Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1931, Page 29

e WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, bening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1931. Griff Baits Hook for Tiger Talent : Surprising Hubmen Win 11 of Last 13 Games MAY GIVE HURLER FORKID GARDENER Shiver Touted as a Slugger. | Nats Beat Sox to Catch Second-Place Yanks. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. ITH the Washington ball ‘ N} club again right in the | thick of a hot scrap for | second place, the world series just around the corner, tennis, swimming and golf still flourishing, the ring and rasslin’ rackets continuing to yield divi- dends; real racing inaugurated at the Graw, and foot ball ready to make its bow, it seems a bit early to open sessions of the hot-stove league, which usually dqesn't con- | vene until all these activities are | tucked in for the Winter. But Clark Griffith has gone ‘and| done it. { ‘The veteran diamond impressario is interested in all these sports, but base ball comes first with him, both as busi- ness and recreation, and although the | current season has yet a few days to| run he is deeply involved in the en- | grossing subject of fortifying his ball | club for the 1932 campaign. | Csuylnt Gill, Boyle mgtwsu;:r m i Esgggg i £ g o ] it £ ambitious Bengal faym at Toronto this Summer, | who also answers the des-ription. My ¢ connections report By the Associsted Press. . . Tates, Cubs, 1 DOR-A NINE CHALLENGED Mount Rainier Seniors Wounld Play Riverdale Combination. ! MOUNT RAINIER, Md, September 22—Mount Rainier Seniors have chal- lenged Dor-A Seniors of Riverdale to a ball game on any fleld. The Mounts have just reorganized. Their manager, Bob Bellman, is receiving challenges at Hyattsville 1043. Mount Rainier players afe Jimmy Smith, Walter Tolson, Bob_ Bellman, | Bob Hayden; Ardley Hart, Bud Bell- man. Francis Green, Norman Venning. N. Ande:son, D. Anderson and Pred ‘Watson. REALD. . SANDLOT CHAMPION SOUGHT Series Among Three Teams That Boast Titles Is Being Planned. HOUGH base ball, particularly sandlot base ball, soon will be- come a dead issue in favor of foot ball and bowling, plans are now on foot, which, if worked out, will give Washington, one of the Nation’s sandlot strongholds, a single sandiot champion and wind up & somewhat dull season in a red hot series. At the present time the sandlot situ- ation rivals the rassling racket. No less than three teams sport “cham- ip” Capital City A series would to- g el e the ital Cit; waded thrwxg P, depending upon today’s city week-day proposed series gethar the three title-] to decide the city’s Takoma Tigers, to win League - championship, Home runs yesterday—Foxx, Athletics, 2; Simmons, Athletics, 1; Jensen, Pi- | 1; Fullls, Giants, 1; Barton, The leeders—Gehrig, Yankees, 45; Ruth, Yankees, 44: Averill, Indians, 3; Klein, ' Phillies, 31; Ott, Gisnts, -2i p— A VERY SIMPLE TASK (YES?) e Wl ! VET HARRY WEEKS 230 18 PLE FiLLikg THiS GAP IS THE SIMPLE TASK, Too ! NTy OF TAckLE / -1 - f”\ Aeu.heu‘. AND y DID THOSE BOYS WORK Yes—reko»{('?. VET MATERIAL (S So RARE AT A, THEY PICILE AND PRESERVE “EM FOR WE JUMPED IN TOGETHER 1T WOULD HewP / Towr Doensr, JorrEuNENE, Ay ow. s FIGHT DRAW SECO TIME IN FORT SHOW| Landers Once Is Declared Winner Over De Angelo, but Decision Later Revised. For the second time this Q 23 8 #d ob¥ @ " -} LR ) S o woo e T Eavwooncad season esiS So8Z . |and pluck a first-class foot ball out of his brown chapeau. —BY TOM DOERER COACH YOUNG AEVER FAILS TO INVESTIGATE STRANGE FOOTPRINTS OUT THERE AT A.U.FIELD — IT MIGHT BE ANOW WATCH CLOSELY! GENTLEMEN ¢ YOONG MR YouNe MUST MERELY PRODUCE A GRID “TEAM FRom FROSH MATERIAL. IN T™wO WEEKS — How I S/MPLE }! Should Be Grid Legerdemain Then Young's Task at A. U. Might Be Simple. BY TOM OUNG Mr. Walter Young,| out there at American Uni- | versity, is confronted wlth‘ a very, very simple task. Y Hardly anything at all, when| you come to think of it. How easy | these head foot ball coaches do have it anyhow! Young Mr. Young has nothing more to do than flick his derby a few times, tell the girls and boys to watch closely And he has an entire two weeks in which to perform the feat. Hou- dini could have accomplished it in half the time. Thurston can do it with a eap. And young Mr. Young bhas 30 men from which to draw to perform his trick. DOERER. terday. And that boy Old Sol down on a lot of tired, shi and almost pantless, boys, who have courage if not experience. 