Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1935, Page 39

Foenin WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1935. Powell Out for Indefinite Period : Ruth Bides His Time to Re-En : GRIFFMAN VICTIM OF RARE ALVENT Leg Swollen Twice Normal Size From Pinching of Sciatic Nerve. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. LEVELAND, June 20.—Fioored once this seaton by A crush- ing thrust of fate, . Bucky Harris aud his harassed Na- tionals today braced themselves for & second blow of possibly equal force —the loss for an indefinite period of Jake Powell. E’" o The 3ilver Spring kangaroo £ woke up in a hos- § . pital here this i ¢ did Buck New- som in Washing- ton’s last skir- mish with the Irdians. awoke as {he vic- tim of cne of Lase ball's queer- er ailments. and the Griffs found themselves await- ing with bated breath a complete report on what goes down in medical bocks as a severe pinching of the sciatic nerve in Powell’s right leg. In the base ball books, if official medical intimations are construed properly, it may go down as a severe pinching of the National's flag hopes. It wasn't, pleasant for Harris to speculate today on the probable length of absence that may be neces- sary for the fleet young fiy-chaser to regain normal use of his leg. It is possible, it was admited by Dr. M. H. Castle, physician of the Cleveland club, for the injury to heal in a few days—soon enough for Powell io par- ticipate in the forthcoming Detroit series. Also it is capable of causing the centerfielder’s future for the rest of the year to hang in balance. This Jake Powell. fear has medical history to back it up. Has Other Ailments. "ONLY twice in the 31 years I have been with the Cleveland clul declared Dr. Castle, “have 1 se similar cases. One was that of Joe Vosmik; the other was that of Jchnny Burrett. “Burnett was unable to indulge in strenuous activity for four months— from September to December. Vosmik was out of the game for six weeks. “I wouldn't like to hazard a guess about Powell. He may come around in a few days. Tomorrow he even may be able to walk normally. Then, again, it may be some time.” But the pinching of the sciatic nerve was not the only ailment that a preliminary examination of Powell showed. Carried in agonized hysteria from the field in the second inning of yesterday's game after injuring him- self by merely fouling a ball, Powell also was found to be owner of a float- ng cartilege in his knee and a pair of bad tonsils. , Neither of the latter ail- ments is enough to keep him out of action, but if the nerve injury causes a long lay-off. it is expected that he will undergo the knife on the other two counts. Powell first showed signs of the nerve trouble in St. Louis. There he had two attacks, one on the ball field that he shook off and the other in the hotel dining room, where he was eat- ing dinner with Cecil Travis. The pain caused Powell to leap up sud- denly, nearly upsetting the table. Leg Heavily Swollen. Y BSTERDAY'S attack came in the ! second inning of the sundown tilt between the Indians and Nationals. Jake swung hard at one of Walter Stewart's pitches, fouling off the ball. He stepped from the box and began to shake his right leg. Then he stepped back to the plate and, just as Stewart was about to pitch, he apolo- getically hopped again from the box, an embarrassed grin on his face. He began rubbing his thigh and laughing with the fans. ¢ Suddenly the pain increased and he collapsed on the fleld, writhing in pain and fighting off Trainer Mike Martin and his teammates, who had rushed to him. Twice Martin attempted to rub the leg but Powell, tragically resembling & broken-legged steeplechaser, hopped away, only to collapse. The pain traveled from his thigh to his heel. Buddy Myer described his leg as “nearly twice its normal size and so tight and hard that the skin bulged.” Half a dozen teammates, Fred Sing- ton, Ed Linke, Leon Pettit and Red Kress among them, picked up the stricken player and carried him off the field but they had to struggle, so powerful was Powell in his hysteria of pain. Linke was struck hard in the face by Powell’s fist. Has Second Attack. IN THE dressing room the pain