Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 24

Scraps With Yanks to Settle Runner-up Niche : Expensive Coast Stars S NATS HAVE 9TILTS LEFT WITH RIVALS Margin- Over New Yorkers Cut to One Game Due to 6-5 Loss to, Tigers. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ETROIT, August 25.—From | now on the big business of | the Washington ball elub | will be holding second place—if it is to hold it. After a series of lickings suffered on this Western swing, the Nationals ' _ now are only a game aliead of the third-place Yankees. Since leave, ing home little more than two| weeks ago the Johnson band has | lost ground te the Yanks to the | extent of four games. The schedule provides the Washing- ton c'lu.:wnh a fine chance to regain | this lost ground by earrying the ht | directly to the New York outfit. In all,| the Nationals have nine more ' gam: with the Yanké. Should they play against McCarthy's crew as they really | can play the second-place issue should | be_quickly settied. ! ‘They certainly will have to battle more briskly agsinst lt.lllun\'mkeu uu:w they have, however. sngagemen wlgx :r:e New Yorkers thus far the | Nationals have triumphed but 5 times. | ‘There must be & decided nkk-ufu:n me Again It Was Pitching. u'allfihl'bfl'l pitehers m&nd not | stand prosperity yesterday so the took &e n:oad’uu-h 'ol the series, | 6 to 5, putting over the decisive coun- after two were out in the minth. Marberry, atarted f f g8ges Bl i § ZEE kit E ] 8 3 £ : Former Champion Attracts Gate of | "I Joseph happens to tag | the power was not gone |of Tulse, ORTS.’ Grove Has Marks Left to Shoot At YORK, August 35.—There still are some marks left for Robert Moses Grove to shoot at. He may win 30 games this sea- son, an achievement that no south w in the history of the major ever has arocorded, and he may exceed the hizh-water mark for » winning p'“nye in the Amer- ican Laague, w! Bmoky Joe Woo d on 34 vietorits and 5 defeats in 1912 But Grove hasn't a Patagonian's l chance of beating the best record BY WILBUR WOOD. for & season’s victories in e Amer fean League, established by Jack | YORK, August 25.—A heavy- Ohesbro, right-handed spitball weight may be unknown today pitcher, who won 41 games for the | and the talk of the Queens- Yankees in 1904, Josting 14. pess smserrov. SN Nowadays they begin talking | 1Ty realm OTTOW. about a pitcher when he has won | fellows ecme up quickly. Also, they fade 20 games. | fast. i | Today Charlle Retzlaff, gangling | farmer boy from North Dakota, is the most-talked-about young heavyweight !in the game. Tonight he boxes Joe i 8ekyra, Dayton Bohemian, at the Queensboro Stadium. Tomorrow Rets- ;mr may be just another phony phe- Charles on sleep, those RETZLAFF TAKING " BiG BITE TONGHT Fistio Sensation May Find More Than He Can Chew in Go With Sekyra. DEMPSEY STOPS TWO OF FOUR OPPONENT More Than $27,000 for Port- o . KL land Exhibition. market, where the wise ones gather to | whisper the lowdown, there is & sneak- TLAND. Ore. August 35.—A|ing suspicion that Retslaff has been crowd of 17,864 fight fans paid $27,205.50 | tossed into & from which he may here last night to see Jack Dempsey, | not em with his escutcheon untar- former heavyweight ‘boxing champlon. | nished. other words, some of the knock out two of four opponents in an | wise lads are gbing to wage a few pen- exhibition appearance. Bekyra. Still carrying adlittie extra flesh. Dempsey nevertheless showed apeed, and | for any of from his'left. SR, o He used his right to drop Big Bill Hartwell, Boston Negro, for nine counts, | and the left to the side of Hartwell's | BALL P‘_'AYERSJN RACE head to finish the first opponent | 56 B7 the Associated Press. in a total of a little more than one minute Chapman of Yanks and Reynolds | in .the ring. Dave McRae| ©f Chisox in 100-Yard Dash. psey’s nmina‘ opponent, down for the count in less than ene minute. with the Mauler. Lenhart landed & couple to the jaw and made Dempsey extend himself for a A well placed left put Okla., Dem; between Ben Chapman stanzas, sithough Dempsey staggered | . e emer hampion is billed for e cl . nun: exhibition at- Seattle tomorrow vtfl.d as ‘ankee squad, and came away with a profit. St RUTH LIKES CHICAGO TUESDAY, AUGUST 35, 1931. AMERICAN LEAGUE. m;;hm Sel is right he is no bargain on . no lt{'n. CHICAGO, August 25 (#)—That 100- ACES ~ SO THE N.B.A. THINKS _SOME~ THING OUGHT To BE DONE ABOUT (T.coonee = 193 0F 200 “BIRDS |Maust Takes Class AA Title in Preludes to Ninth American Event. By the Associated Press. ANDALIA, Ohio, August 25.