Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1932, Page 10

SPORTS THE EVENI G STAR A}Crowder’s Fine Start Puts Nats in Race : “EASTERN DERBY” STILL IS THE TURF’S BIG THRILL PRODUCER. SWIFT EARLY PACE BY HURLER B0CSTS Al Handicap to 193] Club at Outset—Blanks Tigers in Flashy Effort. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ITH more than one- seventh of their cam- paign behind them, the Nationals are in the van, and one of the big reasons far their success to date is the Veteran pitcher, Al Crowder. Last year the General couldn't do a thing in the early going, and that handicapped his club seri- | ously. But with Al steaming along at top speed from the get- away this time, the Nationals | seem to be going places in a big way. “I'm in the best of shape ever for | the start of a season. T believe I'll show %em somethin’ this Spring.” Crowder | talking, ladies and gentlemen, right | after his return from Dixie training last month. And the General has been | making good. To date. played 23 18 victorie Johnson's charges have ames and won 18. Of those Crowder has pitched 6. How different from last year. In its first 23 games played to a decision in | 1831, the Johnson band scored but 12 victories. Not one was pitched by Crow- the current ‘campaign, Crowder already has a record of 6 wins against 2 defeats. He has been in 9 games, started 7 and hurled 4 complete on ¥3 has licked the Red Sox, Yankees, hite Sox and Tigers and trimmed the ‘Athletics twice, The Red Sox and the A’s have defeated him. He has turned in his last 4 victories in a row. Last year, the General did not win & ball game until May 24 when he trim- med the Red Sox. Before that he had n trimmed 4 times. Not until July in St. Louis did he turn in his sixth victory of the season. But by that time he also had lost 6 games. In less than a sixth of the present Season Crowder has been credited with | €. wins. It took him about half of last | season to get as many. And the Gen- eral finished the 1931 campaign with a record of 18 wins against 11 losses. He always has been a great finisher, but this season is his first to be a good starter in many. In excellent pitching condition from | the outset, Crowder certainly has been of great walue to the Washington Club. | CRASHING THET OLR BELOW SCHAAF'S VICTORY DOES HIM NO GO0 Indecisive Effort Against Gross Belies Rating as No. 3 Heavyweight. ITCHING for the Nationals yester- day in their first engagement of the year with the Tigers, Crowder uced a masterpiece of mound work. ose hitherto hard-hitting _Detroit batters were limited to two hits, both singles, and those were made in the fifst two frames of the game that went | Washington's way, 7 to 0. . With two out in the first inning, | SBfone rammed a one-baser to left only to wait at first base and watch Gehr- finger thrown out. Two were out in the wecond session when Richardson rapped @ single to center, but Hayworth, next skied to the centerfielder. t one other Tiger got on the runway. | W0 one wha out mdlhebslxéh inning, bobble of a grounder by Cronin at . . = sHortstop permifired Johnson to reach _NEW YORK, May 14 (CP.A) first base. Rogell, though, flied out |Ernie Schaaf won the verdict over without advancing l&s teflnb!male and | Jack Gross in 10 rounds in Madison et & third strike go by. : O e %30 hattors 1o Sface Crowder | Square Garden Friday night, but it @during the fray, nine were disposed of | Was & costly victory. Schaaf made such by the Washington outfield and 10 by |a dismal showing that it is going to | the infleld. Two fouled to Berg, the take a lot of merve to use him as the cder struck out Six. g 3 e G Btone ‘were strick out |head man in a big outdoor show until . ek 2 times, | the recollection of this fight is dulled. son swinging both times. (! g e Oty were _Crowder's | Before Ernie stumbled through those other strikeout victims. 