Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1935, Page 41

[ seeves | @he Zpening S WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935. Features and Classified C—1 Harris Persists in Quest for Hurler : Walters Bids for Blanton’s Laurels MICHT BE WILLING | TO TRADE MANUSH Bucky Has Tried to Dicker! With Every Club Nats Have Played. | BY JOHN B. KELLER, Btaf? Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, Mich, May 9.— Bucky Harris is getting all hot and bothered about that extra pitcher he wants for his Nationals. So eager is the Wash- ington manager to add to his pitch- ing staff an experienced and capa- ble performer that some of the vet- | eran outfield talent of the ball club| may be used as bait in the angling for the greatly desired moundsman. ‘There are indications that Heinie | Manush, the Nationals’ regular left fielder, who has led his league at bat and only -last season was the third | best hitter in the circuit, would be | dispensed with if the club could get in return a high-grade pitcher. It is understood also that Fred | Schulte, substitute outfielder, whose | charley-horsed leg has nearly healed.‘ is in line for marketing to any club that has a hurler of interest to the Nationals. There is no official confirmation | from the Washington club headquar- ' ters, of course, that these players would be parted with in exchange | for mound material so sorely needed. | It ever has been the habit of President Clark Griffith to make emphatic| denials of rumors of deals right up! to the completion of the deals. | Willing to Risk Outfield. | N THIS instance, however, Manager Harris is so bent upon acquiring a first-class pitcher that he ad- mits he would be willing to spare star talent from other than the Na- tionals’ curving corps to get the man “In going after another good | pitcher we ought not to find it Very | meey the European zone winner in the | difficult tq pick up a better-than-| average outfielder.” Harris said today. | “Give me that pitcher and I'd be willing to take a chance on the out- fleld.” The Washington manager has maintained all along that one more experienced and capable moundsman would put his club in the thick of | the American League championship fight. Now with double-headers for the Washington outfit piling up Harris finds an urgent need for an addition to his slab staff. ‘The wash-out of the game with the Tigers here yesterday raised to four the number of postponements to be | played off by the Nationals. That is | no great total as compared to the lot of tilts most of the other clubs in| the league must make up. However, three of Washington's postponements will bob up for atten- tion when the club visits the Western | sector next month. It may be worse, too, s0 uncertain is the weather out this way at this season of the year. Harris fears there may be so many engagements to keep during the sec- ond Western invasion that his pitch- | ing staff as at present constituted will be utterly unable to cope with the situation. | Other Pilots Interested. ARRIS admitted today that he had been dickering with every club the Nationals have faced since they left home last month in the quest for a worth-while pitcher. Some of the rival managers listened to him | with interest, too, he said, although | he declined to specify which of them | did so. Rumor throughout the Western sector is strong that the Yankees still are keen about Manush and that they might be induced to part with a pitcher such as Johnny Broacca should Manush happen to be made a pert of Washington's end of the deal. ‘The Yanks made an effort to get Manush while Griffith and Harris | were at the major league busi- ness sessions in New York last De- cember. But the officials of the two clubs could reach no agreement. So far as known the Red Sox have nothing in a pitching way they could afford to put on the block and Connie ! Mack is about in the same fix with | his A’s. Harris and his boss have not given up in their efforts to land Buck | Newsom, righthander, now with the | Browns. They have been after him ' since last Winter. Schulte might fig- ure in any deal made with the St.