1t took a lot of battling -spirit to scrimmage under that sun. It even takes a lot of fight and grit to wander out to the end of Massachusetts ave- nue snd even think of foot ball. flmfln"—‘fl"’m'&‘mk year. Out on his line Young has a tall tackle and a 230-pounder who ought to do something this year. Lambert, the | leaning tower of the line, is six foot and rangy. Weeks, the weighty tackle, | onght o be able to roll through the | encmy ferward wall and make a hole big ‘enough for Young to drive the fac- BIG THREE IN RACE Twenty Grand, Mate, Sun Beau in Hawthorne Gold Cup. “big three” of "the American turf, Twenty Grand, Mate and Sun Beau, have been named for the $25,000 added Hawthorne gold cup which will be de- cided October 8. Sun Beau's nomination was received the latter part of this month, sccording to' s message from Owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Binghamton, N. Y. The entries ¢f Twenty Grand and Mate, the great 3-year-old rivals of the season, were received some g0, and should all start, the cup would no' element of a championship LOUEHRA ONTRA I SEKYRA BATTE Tommy Must Come Through or Pass: Out of Picture as Heavy Contender. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, September 22.—The master boxer of all the havy- weights, Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia, tunes up his fighting equipment against Joe Sekyra, Dayton, Ohio, trial horse, in a 10- round bout at the Queensboro Stadium tonight. Counted out of serious contention Jimmy Collins, mfim in ;‘ln‘l%.” drive in run that beat 5! Jimmy Foxx, Athletics—Hit twenty- eighth and twenty-ninth homers, second with bases filled, in double-header og2inst Tigers. g Bumps Hadley end Fred Marberry, Senators—Held White Sox to eight hits to_win, 5-3. Ed Durbam and Ed Mcrris, Red Sox— Beat Browns in both ends of double- header, allowing only seven hits dll told. ga' z? SOX MAKING GAME BID FOR 5TH PLACE Durham Hurls Second Shut- out in Ten Days, Giving One Run in Last Three Tilts. By the Associated Press. HE Boston Red Sox and their I new manager, Shano Col- lins; fast are proving them- selves the surprise package of the American League. It now looks as if they will finish in fifth place, which is exactly three places higher than their most optimistic supporters would have predicted a month ago. If they do. Collins may regard his first season in the majors as a howling success. He took over a team that con- “| sisted of & high class pitching staff and one very fine outfielder, Earl Webb, and in the closing month of the campaign Teague: ; 1 3 } ' £ . { i g Egfis 405 QES 8 i 838 g i i &% g i i oF Bz o8 ™ s 1a i gz, £ '&n £ g : § et £ " s o, 8 8 W E » & g | i éi | g HEH fiis ) E-EEH 4 L i : Jf : E8 g2 3 é E i 7 ¥ g i ;% iiz i EgEg ) E g il s risi S -i._..- 4 i - 8§ verdict B i F : E ; i f g sf E s it : i E i B : it i n & o g ¥ g s aa?gg g Dick Porter and Luke Sewell, In- PR S 222 wedtR ! ulty through in a tallyho. However, what Young wants is not holes in walls, but young men who can ab the pineapple, warl te and flit down the lined with the ball. ~ 33 302 Foxx, Athletics, 29, | Prankie De Angelo of this. city and i League total’—American, 560; Na- Sallor Billy Landers of Norfolk, feather- ve | tional, 485; total, 1,045, weights, last night fought to a draw in 4 the main bout of the boxing card at Fort Washington. It was not until several minutes after it had been announced that Landers was the winner that the bout was de- clared a draw, The revised decision followed s re-examination of the bal- | lots of the referee and judges. v There was little to choose, between the battlers throughout the eight |Qr®dTr rounds. Landers Was superior at the lin-fighting and De Angelo was best | from long range. The Norfolk boy held | the whip hand most of the way for the first_four rounds, with De Angelo com- ing back strong in the final four. Mickey Morley, all-Navy lghtweight champ, proved no match for