Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1934, Page 15

SPORTS.’ Nationals Tie Champion Detroit Tigers for Defense Honors in American League PLAY AT 74 CLP | INFACE OF HURTS Top League at Double Play |3 Making—Two New Marks Are Recorded. BY JOHN B. KELLER. | HEY did not look so good at| bat this year, but afield the Nationals bowed to none. Of- flial statistics given out by | American League headquarters reveal | that the seventh-place Washington | club finished on even terms with the | champion Tigers at the top of the heap defensively. Each club fielded for an average of .974. | It was the second top finish in succession for the Nationals and that they did so well this year is truly re- markable broken were they by Injuries that not a regular was able to play within 20 of the games scheduled | The Nationals were double-play | leaders, turning in 167 of these field- | ing feats. They had the most chances, | 6,225, and the most assists, 1917.( Making 4.146 pu s they were sec- ond only to the Yankees, who snuffed | 4148. A total of 162 errors were made by the Nationals. Of their seven ri only the Tigers and the Yankees made fewer. | s, Some New Marks. ILLIE KAMM of the Indians set a major league record by topping the third basemen of | his circuit for the eighth time. In| 118 games he accepted 357 of 365 chances for an average of .978. | Hal Trosky, Indian rookie, set a league record by participating in 145 double plays. He had the most E3 HOLY NAME. Section B. St. Ann's...... Immac. Concep'n ¢ Season Records. 1 461-14 Hig Edinger, High Edinger, 403; Shilke. 306: Mi i High "spares—Ed Schilke, 81; Neill, 66i: Stelski. 6 High_strikes—O'Neill, 16; J. Overend, 14 J. La Scola. 14. COMMERCIAL. W L. V. Contl'l Bak's 16 1 Bell Cab 14 1 City Cab_ " 3 a0 3 A Sunday Stai Diamon 19 Premier Cal Diamond Cab 19 Sterrett Season Records. High team game _Diamond Service. 606 High team set— Diamond Service. 1710 &, Hich individual game—Burrows (Evening Star). 157, High ndividual set—Burrows (Evening Star). 406, Hich individual average—Jarman (C. & Tel. Co ) 5 s es—Ballard (C. & P. Tel. P Tel | i o ) ) spares—Jarman Conr "B c & iz Co.). 91 Silver Spring American E 11 Dome Oil Co 20 13 Sherwood Bros.17 1 13 Waldo & Clark 14 1 Md_ News T. E. Jarrell S. 8. Alleys Dixie Pig Grotto Grill Stewart Bros ‘17 16 S.§. D. & C Steve's B. Shop 17 16 Morningside L. 8 Season Records. igh team game—Dixie Piz. 651 izh team set—Steve's Barber game_B_ Fling_ 1 set-—Rotheeb. 414 average—Rothgeb. JARRELL CO. H H H 120 chances, put-outs and assists and also | F the most errors for first sackers of | the circuit. Ir Only two triple plays were made the past season, both by ‘Tigers. Henry Bonura, a first-year man with the White Sox, led the first basemen with an average of .996. but Joe Kuhel did weii enough before he cracked his ankle in e to get a secnd-place tie with Lou Gehrig of the Yanks at .994. Pete Susko, who first-based in the club’s last 58 games h-place tie at .988. car Meliillo of the Browns again led the second basemen, fielding at a 981 clip. Buddy Myer, the Na- tionals’ brilliant middle-sack guardian, was third among those playing more than 100 games with a mark of .975. Bad News Hale of the Indians had the most chances and errors, M the most put-outs and double plays and Charley Gehringer of the Tigers the most assists. far down the list of th man with an average of Bill Werber of the Red Sox had the most chances and assists of the far- corner lot, Slim Owen of the Tigers the most put-outs and Pinky Higgins of the Athletics the most errors and double plays. Jimmy Fox of the A’s showed he still can step around third by not committing an error as 27 chances came his way in nine games. | Lyn Lary, who probably will do the shortstopping for the Nationals next season, starred at the shortfield for the Red Sox. He ficlded at a .96 clip to lead at his position. Joe Cro- Travis Far Down List. | ECIL TRAVIS, the rookie, finished nin moved along at a .951 speed for C the Washington club before he broke 8 wrist. Ossie Bluege in 30 games at shortstop fielded .979, the best aver- | age in the circuit. Eric McNair of the Athletics had the most chances, pu and er- rors and took part in the most dou- ble plays at shortstop. Bill Rogell of the Tigers contributed the most as- sists, Of the outfielders in 100 or more games. .986, Heinie Manush fifth with .980 and Jack Stone fourteenth with .Qtifi.i Sam Byrd of the Yankees set the pace | with an