Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1935, Page 23

SPORTS SECTION he Swunday Star WASHINGTON, D. G SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1935. Griffs in Finer Trim Than Last Year : Arcadia Bowlers Gain Tourney Lead BILONITS ASSURED OF CLUBS RETURN Kuhel's Ankle Mended, but Joe Takes No Chances. Etts Loses Out. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star OBILE. Ala., March 23.— When the Nationals break | camp at Biloxi next Thurs- day they will start their northward trek in far better condition than the squad that left the Gulf town last year. This has been the most successful training camp ever | conducted at Biloxi, according to those in charge of the Washington ball club, | and that despite the week of rain that handicapped to some extent the con- ditioning routine. On only one day was the club com- pelled to forego practice. So heavy was the downpour the players never | left their hotel. On every other day, | even Sundays, the squad got,out and | the balmy weather of this week more than compensated for the curtailment of drills during the damp spell. The bright and warm days that have prevailed recently will just about get | the Nationals back in Biloxi next year for their training work. While the heavy rains were on, everything around camp was gloomy and S0 Was every- thing about the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce. The business body saw | the Washington ball club slipping | away to a milder clime and that meant a wad of bt slipping from lhE[ town. This training stuff puts a| healthy nick in the Nationals’ treasury and the players themselves always Jeave consicerable money behind when | leaving camp. ays a town to have a ball club use it to get in trim. | F on Atmesphere Is Bracing. ROM the start Bucky Harris has liked Biloxi as 2 spot to train, although he did weaken a trifle the place during the week of torrential rains. The recent fine weather, though. has made him a strong booster for the place. While warm, the Bilcxi weather is not enervating like that in Florida. The players after a brisk workout do not tire as they used to do when the| Nationals did their training at Tampa. | The Biloxi air is bracing. And there is another angle to the Biloxi situation that Harris especially admires. It is the smallness of the | place that gets the Washington | manager. He prefers this little town with a population of 15.000 to a place | like Tampa, Miami or San Antonio, | cities that at times have been men-& tioned as likely to get the Nationals next yvear. There are too many dis- | tractions in the big places for the players, the pilot holds. Biloxi is just right for his ball club. Clark Griffith, of course, always has | regarded Biloxi as a most desirable place in which to train his ball club | ever since it first went to the Gulf Coast in 1930. The Washington presi- | dent likes the climate and also holds, | like Harris, that a small town is muci | more preferable than a big place for his athletes during the conditioning scason. Careful With Kuhel. now that unless some other place comes along with a most attrac- | tive offer—and that offer myst jnclude | besides a fine field and club house a | sizable amount of dough—Biloxi will | get the Nationals next year. While Joe Kuhel's ankle that was cracked last June ncw is well healed Mike Martin is taking no chances with | it. The trainer advised Manager Harris | to yank the first baseman after the third inning of the game here today. ‘The infleld in the Mobile park is so packed that it is almost as hard as a | Help to Anglers Is Cited by P.W.A. By the Associated Press. W. A. today made a bid for . fishermen's support. More than 10,000,000 anglers, it said, will find better angling season after next, because more trout minnows were made possible by an allotment of $639,500 to the Bureau of Fisheries. Five hatcheries were built with P. W. A. money. This