Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1930, Page 23

s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 1930. SPORTS. Nats Have Only Forlorn Hope: U.S. Poloists Hot Choices : Texas Climbingin Tennis CHANCE 1S SMIALL A WILL CRUMBLE Johnson Crew Bent Upon Fight to Finish—Beat Macks in Thrilier. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HEELING, W. Va, Sep- tember 8—Off for their final fling at the West, the Nationals have noth- ing more than an outside chance for the pennant. Indeed, theirs is a forlorn hope, it seems. With but 18 more games to play and 6%, games back of the league- leading Athletics, it looks as though only a complete collapse of the Mackian horde could open the way to a championship for the Johnson band. And even then, it would have to play great base ball to cop. The A’s have been as slow breaking as the heat wave, and there’s no good reason to believe they will crack during the last three weeks of the cam- paign. given up. played out. Before returning to their home lot to wind up the season in a clash with the Athletics on the last Sunday of this month the Nationals will invade five clties for 17 games. Three games are to be played in St. Louis, as many in Cleveland and the same number in De- troit. In Chicago the Johnson band will play four games and they will play four in Boston. Only one first-division club to be met during the tour. Yet three of the four second-division outfits 0 be encountered have given the Na- tlonals trouble aplenty thus far. The troublesome trio includes the rep- resentatives of St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit. On the fields of these clubs this season the Nationals have scored only 9 wins in 23 starts. Nor is the Washington record for play in Cleve- land particularly impressive. There the Nationals have won but three of eight games staged. Twelve wins and 19 defeats in the West this season show clearly why the Nationals aren't better ©ff in the flag chase. ‘The Nationals may be expected to do better in the West this trip, however. They move on the sector with all play- ers, excepting Sam West, middle fielder, and Roy Spencer, catcher, in good trim. ‘This time they’ll have in their line-up Henie Manush, who was kept out of action during the July invasion by an ailing leg. Manush's punch was sorely missed in that second Western swing. And before long West and Spencer should be back in the game regularly. It the Nationals don't go well in the far sector of the league this time they’ll have no alibi. URING their last big stand in the | East the Nationals played well against their Eastern rivals and the Western clubs. They took 26 of the | 39 games in the lots along the seaboard. That was moving at a_645 clip—pretty good for most clubs. Yet the A’s have & winning percentage up in the .670s, and for the season, too. What can be done with a club like that? The Yanks were well licked in the last Eastern’stand. They were trimmed 8 times in 11 meetings. The Red Sox Were beaten three times in four games and the Athletics four times in eight | engagements. The Indians dropped three of five games in Washington, the three-game set with the White Sox was swept by the Nationals, while they broke even with the Tigers in four games and took three of four games played with the Browns. In the East the Western clubs ;flna not so good against the Johnson This string will be THIS final Western invasion will get under way tomorrow afternoon in St. Louis, the jinx town for the But the Griffs have not | | pioture. Jack Faber, Burton Shipley, Charlie Fenwick and Earl Zulick, aides, and Curley Byrd, head coach, are shown from left to right in the top In the middle, the foot ballers are seen smashing dummy and in the inset on the right the boys are depicted as they are being taught a few things about tackling. the charging BY FRANCIS E. STAN. R. HACK WILSON, the low- chassised slugger of Chicago, | is sald to have enough wrist| M watches (home-run gifts) to wear not only on both of his wrists, but also on his arms, ankles and around his neck, but even at that, he hasn't a whole lot on our own Heinie Webb of ‘ the Union Printers, who today is sport- ing some very elegant jewelry, annexed on the recent tour to Pittsburgh for the Typo tournament. First