— The North American clay tar- get champlonship was scheduled today in the second day's firing of the thirty-second annusl grand TRAPSHOT SMASHES | { | ] | "IN MAT BOUT HEREi {Imitates Curley’s Champion| in Tossing Much Heavier | | Roebuck Easily. r AY STEELE, California’s con- tender for Jim Londos’ more or less mythical crown, endeavor- ed to prove to 8,000 persons Iast night at Grifith Stadium why he| is now ranked No. 2 rassler in Mr. | | Curley's syndicate when he tossed Tiny | | Rosbuek after 42 minutes of hold trad- | SPORTS.’ AN'ELEBVATE WITH ONE $ Tee Three pisTiNcT FACTIONS IN CONTROL OF WRESTLING .. They’re Just Kids at Heart But Rasslers Have Adult Wallets and the N, B. C. Knows It. BY TOM, OME fellows never know when to | let well enough alone. There's | the National Boxing Association, DOERER: whether to charge the groaners with taking the family silverware or give | | them back their voting pow GOMEZ, MAHAFFEY PROVING BARGAINS Records of Yank and Mack Boosts Stock of Pacific League Products. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Amosisted Presa @poris Writer. SPINDLEY left-hander and & tall right-hand sharp- shooter, both trom the fin- ishing school of the Pacific Coast League, are proving better | and better arguments, as the sca- son wears on, in faver of the fancy prices the West Coast youngsters command in the major league base ball market. There'll be another expensive erop aet either Connle Mack, leader of the World Champlon Athletics, or Joe Mc- Carthy, Yankee pilot, bidding violently for their like, with the thretties pulled wide on the . 1 Association. | Babe ‘Has a .727 Batting Mark for . | | lliant shooting featured the elas. jay, in which 508 Three White S8ox Games. sic’s opening d CHICAGO, August 25 (#).—Comiskey A marksmen competed for six class cham- | Park, home of the Chicago White Sox, | plonships of North America. It was But these pappies of 3 Rain obliterated all but the battle the New York Giants and far second place in the National insta; | 4 = e M A - | ai the WaSs phants, the | Those papples of punch are to rec- reorganize the mat game, si" i it B B Joe Cronin had plenty to do while the | Nationals were taking their beating. He took good care of 10 chances, several of them difficult . . . Harris and Stone did | the base stealing, Dave in the first and Jonathan in the th .. . be pitching cpponen of the series today. PROTHORSVRRAN 1 5l snneencesenp 5 susssmived 5l wenaouema® Messrs, McOowan = and Time of same—3 hours and § minutes. By the Asgociated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. 5 Terry, Glants. 2; Ruth, Yankees, 1; Detroit, 1; Morgan, Indians, e Cubs, 1; ohnson, 1; Ott, Glants, Goslin, Browns, 1. The Leaders. th, Yankses, 37: Gehrig, Yankees, “:R“‘kfi\. Phtilics. 31; Averill, Incilans, 27; Oftt, Glants, 23: Foxx. Athletiei, 32; Simmons, Athletics, 20; Geslin, Browns, 20. League Totals. St. Louis . New York Cincinnati New York at . NATIONAL LEAGUE. sssERass] ==les:=:i Chicago, 8-1; New York, 4-2. Others postponed, rain. Teday's Games. Chicago at New York, two. St. Louis at Boston, twe. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, two. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, two. Records of Griffs sl 0 =zezanpediitaBifatal -85 R e conconerniifonuens spsunpastascy e EuSEREEAT= 28 Sam! 1 vunuosuesiBELa! Leaders By the Associated Press American League. Batting—Simmons, Athletics, Ruth, Yankees. 