Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 39

Sports News Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star, WASHINGTON, ) D THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1932. Radio and Classified PAGE D-1 No Rest for Nats Until They Hit Right : Showdown at Hand on Rabbit Ball BATIING PRACTICE ON OFF-DAY SLATE Hurlers Must Get More Aid, Says Johnson—Burke Star of Thrilling Win. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Y backing a lot of high- B grade pitching with plenty of courage the Nationals have reached the heights in the American League stand. After that stirring 4-3 win over the Red Sox yesterday they share the pinnacle with the surpris- ing Tigers. But Manager Walter Johnson wants more than cour- age to back that pitching, and his charges will get extra batting practice until they satisfy him they are ready to pound the ball plenty and steadily. Although the schedule makers made tomorrow a day of idleness for the ‘Washington club so far as a game is Fistic Business Good in Chicago HICAGO, April 21 (®).—If the amount of profitable business done by the Chicago Stadium Corporation during the first three months of the year is an indication, prosperity has at least peeked around that famous corner. Sidney N. Strotz, president of the corporation, has reported earnings of $69,726 after all administrative expenses and taxes had been de- ducted for the period. The amount, however, does not in- clude depreciation charges or inter- est on mortgages. It is, however, $29,000 more than the net earnings for all of last year. NEW TENNIS STAR CREATES PROBLEN {Davis Cup Chiefs Must Give Thought to McCauliff, Van Ryn’s Conqueror. | By the Associated Press SUBURBAN EACLE TOPLAY 3 GANES Church Loop of Four Teams to Start May 7—Sandlot Squads Active. LAY in the four-team Suburban | Church Base Ball League will | get under way May 7 with Coles- | ville Methodists entertaining Hyattsville Methodists on the Colesville, Md., diamond. Thirty-six games will be played, ac- cording to the schedule released by | Francis W. Glaze of Hyattsville. The four teams are Hyattsville South- ern Methodist, Hyattsville Episcopal, Hyattsville Presbyterian and Colesville Methodists. The schedule: May 7, Hyattsville Methodist vs. Coles- ville at Colesville, Presbyterian vs. Episcopal at Hyatisville: May 14, Presbyterian vs. Hyattsville Methodist at Hyattsville, Episco- pal vs. Colesville at Hyattsville; May 21, Colesviile Presbyterian at _Colesviile, Episcopal vs. Hyatisville Methodist at Hy- attsville: Mav 28, Presbyterian vs. Episcopal at Hyattsville. ‘Hyattsville Methodist vs. Colesville at Hyattsville June 4. Colesville vs. Episcopal at Coles- AT THE GEORGETO (AKHERED Af fue WN VARSITY DINNER. BOARD WERE: e Yo X'd DR. JOAN B. O35 SUTHERLARD, /' HEAD COACH * UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG —V)__ G.HARRY WHITE '00C] HIMSELF. PRESENTED THE ‘G 10 ATHLETES DOC PUT ON Hi5 GLASSES AND MADE A SMART JOB OF IT.... e s REV. COLEMAN NEVI PRESIDENT OF GEORGE TOWN s X/ 3 A HNENRY L. QUINN JOASTMASTER ... WHeRE'S MY MESSENGER UNIFORM Z —By TOM DOERER | [ [ JAMES MULLIGAN G-Tow‘? TRACK Ry = . 1 0-5@ S 7 P TETS XL CoL. CAMPBELL /fii | HODGES, MiLITARY AID TO PRES. HOOVERL. LIGHTS WERE DIMMED AND THE. DESSERT AMERICAN LEAGUE STICKS T0 HOMERS National Baits Fans With Low-Hit Games—Yankees, A’s Draw 60,000. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. HILE it doesn’t show in the records, it appears this early that the coun- try’s two major base ball leagues will provide a “show- down” this season on the brand of ball the customers want. The American League, standing by its “rabbit” ball, is fashioning more and gaudier home runs than ever before. It's still a hitters’ league in the fullest sense of the word. The National circuit, with its less lively sphere, is playing them close to the vest, regaling its patrons with low-hit, fast- fielding exhibitions. ‘Through yesterday's games there had been a total of 38 four-baggers hit in ville, Hyattsville Methodist vs. Presbyterian at Hyattsville: Jume 11, Presbyterian Vs Hyattsville Methodist at’ Hyattsville. Epis- copal vs. Coletville at Hyattsville: June 18. Colesville vs. Hyatisville Methodist at_Col concerned, there’ll be no prolonged rest | HITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, for the playboys. All hands are to April 31.