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l ~ Sports News ’ @hg ¥y WAS ‘WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION HINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, eIy Siaf. SEPTEMBER 2, 1930. Comics and Classified | PAGE C—1 Jones to Take Hill in Yank Set Start : St. Louis Now Menacing Champion Cubs Young Diamonders Lose Field As Miniature Golf Craze Grows NEW YORK SCRAPS FIND GRFFS READY & Hold Good Lead Over Third- Place Club After Two Wins Over Red Sox. BY JOHN B. KELLER. real home stand of the campaign, the Nationals are ready to carry that H second-place battle to the Yanks | wa again. It doesn’t seem to be much of a battle, now that the Johnson band is seven and one-half games up on the New Yorkers, and, in- cidentaly, just five and one-half |% games behind the leading A's after bagging those two thrillers layed with the Red Sox in Grif- gth Stadium yesterday, but the Shawkey crew still has a bit more than a mathematical chance to RS gain the runner-up position, so it o would be well if it is thrust far- (55 Warstler, Heving. Durham, *Sweeney ther back in the four-game series starting tomorrow in Col. Jake Ruppert’s plant in the Bronx. Manager Walter Johnson believes he has_primed for the opener of the set on Wednesday the veteran Sam Jones, who has been “plain poison” to the Yanks much of this season. Although the somber squire of Woodsfleld was he is in much better trim than when driven from the slab in the fourth the last time out. innin Perhaps the Nationals will not_be |Brovs: able to muster for service in the New York series the line-up that toppled the | goston . Yankees here twice last week. Buddy | Washington Myer dropped out of the picture Sun- day when a sprained hand prevented him going to second base post while yesterday Sam West, agile centerfielder, developed a kink in his left elbow that | —Re put him out of commission. However, the Washington club seems | b:lrry. club without using these two youngsters. | o able to put on the field a pretty good And both Myer and West are apt to be back in with the Yankees ends. 'ORE than 15,000 fans got the kick of their base ball lives yesterday when the Nationals downed the Red Sox 2 to 1 and 6 to 3 in the pair eling struggles in the Washington g:llm d. e ‘Two {ich, it might be said. by Joe Cronin when Reeves' liner to end the first e and the other by Lloyd Brown w] rushing to Fred Marberry’s rescue in the second set-to he crashed a homer Nothing like that catch by Cronin had been witnessed before on a Was field even the old-time fans admit. And fans of the days of Brouthers. Jennings and others to make such an | prown It had | C'wder Burke 1d | $90e. 28 S0 . Ghar'ty 2 The Nationals went into that first|Fischer 7 admission means everything. to be & great fielding feat to make them forget the remarkable stunts of the ol timers, game ninth inning with only a 2 to 1 but everything seemed rosy Crowder got rid of the first |y .y Boston batters. But Webb came trip) le to center and up %’.‘"fi the thousands 5,.".',”4", or less appre- hensive. Their feelings were eased to some extent when Crowder quickly got two strikes on Reeves, but a wail of woe arose when Bob cracked the third pitch 1t looked springs the mlfi. His tched gloved hand ly cuffed soaring sphere, but #s the shortstop fell backward in some miraculous manner the falling Joseph grabbed the ball with the same hand though he rolled after hitting the turf never let Reeves was out and 'OW for Brown. The second game was started by Fred Marberry, on the hill for the Nationals for the the next a single he gave way to the left-hander. Brown proceded to nip the Red Sox rally in the bud then things happened in the Washington half of the round. ‘With one out Harris crashed a triple and counted as Ruel singled. Ruel stole second, but Hayes left the Na- tionals a run shy of a tie by fouling out. Brown, though, picked a pitch to his liking, leaned against the ball and sent it to deep right-center, where it | fell between the speeding Oliver and | Webb. Before the ball was reached it had banged against the fence in the deepest part of the outfield. Ruel was over quickly with the tying run and Brown, all but tuckered out by his hard drill around the bases, fell across the plate just before the ball was returned ':il the catcher to put the Nationals ead. After that homer it took bat boys, ushers and other help five minutes to | g, clear the fleld of straw hats recklessly from the stands by jubilant owners. Everybody was crazy, every- body was deleriously mad. OTH games were pitching battles. Horace Lisenbee gave Crowder a great scrap in the first encounter. | Each side coilected but seven hits. Twice, though, the Nationals bunched | two for a run. Hayes' triple and Rice's | single accounted for the first marker. | A pass to Judge, his theft of second and | singles by Harris and Spencer accounted for the second. | Ed Durham