Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1931, Page 10

A—10 S Harry Rice Reportéd Through as anf - Browniés_ Step MODERN AMERICAN SPORTS UNDERGOING REVOLUTION CUT IN PERCANNEL IPLANNED BY CLUB Waivers Claimed Granted on Useful Outfielder—White Sox Opener Lost. SOREE B BY JOHN B. KELLEX. HICAGO, June 27.—Despite the Nationals’ pennant ambitions and their great chance of realizing them C this year the Washington ball| club ownership desires to reduce its playirz personnel at once. This information comes of a semi- official source out in this sector of the American League. First of the players dropped from the Nationals’ roster, ac- cording to the information deemed quite reliable, will be Harry Rice, extra outfielder. Walvers on Rice recently were asked by the Washington club and granted by the other clubs of both big leagues, it is claimed. The Washington club then endeavored to dispose of Rice to Kansas City of the American Associa- ticn, but could not effect a deal, it seems. Harry Rice has not been in action much recently and his batting average to date is not particularly impressive. He has stung the ball at only a .244 clip. But cutting the outfield squad from five to four members, especially with Sam Rice and Dave Harris alter- nating in right fleld according to the side the opposing hurier throws from, appears risky for a club now hopeful of carrying on to the flag. Harry will not hit in a class with Harris, a sturdy right-hand batter, but he is apt to prove as useful at bat as Sam Rice, another left-hand swinger, who has not been so successful in at- tack this season. Harry, too, is an ex- cellent flelder, better defensively than either o those now alternating in right field. It was Harry Rice's hitting while subbing for West, who was nursing a sore arm early in the campaign, that helped the Nationals to a good get- away in the race. So well did Harry club then that even after West got back into center field he moved over into right to handle for a time the position Sam Rice had occupied. Then came a slump and Harry was removed from the line-up, never to get back regularly. He is a streak hitter, as they call those batters who flare for a time then burn out, but at that he is a handy extra to have around. One never can tell when a streak hitter, given a chance, might flare again for a good stretch of games. | An outfield squad of four might be | in order for a club without any pen- nant hopes, but reducing to four the | group of pasturement with a real pen- | nant contender would seem taking a great chance. Outfielders are more | subject to accident than other players. The Yanks discovered that early in the season when three of their five garden- ers were put out of commission. So long as the Nationals are up there battling for the championship it might | s be well to keep Harry Rice on the Toster unless a more capable outfielder could be acquired. ITH a splendid opportunity to pick | up ground on the Athletic: idling because of rain in Detroit, the Nationals were unable to seize # when they bumped into the left-handed Pai Caraway on one of his good days. |’ As a result they suffered defeat in the | opener of the White Sox series yester- day, 4 to 3, and dropped to one and| one-half games back of the pace-setting | White Elephants. It was Caraway’s fourth start against the Nationals this season and the first victory over them for this southpaw, | who took a licking in his initial argu- ment with them, even though he then | yielded only three safeties. PORTS. Boxing Fades, Wrestling Dase ball receipts have increased, in are building golf courses and polo Jor wider activities; mew stars are Goiig i the oo ould in the following story—one of World Today.” 3 . BY ALAN EW YORK, June 27.