—The har- report at Griffith Stadium in the morn- | W. Va, April 21.—The har- ried tennis fathers, whose the American League, compared to 19 in the National, and the pitchers of THE QUES(S John Heydler's league generally have ing for a wand drill, and such a drill | BROKCE INTO THE will be the morning order for some time to come. “They must swing into a real bat- ting stride,” Johnson insists. And he doesn’t mean maybe. “It's a great break that we are get- ting fine pitching at present,” says Walter. “What a fix the club would bein but for that. Why, outside of those two games in Philadelphia this week there hasn’t been anything like the hitting there should be. “The Washington club has plenty of power at bat, or it ought to have,” the pilot contends. “It will have, too, even though the boys have to stick to these morning batting drills right along. “With the line-up we have it's un- fair to put so much of the burden on the pitchers. Then cannot be expected to carry the load all the time,” John- son argues. He ought to know, for he had to shoulder the greater part of the burden back in his early pitching days when the Nationals were no great shucks as hitters. “Our pitching has been wonderful so far, but it's time the batters were giving some support to the fellows on the hill,” according to the Washington fleld general. “With the season well under way now the pitchers soon will need a lot of help. It's up to the batters and they must make good.” F_there's anything sore in Bobby Burke’s arm today he wouldn’t dare admit it. Not after the natty mound exhibition given by the stringbean south- paw yesterday in his season debut when he set back the Red Sox. Bobby may have had an ailing wing during the training days down South, but there's nothing wrong with a limb that limited the Griffith Stadium guests to five safeties and between a block of three hits was able to subdue 20 suc- cessive batters before yielding another block of two blows. Burke struck out but two batters and those to end the first inning, but his control was of high order. Not a base on balls did the Red S80x get off the lanky left-hander. Burke looked right in every way in his first start of the . No doubt Manager Johnson will find plenty of “spots” for Bobby this season. OT only did Burke hurl a nifty game yesterday, but he hit his club to victory. It was Bobby who came up in the ninth with the score tied, two out and Bluege on third with the potential winning counter. Bobby took a cut at Specs MacFayden's first pitch, the ball skidded between Van Camp and McManus to right field and the game was over. There was plenty to thrill the few thousands in the stands yesterday, though hitting was light. The Red Sox stepped into the lead in the second session when Oliver singled and Mc- Manus parked a homer in the sun parlor back of left. The Nationals ‘walted until the seventh to match that count. Then two runs came from singles by West and Judge with Rice's triple sandwiched between. A fine hit that of Rice’s. The ball was slammed to_the scoreboard back of right-center. Rhyne's double and Van Camp's sin- gle, that gave the Red Sox a run in the ninth, made the fans gloomy, for out- side of that seventh-inning hitting the | Reds, 2. Nationals had gleaned but two bingles off MacFayden. He looked a certain victor. There was more gloom than ever when the first two batters up in the home ninth went out. But Judge sin- gled and Bluege walked. Then Spencer singled over the tying tally and sent | Bluege to the far corner to set the stage for Burke's big bang. | ICE has been around the American League a long time—since 1915, in fact. But he’s still a high-class ball player. Sam was sent into right field yesterday because Carl Reynolds still was nursing a mean cold and the Yveteran not only gave a good account of himsell defensively, but also showed that there is a lot of strength left in those arms when he smote that telling triple in the seventh. Reynolds may be back on the job today The Nationals