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he Foend WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1935. ny Stap Sporls A—10 Experts Put Indians First, Griffs Sixth : Lary Fields Way to Shortstop Job GVETRBEABD HAND BALL HOPES ‘SENSATIONAL DAY Exhibition Games AN EYEFUL OF HAND BALL. —By JIM BERRYMAN EDGE OVER YANKS Tigers, Third in Balloting With 13, Are Just One Above Red Sox. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, April 2—The Cleveland Indians, who last year failed to muster a sin- gle first-place vote and only one for second, have been selected by the base ball experts to win the American League pennant in a wide- open race involving five of the eight ¢clubs. Although the Indians will be with- out the services of their ace short- stop, Bill Knickerbocker, at the start of the season, 25 of the 76 sports ecitors and writers participating in the ninth annual Associated Press pennant poll selected Walter John- son’s outfit as the team to beat by the small margin of two votes over the | New York Yankees. Champs Fail to Impress. HE surprise of the balloting was the failure of the Detroit Tigers to run one, two. The 1934 champions, who were picked by five experts to win last year, were favored ky only 13 writers and just managed to nose out the Boston Red Sox, who received 12 first-place votes. The three other votes to lead the league went to the Philadelphia Ath- letics. In contrast to the National League, in which the Cardinals and Giants were the heavy favorites to finish either first or second, the Tigers dom- inated the second-place voting in the junior circuit. They received 35 votes, nearly twice as many as their rearest rivals, the Yankees. land was picked by 17 for runner-up honors. The defending champions, who went through the 1934 season without a serious injury, also dominated the third-place balloting, receiving 25 votes as compared to 19 for the In- dians, 15 for the Red Sox and 14 for the Yanks. A’s Cover All Positions. HE Indians and Yankees were selected to finish vo lower than 2 fifth while the Tigers were con- sidered a good bet for the first divi- sion, as only three writers picked them for as lpw as fourth place. The wide diversion of opinion was noted in the voting for the Athletics and the Red Sox. Connie Mack's team, with Jimmie Foxx placed be- hind the plate, received votes for every position while the Sox were picked for every one except eighth. There was little argument as to the last three positicns. The Washington Senators received 41 of the sixth- place votes, the St. Louis Browns, 49 of the seventh-place ballots, and the Chicago White Sox, 64 to again finish in the cellar. The “box score,” showing number of votes for each position: Team. Cleveland ¥ New York . s Detroit EERES Boston o Philadelphia . i Washington . . St. Louis Chicago ... FROM THE 49 10 9 64 Writer Picks Jungaleers and Giants to Win Flags, But BY JOHN HERE is a disease in the air at this time of year which makes honest, unoffending people stand up and pick the base ball pennant winners in public. It forces its victims to go from there and predict the position of each club | at the end of the season. The disease is carried by mosquitos. It ought to be wiped out. But it hasn't been wiped out, and your correspondent, after exposing himself to the germ in Florida for something like four weeks, was bitten | savagely just above the right ear. It thus becomes his painful duty to pick the Giants in the National League and Detroit in the American League and to hope for a speedy re- covery. Frankie Frisch said this Spring that it's a bad move to bet on last year’s pennant winner to repeat. The records don't bear him out. ‘Winners have repeated 11 times in the National League since 1900, which is 31 per cent of the total. The per- centage is even higher in the Ameri- can League, with 13 repeaters. In other words, the repeat bet is the safest you can make. Last Year’s Race Too Close. UT I'm going to take Frankie’s advice this time and pick the Giants to beat out his own champion club. The race last year was too close and breathless to es- tablish the real superiority of the Cards. They were a good club, the best in the league offensively, but they needed a break and some stu- pendous work from two of their pitch- ers to win. They