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A—12 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHING GTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933. SPORTS Balting Slump Not Depressmg Griffs : Ruth Still Eclipses Other Yank Stars CONFIDENT POWE WILL FLARE SOON Forenoon Practice Ordered to Stimulate Offensive. May Last Season. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AT. To strike, hit or drive B with or as with a bat.” According to .our best dictionaries, that is pre- cisely what “bat” means. If prac- tice will help them, the Nationals will come to a proper understand- ing of the term as applied to a base ball. - Morning batting practice and more morning batting practice has been ordered by Manager Joe Cronin and he’ll be in the thick of it, too. The boy field boss of the Washington outfit hasn't ex- perienced the pleasure swinging a bat truly against the leather- covered sphere since his opening- day rampage and he's burning up. ‘The skipper has plenty of company | though, two of which went on the wrong side of the book for them—the Nationals have sticked for the amazing average of «177. Amazing for a collection of sturdy | swatters on long-time record and one that piled up & set of high and hand- some figures for slamming in its string of training tussles. “We have the power. That I know,” Joe claimed right on top of yesterday's defeat in which a four-hit attack was | the best his club could muster against | the Red Sox. Then “the fans needn't think we're weaklings up there at the plate. It's just a little slump. All clubs have 'em every once in a while. Maybe it's just as well we're getting an early one.” When we snap out of it we ought to go good for a long time. “I really don’t regard it anything to| worrk over greatly right now,” went on | the boy manager. “We showed in_those training games we could do a lot of free-swinging and get results. The boys are just a trifle tightened at bat now. That's all But the morning practices will get those kinks out.” 'RONIN'S optimism is shared by the members of his band. To a man, the Nationals are confident they'll soon step out in a better and truer bat. ting stride. None among them is fret- | ting about the poor offensive of the past | few days. Too bad, though, that they haven't much time left to devote to morning practice before embarking upon their first tour. days of it before invading Philadelphia for a trio of tilts with the Athletics. And on the road, a club is limited to 20 minutes of batting practice before a game. The drills will be resumed, Cronin | says, when the Nationals come back next week for their brief stay, how- ever. He hopes to have his charges— also himself—swinging in the sweetest of style before the club makes its firs!‘ trek westward. 1In fact, morning practice may become a daily routine for the Nationals at| home this season, excepting, of course, | those extremely torrid Summer periods when such extra effort would be like]v to sap the athletes so much that the: eouldn't “come back” properly for the game Jater in the day. CRONN is a great great believer in morn- ing practice. So was Clark Griffith when he was actively managing the Nationals. letes not only had their forenoon bat- ting work regularly while at home, but they also had spells of schooling. The old boss always contended that even the big leaguer still had plenty to learn about base ball and he saw that they rh:ktd up the knowledge befcre going nto the game, where ignorance of the finer points of the pastime might prove ruinous. So far as batting is concerned, Joe is swiping a page from the big chief’s book. , That several of the managers he put on the job after assuming the presi- €ency of the club failed to recognize the importance of forenoon drills irked Griffith no little. He gave them free rein, however, during their terms. But when the time came to pass out a new managerial contract the paper handed another man. Looks as though young Cronin doesn't intend to overlook this phase of man- | agement ever particularly pleasing to the big boss