Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1930, Page 27

Sports News MORE DASH, DARING IN REVISED GRIFS Hit Sharply to Win Twice Over Indians and Gain Second Place. BY JOHN B. KELLER. several EW blood, more life. players, more spirit. The Washington club seems to be cashing in on the trades it made imme- New diately before the time for the | bartering of talent in the major leagues was up. Manush, Crowder, Shires and Harris are not winning ball games daily for the Nationals, but their addition to the ranks appears to have put more ginger into all hands. There has been a noticeable increase of dash and daring in the play of the Wash- ington club since the former Brown and White Sox players don- ned its uniform. Evidently a shake-up in organization every once in a while does no harm. The playing of the Nationals still is spott; They still blunder as major leaguers should not blunder. Now, however, the Nationals are fighting back much more than they did in the three weeks before the trades gave them new talent. And this fighting back has helped mightily. Since the first of the deals went through the Nationals haven't plaved as good as 50-50 base ball, but they have done far better than they had for some time. During their slump before the trades Manager Walter Johnson's charges won but four of 13 games and_those -wins were well spread. Still feeling the ef- fects of the deal of punishment they had been taking, they did not get along so well right after the first deal was put through, but they have picked up well enough to win four of their last nine engagements. A much better showing than winning only four in 13 starts. New blood, more life. New players, more spirit. -~ Looks as though the trades have done the Nationals good. EGARDLESS of what happens to| them during the remainder of the series, the Nationals cannot be overhauled by the Indians during the stay of the latter. Winning 9 to 5 and | 3 to 2 over the Tribe in the double- | header yesterday, the Washington club | mot only swept past ‘he Yankees to second place in the league standing, but increased therr advantage over the fourth-place foe to three and one-half games. The Nationals went half a game ahead of New York, which has not been pounding. the bal: daily on its own Jat. as it did"In the West. In fact, since returning from their swing around the far sector of the circuit the Yapakees | have not played as fast as the Nationals by 29 points. The long-hitting New Yorkers rattled many hits off the short fences of the Western fields, but with the outfielders of their opponents hav- ing more room and playing deep in ‘Yankee Stadium many drives that would have gone for hits out West are being caught. AT quartet of newcomers contrib- uted greatly to Washington's suc- cess in the first game. Of the nine runs made by-the Nationals, eight were driven over the counting block by Har- ris, Shires and Manush. Harris, with a ingle and a double, pushed three across and was responsible for the tallying of another when he drilled into a fielder’s choice. Shires, who collected two sin- gles and a double, drove over a run each | time he hit. Manush got three hits, | one a double, but it was with one of his singles he scored a teammate. | Heinie also crossed the final base three | times and Harris went over twice. Crowder, the remaining member of | the quartet, started on the slab for the | third time since becoming a National| and went the route to his second vic-| tory. Al did not have his stuff ap-| parently in the first two rounds, when | the Tribe got to him for six safeties and | four runs—three of the runs crossed in| | | | OF BANDITS COME INTO You To-"STICK'EM UP" | WHEN ONE DAY A COuPLE YouR: STORE AND TeLL - AND AFTER THREE MINUTES “OUR ARMY ARE ACHING SOME -| THING FIERCE - The T WASHINGTON, D. pening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C 9 TUESDAY, JUNE 24, HAV THE AND AFTER THEY € ROBBED Ypu OF CONTENTS oF YOUR SAFE AND SHow CASE AND WARRED You FoR To"HEEP EM UP FIVE MINUTES AFTER THEIR DEPAI ~AND FOUR MINUTES YOUR ARMS ARE NUMB jfiqflj}»x ND THROBBING RTURE - AT THE END OF | - AND WH AIN'T ARE UP — = OH-H- T A GR-R-R-RAND ANnD —BY BRIGGS AND (LU LoOK AT THE CLOCK B Be SURE THAT You' Lo HNOW WHEN THE TIME S UP FOR THE HANDS To CoME Down* D EN THE FIVE Ak 'MINUTE s GLOR-R-R-RI0US FEELIN' 2.5 Ny TRIBUNE. e HAT a good catcher can play a major part in the