average of .988. He made | only two errors. Al Simmons, second | with .987, had just four errors in 138 games. Earl Averill of the Indians| was on top with 410 put-outs and 435 chances. Bob Johnson of the As led with 17 assists. Pete Fox of the ‘Tigers and Ray Pepper of the Browns each took part in four double plays. | Bruce Campbell of the Browns made the most errors, 17. Whitehill Can Field. ‘~\F THE Nationals’ curving corps. the left-handed Earl Whitehill proved the best fielder. He had B0 chances for a lone error to aver- age .980. Monte Weaver was the| poorest of the Washington slabmen | defensively, making five errors. He | finished with an average of .889, | Al Crowder fielded perfectly for | both the Nationals and the Tigers| to be among the 16 pitchers with 1.000 averages. Schoolboy Rowe of the, Tigers was the real leader of this lot. | sccepting 55 chances. Willis Hudlin of the Indians accepted 72 out of 73 chances, while Mel Harder of the same band handled 71 of 78. Hudlin had 62 assists, Harder 61, Harder made the most errors, seven. Johnny Murphy of the Yanks had the most put-outs, 19. Hudlin took part in the most double-plays, eight. Luke Sewell of the Nationals showed the way to catchers of the 50-games- and-under class. He caught in ex- actly 50 games for a fielding average of 994, Clif Bolton in 39 games fielded .981. Rick Ferrell of the Red Sox was high of the lot in more than 50 games at .990. In 128 games he accepted 603 of 609 chances. includ- ing 531 put-outs. Rollie Hemsley of the Browns led with 92 assists, 16| errors and 15 double plays. | The only receivers to catch 100 games or more were Ferrell. Mickey Cochrane of the Tigers, Hemsley and Bill Dickey of the Yankees. TURNER SEEKS MECADON Wants Him to Fight Furr in Bout Here Saturday a Week. Jay MeCadon, first to prick the Bob Wilson bubble in the Capital, to- day was sought by Promoter Joe Tur- ner as the opponent for Phil Furr in 8 10-round headline bout for the Washington Auditorium a week from BSaturday. 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McKechnie disclosed that he has signed to manage the Boston Braves again next year. Fights Last N ight By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, Ky —Jess McMurtry, | 144, Cincinnati, knocked out Ray Drake, 150, Indianapolis (4). | WATERLOO, Iowa—Buddy Baer, | 240, Livermore, Calif., knocked out Johnny Baker, 208, Minneapolis (2). | annually to the letter man who has | Cruickshank. He won this one, but shown himself outstanding in loyalty. | his next tie—in 1925 with Willie Mac- | closed split even in 10 games, while | | courage, modesty, perseverance and | Farlane at Worcester—he didn’t win.| the freshmen were undefeated and un- | | The tall Scot whipped him with a par . tied in five starts. Install oversize Supercoil piston rings carbon, reface seats in block, clean points, adjust generator charging rate, (4-CYLINDER) and pins—adjust connecting rod bear- carburetor screens. jets. and adjust; reverse-flush radiator, equalize brakes. This Is What You Get— ings, grind and reface valves, clean sand-blast plugs. synchronize ignition align front whee! adjust steering. Materials included ~in “price—Piston Rings. Piston Pins. Oil and Gaskets. ANY SMALL S4° 6-CYL. CAR Larger cars proportionately 1 $10 DOWN Balance in 5 Semi-Monthly Payments. No Finance (INCORPORATED) 712 E St. S.E. LL 9393 | more adept at the art of mauling ! ranks as among the best of the com- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, URNER PREDICTS MAT FIREWORKS Says Christy-Dusek Return Bout Will Be Hotter Than First. N ELBOW - SLINGING bee that will pale the first Rudy Dusek-Vic Christy match was prophesied today by Maestro Joe Turner as the veteran Omaha Growler and the youthful Christy prepared for tomorrow’s return rassling exhibition in the Washington Audi- torium. As in the previous bout, the boys will grapple on the two-out-of-three- falls basis. Both Dusek and Christy are ex- boxers who discovered themselves and hauling than throwing gloves, but who stand out in the rassling bination punishers. There was plenty | of elbow-slinging in their first tussle, with Dusek throwing just a little | more such punches than Christy, winning, as a result, two of the falls. In the semi wind-up Little Beaver will meet George Meske, while pre- lims schedule Tor Johansen vs. Willie Davis and Henry Graber vs. Abe Kashey. KADLIC GETS POE CuP PRINCETON, N. J,, December 4 (#). | —The John Prentiss Poe Cup, Prince- ton