Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1935, Page 12

A—-12 GROUND IN SECTOR Outfielders Drag. ETROIT, June 25—If the D with & copy of the Griffs® tionals’ joyous ecstasy at the local “What a crasy world is this.” would show the biggest team jump in And the schedule reveals that Wash- invoke happiness. nor schedule tells the story of why Only Real Gain Is Made at Bat—Hurlers Arm-Weary, BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. oft-cited hypothetical visi- tor from Mars, armed only batting records and an American League schedule, could see the Na- railroad yards tonight, he probably would squeal in amazement: For this conclusion he might well be excused. The batting averages the circuit, so lustily have the Na- tionals walloped Western pitching. ington’s next stop is in the lair of the ‘Yanks, which ordinarily is nothing to Yet the conclusion, however natural, would be unjust. Neither averages Bucky Harris’ weary ball tossers are 80 glad to bid farewell to the West. Only Attack Is Good.- # A LL aboard” tonight will be a joy- ous cry because for a remark- able sustained offense and generally good work in every department ex- cept pitching, the Nationals have nothing to show except plump aver- ages. They have dropped farther back in the race here in the West. They eannot show even a 50-50 record for their 16 inland games. The best they can display will be & record of nine losses and seven wins. And to do that Detroit would have to be whipped today. In spite of 15 box scores showing an aggregate of 194 hits, 125 runs and a team batting mark of .325 for outside, Washington has won only one series. That was from the Browns by & 2-to-1 edge. Cleveland was vic- torious, 2 to 1; Chicago, 3 to 2, and Detroit—depending upon today—by either 3 to 2 or 4 to 1. The pitching staff, such as it is, is arm-weary. The outfielders are leg-weary from chasing assorted drives by the dozen per game. Even Umps Pick on 'Em. THB Nationals lost their best out- fielder in Cleveland when Alvin Powell’s leg was injured and he was sent home. In Chicago young Henry Coppola pulled up with a sore arm the first day and hasn’t pitched an inning since. Moreover, they've been get- ting decisions which would have broken the hearts of less courageous teams. There was one yesterday, for instance, which robbed the Griffs of a chance to gain an even break in the West. In the face of all this the pitching has been a joke. Only six hurlers have gone the route and only two of these won. One was Leon Pettit, who was given 11 runs by his mates; the other was Bump Hadley, who was presented with 12. The other pitch- ers, with the exception of Whitehill, yesterday, were left in the box chiefly because no one was available to re- lieve. ‘With real big-league pitching only two games rightfully should have been lost. Ted Lyons licked the Griffs on the “up-and-up” in Chicago, and Al- vin Crowder turned the trick here. One Well-Pitched Game. ‘HE Qriffs lost their games in Chi- cago by scores of § to 3, 7 to 3, end 10 to 6. They 16 to 11. St. Louis won its only game by 10 to 9, and lost by 11 to 3 and 17 to 11. Cleveland’s two victories were by 11 to 5, and 8 to 6. Washington’s lone triumph there was by 11 to 8. ‘The Tigers’ three wins here have been by scores of 7 to 0, 10 to 9 and 9 to 8. The Griffs won a 12-to-7 decision. In reality, Washington got only one well-pitched ball game. That was yesterday and it was lost in 14 innings. Earl Whitehill was the victim, but it partly was due to his own fault. Given a 5-to-1 lead in the fifth, he blew it when the Tigers tied it up in the last of that frame. ‘Then, for seven frames he matched Tommy Bridges goose egg for goose egg. In the thirteenth Earl was pre- sented with an 8-to-6 edge. , Again he blew it, for the Bengals agafh tied the count. Then Whitehill tired in the fourteenth and the Detroits finally pushed across the deciding run. Adverse Decision Hurt. IT NEVER should have gone into extra frames, however. Lady Luck and Umpire Harry Geisel gave the Griffs a couple of bad breaks that cost them a triumph in regulation innings. Ossie Bluege opened the eighth with & roller to deep short and apparently beat Bill Rogell's throw by a step. Even Hank Greenberg admitted later he was safe by at least this margin. But Geisel called him out. Whitehill followed with a long single and Kuhel's deep grounder to Gehringer would have talied Ossie had he been on base. An innocent base-bag foiled the Griffs in the ninth. Myer was on first after singling when Cecil Travis belted & one-baser to center. Buddy would have made third with ease. but his spikes caught in second base and he fell heavily and was forced to scramble back to second. Fred Schulte followed with a looping single, but it wasn’t quite enough to score Buddy from second base. Then Bolton hit into a side-retiring double-play. Do you wonder why the Nationals are glad to shake Western dust off their heels? Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Chuck Klein, Prank Demarre, Cubs —Former’s home run tied score in ninth, and latter singled to drive in winning run in tenth against Giants Jimmy Collins, Cards—Hit sixteenth homer of season, double and single to drive in four runs in Brooklyn game, Vito Tamulis, Yankees—Kept In- dians’ eight hits scattered for seventh victory. Zeke Bonura, White Sox—Found won by 9 to 8 and | SPORTS. % THE EVE Burke, Who Gave Y anks Real By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, June 25—~Much in | the same manrer of an in- veterate r1ice track form- sheet addicy, Bucky Harris today named lony. lean Bobby Burke to open the Nationals’ three-game series with the Yankees tomorrow in New York. The form sheet of Burke shows only two good slal performances this season and, going far back in the campaign, one was against the Gotham crew, which heads the Amer- ican League pennant parade. Bob lost that day—May 29—but he ga up only eight hits and two runs. Lefty Gomez beat him by shutting out the Nationais with four safeties. To judge by his 1935 record, Earl Whitehill is not quite the hur'er of yore. But if ther: are any more pitchers with tne rotund southpaw’s heart around, Bucky Harris wil' take | 'em. | Whitehill's arm firally failed him |on Navin Field vesterday, but never his heart. If ever & hurler made a rival work for victory, it was Earl yesterday in that 14-inning tilt, finally won by the Tigers. Four times Detroit had runners in position to score on anything from a grounder to a one-baser from the ninth frame ‘o the futal fourteenth. And each time Earl worked out of it. With the score tied at 5 all, Petey Fox opened the ninth with a single and went to second on Walker’s sacri- fice. But Gehringer rolled to Kuhel, Greenberg purposely was passed, and Goslin was whiffed. Cecil Travis muffed Rogell's easy pop to start the tenth, and Hayworth sacrificed. Then Earl forced Clifton to ground to Bluege and Bridges to pop to Bolton. The eleventh was the most dramatic of all. Fox tripled to open and here Gooses,” when 509 hardhead fell victim to Charlie “Buck” Pumphrey, Harry Palmateer, Tony Sesso, Howard Miller and William P. Hellmuth. The majority of the fish weighed 3 and 4 pounds. The anglers report that shrimp was more acceptable than peeler crab to the denizens of the deep. Not one of the fish was wasted. Many were given to the poor of the city, and, of course, many of the anglers’ friends were remembered. Hellmuth, who reported the catch to us, said they landed fish so fast that their arms and sides ached. They HE largest catch of the season | was landed recently on “The catching practically nothing. ever, one boat that had been out long time returned with 76 hardhead, the majority weighing 2 pounds. Sunday was a good day at Solomons | Island. In the early morning all the | hoats returned with good catches of hardhead, but not as large as those | landed in the late afternoon and early evening. *The morning boats averaged | between 40 and 50. In the evening the largest catch was 350 hardhead | and one sea trout weighed 412 pounds. This group was headed by George Stein. The Susquehanna River is muddy following recent rains, but should in a few days, with excellent fishing assured. At Rock Run Mill below Deer Oreek on the Susquehanna large rock are being landed. This should be & good place when the river clears. At Rock Hall, Md., Capt. Lewin B. at night. One catch last week num- bered 164. Looks good for this week, this captain reports. Capt. T. 8. Rawlings at Annapolis says very good catches of hardhead are being made and expects excellent results this week. Capt. Robert E. Lee at Shady Side, Md., reports plenty of hardhead and & few sea trout. Capt. Roland England at Plum Point reports plenty of hardhead be- ing caught and fishing conditions steadily improving. Capt. H. C. Elliott at Broomes Major Leaders By the Associated Press. mik, Indians, 86. Doubles—Vosmik, Indians, itching—Tamulis, Yankees, 7-1; Lyons, White Sox, 8-2. Runs—Martin, Cardinals, 52; Lwchn, Pirates, and Moore, Giants, Runs batted in—J. Collins, Car- dinals, 64; Berger, Braves, 56. Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, 92; L. Waner, Pirates, 87. Doubles—Medwick, Cardinals, 21; Blackston, jr., reports hardhead biting | ST8SP. Fight in Earlier Shot, Gets Call Against ’Em Tomorrow Whitehill rose to greatness, He made Walker bounce to him, again inten- tionally walked Greenberg, forced Goslin to pop to Travis, and then caused Rogell to bounce to Bluege. Rogell was the winning run in the thirteenth with the score tied 8-8, only to be left on second when Hay- worth fouled to Kuhel. A clown one minute, & hero the next atill is Goose Goslin, as witness: First inning, Goose singles to score ‘Walker and tie the count at 1-1. Second inning, Goose boots Schulte's single, putting Fred on second at start; also makes wild throw to plate to put two more runners in position:to score. Both did. Fifth inning—Goose singles across Gehringer and Greenberg to tie score at 5-5. H Ninth inning—Goose fans with score tied and runners on second and third. Eleventh inning—Goose grounds out with winning run on third base. Thirteenth inning — Goose drops Manush’s fly to put two more run- ners in scoring position and also dou- bles across Walker and Greenberg to tie count at 8-all. Buddy Myer’s second-inning single marked the fifteenth consecutive game in which he has hit safely at least once—Rogers Hornsby, according to members of the Nationals, will be the St. Louls representative on the Amer- ican League all-star team—No, they don’t condone the selection, either— Rollie Hemsley is the Brown boy, they say—Three up and three down is an expression only vaguely remem- bered by the Griffs—In their 15 games in the West, which have totaled some- thing like 135 innings, only 21 times have three consecutive batsmen been retired—If Secretary Eddie Eynon, jr., would permit, virtually the entire squad would fly to New York after today’s game for the Joe Louis-Primo Carnera fight. Island “eports good catches of hard- head day and night. Bait is scarce, he says. Across the Bay at Tilghman Island, Oapt. Oscar Haddaway reports plenty of hardhead and a few blues and sea trout. Capt. Dewey Webster at Deals Is- land, Md., says there are not as many fish as there have been, but that they are running larger. He said the catch of sea trout is increasing. Capt. T. S. Clopton at Gloucester Point, , York River, reports plenty of hardhead and sea trout. A few blues and bonito also are biting. Should be good this week, he says. Tnmummwmdme. from Capt. Wayland Baum, said plenty of channel bass are running, weighing from 15 to 50 pounds. Large sea trout and flounders also are be- ing taken but blues are scarce. Out- look good this week, he reports. Just to show how finicky the differ- ent fishes are, last Sunday fishing off Deep Cove Malcolm Major and Dr. Philip G. Affleck tried to lure the hardhead with shrimp, but the fish refused to bite. When these anglers changed to peeler crab, at high noon, | they landed 24 hardhead, some :ul-’ ing more than 3 pounds. | The Potomac around Washington | still is discolored. This morning it was possible to see only about 3 inches beneath the surface. By the end of the week this stream ought to be sufficiently clear to enable anglers to resume their sport of catching the many rockfish reported above Chain WOMEN TIE WITH 79 Mrs. Vare and Mrs. Vanderbeck Set Pace at Whitemarsh. PHILADELPHIA, June 25 (#).— Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare and Mrs. Clarence H. Vanderbeck, both na- tional champions, enter match play for the Whitemarsh cup todsy with the qualifying medal. within their ‘Teaming together, the pair carded & 39—40—79 in the qualifying round to win the medal by the margin of one stroke. Edith Quier and Mrs, Helen B. Stetson were a stroke be- hind with an 80. TO COACH ROUGH RIDERS Fox to Tutor Gridders Until Woodworth Returns. Phil Fox, former Central High Teachers’ College nickels, Lewis and Witt are some of the experienced gridders due to return to Roosevelt, QUANTICO SEEKS FOES. Indians are anxious to BRAKES RELINED - Plymouth Essex s TAMULIS MASTER OF INDIANS AGAIN Gains Third Tribe Sealp of | Year—Cubs Go Overtime to Conquer Giants. BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer. ITO TAMULIS, unobtrusive fel- low who has rocketed to the fore of the Yankees’ high-pow- ered pitching staff, has tamed the Indians agnin. He has a peculiar ability to throw balls where there are no Cleveland | k¢! tomahawks, and yesterday he hung his third Cleveland scalp to his belt and ran his season record to seven | Ru: wins with only one defeat. The In- dians got but one run, while the Yankees, stretching their lead in the American League to four games, got four. “Iu the ninth taning he found him- self in difficulty after a scratch hit and a clean single. The count reached three and two on Winegarner, and | his tossing then Tamulis began strikes that are so hard to reach. Winegarner hit several fouls before he whiffed completely on a fast, dip- ping bell. Tamulis limited the In- dians to eight hits, three of which bounced from the bat of Joe Vosmik. Browns Win in Tenth. A TENTH-INNING double off the bat of Burnett enabled the St. Louis Browns to defeat Philadelphia, 2-1. Zeke Bonura’s homer with two on was instrumental in the defeat of Boston by the Chicago White Sox, 6-4, in other American League games, In the National League, the Chi- cago Cubs were forced to