Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1931, Page 31

TACKLE FOES HALF BAME T0 THE 600D Gain Edge Beating Chisox in Final—Nats Fortified by Return of West. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. N Spring, when they had visions of annexing the championship, has any series loomed as important to the Nationals as that starting today in New York. Second place is at| stake, and with several hundred |$4 dollars per man as an incentive, in addition to the satisfaction of landing the runner-up berth, Johnson’s men can be counted on to put up a determined fight. That the current edition 'cf the Griff- men is not of pennant caliber, at least not while a club of the ciass of the A's is in the field, already has been estab- lished. They are a bit deficient in |} several respects, but tiere never has been any reason for- questioning their courage, and it is due to:this all-im- portant quality, plus the return t> serv- jce of Sam West, that leads fo the belief they will get what they are after. By reason of the 7-to-2 shellacking they handed the White Sox yesterday, to | W! sweep the set of four tilts, run Chi- .m'l string_of ccnsecutive defeats to 10 and cop the season's series from the Windy Cityans, 15 games to 7, the Na- tionals enter the acid ‘test a half game to the good over the Yahkees, who were idle. It i¢ pessible this slender advantage may prove to be that by which they ob- tain their objective, for if they split even at New York and then defeat the Red Sox in the final fracas of the canr- algn here next Sunday, while the vankees conquer the u:cflk‘men th:: separa them. And a stand-of in Gotham, while both Griffs and Yanks are Icsing the last day of the season will bring the same result. ANAGER JOHNSON _vouchsafed ‘Walter will be abls o call on. Crowder, victor in his last n‘1e starts, for the single contest . : have either or. ! rimed for the bargain that will gnd the invasion of ~Col. Ruppert's stadium Saturday. Jones, Burke' and ‘Weaver are not e: | to see in the set unless occurs. ‘With this pitching W is confident of giving Q‘hfla’: trouble, and the fact the g“z and in pretty was a source of great the pilot. Sammy not gest bit of punch the team possesses right now, but he is a veritable tower of strength in roaming the spacious outer garden of the plant In the Bronx. Wrs’r demonstrated durln-fl the :lb- jugation of the Pale Hose here > esterday that his questionable doesy. fiy-chasing_ by & dozen tallies. Myer, Rice and Cronin also con- | tributed OT since 'way back in the | ~ Che Fhenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1931 Griffs Picked to Beat Yanks for Second Place: East Dominant in American League By the Associated Press, ARIS, September 23.—Joe Max Schmeling, world February. Jacobs said Schmeling the: in June at a place to be picked modate him.” Dickson’s new sports palace. Schmeling ,tp.Fig Then Dempsey, Jacobs States sald today that Schmeling would sail in November for the United States to make an exhibition tour and that he wonld fight Mickey Walker either in Miami or Los Angeles in Jacobs said he was sure Gene Tunney, who retired unde- feated in 1927, was returning to the ring and that “we’ll accom- Schmeling and Jacobs were in Paris for the opening of Jeft ht Walker, Jacobs, American manager of heavyweight boxing champion, n would take on Jack Dempsey later. ; I Back in Saddle ' “w ul ssesss0-coscery Cnasaccaskinid iy NS ul s200820000-00-M i 3 o5 cconoumommult £ 4l soonououssnsoni ISRESEERIENG | weiiLhay | woonousssss? M aiiseiils I "L‘um G REDS BARR¥;B|U.ED' v Washington Light-Heavy = Will Face Formidable Opponept in Fort Feature Monday. ‘GALLAGHER BOUT OFF. BROOKLYN, N. Y. September 23.— Bopton Semeywelght borer, Stanley Pored, nmnrnm last nld\mh was called off. Neither was in shape. luege, Senators—His double filled in first inning was high spot of six-run attack on White Sox. George Blaeholder, Browns—Pitched effectively in pinches to beat Red Sox, les to the veteran spit- | 5.2 bing! baller’s downfall, the latter's bel . double, and when Al Thomas was flua | to the hill Bluege completed the job by for a two-bagger that | emptied a fully peopled set of sacks 4 walked. after Kuhel had b the Nationals five | for a counter right at the out- | e through ® single by Blue, his steal | of third as Pischer uncorked a wild Pitch, following Sullivan’s sicrifice and » long fly. | W The Hose could do nothing with the Joose-jointed portsider thereafter until the n{’mh. when they grouped a.pair of raps for their second run. however, and in the meantime the Nationals bhad a Bicked 1P aber's