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Three Teams Stick in F. ight With Cubs : Ump Held Awry in Sailor-Tileman Game | CARDS BEAT BRUINS IN 2NNING GAME Dodgers Oust Giants From Second Place—Mackmen Beaten by Lisenbee. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. T least three téams in the National League apparent- ly have no intention of letting the Chicago Cubs eapture another pennant without a battle. With their successive' triumphs over Brooklyn and New York, the Cubs seemed to be hav- ing thmgs much their own way. Then along came the 8t. Louis Cardinals to cause trouble. The Cards, who have been cree) WD in fourth place for some time, movi into Chicago yesterdsy with a record of elght straight victories. - Instead ollow tting knocked out of such & puee they fought longe: th i mm'”; 1 Bio uri:: st game to make it nine stra with an 8-to-7 triumph in 20 innings. For six innings Burleigh Grimes shut season for the majer leagues. YEOMANS PLAYS LIU H winning the class A singles crown in games behind second place, but it re- duced Philadelphia’s lead to six and one-half games. ‘The Athletics ran foul of some of the great pitching the last-place Boston Red been gett! from time to lost & 2-to-1 decision as Hod Lis outpitched George Earnshaw with a six-hit performance The tie in games for sixth place in the standing cropped up as the St. Louis Browns contibued to outplay the Detroit Tigers, gaining & 9-to-1 vie- tory as Detroit could make only four hits off George Blaeholder in six in- nings and none at all off Chad Kim- sey in the next three. The Chicago | ‘White Sox, after pulling ahead Cleveland’s expenss, dropped ba again _when opposed by Wesley Fer- | rell. The big Indian hurler, getting his usual assistance in the form of five runs in the opening inning, won his twenty-third victory of the season and his twelfth in succession by a 19-to- 5 count. Both the winning streak and the victory total are the best of the PESRE AY IN TENNIS TOURNEY Eddie Yeomans, co-holder of the Dis- triet public parks doubles title, who ap- pears to have a first-rate chance of | 2 the Capital City Tennis League tourna- ment, was to face Liu in a third-round match this afternoon on the Potomac Park courts, starting at 4 o'clock. Yeomans yesterdey downed Felixl wives at home. The Washington D. C. Chapter of the Isaak Walton League | here of America- is holding its eleventh an- t |nual Fall fishing outing on September | ness worries at home, but to bring their wives with them. The outing will be at Chesapeake Beach, the same place the anglers have gone for the last 11 years. the local chapter of the league, and those in charge hope to have it as much of a success as first nual dinner last Winter. are beinj | for distribution next week. The pro- gram as mapped out by the committee in charge am. Fishing boats on hand to take everybody out when the Boats to run at 5 pm, and prizes distributed. fish were caught. This year it all de- pends upon the weather fish are in the bay, plenty of them, rockfish, trout, taylors, eads and picked up now and outing wants to see every THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. (‘.. SOUTHERN paper prints o story of the annual deep sea fishing rodeo in Mobile Bay next month and sdvises Ike Wal- tons to leave business worries and 8 and urges all Tkes to leave busi- ‘This is the first excursion of their an« ‘The tickets printed and will be ready | is as follows: A special rain leaves the District line at 8:30 ler is reached. S-n weighed in Last year those attending the out- ng ran into bad weather and few again. The hardh fish being ‘The committee in cnn:e of the big spots, with some tion an ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. o'clock, out we go with our captain into a night that would inspire Allen Poe to write a masterpiece entitled ‘Fishin| Fools' After an hour's fishing an pitching and rolling, we decided we would move in the lee of the two large ships that are anchored off the shore down there. We hit a very hard bottom and very much calmer water. Just as all had their lines over, with coat against the beating rain, and own to think what ‘fools we mortals be’ to journey out on a night like this, when we might be home snug in bed—for who ever heard of fish bit- ing in a nor'easter—when, bang, they started. Hardheads—and what hard- heads! First this one had one and on- | other two. ‘There goes my line’ shouted another. The harder it rained the harder they bit. We couldn't cut up crabs fast enough. Every once in & while a straightened hook or a broken leader had to be replaced. When th excitement ended |.n the morning, we had 95 hardheads, the smallest 115 pounds and the largest 4 pounds. 