Summer, P. W. A. said, the little fishes will reach the traveling age and will be shipped to national parks and forests to stock streams for anglers, STATION R-0-0-K JOE ENGEL DROPPED (N TUESDAY FOR AVISIT.._AND MARCHED OUT THE NEXT DAY WITH AN ARMY OF RECRUITS To hatiiey and Weaver on Slab And Powell at Plate Poison To Blues as | | Griffs Win, 11-1 —_— | BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. OBILE, Ala, March 2 It shouldn't be long before Bump Hadley and Monte Weaver are ready to do some mean pitching for the Washington ball club, judging by the way they performed here today against the Kansas City outfit. Between them they kept the Blues away from the plate so well that the Nationals won in a romp. 11 to 1. That one run was made off Hadley in the fifth inning, his last on the hill, and it was due to a wild chuck by Lyn Lary, the new shortstop. In his term on the mound the chunky Lynn chucker looked about only a week away from peak form. He had a lot of speed, and occasion- ally broke a curve that had the Kansas City guys cross-eyed. He vielded only four hits and three passes, and, unlike the Hadley of old, was better when men were on the runway than at any other time. Alexander Soft Pickings. EAVER followed Hadley to breeze through four frames at a great clip. Resumption of a meat diet seems to have done Monte a world of good. His control was a trifle wabbly in his first round, for after two were out and an error had put a runner on, Monte filled the bases with passes. But he dis- [ posed of a pinch batter deftly to get out of trouble, and thereafter gave a lone pass and one hit. In the Kansas City line-up was Dale Alexander, who used to swing a wicked bat for the Tigers and the Red Sox. He did not get a hit and cach of the Washington pitchers had the plessure of striking him out. Fourteen hits were made by the Nationals off John Niggeling, Howard Taylor and Floyd Olds, all right- handers. who toiled three innings each. Scoring was done off each of the hurlers. Jack Stone, Fred Sing- ton and Weaver were the only Harrismen of the 14 who broke into the game failing to hit. Red Kress and Jake Powell, Wash- | ington's pride, did enough to maxe| IS Third in $25,000 Bay | up for the batting failure of this trio. | OU can get down on the line right | Red helped himself to three hard-hit | | singles and drove across four runs | | in addition to scoring two. Jake, who | | played the entire game, got a triple | By the Associated Press. sent in three tallies and That triple by A line drive to and a single, carried one home. Jake was a Wow. left. o Nifty Hittin WASH. il Powel i If this product of the Capital's sandlots. who came to the Nationals | by way of the Albany club, totes his | burning bat into the championship | season it’ll be just too bad for those | clubs wtih short left fields | In the second session the Harrismen | fell upon Niggeling with a lot of force, | | pummeling him for five tallies. Travis | started the inning inauspiciously by rolling to the second sacker, but Kuhel | followed with a fine flail to right for | two bases. Bolton, Kress and Hadlev singled in succession to account for | two scores. Then Powell rammed a triple to left to send in two more Jake rode home on Myer's hoist to the right fielder. | l HE Nationals picked up four more | Tofl Taylor in the sixth. when again they clustered five safeties. | Travis and Lary hit for a base each. Kress singled Travis home and Red- mond grabbed Hadley's bat to double | and tally two. Powell singled to get | Redmond to the counting block. Olds yielded a brace of scores in | the seventh, his first inning on the | hill. Travis walked and Weaver got on base through an error by the| | shortstop. Kress's third single pushed ‘ the pair over the big base. | | It was a wild throw by Lary that | paved the way to the Kansas City | Marker in the fifth. The shortstop made a nice stop of Schulte’s hot one, but threw 'way over the first sacker’s dome to put the runner on seeond. | Hadley disposed of the next two bat- | ters, but Ray French, the old West | | Point and Athletics player, singled Schulte home. Stage Another Rally. ' | | HEAD PLAY PLOWS TOVITORYINMUD 'Time Supply Second, Gusto Meadows Race. AN MATEO, Calif., March 23.