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A—10 mff Asset : Giants Suddenly Gain Batting Punch ¢ STANDOUT FAGTOR IN CLUB'S SUCCESS Joe’s Improvement at Bat, Afield Noted—Only Nat to Start in All Games. BY JOHN B. KELLER. I1ZZIED by the desperate | drive their club is making toward a pennant, every so often some of the Na- tionals have to be “rested.” But | among them is one “iron man.” Joe Kuhel has started in every one of the 99 games his club has played this season, the only Na- tional to do so. Carrying on at high speed from the start of the campaign and improving steadily, Kuhel is one of the big reasons why the Wash- | ington club holds a three-game | lead in the American League race today. Playing regularly at first base from the outset of a season for the first time since coming up to the big show, Kuhel | has been much stronger defensively and offensively this year than last. And over his 101-game stretch in tie '37 | season Joe was one of the sensational young players of the circuit. ‘This season Kuhel has gained recog- nitlon as one of the best performers around the initial sack in the American League, if not both majors. And at bat he has clubbed well enough to ad- vance his rating 18 points beyond last season’s. Joe today has a batting av- erage of .309. His punch has become more timely, too. In his 101 games in '32 Kuhel drove across 52 runs. This year, in 99 games, he has chased over the counting | block 65 scores. With more than a | third of the season to go to the finish, | Kuhel stands a great chance of landing among the batters so valuable in attack | &s to drive across 100 or more runs. | e | Joe on Hitting Rampage. | UHEL, by the way, has been on a lively hitting rampage of late He has driven the ball to safety in his dozen last games. Over this stretch Joe has hammered 19 hits, bat- ting at the handsome rate of .422. Joe has been a free hitter all season. He has made 120 safeties. Only Ma- | nush and Cronin of the Nationals have made more. He also has been hitting for distance. With eight, he leads his club at home-run smacking. He has ‘walloped seven triples. And 21 two- baggers. Altogether, it has been a great season at bat for the young fellow. But five errors have been charged against Kuhel as a first baseman this season. He fumbled & drive from | Mickey Cochrane’s bat in the opening game here. Since he has booted two - grounders, juggled one thrown ball and muffed a foul. But Joe has contributed many flashy plays and kept many errors off the records of his infield inmates by spearing wild throws Falk to Scout for Red Sox. IB FALK has a job again. Fired B from his coaching post with the Indians when Walter Johnson as- sumed their management, the likeable chap who once did a lot of good out- flelding for the White Sox now is on | the Red Sox pay roll. The Yawkey- Collins combine has signed Bib as an “assistant” scout, already having a head scout at hand. It is understood Bib will assume his duties immediately and tour the circuits in the South in search of likely talent. Doc Leggett, who was Alexander's leg man after the pinch-batting big boy gol on base in the sixth inning of ‘Thursday’s game, no longer is with the Red Sox. They have shipped him to Buffalo of the International League on option. It's Joe Judge day at Griffith Stadium, with Washington’s old favorite playing at first base for the visitors from Bos- ton. For the final game Manager Marty McManus was expected to send to the pitching peak Dusty Rhodes in- stead - of George Pipgras, originally picked to battle it out with Ed Chap- man, Washington'’s rookie. McManus wants to hold Pipgras for service against the Yanks in the big game the Red Sox have scheduled in New York tomorrow. 7R} Griffs’ Records BATTING. e H. 2b. 3b. HR.Rbi A% B 1he T BB IR o | 0 | | | | 386 | 231 =% St BEom e, PEFERL N HODOOCRN OB ON MRS oo0ooHNN00S! Stewart. 