Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 33

¢ Foen *® WITH SUNDAY MORNING: EDITION ny Sfap, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931, PAGE C—1 | Ws Flag Fight Hot : Three Mack Hurlers Have Won 45 Tilts LIKELY TO CAPTURE COME BACK TO WIN AFTER ROUT BY A'S Wilt Under,Storm of Home Runs Then Triumph With Four-Base Hits. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HATEVER criticism may be made of thls year's Nationals, favorable or otherwise, their game- ness cannot be questioned. They have it and plenty. Any critic of the club who may have enter- tained an idea it lacked pluck should be thoroughly convinced it does not after the outcome of esterday’s twin bill with the Ath- etics in Philadelphia. To take a terrific beating as the Na- tionals did in the opening game, then come back and win handily in the sec- ond part of the double-header, as the Johnson band did, requires plenty of courage, gameness, spirit or whatever quality it is that enables a body of men, though down, never to regard them- selves as out And so this gameness of the Wash- ington club keeps the struggle for the 1931 American League pennant still hot. The Nationals went into battle with the league-leading_A's six games back in second place. They emerged from it not gainers, but certainly not losers, and the fight goes on with all the big contenders for the flag striving to pick up at the expense of the Western clubs now being entertained on the Eastern ficlds. OSS of the 12-to-7 first game was a sad blow to the Nationals. For eight innings they gave Lefty Grove & good thumping, good enough to get a f-to-5 lead, then the A’s arose in their might and registered seven runs in their eighth batting turn and blasted the Washington club’s hope of victory. The A's overpowered the Nationals with home runs, hitting five. Three of these were made off Fred Marberry, who hurled seven innings, then wi eliminated by a pinch-batter when his club broke a tie with two runs in the eighth. Cochrane, Foxx and Bishop got the homers off Marberry, but it was the homer by Williams, pinch-batting for Grove in the Mack eighth, that all but broke the Nationals' hearts. p Hadley had been sent to the hill at the outset of the innirg, znd was promptly smacked by Foxx for a triple. Bump then went to a three-and-two count with Miller and passed him. He did the same thing with Dykes, but the fourth ball this time was a wild pitch thay let Foxx score, Miller reaching third and Dykes second. One of our very best wild pitches. Bump, still wild, hurled three wide ones by Boley, then was ordered to throw a fourth ball purposely and fill the bases. Here the leit-handed Bob Burke re- placed Bump on the hill, but Connie Mack countered by withdrawing the left-hand-batting Gove and sending Wiiliams, a right-hand swinger, to the plate. Williams let a pitch, a ball, go by, but swung on the second to drive the ball into the upper left field stand for a base-clearing homer. Burke managed to get rid of the next two batters, but Cochrane doubled and Simmons shot a homer over the right field wall to give the A’s their last two Tuns. In their ninth the Nationals batted mgainst George Earnshaw and got no- where. They were too well beaten to do so at the time. ETWEEN games, though, the Wash- ington club recovered remarkably. It appeared they had no chance to get over such a severe drubbing quickly, yet in the 6-to-4 second tussle the Na- | tionals turned the tables on the A's by giving them a dose of their own home | run poison. Al Crowder and George Walberg| waged a fine battle for three innings, although the A’s scored in the third when helped by wild chucks by Crow- der and Bluege. In the fourth the Na- tionals got to Walberg for a brace of ‘hits and a pass that meant two runs, | Def but the A’s evened matters in their half of the round with twe hits for a tally. Homers by Dave Harris and Joe Kuhel in the seventh, however, tucked away the game for Johnson's charges. Joe Cronin, who had singled, was on when Harris hit over the right field wall, and Bluege, who had doubled, | was on when Kuhel drove the ball over the same