'Ihe sun and light felt 80 good on our re- turn to the wharf that after a good breakfast we decided to make a day of it and go to Broomes Island. Having trouble getting bait, we eventually started fishing, landing about 30 fairly good-sized trout and 12 bluefish, and then calling it a day. were we tired? Yes, plenty, but, oh, 80 happ: “Many thanks for your klnd inform guidance to us and many others, “(Signed) CHAS. F. FOERTSCH.” O many good reports have come e | to FRIDAY, RULF OVERLOOKED, REPLAY I LIKELY Adherence to Base Ball Law Would Have Given Gobs a Tie, Is Claim. I all wet if you ha| to ask some of the salesgirls who perennially take it on the chin, and the same thin lppllu ball players on umpires’ de- cisions. The turmoil which took place yesterday in the Terminal League Park could easily have been avert- ed had a rule book heen handy. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HAT old saying, “The cus- comer is always right,” is As it was, Umpire Jimmy Greene | announced that the Tile Setters won from Naval Hospital 8 to 7, which eliminated the Ciobs from the city series. As a matter of fact, the score should have been tied and, because i, was not ruled that way, arguments galore are AUGUST 29, 1930. somewhat excited, called him safe—and then out. e Jaiter decision he stuck to on the grounds that swung at an illegal pitch and that Bridges was out for interference and the game was over. Then the well known pandemonium reigned. Hospital p'avers swarmed the field, arguing with Greene, but to no avafl. So Manager Dakin prousted the game. Now here’s where the rule book should have come in Section $ of rule 34 reads as follows: “Any delivery of the ball to the bat by the pitcher while either foot i8 back of and not in contact with the pitcher's m-u shall constitute a balk.” S0 the runner (Bridges) should have been allowed to score and the game should have been ued and played out. L. HIGHTMAN, secretary of the + Terminal Y. M. C. A, has called & meeting for tonight at the com- mittee room of the “¥Y" of the board of control, which is composed of Hight- man, Walter Hughes, Bill Flester, Vic Guazza, Earl Bowman and Louis Hood, presidents of the week-day loops. Also Managers Dakin and Parella, the rival pilots,” and Umpires Greene and Mc- Clure, the latter prexy of the District Umpires’ Association, are requested to attend at 8 o'clock. F course, sandlot fans expect a de- cision if the balk rule is in order, but just how it will be done is & question. ‘The usual procedure in such a case is for the same teams to continue where they left off, to wit: Naval Hos- pital at bat in the last of the seventh, with the score tled, and Isert at bat, with one strike and two balls called on for tonight and a replay un- |pim n tap do\lmdly will be in order. ‘This is the story: However, it has been intimated that SPORTS. black ball into the box against his Eagles. It seems that McDonald has been trying to arrange an out-of-town date for Labor day. Some other man- :gen. also wishing that p.mcuhr date th the same team, took the oppor- tunity to tear down the Eagle record | of 12 wins in 15 games when conferring with_the rural pilot, and as & result the Eagle game was ennceltfl RITICISM should not be heaped upon Umpire Greene for that de- cision yesterday. It was just “one of those tI " and, what with the zxciument and hnpomnce of the game, I;l uls lom;;lk\n exfiuuhle lh‘n‘h;n h-r- r overlook a ruling, when he has a decision to m&" in a split seccnd. Greene showed gameness when he umpired yesterday, for, having just suf- fered a severe fall down & pair of steps recently, he was barely able to walk. Anyway, the two teams haven't a whole lot to squawk about. Between them they made 16 errors,' so Why bhmc an ump for one, uvechlly when hearing granted so PNHID(-‘Y’ e g CAPITAL WOMEN SCORE IN EAGLESMERE TENNIS EAGLESMERE, Pa., August 28. Mrs. Ruth Martinez, Washington pul lic parks tenuis singles champion; Frances Walker, also of that city, and Geo Jennings, jr., of Caicago, na- tional public parks singles champion, and Jack de Lara of Los Angeles, who with Jennings holds the national parks doubles title, gained in the tournament held recently in Washington, are among pmtciplnu in the Esglesmere tourna- ment. LOTT BUSY PLAYER INTITLE DOUBLES Has Chance for Twin Victory, but Needs Three Wins in Mixed Event. PEBREDE KPS 20 By the Associated Press. RQOKLINE, Mass., A.u.\ut 29— 9% final ‘yourd ef the men's Lott and- .Yo!mny Doeg, the defending champions, defeated Bill .