success of a sandlot team is proved in the case of the Saks Clothiers. The Saks club, whose collective caps were thrown in the unlimited ring for the first time this season, have been com- ing along like a house afire and their record to date is a winning streak of 13 games. Geiger is the catcher in question. bouquets have been handed to one player or another, Geiger has been playing pang-up ball and as a result | his team boasts one of the most impres- sive records hung up this season—and against strong teams, too! Geiger is perhaps the only bespec- tacled backstop in the city, but glasses don’t sceem to hurt his game, He can catch with the best of them d has one of the strongest throwing arms on the sandlots. Not only that, but Geiger is the heavy artillery of the Saks. His batting has pulled many a game out of the fire and most of his drives have been good for more than one base. Speaking of bespectacled sandlotters— Sanford Ross, former Central High cap- tain and pitching ace, is bearing the brunt of the mound burden for Saks this year along with Dick Mothershead, and is doing a great job of it, too! Ross is undefeated this season. Cy Hogarth, who starred with East- ern a few years back in base ball lsl well as in basket ball, is rapidly de- veloping into a first-class receiver. While attending the Lincoln Park School, Hogarth played the outfield, but this season he has held down the regu- lar catching job on Western Electric. ‘This Georgetown Church League, which is now holding the spotlight in the week day loop play, is no nearer | the solution of the first half pennant winner than they were last week. win for Grace Episcopal yester- | the opening inning—but thereafter he was hit safely only six times. two of the blows being bunched in the ninth to put over the final Tribal marker And then a wild chuck by Myer was needed to help Falk tally. | N the second game Manush failed to | drive the ball to fafety in four ef-| forts, but Harris and Shires were | prominent in attack. Art got a single and a double, but it was his pass in the second inning that paved the way to| the Nationals’ first run. It was Harris'| only hit, a triple, that sent over in the third inning what proved the big marker of the fray. H ‘Marberry did the pitching against the | Tribe in this encounter and turned in about his best game of the season, a M game even better than that in which he ille held the Red Sox to fewer hits some time back. For seven rounds Fred yield- | ed nothing more than a single and a double. He slipped in the eighth, and| the first three batters to face him hit| safely to put over two runs. Then red | braced, and though another hit fol- Jowed with two out, and with one gone in the ninth the seventh Tribal safety was_made off him, he-never was in much danger after the first retirement was recorded in the eighth. 'N the opening tilt of the bill, the Na- | tionals batted against the left-handed | Walter Miller and a right-handed | rookie, Belve Bean. With a pass, an error and a single they got back in their | first oatting turn one of the three tallios | 33/ the Indians had rung up. In the third | they e him for three hits, a pass and two runs. | all after two were out. Bean relieved Miller in this frame, bnt did rot have | to oiten to a batter, because Shires wac caught trying to swipe second. They | hopped on Bean for four hits and three | runs in the fifth, though. to make him | the :oser, and collected three more runs | with three hite and a pass in the | seventh. All told, the Nationals got 13 | hits in the fray | They batted against Hudlin all the | ¥ way in the second set-to, and got nine | hits and two passes. In each of the eignht innings they went to bat, the Na- | tionals hit safely. It was a pass to Shirss and singles by Bluege and Rul | that put over the first marker in th!i second inning, and Bluege counted as Marberry forceda out Ruel. With two out in the third frame Cronin walked, and raced to the plate when Harris tripled. That prcved sufficient. | | HIRES did much fancy fleldl.ngi around the initial sack yesterday in addition to his neat hitting, and, | in consequence, the veteran first-sacker, | Joe Judge, who suffered a charley-hor: leg in Cleveland more than two weeks 2go, may delay a little longer returning to his post to assure complete recovery from the injury. . Sam Rice, his knee that was injured by a pitched ball Sunday still quite sore, was not apt to return to action this tfternoon, He’ll be back soon, though. | winners will | Spencer sed Miller, when they combed | i day over Vermont Avenue Christian, | one of the tail-enders, would have | given| Grace a strong grip on'the title, | but as matters stand at present, the not be decided before Thursday at least. | Grace, with a patched-up line-up, CHAMPIONSHIP STUFF FIRST GAME. $roro000mmmsa’ [SPNUPRSIEre | ormrsomroos? 