Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1932, Page 43

Sports News he Fpening Stas. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932. Classified Ads AL PAGE D-—1 ENERAL IS BEATEN IN LAST 5 STARTS Fischer, Off Form, Due to Get Little Work—Hose Snatch Game in Ninth. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HICAGO, June 9.—Al Crowd- er, ore-time ace of the| Nationals’ hill corps, but| greatly reduced in rank| now, tomorrow will strive to throw off the evil spell that for some time has ruined him as a starting | pitcher. | Facing the White Sox in the final game of the series of four here, the General will seek vic- tory as the beginrer of a contest after five successive failures when so employed. Not since May 13, when he opened | fire against the Tigers in Griffith Sta- | dium and went the route to score & | 7-to-0 win over them, has Crowder been Schoolboy Leads Hurlers in Texas By the Associated Press. HE Texas League has a new pitching sensation this year— big “Schoolboy” Rowe of the Beaumont Exporters. Rowe, & 20-year-old lad just one vear out of high school, started the season with six straight victories that put him at the top of the heap. This performance also gave him the leading strikeout mark, with 49. The youngster, whose right name is Lynwood Thomas Rowe, stands 6 feet 43 inches and welghs 205 pounds. In school he played foot ball, base ball, basket ball and tennis, in addition to taking part in track meets and shooting a good game of golf. The tall right-hand recruit be- longs to the Detroit Tigers, who plucked him last Summer from the semi-pro leagues of Louisiana. SHIELDS AND ALLISON TO MEET BRAZILIANS Picked for Singles in Davis Cup Matches and Expected to Give U. S. Running Start. By the Associated Press. able to triumph after starting some- thing. A long time between successful | starting efforts, should you ask the general. Since achieving his last win as a| starter Crowder has tried three times to trim the Yankees, and also has faced the Athletics and the Red Sox at the outset of conflict. Twice in these five | games he went all the way in taking | the beating. The unsuccessful suring began on May 19 in New York. Then Al went | along fairly well until the ninth inning, | when, with victory almost in his hands, he blew up and let the Yanks deadlock the game. Fred Marberry had to be rushed to the goneral's rescue, and it | was Marberry who received credit for the win that eventually came the Nationals’ way. On_May 21, in the same series in New York, Crowder attempted a come- back, only to last three rounds. It was 2 home run hit by Pitcher John Allen when two were on the runway in the second session that upset Al then. Crowder took his next trimming as a | starter in Washington, and again it was the Yankee Club that trimmed him. He went all the way, but with the bases | full and two out in the sixth, Lou Geh- | rig reached him for a homer that ac- counted for the first scoring in the tussle. It was a homer that spoiled the day | for Crowder when he started against | the Athleiics in Philadelphia the after- noon of May 30. Then the Nationals finished their seventh batting turn in | EW YORK, June 9.—Prank Shields, the tall, solemn-faced New Yorker, and Wilmer Allison, sandy-haired | Texan, were counted upon to give the | United States a running start today in its Davis Cup tie with Brazil at Forest Is. Shields was down to meet Ricardo Pernambuco, bright particular star of the invading team, in the opening sin- gles match. Allison was paired against Nelson Cruz in the second singles duel. Pairings for tomorrow's doubles had not been announced, but it was felt certain that Allison and Johnny Van Ryn, Uncle Sam’s regular combination, would face any pair the invaders set up. The order of Saturday's concluding |t 1 singles tilts was to be reversed. with Allison plaving Pernambuco and Shields facing Cruz. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—F o x X, _Athletics, .395; Coombs, Yankees, .361. Runs—Foxx, Athletics, 53; Myer, Senators, and Simmons, Athletics, 46. Runs batted in—Foxx, Athletics, 60; Simmons. Athletics, 52. Hits—Foxx, Athletics, 73; Simmons, Athletics; Porter and Averill, Indians, the lead. but with two out and two on | g3 in the seventh Mack turn Jimmy Foxx | clouted for four bases. Al went into tl eighth round, but passed out before it ended. Als last start was on June 4—last Saturday—in Boston and he tock the count in the clash with the Red Sox. He went all the way, but one poor in- ning—the third—was sufficient to upset him. This business of starting something only to take it on the chin is getting on Crowder's nerves. He's all worked up now, which may be for the better. Eager as he is to get going in the proper way the General ought to give the White Sox a tough time of it in the series final. LTHOUGH the Nationals are short A on pitching * talent there's one hurler with them who hasn’t kad | much to do thus far Wwho fm't] likely to get many assignments in the near future. He is Carl Fischer, dur- | ing the training period hailed as one of the most promising of the Washington | pitchers, but now greatly discounted. Fischer, it seems, has lost to some ex- tent the fast ball that made him such a menace to opposing batsmen last year. Nor has he developed the necessary curve ball that those in charge of the tutoring of the Nationals’ pitching ma- terial figured he would during the time spent in camp at Biloxi not so long ago. Then Manager Johnson was rather confident that Fischer would be one of the cependables of the Washington slab staff this season. But Carl, who has been in only a dozen games in the less than two months that the campaign has been under way and has in that time started but six games to a record of three wins and two defeats. hasn't demonstrated real worth as a flinger. It hasn't been lack of control that ¥ has handicapped Fischer. In fact, his control this year has been better than at any time since he joined the Na- tionals. Carl, though, has had with few exceptions trouble in his pitching from the outset of the battling this vear, and | his pronounced weaknesses have made Mznager Johnson deem it unwise to| take a chance with him to any extent..| Fischer isn't going to do much pitch. ing for some time. That Capital fan: dom may figure on. F ever a ball game was lost tha should have been safely tucked away, | g it was that one with the White Sox yesterday. There was no excuse for the 3-to-2 trouncing the Johnson band took in the second game of the series here. For eight innings Bobby Burke pitched & corking good brand of base ball. He completely shaded the veteran Ted Lvons. In these eight innings Burke yiclded but three safeties and &s many passes and never was in danger of hav- ing a run scored against him. Over a similar route Lyons took a | seven-hit pasting. and in the sixth a|Re pass to Rice, followed by successive sin- gles by West, Reynolds and Judge had | Kerr. accounted for a brace of tailies. There was everything in the world | for Burke to fight for. He had hurled | cne of the best games of his career. True, he had seemingly slipped a bit | when passing two pinch-batters efter | two were out in the eighth, but he had | [¥ finished that frame nicely in pitching s to Sullivan. | In the ninth, though, after Myer had | c 308 made an error to put a White Sox run- ner on the initial sack, Burke seeming- ly forgot that a pitcher must fight to the finish to protect his advantage and, though he wasn’t on the hill to give up the hit, one came to undo all the Na- tionals had gained through nine rounds cof struggle. ERE'S the sad tale of that ninth inning of yesterday's game: After Lyons had yielded to a pinch-bat- ter in the eighth, Pete Daglia, a rookie right-hander, who arrived in Chicago from Oakland, Calif., only last Sunday, ¥ hurled a hitless and passless round. Then the White Sox got on the job. Blue soared out, but Hodapp made first base when Myer, after fumbling a grounder, retrieved the ba'l and heaved it over Judge's head at the ini- | Burk tial sack. Selph's long fly to West didn't hurt, but Fothergill came up to go to a three-and-two count then singled to move Hodapp to second. Burke then threw two wide ones to Kress, the second being so far wide of the plate that it was almost a wild pitch. That throw caused Johnson to lft Bobby and substitute ' Lloyd Brown. The relief hurler managed to &t & pair of strikes against Kress Doubl-s—Chapman, Yankees, and Campbell, Browns, 15. Triples—Myer, Senators, 8; Lazzeri and Chapman, Yankees; Foxx, Ath- letics, 6. Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, Ruth, Yankees, 17. Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees. 9; Lazzeri, Yankees; Blue, White Sox; Johnson, Tigers, 8. Pitching—Gomez, Yankees, 10—1; Connally, Indians, 5—1. National League. Batting—P. Waner, Pirates, Lombardi, Reds, .397. Runs—Klein, Phillies, 61; Terry, Giants; Hurst, Phillies; O'Doul, Dodgers, 29. Runs_batted in—Hurst, Phillies, 53; Klein, Phillies, 50. Hiis—Klein, Phillies, 76; P. Waner, 5. 21; 401; Waner, Pirates, 30; Worthingten, Braves, Triples—Herman, 10; Klein, Phillics, 9, Heme runs—Kilein, Phillies, 14; Col- lins, Cardinals, 12. Stolen bases—Klein, Phillies; P. Waner, Pirates; Frisch, Cardinals, 8. Pitching—Betts, Braves, 6—0; Brown, Braves, 5—0. P o 5 8 8 o 330 i ©000m - onrnoREE —Bo it aomdans 28858580 Siools ea! 3S882 b0 ho_w e onormooatulad oBaal! 8538 L S oEEESFRSLIRRUR ! ormnwwntabotsF e SRES! 500000 OHHIN RO Ao At e G P L Qo PITCHING. BB ey 20 26 6% BERRY-IED scoccoomroy CoomOm MM cononarawad owmarpoccc? eccococon= Brown, Totals CHICAGO. Funk. cf tFonseca . Kress, s5. Berry, c. Lyons, p. $Appling Daglia, p. Totals *Two out when winning run scored. 1Batted for Punk in eighih. 1Batted for Lyons in eighth. Washington 000 Chicago ... 000 Runs batted in—Reynolds. Judge. Berry (3). Two-base hits—West, Kress. 'Three- base hit—Berry. _Stolen base—Reynolds. Sacrifice—Lyons. Double plays—8pencer to Myer. Blue to Berry, Ki Blue. Leit on beses Waghington. coosnromoo000 & co~onoso~oc0e® H - o 02 3—3 20 00 off Daglia. urke, n 8%, innings: 1 i 0 incihe (pitched to one man). Winnirg pitcher—Daglia. Losing pitcher— rke. Umpires—Messrs. Ormsby and Din- Deen. Time of game—1 hour and 46 minutes. socccosccosca! s TEAMS TO BATTLE FORLEAGUE LEADS Top Is at Stake Tomorrow in Midget, Insect Sections of French Loop. IRST place will be at stake in both the insect-and midget sections of the Howard A. French League Saturday. Five games are listed, three in the insect division, and com- petition is expected to be keener than that of any day in the loop so far this season. In the insect loop Sears tossers, hold- ing a half a game lead at the top, will encounter the Hechinger club, runner- up. on the East Ellipse at 11 am. Joe Kuhels and Eastern A. C. will clash on the North Ellipse at 1 p.m. and Ristics | will oppose Versis A. C. on the wm; se at 11 a.m. E!(l:‘-g;eda'cres, leading the midget class, | will have a tough foe in the Petworth | nine, tied for second place with the | Wonder Boys. The runners-up are a | game behind Goodacres, who are listed | to play Petworth at 1 p.m. on the West | Ellipse | T'k’m other game will bring together | the Brightwood Red Sox and Wonder Boys at 1 pm. on the East Ellipse. EFTY STEVENS of Gulf Rennlng‘ Co. rapidly is proving just about the best southpaw pitcher in the Industrial League. Stevens won again | yesterday for the in-and-out Refiners, holding = the hard-hitting Comlruc-' tioneers to eight hits and scoreless until the ninth inning when the losers scored ali of their runs. The score was 6 to 3. | The hapless Federal Unionists again | proved a doormat in_the Departmental League, dropping a 14-to-3 decision to Commerce although outhit only by 12 Games Wanted. Congress Heights Juniors, for Satur- Call Lincoln 8185. | with an unlimited | Call Capitol Heights 391 Truxton Juniors. Call North 1015 between 6 and 7 p.m. Bethesda Fire Department, for Satur- day. Call Wisconsin 4260. Games Scheduled. Sholl's Cafe vs. Winchester A. C. Sunday, Winchester, Va. Howitzer Giants