10 rounds with Gross a brawl between e e Chih. Manager Harrls sent | him and Mickey Walker looked like a #n two pinch-batters and neither was DIg attraction. "Today it is cold. able to drive the ball past the infield X — : to ground to Bluege, while big Alex- . : yoke le of ander, fence-buster extraordinary. bat- | . . WeOKS 880 oAy pased antirailes ted for Wyatt and grounded to Cronin. | how "Teddy had gone the route, except e e 1of | by assuming that Schaaf was just get- ting some evercise, without any par- ticular attempt to chalk up a knock- c BY WILBUR WOOD. | In the first after Stone had singled, it took a great stop by Myer to cut down Gehringer. The second ] back on the grass to get the throw him out. In Cronin's error gave Johnson Rogell sent a tremenduous loft to rigl but Reynolds ran back to the score- board for a brilliant catch. At other times Crowder himself took fine care of the sit n. His was a well pitched ball s worth throughout the never did he have the la adelphia southpaw, strictly a sec- ond rater, in distress. CHAAF was booed a at intervals ut the contest and left the a chorus of jeers, no doubt e of the wise guys who had as bigh as 6 to 1 that he would Gross. You practically could own ticket if you wanted to t Gross would win. Yet Gross made it close enough for one judge, Eddie to vote for a draw. The other, F. Mathison, cast his ballot Schaaf, as did the referee, Art - led by som 0 get their fourth straight win and | bet their tenth in st 11 starts, | f the Nationals hopped on the offer- the CF for then venth t an- they plenty to their n be sald for s was trying w sense, s the worst the man rated as yweight list could i 10 rounds of rtainly is not so knocked Arth n to add four hits and thre U. S. GOLFER FIFTEENTH s Pursey Shoots 202—Cotton, Twine produced the m in the fi gun sufficient to d Bluege snapped glump to get a si s iacied Tie in Thousand Guineas. le and a double in UTHPORT, England, May 14 (&) Shoe batting ven Crowder of the Inglewood Kicked in wi one a si finished in fifteenth % scored Bl second inn the thousand guineas the ot t opene tournament with a 72-hole total aftack upc the eighth He was the only American For ths the G 2 | : English _professionals, 1 and W. T. Twine, tied for first : 281s. They will play off | the prize. ng in short hoist d up short t fadsed it and 3 sped tched hand Ehe far reaches of the pastu Then a storm of hits descended upon the Detroit relief pitcher and before he finished his turn the game was far be- yond the Tigers’ to Brasp. | SATURDAY, MAY 14, American League. Hr 8h Sh Rbi Pet 00 0 1000 | 9591 01121455 | 311116 407 | 617261 | 181182 | Philaceiphin 000 | St, Louls . 000 | Chicaro . Boston__ - A esommalile ecosooomus ] 3 z Q A ThorROUGHE ED MAY COME THROUGH THIS AFTERNOOAN T0 KANock DowAl -THE IMPRESSION HORSES, LIKE THE TIMES ,ARE- B/ CDOEMER. , PALICO, MD - . Wise Lads Click on Tick On Agree Kaufman Colt Has Gameness in His Favor in Mediocre Preakness. BY TOM DOERER: IMLICO, Md., May 14.—Tick On is the blue-eyed baby this afternoon. Kaufman's much - defeated 3-year-old will come thundering down this pasty racing strip at Pimlico to take your cheers, the Woodlawn vase and the $50,000 Preakness prize. Two barbers, the man at the delicatessen store and a taxi driver have relayed this informa- tion to me direct from Tick On’s feed box. Maybe it was old Tick On himself who told my pals when he was downtown last night mixing around with the turf crowds that are filling up the Monumental City night clubs and hotels. From all I can glean from these and the hundreds of other ers milling around before the gates at noon today, Mrs. Kaufman’s hope is going to spread eagle the field this ajternoon as it was never con- d bejore. They say that there n't a pound of class in the whole Preakness entry list, outside of