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l Sports News l ‘ @h Wlfl( SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Stat. WASHINGTON, PO, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1931. PAGE C-—1 Nats Help A’s to Open Tomorrow : Cochrane Says Macks Have Four Real Hurlers HADLEY WILL FACE WORLD CHAMPIONS & Grove Likely to Be Macks’ Hurler—Red Sox Hammer Griff Pitchers. BY JOHN B. KELLER. GAIN in this A rivals, the Athletics, and this time on the home lot of the latter. Shortly after concluding their series with the Red Sox this aft- ernoon Johnson's henchmen will entrain for Philadelphia, where tomorrow they will start a four- game set with the world cham- pions that will inaugurate the junior major circuit’s season in Quakertown. Thus the schedule affords the Na- tionals a golden opportunity to get the Jump on what are regarded their most dangerous foemen in the battling for the flag this year. If the Washington club is able to repeat its record made in the serfes with the A's here last week, when the hosts of Connie Mack were repulsed in three of four engagements, then, indeed, may it feel it has made the Nationals are to carry the fight to their arch-| great progress toward the goal it hopes | 1o attain—the American League cham- picnship. Pretty early, of course, to be talking | but the Na- | of attaining such a goal, tionals to & man are more than hopeful of doing just that. In fact, they are quietly confident of supreme success this year, and believe if they are able to push the Athletics aside, disposing of the remainder of their rivals will not be so_difficult. But beating these Athletics is some- | thing the Nationals figure is sirictly up to them. They got little help from other clubs in holding the A's in check last year, and they look for:little from them this time. With the Nationals, i!'s beat | the A's or sink, and they have no idea of sinking. HEN the curtain goes up in Phila- delphia after hizzoner th: mayor and other prominent fans of that city help celebrate the occasion, the bat- teries for the contest are likely to be an- nounced as follows: For Washington, Hadley and Spencer; for the Athletics, Grove and Cochrane. ‘The catching ends of the batteries are about as certain picks as can be made. ‘The Spencer and Cochrane selections are taken for granted. And Mana ‘Walter Johnson has announced he start Hadley on the hill, even Lho\l!h Bump yesterday had not fully recovered from a cold ‘mmu\‘cr:l Saturday. s Bump went through a good work-ouf shagging flles, then indulged in a brief pitching drill yesterday. He complained afterward of his arm, but said it was nothing like so sore es it had been and that he believed ancther bit of exercis- ing todey would have it in good trim for action against the world champions. ‘Trainer Mike Martia is sure Bump will be_ready. Picking Grove as the Athletics’ starter is taking something of a chance, Connie Mack never tells in advance who he will send to the slab. But al- ready the wily pilot of the champs has | established something of a rotation in | the pitching line, lnd if he follows it the left-hand star of the American League will be the man the Nationals | will face. AD LISKA'S salary wing is ailing again and this time more than ever. After his return from Youngstown, Ohio, where he recently had the arm attended by a muscle manipulator, the submerine hurler thought it was on the mend and said he believed he would be of some service 1o his club in another week or two. It has failed him again, however, and the young pitcher s very discouraged. He has left for Lincoln, Nebr., to have the arm looked over by a surgeon who treated it some years ago when Liska experienced s similar trouble while pitching in the Nebraska State League. an underhand pitcher, for after ridding the limb of the soreness he found it was not strong enough for the overhead style of delivery. ‘After experimenting with the underhand delivery for a time he mastered it to such an extent that he became quite effective in the Ameri- can Association. So he has gone back to the man who brought the arm around the first time