opposed Marberry and | Brown in the second clash. Durham | ylelded 11 safeties, five in the seventh and eighth innings. All the Boston hitting was off Marberry, Brown pitch- 1ing to only nine batters in three rounds. Oliver's triple and Scarritt's single gave the Red Sox a run in the first and singles by Harris and Ruel and Oliver's fumble of Muddy's drive let the Na- tionals tie in the second session. Oliver, Scarrit and Regan hit successively to net the Red Sox two runs in the fifth, Following the inning in which they went ahead the Nationals bagged two more runs. Manush and Cronin dou- bled to count the first one in the eighth. Cronin went to third as Judg> grounded out, then while Harris was at bat stole home. B with a sparkling one-hand catch k&t a hit from Manush in the etg: i of the first game the t-fleld AVING finished their last |s: and_Moriarty. 35 minutes. Oiiver, cf Rice, cf. . unable to make & go of it against them | Bluese, 3b, last Saturday he seemed loose enough |Cronin, ss. in his work-out yesterday and declares i“u.fliey n;. . Ha Marberry, Brown (2), Bluege, e Olive: TiS. bases—Scarritt, Ruel, the game before the tussling |—1 hour G.AB R H Rice.. 124 495 102 176 provided (’:‘r:'x;h. }“m tH One ‘was on. he made that marvelous catch of Bob [MbY n after | Myer. MLed Blu'ge 1 Snires 66 that put the Nationals in front to stay. |Harris 833 Galia. By t":2 Aseocieted Press. Q E = _,....“u......, il desnanne-saun R Durst ] PR pRe—— | ol conmnuononcst =l eessccsoenest 8l Totals *Batted for Warstler in seventh. tBatted for Regan in ninth. 'WASHINGTON. AB. R. Rice, cf. [} 2 | | cusctunuul maccomomed coscsccce™ ° 0—1 000 x—2 Runs batted in—Rice, Spencer. Reeves. Two-base _hit—Webb. Three. hits— Hayes, ves, Wi Stolen base—Judge. Doutle plays it [ HArris to Judg Washington, 5. Struck out—By Lisenbee, 2; by Umpires—Messrs. Guthrie, Hildebran Time of game—1 hour an SECOND GAME. AB. BOSTON. 3 Cd [ — It b, ccoscscsson sooroosomesil cooostunwon esccscsscsn Berry Totals in the tBatted for Warstler in ‘WASHINGTON. AB. . . mosmoommwoP Totals .10002 ] ;01000032 x—6 Runs batted in—Scarritt (2), Regan, Ruel, Cronin. Two-base hits—Oliver, Manush, Cronin. Three-base hits— ) Home run—Brown. Stol Double tl dt. Left on ash) itcher—Brown. rand, Moriarty and RECORDS OF GRIFFS ATTING. i 3b.HR.SH.SB.RB1 P! BT 6 386 4 {314 523 eococorcocessnwonanate: 1 501 115 175 [} coccccscscou. s Baaabs 3 3 344 3 ] 321 2 . b ) i 286 uhel 15 53 7 21 'e'r !: 33 3 18 26 28 sEas Rasngh BERNEE! ot AN W oy P B ! cooronmsora.uaton counraanBonlninS, 225! PITCHING. 1In'ss Gam Comp, pitch.start.gam.W.L. 575 20 9 1 161% 21 13 14 178% 18 8 16 10 201 By 3130 ki [} ’;‘fi =B8232228, — . BIG LEAGUE LEADERS 5 American League. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .393. Run:—gRuth. Y‘lnkees. 135. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 150. Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 185. Doubles—Hodapp, Indians, 42. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 17. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 44. Stolen bases—McManus, Tigers, 19. National League. Batting—Terry, Giants, .407. Runs—Cuyler, Cubs, 134, . Wfll;;ls Cubs, 1855, Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 32. NO FOULS COMMITTED AS PRISO:ERS BATTLE 'ORTH, Kans, September 2 (#).—Neither foul nor “dive” marred a full card of boxing bouts here last night, although participants battled merely for exericse and the mudlu of narcotic peddlers, murderers, tleggers and bank wreckers. The boxers, who strictly abided by ring rules, and their spectators are pris- oners at the Federal Penitentiary. YESTERDAY’S STARS By the Associated Press. Charlie Ruffing, Yankees-— Stop) Athletics with two hits and blanked them, 2-0. Red Lucas and Benny Frey. Reds— Held Cubs to eight hits in double bill as Reds won twice, 5-0 angd 2-1. Hollis Thurston, Robins—Pitched ef- fectively against Braves and won own game with double in seventh. Bill Terry, Glante—Clouted Phillies’ pitching for triple, double and two ngles. A'lvln Crowder, Senators—Won pitch- ing duel with Horace Lisenbee, granting Red Sox seven hits, to win, 2- HOME RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. Simmons, Athletics, 1; Berger, Braves, 1; Leach, Giants, 1; Hogan, Gilants, 1; Alexander, Tigers, 1; Reynolds, White Sox, 1; Lopez, Robins, 1, Porter, In- dians, 1; Hodapp, Indians, 1; Brown, ‘Washington, 1. The Leaders. Wilson, Cubs, 46; Ruth, Yankees, 44; Gehrig, Yankees, 37; Foxx, Athletics, 32; Simmons, Athletics, 32; Berger, Braves, 32; Klein, Phillies, 31; Goslin, Browns, 31. League Totals, ]g;tl.onll‘ 747, American, 582; total, | his stop of Regan's hot one far to his of the second was a wow . . . Cronin of the second game to get SCAITit's looper . . . the catch meant much for two were on with two out when Scarritt hit what appeared a certain | left at the outset of the eighth inning |5 played center field in the seventh