Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 12

YANK THREAT ADDS | MUCH ZEST 10 SET Johnson Band Must Speed to Balk New York That Tackles Red Sox. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OT times for the Nationals are at hand—and not be- cause of the weather. For three days. they are to tussle with the league-leadlnz‘ Athletics, which means the re- newal of a rivalry as tense as any, existing in organized base ball, and to add zest to the string of four games the Nationals will have to cast their all into the struggle in their effort to cling to s2cond place | in the American League chase. The A's are a dozen games ahead now, quite comfortably settied in first | place. But the Yanks are only three | games back of the Nationals, and while Johnson's charges are scrapping with the A’s, the New Yorkers will be play- ing the Red Sox that they have licked | nine timss in a dozen games this season. | That's putting it strictly up the the Nationals. There should be plenty of | action in this serles with the House of | Mack. WO of the games with the A's are 10 be played here and two in | Philadelphia. The tussling | and tomorrow will be in Griffith S dium. Monday there wili be a regularly | scheduled double-header put on in Shibe | Park. Not so long ago the Nationals | took part in & bargain bill in the Philadelphia stronghold and got an even break. | That double-header _attracted the | greatest throng that ever saw a ball game in the Quaker city. The gates o the park were closed an hour before the first game got under way and thou- sands eager to see the contests were kept outside. There may noi be such a storming of the gates this time, but &ames between the A's and the Nation- als always are attractive, 5o Shibe Park will have its crowd again Monday. For the series opener here this after- mnoon Manager Johnson plans to send 10 the hill Fred Marberry, who pitched to victory over the A's in their last series here and held them to & tie be- fore he was withdrawn in one of the Philadelphia _doubleheader games that was lost by his successor. - Manager Mack has his lefthanders, Bob Grove and George Walberg, ready for action and may call on one of them, although the right-handed George Earnshaw also is ready for service this afternoon. ‘T may be the new ‘‘dead” ball that has reduced Washington batting averages from those of Jast year. 1f so the reduc‘ions are much heavier in the Nationals’ case than the average reckoned for batters throughout the entire American League. It has been figured that the reduction in batting marks for the regulars of the eight clubs colleciively would amount to approx- imately 9 points per regular. The average drop for the Washington regllars, though, is a bit more than 14 points per regular. A comparison of last vear's averages with those of this year's, to date, is given, Three Nationals have gained. They are Soencer, hitting .292 now against .255 for 1930; Bluege, with .304 against 1930's .290. and West, who hit .328 last year, batting .338. That's a gross pick-up of 61 points. Now for the losers, Rice, who hit .349 lost year, has an average of .295; 50 hitter. in 1930, is a .301 Cronin batted_ .346 last year and now bats .313; Myer, a .303 batter in the last campaign, is a .277 batter in this. That's a gross loss of 162 points. A difference of 96 points on the ‘wrong side. Judge and Kuhel sre not figured in this, as it would not be & fair com- parison. The difference on the wrong side would be greater if the batting average of the regular first baseman entered into the calculation, as Judge batted .326 Jast year, while Kuhel has & mark of .288 in the current campaign. Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY. N. Y.—Nick Testo, Troy. N. Y., outpointed Frankie Petrolle, Schenectady (10). TAMPA, Fla—Relampo Saguero, Cuba, knocked out Tug Phillips, Erie, Pa. (). SAN FRANCISCO.—Jimmy Evans, | San Francisco, outpointed Andy Divodi, New York (10): Pinto de Sa, Portugal, knocked out Stanley Sharpe, Sacra- mento (1). STOCKTON, Calif. —Speedy Dady, Los Angeles, knocked out Kid Willlams, Los Angeles (2): Bill McLeod, Stock- ton, Calif, outpointed Abe Nalista, ! Manila (4). HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Joe Guerreno, ‘Hollywood, outpointed Johnnie La Marr, | San Francisco (10). |ing the Red Sox runs, » All A’s Foes Had Chance at Hoyt BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, August 1.