of the works. BING DATE JUGGLED CHICAGO, April 18 (#),—A 10-round bout between King Levinsky of Chi- cago and Charley Retzlaff, Duluth, Minn., puncher, originally scheduled for May 5 at the Chicago Stadium, later | moved up to May 4, has been shifted again. It will be held on May 3. ‘0 000 000 | by 000 000 | 000 000 ‘000 0 000 Pitching. L] o Q (o, amowEan cos33m~3 oooerm-g e Red Sox In their last three games— At best they'll get but two |be Under Griffith the ath- | was | 0| Runs R Hl h-Grade Red Sox Slabbing Flnally Tells When Nationals Are Overcome in 4-2 Tussle BY JOHN B. KELLER. LASS is bound to tell, so the Nationals eneed not feel cha- grined over that 4-to-2 trounc- ing handed them yesterday by the Red Sox, generally regarded the prize marks of the American League. It's not that the Red Sox summed up radiate any great amount of class— they do seem to have more of it as a club than heretofore, at that—but from the start of the season the Yawkey- Collins combine has put forth pitching of high grade. Something good for the Boston bunch was bound to come of it. Simply too bad it had to be the Cronin crew that yielded the Red Sox their first victory. In their four games to date, the Red Sox pitchers have given up only 24 hits. That in battle with the two best- looking clubs of the circuit. Yes, the Nationals deserve that rating with the Yankees. When a club runs against that class of slabbing, it is just as likely as not ! to take a wallop on the button. The Nationals did and they have no reason to be dismaycd. ENRY JOHNSON may have had an uncertain hurling arm when he wore the Yankee livery. If so, | there must be healing power in the Red Sox shirt he now dons for his 'BERLIN FAGES LOSS OF 1936 OLYMPICS Shift to Rome or Tokio or Cancellation. ‘The Olympic games of 1936, scheduled | for Berlin, Germany, may be trans-, | ferred or canceled because of the anti- | semitic attitude of the Hitler govern- |ment, it has been indicated by Avery | Brundage, president of the American | Olympic Committee. An Associated Press dispatch from Baltimore quotes Brundage, in a let- | ter to R. A. Miller, managing editor of | | the Jewish Times, a Monumental City ublication, as saying that it was nis | “personal but unofficial opinion” that the games “will not be held in any | country where there will be interfer- |ence with the fundamental Olympic theory of equality of all races.” Possibilities which confront those re- | sponsible for the games are declared to First, the venue of the games icay be changed from Berlin to Rome or Tokio, the two cities that have ex- pressed an eagerness to handle the Olympics should they be taken away from Germany. Second, the games may be cancelled |as they were in 1916 when it also was Berlin, strangely enough, that had been picked for the Olympic city. The ‘World War caused this. ‘Third, the competing nations may xre(use to send athletes to the meet. And as a corollary to the last item, | there is a possibility that the United States would not participate, even if the | other nations did. —_— CUE EXPERTS PLAY HERE Caras and Ponzi Stage 250-Point | Exhibiticn Tomorrow. Jimmy Caras, who finished second to Ralph Greenleaf in the last world | championship pocket billiard tourney, |and Andrew Ponzi, one of the four eded players in the coming title event, will oppose tomorrow afternoon and night in a 250-point exhibition match at the Lewis & Krauss par- lors. Blocks of 125 points each will | comprise the match. | Ponzi has several recent long strings | to his credit and may be a slight fa | vorite over Caras. In a match wit Greenleaf he ran 141 and later clus- tered 159 against Erwin Rudolph. THOROUGHLY HOSED BOSTON. Warstler, R. Johnson, McManus. Alexander, | Srinsett. 0 =m> 2033umomE o8, oo PEONTRERT Sommoas: EETEL 5. o ot | Goslin. Schulte, Totals tBraed for Crowder in eighth inning. :Batted for Sewell in ninth inning. §Batted for Thomas in ninth inning. Boston ... 