University’s highest foot ball award, was presented to John P. (Kats) Kadlic of Bellaire, Ohio, varsity quar- terback for the past three seasons, at | the annual gridiron banquet last night. The cup was presented to Kadlic | by Neilson Poe, ’97, fourth of the | hidden reserve of skill and courage and | Open Tourney Ties no Longer Haunt Pros With Jones Gone BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HE era of ties in the national open golf championship ap- parently has ended. With the withdrawal from the competitive scene of Robert Tyre Jones of Atlanta—those headaches of sports writers and carnivals of golf for the golfnuts have vanished from the drama of the open championship and it appears as if the tie for the blue ribbon bauble of the professional game is to become more or less un- usual, instead of happening frequently, as it did in the days when Jones was rampaging up and down the land win- ning championships almost as he pleased. ‘The cold facts show that during the seven years that Jones was winning tournaments, starting with 1923 and ending in 1930, there were five ties for the open championship, and Jones was involved in four of them. The young man had an uncanny knack of nudg- ing himself into a tie for the top spot with some pro, but he wasn't so good at winning ‘em after he had tied. out of the four for which he tied he was able to win only two of them. In the other two the pros called on some whipped the giant-killer in the play- off. Since Bob retired from competition in the open championship four such | tournaments have been played and only one has resulted in a tie. This one came in 1931—the year following the Jones retirement. It must have been a hold-over from the old habit, for it produced the lengthiest play-off in championship history, that 72-hole duel at Inverness between Billy Burke and George Von Elm. Jones had a faculty for inserting himself into the title picture in those | years at the most unfortunate spot for the pros—the seventy-second green Back in 1923 Bob had only to get down | in 3 from the edge of the eighteenth | green at Inwood, but he took 4 and famous Poe brothers. It is awarded good sportsmanship. You can’t smoke price— but you can enjoy became enmeshed in a tie with Bobby | D. 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Of course, in such a stretch of years you couldn't figure Jones to be in on all the ties, so by way of diversity, Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper tied for the title in 1927 at Oakmont. But Bob bobbed right back the next year with another tie—this time with Johnny Farrel. And again the play- off went to the thirty-sixth green and the final stroke. In those days ties were almost a habit. For it happened right back again in 1929, where Bob holed a 12- footer across the seventy-second green to tie with Al Espinosa, whom he whip- ped by some such disgraceful margin as 23 strokes in the play-off. What headaches those ties were for the sports writers. There they were, miles away from their families, in a strange land, where all they had to do was to look at the greatest golfer who ever hit a shot battling with some pro for the open championship and write a couple of thousand words about it. They really suffered in those days, but the war is over now. Now that/ the pros have it all to themselves and | Jones has retired to a life of ease and contentment in Atlanta, the tie is not | feared as it once was. The boys go out now and get themselves a clear-cut | win. They haven't any big, bad bogey | man to watch and worry over. They | are playing better golf, too. GET AWARDS AT V. P. I. Thomas and Cooper Among Those to Receive Grid Letters. BLACKSBURG, Va. December 5.— D. T. Thomas of Hyattsville, Md., and E. N. Cooper of Clarendon, Va., are among varsity and freshman athletes given sports awards at Virginia Tech. | Thomas was one of 20 varsity foot ball players to earn major sports monograms, while Cooper was one of 21 freshman gridmen to be given class numerals. | ‘The varsity during the season just | blending mildness such evenness and in smoking quality. s even your fondest Prove it for cents AND UP PURITANO FINO 2FOR 25c. Distributor Daniel Loughran Co., Inc. 1311 H Street N.W. Washington, D. C. G. H. P. CIGAR CO.,INC.,PRILA. Phy A WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934, YANKEE BALL GLUB INVADES SHANGHAI Given Big Welcome Along With Senators Headed for Islands. By the Associated Press. HANGHAI, December 5.