—Since Walte Hoyt has pitched five winning games for the Ath- letics, while losing only one to date, a large quota of criticism has been leveled at the Detroit club for per- mitting him to go to the Philadel- phia club in midseason. The point that is overlooked is that other American League clubs could have acquired the temperamental right- hander if they had desired. Detroit asked waivers on the serv- ices of Hoyt and no club claimed him except Philadelpbla. If any other club had wanted him it could have got him, because there is a rule in the American League that when claims are made on a player on whom walvers have been asked, the club lowest in the race always has the first call. Hoyt was carry- ing a good contract and the teams below Philadelphia did not wish to assume it. New York, which sent him to Detroit in 1930, would not take him back for reasons that were known. Pitching for the Athletics, Hoyt has shown an abundant reversal of form, for with Detroit this year he had won orly three games and lost eight. In 1930 he won 11 games And lost 10, pitching both for New York and Detroit. His 1930 record thus did not establish the fact that he was all played out. NATIONAL LEAGUE THE - EVENING ROOKIES SPARKLE Season Notable for Number of Regulars Produced. Cubs Pass Giants. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. Astociated Press Sporis Writer. VERY base ball season brings a certaln number of experiments with new players for old teams, and the 1931 National League campaign is perheps notable for the trials which have proved successful just a bit too late to help the teams into the pennant race. The Boston Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates, spparently doomed to the sec- ond division, furnish a couple of out- Sun Beau Oiuit'Todéi\:' to Beat - Mark for Turf Winnings Hung standing examples of such experiments. | Boston started out with a good many doubtful players this season and found | after a month or so that there still was a weak spot at third base. More players were tried and found wanting until finally Billy Urbanski was ob- tained from Montreal to cover the sack. Pittsburgh nteded, among other things, another Waner for the outfield. None was available and the Pirates limped along until they got Forrest Jensen from Newark. He apparently fills the bill. Wins in 13 Inpings. The success of these experimentis was illustrated in yesterday's games. Ur- panski scored the run that broke up a 13-inning duel between the Braves | Arlington Handicap, and the New York Giants. He came home on a double by Red Worthington, another of the season’s ‘‘experiments,” who also contributed a homer to the |to date triumph. Socks Seibold did the | pokes his nose across the wire, 4-to-2 rest for Boston, limiting the Giants to six_ hits. Jensen led Pittsburgh's hitting behind the six-hit hurling of Remy Kremer s | (00, W08 BY SROMR PR 0 ehe 10 | the Pirates defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 5 to 0. He cracked out a double and two singles in four times at bat and drove in threz counters. Brooklyn and_Chicago, yesterday's other National League winners, also bad to use the trial method in getting their line-ups settled this season. Robins began climbing into the pennant fight_just about the time they settled on Gordon Siade and Neal Finn for their shortstop-second base combina- tion. Finn joined in the parade yes- terday with three hits, but it was the old reliables, Frederick, Bissonette snd | Herman who cut loose in the ninth in- ning_and produced the runs that beat the Phillies, 6 to 4. Cubs Dislodge Giants. Chicago Danny Taylor on the bench, but he bas proved an important cog in their attack in recent gam Danny cracked out two triples and a single in three official times at bat d scored four runs yesterday as the Cubs treunced the Cardinals 10 to 3 to even their series in St. Louis. The victory put Chicago into second