed to get at least one hit. Sam connected safely in 28 consecutive games before his streak was broken May 18 by Bob Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics. He picked up the serics again the next day and has continued through 15 more games. Not only has he hit nearly every day, but Rice has managed on most occa- sions to get several blows and leads the league’s batters with & current average of .403. Sam puts a lot of theught into the business of getting hits, even going so far at times as to neglect the duty of tending the outfield while he figures out what is wrong with his stance. He never has led the league at the end of the season, but he has finished below the .300 mark only three\times in his 14 years of service. . Rice had no chance to continue his batting streak yesterday, nor did his rivals do much hitting, as wet grounds caused the postponement of two Amer- jcan League games, while the pair that | were played produced few hits compared to the totals that have been piled up in some recent games. Joe Sewell of Cleveland, and Russ Scarritt of the Boston Red Sox had perfect days when three and four hits, respectively, as the Indians gained a 9-to-4 victory over Boston, but neither is in a position to threaten the batting leader. Sewell made the leading con- tribution to the game, one of two triples which aided in a five run Cleveland rally in the eighth inning. The blows of the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns were pretty well dis- tributed in the 5-to-4 triumph of the worlds champions. The winning pitcher, Roy Mahafley, contributed a home run to his vjctory, but he had to step down in favor of George Earnshaw as the | Browns put on another ninth-inning rally. | Denny Southern of the Philadelphia Nationals turned in the best batting victory over the Cincinnati In five times at bat he hit five Four of his{ 14-t0-5 Reds. times and scored five runs. by Pop Anson and Abner Dalrymple of the Chicago Nationals, and equalled six times since then. Chuck Klein added his fifteenth home run to the Phfl}y hits. The New York Giants hit 17 times 10 of the blows being divided between Critz, Leach and Terry, and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 10 to 7, to move HOSE famous words of Horace Greeley—“Go west, young man; go west”—which have been re- peated countless times and eften put into practice, probably were ring- ing in the ears of Manager Wes Con- over of the Southern Railway team when he went west to Alexandria (which is as much west of the Terminal League field as any other direction) and signed five St. Mary's Celtic stars. Southern Railway has been the door- mat of the Terminal “¥" League thus far, losing eight games, gnd has yet to| win its first victory. . ut with the signing of Brenner, Kld»i well, Cabell, Langford and Dreifuss, the sun is shining brightly on Southern Railw: “From now on," declared Conover, “we are a pennant contender, and the Which may or may not be true. Southern Railway s not the only team in the Terminal League to begin adding strength for the second half. The second-place Washington Terminal team has signed Willle Wolfe of the Northerns and Bozie Berger and Julle Radice, former local high school stars who are now starring at Maryland, Blackie Elwood, Northern A. C. pitcher, who lost ‘a tough 3-to-2 de- cision to Walter Beall last Sunday in Baltimore, is the latest to sign with a Terminal League club. Blackie joins Express, Marcus Chaconas, hard-hitting French and the Los Angeles Turnverein was taird with & N A. C. outfielder, affixed his name to a contract, Pick-Ups From the Sandlots By Francis E. Stan | to allow only those players who played after Gus Shur’s four-bagger had tled the score in the seventh. .Chicago Cubs scored their ninth suc- cessive victory at the expense of the Brooklyn Robins and Dazzy Vance, 13 t0 0, and cut the Robins' lead from two games to one. Charley Root held | Brooklyn to two singles, while the Cubs were getting@l0 hits off Vance in the| six innings he lasted, and & half-dozen | more from his sueceseors. Vance struck | out a man for every hit, but he could not keep Chicago from scoring. GALLANT KNIGHT HEAVY FAVORITE IN CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, June_7 (#).—Gallant Knight, winner of the Fairmount Derby | and second to Gallant Fox in the Ken-| tucky Derby, was a heavy favorite to win the inaugural running of the $15,000 added Cleveland Derby at the Thistle- down track today. Eight other 3-year-olds, including Reveille Boy, second to Gallant Knight in the Fairmount, were entered to race for the purse, which will total more than $23,000. The distance was a mile and a quarter. TO BROADCAST BIG RACE. CHICAGO, June 7 ().