Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 39

LOSE TEN OF LAST T TILTS N WEST = Marbérry?a:;es Red Sox in| Series Opener—Homer Wins for Tigers. BY JOHN B. KELLER. 27—In the East again for the remainder of the | season, the Nationals are | to tackle the one rival in this sec- tor of the American League they K have found easy to topple. Tomor- row they jump into a two-game £ series with the Red Sox in Boston. And that Hub club has been over- come by the Johnson band 13| times in 17 meetings this year. | For the opening game of the short | set Manager Johnson has said he will send to the pitcher's box Fred Mar- | berry, which means the big fellow will | not take the hill against the league- | leading Athletics in Washington on | Sunday as he had been expected to do. | Al Crowder may open fire against the Red Sox Saturday. ‘The Nationils stopped off here today for an exhibition clash with the Boston Braves of the National League. As they | have performed in their major clrcult‘ Braves seem to be tough customers, but the Washington club s ‘been run- | ning up against opposition of that type | the past 16 days. That last swing of | the year through the West was no picnic | for the Johnson band. Of 17 games played in the Western sector month, but 7 were won by the Nummu The final tour left them rges ot ll phyed but the second trip mmlywm"mmm 16 | No& much of a showing against sup- posedly weak opposition. OY JOHNSON at the start of the eighth inning yesterday hit a homer over the right-field wall that meant ;o:—w-‘ defeat for the Na- route against the Nationals. He gave up seven safeties, three in the first frame and two in the ninth, and three passes. The hits in the first were mixed with eacl first. West's single tallled Cronin | moved Harris to the far corner, | from wis\f!! he crossed after Johnson | uege’s holst. h-_!umedmm umnmd e i | thm markers. doubled and veteran's relief. 3 face Carl, was thrown out, Whitehill tallied to put the Tigers ahead. | The Nationals pulled up a tie in their < got their run from | Kuhel’ s fine doublt After Johnson poled s e n| the eighth the Nationals threw a scare into the Tigers in the ninth. With one out Spencer singled and Judge was sent in to run for him. Hayes batted for Pischer only to loft out, but Myer singled and Manush filled the bases when he was scraped by one of White- | hill's pitches. Cronin, though, put up 2 high one to Gerald Walker. LOUDY and cool that last day of the season in Detroit for the Na- tionals...Less than 2,000 turned out for the engagement...Harris got a fine headache when he backed against | the right-fleld screen only to miss Gehringer's wallop that went for a triple in the first inning. Time had to be taken out while Dave reclined on the ground ... Still dizzy, he pursued | Whitehill's_drive only to let it bound from the bleacher barrier by him for a triple in the second inning. .. still in the third round, Harris sf to the plate to let Whitehill ti three strikes by him... Myer made it corking stop to keep a hit from John- | £on, the first batter Pischer pitched to | efter relieving Jones in the sscond At that a Tiger run crossed on the play...Stone tried to make a three- bagger of a hit dropped far down the left-field foul line at the outset of the | Tiger third only to be nailed by Ma- nush’s fine heave to Bluege. .. Gerald Walker misjudged Myer's hard drive in | the fourth, but after running in, turned backed & bit and leaped for a bare- | hand cateh. . .Cronin made a ll’el: Dlly | getting man. . .Myer followed with a spectacu- lar one-hand scoop of Johnson's hot omnmmanmnmnmw ‘Tiger. . his ing ‘ORCESTER, Mass., August | 6 | yashinston 195 | Johnson, Tigers, 30. Pitchiny Stiaide g avorie Kty tdudse Totals *Batted for tRan for DETROIT. Johnson, rf...... Genringgr, 3b ton . b, of. I PRSP — %l cocomomssommnd | 00080-0000000M slosssononommus & £y os0eatmonnnisd g5 5 —onwd 5 5 L Stone, _If.. Alexander. G. Walker, ML | nouuomowe> | ~ouscescoM waki, c. Whitehill, p. Totals . 