0001001114 Washington 0000000202 batted in—McManus. Watwood. R. Johnson. Myer. Manush. Warstler. Two- e hits—Waritler, Myef, ‘Three-base, hits | Johnson. Joh SacrifceoRyer | to Cronin Lo Kuhel, Myer unasisted. on bases—Boston_7: Washington. K. base on halle—oft H Jonnson, i off Kiin off Welch, 1: off Crowder, 1; off Thoma: Struck out—By Welch. 1! by Crowder Thomas, 1. _Hits—Off H. Johnson, 3 in 7% innings; off Crowder. in K innings: off Kline. 1 in % inning; off Burke. 1 in 0 inning (fone out in ninth): off Welch. none g:,0f Thomas, none in 1 innine. cher—H. Johnson. ‘Umpires—Messrs, Hildebrand. and nneen. Time of game—Two hours and 1 minuce. Anti-Semitic Attitude May Bring| ) | Albert Michelsen, ©52959520 Losing pitch- | Was] touonth.ehe‘vtnghm He worked his way into the eighth inning yesterday and allowed the ever-struggling Griffs but three hits and as many bases.on balls. Two of the hits were qxeld over the first three rounds and two of the passes over the first seven. And th passes didn't come with the hits, l(o sign of an arm there. finally got to Henry in the eighth when & pass to Kuhel was followed by Myer's double to pro- duce a score, but Manager McManus then also got to Johnson. The pilot lifted the pitcher pronto and shooed big Bob Kline to the box. Big: Bob was immediately slammed by Manush for a single to tally Myer and when Cronin walked it looked as thougn one of those rousing rallies that so delight the patrons of Griffith Stadium. But Kline deftly disposed of the next two batters and John Welch, Washing- ton-born, but St. Louis bred, yielded nothing more than a lone pass as he chucked the ninth frame. Of the 14 Nationals who edged into the line-up, only Myer and Manush drove the ball to safety. Before the eighth-inning splurge, Buddy smote a single with two out in the third and Manush crashed a triple with as many down in the first. The others had no use for the Boston brand of flinging. INE hits of assorted sizes and a trio of passes were gleaned by the Red Sox off the pitching provided by Al Crowder, Bob Burke and Al ‘Thomas. ‘The Red Sox got after Crowder in the fourth when with a double and a single they shot over their first run. ‘They got three singles in the seventh and two accounted for another marker. Then in the eighth Roy J the Dball over the right field barrier for 8 homer and at the end of the round Crowder walked off a beaten boxman. That after chalking up 16 consecutive big league wins, 15 of them carried over from the latter part of the '32 season. Burke, out for the first time in this campaign, opened the ninth by giving up a single. An error let the next bat- ter get on and Manager Cronin decided | this put the left-hander in too danger- ous a spot. Tommy Thomas was called 'in. Tommy deliberately walked Hodapp !to cram the sacks. After getting the next two men out, Tommy did not de- | liberately walk Warstler, but the latter got on and a run was over. | So was the game—for the Nationals. | $¢ JUST a tough club for me,” said Crowder after the game. “Al- ways was.” The General turned in 26 victories against 13 defeats last year. Yet his record with the Boston | boys was three wins lgulnsv. as many | defeats. the Nationals were about to put om’ ANOTHER STRUGGLE DUE. —By TOM DOERER Aev! WHERE YoOU GOING WITH T4AT, BOY'S R ’mu\‘boem_}, Mike Lynch Out Of Boston Race 'OR the first time in several years Mike Lynch, 51-year-old distance runner of this city, will not com- pete in the annual Patriots’ day marathon tomorrow at Boston. Pressing business keeps him at home. However, Lynch plans to take part in the National A. A. U. champion- ship marathon to be held here under auspices of The Star June 17. Four D. C. marathoners will run in the Patriots’ day grind. They are Haskell Clark’ Jimmy Montague and Bill Greiner of the Knights of Co- lumbus and Arthur Dewhurst of the Y. M. C. A. 246 RUN TOMORROW IN BOSTON MARATHON Paul De Bruyn Will Defend Title in 36th Annual Classic—Big Crowd to See Event. OSTON, April 18.