may be shy of reserve | £trength in some departments, but they | certainly are well fortified so far as vtility outfielders are concerned. Both Rice and Dave Harris can step in at a2ny time should one of the regular gardeners go out of commission, and each is 80 @ood he wouldn't weaken the | club one whil. Rice still is a star of the first water and Harris, while not £0 poliched. is a much better than av- erage rerformer. The Old Fight WASHINGTON. Myer, 25 b1 o PO -] Burke. BOSTON. ol mmonmonmol mowomase=> ] o O Pickering. Berry. MacFa Totals *Two out when wi ston. p- 82000 1 R imaton 00000 0 24 Runs batted in—McManus (2). Rice, Jucge, Van OCamp. Spencer, Burke. Two-base hil— Rhyne. Three-base hit—Rice. Home run— McManus. Stolen base—Rothrock. Sacrifice — Bluest Double_play—McManus_to Rhyne to Va ‘Washington, B aad Owens. wonoworon® - yden, p... | wwwwessssd woi g ol oscescscs® ~lsscsansss ! oormoormmt Z wl commos00n® ol commomoo® i g T o —] , 3 ¥ o ‘:];- %T Fa a-?:"? acl .5 2. Umpires—Mesars. - MeGowan | business it is to select the lru;m combination to represent the United States in Davis Cup play this Summer, found themselves today with & brand-new prospect to consider. Eugene McCauliff, young doctor of philosophy from Yonkers, N. Y., be- came the latest “unknown” to force his way into the thoughts of the committee when he scored a surprising straight- set victory over John Van Ryn of hiladelphia, the country’s fourth-rank- ing star, in the quarter-finals of the | Mason and Dixon tournament here yes- terday. M tional ranking, looked like a champion as he turned back the Davis Cup doubles veteran, 6—2, 6—4, 9—7. His high-bounding service and swift returns had Van Ryn on the de- fensive all the way, and he proved his fighting ability to come from behind and win after trailing, 2—5, in the final set. Following the Yonkers youth into the semi-finals was a veteran who already is assured a place on the Cup team, ‘Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. Allison continued his superb play in eliminat- ing J. Gilbert Hall of South Orange, N. J, 6—2. 6—1, 6—3. McCaulif and Allison were able to rest today and let the fleld catch up with them. In one of the quarter-final tilts scheduled, the national champion, Ellsworth Vines, jr, was to have his first test of the year against Gregory Mangin of Newark, the new indoor title holder. N the other bracket, tall Frank Shields of New York was paired Marcel Rainville, Canadian cCAULIFF, far down in the na- The: singles, was scl to meet Mrs. John Van Ryn in & semi-final match today, the winner to clash with Virginia | Hilleary of Philadelphia for the cham- | plonship. Mis Hilleary reached the | Bnals by defeating Virginia Rice of Longwood, Mass., 7—5, 4—6, 6—4. | Major Leaders | | By the Associated Press. (Including games of Wednesday.) National League. Bal —Lindstrom, Glants, .452; | Terry, Glants, 424. Giants, 10; Terry\ | Runs—Lindstrom, Giants, 8. Runs batted in—Terry, Glants, 11;/| Hurst, Phillies, 8; Herman, Reds, 8| Frisch, Cardinals, 8. 14; Lmdstm,\ | | Hits—Critz. Giants, Giants, 14; Terry, Glants, 14. Doubles—Wright, Dodgers, 4; L. Waner, Pirates, 4; P. Waner, Pirates, 4; Frisch, Cards, 4; Collins, Cards, 4. ‘Triples—Herman, Reds, 3; Heath, , | Home runs—Terry, Glants, 4; Vergez, | Giants, 2; Collins, Cards, 2; Wright, Dodgers, 2. Stolen bases—P. Waner, Pirates, 3: Traynor, Pirates, 3. | American League, Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .481; Ruth, | Yankees, 471 | _ Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, §; Johnson, | Tigers, 9. | Runs batted in—Ruth, Yankees, 12; Manush, Senators, 10. | letics, 13. | Browns, 4; Selph, White Sox, 4. Biue, | White Sox, 4 ‘Triples—Dickey, Yankees, 2. Home runs—Ruth, Yankees, 4; Foxx, Athletics, 4 i Stolen’ bases—Rhyne, Rothreck, Red Sox, 3, Red Sox, Minor Leagues International League. Newark. 