—Am- bassadors of American big league base ball and American high politics arrived in force here today to receive a tremendous welcome from Americans and Chinese alike, The high priests of the American national game, who set foot on Chinese soil for the first time, were 17 Amer- |ican League stars, now on a barn- storming tour of the Orient. They came here en route to Manila from Japan, where they completed a month’s triumphal tour. Figuratively arm in arm with the big leaguers were four United States Senators, members of a commission going to the Philippines to investigate ronditions pertaining to the forthcom- ing independence of the islands. They were Senators William G. McAdoo, Democrat, of California; Millard E Tydings, Democrat. of Maryland: Ken- neth McKellar, Democrat, of Tennes- see, and Ernest W, Gibson, Repub- lican, of Vermont. Will Play Despite Cold. HE Senators smilingly declined to discuss happenings or ques dealing with the Philippines, sa) ing instead. their desires today were to see Shanghai and watch the base ball players perform. The diamond stars will play an ex- hibition game today against a local amateur nine, composed of civilians nd United States Marines stationed HOCKANUM FLANNELS iimi SUITS, 0°CO 51622 the Suits Men! Trade up your personal appearance at a price reaching a new low! " All-wool _fabrics: Worsteds, Cassimeres and Tweeds in single or dou- ble breasted models. Full range of men’s sizes. Extra Trousers. $4. the O’Coats Big, roomy, single or double breasted models with plenty of cheery warmth and style. “Some n o SPORTS. Mat Matches By the Assoclated Press. BROOKLYN.—Leo Wallick, 175, Germany, threw Joe Parelli, 175, Italy, 30:20. NEW HAVEN, Conn—Vis Christie, 200, Los Angeles, defeated Vanka Zelesniak, 235, Russia, two straight | falls. AUGUSTA, Me—Jackie Nichols, Richmond, defeated Johnny Iovanna, Quincy, Mass. (Iovanna injured.) WACO, Tex.—Juan Humberto, 210, Mexico, threw Scotty Dawkins, 220, San Antonio. QUINCY, Ill—Jim McMillen, 220, Chichgo, threw Bobby Burns, 223, Los Angeles, 39:00. VANDY TRAVELS NORTH Has Temple and Fordham on Its 1935 Foot Ball Card. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 5 (/P).—Vanderbilt's foot ball team will | play two intersectional games in the | East in 1935, meeting Temple and | Fordham on successive week ends. | One open date on the schedule re- mains to be filled. The list: September here. October 5—Open: 11, Temple, at | Philadelphia; 19, Fordham, at New York; 26, L. 8. U, here, November 2—Georgia | Atlanta; 9, Sewanee. here; | nessee, at Knoxville; 28, here. 28— Mississippl ~ State, Tech, at 16, Ten- Alabama, here. * Although an fcy wind was | sweeping the city, Connie Mack, leader | of the touring players, declared they would “do their stuff.” | Babe Ruth aj neath a great over | Shiveringly, he said: | cold, but we'll play ball.” | The ball players and Senators ar- rived aboard the Empress of Canada and were due to sail tonight for Manil Open Friday and Saturday Nights Until 9:30 P.M. ion lailored UITS, OCOATS *19 n ATS —3 1 A—15 IDODGERS ‘REBUILD' BY SELLING EXCESS Pitcher Herring Latest to Go—Stengel Now Ready for Some Trading. By the Assoclated Press. | EW YORK, December 5.—The Brooklyn Dodgers announced | today the sale of Arthur } (Red) Herring, right-handed | pitcher obtained from Beaumont last Winter, to the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast League. It was & straight cash deal and, says Manager Casey Stengel, just a small part of the rebuilding campaign he plans The Dodgers have been quietly un- loading excess baggage since the end of the National League season and now, Stengel says, they are ready to do some swapping. Casey wouldn't tell what deals he wants to make the major leagues hold their but he admitted he and that the trades tried to make at the minor league Louisville didn't go Has Eyes on Talent. VE got a half dozen boys I'd like to let go in trades,” he said, “but ) You can't make trades if the boys aren't satisfied or if the other parties sfied.” y atic about one however—Van le Mungo, handed pitcher, isn't on the block. Mungo can be bought at a price, but that price is $300,000. “The Red Sox paid something like §150,000 for Joe Cronin,” he com- mented, nd he's only a shortstop. One of the first things I learned in base ball was that a pitcher is more importa: than a rts other infielder or outfielde thing . NEW TONES . 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