and at his own expense, tco. The ‘Washingtcn club feels that it has done all it can to get the pitcher in condi- | tion for service. AYBE Al Crowder could stand some doctoring, too. This veteran has stepped to the hill three times and each time all but had his ears knocked off. He was in just long enough to lose to the A's in the opening game, took a powerful pounding and was fortunate not to lose in the third game of the Mack series and yesterday vas soundly smacked and sent to defeat by the Red 8ox. He's nothing like the Crowder that pitched for the Nationals so won- derfully last sezson. Crowder in the sccond set-to with the Red Sox was not _the only hurler to be well whacked. Walter Tauscher and Bob Burke also took it on their chins as the Nationals were routed, 13 to 3. Eighteen hits, nine of them doubles, rattled off the Red Sox bats. Only Carl Pischer escaped punishment and he pitched to but one batter. While his club had a merry time at bat, Jack Russell right-handed his way smoothly against the Nationals, yield- ing them only six hits. Three of these ‘were bunched in the sixth to match two runs the Red Sox had made and two in the ninth to net another marke, The Red Sox broke the deadlock Wght after the Naticnals created it. Oliver opened their seventh with a single then beat to second a throw from Judge who picked up Creeden’s bunt. Berry doubled two runs over and Crowder off the slab. ‘Tauscher came on to make a wild chuck after grabbing Russell's bunt, | then to be nicked for three doubles and two singles, which meant seven runs in the inning for Boston. Fischer rushed in and managed to get Reeves to end the scoring bee. Burke was slammed for seven hits and four runs. Which dragged the Nationals back to & first-place tie again. ANUSH was slightly ill before the game, but managed to play through. . . . Berry was a busy boy at bat for the visltors with two doubles and as many singles. . American : League pennant struggle It was this first arm ailment| that changed Ad from an overhead to| . Oliver | Just an Off Day o0 =l ooonssosses moomuowRmm . 24 Rusedl, b Totals. WASHINGTON. Myer. 2b.. : o > sooooosuwaD el tHargrave Totals. .. *Batted for Fiscl | tBatted for Bur | f ol cooooommmmoonn Bl msosuwmmmouz ; ul ooosoooooroomm Bl wummsmmonomg® 2| sosonusuosuoms s 313 1 Washington 0200 1—-3 Runs_batted in—Rhyne (2), Cronin. Judge. Berty (3); Webb, Pickering, Oliver. Rothrock, Russell, Bluege: “Two-base hits—Beiry (2) | Biliege. - Stolen base— | nush; Creeden. Russell. | ton, ‘7" Washington, 6 | Birke. 1 Btruck out—By Crowder. 2; by | Burke! 1." Hits—Off Crowder, 17 in 6 niing* (none’ out in 7th): off Tauscher, {miine: Ot Fischer. o i 1 Mnink: off Burke: in ‘2 ‘innings. Losing pitcher—Crowder Tmpires — Camphell. Time of gasme—1 hour and 53 minutes. ROBINS AND REDS Clubs in League—Ruth | Gets Two Homers. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Jr. Asscciated Press Sports Writer. HE National League, it seems, is | all. | after taking it'on their respective | chins with alarming regularity since opening day, finally have broken into the winners' circle. Brooklyn fandom, possibly the most | rabid in either major league, feels cer- tain the Robins have gotten a lot of bad base ball out of their system early and are ready now to romp right on to the flag. Cincinnat! enthusiasts have harbored no pennant hopes to speak of, | but they are happy to see Col. Howley charges get a Start, even if from the bottom. Come Out of Trance. Both clubs chose yesterday to come out of their five-day trance. Brook- lyn's batting power, pretty dormant | these several days, came to life and blasted a 10-to-5 victory over four | Philadelphia pitchers. Every Robin ! joined in the fun, with Lombardi, big rookie catcher, leading the way with a pair of doubles and a single. Joe | Shaute kept 11 Philly hits strung out. Nick Cullop, former American Asso- ciation home-run king, led the Reds into the light His circuit drive off JMeLne with two on beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7 to 5. Red Lucas held I.he Pirates to eight hits, Meantime, the St. Louis Cardinals | | tock over the undisputed leadership by | downing the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 2, Bur- | leigh Grimes besting Bob Smith and | Guy Bush in a mound duel. Jim Bot- | | tomley’s homer in the sixth provided | | the . “difference.” Thy | Braves battled their way into a tie for second place by dividing their Patriots’ day double-header. Rookie John Berly pitched McGraw's clan to a 4-to-3 win om’s home run, but the Braves came | ‘blck with a 1-to-0 verdict later in the day. Seibold finally got the nod over | Carl Hubbell when the southpaw filled | the bases in the ninth and Spohrer lift- ed a long fly, scoring Richbourg. Ruth Has Big Day. Babe Ruth enjoyed one of his most spacious days as the Yankees squared | accounts with the Athletics. His two wallops into the stands, each time with Lyn Lary on base, accounted for all but one run in their 5-to-4 victory over | Earnshaw. Gomez and Wells pitched brilliant relief ball after the champs had fallen on Johnson hard in the early innings. The Boston Red Sox abruptly halted Washington’s four-game winning streak, 13 to 3. While Russell kept eight Sena- tor hits scattered, his mates piled into four opposing hurlers for 18, driving Crowder out in the seventh. Although hit hard, Willis Hudlin was tight in the pinches, and Cleveland stayed in the thick of things with a 9-10-3 decision over Detroit. Every In- dian contributed to a 14-hit assault on Waite Hoyt and Hogsett. Rain stopped the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns in the latter ct'y. Major Standings N LEAGUE. OF THE TEAMS. Won. Lost. WASHINGTON 4 2 Cleveland Chicago Boston . Detroit Philadelphia YESTERDAY'S R JL Boston, 13; WASHINGTON, 3. New York, Philadelnhia, 4. Cleveland, 9; Detroit, 3 Chicago-St. Louis (rain). TODAY'S GAMES. Bocton at WASHINGTON. Detroit at Cleveland. Chicago at St. Louis. Philadelphia at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE. STANDING OF THE TEAMS. Won. Lost. Pet. 1 In the next two rounds | Chicago £ Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati TODAY'S GAMES. Nzw '.fk at Boston. st. l.-l- Chicago. ctuuuu-mulmn not uhdulu. bl sosomo-enssacal A the sandlots has smashed his way Dineen and Guthrie. | “BREAK THE ICE" Show That There Are Eight, to have an eight-club race after | Brooklyn and Cincinnati, | | e New York Giants and Boston ln the morning, aided by Freddie Lind- | VOSHIK HAS TRIBE FANS ALL EXCITED Young Outfielder, Hitting .636, Proving ‘Big Sensa- tion in Cleveland. | BY K. E. SANDERS. | \LEVELAND, April 21 (®.— ;‘ Tris Speaker, Nap Lajoie, Stan Coveleskie—they were great ball players, but it's Joe Vosmik now. Vosmik probably won't put the Cleveland Indians in the world series, but he couldn't create any more of a base ball hysteria here if he did. In just one week the‘ strapping, blond youngster from | | into a regular job in the big time in fairy-story manner. Besides making the jump straight from the sandlots to the majors, Vosmik has made good in his home town— something that rarely happens in the big leagues. He didn't play the open- ing game because Manager Roger Peck- inpaugh thought he might be too nerv- ous, but in the five games since then he has lashed out six singles, five dou- bles, two triples and a home run in 22 It figures out at an aver- age of .636. Cleveland fandom, which never be: | fore saw a rookie break in so auspici- ously, has taken Vosmik to heart. The | bleacherites, who watch him in laft field, have installed him as their favor- ite. Sunday 26,000 persons waited un- til the ninth to see him bat, unmindful that the game was sewed up. It was a compliment nover bafore recalled in | Cleveland. He obliged with a single. The same thing happened yesterday. He's proving a drawing card, too. Seventy thousand persons have turned out in five days. | "It all may turn out to be just an- other flash in the pan, but those- who watch him are confident he'll stick. He hits 'em slow and fast, high and low, in a natural manner. The Tribe wouldn't have had Vos- mik if they had not decided to take Cleveland’s two best sandlotters South | with them this Spring. wanted to be a ball player, ‘but I never_thought seriously I could until then. I made up my mind I'd try for it.” Vosmik has no_ other ambitions or hobbies and _thinks nothing but base ball. When he was in schcol, he used to play hookey to watch the sandlot- ers. His mother didn't like it at first, but now she admits there may be some- | thing in base ball. He was 21 years old April 4 and has lived all his life in Cleveland. BALKS ON MINOR JOB Moore Does Not Want Cards to Send Him to Columbus. 