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Spo rts News he Zp ‘WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION ening Shat. WASHINGTON, D G WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930. PAGE C—1 Rice Modest About Leading League’s Hitters : “Lively Ball” Myth Is Exploded * SAM CREDITS 400 AVERAGE T0 LUCK “Just Getting the Breaks After 14 Years,” Says Veteran of Griffs. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HICAGO, June 11.—“After b 14 years of trying, I'm get- ting the breaks.” And that, says Sam Rice, is why he Soday is leading the American League batters with the handsome average of .400. “I've been hitting the ball plenty ever since I've been with the Washington club—and I joined it in the Fall of 1915—but,” declares the veteran National outfielder, “this is the first season in which T've been able to get so many of my drives just out of the reach of the fielders. “Call it luck, if you want to. Maybe t is. I'm willing to let the average speak for itself.” Rice, who is more than 38 years old— guite elderly for a_major league ball player—has not changed his batting style this year. His stance at the plate 18 the same he has used for years. He grips the bat no differently nor does he swing other than he has in the past. It's the same choppy stroke for Sam. But he's whacking 'em by and over the defense in great fashion as his record of 78 safeties in 198 times at bat attests. What's more, all but a few of Rice's hits this season have been sharp and clean. Not many safeties have been sdded to his ot by his speed enabling him to beat out taps to infielders. In fact, Sam more often than not has been the victim of close decisions at first base in the current campaign. No Loss of Speed Afoot. “T don't think I've slowed up to any great extent,” Rice says. “I belleve, in- stead, that I get {rom the plate to first base about as fast as I ever did, for I have the knack of starting after hitting the ball better than I did. I probably &m making just as many hits out of in- fleld raps as I should. “I'm not using any new form at the late this year. You can’t lay my high- itting mark to any change. As I said, I'm simply getting the breaks after a long wait. In other years, I banged the ball on the nose. Many liners found hands waiting for them. Many rounders ' were directly at infielders. g’his season it happens to be different. “I've always been up there watching. §winging when the good ones come up. And if you keep swinging youw'll mect *em, some days more than others. But vou can't tell what's going to be in ont of the ball when it leaves the bat. “After the pall is hit, where it goes §s pretty much luck,” according to Sam, *and I guess 1've had more than my share this season. Or maybe I'm get- ting what's coming to me after a long wait.” That's only Rice's modest way of speaking of his exceptional batting this season, of course, but really Rice is way up there because he's always been a good hitter and any good hitter is bound to get up there if he is able to stick around long enough. Rice went into the present season with a major league career batting av- erage of .322, a great career average. Only 15 players now active in the ma- dors who have been in the big show more than five years have better career @verages and only four others can match Rice’s rating. The 15 long-service batters ahead of Rice are Goslin, Combs, Fothergll, Foxx, Gehrig, Manush, Ruth and Sim- mons of the American League and Bot- tomley, Cuyler, Heilmann, Hornsby, | Sisler, Stephenson and Terry of the | National League. Those matching his e Prisch and Traynor of the National League and Bing Miller and | Joe Sewell of the American League. Of the 19 players mentioned, only uth, Sisler, Heillmann and Hornsby ane been on axz time as long as the vashington veteran. Since joining the Nationals in 1915, Rice has been a .300 hitter 10 times and one year he did not _play. That was 1918 mchen he was in the United States Ar- lery. He's simply continuing a fine ecord. Just & good hitter. HILE the postponements due to {WV "rain out this way are by no means gre not particularly ennoying. “With Sones and Judge on the ailing list,” ays he, “maybe iUs just as well we are getting & day off every now and then. Of course, I would like to see the games played as scheduled. But perhaps we'll be in