haven't improved this year, but the Giants have. Bartell is the sort of ball player the New York team has needed for years, a player with dash, vigor and that peculiar atomic condition which the boys call color. The pitching should be at least as good as it was last year. New York won't be as strong at the bat as Pitts- burgh or St. Louis, and Jackson may slow down, but with 50 per cent of the breaks the club can win. The Cards are good enough for second and Pittsburgh is the hunch bet for third. Lack of co-operation, or something like that, has kept this good club out of the money for a long time. Two non-co-operators, French and Lindstrom, are gone. Bush is a heavy, willing worker, and Herman needs only a steady job to be the old slug- ging Herman (with 25 per cent more base ball brains than he used to have). The Cubs are next and then comes Brooklyn, a really promising unit. The rest is a scramble. Philadelphia and Cincinnati are comng up, while the Boston club, in spite o{ McKechnie's Cleve- | | them, | . St. Louis ought to be next best, fol- By the Associated Press. Yesterday’s Results. Washington (A.), 5; Chattanooga | (S.A), 4. i New York (N.), 4; Cleveland (A),2. Cincinnatt (N.), 9; Brooklyn (N, 1. | Philadelphia (N.), 6; Newark (Int.), | 3. "Chicago (N.), 4; Los Angeles (P. C. L), 3. New York (A), 2; St. Louis (N)), 1. Philadelphia (A.), 20; Griffin, 4. Bostop (A.), 6; Columbus (A. A, 0. St. Louis (A.), 24; Baltimore (Int.), 6. Detroit (A.), 6; Montreal (Int.), 2. Today’s Schedule. At Nashville—Washington (A.) vs. | Nashville (S. A)). At Hattiesburg—New York (N.), vs. | Cleveland (A.). At Orlando—Brooklyn (N.) vs. St. Louis (A.). At Galveston—Pittsburgh (N.) Chicago (A.). At Bartow—Philadelphia Rochester (Int.). At Lakeland—Cincinnati | Detroit (A.). At Santa Monica—Chicago (N). vs. Los Angeles (P. C. L.). | At St. Petersburg—Boston (N.) vs. | New York (A.). At Norfolk—Philadelphia (A.) vs. | Norfolk (P. L.). | At Sarasota—Boston (A.) vs. Newark (Int.). CENTER LONE 0B OPEN WITH GIANTS vs. (N.) vs. vs. (N.) Leiber Has Chance to Oust Davis—Schoolboy Hurler | Shines for Dodgers. | By the Associated Press. MCCOMB. Miss.—The New York | Giants' line-up for 1935 is| set with the single exception of center field, where either | Hank Leiber or George Davis will get ! | the call. | Leiber has been doing most of the | | playing there. but that’s mainly be- | cause Terry already knows what Davis | can do. Leiber will have to prove he can hit major league pitching before he can | push Davis out of the regular job. | ORLANDO, Fla—Harry Eisenstat, | | New York schoolboy pitcher, not only | has won himself a berth on the Brook- | lyn Dodger staff, but Casey Stengel is | thinking of using him in a starting | role. | 'So far this Spring the youngster | has pitched seven innings in relief roles and no one has scored on him. |3} | He pitched the last two innings| against Cincinnati yesterday and al- | | lowed one hit. | | Reds cross bats with the champion Detroit Tigers today in the second of a long series that will conclude in Cin- cinnati April 14. | No overtures have been inade to- | ward a possible return of Jim Bottom- | M. C, A | ley, erstwhile first sacker, anc Johnny | Mize, $55,000 rookie, was believed as virtually certain to draw the keystone assignment. | % PRESS BOX Admits His Crust. | 5 ef | LAKELAND, Fla—The Cincinnati|E. LARDNE! | genius and Ruth’s power, is on the | wane. We'll put the Phillies sixth, Boston in the middle, the Reds last, and hope for the best. Detroit Picked on Tts Record. HE American League is tighter | than it has been in 40 or 50 moons. comfortably last year (with the breaks, | I admit), and the rest of the con- ! tenders are so uncertain that the ! paper crown goes to Mr. Cochrane. | He still has to win on the ball field, but that’s a minor matter. | Now we come to a problem which is a problem. There are four nifty clubs—New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Cleveland. Each has its weak- nesses—New York and Boston in the infield; Philadelphia in the pitching staff; Cleveland in some obscure cor- ner of the morale or the intelligence | department. Anything might happen to these four clubs—any of them might cop the flag. I think the best thing is to leave them in the order in which we named lowed by