Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1933, Page 12

SHINES AS GRIFFS SPLT WITHTIGERS = Wea Youngster to Have “Day” as|& Nationals Open Set With St. Louis Browns. BY JOHN B. KELLER. T. LOUIS, May 8—Buddy Myer will not be in the series with the Browns here, but the Nationals will have | a good man filling the shoes of the injured second baseman it seems. Bob Boken, fielding and hitting up to the form he flashed in the set with the Tigers in De- troit, would take care of the job admirably. For a little-heralded utility infielder the blond bought from Kansas City proved a steriing ball player as scon as he got an opportunity to get inte a game for more than an inning or| iwo and he went about his work in a manner that convinced those in charge of the Nationals his high-class play was no flash in the pan. It was to be “Boken day” at Sports- men’s Park this afternoon, with a flock | YES AND NO. prtistcsshensdonssal oo PP R TOAIS oo ooonisnins *Batted for Crowder in seventh. {Batted for Berg in ninth. iBatted for Burke in ninth. §One out when winning run scored. %, cf Owen, 4b.. Stone. rf “Webb . tSchuble iWhite Totals . *Batted ayworth in fifth, Ran 10) \ iBatted or r Webb in fiith. for Hogsett in fifth. hinston.. . . Runs batted in—Walker (3), Schuite ( e | Fox, Bluege. Sacrifices—Davis. v . 11: Washington, 13. on balls—Off Hogsett, f off Weaver, of the player’s pals coming over from |B his home town of Collinsville, Ill., just | across the Mississippi, to give him the glad hand. Bob, though, put on a| day himself yesterday in_Detroit. As the Nationals split the twin sketch with the Tigers, winning, 6 to 2, after taking a 10-to-9 ten-inning de- feat, Boken not only put up & sur- prisingly good game afield, but he also cracked soundly the best of the pitch- rs the home side rushed into the tling. In the two tussles Bob made ine putouts and six assists for a flaw- Yess defensive record and in attack he helj himself to three safeties in each fray. N the opening encounter the purchase from Kansas City got two of his hits off the left-handed Elon Hogsett. He first beat out a bunt then rifled a spare one to right. He got his | third hit, a looping single to left, off Tommy Bridges, high-ranking hurler of | the Detroit club. All three of Boken's hits in the sec- | ond set-to came off schoolboy Rowe. | The first two were cleanly clouted sin- | gles to center. The third was a loft | over the left field wall for a home run. No mean wallop that third one.| ;Rbe Homers hit_over the left field barrier at Navin Field used to be considered somewhat cheap. but this vear there is a screen towering 30 feet above the top of the wall, so sending a ball soar- ing over it requires plenty of power. Boken perhaps is a much _better | batter than his record with Kansas| City indicated. He seems able to gauge a pitch well, time his swing nicely and whip a lot of strength into the swing. And he can field. There’s no doubt of | that. Those shovel hand sof his scoop up | everything that comes near them. His| is an awkward-looking style afield but| RO it does the work. ‘Washingten probably did well when it picked up Boken. It is understood it got him at a reasonable figure, too. De- troit was after him last year. The Tiger pitchers couldn't keep him off | the base paths in an exhibition game | in Kansas City and Bob so impressed Harris the Tiger manager tried to buy him from the Blues. But the price was too high for Owner Navin of De- troit. Looks as though Detroit’s loss was very much Washington's gain in this instance. ALL the good pitching the Nationals could muster went into the second part of the Sunday double-header in Detroit and that enabled them to get an even break. They got 14 hits in each encounter. But none of the six hurlers employed in the opener was able to check the Tigers, whereas in the nightcap Walter Stewart left- handed handsomely frem start to finish. Stewart limited the Tigers to six safeties, five of them not coming until the last three rounds. By that time the Nationals with a five-hit assault had driven Rowe to cover, for “School- boy” had managed to work in among the hits four passes, and his support had faltered to the extent of one error at a critical moment. The Cronin crew