8 AB. 3.579 B o 25 B UPR 568 1,070 180 63 43 528 4 & ® 3 25'¢ 7] ] 8 aszaamet! FEPPTPT o annBEen BERGE | Moo STARS ON LOSING TEAM. ‘Washington Boys Club athletes de- feated the Northeast Boys Club in a track meet yesterday at Camp Good- will, 49-36. A Vermillion of the losers was the star. " Stretch Races Hot in Both Leagues Griffs, Yanks and Giants, Bucs, Cubs, Cards Staging Thrilling Duel. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, August 5—The major league seasons are in the first week in August with very nerrow margins be- | tween the leaders of the American League, Washington and New York, and those in the National League, Wew York, Pittsburgh, Chicago and 8¢. Louis. This situation is in sharp contrast %o that of 1932, when the New York American League team was asserting itself more prominently than it has this year. In the National League the New York team is treading on thin ice to hold its scanty lead, but little do its backers care, if it can win. It is far too close a race to predict that it will be won by the Giants. Nor can the outcome of the New York- Washington battle in the American mfl be forecast with any cer- | consulted by SPORTS. Back Stage in Sports Judge Embarrassed by Talk of Pilot’s Job. M’Carthy Patient. BY TOM DOERER. ED SOX front office is much disturbed over the daily newspaper pleces that are firing Marty McManus, the manager, and putting Joe Judge, | | the former veteran Nationals’ first sacker, in his place. Coming at a time when Marty is doing a first-class job with the Florid Hose, the pieces are most embarrassing to the club owner, Mr. Tom Yawkey, and his aide, Eddie Collins, to say nothing of | annoying Marty and Judge. Despite denials that Collins and Yaw- key are planning to replace McManus at the end of the season or when the Sox begin to hit the down grade, the i V. Rad rumors persist and crop up from many and varied points. In a wire to the writer Eddie Collins denies the report that Judge is being considered to fill Marty's shoes. He states that the Boston club is very well satisfied with Marty’s work and that Judge was hired to give the boys a lift av first base. Judge is upset over the rumors. rightly claiming that they put him “on the | spot,” and may make it annoying for him before the season ends. Relations between Marty and Judge are splendid, the boys on the inside say, despite the | understanding that McManus was not Collins when Joe was placed on the Yawkey pay roll. Dismissing the popular young Irish leader at this time would be a tough task. Boston fans are for him, to begin with, and that is h to make any owner move carefully. And, again, the play- ers like him. Marty is liberal with his boys, and they like that, too. For instance, he sees no rea- son why they cannot toss down a few bottles of a trio of two points if they care to. That they play bell under that system is attested by the standings, all arguments by prohibitionists and straight-laced club owners to the con- trary notwithstanding. There are not a few three-point-two imbibers on the league-leading Sena- tors, despite Uncle Clark’s attitude toward the brew. And the New York club hops off the wagon whenever it is | felt that a good, old-fashioned evening off will take the boys’ minds off the loss of a few games. Marty has driven his team into win- ning by allowing the boys to do their own thinking at play time. So talk of replacing him does not sit well in the locker room. UT Joe McCarthy’s liberality with his players is not win- ning him ball games, nor bringing together the warring fac- tions on the club. A disclosure of what is transpiring on-the inside of the Yankee club, it is rumored, | the water when hitting top speeds. It jigh would make headline reading. Sloppy fielding, puny batting at criti. cal times and a general air of listless: ness on the part of the whole Yank club is caused by something more than a bottle or two of three-point. It has been intimated that the Yanks have