Washington (a tough club which may leap up and bite me on the hand). Then, with conventional regrets, the White Sox. It's a wicked league in which to imitate an expert, this American League, because the 1‘ club I picked for fifth place is as good | as any other on paper and is quite | capable of winning the pennant. There probably is no more pre- sumptuous gesture in sport than the bracketing, each in its proper place, | of 16 screwy ball clubs. You have to be a megalomaniac or a victim of Spring fever to do it. But, remember, | the foot ball guys get away with murder in the prediction line every Fall. And the movie critics pick the 10 best movies. And the dramatic critics pick the 10 best plays. That's not predicting exactly, but it takes as much nerve as the job which your correspondent has just completed. (Capyright. 1935. by North Americs 1% Newspaper Alllance, in.) 5 | OLD LINERS IN SHOOT | | Among Three Latest to Enroll for Collegiate Tourney. ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 2—Navy officigls have been informed that Cor- nell, Maryland and Virginia Poly would have teams in the sectional small-bore match of the Intercol- legiate Rifle Association to be held here Saturday, bringing the number of teams to 13. The Navy riflemen will be in direct competition with those of Cornell, who defeated them early in the season, scoring the fine total of 1,421 points. ‘The Navy’s highest score this season has been 1418. George Washington | and Lehigh also are *'.ronx. | kin_(Cleveland But Detroit won so | C. REST IN DOUBLES Schwartz, Only Winner in Singles, Facing A. A. U. Champion Today. » v hand ball championships, Jack Schwartz of the Jewish Comunity Center, today faced the prospect of elimination in singles competition but three doubles teams were ready to stage spirited battles in the opening round of two-man play at the Central Y. M. C. A. Schwartz, only Washingtonian of six to win in the first round of singles yesterday, was to engage Sam Atche- son of Memphis, winner of the title for two successive years, in a second- round match scheduled for 4 o'clock. Atcheson, with one of the most im- pressive performances of the day, dis- posed of Bob Kandler of Indianapolis, 21—2, 21—7, while Schwartz won from Harold Srenco of St. Louis, 21—5, 21—11. Doubles Start Tonight. N DOUBLES play tonight J. B. Payne and J. F. Cowley of the Washington Y. M. C. A. will face J. M. Gordon and Andy Berry of Los Angeles at 10 o'clock, P. McLean and ‘W. Winkler, 2also of the local “Y,” will | oppose H. Divorman and B. Water- | stone of Detroit at 7 o'clock, and } Randy Myers and Paul Pearlman, still | another local association duo, will | tackle J. Endzvick and J. Gourdreau of Cleveland at 7 o'clock. Cowley, J. R. Guinee, Winkler, Payne and Tom Mangan were the local contestants to bow in yesterday's singles play. Cowley was beaten, 4—21, 18—21, by Bill McCarthy of Chicago; Guinee lost to George Nel- son of Baltimore, 3—21, 7—21; Wink- ler was def:ated by Angelo Trulio, | 8—21, 8—21; Payne was eliminated by Karl Walter of Cleveland, 21—3, §—21, 13—21, and Mangan was subdued by N. 'W. Maher of Cleveland, 12—21, 19—21. | The Westerners dominated the sur- | viving field of 16 players, only five of whom hail from the East and one from the South. | Yesterday’s results and today's pair- ings follow: | ASHINGTON'S sole survivor in the National A. A. U. Results. First Round. William Maurer (St. Paul Y. M. G, A) defeated William Ogden (Washington ¥. M. C. A} 21-15. 21-4: Joseph Platak (Chi: cago Community Recreation Center) de. ted Ed Linz (New York A. C.), 2 3: Richard Bruck (New York City A. | C.) defeated Ed Donkin (Cleveland Y. M. | C. A, 21-11. 21-18: E. W. Benson (Salt Lake City Desert Gymnasium) defeated | Joseoh Bubis (Chicago Communits Center). 21-11: Al Hobelman (Baltimore Y. A) defeated L. Rothenberg (Detroit | Health Club). 21-8. 21-12; George Nelson iBaltimore Y. M. H A.) defeated J. R. Guiness (Washinzton Y. C. A). 213 5 . W. Maher (Cleveland ¥. M. C. % 318 dack Srenco (St . A.) defeate uis Zerba (Detroit Y. M. C. A.). 21-4, 21-17. Sam Atcheson (Memphis' ¥. M. C. A) defeated Bob Kendler (Indianabolis A. C.). 21-2, 21-7 Marble (S8an Francisco ent) defeated C. R. Weiller (Chicago Community Recreation Center), 21-18, 21-10: Karl Walter (Cleveland Y. B. Payne (Wash! 21, 21-4. 