Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1930, Page 27

JOHNSONDUE FULL CREDIT FOR CLINB @riffmen Display Pluck in Winning 12-Inning Opener From Browns, 8-4. BY JOHN B. KELLER. T. LOUIS, September 10.— Here's a ball club that stands a chance of winning more games than it did in the palmier of its two pennant- winning years, and yet hasn’t a Jook-in for the flag this time. It's the Washington base ball club. To date it has bagged 86 of 137 g:mes played and has 17 games EACH OTHER DOWN | Four Clubs Closely Bunched, as Robins and Giants Whip Cubs, Cards. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE National League race was tighter than ever today. After Brooklyn's 3-to-0 triumph over the Cubs and New York’s 2-to-1 victory over 8t. Louis yesterday, here is how the four leaders lined up: 20 to finish its schedule. It has | S8 a fine prospect of taking more than 10 of its remaining games. Yet in doing so it isn’t likely ta garner the American League championship. No matter what the Natonals do, the world champion Athletics, setting the pace in the junior major circuit this season, apparently are able to keep well abreast of them. When one loses the other does, but to make it more difficult for the Johnson band when it wins in opposing another rival, so does | ef A's take & the Mackian horde. The ell-contested game in Detroit and the | thirty-first home Nationals upset precedence in taking the opener of a series in St. Louls— and in extra innings, too. Back in 1924 the Nationals garnered their first American League pennant with 92 victories. The mext year they won the championship with 96 wins. Now the Nationals have won one more game than they did in 1927 when they finished third in the American League race. The best record at this stage of the campaign since their biggest pen- Yet they can cop by And LTHOUGH it is unlikely the Na- tionals can catch the Athletics. This business of the club finishing second, s position it practically has | Siants got clinched, is one of the remarkable facts of the base ball year. Picked by many of the critics of the game as nothing better than a.second-division club in the training season, the Nationals have performed sensationally and they .de- praise that may be bestowed them for their fine effort. his el 3 soug to forget all in_his ball club and what it has sccomplished can only be at- tributed to_ his- excellent leadership. Here's a ball club that did t1.1'(7}:2 lo‘o“ icularly stropg on paper af out- m{mecm , yet it has been an jve aggressi club ‘all the way. It has been a figh! club. What's more, due to the able han of the mound staff by Johnson, in day in base ball the greatest pitcher that ever graced Ri orson has established himself as ": & fine manager. It's no wonder his club league cam) 8. T a fight the Nationals made to t yesterday's game, the opener x‘z: t.lzelr finai invasion of the West this year! That they defeated the Browns, 8 to 4, in a dozen innings was due solely to pluck. For nine innings they could do_little with the pitching put over by Rip Collins. True, got three runs over that stretch, but - not one of the runs was earned. Only weak flelding behind Collins helped them to that extent. However, Irving Hadley did some good hurling until the ninth~ when the Hadley had m"el o:la ‘when the Browns began their dea ng a lucky bingle was needed to turn the trick. Schulte clicked with a clean to left, but O'Rourke’s hit was fluky. It was a bounder that barely cleared Hadley's head and never reach- ed Hayes, sec%r;_‘d baseman, p‘l’c};ued w:; charging in. en Kimsey. Collins’ bat ln? cracked a single that ut over the tying run. " Here Jahr;’wn resorted to strategy that saved the game. h passing of Blue that filled the sacks with one out. The best Metzler could do was to ground to Judge and a snappy side-retiring double-play followed, the first baseman to the catcher and hack to the first baseman. BAmmG to the twelfth Innlng,:he Nationals salted the game after two were out. Cronin doubled to start this round and after one was out he moved ‘to third when Bluege singled. A squeeze play was attempted with Ruel bunting, but Cronin was caught at the plate. However, Hayes got a hit with a looper over the shortstop's head and Bluege crossed to break the tie. Then Burke walked to crowd the sacks. Rice followed with his only hit, A single .that counted Ruel and Hayes, and West's single scored Burke and Rice. A!