‘Tilden and Frank Hunter. The British ehampions, Johnny Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, overcame another 'New Jersey-Texas combination, Gregory Mangin and Berkeley Bell. Lott is also & member of the defend- ing championship team in the mixed doubles, and he and his partner, Betty Nuthall, the British star swho won the American ‘women's singles title last Sunday, must win two matches today to gain the last round. They encounter Helen Marlowe, Los Angeles, and Ells- the game will be played over, and as Mml:er Dakin is agreeable to this, even thou Hospital will lose that third out, a brand-new game may result. 'HE general play of both teams left as sour a taste as did the ending. After taking a four-run lead in the first two irmln,u the Gobs lost it in the following four frames when the Setters piled up eight runs, Then, in the seventh, came the aforemen- tioned fireworks. The Tile Setters outhit the Sailors, 10 to 7, and outerrored 'em, king 11 miscues to Naval Hospital com- paratively messly total of five, ANAGER McDONALD of the Bkinker Eagles is right hot around the collar now. McDonald accuses several sandlot apparently | managers of throwing the well known' mber | present with as many of t.heir fnendl men, women and children, as they can round up. Mark the date on your calendar, 'ROM reports received this week the Fall fishing season, which techni- cally opens next Monday, will be one long to be remembered. From the Eastern Shore, Solomons Island, Brooms Singles—4 p.m., Yeomans vs. Liu, | Island, Point Lookout, the Lower Po- Staubly vs. Robbins, Seidell vs. Silva, | tomac and many other salt fishing Eugenio vs. York; 5 p.m, H. Ritsen- |grounds come the most glowing reports berg vs. Deck. of many and big fish being caught. Doubles—8 p.m., George Considine | Capt. George M. Bowen, at solomnu N. Ritzenbery and Zamora. | Island, sends in word that the taylors jummacies: are more plentiful thal ever. He says d, that the blues have come in from the channels in the bay to Cedar Point and furnishing wonderful sport, with trout and rockfish in lesser rs. He says that hardheads weighing as much as four pounds are being landed every day, and that no matter where the anglers go around the island they are bound to catch fish. He reports that Dr. Cook of Washington, trolling off Cedar Point and using a Hunting drone, landed 27 blues, mnnm from 2 to 3'2 pounds. Also that J. Crowley and family landed 99 trout and hardheads, some of the Ilatter weighing four pounds. Crowley's son, aged 9, landed a 3-foot shark. APT. n.trcm WARD. IQ Solo- mons with a town, landed Il mut and l the other day. George MA ‘Knight, at Leonardtown, Md., also reports down_his way. an off day for the Washington base players, Fred Marberry, S8am West .nd Buddy Myer, e#:med by wives, had a wondi 1 day e-wmn; hrl“ lgoc and trout fishing about one- e e wpae enry ) of fishing at Tall Timbers, landed 200 fish of all kinds, includ] thru flounders, and J. B. Harry of n had & merry time landlu 50 Bluu and three flounders off Piney Point. Georfge E. Kin, IMNA guy Ammann, Mrs. Martinez and Miss Walker yes- terday reached the semi-finals in the singles, the former defeating Mrs. De Long, 6—1, 7—5, and the latter downing Mrs. Graham, 6—1, 6—0. Jennings advanced to the semi-finals in the singles yesterday, but De Lara was eliminated. Jennings and De Lara achieved the final in the doubles, In mixed doubles Miss Walker paired with partner, gained the final, but De Lara and his partner were defeated. WOMAN BOWLERS MEET. Mount Rainier, Md., Ladies’ Duckpin League will meet’ tonight at the Mount Rninlzr alleyu at a o'clock to plan for New teams will bu 'elwmed vreununvcs of all combinations wuhm. to be represented should be present from across, the bay that Capt. Noah Hazzard, well known boatman at Chesapeake Beach, has decided to run a boat to the Eastern Shore each ’rhundly at 10:30 a.m. on arrival of the 9 am. train and will return to the beach in ample time to catch the 7 p.m. train back w ‘Washingten 8. 