shown the lack of both ‘mental and physical courage on the fleld this season. It has been said that the team has frequently re- fused to come through at times when a little action on the part of base runners would have won a game. In the meanwhile the volatile, high- tempered Mr. McCarthy is saying noth- ing. Probably there is nothing for him to say, inasmuch as he cannot go out on the field and play positions for the listless ones. But knowing Mr. Mc- Carthy I feel that he is about to say MR 2 GEnRiG o THRD -~ 9 | something. He surely cannot bridle his desire for free speech much longer. But Lefty Lou Gehrig is saying some- thing. When Grove toppled the New Yorkers from their scoring record the other day he said: “I have nothing to say (about the broken record). y opinions do not count for anything anymore, anyway. But they will again before this season is over.” You can read plenty of ill feeling in Gehrig's statement. there is something with plenty of meaning in his last sentence. Stars Yesterday By the Assoclated Press. Ple Traynor, Pirates—Drove in run thl:th beat Cardinals with single in ninth. Ben Cantwell and Bob Smith, Braves —Pitched double victory over Dodgers, allowing 11 hits. Hank Greenberg, Tigers—Knocked in {all Detroit runs in 3-2 victory overi White Sox. Paul Richards, Giants—Batted in five runs against Phillies. It is easy to predict that both the Giants and Yankees will stay near the top for the next fortnight. What they will do after that de- pends very largely upon the turn of affairs on Labor day, when the lead- ers in the two races are supposed to take a commanding position over rival clubs. Yet it may happen that the races be so cl:se ‘dth-t no temporary or permanent lvantage will be gained by any club that oc- cuples first place on that particular day. The clubs may fight it out just as tenaclously during the closing weeks of September as they do in the closing weeks of August, and the fortunes of war may keep both New York teams embroiled in a red- hot finish to the first of October. In the American League the New York club has a tougher row to hoe than it had in 1932. It won 10 games from Boston alone on its home ground, losing 1, and won 7 games, losing 4, at Boston. To date it has won 10 games from Boston . ‘That gives it 7 more with Boston this year, THE L\ wniNG STAR, WAS @ AMERICAN LEAGUE HITTERS IN SLUMP Gains Made in Senior Loop, With Klein Setting Mark for Season With .386. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 5—The National League’s batsmen took all the play away from their American League ri- vals during the last week, staging an advance on an almost un- broken front while most of the leaders in the junior circuit drop- ped back. Chuck Kldin, Phillies’ ace, led the way had advanced his mark to the highest level of the season, .386. In the week which ended with yesterday's games Klein smacked out 15 hits, add- |ing 16 points to his average. Spud Davis, second on the National League | list, picked up 10 points and Bill Terry | of New York slipped into third place as | he hoisted his mark 11 points. Tony | | Piet of Pittsburgh moved into sixth | place by increasing his average 18 | points | Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelph'a | Athletics made the biggest advance among the American League's first 10, three points, moving up to .358, only a point behind the league leader, Al Sim- | mons of Chicago. Simmons lost two points. Behind these leaders only two play- ers who were on the Nst & week ago could show improved marks. Bill Dickey of New Yotk gained two points | and Roy Johnson of gmwn one. | . Wally Berger, the Boston Braves' slugger, administered a blow to Klein's National League slugging monopoly by taking the lead in home runs with a total of 20 to Klein's 18. The leading hitters in each major | league: | American League. ns. Chicago Philadelphia Cronin hington . | | Manush, Washington. . G. AB. R Simmo: 100 418 66 0XX. i 86 uls. ... Philadelphia Schulte, Washington. . 