of all, Heinie was presented with a gold watch, the gift of the Washing- ton Union Printers. Officials of the Typo Association then chipped in with a chain to go with the timepiece. | Heinie's teammates next came through with a penknife, and, last but not least, was a beautiful diamond-studded medal | given by the league. On this medal is| inscribed three words, “Loyalty, effici- ency and Courage. Webb was described as the “Walter Johnson of the sand lots” in a speech . | made at the Pittsburgh banquet. Heinie last time they were | Wi the Browns turned on| him after he had held them to two hits for eight innings, shelled him for | three runs and a tie in the ninth, then | beat him in the tenth inning. | The St. Louis series and the set fol- | Jowing immediately in Chicago may see | Hadley’s only starts in the West. hasn't been particularly good in the far sector this season, especially in Cleveland and Detroit. Manager John- son has intimated he may employ Had- ley only in relief roles against the In- dians and the Tigers. 'HERE'LL be no licking of the Na- tionals by the Athletics in their an- nual series, anywa Fighting gamely after the contest yesterday -sunmfly was lost to them, Na. tions plugged away to the last ditch and scored a 7-t0-6 triumph over the league leaders in Griffith Stadium, to put | themselves one up on the A's for the | year with one game to go. Sam Jones tried to baffle the A's, but ‘was bumped from the hill in the second inning, when the champs collected five runs. They got another off Fred Mar- is certainly deserving of these tokens, for in some 20 years of base ball he has| :xhown himself a true sportsman at all imes. | 'ANS out Anacostia way are firmly convinced that while there is more | truth than poetry in the saying, “Youth will be sarved,” the expression | | was not meant for this year, for the Anacostia Eagles, veterans all, climaxed a long uphill fight, after trailing in the Capital City League until last Sunday, by scoring five times in the seventh and eighth innings to down Columbia Heights, 10-8, to take the District title. An array of such old-timers as Tommy Ford, Morris Clarke and Sugrue and company will enter the play-offs, which start-next Sunday. AT there's many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip is quite_true | if you ask a Mount Rainief fan.| Needing only two victories to win the | to Moore in left was long enough to | get Dave home. Then came the big finish—for the Nationals. berry in the third then stopped for the ‘big fellow pitched a whale of a | game thereafter. But two hits were made off him in seven and one-third | rounds, both in the third round. | The Nationals pegged away until | finally they gleaned five tallies off the | left-handed George Walberg in six in- | then George Earnshaw, right- | hander, tried to stop .iem. He did— until the ninth, G count 6 to 5 against them, the| Nationals quickly put themselves back in the running. Bluege beat out 8 bunt as a starter and checked in at third when Ruel, with the hit-and-run on, singled to left, right through the ground Boley had left uncovered. West ‘was sent in to run for Ruel and Shires picked up Marberry’s bat. Earnshaw was so_unpoised that he passed Shires, mever getting the ball near the plate. Hayes' best was a hoist to Simmons 4n not such deep center, but deep enough to get Bluege over with the tying tally and sending West to the far corner. Th " Rice, who had failed to conamect safel, the four times he had stepped to the plate, got his one hit. It was a single that bounded over Earn- shav's dome and the Nationals were in. OME good. solid thumping of the ball S netted the A’s their three runs in round two. They combed Jones for six hits, two extra-base affairs. Sim- mons singled and, following Foxx's long gacrifice, Miller hit for a base to tally Al. Moore single: Boley's sacrifice hoist counted DMiller 3 tripled to drive across the third run Bishop singled George home, swipd second and crossed when Dykes doubled. ‘That finished Jones. The Nationals came back for one yun in this ‘nning, Cronin’s two-bagger and Harris' single accounting for it. t the m}re in the third. A double by Sim- mons, his theft of tiird and Miller’s one-baser were responsible. Marberry then che~k2d the ghamps while the