Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1931, Page 26

D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 17.. 1931. of Giants Is Cards’ Nemesis HOLDS CHAMPIONS TOTRUNIN2 THTS Southpaw Wins Five in Row. Cubs Take Pair, Gain. Homers Aid A’s. SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SPORTS. Kuhel’s Spasmodic Spurts Thwart Judge : Walker “jms—uN—STEAM WATCHING THE TAKOMA TIGER DEVOUR SAKS’ NINE. WHEN AX LOOMS Griffs Take Two to Make It 12 of 18 From Browns. No. 14 for Marberry. Weiland Is Bad News for Griffs BY JOHN B. FOSTER. YORK, August 17.— The ‘White Sox recalled Bob Wei- land from Louisviuc. He didn’t do a thing after that but beat Washington out of two games in succession on the White Sox ground. Two defeats are bad enough any time, but Weiland rubbed it in at the wrong time. Everybody knows that the Athletics are mak- ing whoopee, but in some loyal fans & faint hope still existed for Wash- ington until the Senators were osmacked hard in Chicago. ‘Was| has lost six games in Chicago this year and to date the Athletics have lost but one. THIS MAS = ME THE MMNIX, OF THE SAKg SUBMARINED THE TIGERS UNTIL THE SIXTH.. COLLIFLOWER SAKS FIRST \\ BASEMAN, FUMBLED \ | ONE IN THE S(XTH ~THE TIGE's BREAK CAME AND, WITH |T, 2 TALLIES AND BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Auoch:led Press Sports Writer. F the New York Giants had an entire pitching staff of men as successful as Southpaw Wil- liam Walker, they might now hold the place of the St. Louis BY JOHN B. KELLER. T. LOUIS, August 17.—Getting young Joe Kuhel out of the line-up that the veteran Joe Judge might return to first base is no casy matter. Manager ‘Walter Johnson for several days has contemplated lifting the| wasuvaTON. youngster and puttig the old-|Myer 2...... timer back at the initial sack, but | Manust at the last minute this Kuhel per- son does something at bat that causes the pilot to change his mind. “If he shows nothing “today it will | ST, be his last game for some time,” said | SEniite Johnson of Kuhel just before the Na- |Goslin, tionals entered the final of the White Sox serles in Chicago last Friday. But Kuhel steps out to smack a single and a double in three times at bat and drives over 2 of the 4 runs registered | G, by his club. “He starts the St. Louis|S series,” decided Johnson after that showing. Saturday in the opener of the set with the Browns Kuhel was very weak at the plate. He got one hit in five times at bat and that hit when it meant nothing. He had falled to sock solidly when it would have helped his “I'l try him in tomorrow's dou- OLD SOL SoCwED A FEW KITS, HIMSELF FIRST GAME. DK MUGHES WAS NICKED FOR Two RUNS IN THE FIRSY 9 SHe—- ) West. Bluege, 35 uhel, 1b pencer. c.... Marberry, D REACH FOR TH MooN ON THAT ONE, BABY/ { 8l on g O SEBASTIAN DOUBLED IN THE NINTH, AND =, T Lookeo LIKE SAKS WAS GolnGg 10 TiE LP THE FRACAS IT JUST LOOKED 4 > > e sl B austnunten 9009000000808 ol nonvsercerd Soooorrunean 2| imseonnoni SooHomo0unoows? & nooswoacow | so00ors0000act vl cosoorcoa™ SAND WHAT A PAIR OF TOUGH UMPS ! THEY WOULD HAVE ORDERED WALTER JOHNSON OFF A WASHINGTON ‘BENCH ~ BUT THEY WERE GOOD....-.- ' j | SURRENDER / & RS //)/j'me"naak TeAM , PLUS A AN FEW BAT BoYS, TRAPPED SEBASTIAN IN THE 4tk 707 Dosese “Batted for Gray In seventh. tBatted for Stiles in ninth. Washington + 8121100005 St. Louis. 