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% WASHINGTON, he Zb WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION ening Staf. | C, D. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, | 1930. * PAGE C—1 Mack Made Debut Here at Age of 23 : Weight Slows Shamrock : Nats Play Two CONNIE SMART CATCHER, BUT A MERE .251 HITTER Veteran Says Rowdies Ruled Base Ball When He Broke in 44 Years Ago and That Game Since Has Improved 100 Per Cent. BY ALLAN GOULD. Associated Press Sports Writer, No. 3—Big Time Stuff. ‘ team, then a member of the National League. The pre-war slogan about Washington being “First in war, first in peace and last in the American League” was as ap- plicable a half century ago as it was in later years. Washington fin- ished last in the National League race of 1886, in spite of the arrival of the recruit who was to occupy so conspicuous a role in base ball history. The year that the youthful Mack broke in was noteworthy in a number of respects. As a backstop he was introduced to the new- fangled chest protectors, an article which bewhiskered, bellowing old- | timers would have scorned. At the same time the size of the pitcher’'s box was fixed as 7 feet by 4 feet. Regularly appointed league umpires also were an addition to the game. Pop Anson’s famous Chicago team was at the end of its reign in winning the pennant in 1886. The equivalent of the d series that year was played with the St. Louls club of the American managed by Charles A. Comiskey, famous later as the Old Roman and owner of the Chi- cago White Sox when the American League came into being. St. Louis won the series, 4 games to 2, with a team featuring such famous figures as Comiskey at first base, latham, Gleason, Welch, Foutz and - OF CARD TRIUMPH Gabby Asserts St. Louis Is Hilameon - Daimpie. he” mmou| Well Fortified for the Michael J. (King) Kelly behind the bat p Drive Down Stretch. and John Clarkson, the National ' STREET CONFIDENT League's foremost pitcher, doing most ) of the box duty. tablished Matt Kil- Bolimore club as 5 victims 'HE same year oy of the strikeout kinj Vs tor of the famous e, also was the batting champion 1886. But the records show no home run monarch worthy of the name, aithough it was an age of much heavy By the Associated Press T. LOUIS, &eptember 17.—Gabby predicting the Cardinals would win this year's hectic National that no further injuries or unforeseen bad breaks stalk our paths.” Street today went on record as League race, “contingent upon the hope “The season, of course, still has two ONNIE MACK was 23 years old when he broke into majoti league base ball as a catcher in 1886 with the Washington | ENTERPRISE AIDED - BYLIGHTER MAST |Shaft of Challenger 1,200 | {Pounds Heavier Than Defend- | er—Third Race Today. 17—Put a fat old man | N on Man-o'-War and Earl | | Sande on a claiming plater and the latter will probably win. | There you have the story on En- | | terprise’s two victories over Sham- | | rock V, Sir Th'omas Lipton’s fifth | challenger for the America’s Cup, and' there also is the reason vir- tually every one who knows any- | | thing about racing yachts expects | | Enterprise to take her third vic- | | tory today. 1t is simply that Sir Thomas® green- hulled challenger is carrying too much | weight. Her wooden mast is shorter | | than that of Enterprise, but it weighs | A ton and a quarter more than the | towering hollow metal spar of Harold Vanderbilt's Defender. | . The Vanderbilt sloop carries a hol- | low boom, larger as dimensions go, but it weighs 1,200 pounds less than Sham- rock’s. Shamrock was bullt to Lloyds | scantlings and as a capable cruising | | eraft, for she had to be to tross the | ocean on her own bottom and under her own sail to meet the conditions | of contest. Her interior fttings, berths, galley and other crew equipment | weighed 7,500 pounds. All that material was removed after her arrival in these waters and she | was allowed to take aboard ballast to correspond, but that ballast must be | carried in-board, whereas Enterprise’s | designer was in a porition to place that tonnage some 10 feet lower, on | | the defender's keel, - where it is far | | more efficient in maintaining stability of a sailing craft. BY TOM HORGAN, Associated Press Staff Writer. EWPORT, R. I, September | hitting. | Mack, purchased late in the Sum- mer with four other players from Hart- | ford, played his first game September 16, 