—The $50,000 | American Derby, one of Chicago's rich | events for 3-year-old thoroughbreds, which will be decided next Saturday, will be broadcast over Stations WGN | and KYW. The Iatter will be hooked | up with the National Broadcasting Co. | chatn. FACULTY MEN PIAY. Faculty members of George Wash- ington University and a team repre- | senting the Pyramid Honor Society | were to meet in a ball game this after- | noon at 1 o'clock on the West Ellipse. Fans 19 in 8 Innings, But Loses Game, 5-2 DECATUR, I, June 7 (#)—A leading candidate for the title of “most unlucky base ball player” of the season is young Tom Bridges, right-handed pitcher of the Evans- ville, Ind., Three-Eye League club. In a game against Decatur Jast night Bridges, who went to Evans- ville a year ago from the University of Tennessee, struck out 19 batsmen in_eight innings—and lost, 5 to 2. . Five of the seven hits off Bridges were clustered in the first two in- nings and his teammates couldn't do enough hitting off Spear of De- catur to help him out. ‘The book shows that Prank Shaw of the Boston Union Association Club fanned 18 men in nine innings back in 1884—the only figures on the subject. Express now has a pair of infielders | named Gill and Fish. How doces this sound: Double play—Gill to Fish. Walter Shomo, G. P. O. manager, is | making a vigorous protest regarding | the play-off game with the Union Printers on June 10 The Typos, it may be remembered, beat G. P. O., 14 to 1, but used Jimmy | ¢ Dewhurst, who played two games with Judd & Detweller in the Industrial League. The Government League pro- [ hibits & player participating in two leagues, 50 the game was ordered to| be played over again, on Shomo's pro- | est. Shomo, it séems, was quite satisfied with this action, but when it was de- cided at a meeting of the league officers in that game to play on June 10, he| registered a protest. | According to Shomo there are only 6 | available players eligible for this game. Through the ruling neither Rip Sole, who was since acquired from G. P. O. in the Departmental League, or Bob Lyon, who sat on the sidelines that day, will be able to play. Sam Simons, the first baseman; Lawson and Corkins, outfielders, and Al Schneider, the catcher, are nursing injuries, and Shomo declares that they will be in no_condition to play on June 10. Shomo_threatens to withdraw from the league unless an amendment to this ruling is made. Bennie Spigel, Teci High captain this season, has been signed by the Burroughs A. C., which is cutting a wide swath in the unlimited class of the Capital City League. » Homer Driscall and Jules Sorrell, other former Tech luminarics, also may join the Burroughs. his other safety being a_ single. Sothern s lead-off man for the Quakers and is doing & good job of it. COLONIALS TO PLAY IN UNLIMITED CLASS ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 7.—Bill Hammond's Colonial A C. will make its first appearance in unlimited ranks to- morrow afternoon, when it engages the Montrose A. C. of Washington, at 3 o'clock on Guckert’s Field. The Colonials have decided to go into unlimited circles after playing senior class ball herctofore. Students at George Mason High are staging a tennis tournament to de- termine the net champions in the boys’ and .girls’ classes. Roland Goode, Alexandria junior net champ, is leading in the boys' matches with victories over Frank Simpson and Jimmy Thompson. Simpson was de- feated, 6—2, 6—1, and Thompson, 6—2, 6—1. In other matches O. Weimer de- feated W. Lee, 3—6, 6—4, 6—3; Thomp- son_defeated Henry Adams, 6—4, 5—17, 6—4; Martin _Petersilia defeated O. Weimer, 6—2, 6—0, Thelma Carter is leading the girls' class with three victories and has reached the final round. Hume Springs tossers will play the Prospect A. C. at 3 o'clock on the Hume Springs diamond. T. Brooke Howard, chairman of the 0Old Dominion Boat Club’s athletic com- mittee, which is arranging a club smoker for June 16, has announced that Krankie Mann of Washington, obtained to arrange the boxing matches for the smoker, has listed five snappy bouts. Billy' Schwartz, local light heavy- weight, will meet Walter McFreeley, former South Atlantic light heavywelght champlon; Young Mclntosh will meet Buddy Eslin of Silver Spring, Mde Charley Esinger will oppose Young Fir- po; Rody Davis is to go against Jesse Beit, while Dick Richardson will battle with Soldier Burke, St. Mary’s Celtics have booked a game with the Fredericksburg Elks to- be played in Gouldman's Park at Fred- ericksburg, Va., next Thursday. TEN TALLIES APPEAR AS CUBS’ MINIMUM, CHICAGO, June 7 (#).