1 i National League. . New Yorl . Philadeiphia’ Schulmerich. Prila _ Pittshurgh Boston Berger. Boston ING'L N O, UN, PLENTY TO THINK ABOUT. \ ROGERS HORNSBY'S ENTRY INTO THE A. IS MAKING THNE BOYS WONORR, WHAT WiLL HNAPPEN ... |S PEVERISH NS N \GR‘IL = e o CRON(N'S DECISIONNT TO SEND A RooK\& PITCHER. INTO ACTION AT TH(S STAGE GINES A RISE TO RUMORS 0N THE ST Scott-Paine Pits BY NEGLEY FARSON. ONDON, England, August 5.— speedboat to contest Gar Wood, American racing king, at De- | trott, Mich. in September. Only 241 | | teet long, it has an 8-foot beam. It | | steers from the front and barely touches | made of sandwich wood and metnli nd looks like a fish on a plate. | Raced with a 900-horsepower engine from an old Schneider trophy plane in | Southampton waters, it has done well | over 100 miles an hour. With its new | Napier-Lion motor of 1,400 horsepower its ultimate speed is yet to be known. Its principal characteristic is its re- markable acceleration. Scientists tim- ing its pick-up have discovered that it has an acceleration faster than any- thing else in transport except an air-| plane launched by & catapult fired with | a charge of cordite. | In the races for the Harmsworth trophy at Detroit September 2—5 it is| believed that this incredible acceleration | might help win the race against Wood's boat of 7,000 horsepower. This British craft, called Miss Britain III, will be the smallest of its kind and the nearest thing to a pure hydroplane in the Detroit races. Its hull is an| orthodox single-step, but has a bizarre | top construction whose most remark- able feature is a cockpit with two seats of rubber slings covered with stream- lined cowling, like a submarine. Its material is sandwich metal, called alclad, consisting of two outer layers | of aluminum with a layer of duralumin in between, Alclad itself forms the i Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Greenberg, Tigers, 1; Berger, Braves, 1; Moore, Braves, 1 The Leaders. Foxx, Athletics, 30; Ruth, Yankees, 25; Berger, Braves, 20; Gehrig, Yan- kees, 19; Klein, Phillies, 18. American. New York .. | Philadelphia St. Louis .. Cincinnati Pittsburgh Total ......305 Boston ... Cleveland | Chicago .. Total ......423 but it already has lost as many as it did all last season. The Red Sox this season are a much improved team. In the early part of August they are within one game of as many victories as they won all last year. Take the Chicago White Sox as another example. Last year they won 49 games and finished seventh in the race. This year thus early they are on the verge of tieing last season’s record, and New York can- not hope to do as well against that team as it did last year. The Wash- ington team, which was fairly well up in the race last year, is more strongly fixed than it was then and is likely to finish the season going better. In the National League it is just as impossible to predict that New York will win as to say in April that the team would be in the lead during the first week of August. New York simply shows the effect of a skiliful and inspired manager, backed up by four pitchers who have shown resource and intelli- gence in time of need. ¢ Freak Craft In Miss Britain III for World Speedboat Title Against Wood outer layers of another sandwich with a wooden wafer in between. Its remarkable strength showed no | Great Britain is sending a stunt | distortion when it was tested under a | weight of 11, tons, whereas wood of the same dimensions, without the metal shield, broke under pressure of 220 pounds. | Beczuse of such strength, combined with lightness, the boat weighs only 21, pounds per horsepower. This ter than even the Schneider sea- planes themselves, which are considered the apex of design and light horsepower weight ratio of all motor craft in the world Miss Britain III will be driven by her designer, the