Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 33

v , E Sp'ol‘ts‘News\ “ @TI]B én WASHINGTO:! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 9 D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31, ening Star. 1930. Features and Classified PAGE C—1 Wild Pitching Checks Nats’ Progress : Old Homer Marks Become Insignificant MANY WALKS HURT GRFFMEN' CAUSE Brought Defeats and Beats Club as Set With A’s Starts. BY JOHN B. KELLER. F the Nationals are to swing back into the winning stride that made them the sensation of the American League the latter part of June and early this month their pitchers must regain control. For some time now the boxmen of Walter Johnson's club have hurt their cause no little by wild pitching. Too often passes| have been converted into runs by the opposition. And not even the resence of the President of the Inited States and Mrs. Hoover among the 15000 at Griffith Stadium yesterday inspired the ‘Washington starting pitcher to finer effort. During the recent tour of the West the Natlonals dropped 12 of 19 games layed, and bases on balls issued by ashington pitchers had much to_do with seven of the dozen defeats. The wild pitching off-set much of the healthy hitting done by Manager John- son's charges. Right at the beginning of the trip & game was lost to the Tigers, and the way to the loss was paved by a pass is- | It put on base at the outset of the ninth inning the | crossed sued by Al Crowder. ‘Tiger who Jater with the tying tally. Before Crowder could recover his poise the game was gone. In another Detroit game Bump Hadley and Lloyd Brown issued passes that became runs, upsetting the Nationals. Although Crowder issued few passes when he faced the Browns he was wild from the start, and was in trouble with nearly every batter that faced him. As a result he often was forced to stick the ball straight across snd the re- sultant hits were costly to the Na- tionals. The worst wild pitching did to the Nationals in St. Louis, though, was that game in which Hadley stepped out after walking two men, and Brown, who relieved, walked two more before he was lifted. All those passes became runs before the inning ended, and the St. Lonis rally overcame the Nationals. | 7, Two of the three games the Nationals Jost to the White Sox last week had passes figure largely in the losses. 1t was walks given by Bob Burke that started the White Sox on & winning rally in cne game and in the other a ass directly led to defeat. Hadley had {'vlo out and none on in the ninth and the score was tied. He walked the third batter up in the inning and the next doubled 1o end the battle. IGHT on top of this wild work in the West came Crowder's erratic perfoxmance yesterday in the first game of the important series with the Athletics, & series in which the Na- tionals hoped to gain to the utmost at the expense of the league lehders. Yet Crowder, flufln‘l his_stay of less than five innings on the hill issued six passes. Three of these passes were turned into runs. As the Nationals were defeated by the A's just 7 to 4 it is readily seen how much Crowder's wildness affected the Nationals’ chances of success. True, the Athletics got 10 hits, but the Nationals got as many. However, eight of the A's hits were made off Crowder, and one of the hits backed a brace of walks that had been given after one was out. Ad a relieved Crowder in the fifth, Jimmy Dykes' triple had knocked over the two batters Al had walked, and Ad was nicked for two hits and a pa ding the round. The Ad ;r,x‘ u‘: fifth, though, lnx.gfi other he put out in the seventh fortunately did Athletics. A ‘well after settling In fact, Ad pitched to his task. So ¢id Lloyd Brown, who toiled against the . Fred Lgarberry who pitched in the ninth. Fred retired by strikeouts the three Mackmen to face him. Bing Mil- Jer waved for the third one, Williams jet the last strike go by and Dykes fanned. Some of that pitching could ¥ have been used earlier. OBERT MOSES GROVE, renowned R left-hander, did not have one of his great days on the hill, but it was great enough to get by with. Rob- ert was not so fast in the first si innings, especially in the sixth, yet th Nationals in that time got to him for only seven safeties and a walk. Four of these hits were clustered in the sixth session when the Washington club made Migne bllg splurge of the game to tally threc times. After the sixth, though, Robert had speed aplenty. Right at the