—The National League champion Chicago Cubs appar- ently have decided to play base ball on a “ten or no count” basis. Though crippled by the death of Hal Carlson and Rogers Hornsby's injury, the Cubs not only have won nine straight games, but in each of their last five battles have produced not less than 10 runs. The “10 or more” schedule started Iast Sunday, when the Cubs won over Pitisburgh, 16 to 4. Since then the counts have been: 15 to 2, 18 to 10 and 10 to 7, against Boston, and 13 to 0 yesterday over Brooklyn, Their aver- age is a fraction better than 14 runs a game. Only one member of the regular line-up, outside of the pitchers, has botted less than .333 during the pe- riod. Capt. Charley Grimm today had a mark during the five games of .579, while only Clyde Beck has failed to slug. » - a el American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS, St. Louls, 9 Boston, 4. s postponed, rain, ING P 3 lare many more entries than last year. to Come Later. LAY will start in the Argentine Army Cup polo tournament Monday afternoon on the oval in Potomac Park. The competi- tion will formally open the polo season | here. A epecial invitation tournament | conducted by the War Department Polo | Association will follow shortly. Fours of this area listed to_compete in both tournaments_include War De- | partment Whites, War Department | Blues, 3d Cavalry Greens, 3d Cavalry Yellows and the 16th Field Artillery. The last three mentioned are from Fort Myer. Mallet wielders from Mid- dleburg, Va., the Quantico, Va., Marine Post and the Infantry School at Fort ' Benning, Ga., are other teams listed for action. War Blues and 3d Cavalry Greens, will clash in the first match of the| Argentine Cup tournament Monday. | Third Cavalry Yellows and War Whites | will meet Tuesday and i6th Field| Artillery and the winner of the War | Blues-3d Cavalry Greens' engagement will face Thursday. The final match probably will be played Friday. G Probable line-up of teams of this section follow: War_ Blues—Capt. Hastey, No. 1:| Maj. Davis, No. 2; Maj. Eager, No. 3;| Maj. Patton, No. 4. | Third Cavalry Greens—Capt. Givney. | No. 1: Lieut. Noble, No. 2; Lieut. Saw- tille, No. 3: Maj. Cunningham, No. 4. War Whites—Licut. Col. Chaffee, No. | 1; Davis §. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary | of the Navy, No. 2; Lieut. Col. Hoyle | No. 3; Capt. Shafer. No. 4. | Third Cavalry Yellows—Lieut. Bosser- | man, No. 1; Lieut. MacKinney, No. Capt. Devine, No. 3; Lieut. Robinson, No. 4. Sixteenth Field Artillery—Lieut. Mark McClure, No. 1; Lieut. Col. Cortlandt Parker, No, 2; Lieut. G. C. Benson, No. 3; Capt. R. V, Marist, No. 4. Assistant Secretary of the Navy David S. Ingalls will play three games of polo next week. In addition to holding forth with the War Whites team in two games, he will wield a mallet for the Huntington Valley Club at Cleveland in another. He will make the trip to the Forest City by airplane. He is & capable Rluyer and is rated at a three-goal andicap. PIERCE NINE HAS TWO0 CONTESTS AND MEETING HYATTSVILLE, Md, June T7.— Plerce A. C. base ball team, which was to engage Beltsville Southern Method- | ists today at Beltsville, will meet Ma- jestic Radlo tossers tomorrow afternoon | on Monument diamond No. 4, Washing- ton, at 3 o'clock. Plerce will be seeking revenge over | Majestics for an early season defeat | suffered outside of league play. Plerce players will gather tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Man- ager Bill Walton, 15 Maple avenue. A regular meefing of the Pierce Club will be held Monday night at Bob Mingee's home, No. 6 Cedar street, at | 8 o'clock. All' members are asked to| attend. Play in the annual District of Co- lumbia boys’ and junior tennis cham- plonships was to get under way early today on the Rock Creek courts. There National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Ghleago, 13; Brooklyn, 0. New York, 10; &. L 7. Pittsbureh. 4: Bostor Philadelphia, 14; Cix STANDING OF qangs1a Cleveland .. New_York Chicago GAMES TODAY. - GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Cleve.. 