| Louis Club. The Browns could use | an outfielder of his type. | During the remainder of this trip Manager Harris will keep the wires | burning with messages to Griffith and | after the club gets back to Washing- ton there will be a lot of buzzing by the pilot and the prexy in the presi- dential offices on Georgia avenue. The big boss has until* midnight of June 15 to land the man Harris ‘wants. And Bucky will be asking for that pitcher right down to the deadline. Griffs’ Records [PPSR <ot SR S St M - | an B w2 wo=o T f oz & - < B3% % [ SR8 B 30008 D et bt s agizme PRI [Ty =3 HaLasoa OOIS SO I L BB IS N D OV AL % N B! sosus o000 ooosseoc25005000moSHeSS I o000 e~aooussoRmND PITCHIN( = Q = 8 £33 @ o o oo osononsze 8 RNSDB= FE e o ] DR ADIno I B | 5550 smSt 1219mhes T O PRTeC Y-} L 2o ke b [SIEYNTC PN — Texas. Oklahoma City, 4; Beaumont, 3. Houston, 5; Fort Worth, 4. Tulss, 6; San Antonio, 2. Galveston, 5; Dallas, 4. New York-Pennsylvania. Scranton, 10; Binghamton, §. Wilkes-Barre, 4; Elmirs, 3. Reading, 8; Hazleton, 5. Harrisburg, 7; wxmmmt. 3. ¢ | day. | Pitts. at New | cincin. Sports Program For D. C. Teams TODAY. Base Ball. Washington at Detroit, 3. ‘Washington and Lee vs. Mary- land, at College Park, 4. Roosevelt vs. Western, Eastern Stadium, 3:30 (public high school championship game). ‘Washington-Lee High at Alexan- dria High, 3:30. Montgomery Blair Georgetown Prep, 3:30. Devitt vs. Georgetown Fresh- men, Hilltop Field, 3. Gaithersburg High at Friends, 3:30. High at ‘Tennis. Delaware vs. George Washington, Columbia Country Club, 3. Georgetown at Pittsburgh. “S Roosevelt vs. Western, Rock Creek courts (public high school title match). Track. American U. at Gallaudet, 3:30. Golf. Gonzaga vs. Devitt (Private High School League match). YANKEES BATTLE CHINESE NETMEN American Team Is Expected to Score Clean Sweep in Davis Cup Play. By the Associted Press. EXICO, D. F, May United States and China open & five-match tennis series today in the second round of qualifying play to pick a North American representative to semi-finals of the international Davis Cup competition. The American team of Bryan M. Grant, jr.; J. Donald Budge, and C. Gene Mako is a top-heavy favorite to sweep the four singles and one doubles match from the Oriental team of Sin Kie Kho, Chinese national champion, and Guy Cheng. e matches will be played on the clay %gourts of the Club Deportivo. Budge and Mako are the reigning American clay court doubles cham- pions, while Grant is enjoying his sec- ond year as his country’s hard surface title holder. Chinese on First Invasion. NOTHER_ factor favoring the American side is that the Chi- nese players are performing away from home for the first time. ‘Walter Pate, non-playing captain of the United States team, has desig- nated Grant to oppose Cheng and Budge to take on Kho in the singles matches today. Budge and Mako will team against Kho and Cheng in the doubles tomorrow with the probability that Grant and Mako will be given the final singles assignments on Sun- In the first round last week end, Mexico eliminated Cuba. The native team will meet the winner of the United Sates-China series next week end and the ultimate winner will go | abroad in June. League Statistics FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935. American YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington-Detroit (rain). Cleveland. 5; New York. 0 (b innings. Wal 0/ NYI 00| StL_o] 01 0 11— L.\ 4[5/ 71 8| 81013112—— GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW Wash. at Detroit. 3, Wash. at Detroit. 3. New York at Cleve. New York at Cleve. Phila. at 8t. Louis. Phila. at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Boston at Chicago. National YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 3: Pittsburgh. 1. Brooklyn. 5: Cincil Philadelphis, Chicaro. 5: Bost I—1_31_20_2|_0/_91_81.5001 4% I—1_31_1_0| SI111.4501 6% Phil_11 711 0l 110! 1101.286 L1307 7 9111111[10——I GAMES TOMORROW. Pitts. at New York. Cincin, at Bklyn. 8t. Louis at_Phila. Chicago at Boston. GAMES TODAY York. i Lous at Phila Chicago at Boston. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Ray Benge, Dodgers—Limited Reds to two hits in six innings of relief pitching, fanning five. Mel Almada, Red Sox—Led attack on White Sox with two doubles and single. Bucky Walters, Phillies—Pitched four-hit game against Cardinals and scored winning run in ninth. Ray Pepper, Browns—Smacked three hits and drove in two runs in 4-to-2 triumph over Athletics. ‘Tex Carleton, Cubs—Held Braves to five hits and struck out six. Hank Leiber, Glants—Knocked in two runs against Pirates with double and single off Blanton. - Mel Harder, Indians—Rang up six strikeouts in five innings, three-hit shutout of Yankees. 