Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1931, Page 31

T g3 Ww. 7 - WITH SUNDAY MORNING ASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, g Sfar. % 1931. PAGE C-— Morning Drill for Griffs Despite Heat : A’s, Reds and Bucs Near New Records YANKEES TOD NEAR FOR COMFORT NOW | Johnson Would Bolster His | Club for Sedond-Place Hold. | “N’s Too_Much. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ? 2 ‘dozen games NCE back ’s affer yes- may’:&a leking’ in Philadel, the Natiortals are to set about mending their i i i gie i g il =f £ g1l 1 i g | I ; ! gt E.’: : H i ) i i | i g i i g g § g 2 ! E ’ | : E : : ] | % E H a H : I ] -3 g il u 5% i 1 : : e i s & homer hit over the right fleld l'llls by | immons in the second inning. The! Nationals came right back in thelr tnird | error, meant four runs. But with two hits the A's got back | one of the tallies in their third turn | ir fourth they pulled up to | bounced a homer off | stand Toof after Stmmons | . They went on to take the lead befare the inning ended with Mil- ler's single, Cronin’s two-base error on McNair's 'mm and Todt's infleld | nt. { ‘With West's double, a wild pitch and Kuhel's erasure in the sixth, the Na- tionals a run, but oft Brown in the mfil socked a | homer over the it fleld barrier and | the game was gone. | MOBI than 37,000 jammed Shibe | Park stands to see the twin bill . the heat was terrific . . . . . . mueh too much | S 55 iikafl_? i i H 3 s i i fie [5 fEEE § i i i i fl aptee il Fit i ke Hi 2 l;; L] ¥ g;iEa | around, Bu(;s Give eine Kalsomining Job BURGH, Augist 4 (P— cury wishes he hadn't shut Louls Cardinals twice tl season, becqnse today he faces the biggest taski he has had in many moons. T Pirates are anxious to stretch the'r gtring of four consecutive shut- outs. LToday Is Heinle's day on the moun; And Yo whitewash the champion Cardinals thre> times is asking a lot of any pitcher. Two Close Ones £l o 2 | somesossonss: 8 2l cocemmsomums R B Ll aomaunauniBbl H | POREIEEC | msasoccsa> sl immibnunonlt A g o0 . 00 L in—Bh K 1, e Twehase b S o0 @l onrmomim! ruc 2 | pital won the final game from Inter- L £3 o OO OO s s ~oacolummwe, D s Shismbabis ey 25 25 -moonmnosow 5 "'if min- Griffmen Cet Time Out Solace Seen in Visit Y TOM there's always the weath- er to discuss. Although, the Griffs did not hit the can- vas until fthat elephant knew he had been in a fracas. And Griff’s hired men get two days it over. With Boston on - the bill of fare ‘Thursday. Prom the sublime to Bos- ton. But we do not want to k our china chins out too far. But the heat has it. Too many pitchers! And the rest of base ball ready to dig down to its shoe tops to secure fllpping talent. Gabby has so-many pea-shooters he's them to files for the rookies, He has e h fin wagglers standing close election with 'em. await] And when a manager worries because of excess hurling talent you kmow that the effects of this heat wave are going to be greater than the man-on-the- street knows. But who cares how many pitchers Gabby Street has pocketed” They can't do nothing with the Athletics right now. And that's the chief worry in our loop. | But there’s solace in Gabby's gab- bing Street's Cards were trailing the league leaders by 12 games at ghis time | iast semester—and he came on to win the bunting in his loop. Where there is life there s always upsets. Just s sleeping it i £ 2 F fig; it L i ol socossscscss™ : | arranged for the | over by a long shot, rain having taken | sooscosscness™ trying to get places. " | ing chairs for tired their turn, to swing a | CONSTRUGTIONEERS NEAR LEAGLEFLA Win Over Terminal Tomorrow | Would Decide Issue in Industrial Loop. HETHER it will be the Con- structioneers who will rep- resent the Industrial Base Ball League in the annual sandlot classic, the city series, may be determined tomorrow when they clash with Washington Terminal again at| 5:15 