much better trim %o play the Tigers and Indians the next time we come out this way.” The postponement in Cleveland yes- | terday, the second of the series, raised to seven the games the Nationals have to play ofl. Only two are to be dis- posed of in Griffith Stadium. |J little better today and Jack Hayes was expected to fill in at first base ®s the three-game series with the White Box opened here this afternoon. Judge's injury, though, is not thought serious. Trainer Mike Martin thinks the regu- lar first sacker will soon be back on the igb. and at present Johnson has no ea of recalling Harley Boss, under- study to Judge, who was farmed to Jersey City. UDGE'S charley-horsed left leg was to such an extent he was ordered to ‘Washington yesterday for treatment and the pitcher will be missing from the club for the remainder of the West- ern trip. It is believed Sam will be $n trim for service when the Nationals get home next weel UONES' gland affection troubled him HERE was a great chance that 1 Manager Johnson and Manager Bush might talk trade today. John- son has his eye on a White Sox player who might be of much help to the Nationals, and, it is reported, he is will- | ing to make a bargain with the club here. Johnson will say nothing about the matter, and, of course, all he could do in any event would be the rigging up of a deal for President Griffith’s ap- proval. If Walter recommends a deal, though, in all likelihood the Washing- ton club prexy will make every effort to put it through. MEETING OF A. A. LOOPS DELAYED TILL AUGUST |¥: CHICAGO, June 11 (#).—The meet- ing of club owners from the American pleasing to Manager Johnson, they ; THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT. HAD A CHANCE o EAT - 1VE BEEN FEEDING, 2§ AT WELL For GOODNESS SAKE A = 4 —By BRIGGS Sl Wahler Is ITH Pitcher Wahler yielding only one hit, the Hibbs team made short shrift of a game with Holmes Bakery in the Industrial League, winning by 18-0 in seven innings. Shugrue and Hamby made four hits apiece to lead a vicious attack, Shugrue contributing a homer. Catcher Deane got Holmes’ lone bingle. Eldbrooke M. E. and West Washing- ton Baptist played seven frames to & 3-3 tle in the Georgetown Church League. It was a pitchers’ battle, with H. Hodges of West Washington yielding three hits and his rival, L. Schneider, four. Southern Rallway scored three runs in the final inning to take an 8-6 de- cision over Express in the Terminal Railroad Y. M. A. League. With Spalding and Buckner getting three each, Express had more safeties than the enemy—12 to 9—but Southern socked more timely. Brenner led the winning attack with three hits, one a ple. District Repair Shop scored eight runs in the first two innings and after that it ceased to be a battle with G. P. O. in the Departmental League. In the sixth and final inning Repair Shop scored eight more runs to make the score 16 to 4. Geuthler smacked two homers for the winners. Games are sought by the following teams: ‘Woodlawn, Va., Saturday game; Man- ager Wood, Clarendon 925. ‘Argyle Peewees, two games for Sat- urday, morning and afternoon; Alfred Baer, Adams 3790. De Molays, Sunday; Manager Jack Bierach, Lincoln 4386. Saks Co., Sunday, with team having field; Manager Mothershead, District 3050 during day. Hinkle Insects, Potomac 0809. Snyder-Farmer Post, Saturday and Sunday; Hyattsville 1226 between 6 and 8 p.m. Columbian Insects; Manager Rinaldi, North 1600. Phoenix A. C., games for July; Man- ager Risler, Lincoln 5433-J. Burroughs Peewees, Saturday; North | 2843-J. | Palisade A. C. challenges Foxall A.C.; | phone Manager Dyer, Cleveland 6342. Colmar Insects—Wonder Boys and Burroughs are asked to call Manager Etter, Hyattsville 1199, Junior Order of Capitol Heights; Manager O. White, Metropolitan 7042. Adelphites, Saturday and Sunday; Columbia 4362. Yankee Peeweces have Plaza diamond Sundays from 1 to 3 pm.; Franklin 6441-M. Carolina A. C, unlimited, Saturday | and Sunday; Lincoln 6763. | _ Rice Baking Co, Manager C. A. Cole, Lincoln 0515-. | _ Capitol Heights A. C. will play the | Isherwood A. C. Sunday on the Mary- land A. C. diamond at 3 p.m. Capitol | Heights is booking games at Capitol | Heights 391. Yankee Insects and Babe Ruth In- sects will clash Sunday on the New York Avenue Playground field. The | Yankees have won three straight. | Columbian