— Pounding through the mud to | leave the field-far behind, Head ! Play, big 5-year-old chestnut, | owned by Mrs. Silas B. Mason, won the $25000 added Bay Meadows | Handicap over a mile and an eighth toda: y. The temperamental son of My Play, jout of Red Head, winner of the| FIGHT FOR DEAR OLD CHATTANOOGA. | went on and cleared the bar al SIGNING OFF! SAY LISSEN BOY--+ Wi LL 1 SHOW THOSE CHATTYNOOGY BUMS SOME THIN ABOUT TOSSIN THAPPLE 1 WAS GONNA SNIFF - MAKE ! 5 THIS ROWE .- =-SNIFF --LOOK. y | HOW LONG @« —By JIM BERRYMAN AW, FER GOSH SAKE -~ D' YUH THINK 1M GONNA FOOL ‘ROUND WITH THAT GANG 7 TLL BE UP IN TH' SWEET CLOVER BEFORE JUNE ! 7Hubbell, Schumacher Clever | As Giants Swat A’s, 5 to 3 ROOKIE BOASTS -~ ANDHEARTBREAK ! CANBRIDGE WS SANSYANK HELP Track Victory Over Oxford First in Years Without | Foreign Stars. By the Associated Press. ONDON, March 23.—American | athletes, for the first time in| L several years, failed to play a decisive part as Cambridge | scored a 7-4 victory over Oxford m] their annual track meet run in a heavy rain at Whit City today. ‘ Wilson Elkins of Texas, finishing second in the pole vault, and the sec- | ond place of Fenton Gentry of Vir- ginia in the shotput summed up lhe! Americans' best efforts for Oxford. ! E. F. Drake, former Rutgers star, | | gave the Dark Blue a third place in | the half mile, while R. B. Greenough, formerly of Amherst end the only| American competing for Cambridge, | was third in the shotput. | Elkins was unfortunate enough to run into F. R. Webster of Cambridge, | who, after winning the pole \-zult.‘ 12 feet 6'; inches, beating the English record set in 1930. Cambridge Ahead in Series. S. DUNCAN, with victories in | K. the 100-yard dash end broad | jump. and A. G. Pilbrow. who won both hurdles events, gave the, losing Oxfords all their points. Today's was the “rubber meeting.” | with the rival universities sharing the 66 previous meetings—each Wwith 33 victories. The softened condition of the track retarded participants in most of the foot racing events, but the meet pro- Lty paved street and Martin feared it |Mver.’t might damage Joe's underpinning. | Blege.sb Bob Etts, the semi-pro from Mar- | Sington if 0 ! Preakness and the more recent San 1lJuan Capistrano Stakes at Santa Anita, upheld the faith of his backers duced & new inter-varsity record for | the quarter mile, A. G. K. Brown | of Cambridge sprinted the distance in pOI'lS Progrunl In Local Realm TOMORROW. Boxing. Petey Sarron, Alexandria, v California Joe Rivers. Mexico, featherweights. 10 rounds. Wash- ington Auditorium. Show starts at 8:30. Bowling. National DucKpin Congress tourney continues all this week at Arcadia. Starts each night at 8. TUESDAY. Water Polo. Maryland Club Gardens vs. Am- bassador, Ambassador pool, 8. WEDNESDAY, Boxing. Tommy Mollis, Baltimore, vs. Gene Buffalo, Philadelphia, light- weights, 10 rounds. Lincoln Col- onnade (colored). Show starts 8:30. THURSDAY. Wrestling. George Zaharias. Colorado, vs Sandor Szabo, Hungary, two falls out of three, Washington Audi- torium. Show starts, 8:30, SATURDAY. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. Alumni, at College Park, 2:30. Bowling. Occidentals vs. Recreation Five of Baltimore, at Convention Hall. CHANCE SUN 4 T0 1 IN KEARNEY’S BOOK | Commonwealth Is Second Choice | for Kentucky Derby—Many 15 to 1 or Better. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, March 23.