3:00. Wash. at Cleve., 3:00. N Vork'ay 81 Louts. Prila: at Shicsgo Phila. at Chicago. York at 8t Louis. Boston at Detrolt. ~ Boston at Detroit, Brooklyn Onioa 41 8 ¢ Pittsburgh 1 1181 21 8/ 0 4/ 6123(221.511 GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. St Loufs at N_York. St. Louis at N. York Pittsburgh at Boston. Chicago at Brookivn. . Pittsburs! st t Chicago at Brookly b at Boston. Elatiiaal ot PRl r THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. NO SHARKEY ALIBL O RANGEBURG, N. Y., June Schmeling next Thursday how many are perfect? Or near that I will step into action bigger, faster and much better than I ever was in my life, and this time any mental upsets or flare-ups. “I know I am boxing better and -I know I am hitting surer, faster and harder. There isn't any conceit in this statement, It just happens to be a fact. 1 went into hard training for Loughran late last Summer. I went back into teaining for Scott in January. Here I am back again. I have had just enough resting places between fights and train- ing camps to get back all gy reserve energy and not burn myself ‘out. “T expect to enter the ring around 196, possibly a pound or two more, for I am in shape now. Fastest Big Heavyweight. HARKEY is the fastest 200-pound heavyweight the ring has known for many decad He is fast on his feet, fast mov with his body, fast | with both hands. And he is fast enough The Percentage Was With Cyril BY AL DEMAREE. (Former Pitcher of New York Giants.) Here's a Bobby Jones story I picked up at the Walker Cup matches two years ago in Chicago: “Oyril Walker was just finishing on the eighteenth hole in a tourna- ment,” said Bobby, “and I had just finished and was' standing in the gallery. “He had gotten into lots of trouble on the last hole and was laying six on the green with about a 50-foot putt over a slick, roling green, staring him in the face. Although he is a notoriously slow player, he went up to his ball and without éven lining up, banged it in the direction of the cup and started for the club house. ‘The ball rolled and rolled and finalls “*How dropped in the can. did you ever figure that How Do You FIGURE THAT FIFTY FooT putt would drop?” I asked him later. ** ‘It had to drop,’ he said. ‘I never took an eight in my life!’ " Here's one Jones tells on Nick Alt- rock: “Nick says he was playing with the late President Harding one day, when the President found him- self with a tough lie in a sand trap. *‘What will I do now, Nick?' he asked. “Throw it out, Mr. President,’ an- swered Altrock. ‘The President’ al- ways has the privilege of throwing the first ball out, you know.' " Nick had his ‘base ball and golf mixed up. (Copyright, 1930.) at large to know that when he steps into the ring-against sort to offer, whatever happens. “This time,” he said, “I know I will be ready physically and mentally. I know I have made my share of 6.—Jack Sharkey wishes the world night he will have no alibi of any mistakes in the past, but perfect? I can promise the crowd I haven't the slightest worry about to see an opening. He has shown in the past that he can take it, so it all gets down to the guestion of keeping his head if he is badly crowded. It can be sald now that Schmeling has never’ tried to crowd such a fast, hard-hitting fighter as Sharkey looks to be at this stage. Any one who takes this chance must also take his full share of punishment for this is the type of attack Sharkey is expecting, the type he has planned to meet. He knows in advance he will have no worry if Schmeling elects to box him. He knows the Gezman must wade in to plant that right, and Sharkey intends to have both barrels loaded and ready when the as- sault takes place. He feels now that he f”‘ face and handle either style of wer- are. A Confident Camp. HE crowd gathered around Sharkey's camp i8 the most confident bunch I have seen at any training spot. Much of this is to be expected. They don't give Schmeling a chance. Many who believed the German visitor had at least an even shot a month ago have now changed their minds. They have seen a better-looking Sharkey than they ever saw before, and they can't see how a fighter with Schmeling’s limited ex- perience can stand up before any such two-handed attack. ‘00 big, too fast, too strong and too experienced” is about the way most of the expert observers who have seen both men sum up the outcome—in Sharkey's favor. ‘The doubtful ones are those who re- member his fights against Heeney and Risko and_his final rounds against They admit Sharkey's supe- ysical qualitie want to see what Schmeling comes boring in chugging that right hand at a vulnerable spot. No training workout ever gives a true line on what happens in the ring. | Those judging Tunney by his showing at Stroudsburg couldn't give him a chance against Dempsey. Dempsey in | training at that time looked bigger, | faster and stronger—a much harder puncher. But Schmeling isn’t the boxer Tun- ney was, and Sharkey is not only| younger than Dempsey was, but also in much better shape through his training and fighting in the last year. He is | right now close to his peak and prime, | and 45 will take a lot of fighting to beat him (Copyright. 