start of the seventh Grove threw & third strike that Shires, batting for Liska, swung at futilely. Art may have seen that pitch, but it did not look as though Rice saw the one that was called him for a third strike right . It was the |ol? Grove that itched the seventh inning. ® Bob faltered some in the eighth and the Nationals filled the bases. Two hits and a base on balls to Harris, bat- ting for West, turned the trick, but two were out and Myer, who picked up Brown’s bat, lofted to Miller in center. In the ninth, Judge got a double with one out, but Manush and Cronin became easy outs. Grove was “right” at the finish. ITH a three-hit attack the A's got a marker in the second inning. Foxx singled and after Miller fouled out Williams and Dykes singled to put Jimmy across. Two Mack runs were registered in the third. Cochrane opened the round with a triple and Simmons walked. Foxx then lofted the ball to center and West tore in for a catch. The play was deep enough to allow Cochrane to score and Simmons moved to second on West's throw home. Ruel played the ball poorly and it bounded off his glove to the stand, let- ting _Simmons proceed to third. Crowder, backing up, sphere and shot it toward Bluege, but it went by the third-sacker as Sim- mons_hit the base and rolled to Hayes, who had crossed over to the shortfield when he saw the pitcher's throw start. Jack grabbed the ball, but his chuck to the plate was wide and Simmons crossed safely. In the fourth the Nationals got back one run with Manush’s double, Cronin’s sacrifice fiy and Bluege's single, but the A’s came back in the Aff for four scores. After Foxx went out Miller and Williams walked, then Dykes counted them with a triple to the left-field cor- ner. Liska took Crowder’s place and Grove surprised with a triple to right- center. Bishop's single tallied Grove. Judge launched the attack upon Grove_in the sixth that was good for three Washington runs. He singled, but stuck at first as Manush popped out. Cronin’s one-bagger sent Judge to sec- ond only, but Bluege’s second hit, a double, scored two. Hayes then bounced a double off Dyke's hands to left and Bluege crossed. Ruel and West, though, could not aid. The Nt ¢ et big seoring in West| A’s in the eighth and | Tetrieved the | i I 1T 15 on the south side of the plant at Thirty-fourth street, just off Ben- ning road northeast, and has a ca- pacity of 4,000. It is the first unit of an extensive and comprehensive plant. Next year it is planned to build a similar stand on the north side of the field. Meanwhile, with the new stand and the portable seats owned by the school, it will be possible to take care of approximately 5,000. It was largely through the hard work of Father O'Hurley, as director of l‘tihlellcs. that the fleld was se- cured. l TOO MANY PASSES PHILADELPHIA. Bishop, 2b. > w Miller, cf. Williams, Dykes, 3b Grove, p.. Totals ¢ WASHINGTON. Rice, rf.. o M .| cooccsson Crowder. B Marberry, B AVaC Sl MG TR A e e besia ek e ul ) ahnasg il cosconorrounnore? 5| nurcscssa? (b orsev s ronl Bl bossasins BRI IR A IR 1Batted for West in eighth. for Harris in eighth. Philadelphia Washington . uns _baf (3), Grove, Bishop. Haves. Hayes, Judge. kes, ' Groy, g Washington, Grove, 32; Marberry, 3. Hits innings; 'off Liska, % i off Brown, none in 1 inning: off Marberry, none in 1 inning. ‘Losing pitcher—Crowder. Um- pires—Messrs. Owers, Moriarity and Gelsel. Time of game—2 s and 3 minutes. RECORDS OF GRIFFS BATTING. . H, 2b.3b HR! 137 26 11 11 21 ‘oft oessovacobibdiies abarl cosecuecouopuateaettin P L THUP e ©000000000c0usNLLBnBEOm POSSURTII = ouiid’ oot ecSula hild. ... Fischer . cobnannmes FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK.—Tuffy Griffith, Sioux City, Iowa, stopped Tom Heeney, New Zealand (9); Jack Webb, Orlando, Fla., knocked out Rosy Boutot, New York | (4); Chester Matan, U. 8. N., outpointed Frank De Angelo, New York (4). NEWARK, N. J.—Mickey Walker, | world middleweight champion, stopped ;Wilhe Oster, New England (3), non- title. MONTREAL.