—Modern It involves methods and champions, amateurs and p! | economic upheaval. As a matter spicuous sport—major league base The tremendous post-war boom was concenirated in the period of 1923 to 1930. It has been labeled the ‘“seven fat years of sport.” It witnessed the re- markable and memorable exploits of such supergods as Bobby Jones, Jack | Dempsey, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, Paavo Nurmi and Red Grange. Bambino Carries On. Not all of these figures have ceased to engage national or international at- | tention. Ruth is still an $80,000 ball player, paid more than the President of | the United States for his yearly services. | The combination of superachievements, | however, has been broken up, and the scramble of youthful ambition is on as | a definite part of the current era of |transiion. New and perhaps brighter | stars may emerge, but it will take years | to gauge their brilliance. | The pace set by the idols of Ameri- | can sport has had the effect of develop- ing a greater wealth of new athletic talent than ever before. Old-timers are reluctant to admit that Dempsey in his prime was a harder hitter than John L. Sullivan; that Ruth or Hornsby is a | greater all-around batsman than Anson or Brouthers, vet the record-breaking progress of modern athletics is convine- ing testimony. Is the limit of achievement in sight? | Not if you take the word of a famous college coach who remarked: “Sports of all kinds have taken such a hold on our younger generation that | there is no- telling what performances | may be hung up in the mnext half dozen years. A few years nx it was | thought impossible to pole vault more | than 14 feet but this mark has been | exceeded a half dozen times. I could | not predict now that 15 feet is the | limit. “For years we thought 93-5 seconds | was about the limit of human speed in Too Few Kuhels WASHINGTON. er, 2b, STTRFURSEIN TP & 0! coonomoommT 1 % w! coowsosonel histd ¥ Gt usentd ate, c. . Caraway, b. 38 00 ol womoomue: @l monnoosou? ol eonouorase? Totals Washingts Chicago Runs batted _in—Fonseca Blue. Kuhel ( Manush. TI 5. ° Home {Tries to Kerr fo vashington, 3 _Chi base_on balls—Off Crowder. & ol ooossssss! ol cossssssss!? S utarasnil Bl Blue, c2.0. = rowder, 3; In breaking the Washington winning | &\ spell over the White Sox this year that | had extended to six games Caraway yes- terday gave up only five hits, the first a single by Buddy Myer off the game's| opening pitch. The others were spread | over the last three rounds, two being| homers socked into_the lower right- field stand by the left-hand-swinging | Joe Kuhel. Caraway was particularly | voisonous to the Nationals' right-hand batters, not one driving the ball to| safety. Al Crowder opencd fire for the John- | son band and pitched the kind of ball| he has pitched the greater part of the season. vited the batter 'to hit every time he ckucked. Eight hits in four clusters of iwo' were made off him, and three of the clusters counted all the White Sox runs before Al was replaced by Bump Hadley in the fifth with one on and| one out. Off Hadley but one hit was made. T was a pass to Kerr that opened the | way to a White Sox marker in round | 1. “Reynolds singled Jjohnny to third | after Blue was struck out, but was caught stealing. However, a scratchy single by Fonseca got Kerr home. In| the third with one out Blue doubled | and Reynolds. tripled. Reynolds crossed | with a third Chicago tally when Fon- seca flied out. ‘While Caraway was stingy with hits, he had a wild fourth inning, in which/! he handed the Nationals a run. Ma- | nush anc Cronin walked, and the sacks were loaded when Harris was pinked in the back by one of Pat's pitches. ‘West popped feehiy to the third base- | man, but Bluege hoisted to Fenseca | and 'Manush scored after the catch.| Then Kuhel drew a pass to fill the| bases onee more, but Spencer's best| was a pop to the third sacker. Caraway's triple, the second of three hits he made for a perfect day, and Blue's single accounted for a White Sox run in the fifth and chased Crowder Irom the hill. Kuhel hit his first homer in the seventh and his second in the ninth and this last would have knotted the game had Brick Owen, umpiring at first base, not been so hasty in making a decision. ‘West opened the ninth with a single only to be forced out by Bluege. who rolled to the third baseman. Bluege hustled to first ahead of Kerr's relay to Blue, but Owen, after waving West out, swung toward first with the “out” sign still on and. it went. That left no one on to be helped by Kuhel’s fine wallop. It must have -been the heat that af- fected Owen’s vision as well as that of the Washington batters. ADIES' day brought & crowd of 13,000 to Comiskey Park, more than 8,000 of the fair sex . » Among the paid customers was Ensign Blimp Bowstrom, last Fall captain of the Navy eleven . . . He likes his base ball as well as foot ball . . . Fred Eich- zodt no longer is with the White Sox ... They sent the outfielder back. to ew Orleans, from which club he was i afted . . . Only two umpires, Geisel | P and Owens, worked in the series opener . . . MacGowan, teamed with them, was put out of commission by Thurs- day's torrid temperature . . FPred ‘Marberry, who at the Tigers last ‘Tuesday in his first hill start in_more than a month, and Jimmy Moore, White Sox_right-hander, were expected to be pitching opponents this afternoon. LUE and Tate bounced the ball off their shins to Kuhel the first time batted in the series ner It looked as though he in-|% : by Hits--Off Crowde 1 in i L el an and 46 min v mpire: Time of game--1 hour utes. ] 0 L Harris. West.... Cronin. Man'sh Bluege. Burk CoL LT T st Bolto: Fischer Hayes. Marb'y, o‘.‘.a...a_‘..g.mo.,w..m.. Sasbasus st eatietull SoorMoscoANLNLOOD BB SoococossotomRREO BN [FTCEREIIAN PITCHING. In'gs Gam.Com. 8O. pitch.strtd.Ga. W. Fischer, 9735 11 Burke. . Marb'ry, Jones. Hadl B! rown.. 18 128 Crowder 17 102 batters . . ‘Watwood, Chisox center, | registered four successive put-outs in the second and third innings, getting lofts from Bluege and Kuhel in the first | of these rounds and from Spencer and Crowder in the second . . . In the third Crowder sent three wide ones by Wat- wood, then tight:ned to chuck_three called strikes . . ., West and Bluege made sparkling plays to get the first two Chisox in the fourth . . . Sammy roamed far to his right to haul down Cissell's hoist while Ossie rushed in for !a one-hand pick-up of Jeffries’ bunt and got the batter . . . In the seventh Bluege thrust cut his g'oved hand and there was Blue’s liner . . Umpire Geisel behind the plate was struck in the neck by a foul from Fonseca’s bat | in the eighth and painfully injured, but stuck at his task. Grows in Spite of Depression—Superstars of Post-War Era Challenged. Professional bozing is on the decline; wrestling is 's ‘idols. These are modern sports trends as seen by Alan Assoclated Press Sports Editor. to the battle pits, is undergoing a revolutionary It is simultaneous with, but onl | marked by a sharp increase in the gate receipts of at least one con- . | Italy, 12:31, i | Athletics; Cronin, Senators, 92. 4 drick, Reds, .366. | Hornsby, Cubs, 5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931 Game' Booms, Base Ball mmhw: ma; spite of the depression; universities flelds to satisfy undergraduate urge rising to dispute the supremacy of a series on “What's Going on in the GOULD, American sport, from the bunkers eriod. \mplements, champins and near- rofessionals. artly due to the widespread of fact, the depression has been ball. the 100-yard dash. Wykoff has run 935 twice and Simpson once. We may Efl?:t the distance traveled in 9 seconds “I can.see no immediate limits in the sports where time and distance furnish a definite measure of compari- son. The old-time athletes were in- dividually as good as those of today but they did not have the competition of the coaching that the modern American boy has the benefit of.” Modern ballyhoo, in the hands of such experts as the late Tex Rickard and Knute Rockne, helped build up American sport to unprecedented fi- nancial heights. Professional boxing has been on the decline_since it reached the peak at Chicago in 1927. There is no Rickard or million-dollar “gate” in sight. Pro- fessional wrestling, by contrast, has boomed. Foot Ball Is Sound. ‘The “deflation of American foot ball" is foreseen by the Carnegie Foundation, based upon & somewhat widespread de- clins in gate receipts in 1930, but the robust character of this college sport seems to assure a long and prosperous life. The colleges expect a banner cam- paign next Fall. “Pep” meetings #nd the “old college cheer” are conspicuous by their ab- sence. But the larger universities are building golf courses, polo fields and new tennis courts to satisfy tho under- graduate urge for wider activity. Radio has helped make the American public more sports conscious. The major league base ball has beeh “deadened” to revive the national game's more scientific features. The new golf ball is another sign of the changing times, carrying with it the modern privilege of “squawking.” The *“customers” of 1931 are more discriminating perhaps, | but the competitors are more numerous and, on the links at least, more deadly than ever. (Copyright. 