place once more, a half game ahead of the defeated Giants and eight and one-half games behind St. Louis. Only one game was on the American ague schedule yesterday and it had little bearing upon the pennant race. ‘The New York Yankees clipped a half game off the margin Philadelphia and | Washington held over them by taking a 4-to-1 decision from the Boston Red Sox, but they remained 15 games be- hind the league-leading Athletics and three games back of the Senators. Babe Ruth and Lefty Gomez divided the honors in the victory, the latter hold- to_ five hits and fanning nine and the Babe by clouting two doubles which accounted for three THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE— Mack's Two Teams. H THH headlong pace which Connie | Mack's Athletics have set all sea- | son, especielly through the last month, revives the argument as to how | this present team compares with his | 1910-1914 outfit. { Certainly the 1929-1930-1931 collec- tion has opened a wider gap from the rest of the field. The old-time bunch won two pennanis with something to spare #nd then finished back of Boston and Washington in 1912. This 1931 bunch isn't going to finish back of any- thing. The old infleld was the strong- er, with MclInnis, Collins, Barry wnd Baker. And while Bender, Coombs and Plank compleied a great pitching steff, they had nothing on Grove, Earnshaw and Walberg. They were not abie to carry as much work through a season. The old Mack outfield was far below his present trio. There was no Phila- delphia outfielder in the old days close to Al Simmons, one of the best of the decade. Or any decade. And certainly the old team had no catcher to com- | pare to Mickey Cochrane, who is half | a team in himself. i The old"team, even with Baker, Col- lins and McInnis, had no such ex- plosive dynamite as Simmons, Foxx and Cochrane can touch off from time to time. No onc can fairly finish & com- | parison until all the figures ate in. It ‘would be easier to round out the argu- ment later when all the statistics are completed. But for the first three years of the argument the present Athletics have at least something on the old-time line-up, as good as that was. ‘The California Touch. E old California touch scems to be | coming back to tennis. There is, of course, the redoubtable Helen = “"ocdy, off In a class by But the days of McLoughlin and Johnston may also be coming back. A! Seabright there were Johnny Doeg and Ellsworth Vines left for the final match. Doeg lives in the East now, but his tennis game belongs to California, where he developed that amazing serv- ice. Young Vines is enother Californian and he wi'l be something to watch as he picks up experience in competition. His game has improved perceptibly over last year and he will have his chance in the next amateur test if he doesn't play himself out. Doeg won the na- tional championship last year, bring- ing California back to her old place. Such Eastern stars as Shields and ‘Wood may have their trouble in halting the California rush agein, the rush that only a Bill Tilden could stop 10 yeres ago, on through 1926. ight, 1031. by the North Americen (COPTHIENY wepaber Alliance, Tnc.) WILSON SCORES ON MAT. EVERETT, Wash, August 1 (®.— | George Wilson, former all-American foot ball player at :the University of ‘Washington, cpened his prefessional wrestling career last night with a twos fall vietory over Joe Ray of Dallas, Tex. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. TORONTO, Ontario.—Gino Garibaldi, 219, Italv. defeated Jim Clinstock, 232, Oklahoma, straight falls, 36:05 and 16:04; Earl McCraady, 239, Oklahoma, threw Joe (Toots) Mondt, 252, Colo- rado, 24:01. ' started the season with | | | | | | to The | . bring together UP_ Last Year by Gallant Fox BY CHARLES DUNKLEY. Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, August 1.—Gallant oid Sun Beau has a chance today to become the greatsst money- winning race horse in the his- tory of the American turf. This 6-year-old campaigner, owned by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Binghamton, N. Y, if victorious in the $36.000 will eclipse the rect ord established Jast year by the 3-yea cld sensation, Gallant Fox. Sun Beau has won $302.744, and if he ‘winner | of the handicap, his total earnings will | Mike Hall will have a 12-pound advan- be $332,554, pasSing the record of $328.