12 n inning. Totaly. J...., 35 “Batted for Bean in ninth WASHINGTON. AB. R 2 o ] o > Cronin, 'ss. .. Harris, rf.0, Shires, 1b.! Blueg & Crowder 0| ol socommuw—o | somwmmunon? | cwmamsmmmen | umoorvoooa! Totals Score by innings Clevelana Washington Runs batted in— Hodapp gan, Cronin. Harris (4). SI o-base Mory ush. Harris. (2), hires h s Harris. d. Was 2 ' n. -OftMiller. Struck out—By Miller,” 1 i Struck_out—iy Miller, 1: ] Hits—Off Miller. 4 in 33, innings: off Bean, . innings. Passed ball—Myatt | pitcher—Bean. Umpires—Messrs. debrand Ormeby 'and Guthrie. Time o same—1 hour and 49 minutes. SECOND GAME. CLEVELAND shingto :off in ing > o £l ] o > L] Myat. c Hudlin, p. Totals .. 3 WASHINGTON. Myer, 2b. West, cl.. Manush, 'if Cronin Harris, Loepp. Shires. Bluege, Ruel. ¢ .. Marberry, p. B ol omsrrmono! O Bl omomuwi (R RERNR - PR [T S @l sorroonsos? ulssmrsssss! 5l woswcosson? 3l mossouson? 15/ 00009050--" ol 205005052 ol sunnorosmw! Totals . i ai Myait, Shir 7. Bases T i k ses on_ba) Siruck out—By Magberry, 1. “'l""' 5 Messrs. Guthrie and Hilde- d. Time of game—1 hour and 38 min- {in a mound duel and strange to into the | | Robins, 2; Simmons, Athletics, Pick-Ups From the Sandlots By Francis E. Stan encountered a tough foe yesterday in Vermont Avenue and a result, was lucky to get off with a tie score. A victory today over the same team would keep Grace in the running, provided it comes through with a win over Ver- mont Thursday in yesterday's play-off. The Government League was to open its second half yesterday, but another tie game only put things in a stand- still. Two old sandlot vetera Lefty Yard Kuhnert and Reese Hair of and- Interstate huxc&up say, neither pitcher would give other, and consequently the sun went down with the score standing 4 to ¢. They're off today! The Terminal League, which was far from a race for the first half hon- | ors, Pullman walking away with the championship, promises to be a much harder fight in the second half. Pull- man and Express, close rivals, will be at it this afternoon. D. C. Repair Shop, winners of the first half of the Departmental League, open their second half this afternoon, facing Treasury, while the champion Tile Setters again meet the tail-end Holmes Bakery. HOME RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Davis, Phillies, | 2; Jolley, White Sox, 2; Herman, Ruth, Yankces, 1; Fo Athletics, Wilson, Cubs, 1: Melillo, Browns, 1; Haas, Ath- letics. 1; Gehrig, Yankees, 1; Gilbert, Robins, 1; Cochrane, Athleties, 1; Rice, Yankees, 1: Berger, Braves, Wat- kins, Cardinals, 1; The Leaders. Ruth, Yankees Wilson, Cubs . Berger, Braves Klein, Phillies Gehrjg, Yankees Foxx, Athletics . Herman, Robins . . League Totals. National ..... : American BATTING. AB. R. H 2b.3b HR S| 91715 G. AB. 235 55 — os055000000000monen—wulY 312 312 30 306 296 285 281 265 o505000000mcomtNa—asEanT SUSRHIREIRN 8. McLeod * Gharrity [ NUPUr U PSP % ss00nsna0atian . 500000010 Om DN ARG a 2505000509000500~0~aNmAW. ] H 3 - H In'gs Gam Comp, H BB.SO pitch start.gam W 72 41 21 925 10 6 8 39 6 74 L row mas 12 51 Crowder 16 118 Moore 4 9 13 36 4 American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. ‘Washington, 9—3: Cleveland, 5— New York. 1 t. Lo 0—1 Philadelphia. 2—17; Chict Boston, 2; Detroit, 0. High, Cardinals, 1. | 2 | at’ Boston. | "guiy'31" st Louis at Chica BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By the Asscciated Press. American League. Batting—Simmons, Athletics, .405. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 76. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 74. Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 94 Doubles—Gehringer, Tigers, 21; Mc- anus, Tigers, 21. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 11 Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 24, Stolen bases—Rice, Senators, 12. National League. Batting—Fisher, Cardinals, 431. Runs—Cuyler, Cubs, 63. Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 73. | _Hits —Klein, Phillies, 94; Terry, | Glants, 94; Herman, Robins, 94. 1 “Dotibles—Friseh, Cardinals, 23, Triples—Cuyler, Cubs, 11. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs. 22. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 16. 'LOTS OF TWIN BILLS I M i | [ | IN AMERICAN LEAGUE TIL PR | By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, June 24.—For the fourth time this season, the American League was forced to revise its heavy double- header schedule to absorb frozen and | rained-out games. Twenty-two games have been at- tached to the schedule by the double- header route, while another will be | played on a scheduled open date. The revised list: Today—Chicago at Philadelphia t Borton June 28_Cleveland at New York July 7—Detroit at Chicago. July 8—Philadelphia at New York. July 9_Washington at Boston. | July 12_New York at Chicago: Washing- ton at Detroit | 3wy 1 New v | Juy July | July | July July Detroit X at Chicago. nd 19—Washington at Cleveland. 20—-Boston at Chicago. 22 _New York at Cleveland. 27—Boston at St. Louls 30—St. Louls at Chicago: New York fcago. August 2—Boston at Philadelphia; Wash- ington at New York. August 3 —Boston at Washington August 25—8t. Louis at Detroit (one game. pen_date) August 27-—Chicago ‘at Cleveland. September 6—Cleveland at Chicago. 'SOME HOT BATTLES Plenty of fine battling marked play in | District weck day base ball leagues. | _'There were two ties. Interstate and | Navy Yard fought to a 4-4 deadlock in | the ‘Government League and Vermont | Avenue and Grace Episcopal finished | 9-all in the Georgetown Church loop In the Industrial League Hibbs was |a 9-5 winner over Western Electric and | in the Departmental loop Aggles scored 6n |over G. P. O, 11 to 8. YESTERDAY’S STARS | By the Associated Press Hack Wilson, Cubs, clubbed Philadel- 91| phia_pitching for two singles, double, @0 | triple and_twenty-second home run. | held Danny MacFayden, Red Sox, | Tigers to three singles and bianked | them, 2-0. | Babe Herman, Robins, drove in four runs with single and sixteenth‘and sev- enteenth homers against Pirates, Lefty Grove, Athletics, struck out 11, | gave five hits and beat White Sox, 2-1. | . Babe Ruth, Yankees, hit twenty- fourth homer to aid Yankees Browns. beat National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 3: Cincinnati, 0. Brooklyn, 19:_Pittsburgh. 6. Chicago, 21; Philadelphia, 8. Boston, 12; St. Louls, 9. STANDING OF pamoan) Chicago New York New York Cleveland 7633128541 St. Louis Detroit 20 827135 43¢ Pittsburgh 5T 412735 435 T Philadelphia . Cincinnati GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Clev. at Wi + 3:30. Clev, Wi S Lonis R York. St Losis At Chicago at Phil (two). Ohic: at Phils Detroit at Bos, (bwe). Detroft at Bos GAMES TODAY. New York st Cinci. 4 Chicago, IN SANDLOT LOOPS VIRGINIA WHITE SOX MAKING FINE RECORD Among the most | holding forth in independent sandlot base ball ranks hereabout is the Vir- ginia White Sox of Balleys Cross Roa Va. George Harrison, energetic manag | of this team, has had the team hustling (nll season with the result that it boasts a nifty record. In their latest test the Sox took the | measure of Willie Andrews’ National | Circles, 12 to 9. The Sox are after more | contests with unlimited teams. Harrison can be reached at Clarendon 495 be- tween 6 and 7 p.m. Cy Yingling. Saks & Co. first baseman, ran his total of putouts without an error to 102 as his team rang up its thir- teenth straight win at. the expense of | Capitol Heights Junior Order, 12 to 8. St. Elizabeth's Hospital nine, which was to face Comets this evening at 5 o‘clock on the Hospital diamond, will engage Rice’s Bakery on the same field and at the same time tomorrow. Majestics Radio and Nclan Motor Co. senior nines were to have it out this evening at 5 o'clock on Monument dia- | mond No. 3. Phoenix A. C. is after games with the Laurel, Md, and Virginia White Sox nines. A game is wanted for Sunday and also an engagement for July 4. Write L. C. Risler, 240 Tenth street southeast, or phone Lincoln 8433-J be- | tween 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Billy Keane and Thomas O'Hanlon hit homers as Chevy Chase Mascots de- feated Friendships, 11 to 10. French base ballers visited Fredericks- burg, Va., and handed the EIks' nine a | most convincing 8-1 pasting. Langley Senfors had little trouble | downing