on the North Ellipse diamond. The Constructioneers have the flag | almost within their grasp, needing only that win tomorrow, but they are as- sured that only a real battle will pro- duce that victory. | Behind the seven-hit pitching of Lefty Jewett, the Constructioneers took & 5-t0-2 decision from the Terminalites yesterday, placing them one game in the lead. Ike Dreifuss allowed the first- half champs only eight hits, but a homer by Jewett ruined his game. mean another game Friday for the sec- ond-half champlonship. Should Ter- minal again win Friday, s three- e ‘serles between the two teams would be Although outhit, to 9, Naval Hos- state on the Government League sched- ule, 9 to 8. However, the season is not its toll and making necessary a bundle of play-off tilts. Calvary Baptist won & 5-to-4 thriller | from West Washington yesterday in the | | Georgetown Church League. A two-run | rally in the eighth inning brought vic- | tory for the Drakes i Games Wanted. e Southern Methodists, Sat- Park, Hyattsville. HARPERS FERRY, W. V&, August: 4—The Potomac River was a milky and the Shenandoah muddy this | morning. ; | of Red Sox Thursday. DOERER.. Jimmy Slattery tomorrow might im| Brooklyn to decide something or an- other. It marks the seventh time this pair of yodelers have appeared together in| | & skit that has resulted in nothing more | elevating to the ring game than s few bad decisons, Slattery has been on a boxing tread- mill for some time. He has been along, but not up. Tommy ran has belted him back to his starting paint several times. 80, just what will be decided tomer- | row night is a question. If Jimmy takes | Maxie'’s crown he will still be & plod- | ding young man There it to meet Sharkey and demand rock- warriors. 1t looks like the | the boys around at his same old aver- |age and, unless the try to {pay Jim off in plugged nickels, he is | never worried about whe they select | to tussle with him. But what Dusek ought to ask for is | protection from Londos. | dos’ new hold 1s legal, a real good plece of hokum has been lopped off. But you can two-to-one on the line that Dusek Londos will bring | the cash customers tearing in on & |gallop. Which is the answer to every- i thing. The customer must be satisfied. | But he never is. Which prompted the Jim is demanding protection from |igye irate fans, sccording to the ballyhoo. |Hadie: sy B And now that it is decided that Lon- \ WAS ONLY SURE| | THAT BABY WoutLp STAY / "y LICKED ! BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated-Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, August 4. — The United States Lawn Tennis As- soclation has decided to pin its hopes for an American vie- tory in the Wightman Cup matches st Forest Hills Friday on six players, evenly split between the West and the East. Miss Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman of Boston will lead the team, the other members of which will be: Helen Wills Moody of San Prancisco, Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of land, Calif.; Marjorie Morrill of Dedham. Mass, and Mrs. :nrlo& ’ztnd«neh Jessup of Wilming- ton, Del. ‘Through = strange combination of circumstances, only two members of the team are represented on the nationsl ranking list, prepared on the play in 1930. Mrs. Harper is the No. 1 ranking player and Miss Morrill the No. 2, but none of .the others appears on the list of the 32 leading woman stars. The answer, of course, lies the fact that Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs, the natural No. 1 and No. 2 players, were not ranked after the 1930 season because of “insufficient data.” ‘Two members of the team, Mrs. Har- per and Miss Morrill, never before have participated in the Wightman Cup matches. Mrs. Moody, on the other | hand, has been on every American team since the series was inaugurated in 1923 except in 1926, when iliness kept her out of the competition. Miss Ji has been & member of the squad annually Records of Griffs Batti . H. 2b.3b.HR.SH SB RBILPet. > " ] 8 JaRtuB32edabS w S5 5 A oumnusnBe SRR LY co~e~coasuscueneon: PO TSP TIPSR oeiuSlediEad 28 LT T T T ] o avastion ecccossso ncol1cm e P v — ovaumusB. 