successor. on the il when Myer and Rice singled, Gill sac- | yificed and West connected for a long | drive to Norman. | LONG session in the locker room | yesterday made the Nationals miss most of their pre-game fielding| drill...The question of how Washing- fon's share of the world series financial should be split was settled, but no Retails were given out...GIl ‘went to, the outfield in the fourth in place of Manush, who was bothered by a touch of Mumbago. .. Fothergil - first was on_the line so close to the field boxes Heinle feared to venture more than one hand in attempting the cateh, but that provéd sufficient. .. Fothergill was charged with an error, 2ithough making an assist, when he first fumbled Cronin's single and then flagged Manush sliding into the far corner in round able to reach second on the play... Rice was guyed by the crowd uhen“y‘:;:_ forgot which field he was started .toward right, in the fifth. .. Holding a son in the fifth t Boll chasing in " foul fiy the day before...George Bowl- er, third of the Hose hurlers, is & right- hander who attracted attention of Sox :f:,‘,'“ out in the Rocky Mountains sec- Homer Standing By the Associated Press. M tally in the fourth off Al 3 fiy in theicr o’ 2 because Cronin was | Jimmy Foxx, Athletics—His thirtieth homer with two on sided in defeat of L] » -] » 4 ] ¥ B 333 o 3 SEonts £ 8 $u28.0 csvubeuteBE 85 2ER 200 22 52 LLE . Brengeats. SeEREE; kit Gin 2 Marb'ry Brown. Hadles. ischer Andrus W PR SR e 22.L8,8.953, wutzEnsiniantadug areteicn sovmaume XEulu S8 5% 8 eacoussmousrmasne PR~ w I 7> I T et 13 10 . | make any of those 3,000-odd fans ex- o | after what has happened. ‘Those, xs: | structioneers, which still is rated the .| most powerful team in the field—on sEEaiitha SANDLOT HONORS G. P. 0., Eldbrooke in Three Tilts, Following Defeat of Latter. A P. O. base ballers today were to take the South Ellipse Pield at 4:15 o'clock in the first of a three- game ‘series to decide the city series cha hip. mpions| Anything might happen, but noth- ing short of an errorless game can VERY forlorn Commerce team and nine happy, bewildered G. at the tilt raise an eyebrow d there were many, who were foolish enough to make predic- tions, conceded the title to the Con- Yet the Constructioneers won me in six and were the paper. by rognosticators,” swept over all opposition after losing to the ctioneers early in the series. When the Clerks defeated G. P. O.| last week the series was believed over . downed Eldbrooke FIGHT FOR GEN. BUTLER Philadelphia “Mayor ‘and Public Bafety Head See Ring Show. " Ml director of safety of thal ¢ Joe M %‘e:fl um? . loe Moran ea McNally, kniockout; Buddy - Hoskingon defeated George Conlin; Buster Medlock and George Edwards drew; Johnny Clark defeated Carl Mannan: Jimmy Bell and Clifton Willougby, drew, and Bob Gus- som defeated Albert Moran. pri TR Ay Smith Stops Anderson. LOS ANGELES, September 23.—Harry Smith, Jamaica, Long Island, middle- weight Negro boxer, stopped Joe Ander- son of Louisville, Ky, in ths third round of their 10-round bout here last Anderson injured one hand in first round. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 23— Charley Corbett, manager of the St. Mary's Celtics foot ball team, has booked a game with the Northern A. C. of Washington for October 4 in gett's Park. It will be the opener for the Celtics. The ball game between the Celtics | and Dixie A. C, postponed last | Sunday because of wet grounds, will be | med here this Sabbath at Baggett's | National A. C. wants gridiron games ‘vm. 100-pound clubs. Telephone Owen Chappelle at Alexandria 828-W. Ballston A. C. will entertain 1 the | Skinker Eagles Sunday at 3 o'clock. ‘American Association, Minneapolis, 10-1; Milwaukee, 7-7. | ‘Toledo, 8-5; Indianapolis, 4-2 | Kansas Cit; H Pacific Coast League. Portland, 5; Sacramento, 4. mo-xl;;m, 5: Seattle, 4. ancisco, 3; Hol , 1. Los Angeles, 10; umim Western League. Wichita, 1-4; Topeka, 2-3. Oklahoma City, 8; 8t. Joseph, 7. Denver, 9; Des Moines, 4. Only four games, one postponed, cold | | weather. American League YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. Yaanioston, her €hubs Standings in M;ljor Circuits WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 1931, National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Loyis. 3. Phila , 2 (13 innings). Other chibs” not seheduled: Home runs yesterday—Foxx, Ath- |8t 1 leties, 1. ‘The leaders—Gehrig, Yankees, 5 Ruth, Yenkees, 44: &:erm’.