red-headed and jovial British sportsman, Hubert Scott-Paine. He is a familiar figure in British yachting circles as well as a constant worker in preparations for all Schnei- der plane races. From his experience in | the latter, he has gained the marine engineering ingenuity that is respon- sible for the new speed boat’s design. Miss Britain III has a main frame consisting merely of three parallel girder trusses with cross-bracing, like longerons in seaplane wings, (Copyright, 1933.) F e WEST SECTION BOYS EARN SWIM PLACES Win Right to Enter Muny Play- ground Championship Meet Next Thursday. OYS who will represent the west- B ducted next Thursday in the Municipal pool by the Municipal Playground De- partment, were picked yesterday in competition in the Georgetown pool. First, second and third place winners qualified. Summaries: 70-Pound Class. 25-yard free style—Won by Albert Hamm (Georgetown); second. James Poole (George- town); third. 'John Miller (Eaton). 25-yard tehe race—Won by Georgetown (Albert Hamm and James Poole): second. Georgetown (Bernie Ralley and Ray Ander- son): third. Georgetown (Harry Elliott and Leonard Becraft). 85-Pound Class. 25-yard free style—Won by Walter Oakes (Georgetown): _second. tie between Claude Bradfield and Frank Cody, both of George- wn 25-vard tehe race—Won by Georgetown (Claude Bradfield and Prank Cady): sccond. Georsetown (Ray \Wren and Georse Mullen)! 5 own (Franci Rajgn ST is Crampton and -foot relay—Won by _Georgetown (Claude Bradfleld, George Mullen. Walter Oakes and Frank Cady); second, Park View. 100-Pound Class. 25-yard free style—Won by John Sey- mour (Georgetown): second, Aaron. Silver- man (Chevy Chsse); third, T d, Harry Ager third, ~ Georgetown relay—Won (Prank King. _Bromley Snouffer and John Seymour); second, Eaton- Hearst "(Morrison Rutherford, John Miller. View™(Fred Slancine: Beoor: Ribia, Ateio anning. Bengy Rubin, Angel Ladas and John Mahaney). (Ernest 25-yerd free style—Won by Carroll Hard- ing (Georgetown): second, -Buddy Gossage (Georgetown); third, Johu Gavin (George- wn). 25-yard back _stroke—Won by Emmett Brown (Mitchell Park); second, John Mullin TRetown). 400-foot relay—Won by Georgetown (! win Alexander, John Gavin. Buddy Gossa Carroll Harding); second, Mitchell Park (Al Jamson, Carey, William Murray, Emmett Brown);_third.’ Park View (Doyle Royal. Lawrence Beck, Thomas Beck, Robert Jonscher). Unlimited Class. 25-yard free style—Won by Robert Rawls; second, Homer Carey: third, James Down. 25-yard breast stroke—Won by Morris Goldberg (Georgetown): second, Bob Hogan {Georgetown); third, Emmett Brown (Mitch- ell_Park). yard back stroke—Won by Jack Rait (Georgetown); ' second, Kimball = Scribner (Tenley); third, Clifford Porteson (George- town). 400-foot relay—Won by Georgetown (Bob Hogan, Morris ~ Goldberg. Ravwls): H ‘merman, chte. Claude Brooks, James Down); third, Park View (Jack Pried- man, Allen Henkin, Gus Pergantis, Jerome rdon). i ern section in the city champion- | ship swimming meet. to be con- | A%IYION OF HIS MURLING SATL DAY, AUCUST 5, 1933 STATE MENT, AND AT TUOE HAVE THE Bovs THINK (NG SPORTS. —By TOM DOERER RUMORS OF THIS NAS BASE BALL'S TONGUB | WAGGING * GEHRIGS 7z MR.CRONINS CHIN 'S WORRY/NG EVERY TEAM TRYING TO GET SOME WHERE - THEY WONDER How LONG T Witk CONT(NUE .... MAKE 58 BINGLES IN THREE BATILES Pirates Win Again in Ninth. Overtime Victory Puts Tigers Fifth. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR,, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE New York Giants, who were holding the National League lead on pitching alone, suddenly have blos- somed out as a team of hitters just when a bit of extra punch may come in very handy to help them down the home stretch. They set up a season’s scoring record in their current series with the Phillies on Wednesday, and just to prove it wasn't a “fluke,” they duplicated Wednesday's 18- to-1 score yesterday. 