barrier. The A's, with their customary late | kick, got to Crowder for four hits in the eighth that netted them two tallies, | but they couldn't carry on as they had | in the opening game. Crowder was sim- PLENTY HELP/ Orz1y SPELL COMING ON' 1HOSE ATHLETICS ARE DUE FOR A SLUMP /NTA SPELL™ AND THATS /M (NUTE, PAL; WAIT A, MINUTEINE GOT THE BROWNS/ THATs THE “SomeThiNG WHICH MAY @UT THE NATS RIOHT (N HUMOR American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadelphia, 12-4; Washington, 7-6. Other clubs not scheduled. Standings in Major Circuits TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931 National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Philadelphia. 1; Pittsburgh, 0. 8t. Louts, 0. 5. . Louis. icago. 5. Other clubs not scheduled, "a3w UG | 91571241704 8/ 8 510/ 9. 8 10/521311.627 New _York. Brookivn 91431361.544 [ 4/40/391.506 75135/461.432 Chicago. 121370/ 61 1l Boston 13/ 4/ 31 6/ 3 5 Games lost..24131/32/39]44/49 GAMES TODAY. Chicago at Wash. Phila. GAMES TOMORROW. troit 5 St. Louls at Boston. Cleve. at N. Y. (). St. Louis at Boston. Cleveland at N. York. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. N. York at Chicago. N. York at Chicago. Bkiyn. at 8t Louls. Bkiyn. at St Lou Boston at_Cincinnatl. Boston at Cincinnati. Phila. at Pitts. (2). _Phila. at Pittsburgh. squaring off to repel attack...Umpire McGowan dashed across from third base and thrust himself betwcen the irate players...then members of both teams dragged their men away...“We don't want any trouble; there are too many people here,” Al is reported to have told Fred...Fred said nothing, but waited for Al to do the starting... the big pitcher was ready to come back, though...perhaps just a lot of show- manship by Simmons...but Al did make two fine plays in the second game, ply too good for them. [EY have not counted the Nationals out of the race in Philadelphia. The fans there thronged Shibe Park to sce their favorites do battle with the Johnson band, so important did they consider the pair of games. More than 40,000 were seated in the boxes and stands, standing and sitting in the aisles, clinging to the beams of th-| structure and even occupying the steaming-hot roof atop the long leit field pavilion. The Washington club was paid for | more than 39,000 patrons who entered | through the registering turnstiles. Hundreds went through the pass gate. And hundreds more, neglecting the formality of purchasing tickets, scaled the wall back of right field before the Philadelphia club management took steps to check other would-be crashers. It was the greatest throng ever to see base ball in Shibe Park, where | world series have been played, and the | greatest ever to attend a major league | championship season game on any Monday not a holiday. And the more than 40,000 in the park were not the only cncs to viel ~proceedings. That row of ‘{8 or 20 ouses just across Twentieth street from Shibe Park had the stands bullt on house and porch roofs filled to ca- pacity. It was estimated 5,000 saw the games from those vantage points even though the shrewd house owners raised the prices for the seats from the cus- tomary 25 cents to $1 as early as two hours before the first game started. Could Shibe Park have accom- modated 20,000 more it would have been fillled. Thousgnds were milling about the gates so early that the stile began clicking at 9 o'clock and all en- trances were closed shortly beforc 1 o'clock, with many more thousands storming them. So dense was the crowd about Shibe Park at that time that traffic was jammed for five blocks in all directions. Those were big ball games to the Philadelphia fans. { OTS of excitement in the fifth in- | ning of the first game...that Mar- | berry-Simmons feud flared up again ...Simmons, at the plate, thought Mar- berry was trying to knock him down with inside pitches and after the fourth ball was called Al went straight for the tcher's box instead of first base... came up to meet him, tessing a5ax bis glovs as he advanced, then the best plays of the double bill...In the first inning he ran beck to the grandstand wall and leaped high to drag down with one