round | & BUSY TIVE AHEAD OF ST ELABETH Will Play, Three Games in Four Days—Many Nines Taking a Rest. Those up and at 'em St. Elizabeth's | Hospital ball tossers like nothing so | much as plenty of action. They have listed three games for the next four days. Police will furnish the hospital boys opposition tomorrow on the Fairlawn diamond at 4 o'clock, Maryland A. C. will meet St. Elizabeth’s Thursday at 5 pm. on the hospital diamond and Shady Qak and St. Elizabeth’s will battle it out Saturday at 4 o'clock on the latter's field. | District sandlot nines were resting | today following s big day yesterday when many played two games on foreign fields. For the most from the National victorious. Visiting Richmond, Va., the French Co. nine twice defeated McRae Clothiers, 11 to 2 and 7 to 3 in 10 innings. Washington Railway & Electric Co. drubbed the Washington Grove, Md. nine a couple of times, 24 to 5 and 10 to 1, at Washington Grove. Diamond Cabmen divided a double bill with the Seabrook, Md., nine at Seabrook, winning the first, 18 to 6 but diopping the second, to 16. part the invaders Capital were Some other resul Fosall A. C., 14-6; West Washington Baptist, 1-5. A].A.ngley A. C, 11; Belle Haven 4 .04 Bethesda ~ Warriors, 12; Juniors, 3, ‘Takoma ‘Takoma Bethesda Warrlors, Clarendon Methodists, 8. 14; ‘Tiger Dixie A. C, Juniors, 3. D. C. Woodmen of World, 8; Mary- Head Motor n [land Woodmen of World, 4. Indian 6-3; Nolan Acme Printers, 5; Cardinals, 4. Southern A. C., Co., 5-0. Games are wanted by the following teams: Bradbury Heights Midgets, Manager ‘Watson, Lincoln 7597-W. Rambler A. C., Sunday game, Man- ager King, West 2201 between 7 and 8 pm. Skinker Eagles, Thursday game, Man- ager MacDonald, Cleveland 1871- Langley A. C., Sunday game, Man- , Adams 3964 after 5 p.m. hire Peewees, Atlantic 4163-W. i2| MAJESTICS WIN TWO FROM DEL RAY NINE ALXEANDRIA, Va., September 2.— 3 Maiestic Radio tossers of Washington 00 | took two decisions from the Del Ray A. C. here yesterday in a holiday twin bill staged on Edward Duncan Field. The first Il':l! ended 6 to 2 and the itcap 13 to 2. helton held Del Ray to six hits in the opener, while Dinenna gave up the same number in the second contest. St. Mary's Ceitics basket ball per- formers are to meet with Advisor Ed- ward Harlow to make '?:l?h tfox- "t.h: coming court _season af o'clock at 400 King street. Play in the Alexandria week-day se- ries is to open tomorrow with Old Do- minion Boat Club meeting Fruit Grow- m" Express on Duncan Pleld at 5 o’clock. Old Dominion Boat Club is to send several crews to Washington when the Potomac Boat Club holds its annual intraclub regatta YANKEE POLO TEAM IN LAST TEST TILT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 2.—America's international polo team today plays its last trial match before the Westchester Cup series with Great Britain, starting Saturday. ‘The American varsity will have Eric Pedley of California at No. 1; Earle Hopping, No. 2; Tommy Hitchcock, No. 3, and Winston Guest, back For the Reds, or junior varsity, G. H. (Pete) Bostwick will be at No 1; Cecil Smith of Texas, No. 2; Stewart B. Igle- hart, No. 3, and Elmer Boeseke, Cali- fornia, back. ‘There is a possibility that Iglehart may not get into action. He was badly shaken up in a spill yesterday while %llylng with Old Aiken against the nited States Army four. BALTIMORE WELCOMES CHAMPION JUNIOR NINE BALTIMORE, September 2 (#)—The junior base ball team, sponsored by the Baltimore & Ohio Post of the American Legion, came home from Memphis yes- terday with the championship of the United States safely tucked away. The team was met by a large delega- tion headed by Mayor William F. Broen- ing, presented with the Howard B. Savage Trophy, emblematic of the title, b¥ Russell Cook, past national director of the American Legion, and feted at a city luncheon. ‘The team won from the New Orleans Summary of Pastimes For Labor Day in Brief By the Associated Press DETROIT. — Gar Wood wins Harmsworth speed boat trophy again with Miss America IX. British challenger, Estelle XIV, is forced out. FOREST HILLS, N. Y.—Series of upsets give East 3-2 victory over ‘West_in annual tennis series; Lott and Doeg, national champions, bow to Mangin and Van Ryn in doubles, 3—6, 6—3, 8—6. CINCINNATI—Reds beat Cubs twice, 5-0 and 2-1, to tighten Na- ticnal League race. NEW YORK.—Sagamore Stable’s Balko, carrying 136 pounds, sets new track record of 1:092-5 for six fur- longs in winning Fall high-weight handicap at Belmont Park. ALTOONA, Pa—Billy Arnold wins 200-mile Labor day auto race, halted by rain after 116); miles. OYSTER BAY, N. Y.—American six-meter boats take lead of 24% points to 12 over Great Britain in British-American Cup series. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Glen Shultz wins Pikes Peak auto hill climb for sixth time. CHICAGO. — Siskin wins Joliet Handicap for 2 - year-olds, with Schooner second and Rusty third. JONES FIGHTS SMITH IN PLACE OF SHADE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 2.