sub- sided after treatment and Powell, - eyes racked with pain, got up to walk. Immediately he suffered another at- tack and was tajen to the Lakeside Hospital. Thus did the ugly head of the Na- tionals’ 1934 jinx rear up again, strangely enough while battling the morning, éven as| Powell | .500 Record By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. Griffs’ pitching staff, as it jokingly is called by even prey to crities, but one quality that cannot be denied the Washington club That was proven again yesterday as the Nationals, in spite of another aged to gain an even break with Wal- ter Johnson's Indisns in & double- here. Blanked for seven innings by the |up only four hits, and trailing by | 4 to 0 going into the eighth, the Na- | not only Lee but Lloyd Brown and Ralph Winegarner as well from the The eighth frame produced runs enough to bring the score to 5 to 4, & Catcher Sam Holbrook's “sure” triple with the bases loaded keeping the ‘That catch and three runs by Cleve- {land in their half of the eighth might fold up. But not the Nationals. Back | they came with seven runs in the | snatch the game. It wasn’t the first time during this | pulled the trick. In fact, those two frames have just about stamped the 9 LEVELAND, June 20.—The | C those who comprise it, is fair is courage. minor-league display of twirling, man- header opening a four-game series left-handed Thornton Lee, who gave tionals staged two big rallies to chase slab to win an 11-to-8 decision. heartbreaking catch by Earl Averill of Griffs from taking the lead. have caused a less courageous club to | ninth, all made after two were out, to Western swing that Washington has | VANDERBILT TRIES 1 Pits Against King Saxon and Omaha at Aqueduct. By the Associated Press. ! LTHOUGH the Brooklyn Hand- icap over 1'3 miles at Aque- Omaha, duct Saturday figures to be & duel strictly between champion 3-year-old, Alfred G. Vanderbilt is going to give his disappointing star, Discovery, a shot at the $10,000 added purse. | The four-year-old son of Display, { which_has yet to.win a. zace this { year, showed improvement in his race | behind Identify and Dark Hope in the Rockingham Park Handicap and has been shipped to New York for this | engagement. Mrs, Deering Howe's Only One, Mrs, Dodge Sloane’s Good Goods and Shelby Burch’s Thursday also are beifg pointed for the stake. Track Does Big Business. “day session at Rockingham Park, which closed Saturday, according to | managing director Lou Smith. They wagered $8248408 for a | daily average of $284,428, which caused Smith to predict a successful | | meeting at Suffolk Downs, a Boston | track now under construction. Joe | | Wagner of Lexington was the ranking rider. E. R. Bradley’s Black Helen and Bloodroot, both eligibles for the $25,000 American Derby, to be run at Washington Park Saturday, turned in useful workouts yesterday over the muddy Chicago course. Black Helen stepped the mile and & quarter in 2:164-5 and her stable companion worked the distince in 2:212-5. BOYS TO BOX OUTDOORS. The first open-air boxing show among the juvenile groups will be staged Saturday, when Police Boys’ Club No. 4 squad sling fists at the No. 5 team. Action will begin at 8 pm. at | the Boys' Club of the Metropolitan Police, 472 I street. There will be no admission charge. League Statistics DSCOVERYAGAN Ty Disappointing Colt | o and A King Saxon, best of the turf’s milers, | g !MOR! than 300,000 people passed |on b: | through the gates during the 29- |3 THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1935. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 11—5; b . New™irion; J1=5; Clereland, §—10. Boston. : St. uis. Philadelphia-Chicago, rain, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. FEEE] NYI—1 31 61 6151 5] 6] 713611076551, — Chil 31— 11 8| 3| 6l 2] 4/27211.563] 5% Clel 2| 31| 4| 6| 4 3| 8I30124].556] 5% Det[ 3 31 41— 6 4| 6] 4120(261.637 6% Bos| 6( 3| 3] 41— 4l 41 312712014821 9% 26129 Indians, against whom Newsom Was | phus Bos hurt last month, and last season no less than five Nationals were injured. ‘They were Cecil Travis Hal Lee and later spiked);-Jack ;lo'wnnfl.'