—At odds of 4 to 1, Chance Sun, owned by Jos- eph E. Widener, is a strong fa- JUST A MiNNIT SON! YOU WOULDN'T THINK OF LEAVIN' WITHOUT PAYIN' THAT $7.40 2 | FRANKIE BAXTER ™ 2 HAD A FEW ODD BILLS TO COLLECT...... THE HANDFULL OF ROOKS SYILL IN CAMP 1S SUFFERING FROM THE “WHO'S-NEXT? "Yanks Get Even With Braves O AUGUSTINE. Fla., March 23 —Carl Hubbell and Hal Schu- macher, New York mound aces, hurled effective ball today as ts defeated the Philadelphia 5 to 3, to pull up to a .500 16 games played in the the G Athletics, rating in “Grapefruit League. | The Giant pitchers combined to | limit the Athletics to nine hits and probably would have hurled score- less ball but for two errors. | Joe Moore led the National | Leaguers’ 13-hit attack off Dietrich and Cascarella. getting three hits. one of them a triple, in as many times at bat. New Y Batteries—Dietrich, | Foxx. Berry. Hubbell, Mancuso. Danning. Tiiness Shelves Ruth. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.,, March 23 (#).—With Babe Ruth missing his first exhibition game as the re- sult of a mild attack of ptomaine poi- soning, his former teammates, the New York Yankees, blasted out a to-2 victory over the Boston Braves today to even their Spring exhibition series at two games each. A seven-hit, six-run spree in the fourth, topped off by Red Rolfe’s home run, was the high spot of the Yank’s 12-hit attack over three rookie hurlers. Wally Berger accounted for all the | Braves' runs, hitting a homer in the | fourth with Thompson on base. 0x— rella macher | | Philage Ca Sch H 1 and and | Boston, (N New York (4 Batreries | Hogan Dickey 100 600 00x— Neft Tamulis Glenn. Broaca, Jorgens. Dodgers Trim Tigers. AKELAND, Fla,, March 23 (#).— Showing no_preference between | iwo veteran hurlers and a rookie, | the Brooklyn Dodgers pounded out | a 12-to-4 decision over the Detroit Tigers today. Paced by Lonny Frey, who cracked out a home run, double and single, | the Dodgers got to Fred Marberry for six hits and four runs in three in- nings, found Eldon Auker for four more runs in the next five frames and then finished up by scoring four | 2 offerings of Tinning and Haines, half of them in the last inning The world champions banged away at Wes Ferrell and Hockette for 10 safeties. St Lou Boston 000 1 Haines and Davis W. Ferrell and K Browns Keep It Up. \‘7!‘151’ PALM BEACH. Fla.. March p 23 (#) —Shutting out Buffalo, 6 to 0, the St. Louis Brow annexed their eighth “Grape- League” victory and their s 1ccession, against only defeat Elton Walkup and Bob Weiland combined to dish out the whitewash Buffalo (Int) 062 St. Louis (A —6 8 1 nd Haves: Walkup, Wei- Heat! CLEARWATER. Fla. March 23 (#).—The Phillies defeated the New- ark Bears, 4 to 0, today, Todd, Watkins amd Sperry of the National League club smashing out home runs. Each of the circuit clouts went over the right field fence. Philadel as one Kline. Lawles land and Hemsley 000 G20 101—4 11 1 Newark 000 060 000—0 5 Hanser and Todd: Miller. Parks, Humphries and Reilly. Cubs Swamp Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 (#)— | The Chicago Cubs, making their initial 1935 appearance here today, handed the San Francisco Seals a 12 to 4 trimming. | The visitors were led by Augie Galan, former Seal. who got four hits. Chieago (N. L).. 206 002 002 16 1 San Fran. (P. G} 000 103 016— 4 6 1 Lee Byant and Hartnett. O'Dea: Ballou, Stitzel and Woodall, Monzo { FOUR NATIONS MEET IN SOCCER TOURNEY U. S., Britain, Germany and Italy | | | | | to Tangle in Competition Starting Today. | OCCER teams representing four na- | S tions, the United States. Great Britain, Germany and Italy, are to take part in first-round games in {in the HARRISON SHINES ON OPENING NIGHT Mincey, Youngest Entrant, Marks Up 145 to Start Big-Time Career. ASHINGTON'S Arcadia team, with Paul Harrison leading the way, shot to the front last night on its home drives in the opening night of competition in the eighth annual championships of the National Duck- pin Bowling Congress. But the Arcadia’s occupancy of the spotlight likely