5 The Giants piled up 23 hits, most of them off the veteran right-hander, Charles Flint Rhem, to make their totals for three games 58 hits and 42 runs. They piled up a 7-to-1 lead in | seven innings, then scored nine runs in | the eighth when Rhem mixed passes with seven hits. Every Giant except Lefty Clark. the starting pitcher who was relieved by | Carl Hubbell in the seventh, had a hand in the hitting, and Joe Moore, Mel Ott and Frank O'Doul cracked out four blows each. The Giants failed to gain on the sec- ond-place Pittsburgh Pirates, who again found the trick of winning games in the ninth and defeated the St. Louls Cardinals, 5 to 4. Grimes Out of Luck. FTER three Cardinal errors in the seventh had kept the Bucs in the running and spoiled Burleigh Grimes' first mound appearance since he.returned to the Cards, Pittsburgh put over the winning run in the ninth when Lloyd Waner singled, advanced on a passed ball and scored on Pie Tray- nor’s hit The fifth-place Boston Braves cut the Cardinals’ margin to two games by taking a double-header from the Brook- 1vn Dodgers. 4 to 1 and 3 to 0. behind fine pitching by Ben Cantwell and Bob Smith. Between them they gave only 11 hits and Smith, making his first start since he was bought from Cincin- nati_pitched a four-hit shutout. Wally Berger contributed his twentieth homer to_the second victory. In the only American League game, the Detroit Tigers went into fifth place, passing Chicago as they downed the ‘White Sox, 3 to 2. in 11 innings. Vie Sorrell allowed the Hose only six hits and Hank Greenberg drove in all the Tiger runs with a homer and a single. EQUIPOISE: FAGING 142-POUND IMPOST Victory in Saratoga Today Would Boost Winnings Over $300,000 Mark. By the Associated Press. SARA"OGA SPRINGS, N. Y, August 5—C. V. Whitney | nominated his handicap | champion, Equipoise, for the lthlrty-first running of the Sara- toga Handicap today, giving the | 5-year-old son of Pennant-Swing- | ing an excellent chance to boost | his total earnings past the| $300,000 mark. | The race, at a mile and a guarter. | carried a purse of $2,500 added with |about $6400 going ic the winner. | Equipoise already has earned $297.170. so that victory would take him well over the $300.000 mark and put him close to Zev in the matter of total earn- lings. Only Zev, Gallant Fox. Phar Lap and Sun Beau top the Whitney star in money won. | Equipoise, however, was asked to| carry the terrific burden of 142 pounds | |and give away from 19 to 40 pounds to seven rivals including the Wheui- ley Stable’s Dark Secvet, Morton . L. Schwartz’ Gusto, the Glen Riddle Farm's War Glory, the Bmflk.meadfl,]‘ Stable’s Caesar's Ghost, the Anall Stable’s Larranaga, W. R. Coe's Oscu- lator and Mrs. F. Mabrose Clark's Neverfade. Equipoise has been a gal- lant weight-carrier in the past, bus whether he could shoulder so tre- mendous an impost over the long route remained to be seen. Hadagal, from the Calumet Farms, | was the favorite for the secondary feature, the United States Hotel Stakes for 2-year-olds. Hadagal was rated at 8 to 5 with the Greentree Stable entry of Black Buddy and Pirst Minstrel held at 3 to 1 and the Sagamore Stable’s Red Wagon at 7 to 2. Sandlot Ball Several teams are without games for tomorrow. The list includes: Fraternal Order of Eagles, for North | E‘}].igse. Call Bill Blake, Metropolitan Collin Springs, Va., Clarendon 419 be- tween 6 and 8 p.m. Occidentals, for tomorrow. Joe Har- rison, Metropolitan 0879 between 6:30 and 8 p.m. Brenizer, for out-of-town diamond. preferebly & double-header. Metro- politan 6808. Glencarlyn Red Sox, at home or away. Clarendon 1075 until 9 o'clock tonight, afterward Clarendon 1174-W. Derwood A. C., on Derwood field. Gaithersburg 19-F-12. Capitol Hill Juniors, Lincoln 0626-W. Lanham A. C. Manager Rector, Hyattsville 801-F-15. Results: Dixie Pigs, 15; Police, 3 (Industrial League). Civil Service, 5; Public Documents, 3 (Federal League). Pepco, 10; Acacis, 1 (National Capital League). Mount Vernon, 8; Eldbrooke M. E., 3 (Georgetown Church League). 