—Two crack Negro middleweights, Harry Smith of New York and Gorilla Jones of Ak- ron, Ohio, clash in the 12-round feature boult“ at the Queensboro Stadium to- night. Originally Jones was to have fought Dave Shade, veteran Californian, but Shade was taken ill and Smith was called in as a substitute. Joe Scalfaro, heavy-hitting New York bantamweight, clashes with Vidal Gre- gofl’o of Spain in the 10-round semi- inal. ARMY MEN WINNERS IN NATIONAL SHOOT By the Associated Press. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 2.— Two Army men carried off honors from more than 1,400 marksmen who fired in_Labor day events of the national rifie matches in progress here. Sergt. McWillie James, 25th Infantry, Nogales, Ariz, finished first in the Leech Cup match, in which seven shots are fired at stages of 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, while Sergt. Frederick Pauch, Somerville, N. J., won the Navy match. Sergt. James was one of nine com- petitors who finished with point totals of 103 out of a possible 105, but his greater number of “V's” on his string of scores gave him the trophy. Sergt. Pauch’s score of 97 out of a possible 100 points was equaled by two others, but the winner had the largest number of hits in the inner ring of the bull's-eye- ‘The 20 members of the United States team to fire in the international De War match next Sunday will be_chosen dur- ing the week. Thurman Randle, Fort Worth, Tex., was leading the qualifiers today with a score of 795 out of a pos- sible 800, one point better than Sergt. Edgar L. Doyle, New Haven, Conn., and two better than Fred J. Hansen of Chi- cago. Teams from the United States, Canada, England, France and Belgium will fire on their home ranges’ in this match and compare their scores by telegraph. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Press. WATERTOWN. S. Dak.—Billy Pe- trolle, Fargo, N. Dak., knocked out Doty Turner, Watertown (3). KANSAS CITY.-—Mickey Cohen, Den- ver, outpointed Joe Glick, Brooklyn (10); Jackie Gibbs knocked out Vince Jelenik, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. (2). CANTON, Ohio.—Patsy Perroni, Can- ton, outpointed Mike McTigue, New York (10). MACON, Ga.—Add Warren, Durham, 1%;;:&4 Tiny Herman, Portland, Oreg. RESULTS IN MINORS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. altimore, 9: Reading, 2. ronto, 1-1: Jersey Cit: Montrea AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Kansas City, 3: Milwaukee, 2 Toledo, 2-9; Columbus. 6-5. . Paul, 8 Minneapolis, 7. New Orleans, 4. Mobile, 1-2. Memphis, 12;" Little Rock, 10. TEXAS LEAGUE. Wichita Falls, 12-13: Dallas, 10-10. Fort Worth, 8-3; Shreveport, 5-0. Whco, 3-4; Houston, 1-5 San Antonto, 6-9; Beaumont, 5-1. WESTERN LEAGUE. Oklahoma City, 7-4: Topeka, 1-10. Bea Motnes. s, Deaver 3o v 110 Wichita, 3.2; Oklzhoma Oity, 0-3. Pueblo, '8-4; Des Moines, 1-0. Omana, 12; Denver, 8. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Asheville, 10-7: Columbia, 1-8. Macon, "{1-10; Charlotte, 3-2. Greenville, 8; Augusta. 4. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Columbus. 4-3: Pensacola, 3-0 Jacksonville, 7; Montgomery, 1. THREE-EYE LEAGUE. Terre Haute, 0-4: Springfleld, 4-9. 1 sville, 0-4. : Bloominy PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. San Prancisco, 9-1: Los Al ) 1-8. Hollywood, To-6, Missonada™ 18 entry in two straight games in the final. e American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 2—8: Bostop, 13, Philade rDhll New York, 2—32. Detroit, 6— cago. Cleveland, 8 Innings, 53 , 13—9; At. Louls, 8—5 (2d game darkness). STANDING OP THE CLUBS. klard, 6-4; Seattle, 1 Sactamento, 11-1; Portla; National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 8-3: Philade] Boston, 53! Brogkiyh. 3 > Loits, 11—5: Pltts Clneinnatl, 5—2; Chic STANDING , 61, o—1. OF THE CLUBS. osworo 2:0% moN smey 1§ gamanng Philadelphia St_Louls . Brooklyn 3111 9112[73/561.553 181_6112( 7I—I11(13/1168661.518 71 8I—I13113/50[711.454 9 | Cincinnati 11176/ 51 91 61 8/—1215/731.430 T T T a bone in Kuhel’s right corner to mh:xfltormeml...myum eame fancy flelding in both games .. . ] i|B A :‘|$Rl 813/ — (441851341 Games _Tost... [45140] | —I—] —_— e 41615161 871 7I—[431871.381 _Games _lost . 18356158/59/63171173(87I—I—| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. GAMES "s wlmuw&._& York. mgfi o é o GAR WOOD RETAINS SPEEDBOAT TROPHY Sets Record in Fina Heat. Miss Carstairs Not to Challenge Again. By the Associated Press. ETROIT, September 2.