was checked thereafter by Art Herring and Whitlow Wyatt. Stewart mowed down the Tigers right steadily until the seventh. Then they wasted hits, but they got a brace of markers from two more hits with a pass sandwiched between in the eighth before a batter was retired. Stewart braced, though, and breezed along to the finish. | N the first fray the Nationals took a beating they should not have taken. They not only hit Hogsett | hard, but also were aided by four Tiger | misplays and in five innings had made | six runs. But the Tigers kept tappirg Monte Weaver freely and he kept walk- ing Tigers to first base. Monte got | himself out cf a pair of serious situa- tions by bracing to strike out a string | %} ‘batters, but_he blew sky-high in the | fth and the home side got four runs to become only cne back of the Na-| tionals before Jack Russell was rushed * to_the hill. . Russell was yanked in the next round after the first two batters up had reached him for singles. In went Al Crowder to pitch to five batters. ‘Walker was the first one and he doubled to send across the two Russell had left on. Rogell tripled to make the ‘Tiger lead two runs. Bob Burke then took a two-ipning turn and in the eighth the Tigers with a pass, a steal and a wild throw over second by the pitcher got Walker on third with one out. A squeeze play with Davis bunt- ing meant ancther marker. Bridges, who had relieved Rowe, had the Nationals all but helpless until the ninth. Then with Boken’s single, pinch batter Harris' double and Bluege’s home run hit over the scoreboard back of left center they deadlocked the game. That was all off Bridges, though, | while Thomas, after holding the Tigers at bay in the ninth, took the beating in the tenth. He pinked Owen with a pitch as a starter, and after Stone fled out, a single by Gehringer sent ©Owen to third. Here Bill McAfee was rushed to Tommy's relief, but Bill's first pitch was a wild one that wound up the game the wrcng way for Wash- ington. | Griffs’ Records oz 1 TR e > 5301 o 2 coocscoruBrrEEln: ERIO el 20 DEFOES PR ooomosms BSmemmonaie ©o000c0s0R00uEHROROS 8 ooooscon O | ] 8 PERLE xR © 0s00s FERE & s 2 5 innings; nings: off Russell. in”sixth) inning; off Crowder, ning; off Burke. 1 in 2 innin; 1 in'1%: innines: off McAfee, of inning. Hit Ly pitched ball (Bluege): by Thomas (Owen) —McAfee. W itcher—Bri = Manush, 'If. Goslin, " rf. Cronin, s, Schulte, Kuhel. '1b, Boken. Sewell, c.. Stewart, TN O eTeer <) Totals . = mont I s st ooc 30010 2 00000002 in—Boken (2, Blueg Fox. Owen. Two-base hits Weshington troit . . Runs batted £ Kuhel, Rogell, base— . Double play L0, Greenbers. ce —Stewart. to_ Gehringer Lett on bases—-Detroit. : Washinkton, First base on balls—Off Rowe, 4: off S rt, 2. Struck oui—By Rowe. 1: by W: : ewart, 1. “Hits—Of Rowe, 9 in 5% innings; off Herring. 3 in %%, innings: off Wyatt, "2 in 1 inning. LOSing pitcher— we.' " Umpires—Messrs. Morlarty and Gelsel. Time of game—1 hour and 55 min- utes. GET BASKET LETTERS Seven Wilson Teachers and Pilot Rewarded—Broke Even. Seven players and Manager Brammell ball squad of the recent season have been awarded letters. The players re- warded were Kerwin, Fisher, Fox, Eng- lish, Gill, Slattery and Jenkins. Reserve | players who regularly furnished the | first-stringers practice were given hon- orable mention by Coach Doc White. Of 32 games last Winter, the Wilson |quint won 16, and most of their losses | were by close margins. Against Teach- ers’ College teams, the Owls captured | nine tilts and lost three. Next season the Wilson tossers plan to meet only | college varsity opponents. The last two | campaigns they've engaged high school and college frosh quints, along with | college varsity foes. "TROJAN TRACK COACH SEES ANOTHER TITLE | Predicts I. C. 4-A Victory After Beating Stanford Handily in Dual Meet, 72-58. By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, May 8.—Dean Crom- well, track coach at the Universit; of Southern California, predicts Standford will win the I. C. 4-A cham- pionships this year. Southern Cali- fornia is the defending champion. “I can see 56 or 57 points for Stan- ford right now,” said Cromwell, whose Trojans defeated Stanford Saturday in a dual meet, 72 to 58, with Ben East- man, Stanford’s middle distance star, not_competing. The Trojan coach believes Stanford will pick up approximately 26 points in the weight events, since it has three shotputters with consistent marks of more than 51 feet and a quartet of discus throwers who exceed 150 feet with their flings. TORONTO CLUB SHUFFLED TORONTO, May 8 (#).