- 165 won by Gallant Fox. The winner's named in the overnight entries go to the post, will be $28,000. Five in the field of ten will have to be scratched rob Sun Beau of his chances of cracking the world record. Last Day of Meet. Arlington Park closes its brilliant 30- day racing season today offering more than $95,000 in purses, the richest that the Western turf has ever known. The sum will be hung up in stakes and purses for seven races, the two major vents bein%lhe handicap and the Post Paddock Stak> for 2-year-olds at 6 The Post and Paddock will furlongs. the fleetest juvenile Major Leaders By the Associated Prets, American League. Batting—Ruth, Yankees, .387; Sim- mons, Athletics, .371. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 105; Ruth, Yankees, 92. Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 112; Ruth, Yankees, 107. Hits—Simmons, Athletics, 154; Hass, | Athletics, 137 each. and Webb, Red Sox, Doubles—Webb, Red Sox, 48; Miller. | Amgznu, and Manush, Senators, 33 each. Triples — Simmons, Athletics, 13: Johnson, Tigers; West, Senators; Rey- nolds and Blue, White Sox, 11 each. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 30; Ruth, Yankzes, 23. Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 42; Johnson. Tigers, 28. Pitching—Grove, Athletics, won 21, }ost 22: Mahaffey, Athletics, won 11, ost 2. National League. Batting—Grimm, Cubs, .347; Phillies, .345. Phillies, Runs—Klein, Cubs, 72. Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 84; Hornsby, Cubs, 7. Hits—Ls_Waner, Pirates, 138; Kleln, Davis, 86; Cuyler, | Phiilies, 135. Doubles—Hornsby, Cubs, 35; Adams, Cardinals, 31. Triples—Traynor, .Pirates, 13; Terry, Giants, 12. Home runs—Kl:in, Phillies, 23; Ott, Giants, 17. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 12; Com- orosky, Pirates, and Frisch, Cardinals, 11_each. Pitching—Haines, Cardinals, won 8, ‘lg:: 42; Derringer, ondl.n.nh, won 12, STAR, WASHINGTON, \WHO OUGHT TO GET ONE- FROM COANNIE'S MEN iyt racers in America to compete for a prise of $51,245, the bigg:st purse ever ofiered n the Wgst for a 2-year-old race. | Sun Beal, the son of Sun Briar-Beau- | tiful Lady, will probably go to the post | | a favorite in the handicap, although he | will be weighted down with an impost of | 128 pounds. 2 mor> than he shouldered in winning the Arlington Cup a week ago. and cracking the track record for | mile and & quarter in doing so. The | race today is over the same distance. | His opposition is expzcted to dev<l | from Mike Hall. winner of the $100, | Agua Caliente Handicap and which fin- | ished s>cond to Sun Beau in the Arling- | ton _Cup, Gallant Knight and Satin Spar. Others in the field include Mino- | taur, Quart:r Deck, Spinach, Paul Bun- yan, and The Nut, a doubtful starter. | tage in the weight. carrying 116, while Gallant Knight will shoulder 120. Eighten in Field. | The fleld scrambling for the rich ! [ Prize in the Post and Paddock Stake is | by far th: best that has met in any 2- vear-old race in America this year.! Eighteen are listed to start. Half of | them are owned by Eastern stables. William R. Coe of New York hokds a powerful hand in Osculator, Polonaise and Jambalaya as his color barers. Another dsngerous threat is Morfair. son of Morvich, the entry of Victor | Emanuel of New York. Osculator will be the chief hope of the Coe int:rests #s he won ths National Stallion and the Grand American Stakes in New York before coming West to fill his_engegement in the Post and Pad- | dock. \ ‘The> 18 listed to start in the juvenile event in the order of post position are: | Portden, Pairbypair, Phantom Legion, Watch Him. Judge Primrose, Osculator, Polonaise, Westy Junior, Morfair, Tel- | ¥eo, Tick On, Liberty Limited, Texas | Knight, Jambalaya, Modern Qu<en, At Sunrise, Etcetera and Burning Blaze. Upward of 50.000 spectators are ex- pected to turn out for the finals of the Arlington Park season. On Monday the | racing scene will shift to the historic ‘Hawthorne oval. S TR FRISCO CLUB SETS PACE. SAN FRANCISCO, August 1 (#).