3le - s " 8l wuvasansnd - '™ ° 00 2| monomuwmini [ ° (@), G. Walker, est, , " Kuhel. L N Det o3 1 Runs_batted m—uann- Alexander, Gehringer. | Two-base hits—John: . Three-base ‘Home Lett on First base 4, ck WHV 'hlhlflll. l. 3: by Ln ‘ m:—o’ fesars, MeGow: d Moria Tamei nour and 44 mimutes. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Simmons, Athletics, Rutlh, Yankees, .381. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 130; Ruth, Yankees, 118, Runs batted in—Qehrig, Yankees, 138; Ruth, Yankees, 135. Hits—Gehrig, Yankees, 174; Simmons, Athmifl 174, bles—Webb, Red Sox, 53; Miller, At.hlcflfl 41. ohnscn, T u; Sim- mons, Athletics; Blue, ; Rey- nolds, White Sox: Oehfll.mk- 13. | Home mm—ll-uth, Yankees, 37; lost 2. Batting—Davis, Phillies, .350; Terry, Glants, .344. . Runs—Klein, Philllies, 107; Terry, tted in—Kiein, Phillies, 106 Oft, Giants, 91. Hits—Terry, * Giants; - 171; Cuyler, E Gardingls, 387 Adams, flh_' Bartell, Phillies; Her- “Terry, onnu,!}s: Traynor, es, 31; OMt, hamton, 5;: Willlamsport, 2. | m, 5. Elmira, 0. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Ott, Giants, 1: Hornsby, Cubs: 1: | Cuyler, O‘uh 1; Barton, Cubs, 1; Leach, Glants, 1; Hendricks, Reds, 1. Hurst, | | Phillles, 1; mnolds White Sox, | Johnson, Tigers, The l-hn Ruth, Yankees, !1 mhm | 34: Kiein, Phillies, Indians. : Ott, Glants, 26; M!.Alhkflfl 22. League Totals. gmAm'l‘\«:&n 473; National, 437. ‘l‘ohl" 1] | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION By, | pATAY QKNSC TYPO NINE HOPES T0 REPEAT TODAY Lyon Would Imitate Corkins in Defeating Tars in League Play-Off. RANK CORKINS proved to some | 3,000 sandiot ball followers yes- | terday that G. P. O. has more | than a one-man pitching staff | when He held Naval Hospital to five hits to give the Printers the first game of the three-game series for the Gov- ernment Liague championship, :wo‘ Sox Finally Dent Plate for Faber HICAGO, August 27 (®)—After holding out on Red Faber for 31 consecutive innings, the White Sox finally scored some runs for the veteran spitballer. Faber yesterday asked for the job of trying to keep the New York * Yankees from taking every game of the season series in Comiskey Park, and his mates responded by scoring two runs in the first inning, and enough thereafter to win, 8 t0..5. Faber was relieved for a pinch bats- man in the seventh, but was = ited with the victory, and the Sox were spared the humiliztion of bow- ing to the Yanks every time a home crowd looked on. Also Corkins put G. P. O. in a spot | that now makes it highly probable for the Typos to down the Sailors and put | themselves very much in the city cham- plonship serles, which opens next Mon- | day. One up, thanks to Corkins, G. P. ©O. today was to send its ace, Bobby | Lyon, to the mound to end the serfes. | The game was more one-sided than | the score would indicate. In addition o the three runs they scored in the |Steele, now the foremost challenger to | possible). fourth, the Typos scored twice in the beginning of the sixth, but when the night at Griffith Stadium in the feature | feyd on the Wllhlll‘“l game was called because of darkness, the two tallies were nullified. Potomac Food Distributors, by virtue of their win over Southwest Market yesterday, 8 to 3, today claim the | ch.-pmdnp of Southwest Washing- | Kennedy, former Del Ray pitcher, is | | requested to call George Harrison, Vir- ginia White Sox manager, at chrendon | 495 between 6 and l o'clock. TIP FOR nsx}:nm . W. Va. August| and Shenandoah Rivers were muddy this morning. 3 228 38 3 315 299 296 am 81 3 ki 213 200 B R 28! 852538n 2. B Ba2 i 2 3 5 23 2 suenyensEIEhysl e zeeaseiediigadE: 73, 53?6’% Standings in Ma]or Clrcmts THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1981 American League . YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Detroit, 5: Washimgton, National League TYESTERDAY'S lnul.n. 4-7: New Yor x Cinciansti, & 1-4 Boston, 1-4. ther é‘l.