1 CHICAGO, April 21 (#).—Outfielder | Al Moore, whose release to the Co- lumbus American Asssciation Club was | announced last night by the St. Louis Cardinals, today was balking over the | transfer. Moore, drafted from Buffalo of the International League, said he would | like to buy his release from the Car- dinals. He believes he can sell his| services to some major league team, | but if he is forced to go back to the | minors he would prefer to return to | Buffalo. Buffalo, under base ball law, had first claim on Moore, but that team waived the claim, supposedly on the strength | of another deal "1th the Cards. | STICKMEN ANSWEH CALL | Fitteen Beport for First Drll of Lacrosse Association. Candidates for the Washington La- crosse Association team, who Teported | for their first drill yesterday at Central | High Stadium, will practice there again | tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock. Fifteen were in the squad which re- ported vesterday, including Bill Evans, | formerly of Maryland, and P. Rosen, | erstwhile New York University stick- | man, both all-America players. Dr. Reginald V. Truitt of the Uni- versity of Maryland was in charge as head coach. He was assisted by Dutch Axt, a former Maryland player. Others who turned out, with their former college affiliations, follow: Don Hamnwrlund Maryland; Mtlwn Juster. Hopkins; Frank Dunnington, Maryland: L. Kaufholtz, Hopkins: Bill Crentz, | Maryland; Don Cline, Maryland: George Sharp, jr., Brown: Ray Brad, Marylan Alec Battisla, Canada, and E. N. son, Navy. International Leazae, City, 13; Rochester, 2. ; Toronto. 2 . 7; Buffalo, 5. 4 Reading, American Association. Columbus, 4; Kansas City, 1. kec, 5; Toledo, 4 at Indianapolis, Jersey eal, s post- poned. rain £t. Paul at Louisville, p>stponed, rain. Southern Association. Atlanta, 7; New Orleans, 3. Birmingham, 2: Mobile, 0. Nashvil Little Rock, 3. Memphis, 6; Chattanooga, 3. Pacific Coast League. No games scheduled. Texas League. Dallas at Fort Worth, rain Shreveport at Wichita Falls, rain. Beaumont, 4; San Antonio, 1. Galveston, 2; Houston, 1 (night game). Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Babe Ruth, Yankees—Hit two home runs, each with one on, to beat Athletics, 5 to 4. Harry Seibold, Braves—Blanked Giants, 1 to 0, with six hits, in sec- ond game of dcuble-header. Charley Berry, Red Sox—Clouted Senator pitching for two doubles and a pair of singles, drove in three runs and scored three. Jim Bottomley, Cardinals—HIs homer beat Cubs, 3 to 2. Willis Hudlin, _Indians—Pitched eflecuvely m stop Tigers, 9 to 3. Nick Cullop, Reds—Homer, with two on, beat Pirates, 7 to 5, | efoita Yeomans ana Berverich b | presented to 11 members of the world DARKEST MOMENT. HEY,T™MMY, ™ conna ee SCARFACE! You BeTH coP! e PASSING OF AN DOL — NAH | fiw;\rl'rA PLAY CoP! LE'S ™AKE WILLIE PLAY COP! IF —By WEBSTER 1 AIN T CONNA [ CANT BETH BIG SOT IM GOIN' Home Wi I LI i i m/.l’ ((J( \\\‘\ ‘u\ G.W.LISTS70F 9 GRID GAMES HERE Four of Colonials’ 1931 Local Foot Ball Tilts Are to Be Played at Night. Nine games, seven of them here, have been booked for the 1931 George Wash- ington University foot ball team. In accordance with their announced pol- })& the Colonials have scheduled no tflcl opponents. tersectional three of them here, a| Tulsa University, which G. W. met last Fall at Tulsa, Okla.; Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., and North Dakota University are the three elevens which I come here. Iowa University will | be engaged at Iowa City. Never have s0 many intersectional encounters been arranged for a G. W. eleven. Shenandoah College, Elon College, | Boston