— Official Pacific Coast League standing follows: Pet. 571 560 T San_Francisco 1 Seattle Oakland . Los_Angele: Portland Hollywood Sacramento Mission Stars Yesterday By the Associated P Danny Taylor, Cubs—Led attack on Cardinals with two triples and single, driving in two runs and scoring four. Babe Herman, Robins—Doubled in ninth to drive in two runs that beat Phillies. Seibold, Braves—Held Giants to six hits in 13 innings to win, 4-2. Remy Kremer, Pirates—Held Reds to six hits. Drove in two runs with double and won, 5-0. Babe Ruth, Yankees—Clouted Red Sox pitching for two doubles, driving in two Tuns and seoring another. Standings in Major Circuits ' SATURDAY, Al American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 4; Boston, 1. Other clubs not scheduled. UGUST 1, 1981 National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Boston. 4; New York, 2. Brooklyn.' & Pittsburgl Chicago, arepsiiaa Plttsburgh ....| 81 5/ 6 71 7'—I 6/ 81441501.468 12| 61 41 71 6] 8i—1 6i391581.403 Games_lost.. 137144143147147/50/58161/—/—| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. | to the D.~C., WHEN". BRED WALKS- OUT, THERE TOVTHE HiLk HE LOOKS LIKE'A GIANT / SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931, Ais Tusste witi CLEvELAND OQUGHT TO PUT HIM RIGHT NOW WE'LL SEE WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN GIANTS HAVE MOST ?Cochet Turning Pro Appears TWINBILLS LISTED Certain to Cost France Cup; Tilden Is Pleased by Action Six Announced for Gotham Club. St. Louis and Chicago Each | Have Only One. 1 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 1—The New York Gisnts head the National League field in the number of double-headers announced today for the purpose of cleari; up _postponements and tie games hrough July 29. ix Giants’ schedule, while Boston | must play five, Brooklyn, Cincinnati three and Chicago and St. Louis only | one each. | Boston will play double-headers at | home August 12 against Cincinnati, August 16 against Chicago. August 23 against St. Louis, August 31 and Sep- tember 2 against New York. A single game against Cincinnati August 11 be- | comes part of the August 12 double- | header. | At New York the Giants meet Boe- ton August 2, Brooklyn August 4. Pists- burgh August 12, Chicago August 23 and 24 and Philadelphia August 30 in double-headers. | The Pittsburgh twin bills at home | sre listed with Chicago August 27 and Boston September 17 and 18, _Single games have been added with Chicago August 10 and St. Louis September 3. Brooklyn postponements will be played off at Ebbets Pleld in double-headers against Philadelphia August 2, Chicago August 19 and Pittsburgh August 23. A single game with Pittsburgh August 26 has been moved shead to September 13. The Philies play double-headers at home against Boston August 4, Pitts- burgh August 17, St. Louis August 19 and Cincinnati August 25. The Augnst 25 double-header originally was sched- uled for one day earlier. Cincinnati entertains Pittsburgh in two games August 9, Chicago Septem- ber 2 and St. Louis September 6. Chicago's lone double-header added to the home schedule is against Cin- cinnat! August 4 and St. Louis doubles up with Philadelphia in St. Louls Sep- tember 13. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR AN JOHNSON, American League president, who attended the game here vesterday between Wash- ington and Cleveland, predicted that the Nationals, now that they have an up-to-date park, will play 50 per cent better ball. Carl Cashion, rookie pitcher, secured by Washington from Green- ville, has reported and showed im- pressively in warm-ups. Doc Gessler, right flelder, and Gabby Street, catcher, are plaving particularly well for the Nationals. Andrew J. (Cy) Cummings and Harry Winningder will manage Knights of Columbus and the Fra- ternal Order of Eagles base ball teams, Tespectively, which meet Au- gust 29 in a practice game. Little Rocks beat Keystones, 5 to 3. as Wells' homer featured. Walsh and Walsh and Brady and Hol2n were the batteries. Brightwood Junfors ~ conquered Brightwood Park All-Stars, 8 to 7. Baldwin and Heard and