Saflor Mc- Eenna of this clty. who won & teehi nica] knockout in the semi-final, bout, slated for elght rounds, was |BrtheAssoclatedPIU, L 0 A stopped after the fifth. McKenna had | NEW YORK—Vic A opened a cut over Morley's left eye. | gentina, stopped Umberto Torriani, Soldier Clark, Fort Washington, won |Jtaly (2); Leo Mttchell, Long Beach, T twelant 1 the ety Rew York | calif, knocked out: Joe Shelby, New lightweight, in the scheduled six-round | Calf- ! main preliminary. York (5); Izzy Kaplan, Meriden, Conn., Other bouts, all at four rounds, saw |stopped Gus Worman, England (4): Jack Cody, Fort Myer, defeat Sammy | Barney Baker, Boston, outpointed Frani Hogan, Mohawk Club; ‘Billy Hooe, Mo- | Lablanco, New York (5); Solly Wepner, Bhe, fonseca.’ 10~ | hawk Club, get the decision over Heinie | New York, outpointed Steve Hayden, ling. Bacrifices—Rice, Hadies, Dou Welsh, ‘Baltimore; Marini Marino, | Bridgeport, Conn. (5). S piray bas BURGH.—Indian_ Tiger West, o5 5>—Cronin, to Myer to Ki 5 | Washington, score over Soldier Lavane, Gyt S Jort Weshington: Sailor Oden, Wash: | i purgh, and Paul Pirrone, Cleveland, Grow (10): Billy Holt, Pittsburgh, out- Hadle. |Mnr=:£r7. 1. oyt—] y | ington, knock out Soldisr Green, Fort | Hadiey. 2: by Marbe; r;‘.tgi’jflt’o—&‘}!‘;':}s‘? ;’Myer. in the second round, and Fred | pointed Ray Lyle, Canton, Ohio (8). { RONTO, _Ontario—Larry Gains 10 times in succession, but taey were |3,in € inntngs. WHE Dhtch Schaefer, Washington, m& er | e Toronto, outpointed Jack Renault, Mon- | team will round into form before it: due for a rhaking down, anfl if Sam | pye treal (10). | hits Johns Hopkins University of Balti- ‘West is able to back in the line-up | Owens, Time of eame—I | Sager, Fort Washington, & the Nationals should have & fine chance | hour and 48 minutes. - [— LANDIS FINES CLUBS. BALTIMORE.—Charley Gomer, Bal- more, the outfit for which the A. U. timore, and Johnn Camden, ' gridders point. (! 10 continue the process. v/est's telling | ___ bat, as well as his tight defensive work, are needed for the test ahead, and if | bingles with a pass for a one-run rally | B.(l:]l-!:‘(:(:AGO, September 22 (#).—Base ly Lucas, & Battt | ommissioner Kenesaw M. Landis | N, J., drew (8); Lew Raymon =1 Peyenreny g Seven varsity men made up_the has fined the Newark, N, and pointed Jimmy Burns, Atlantic| g UV, VATSLY men tnace P arst scrimm: out in a blazing sun yes- his alling elbow will permit him to | that Pred promptly snuffed. function the boys can make at least o b st " E Sox started out as if to m Youngstown, Ohio clubs for faflure to (8). ¥ | file transfer agreements with his office. CIE, Ind.—Midget Wolgast, Phil- tentative plans for spending that sec- | ond-place money. | Hadley, all of the first four men He fined Newark $150 and Youngs- town $100. dians—Divided four hits between them and drove in four runs against Yankees. @o00o-omnoE~noo! Yes, sir, out there where they hang the moon up and where Swiss guides only can find their way about, Mr. Young has over 20 frosh and about 7 last ar'’s men upon whom he must use the of his plays. - Sountiontalis tE8ESuatedn PYSSS S5 @, E OHAS N covrrunuuanton aCanoamon - STEERERBRAREESERELET o, comnmsanasalintiu eoocorcconmacsmmBuconon conatmann! FLORSHEIM 32 zazazse. i 3 a 5 ©58 O ccsonsonsssn-cos! magnates gal see the Athletics and Cardinals put on the 1931 edition cof their annual Fall chow, sterting next week. GAIN on even terms with their | Fartity. rivals for the runner-up berth, *Fonsecs . the Whits Bog yeaterdsy while Wes Fep. | Totale he &3 yesterday while Wes Fer- | | 1 ’ rell was leading the Indians to victory | Datted for Garrity in ni in New York, the Nationals’ series of M four battles at Yankee Stadium, be- | ginning tomorrow, looms more and more as a desperate, knock-'em-down- | Sill. ¥ and-drag-'em-out fight. | It is true the Griffmen this season haven't fared so well in Col. Ruppert's park and are on the short end of an | 8-to-10-game count with McCarthy’s | 'Pheips men, but it also is a fact that no Wi club for many years has | Jost an argument with a New York team—Yankees or Glants—and John- | son's outfit is grimly determined that | history shall repeat itself in this