will be short lived, for their score of 1,810 hardly will live through the pay-off. Harrison rolled 406 for a promising start in the all-events, but he was | topped for the evening’s honors by Sir Kent of the Maryland Casualty team of Baltimore, who went him two sticks better. The Motion Picture League team of Bethesda, with 1694, took the lead “booster” class, made up of teams not shooting for the national titles. Harry Bachman shone for the | ilm quint with a set of 378. Harrison All Alone, NLY 10 teams and small squads of singles and doubles took part in the opening program, with Harrison the only bowler of national note to see action. The bulk of the Nation's crack duckpin shooters will take their turns on the next two Saturdays, with the tournament climax coming on the final night April 6, when the experts of Wash- ington and New England perform. The Arcadia team was without competition in the championship class, all the other quints. represent- ing four cities, being in the booster division With the paucity of stars, the spot- light swung to the youngest bowler in the tournament, 15-year-old Leslie Mincey of Raleigh, N. C.. a 6-foot stringbean. Although it was Leslie's first_experience in major competition he fired away with the confidence of a veteran and his opening game of 145 was one of the best of the in- augural. His set in the singles was Gauer Has Big Day. ILL GAUER of the Boush Street Bowling Alley team of Norfolk which won the recent Virginia State tournament, grabbed the all- events lead with 1,094, having 371 in the singles, 340 in doubles and 383 with his team, which shot 1,675, be- low its standard. A conspicuous figure but not 2 shining performer was Jimmy Wallace ! Norfolk, the only Southern college pitcher ever to trim Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the same season a feat’ he achieved while at William and Mary. Wallace had a trial sev- eral years back with the Washington Griffs. Joe Read of Norfolk was high in singles with 393. None of the doubles scores was noteworthy. Capt. Howard F. Clark, Assistant ngineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict, welcomed the out-of-town bowlers, pinch-hitting for Commis- sioner Hazen. The scores: TEAMS. RENDEZVOUS JRS Himmelfarb, 149 100 a8 106 8 1 104 117 10 114 101 L 1 i1 527 480—1.640 MOTION PICTURE LEAGUE. T Mudd . seorge DeP S Ringer.. « o J. Robinson H. Bachman Sakelson. .. :ori(e to win the Kentucky Derby M&Y | runs off Rookie Cesnovar in the ninth. | ;atx:u;’nl:::_;rk:)i:n;(xerg:?&:nswl:;nzs:& ., Tom Kearney, St. Louis bookmaker, | y | ~ et sald today. ZIERY Mo fleided s Mnily sy | German combinations are to come to Commonwealth, owned by Mrs. W. and’ Watson! €lark {grips at 1 o'clock, with Great Britain M. Jeffords. Philadelphia, is second | held the American League champions and Italy having it out at 2:30. The | chicelin Kearaesa Bosk st 6 to'T winners will face in the final next & Other favorites and the prices quot Sunday. E ed on them by Kearney: Omaha, 004 001-124 Players listed to perform for the | Charl | owned by William Woodward, New | ’ EAD PLAY, 3-to-5 favorite, paid off on $2 mutual tickets $3.20 and show. 000 100 0 various teams include: United States . —— York, 8 to 1; Boxthorn, owned by E. | Zachary. Clark and Lopez; | —Watson. Guntow, R. Mitchell, A.| WISCONSIN TAKES MEET | R Biadley. 12 to 1; Mrs. Dodge Sloan’s | to win and $2.40 to both place | e | Gets Six First Time Supply pald $2.80 and $2.60 and Gusto $3. 1 = 2 1in easy fashion.” He won by three- | 49 seconds to take the final event for | and-one-half lengths, packing top Cambridge. 