10— RUTH YETMAY NET YANKEES THE FLAG Acquisition of Malone Part of Deal That Sent Babe to Braves. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, May 10.—Details of the deal between the Na- tional and American Leagues whereby the Boston Braves acquired Babe Ruth are beginning to leak out, and here and there lurks considerable hard feelings, particu- larly in Brooklyn. It seems that when the matter of placing Ruth for 1935 became a ques- tion of national, almost international importance, the club owners got to- gether and talked the situation over. The Yankees didn't want Ruth any longer, but they had to have a right- hand pitcher. No one in the Ameri- can League would sell or trade them the kind of hurler they wanted. Boston, and the National League, wanted Ruth, and there were pitchers in the league that clubs wouldn't sell or trade to each ‘other, but didn't mind sending to the Yankees, in the | American League. where the pitcher | wouldn't be bobbing up to annoy them | by winning ball games away from | them, How It Was Done. O THE Yankees agreed to pay S $15.000 for a National League pitcher, and the National League club owners prepared a list from which the Yankees could choose. In | return for this, the Yanks gave Ruth his unconditional release and along | went the Babe to Boston. | The list turned over to Joe Mc- | Carthy, manager of the Yankees, con- | tained the name of big Pat Malone, one of Joe's favorites when he was | piloting the Chicago Cubs to & pen- nant in 1929. “There's my man.” he said. ! | Col. Jake Ruppert cheerfully mailed | | Sam Breadon of the Cardinals, a |check for $15000. The National| League club owners, still keeping | their managers in the dark about the whole business, waived as they had promised on Malone. And that’s how the Yankees got the righthander they needed, a pitcher with a value | far above $15,000, and a pitcher who never could have been waived out of the National League under any other circumstances. ‘The moans in Brooklyn, when some of this leaked out, ruffied the waters of the famed Gowanus Canal. All | Winter long Casey- Stengel had been looking for just such a righthander |as” Malone to bolster his staff and | | make a ler out of 8| | nominally fifth place ciub. | Casey stormed into the front of- | fice of the Dodgers, yelling “where’s | the blankety-blank so and so who | waived on Malone?” The powers that | be quietly told him that this was a | matter that didn't concern him at all, and please would he just mind his own business and not ask any questions? ‘Wails Elsewhere, Too. N PITTSBURGH, where with the phenomenal success of young Cy Blanton, the acquisition of Jim Weaver and Guy Bush from the Cubs, the addition of a right-hander of Ma- lone’s ability might mean a pennant, the wails probably were just as loud and with the same result. Just about the only club in the league who wouldn't have leaped at the oppor- tunity to get Malone at the waiver price was the Cubs. Charley Grimm turned Pat loose in the first place be- cause they weren't getting along well together. Big Pat is doing all right with the | Yanks. He lost one start, but in re- lief roles he has done yeoman service. McCarthy always could handle the | big temperamental fellow. It looks as | though he’s going to continue to do so | successfully. And if the Yanks do | finally win the American League pen- nant, why it's the old Babe again who swung it. Three Eye. Springfield, 13; Bloomington, 7. Terre Haute, 2; Peoria, 1. IN THE SADDLE—AND OU Conmuleuia AAIE"»-. ONE OF THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC RAIL BIRDS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL HORSE SHOW.... AARS. WHITNEY'S ‘GRAY KNIGHT FOUND “THE HURDLES JUST LTTLe Toys..... BOB MONTGOMERY GREW AN OVERSTUFFED CHEST WHEN HIS “ME2Z0" ToOK A GLUE RIBBON HER FIRST TimE INA SHowRING ! fi' Ambers Seems Sure to Be Anchored on Throne if He Defeats Canzoneri. BY GRANTLAND RICE | OME one tonight—either Ambers or Canzoneri—steps out on the old trail where Joe Gans, Bat Nelson, Ad Wolgast and Benny Leonard once walked. The path was left open when Bauiey Ross decided to concentrate on Jimmy McLarnin in a higher divi- sion, and, unless all signs fail, Lou Ambers will pick up the coronet at Madison Square Garden and carry on the class of this division. The Herkimer hurricane is a much better fighter than a large section of Has Greb's Assets. E IS one of those Greb-like H operators, strong, quick and rough enough. Canzoneri never was a puff ball for any one, but Tony will have to reach back through a few years to get what it takes for any | Ambers ambuscade. It has been done, here and there, but not often enough to call for any sonata of slug. It has been a matter of nearly 30 years since Tex Rickard brought Gans | and Nelson to Goldfield, where rigid weight requirements turned Baltimore Joe into a shadow before the battle opened. Linke Falls for Is Raised to By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, May 10.