20002000103 Runs batted in—Marberry, Cronin, Kuhel. | in, Kress, Bluege. Burns, Two-base h! —Manush, Cronin, Melillo, My Kress. Schuite. Three-base _hit— | uhel. omie Kubel. | uble plays—Cronin to Marberry to Cronin to Kuhe = . Ormsby and Hilde: me—1 hour and 43 starting veteran Judge is wondering whether he first base this ever will get back to WAS A BATTLE , UNTIL JIMMY WILSON , TAKOMA , PLASTERED A G;LW/ IN THE E(GHTH- T GAVE THE TIGE A ONE-RUN LEAD WHICH SAKS COULD NOT Recover.. BUYT HE BATTLE IsN'T over/ AGE WELTERS FACE INRUBBER CONTEST "|McLarnin and Petrolle Hold Ring Spotlight—Walker Battles Heavy. ] R ICORING over the Browns in both ends of yesterday's bargain bill the Nationals made certain of their an-| nual series with the St. Louis club. now have defeated the Browns in 12 times out of 18 starts with 4 o go. In the 5-to-3 first game Fred Mar- scored his fourteenth of scooruonasn> Tigers Takomaifil‘(s Secalp [GIANIS [:I_[]SE GAPA‘ o N GARDEN FOR % Acquisition of Koenecke Is Move in Plan to Cut Cards’ Advantage. | sooscsse~ rRecords for Week In Major Leagues o Grab 4-to-3 Sizzler in Opening of Diamond Title Series. BY TOM DOERER L. And did | wicked right-hand ball that was not| exactly poison to the haberdashers, but it certainly was a mean missile to clip when a hit meant something. | | 1¢ tooked like anybody’ | y’s combat until | in Byrd Stadium at College Park, Md.? | 1t looked Iie g Yessir, baby, they did, and when they |into one of Mannix’s loop-the-loop that Tiger off those haberdash- | twirls and set it hopping and yodeling the first game | out into where the flowers do not grow | ST ol ‘ for the | for a triple. | EW YORK, August 17 (CP.A).| That looked like the right tabasco for —As the New York Giants go | St Louls .. the proper soup. And it was. Jimmy it into their last home serfes with Wilson, Tige third sacker, poied a fat | braisic SemglowosuprArm i single to send Paul galloping home with R ¢ b e i clubs with a patched-up outfield, all| Cincinnati.. | y e blue ribbon in his fist. | namientions dbe that Jaiin Mmrlw.lmh”' | Petrolle, tops all other fistic offerings ‘Which should have put the quietus on | their manager, has set in motion the | Brooklyn et |on the national schedule this week. m‘n an (;lz‘:h"m | necessary machinery to’ plug this gap | | McLarnin and Petrolle, who split even |in two spectacular glove-duels here in . Homel‘ Standlng the last eight months, carry their feud into the Yankee St: Th Last week's major league records of |games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs follows: American League. Teams. w. Plg;hd:lphh, 4 o K 2 ] bleachers by Marberry. finished on the hill for the Browns. " " seceveercsvsd Ul ecnnsnwennd ResTuE— 1 r— enososmuucssd sossscncsare i ELL and how! those Takoma Tigers and | Saks Ciothiers lather one | another yesterday afternoon | { ; £ i after four innings, and Brown was o driven from the siab in his fourth 1348002 020 100404000 Brown, | e, Melilio (3); Gro: Two-base hitsrBurne, | ] e Saci Cr ;E | Clev:l‘:;ld . e to Kuhel; to Kuhel. on bases—St. 1 ashington, 8. Piest bage on Bans 0% 3; off Crowder. 1: off Blacholder, 3; | 7 Hebert, L | Siruek oui—py Bigeholger. | ; by, Braxion, 1.7 i TSt Bhaenoider s | ; Off Hebert, 4 in 1 inni g Braxton. | "ot Brown. 71 3% | innings; 3 Y g ety B, e i ‘g By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, August 17.—The | rubber mecting of two of the | Nation’s foremost welterweights, Jimmy McLarnin and Billy é | i ‘wear Eg' 31 ir dia- | don" ama- ‘Those any ball game. But § [ want | | | chushaine B bowhwen ] EECTTIONS PR wceanaos AP 8! ht for a | scuffie. title or | ean look, here to No, sir, baby, to get smart with Hughes' pitch- | {Cr the pennant race next year. ] ing and it looked like the war was only | The Giants have obtained Leonard | ;m“l: "Ms';“mf:“" lashed a | goenecke, an Indianapolis outfielder, for | But Fakoma's. break came in the |1932. He is one of the better outflelders of the American Assoctaticn. sixth when Collifiower thought his pals | Madioon Scoare were thro a dozen balls in- jome esterda stead of one. He began fielding four of | The Giants have been fighting a stiff | H Rune Y. y. .