“IKR Shires batted for ‘lll';hdel;y in| the tenth, Marberry p! an inning for the Nationals, then | Burke came on to score a victory. He retired the Browns after passing two | with one out in the eleventh. In the twelfth they managed to get & run off him, but that was nothing following what the Nationals had done to Kimsey. Harris was chased from the first base coaching line in the third inning when Ump Moriarty caught him. talking [ 35 . » No suspensicn for! Bluege made a pair also & fine catch of the pitcher . Dave, however . s Hayes it the ball hard | D going to bat in the | Chic every time before twelfth then got a hit looper over the shortstop's head . . . what a wallop McNeely, batting for Metzler, took when hit in the head by one of Burke's pitches in the twelfth .« . . It-did’t bo Earl more than a . First time th & dinky, te or two, however . . 'has been the surprise of the major | 5. Browns suddenly | o'Ro splurged and shoved across a tying tally. | Co rally and then | ;5 Washington St. Louls .. He ordered the | 1i Brookl; ined & full game on the two mm’unnf:t are ahead of them, and went into a virtual tie with St. Louls ;g“rn ueok nd place, trailing by only one The Robins’ two Babes, Phelps and Herman, figured heavily in the victory. Given great support, Phelps limited the Cubs to five hits as he beat Pat Malone in a pitching duel. Herman put the fini touch on the struggle in the slammed the was home and tallying out and Wright's. single. In the first six frames the two veterans allowed only seven hits between them. ‘The first the infleld. Cincinnati’s latest losing as LEADERS CUTTING TR alses coorvwannast O eccccororeen ™ Totals 1Batted for Metaler in twelfth. $Ran for McNeely in twelfth, #100010001001—4 Rung batted in—Metzler, M Ruel, Kimsey, Haves, Rice (2), Krems. Two base hits—Bluege, 2, Hayes, ' Kre: olen base—Gos- West, ush. Bt n. _Sacrifice—B to 'Ruel to Judge, Blue, Hayes ‘to Cronin to Judgt bases—Washington, 11; 8t. Loul base_on balls—Off Hadley, off Coliins, 4: off Kimse: By Hadley, y Collins, Hits—Off Hadley, 8 in berry, 1 in 1 ini innis ) 0000210000058 |gaar ini se: in 3 s, Hit by pitel Burke (McNeely). Wininng_pitoher. Losing pitcher—Kimsey. Umpires—M Gelsel. Moriarty and Owens. Time of ~—2 hours and 41 minutes. American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadelp wrol Chicago, 10; Boston, 1. The Foening Star. BATTING. . AB.'R. H.2b.3b.HR.8H. 72 44 10 WASHINGTON, D. C, Nats Better ’24 Pace N L. Plot Thickens: U. S. Four Big Choice: Tilden Carries On 913 1 712 cocsomnmrounsua~Soas couwsmsusowaenBai-Te PITCHING. In'gs Gam.Comp. 80. ‘pitch start.gam.W.L. 165%° 20 9 14 4| Umpire Stops Tilt at New Orleans cosc00~000000RNwWONO RS o - casrourrosmorualotuse! ‘eocecsccoscursninioat! 23 19 30 31 13 N.nllonal I.euglie. YESTERDAY hica er,clubs not scheduled %0, 0. Cincinnat!, 6. 8B RBIPct. 7 83 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1930. * l TECH HIGH IS l GETTING READY TO DEFEND ITS CHAMPIONSHIP GRID LAURELS “KEI-Y ]’U GUNBH Soucmass GAMES TOMORROW. Is won the opener -of 8| Boston 8t. Louls this year, % ) Griffs Get Three From Hagerstown Art Piddler and John Peregory, pitchers, gnd Tommy Thompson, outfielder, were acquired today by the Washington ball club from Hagerstown, ia the Blue Ridge Leagye. All three are youngsters. Clark QGriffith, president of the ‘Washington Yluh‘ announced that Ed McGarrigan, shortstop, also ac- quired from erstown, went back to that town in the deal. i MEMPHIS WINS FLAG | ON FORFEITED GAME ; When He Is Hit on Head by Bottle. NEW ORLEANS, September 10 (). —~The Memphis Chickasaws clinched the 1930 Southern Association pennant yesterdsy. by. taking a' forfeited game from New Orleans. ] th the: pennant goes the right to meet the champions of the Texas League in the annual Dixie serles for t:; class A base ball ‘chamipionship of the Sou th, ) ‘ Yesterday's game, forfeited to Mem- phis. in the last half of tha ninth, the Chicks a léad over New Orl which assured Memphis an advantage of at least one game when the season ends - Sunday. | Memphis was leading, 5 tQ 4, when Umpire Shannon forfeited the contest. He took this action after fans’ began ] cushions and Pp bottles, and one of the bottles ha ick ‘him on the Head. SrameAmsciymaPrery \ ins, q‘:f’&‘n Phll&hl?—l.: m. Ath- Thte leaders—Wilson, Cubs, 47; Ruth, 45; Gehrig, Yankees, 30; Sim- BIG GUNS OF PRO GOLF STAL BOOM Diegel, Sarazen, Armour and Farrell Carry On Into Second Round. By the Associated Press. LUSHING, N. Y., September 10.