—A joke is & joke when it involves only a dime. But when it costs $10 it ceases to be fun. That is how Eddie Linke feels about this chain-letter graft that has swept out of the West to flood the Nationals with panhandling missives. The chubby Washington ball club pitcher laughed off those letters ask- ing him to send 10 cents to the per- son whose name headed a sizable list, acratch off that name, add his own, then inflict upon five others mailed copies of the revised letter. He even mailed a dime to the list- topper in the first missive he received. “Maybe Tll get a Hawaiian cruise next Winter out of this,” Eddie said hopefully. But he lost all interest in the scheme when the chain letter he received here asked for a sawbuck xmt_in-dm:;x a thin, | “T"al no percentage in that for me,” he observed. “Guess I'll post- pone that Pacific trip three or four years.” Rain yesterday having cut the series here to two games, the Tigers can't pass the Nationals in the standing during the current battling at Navin Field. They were in a bit of a hurry about calling off the yes: tercay and the umpires largely were to blame. ‘With a shower just about to descend, Umpire Moriarity ordered the tarpaulin hauled off the infield at 3 o'clock. Then came the rain. Five minutes later the game was called off and five minutes after that the rain was done and the sun on the job for the remainder of the afternoon. | Tbere'll be & Presiness pool drawn o Dime Chain Letter, but Balks When Ante Ten Smackers by the Nationals tomorrow and last week’s non-winners in the Derby draft want Whitehill barred. He not only had the Omaha ticket, but he also had bought a half interest in the Roman Soldier slip. J. B. K. Major Leaders American League. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .397; Fin- ney, Athletics, .389. Runs—Bonurs, White Sox, 20; Rad- cliffe, White Sox, 19. Runs batted in—Johnson, Athletics, 23; Bonura and Radcliffe, White Sox, and Foxx, Athletics, 18 each. Hits—Hayes, White Sox, 28; Geh- er, Tigers; Foxx and Johnson, Athletics, and Radcliffe, White Sox, 25 each. Doubles—Washington, White Sox, 7: Hemsley, Browns; Vosmik and Hughes, Indians, and Werber, Red Sox, 6 each. Triples—Cronin, Red Sox; Radcliffe, White Sox, and Foxx, Athletics, 3 each. Home runs—Foxx and Johnson, Athletics, 7 each. Stolen bases—Hale, Indians, 6; Almads, Red Sox, 4. Pitching—Whitehead, White Sox, 4-0; Hudlin, Indians, 3-0. Western. Des Moines, 5; St. Joseph, 0. Rock Island, 5; Cedar Raplds, Sioux City, 8; Omaha, 6. Davenport, 6; Keokuk, 4. International. Montreal, 9; Albany, 2. All others postponsd ‘ Even before that fight, I still can recall Bat Nelson, with a pair of swollen, highly discolored knockles on his right hand, puaching some con- crete dome. | “Didn't that hurt your hand?” I asked him later. “Hurt my hand?” he asked. “Noth- | ing ever hurt me anywhere.” | “How about that punch over the heart Young Corbett planted?” I suggested. “It broke a rib over my heart,” he said, “and it knocked me down. But when I got up with a grin and came on, Corbett was licked. I got him two rounds later. But he never hurt me.” Later on, the battler admitted that Gans almost madé him cry with pain by & stab in the side that struck like a knife. Other Lightweights. ANS and Leonard still stand out as the two greatest combinations of boxing skill and punching class. They stand among the few who were both master boxers and dangerous hit- ters. Bat Nelson, the Durable Dane, was the hardest of them all to hurt, | but no one surpassed Ad Wolgast in | savage fighting fury. No fight crowd ever again will see another Wolgast-Nelson carnage, where, beyond the fortieth round, the blinded and battered Nelson still was grop- ing in the blackness of midnight for his opponent. Bamey Ross, who recently adbi- cated his throne, was among the faster movers, but Barney could never learn to blend speed and hitting power. Ambers is the pick in this match and he may be a hard young man to displace later on. He has a bundle of stuff, and he carries it along in a hurry. Your Feet The Heat? —By JIM BERRYMAN Evelyn WALKER wAs BANKING ON HER LUCK PIECES-ARABBITS FOOT AND A FOUR-LEAF cLover... [ ¢ ~lZ % BUGKY ACE VICTOR AS Y DROPS FIRST Phillies’ Converted Utility Infielder Sparkles in De- feating Cards. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR,, Associated Press Sports Writer. NE of the newly risen stars of the National League pitch- ing corps has taken his first fall, but another moved right up to take his place. ‘When Darrell (Cy) Blanton, Pitts- burgh's sensational young right- hander, met ‘his first defeat of the season at the hands of the Giants and Carl Hubbell by a 3-1 count yesterday, he became for the time being just another good pitcher. His place in the sun was given over to Willilam (Bucky) Walters, the Phillies’ home town boy, who was converted from a third baseman into a pitcher and celebrated by hurling a four-hit, 2-to-1 triumph over the World Champion Cardinals. Although he tried the mound for seven innings in two games last sea- son, Bucky was listed as a spare third-sacker this Spring. He had pitched as a sandlotter, however, and begged so hard for another trial that Manager Jimmy Wilson gave it to | him and found he had another start- | ing pitcher on his hands. | ) Impressive in Victory. ALTERS made his second start yesterday, allowed the Cards only three singles and a dou- ble and handed out five walks. The only Cardinal run was unearned, coming on George Watkin's fumble of Virgil Davis' two-bagger. To top off the performance Bucky scored the winning run himself off Bill Walker. stellar St. Louis southpaw, -@uvm’ (Bmpu-/ fim‘«) COGGINS TO QUIT COMCHING BERTH ‘Planning to Leave Central | to Teach Mathematics at Wilson High. ERT COGGINS, athletic di- | rector at Central High School for the last 12 years, will be | transferred to the new Wood- row Wilson High School next Fafl a8 | s mathematics teacher, it was learned | today. Coggins, burdened by his many | duties at Central, asked for the shift, | but probably will continue as foot ball coach at Central for the coming sea- | son, feeling it unfair to turn the task | over to another after the veteran | eleven which will be coming up this | season has been schooled in his tactics. He plans to do no coaching at Wood- row Wilson. Central has enjoyed successful bas- ket ball teams under Coggins, but per- haps his most noteworthy effort was on the gridiron. Trampled on their | own field for five years, the Blue and | White eleven, under Coggins, finally managed to break the jinx with a 12-0 | | win in 1933. At an assembly the next | morning Coggins rose to one of the | greatest ovations ever given at the school. Was Five-Letter Terrapin. | AKING over the basket ball team | I of 1923-4, Coggins immediately | garnered a championship for the Blue and White and the following year found the Coggins-coached quint | Eastern interscholastic champions by | virtue of their victories in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania tournament, since | abandoned. | A five-letter man at the University | | of Maryland in 1919, Coggins caught vic Keene, Terp mound ace of that | | time and later a big leaguer. In ad-| dition to base ball, Bert played la- crosse, tennis, foot ball and ran the dashes in track. After he was graduated Coggins went into the construction business for several years before he went to Central. Pacific Coast. Missions, 6; Hollywood, 4. Los Angeles, 13; San Prancisco, 8. Oakland, 7; Sacramento, 1. Portland-Seattle (wet grounds). Piedmont. Asheville, 7; Charlotte, 1. Richmond, 2; Portsmouth, 0. when Mickey Haslin singled him home in the ninth. Blanton’s wildness was the princi- pal cause of his own downfall as he rang up six strikeouts for a season’s total of 36. But two of his five passes led to the first run and an error and two blows brought the other pair. His rival screwball hurler, Hubbell, lost a shutout through Arky Vaughan's sixth homer of the year. Brooklyn remained in second place, two games behind the Giants, with a S-4 “gift” victory over the Reds. 8th & American Asseciation. Columbus, 9; Kansas City, 1. Milwaukee, 11; Toledo, 2. Louisville-8t. Paul (cold). Indianapolis-Minneapolis (cold). Southern Association. Atlanta, 7; Memphis, 1 Chattanooga, 7; Birmingham, 1. Little Rock, 9; Knoxville, 0. Others not scheduled. 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