—Tens of thou- sands of Massachusetts citizens will gather tomorrow. ‘ollowing their time-honored custom of Patriots’ day, to catch a glimpse of the famous Boston marathon race. An entry of 246 has heen received for the thirty-sixth running of the classic. As an unusual element all of the first 10 of last year are included in the entry. They are: 1, Paul DeBruyn, German- %; | American A.'C., New York; 2, Jimmy Henigan, Medford; 3, Willie Kyronen, Pinish-American A. C. New York; 4, Millrose A. A.; 5, William Steiner, New York; 6, Alex Burnside, Toronto; 7, Earle Collins, Medford; Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket, R.I; 9, Eddy Cudworth, Toronto; 10, John ‘Semple, Lynn. Clarence H. DeMar, Normal School teacher at Keene, N. H, is ready for his fifteenth start in the Boston test. Seven times he has won it and on four | other occasions he placed second or | third. Homer Standing By the Assoclated Press. Home runs yesterday—R. Red Scx, 1; Fox, Tigers, ‘Tigers, 1. ‘The leader—Gehrig, Yankees, 3. League totals—American, 16; tional, 2; total, 18. Johnson, 1; White, Na- Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Ervin Fox, Tigers—His homer with two on in tenth beat White Sox. Irvine Hadley, Browns—Stcpped In- dians with six hits. Johnny Watwood, Red Sox—Stopped ashington rally with brilliant catch, collected two singles and drove in one run. Amazing Base Ball World Pitchers Yield Less Than Six Hits a Game, Though Only One of Four is Won. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. OTHING so far this major league season has been quite so startling as the magnifi- cent showing of the Baston Red Sox, for years the doormat of the American League. The standings, caldly matematical, maow the Sox have won -only one | game in four, but with a little luck | it might just as well have been four wvictories and no defeats. Maybe it won't last, but Manager Marty McManus has been getting i just about the best pitching in either jeague. His moundsmen, called upon to face the clubs picked to fin- sh one-t: New York Yankees ,| snd Washington Senators—have al- ‘mmflu\v 23 hits in four 3 hap #x 2 game, ‘The “breaks” cost the Sox their first two games with the Yankees. Paul Andrews, Bob Kline and John Welch held the champions to nine hits while Boston was clouting Ver- non Gomez for 12 in the opener, Lou Gehrig's homer with two on enabled the Yankees to win, 4-3. Charley Ruffing clouted a homer with the bases filled in the’ ninth and the champions won again, 6-2. Dusty Rhodes-and Kiine collabo- rated on another five-hit master- piece against Washington Saturday, but once more the Sox found lady luck frowning on them and they went down, 2-1. Such {ll fortune couldn't continue indefinitely and Tom Yawkey’s club flnlllly bmkemmto the wewlnsnek;l column yesterday, spilling = Johnson, in the process, the Red Sox cracked Alvin Crowder’s two-year winning streak of 16 games in succession. ‘The weather man permitted play- Sn(ufonlymomarnmeu,m the American League. The Chi- cago White Sox assaulted Vic Sorrell first inning, but Detroit’s Tigers came back to tle the count in the eighth and win in the tenth, 8-5, when the young rookie outfielder, Fox, cracked a home run with two on. Another rookie, Jo Jo White, climaxed the eighth-inning nlly ‘that_tled the score with a homer with one on. The St. Louis Browns won their first victory of the season, bunch- ing five hits off Willis Hudlin and Oral Hildebrand for four runs in the sixth and a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. It was Cleve- land’s first defeat. Irvin Hadley went the route for the Browns and v U only. & hita Loss of Simmons Won’t-l_rlamper]TH His Own Hitting, Sees Fine Flag BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoctated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, April 18.