—'::“ mfl::'. tepursheNew Fork: et wrounds, ot PRideIobin: Felay o STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Courage Gives “Pitcherless” Nationals Split With Indians, W hile on Jaunt Nationals - as & “big-inning” club. Eight times during their 10 games fon this swing the Griffmen have counted from four to seven runs in a single inning. That is how they are able to show a .500 record in the face of Washing- ton pitching that allows an average of nearly 13 hits per game and per contest. Never before, perhaps have the Griffs shown such a lamentable lack of adequate relief pitchers as yester- day when they split with the Indians, who took the second tilt, 10 to 5, be- hind the pitching of the ex-National, Walter Stewart. Leon Pettit, winning pitcher of the opener and Irving Hadley's relief, gave up three runs, two hits and two bases on balls in his “victorious” one- inning term. Belve Bean, who “relieved” Jack Russell in the nightcap, gave up three runs and six hits in two innings of toil. Buddy Myer waited until his last trip to the plate in the nightcap to preserve his record of at least one hit & game on the Western trip. He singled then to also preserve a 10- game batting average of .500. Powell made perhaps the greatest catch seen this season, in the opener, when he snagged a curving liner from Trosky's bat in the netting of his glove, whigh was turned backhand, on the dead run as the ball actually passed him. F.E 8 Official Scores First Game, ‘WASHINGTON. Bluege, ss . . D s om S sl ] [P SO *Batted for Hadley in eighih 1Batted for Holbrook in ninth. 3Ran for Boiton in ninth. EPT PPN N I e Sousisizmss oo [ 000 000 047—11 010 012 130— 8 olbrook, Kuhel (2), M Redmond, Campbell. hits— Cleveland . Runs batted i Schulte. Bluege ). yer. Travis, Powell (2), Averill (3), Hale. Phillips Lee. Two-base bell, Vosmik ~(2). Kuhel hit—averil. base—Hale. 1 k;.“'lgllol Travis; 0sky. on : Cleveland, 9. P Hadle: ‘o owel. ‘Three-base run—Averill. SWIEfl plays—Manush to . Btru dley. 2: Hits—Off Lee, ® in 73 ini ley. 12 in 7 inings; off Petfit, 1 ning; off L. Brown. 2 in % "inning: Winegsrner, none in no inning (pitched to 'l;o batters): off C. Brown, 3 in % inning; Wild pitch— t it. Losing 35. SECOND GAME. WASHINGTON. AB. R. PSR Totals 58 *Batted for Russell in seventh. Batted for Bean in ninth. PR 1 ] [S—— Totals . ‘Washington Cleveland Runs_bat (3), Knickerbocker Myer, Stone, Kuhel, Knickerbocker. Travis (2). T! ‘Home runs—Trosky (2), Camp- crifices—Stewart. “Knicker- - Double plays—Bolton to Bluege, Stone to Kuhel. {t on bases—Washing- ton, 8: Cleveland. 8. First base on balls— Off Russell. 2; wart. 2. Struck out —By Russéll, 1; by Stewaft. 3. Hits—Of Russell, 11 in 8 innings: off Bean 6 in 2 innings. Losing pitcher—Russell.” Time :88. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Trosky, In- dians, 2; Fox, Tigers, 2; Solters, . 100 201 001— 5 03 316 21x—10 1; Gehrig, Yankees, 1; kees, 1; Chapman, Yankees, 1; Cole- man, Browns, 1; Averill, Indians, 1; Campbell, Indians, 1; Hale, Indians, 1. ‘The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 17; Johnson, Athletics, 16; Ott, Giants, 12; Jobn Moore, Phillies, 12. League totals—American, 269; Na- tional, 256; total, 525. § » " ol B e S PREEEE ) s o A ameas spseE RNt il S - ittt et S ert A A ) roahSmasnorBREIZ3Ban B pos e PRSPPI o TP i WS (USRS rupesaoneaBeREsREE 8 warB [ITTREPPSIRINN -1 EeaEzasil 8 i womsmaroR ’g o =8 S5 oad e s e 23333889 - % ... L E PRETETEY R amaasonsrof e ] i o ‘- P et & i= " : | National INDIANS NOW CHIEF MENAGE TO YANKS Make Swift Comeback as Second Division Yawns. Bridges Is Stopped. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Cleveland Indians have been guilty of some strange incon- sistencies this season, but at times it looks as if they might give the league-leading Yankees the best fight for the American League pennant. Threatened with a plunge into the second division only & week ago, Wal- ter Johnson's tribe fought its way clear with four straight victories over the Red Sox, then shook off another heart-breaking blow yesterday to split a double-header with Washington and gain undisputed possession of third place as the Tigers dropped & pair of games to the Yanks, Cleveland showed plenty of hitting