11; Rochester, 7 Jersey City, 11; Toronto, 2. Baltimore, 9; Montreal, 4. Reading, 4; Buffalo, 3. American Association. St. Paul, 10; Columbus, | innings) ‘ Toledo, 9: Minneapolis, 8. Milwaukee, 8; Louisville, 1 nings, rain) Indianapolis, 11; Kansas City, 10. Southern Association. Chattanooga, Little Rock, 5. Birmingham, 7; Atlanta, 6 Knoxville, 4; New Orleans, 3. Memphis-Nashville—Rain. Pacific Coast League. Seattle, 8; Hollywood, 3. Portland, 4; Missions, 1. Texas League. San Antonio, 9; Galveston, 5. Houston, 6; Beaumont, 4. Dallas, 14; Wichita Falls, 6. Shreveport, 5; Fort Worth, 4. Southeastern League. Jackson, 12; Mobile, 10. Columbus, 18-10; Macon, 3-6. Montgomery, 12; Selma, 9. | Exhibition Ball Hartford (Eastern League), 6; Brook- lyn Nationals, 1 Y‘-P& League), 9 (10| (6 in- Wilkes-Barre (New 6; House of David, 8. Hits—Johnson, Tigers, 15; Poxx, Ath- | ¢ Doubles—Johnson, Tigers, 4; Goslin, | & ville, Presbyterian vs. 1 at Hyatts- ville: " June 25. Episci 5. Hyattsville Methodist at_Hyatisville, Presbyterian vs.| Colesville at Hyattsville. July 2. Colesville ville,” Preshyterian odist at Hyvattsville; Presbyterian at Methodist July 16, Colesville, dist_at pal e, "Episcopal at Coles- July Hyattsville, vs. Colesville Colesville vs. Presbsterian at Episcopal vs. Hyattsyille Meth- Hyattsville: July 23. Presbyterian | opal at Hvattsville, s Colesville at July 30, Colesville vs. Episcopal at ville, " Presbyterian vs. Hyattsville odist at Hyattsville ugust 6. Episcopal vs. Hvattsville Meth- odist at Hyattsville. Presbyterian vs. Coles- e Hyattsville: August Colesville Hyattsville Methodist Presbyterian_vs. August 20, | byterian : Colesville at Hyattsville: Aus ville vs. Presbyterian at Colesvil vs_Hyattsville Methodist at Hyattsville September 3, Episcopal vs. Presbyterian at Hvattsville. Hvattsville Methodist vs. Coles- | ville at Hyattsville. t e, Because of the inability of severa: managers to show last night, the meet- ing of the insect teams to enter the Capital City League has been post- poned until next week. Two or three:anget class players are wanted by the Hawk A. C. Inter- ested parties should call Lincc'n 8367-J. Thompson Furniture Co. seniors will meet tonight at the home of Manager 'xm:mpson, 343 Tennessee avenue north- east. Games Wanted. Gaithersburg A. C.. for Sunday with | llex)-nllu‘r’mcd team. Call Gaithersburg Palisade A. C., for tomorrow and Sun- day. Call Manager Hager at Cleveland | 2133-J. | Phoenix A. C, for Sunday. Call At- lantic 5013-W. St. Paul’s Juniors, for Saturday and Sunday. Call Potomac 3337-W. Games Scheduled. Pranc Jewelers vs. Naval Communica- tlons, Sunday, diamond No, 3 at 3 ‘nion Engineers vs. Army Medic Sunday, Walter Reed dhmzmd ltmi o'clock. Bolling Field vs. Columbia Heights, Sunday, Bolling Field at 2:30 o'clock. Auth’s vs. Dixie Pigs, Sunday, Ber- | wyn diamond at 2:30 o'clock. Naticnal Pale Drys vs. Berwyn, Sat- urday, Berwyn diamond at 3 o'clock. Oriole Insects vs. Joe Kuhels, Satur- day, Camp Meigs diamond at 11 o'clock. | College Sports Base Ball Duke, 7; V. P. I, 5. Washington and Lee, 13; Willlam and Mary, 3. Virginia, 9; Hampden-Sydney, 3. Army, 5; Temple, 1. Pennsylvania, 17; Swarthmore, 7. Harvard, 11; Maine, 2. New York U Fordham, 14; City College Stevens, 0. Susquehanna, 17; Penn State, 16. Golf. Furman, 14!;; South Carolina, 3!2. Records of Griffs BATTING. R.H. 2b.3b Hr.Sh 01 0"0 00 3; Sb Rbi.Pct 070 1.000 AN G103 30 B0 G0 1 00 B0 300 600D NSO T 0000000000000 00! cocccoo—oroo000008 S O OO e 0008 = e D00.60 3 890 1 ) S BOOSm OO0 BE OB consc00000emNo-HHEeS 1 SO OO O 1O M avaswcol 5§ =3 o2 SmuGenad B ocssocernuous oo Bramenm [Re—— EvaSacs: FEE S THURSDAY, American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 4: Boston. 3 New York, 8: Philadelphia, 3. Detroit, 2 Cleveland, Louis. 5; Chicago, o APRIL 21, COPBLAND - PRUNCIPLE W Ousiness as wWBLL AS N PLAY, L) SCHOOL'S DATTLE CRY AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY - Heeeo EL/,OW o 5 < GH T OF THE RVENING = WITH GESTURES Torm Dos0En, WILLARD AOTEL Softened Foot Ball Scored Tom Mills of Georgetown Gets BY TOM OMMY MILLS, the coaching boss man of Georgetown University’s foot ball outfit, is not so keen for the tam- pering of the rules. Tom did not say out and out, hit-from-the-shoulder, that he was agin ’em. Tom is Irish. And that ought to explain. » ‘What Tommy did was to tell a little yarn about what will hap- pen on a foot ball fleld 10 years hence if the rule makers do not | quit softening up the game and the