383 BakES 78| Bddie Morgan, 385, | during the first three Yankees' series in A compesite “box hitting is: AB. R. A n s J The collection also includes Nos. 35, 36 and 37. bl PRINTERS AND TARS OPEN SERIES TODAY First of Three Games to Decide g7 1 | pay-cit ertes for the itle on the West The opener originally was slated for It will be necessary for G. P. O. and | Naval Hospital to get the -off over this week. Next Monday the city cham- pionship ied once because & open. l?n‘::l flxvnl probably will go into the series a slight favorite. Games Wanted. Stewart Juniors of Baltimore—Call | Atlantic 1089. | ~Blue Coals—Atlantic 4983-J. Drys—Lineoin 3700. Stars Yesterday lead Yanks to 8-to-5 victory over White 3| Sox. Mahaffey, to five hits t> win his four- teenth game of the season. run with two on base, as Indians de- teated Red Sox, 11 to 7 Bill Sweeney, Red Sox—Hit safely five { times in six trips to plate, as Red S°x were defeated by Indians, 7 to 11. Bill Terry, Giants—Hit home run in | ninth inning to give Glants, 2-to-1 de- | cision over Cubs in second game of | double-heacer. Also hit homer in first game. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 130; Ruth Yanke:s, 11 Runs 133 nkoes in—Gehrig, Yankees Minor Leagues Athletics, 174; Geh- Doubl“s Athletics, 4 men hletics, Sox, d3; Gehrig, Yankees. 13. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 37; Geh- o | Mig. Yankees, Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 49 Athletics, won 25, | Icst 3, Mabaffey, Athletics, won 14, | 34 Johnson, Tigsrs, 30. Pitchers—Grove, National League. Batting—Davis, Phillies, .354; Kieln, | 106; Terry, | Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 108; | Giants, 93, Terry, Giants, 87. Doubles — Adams, Cardinals, Hornsby, Cubs, 37; Herman, Robins, ‘Terry, Glants, 15; Pirates, Home Giants, 22. ler, Cubs, 12; DOR-A NINE WANTS FOE. nm':mmuu'o, 1 172 —Webb, Red Sox, 53; Milier Reynolds, White Hits—Klein, Phillies, 167; L. Waner, Pirates, 167. 4; 4. : ruds—Klein, Phillies, 31; Ott, Stolen bases—Frisch, Cardinsls, 20; Herman, Robins. 12. s, Cards, won 10, Jost Walker, Glants, wen 14, lost 5. International lt;[ur. Torpnto, 3; Reading, 2 Montrea), 4: Baltimore, 3 Rochester, 7. Newark, 6 Buffalo, 8; Jersey City, 4. i American Association. Kansas City, 8; Toledo, 7. | Louisville, 57 Minneapolis, 1. Milwaukee. 10; Columbus, 2. Indianapolls, 10; St. Paul, 6. Southern Association. Chattanooga. 10: Knoxville, 0. Nashville, 6; Nev' Orleans, 5 Birmingham, 6; Little Rock, 3. not scheduled. Texas League. | Galveston, 2; Shreveport, 1 38 37 30; Des Moines, 4. Denver, 4; Oklahoma City, 2. | Three-Eye League. | Evansville, 9; Bloomington, 1. | Peorls, Oidl?reellm;.l‘e % | Springfieid-Terre Haute, wet grounds | Quiney-Danville, rain, . | RIVERDALE, Md., August 25.—Dor- | A Seniors are after a game for Satur- | Ameriean, 470; National, 422. Total, | day L " l cw In score” of the Babe's : ehunpulhl&’ cl 127 ‘Maust ‘homers | shattered | . Babe Ruth, Yankees—Had a perfect day at bat, including thirty-seventh home run, a double and two singles, to Athletics — Held | Indians—Hit home {has been s rich pasture for Babe Ruth | the third Jargest first-day’s the North American today's firing inel the ladies” target title, | and subjunior el Carl won the 196 and J. W. Paddock of Ill, bested the field in ring. A triple tie for first in the class D | event at 192 targets ended in final vie- tory for Mrs. H. E. Grigsby of Okla- | homa City, when she shattered 49 out of 50 targets in the shoot-off. Harley Smith, Mount Auburn, DI, placed sec- : ford, 8. Dak., ‘The class B championshi by H. W. Akin, Johnson' with 186 targets. was won o, N. Y, Fistic Battles | | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Tuffy Griffiths, City, Jowa, outpointed Con O'Kelly, Boston (10). PITTSBURGH. — Vidal Gregorio, | Spain, outpointed Jimmy | Pittsburgh (10); Jimmy Kelly, Dayton, | Ohio, defeated Eddie Brannon, Pitts- burgh, foul (8). | CINCINNATIL—Freddie Miller, Cin- | cinnati, outpointed Emil Paluso, Salt Lake City (10). DAYTON, Ohio.—Eddie Shea, Chi- | cago, knocked out Pete Sarmiento, Philippines (3); Mike Dundee, Rock Island, Ill, outpointed Spug Myers, Pocatello, Idaho (10). | COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Chet Akron, Ohlo, knocked out Jack O'Dowd, Detroit (3) NEW YORK.