Wolverine Seniors, 11 to 2. | are seeking a game with a Washington | nine for July 4. Address Manager C. Schneider, 414 North Robinson street, Baltimore. St. Stephen's Junior tossers, who were to drill today on Monument dia- mond No. 7 at 5 o'clock, are to work there again Thursday at the same time. Chevy Chase Gray formed by the Anacostia Moose Club of Anacostia. Teams interested should call North 5718, | _Manush Insects wi Braxton Insects, 30 to Games are wantéd as follows: ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co., Sunday morning. Phone Buckley, | Atlantic 3470-W between 9 a.m. and 1 m. P Golumbians, insect games. Rinaldi, North 1600. Del Ray, Va., Manager DeVaughan, Metropolitan 3687, branch 331, during |the day or Alexandria 202-J after 6 m. | Adelphite, Sunday game, Columbia 4562. Pontiac A. C. August games with | midget teams. Charnley, Atlantic 4195 | between 5:30 and 6, or Metropolitan 19900, brancn 601, during the day. Mount Rainier’ Juniors, July games. Bellman, Hyattsville 1043 between 6 |and 8 pm. | Sam West Insects. Tait, 11528-W in the evening. Argyle Peewees, Adams 3090. Montrose Peewees, Adams 8941 Isherwood A. C. Sunday game Atlantic 408-W bewteen 5:30 and 6 pm. Atlantic | ‘ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Kansas City, 4; Indianapolis, 3. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Baltimore. 8: Toronto, Buffalo, 73; Reading, 5. Rochester, 4: Jersey City, 1. Montreal, 10; Newark, 4. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta. 15; New Orleans. 11. Little Rcck, 12; Nashville, 6. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 8-3; Raleigh. 4-1. Greensboro, 7: High Point, 5. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Tampa. 5; Pensacola, 1 | . Columbus,’ 5-4: Jacksonville, 1-3. (Second same seven innings. WESTERN LEAGUE. nver. 6 Wichita, 4. Des ] Pueblo, 5; Topeka. 2. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. games scheduled. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Asheville. No consistent nines | Bayonne A. C. tossers of Baltimore | s want to fill sev- | eral open dates with unlimited nines. | Call Nick Valenza at Cleveland 5463 A peewee base ball league is being | walloped Garland | 1 1930. MACKS AND TRIBE HAVE 0DD RECORD Neither Team Has Won Game | on Others’ Lot During “ Present Campaign. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | EW YORK, June 24 (CP.A).— | On the duel between Cleveland | and Philadelphia may hinge | the American League pennant this year. Lively Ball Brings Wealth of Homers BY AL DEMAREE, Former Pitcher New York Giants. Judging from the box scores lately they must have run the old lively ball in again. For a while the “pow. ers that be” toned down the “rabbit" by putting a soft rubber casing around the hard rubber and cork center, but they must have elimi- nated this precaution. The public probably likes this era of home runs, especially if the home team is doing the slugging. However, 1t is tough on the poor pitcher. He never has a game won the Philadelphia grounds and lost &. At Cleveland Philadelphia won 6 and lost 5. That gave Philadelphia 14 vic- tories to 7 for the season. This year the Cleveland club has not won a game on the Philadelphia ground and has lost seven to the champions there. Another defeat in Philadelphia and the Athletics will have tied their record of 1929 against one of the very good-looking teams of the American League, which flounders like a skate coming out of the water the moment it reaches the fleld of the Athletics. Neither has Philadelphia won a game on the Cleveland ground this year, so there is a bit of a stand-off in that respect. Twice the Athletics have gone dians on Sunday in Cleveland, and both times the champions have been licked good. For some reason Cleveland teams have had much ill fortune in winning games in Philadelphia from remote times. In the '80s and early '90s, when the Cleveland team was in the National League, it seldom visited Philadelphia without meeting a reverse of one kind or_another, Philadelphia now must go to Cleve- land before Cleveland returns to Phila~ delphia and if the Indians can keep the Athletics from winning on the Cleve- land field and Washington keeps up its pace, while the Yankees bluster away and play a fugue with their bats against all pitchers, the A's may losé the lead | once _more and before they know it may lose it for