Willis, Cox and Bowers were the batteries. Minor Leagues International League. Baltimore, 5; Jersey City, 3. Reading, 11: Newark, 3. Rochester, 11: Buffalo, ‘Toronto, 2; Montreal, 1 nings). American Association. Kansas City. 3; St. Paul, 1. Milwaukee, 14; Minneapolis, 1. Columbus, 4; Louisville, 1. Indianapolis, Toledo, T. innings). " (Eleven In- (Ten Southern Association. New Orleans, 9; Knoxville, 1. Birmingham, 6: Chattanooga, 4. Little Rock, 17; Memphis, 1. Atlanta, 6; Nashville, 3. Pacific Coast League. Seattle, 10; Hollywood, 0. Oakland, 7; Seals, 6. Sacramento, 6; Los Angeles, 4. Portland, 11; Missions, 5. . ‘Western League. ‘Wichita, 7; Omaha, 4. ~ Des Moines, 6; Oklahoma City, 3. Pueblo, 1; St. Joseph, 1. (Tie, called, rain). Denver, 6: Topeka, 2. Eastern League. Albany, 8; Richme Norfolk, 2; Hartford, 1. Springfield, 12; New Haven, 1. Texas League. 9, 2; San Antonio, 1, 1. Dallas, 1. Greensboro, 8 nwhm;:t. ¥ BY HEBERT W. BARKER, ] Associated Press Sports Writer. | EW YORK, August 1.—Henri Cochet's decision to turn pro- fessional will cost France the | Davis Cup In 1932, in the opin- | v, Thece experts believe the cup will be | this decision of Cochet. since it will give me the chance to meet him again. I believe his change will produce an open tournament next year. Cochet’s marvelous performance in winning the Davis Cup single handed stamps him as still the old Cochet. which means he is the greatest player Cochet's change places professional ten. nis ahead of amateur tennis in the pub- double-headers have been added Won either by the United States of |} eye, for it means that it is now pos- FIVE CLUBS WANT TAMED “WHATAMAN Glouts .385, Fields Snappily for Milwaukee—Chicago ' Fans Honor Him. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS, HICAGO, August 1.—A good C man doesn't stay down long. Not when the man is Arthur Shires. Batting 385 for the Milwaukee club of the American Assoclation, fielding ‘well and hustling every minute of every game, Shires is on his way back to the majors. Five big league clubs are interested in se- curing his services, and at least 8§ or 16 could use him to distinct advantage. ‘There s nothing truculent or swash- buckling about she Shires who is play- ing first base for Milwaukee. No longer does he glory in such pseudonyms as “Whataman” or the “Great Shires.” Around Milwaukee, 50 it is told, he i known as the “Stlent Shires.” Arthur has Jesrned that not all pub- licity is good publicity. He s coming back to the maiors on & reputation for base hits and serious application to busi- ness rather than as a clown. He has | not lost all of his color. He still is one of the best crowd magnets the American Association has had in years. The fans around the league delight in putting the spurs to the big Texan and he responds —but always within reason. | That Shires was not without his fol- | lowing during his stormy days as s member of the Chicago White Sox is evidenced by a tribute that will be paid bim today. A special train will carry a large party of Chicego fans to Mil- waukee for the observance of a Chicago “Shires day.’ Not often have fans from a major league city gone to a minor | league town to do honor to » base bell of leading tennis authorities here.|in the world, amateur or professional. | player. Shires predicied a quick comeback to | the majors when Washington sold him | down the river to Milwaukee. Admii- Great Britain regardless of whether or | sible to have meetings between Cochet. | ting his own mistakes, and they were not Rene Lacoste emerges from his re-| Kozeluh, Richards, Hunter, Burke and | numerous, Shires never for a moment tirement to aid the French defense.