—Mike Payi ‘Texa8, outpointed Harry (Kid) Wallace, Phila- delpnia (6); Young Harry Wills, Cali- fornia, stopped Canada Lee, New York (4); bout stopped by referee when Lee made no attempt to fight. TORONTO.—George Godfrey, Lei- perville, Pa.. knocked out Seal Harris, Memphis, Tenn. (2) HARTFORD, Conn.—Louis Kaplan, Meridsn, Conn., | Sammy Mandeil, Rockford: Il (10). | TULSA, Okia—Eddie (Kid) Memphis, Tenn, and Louis Avery, Tulsa, drew (10). | SIOUX CITY, (Kid) Jowa.—Carl Wells, Omaha, outpointed Ernie North, Wa- | | terloo, Iowa (8). | _NORFOLK, Va.—Bobby cinnati (1). SALT LAKE CITY.—Manuel Quin- tero, Tampa, Fla, and Joe Cortes, Boise, Idaho, drew (10) PORTLAND, Oreg.—Jack Dempsey, Hartwell. Boston knocked out Dave McRea, Okla. (1) and boxed two rounds with Denny Len- heert, Portland, and two r¢ with (1); exhibition. Mat Matches By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY. — Ed stn.ng:(- Lewis, Lcs Angeles, defeated Dr. Karl Sarpolis, Cincinnati, two falls out of three. Jumping Joe Savoldi, 202, | Oaks, Mich. butted Don Oskovy, 310, Warsaw, Poland, to the mat tn 12 min- utes 36 seconds. MONTREAL —Stanley Stasiak, 240, Cambridge, Mass. defeat:d Binar hannessen, Norway, two falls to one. udes | the junior | Sioux | the Shandel, | outpointed | Wolfe, | Goodwin, | | Florida, knocked out Jack Cotey, Cin- | Salt Leke City, knocked out Big Bill | gave Tiger Nelson a licking in the most rmw:.nnm: Ihuux of the evening. After | | much slapping punching, White | Peather applied his “ghinlock." wh | really is a modified strangle hold. The time was 25 minutes. Other results were: - | feated Mike Socke in 13 minutes, Karl | Pojello downed Prank Spears in 10 | minutes and Duteh Green and George | Romanoff went to a 15-minute draw. | - B U | PRELIM FI | GHTS LISTED | Three Bouts Arranged to Support | Fort Washington Headliner. | Make-up of the eard that will { Landers-Tramberis. it | uonanym:acm. at Fort wm‘unmn i pe. Henry Irving and Jack Priedman, the latter of Baltimore: Nevin Barber, for- mer District A. A. U. feather and ban- | tamweight champ, and Jimmy Kiggins, Philadelphia vet, and Baker Boy Billy | Schwartz of Alexandria and Sailor | Gates, Norfolk lght-heavyweight, have been matched and the remainder of the |card is expected to be settled in the next day or two. oo MIDDLE CROWN IS GOAL | Six at Milwaukes Seek Title Va-| | cated by Mickey Walker. | | MILWAUKEE, Wis, August 25 (8).— Six of the country’s leading middie- weight boxers are scheduled to appear at Borchert Field tonight in the first| of a series of bouts to determine a_suc- | cessor to the crown vacated by Mickey Walker. The pairings are: Clyde Chastain, Dallas, Tex., vs Rudy | Marshall, Stamford, Conn. Tiger Thomas, Philadelphia, vs. Go- rilla Jones, Akron, Ohio. Tait Littman, Cudahy, Wis., vs. Ham Jenkins, Denver, Colo. Each of the bouts will be announced as & 10-round eliminatjon contest on the bill promoted by William Mitchell, matchmaker. | "I‘firf’s Bést T;'io In Title Contest | | | | | EW YORK, August 25 (#).—The | questien of the supremacy of the | turf is slated to be settled cn Sep- | Bob 'Mariels, Portland, in six-round | Sun -year-olds of the year, -first running of the p. -and-six-furlong test over oval will carry more honor than furnish a definite on the three outstanding horses of the year. | Mate and Twenty Grand, which have met in a trio of 3-year-old specials, with the former holding the advantage, will | have an 8-pound pull in weights, but | Sun Beau ofttimes has proven that he | can urry&!n?y of pounds. | Under weight for age clause Sun Beau will pack while | 126 pounds, Jo- | Mate and Twenty Grand wilf carry 118 | pounds ‘each. gidlsed . | faction #n Boston and points in any | . in the American League, aside from nérds. " when wrestle for | one breke out ‘wrestlers. wresting game | three recognized nor Just at the moment it i gnn" yrinds Ay be better ml‘ktnl [ l'l‘l’chmmm'}!