hend Cronin's smash...then slid down the wall and did an unnecessary tumble...In the seventh he rushed in for a brilliant grab of Manush’s liner...In the ninth, however, he became the last out when hit by a ball he batted...Al topped the ball in front of the plate, then stepped forward and as it bounded Lefore him childishly slapped it aside. HIBE PARK management went up in the air long before game time and gave up trying to handle the throng at the gates . . . As a Phila- delphian remarked, “trying to get into the park after 1 pm. was like trying to jimmy a bank vault with a tooth- plck” . . . They even closed the press gate . . . and if any one with proper credentfals managed to worm his way through the milling mob to get to that | gate no attention was paid him . Your correspondent was one of the locked-out . . For an hour he was z2mong the 1,000 at the press gate . . .| and 999 of them were on his back, his feet or in his ribs . . . Even Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia couldn't get in when he showed up . . . Your corre- spondent finally gained entrance a half hour after the first game was under way, heading his honor into the park by five minutes . . . Six good Phila- delphia cops could have straightened affairs . . . but they were late in get- ting to the park . . . and the early police arrivals walked inside without o trying_to do anything on the outside | M . . . but they were games worth wait- ing to see. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Jake Flowers, Cardinals—Drove in four runs and scored two against Cubs on_two doubles and triple. Dibell Williams, Athletics—Came up as pinch hitter against Senators with bases filled and clouted home run. Dave Harris and Joe Kuhel, Senators —Their home runs accounted for five runs as Senators beat A's in second game, 6-4. Jim Elliott, Phillies—Blanked Pirates, - CARDS BETTER LEAD .z BY TRIMMING CUBS - Win, 12 to 5, to Run Margin | % to 4 1-2 Games—pPhils’ Run Beats Bucs. By the Assoclated Press. The St. Louis Cardinals yesterday walloped the Chicago Cubs, 12-5, to stretch their lead to four and one-half games over the idle New York Giants. ‘With the score tied at 2-2 after three and one-half innings, the cll’d\nlb} shelled Pat Malone and Lester Sweet- land for seven runs in the fourth and | Twgd R added three more in the fifth. Burleigh Grimes gave the Cubs nine hits while the Cardinals collected 19. Jake Flowers, utility infielder, clouted two doubles and a triple to drive in four Cardinal runs and score two him- self. 4 In the only other game of the day in the National League Jim Elliott of the Phillies blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates with five hits, 1-0. Records of Griffs ws cormooscsaruanconInSe it o S8R ok BERS2E5Y 39 PE 53, Soocc0000sAHa00sNuENmY) SNl BREEEs I PREPRUREIVEN 3 o3 Marb'ry Burke.. 89 s Poageswsat’ “WELCOME, LiTTLEY PLAYMATE =THRICE L/ WELCOME | WHAT e V— ASOCKING \'LL (7 HAVE TO GWE YOU o ///Af//"’ ///@‘ PRESENTED BY AND YANKS MACKS To Industrial Loop Success |, —ms IGN a left-hander and keep in the pennant chase” apparently is the keynote of success in the Industrial Base Ball League, today in the throes of a wild rush for the second half title. Possibly the southpaw element is ex- | aggerated somewhat and the real rea- son for the success of Washington Ter- ¢l ! minal, Loffler and the Constructioneers is in the seven players behind and the catcher in front of the left-handed moundsmen, but, if true, the coinci- dence is somewhat remarkable. Although Big Print Shop and Rail- road Y. M. C. A, each has a crack No Profit Here FIRST GAME. SoroorHmmouuwonil Nt soommaannusd Rl cososcavorrann, Grove, p.. TWillams Earnshaw, b. Totals | :Batted for Ma: { 1Ran for Hargrave in eighth. 1Batted for Grove In eighth. | _ iBatted for Grove in eighth. | Washington ... 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 | Philadeiphia "3 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 Runs batted in—Kuhel, Spencer, H. Rice Haas, Cronin, Cochrane (2). jams (4), Simmons (2) Haas: Blanop, Coehrane, Cr t—) | orormrmmnen o 000000 mtmmmmoo] | orooommmtme ©! cosnwororon? al soonsccoononowd 0—7 x—12 , Foxx, Bishop, ms, Simmons. Left on bases—Washington, Philadelphia, 5. First base on balls—Off Grove. off Earnshaw, 1;_off Marberry, 3: off Hadle: berry. 