good and all. | Earnshaw of the Athletics has pitched three winning games against Cleveland, | Grove two, Walberg one and Mahaffey one. Ferrell ot Cleveland has pitched three winning games against Phila- delphia, Hudlin one and Brown one. Match the winning pitchers against the winning piichers and the championship of the American League may hinge on | Earnshaw and Ferreil, Grove and Hud- | Iin, witk Brown, Walberg and MahatTey thrown in on the side. |CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE TEAMS GETTING TALENT! Managers of Capital City Base Ball League teams are now engaged i sign- ing’ players before eligibility lists close }#l}l’\dl prior to the start of second- | half piay. | League and American Legion officials | also _have begun the wrok of deter- | mining various protests arising from recent league games. (COPENHAVER BIRDS | CLEAN-UP IN RACE| Three birds bred by Harry D. Copenhaver ran away with the 500- mile race flown Sunday by the District of Columbia Racing Pigeon Club from Cleveland, Tenn. John H. Holmead's entry was fourth, | thereby winning the average speed | diploma and silver cup which was | | donated for«the best average speed of | five races. Walter O. Norwood's entry, | which was fifth, was the only other bird to home on'the day of the flight. | Following is the order of finish, show- | ing the average speed in yards per | minute made by the first return to| | each loft: | Harry D. Copenhaver Harry D. Copenhaver | { In 1929 Cleveland won 2 games on | overnight on Saturday to play the In- | | partment Blues, who won their opening A L g e s as long as there is a batter up there swinging & club. A three or four run lead means nothing any more. A hitter who would be lucky to hit a ball out of the infield in the old days is liable to give the ball a ride over the fence with several of his mates on the bases, and the old game is over. Players who couldn't hit the fences with a shotgun are hitting balls over them. It may be all right, but at times I long for the old tight low score games, when base running and strat- egy counted for something. (Copyright. 1930.) WAR BLUES APPEAR TODAY IN TOURNEY BALTIMORE, June 24—War De. match in the Southern half competi- tion of the Southeastern Polo Circuit here u few days ago, will play their| second game Thursday evening against | the Fauquier-Loudoun four of Middle- burg, Va.. it has been announced. The match will start at 4:30 o'clock. Third Cavalry of Fort Myer, which won the Argentine Army Cup and the tournament for the War Department | Association Cups recently in Washing- | ton, is the second team of the District area to get off to a winning start in the intracircuit competition. Yesterday the . Cavalrymen came through with a 10-to-6 victory over another Fort Myer combination, 16th Field Artillery. From the outset these dearest of foes | battled furiously, but Yellows got going in the fourth chukker to score two | goals, added three more in the fifth and | their last two in the sixth. The Artil- lerymen rallied courageously in the | final period, but were halted after scor- ing_three goals. The line-ups: Harry D. Copenhaver i | John H Holmead (Manor).. | Walter O. Norwood....... Second Day Birds, William F. Dismer. John W. Kauffman W. 8. Hixson. A.'S. Johnstone " | Robert Lee Fosier Henry Wehausen 866.00 | 823.30 796.50 .00 553.50 Petworth Loft < Report only Harry C. Burke..".."\". Five lofts no report Pirst five lofts receive diplomas. Winner of race gets cup. THE RING MYSTERY. NCE again the greatest mystery in prize ring history pops into ‘O the spotlight. His name s | Young Stribling, the fighter who should be the world's heavyweight | champion with something to spare—and yet isn't even close. When Stribling stopped Von Porat in a round he was stopping a pretty good | man ane a dangerous hitter. &ome time | ago, for_example, Gagnon knocked out Tuffy Criffiths. the heavyweight who | was "to be sen! against Sharkey. Von Porat later knocked out Gagnon. He | almost made Phil Scott jump out of the ring in the first round of their fight. It akes something to stop Von Porat in a round. | Jack Sharkey doesn't consider | Schmeling in the same class with Strib- | ling, either as a boxer or a hitter. Yet | Schmeling is champion and Stribling 1 | still nowhere. Sharkey admitted that Stribling hurt him badly more than once at Miami and that he was one of the hardest men