National: picked up four more m: r: of Wa'barg. Cra- nin’s pass, D-ies’ furble of He grounder end Ruel's sinol» with t out msant two runs in th> fourth. the eixth, C e forced out by .udge, but Harris tripled ® deepest right-center and Bluege's loft OING into that round with the| and _Walberg | smarked Marberry for a | In OTS of excitement in the seventh yesterday in Washington. ..some nutty fan fired a pop bottle at Simmons as he returned to the A dugout after being thrown out... berry took exception to some remarks coming from the Mack bench and im- mediately after fanning Foxx headed for the visitors' dugout with fire in_his eye...the Nationals gathered abou! hi ant orted him from the field. berry led off the Washington and trying to beat out a grounder to Foxx spilled Earnshaw, who covered first. . .nobody hurt...the 25000 fans from the District, ryland, Virginia and other points North and South got a great kick out of it all. ..Bluege made ‘B. nifty catch of Dykes' foul* in the fourth right in front of the A’s dug- ou Harris' triple was a wow...Dave |drove the ball to the angle back of | right-center, where homers are hit in | Griffith Stadium. | Standings in American Leacne. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washirgton, 7 Boston, 5-2 Chica Le o eswaua013g | 0/13114/1513/18193/46 — 1711111/ 9111158551 T4/13115/77] world | { Games lost..146751/5085/71183133(0! GAMES TOMORROW. LWash. at Bt. Louts. No games scheduled );'h.l'lll at Detroit. e Boston at GAMES TODAY Heinie Webb, Typ Loaded With Tokens of Esteem York at Cieve. Chicsgo. ' o Ball Leader, flag, the Mount Rainierc lup lost four straight and the Dixie Pigs are now champs of Prince Georges Coynty. The Dixie Pigs came from behind yesterday in both games of the title- deciding double-header with the Mounts, to nose out the former champs, 8to5and7tob. CME PRINTERS are the ’mtheir champs now, following 4-to-3 victory over the Lionels yesterday. Davis, third baseman, was the shining light when he drove across all of the Acme runs with two singles and a sacrifice fly. 'OR some reason, Brooke Grubb of Silver Spring didn't play ball yes- terday, so the Giants, instead of losing to the Chicago Girls' team by one run, did a right-about-face and rudely took the ball game, 14 to 13. KINKER EAGLES, who intend to play every league winner in an al tempt to claim a championship, took two games from the Takoma Tigers, Montgomery ' County champs, yesterday, winning the first 13 to 9, and the second, 14 to 10. a kind of consolation game, Hyatts- ville, runner-up in _the Prince the Chevy Chase Grays, second-placers in the Montgomery County ioop, 13 to 2. The Grays proved no match for the Hisermen, who took the lead in the first inning with 4 runs. ANAGERS of the Anacostia Eagles, Takoma Tigers, and Bauserman Motor Co. nines are to meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the Post to arrange for the cham p play- off of the Capital City .. ICORES of other independent games: Roamers, 5; Fort Hu War College, 4; Agyles. 3, Bethesda, 2. Sam Wests, 10; Cardinals, 3. Bethesda Warriors, 3: Lindberghs, 2. Junior Order, 8; Majestics, 7. Foxhall, 8: Northwest Cardinals, 5. Bryantown, 4: Red Sox, 1. Rovers, 10; Southeast Cubs, 5. Wreco, 12; Isherwood, 0. Virginia White Sox, 4; Big Print Shop. 3. Palisades, 5; Bethesda, 3. King's Palace, 13; Colonials, 11. (Sport Mart League game.) -« Mmlmt Rainier Jrs, 10; Hyattsville s, 1. YESTERDAY’S STARS By the Associated Press. Paul Waner, Pirates—Drove in four runs against Cubs with pair of triples and_single. Flint Rhem and Jess Haines, Cardi- nals—Pitched effectively to beat Reds in_both ends of double-header. Fred Marberry, Senators—Went in as relief pitcher in second inning, held A’s to two hits and beat them, 7-6. Ralph Kress, Browns—Hit Detroit pitching for two doubles, a single and home run. Robins—Scattered win, 5-2. | Dazzy Vance, Giants’ eight hits to Major Leagiles National League. i YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. rookivn. 5: New . Eiiaaeiphis, 17 Toskor 022, " Louis. 