7 in 7 innings; off Hadley, 1 in part of inning (none ou.l in el !h)olnufl n;lrke: Losing ey. iiexirs. Owens, “Dinneen and McGowan. Time of game—2 hours and 26 minutes. SECOND GAME. £ Savumoraund Hargra: Crowder, sossscsusch PR ) ormorommnE [RR— roconsoscs! g 8 co~oouommoon? © Sormmin S socossssscec » H o *Batted for Walberg Wasnington 00 Philadelphia 001 n—Harris _(3) Two-b ) 5 .y o3 * o 000 il A Home_ runs 0 08 2 0—4 i ‘Weshington base on balls—Of 7 Erow Hil Wal ball—Coehrane. Umbpl Oweass s o000mommson sl sosssssssssssst . | Midget League. The Drys were to op- | ball right-hander in Eddie Collifiower and | Dick Hughes, neither club has been I'i threat, either in the first or second half | series. ‘Washington Terminal, Construction- eers and Loffler, on the other hand. | have been battling among themselves | for the league leadership, and their | pitching has been done by Lefty McIn- | tyre, Lefty Jewett and Lefty Wormsley, | respectively. L Another duel of lefties was much in {evidence yesterday when Jewett of the | Constructioneers and Wormsley of Lof- flers hooked up, the Constructioneers | winning, 7 to 3. HE Union Printers still are looking to Heinie Webb for pitching and i Heinie still is making sure they do not have to look in vain. Heinie, who joins in the chorus every | Spring with almost every other sand- | lotter in the singing of his own swan song, “can beat these Government League teams even if he gets so old he has to pitch from a wheel chair,” to quote a jubilant Typo as the Printers, with Webb on the mound, 1o Rtck close 15" the 'Lesgac-leading c] close e le-les G. P. O. nine. . It ‘was a typical Webb performance. Interstate combed Heinie for seven hits, | no more than one hit apiece rewarded the most determined efforts of the osers. 'HE Departmental League race is be- ginning to look a smaller edition of the Philadelphia-National | struggle in the American League, with | D. C. Repair playing the part of the | league-leading A's and Commerce | taking the role of the Nationals. Although D. C. Repair is out in front, Commerce, winner of the first-half| series, still figures a “crack” is near and is determined to stick close to the Repairmen’s heels. Commerce pounded two pitchers for | 1; hsv?i yesterday to down G. P. O, 13 to 3. Its do or die for the National Pale | Drys this afternoon in the French pose Nash Post at 5 o'clock at Camp Meigs. ;l‘fih Post is leading by a one-game margin, and unless the Drys win today the gonfalon will be in the bag. The standing: vusmnol ns | Langdons Games Wanted. Swift & Co., week day and Sunday mornings. Have use of Diamond No. 3 on Thursdays. Call West 0780 or District 5810. Nation-Wide Seniors, for Saturdays. Call Lincoln 3275. Ballston A. C. Call Clarendon 1263. Isherwood A. C. Call Lincoln 5233. Palisades, for tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. Call Cleveland 2133-J. Brandywine A. C, for Saturday., Call Brandywine 7-W. Yesterday's Results. Knights of Columbus, 9; Potomacs, 4. ww-;;mmn Red Sox, 3; Fredericks- g, 1. Ngltlon-wlde, 6; Clinton, 1. Post Office, 5; Special Delivery, 2. Hitless Wonders, 9; St. Elizabeth’s, 4. Argols, 20; Palace, 15. BLACK S0X WIN GAME. Black Sox, clever colored ball team, conquered Hillsdale Giants, 5 to 4, in a e b leading gams ringing ey Homer Standing Home runs yesterday: Cochrane, Athletics, 1; Foxx, Athletics, 1; Bishop, Athletics, 1: Williams, Athletics, 1; Simmons, Athletics, 1; Harris, Senators, 1; Kuhel, Senators, 1. ‘The leaders: Gehrig, Yankees, 23; Klein, Phillies, 23; Ruth, Yankees, 21; Foxx, Athletics, 18; Averill, Indians, 16; Ott, Giants, 15; Hornsby, Cubs, 14; Arlett, Phillies, 14. League totals: American, 317; Na- tional, 302. OUR DEFENSE HA9S PROBABLY SHAKEN \T5 NERVOUSNESS NAND THE OFFENSE OUGKNT TO BE MAD ENOUGH TO HIT A QUART OF ANYBODYS PITCHING Mat Matches By the Associated Press. TORONTO, Ontario—Stanley Sta- siak, 257, Poland, threw George God- frey, 268, Leiperville, Pa., 11:43. JACKSON, Mich.