vs. Rockville, Sun- day, Rockville. Gaithersburg vs. Capital All-Stars, Sunday, Gaithersburg. Majestic Radio vs. C. & P. Telephone Co., Saturday, Diamond No. 9. | Majestic Radio vs. Lutto Jewelers, Richmond. | Columbia Midgets vs. Mulhall A. C., Sunday, Rosslyn. Results Yesterday. Wheeler Club Juniors, 8; Northeast Bricklayers, 2. (eight- Congress Heights, 4; Police, 4 inning tie). Northeast Market, 11; Seaman Gun- ners, 6. Gulf Refining Co., 6:; Construc- tioneers, 3 (Industrial League). Commerce, 14; Federal Unionists, 3 (Departmental League). G Treasury, 7; National Museum, (Colored Departmental League). Minor Leagues International League. Baltimore, 6-4; Newark, 4- Jersey City, 6-5. Reading, 5-0. Montreal, 6: Buffalo, 5. Toronto. 5. Rochester, 2. Southern Association. Little Rock, 3; Birmingham, 2. Chattanooga, 6-2; Knoxville, 0-5. Memphis, 5; New Orleans, 3. Nashville, 11; Atlanta, 5. American Association. Minneapolis, 9; Louisville, 3. St. Paul, 5; Indianapolis, 2 ‘Toledo, 10; Kansas City, 4. Columbus, 7; Milwaukee, 2. Pacific Coast League. Oekland, 12; Missions, 7. Portland, 7; Seattle, 6 (11 innings). Eastern League. Richmond, 4-4; Hartford, 3-7. Norfolk, 9; New Haven, 8 (16 in- nings). Albany, 13; Allentown, 6. Springfield, 5; Bridgeport, 1. Western League. Tulsa, 8; Omaha, 5. Denver, 2, Wichita, 1. Pueblo, 1; Oklahoma City, 0. Des Moines-St. Joseph, rain. Texas League. Dallas, 5; Galveston, 3. Houston-Fort Worth, rain. San Antonio, 4; Tyler, 3. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Ruth, Yan- kees, Gehrig, Yankees, 1; Rogeil, ‘Tigers, Porter, Indians, 1; Grove, Athletics, 1; Goslin, Browns, 1; Jolley, Red Sox, 1; Cuccinello, Dodgers, 1; Lee, Phillles, 1; Barbee, Pirates, 1, and Schulmerich, Braves, 1. The leaders — Foxx, Athletics, 21; Ruth, Yankees, 17; Klein, Phillies, 14; Collins, Cardinals, 12; Simmons, Ath- letics, 12, and Gehrig, Yankees, 12. Standings in Major Leagues SIDELIGHTS ON THE BENEFIT SHOW. 6/ - DOERER., GRIFF STANUM. MR.GOLOIELOCK. ;uzu«, nEw i iLov O 5 e 3 =2 FUTTING AROUND QPPONENTS WO Down wrm/ ONE PUACH.., Yea, al we | CAN SING, Too* 4, P - “2 ARTy GALLAGHER GAYE THE BONUS-SEEKERS' BENEFIT FANS MORE ACTON THAN HE HAD SHOWN 1N BOUTS WHERE. HE WORKED FOR THE CASH REGISTER - MOST OF THE Boys DID — THE REFEREES HAD TO HOLD THE BOYS DOWAl.. SARAZEN IS CHOICE | OF BRITISH WRITER U. S. Star Sinks 6-Yarder on 14th Hole—Makes Game Look Easy, “ Darwin Asserts. BY BERNARD DARWIN. SANDWICH, England, June 9— While England fought well in the first day's battle for the British open golf championship and still has plenty of reserves, I stick to Gene Sarazen as the probable winner. The big three from America al played late in the day—Mac Smith| first, then Sarazen, then Tommy Ar- mour. Smith made the game look more like mechanical exercise than any one else, but nobody made it look so simple as Sarazen did. At the fourteenth Gene holed 2 6-yard putt he richly deserved. It was a curly, difficult putt and got| him 2 at the short hole, which made | him 2 under 4s. Gbviously he was pleased, for he laughed gleefully and took off his cap to the cheers. That putt gave him the inspiration he needed for a heroic finish. He holed a nice one at the sixteenth and, hit one of the greatest and longest spoon shots made so far at the seven- teenth. Now all he wanted was a 4 for his 70 and he got it. Armour has sagged a little, but up to the present America is well to the| fore, with Sarazen in the lead and playing finely. (Copyright. 1932. b; Newspaper 7, fhe North | American liance, Inc.) — AN UNENVIABLE RECORD. “Wild Bill' Hallahan, left-hander oII the St. Louis Cardinals, tied the major league record for wild pitches in one inning with three in a game this Spring. SCALP 17 OPPONENTS. The Holdenville, Okla., All-Indians, & base ball nine, won 17 consecutive games on a tour of Texas. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932, American League. 'VESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Chicago, 3; Washington. 2. New York. 5: Detroit. 