University, Salem College and | Broaddus Ccllege are other schools on | | the schedule. All will be played here | except Boston U. | A varsity-freshman test also is listed. Four night games appear on the card, which follows | Sepwmbtr ZS—Shenlndolh College. October 3—] Colleg: engagements, ppear on the card. c 10—Boston Unlvmlt,y. ston. October 16—Tulsa University (night | game). October 24—Varsity-Freshmen. October 31—Iowa University, at Towa | City. November 6—Salem College (night ' game). November 13— Broaddus College (night. game). November | (night game). November 26 (Thanksgiving day)— North Dakota University. Georgetown vanquished Washington and Lee, 7 to 2, in tena's yesterday on the Columbia Country Club courts. Summaries: Mengin (@ U Geleated Shields, 1. §-3: Mitchelll (G, U defzated Wilgon, 6=3. —2; "Braed: L) defeated Yeomans: 7— Y merverich a0 Graham, 6—2; McBride (G. feated Cox. 64, 6-2; Ferguson (G. U.) de- feated Snyder, 5— at| 20 — Butler University Mangin and Mucneu feteated Shields and Braedy, Wilson and Graham eo 7, 6—0; Perquson and Burdett defeated Snyder and Cox, 6—4, 6—2. A'S GET WATCHES Crronometers to Bear Likenesses of World Champs. PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (®).— Speclally made watches bearing en- graved likenesses of the recipients on the backs of the gold cases are to be Engraved | champion Athletics by the National Commission, composed of the heads of the American and National Leagues and Commissioner K. M. Landis. Last year the Athletic players re- ceived diamond rings. When requested to make known their choice for this year, following their triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1930 world teries, some of the A’s who had not re- ceived diamond rings requested them as gifts; others asked for larger stones on the rings already in their possession, while 11 phyen asked for U’|e watches. SKITH WINS AT TEAPS. PINEHURST, N. C, April 21 (#).— L. B. Smith of Millbrook, N. J., won the doubles championship of the North Moer and South target tournament, with a score of 86. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. ‘Home runs yesterdsy—Ruth, Yankees. | # ; Bottomley, Cardinals, 1; Cuilop, Reds, ; Stone, Tigers, 1. leaders—Klein, Phillies, 3; Ruth, Yankees, 3; Stone, Tigers, 3; Hornsby, 2; Berry, Red Sox. 3 3;" Gehrig, Herman, League wul-—fluimnl. 19; Ame'rl~ can, 19. Grand total, ’ |of 1:57 by 9 1-5 seconds. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Vosmik, Indians, .636; , Red Sox, .529. Runs—Ruth, Yankees; Gehringer, ‘Tigers, and Hunnefleld, Indians, 7. Runs batted in—Spencer, Sen tors; Levey, Browns, and Sewell, In- dians, 8. Benators, Ber- Cardinals: ubles — Vosmik, Indians, In- Vosmik, Indians, 2 Stolen bases—Myer, Senators, 3; B.M.fln‘-lench Gilants, 444; Runs batted in—Sheely, Braves; Leach, Giants; Berger and Sheely, Home runs—Klein, Phillies, 3; English, Cubs; Comorosky, Pirates, 2. Hits—Vosmik, Indians, 14; Gehr- inger, Tigers, 12. . Gehringer, Tigers, and Sewell, In- dians, 4. Triples—H. Rice, 3; Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 3; Gehrig, Yankees, and Berry, Red Sox, 2. Levey, Browns, and Hunnefield, In- dians, 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. ger, Braves, Hunetlon ekt et vt Giants, and Klein, Phillies, 8. Hartnett, Cubs, and Wilson, Cardi- nals, 8 Hits — Lindstrom, ~ Giants, 12; Braves, 11. Doubles—Traynor, Pirates, 4. ‘Triples—Orsatti, Cardinals, 2. Herman, Robins, and Hornsby, Cubs, 2. Stolen bases—Watkins, BOSTON, April 21 ().—Helene Madi- son, the record-breaking swimmer from | | Seattle, Wash., gave a few exhibitions at the University Club last night and broke three more records in the process. The records were made under regula- tion timing conditions. The fleet Helene first took a crack at her own world record of 1:4 1-5 for 100 | yards and negotiated the distance in 1 minute flat. Another mark of her own, the world 100-meter, was blasted when she swam it in 1:6 3-5, the old mark being 1:8. free style swim was added to the star’s long list of records when she clipped two-fifths of & second from the record | of 28 seconds. The Washington A. C. relay team of Seattle, new natlonal relay champions, bettered the New England relay record son swam the anchor position, and was assisted by Lucy Schact, Edna McKib- bin and Dawn Gilson. UNLIMITEDS S;:EK TILTS. Swift & Co.'s base ball team is after games with unlimited class nines having diamonds after 5 p.m. during the week, and those willing to play on the Swift field Sunday mornings. Manager George Cooper is booking at District 5810 be- {)%eoz p.m., or after 5:30 p.m. at West Record of Griffs t lh‘hr siy b 1bLPet, 038 3 b Spencer . Rice..