1886. It also was the debut for Giimore, pitcher, who went to the Capi- al in the same deal. Known as the | shadow battery” because of their slim build, Gilmore and Mack celebrated their debut by helping the Nationals to | hold the strong New York team to a 1-1 tie in eight innings. t one of the five Lits made Tim Keefe, New York rted the only double | being credited with | r. He sta of the game, nine putouts and two a= Mack caught 10 gamcs altogether | before the close of the season. One of the pitchers he worked with was | Hank O'Day, Jater..a..great umpire, For the next three years he did more | than half the backstopping for Wash- | ington. working in an average of about | 90 games each season and distinguish- ing_himself more by his smarl, alert | work than by any spectacular hitting. He was a timely batsman, dangoro a pinch, bu s for 97 gam As a ma 11 years, only .251. EARS loter, in a speech, Febru- ary 12, 1930, Mack recalled the first Southern training trip he took with the Washington club of 1888 and drew the d contrast between conditions and nearly a half century late “Our manager was a famous charac- ter, Ted Sullivan,” said “He had been all over the world. On the trip to camp, he took us down in ‘Sul- livan sleepers'—that is, day eoaches. There were 14 members of the team. Ten were on the verge of being drunk- ards “Sullivan called put us up in what we shacks, at $1 a day, American plan. It was' difficult to get into first- class hotels. At Charleston, S. C., Sul- livan made arrangements for us to stop at a third-class hotel. On the lgst day, when the waiters expected to get their real tip, Sullivan, as we sat down, reached into’ his pocket, pulled out,a. weeks to run and we have a hard strug- | Needs Four Wins. gle ahead of us as we have had all sea- son, but I believe the Cardinals are strongly enough fortified at all angles to win their third pennant in five | years,” Street wrote in today's Globe- | Democrat. “The Cardinals, as a team, have all | the essentials,” he said. *“We have one of the best pitehi staffs in_base ball, with five men available for. first-string duty—Hallahan, Rhem, Grimes, Haines and Johnson—end almost as mangy more capable of fine relief work. The team has puneh up and down the line. Defensively, the team is very sound; be- hind the plate, on the inficld and in the garde “Festerday's game At Brooklyn, in which Bill Hallahan shaded Dazzy Vance in a sensational 10-inning pitching duel to give the Cards a 1-to-0 victory, Street called the most difficult of the Eastern trip. ond place. We were one game behind the Dodgers. They were playing on their home fi»ld and had 30,000 fams cheering for them. Man for man, the Cardinal manager said, “I believe we have a better ball club than Brooklyn. However, breaks play a decisive factor in pennant races and for that reason I do not wish to positively predict we will win this ter- rific race.” Street said Hallahan pitched the best e of his career ycsterday and his victory “over the great master, Vance. makes me more confident than ever. He also praised Gus Mancuso, who is filling in behind the plate for the in- jured Jimmy Wilson. in Street’s opin- ion the best catcher in the National League. BIG LEAGUE LEADERS By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .384. uns—Ruth, Yankees, 145. uns batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 162. Hits—Hodapp, Indians, 212. “We went to Brooklyn in sec- | Daubles—Hodapp, Indians, 41. iples—Combs, Yankees, 19, Home runs—Ruth, Yanke:s, 46. Stolen bases—McManus, Tigers, 23. National League. Batting—Terry, Giants, .403. Runs—Cuyler, Cubs, 146. Runs batfed in—Wilson, Cubs, 172. Hits—Terry, Glants. 240. Doubles—Kiein, Phillies, 53. Triples—Comorosky, Pirates, 23. Home runs—Wilson, Cubs, 50. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 35. silver dollar and laid it significantly beside his plate. . The food had not been any too good and he. said,.'Go ahead nad feed the boys up.’ “That night we had a real dinner. Afterward Mr. Sullivann reached down, | picked up the silver dollar and put it back in his pocket “And we moved on to Washington: SYFTTHE game was far different in those ys from what it is today. The as 1 say, dissipated, had aking care of themselves cd small salaries. Year after the game was getting “Today if a club immediate take his place. irg toda layer drinks at all the looks for a man to ‘The boys who are play- are real business men, They are drawing big salaries, saving their money, and good hotels now look for our patronag all has improved 100 per cent over the old days. Of the members of players now maybe half | ake a giass of beer; prob- | of them will not 'smoke. ave had a great deal to | change and advance- | the Associated Press.) The Rise to Leadership, YESTERDAY’S STARS By the Ass ‘Taylor Douthit, Cardinals tenth to drive in run 1-0. Karl Hubbel, Glants with three hits, blanked them, 7-0 Chuck Klein, Phillies—Drove in four runs against Pirates with ciated Pre Singled in that, beat Robins, Let Cubs down struck ouy 10, and THEY WERE STARS WH To lift the cup, Shamrock V must now take four out of five races and Enterprise needs only two more victories to retain for America the world's sail- | ing_championship. Shamrock’s crew and her afterguard, although none wish their names in the public prints, now admit that condi- tions prevailing on the open ocean cup course are not-those under which she | established a reputation for fast sailing | on the other side of the Atlantic. Over | there the breeze was steady and de- pendable and.the sea smooth, ‘The water's nine miles off Brenton Reef Lightship are disturbed by all manner of tidal currents and ground swells, and the wind is frequently flukey and ot to be depended to blow from any one quarter of the compass. The unruly sea and the ground swell has proved unpleasant to Shamrock: Her bow has not fifted to the heave of the sea, but dived through it, a poat does that she loses way * The ‘crew of Shamrock have many complimentary things to say fof Harold S. Varderbili, the defender's skipper, | | For Monday's race, one of the after- | guard-said: “He is a good sport. He played the game and he never tried any close-handed work.” This yachtsman re- | ferred to the fact that, although Van- | derbilt took the weather berth away from Shamrock, ‘he did not bear down | | on the challenger and deprive her of the breeze by intercepting it with his | | own towering safls. In addition to the | advantage of a lower center of tonnage, rprise wears a higher sail plan than Shamrock V, something that often | counts tellingly when the breeze is light | | and stronger aloft than over the surface of the sea. | The race scheduled for today was 30 miles windward-leeward: or * leeward- | windward. If“the direction of the wind | | permitted, a windward leg of 15 miles | would be 'sailed first. Yesterday a dense fog in the early morning caused postponement of the third contest. of the series, .but.a shift | in breeze gave promise of better sailing | conditions today. 1 [ FIGHTS. LAST NIGHT | By the Associated Press. | CINCINNATI, Ohio.—Freddie Miller, | Cincinnati, outpointed Cecil Paymsz, | | Louisville (10); Young Fard, Miami, | Fla., outpointed Jimmy Neal, Cincin- | | nati (6) | | * INDIANAPOLIS, . Ind.~Jackie . Pur- | Kokomo, In vis, | Rose (10). 'K MADE HI HUGE THRONG SEES BENEFIT MATCH FOR McWATT AT COLUMBIA CLUB | Smith, View of part of gallery as Jones got | | ready to tee off yesterday in the contest | L 2 2 = with their bereaved manager. in which he and MacKenzie defeated McLeod and Smith, and a snapshot of GRIFFS FARE WL TS TWINBILS 0f 15 Double-Headers Team Has Won Six and Split Even In as Many. BY JOHN B. KELLER. LEVELAND, September 17. —Washington’s ball club has no kick against the weather this year. The elements have treated the Na- tionals much better than usual The postponement yesterday of the scheduled engagement with the Indians was only the thir- teenth for the Nationals in the 1930 campaign. Only a dozen postponements were due to weather conditions. That the Na- tionals might attend the funeral of Mrs. Walter Johnson one game was put off. The postponement here was the first for the Nationals since July 1 when rain in Washington compelled the manage- ment to put off until the next day a tussle with the Browns. After that the | club went through 67 playing days and misced but one date, that with the Yankees in New York on August 4 when the Nationals remained at home Four of the postponements were in the competing quartet, from Ileft to APril, cold weather preventing the Na- right: Freddie MacLeod and Bobby Jones. —Star Staff Photo. Roland Mackenzie, Macdonald | z'}:'nflfng;flt‘l"iflx in Washington two days _There were_three_post- (Continued an Third Page.) 