—Manager week énd reshuffling of the Toronto club of the Internatiofial Base Ball League which brought Lu Blue, former major league first baseman; William Brubaker, third baseman, and Ralph Birkoffer, left-handed pitcher, to the Leafs would result in an improvement in the club standing. regular, was signed as a free agent and Brubaker and Birkofer were obtained on option from the Pittsburgh Pirates. To make room for the newcomers and Frank Barnes, 2lso a pitcher, to Tulsa of the Texas League. AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, - 9-6; Detroit, 10-2 nir Cleveland, 7-'4;0 New York, 6-8. ton, Philadelphia ' 8t. Louls, two Cincirnati Red: ) 100300030—09 L1000%30101—10 0 8 third basem, o [ to short and inst: 0 | at second base. 0 | been having trouble with 9 | since the season started an . E. | when Hornsby resumes his 0| in the line- 4 sabty 1| tumn to the i 0 4 | pitching staff no 0 | able for starting | for relief duty. 0| come a regular infielder alth 0 | chances are that he and And, 0 alternate at thir ¢ | finished sixth. of the Wilson Teachers’ College basket | Dan Howley today was hopeful that & | A. Blue, former Detrolt and Chicago | C (DUROCHER 10 PLUG GAP FOR CARDINALS ',: Street Also Gets Ogden and Henry of Reds for Stout, Adams and Derringer. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 8—Gabby Street, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, has given up two pitchers and an infielder to lug a big hole at shortstop with Léo Pmey) Durocher, clever fielder of the In a straight player transaction, Street traded Paul Derringer and Allyn Stout, right-handed pitchers, and In- fielder Earl the Reds in ex- change for Durocher and Pitchers John Ogden and Frank up on one of the Cardinal farms. The addition of Durocher:houldend Street’s worries over the shortstop post, | e Leo is one of the finest | fielders in the game. He is a weak hitter, but the Cardinals can afford to over- look that in view of his well known de- fensive strength. Street has been looking for a short- stop ever since Charley Gelbert suffered accidental Ammhot wounds during the T many experimen finally converted “Peypper" Mxrth?' inhr.; an, shifted Frank Prisch alled Rogers Hornsby Hornsby, however, has was needed at second base. If t:lnu; lar place %]:lia;fllx;rprl;‘blbly will re- eld, ? Ll isch moving over The Reds shoul Sparky Adams | for Tamkativ d have a much stronger W with Derringer avail- assignments and Stout Adams, may be- ough the d bat Deynfllgh ;‘fll se. Derringer has | been h;{the majors only two 1511 sea- e won 18 and lost only 8 with the Cardinals in 1931, but wony only 11 and lost 14 last season when the Cards LANSBURGH’S UPSETS Department Store Champs Take 20-5 Beating—Hecht's Beats Kann's, 21 to 10. HE sandlot ball tossers feel that the old fellah who deals out the weather isn't such a bad guy after all. They point to the fine Weather he furnished yesterday in con- trast to the rain he'’s serving up today. The boys swung into action on just about every available diamond in the city and suburbs yesterday. Lansburgh’s nine upset Palais Royal, defending champion, handing it a 20-5 drukbbing, in a Department Store League game. The victory, Lansburgh's sec- ond straight, put it in front in the race, Hecht’s team scored a 21-10 win over Kann's in another league match. Griffith Blue Coals, victorious yester- | day over Woltz Photographers, 7-6, in | 12 innings, meet the G. P. O. Federals tomorrow on Monument diamond No. 3 lflt 5 pm. Aside from today's scheduled game between the Gichner Iron Works and Blue Ribbon teams, expected to be called off because of wet grounds, In- dustrial League matches slated this week are: Tomorrow, Fairfax Farms Dairy vs. Dixie Pigs; Wednesday, Police vs. Gichner Iron Works; Thursday, Blue Ribbons vs. Fairfax Dairy, and Friday, Dixie Pigs vs. Police. Other results: Federal Unionis! Sox, 4 ts, 12; Virginia White Northerns. v n, 7. erhfi" Royal . 