— ‘The second round of match play in the Professional Golfers' As- sociation championships today found all of the leading favorites still in the running and hoping to stay that way. Pairings for the second 36-hole match play round ipdicated that on form, at least, the big four in the field, Leo Diegel, Gene Sarazen, Tommy Armour and Johnny Farrell, sbould advance to the third round. Diegel, the defending champion, was matched against Harold Samson of Burlingame, Cslif. Sarazen, who had a close call with Charles Schneider of Philadelphia in the first round yes- terday, was pitted against Bob Crowley of Haverhill, Mass. Crowley yesterday defeated “Wiffy” Cox of Brooklyn, 4 S o Armour, who rolled up a count and 10 on Dave Hackney of Lowell, Mass., met his second test in the person of Bob Shave of Cleve- land. Farrell Plays Shute. FParrell, an_easy winner over Norman Smith of Yakima, Wash., yesterday, tackles Denny Shute of Columbus, Ohio, today. Other second round , Detroit, ety Cooper, Ol 1 per, cago, vs. Al Es- pinosa, Chicago. Joe Kirkwood, Philadelphia, vs. Jock Collins, 3 3 Horton th, New York, vs. Laurie yton, n. At top is Ward Ochmann, former Mc- Kinleyite, now a student at Michigan. He is showing the boys how to crash a lineman. At left are the men who are sending the piayers through the paces. They are Oehmann, Artie Wondrack, Head Coach Hap Hardell, Willis Benner and Leo ‘Winston. None of those aiding Hardell A;m:b‘; is showing oe Yznaga is a couple rookies how to grip a ball. TRIBE PAYS $35,000 FOR TWO TWIRLERS Gives $25,000 for Thomas of Sac- ramento—Gets Lee From New Orleans, CLEVELAND, September 10 (#).— Purchase by the Cleveland Indians of Fay Thomas, right-handed pitcher, for the equivalent -from the Sac- ‘Tamento elub. of has been %;m %“gio.m eq; ved & brief trial with | as_recel! w York Yankees two years ago the has ann sale of Pitcher “Lefty” Lee to the Cleveland Indians for $10,000. Lee will report to the Indians next year. KANSAS ELEVEN TOUTED. SAS CITY, tember 10 (#).— mfllfi‘uwx begin today in the Big Conte , with Kansas, und for several seasons, appearing as & ely successor to Nebraska in supremacy. g P e P/ P/ PO TTLE TODAY Britons Hopeful of Making Improved Showing With Unchanged Line-Up. By the Associated Press. ESTBURY, N. Y., Septem- ber 10—The Meadow- brook Club was a mag- net today for 40,000 spectators who desired to see Great Britain and the United States play the second, and per- haps final, game of the 1930 series for the Westchester Cup, emblem of international polo supremacy. The American big four led by ‘Tommy Hitchcock, needed only to cap- ture today’s contest to end the series and retain the cup, held by this coun- try without & break since 1921. So decisive was the American margin in the opening game on Saturday that the cup defenders have been installed prohibitive favorites to win the series in straight games. British Line-up Unchanged. Despite the 10-5 beating they ab- sorbed in the opening assauit, the Brit- ons depended upon exactly the same line-up, with Gerald Balding at No. 1, Lewis L. Lacey, No. 2; Capt. C. T. I Roark, No. 3, "';% Lieut. Humphrey up could do no good. Capt. Tremayne sald he was confl- dent the challengers would put up & much better battle than they i the first game. ‘With this some experts were inclined to agree, but without altering their opinion that the Americans would win game and series. ‘mlrnd '.hode‘v::’td l:‘; a British the an game will be on Saturday. oA Series Seats Go On Sale Monday HICAGO, September 10 (Py— nant battle into a dying coma. With but 14 Fe@tures and Classified PAGE C-I" BIG BILL STROKING IN OLD-TIME FORM Trims Feibleman — Rogers, Big Irishman, Also Plays . Impressive Tennis, By the Associated Press. OREST HILLS, N. Y., Sep- tember’ 10.—Bill Tilden, tg spryest lame man who ev cavorted about a cou stood today in the fourth roun of the national tennis nng championship, with the 6-foot-7- inch figure of the biggest player in the game looking dead “dv't. Da: fourth meets Frank Shields, G! faces John OINff !nao.ne :‘OIW! three Loulsville, 10; Columbus, 6. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. FLORSHEIM SHOES By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .389. Runs—Ruth, Yankees, 139. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 205. Doubles—Hodapp, Indians, 46. Trip bs, Yankees, 18. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 45. Stolen bases—McManus, Tigers, 20. National League. Batting—Terry, Giants, .405. Ri 40. 3 29. Doubles—Klein, Phillies, 51, Triples—Comorosky, Pirates, 23. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, 47. Stolen bases—Ouyler, Cubs, 34. Luke Sewell Out . 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