On, and then they'll'add that | has been beaten woefully ville, Havre de Grace a Derby this season. UT the boys with the knowing winks and the wads of dope sheets their pockets say that they are betting on what he may lack in s in_gameness If he can get away from the barrier without kicking the starter, Jim Milton on the shins, and chewing the peak off Alfred Robinson’s cap, he will romp away from the field. including Burgoo King, War Hero and Mad Pursuit, ¢ tries when this was being typed t morning. That's how the boys are speculat- ing, but there are tears in the eves of the old-time Preakness fans as they glim the entry list. It is a poor one in comparison with other years, and there is no doubt that the old Democrats of Maryland will petition Gov. Ritchie to see to the matter before the next Preakness. Sho' men flivering in here this morning scanned the programs to place the blame upon the Toover administra- tion and Al Capone. HERE are no Man o' Wars, Gallant Fo 1 Twenty Grands in turf classic. Only ckled and grin- ning as . the Earl of Sande, is here to remind the old folks from West- an Maryland that this i= Preakness ay. this Maryl: the old mar ‘ Sande will throw a leg over Mad Pursuit, the choice by those who be- lieve in breeding whether it is mount or jockey. They like the Earls rec- ord, they remember him astride Gal- o National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. rk-Pitt cold Cincinnati. 3 Hoston 2 ladelphia, 7 (10 innings) Qwoow 1 Cinetnmati 4 st Philadelphia Broakiyn _ New York .. Pittsburen _Lost Louls 101 01 170 LIK] 151 GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Det Wash,, 3 p.m. St. Louis at W Chicago at _Bos =885 ST ash. t N ton. 58 WaZeBE oooocomamsast R, EREE.LEE woasessd GAMES TODAY. N. Y. at Pittsburgh Bkiyn. at Cincinnati, it Ch st 8t Lows, Boston at St | Mrs. L. G.| © GAMES TOMORROW. ‘ B 13 lant For in another Preakness and his_courageous eflort in the recent Derby. There is a dull note in this Preak- ness. There's plenty of race talk, plenty of customers, but between the weather, the poor field and the scarcity of shin ters, that old gala, care-free holi- v air always prevalent at previous Maryland derbies is absent. What the boys lack they cannot spend on the bangtails. And, from all I can gather, they have plenty of what they haven't. Watching a Preakness without being financially interestsed still is not much sport, no matter what the turfmen tell you about liking merely to see the best horse win. HAT little promises to be spent on the big race this afternoon will be very scattered. If Col Bradley decides to take a chance with his frail entry, Burgoo King, in this wrinkled g. the Kentucky-bred horse will s ¢ the customer’s favors along with Tick On. While those who will be look- ng for something paying more for the high dollar will sprinkle their bets the field. While the race is s it is open, and for those who 1 id not to see, this will ntage and a disad- But, like the Derby, a pack of many goats could march to the bar- rier still draw a crowd here on ss day. Background and tra- ition are the lure to thousands from he East, who will lay you 2 to 1 that the Preakness is as good as the Derby any day. And there are plenty of picturesque boys following the bangtails here who will wager upon the of your collar and next week's weather, VEN tradition suffers when the weather has been bad and frog skins are scarce. Only a long-shot will send home a few thousand custo- mers talking about tradition and bac ground, as they count the greenbac The others will tell you it is the bunk. As the Hill Top gates were swung open to the walling customers, and those being projected from taxicabs by the dozens, there was no indication that either weather or money was the chief worry among them. What tho: boys wanted w winner, v back home could t worrying to be done. of any Homer Standing ed Press By the Asso Home runs yesterday—Cochrane, Athletics, 1; Herman, Reds, 1; Hend- rick. Is, 1. ‘The d Collins, Cardinals 8; Terry, Glants, 7; Foxx, Athletics, 17 Ruth. Yankees, 6; Gehringer, Tigers, 6; Averill, Indians, 6; Cochrane, Ath- letics, 6. ] 0 ceon wonwsn i 0 0 1 0 0 1 cece o 0 0 0 0 cesces. 