—One of the questions that was waived in| and out of the hot stove league | 1927, when the Babe set up his record, | last Winter—the possible ad- Chance for A’s | Stadium left-fleld stands on the flrsl i bounce. These seven hits, doubles in 1932, | would have been home runs, lifting his total to 65, if they had been hit in “I'm off to a bad start this yea Jimmie admitted. “and that's the toug] Foxx Asserts; REE CLUBS FORM | NEW SANDLOT LOOP National Capital League Hunting for Two More Members—Gauzza | Heads Organization. NEW sandlot base ball circuit, christened the National Capital League, definitely was formed last | night at a meeting of team managers. verse effect of Al Simmons’ sale to the | est thing to overcome. I've had to In\or { Three nines, representing Pepco, C. & P. White Sox on the hitting of Jimmie my leg, and I couldn't play the open- | Telephone and Acacia Life Insurance, Foxx—was answered today, and by none other than the most interested | you,” and you might not catch up all | today is on the lookout for at least party, James Foxx, himself. “Sure,” he said, “I've heard about that. It's a nice point to consider, too. | But the answer is ‘no.’” ‘Whereupon the large home-run belter of Connie Mack’s Athletics shifted his | aching left leg, with its angry infected spike wound on the shin, to a more comfortable position on the couch in his hotel room, took a fresh grip on the | stub of a cigar and gave his reasons. “I always hit behind Al when he was with us and folks figured that perhaps he softened up the pitchers for me,” he said. “Simmons is a great ball player, one of the greatest in the game today, but one man can’t ruin the control and confidence of a big league pitcher. If he could, then the fellow isn't a big league pitcher. “If anything, I got fewer chances to hit because Simmons was such a pow- erful batter. They gave me plenty of | intentional passes last season use Al belted one ahead of me and was in position to score on another hit. ‘When that happened, pitchers seemed to look around for an empty base, and if there was qne available, they put me on it.” Anyway, it was something to consider on a rainy day as Foxx, harrassed by his leg injury that now includes a 13 knee, discussed the possibilities of his breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record of 60 year. Jimmie hit 58 last Summer, banged five balls off the screen that hadn’t been set up in front of the right field stands in St. Louis when the Babe made his mark, and in addition hopped ‘two into the Yankee Minor Leagues International League. Baltimore, 4; Buffalo, 1. Others postponed, rain. Southern Association. Chattanooga, Memphis 3. New Orleans, 3; Knoxville, 2. Birmingham, 9: Atlanta, 2. Nashville, 8; Little Rock, 7. American Association. Minneapolis, 8; Toledo, 2. Others postponed, rain. Texas League. Houston, 8; San_ Antonio, 0. Oklahoma*City, 5; Tulsa, 2. Galveston, 11; Beaumont, 2. Dallas, 10; Fort Worth, 8. Pacific Coast League. No games scheduled. ing game at all. If you aren't in there | every day the pitchers get ahead of | season. I like to get the jump on them and keep in front of them all season.” | “'On the basis of what he has seen in a couple of games with the Senators |and another pair with the Yankees, Jimmie thinks the Athletics have a fine chance to wind up with the pennant this year. “The new Washington outfield. with Goslin and Schulte in there, will hit |more than last year, but won't field as well” he says. “Their pitching is better with Whitehill and Stewart. “But the Yanks have got to equal last year's performance when every- |body had unusually good years all at the same time. Fellows like Allen and Gomez_can't be as good as their rec- ords showed last season. On paper they'd be better pitchers than a couple | not_so. | “I'like the A's. We had a better | team last year than when we won the | pennant in 1931, but the slipped. We've got a better team now than we had last year. If youngsters like Cramer, Johnson, Coleman, Finney, Williams and McNair get hot, we'll turn them all upside down.” PING-PONG CHAMP SCORES Black, Leaving Sick Bed, Advances to D. C. Semi-Finals. Eddie Black, defending D. C. ping- pong champion, who entered the lists at the last minute after having been con- fined to his bed with grip, and easily won his first three matches, meets Bob Lee in the lower bracket of the semi- finals and Shan Dunn and L. Sherfy face in the upper bracket ¥ the cham- plonships tonight at 9 o'clock on the Shoreham courts, 1510 H street. There will be no admission charge and the public is invited. The winners will meet later in the evening for the title and the trophy. The Black-Lee match is expected to be especially hard fought. The two have put on many fine battles and are warm rivals. A POLO PROGRAM CHANGED. CHICAGO, April 18 (#).