to hit he had ever | faced. All of which has gotten him no- i where so far, for the simple reason that on entirely too many occasions Stribling | has failea to show his stuff. All he has ever needed was aggressiveness in a big | test—but this is more than a trifle when | it happens to be missing. Stribling has had everything else. He is one of the best of all the boxers. He is a good puncher with either hand. He is fast, strong and young. He has had mere experience than any two fighters in the game today. In fact, Stribling has fought more ring battles than Dempsey, Tunney and Sharkey com- bined and he is still under 25, or in that immediate neighborhood. But something like Sharkey, he has failed too often when the big spot blew around. His victory over Von Porat, a one-round knockout, will undoubtedly give him another chance. It remains to be seen what he will do with this chance, but the stuff is there to carry him to the top by a wide margin if he will only use it. More Competition. O fs Ruth has had more Tun competition than he has faced before. There have home ever been o THE SPORTLIGHT | BY GRANTLAND RICE. | comes to making up lost ground against THIRD CAVALRY YELLOWS. | Lieut. C, H. Noble....... ~Lieut. F. W. Makinney Capt. M. A. Devine. Back—Lieut. Thomas Ri 1 o < obinson. | and the latter winning. 3 to 0. 20 HOMERS AMONG 25 HITS RECORDED Lively Ball Much in Evidence as Aggregate of 159 Runs Is Scored. BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. ODERN-DAY base ball, with its lively ball, home runs and two-figured scores, was ex- hibited to Mr. John Public in large quantities by the major league ball teams yesterday. A total of 256 hits, in which were interspersed 20 home runs, rang off the bats of the players, scoring 159 runs to furnish an example of the great American sport as played in 1930. The American Leaguers outscored their Na- tional League rivals 81 to 78 and outhit them, 137 to 119, but seven games were played in the junior cirduit as com- pared to four in the Heydler circuit. The American League also led in home runs 11 to 9 as Babe Ruth connected with his twenty-fourth of the season. Cubs Lead Parade. The Chicago Cubs led the parade in both leagues, defeating the Phillies 21 to 8, as they found the Philadelphia pitchers for 24 hits, including Hack Wilson's twenty-second home run. Davis, Phillie catcher, drove the ball over the fence twice. Not far behind the Cubs trailed the Brooklyn Robl:s‘utéhe_v dou"r;ed":l.l; Pirates 19 to in the greates of hitting in either circuit. The Robins hit safely 28 times and in doing 0 tled two league records. Their 10 con- secutive hits in the sixth equaled the one-inning successive hit record held by the Cubs and Cardinals, while the two added at the start of the seventh ran the consecutive string to 12 and tied the mark made by the Cardinals against_the Phillies on September 17, 1920. The out that retired the Robins in the sixth was made by catching Lopez at the plate, thus allowing the unbroken string of hits to extend into the next inning. Even the Boston Braves cut loose, winning a slugging match from the St. Louis Cardinals, 12 to 9. Wally Berger hit his twenty-first home run to retain runner-up honors in the circuit. Bill Walker and the Giants managed to put on an old-fachioned ball game, the former holding the Reds to six g:; Kolp held New York to eight safeties, Variety at Philadelphia. As if to give Mr. Public a variety, the Athletics and White Sox hooked up in a 2-to-1 game in the opener of & double header in the American League and then closed with a 17-t0-9 affair. The world champions were on the long end of the score in both games. Mose Grave outpitehed old Red Faber in the first - encounter, but home runs came thick and fast in the nightcap. Five were divided between the Athletics, Al Simmons_ getting two and Foxx, Haas and Cochrane one each, while Jolley connected twice for the Sox. The Yankees lost ground as they blanked the Browns in the first game of a double bill, 15 to 0, and then dropped the second, 10 to 6. Henry Johnson pitched four-hit ball in the first, while Ruth got No. 24 in his home run cam- paign. The defeat dropped the Yanks to third place. A dwl':le killing over the Indians by the Nationals sent Washington into sec- ond place. The scores were 9 to 5 and 3 to 2. Alvin Crowder, Heinie Manush and Art Shires were the stars of the opener, while