0 o 0 2 ed for Hayworth in eighth ed for Wyatt in elghih AB. R i *Butt 1H Washingtol Wyatt, 8: Wyatt.'2: by Herrin by Crowder. 5. Hits Off Wratt, 7 in 7 innings; off Herring, 4 in 1 innin sing pitcher— Wyatt Um- ires—Messrs. Geisel and Nallin, same—1 hour and 84 WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, THE HOUSEWNNES ARE. \NTERESTRD Foxx and MAY 14, 1932 —By DOERER THE TURFITES SAY OUR SOME OF THE A BOYS CoOmE Wb HERE TO STAY-UNLESS THEY PICK A WINNER, .. WASHINGTON FANS CAME MORNING SOoME OF THE BETTORS HERE - ARE GOING THE LIMIT oN THEIR SELECTION.. WORK THE LATEST- NO TALK OF BAD TIMES AT THE PREAKNESS ... SH, A BUCK, KID, AN' U'LL TouTs &0 THE HOTELS THIS MORNING - oty Facts About Field for Preakness To Be Run at Pimlico Track Today P.P. Horse. . Marmion . Curacao .. Boatswain War Hero . *Tick On. . Mad Pursuit. . . Burgoo King. . *Gusto Lucky Tom... . *Barcelona Pete . Portam . . Daisaburo Weight 126 126 126 126 .126 126 .126 .126 .126 126 .126 126 Jockey. M. Lewis Steffen . Hanford J. Gilber A, Rober! Sande James Richards Walls .. Prob. Odds. ..50to1 ...20t01 15to1 Owner. ...... Coldstream Stud ..Greentree Stable .W. M. Jeffords. ... Glen Riddle Farms..20to 1 ..Loma Stable........ 3tol Mereworth Stud .. 8tol .E. R. Bradley.... . 8tob ...M. L. Schwartz...... 3tol ..J. J. Robinson. .12tol M L. Schwartz. . 3tol C. J. Eisenhardt.....50to1 .L. E. Keiffer... 20tol t tson *Loma Stable-M. L. Schwartz entry. Distance—One mile and three 4 p.m. (Eastern standard time.) -sixteenths. Time of race—About BEST ARE TRAMPS CLASS~HE CAN OF TEN NEW ROBINS MAKE REDS REGRET DEAL ‘Stripp and Cuccinello Play Great Ball Against Old Mates—A's Swat. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Pinancial Writer. OE STRIPP and Tony Cuccinello are having the time of their young lives making the Cincin- nati Reds regret the deal that sent them to Brooklyn this Spring. | For two days the crack pair of in- fielders have played some of the most brilliant ball of their careers in helping | the Dodgers blight the Reds' first di- vision hopes. As on the previous day, their batting and fielding was a potent factor in Brooklyn's second straight triumph yesterday, 5 to 3. | TRIPP hit two doubles and Cucci- nello the same number of singles, and Tony further distinguished himself by acting as middleman in the season’s first triple play. The whoie- | sale killing, which went from Glenn | Wright to Cuccinello to Long George Kelly, stopped the Reds in the third | inning after the first two batters had gotten on. Dazzy Vance had little difficulty hold- ing the five-run lead his mates had given him by piling into Larry Benton | the first three innings. The Dazzler allowed but eight hits, one of which was a home run by his old Brooklyn mate, Babe Herman. The Boston Braves lost an opportu- nity to climb within a game of the Na- tional League top when the Chicago Cubs rallied to score twice in the last | of the ninth and win, 3 to 2. Guy Bush won his own game when he drove the winning run across after two were out. 'HE St. Louis Cardinals jumped on Ed Holley, Phillie recruit, for five runs in the seventh inning to tie the score, and then went on to win in | the tenth, 8 to 7. Harvey Hendrick's home run featured the seventh-inning outburst out at Pittsburgh The Athletics walloped St. Louis, 9 to 4. in the only other American League tilt. The Mackmen collected 17 hits off Blaeholder and Coffman while George Earnshaw was scattering six. Jimmy Foxx hit four singles, 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. If all 12 start. the gross value will be $64,400, of which the winner | | will receive $53,375. Major Leaders By the Associated Press | American League. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .458; Dickey Yankees, 409. Runs—Foxx, Athletics, 25; Cochrane, Athletics, 24. Runs batted in—Averill, Indians, 26; Simmons and Foxx, Athletics, 24 Hits—Foxx, Athletics, and Porter, In- dians, 38 Doubles—Johnson, Tigers; Red Sox, and Campbell. Browns, Triples—Myer, Senators, 5; Athletics, 4 Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 7: Ruth, Yankees: Cochrane, Athletics; Gehrin- r, Tigers, and Averill, Indians, 6 bases—Chapman, _Yankees; Blue, White Sox, and Burns, Browns, 5. National League. Reds, 418; Oliver, 9 Foxx Batting—Hafey, Giants, .366. Runs—Klein, Cardinals, 23. Runs batted in—Collins, 23; ‘Terry, Giants, and Reds, 22 | _ Hits—Collins, Cardinals, 37, Herman, | Reds, 36. Doubles—P. Waner, Pirates, 12; Ste- phenson, Cubs, 11. | . Triples—Klein, Phillies, Suhr and | vaughan, Pirates, and Herman, Reds, 4. Home runs—Collins, Cardinals, 8; Terry, Giants, 7. Critz, Phillies, 26; Collins, Cardinals, Herman, 'WEST COAST GAMES DRAW GREAT FIELD Wykoff and Eastman Stand Out Among 600 in Pre-Olympic Cinder Classic. By the Associated Press. RESNO, Calif., May 14 —The cream of California’s track and field ath- letes, 600 strcng, were ready for the crack of starters' guns here today in the first general competition prior to the Olympic games—the sixth annual re- newal of the West Coast relays. The name of Frank Wykoff, great sprint champion, was among those standing out above the field, but there | Was & question mark after if. The last announcement from Coach Dean Crom- well of Southern California was that Wykoff would compete if the weather | was right. | _ Another particularly bright star was Ben Eastman, Stanford middle-distance runner, who recently bettered the | wx_w‘rld's records for the quarter and haif mile. Southern California, defending cham- | pion, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club are favorites. First events of the program were high school and junior college trials. Uni- versity and club preliminaries were ! scheduled for the afternoon, with finals at night. i Dizzy Dean Demands Action Work Him More or Fire Him, Is Eccentric Pitcher’s By the Associatéd Press. T. LOUIS, May 14 —Dizzy Dean, the eccentric hurler whose mound manners bannish drab- ness from base ball games in which he pitches and talks, wants to leave the St. Louis Cardinals be- cavse he is not allowed to pitch often enough, in his own opinion. He also resents being just a “Sunday pitcher.” Dean voiced his dissatisfaction yesterday and saic ne would like to be traded or sold to some club out- side the Cardinals’ organization “They are pitching me only, onge Ultimatum to Cardinals, a week, on Sunday” Dean com- plained. “but the other fellows they are working in regular turn. I want o pltch in my regular turn or not at al» The Cardinals, Dean said, “don’t figure my end of it."” “Next year, when T come to ask about my salary, they'll show me where I've only been in a few games, and I won't be able to ask for the kind of & contract I'd be entitled to if T pitched regularly,” said Dean. “It’s all too one-sided ‘and the Car- din‘ltlx have got to figure my end of h'.i‘x; ‘w. two starts, shut o @ and beat New Yok, & . ECAUSE of his heavy hitting, Larl Cashion, who joined the Washington ball team as a pitcher, now appears to have clinched the right field job. The American League, the catchers of which have not compared so fa- vorably with the National League receivers in recent years, now has a group of first-rate backstoppers in John Henry and Eddie Ainsmith of the Nationals, Thomas and Lapp of the Athletics and Block of the White Sox. Joe Turner and Gus Pappa estle