( Tndians, 32 lein, Phill i Foxx, Athletics, 30; Ott, Glants, 25, s League totals—American, 561; Na- tional, 485; total, 1,046, PLAY-OF DEGIES as far as most sandlot folk were con- | cerned. Y 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. ACK LELIVELT, outfielder of the Washington team, next season will be found with the Rochester club of the Eastern League if the other American Leagie teams waive on him. He figured in a deal by which the Nationals will get Foster, Moeller and Spencer from Rochester. Carl Cashion gave Chicago just two hits yesterday as the Nationals conquered the Sox, 1 to 0, in the sec- ond game of a double-header, the first tilt of which was won by Chi- cago. Vean Gregg, Cleveland's sensa- tional southpaw, and Walter John- son may face as the Naps open a +will 8 its season against the Sea- man Gufiners here. Gallaudet will lopen its foot ber 7, when “Im“!!fiuwre City Col- Green. TUFFY PUTS SCHAAF KAYO KICK TO TEST Boston's Sensational Puncher Will Have 18-Pound Margin in Battle Tonight. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 23.—The an- out victory march through the Amer- iean heavyweight ranks may be heard the Chicago Stadium tonight when stacks his new _&eguuum inst d Ambrose (“ y”) Griffith in & 10-round battle. - Because of the Boston heavyweight's t sweep since last Spring and Grif- ith's bude hopes to stop him, the battle had the com) the best fight natural cago was so excited about the match that 15000 were expected to pay $40,000 to watch it. Bacause of his seven straight knock- out victories, Schaaf. ruled a slight favorite. He outweighed Griffith by 18 pou although he faced a far shiftier target than his recent victims. lexion of one of of the year. TROTTER SHOWS SPEED. LEXINGTON, Ky, September. 23 ters in the second heat, J. P. Berry's Tronia Britton won the Ashland State, feature of the Grand Circuit program. ‘The time for the second heat was 2:01. The winner went the first heat in 2:02% and the third in 2:01%. swer to Ernie Schaaf’s stirring knock- | nds as an added advantage, | (A).—Setting a season’s record for trot- | @ TRE BIG Boy HAS ‘A LOT OF JUGGLING T0 DO DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS Unusual Records V Made in Pitching DIEW YORK, September 23— Pitching persimmons, ripe and green, are numerous in the ma- Jor leagues today. Just look these over: Grove has won six games from ‘Washington. He has also won 13 games from the West. Crowder, for ‘Washington, has won five games from the Athletics. Ruffing, for the Yankees, has lost five games to Cleveland without winning one. Fer- rell of Cleveland has won five each from Chicago and St. Louis. Cara- way of the Chicago Americans and | Gray of the St. Louis Browns have lost at least one game to each club | in their league, ~Washington has | from Caraway and New Jim Elliott has won six from Brook- lyn. Hallahan has won five games * | .from Philadelphia—not the Athletics | —his turn is coming. | By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK—Tommy Loughran, | Philadelphia, outpointed Joe Sekyra, Dayton, Ohlo (10), Charley Retalaff, Duluth, Minn, stopped Dick Onken, Germany (2). ‘Wolgast, INDIANAPOLIS. — Midget | Philadelphia, outpointed Johnny Ed- wards, Huntington, W. Va. (10).~ | _PARGO, 8. Dak.—Kid Rippatoe, | Sioux City, Towa, and Howard Shiek, Fargo, drew (4). | ATLANTA—Maxie Rosenbloom, New ,Yl%rk, and Battling Bozo, Atlanta, drew ). ( BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. No. 9—Rickey, The Patron. HE Tise of Gabby Street from obscurity to major league man- agerial heights with the St. Louls Cardinals is linked up at a number of vital stages with the fore- sight of Branch Rickey. In many respects Rickey is the most remarkable executive figure in base ball. He is aggressive, a r'gid disciplinarian, a fluent speaker and an engaging personality. He once piloted the St. Louis Browns. does | attendirg measures. 'To Branch Rickey is Due Credit - For Street’s Rise as Manager |- least thought at the time that they would hook up together, 10 years later, with & champlonship combination. Alter the war, Slrect left Nashville and began his managerial career With the Suffolk club of the Virginia League. He went from. there to Joplin and Mus- kogee in the Western Association, hav- ing forgotten about Rickey until the Cardinal executive again crossed _his They talked business as well as about their war days in France. The upshot was that Street stayed on Rickey’s little memorandum book and three years later was offered the job as Cardinal coach. It was the climax of a 17-year battle g‘l’uvncxh“the ;ulhu and the mnm: r Gabby. Having justified Rickey" confidence, Street was No. 1 on_the list when it was decided to replace Bill Mc- Kechnie after the 1929 season. a Mle’!! is thehmln-bchlnd-thQ-Mv 0 ar as Street is concerned, the old backstop in player m to disciplinary necessary Gabby Is Boss on Field. 