power in both games, gathering 31 hits, including five home runs, losing the opener, 8 to 11, and winning the nightcap, 10 to 5. Bridges' Streak Broken. Tflx Tigers sought a similar come- back after taking a 13-to-3 drub- bing from the Yanks in the opener, but after 12 exciting innings went down on all counts. The 7-to-8 de- feat not only dropped them to fourth, but it ended Tommy Bridges’ win- ning streak after nine straight mound victories. Bridges and Vito Tamulis fought it out evenly until each team collected a tenth-inning homer. Pat Malone finished for the Yanks, and Bridges weakened in the twelfth, when an er- ror by Flea Clifton put the Yanks in | position to score three times. The Tigers nearly salvaged the game when Charley Gehringer poled a homer and Hank Greenberg followed with an- other, but Goose Goslin couldn’t fin- ish the job. The Red Sox and Browns divided Ithe third American League double | bill, 5, Boston winning the opener, 8 to espite two homers by Julius Sol- |5, | ters and one by Ed Coleman, and the Browns taking the afterpiece, 6 to 3, behind Sugar Cain’s seven-hit fling- | ing. In the National League the Braves jand Cubs split the only games that | escaped the bad weather. Bob Smith | got the better of Lon Warneke to give Boston the first clash, 2 to 1. Bill Lee | | outlasted Huek Betts in the nighteap, | | winning, 3 to 0. TRACK ATHLETES ATTACK RECORDS Collegiate Meet Promises Many Great Performances. | By the Associated Press. ERKELEY, Calif, June 20— The track and field public in this area is losing a lot of | sleep trying to dope out the | results of the l4th annual National | Collegiate Athletic Association classic | which starts its two-day program mi | Edwards Stadium tomorrow. From the quickest event scheduled, the 100-yard dash, right through the most dragged-out competition of any meet, the pole vault, the day prom- ises outstanding performances. T. j | Nelson Metcalf of Chicago, chairman of the N. E. A. A. Track and Field Committee, believes performances this year will exceed those of 1934 in prac- tically every event except the shotput. Just to add to the complications, /Willis Ward, Michigan State's great all-around performer, has announced he definitely will be an entrant in| the 120-yard high hurdles. A great field already was lined up for the event, Out for Ward’s Scalp. HIL COPE and Roy Staley of Uni- versity of Southern California, who ran a dead heat recently in the record-tieing time of 14.2 seconds; Sam Allen, Oklahoma Baptist’s great hurdler; Phil Good of Bowdoin, little Sammy Klopstock of Stanford, Jack Kellner of Wisconsin and Tom Moore of California are only part of the boys who stand in Ward's way. Ohio State University’s troupe, which includes Jesse Owens, was due in from a week’s training at Los . | Angeles this morning. Hamilton Hucker of Cornell, I. C. 4-A. low" hurdle champion and two Middlewestern distance stars, Bill Zepp of Michigan Normal and Tom Ottey of Michigan State, .were among the better known men Wwho arrived yesterday. DALES PLAY HIGH POINT. Hillsdale base ball team will meet the High Point, N. C., nine Sunday at Grifith Stadium. The Dales aim to make it four straight in games played in the park this season. Sports Program For D. C. Fans TODAY. T HOPE WASKNERQ. 1S WATCHING WU ACOITION TS LEAOING WE LEAGUS 0 BATTING &0 (TH A MARK. CLOSE O 400 - HE HAS BEEL PLAY/NG GREAT BALL. (N THE &lELO ] ~AS COacH Or Tie Peates -Tue DADDY'OF ALL BIG LEAGUE SHORTSTOPS HAS BEEN LARGELY RESPOVSIBLE g VAUGHAN'S sPEEDY o OEVELOPMENT. s All Rights Reserved by Jbe Assorinted Press Fans, Writers’ Vicious Tactics May Cause Johnson to Quit. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. LEVELAND, June 20.