players. “Foot ball,” interposed Tom, “is the | only rugged game left to a soft age. Soften a boy physically and you are going to make him pliable morally.” No doubt of that and the 1,000, or more, guests at tha varsity dinner held at Hotel Willard last night wagged heads and clacked tongues in agreement. Of course, Tom could have said that the Rules Committee of foot ball agree with Tom’s assertion and that is the reason why they are trying to save foot ball. The game was up for questioning last Fall. Something had to be done. Some- thing more than the gestures of other years. And it was done. All for the sake of the game and not to dull it. However, Tom put over his point last night without nicking the Rules Com- mittee with his little ax. He agreed with Jock Sutherland, Pitt coach, a preceding speaker, that the less said about the rules the better for the ship’s crew. Tom recited a mythical newspaper account of a foot ball game 10 years, or 20 years, from next Fall. “Of course,” said Tom, “the news will be found on the society pages and not in the sports section which, by that time, will have been modified along with foot ball.” Tommy's yarn vividly told of the Georgetown ~ University’s foot ball team romping upon the fleld to play the New York University eleven, donned in blue waists, bedecked with gray lace and festooned with & white silk sash. In action Tommy's coming teams advanced slowly, tagging the man with the ball which the new rules called for to eliminate any body con- tact. Between the halves of Mills’ contest the boys drank tea and en- tertained buds and matrons in the stands. Only the very wealthy could afford to play in the G-town mentor’s foot ball contest. Mills’ story went over bigger than he might have imagined. Your observer lked to & number of old athletes, 1982, National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 14; Philadelphia, 5. Pittsburgh. 7: St. Louis. 0. Cincinnati. 7; Chicag: Other clubs niot sche onsa PpuviaAD z - P £ uorsuUSY M. L] = 13 8 2 € E ** uosog neuupuy euappeg *ukrRo0Ig ‘RI0X MIN Washington De % GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. §;'fl° 3¢ New Fork ™ land. o5 Br Lo, 1 Tk st Phila. 2 d et GAMES TOMORROW. T GAMES TODAY. in Veiled Dig at Rule Jugglers. DOERER: | former foot ball men and boys playing | the game today. They were afraid that | the Rules Committee has gone a little | too far in eliminating blocking. They | | contend that if the game loses its| | spectacular touch, it will no longer ap- peal to the student and the public. But there were few who con- demned the committee. They, like the coaches, felt that the rule makers had their backs to the wall last Fall and that there was nothing much for them to do but make a drastic move to subdue the reformers. But the feel is_that the men ‘who decide what is what in foot ball may continue to attempt to Pluu the reformers of the game until the sport no longer will typify the virility and courage of American college youth. All of which Tommy Mills got over in his ridiculously funny yarn. Tom is | an actor. When he served up the choice parts of his story with gestures, his lis- teners had their ears pinned on an orator. He indicated his fears of too | much tampering with the mandates and did it without having gone on record of having said it. Jock Sutherland, the tall Scot who handles the teaching of the University of Pittsburgh gridders, sidetracked the question of the rules, but let it be known that they were upon his mind. “In looking for a subject upon which to talk,” said Jock, “I will avold the rules.” Which is a Scotsman's way of saying that he did not like them. This year’s foot ball is going to be more interesting than last sea- son's. It will be a year where the coaches will attempt many new stunts to beat the rules which slow up parts of the game. The mentors are going to get speed and thrills despite the mandates. And it is going to be Iteresting to watch the results. Maybe, after all, the dulling of the game may work for more speed. The coaches, for the first time in the last few years, have to do some originating. But foot ball is far from going un- der. It was an athletes’ dinner, but from