| den last November, but Jimmy, fighting the six and the only ball in the game |battle this year with an outfield that is| Ruth, Yankees, 1; Lary, Yankees, 1; | a carefully-} battle in which he | roj | went galloping somewhere else. |not consistent _enmough against the Vergez, Gianis, 1; Marberry, Senators, | took few chances, battered out a de- | | Steadier one of St. Lous. |1; Kuhel, Senators, 1; Hartnett, Cubs, | cive victory on points in & return match | And when an independent base ball | Injuries have flattened out what out- |1; Vosmik, Indians, 1. Cochrane, Ath-|in the Garden in May. | club starts to go haywire you can look field the Giants had. Fred Lindstrom |letics, 1; Cramer, Athletics, 1, Wright,| Earl Mastro, featherweight, for everybody, including ~the mayor, | has been out of the game with a broken | Robins, 1; Prisch, Cardinals, 1. battles Kid Francis of Italy in the main town council and both umpires to field |bone, Mel Ott has been under npar, | The Leaders. bout of the Queensboro Stadium'’s balls which do not exist. | Pred Leach has been ailing and the best| gy yvankees, 33; Gehrig, Yankees, | featherweight card tomorrow nig) i | batting outfielder on the team is Chick ' go. giain Phillies, 27; Averill, Indians, | _Justo Suares, When Sebastian went from first to | pullis. a substitute ;e 3 ‘Foxx, Athi 21; | knocked out in second. in the fourth inning, every- | It is the outfleld of the Cards which |24 Oth Glants, 22; Foxx, Athletics, 21; body but the Prince Georges County gives that team its gdge over the police went after him. Those Takoma | ; fielders looked like & lot of Puller Brush | see 10" this. with Bia. eve o tog. 1939 | 832. flag. HT g g 1 Pye ] 1 ki H i i O NN O 0 IR I e g h g i | By the Associated Press. 9E; e T g | Estna soronomsonanscrloola § eoomoooson1sa00Busua g& BadS3ust 8 i ! Bs B 83 23838 4] | PN N D ] H as ar Bolton: Marb'y i i E g g ~E28EERERR s 5 = L g B 2258248 fray. !xyx the second engagement the Browns scored in their first inning with two, singles, Rice's error and a long fly, but in the second session 3 ing the Takoma old garden gate. nine rounds by Petrolle in his last start, meets Emil Rossi of New York at Dexter Park, Brooklyn, i ton?h{ Mickey Walker, making his first start since his drawn battle with Jack Sharkey, takes' on another Boston | hwz:’vmelchg Jack Gagnon, at Buffalo g! Fidel La Barba, Los Angeles, former flyweight king, takes on the Portuguese, Pinto De Sa, in a 10-rounder at San Prancisco Priday night. Tonight ali Chicago, Dave Shade, California mid- dleweight veteran, will clash with Willie | Oster of Boston. | FORT MYER FOUR VICTOR BALTIMORE, August _17.—With Lieut. Albert R. 8. Barden, No. 1, with | seven goals heading their attack, 16th Field Artillery poloists of Fort Myer yestercay drubbed Maryland Polo Club, | 11 to 3, at Stevenson. Capt. Robert | V. Maraist, No. 3, accounted for the winners’ other three tallies. Capt. C. N. MacFarland registered all three of s. | the losers’ markers. | Capt. George D. Shea, No. 2, and Lieut. A. G. Stone, No. 4, were other | Heon, 16th players. YOU SAVE 25% | i tmmons, Athietics, 20. , 438; National, 394. Total, the Na SuranwemeatB i f f ini How! Potomac Gi e oo Distributors, 5-12; North: : paorthwestern Cardinals. 16: Jefferson Pire My dover, it his feiends cut thare o the M 18 B0k Rave meamt ' somsething " to beep o ve mea o on their feet. b But you, me and all of our pals would not have done any better under that blazing sun. The game had gone only two innings before it Jooked like | Old 8ol was to be the guy to feinting and F H out of Spencer, made two runs. Kuhel's :Hk' Brown's stroll and Myer's triple | led two more in the fourth. | Mberry Brown weakened in the home lwe's;gurn fourth turn, though, and with two| geche , a double and a pass off him | Crowder :T';'m Off Crowder 4 runs were | Jones registered by the Killifer men, to give | Lisks . it the lead again. | ‘The Nationals came right back Wi get 3 runs off Hebert in the fifth from Manush's single, Cronin's two-bagger, Leaders Bluege's single and a wild throw by Melillo when trying ?r;hauouble-pl Al Braxton's single an elillo’s second | triple in the nk;'m got the Browns their | BY the Associated Press. lone run off Crowder, while in the ninth | American League. the Nationals, with singles by Manush,| (Including games of August 16.) Cronin and 'West, made thelr only| patting—Simmons, Athletics, .385; | Ruth, Yankess, .383. 