8. Lancaster of Rock Point, Md., informs us that rockfish, trout and tay- lors are being caught in the Wicomico and Potomac Rivers at the Point. Lan- caster says the salt water has backed up so strong that it has brought with it more than the usual numbers of tay- lays and other fish. George King informs us that he was down to Colonial Beach Wednesday and that a great many fish of all species were bem,xnuulht lnd that some rock- fish weigl ! as much as 9 pounds were being lande worth Vines, Pasadena, Calif., in the uarter finals and, if successful, face dith M dham, Mass., and Frank Shields, ' New York, in the second last round. Allison_and his partner, Edith Cross of San Francisco, also need two vic- tories to become finalists. They must defeat Dorothy Workman and Jack Tidball, Los Angeles, before they can oppose Mrs. J. Dallas Corbiere, South- boro and Frite Mercur. !ethlehm, Pa., the semi-finals, U. 8. BOY LOSES ABROAD. FULWELL, England, A 9 (®). —Archie Andrew of sole American competitor in the boys’' golf championship mlu:hu. m elminated in the third round b E. of Hutton Grammar Bend IN Rhythm as the ponies wheel... thundering hoofs strike on the sounding ground out the champions, while the Cards piled up a five-run lead. Then Grimes weakened and before Sylvester Johnson ook over the mound duty the Cubs had tied the score at 5-5. Pltches 12 Innings. Johnson finished the game for St. lmia hurling 12 innings and giving enly nine hits, and Young Bob Osborn, who opposed him for the last nine frames, did about as well. Each had one bad inning, the fifteenth, but it failed to break the deadlock, each team In the twentieth Douthit ‘The Tile Setters, Industrial League flag bearers, were upsetting Naval Hos- pital, Government League champs, and when the seventh and last inning (darkness, as usual) rolled around, the score was 8 to 7 in favor of the Tile- men. Bridges, Sailor outfielder, wns on third base, two were out, and Isert How Bridrve a b ow Was very, very desperate, 80, after feinting several times, he final- ly got a flying start and set sall for & steal of home. Pitcher Joe Freschi was expectirg something of this sort, so, instead of mm‘: his usual wind-up from the ruh- ber, he wound up from behind tbe itcher’s plate (at least, that's what mpire Greene declared). Isert, at the bat, swung and missed the ball and Bridges slid into the plate. Then Umpire Greene, Silva, District Filipino champ, 6—32, 6—3, and Liu overcnme Yeatman, 6—1, | in tests yesf | Pat Deck and Bl]l Se\dcll today were | favorites to win the doubles champion- ship, following their victory yesterday over Alan Staubly and Frank Shore, District junior title holder, 11—9, 6—2, Today's pairings: t, Higl round, single with the run which finally de- ; cided the game after four hours and | f $en mlnlltu of play. - iaading 1 Brooklyn complicated standing . 83, 63, by taking :e'c:_r;d pu':yfro:am New York | Class A dopbles, an 8- vic Robins g, ‘Bee Diasted Carl Piubbell and Pete Donohus | Share and Sindbis Thbr e from the mound in the sixth inning for seven of their runs, just énough to hoid off a final Giant rally, The results of these two games left Chicago five gamies ahead of Brookvlz'n with the Giants and St. Louls in a tual tie for place another half game back. Pittsburgh’s Pirates slammed out a ir of vlctorles over Cincinnati, carry- n’ streak to 10 victories in ll flmu 1s—Giard hool 1\:‘::&:; Jngla—Gnrdes | B 00l by 3 up. nd, Beidell etented Tennis Teams Selected For British-U. S. Match NEW YORK, August 20 (#).—The United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion last night announcer the sched- ule of matches for the one-day in- ternational series hetween America and Great Britain at the West Side Tennis Club tomorrow. ‘Three singles matches and two in doubles will be pls. eq. ‘The schedule fol Singles. H. G. N. Lee, England, vs. Clifford Sutter, New Orleans. 8. J. Perry, mknd. vs. Ellsworth A" 16-hit assault in the -first game offset -the al of Harry Ean Bodies ines, J. 8. olff, ln;land vs. Sidney Wood, New York. Doubles. L. A. Godfree and Lee, England, vs. Vines nnll Keith Gledhill, Santa P'n'y ‘and Oliff, England, vs. Wood and Frank Shields, New York. ANGLERS’ GUIDE. FIGH AND LOW TIDES FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 AND 31, BAY AND mmzc“pommc RIVER POINTS. Preston, t. Omln-l}"nll,glflk Y of ~ m on Diamond Shoals, at ahlrv- Island, across me bay, and caught many large trout bluefish, both '.l'olllnl and ltl.ll-filhlnl, and Ammann landed an.85-pound T:Nn 1 hl and nw\lma”u:t‘ anglers repor lon! all kinds of fish over there, . John W. Hurley and W. O. Derrick- son continue to enjoy off Tilghman's. Hurley rllce almost every last two months and always returns with glowing its of fish caught. Last week he ia 13 taylors, 9 trout and 35 big hardhs NE of our readers sends in the fol- lowing letter: “the old sa; , “The wind nor’- east, the fish bite least’ puts one in mind of lottery, that is, you have about one chance in & million of hit- ting. But, oh, boy! When you do hit, you_ hit ror lenty. “Last Friday evening four downosst and downhearted souls, named Charles V. Smoot, Charles F. Foertsch, John Bates and E. 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