1931, the Assoclated Press.) Mat,‘ Matches By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. — Jim McMillen, | Chicago, threw Sandor Szabo, Hungary, | 59:53; Leon Smith, Chicago, threw | Casey Berger, St. Louis, 14 Tiny | Roebuck, Oklahoma, threw John Maxos, | New York, 9:12; George Zaharias, New | York, threw Milo Steiborn, Germany, 19:20, MONTREAL, Quebec.—Dick Shikat, 217, Philadelphia, defeated Frank Bru- nowicz, 212, New York, straight falls, | 30:45 and 10:51; Earl McCready, 227, | Oklahoma, threw Joe Mondt, 237, New | York, 5:31; Herb Freeman, 208, New | York, won on a foul from George Hilles, 203, Nebraska, in 22:11; Dick Davis- court, 226, California, threw Babe Cad- dock, 198, Nebraska, 12:23; Carl Pojello, 198, Chicago, threw Jack Burke, 205, New York, 10:54; Abe Kashey, 216, New Jersey, threw Gino Garibaldi, 216, | Major Leaders By the Assoclated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Ruth, Yankees, .399; Mor- gan, Indians, .382. Runs—Myer, Senators; Gehrig, Yan- kees; Bishop, Athletics, 57. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 66; Yankees; Cronin, Scnators, 65. Hits—Combs, Simmons, Doubles—Webb, Red Sox, 28; Manush, Senators, 26. Triples—Cronin, Senators, 8; Manush, Senators; Johnson, Tigers, 7. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 17;| Ruth, Yankees, 16. Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 26; | Johnson, Tigers, 17. Pitching—Fischer, Senators, won 9, lost 1; Burke, Senators, won 7, lost 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Davis, Phillies, .368; Hen- Runs—Klein, "Phillies, 62; English, Cubs, 49, Euns batted in—Kletn, Phillies, 59; Hits—Klein, - Phillles, 88; Terry, Giants, 86. Doubles—Bartell, Phillies, 26; Davis, Phillies, 24. Triples—Worthington, Braves; Wat- kins, Cardinals; Terry, Giants, 8. Home runs—Klein, Phillies, 19; Horns- by, Cubs, 12. Stolen bases—Comorosky, Pirates, 9 Cuyler, Cubs, 8. Pitching—Bush, Cubs, won 5, lost 1; Derringsr, Cardinals, won 7, lost 2. HOLLYWOOD IS IN VAN, SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 (#)— The official Pacific Coast League stand- ing is as follows: o ct. Hollywood .638 Portland Missions . San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Sacramento kland cag Lou Yorl delphi Chi g a-Detroit, Standings in Major Circuits American League. YESTERDAY'S ‘RESULTS, ;, Washington, 3. 3: “Boston, Cleveland, JUNE 27, 1931. National League. 'YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 2; Cincinnati, 0. 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EW YORK, June 27.—Robert Stevens, shortstop for Newark in the International League for | two years, has been taken on | by the Philadelphia Nationals. The | Phils got an improving player. Pes-| sibly they have taken him on at exactly the right time in his career and at a | very good time for themselves—now | that they ere clouting the ball all| over the landscape and getting better pitching. Stever's is an interesting player and | there is also an interesting story con- nected with him. In 1929 he played short for Newark and he did some as- tonishing things now and then. Scouts went to look him over. They said he couldn't bat, but thought he might be a good fielder. They didn't say any- thing about whether he might improve or not. In fact, most of them pasced him by because of little defects which often conceal a coming high-class | player. Stevens played with Newark again in 1930 and again the scouts gathered where he played. Some of them thought | better of him than they had before. But when one scout found that another scout had not taken him because of some fancied defect, that scout also dis- covered the same failing. Stevens batted .273 in 1929, but his fielding average was the lowest in the league for shortstops—but the scouts didn't notice that he went after every- thing in sight. In 1930 he moved into first division in shortstops, and he was still covering an acre of ground. He | batted better, too, reaching an even -300. Stevens again siarted with Newark this year, and he has played his part in that team’s ise to first place. New- ark wanted a catcher, so Philadelphia has turned over Rensa, who will catch better as he gets more work, and also gave Willingham, an infielder. Perhaps the Phillies intend to put Stevens at short and Bartell at second, and it may be that they will experi- ment the other way around. If Phila- delphia_can dget & little more certainty in the infleld, the team will climb and the National League race will become still tighter. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va,, July 27.— The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers were very muddy this morning. Minor Leagues International League. Newark, 2; Jersey City, 0. Montreal, ‘Toronto, 0. Rochester, 2; Buffalo, 1. Baltimore-Reading night game, rain. Southern Association. Memphis, 4; Chattanooga, 3. Nashville, 8; Little Rock, 6. Atlanta-Mobile, wet grounds. Others not scheduled. Pacific Coast League.' San Prancisco, 6; Missions, innings) Seattle, 3; Sacramento, 0. Los Angeles, 10; Hollywood, 5. Portland, 7; Oakland, 2. American Association. Louisville-Toledo, rain. Indianapolis-Columbus, rain. ' Others not scheduled. Hartford, 5; New Haven, 4. Norfolk, 5; Bridgeport, 4. Allentown, 4; Richmond, 4 (tie, dark- ness). Springfield, 5; Albany, 4. Texas League. Fort Worth, 4; Beaumont, 1. Dalias, 4; Galveston, 0. San Antonio-Shreveport, rain. Houston, 7; Wichita Falls, 6. Western League. Oklahoma City, 5; Pueble, 4. ° Des. Moines, 15; Wichita, ‘Tcpeka, 11; 6. St. Joseph, 9; Denver, 6. Three-Eye League. Games_1ost. .121124127/31131134138142|—I—1 GAMES TODAY. Wash, at_Chieago, Phila. at Detroit. ' GAMES TOMORROW. Wa i @. , but painful the p; Y « « o-fouls only, Detroit. N. York at Cleveland. N. York at _Cleveland. Boston at st. Loulk. Boston at At. L. (3). TODAY. ., GAMES TOMORROW., Ghicaso st Boston. Chicaso st Boston, t Cincin. at New_York. Cincin. ‘ h w York. Pittsbtreh 8¢ Phi Bloomington, 12-13; Springfield, 0-9. ‘Terre mu& 20; Decatur, 8. ld, > lvania League. Ste\'cns; D.C.Boy, Goes With Phils OBBY STEVENS, former Western High School shortstop and one @f the classiest players to hold forth” in scholastic ranks hereabout in years, has become the property of the Philadelphia Nationals. Ste- vens was bought by the Phillies from Newark of the International League. His place on the Bears’ roster has been taken by Bill Werber, forma: Tech High and Duke luminary. Werber is the property of the New York Yankees. Don Brennan, who hurled bang- up ball for Georgetown in 1923 and 1924 and who now is pitching for Newark, where he is known as an “fron man,” is under option for first call by the Phillies. Frank Watt, another Washing- fonian, also is with the Phillies. Yesterday Watt won his second start- ing game of the season over the Pirates. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 27—J. F. Wilson, superintendent of public recrea- | tion, was to hold a meeting of insect, midget and junior teams at 4 o'clock y at his office to form three munici- pal playground leaguss. Nation-Wide Grocery Stores was to |play the American League Juniors at 3:30 today on Haydon Field. Virginia Juniors will play the Spengler Post, American Legion champions of Washington, on Duncan Field, at 3:30 today. | Transportation Department defeated Mechanics, 7 to 6, in a Potomac Yard Base Ball League game, Woodmen of the World are to play Columbia Engine Compal’li on Haydon Field tomorrow at 3 o'clock. AIVAL SCRAPPERS Hunt and Corri Are Expected Tomorrow for Laurel Go Wednesday Night. B trade punches in the feature bout of the opening card of the | Mideity arena on the Washington-Bal- timore Boulevard near Laurel, Md., Wednesday night, are expected to ar- | | ABE HUNT and Pietro Corri, heavyweight ringmen, who will | to get as much polishing work here as possible. 7 | Both will work out in the gymnasium | of Angy Gerrin, gzneral manager of the Mid-City plant, at 1731 K street. Gerrin is arranging to have 25 spe- cially chartered busses carry the fans to the arena Wednesday night from a central point in this city. The plant is located two miles north of Laurel. Tickets for the 10w went on sale early today at Spalding's, 1338 G street; Vic Sport Shop, 716 Ninth street, and the Curb Lunch, 511 Second street northeast. LONDOS HEAEY FOR BOUT | To Complete Training Tonight for Tilt With Steele Monday. NEW YORK, June 27.