—Al Foreman, Great Britain, outpointed Maurice Holtzer, France (10). GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—Wesley | Ramey, Grand Rapids, outpointed Harry Dublinsky, Chicago (10); Benny Duke, Grand Raplds, outpointed Johnny De- marco, Philadelphia (10). | By the Associated Press. Heme runs yesterday: Gehrig, Yan- | kees, 1; Rice, Yankees, 1; O'Doul, Phil- | lies, 1 Hendrick, Robins, 1; Wright, Robins, 1; Fisher, Cardinals, 1; Fitzsim- mons, Giants, 1; Gullic, Browns, 1. The leaders: Ruth, Yankees, 36; Wil- | son, Cubs, 33; Gehrlg, Yankees, 32; Klein, Phillies, 29; Foxx, Athletics, 29; Berger, Braves, 27. League totals: National 589; Ameri- can, 461. Grand total, 1,050. | chance came in the eighth, but they | did not profit. Cronin started the affair with & single and after Bluege skied out Hayes’ hot one that Bishop checked was good for a base hit. Ruel forced out Cronin, but Harris, batting for West, walked to crowd the sacks. Jones was sent in to run for the lame Harris, but the somber quire had nothing to do, for Myer, hitting in Brown’s place, lofted to Miller. UDGE made a great stop of Miller'’s grounder at the edge of the grass in the sixth inning...got the ball at the edge of the grass and tossed to Liska for the out...kept a hit from Bing. . .Rice pulled a good one at Bing's expense in the second...Sam ran to the right-field corner for a one-hand grab of Miller's foul drive...after West went out Rice moved to center fleld and Myer went to right...Kuhel did not show up yesterday...was to report this morning. . .Carlos Moore is ck in town...sent here from Chattanooga to have & sore arm treated...pitcher looks well, but said his wing was not so good when with the Lookouts. | followers of both teams predicting a | to sprout here and there. | ing around the sandlots at the present | time deals with Walter Beall, former | local sandlotter and New York Yankee, 60 | dope would fall s0 quickly that it would Pitcher Beadll, It BY FRANCIS E. STAN. N unusual amount of pre-game interest is attending this Firemen-Police classic at the Grifith Stadium, and, with lot of things, a few rumors are starting The most important rumor now float- who right now is base balling in Balti- more. It seems that quite a few of our sandlot sages are cultivating the idea that Walter wants to join the District of Columbia Police Department, which would mean that our fire fighters would have a mighty big blue flame to put out if they mean to cop the coppers this year. ‘Walter, at the time he was a Yank, ‘was the possessor of a great curve and drop, but because he was just & little uncertain just where it was going, was forced to exit from the big show. As for the rumor, that's all it is. As far as could be ascertained, Beall isn't a policeman as yet and it is doubtful if he will be wearing brass buttons by the time the firemen and policemen do their stuff. Right now the hook-and-ladder men rule favorites to retain the title, but if there should be a certain Pvt. Walter Beall on the hill for the policemen the rival the arcs described by Fainting Phil Scott so often. When you see this Interstate team take the field and a little guy who looks like the bat boy walks out to the pitch- ers’ box, look for some real pitching. For Ralph “Peewee” Hamilton, pint sized left-hander, is a tough man to beat. Despite the fact that he stands only 5 feet in height and carries about 110 pounds, “Peewee” hasn’t found a whole lot of trouble in beating leading sand- lot teams around these parts. And it is the unanimous opinion that if 9 or 10 inches and 50 or 60 pounds could be added to his chassis, he wouldn't linger on the sandlots very long. Heine Gorman, former Tech High player and now a Maryland student, and who was a choice for all-high hon- ors, is continuing his ball-playing ac- tivities with the Anacostia Eagles, He also has worked out with the Ne- tionals, being on hand yesterday during | the batting and fielding drills prior to the game with the A’ Everybody loves a winner and there | are two winners right now in the Gov- ernment League—Navy Yard and Na- val Hospital. But there'’s no denying that Navy Yard has captured the sen- timent of the fans who throng the South Ellipse diamond, though it is doubtful if sentiment wiil help any. Navy Yard, after finishing a poor last in the first half of the race, is doing right well for a bunch of “old folks” and now is leading the league with half a game margin ove. Naval Hospital. Despite this leadership, Navy Yard has & hard road to travel. Six more games are left on its schedule through postponements and two of these are i with the Gobs. The Yarders also play the Union Printers three times and have a single game with Interstate. Buck Grier’s Northerns embarked on another voyage of the South today and were scheduled to begin the five-day tour by playing Culpeper. Tomorrow