| oo o omroooo00sorroomoow o ERERTH 338550 S eseresuiavesriny o2 3 cocooo00scoroussose! H e coss0s0s0mmamEm: PRTNT. | 2 The New England 50-yard | Miss Madi- | \ONE TEAM IS NEEDED Meeting Tonight—Sandlot Squads Active. | Georgetown Church Base Ball League | will hold its final meeting prior to the | Chapel at 8 o'c] | One more church team is needed to | complete, the roster. are Eldbrooke M. E., West Washi: ‘eams interested in the vacant fran- |chise which cannot be represented to- night should call H. C. Tucker, Metro- politan 7685 or Potomac 4270 after 6 p.m. Blue Coals will drill tomorrow evening ‘at 5 o'clock on the Rosedale Pleld for Sunday with an unlimited class team to be played on the Blue Coals Fleld. (‘?valéu;o;e may be reached at Atlantic ! morrow night by Foxall A. C. diamond- ers at the home of John Gold, 4643 Brewer place southwest. Matters of im- portance are carded, lncludln' decision as to league play. ‘Teams seeking llmes mclude‘ Cubs A. C., unlimited opponent for Sunday. Menes!ru, Columgh 3769. 27§kzmmu Heights Peewees. Lincoln | St. Joseph’s want out-of-town op- | ponent. Lincoln 8583 after 7 p.m. | Potomac Distributors, unlimited oppo- nent Sunday. Denison, West 2013. Kensington A. C. Sunday game. Nerllt, Kensington 240. CONTINUE HAND BALL | Three Matches Are Carded ’l'odly in A. A. U. Tourney. ‘Three matches were slated today, with (he final carded at 6 p.m. at the Cen- |t Y. M. C. A in the first annual \Dhmu A A'U. 'hand ball champion- ship tournament. Jack Schwartz, Jew- ish Community Center, and J. B. Payne lof Y. M. C. A. vlfllmmlnmelobloek | encounter. |, In tilts yesterday R. A. Payne, Wash- ington A. C. entry, | Schwartz, Jewisih Cornmunny Cenm 21—4, 21—5; Jack Schwartz, J. C | defeated 8. Goldbery, Y. M. C. |21—10, and Perrie McLean, Y. M. C A. \;Ai)wr;edzfldney James, also of the “Y, PING PONG TILT IS TIE Orientals and Public Parks Teams Play to a 3-3 Draw. Orientals and Public Parks teams fought to a 3-3 tie in a ping pong match last night at the headquarters of the District Ping Pong Association in the Investment Building. Lee (Orientals) defeated O'Neill, 6—4, 57, §-37 pradie (Public Parky) celeated Chens: e "l':fl‘u 1—5 Fe0s Feoll; Merano (Orlentals) defeated G."Considine, -2, f 2o o) S el bt Parks) detested Chung, oo by 6-3. =~ 0 MEET SCOP.E WIDENED All High and Prep Athletes Eligi- ble for C. U. Games. Any bona fide high or prep school athlete is eligible to compete in the interscholastic track and fleld meet to be held by Catholic University in the C. U. Stadium Saturday, May 9. Here- tofore the meet has been closed to Catholic high school athletes. Entry blanks have just been mailed to schools in several States in this sec- able %o Touis Desantis, ot able ntis, manager track, at the university. Fourteen events are listed. It is planned to hold heats in the morning at :gl!o oeloek vm.h semi- nn-lllndmn::l: on in the afternoon, beginn! 2:30" o'clock. Erano FOR CHURCH LEAGUE : Georgetown Circuit to Hold Last Sail> start of play tonight at Peck Memorial | Fi7o": ‘Teams now in line | Go ig:pmt. First BIWI! and Metropolitan | —Off Lanah: Manager Willie Glascoe is after a game | A speclal meeting will be held to-|Do defeated Aaron | hom-c WESTERN MAY CUT SWATH IN SERIES Shows Promise in Defeat by Maryland Cubs—Eastern Bows to W.