1930, by North American News- | \ paper Alliance.) MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta. 5. i New Orleans, 1. . 15: Mobile, 3 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 7; Milwaukee. 1 g Coltimbus, 3 apolis (wet grounds). I LEAGUE. Reading. 6. Jersey City, 1. 9 Buffalo, v. 5 eapolis-Indi; Baltimore. 7 Newark. 4: Rochester. THREE- in.'3." Danville-Terre Haute (wet grounds). EASTERN LEAGUE. Hartford, 3: Bridgevor Henderson, 9: Winston-Salem, 4. gh Point. 22: Greensboro, 5 Hi ) Durham-Raleigh. postponed. rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Asheville, 15:. Greenville, 6. (nMacon, 3-8 Columbia, -1 (second. seven Charlotte. 11; Augusta. 8. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Selma, 7: Tampa, 0. Montyomery, 8: Pensacola, 0. Jucksonville, 9; Columbus, 8 (10 Innings). WESTERN LEAGUE. Wiehita. 4 Des Motges. Oklahoma City ha, Topeka. 2 - but they still | will do when | is the chance they take. I do not want to hurt them so much as I try to get my punches working best. “My sparring partners maybe are no good. Every one thinks that. They ask me why I do not have men who jab well with the left hand and use right crosses, as Sharkey does. Answers Sharkey. “well, T tell you. I don't prepare for Sharkey's left “jabs because I do not know that he will fight mo that way. If I am looking always for left jabs and he-does something else all ‘the time I am caught—what you call it—off stride, am I not? I would get confused. No, I must get ready for anything Sharkey can do. “So I fight as many men as possible in training. Maybe they are no good, but each man has a different style. I conquer those styles like I conquer Sharkey's style June 12. Sharkey is not training to fight me as I have fought in the past. He has the same partners he has had for several years. They do not fight like me.” Schmeling paused for'a moment as he thought of something that has been | irritating him, “They tell me Sharkey calls my spar- ring partners bums ahd says Johnny Grosso and Paul Cavalier in his camp could beat me. I tell you this. If they were in my camp I knock them out just like the others, | BROADCAST OF EIG FIGHT TO BE DONE IN GERMAN NEW YORK, June 7 (#).—German boxing fans will be given an opportu= nity to tune in on a detailed descrip- tion of the Sharkey-Schmeling heavy- weight championship battle at the Yankee Stadium next Thursday night. The National Broadcasting Co. an~ nounces that one of its microphones {will be manned by Harry Sperber, sports editor of the New York Staats- Zeitung and Herold. Sperber's desctip- tion of the fight, in German, will be carried into Schnectady, where it will be broadcast by the short wave station of the General Electric Co. The account will be picked up in Berlin by the Reichs Hundfunk Gesell- schaft, German system of stations, for distribution to its network. SCHMELING GETS PLANE T0 FLY TO BIG BATTLE ENDICOTT, N. Y., June 7 (#).—Max Schmeling is determined to emulate Gene Tunney and fly to his heavy- weight title bout with Jack Sharkey in the Yankee Stadium June 12. He has engaged a 12-passenger Junkers plane. HOME RUN STANDING By the Associated Press, Home Runs Yesterday. Klein, Phillies, 1; Hartnett, Cubs, 1; Douthit, ; Grimm, Cub: Comorosky, Pirate Ruth, Yankees Wilson, Cubs Berger, Klein, Herman, Robin: National American Grand total . BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Press. American League. ng—Rice, Senators, +403. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 52. Runs batted in—Ruth, . Yankees, 50, Hits Rice, Senators, 7. s—Gehringer, Tigers, 19, i —Combs, Yankees, 8. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 18. Stolen bases—Rice, Senators, 10, National League. Batting—Herman, Robins, 417, Runs—Herman, Robins, 50. Runs batted in—XKlein, -Phillies, 54. Doubles—Frisch, Cardinals, 21, Triples—Cuyler, Cubs, 9. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, 17, Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 14. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Neb.—Young Jack Thomp- son, world wellerwelght champlon, knocked out Billy Wells, England (2), non-title. € VANCOUVER, P*itish Golumbia—Tod : Denve: Pueblo-St. Joseph, postponed. wet grounds. Morgan, Seattle, and Santiago Zorilla, Panama, draw (15)s e