13; Union Print- S Ballston Piremen, 11: Arrow Service, 4. o, Vash B. Williams " All-Stars, Glinton "Brenizer, 13; Fairfax S Eagles, e.can Eagles. 11, taniton Cleaners, 1 Majestic Radio, 7; Bladensburg Firemen, g Vienna Firemen, 2; Alexandr: aters, 1. Forestville A. C., 8; Prederick Men’s Shop, (11 innings). Graveyard Blues, 19: Georgetown A. 9; Warehouse, Gaithersburg Aces, 5; Rockville A. A., 4. You and Me, 8; Glean Dale, 7. Brooks Club,'10; Bowie A. C.. 3. Mount Rainier, 10; Fort Washingto Anacostia Eagles, 4 Si Mulhall Juniors, 3 Maryland_Aces,’ 3: Ben Hundleys, Gamma_Sigma Delta Sigma, Washinglon Maid Midgets, sh Co.. d A C. 7; Jewish Community Vi tation, 9. 12, Washington ndian Head A.C., 2. Rig T lon Juniors. 5: Goodacres, 3. Cabin John. 5; Bethesda, Certified Barbers, 11 Virginia Cavaliers, 1 Northeast_Terro: Congress Heights, Joseph, 1. Quantico Indians, Junior’ Order U. . M., 0 Virginia A. C. 13; Northeast Brick- ayers, 8. Southern Maryland All-Stars, 7; Woodmen of the World, 6. Dixie Products Juniors, 7; Clarendon Juniors, 1. peglchner's Red Box, 12; Ballston Cava- ers, 0. Horning Jewelers, 6; Dorwood A. C.. Capital Traction, 4; Swann Service. Middieburk (Va.), 16; C. & P. Telep) ite Havens, 4. 8t 29; 3, Hione STAR LOOKS TO ARMY., If Ross Pederson realizes his ambi- Howley sent Guy Cantrell, the club’s | tion to win appointment to.West Point, leading pitcher last year, to Baltimore | Uriversity of Washington will lose its premier sprinter and a gridiron back- fleld star. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1033. NATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 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Y. ghictio wmem, | ehicieo b BRNG A cinnati at Phila. at Boston. Clheinnatl at Palla Clncinna (Sparky) Adams to | PALAIS ROYAL NINE| WILL RENEW DERBY DUEL IN'PREAKNESS Broker’s Tip and Head Play to Race Again at Pim- lico Next Saturday. BY ALAN GOULD, soc'ated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, May 8.—Thor- oughbred heroes of one of greatest 3-year-old duels | N in American turf history, Broker’s Tip and Head Play were pointed today for the renewal of a rivalry that has gripped the racing world with fresh melo- drama and bitter arguments. ‘They waged the Dempsey-Firpo bat- |tle of the turf, aided by their jockeys | Saturday in' the fifty-ninth Kentucky Derby, with Broker's Tip triumphant by 2 inches of nose in a stretch drive that has had no superior for thrills ince mighty Man O' War barely beat |John P. Grier in the historic finish |to the 1920 Dwyer. They are entered this Saturday in the Preakness at Pimlico, along with a half dozen other survivors of the bat- tle of Churchill Downs, and Head Play may be favored to turn the tables on the stout colt that upset Derby favor- ites in his first winning race and added to the record-breaking achievements of Col. Edward Riley Bradley, king of Kentucky horsemen. ¥ O matter what else happens, how- ever, to these two game colts in the chase for 1933 3-year-old su- premacy, their struggle in the most ro- mantic of American horse racing clas- sles will remain & vivid chapter in turf annals. For the last quarter-mile, with all ri- vals beaten off in the first mile, Head Play and Jockey Herb PFisher flrl‘ggltd th Broker's Tip and head to head wif Rider Don Meade in a terrific finish, while 35,000 spectators yelled them- selves hoarse. Fisher charged that Meade pulled Head Play’s saddle cloth and otherwise interferred with him |Meade = counter-charged that Fisher struck him twice with his whip. Fisher, tearfully raging, carried his protest to the judges, who turned him down. He carried his fight with Meade into the dressing quarters with his fists. It was that kind of a rip-roaring finish where the hot-headedness of the participants reflected the sensational character of the race. The decision n favor of Broker's Tip, the first ‘maiden” to win the Derby since Sir | Barton in 1919, marked the second straight triumph for Col. Bradley's horses and his fourth Derby victory altogether. No other owner ever has won the Kentucky prize more than twche.k roker's Tip paid the big price of $19.86 for each $2 ticket. The gfll’k son of Black Toney-Forteresse was & 50- to-1 shot in the Winter