the table talk it was all foot ball last night. Tommy's dream gridders may wear silk blouses and gray lace but if I know my gridders they will have ice picks and hat pins hidden up their sleeves. LOOP CUT TO SIX CLUBS ‘WHEELING, W. Va., April 21 (&) — The Middle Atlantic Base Ball League has become a six-club circuit. league had 12 teams last season. Teams remaining in the Middle At- | lantic are Cumberland, Md.; Johnstown, | Pa.; Charleston, Huntington, Beckley The | and Clarksburg, W. Va. All will play night base ball. Canada Announces | Davis Cup Team | HAT is believed to be the strong- | est tennis team ever to repre- | sent Canada in Davis Cup competition has been named for the first-round matches to be played with the United States Thursday, Friday and Saturday next week at Chevy Chase. ‘The Canadian players are Marcel Rainville, singles champion of the Dominion; Gilbert Nunns, former junior champ and a member of the 1931 Davis Cup team; Dr. Jack Wright, Canada’s best until the Rainville regime, and Walter Mar- tin, & rising youngster. Nunns, Martin and Dr. Wright are on the way here. Rainville is playing in the Mason and Dixon tournament at White Sulphur Springs. EQUIPOISE IS SLATED T0 CARRY 131 POUNDS| Whitney Horse Is Assigned Top Weight for $10,000 Phila- delphia Handicap. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md, April 21| (#)—Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise, winner of the Harford and a leading contender for the yeer's handicap champlonship, will have to| carry the crushing impost of 131 pounds if he starts in the $10,000 Philadelphia handicap Saturday. Handicapper Joseph McLennan placed | the pennant-swinging colt at the top | of the list of 23 eligibles for the Phila- delphia. The Loma stable’s Tick On, second choice in the Winter books to win the Kentucky Derby, was given 108 pounds to carry if he starts. Spinach with 114 was given the second heavy weight for the handicap, Lightning Bolt, 111; Lady Broadcast, 110; B'ar Hunter and Tred Avon, 106; Great Gun, 105; Evening and Aegis, 104; Frigate Bird and Pigeon Hole, 102, Homer Standing By the Assoclated Press. | Home runs yesterday—Terry, Giants, 2; Jackson, Giants, 1; Lindstrom. | Giants, 1; Ruth, Yankees, 1; Lary, Yankees, 1; Dickey, Yankees, 1; Coch- | rane, Athletics, 1; McManus, Red Sox, | 1; F. Schulte, Browns, 1; Melillo, Browns, 1. | ‘The leaders—Terry, Giants, 4; Ruth, | Yankees, 4. Foxx, Athletics, 4; Byrd, Yankees, Gehrig, Yankees, 3; Coch- | rane, Athletics, 3 | League totals—American, 38; Na- tional, 19; grand total, 57. Pitcher’s Arm By the Assoclated Press. ITTSBURGH, April 21. — It begins look as though that day out in Dallas, when something snapped in Steve Swetonic’s right arm, was a lucky day for the Pittsburgh Pirates. At any rate, the “home boy,” who was a dismal failure from the day he donned a Buc uniform and whose release was predicted all through the Winter, appeared like somebody else yesterday as he held the St. Louls Cardinals to three hits. Manager George Gibson, slapping the little curver on the back as he Fast Ball, Causing “Stitch,” Evidently Has Made Swetonic of Pirates 0. K. Again. Rights Itself season. Doctors looked at it and shook their heads. Then came an operation. Still his muscles seemed bound and he complained of pains in his shoulder. But oné day a few weeks ago in Dalles Steve, still trying, “bore down,” shot a fast one across—and something happened. “It was like a stitch in the arm” he explained. “Something snapped. ‘Then the pain went away. My muscle was back in place.” ‘The doctors laughed and said na- ture had done the trick. Sunday Steve worked three scoreless innings against the Cincinnati Reds. Yesterday he held the world cham- pion Cardinals hitless for eight and two-thirds innings and shut them ow the Pirates him foifore of " Hetnle eontract, by Mot fo tem & GLENNA SIX STROKES UNDER GOLF RECORD Shoots Homestead Course in 72 in 01d Dominion Triumph—Goes Out in 35. By the Associated Press. OT SPRINGS, Va., April 21.