—Because | the “best ball club in the American League,” as they | call the Indians here, couldn’t stave off a Washington rally, the wolves are howling at Walter Johnson again. They are viclous howls, too. One spectator, from an upper box, cupped his bands as Johnson and Bucky Har- ris met at the plate after the first game and yelled: “Why dom't you put John- son’s old Washington uniform back on him, Bucky? He'’s play- ing for you, not Cleveland.” This righteous burrougher was only | one of many who want Johnson's scalp here as a result of perhaps the most vicious editorial tirade in the history of base ball, a campaign that even reached the stage where street car riders were handed petitions to sign for Johnson’s job. | FROM one of base ball's most popu- lar immortals to possibly the most defamed man in the game is Johnson’s unenviable path. I asked him how it felt to hear jeers instead of cheers. The Big Train mustered = weary grin. “It’s 0 unfair. It's an awful feeling. But I guess I can take it.” There seems to be & note of resig- nation behind his words, though. To hear him, one feels that this will be Barney’s last year at Cleveland or anywhere else in base blll—ch by his own choice. | He isn't a great manager, this raw- boned man who heaved base balls as | fast as rifie bullets in his day; who | hung up pitching records that may never be duplicated. One suspects, talking to him, that he would admit it readily if asked for an opinion of his managerial ability. But here he 1s being asked to do the impossible. He is blamed for everything—errors that Bill Knickerbocker makes, hits that Mel Harder allows, the pout on Earl Averill’s face, and even rain that postpones games, it seems. B Tnl worst of the tirade against Johnson seemed cver when the Nationals arrived yesterday. The In- dians had scored a clean sweep over the Red Sox and the critics were Through & prank of fate the team with which he won his glory and gained his records betrayed him by overcoming 5-to-0 and 8-to-4 leads to win a ball game. He was blamed for this by booes when he walked to the diamend to remove pitchers in an attempt fo check the Na- tionals. ‘Walter was handed a team that the campaigners painted as easily the best Potentially LAMOND ON STICK TOUR| £ T s the i sesr tamcns has led the eleven. s i~ A< Charlie Ellinger of Maryland also is Will Lead Yankee Team in Series | making the trip, and John Christhilf ST e | Canadia. and Sam Silber, two other Old Liners, declined bids. Angie Lamond, former Central High Wi N, athlete, left today for New Westmin- ster, Canada, as captain of the all- GASMEN IN NET FINAL. Maryland lacrosse team. Lamond will | Carl Baetzner, distribution depart- represent St. John's College in An- | ment, will meet Carter McFarland, ad- napolis, Md., where he is a senior, | vertising department, in the final of The team will compete for the Lally | the Washington Gas Light Co. tennis Trophy in New Westminster and then | tournament on the Wardman Park leave for an exhibition tour of Ca courts Saturday at 3 o'clock. JAMMED WITH BUYERS Here Goes Again—Ben Hundle * GOODYEAR G-3 First Line All-Weather Tread * FIRESTONE First Line High Speed Gum Dipped * GOODRICH First Line Safety Silvertown % Kelly Springfield First Line Registered America’s 4 finest makes of tires at unprecedented savings. All fresh stock, first line, grade A tires, Regulars, Heavy Duty and Extra Heavy Duty. Each tire carries our uncon al 18 to 24 month guar- Women’s Features C—1 ter Game HAS EYE PEELED FOR PILOT'S JOB Leads Quiet Life, Keeps Close Tab on Yankees. Golfs in Shorts. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, June 20.—What's become of Babe Ruth? Ever since he quit the Bos= ton Braves more than three weeks ago the great man has been base ball's No. 1 mystery. Nobody knew where he was, what he was doing, nor why. Once—and only once—he yielded to what must be an eternal urge and went near a ball park. That was the last time the Braves played here. Nattily attired in white flannels, but wearing the inevitable brown cap, the old f Bambino strode into the Polo grounds, took a box directly be- hind the Giant dugout and held court for a haif hour before the game, E WAS as amiable as ever. He signed score .cards with the old Ruthian flourish, shook hands with | his late teammates, some of whom he could not call by name, and re- sponded pleasantly to the shouts of greetings from the sparsely populated stands, But what is the big fellow doing? How does he spend his time and what is he thinking about? The tip-off came when a photo- graph showed the Babe golfing in— of all things—shorts. 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