'CARDS LEAD BY A POINT N THRILLING FLAG RACE Attain Top by 1-to-0 Victory in 10-Inning Contest in Which Hallahan Outpitches Vance, Al-. though Latter Fans Total of Eleven. BY HUGH S. FULLERTO! Associated Press Sports Writer. T. LOUIS was a shade ahead in the National League race today. ‘With. the great Dazzy Vance and brilliant Bil Hallahzn on the | mound, St. Louis and Brooklyn battled | Jones’ Conqueror Fears Emperor By the Assoclated Press. HILADELPHIA, September 17.— Bobby Jones will be the hardest man in the fleld to beat in the na- tional amateur golf championship, which starts at the Merion Cricket Club next week, in the opinion of little Johnny Goodman, youthful Omaha star. Goodman, who startled the golf world by eliminating the great Jones in the first round of the title tourna- ment last year at Pebble Beach, Calif., was among vesterday's arriv- als for this year's battle of the links. “Bobby's chance will be as good as ever,” Goodman said after his first practice round over the Merion course. - “That means he will be the bardest man in the fleld to beat.” Goodman did 72. COLONIALS TO GATHER, ‘To map plans for the basket ball sea- . _outpointed Billy |son and wind up base ball affairs, a (10); Charlie Baxter, Louisville, | meeting of the Colonial A. C. will be loutpointed Joe Lynn, Princeton, Ind.| held lomorrow night at 910 Kennedy | street. BIG LEAGUE DE 'JONES FEARS APPENDIX " MAY RUIN TITLE CHANCE Emperor Under Weight and May Lack Stamina if [ ot Become Il During National Amateur. | Health Impaired by Celebrations. | BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. | particularly it the weather is hot. His | | friends, with characteristic reticence, S Bobby Jones in the pink of condl- | y1uave’ having in mind the splendid tion for his final attempt next|physical condition of the champion, are | week to win all the major golf | inclined o laugh off the np‘pf*ndicx;‘h‘_ a b | affair, bui they do not minimize the | titles of the world in one year? | fochat it may grow worse and neces- | Has the world champion lost some of | sitate gn immediate operation at any | his stamina, in addition to the 10 or | | 12 pounds he has dropped as a result of his decision not to attend so many of the parties that have been arranged in his honor since he came back from Britain wearing the amateur and open championship crowns of the “tight little isle”? Although Bobby was his usual sun- tanned and healthy-looking self as he | | stepped aboard a Philadelphia-bound | | train this morning, his friends shook | | their heads in some doubt as to whether | | the world champion will be able to| | romp through the field with the sturdi- | ness and stamina of old. The bald truth of the matter is that | Bobby Jones has lost some weight and is a bit worried about himself, for the | appendicitis rumor which came out of | Atlanta last week has a foundation in | | fact. ‘Though Bobby is not in danger | of an immediate operation, he has some | of the pangs of incipient appendicitis, | | according to his close friends, has un- | dergone the usual ice bag treatment, | and, in short, may encounter some trouble next week on the physical side, | ‘Rl;em Adva;lces Wierd Alil; time. ; Cuts Out Parties. ! Here Is the situation, as described by our good friend O. B. Keeler, Bobby's | faithful chronicler: “Bobby has been | foted and dined so much since he came back from England that he had to draw the line somewhere, and of late weeks, | fecling a bit out of sorts, has foregone many of the social engagements in the | form of dinners, entertainments and | other affairs, to which he normaliy | would go. Furthermore he has had | pains in his right side—not severe pains, but enough to cause him a swinge of uncasiness—and has been treated with ice bags. “Bobby usually goes out one or two nights a week,” Keeler said. “But since | he came back to Atlanta last July his life has been one constant round of par- ties, dinners and other affairs. For a while he tried to keep up with them, but he found it didn't go. So he cut down on | the number of acceptances, and now he rarely goes out. He and Mary (Bobby's wife) only go out to an oc- casional pictu show, or play a game (Continued on Third Page.) Card Hurling Star By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, September 17.