4 On the fleld, however, Gabby is the satisfactorlly into the of operations than any of his many under the Breadon-Rickey | in the ev | placer of an owtfit that stumbled by | He has apparently fitted more | Giants, 120. c:rl’d!nuuhmn FISCHER'S STEADY AND HEADY PITCHING SILENCED THE SOX YESTERDAY THOSE HEAT= Classified Ads I THE SITUATION NOT SO WELL IN HAND. —By TOM DOERER I “THE GRIFFS OWE THEIR POSITION TOOAY To RED FABER Griffmen Have an Incentive , Up There in New York to Grab Second Place Coin. Y TOM ITH a hairline grasp upon second money, those Grifts are in New York DOERER. today ‘ready to do or die | inning for dear old bank account or the price of a new Winter overcoat| for the missus. A Yes sir, our pride and hope is up there in Babylon to play a ball club that never arises unless there is coin at stake and while second-place money was never much to the Yanks it is different these days. During the next four days both teams of ball players will be window shopping to make the dream come with their war clubs in the Red Sox, it will'either cheer a second the wayside. 3 e Mr. General Crowder, the better-late- Although the American League of this season, more offered itself for science, advancement of the Senators and plenty of time to catch a train in yesterday's skirmish. Mr. “Uncle” Red Faber could not have been more solicitous as to our welfare than if he had been ball was so slow, so moth-eaten and puerile that the cash customers and name its teeth. It might have been B than-never twirler for the Griffs, in- | Red England may pess up the gold stand- ard, but a dollar is still a dollar in the American League and none of those ball players in the Yank-Griff series is going to lose a dime without a terrific struggle. who invented money surely knq hat to to make ball ew wi use e la; play ball. ozl l Majort‘L;:aders Batting—Simm Athleties, % Ruth, Taske e < e AN 158; Ruth, Runs—Gehrig, ¥ 17:]:‘”_0Rmh;h¥mu.mm.' 205; Averill, mboumbm—mévm Red Sox, 66; .uex: ‘Tigers, 45." prove our ond B,l:oe, Curlylocks And for their efforts there was just | three fans shy of a 1's d domgfld.uv in the mnalm.mgj‘t be{‘w’:n the t and, maybe, the feeling that the Griffs were going to take a detour toward fourth place, they decided to stay away. !‘xlm;re-tukt.humuw a squirrel-shy acorn, the little ander, 5 Triples—Johnson, Tigers, 19; Blue, Yankees, 45; White Sox, 1. Ruth, Yankees, Stolen bases—Ohapman, Yankees, 61; 3§ . Athletics, 30, ‘won 3 , ‘Benators, won. 16, National League. Batting — Hafey, Cardinals, 360; Runs batted in—Kleln, Phillies, 120; Terry, Ginnts, 113. L Terry, Giants, 313; L. Waner, lost 3; lost 4. PAGE C-1 WEST HAS UPPER HAND N NATONAL Final Intersectional Play Bears Out Earlier Dope. A’s Win No. 105. By the Associated Press. ITH one game left today before the year’s inter- sectional play in the major leagues ends, the last East-West series in the big circuits merely has proved what the earlier ones indicated. The Eastern clubs of the American League and the Western teams of the National, which have out- shone their rivals from the other sections all year, wound up with the most thorough triumph yet. Playing on the home grounds of the strongest sections, the American League's Eastern half won 40 games and lost cnly 14, while the Westerners of the turned in seventh and O'Doul’s timely single gave the Robins mmwwcm«nmg:mx in _check to the end. The other National League clubs had an off day. BOAT CLUBMEN TO ROLL 0ld Dominions Will Open League in Alexandria Tomorrow. ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 23— Plans have been completed by Dr. Ne- Six teams are made up as follows: Sculls—] ‘Winstea, captain; AI‘ ot Touis oy, Mick. Nicholoos Yetee: o i i o e Bt gt nd Louis — e It Tip for Fishermen. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., ber 23 —The Potomac River was sl Iy cloudy and the Shenandosh clear mll’ s ‘morning. Rolling 647 to their opponents’ 632, {f the final game, Northeast Temple took the third and odd game from le Dry last night in one of the National Capital League’s open skirmishes. Lucky Strike won all three - from Barnes Used Cars in another tilt, Hokie Smith, on Lucky Strike, rolled 168, 132 and 122 for a 422 set. Red Megaw threw in a 401 set for Temple. four new teams in lime, the Recreation Duckpin League will get under way tomorrow at the Recreation alleys. ‘The new teams are Cooks Bakery, Sims Music Studios, Blue Flames and ‘The teams