—Gar ‘Wood, the silver-haired pilot, is speedboat champion of the world for at least another year. His Miss America defeated the best the British had to offer in the Harms- worth Trophy race and in the second and final heat yesterday two of them— Miss America IX, driven by Wood, and Miss America VIII, driven by his brother George—bettered the record for a 30-mile heat. The Miss America IX averaged 77.390 miles an hour yesterday, compared with the former record of 75.287 made by Gar Wood in the Miss America VIII last year, The Eighth averaged 77.233 yesterday and turned in the fastest lap at_79.185. ‘Marion Barlara Carstairs must return to England without the trophy although she has spent about $500,000 in efforts to acquire it. This was her third at- tempt to lift the trophy held by Wood since he won it at the Isle of Wight in 1920. Miss Carstairs has the distinc- tion of being the first challenger to ever finish a heat in a Harmsworth race against Wood's hydroplanes. In the first heat Saturdey the Estelle 1V, piloted by Miss Carstairs, finished, although 3 miles behind Wood's Miss America IX. The Estelle V, faster of the two British challengers and piloted by Bert Hawker, was forced out of that heat after its fuel tanks burst. Miss Carstairs sent Hawker out to'the helm of the Fourth yesterday, believing he might drive a better race than she. With Hawker guiding it the Estelle IV was forced out for the same reason as the Fifth. Miss Carstairs announced that she never again would try to lift the Harms- worth Trophy. She stated that the huge cost would prohibit any further at- tempt to take Wood's title so far as she was concerned. Mechanics for the English girl were attempting to repair the Estelle IV and Estelle V for the 1-mile speed trials to- day. Entrants in the Harmsworth event will attempt to break the 1-mile straightaway record of 98.7 miles per hour set by the late Sir Henry Sea- grave. s e e i WINS CHESS TOURNAMENT STUBNIANSKE TEPLICE, Cgecho- slovakia, September 2.—M. Lilienthal, an 18-year-old chess ?lnyer from Buda- pest, 1s the winner of the international chess masters’ tournament, just con- cluded here after 12 rounds. The youthful expert made a score of 9—3 against a strong field of 13, in- cluding Herman Steiner of New York, who was placed sixth with a score of 7—5_ The other prize winners were V. Pire, Ljubljana, 8—4; 8. Flohr, Prague; Karl Gilg, Mahrisch-Ostrau, and K. Opocensky, Bratislava, each 7% —4%; A. May, Retzstadt, 612—5%. Big League BASE BALL “Cross Fire” Ball BY AL DEMAREE, Former Pitcher New York Giants. ‘The ‘“cross-fire” ball is really a eide-arm delivery. The pitcher in- stead of stepping almost straight toward the batter when he delivers tirely different angle. One had only to see Howard Ehmke's exhibition in the first world series game last Fall, between the Athletics and Cubs, to see how ef- fective this delivery is, if under con- trol. Ehmke stood the Cubs on their heads and struck out 13 men. Art Fletcher, the old Giant short- stop, used to remark that a “cross- fire” pitcher seemed to be pitching from third base. The only drawback to this baffling delivery is that it is harder to con- SIDE-ARM “CROSS FIRE" rectly toward the plate. A pitcher who can master this type of delivery has very little com- petition and that makes him all the more effective. The batters are used to_the orthodox type of pitcher and a ball coming at them at this angle has a tendency to intimidate them, especially if the “cross-fire” pitcher judiciously mixes up his curves and fast balls. Sa this big league base ball another will appear shortly. ———prepued a free illustrated leaflet on “Batting,” which BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HE phone in the sports depart- ment rang. A boyish voice ven- tured the usual, “Will you put something in the paper for us?”| oy Then the youthful sandlotter began, “We want a game for Labor day with a strong peewee team.” He was interrupted with “Have you a diamond?” “Well, we did have one,” came a dole- ful reply, “but they built a golf course on it.” “A golf course on it?” “Yeah, a miniature one, an’ it takes up so much room that we haven't a ot any more. So will you please put in the paper that we want this game with a team having a field?” 1Is miniature golf a menace to sandlot base ball? ‘Will this craze for shoving a golf ball around pint-sized fairways, through rain-spout tunnels and gravel greens affect the development of future Ruths, Hornsbys, Wilsons, Cochranes and Groves? Interest in these premature courses has been so great lately that hardly a thought has been given to its effect on the national pastime—even though it is only sandlot base ball. After all, a great many of our major leaguers did receive their training on the sandlots, In several Northern cities, it is said, there’s hardly a vacant lot available for the kids to play ball on, so widespread has been the building of these baby layouts. .1t is not a menace to the older teams as much as it is to the kid teams. Youngsters between the ages of 10 and 12 years lack sufficient funds to rent or erect a home fleld such as the Silver Spring diamond, the Mount Rai- nier field or Baggett’s Park in Alex- andria. They must rely on a vacant lot to get their training. So if miniature