119; Ruth, marker off Braxton. | _ Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, ARELY 5000 turned out for the | yaniees, 108. Browns, 5 to 3, for fourteenth victory |in that scuffie when Sunday double-header, the Browns| Runs batted in—Gehrig, Yankees, |and clouted homer to help own cause. it did not look like mean so little to the St. Louis base | 129; Ruth, Yankees, 120. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Yankees a war was going to ball bugs. Cronin suffered a bruising | Hits—Simmons, Athletics, 174; Geh- |—Former clouted thirty-third homer | break out. early in the first game. Melillo's rig, Yankees, 155 |and double. Latter, two doubles and grounder in the opening inning took an | Doubles—Webb, Red Sox, 51; Miller, |single, to drive in total of six runs odd hop and struck Joe squarely in the | Athletics, and West, Senators, 36. | again: g anybody’s series. I Triples — Simmons, Athletics, and| Roger Cramer and Mickey Cochrane, | the boys in the in- John3on, Tigers, 13. | Athletics—Their homers aided in, defeat |field ‘on't keep | Home Tuns—Ruth, Yankees, 33; Geh- | of Indians. | their glims pinned * | Al ‘Thomas, White Sox, and on the hop toad rig. Yankees, 32 [phonse Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 44; | Eddie Durham, Red Sox—Former held |ball, the mext Johnson, Tigers, 3 |Red Sox to six hits; latter permitted | game might be won by the umpires. Athletics, won 24, |White Sox only five as double-header s Ings.GamesCom . piteh. start.gam i % men trying to be the first to present a |new family in the neighborhood with a sample. Well, that's the kind of base ball that brings the customers right out of their seats. When the Saks and Tigers bunt- |ed, you never knew just which one of | the ‘outfields was ing to come tear- | Action Promised in 40 Rounds | beat. He had 'cor:en'phym ing 1a to get i “Bay thers was oo | Of Scrapping at Fort Tonight sidestepping. = four-alarm call which sent the catcher RANKIE (LITTLE CAESAR) DE | 5, Sailor Billy Landers, Norfolk (feather- 3 F] P ~EEBEAZE s @St las o955 an «»2588233 onuzyese § * ~SRNEERE 0 ~B88828 = - =] = Dick Hughos for the Tigers flipped a | out to cover center field and the pitcher ANGELO, ranking District feath- | SEMI-FINAL. | over to get a drink of water. 1’ erweight, is expected to encount- | , 8, Tunds_Hatry (Kid) Groves, Washing- But those cash (welter- Stars Yesterday | customers out _ at er in Sailor Billy Landers of | Weighis). o o Norfolk all the opposition he is seeking, | |of old - fashioned and more, when they battle it out to- | Jack Grifith. Fort Howard, Md. g b:ll.m;l;‘)::; |night in the main bout of the boxing | o ¢ rouncsTSammy Hogan, Washinston, v card at Fort Washington. The fight is | weights). scheduled for eight rounds vst Eoldler Devines “Weshingion "Barrucss It will be supported by eight prelim- | (SFUEIREENEL o N inaries. In all 40 rounds are listed. Ac-] Yopng Higsing Waghington, dlightweights tion is to start at 8:30 o’clock. Earl Yates. Washington ' (middleweights Landers is figured to prove the ag- | ington. ve. Sowier Wolle Fart ‘Washin e | L wten gressor against De Angelo. The former | | handed Eddie Buell a decisive trimming | |two months ago. De Angelo, however, | | has shown class as a defensive scrapper and, according to his manager, Patsy | And those umps were tough babies, ?flnovm' lelll exgl?fiz plenty on the of- | . When they said something, you |fense as well as defense. | B e e e b Kid Groves, who defeated Joe Small- | wood to win the mythical District welter | title & month ago, will trade punches | Pepper Young, Norfolk MAIN PRELIMINARY. 