| Doubt is expressed all along the line that Lacoste, troubled by illness for | several years, ever again will reach the form that at one time made him the most feared. player in the game. | The recent challenge round matches in Paris, when France retained the cup by beating Great Britain three matches to two, with Cochet figuring in all three French victories, revealed that the tri- color no longer was the all-conquering tennis power it had been for four pre- vious years. Jean Borotfa, who, with Cochet and Lacoste, won the cup from the United States in 1927 and had aided in its defense in every year since, lost both of his singles matches in the challenge | round to Frederick J. Perry and Henry W. (Bunny) Austin. Frances younger | stars, Christian Boussus and Pierre!' Landry, have yet to show they can fill| the fading Borotra's place, much less Cochet’s. Vincent Richards, in the professional field along with Big Bill Tilden, Prank | Hunter, Emmett Pare and now Cochet, | was cne expert who said he did not be- lieve Lacoste could reach top form 1 coste, with his mathematical game,” he said, “can’t come back in 1932." Some players with.a different type of game might, but not Lacoste after & three-year layofl.” | Samuel Hardy, non-piaying captain | of the 1931 United States team, said that Lacoste meant to attempt & come- back next year, but that, in his cpinion, there was more than a little doubt whether Rene could stand the strain of tournament play. Other officials concurred. BY WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2D, ‘World's Professional Tennis Champion. AM surprised and greatly inter- | ested in the announcement that | Henri Cochet will become a pro- fessional in September. I can only say that I knew nothing about it and | have had no negotiatibns with him. It | is possible that Jack Curley, who is now in Europe, may have induced him to leave the amateur ranks. Or it may be that Jeff Dickson, the American pro moter in Paris, has signed him. Naturally I am pleased to hear of | Big League Ball “Guessing” the Pitcher. : //;fa Go07 mE N\ TWO AND ONE"-N Vit GET SEF For 4 CURVE BALL AND AW oCH 7 Lon \y 7 TRY 70 OUTGUESS THE FITCHER — LooK Fomr ANV THING == A LM S BY AL DEMAREE. One of the hardest problems a batter is confrontsd with is keep- ing himself from becoming & “‘guess” hitter. A “guess” hitter is a batter who_anticipates in advance of the pitcher’s delivery what he thinks that particular pitcher will throw him and then sets himself for either a fast blllhol‘ & curve ball. If he 8 ‘This type of batter the pitcher’s thinking as his own and the result ‘himsel until guesses “peaned” with a fast one. All great hitters like yRuth and Hornsby do not believe in “guessing” against the pitcher and catcher, but advise young batters to be fiaj for anything and pick the a8 it comes up 10 them myself as well as manv others. I look to see several other leading nma:gurs of Europe follow Cochet's ex- ample. (Coprright. 1931. by the North American Newspaper, Alliance, Inc.) STEELE IS T00 GOOD FOR SPEARS ON MAT Scores in Six Minutes in Main Bout of Show—Four Other Tussles Decided. Ray Steele had little trouble defeai- | ing Frank Spears in the feature match of the wrestling card last night at the Auditorium. He had Spears on the flat of his back in six minutes as the result of a body siam that followed a series of airplane spins. At first Spears showed fight, Steele soon got going to outclass the former Georgia Tech athlete. Summaries of other matches: Karl Pojello defeated John Maxos, 32 | minutes. . Doc Wilson defeated Benny Ginsberg, | 16 minutes. Tiny Roebuck defeated Lou Plummer, 13 minutes. Son Jennings defected Ivan Victoroff, 16!2 minutes. THE LISTE but| | lost faith in his own ability to play major league ball. It took him some | weeks to adjust himself to the task of | beating his vay back to the big show, but once cn the rcad he wasted no time | m2king foolish gesturss. The club that | purcheses Shires from Milwaukee will j acquire a hustling, hard working and | hard hitting player. Shires was the victim of circum- stances and environments during his | brief _but stormy career with Chicago | and Washington. A manager like Con- nie Mack, Wilbert Robinson or Jchn McGraw likely would have experienced little trouble with him when he came | out of the Texas League. He started on the wrong foot with Chicago and re- | ceived little real assistance in finding the right road. The young Tex2n has been amcng the leading batters of the association since the season opened. At present he has an accumulation of 28 doubles, 6 triples and 8 home runs. He has been a con- sistnt run maker for the Brewers