golf continues to grow in leaps and bounds, there may come a day when the kids will swap their bats STRAIGHT O BY WALTER [13 Chevy Chase have I seen or heard of so many scores under 80. There must be something about the Labor day atmos- phere to combine with hard ground and slow putting greens to put every golfer right on his game. The speaker was Bill Hardy, club ‘maker nrchevy Chase, and his words were backed up by Gene Larkin, the Maryland State open champion and as- sistant pro at Chevy Chase, who car- ries his hand in a cast and wishes he could play golf again. As the competi- tlon for the Secretary’s Cup went for- wiird at Chevy Chase yesterday scores below 80, made by men who never be- fore had broken that magic figure, came rolling in, and before much of the day had passed it was certain that all low scoring marks for the Chevy Chase course would be shattered. For example, there was the winner of the Secretary’s Cup, Dr. E. L. Woods, a captain in the Navy, who never broken 80 before, and who sported a handicap of 14 strokes. Dr. Wood found the going so easy that he broke 80 in !:mu:cgu?lon. nhoo:lnc a 75 t:)b'm match play against par event by a single hole. Dr. Wood finish , one hole better than the mark set y Admiral M. M. Taylor, who finished 3 up on par. W.G. ntley, jr., shot the first nine in 36, but took an 8 on the eleventh hole to finish with a 43 and a 79. Nevertheless, he finished 2 up on par to (e for third place with Henry Ravenel. Charlie Mackall, the slugger, who uged to star in the line for the Univer- ew‘y of Virginia foot ball team, scored a 72, even though he had three greens with three putts each. ‘The high spot of the day among the women players was reached by Mrs. Harrison Brand, jr, who registered a card of 79 from the front tees, only 1 which' is the women's course Mrs. Brand was out in 40, secu on the eighth hole, on par is 6. She got a 2 on the thirteenth and was around in 79, not- withstanding four 3-putt greens. ‘Then there was H. C. Morris, whom tLe boys in the golf shop at Chevy Chase sald never d broken 100 for the Chevy Chase course. Morris broke the century mark in no uncertain fashion, for he shot an 89, eleven strokes below 100. At all the other clubs low scores were the order of the day, the players find- ing the combination®of heat and a fast course very much to their liking. At Congressional a best ball event, with half the handicap of the twosomes, was held. Clarence B. Murphy, handicapped at scratch, and J. B. Baylis, with a 14 handicap, tied for the lead in the event with R. L. Rose (4) and J. B. Douglas (14), both pairs having net 69. W. L. King (18) and W. E. Shay (24) regis- tered a net 70 to win second place. King and Shay, with the aid of their handicap, shot the first nine in 32, but faltered over the back nine for a mark of 38. G. A. Youngquist and H. S. Le Roy tied at net 72 with W. W. Jones and M. Parker Nolan. Jones had the best individual score for the day—a 74, which is one over par. J. Logan Hopkins was the lucky gent in the competition at match play against par at the Washington Golf and Country Club for a set of matched clubs, donated :’F Dave Thomson, the club fessional. The players chose nine holes, on which’ half their club handicap applied, and after all the cards were in one-third the names were drawn, the winner of the lot winning the prize. Hopkins finished 5 up on par. Three players tied for second, all 4 up on par. They were Verne Simmons, Russell Jewell and Arthur Sinclair. W. C. Wiley won the flag tourney at the Bannockburn Golf Club, planting his flag after his final stroke in the cup on the eighteenth green. Frank J. Pickett finished second, and T. P. Hay- den was third. Jess A. McKeever won the blindfold driving contest, knoc! the ball blindfolded a distance of 3 yards, N H second. E. L. Norris won the President’s Cup at the Manor Club, a 36-hole medal lay handicap event. Norris scored 178 or the double circuit, with a handicap of 42, for a net card of 136. I. T. Do hus, with a net of 137, was a stroke hind the leader, and M. B. Shaw was third, with a net 138. D. L. ‘won the low gross, with 158. ‘The men's putting contest went to Robert C. H.lr:“ & student at the Naval Academy, who returned from a cruise to register EVER since I have been at yards to finish second. and gloves for golf clubs and take to their back yards and alleys, or if they must play base ball, wait for their turn on the municipal diamonds or take to the playgrounds, where they are lim- ited to the use of only a large, indoor Vic Gauzza has let it be known that he is not a little annoyed by the rumors dealing with the proposed shift of D. C. Repair Shop, champion of the De- partmental League, to the Government League next year. . Gauzza, president of the Depart- mental League, doesn't care much for this idea. “We're just getting the Departmental Vic, “and this business doesn't help us solve the problem. Besides I can't