4. Philadelphia, 3; Cleveland, 1. 8t. Louis, 11; Boston, 4. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 9: Cincinnati, 2. Chicago. 7; Brooklyn, 5 (14 innings). 8t. Louis, 15: Philadelphia, 8 g'.- 2 s uoisuIuseM viyaPpenud qsmasg ** 8ot 18 usmr00Ig ** 310X moN * peuupER sjudppeIIYd eocuom 3807 New_York Washington 708 | Chicago 77 41 11 7/_31291201.502 2—1 11 2110/ 6/ 0/_6/291211.580 Philadelphia Si—I 3 31 21 41 0/—I 9] 31 6I 11231221511 Detroit__ o 2i—1 71 1| 420 4I—| 1111 9 3241241500 Cleveland 01 3 51—1 9/ 2150 21 11| 71_2| 5/24128/.462 before completing the walk, thereby filling the bases. Up came Berry to get a two-strike count immediately. Then Brown chucked two wide ones and then—one right in the groove. Bang! A liner between Reynolds and West and the ball game was gone, pphile. st c&vi St. Louls ... 401 41 4 New_York 01 3/—1 3] 3I—I 4/ 8:21/251.457 3] 0/ 41 41 41 3/17/301.362 4121 01 01 11 11—/ 9i381.191 Chicago Boston 7141 61 21 1] 3| 2124[201.453 116/ 31 01 61 61 1—I23(281.451 Cincinnati . Philadelphia Lost ..114121122[21123/25/30/381—1—| Lost .........130/31122124/28125/291281—1—| GAMES TOMORROW. wa fearo, N PordtaThetes, hila. 8 Taks, GAMES TODAY. Wash. at Chicago. New York at Detroit. GAMES TODAY. ncin. at New Y icago at Bklyn. GAMES TOMORROW. . Cincin. at New York. Chicago af B | o 11 | Percy Arliss, Great Britain. | R. M. Taggart, Great Britain. Leading Scorers In British Open ANDWICH, England, June 9 (#).— Cards of the leading American playvers in the British Open Golf Tournament yesterday follow: 436 5—38—T4 35 30 3 53— 4 38 4 43718 rsey. 44 38 5 . 4 53876 Other leading cards: C. A. Whitcombe, Great Brital 7 W. H Davies, Great Britaln n n 3 A. J. Lacey, Great Britain. = W. A. McMinn, Great Britain. Cecil Denny, Grea: Britain. C. H. Ward. Great Br Arthur Perry, Great B Mark St’mour. Great Brit 8. 8. Fieids, Great Brital E. W. Kenyon, Great Bri ¥red Robson, Lionel Munn. Great Britain. *W. L. Hope. Great Britain Henry Cotton. Great Britain Arthur Havers, Great Brital; Ricnard Burtop. Great Bril w3 73 73 73 K Fred Jarman, Great Britain. Archie Compston, Great Brit Cedric Saynuj, Great Britail J. Rouse, Great Britain. . P. H. Rodgers. Great Britain. Don Curtis, Great Britain. Albert V. G. Seymour, Gre Ted Rav. Great Britain. . A. Whitcombe, Great . A. Torrence. Great Britain.. . Weston. Great Brital . R s Brif R. Whitcombe. Great Britain. Charies Gadd. Great Britain *Lister Hartley, Great Britai: Eric _McRuvie, ' Great Brital; Abe Mitchell. 'Great Britain. Marcel D'Allemagne, France. *Robert Sweeney, U. 8. A. Plerre Hirigoyen, France. *Amateur. FIELDS IS RECOVERING. CHICAGO, June 9 ()—Jackie Fields, world welterweight champion, bly will be released Sunday from a hospital, where he has been treated for an eye ailment. Stars Yesterday By the Assoclated Press. Frankie Frisch, Cardinals—Returned to the line-up and smashed three sin- gles and a double against the Braves. Gabby Hartnett and Bill Jurges, Cubs —Their hits in the fourteenth inning defeated Brooklyn, 7 to 5/ Charlie Berry, White Sox—Tripled in the ninth with two out and bases load- ed to beat Washington, 3 to 2. Lefty Grove, Athletics—Pitched his tenth it victory and hit a home run as the A’s defeated Cleveland, 3 1. ws..be Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Yankees —Their home-run smashes were enough beat Detroit, § to 4 3 | Lake, " CARNATION SAMESTKEPT THE = CUSTOMERS INFORME O MKE ANTONELLE GAVE TAE PAYNG PATRONS A (0T OF ACTIOA — —By TOM DOERER SAVE THE CHEERS FoR. THe BOYS, FOLKS, THEY. ARE THE "fAloz HEWEMILLER @oT A BIG HAND FOR HIS EFFORTS 18 PUTTING OAl THE SHOwW. ... Bty SCHWARTZ. DREwW FRiEN0S HE GAvE STRIKLER A GOOD ~AND ROMANO GAVE MIKE PLBNTY, Tus BENNY HoRN AND AL PRESSMAN, PROTEGES oF CHARLIE SHORT'S BROUGHT Dowal THE MOUSE WITH A CoMBIWATQN WRESTUNG, BoxiNG BouT . BY TOM DOERER. OTIVATED by a desire to Provide Fund to Aid Bonus answer an appeal for aid, 15,000 District of Colum- M bia people also wrote by their attendance at the bonus army benefit boxing show at Griff | Stadium last night an appeal for | fistic exhibitions in Washington. It was not only in numbers that those in attendance at the affair indicated | their wish for legalized amateur boxing | here. but in the enthusiasm and in- terest shown each performance of the District boxers. A constant wave of cheers, shouts of enccuragement and | enthusiasm moved along in the stands land on the playing field. Second to wanting to know how much money the bonus-seekers relief fund was going to get from the gath- ing, was the query: “Does this turnout help to put amateur boring over in the District?” ‘There was not even a suggestion from the crowd winding its way up the cement walks to the stands in the stadium that it was gathering to foster interest in boxing. There was only one purpose—one topic. But before the assemblage began to move out at the end of the program it had shown its ‘desire for clean, spirited amateur box- | Ing exhibitions, a sport denied the | District by the lawmakers. | In turn, nearly a hundred ama- teur and professional fighters gave their best in an effort to entertain the crowd to a point where it would dig into its pockets deeply for a worthy cause, Boxers who only fight in accompaniment to a cash regis- ter's music boxed more vigorously and scientifically last night, with only a vote of thanks as their purse. And many of the professionals on the card have felt the depression’s sting as hard as the next fellow. | _ Promoters, referees, coaches, police, | firemen and civilians, molded into a | hurried organization at the suggestion of Brig. Gen. Glassford, superintend- ent of the Police Department, turned out a fistic card which can be envied by the smartest promoter. From the wee little Pete Reilly and Joe Petro, a pair of 60-pound young- sters, to the Marty Gallagher-Bob Tow heavyweight tussle every bout along the line was topnotch. Rather than encouraging the performers to step out and give the customers more action, officials in the ring had to tame down the fighters, who occa- sionally went into too-enthusiastic outbursts of fiying gloves. Kid Sullivan and Danny Lewis came out of the past to give an exhibition of the boxing style used nearly two decades ago in Washington. ~Olympic boxing talent paraded its best, and the hardest punchers in the preliminary $2,507 Is Realized To Aid Veterans XACTLY $2,507 was realized last night at the boxing show at Grifith Stadium for the bene- fit of the bonus-seeking veterans here, Maj. Harvey L. Miller, pro- moter of the show, announced this morning. ‘While the sum was not quite up xpectations in view of the turn- ‘The show cost not one cent. Every- from the lzchhun’ shoe laces and ;log to the stadium and GEO. LEES, AMER(CAN LEquon, OEFEATE D SPIKE WEBB'S OLYMPiC HaPe, RUBEN WH(TE. . Bouts Serve Double Purpose Army and Constitute Appeal for Legalized Boxing in District. ranks in this locality let their punches 80. And when it was all over there had not been a hitch in the pro- gram, not a retarding vote evidenced to those anxious to see both the vet- erans served and boxing helped. SCENES familiar to followers of box- ing in more prosperous ring days prevailed behind the curtains . . . Kid Sullivan and Danny Lewis, a pair of old-timers, drew a lot of former fighters and old fans to the dressing Tooms . . . Sullivan is in splendid physi. cal shape for a man old enough to have fought Joe Gans, Jimmy Britt and Ad Wolgast . . . Leais is a little less nimble . . . Charlie Short, the referce, buzzing behind the scenes, thinks Washington one of the best sports towns this section of the country at the moment .. . He looked over the swelling crowd and figured what it would mean at $1, $2 and $3 per head . . . Goldie Ahearn, Fats Cornell, Patsy Donovan. Frankie Mann and Joe Turner dabbed their brows, as they figured what the gate would have been, “if"— . . . Bobby Goldstein, the featherweight collegiate, DROP T0 SEVENTH IN LOSING STREAK liness of Hafey, Johnson’s Inability to Pitch Regularly Hurt Team. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. THE Cincinnati bubble, one of the prettiest of the Spring crop, appears to have ex- ploded Howley’s lap. Scven straight defeats have re- moved the Reds from the first division and dropped them into seventh place. Chick Hafey’s illness, which has d prived the club of its clean-up hitte and Pitcher Si Johnson's inability to take his regular turn have contributed to_the Reds’ rapid tumble. They committed four errors in the first four innings yesterd to lose their second to bill Terry's revivified New York Giants, 9 to 2, All the Giants’' runs were unearned, in Manager Dan HE seesaw scrap for the league leacership saw the Ghicago Cubs bouuce up again by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 7 to 5, in 14 ngs, whiie Boston was taking a 15-to-8 beating from the St. Louis Cardinals Charlie Root, relief pitcher for the Cubs, held Brooklyn to one hit for the last six innings of their struggle and finaily was rewarded in the fourteenth when Gabby Hartnett tripled and Bill Jurges doubled to drive across the wine ning runs, _The Cardinals pounded four Boston pitchers for 20 hits in scoring their fifth straight v 2 Phillies took a free-scoring af- fair frem Pittsburgh, 11 to 10. Dave Barbee provided three Pirate runs with a home run in the ninth. 'HE two eminent scuthpaws, Verno Gomez and Bcb Grove, con to burn up the American Le in their battle for individual pitc supremacy. Gomez won his t tory in 11 games as the Yankees took a close one from Detroit, 5 to 4. Grove scored his eleventh victory of the year and his tenth in succession in beating Cleveland, 3 to 1. Grove gave the A’s their winning run with a homer in the eighth. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehig knocked in all five Yan- kee runs, each hitting a homer and a single. Gocse Goslin delivered a home run, a {triple and a single and drove in four runs as the St. Louis Browns cruched Boston, 11 to 4 PILOTS GET A CLOUTER Seven Players Are Added to D. C. Club in Colored League. George (Mule) Suttles, former first baseman of the Detroit Wolves and the |Babe Ruth of the East-West Colored | Base Ball League. has cast his lot with the Washington Pilots. He will make his debut here Sunday, when Philadel- phia Hillsdales are entertained at Griffith Stadium. Taking his cut from the right side, |Suttles stands 6 feet 2 inches and | weighs 202. He specializes in long-dis- tance hitting. ! In announcing the signing of Sut- tles, the Pilot management brought into line the seventh player within the past 48 hours. Others were: Dewey Creacy, base, and Ted Trent, pitcher, oit Wolves: Bill Evans, outfield: * * Eggleston, catcher, and o, :, pitcher, Homestead | Grays, and Jake Durn, shortstop, Los | Angeles Royals. | _ The Pilots defeated the Baltimore | Black Sox in the Monumental City last | night in a 10-inning game, 7 to 4, Richardson twirling for the visito Home runs by Dunn and Creas counted for the Pilots’ two tallies in the second inning. Both hits were over | the fence. | Pitots Sox sat in at the ringside resplendent in |So white snickers and green hose . .. Bobby goes to Baltimore within a few days to work out with Benny Schwartz, Goldie Ahearn’s new charge ... It will be Olympic preparation for Bob, and a tune-up for a possible scrap with Pladner for Benny ... Schwartz was on hand, but an infected foot kept him out of action . .. Benny is pulling at the bit for a Summer of action. HARLIE REYNOLDS, the K. of C. athletic director, makes a good ref- eree . . . Prankie Mann boosted the prowess of Kid Sullivan in other days . . . PFrankie is shaping up his Fort Washington shows . Spike Webb buzzed around and went Rubien White’s corner . . . But Rubien lost to George Lees . . . White, an Army corporal, was sent to Annapcl from Honolulu to be trained by Spike for a trial in.the Olympics next month at Los Angeles . . . Navy gave its per- mission . . . White was a runner-up | in the national amateurs in New York last month . . . He was off form last night . . . Dutch Bergman sat at the ringside and fanned about the amateur boxing bill . . . Dutch is a thorough fight fan . . Eddie La Fond’s boy, Danny Pyne, did not work because his opponent failed to materialize . . . Eddie refereed—and with good judg- ment, stopping a bout that might have gotten a little rough . .