— Flint Rhem, whose sturdy right arm has played an } ys Fall Off Wagon Was Forced } by Two Armed Man. | | he said, the men warned him not to pitch against Brooklyn. “Street listened like a kindly father,” the story says, “but it | ing_game of the season. | 11 Cards and gave them only seven hits, | ington possibly can attain. |but a double by | High and a single by Taylor Douthit |came in the tenth with Hallahan's | | sacrifice in between and produced. the | | New York a 7-to-0 victory ov | Chicago Cubs. | three hits and fanned 10 |10 innings yesterday and the Cards| won, 1 to 0, to take first place by the margin of a point. The league’s four stand this way: contenders today Games be- To w. Pet. hind. pla; & 580 o 4 579 9 8 60 iz 10 % 549 4%z 10 Brooklyn's winning streak of 11 games ended in perhaps the most thrill- Dazzy fanned Pinch-Hitter Andy only run of the game. The St. Louis youngster belied his nickname of Wild | Bill by giving only two walks and nof |allowing a Robin to reach first base | until the seventh inning. !only five ‘hits. He allowed Giants Shut Out Cubs. Carl Hubbell, Giant southpay, g-ve the Hubbell yielded only Two teams with little in store for |attack, the Detroit When a man selects Florsheim Shoes we know he cares. .. he cares for his appearance, Florsheim | the future but a few chances to cause | trouble for the leaders sharpened their batting eyes against each other in the other National League clash and after | 10 innings of slugging Philadelphia de- feated Pittsburgh, 15 to 14, A triple play, Chuck Klein's thirty-fourth home run and the nine-run tenth inning stood out from the mass of hits. In the American League, the Phila- | delphia Athletics continued to. move pennantward by taking a double- header from the Chicago White Sox while their only rivals, the Washington | club, iwas kept idle by rain at Cleve- |land. With Mose Grove turning in his | twenty-seventh victory of the season, | the A’s won the first game, 6 to 4; then they bunched their hits in two big | innings behind Bill Shores to take the second, 16 to 2. The Athletics now need but two Victories to reach the | total of 100, which is the highest Wash- Another Slugging Match. The New York Yankees and St. Louis started out after the scoring mark made by the Phillies and Pittsburgh and after nc: two and one-half hours of gging, the Yankees came out on the long end of a 19-to-10 score. New York made all its runs and 20 of its 23 hits in_the first five innings, With big Dale Alexander heading the L gers scored early against Milton Gaston and defeated the | Boston Red Sox, 7 to 5, in the day’ | remaining game. Alexander drove & {four of the runs with two well-timed ingl The two singles for his personal comfort and for valve . . .Jle cares also was evident the Cardinal man- ager placed no faith in it.” Rhem, who has won his last six starts on the mound, was to have pitched against Brook- lyn at Brooklyn today, but Street announced he had switched to the big Swede, Sylvester Johnson, and that he would follow Thursday with Burleigh Grimes. After ordering Rhem to “get some sleep,” the story says, Street told the Globe-Democrat correspondent he would take no action against the pitcher. “I'm trying to win a pennant, and Rhem is a first-class pitch- er,” Street said. “He has been hewing to the line all Summer, and I believe he can win more games.” ’ and thirty-fourth home run Lefty Grove and Bill Shores, Ath- | letics—Pitched champions to double victory over White Sox | Dale Alexander, Tigers—Pair of sin- | gles drove in four Tuns, against Red Sox. HOME RUN STANDING By the Associated Press. | Home Runs Yesterday, | Grantham, Pirates, 2; Suhr, Pirates, 1; Klein, Phillies, 1; Goslin, Browns, 1; Schulte, Browns, 1; Lindstrom, Giants, 1; Allen, Giants, 1; Webb, Red Sox, 1; Bishop, Athletics, 1. The Leaders. Wilson, Cubs, 50; Ruth, Yankees, 46; Gehrig, Yankees, 30; Simmons, Ath-| letics, 35: Berger, Braves, 34; Foxx, Athletics, 34; Klein, Phillies, 84; Hart-| t nstt, Cubs, 33; Goslin, Browns, 33. 1 important part in the St W Shoe WMost o e Louis Cardinals’ drive pennant- ward, has fallen from the wa- ter wagon, but he told Mana- ger Gabby Street the fall was forced upon him by “two armed men.” Rhem, today’s Globe-Demo- crat says, in a story from a staff correspondent, returned to the Cardinals’ hotel in New York late last night, after be- ing missing for 24 hours, and reported to Street two armed men forced him to accompany them to a road house Monday night and then poured liquor down him all that night and yesterday. 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