0 | weight of 118 pounds. | Stothard, | _Time Supply, winner of the first| Cambridge. ) | Bay Meadows Handicap, ran second second off the winnin time in last o |and Gusto third. Dark Winter was year's meet, in which Lovelock and his _Y fourth and Thomasville trailed. The | teammate. A. B. Leach, ran a dead 15 | time of 2:00.3 was slow, but all that | heat in 4:233. could be expected. garetville, N. Y., will leave the Biloxi | Stonerf | Travis.sb camp tomorrow for home. Recom- | Kuhel.ib. mended to Griffith by a New York |Laryss.. : friend, Etts was brought to camp for | Weaverp 1 a thorough inspection. The nght--graf-‘;s hander showed some ability as 2 |Redmdc pitcher, but not sufficient to warrant the Nationals’ prexy seeking a berth | for him in the minors. Too bad for | Etts. but he has enjoyed his stay on | the Gulf Coast. | Washington. . Only four more games remain on | Xansas City the training trip schedule. Two are to | p o " gohont! be put on tomorrow. while the regu- | mond Schulte lars are playing Kansas City again in | Fi-Py, Suns batte R Mobile, the second stringers will | ). ase _ hits—Kuhel Gaston. tackle Albany in Biloxi. Wednesday winner of the mile for clipped two-fifths of a Christiani. R TN Smith.. . 1 108 112 T = BIL Totals. 40 14 *Batted for Taylor in sixth. tBatted for Olds in ninth. 030 004 200—11 000 001 000— 1 vis (). Kuhel. HEALTH CENTER Carter.. . Franklin, Rea, Sable Auker, Cesnovar and Reiber. | = vi 5 | shi Wellens, Hook, Davidson. Lewis, L. P Psychic Bid, 15 to 1; Mrs. Payne Indians Still Clouting. | & Forney, W. Simonds. Copper and |3 L Wallace | Towa and Wildeats. Mitchell, Gunn, Bailey, Harding, Dore, | Whitney's Plat Eye, 15 to 1; Warren | : ! Places Against| Wright's Nellie Fiag, 15 $o I, and | EW ORLEANS, March 23 (®.— | gaplan; Great Britain—Baker, J. senmaier and Reuter’s Roman The Cleveland Indians contin- | Byrton, J. McBain, D. McBain, F. | S A5i%012. | ued their batting rampage in| Grosart, Govan. Malloch, Blanch, Mc- The race was worth $20,300 to the| IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 23 (). | an exhibition game against the Peli- | Laren, ‘Boyd, Bryden, O'Meyer, J. winner. Time Supply drew down|—University of Wisconsin athletes | cans today, winning 9 to 2. They | Grosart, Turner, Robertson and 1 MARYLAND CASUALT M0OdY. .0u....s B Layne. . Rolte Two-base Stolen bases— and Thursday in Biloxi the Blues will SETS DISTANCE RECORD. were led by Hal Trosky, who hit & Smith; Germany—Heise, Mayer, Hor- Three-base hit—Powell Kreevich, Lary, Sacrifice—Myer. Double play—Bolton to Kuhel Left on base: be engaged. After that 10 games will = be played on the road before the | Washington club gets home on April 8. BASKET STARS CHOSEN Purdue, Westminster Place Two Each for Charity Game. PITTSBURGH, March 23 (#).—Two stars from Purdue and two from West- minster were named today on an Washington, 7: Kansas, City on balls—: adle. oft off Olds, 2. Struck out—By Hadley by Taylor, by Weaver. Hits—Of Nig- geling. 6 in_ 3 innings (5 runs): off Hadley, 4 in 5 innings (1 run); off Tay- ler. 6 'in 7 innings (2 runs). Winning pitcher—Hadley. Umpires—Messrs. Rasberry ‘and Brown. Time of game— 45. $4,000, Gusto $2,000 and Dark Win- | scored six first places and 501z points | MEDFORD, Mass.,, March 23 (#).— ter $1,000. to defeat Iowa and Northwestern in Bad track conditions caused three |the second annual indoor triangular | Little Johnny Kelly of Arlington set horses to be scratched. They were the W. R. Coe entries, Ladysman and Row. | track and field meet here today. Iowa, with 39 1-6 points, placed sec- ‘pomts for third. a new record of 1 hour 55 minutes 27 | seconds today while winning his sec- Cox, | Bluebeard, and A. A. Baroni's Top ond, with Northwestern scoring 18!3 | ond successive North Medford Club | | 20-mile 10ad race. All A. L. Clubs Are Carrying “Ifs” Except Tigers Writer Says Nats Must Stage Big Pitching Comeback to Figure—Critz Feasts on Deans. “All-Western” team to meet an “All- Eastern” squad in a charity basket BY ALAN GOULD. ball game in New York next Friday. Bill Kennedy of Pittsburgh, in charge of the Westerners, named these players: Frank Serany, Duquesne; John Wilhelm, Westminster; Ray Sweeney, Westminster; Hymie Gins- burg, Geneva; Norman Cotton, Purdue, and Edward Shaver, Purdue. _Thomas to Pitch In Today’s Game By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOBILE. Ala, March 23.