—Jim Londos, the champion, and Ray Steele will com- plete training tonight for the title wrestling match which heads the milk fund card of Mrs. Willlam Randolph Hearst at Yankee Stadium on Monday night. Londos has been preparing for the defense of his crown at Orange, N. Y., where he will remain until late Monday afternoon. Steele has prepared for the match at Stillman’s Gymnasium. Out as Giant Killers - T0 ARRIVE EARLY rive in town by tomorrow. Neither had | been expected to appear before Monday, | | but each has let it be known he is keen | SPORTS. ROLFE JOINS YANKEES Dartmouth Star Reperts in Cleve- land and Dons Suit Today. brought their five-game winning streak here yesterday to be met by their new shortstop aspirant, Robert (Red) Rolfe, and the severest storm in this year's annals. 7 Rolfe, whose home is at Penacock, N. H, and whose previous base ball playing has been in the interests of Dartmouth, had a long talk with Man- ager McCarthy. He is an impressive }:o e{ogl:l‘l ml:, :nnd’ had been mlveu and ski-jumping, 25 base ball. et Rolfe will put on a Yankee suit today for the first time when the New Yorkers and Indians play a doubleheader. CAVALRY POLOISTS IN TOURNEY FINAL Defeat Artillery to Become Foe of War Whites ‘in Game Tomorrow. HIRD CAVALRY YELLOWS of Fort Myer, defending cham- pions, and War Department Whites will clash tomorrow afternoon ¢n the Potomac Park oval in the championship match of the War Department Polo Association invitation tournament. Play will start at 3:30 o'clock. No match was scheduled to- day. The Cavalrymen achleved the final rm"hd by an 8-to-5 victory over 6th Field Artillery of Fort Hoyle, Md., yes- terday in a smashing battle. The Ar- tillerymen had a 2-goal handicap. Despite the comfortable margin by which the Yellows triumphed, it was a furious struggle, alive with thrills, all the way. Sixth Fleld Artillery was credited with a goal in the first chukker when the ball was deflected through the Cav- alry posts by one of the ponies. This with their handicap gave the Fort Hoyle riders a 3-goal lead and they contrived to stay in front until the fifth chukker, when the Yellows, led by the 2, swept to the front to stay. Lieut. Noble and Lieut. Dasher, 6th Field’s No. 4, furnished the biggest kick of the battle in this period when they came riding furiously into the Fort Hoyle goal, the impact knocking down one of the posts and causing the flagman to duck for safety. Lieut. Noble, however, managed to make the goal. A minute later he again found the range of the enemy posts to put his team in front. | Licut. Ncble, with four goals, was the | leading scorer of the match. Lieut. ‘Willard Holbrook, No. 4 for the win- ners, twice zoomed the willow through the alien uprights. Lieut. Dasher showed stoutly for the losers. Line-ups: Third* Cavalry (8) Pos Capt. Ligon. Noble . Cunning! .~ Holbrook ... . 4. Score by. chukkers Third Cavalr Sixth Pleld Goals—Noble | Mallonee, Dasher, Devers. ' Umpire—Lieut. Sergt. ‘Williams. “Eixn Field handicap. | Sixth F. A (5). ition, 5 . McAuliffe Holbrook P (2. ny. e Woods. | Artillery had s two-goal Stars Yesterday | By the Associated Press. | Irving G. Burns, Browns—Singled in | seventh to drive home run that beat Red Sox, 3 to 2. Pat Caraway, White Sox—Held Sen- ators to five hits and beat them, 4 to 3. Johnny Frederick, Robins—Clouted Cardinal pitching for home run, two | doubles and single. Bill Walker, Giants—Blanked Reds with four hits. George Grantham, Pirates—Collected home run, two doubles and single off | Philly pitching. Socks Seibold and Ben Cantwell, Braves—Held Cubs to four hits as Braves won, 7 to 3. CLEVELAND, June 27.—The Yankees)| redoubtable Lieut. Charles Noble, No.| The; MACKS AND YANKS SOUNDLY BUNPED Mound City Club Wins Eight of Nine Games—Robins Upset Cardinals. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. FTER playing nearly half a season without showirs any sign of getting ‘any- where in the American League standing, the St. Louis Browns seem to have nominated themselves as the giant killers of the circuit, if nothing else. The Browns skidded badly after the first week of the campaign, drop- ping into a nine-game losing streak and never recovered from it. Yet in the last week the Browns have electrified the fans by winning eight out of nine games. They finished a second nine-game string of defeats Jjust after they returned from th> East, then turned around and won three from the New York Yankees and four out of five from the champion PhiladzIphia Athletics. t. Louis took a tight game from Boston in the series opener yesterday. Off to a two-run lead in the first in- ning, they were tied in the seventh, when Jack Rothrock hit a