—Jim _ Londos, Greece, defeated Hans Bauer, Germany, straight falls, 20:20 and 5:45. MONTREAL —Nick Lutze, 208, Cali- fornia, defeated Gene Ledoux, 210, Chatham, Ontario, straight falls, 32:00 and 12:00. STOCKTON, Calif —Abie Coleman, 205, New York, defeated Jack Plummer. D. C. SHOTS ACCEPT DEFI ‘Washington Gun Club trapshooters have accepted the challenge of the An- napolis Gun Club for a 10-man team race Saturday afternoon at Annapolis. Comprising the program will be 100 singles at 16_yards' rise and 25 pairs of doubles. High and second high guns in each of the four classes—A, B, C a trophy, as will each of the members of the winning team. A five-man doubles match also will be staged. Three trophies will be awarded under the | Lewis class system on the 50 doubles. In former years Annapolis has had & | formidable team. Interest in the clays | is reported strong in the Maryland city after remaining passe for some time, |and the Washingtonians expect stout competition. and D—in the 100 singles will receive | 5 OR MORE GAMES Grove, Earnshaw, Walberg Can Come Close to Winning Flag by Themselves. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, July 14—It is only mid-July, just over the half-way mark in the major league season, and already the three star pitchers of the Philadelphia Athletics have 45 victories to their credit. A three-ply pitching record now is the goal of Messrs. Grove, Earn- show and Walberg. What do those 45 victories mean? That in the season of 1931 these three flingers have it in them, if they main- tain the pace, to win more than 75, probably 80 games. And if the Amer- ican League championship can be won with 90 victories, which is entirely pos- sible—then this trio will have come within 10 games or so of hurling the A’s into the world series. That makes it easy to understand why Mickey Cochrane says the pen- nant is “in the basket.” ‘The strength of Earnshaw as & pitcher has been demonstrated this year by success against teams that might menace his pals, except in ome instance. He has not been successful against Washington. He has won a game in Washington, but has lost two there. He has won from the Yankees and lost one. soaked Boston three times. He has beaten Cleveland twice and has done the same thing to Detroit. He has won three from Chicago. That makes three teams from which he has won three games—New York, Boston and Chicago. That represents more than a week of championship campaigning—and when a team is & | week ahead in a championship race, the players sleep more peacefully. haw has won one game St. Louis and lost one. Thus there is not a team in the American League against which he has failed to pitch a winning game. Now comes Lefty Grove with a record | quite identical. He has been over | Washington. Four times he hax beaten |them and once he has lost. He has ‘de!exhd the Yankees twice and done the same to Boston. He has twice won |from Cleveland and has won three games from Detroit. Chicago beat him once, but he has three victories over :h: ‘White Sox. He has beaten St. Louls wice. The only team from which Rube ‘Walberg has won three games is Chie cago. That does not detract from the fact that he is a powerful left-ha | auxiliary rallying to the support of associates. It is not the fact that the Athletics are in the lead which is so prominent ithis year as that they are in the lead |largely because three pitchers hold | them there. | Managers who have said that three | pitchers cannot stand the wear E‘ tear of a season are confused by the present success of these three, and al- | most every manager is predicting that they will break down and have their reverses before the season is over. They show no sign of it. GRIFFS TO ATTEND FETE. Several members of the Washington {base ball team are expected to attend the St. Gabriel's Church carnival at Grant Circle this week. This is the | second week of the fete. FIORSHEIM SHOES Values always great, are greater mow, giving more per dollar than evs er before. Buy Fiorsheims and save §§wu[§38 Exclusively in Washington at “Hahns! 7 Men’s Shops 14th at G 7th & K 3212 14th