m-}{: [ stance. i Until Ferrell stopped them yesterday | :1 the Yankees had been traveling in | or steam-roller style, flattening opponents ’5&‘:{;&& follow, and then atwood. come games with High Point, Shenan- doah, Shep- H % ns and Randolph- Macon. If Mr. Young could spread his optimishh into the business world Mr. Hoover's plea would be an- lwlelred w!: one gallop. When you = figure Walter’s task of - whipping a crew of freshmen into a varsity foot ball team mx must hand palm for taking it with a grin. Young’s system of plays is partly :‘Vlrlllr’l. wflhn’vllhdlh‘lhl ‘::R m:; ons béing a: , 80 as boys can carry the ball down the grid- dle without stépping to tilk to the customers. And look out that he does nob fool a lot of the opposition at that. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. ey R VSRR @ Fuanii.g) | mger 8" ‘ Sullivan | HE MAN WHO CARES ~ CARES MORE THAN EVER 'U“ .‘. 4 ¢ #¢"The man who cares” has 1o be particularly careful now! Lots of shoes end with simply being good- looking! You can’t tell anything about their vitality till it’s too late. So in time when quality is so often sacri- ficed on the altar of price .. .« It’s welcome news that the FLORSHEM Shoe %9 0a?10 - ~—| Only one player, George Borsari, quarter, is a vet- eran back, and the remainder of the secondary must come from youngsters, some of whom have passed the stage where they thought a foot ball was an eggplant. To fill the shoes of Diehl, last year's American U. star back, Young has but several youngsters, with and with- out high school foot ball experience. Just what they are going to put into Mr. Diehl's old shoes other than grit and fight I cannot tell you, but Mr. Young says that will be all he can ex- pect at the moment, and for the rest he will have to hope. Great fullbacks' shoes are not filled overnight. But there is hope, sir. And it's in the line, Walter locks for.that for- ward wall to have plenty of ginger lnd1 swat. He thinks it will be able to cover up for his inexperienced backfield for| a while and by hoping and wishing the | S3TREn. 83 Se scesesescsM » 8 th. Fistic Battles o B Cosins sy s RV e 4l segdioiian v Totals Batted Chicago Washington' " atted in—Jolley. Gill. Menush, Rice, I. Bluege. Spencer. Fonsec 2 | up bittin although but two of | =D LXONS yescrday showed Sashes o g e dill dleplaved & of the form that once ranked him | notable lack of speed in chasing that | in tke top flight of bLurlers, but | fly from the bat of Appling, which went his work did not quite match the com- . Cons for a triple, in the second.. ch Al‘ bined efforts of Bump Ha<ley and Pred | Schacht, observing Yom Kippur, was| Marberry. Accorded tight support, | not in uniform...He spent the after- especially from Oss Bluege and Sam | g the boys in the pest | Rice, .each of whom pulled a circus put that justly famous stunt to enthuse the meager gathering, adelphia, outpointed Joe Dragon, Cin- cinnati (10). | Standings in Major Circuits American League . National League the fourth. Judge its by | ling’s drive,..He traveled close to | barrier in left center for a back-hand ...Sam was accorded a real cva- | trotted off the field... reach Rice's single the fifth...But after he kicked it, enabling | | vy-hoofed Spencer to score from second. . .Gill appeared to have speared | Sulliven’s wa ith & leap while tht-fleld fence in 10(10/12(14116/15/87/641.576 wit backed sgainst the rigl | 8(13/14114/14182/70].539 the sixth, but falled to hold the ball, {and it went for a double...Sullivan Hadley’s suicide ’s single. chlar‘; sixth-inning uprising yleld- ed a tally when s useful out was zand- wiched between Sullivan’s double and n's But in the fag end | of this frame a wmcrenmm successive safeties Kuhel, boosted the lnm Men’s Shops 14that G « Tth & K *3212 14th Brooklyn 4/—11[18111/10/77/731.513 2 | Pivtsburgh /1111 8111116/74/76/.493 | Philadelohia .1 4] 8/ 8| 9/13/—/1013/64186.437 { Boston T 0/ 6/ 8/11111/10:—] 8/63180].41¢ Cineinnati .. .1 21 7/ 8112/ 6/ DI14I—/58183.384 flavor critically _Games Tost..(53/04170173/76186/89/93—| HABANELLO o el o shiorviog BE SEVERE BUT U,FVNPREJL‘IDICED mm- Silides Bor Tehedutea. : > k =] *Open nights. ter, the final frame, when they grouped two