-L. High. ' TERN, which meets Central Friday in its opening game in the public high school ‘base ball championship series, likely will show well in the title matches. ! Despite their 9-2 defeat yesterday at the hands of the Maryland Freshmen at College Park, the West Enders were by no means unimpressive. Clarke, thelr | pitcher, showed creditably and they displayed some potential batting | strength. They showed need of flelding practice, however. After the first few innings Western was not in it with the Old Line yearl- ings. The scholastics scored two runs in the second inning but after Maryland had tied the count in the third, it went on to register three more runs in the fourth and increase its lead in the seventh and eighth. High spots were Ray Davidson's three- hit pitching for the freshmen, a circus catch by Bucky Buscher, yearling cen- terfielder and a home run by Spencer Chas:, who played first base for the Old Line youngsters, ‘The score: Md. Prosh. ABH.OA; Western. Bartoo Billearyit.. s Prerche he s'h etcher. Fox. O ounuvuwSoon! McGan: Sothern.3b. Benner.if. .. Kilroy.c Davidson:p. Totals Western Maryland Runs—Bartoo | wmoomoomwn; P 1 “°3 [T P %8l Cusorruen F on G| woornosomus? Kliroy. Wilhotte: lol Davidson. 7; i e, Washington-Les High tossers sur- prised somewhat by scoring over East- ern, public high champion, 9 to 7, in the Eastern Stadium. It was a hard- ::.uzhthg;lge l.llb"th:u:l{nwl\h ‘both ims having a 2 inn The Virginians scored six runs ml{:{“ Ses- sion and Eastern five. W.-L. then went on to add two more markers while hold- ing Eastern scoreless and won the game, ‘The score: 1] 3E E-F a3 ochc mmbunll sasc“oonted roneVnosos® consaceoonmml | cormmooNion-O | onooooomormms? Runs—Ellis_(2), Sgmour Mequinn, Ba Avey 2 e Pmoie: “ravior. (3 Thi At Ball (2 . oo ld) B‘“l'u‘e Keister: r. 1;°of rtson. 1; ot leonrm’l o Fhinp B 10 Noonan. £ in 8 nnings: Hit by : itched 5 2. Strack oute aban, 5 by Noon nan, i f-‘i‘hu’; 4 innin = Losing puener._uoon-' Sitener~Tloberas Charlotte Hall held the whip hand most of the way in defeating George- town Prep, 12 to 7, at Garrstt Park. The score: Char, Hall. AB. Morrin.cf Corr: fa il 3 PCERU o G'town. Pr. Murphy.2b. Deekin.if A Cuausscaas conaumummg ocBooscasn: SRS A ecoconanenossi B[ punrwoornusond 55| onoooscoonsoa® 341224 4 all .1 02023 n Prep. 1 1 10 0 0 uns-Morin (3. Corradg iy Totals ... Erfors—Birroughs (8). Moore, O'Brien, McCaffrey. Soten nue._mmn (@); Corrado. Dowi Murphy (3), Cohen, ~Sacrifice: Deekin, nd (2). Mc] n.m-w Double play—8antul fo Ryan. Left on —cmmme Hall. u Bt St. Albans W!fllmd Emerson by a wide margin in romping to a 30-6 win on the former's field. The score: St. Albans. ABH.OA. Emerson. Shippen.if:."s Johna.3b. 0 cusssasussch P, 1 =N Sus33208m McGeep.c Willett,3h. Totals. St. Albans Emerson Runs_Shippen (3). Sterrett (0. Fletcher (5).. Freeman atson (4), Cheslev. Pat- l’on. wmen mo'mllhu (), Albert. Draper, T son, Draper, 7: by Triiling Winning pitel St. A'bans took the measure of Gon- zaga. 4 t0 0. in a tennis match vesterday on the Cathedral School courts. In a second doubles mateh the score was tied at one set each when darkress halted play. Summnrl : iWatson defeated Eckert; & I oo deteated ™ Rardy: McGee defented O Conner, 81 Toubles—Free: end,'Chesley, dsfeated Eckert and McG Elliott and Witlett Vo Raedy -na O'connor, s, S (darkness). Business’ ball te.m will entertain Swavely School of Manassas on the Monument Grou: tomorrow Wat I 1% Passed: bRl Tril. -Watson. &k PLACES WALBERG, MDONALD ON LIST Asserts Rube Is Right This Year and That Rookie - Will Deliver. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, April 21 (#).—There is cne young man on the roster of the world champion Phila- delphia Athletics who knows considerable about their pitching staff. Most every day he's in there catching one or the other of Connie Mack's hurlers. Here's what Mickey Cochrane has to say about them: “A two-man staff, eh? Well, now let me tell you something. “For the first time in a couple of years Rube Walberg is right nnm. And when he's right he's as tough a man to hit as there is in base ball. Ask the Yankees who hit against him last Sunday. “The Rube got away to a bad start last year. He got to shooting those len-hsnd slants of his too much from the side. He got “Now all of a sudden he's back #gain. Rube is shooting them in there straight