and Spud Coleman In- sects will play tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. Merciless F linger As Hibbs W hitewashes Holmes mond. Due to conflicting schedules the National Capitals have canceled a game scheduled with the Colemans for next Sunday. Comet Peewes have won 13 straight. Manager Sam De Vaughan of the Cardinal A. C. Alexandria, requests Manager Jennison of the District Gro- cery team to phone him at Alexandria 202-J after 6 p.m. With Otie Thomas starring, the gflmn} team defeated the Tin Cans, to 1. Meetings: King's Palace midgets and George ‘Washington Post players, at Manager Lawrence’s home, 305 Tennessee avenue northeast, tonight. Colonials, at home of Man Love- joy, 910 Kennedy street northwest, 8 at o'clock tonight. Corinthian insects and juniors, Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, 8 o'clock. « ELIEVE ME” declared Bert Olmsted, “that if I could, I would help a lot of these kid teams along!” A bit of sandlot mis- sionary work was tried on Bert early this Spring and the result was that it converted him from a fan who gets his base ball from the box scores in the papers. into a red-hot sandlot booster. Undoubtedly the hardest job on the sandlots is that of the manager. He ysually starts sometime in Midwinter to make his plans and works like a trojan until in September in carry- ing them out. His job is a thankless one. He must do everything and gets nothing. But the most difficult problem, most managers declare, is to get a uniformed team together in order that it may compete in an organized league. Early this Spring a group of high school boys solicited Bert's aid in out- fitting & ball team which would com- pete in the Capital City League. And this team, now playing under the name of the Olmsted Grill nine, is setting a fast pace in the league. Bert outfitted his team from head to foot and even if they couldn't play a lick of ball they look like a real team. But they can and do play good base ball and Sunday they meet the Curtin All-Stars in the feature game of the league. They play for the leadership of the senior class. “I think this Curtin team is one of the pluckiest teams around here,” B said. “They haven't a “backer,” yet they manage to get along somehow. I certainly wish them luck,” he added. The Curtins, of course, isn't the only team with this handicap, for there are countless clubs playing from the pee- wees to the unlimiteds in the same predicament. A few more Bert Olmsteds would Fx;ouve a big boost for the local sand- otters. ‘With but five more games, all due to postponements and tles, left on the schedule, Naval Hospital appears to be the winner of the Government League, following the Union Printers’ 10-to-3 victory over G. P. O. yesterday. Walter Shomo, G. P. O. manager, on the Georgia and Alaska avenue dia- American League { YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. | New York, 5: 6t. Louts, 3. | Chicago, 7; Philadelphia, 6 (11 innings). Boston, 12: Detroit, 6. Washington-Cleveland, rain. STANDING OF may have threatened to withdraw from Standings in Major Leagues National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadelphi Chicago, t. Louis, 2: Boston, 1 ( Piitsburgh-New York, r; Cincinnati-Brooklyn. rain. STANDING OF THE ) 10 innings). “smor 1S Riox moN qaangsia Philadelphia i Chicago_. 31 31— 313041 Pick-Ups From the Sandlots By Francis E. Stan WRIGLEY, INSULL NAMED RACE TRACK DIRECTORS CHICAGO, June 11 () —Willlam Wrigley, jr. owner of the Cubs, and Samuel Insull, multi-millionaire public utilities owner, have gone in for horse racing. They have been elected directors of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, which operates Chicago's mammoth Northside track. Thelr addition to the directorate gives the fashionable plant one of the heaviest financial backings in the world. The board membership is composed mostly of Chicago millionaires. LOMAX OF GEORGETOWN TIES FOR SLAB HONORS ‘With seven victories and no defeat Bill Lomax of Georgetown is tied with Quinton of Providence for first place among Eastern college pitchers this year. Quinton has & chance to beat out the Hoya, Providence not having finished its schedule. Georgetown, with 21, scored more victories than any other school in the East, but finished third in percentage of games won, with Holy Cross on top, having won 15 and