books, never | having won a race in five starts as | & 2-year-old and 3-year-old. Until this Spring a stablemate, Boilermaker, had been pointed for the $50,000 classic | by Bradley, but did not even g0 to the post. lHnosc, failed to complete one of the most dramatic stories of horse racing. Bought for $500 as a yearling by Willie Crump, a former jockey, and raced under Mrs. Crump's colors, Head Play was sold 24 hours before the Derby for $30.000 to Mrs. Silas B. Mason of | New York and Kentucky. Wife of a prominent contractor, Mrs. Mason had her whim gratified and her colors in ‘!hfi Derby for the first time, with an | outstanding favorite, only to see the | blue ribbon slip from her grasp by the EAD PLAY, by the margin of a “cleaned-up” Derby when W. R. Coe's Ladysman, 2-year-old champion, which went to the post & 7-to-5 favorite with a stable- mate, Pomponious, found the distance too tough. They finished fourth and fifth respectively. Charley O, another heavily played entry, owned by Mrs. R. M. Eastman of Chicago, finished third in a starting fleld of 13 colts. Charley O was five lengths behind Head Play and two lengths in front of Ladys- man. | East’s Chances Slight. By the Associated Press. | ALTIMORE, May 8.—The chances of an Eastern horse winning the Preakness at Pimlico Saturday were not bright today after the spectacular showing of the Western entries in the Kentucky Derby last week. ‘The best the Eastern contingent could do was take a none-too-good fourth place, and with Broker’s Tip, the winner from Col. E. R. Bradley's stable, and Mrs. Silas Mason’s Head Play, which placed second, scheduled to run the mile and three-sixteenths at Pimlico, backers of Eastern-bred three-yeer-olds were not too optimistic. W. Coe’s Ladysman, the popular | | | | | favorite to capture the Derby, still was the favorite of the Easterners, despite | his unimpressive exhibition Jast Satur- day when he finished fourth and seven lengths behind Broker’s Tip and Head Play, and two lengths behind the third- place Charley O., Mrs. R. M. Eastman’s entry. ‘With Ladysman among the Eastern favorites were Pomponius, another Coe entry; Lee Rosenberg’s Kerry Patch and the Catawba Farm's Mr. Khayyam. There also was an outside chance that Adolphe Pons' Swivel, which was taken ill with a cold last week and prevented from entering the Derby, might be in shape in time to run Sat- urday. "The field is expected to be much the same as that which ran in the Derby. Mrs. R. M. Eastman has decided noi to bring Charley O, but all the other leaders are expected to battie for the $25,000 added prize and the historic ‘oodlawn Cup. 1If Broker’s Tip is successful in cap- turing the Preakness, it will make the second successive year in which the feat of winning both races has been accomplished. ~ Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won both last year, and during the last decade the only other horse which has turned that trick was Wil- liam Woodward's Gallant Fox, 1930 champion. —_ LOOK TO LEAGUE OPENER Big Train to Pitch First Ball in Capital City Night Game. Miller Furniture Co. and Congress Heights unlimited nines are getting set | o'clock in Grifith Stadium that will mark the start of play in the Capital City League. The tilt will be followed by a contest between the George Wash- and Salem College teams. Walter Johnson will pitch the first ball to the first batter in the Miller- in are Federal A. C., Dor-A, Griffith Blue: Coals, Stanton Cleaners, Woltz Photog- raphers, St. Joseph's, Certified Barbers and Colonials. m&uhr unlimited com- petition begins n Sunday. diviins ot the ' CApitel ity League will start May 21. Franchise fees must be paid by May 15. for their battle Wednesday night at 67 cmg- Heights game. Other teams e c:pitil'.l City unlimited dlvmml ARETIRED ; CONTRACTOR- —HE Now & DEVOTES HIS TMe o BUILDING UP NTEREST M TeoTTING {/ HE PLANS ON sTAGING. T $60,000 "HAMBLETONIAN STAKE FOR. TE FOURTH SUCCESSIVE YEAR. 1 s RoTTER. WALTER DEAR WON THE MAMSLfgmmu.l STAKE - IN 19 %1 OEMPSEY FoueHT CARPENTIER. Al Rights Resarved by The Associated Press Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Morgan, Indians, 1; Knickerbocker, | | Indians, 1; Bluege, Senators, 1; Boken, | Senators, 1; R. Johnson, Red Sox, 1; Hodapp, Red Sox, 1; Simmons, White Sox, 1; Lazzeri, Yankees, 1; Combs, Yankees, 1; Hartnett, Cubs, 1; Stephen- son, Cubs, 1; F. Herman, Cubs, 1; War- neke, Cubs, 1: Leslie, Giants, 1; Vergez, iants, 1; Martin, Cardinals, 1. | | baseman will rejoin the Nationals Pri- | runner shall be entitled, without liability | The Leaders. | | Gehrig. Yankees, 7; Ruth, Yankees, 5; Lazzeri, Yankees, 5; Berger, Braves, | 5; Hartnett, Cubs, 5. League Totals. 