—Due to inability of the Brooklyn Riding and Drivi Club to arrive in time for its scheduled national indoor polo cham- plonship tournament match with the fldth Field Artillery Cardinals tonight, the 6th Corps Area team, will meet ;: North Shore Riding Club in the Big League Statistics TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933. AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. P T § tragh B Cnieats, Other clubt Bot "m" uhd NATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York-Phil: (York:Philadelph Siner '.':m?’fé'z“ n'e‘nedu'fin “XI0K MIN 121 2 4] _0/1.000 .1..1 3111 760 N .1 11 21 31 2 .600 -1 221500 : |of £/2(2|3| esmrusoseg 121313 121 21600 111 3250 Cin'nati. [ 0| 11 31_.250 N._York.[_.[ 0| NN l—I_11_41 .200 Boston. ... I..| —1 0 1l E AR ] 2| EIRETI Yo Lost_.| 01 112 21 21 21 0l 11 GAMES TOMORROW. o M Iflflwyah("n‘. GAMES TODAY. Pitts. at Chicago. £ ol 5 Bosion, GAMES TOMORROW. ffigflrl at rhnsE |of Lefty Groves and you know that's| pitching | | have entered and President Vic Quazza two more entries. | C. Hayes of C. & P. was elected | '.empornry secretary. Other details will be attended to at a meeting in the near future. Any nines interested in joining the new unlimited wheel may reach Guazza at Metropohun 8878. Majestic Radio tossers, who dropped | a 5-to-4 decision to the St. Mary's | Celtics in their diamond opener, will see action again Saturday and Sun- dey. Federal Employe Unionists will be met Saturday on the West Ellipse and Sunday the Radiomen will travel to Front Royal, Va. to play the nine of that town. Hook and Paype will start on the mound, respectively, against the Union- ists and Front Royal. Goslin A. C. scored over the Man- hattan Eagles yesterday in a thrilling | diamond battle, 6 to 5. Vienna Fire Department tossers will practice tonight at 6 o'clock on the Vienna field, after which a meeting | will be held at the home of Manager Phillips. Sandlot games wanted: Wheaton A. C., for Sunday. Call | League | matches scheduled. Shepherd 20865. Hyattsville Southern Methodists. liyl".!fl].l; 18-J. Williams All-Stars. Adams 5162. Versis Midgets. Metropolitan 7480. St. Joseph’s A. C., for Sunday. Lin- coln 8788. FIRPO UNDER ARREST Former Fighter Faces Charges Over Sale of Property. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 18 (P)—Luis Angel Firpo, former prize fighter, was arrested last night on charges which the police said arose from the sale of property near Buenos Aires. Firpo, at present an automobile sales- man, will be arraigned tomorrow. Police said that the ex-fighter, once the opponent of Jack Dempsey, had been named in fraud charges by the pur- chaser of a ranch. » PLAYERS BACK OF PAGE. CHICAGO, April 18 (#).—Petitions urging ihat Harlan O. (Pat) Page be retained as base ball coach at the Uni- versity of Chicago have been circulated by members of the Maroon squad. Page has declared his intention of leaving at the end of the college year. Varied Sports College Base Ball. Duke, 8-5; Maryland, 0-2. Penn State, 5; Virginia, 2. William and Mary, 4; Washington and Lee, 0. Davidson, 4; North Carolina, 3. South Caroiina, 4 Clemson, Wake Forest, 13; North Carolina College Tennis. -Western land (pomnn!d mmy wet mlnry) RACES TODAY Havre de Grace SEVEN RACES DAILY l-nlll P!lnl. I. R. train Iel'vez k trul. lllm Standard Time. Railroad Fare, Round Trip, $3.40 FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P.M. 1.818 Walks Send Bambino 31 Miles EW YORK, April 18 (#).