lost 2 and Provi- deélc; second with a standing of 15 and 3. the loop, but when the team took the field yesterday they didn't show any signs of giving up. Under the ruling, both teams were to use the same players who took part in the protested game, and both com- plied, though G. P. O.'s original line-up lasted only part of the first inning. Al Schneider, suffering from a_sore arm, which has rendered him almost useless as a catcher and a fielder, made a great attempt to fill out the line-up as per rules. Al put his catcher's mitt on his right hand and tried to throw left- handed, while Frank Corkins, also suf- fering from an ailing arm, went into the pitcher's box and made a game ef- fort to check the Typos. Schnelder did his best to throw left- handed, but when he pegged the ball into left fleld, allowing & runner to score in the first inning, after he had stolen second and third, there was no alternative than to put in a substitute. Rip Sole, who was acquired from the Departmental League since the pro- tested game, was sent in, though the game was forfeited. The standing in the Government League: e Won. Lost. Naval Hospital 6 Interstate . G.P. O.. Union Printers. Navy Yard.. DALLAS SIGNS MEADOWS, | FORMER MAJOR TWIRLER DALLAS, Tex., June 11 () —Bob Tarleton, business manager of the Dal- las club of the Texas League, has an- nounced the signing of Lee (Specs) Meadows, 36 - year - old right - handed pitcher, former star in the National League, to report Sunday. He recently was released by the At- lanta club of the Southern Association. He pitched in one world series game for the Pirates in 1925 and another for them in 1927. RESULTS IN MINORS. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark . 000000000—0 6 1 Baltimor 01381010x1315 1 Paulkner and Munn: Wertz and McMullen. Rochester at Toronto (rain).. Reading st Jersey City (rain). Montreal at Buffalo (rain). SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. , 12;: Montgomery, 1. nvilie, 4; Pensacols, 1. 8; Columbus, 2. WESTERN LEAGUE. Topeka, 2. Denver, 7: Bt. Joseph, 2. Wichita (no_game, rain). Oklahoma City, 3; Des Moines, 2. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. ;_Chattanoogs., 3 (10 innings). 9; Birmingham, 1. Little Rock, 5; New Orleans, 4. Memphis, 6; Mobile, SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Columbia, 7; Asheville, 3. , 8; Charlotte, 7. Ateorta s Breenviile, 8 (10 tnatngs). Atlanta. Nashvilie, THREE-EYE LEAGUE. Danville, 3; Evansville, 1. Peoris, 10; Quincy, 4. Big League BASE BALL Playing Second Base BY AL DEMAREE (Former Pitcher New York Giants.) The above illustration is an action- ograph of Frank Frisch, the great St. Louis Cardinal second baseman, flelding a ground ball and making the throw to first base. A second baseman should be a good judge of ground balls and an accu- rate thrower. It is important that accuracy in throwing be more con- sidered than a powerful arm. Prac- tice both overhand and underhand throws to first base. The underhand throw is the best time saver the sec- ond baseman possesses. There have been old fellows in the major league, ‘whose throwing arms were not what they had been, who played season after season because they could snap the ball to first base underhand. Have a distinct understanding with FRANKIE FRISCH SHows How AN INFIELDER SHOULD FIELD GROUND BALL AND MAK:B‘mlbwa FIRST, Fa ey 4 the shortstop as to which one of you is going to cover second base if the man on first starts for second on a steal or hit-and-run play. Be sure you are in a position to cover first base when the first base- man is playing in for a bunt. Learn to go back on short fly balls that the center and right fielder can- not reach. Watch your catcher's signs to his pitcher 50 you can anticipate what is being thrown and where it will probably be hit. A right-hand hitter will more likely pull a curve ball to left fleld than he will a fast ball and the left-hand hitter vice versa. Save this Big League Base Ball Serles, another will appear shortly, Al Demaree has prepared a free illustrated leaflet on “Batting” which will improve any boy's percentage. Send for it. Address Al Demaree, in care of The Star, and be sure to in- close a self-addressed, stamped en- velope. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Rice, Senators, .402. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 55. Runs batted in—Ruth, Yankees, 55. Hits—Rice, Senators, 78. Doubles—Gehringer, Tigers; Cronin, Senators, 19. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 8. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 19. Stolen bases—Rice, Senators, 11, National League. Batting—Herman, Robins, .418. mRusrin—Hemln and Frederick, Rob- Rl;l‘jgé_ batted in—Kleln, Philies, 57. erman, , an ! Giants, 79. ey Doubles—Frisch, Cardinals, 21. Triples—Cuyler, Cubs, 9. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, Stolen bases—Cuyl ‘;.slnwle exception, is using a hickory t. SPHERE UNCHANGED IN'LAST FIVE YEARS Factory Official Asserts Slug- | ging Due to Other Con- ditions in Game. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. 66 Y word always has been | good,” said Julian Cur- tiss, “but I can hold up # my right hand and talk | until T am black in the face on| this so-called ‘lively ball’ question | and nobody pays the slightest at- tention to me.” Curtiss is an official of the com- pany which makes the ball. “There has been absolutely no change in the major league base ball in the past five years,” he said. “There isn't even a change in the yarn. If we bought our yarn, there might be; but we don't. We have our own yarn mills, and there has been no change in the manufacture or quality; no change in the wrapping; no change in the covers; no change in the rubber or cork. “I read, not long ago, an interview with Babe Ruth, saying that the Na- tional League balls were livelier than base balls used in the American League. That was a ridiculous compliment to Hack Wilson of the Cubs for the home runs he has been hitting. The National and American League base balls are exactly alike. “When the base balls are ready for the covers they are all put in binns. | The covers are put in other receptacles. | Sewers take a ball and sew the cover | on it. If they use one color for the | stitches, it is a National League ball; if they use another, it's an American League ball. It's the same cork, rub- ber, yarn and cover, manufactured in the same places. Before the cover stitches are in, and they are sewed by the same persons, nobody knows to which league the base ball will go. Conditions Are Changed. “But there have been other changes,” | continued Curtiss, “which undoubtedly have affected hitting. In the old days, many ball players were place hitters. They used bottle bats. They don't do that any more. They take a toe hold and use long tapering bats with small handles, almost like an exaggerated fungo bat. They are all trying to knock the ball out of the lot. “Another thing is that they no longer use ash bats. The insist on the heavier hickory. McGraw told me that his team | wasn't using many hickory bats. I had | curiosity enough to go and look up the bats we have been making for the Giants. Every man on the team, with “They have constantly restricted the pitchers. They have been using prac- tically nobhln%hexcepc new, glossy cov- erad balls. ey have eliminated all freak deliveries. They have put in stands and shortened the parks. All these things affect home runs, but they blame it on the ball. “The truth is they want home runs. Some of the parks put up wire screens. These caught a lot of looping flies ‘which would have gone for home runs. I understand one club took such a screen down. “If the fielders had unlimited space r Shires’ Stick Average Below Fighting Mark CHICAGO, June 11 (#)—Arthur “the Great” Shires is again warm- | ing the White Sox bench. | The White Sox first baseman was forced out of yesterday's game with the Athletics when he was hit in | the face by a ball during batting | practice and “Bud” Clancy stepped into his role and won the game in the eleventh inning. Injury or no injury, Shires is des- tined to warm the bench for some time, as his batting average is less than'his last Winter's fighting mark. | to go back after fly balls there would | be a great shortage in home runs. Ruth | and a few others actually hit the ball | beyond the reach of fielders, make legiti- | mate homers: but a lot of home runs | are just high flies which carry into | the short stands.” One of the Shibes of Philadelphia, | where the balls are manufactured, told me practically the same things that | Curtiss said. A Practical Remedy. But, whatever the reason, there is | such a wave