—Al Thomas, veteran right-hander, will make his exhibition series debut tomorrow when the second- string Nationals tackle the Albany club in a game at Biloxi. Thomas will share the pitching burden with Syd Cohen, left-hander. For the game here between the Washington regulars and Kansas City. Manager Bucky Harris has nominated Henry Coppola, recent purchase from Albany, and Ed Linke, Associated Press Sports Editor. OBILE, Ala., March 23.—Ran- dom shots from the training camp dugouts: All American League clubs except the champion Detroit Tigers are carrying big “Ifs” around in their bag of pennant prospects . . . Mickey Cochrane’s crew, barring accidents, figures to overpower the league again. It will be a hot race only if Lefty Grove makes a pitching comeback for the Red Sox, if Jimmie Foxx succeeds as the backstopping builder-upper of the Athletics, if the Yankees develop more power to go with their speed, if Washington's twirling staff makes a comeback all along the line, and if Cleveland’s Indians can survive the early loss of their great shortstop, Bill Knickerbocker, out with appendi- citis . . . Hughey Critz, whose name is pro- nounced to rhyme with “fights” and whose nimble legs cover more ground than any other second baseman in the National League, wishes all the pitchers were as easy to hit as the Dean brothers . . . Hughey’s stickwork averaged only .241 for the entire 1934 season, but he combed the offerings of Dizzy and Paul Dean at a .400 clip ... His explanation: “I guess it's be- | than a swinger.” Ray Harrell, right handed product |of the Cardinals’ Rochester “farm,” clinched a job with the “varsity” this week by his sterling performance against the Giants . . . the 23-year-old Texan fanned New York's “Big Four” | Ott, Bill Terry and Travis Jackson, | in swift succession at Bradenton . . . | The world champions will need pitch- | ing reinforcements, to help the Deans and Wild Bill Hallahan already act- | ing wilder than ever . . . Now that he's married and chal- lenged by Charley Gelbert's attempted comeback, Leo Durocher is playing the stop and capfain of the Cardinals . . . Charley hasn't a chance to get his old job back with Leo not only cover- ing a country acre of ground, but hit- ting oftener and harder than ever be- fore . . . Leo was classed among the | “All-American outs” when he was|manager of the Browns, won't at- | with the Yankees in 1928-29, but he | tempt to do any inflelding himself cause I am more of a punch-hitter | in the batting order, Hank Leiber, Mel | best base ball of his career as short- | became a hitting hero of the world series last Fall as he aspires now to the home run crown of the “grape- | fruit league.” . . . Any question about what Babe Ruth meant to the Yenkees as a drawing card has been dissipated by training camp attendance . . . The Boston Braves, who share St. Petersburg with the New York Americans as a con- ditioning ground, have outdrawn the Yankees at least 10 to 1 so far, in- cluding free as well as cash customers ... It is likely that much of the Babe’s | old following in the Bronx will cross | the Harlem River, starting this April, | on the way to the Polo Grounds . . The shift of one well-worn king from the American League's playing deck to the National League’s hand now seems to have assured the latter a | “grand slam” for 1935. ‘Rabbit Maranville, still gamely hob- | bling around on a leg that was frac- | tured a year ago, will be kept by the Braves for utility work only . . . Manager Bill McKechnie has decided he can't risk the “Tab” as a regular | at second base , , , Rogers Hornsby, A | unless one of his front-line is hurt | or traded . . . There's still talk that | Oscar Melillo, second