82,580, °28; Pitching Ings BB.8O. pitch. 2.h888EN 0 33gass = e { invention of return-bouts. | American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. hd'l*u‘ll 3-8 '.-im 8. Standings in Major Circuits TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1951 National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Chicage. 8: Cine! B llmlv?ltl‘lhl‘:l.h. ) 1479 | ¥ 91 _Runs Batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, 114; since 1927, Mrs. Wightman in 1923- 27-29 and Mrs. Jessup in 1924 and 1926. | The order in which the American | | players will participate in singles and | doubles will be announced tomorrow night, and the draw for piay t | the British players will be reveal at the same time. The British team con- sists of Bettv Nuthall, Mrs. n Ben- | nett Whittingstall, Mrs. y Shepherd-Barron, Phyllis Mudford Dorothy Round. ‘Of the five singles matches that must be played, Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs | are virtually certain of taking care of | four. The fifth probably will be played | either by Mrs. Jessup, who is staging a | remarkable comeback this year, or Mrs. | Harper. Miss Morrill and Mrs. Wight- | man probably will appear only in dou- |bles, the latter probably teaming up | with Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Moody has compiled a remark- | record in the seven years she has| ed on American Wightman Cup | C.| and | of | teams. Over that period she has won 12 singles matches and lost 2, and aided in 3 victories in doubles as against 4 defeats. Her only defeats in singles | occurred in the 1924 contest, when she | in | 'was beaten both by Kitty McKane, now Mrs. L. A. Godfree, and Mrs. B. C. Co. | vell In straight sets. | Against these two defeats she can, L to threc victories apiece against . Holcroft Watson, Joan Fry and Mrs. Godfree, and one win apiece over | Miss Nuthall, Mrs. Clayton and Mrs. | ' Whittingstall. | ‘The Wightman Cup has been up for | competition ecight years, with each country winning four times. England | won at Wimbledon last year, 4 matches t0 3. The series consists of five singles matches and two at doubles. BRAVES RECALL CLARK I e | Bring Him Back From Kansas City, | Where He Was Farmed. KANSAS CITY, August 4 —Re-| turn of Earl Clark, outfielder, to Boston | of the National League, which had re- | leased him on option to the Kansas!' City club of the American Assocfation, has been announced by George Muehle- | | bach, president of the Blues. - Major Leaders | | By the Associated Press. American League. mnm.—atnm:# Athletles, ,m:' hrig, Yankees, 107; Ruth, | | | | | | | ‘Yankees, 110. Athletics, 161; Webb, Red Sox, 142. Doubles—Webb, Red Sox, 50; Manush, Senators, 33. e, , Athletics, 13; John- son, 12. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 30; Ruth, Yankees, 28. Stolen , Yankees, 43; ove, Athletics, won 22, st 3; Mahaffey.' Athletics, and Mac- berry, Senators, won 11, lost 2. Phillies, .348; Grimm, IINH—DI. vis, , . 348; ., Runs—Kiein, Phillies, 89; Cuyler, Cubs; 74. Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 84; : , Pirates, 141; Kiein, ant Hornsby, -Hornsby, Cubs, 35; Adams, “Traynor, Pirates, 14; Terry, w_’ Phillies, 23; Oft, Cubs, 78. 32. 3 18 17, rine | plonship for the Baltimore Gets : Fiaby Kpmit wk- week ago, rejoins the Na- Hargrave, who has looked unim. pressive this scason, either in_hi ting or back of the thfowing has been 3 goes to the Birds as part in the deal that will make Pitcher Monte Weaver a National at the close of this season. Another playe: to be selected, also is to go to Baiti- more in the transaction, al with -nnum‘eve mnl of cash. % argrave made debu! with Tle Griffs in l%{‘“fl: since O’ROURKE WILL PILOT MILWAUKEE BREWERS Infielder From St. Louis Browns, Once With Washington, to Succeed Berghammer. By the Associaied Preds. MILWAUKEE, August 4.