and his fielding has shown a great improve- ment. Milwzukee has been drawing fine crowds throughout the season and Shires | has not been the'least of the factors that pulled fans through the turnstiles. Shires is cager to get back into the majors. He likes the big parks and the big crowds. He is essentially a show- man and major league base ball needs all the color it can secure. When he gets back, Shires will be a bzll player and not a fighter or headline hunter. The fellcw deserves much credit for his own reformation. NING POST BY WALTER TRUMBULL OMETHING seems to tell me that the world series will start in St. Louis about the last of Septem- ber, and that the visiting Amer- ican Lesgue team will be from Phila- delphia, ‘The result of the American League ace is now as doudiful as that Tues- ay follows Monday. In the National League a miracle might happen, but there is small assurance that it will. St. Louis migrt slump, end that Brook- Ivn team might go crazy with the heat, but it doesn't look that way. Both New York -teams will have to strengthen next season. Neither was powerful _enough this season to hope to head the lead- ers. The Giants haven't dependable pitching, and could strengthen at _one |2 or two other points. The loss of Critz, of course, didr't do them any good. The Y2nkees will UTH still is the same grand hitter, but he has slowed up perceptibly in the field. He Is missing balls he used to gobble with ease. The Babe should go North this Winter and tramp around a bit in the snow. Ruth should have a couple of more good years, if he is willing to work for them. “Gehrig is about reaching his peak and should bold ‘it for several years. Chapman is a good base runner, though he does not always pick his spot, id hes become a fine flelder. Oll:;lllh, & great ball player, is growing older. McCarthy has some young infielders Sandlot Ball ‘Games Carded. ‘Washington A. C. vs. cltgkwn. Md., 3 o'clock. South Ellipse, 3 o'clock. Sterling A. C. vs. Anacostia Eagles, East Ellipse, 3 o'clock. RESULTS. League. Governmeni—@G. P. O, 8; Interstate, " Prench Hawks, 0; Ly Nesh Post, 8; Fairlawn, 2. Junfor-Columbia Heights, sy Colonial A. C. Clinton at '&.‘:“ les ve. Rex A. C, Rex (g Mi Midget-National Pale Drys, 7; %&“’" coming up and may need them. Lary is & youngster and fields well, but never nas looked like a big leaguer at bat, even when hitting best. Hoag may come along. He is a good- looking youngster, but most persons place more dependence on Cooke. The catching staff of the Yankees is good. They could use a couple of young pitch- ers. So could any other team. ROOKLYN goes up and down like an elevator. The Robins stop first- division teams and get the life whaled out of them by those in the second division. No one can figure the Brooklyn pitchers or the Brooklyn batters. No- body ever could figure the Brooklyn base runners, if base running it can be | called. ‘The general theory is that when the Robins get a winning streak, instead of just going along about their business they stop and start to think. That's the finish. There are two teams—the Phiilies and the Boston Braves—who don’t need an awful lot of strengthening to go right out and run with the leaders. Give these two clubs & few breaks in getting |a bit of new material and they will make a lot of trouble. NINE IN LATONIA OAKS ‘Well Matched Field to Race for $10,000 Purse Today. LATONIA, Ky., August 1 (#).—A well matched field of nine was named to compete today in the Latonia Oaks race for 3-year-old fillies, over a mile and a quarter for the $10,000 added purse in the last day of the meeting. _ The nine were gathered from all points, the East being represented by Blind Lane, the Northern tier tracks by Sunny Lassie and Canfl. and the re- mainder of the turf worla by Cousin Jo, Mince Pis, Alyssum, Laila Wild, Betty Derr and Ridgeview. ST. PALU LEADS A. A. CHICAGO, August 1 () —Official Association standing is as fol- Pet. NEWARK IN VAN INI. L. NEW YORK, August 1 (#)—The offi- ::ll International League standing is as lows Newa: i3 28 PORTLAND SIGNS REUTHER. ., August 1 (#).— by pitcher, has the Pacific Coast League. He was re- cently released by Seattle.