5 Civil Service, 5; Public Documents, G. P. O, 7; A. G. O, 6 (Federal ofift Botton Insects, 15; Goldenl Insects, 5. ' ot e Y Texas. Dallas, 5-5; Beaumont, 2-0. Houston, 4; Fort Worth, 2. Antnnln: 10; Oklahoma City, 7. Team Standing. Pet 817 Beaum 800 FL W 31 S L. A Song of Helens. When Homer sang of Helen, Whose habitat was Troy, The ancient world in_chorus Re-echoed “attaboy”— When Homer sang of Helen He missed the major thrills, For though he sang of Helen— It wasn’t Helen Wills. When Homer sang o/ Helen With all his pristine fire, He set the old wo-'d talking About his nimble lyre: When Homer sang of Helen, Why pick ‘em from the sticks? | For when he sang of Helen— | It wasn’t Helen Hicks. I have much abler Helens To sing dbout today, Whose fame has traveled onward, Around the world away: There’s only one raw angle Thot stirs my sullen ire— Though I may sing of Helens, 1 haven't Homer’s lyre. Not So New. UGHEY KEOGH —Hek —in his ballad of “The Steeple- chase, or Mike the Bite,” in- dicated the prevalence of doped horses more than 20 years ago. One bit of this famous verse reads: ‘With a ragged flutter of silks aloft, And the odor of drugs astern”—as the horses start for the barrier). Mike the Bite's owner, Famishing Flynn, also has this to say in the bal- lad—or to this effect: “I've slipped old Mike a charge today That would blow up a national bank™— with the further admision that Mike would do well enough if his forelegs didn't get too hot from the heavy charge. Two of the classic verses from this racing classic of Hek's follow: “A scullion named Mose was given the mount On the horse with the gangrene legs; Now Mose wasn't much at the horse- back act, But an artist at frying eggs. The odds were 100 to 1 that day, And a funny guy making the book Said, ‘This means 20 to 1 the horse, And 80 to 1 the cook.’ F Pirates in any pennant race is one of the hardest of all guesses. A few years ago they had the pennant won with a seven-game lead in August. At this stage they: blew SiX games to the Giants in one series and finally fell com- pletely out of the loft. They blew a big lead another year. Later on they barely staggered home by a game or so as another fat lead | was melting in a hurry. Last Summer they once were open- Tathioned "dumns2en "spumay o0 lump fell squar the backs of thpelr necilg. Y e “Something was alwa; in this slump,” Paul ’v'v-nuh"?i';: “When we hit, our pitchers couldn’t pitch. When our pitchers turned in a good game we quit hitting.” In that stretch the Pirates, leading the league, lost something like 13 out of 14 games. ‘This last April they got away in a hurry and then stumbled once more on the slippery chute. They have been & different ball club lately, coming on like the wind—getting both’ hitting and pi p m. Cubs and Cardinals were The Elusive Pirates. IGURING those Pittsburgh seasons. They ve & high-c! ball club and a well rounded one on both attack and defense. and they are still in the race in spite of earlier dins and dives. N ‘Wightman Cup Matches. UTSIDE of the of Helen Wills Moody, the battle between the United States and ‘Western. Forest closest this season. and if it were THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE Hills interna- | not for the almost certain vi-iories of | Mrs. Moody, the British would have a slight shade—and even a slight shade | is something in these sun-blistered days. In addition to Mrs. Moody there is plenty in the way of class at- tached to the Misses Marble and Palfrey and Jacobs—to the Misses Round and Nuthall end Scriven, to mention only a few. | It will be difficult to head off Mrs. Moody in the women's championship later on, but the team matches will |be a much closer, harder fight. | So far the British have beaten us! in the Ryder Cup and the Davis Cup tests, and now they are out to make it three in a row. Which is no part of an impossibility. (Copyright. 