—Louis Na- hin, president of the Milwaukee As- sociation team, has announced that Frank O'Rourke, infielder from St. Louis Browns, would replace Marty Berghammer as manager of Brewers. O'Rouke has had varied experience at_infleld positions. Berghammer came to the club from Tulsa in the middle of the 1929 season. ST. LOUIS, August 4 (#).—Frank O’Rourke, named manager of the Mil- waukes Club, has been with the St. Louis Browns since 1927, when he came here in a trade with Detroit. He once was with Washington, He was & regu- lar third baseman for the Browns until last season, but has been in the game little this year. 'SPENGLER POST NINE READY FOR TOURNEY To Enter American Legion Regional Series at Clarksburg. W. Va,, Stronger Than Last Year. Spengler Post nine, which has won the District American cham- second year in a row, is expected to make a stronger bid for honors in the tournamen in it at Clar] . W. Va., it 13, 14 and 15, mn did in ‘competition T, yet . | the | the | gccrued over and above the ex Contest Mere Next Tuesday| i Night Seems Certain to L Draw Record Crowd. 1 AVING finally secured Jim Lon- dos’ assent to a third match with Rudy Dusek ($10,000 is | sald to have done the trick), Joe Turner, the local mat promoter, is anticipating a record attendance & week from today at Griffith Stadium. It has been Londos, the title claimant, agd Dusek, one of his foremost chal- 1 o vnnuhtve done mut'ghtowfie | wrest & big money sport . ’luwnm{hln any other matmen. Their first meeting drew ‘some 10,000. The second drew about 13,000. In view of the near-riot, the gruelling | which followed Dusek's defeat by Lon- | dos’ quest! hold, Turner sees a new mark in the making. Only two holds, it is reported, will be barred. They are the strangle smother holds. A referee will be chose: by & committee of local sport wiiters So eager was Dusek to get another crack at Londos that he is said to have | |offered to go on a 50-50 basis with | Turner. That is, Londos is to be guar- anteed $10,000, and Turner and Dusek will split the remainder of the proceeds | ppnses of | th supporting card, rental of the stadium and like expenses. Stars Yesterdai' | By the Associated Press. George Connally, Indians—Scattered | | Browns’ eight hits to win, 5 to 3. | | Earl Webb, Red Sox—Collects forty- ninth and Nftieth doubles to drive in | four runs against Yankees. Bob Smith and Vince Barton, Cubs— | Former blanked Reds with five hits: | latter clouted homer and single to drive |in four runs. ! | Bob Grove and c«:g Earnshaw, lAn.nmlm—Pthd champions to double |triumph over Senators, 3-2 and 8-5. | George Quellich, Tigers—Homer and single drove in three runs against White Sox. Mat Matches By the Associated (Stasiak 16:4 15:484-5 and 4: ; Len Maculso, 195, New Y::k. drew with Rudy Laditsi, fimpiring in AA. L. Suits Harridge and n | Bal 128; Klein, Phillies, 23; Foxx, CINCY 15 BLANKED 4 AINNINGS IN ROW | Pirates Shut Out Foes Same 1 Period and Macks Seek Mark for Twin Wins. Associated Press Sports Writer, 3 HEY'VE declared a sort of open iy i : il SOTHERN BACK IN MAJORS ‘Bought by Brooklya From Balti- more for Cash and Players. one-hour battle and the controversy | for Homer Standi By the Associated Press. 1; Storti, Browns, 1 Sox, 1; Quellich, Cubs, 1. Gehrig, Yankees, 30; Ruth, Yankees, k Athletics, 21 ‘Averfll, Indians, 20; Oft, Giants, 17; Goslin, Browns, 17. League Totals. American, 399; National, 345. Total, Minor Leagues International League. Reading, 4; Newark, 3: Buffalo, 9; ", §. Baltimore-Jersey City played double~ header ¥ Toronto, 5-4; Montreal, 0-1. Southern Association. Little Rock, 6; Knoxville, 4.