“Tone ’'em down,” was the order of the night, and the officials kept the boys from getting too punchy . . . Uncle Billy Smith of the business department of the Grand Nationals was fuming over the team’s showing against Chicago in that last inning yesterday . . . Uncle Billy did not like a piece of poor judg- ment displayed in the game. 'AJ. HEINIE MILLER flitted around the ringside in a brown and white ensemble. . . Heinie got the com- mittee for the program together...It was a good job, and Announcer Jimmy Lake told the crowd who deserved the credit...Brig. Gen. Glassford grinned with delight as he stuffed fistsful of paper money into a black suitcase... ‘The crowd came through splendidly, but there were not enough money- gatherers to cover the assemblage in the time allotted to the work...Joe ‘Turner, the wrestling impressario watched the proceedings...A New York newspaper says Joe will head a group of foreign diplomats to the Shikat- Lewis affair tonight...Londos is named to hold ringside seats...Turner says he will stay at home to watch his own show...Comment at the ringside in- dicated that many of the local experts believe Shikat will toss Lews and then take on Londos for the mat bout of the century...Which is why the wrestle war burlesque is being wished upon the reading public. ..But the customers are ..A great many fight folk gathered in a city where the game is not legalized...Benny Portnic makes s good fight referee, on his toes at all times. . .Pat O'Conner refereed the Kid into | Baltimore |TRIBE TO TRY OUT BOLEY | Former Mackman May Be Signed if He Does Well in Test. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9 ().—Joe | Boley, former Philadelphia shortstop and now a free agent, may yet become | a member of the Cleveland Indians | _General Manager Billy Evans of the | Cleveland club said he had asked Boley | to come to Cleveland for a tryout. and | if he shaped up well would probably be signed. | ‘The Indians bought Boley from the | Athletics during the Winter, but the |sale was canceled by Commissioner Landis. Boley was released later by the A's after an injury kept him on the bench at the start of the season. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. | | Batteri Hampton. | 'ASHINGTON hung up its ninth straight victory yesterday and its fourth over the league-lead- ing Chicago nine, when it got to Doc ‘White for 13 hits while Walter John- son was pitching strongly. A fea- ture play was turned in by Left Fielder Howard Shanks, when he rushed to the infield and put out Lord and then hurled home to catch Rath, who was trying to score. Col. G. S. Hanlin, E. W. Ford, Dr. A. V. Parsons and G. W. Perkins led in the latest Washington Gun Club trapshoot. One of the best known scouts in big league base ball is Arthur Irwin of the New Ycrk Yankees. Among the prominent boat houses on the Potomac here are Dempsey’s, Moore’s, Barker’s and Cumberland’s. Tech High has entered a crew ‘in the People’s regatta, July 4, at Phila- delphia. It is being coached by Clarence Hecox. Ronald McKinney, son of W. C. McKinney, long promi- nent in canoeing circles here, is coxswain of the Tech crew. Candidates for the Potomac Boat Club junior rowing crew are Edward Kehoe, Charles Wagner, Paul New- man, Eddy Batsch, Claude Parker, Edwin Evans, James C. Dulin, E. R. Tilley, R. D. Zappene, C. E. Phelps, James L. McMurrin, H. E. Griffin, E. M. Foster, Deeks Randolph, J. D. Kurtz, C. 8. Springer, Peter Galt, K. Minnegerode, R. A. Shedd, W. P. Clarke, Bruce Warden, H. M. Rivero, E. 8. Allwine, Lawrence Norton Wil- son, H. A. Sullivan, Hans W. Ireland, Raymond H. Berry, Edwin C. Carroll, Joseph Imrie, Samuel Brown and M Brown. Admiral Josh Slggeum ing the Potomac crews. Leo! is John Evans i his xight-hand maD.