tomorrow night at the Gay- ety. Maryland Agricultural College and Gallaudet base ball teams will face tomorrow. The Farmers conquered the Kendall Greeners, 2 to 1, e in the season. Hoffecker f C. and either Birck or Batt Gallaudet sre likely pitchers Strengthened by Fury, formerly of Georgetown, and Meyers and How- ard of Western High, the Pepco base ball team expects to show marked improvement. Racing Queen, owned by Riley A Huntt, set & new world racing pigeon record when it swept over the 201 miles from Cameron, W. Va., to this city in 161 minutes in a contest held by the Washington Racing Pig- eon Club. The Giants again were rained Hafey Top Mafor Hitters MACKMAN EADING L AT 45 PACE Red Best in Older League With .418—Reynolds of Nats Second in A. L. N the opening games of the major league season, Jim- mie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics and Chick Hafey of the Cincinnati Reds hold the top places in the batting lists for the big leagues. Foxx, one of the leaders from the st up to the new h to top both lea fifth week gh befo rating, but he finally got 7 times at games topped the National League by 52 points with a 418 mark. ly two other big-league regulars ting bett EW YORK, May 14 (?.—A little over a month after American League Hafey e tht with 409 and Carl Reynol ington “nrst 107 60 hitters in times at Foxx, 458: Dickey, T Washing- 349 \k’a'-k- 'ochrane, Philadel- New York, .342; Selph, Chicago, , 347; Boston Gehrig, 341 al League—Hafey, 418: Critz 66; Terry, New York, 360; ates, ,349; Whitney, Phila- Collins, St. Louis, .346; Klein. Philadelphia, .343; Worthington, Boston, .333; Stephenson, Chicago, 333, and Herman, Cincinnati, and Watkins, St. Louis, tied at .330. The tional League holds a slight edge in the various slugging depart- with its leader topping the first man in the American League in doubles, home runs, runs batted in and stolen bases. The junior cir- cult leads in total and in triples. New Yorl P. Waner, delphia, HE slugging leaders for hoth circuits are Runs—K?lein, Phillies, 26 Foxx, Athletics, 25 Hits—Foxx, Athletics, 'and Porter, Indians, 38; Col- lins, Cardinals, 37. Doubles— Paul Waner, Pirates, 12; Johnson, Tigers; Campbell, Browns, and Oliver, Red Sox, 9. Triples—Myer, Senators, 5: Klein, Phillies: Herman, Reds. and Suhr and Vaughn, Pirates, 4. Home runs—Col- lins, Cardinals. 8; Foxx, Athletics, 7. Runs batted in—Averill Indians, 26: | Collins, Cardinals, 23. Stolen bases— | Frisch, Cardinals. 6; Chapman, Yan- kees; Blue, White Sox, and Burns, Browns, 5. The National League also can boast a pitching leader who has been more successful than the American League's best. Lonnie Warneke of the Cubs has won 5 games without & defeat, while the American League leaders, Brown and Fischer of Washington, have each won three straight. Walter “Huck” Bests of the Boston Braves, second in the older circuit, equals this mark. TIE ”IN COAST LEAGUE. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (#).— Standing of the Pacific Coast League is as follows: San Francisco Hollywood Los Angeles Portland Sacramento Seattle Oakiand Missions INDIANAPOLIS LEADING. CHICAGO, May 14 (#).—The official American Association standing is as follows Pt 696 615 577 - Indianapolis Kansas City . Minneap Milwaukee Columbus | Toledo | Loutsvilie St. Paul . | VIRGINIA STOPS MARINES QUANTICO, Va., May 14.—University of Virginia's ball team conquered Quan- tico Marines, 10 to 7, here yesterday. It was the first defeat for the Leath- ernecks in_eight games. 1736 G St. N.W. | Summer Membership 4 Months—$8.00 Full Privileges Swimming Pool, Free Swim- ming Lessons. 25 Sun Cots on Roof. Gymnasium. TODAY BASE BALL /2% AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Detroit TICKE ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. 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