‘] t‘mae; ge &u-’ ent haphaza; ieatrical an wilder- | o) all there was to it. system it would b Sy for & to| Wit N gal under one| Cloak, where its| o, nands machinations, con-|nose and intentions upward as it de- B I -] deed W was @ subject tha myfimh 00| never should have been brought up. . Since then wres- has become and say. And if any ome ean come m | ith, it to be And it it were finge: 7&" s, either, mutton in this| - squint at Londos" count But that’s n : stew. Just how the N. B. A. is going to take three distinct wrestling com- bines and make 'em kiss and make up | (ORE (OC, ther AT ycome of the world’s Those boys have been at loggerheads g0ld. 5o long they like it. And when a flock | o regee of bone-benders cin make & lot of || IWrestiing likes to make the customer money by not liking one another, why | giF :. various "“h ;. :'h- should any one try to saturate them in| .= 'm-”‘ “‘n“.: ;v . ‘t ‘s the brotherly love and lather them with| "h-“l- s sweetness? e B Sastibus ki l'-*- u‘.-lm to crown '- el au: another of al wreten ke ons”baiir lon:much on | ihe X-ray will show (hat the' wiruinti 0 rulers are wea the mat And that's probably what ‘nu.._“* ng N. A. plans to erack uj ‘Which annot be dome, with or t the | Those big beeves are just children ’-Lhnn. And if the flitia. Stop them from embracing ene another and you stop wrestling. ‘believe that one let him go out and get Those leg yankers have three heavy- | %% SYeful Of them at thelr play. weight champlons—Londos of Curley's| But they have adult wallets. Eastern ring, Lewis of the Pacific Coast group and Sonnenberg of the Sandow the! Take Jim TRACK MEET TOMORROW Colored Boys Line Up for City Title Competition. Colored boy playground athletes were priming today for their .annual eity championship track meet tomorrow morning at Francis Junior High School, It seems to me that one faction of | SIATtiNE at 10 o'clock. The meet, origi- the boxing association attempted to put | nally scheduled last Wednesday, was wrestling on some sort of a basis of | postponed because of unfavorable organization not long ago. And when | Leacher it pulled up to find out what the shoot- b ing was all about they did not know | Cardoza won the meet last year, but is expected to have to hustle to retain its | honors, Briggs, Barry Farms, Willow direction in which the other two groups cannot keep it out. With three times champions business is good, which is a tip to Mr. Hoover and his what's-the-matter- with-business board. So the customer can readily see how suspiciously wrest- | ling will upon the N. B. A's at- | to bring harmeny and one champ into the game. 20 YEAARS AGO | Tree, Howard and 'Bruce are among | flecked some e Seves. vnt e S that double-header KAPLAN BEATS MANDELL Takes All of Ten Rounds in Bout With Weavier Fighter, ‘won L apian “eighed 13705 nd Mangel l TO ENTERTAIN BALL TEAM | Victor Post, American Legion, Will Play Host Tonight. customer does not | team for Charl A, l.' Tovino, . Cook, jr.; Edward A. McMahon and Andrus are representing Col vt versity at the national rifie mate! progress at Camp Perry, Ohio. e R bl TO FORM D. C. CHAPTER. Jewish athletes and clubs will gather at the Jewish Community Center early in October to organize a Washington Chapter of the Maccabee Association of America, & national organization fos- tering Jewish athletics and culture. 5 s IR MOUNT RAINIER TO TOIL Mount Rafnier, Md., unlimited ball team was to drill this e at o'clock and will practice again Satur- teams figured likely to score heavily | day evening at 4:30 o'clock on the IN THE STAR. along with Cardoza. ALTER JOHNSON and Carl Cashion were slated to'pitch for Washington today in & double-header against Detroit. Washington Cross Country Club, Baltimore Cross Country Club, Tre- monts, Aloysius and other clubs are expected to be represented in the track meet at Washington Grove Labor day. Germany _ Schaefer, first baseman, is looked upon as just about the best man at his position ‘Washington Hal Chase of New York. Although outhit, Manhattan de- feated Andrews, 5 to 2, yesterday in the week-day leagues post-season title competition. 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