sacker, will Ievemunlly land with the Boston Red Sox, who balked at the previous price | put’on his service. at the plate to Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, Yankee southpaw and ace of the American League hurlers. Babe Ruth has a chance to break two all-time records this year that he didn’t know about . . . one is for | total runs scored, the other for total bases on all hits, and both are now | held by Ty Cobb . . . The Babe must | score 84 runs—6 more than he did | last year—to pass Cobb's mark of | 2,244, but he needs only 102 total | bases on the hitting side to exceed | Ty's total of 5.863. Clarence Rowland is looking over possible training sites for the Chicago Cubs, who plan to shift next Spring from Catalina to Florida . . . The Giants probably will mot return to Miami Beach . . . Jacksonville, with new stands erected, is booking an ex- tensive round of major league exhibi- tion games for 1936. Melilo is poison . | home run in the fifth. Mel Harder, making his initial start of the season, was knicked for two runs before he retired in the fifth. | N Orleans (8.A) 020 000 0005 4 5 | Cleveland (A.) 034 00x—8 11 0 Batteries: Davis, Baumgactner, Osborne and Autry. Fernandez: Harder, Wine- garner and Pytlak. George. TAMPA, Fla.,, March 23 (#)—With free hitting the rage on both sides, the Cincinnati Reds triumphed over the bewhiskered House of David team, 13 to 9, today. A rousing seven-run fifth-inning, marked by Petosky’'s homer with the | bases loaded, ran up the Red total. House of David. 200 Cincinnati (N.). 021 07 Batteries: Ramsey. O'Gradt and Ri now, Strenecke; Richmond, Frazier and Wrath. Erickson. Bucs Rout Chisox. OS ANGELES, March 23 (®).— Behind the three-hit pitching of Cy Blanton and Ralph Birk- | ofer, the Pittsburgh Pirates pounded | out a 13-to-1 victory over the Chicago | White Sox in an exhibition game to- day. Babe Herman and “Cookie” Lava- getto hit home runs with the bases filled, and, all told, the Bucs touched the Chicago pitchers for 13 hits. R H.E Chica (A).. ... 010 000 000— 32 Pittsbuzgh (N).". 144 400 00x—13 15 0 Batteries—Michaels, Earnshaw. Phelps and Sewell, Caithemer; Blanton, Birkofer and Padden, Deweece. SARASOTA, Fla, March 23 (®).— Bad base running and even worse hit- ting by the Boston Red Sox gave the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-to-1 decision over the American Leaguers today. The Sox made only six hits off the A | ning, 'Strassberger, E. Koennel, W. Miller, A. Miller, Lang, L. Koennel, | Sienuta, Edwards, Kuhner and Ben- | nertz, Italy—G. Vecchietti R. Ve- chietti, DI Valentin, Tamagni, Cha- conas, Aquilino, L. Stasuili, Minni, Bruzzese, M. Avon, Zacchet, Zerega, Croci and Dipol. TRACK MEETS AT NIGHT. CINCINNATI, March 23 (#).—Track meets, under floodlights outdoors, will enter the Ohio collegiate scene this year. Cincinnati has announced that three of the meets will be held at night. | 15-Year-Old Bet Paid by Bellamy e | By the Associated Press. 'OLLYWOOD, March 23.—A 15- year-old wager on the 1920 world series between Cleve- land and Brooklyn was paid today. It was a $10 bill, collected by Thomas Rickson, New Orleans in- surance salesman, from Ralph Bell- amy. film actor. “Stan Coveleskie was pitching against Burleigh Grimes,” Rickson sald, “and I noticed the fellow next to me was pulling as hard for Brooklyn as I was for Cleveland. We bet $10. In the excitement after the game—the score was 3 to 0—I forgot to collect.” | He saild he recognized Bellamy several years later when he saw the actor in the pictures. Bellamy bought Rickson a new hat “for interest.” . Kemp uckingham A [ J E Bu . 318 570 590- LING ALLEYS. Totals . £ CAROLINA BOW (Raleigh, T P. St B D. Biand C. Andrews.. L e 505 BOUSH ST. BOWLING ALLEY. (Norfolk, Va.). W. Stare P." Harrison. . Totals R. Biglow B. Grimes Totals . A 1. Carter . Wallace . ¥ Beecham B. Gauer . Franklin . J. Read Buchholz P. R. Deaner .