21 3 11Ca 80 3 P Cowley (Washington Y . 214 J1-18 McKaraher (Germantown, Pa.. C. A defeated L. Clawson (Salt City Desert 1 10, 21-14: A C)” defe Health Club), 21-20, (New York A. C.) defe: (New York A. C.). 21-8. 21-K: (Washington Jewish Community Center) defeated Harold Ay 215, 2 Today’s Matches, Singles. Atcheson vs. Swartz (4 p.m.), Marble vs: Maurer (1 p.m.) Hruck vs. Walter (1 p.m.), Benson vs. Hobleman (2 p.m.), Nel- | son’vs. Platak (3 p.m.). Maber vs' Jack Srenco (2 pm.), McCarthy vs. McKaraher (4 p.m). Di Re'vs. Trulio (3 p.m.). Doubles. First Round. enry Herz (Brooklyn Y. M. i Re-Bob Kendler (Indianap- pm: N Maher-Ed Don- ¥ A) vs. L. Rothe Health Club), 9 pm.: R, Ruddy-F. Cole (New York A. C.) vs. C. Ehlers-E. Sanker (Milwaukee Y. M. C_A). 8 pm.: J B Payne-J. F. Cowley (Washington Y. M. C. A) vs._J. M. Gor= don-Andy Berry (Los Angeles B. P. O. E.). 10 p.m.: C. R. Weiller-Joe Platak (Chicago R. C.) vs. L. Clawson-E. W. Benson (Balt Lake City). 10 p.m.: P. McLean-W. Winkler (Washington ¥. M. C. A.) vs. H. Divorman-B. Waterstone (Detroit Y. M. A), 7 pm: G. Nelson-N. Rosenfeld (Baltimore Y..M. H. A.) vs. J. Srenco-M. Cunningham '(St, Louis Y. M. C. A.). R p.m.. R. Myel Pearlman (Washington Y. M. C. A) . Endzvick-J. Gourdreau (Cleveland Y. M. C. A. -7: Dan Police Departm ) defeate M. C. A Schwartz Srenco (St. Louis Y. M. Leo Manka-] C A vs. G. Di olis A, C.)_ 9 e-J. vs.'J Wash. AB. Powell.ct Myer,2b. Sington.lf an’sh,if Ty 7 Diggs.p.. Petiit.n.. H'lbr'ok.c Totals. .33 *Batted for Lanahan in fifth. 1Batted for Parker in eighth. Washington . Chattanooga Runs—Powell (2), Manush. Travis, Hol- . Miles, Waddey, Brandt. anush, Totals.. 36 11 27 15 e Tic 90 MySr o Maxey to Mihalic to Shirley. ‘Mihalic. Holbrook to Lary. Bluege 1O Cranaies. to, Dices to, Chandler, wis andler s andler. Tt" on bases—Washington, ~R: Chatta- To ‘ll {:ue {.m Ialllfi—Ofl Lana- =k a Bowell. Doul Kuhel ' (2). First gs” (4 runs): nings (3 runs): off Parker, 1 in 3 nings (no runs). Hit by pitched ball By Parker (Holbrook). Wild piteh—Diggs. Umpires—Messrs. Cox and Higgins. Time Griff Due Home; Nats in Nashville Staff Correspondent of The Star. ASHVILLE, Tenn.. April 2— ‘Washington’s ball club came here today to open a two- game series with the Nashville Volunteers of the Sout! Asso- ciation after vainly endeavoring to cancel the engagement. President Clark Griffith would have preferred to have his Na- tionals meet the Chattanooga called off. Nashville refused. Griffith, Mrs. Griffith and their ‘B daughter Thelma left the ball club party at Chattanooga last night to | return to Washington. i b ATCHESON ... THE PLAYERS ARE PRETTY CLEVER AT DODGING AN OPPONENTS RETURN SHOTS.... NATIONAL A-A-U-HANDBALL CHAMPION......15 SMILINGLY HEY- WHATRE YUH TAKIN® ONCE (N AWHILE THEY CATCH A HOT ONE. - Mrs. Moody,'E yeing Old Tennis Tis Game 15 BUILT AROUND THE PRINCIPLE OF SW-AT...Somr HAS A NATURAL APPEAL ..... 2/ nm\\\\\\\\\\\\\E THE SPORTLIGHT Deans His Only Sure-Fire Pitchers, Frisch Seeing Ghost as Card Pilot. BY GRANTLAND RICE RADENTON, Fla, April 2— PFrank Frisch, head man of the Cardinals, mandarin of the world champions, sat staring moodily into the starlight of a Florida sky. Around him, a happy, scrappy. laughing, chattering bunch of young ball players, still champions of the world, were headed for the movies or a bridge game or rocking chair de- | bates in front of the hotel. Head Man Frisch seemed to be looking in the general direction of a haunting ghost. “Did it ever occur to you,” he said suddenly to your startled corre- spondent, “that this team of world champions might finish fifth this year?” The answer was that no such col- iapse had ever occurred to this ob- server. “Use your head—use your head,” Frank growled. “Sure, we've got two fine catchers in Delancey and Davis. I know we've got a good infield and a strong dutfield. I know we've got speed and spirit and plenty in the way of power and punch. But what wins pennants?” “I take it you are now talking about pitching,” I said. “Of course, I am talking about pitching,” Frisch replied. .