1i-4; - Plitsbursh, 5, Chicagao " o — [ 8113111/11(14]76/601.559 113/111 9/13/75/601.558 o_6l_8/—T12/56178l.414 81 7111441901338 GAMES TODAY. Bkiyn. at Phila. (2) Others not scheduled GAMES TOMORROW. Cincin. at Phils. . Chiea Bklyn. Lo N, Rork. Georges County League, swamped g PHILADELPHIA. Bishop, I ykes. 3b. ‘ochrane, A Srormonsond mmootoRou> csoscooonsl! Earnshaw, Totals ... ‘WASHINGTON. . o > | | | | cocovnoannuas, | Wests Totals al mocconmnnocced o =l cocommnonorcol @ ol'cocconscccccs™ | cCovosruwsnnnmmol al ccocorcousons 70me out when winning run was scored fBatted for Marberry in ninth inning. tRen for Ruel in ninth inning. Bhiladelphia. 5100000 Washington. - Riins batted in; D, Dyke Rice. 0—6 a 18 (2), Ruel Thi iy Walber, ree-base hits—Walberg, bases—Bishop, Simmons. Rice. Foxx, Boley, Bluege. Left on_bas: d 6. Washington, 4. Tirst bage on balls—Off Walberg, 3; off Marberry, 4: off Earnsh 1. Struck o By Jones, 1. by e s in 1% Taciaks; o ors, 8 1n 6 jones. 6 in rings; erg, | ; oft Marberry, 2 in 7V innings: off | 3 in 2 innings. Winning pitcher —Marberry. Los'ng pitcher—Earnshaw. Um- | pires—Messrs. Dinneen. Nallin and Campbell. I RESULTS IN MINORS | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark, 10; Reading, 4. g:mn:uu. 12-:- Jersey City, Rochestér, 6-2: Montreal, 4-1. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. o P {o 8768561 Reading.. . 593388 6469340 Jersey Gity. 5695 371 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. New Orleans, 5: Atlanta. 3. Memphis, 5; Naghville, 0. tfie Rock. 3 Chattanooga, Other-clubs not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Mobile..... TEXAS LEAGUE. Port Worth, 12; Wichita Falls, 0. Dailas, 5; Bhreveport, 3 Waco, 14; Beaumont, 13. Houston, 11; San_ Antonio WESTERN LEAGU! 6; St Joseph, 0-4. Oklahoma ' City. 10. ; Wichita, headers, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Loutsville, 11; Columbus. . Toleoiceer 35 Minneapotie, ikee, 5 B %-7 Kaneas Chty, %- BSTANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. W. L Pet %783 621 Kansas City 88 73 483 | 85 Dg 592 Columbus... 62 78 443 | 79 63 .556 Milwaukee. 59 83 .415 | 7171 .500 Indianap’lis 55 86 .390 | EASTERN LEAGUE. 8-12; _Springfield, oer s innings: dafkness.) o ageport, §; Allentown, 7. (Second same, | ain.) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. jdgeport. 4531.503 Springfield. 34 43 .443 RHcsEwn.. 4335525 Aloany.... 3650415 NEW YORK-PA. LEAGUE. Cities, 4; Willismsport, 1. Fimlen o6 Scranton, ¥ i 31 4. P Loutsville.. E 8t. Paul 70 62 .580 g"ig : B ®urs. 6667.496 Scranton 3 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 1 | Stevens, M'Le 6-4. (8econd | B 6073 451 | Ellfi.fl.‘:m'—‘ Seattle, 2-5. B l ; Six Clubs Represented in Parley With Judge Landis. CHICAGO, September 8 (#).—Repre- sentatives of six major league clubs— four from the National and two from the American—were here today to dis- cuss world series plans with Keresaw M. Landis, commissioner of base ball. Philadelphia and Washington, the American League contenders, and Chi- cago, St. Louis, New York and Brooklyn, all mathematical possibilities in the senior organization, were represented. FRONT ROYAL WINS All-Stars Defeat Martinsburg Hose Company Ball Team, 11-10. FRONT ROYAL, September 8.—The All-Stars of Front Royal defeated the Hose Company, No. 5, team of Mar- | th tinsburg, W. Va., yesterday, 11 to 10. Martinsburg had the lead until the ninth inning, when the All-Stars made » (five runs. Stevens and Edwards of the Hose Company, No. 5, each made a home run, and Caspotti made one for the All-Stars, Johnson, pitching for the All-Stars, allowed 12 hits, while 11 hits were made ‘off Crawford and pitching for Martinsburg. A large crowd witnessed the game. ALL-YORKS SEEK FOES. Foot ball games with teams in Wash- ington are sought by the All York, Pa., professicnals. Write Business Manager E. W. Gemmill, 434 North Beaver street, York, Pa. By the Associated Press, Including games of September 7. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .391. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 138. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 155. Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 204. Doubles—Hodapp, Indians, 46. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 18. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 45. Stolen bases—McManus, Tigers, 20. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Terry, Giants, .402. Runs—Cuyler, Cubs, 140. Cubs, 163. Runs batted in—Wilson, Hits—Terry, Giants, 226. Doubles—Klein, Phillies, 50. Triples—Comorosky, Pirates, 23. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, 47. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 34. BATTING. R. H.2b.3b. HR. 144" 9 2 31 13 7 80134 25 8 32 3 74129 18 88 150 17 . SB.RBI Pct WP 13 16 66 15 15 108 911 [] 6 11 15 12 10 o5 s [T PP e corvvoanioBl comanEEEE- ©00o00~0000000NMaNHS! ©0000000008 wmats! CouSHawswoNon L PITCHING. In'gs Gam Comp. 80. piteh.start.gam W I 16435 20 14 4 13 14 184% 9 6 210 24314 132 23 19 b 31 3 | [ 8l s YANKS SHOULD END SERIES WEDNESDAY British Held to Have Little| Chance for Trophy—No Team Changes. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. ESTBURY, N. Y., Sep- tember 8.—The Ameri- can polo team, led by Tommy Hitchcock, is a prohibitive favorite to beat Great Britain in the second match of the international polo series on Wednesday and retain the West- chester Cup, held by this country since 1921. So impressively did the cup de- fenders win the first game on Saturday, 10-5, that experts con- cede Great Britain little or no chance to salvage even one game out of the series. A third game, if necessary, will be played Sat- urday. Both teams probably will stand pat on the line-ups they used Saturday. The British riders are seriously handi- capped by a scarcity of reserve mate- rial due to injuries and sickness. The challengers put up a gallant fight for four periods, holding the Americans to a 5-3 count, but in the last half, Hitchcock and his mates piled up 5 ;no;: goals, while holding the invaders 0 2. No Team Changes. There appears to be no reason why the American line-up should be altered for the second match. ‘The two more or less doubtful members of the team, Eric Pedley of California and Earle A. 8. Hopping of New York, were the mainsprings of the attack, scoring 8 of the 10 American goals. Pedley, re- gaining his shooting eye, scored 5 goals and Hopping 3. The other 2 goals went to Hitchock, while Winston Guest played a brilliant game at back, Hopping was more than a handful for the British No. 3, the famous Capt. C. T. I. Roark, whose failure to reach his customary form placed most of the challenger's burden on_the capable shoulders of Lewis L. Lacey, Anglo- Argentine veteran. Lacey scored 3 goals and kept the American defense busy trying to stop his charges toward the goal. Roark and Gerald Balding each scored 1 goal, while Lieut. Hum- phrey Guiness, like his brother back, Guest, went scoreless. Air Aces Ignored As Griffmen Rally 'ASHINGTON is base ball mind- ed just now and even the trans- atlantic aviators from France went by a crowd in front of a score board on Pennsylvania avenue un- noticed yesterday afternoon. A few mements after the aviation heroes, Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, had passed, two runs were posted on the scoreboard and the gathering shouted lustily as an indi- cation that they have not given up pennant hopes, despite the six and a half games by which Washington is trailling Philadelphia. SINGER'S KNOCKOUT MARK IMPRESSIVE Has Put Away More Victims Than McLarnin, but Jim’s Have Been Tough. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 8.—The doned if he has been led to believe that Jimmy Me- Al Singer, but the record book doesn't bear out that belief. sult of their 10-round battle in the Yankee Stadium Thursday night can Singer has more knockout victories to his credit than McLarnin. The latter knockouts, while Singer, in 57 battles, has 21 K. Os to his credit. McLarnin’s knockout victories are a much more impressive list than Singer's. Ruby Goldstein, Sammy Baker, Joe Glick, Stanislaus Loayza, Phil McGraw, Jackie Fields. Singer's most impressive knockout victories have been scored weight championship, Pete Nebo, A Routis and Young Bisserino, o since he won the 135-pound title, but his corwn will not be at stake, the man in the street may be par- Larnin is a much harder hitter than Experts trying to dope out the re- discover without much trouble that has won only 13 of his 66 bouts by Kayoed Tough Ones. He has knocked out such figures as Sid Terrie, Louis (Kid) Kaplan and over Sammy Mandell for the light- Singer will be making his first start match having been made at 142 pounds. THE SPORTLIGHT By Grantland Rice