1933, by North Am: paper Alliance, Inc. | erican News- | ) By the Associated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) American League. | Batting—Simmons, White Sox, .359; Foxx, Athletics, .358. | Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 88; Foxx, ! Athletics, 86 | |~ Runs batted in—Simmons, White Sox, | and Foxx, Athletics, 96. { | nush, Senators, 145. | M | BioR e Minor Leagues International. ‘Toronto, 2-4. y, 3-13; Rochester, 2-4. Jersey City, 6-4. Buffalo, 3-7. Newark, 11; Montreal, 7. Team Standing. Toronto. American Assoclation. St. Paul, 12; Louisville, 1. Indianapolis. 7; Minneapolis, 1. Toledo. 5-0: Kansas City, 3-1. Columbus, 6; Milwaukee, 3. Team Standing. Gaumbus ‘Do A Milw kee 4 Tndian lis : K. City. 44 71 Southern Association. Nashville, 4; Memphis, 3. Little Rock. 9; Chattanooga, 3. Birmingham at Knoxville, wet grounds. New Orleans at Atlanta, wet grounds. Team Standins. Memj N Orleans == Los Angeles, 5-10; Oakland. 1-1. Sacramento, 10; San Francisco, Hollywood at Seattle, rain. Missions at Pcrtland, rain. Team Standing. |~ Doubles—Burns, Browns, 33; Cromn“l: | Senators, 29. Triples—Combs, Yankees, and Rey- nolds, Browns, 12. Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 30; Ruth, Yankees, 25. Stolen bases—Walker, Chapman, Yankees, 18. Pitching—Van Atta, Yankees, 9-3; Grove, Athletics, 16-6; Russell, Sena- | tors, 8-3. Tigers, and National League. ‘Batting—Klein, Phillies, .386; Davis, Phillies, .353. | Runs — Martin, Cardinals, 81; P.| vuuhm'l?x;?mi-nvaim, 152; Fulls, Doubles — Klein, Waner, Pirates; F. Herman, Cubs, and Phillies, 18. Pitching—Tinning, Cubs, 8- ‘Waner, Pirates, 70. Hits—KI Phillies, 34; P. ‘Waner, Pirates, 31. Martin, Cardinals, 10. Stolen bases—Martin, Cardinals, 15; 11, Giants, 16-7. Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 92; Phillies, 145. Triples—Vaughan, Pirates, 16; P. ‘Home runs—Berger, Braves, 20; Klein, 'h, Cardinals, 13. P Hub- | bel | CHURCH ENTRY FAVORED | | CHICAGO, August 5 (#) —Although | they failed to deliver in four important stakes at Arlington Park last month, Norman W. Church’s entry, Gallant Sir | and Plucky Play, ruled favorite Dodly‘ | for the $5,000 added Hawthorne Handi- cap. SATURDAY. AUGUST 5, 1933, AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. . troit, 3: Chicago. 2 (11 innings). Behex 1ibs mot scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ing., 2-5; Wilkes-Barre, 1-2. ‘Willlamsport. 6; Scranton, 3. Elmira, 5; York, 0. Binghamton at Harrisburg, rain. L. Pt B'hamton 58 39 .5¢ Reading. 50 Wilkes-B. 5 Scranton’ 51 Fourteen Ball Players and Twg Golfers Go to Detroit. i Fourteen members of the Unk} Printers base ball team of this city an two D. C. golfing printers left last night for Detroit where the base ball team will strive to retain its International Typographical diamond title in the an- nual tourney starting tomorrow and the | golfers will work to bring Washington the crown in this sport. Ball players in the party were Freddy Waple, Jghny Reide, Jinmy Dewhurst, Chick lbrook, Ben Schneider. Tuck Galglish, Mac McPherson, Chief Rouda- bush, Mel Simons, Nip Drayer, Eddie Edwards, Ray Homan, Tom Heany and Norman Hutchinson. The golfers were Al Shafer and Lawrence DeAtley. Manager Heinie Webb of the ball club and District Chairman Dike Desper also were in the party. Major League Statistics YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. x, 18: Philadelphia, 1. Bostone 'ch. ;. Brooklyn, 120. . Other clubs not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. H 0K 0| " usanay e Wsh.—]| ©I10] 9] 71 8110110/63351.643I. ... N N__Y.[ bi—I 9| 0l 9] 9I10| 0I60/381.612[ 3 Bl Lost. 139/45/46/47(50156158162—i—! GAMES TODAY. i e GAMES TOMORROW. Philadelphia at Wash. t R { at GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. New Y Phila. Pittsbursh at Chi . (2). Ph EEESEs FEAET