“Who ever won a pennant without good pitching?” “You've still got the two Deans, haven't you?” “Sure, I've got the two Deans,” he | said. “I'm not worried about them. They ought to be good for 45 winning games. But what about the other 50 we will need? What about that?” Cards and Giants. EAD MAN FRISCH saw at least one dark shadow dancing on the road ahead. This shadow was Bill Terry’s Giants. “Have they got me worried?” he asked. “The answer is—plenty. Look at that starting staff—Hubbell, Schu- macher, Parmelee and Fitzsimmons— the best in base ball. And a good club to go with it. Where are my four starting pitchers coming from? Bud Tinning ought to help. Halla- han won around eight games last year. Haines is no longer young. So I've got to get a flock of winning games from three good but inex- perienced pitchers. “You've been around a few years. You know what experience means. It is the one thing you can buy only with time. You can't get it in a day or a week or in a year. You are not born with it. So, if we're, not lucky with Harrell, Copeland and some of these young fellows we can finish anywhere from second to fifth, in spite of the two Deans and one of the best young ball clubs I ever saw. “This is going to be a knock-down, drag-out battle, where experience means & lot. Most of .the clubs are stronger than they were. Anything can happen this season.” The Most Colorful Club. S FRISCH spoke of his young club with "a look of pride looked around at the most col- orful outfit I ever had seen in base badl, R | There were Leo Durocher and Joe | Medwick, the two snappy dressers— the final word There was Dizzy Dean, as restless as a tiger cat, ready for golf, bridge, fishing or anything when he wasn't playing ball—a replica of Jack Demp- | sey in the total absence of a relaxing | art. There was Paul Dean—exactly | the opposite—quiet, shy, sitting back, | | looking on and listening, one of the | finest kids any sport ever knew—as | far away from being daffy as I am from being keats. For five days I had golfed, fished | and played bridge with most of this team. If you don’'t know about a man at fishing, golf or bridge you'll never know him. And ‘ there never was a dull moment or a sagging spot. | On one day, I went out in Oliver | Kirkhufl's boat with the crack Cardi- | nal battery—Dizzy Dean and Bill De- lancey. We were hauling in kingfish (the Florida, not the Louisiana brand) at sunrise, and at sunset neither wanted to quit, not even after Mrs. Delancey had hooked a 30-pounder, close to the record. | A Base Ball Epic. STILL haven't mentioned one of the best ball players and one of | the most colorful figures base ball | | ever knew. | Three or four years ago, a kid| blew into the Bradenton camp. He had come in on a freight train. He had been robbed of every dime he {had. He was unshaved, full of | cinders, dirt and dust. They wouldn’t let him in at the hotel. He looked |too much like a tramp. He hadn't| eaten in two days. He had to get | Gabby Street to get him by. His name was John (Pepper) | | Martin. Since then he has helped in | the winning of two pennants and two | world series. | “ He is one of the great ball players | iof his day. One of the best I ever | saw. He came near breaking his neck | twice last week by diving into oppos- | ing infielders like something shot from a cannon. The only angle he knows is 100 per cent of everything he's got on every play. ' He walked down to the corner to get a hot dog. The Pepper’s sar- torial raiment consisted of a faded blue shirt, open at the throat—sleeves rolled up to the elbows—and the brand of trousers you wear for hunting or fishing where the going is rough. Outside of base ball, these are Pep- per Martin’s two main hobbies, hunt- ing and fishing. “The apparel,” Shakespeare ‘says, “oft proclaims the man.” Martin isn’t interested in either apparel or Shakespeare, but still he is 105 per cent man and about 110 per cent ball Pplayer. He can't be bothered about the in sartorial effect. | l E Heights, Never ! THE SCRIBES AND PHOTOGS ARE NOT QUITE AS FAMILIAR WITH THE GAMES FINE POINTS AS THEY ARE LIKELY To BE IN THE NEAR FUTURE SOMETIMES THE WALL STEP ouT AND TAKES A sock shortfield, made them look easy. Would Be Pro, Though Movies Attract Her By the Associated Press. AN FRANCISCO, April 2— Helen Wills Moody, now testing her physical condition for a possible comeback, hopes to | scale the international tennis heights once more, but regardiess of whether “she is destined to rule the courts | again she never