go ten innings to subdue the league-leading New York Giants, 10-9. It was a batsman’s holiday, with a total of 30 hits ringing off the bludgeons. Paul Dean did not last long enough * % Griffs’ Records i o CunomasomeuloBoBELENOoE 200 194 ! RO st wnaseonrub S EaattE e, B roannSanS2S2.81238wank B PUSPISS——— ragaly 19 e (RPN < R L - = [osr et} o - ‘eaver won 1, lost 1, to retize & batter in the first inning of the Cards-Brooklyn game, but St. Louis came from behind to win an- other free-slugging contest, 12.7. Jimmy Collins of the Cards continued home run spree, collecting his those | sixth homer in five days and his six- teenth for the season. Cincinnat! defeated the Phillies, 6-4, for their third straight triumph, the Reds lacing four Phillies’ hurlers for 17 hits and driving Curt Davis from the box in the sixth with a two- run rally that clinched the game. ROYALS OPPOSE FROGS. Washington Royals and the Fred- ericksburg Frogs will tangle at Bag- gett's Btadium, Alexandria, Va, on Thursday at 4 o'clock. CELTS LIST TWIN BILL. 8t. Mary’s Celtics will battle the Chesapeake A. C. in & double-header at Alexandria, Va, on July 4 at 2 o'clock. G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 25 1935. —_— e —— , —— Griffmen . Will Quii West With No Regrets After Poor Showing on Tour GRIFFS TO ENTERTAIN VETERANS AT GAME Will Have Members of Rainbow Division See Nationals and Tigers July 12. Mouml.mmo(m famous Rainbow Division, in | ‘Washington for their annusl national |, | reunton, will be the guests of Clark Griffith at the Senators-Tigers game IJuly 12, it was announced today by Harold B. Rodier, chairman of the local committee which is arranging the entertainment for the- visiting | 2 comrades. The guest of honor will be Hank Gowdy, Boston Braves world series hero in 1915, who was the first major league base ball player to enlist in the American Army, Gowdy, who went through five battles on the Western Front with the Rainbow Division as a color sergeant in the 186th Infantry, was credited with his only error overseas when he missed a foul fly as & German air raid ing regiment, Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—J, Collins, Cardinals, 1; Frey, Dodgers, 1; Klein, Cubs, 1; Leiber, Giants, 1; Jackson, Giants, 1; Bonura, White Sox, 1; Reynolds, Red Sox, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 19; Johnson, Athletics, 16; J. 3 Cardinals, 16; Ott, Giants, 13; Foxx, Athletics, 13; J. Moore, Phillies, 13; Berger, Braves, 13; Bonura, White 8ox, 13. League totals — National, 298; American, 203; total, 501. Three-Eye. Peoria, 7; Springfield, 6. Fort Wayne, 6; Terre Haute, 4. Decatur, . Bloomington, 2—8. broke up s ball game with a neighbor- | &5 SPORT Official Score " =] RO IORP - i e oroor0000! i F : ° O D rRBo ! S | roomoosormsN B ooocoooncosoM PELTZER SENTENCED | ‘ON MORALS CHARGE Must Serve 18 Months—Deprived of Teaching Status, Cannot Compete Again. By the Assoctated Press. Bm. June 25--Dr. Otto Peltzer, famous German distance runner, was sentenced today to 18 months im- prisonment for offenses against morals. Peltzer also lost his status as a teacher, was deprived of his member- ship in the German Light Athletic Union and was informed that he never again will be allowed to run in com- petition. ‘When the verdict was read, the run- ner, who was arrested nearly two weeks g0, broke down and sobbed. He held a good social position in 3). | Germany, is the nephew of a director 1. | of the Deutsche Bank and the town 41 nnings; oft Auker 0 1o} inn} lx'i Mesire* Oriasby and Oelsel. Time-3'33. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Henry Cotton’s 66 led fleld in first qualifying round of British open. Johnny Broaca,| Yankee pitcher, fanned five Yimes in one game, tying major league nine- ‘Three years ago—Gene Sarazen won national open golf crown with 286. Fred Perry defeated Wilmer Allison in four sets at Wimbledon. Jim | Bausch bettered world decathlon record with 8,103.25 points. | Pive years ago—Maxey Rosenbloom | iPof Stettin, where he was a school- teacher, named its stadium after him h, % | when Peltzer defeated Nurmi, the fices—QGehrin, G, ', o "m@;—?,%’ o, T |8 o o 'amous Finn runner. Minor Leagues International. Rochester, 6—8; Buffalo, 4—2. Albany, 5; Newark, 3. Syracuse, 9; Baltimore, 5. Toronto, 6; Montreal, 2. American Association. Indianapolis, 12; St. Paul, 0. Columbus, 12; Milwaukee, 8. Minneapolis, 11; Louisville, 3. Toledo, 8—17; Kansas City, 4—2. Texas. Fort Worth, 8; Dallas, 4. Tulsa, 3; San Antonio, 2. Oklahoma City, 4; Besumont, 2. Hguston, 2; Galveston, 1. Southern Association. Little Rock, 7; Chattanooga, 3. Birmingham, 12; Atlanta, 0. outpointed Jimmy Slattery for light| heavyweight title. Ruth hit twenty- fifth and twenty-sixth home runs. e o R Piedmont. 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