Concerning the New Ball. 8 THE new golf ball goes into effect the first of the year and only a few months are left for the old ball's flight down the fairway—or over the fence into out of bounds country—several energetic cor- respondents have suddenly started writing about it. Most of them want it denounced. Others are curious to hear about it. The majority have not tried it out and have an idea that all it will mean will be loss of distance and a higher score. And most of them have scores already high enough to make em yearn for mayhem and murder. I don't think the new ball will make particular difference. For the average golfer, and he is 98 per cent of the game, it will have its advantages and disadvantages. Here are the advantages: 1. It is easier to get into the air. 2. It travels as far with the wind and about as far on a quiet day. 3. It affords a much better lie and brings back the brassie and the long iron to the average player. 4. It sits down & bit more quietly on the green. 5. It looks easler to play and easier to hit and is a mental relief. Here are the disadvantages: 1. It isn't as long against the wind. 2. It increases the arc of a slice or & hook. 3. It won't skip as buoyantly through bunkers on a topped shot. 4. If anything it is not as easy cn the putting side. These are honest observations with no tktmughl'.n in mind except to approach e tru The Difference. HEN I say the difference will be slight, I base it uj a consid- erable amount of play—and upon one leading example. short while ago we were playing at the National golf links. One of the members of the four-ball troupe was bounding along like a wild horse. He was out in 35. He came back in 39, with a 6 where he misjudged the distance to a green after a well hit shot. He had a 74, which he admitted was somewhat beyond his pace. That afternoon we started out again. He holed his putt on the first green with a ball that had seen some serv- jce. I picked it out and handed it back. I noticed it was the new and larger, lighter ball. “I see you are playing with the new I said. “No,” he answered, of them in my life. “But this is the new ball,” I replied. He took a close look and admitted that was the same ball he had used for his 74 in the forenoon. “But I never knew it was the new ball,” he said. “I meant to buy one of the others, the present size. I can see now,” he added, “why I had so many good lies where the ball seemed to be sitting up and why I was using a brassie so well.” This happens to be a true story. It has nothing to do with any bally- hoo for the new ball, since it happens to be the writer's contention that a player should be allowed to use any size or weight he wants to use. We've already had too many people telling us what we could eat and and play with. And it was usually something they didn't like—and nat- urally didn't want anybody else to like —that being human nature in the raw. But this one example proves how slight the change really is. When a veteran golfer who has been hammering the old ball all his life doesn’t know that he is playing with the new ball after 18 holes there can’t be any devastating departure—any change that makes any vital difference. Other Viewpoints. 'ORTON SMITH dropped in the office, and I asked him what he thought of the new Rall. “In three months after 1t is in use” he said, “I don’t think any one will remember the old ball—or the dif- ference.” Later on, in playing with Glenna Collett, I noticed she was playing with he new ball. I asked her if she was getting ready for the 1931 championship. “No,” she said, “I play with the new ball because I can get it up better, and it isn't such a strain in making carries. I like the feel of it from the o I found I could make the long at Pebble Beach last Summer with the new ball than the old. t have to dig so much for brassie d irons. I'm playing with e T e o ey Wil . Mavbe ¥ T never hit one 1 1 uec | Winds of the seaside links. I may not score quite as well, but it is more fun.” And golf to Glenna Collett is more a matter of fun than anything else. There probably never was a champion who took the matter of winning a championship with less seriousness. Glenna can win or lose a title, and if you can tell the difference 10 minutes ‘l'::e; you are the world’s greatest mind er. ANYWAY the new ball is coming. As the situation looks now it should have fully as many advantages as it has disadvantages. And it will have more advantages for those playing in- land courses, away from the swirling It is cer- tainly not as useful a scoring ball in a keen wind. It is a better scoring ball on a quiet day. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) RECORD FOR PAST WEEK IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES Last week's major league records of games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs, fol- lows: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Club, Detroit .. Cleveland " Philadelphia Washington New York Chicago St. - Louts. Boston Barwsane St. Louis Brooklyn New York Boston Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia P WIN OF BELL OVER BOROTRA IS HAILED Seeding of Youngsters May Bring More Upsets in International Tourney. BY J. P. ALLEN. OREST HILLS, L. I, Septem- ber 8—Two things stand | forth as the lawn tennis tournament for the singles championship of the United States moves into its second round |on the turf at Forest Hills today. Texas is coming to the front, especially in showing up the crumbling French forces that de- fend the Davis Cup. Then it is evident that the inspiration of Dr. Philip B. Hawk, a wise old lawn tennis bird, in seeding the youngsters, will operate for some startling upsets. Berkeley Bell, the Texan who knows more falls and antics than Jean Borotra ever dreamed of, has balanced matters with Wilmer Allison. It will be recalled Allison proved the sensation of Wim- bledon by lowering the colors of the great Henri Cochet. The score was 6—4, , 6—3. Now along comes Bell to give Borotra, the Galloping Gaul, a trouncing right off the bat in the opening of the American classic, 3—6, 6—2, 12—10, T—S5. By one of those tricks of fate the Texans.and the Frenchmen have clash- ed in surprising fashion this year. Turning back to Wimbledon it may be discovered that Bell came near to defeating Cochet before Allison did it. In the third round of the British tour- nament Cochet fought through full five startling sets, scored at 6—2, 6—2, ;—];’v 4—6, 6—1, before he eliminated ell. It is possible to view these perfor- mances from another angle that in- cludes our own limping Bill Tilden. The seven times American champion and Wimbledon winner was scarcely at his best in f.hedzigenml round at Forest Hills. The culty is chiefly that Tilden no longer is certain of his finishing shots. When he attempts to “kill” the ball in his old spectacular fashion it as often lands in the net or out of court as where he intends it to ‘oBell is No. 9 of the national rank- ing. Never was there a harder fight- ing youngster. And a little peeved at being left out of the seeding in the draw, he engaged a ticket for home and then went out to do battle with Borotra. It is a tribute to his fighting spirit that he doesn’t need that railroad ticket to- day, but will go out on the courts to meet Fritz Mercur in the second round. Another of the youngsters, one who won a place in the seeding at No. 4, Sidney B. Wood, jr., also moved into the forefront today. Wood's defeat of Weller B. Evans, the former Princeton athlete, revealed the boy of 19 years as of wide variety of stroke. This young player, who is a nephew of Watson M. Washburn, a former Davis Cup defender, reveals more court generalship than is usual to one of his years. Aware that he could carry the battle to Evans, he did so in a way that proved masterful. He meets Johnny Doeg today. Other matches that will draw the David Jones match and the Tilden- Joseph J. Armstrong match. The Bell and Tilden matches will be played on the courts outside the stadium. WICHITA FALLS WINNER OF TEXAS LEAGUE RACE Victor of Series With Fort Worth to Play Champion Team of Southern Association. | . DALLAS, Tex., September 8 (#).— | Wichita Falls, leader in Texas League | play for the latter half of a split season lule, will enter a play-off series be- ginning Wednesday at Wichita Falls with Fort Worth, first half victor. ‘Winner of the play-off series will meet the champion of the Southern As- sociation in a post-season set of games to determine the Dixie base ball title holder. 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