—An- other brilliant golfing achievement that brought her the Old Dominion championship was in the records todey as Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare looked back upon her victory over the difficult Homestead course. Playing in the form that led her to the national chagpionship, Mrs. Vare defeated Miss Grace Amory of the Seminole Club, Palm Beach, 7 and 6, yesterday, and then played out the round in record-breaking figures. Her 72 was only one above men's par and six strokes under the previous rec- | ord established by Helen Hicks, 1931 | Old Dominion champion. She was out in 35, one under men’s | par, and finished the second nine with a 37 after missing birdies on the fif- teenth and sixteenth holes by inches. A 71 scored earlier in her golfing | career remains Mrs. Vare’s best round, but she said she was prouder of her 72 over the Homestead course. e PILOTS ADD PITCHERS Washington Team Bolsters for Race in Eastern League. Three pitchers yesterday were added to the Washington Pilots, local entries | in the eight-team Eastern Colored Base 1 League. ‘Webster McDonald, Chet Brewer and Jim Winters were the twirlers signed. The Pilots, who open their league sea- son May 9 at Baltimore, will make their home debut at Griffith Stadium on May 19. Other teams in the league are Hill- dale, Detroit, Newark, Cuban House of David, Cleveland and Homestead. Special Sale! AN UNUSUAL VALUE IN TOPC 217 The Newest Spring Styles Raglan and Regular Shoulders in Exceptionally Well-Tailored Tweeds and Long-Wearing Worsteds. Sidney West, - 14th & fared much better than those of the Junior circuit. UST what the fans’ final decision will be still is matter of conjecture, but the American League magnates received a world of encouragement yes- terday when 60,000 packed into Yankee Stadium to watch Joe McCarthy’s slug- gers open their home season with an 8-to-3 victory over the Athletics. It was the largest crowd of the sea- son thus far, and it was treated to a typical slam-bang performance. Connie Mack’s two aces, Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw, were treated very roughly, Ruth, Lary and Dickey lead- ing the assault on them with the Yanks® daily quota of homers. The slim Cas- tilian, Lefty Gomez, scored his second win of the year over the league cham- pions. Cleveland's opening day crowd saw the Indians drop a 2-to-1 decision to the fast-traveling Detroiters. George Uhle, Tiger veteran, allowed only five hits, three of which were bunched in the second inning for the Indians’ lone run, AM GRAY of the St. Louis Browns hurled his second shutout of the year in_downing the weak-hitting White Sox, 5 to 0. Carey Selph, rookie m?:lder. made two of the Sox's three Red Lucas, who at last seems to have a club back of him worthy of his tal- ents, pitched the ambitious Cincinnati Reds to a 7-to-2 win over the Chicago Cubs before an inaugural crowd of 30,000 at Wrigley Field. Joe Morrisey, rookie shortstop, knocked in four of the Reds’ runs. The champion St. Louis Cardinals plumbed new depths as they lost their fifth consecutive game to the Pitts- burgh Pirates, 7 to 0, and fell into a deadlock with the Giants for last place in the National League. It marked the first time in the last three seasons that the Red Birds have dropped five in a row. Steve Swetonic allowed the champs only three hits, all singles. The Giants, led by Bruising Bill Terry, tore into four Philly pitchers for 17 hits and a 14-th-5 trilumph at Baker Bowl. Terry hit two homers for the second straight day and batted in five runs. Old Clarence Mitchell did the pitching honors. Brooklyn and the Boston Braves had an off day. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Bobby Burke, Senators—Won his own game from the Red Sox with a single after two were out in the ninth. Babe Ruth, Yankees—His towering home run and a timely single helped beat the Athletics. George Uhle, Tigers—Held Cleveland to five hits to win a pltchers’ battle, 2to 1. Sam Gray, Browns—Scored his sec- ond shutout of the year, allowing the ‘White Sox three hits. Joe Morrissey, Reds—Banged in four runs with two doubles and a single to help beat the Cubs, 7 to 2. Steve Swetonic, Pirates—Blanked the champion Cardinals, 7 to 0, on three scattered hits. Bill Terry, Giants—Hit two home runs for the second successive day. OATS G Sts. EUGENE C. GOTT—PRESIDENT