‘u':l not schediled. gne Wednesday Night—Zaharias and ; Steinborn to Clash. Don De Long, former member of Paul Bowser'’s rassling troup, will meet Ray Jimmy Londos’ title, next Wednesday | bout of the card. | _ De Long, it may be remembered, once i performed here iast Winter when the | Bowser group was trying to do a little | muscling into Promoter Joe Turner's | territory. ~ Following his appearance here, De Long joined the Curley syndi- | eate 'and is now preparing to go places. George Zaharias, the Colorado Greek, and Milo Steinborn, the strong man, | will clash in the semi-final. Another bout, which will be clofied | either today or tomorrow, will bring to- | gether Chief White Feather and ‘Tom { Draak, two more rough 'uns. Tickets are available at the Annlp- olis Hotel. | DEMPSEY PULLS PUNCH Exhibition | Three Opponents Get Ring Lessons From Jack. SEATTLE, August 27 ().—Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight cham- 4 pu)n. gave neat boxing lessons to three opponents last night in four | rounds of exhibition work. He scored no_knockouts Dempsey apparently made no effort to knock out his opponents. He toyed through two rounds with Denny Len- hart, Portland; let Bob Frazier, Seattle Negro, stand up for one round, and { helped Red Tingley, Scattle, stay on his feet for another He knocked down Tingley twice; hélped him to his feet the second time, and then let his opponent whale away at him for the remainder of the round By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS—Jo: Ghnouly, St. Louls, outpointed Davey Abad, St. Louis (10), | newspaper decision): “Peewee” Kaiser. | , knocked out Raoul “Gyp” | Zarro, Tulsa, Okla, (7); Allen Mat- | thews, St. Louis, stc | Hams, Los Angeles (2) | By the Associated Press. | Jess Haines and Burleigh Grimes, Cardinals—Pitched Cards to double vic- tory over Braves. Roy Johnson, Tigers—Hit home run l'znekhlh breaking tie to defeat Sena- Phil Collins and Dick Bartell, Phil- lies—Collins won fifth straight in hrul. game of dcuble-header, beating Reds 8-4; Bartell's double with bases full in ninth gave Phillies second game, 7-6. Goose Gosl Browns — Smacked three singles, driving in four runs in triumph over Athletics. vln, 4-3; latter hit pinch-hit homer to tie second ] game m*fiffl.u—n run in five-run that beat Yankees, DE LONG IS CHOSEN AS FOE FOR STEELE. |To Head Card in Show Hers Next| pped Cyclone Wil- | THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, BYT TH AT DOE NOTY LOOK LIKE AN EASY PATH TO ME/ -Fans May Be Don’t Believe Anything You Hear, Nor Half You See. | BY TOM DOERER WHOLE lot of chatter on the| coming national amateur championship at Gattown nextv week and none of it means | a thing. After the experts have named the big ten and the little five and a flock amun«-mmum throne, along will come anether Billy B-rtenu”mmm And don't take that teo seriously, | either, because a favorite may pull up | under the wire, far out in front, to | make me look sillier than usual (if But that has l‘hln‘ h lo -nn |hfi | seems some tlehy-mmum another on the chin instead of smack. ing out base hits. | While they are doing & lot of inside | battling the Yanks are making. their | fight & public one, with second place | ,maney as the purse. | But there 15 an exclfe for tne club house scraps. When a group of hard-battiing bail players, who have fought the scrap the Griffs have to reach first place, reach that point where they know the rest of the | way is futile, tempers crack and | trivial discussions become fighting foundations. Yet that alibi will hold little water | with a club owner. His nerves and dis- | psition. too, receive a setback when a | club fails to make its objective by so | narrow a margin. We were pretty clos>. And he is ready to crack a whip l at what appears to be any little trans- | gression. | But