will turn profes- sional. ‘The one-time queen of the net | sport also thinks “it would be fun” | to act in a motion picture based on | tennis. Reactions of the young matron, | | whose parabolic sweep through the tennis skies saw her start as a girl in pigtails in 1923 and finished with a | disheartening back injury and default | to Helen Jacobs a decade later. were set down in a series of questions an- swered today for the Associated Press. Will Go Slowly. RS. MOODY'S fondest hopes are to return to international com- petition. “I would like to take part in the big events in tennis, pro- vided my game gets a good start now. It is a little hard to tell just now when I will be able to play in a tour- nament. It is better to play in some small tournaments first,” she wrote. | An emphatic “no” was her reply to the query would she “consider turn- | ing professional?” | In ‘round-about fashion she dis- | closed she would enjoy acting in a | movie. “Almost every one imagines it | would be fun to be in a movie, I should think.” she replied. On the subject of liberalizing the amateur tennis rules to permit play- ers to act in motion pictures with a tennis plot without jeopardizing their standing. Mrs. Moody expressed the belief “eventually some provision will be made by the various tennis asso- ciations permitting players to play tennis in the movies.” | Comparing the brand of tennis | played today with that in 1923, when | she won her first American title, Mrs. | Moody said, “I should say there are no players the equal of Suzanne Leng- len, the great French player. but that there are many more good women players than there used to be.” Looking Well Ahead. OUBT she will be a competitor | this year on the Wimbledon, England, courts, where she | gained her greatest fame, was seen in | | the statement, “it will be at least some | | months before I shall know,” when a | | return to major tournament play can be made. Asked if she thought if her absence | from the courts of a year and a half | would tend to cut down her speed, she replied: “I don't know.” She added: “I hope always to be able to play some tennis. In England all ages play tennis, and when singles become too strenuous doubles is played. Sometimes the aggregate number of years in a doubles game is 280.” Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Hand Ball. ,National A. A. U. championships, Central Y. M. C. A. Singles, 4:10 o'clock; doubles, 7:10 o'clock. Base Ball. Georgetown vs. Dartmouth, at Hilltop Field, 3:30. ‘Western High at National Train- ing School, 3:30. ‘Wrestling. Junior A. A. U. championships, Friends School, 3:30 o’clock. Pre- liminaries and semi-finals. Golf. Georgetown Prep vs. Devitt, at Garrett Park, 2:30 o'clock. Water Polo. Maryland Club Gardens vs, Ambassador, Ambassador pool, 8:45 (D.C. A. A. A. league match). TOMORROW. Base Ball. Maryland vs. Cornell, at Col- lege Park, 4. Hand Ball. National A. A. U. singles and doubles, second round, 7:30 o'clock. Boxing, Billy El, Washington, vs. ‘Tommy Mollis, Baltimore, light- weights, 10 rounds, Lincoln Colon- nade, 8:30 (colored). ‘Tennis. Episcopal at Central, 3:30. Wrestling. Junior A. A. U. championships, Friends School, 17:30 o'clock. Finals. THURSDAY. Base Ball. Harvard at Georgetown, 3:30. Cornell vs. Maryland, at Col- lege Park, 4. Lacrosse. Harvard vs. Maryland, at Col- lege Park, 4. Hand Ball. g National A. A. U. singles quar- ter-finals, 7 o’clock. Wrestling. Garibaldi, St. Louis, heavyweights, one fall to a finish, Washington Auditorium, 8:30. FRIDAY. Base Ball. vs. Maryland, at Col- 4. at Georgetown Prep, Harvard lege Park, ‘Western 3:30. Central 3:30. at Alexandria High, Hand Ball. National A. A. U. singles and doubles semi-finals, 7 o'clock. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Long Island U. ‘Washington, at dium, 3. Western at Augusta Military Academy. Culpeper High Episcopal High. vs. George Griffith Sta- at Golf. Rollins vs. Georgetown, Con- gressional Club, 11:30. Roosevelt vs. Central, Club. Western vs. Tech, Indian Spring. Boxing. Olympic A. C., vs. picked team from Baltimore and Washington, amateurs, Washington Auditorium, 8:30. Manor Hand Ball National A. A. U. singles and doubles finals. Rudy‘nuuk, Omaha, vs. Gino N ‘ingmn two weeks from today, the GAINS HIM BERTH Manush’s Hitting Is Only Other Bright Spot in De- feat of 'Nooga. . BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ASHVILLE, Tenn, April 2.