overhand and he's great. His curve is a corker and his speed is sec- ond only to Lefty Grove's and George haw's. Watch him this season. He'll win all year for us.” Praise for McDonald. Having disposed of one of Connie Mack’s chief problems, a third starting pitcher, Mickey went on to straighten out the situation even further. He reached right down and came up with a No. 4 man for the staff. “This fellow is Hlnk HcDennld. fl\e big youngster from the Pacific Coast,” sald Mickey. “He's tall and strong and weighs about 190. Be should have beaten Washington in his first start, but he got some tough breaks. He'll win ball games for us, and so will Leroy Mahaffey. Roy's a cinch against clubs. Bfll Shores is hurt right now, but he's been threatening for a km‘ time, and this may be his year, “Two-man staff, eh? Why, l:“’ Grove is a pitching staff all by himself. mtn.mehelosltowuhws-b— urday was a heart-breaker. They only got five hits. He's better than ever v.hl: year. Earnshaw always starts slow, but they won't be beating him after June. “I figure Grove and Earnshaw will win 50 games between them. Walberg will win 20, and McDonald is good Ior 15. That doesn’t leave mlny for Ma- haffey and Shores to &e at. ‘Two-man pitching staff, eh? Thinks Well of Nats. months of this sea- have power. you'll hold Ruth and Gehrig even Lazzeri and Lary will hit everything. The next day you stop them and.some oneehebrundutlnlruhu(mu On Dapet they're going to need "wie got to Cleveland in, too. In fact you" veflngol? to figure all of them in until August. You ‘tm tell where the breaks are going to go. But after August—well, it looks like the A's again to me. AUSTRALIAN FLASH ON WRESTLING BILL Jimmy Heslyn, Speed Demon, Tackle Paul Jones in Auditorium Show Thursday Night. In Jimmy Heslyn, wrestling champion of Australia, Promoter Joe Turner thinks his Thursday Washington Audi- torlum customers will ‘see one of th= fastest wrestlers to appear here this Winter, not excepting Dick Shikat. Heslyn is down to take on Paul Jones, the Texan with the “boa constrictor” legs, in the semi-final of the card head- lined by a bout between Jim McMillen and Billy Bartush. Another match, Doc Wilson vs. Babe Caddock, is likely to steal some of the thunder from the Jones-Heslyn and McMillen-Bartush, however. Wilson, fully recovered from his pjury, is pretty fast himself, while in Caddock, he will face no slouch when he comes to mov- ing around the ring. The bout was completed this morn- ing by Turner. George Tragos, the tough and No. 2 ranking Greek wrestler, will Tace Leslie Grimes, the speedy Aus- tralian. Grimes made one appearancze here, but his opponent was much too heavy, but in Tragos he will be facint a foe who outweighs him by only eight pounds. The curtain-raiser -will bring together Frank Le Chene of PFrance and Mike Chaplin of New York. This Chapl'n, a9 | S0 Turner says, is not the Chaplin who wrestled at the Strand. The McMillen-Bartush brawl, bring- ing together two star exponents of the flying tackle, is one fall to a finish, as is the Paul Jones-Jimmy Heslyn battle. Tickets are on sale at the Annapolis Hotel office of Joe Turner. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. IG league base ball games here now start at 3:30 o'clock in- stead of 4. The chnnge. recently ‘made, lppeln to be Those getting prnu for ouhund- ing performances in ‘the Terminal Railroad Y. M. C. A. Tenpin .nd Duckpin Leagues last night \nclndad i E’.%‘g}" J. Mcclllley P L. Ho!- 3 'l'hompwn A. 8. Bundy, C. L. Wi filhnu noon at 3:30 o'clock and Central dia- monders will go over to Alexandria to have it out with EDW usiness and Eastern were to face in the Eastern Stadium this ai the championship series debut for both nines. Central was to meet Georgetown freshmen on the G. U. fleld. Miller. Phy m the caplul City ((mr- team) Base Ball Let will ope: May 1 with Cornwe Co. mee'.lnl Washington boy, ing good as an outfielder vnh 'éh; Petersburg team in the Virginia te League. Johnny Wilkerson is gathering good St. Martin’s nine to battle !or flag. better Aloy- méxm»u-pmwm Shag Raw] probably will pitch for Amflun“ngcmthuglco