—The demon base ball statisticlans | are in again. | ‘When Babe Ruth was walked three times in the New York Yankee- Philadelphia Athletic game Sunday, alert figure hounds announced the home-run slugger had been given a total of 1,818 passes in regular sea- son games during his long career. They went even further and figured | that those passes represented almost | 31 miles of walking for the Babe. | WOMEN OPEN NET LOOP /130 to Play in District League in | Nineteenth Season. | Play in the District Women's Tennis opens this week with five It is the loop's nineteenth season. The engagements this week will bring together Bureau of Standards and Chevy Chase, Columbia Country Club and Edgemoor, George Washingtonians | and Mount Pleasant, Nationals and Racqueters and Rock Creek and Ward- | man | Chevy Chase and George Washing-‘ tonians, joint champions last season, and Rock Creek and Edgemoor loom as likely to battle it out for the flag. For the first time a trophy, a silver fruit bowl, will be awarded the victorious | team. It will be retained one year by | the winning combination, which will| have its name inscribed on the trophy. There are 100 regular players com- | prising the 10-team league, with some | 30 reserves. making it one of the largest loops of its kind, at least in this sec- | tion of the country. K | he will contribute to the Yan | year—this must be decided as the sea- BAMBINO RETAIS WORSHIP OF FANS Slowed Afoot and at Bat, Babe Has Lost None of His Old Glamour. N liantly. Ben Chapman steals second in a cloud of dust. Frank Crosetti, Bill Werber and Lyn Lary battle desperately for the post at shortstop. Lou Gehrig plays his usual excellent game at first base. Babe Ruth steps about gingerly and not too rapidly in the outfield and at the plate, strikes out, pops out or rolls out, but—— The mob still follows Ruth. It is Ruth the crowds wait to see at the whistle stops as the Yankees' train goes by. It is Ruth the eyes of the railroad workers and station loungers follow as he walks from the train to the waiting taxicab. It is Ruth who knots sidewalk trafic as he steps from the cab into the hotel and Ruth who causes a swirl in the lobby. It 15 Ruth who draws most of the fans to the ball park. LAINLY the Babe, who has lost much of his speed and some of his power at the plate, has lost none of his glamour. The crowd, which goes to see him hit the ball out of the lot, is disappointed when he does not, but that doesn’t detract from its in- terest in him. It may be true, as cynics point out, that when the is through he quickly will be forgotten, but there is every sign that so long as he remains in the game, even though he remain so long that he barely will be able to drag himself up to the plate and wield a futile bat, the mob will be there to see him do it. Meanwhile. what of this slowness of the Babe afoot and the comparative scarcity of home runs from his bat? What does it portend. in its relation to his part in the drive the Yankees have launched in the direction of an- other pennant? Part of the curtailed effectiveness of the Babe is due, obviously, to the toll time has taken of his amazing skill and his equally amazing vitality. But equally obvious is the fact that cau- tion also plays a part. Win, lose or draw in these games, the Babe is of no mind to risk breaking a leg, turning an ankle or tearing a rib with the opening of the season just a short way off. He will go along with his public up to a certain point, but he will not oblige it by risking. even in the least degree, a crippling injury. How good he actually is, BY FRANK GRAHAM. EW YORK, Aprii i8.— -7 non Gomez pitches bril- W much ees this son progresses. now. It cannot be decided Southpaws Slab As Series Wanes OUTHPAW slabsters will do the shooting at the Red Sox dur- ing the remainder of the cur- rent series. After Earl Whitehill gets his turn today, Manager Cro- nin says Wally Stewart will take the final fling at the visitors from Boston. The Nationals will be up against more fine mounding should Manager McManus’ choices continue to per- form as they have. The Beantown boss has in line for duty Gordon Rhodes, who gave such a good ac- count of himself here Saturday; Ivy Andrews, now regarded of stellar caliber, and the left-handed Bob Weiland, never a particular pet of the Washington club. 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