of home run hitting today | that four-base hits are getting to be a joke. How they can remedy it, if they wish to remedy it, I don't know. The most practical cure to me would appear to be to let the base balls stay in the game longer, or permit the pitch- ers and infielders to stain a new ball with tobacco juice, as they did in the old days. Base ball may be a better or worse game than it was, but it is not the same game. Tactics have changed utterly. Fielders don't play the bat- ters as they did. With the fielders back as far as they are now, Willie Keeler or John McGraw would have hit around .800. And no boy wants to be a pitcher any more. The pitchers are the goats of the game. The ambition to be a Mathewson or Johnson has passed. g\v!‘t;‘y kid dreams only of being a Babe uth. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- | i er Allfance. HOME RUN STANDING. By the Assoclated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Klein, Phillies .. | Hartnett, Cubs . 1| Simmons, Athletics 1| Jolley, White Sox . 1| The Leaders. Ruth, Yankees Wilson, Cubs . Berger, Braves Klein, Phillies League Totals. 19| 18| 17| 16| | 281 213 vee 404 National . American Grand total TO ATTEND SOCEB’C&NFAB. Richard S. Tennyson and Harry G.| Helme are expected to represent the | Washington and Southwestern District | Soccer Association at the annual con- | vention of the United States Foot Ball gsnci&tl«m this week end at Atlantic | ty. TURNER MEETS POPE. Eddie Pope of North Carolina will be Joe Turner's foe tomorrow night in what is expected to be a hot wrestling | party at the Gayety Theater. In a co-feature, Mario Giglio, who has won | 11 straight matches, will take on Grady Roberts. CARDS PUT BRAKES ONLOSING STREAK Finally Call a Halt, but It Takes 10 Innings—Cubs Are Set Back Again. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. LITTLE thing like a rapidly de- scending elevator, which causes unpleasant sensations in many quarters, shouldn't bother the St. Louis Cardinals & bit from now on. The Cards went up to the top of the National League with about the greatest possible speed, winning 17 out of 18 games, and have been coming down from the heights with about as great rapidity. The Cardinals came to a temporary stop in their losing yesterday after drop- ping five straight games, but it took them 10 long innings to gain a 2-to-1 decision over the Boston Braves and even thas triumph left them with a record of only two victories in their last 12 games. Shut out for eight innings by Bob Smith, St. Louis took advantage of two walks in the ninth to push over a run, then repeated the feat in the rain-interrupted tenth with two of their seven hits. The Chicago Cubs, who appeared to be heading for the job of successors to the Cards as league leaders, suffered an- other set-back yesterday after losing two of three to Brooklyn. Much to their surprise, they ran into Phil Col- lins of Philadelphia and got only six hits. They couldn't get a run while the Phillies pecked away at Pat Ma- lone, winding up with a three-run burst in the eighth for a 6-to-2 victory. The defeat left Chicago three-and-a-half games behind the league leaders. All the other National League games and the Washington-Cleveland contest in the American League were rained out. Another champion club, the Phila- delphia Athletics, played second divis- ion base ball as they dropped an 11- inning struggle to the Chicago White Sox by & 7-to-6 count. The worst ex- hibition came in the tenth inning when Philadelphia could get only two runs on five hits, having two men thrown out at the plate. The Sox promptly tied it up again and continued scoring in the next frame. Bob Grove, who had won seven straight games, was charged with the defeat although he pitched less than two innings. The Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers put on another exhibition of poor fielding and heavy hitting. Bos- ton had the better of both although Hod Lisenbee could not last the en- tire distance on the mound. The Red Sox made 17 hits off four Tiger hurl- ers and reaped the benefit of four er. rors, all of which figured in the scor- ing for a 12-to-6 victory. The New York Yankees got a fast start against the St. Louis Browns and scored all their runs in the first two innings to win, 5 to 3. 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