homer, but came back in the same inning to win their fifth straight game, 3 to 2. Two Games Rained Out. In the only other American League ame yesterday, Chicago beat . Wash- gton, 4 to 3. The defeat dropped Washington to 1), games behind the Philadelphia Athletics, who were kept idle by rain at Detroit. The weather also stopped New York and Cleveland. A pair of upsets provided the feature of the National League's day. Brooklyn Robins handed the league- leading St. Louls Cardinals a sound trouncing, 16 to 5, while tlie Boston Braves made it two straight over Chi- | cago by a 7-to-3 count. The Robins started off with eight runs in the first inning against Bur- | leigh Grimes and never stopped hitting. y clouted four home runs, five doubles and a triple. The Braves als made a quick start, pounding Pat Ma- lone from the mound with four runs in the first. All of Chicago’s runs came in the sixth, when the Cubs did not make a hit, but Seibold walked three. Walker Deals Goose Eggs. ‘The New York Giants regained the game they lost to St. Louis the day | before by beat the Cincinnati Reds, 2 to 0. Bill Walker held the Reds to four hits and won his duel with Jack Ogden, who gave six, when Chick Fullis, playing his first full game at second inmnl.r'x clouted & home run in the third . The Phillies outdid Brooklyn in hit- ting, collecting 18 blows off Pittsburgh pitching, but could not equal their run total. Philadelphia won by a 13-to-2 count, giving the Pirates their thir- teenth defeat in 15 games. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. Cunningham and Henry were the “lone Nationals to hit safely as Pisher pitched New York to a 3-1 victory yesterday over the Washington ball team. It was the eighth straight de- feat for the Nationals. Norfolk racketers defeated Wash- ington netmen, 9 to 3, in a Middle Atlantic States Tennis Association match. The Doyle brothers, C. B. and H. E, gained all three of the Washington victories. Spencer Gor- don, W. B. Izard, P. H. 8. Cake, A. L. Howard, H. E. Colton and John Graves also represented Washington. Ty Cobb, famed Detroit outfielder, Ifll’!ll'llnl a great year. He is hitting Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Philadelphia Nationals, who has won* 15 games and lost 2, is hailed as the greatest young pitcher to break into fast company in many years: Cy Macdonald, who gave up pro base ball to play amateur ball, is showing strongly. " Clears Roa APITAL CITY LEAGUE offi- cials, in suspending the Ster- ling A. C. from the Section B race in the senior class, have removed the Miller-Roamers' biggest obstacle from the title path. With the Sterlings' banishment sandlot folk al- New Fistic Emporium Gradually Taking Shape LAUREL PLANT TO BE B.EADY‘ FOR OPENING SHOW OF SEASON JULY 1. ‘This shows the progress made Wi -Baltim the = ore in a 10-round main of the initial foreground and seats later. in erecting one mile card under the suj to-be erected to Banishment of Sterling Nine mers’ Title Path | ready are counting the senior play-off as between the Miller-Roamers and Olmsted Grill, which, like the former team, has shown general superiority in Section A. o W The Sterlings were suspended for using. two ineligible players. All teams which have I to the Sterlings in league play will be given those games, but with the Miller- Roamers going at top speed even the most optimistic of ~the * anti-Miller- Roamer fans do not hold much hope for anything but a victory for the pres- ent Jeague leaders. few pre-season fireworks are ex- .pected to explode tomorrow in the Department Shore League. Kanns, which will oppose the league- leading Hecht Co. nine, has been the only club to turn in a win over the Hechtmen, who, in turn, have defeated also will clash it also will be a “rubber” game, each having licked the other once this season. Potomac Food Distributor players will meet tomorrow at 11:30 o'clock at Twelfth and Water streets southwest for their trip to Fredericksburg, Va., where they will engage the Elks' Club nine in a twin bill, the first game start- ing at 3 o'clock. E DROIT TIGERS, colored profes- sionals, will meet an all-star com- bination assembled by Tots Long in a double-header at Colesville, Md. The first game is scheduled to star* at 1:30. and 'ARK IS SETTING PACE. NEW YORK, June 27 (#).—The ofi- ;fl.ll!ntum' itional League standing is as Lost. ‘Won. 41 40