77; National, | American, —135. 58. ‘Total A. A. U. TRACK MEET | ENTRY BLANKS OUT| Sore = Three Classes of Competition Listed | for May 30 Games in Byrd Stadium. | NTRY blanks are out for the Dis-| trict A. A. U. outdoor track and| field championships to be held May | |30 in Byrd stadium at the University | of Maryland, College Park, starting at | | 2:30 pm. | | ‘There will be three divisions of com- petition. The championship events, pen cnly to athletes registered in the | D. C. Association of the A. A. U., will | include the 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 | meters, 800 meters, 1,500 meters, 3.000 | meters, 10,000 meters, 110-meter high | hurdles, 200-meter low hurdles, high jump, broad jump, shotput, pole vault, discus throw and javelin throw. Events open to registered amateur athletes, either unattached or represent- ‘mg a school, college or club in any amateur athletic unicn association, will be the 100-meter handicap, 5,000-meter handicap, broad jump handicap and sprint medley relay (440, 220 and 880 yards) handicap. High and prep school tests will in- | ciude the 100 meters, 800 meters and high jump. Entries will close May 23 with Dorsey | J. Griffith, 1416 Twentieth street, phone | Decatur 0149. The entry fee for an in- dividual will be 50 cents for each event and for a relay team $2. Prizes will be awarded first, second and third place winners in each event |and a special award will go to the victorious relay team. —_— INJURY “MAKES” OARSMAN. Charley Soderstrom, captain of the University of California, at Los Angeles, crew, took up rowing as a sport solely because a leg injury barred him from his favorite sports—foot ball, pole vault- ing and basket ball. | | Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Earl Averill, Indians—Collected eight hits in double-header against Yankees. Sam Leslie and Hal Schumacher, Giants—Leslie’s homer won first game against Reds; Schumacher pitched two- hit ball to take second. ton in last three innings to win opener; Johnson gave Chicago only five hits in second game. Pepper Martin, Cardinals—Clouted home run, double and two singles, stole a base and batted in three runs in first game against Brooklyn. Gerald Wslker, Tigers, and Walter Stewart, Senators—Former drove home three runs with two doubles and single in first game; latter pitched six-hit game to win nightcap. Babe Herman, Cubs—Hit home run, two doubles and single, batting in five runs, in double victory over Boston. Phils Dub Klein By the Assoclated Press. ELPHIA, May 8.—Reports that the Chicago Cubs plan ‘an- other determined bid for the | hurlers during the Sac Urban Faber, White Sox, and Henry Johnson, Red Sox—Faber blanked Bos- | L. , ;Mye; Will Iiest *Till Nationals Open Series at Chicago Friday By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, May 8.—Buddy Myer suffered only a slight concussion when struck in the head by Whitlow Wyatt's pitch in the eighth inning cf the game in Detroit Saturday, an X-ray made yesterday revealed, and it is believed the second day to play in the series against the ‘White Sox in Chicago. Myer remained in a hospital as the ‘Washington club left Detroit last night. He was to leave there today, though, to accompany Clark Griffith to Cleveland where the Washington club executive will attend the Spring meeting of the American League. It is planned to have the recuperat- ing player remain with the big boss until Thursday then head for Chicago unless physicians decide he should re- main out of action a while longer. In this event, he would proceed to Wash- ington to await the Natlonals’ return there next week. With all first division clubs splitting double-headers yesterday, the Nationals remain in a third-place tie with the White Sox. Detroit turned out its biggest crowd of the