what's the o0dds? Those Sen- | ators may lash the | Athletics Sunday | and hope and sun- ‘ ny dispositicns will | arise anew. It's| an old sporting custom. { | Don't_take any- thing to seriously | in sports. Whena | customer believes | all he hears it is| no time ut all be-| fore he is munx[ | i out on a hickory | limb playing a uke. For instance, there’s Mickey Coch- rane staggering around with dizzy spells to join Simmons, Haas, Boley and others on the hospital list. Yet the only thing diszy about Mickey | is his ability to smack the pineapple | over the orchard fence. And Connie sees no reason for him to do any plastering until the World Series unfolds. | | | | | | | Turn these “cripples™ over to “Doc” | Preston and when he gallops in with | ( his little charts they would show that ‘eu:h and every one of those invalid Athletics are as tough as a herd of | prize-winning bulls and as alert as a ".r-mc copper with a nasty temper. } leemltumhhkfllm And just what Judge Landis thinks of track Hasts at the ball parks is something else again. The old boy not take much to Art Shires’ | ing 1931. £ ) MACKENZIE BONES . SHOREY- WAFHINGT( | | i | { Too Serious the customer look at Chapman’s achicve- | ment and yodel, “Well, what of #t?” ‘What's become of Benny Leonard's comeback? Last reports showed that he was down to three chins, Jack Kearns having talked off five of the original 11. | Take -another last minute look at ‘what those McCarthymen are doing and | money checks, then have one on me tell me, brother, thll there hn't a | squall in those clouds. Oh, well, the billy goats are tripping | at Cumberland, Md. It's the bugle call for Maryland turfites. It will not be long now before the boys are fighting | one another to give the mutuels their change. But whatls it to me. A bird can do | what he wants with his own two-casers. | by FIGHT 10 FAST ROUNDS. ST. LOUIS, August 27 (#).—Joe Ghnoully, St. Louis featherweight, who has been campaigning in the East for the last year, and Davey Abad, dancing Panaman, fought 10 fast rounds in the 'i'f,‘i" bout of a boxing show here last nigl DOR- A NINE NEEDS FOE. Dor-A Seniors of Riverdale are seek- ing a game for Saturday at Riverdale with either a senior or unlimited club. Call Stanley Bowers, Hyattsville 1359 after 5:: 30 BIAHKS PING PONG FOE. Woodley Heights defeated Talaramo | yesterday at ping pong, 5 to 0. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. AY MORGAN, Washington's recruit third baseman, pasted the ball for four hits in five tries yesterday. Cornell Company walloped Aloy- sius, 11 to 1, to win the section A title in the post-season weekday lml'.!ul’ base ball league title play. Richmond, winning pitcher, gave up only four hits. Lynch and Kummer, losing % ineffective. Mullin fer ell -nd Drennan for Aloysius were leadi tters. Georgetown has listed these foot | ball umwnu for the spproaching | closest Am wi | | T0 PRIME FOR A'S Return Home From Brilliant | Tour of East—Cubs Win Two From Giants. BY GAYLE TALBOT, | Associated Press Sports Writer. | OMEWARD bound today aft- | er having completed thelr; last triumphant tour of thc | Atlantic seaboard, the St.| Louis Cardinals were in posulom to concentrate on getting them- | selves in prime condition for their | October skirmish with the Phlla~ delphia Athletics. By sweeping their closing dou- | ble-header with the Boston Braves yesterday the streetmen closed| their Eastern invasion with a rec- } ord of 13 victories in 17 starts against the Giants, Phillies, Rob- | ins and Braves. They are returning to their own back | yard with a lead of 10 full games over the fleld, sufficient to permit them to coast through the final month. It is| Jjust what Gabby Street asked for. From on, according to report, the Red Birds' pilot intends to give his men plenty of batting practice against the American League ball and to devote considerable time to drilling his pitchers on