see where it helps a team, anyway. The Departmental League is supposed to be ‘weaker in every respect, yet the Repair Shop team has made a much better showing in the city series than has Naval Hospital.” They're racing down the home stretch now in the city series. ‘Today’s game between the Tile Set- ters and Pullman, both undefeated in two starts thus far, will go a long way toward the flag, while D. C. Repair Shop and the Calvary Drakes, with one victory and one defeat apiece, will bat- tle_against elimination tomorrow. On the strength of their showings to date, Pullman rules the favorite to hand .the Tilemen their initial loss this after- noon, but tomorrow’s game looms as a bang-up affair, with neither team hav- ing any real edge. One of the biggest surprises of the current season was the complete rout of the Burroughs A. C., which, after starting off the season like a house afire, has dropped almost into oblivion. For a while the Burroughs looked like serous threats for the Capital City League championship, knocking off St. Joseph while the Anacostia Eagles, the present leaders, were floundering around near the bottom. Now the Burroughs are way down and out. FF THE TEE R. McCALLUM Mrs. C. Van Dreisen won the women’s tourney with a card of 92—22—170. inifred Faunce, 75—4—171, was second. Mrs. S. B. Har- rison won the women's putting event with 37 strokes. 1. T. Donohue won the blind bogey contest at Manor with his card of 90—18—172, which hit the first lucky number on the head. The second num- ber was 79, and was hit by G. P. Nimro, who shot 89—10—79. The third num- ber was 78, and was made by Mack Meyer, who shot 88—10—78. H. G. Patten, W. L. F. King, E. F. Wesley, G. H. Warthen, C. W. Schafer and R. E. Jones tied at net 77 for the fourth lucky number. Winners in the miniature tournament at Indian Spring were as follows: First flight—George C. Gist defeated Dr. L. S. Otell. Consolatica winner, Perry B. Hoover. S"e{flnd flight—Dr. W. B. Vogel de- feated Harold );}hfir.ves' Consolation winnner, C. M. man. Third flight—W. W. Curtiss defeated H. S. Pope. Consolation winner, E. B. wm flight—Luther Peason defeated L. A. Spless. Consolation winner, J. C. leman. wx""m-h flight—Robert Brownell, winner. N. T. Patterson won the President's Cup in the tourney at the Beaver Dam Country Club, scoring 82—16—66. Four ollows: Forrest Thompson, 79—8—170; J. L. Townsend, 85—15—170; E. B. Strong, 94—24—10; Channing Davis, 93—23—10. Forrest Thompson won the men's driving contest, with a wallop of 270 yards. Willlam T. Henderson drove the ball 260 yards and L. F. Day hit a ball 250 yards. The men's approaching con- test ‘was won by Martin F. McCarthy, who dropped a ball within 2 yards of the cup from 170 {flu’d‘ away. Wifliam T. Henderson laid his shot within 8 feet of tlL pin to win second prize. Hender- son won the putting contest, holing an ace from & distance of 60 feet. H. A. ! | Neft scored a deuce to finish Mrs. ‘won the hnmdfi: . H. D. Swartz e ap medal play event for women with a card of 115—31—84. The women's driving contest went to Mrs. H. B. Shipley, who knocked a ball 190 yards, and the put- ting contest was won by Mrs. H. M. Stone. Mrs. Swartz also won the ap- proaching contest. Down at East Potomac Park there was no formal competition scheduled, but the day was a complete joy to Je- rome C. Shear, who made an ace on the second hole of course F, a distance of 180 yards. Shear was playing with 8. B. Cooksey, W. D. Patterson and R. P. McElrath. Out at Columbia the members com- peted in a best ball tourney, which was won by E. F. Kelly and Stanley Hol- land with a card of 80—18—62. Frank T. Howard and E. M. Wallace paired together to win second place with 77—14—63 and A. R. Mackley and W. E. Baker were third with 75—11—64. Mrs, C. C. Van Leer won the women’s putting contest, defeating Mrs. C. A. Slater in the final. Mrs. H. C. Bangs ‘won the consolatios While the junior golfers are com- peting at the Washington Golf and Country Club today for the junior championship of the city, many of the seniors are playing in_practice rounds at the Burning Tree Club in prepara- tion for the senior championship, which starts on Thursday. Entries for the senior event close tonight at 6 o'clock with 3 m C. Barr, secretary of the District Golf Association. DISMER ENTRY WINS YOUNG BIRD FLIGHT William F. Dismer's The Bronx has been announced as the winner of the inaugural young bird race of the Wash- ington Racing Pigeon Club, flown Sun- day from Charlottesville, Va. Dismer’s victorious bird homed at 10:08 am., covering the 100 miles in slightly more than three hours. Birds of C. I Parker’s loft placed second, third, fourth and fifth with another Dismer bird getting sixth. A total of 485 birds from 33 lofts com- Following is the order of finish, show- per minuf D. R 894: Budding League where it belongs now,” declares | layers tied at 70 for second place, as|3 to ? llows: TAKE THIRD