4 rounds—Henry Irving, Washington, B vs. B SWIM BLANKS READY. Entry blanks for the Federal em- ployes’ swimming meet and water car- nival 26, at By the Associated Press. Fred Marberry, shington, vs. Senators — Beat | wasn’t Washington, So far it still is groin. The shortstop went down, but‘ 1‘", ‘E‘";’e" only for a minute, and they gave Cronin an error on the play. Kuhel barely missed getting a homer with his drive in the second session. The ball Janded against the bleacher wall only a few inches below the top and bounded | = Pitshing—Grove, back to center for a triple. Spencerleaned | los; 2; Marberry, Senators, won 14 was Split. | against the grandstand wall to get|lost 2. e ke i i o Slortis’ foul In e fourth. West's oo | National League. | 1ine-up and coliécted home run, double | just knew their decisions were backed sacutive - game - hitting went 10 Gounlo-eader |vp by the League of Nations, Versallies bloofe, and after 15 games. Sammy streak ' a went up four times for two infield re- tirements, a force out and a fan. Jack Klosa, outfielder, who had a trial with the Nationals several seasons back, batted for Lesley in the seventh. It took a grest stop and throw by Cronin to get him. Klosa then went to right field, while Kress shifted to shortstop. Jack reported to the Browns only yes- terday, shortly after his purchase from Milwaukee. ICE helped Brown ow of a dan- R gerous situation in the starting inning of the second sctto when snarea Koosa's hoist right - ‘There were i i E § 1t i Batting—Davis, Phillies, 350; Klein, | 204 four singles | Phillles, .344. gainst Reds. Runs—Klein, 99, ‘Terry, Giants, 84. Runs batted in—XKlein, Phillies, 94; Hornsby, Cubs, 80. Hits—L. Waner, Pirates, 158; Kiein, Phillies, rates, and Herman, Robins, 14. Stolen bases—Frisch, Cardinals, 16 Cuyler, Cubs, 12. | Fome runs—Klein, Phillies, 27; Ott, Giants, 22, Pitching—Halnes, Cardinals, won 10, | lost 2; Bush, Cubs, won 12, lost 4. Lose With Triple, | 5 Double Plays | ot i i i i nals with two hits, 7 to 1 in |of_double-header. Bill Walker, Giants—Stopped Cardi- | first game peak Flint Rhem, Cardinals—Held Giants to two hits in six innings he worked in second | game. Charlie Root and Guy Bush, Cubs— | peace treaty and The Hague. at the series. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. with Pepper Young of Norfolk, a veteran You can't go wrong taking amother of some 200 battles, in the semi-final. This also is scheduled for eight rounds. | Henry Irving, former Washington amateur, will face Jack Griffiths, Fort | Howard 'soldier, in the top-spot prelim HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, August| at four rounds. Irving will be seeking | Held Braves to 12 hits in double-header | 17.—The Potomac River was clear and | to get back on a winning stride follow- Standings in Major Circuits MONDAY, AUGUST American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 17, 1981, National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTSS? . | with Braves, winning 7 to 1 and 5 to 1. | the Shenandoah muddy this morning. |ing his loss to Jack Pollock two weeks | ago. | Sammy Hogan, Washington, | Soldier Clark, " Fort Washington, sre | figured to put on a red-hot show in their four-rounder. and In other titlts Gene Harrington will | meet Soldier Devine, Bobby Burns will face Young Higgins, Soldier Marchini | will engage Soldier Wolf and Jack Ward will have it out with Earl Yates. All eight are comparative novices. | _ Tickets will be on sale at Vic S pam. this afternoon and thereafter at . | the Fort Washington box office. 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