Fred Marberry outpitched Hudlin in the closing contest. Behind Danny MacFayden's three-hit pitching the Red Sox defeated the Tigers, 2 to 0. Sullivan pitched almost as well, holding the Sox to four hits. It was MacFayden's second three-hit performance in a week. ITAKOMA PARK PLANS FOR JULY 4 AFFAIR 81X 1—Lieut. Mark McClure 2—Lieut. Col 3—Lieut. G. Back—Capt. R. Score by ‘periods. *Third Cavalry Ye Sixteenth Field ... Earned 8. handicap 3. Time of periods—7's Tlows | more hard hitters crowding his pace, but so far the veteran, who has been | around for 17 or 18 years, shows no | sign of slipping back. In the past there have been only one or two high- class_pursuers on his heels. Now he has Hack Wilson, Klein, Berger, Geh. rig, Herman, Simmons, Ott and sev- eral others are pesting the ball. The Babe is in a place where he can't afford to weaken. One or two of his rivals may slip, but three or four of them are sure to keep on walloping the ball out of the park and at least two or three may slip past the 50 mark. When you recall the fact that they walked the Babe 15 times in one week you can see the handicap he is up against. And if he happens to bump into an accident or pick up a bad leg he will be in a tough sector when it so many home-run opponents. The Wear and Tear Side. L H. G. writes in to say he can't understand why the strain of a Physically it isn't. It is the matter of | trying to concentrate on every shot| played through four rounds. | Take the case of Bobby Jones at the | eighth hole at Hoylake. His second | shot was about 20 yards from the green. | 1t was in the rough, but in no sense un- playable. Ordinarily under the same conditions he would be putting for his 4. As it was, there was evidently a brief mental lapse, where his concentratio: failed to hold up, He even failed to reach the green. His next shot was almost as bad. Before he was through he had taken five strokes to get down from 20 yards away without any bunker trouble. ‘The 20-handicap nary conditions would he kes | | lfer under ordi- howl murder if ppen champ! es) cially down the stretch, where nerves fi! jumping sideways and where just one along the line of concentration can g about heavy to a Bobby Jones. (Coprrisnt, 1936, by fl"' American News- ) Indications are that the annual ath= letic program July 4 at Takoma Park, ' which again will be sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce there and which will be featured by the second 7-mile run for a leg un The Evening Star Cup, will go over in bang-up style. Bil Agee, crack distance runner of the Emorywood Athletic Club of Baltimore, | whose latest triumph here was in the recent 15-mile National A. A. U. rum, won the Takoma Park event last year and will be on hand to defend his honors, it has been announced. The runner first winning the event three years will gain permanent possession of The Star Trophy. Entry blanks for the race will be out this week, and the committee in charge is making efforts to secure as many competitors as possible. The run is open to any amateur. Entries should be filed with Herman Riley, boys’ di= rector of the Takoma Park Playground, Takoma Park, D. C. In addition to the 7T-mile run, there will be & mile event open to all. There also will be various other tests closed to residents of Takoma Park. These will include 100, 220 and 440 vard dashes and an 880-yard run for unlimited class contestants and 60-yard dashes for boys in the 85, 100 and. 118 pound classes d for girls in the 85 and 100 pound classes. There will be relay races, t00, but the classes for these have not yet been announced. GRAYSON IS HONORARY STEWARD AT ARLINGTON CHICAGO, June 24 (#).—Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Arthur B. Hancock and Maj. L. A. Beard have been named | golf championship should be so heavy | honorary stewards for Arlington Park’s racing season, which opens Monday. The season will be Arlington Park's greatest, with a purse distribution ap- proximating $650,000, Eight events, in- stead of the customary seven, will be run daily. RISKO AND GRIFFITH T0 BATTLE ON JULY 2 CHICAGO, June 24 (#).—Tuffy Grif- fiths, Chicago heavyweight, has been matched with Johnny Risko of Cleves land for a 10-round match at the Chi= cago Stadium July 2. [ TEXAS LEAGUE. Fort Worth, 8 San Antonio, § ings) Houston. 4 Wichita Falls, 3. Shreveport, 13; Beaumont, 13. a2 in- nl THREE-EYE LEAGUE.