season for the twin bill. Nearly 24,000 paid to watch the club toil for four hours and 35 minutes. Linke and Whitehill were the only Washington pitchers not to see action | in the Tiger bargain bill. Cronin had the bull m fray and he put a flock to work in the second when gnul:l:n wabbled a trifie toward the Manager They couldn't keep Walker off the Tunway in the first engagement and that licked the Nationals. He got two always full of | | doubles, a single. a pass and once got on by forcing out a runner. The Tiger | | érove over three runs and carried as many across himself. ‘ Although Owen held third base when |McAfee uncorked that tenth-inning | wild pitch, he was waved home with the | decisive run by Umpire Moriarty. Sec- | tion 4 of rule 47 provides that the base {to be put out. to advance one base “if |8 ball delivered by the pitcher pass the | catcher and touch any fence or building | within 60 feet of the home base.” Mc- Afee's wild pitch landed against the |front of the grandstand just 59 feet, | 6 inches from the plate. Bleuge’s first homer of the season, that tied up the opening game in the |ninth inning, was a hoist that just| | cleared the score board, the ball land- | ing between the tally indicator and the concrete wall bordering Navin Field. About all of Weaver's pitching was done in the second inning of that first | game. After he had been reached by Davis for a single and had Rogell, the professor pulled himself to- gether to strike out Hayworth, Hogsett and Fox in succession. In the second argument, Schulte made a catch that nipped in the bud | |a promising Tiger rally in the seventh inning. With runners on first and sec- ond bases by virtue of singles and one out, Greenberg lined one toward right- | center. Schulte raced over for a great grab just when it seemed the ball was going’ by. Manager Harris shoved two pinch-bat- | ters into the nightcap in the eighth and they saved the Tigers from a shut- out. Rhiel, batting for Desautels, singled, and Reiber, batting for Her- ring, walked. They were sent home by Fox's two-bagger and Owen's infield | erasure. RACE NO RUNAWAY TOYANKS THIS YEAR Have Won Only Two of Five Games on Trip After Tak- Ing 11 of 15 in East. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. ARLY returns from the American League's Western sector indicate the New York Yankees aren’t going to win the pennant again as eas- ily as their success against East- ern rivals promised. 8o far the Yanks have lost three out of five games in their brief tour and they even went so far yesterday as to drop temporarily out of first place as they lost the first half of a double bill to the Cleveland Indians 7 to 6. They regained it with as little delay as possible with an 8-4 victory in the second game, but this record, compared with 11 victories in 15 starts against the East, l;m“h}’nl:kx encouragement to_the world’s cl pions. Four Yankee flingers failed to hold Cleveland in check in the opener and the Indians piled up 15 blows, includ- ing homers by Eddie Morgan and Bill Knickerbocker. Charley Ruffing ylelded 12 blows in the nightcap, but the Yanks piled homers by Earle Combs and Tony Lazzeri on top of a four-run rally that drove Clint Brown to cover in the first inning. Detroit’s Tigers went ten innings to defeat Washington 10 to 9 in the first clash, but the Senators reversed the decision by hammering Lyn Rowe and Art Herring for 14 safeties and a 6-2 triumph as Walter Stewart turned in a six-hit game. ‘The Chicago White Sox 2 temporary tie with the Yankees when they nosed out the Boston Red Sox 4-3, but Henry Johnson silenced the Bludgeons of the Pale Hose in the second clash, giving only five hits for a 3-2 triumph. The Philadelphia-St. Louis twin bill was rained out after one inning. contrast to most of the other games, the New York Giants and Cincin- nati Reds provided the features of the National League program with a pair of brilliantly pitched games. The Giants won them both, 1-0 and 5-0. but they hardly deserved the first victory. Bob Smith let the New Yorkers down with two hits, against five off Carl Hubbell, but one was a home run by Sam Leslie. Hal Schumacher gave the Reds only two blows in the second game and won without much trouble. The St. Louis