the weaknesses, if any, | of the Athletic swatsmithe. In other | words, the Cards intend to be “set” for the Mackmen this time. It is reported one of their scouts has been following the champions around for several weeks, makl.n. ccopious notes. Two veterans of the Birds' staff completed the sweep of ti e flve- game series at Boston Jus 6 to 1, and Burhi'h Grimes taking the nightcap, 6 to 4, when his mates overcame an early Braves’ lead with a four-run rally in the sixth. Chick Hafey and Pepper | Martin were the bltfln' stars. ANKS to some lusty hitting by Hazen Cuyler and Manager Horns- by, the Chicago Cubs were able to close their Eastern jaunt with a pair of victories over the Glants, 4 to 3, nnd 7 to 4, the second loln[ 12 innings. Glants were to 0, until the leading, 4 eighth inning of the nightcap, when Bun; Cuyler nicked Jim Mooney, rookie star, for a home run with two on. ' Horns- by’s four-bagger tied it up in the ninth, and the whole outfit fell on Pred PFitz- simmons for the winning runs in the twelfth. ‘The Phillies shoved Dan l—lowlek Cincinnati Reds a little deeper into t} cellar with a pair of beatings, 8 to 4 and 7 to 6. They had to score four| times in the ninth inning to win the | nightcap, Dick Bartell's double with two out and the bases supplying the climax. Phil Collins scored his fifth straight victory in the first. LTHOUGH they dropped the final to St. Louis, 9 to 5. the Athletics| halted nice profit for their last winning 10 and losing ‘were back East today with a 141-game lead aver their erican League rivals, the on Rube Wal. B¢ mr%he seventh and eighth innings to | give the Athletics a parting shove. | booking at Hyattsville, 799-M. Sekyra Is Tough Foe for Retzlaff PIzw YORK, August 27 (C.P.A). —Around the fistic lanes tongues are wagging that per- haps Jack Hurley made a mistake in matching his charge, Charley Retz- 1aff, with Joe Sekyra. This bout, originally slated for the Queensboro Tuesday night, vm take place this evening, and postponement has served only !u heighten the doubt about H\uky's wisdom in this matter. In his triumphant march to the spotlight of serious consideration Retzlaff for the most part has taken on slow, lumbering fellows who cither get their man early or go out themselves. Retzlaff gained much of his fame through needing only one punch to end an argument. The target has not swayed and dodged in a tantelizing manner, and so Retzlafl has been hitting at more or less stationary marks. This is the main reason why some of the critics are question the wisdom of the bout with Bohemian battler. Another argument they produce ir that Sekyra is much lighter than Retzlaff, and rather than working as a disadvantage for him will serve as an asset. Retzlaff has had little ex- perience against the lighter, faster men. SUN BEAU’ $ RE-ENTRY STIRS UP TURF FOLK Fans Welcome Ace Coin Winner in Lincoln Handicap, But Field May Be Cut. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 27.—Willis Sharpe Kilmer's sudden decision 1o send Sun Beau, the champion money-winning horse, after the $25,000 added Lincoln Handicap at Lincoln Fields Saturday news to Chicago racing fans— nndwmm to owners of other eligi- hh for the fat purse. t had been expected that 15 thor- hbn:ds ‘would go to the post, but the dedalnn to start the stout-hearted son of Sun Briar-Beautiful Lady may re- duce the field to 10 or less. opportu- uare up for Plucky Play’s e ner-y m mmghm- zspm'mm- u gave Plucl y vnhm-m event, but will be called 114 b{ wfl k) IP? Wm\mfl a“:l’l{lm jor Plucky 1y, Al also will sizeable loads, yan carry the former drawing 115 and Paul Bun- y;g lul!u axpeeud t_Lincols un u was a n Fields today, accom) Riverdale A. C. Midgets are after games for Saturday and Sunday on their diamond. Stafford Howard is doubles and a single. Walt Stewart the A's after they had routed Rip Collins in the fourth. 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