they play at Fredericksburg and Sat- American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. | New York, 8-10; Boston, 2-1 (13t, 10 1ns.) Philadelphia, 7. Washington, 4. Bt Louts, 3-8: Chicago, 3-1 (18t 10 ins.) Detroit, 8: Cleveland STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Is Rumored, May Put on a Policeman’s Suit urday at Front Royal. Martinsburg is their opponent for Sunday. With Pullman, Tile Setters, D. C. Re- pair Shop and Calvary Drakes winners of the Terminal, Industrial, Depart- mental and Georgetown Church leagues, respectively, the diamonds are pretty | | bare now-a-days. ‘Teams out of the running are hand- ifg out 9-to-0 paper victories right and left, so it looks as though the champs will have to awalt the city series for real competition. Grace Episcopal, co-holders of the Church League first-half flag, threw up the sponge yesterday after losing the play-off and a couple of games in the second half. Grace forfeited to First Baptist and Treasury forfeited to the Aggies in the Departmental League. MACKS GET OUTFIELDER SUMMA FROM PORTLAND PORTLAND, Oreg, July 31 (#)— Thomas L. Turner, president of the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League, has announced the sale of Homer Summa, outfielder, to the Phila- delphia Athletics. Portland will get Roger Cramer, Philadelphia outfielder, and an un- named amount of cash. RESULTS IN MINORS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE., Newark, 12-8, Baltimore, 17-5. Rea, 4: Jersey City, 3. Only games scheduled AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. No games scheduled. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, 5-5; New Orleans, 3-4. Birmingham, 13-7: Mobile, 4-4. Little Rock, 3; Memphis, 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Macon, 6; Greenville, 0. Charlotte-Columbia (wet grounds). TEXAS LEAGUE. Fort Worth, 5; S8an Antonto, 1, Houston, 13; Wichita Falls, 8. . 6; Waco, 3. ont, 5; Shreveport, 0. WESTERN LEAGUE. 8t. Joseph. 9: Omaha, 0. Wichita, 10; Denver, 4. Pueblo, '5; Oklahoms, 4. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Seattle, 4; Missions, 3. Los Angeles, 6. and, 2 Ban Francisco, 6; Sacramento, 3. EASTERN LEAGUE. 3; Springfield, 1. ; Bridgeport, 1. THREE-EYE LEAGUE. Decatur, 11; Terra Haute, 5. Springfleld,"9; Bloomington, 3. Peoria, 9; Quincy, 7. Danviile, 11; Evansville, 6. Allentow: Albany, Injured Texas Leaguer Blames Night Base Ball SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 31 () —Night base ball may have boosted attendance at minor league base ball games, but it hasn't been all roses for the San Antonio Indians. Joe Moore, brilliant young_out- flelder, whom President Homer Ham- mond had hoped to sell to the big show at a fancy price, is out of the game with a chipped bone in his arm. He is certain to be out for sev- eral weeks and may not regain the form during the rest of the season that has drawn him attention from the scouts, Moore was injured during a noc- turnal game at Shreveport, a fast ball hitting him on the arm, we had been playing in_daylight that ball wouldn’t have hit me,” * said Moore. National League. YESTERDAY’'S RESULTS, New York, 5: Boston, 2 Brookiyn, '9-9; Philadeiphia, 5-¢ Pittsburgh, 6: St. Louis. Other clubs not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS, W ' 34 H £8 g qdepeIItd. worsuuSEM 2103 MON. PUVEAID 101330 ‘310 moN| i) wiqdreperrya) - uopm| -+ 3807 oawiueosag| AT BTIOTT 913 SI6a BN 68T /101 51101 8110/60738]:613 171 710 611158/41].586 8] 91 81 612/50/391.602 7 141 91— 71101 51 7113064 44 651 T 31— 9| 9/10/1110/68 431574 [ 7 7110/52/501.490 =1 4ol STI—i 1] 64 5 = T2[ 2[ 5/ 51 8/10( 6] 1541394350, 60/6: Phila. at Washington. New York at Boston. N X i, Cnieago at Delioit. 8t. Louis at Ohl. (2). Cleve. at St. Louls. | Detrolt at Cleveland. ~ No other games. GAMES TODAY. Boston at New York. Brooklvn at Phila Louls at Pittsi No otner & GAMES TOMORROW, at New York, Boston at Brooklyn at Phila. . 8t. Louf nci. Pittsb'gh at Chicago, - YESTERDAY’S STARS By the Associated Press. Dick Bartell, Pirates—Drove in ty- ing and winning run in eighth with a single in Cards game. Fred Fitzsimmons, Giants — Held Braves to eight hits and drove in three of Giants’ five runs with double and home run. Lou Gehrig, Yankees—Home run No. 32 led off Yanks' six-run rally in tenth against Red Sox. Glenn Wright, Robins—Hit safely six times in two games with the Phillfe A e device, AutoStrop and zors and the shock-absorbing Probak double-edge blades. lehdhmfig from the double-edge DOUBLE AS MANY Heached Record of 29 He Set That Year. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. N 1919 Babe Ruth opened th ting 29 home runs. mark of 29 home runs this year season past. Ruth is even ahead of his greates year, 1927, when he raised the home. of the 1919 season. Gehrig’s Homer Timely. moment to connect. The by a 10-to-1 count. Washington, 7 to 4. in turn, the Al's. At Cleveland, Earl Whitehill's relie: are seven games back of they had a 14—9 margin in the hitting, and the Tigers won, 6 to 5. C K A B S OR MADE AS IN 191 Ruth and Four Others Have e | mess. era of lively base ball by hit- Five players, still led by the Babe, already have reached that with only about two-thirds of the run record to 60, while Lou Gehrig and Hack Wilson are only a game or two behind that pace. Where only six major leaguers hit 10 homers in 1919, thirty have done that well so far, while eight four-baggers in a dull day yesterday brought the major league total up to 1,050, more than double the number hit by the two leagues in the whole Gehrig was the cnly leader in the slugging brigade to hit a homer yester- day and he picked a highly appropriate homer came in the tenth inning of the Yankee's first game against the Boston Red Sox and turned a 2—2 pitching battle between Herb Pennock and Milton Gaston into a rout. Lou’s clout accounted for three runs, and, with the aid of a homer by Harry Rice, the Yankees made eight runs in that inning for an 8-to-2 vic- tory. They continued their slugging through the second game, while George Pipgras held the Sox in check to win The double victory gave the Yankees a bit of an edge on their leading rivals, as the Philadelphia Athletics defeated ‘The Yanks now are only 22 games behind the second-place Senators, who, hurling kept the Indians from over- coming an early Detroit lead, although Wally Stewart and George Blaeholder | tched a nice game for SLI | Louis against Chicago, and the Browns | won the first by means of unearned |Tuns, 3 to 2, in 10 innings, and the | second, 8 to 1. The Sox made seven | errors in the first contest. Robins Improve Position. ‘The Brooklyn Robins showed the way to National League in home-run hit- ting, as well as in the standings, yes- terday as they improved their position | with a double victory over Philadelphia. Glenn Wright and Tarvey Hendrick hit four-baggers in the second game, which Brooklyn won, 9 to 4, after taking the first, 9 to 5, while Frank O'Doul, an- other of the many who have clouted more than 10 homers this season, hit his thirteenth in thc first game. By winning two contests, the Robins placed themselves 2!, games ahead of the | Chicago Cubs, who had a day of idle- Fred Fitzsimmons also hit a home run and it made a hero of him, despite the frequericy with which pitchers have been clouting homers this season. The homer clinched a rather doubtful dispute between the New York Giants and Boston Braves, giving New York a 5-t0-2 victory. Fitzsimmons also hurled the full game and gave only eight hits, A timely single was all that was needed to give Pittsburgh its second 6-to-5 victory over St. Louis. Ernie Bartell made the hit in the eighth inning to complete the Pirates’ late rush, which brought 5 runs in the seventh and eighth frames. GRIFF AND HIS PLAYERS TALK AS NINE HONORED ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 31.—Clark Grifith, Joe Judge, Al Schacht and Art Shires of the Washington base ball club addressed an audience of more than 200 Alexandrians at Gadsby’s Tav- ern last night before a public testi- monial dinner given in honor of the Jjunior nine of Alexandria Post, No. 24, 'Virginia American Legion champions. The program was broadcast over Sta- tion WJISV. City Manager Wallace Lawrence pre- sided, while Vice Mayor Edwin F. Ticer welcomed the members of the Washing- |ton team and the other invited guests. Jack Tullock, sports editor of the Alexandria Gazette; J. F. Wilson, coach of the junior team; Capt. Jimmy Bruin, members of the Legion club and How- ard L. Arnold, post commander, also spoke. it f 4 FANS 23 IN NIGHT TILT. AUGUSTA, Ga., July 31 (®).—Jim , | Mooney, hurling ace for Charlotte of the Sally League, struck out 23 men in his grst night game B E R ERE'S the reason for Probak’s swiftly won popularity. Henry J. 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