Cardinals, again paced by Pepper Martin, put on the day's best slugfest against Brocklyn to win the first game, 12-5. They collected 17 hits, includinz a homer, a double and two singles by Martin. Owen Car- roll sgain appeared to be a good in- fluence on Brooklyn in the second game and they made six hits off their old friend, Dazzy Vance, and his successor, Bill Hallahan, good for a 4-2 victory. The Chicago Cubs shot up from sev- enth place to third as they took two games from the Boston Braves, 11-2 and 5-2. They made 15 hits to aid Burleigh Grimes to the opening victory, then left it up to Babe Herman and Lonnie Warneke to win the second. The Eabe baticd in three runs with & homer and a double and Warneke con- tributed a homer. The Phillies and Pittsburgh had an open date. League Leaders By the Associated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) AMERICAN LEAGUE. Battirg —West, Browns, .381; Chap- man, Yankees, .377. Runs —Gehrig, Yankees, 23; Bishop, in.—Foxx, Athletics, 19. Athletics, 21; Gehrig, Yankees, 20. Minor Leagues NATIONAL LEAGUE. Baltimore. Rochester, AT Albany, Others ‘not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. . L. Pet. Newark... I: it s Baitimore, 1 Rochester. Montreal. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Toledo: 9-1: Milwaukee. Columbus, ansas Indianapolis-Minneapoli sville-St. Paul, rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W.L. Pet. Milwaukee 11 6.647 Columbus. 11 9 Minne'polis 0 8 Louisville.. 910 W.L. Toledo, 9 10 Indian‘poliz 8 9 Kansas City 9 13 42t 8t. Paul.... 811 : PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Los Anseles, 6-0. 4 Seattle..... 4.563 8. Fran'co TEXAS LEAGUE. Beaumont, 7-5: San Antonio, 3-4. Tulss, 167 Dalias, 10. Houston, 5; eston, 2. Fort Worth, 10 Oklahoma City. 9. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W.L. Pet. Houston. . . 161 8. Antonio 151 Beaumont. 13 1 ira, 1. ; Scranton, 2-6. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. “Trade” a Joke S .| Luray Cavemen base ballers yesterday topped the Roosevelt Rangers, 14-13, in | 3-0. 1t i | first base; Rucke 4 i rtstop: 94 | Dodson, left field; Weaver, center, and JUNIOR TANKERS MEET Youngsters' Race Precede Diving Contests at Ambassador. Junior swimmers of the Ambasndm" Club, Shoreham Club and the Central | Y. M. C. A. will compete in a meet | prior to the D. C. A. A. U. indoor low-board diving championships for men and women Friday night in the Ambassador pool. The program will | open at 8 o'clock. Entries in the diving events will close Thursday midnight with Joe Ransav- age at the Ambassador Hotel. First, second and third place winners will get D. C. A. A. U. championship medals. LURAY WINS ON DIAMOND Roosevelt Rangers Beaten, 14-183, in Their Opening Contest. CAMP ROOSEVELT, Va, May 8— the first game played by the camp nine. Luray made 10 runs in the first inning, but then was checked until the eighth. ‘Whalley, Roosevelt third baseman, hit a homer in the first inning. Russell pitched and Leidy caught for the losers, while Estep hurled for the winners. Other Roosevelt players were Boztiff, T, second base; Him ‘Whalley, third base; Runs batted Hits.—West, Browns, 32; Porter, In- dians, 29. Doubles.—Averill, Indians, 9; Stone, Tigers, 8. Triples—Combs, Yankees, 4; Laz- zeri, Yankees, Cihocki, Athletics and Manush, Senators, 3. Home runs.—Gehrig, [ 5 Ruth, Yankees, 5. Stolen bases—Chapman and Laszeri, ‘Yankees, and Walker, Tigers, 3. Pitching.—Hildebrand, Indians, 4-0; Yankees, | Brennan and Van Atta, Yankees, and Jones, White Sox, 2-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting —Hartnett, Cubs, .384; Tray- nor, Pirates, .380. Runs.—Martin, Cardinals, 17; P, Herman, Cubs, and Lindstrom, Pirates, 14. Runs batted in—Hartnett, Cubs, 20; Klein, Phillies, 16, Hits—Hartnett, Cubs, 28; Traynor, Pirates, 27. Doubles—Klein, Phillies, 10; ¥. Her- man, Cubs, 8. ‘Triples.—P. Waner and Vaughan, Pi- rates, 3. Home runs—Hartnett, Oubs, and Berger, Braves, 5. Stolen _bases—Davis, Giants, 5; Flowers, Dodgers, 4. Pitching. —Fitzsimmons, Giants, 4-0; Meine, Pirates, and Carleton, T Mas 0k Jowie ikl s ooy Hood, right. NEVER CLOSED DAVIS-CUP-TENNIS STARS-INACTION Come ke DAVIS-CUP-TiE o My 11213 Homestead HOT SPRINGS VIRGINIA