— On the score card for the opening game of the Ameri- can League season in Wash- name of Lyn Lary will be found in the Nationals’ line-up. The fight for the shortfield berth between Lary and Red Kress ended as the Washington ball club beat the Chattanooga Farm- hands in & 5-to-4 tussle in which Lary gave about the finest fielding ex- hibition seen in many a day. Lary was no marvel at bat yester- day, but Kress, with his little better than average fielding, would have to bat much harder than he has been doing—he has done right well—to keep the player picked up from the Red Sox as part of the Joe Cronin deal away from the shortstop posi- tion. For a time in the early part of the training campaign Kress managed to field well enough and bat so vigor- ously that Manager Harris was in- clined to believe the red-thatched Californian had more than a fair chance of getting the place over Lary. Then Lyn was not doing anything at bat and was far off form afield. Gives Great Exhibition. GAINST the Lookouts yesterday, however, Lary gave such a re- markable exhibition that Harris now is convinced no one can take the post from this former Red Sox and Yankee star. Ten chances went Lary’s way. every one difficult to handle. But Lyn. darting about the He was all over the place, cutting down seemingly certain hits, and his throws were marvels of accuracy and speed. His greatest bit was the handling of a single that bounced off the Chat- tanooga shortstop’s bat in the second session. The ball, hit savagely, went sizzling across second base not more than a foot above the ground. Lyn started for it at the crack of the bat, but it did not appear possible he could reach it. Lary. though, lunged as he neared the base, threw himself in the path of the ball and knocked it down to hold to a single what easily might have become a two-bagger, but for his great play. Does Acrobatic Stunts. Lary participated in two double plays, both corkers. He made a spec- tacular stop of Mule Shirley’s drive in the fourth frame, half falling to get the ball. Without coming up Lyn whipped the ball to Myer lightning fast to start the two-way erasure. In the seventh he took a throw from Sam Holbrook, a throw wide of sec- ond. and dived into the on-coming runner in reckless manner to share in the double retirement Marion had begun by striking out The game also saw Heinie Manush snap into a batting form similar to that he flashed the greater part of last season when he finished third among the league's nitters. In three trips to the plate Heinie connected for a triple, a single and a double in the order mentioned. The triple was a | thunderous thump, the ball landing high against the center field fence Perhaps the heavy hitting done by Heinie was the result of a visit he paid Lee Jensen, the Chattanooga | trainer. skortly before the game. It seems that Heinie had been bothered by a leg ailment that had prevented him getting a good stance at the plate. Jensen discovered a nerve that was out of whack. gave the big Dutch- man a treatment and Manush said that for the first time this Spring he was able to take his swing properly. This Jensen seems to work wonders for his patients. Two Save Drab Day. UTSIDE of Lary's fine flelding and Manush’s powerful punch there was little to the game, so far as the Nationals were concerned. Their batting eyve still was dimmed, for there were only four other hits in addition to those banged by Heinie. Five of the safeties were made off Dick | Lanahan, the Washington sandlot product, who left-handed through five frames. Dick did not look at all bad, despite the four runs made off him. Reese Diggs, pitcher, recently turned over to Chattanooga. tossed the last inning and took the beating. Harris had Leon Pettit, port-sider, and Al Thomas, right-hand vet, on | the hill. Pettit went five rounds and | took a three-run punishment in the fifth. when the Lookouts combed him for two passes and as many singles, Thomas yielded two singles and a Furman, 20; Presbyterian, 4. i " (Continued on Eleventh Page.) | | George Washington - Dartmouth, tain. Varied Sports College Boxing. South Carolina, 9: Erskine, 2. College Boxing. ‘Wisconsin, 6; West Virginia, 2.