PLACE WITH DOUBLE WIN Chicago’s Lead Is Cut by Double Loss to the Lowly Redlegs. BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. ABOR DAY efforts having failed to do much in the way of settling the National League pennant problem, the senior circuit swings into the last month of the 1930 sea- son with the Chicago Cubs holding a four-game lead over the Giants in sec- ond place, but with the Cardinals loom- ing as the most serious threat only a half game further back in third posi- tion. St. Louis was the only one of the four leaders to win a double-header {nesbemay, u:;giagu and Robins break- g even, and the Cubs dro) both of their encounters. As lheppgfull, the umped into third place, shoving the Robins back into fourth and left the league standing like this: 17—53, .592; New York, 72—56, .563; 559. é.;;\ia, 73—58, .557; Brooklyn, 73— In moving ahead of the Robins the Cards walloped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 11 to 6, in the morning and then re- peated with 5-to-1 trimming in the afternoon. Flint Rhem was the winning pitcher in the morning contest, while Grimes had an easy time with his for- mer teammates in the afternoon session. Kremer was out to win his twentieth game in the second, but had to be re- lieved by Spencer. Frey and Lucas Star. Red Lucas and Benny Frey put to- gether a pair of neat pitching perform- ances to deal the Cubs’ pennant lmml a stunning blow, the Reds taking the g?ener 5 to 0 with Lucas pitching 3- t ball, and the nightcap 2 to 1 as Frey set the champions down with five blows. ‘The Cubs had the second game won 1 to 0 with two out in the ninth when Sukeforth's hit to center bounded over Hack Wilson's head for a triple and scored Stripp and Crawford, who had drawn a base on balls. The Giants were cracking the ball at a terrific clip, getting 27 hits in two games, but they lost the nightcap to the Phillies 4 to 3, after taking the opener, 8 to 4. With Carl Hubbell hold- ing the Phils to seven hits and Leach and Hogan hitting homers and Terry pounding out a triple, double and two singles, the first game was easy. Thir- teen hits rang the Giants’ bats in the second encounter, but Bill Walk- er's wildness in the early innings gave the Phillies a lead which the McGraw- men were unable to overcome. Wally E‘e!rger'- m&rg—mnd hnm run was instrumen dropp! Robins into fourth place, f.heugrfldt drive accounting for three of the Braves’ runs that beat the Robins, 5 to 3, in the first game. Hollis Thurston pitched good ball and drove in two runs with & double, to give Brooklyn a 4-to-2 de- cision in the second contest. 'S homer scored all of the Robins’ runs in the first game. Yanks-A's Draw 72,000 While lacking much of the color of the National League race, the Phila- delphia Athletics .and New York Yan- kees drew a crowd of 72,000 into the Yankee Stadium to see an even split in the feature games of the American e. world champions took the 2, because of Al Simmons’ second home run, but Charlie Ruffing set them down with two hits to give the Yanks a 2-to-0 victory in the second. Lefty Grove stopped a Yankee rally in the first game by relieving Mahaffy and striking out Babe Ruth_ in_the ninth with two men on base. Ruffing fanned Simmons three successive times in the second game. The Senators cut the A’s lead to five and one-half games by taking the Bos- ton Red Sox into camp twice, 2 to 1 and 6 to 3. < Wesley Ferrell won his twenty-fourth of the season and his thirteenth both ends of the b ends of the holida; 6 t 5 and 4 to 3. Earl Whitehill got his fifteenth victory of the year in the sec~ ond after Ted Lyons had failed in an effort to win his twentieth. Alexander and Reynolds hit home runs in the opening contest. BIG MATCH CARDED BY DUCKPIN TEAMS A ;nr"ngfioler'e‘:l class has been ar- rangt at the start of the duckpin ”;Im hxe‘r‘es:bout. enry r's Bethesda, Md., howitzers, national titleholders, have booked & home and home match with George Lang's crack Recreation Center five, Baltimore champs. The first block of five games will be rolled in Baltimore Saturday night, September 13, and the final block September 20 at Bethesda. Total pins will decide the winner. Last year Lang's team defeated Be- thesda, overcoming a lead of 171 sticks gathered at Bethesda to triumph by a [} . 889 Joseph Turowski, o1 Bs6: M. J. Pelerstein, k) mg? few pins. To elect officers and otherwise plan for th Merchants Bowling wanting fran are asked to ttend. Bethesda Bowling League will make arrangements for the campaign at a meeting of managers of teams at the Bethesda alleys tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. A schedule will be drawn and other plans for the season will be made. Hugh Irey is president of the loop. BOXING BOARD REFEREE TO HANDLE MAT BOUT A registered referee of the National iation the average speed made in yards| pi CULLOP’S TWO HOMERS RUN HIS TOTAL TO 50 CHICAGO, tember Cullop of the Ame; Association, is