Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1935, Page 39

[ woves | @he Fpe WASHINGTO! ning Stap WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, ’ THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1 935. Features and Classified C—1 Whitehill-Travis Row Hits Club : Two Major Streaks Broken, One Bettered THE SPORTLIGHT | (RIFFS CALL HALT FIERY SOUTHPAW PROTESTS ERRORS Unsettles Young Baseman.? Earl Due Little Credit for 12-11 Win. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. S IF his pitching staff were not | problem enough, Manager | Bucky Harris of the Nafionals today finds a singular intra- club feud added to his troubles It is Cecil Travis, the bashful. me- thodical boy third baseman, versus Earl Whitehill, one . of base ball's stormier petrels | Utterly devoid of personalities. the strained relationship, which had its in- ception a year ago, is becoming more unveiled daily as the gods of base ball | *egg on” the principals. | And the “feud.” born of weird. un- | timely quirks of fate and mothered | by Whitehill's highly developed will- | to-win, not only is producing optical | daggers, but quite possibly is costing | the Washington ball club a bit of | much-needed efficiency through no conscious fault of either player. Travis Appears “Tightened.” ARLY in Travis' career as regular third sacker of the Nationals he had the misfortune of misplaying a few chances while Whitehill was on | the mound. And Earl, highstrung and temperamental, took immediate cognizance. | Travis’ hard luck pursued him this season while Whitehill was on the | slab. The mistakes, natural enough for a youngster who just became of voting age this year, were minor ones | in most instances. but they seemed to occur most frequently while the tem- | permental southpaw was toiling. | Quick to speak, Whitehill did—on | several occasions. And Travis, never angered to a point of any possible clash, only tried harder. Gradually ‘Whitehall has been playing and in- stead of helping his game afield, it I SAFE AT THIRD. ~¢$’\>‘,~1,~ — &2, REHLEMTL.\/ WT HREE “OMERS #. N ONE GAME < & has proven to the contrary. Makes Rare Boot in Detroit. EVER has Travis been a better third baseman than during the when other hurlers than Whitehill | have been on the mound | His one really bad day during June was in Cleveland, when Whitehill was twirling against the Indians and holding an edge until the final inning While no errors were charged against ‘Travis, a couple of cheap hits skimmed by third base territory and the result was & complete blow-up by Whitehill and a Cleveland victory. | In Detroit the youngster made a rare error. Ever a sure catch of pop flies—s0 sure that if he ever turned to the outfield he never would experi- | ence any fielding difficulty—Travis| dropped an easy pop fly to put a runner on base in the tenth inning of | e game against the Tigers. Again Whitehill was pitching and, though | the Bengals failed to score in that inning, the hurler was placed tn a tough spot and his admiration for Travis as a ball player did not grow, | albeit the kid handled eight other chances in fine fashion. More Tough Luck. IN NEW YORK Earl's imagination had grown to a point where he looked daggers at Travis when he failed to throw out speedy Jess Hill on a bunt that Joe Dugan, in his Ppalmiest days, could not have handled. | In Philadelphia fate decreed that | Whitehill should lose a 2-to-1 ball game on a smashing single that bounced off Travis’ glove. | Neither of the latter two plays ealled for any apology on the part | of the youngster, nor did an incident yesterday that may, or may not, have | played a part in a ninth-inning blow- up by Whitehill. Spotted a seven-run lead in the first inning, Whitehill seemed certain of coasting to a victory over the rampaging Tigers in the opener of a series at Griffith Stadium. Going into the ninth inning the Nationals heid 8 12-to-6 edge. | Fans, Tarpaulin Hinder Travis. HARLEY GEHRINGER. first up, slammed Whitehill's initial pitch over the fence, but Hank Greenberg lifted a foul pop near the third base boxes. Under ideal conaitions 1t would have been a difficult catch but | it was made increasingly hard because | the ball was directly over the tar- peulin beside the boxes. ‘Travis, racing for the catch, stopped #ust short of the tarpaulin and reached out. So did half a dozen fans at that spot. The result was that the ball fell to the ground and Greenberg, given a new life, doubled ‘Then, in rapid succession, Goslin and Rogell followed with singles and that was the end of Whitehill. Linke, “relief” No. 1, walked Hay- worth, next up, and Bucky Harris promptly waved in Buck Newsom. The talkative right-hander went in “ccld” and was nicked for two hits. but finally he quelled the rally and ‘Washington eked out a 12-11 triumph. It was Whitehill's first win in five weeks but little credit to him. Pos- sibly the gripping of paws by the veteran hurler and the kid third sacker might overcome a lot of difficulties. ’Griffs’ Records BATTING. . H. 2b.3b. T Hr Rbi.Pet. 0 0 0 2.458 o enape: L T S ot 3 Q ® sepnaacas o Y ommnoxnwnt e onvisbn e BBRASIRS DD maer | 29 2 - > | seriously threatened if the oval is in ! | Discovery is third with $33,550, King | Discovery and Top Row to Run in Butler Memorial By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 11.—The first holders, Discovery and Top Row. assures keen competition | Handicap at Empire City Saturday. Cavalcade, 1934, 3-year-old cham- milers, are eligible, but are doubtful | starters. than most tracks in America, it is| unlikely that Discovery will beat his one-eighth miles. The track rocord.i 1:51, equaled by Top Row in his Handicap Saturday. meeting of two world record in the $10,000 added Butler Memorial | pion, and King Saxon, ace of the | Since the Empire course is slower world record of 1:48'; for one and | Eastern debut last Saturday, will be good condition. Top Row holds the world record for a mile and a sixteenth, 1:42, and Dis- | covery, besides the mile and an eighth | mark, holds the world record of 1:55 for one and three-sixteenth miles. Other leading handicap horses expect- ed to compete are Identify, stablemate of Discovery, and Singing Wood. Tough Year on Choices. HIS has been a tough year for favorites in the handicap division. Azucar won the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap at odds of 12 to 1; Head Play won the Suburban at 7 to 1; Discovery the Brooklyn at 5 to 1, and Top Row the Empire City Handicap at 6 to 1. Azucar, with $117.900, continues to hold the lead in the handicap money- winning race, with Head Play, which has gone lame, second with $54.125. Saxon fourth with $33,295, Top Row fifth with $26,330, and Identify sixth with $24,145. | Omaha is far ahead in the 3-year- old race with $113,280. E. R. Brad- ley’s filly, Black Helen, slated to meet the champion for the first time | in the Arlington Park Classic July 20, is second, with $50,125, and Roman Soldier third with $45,100. Wise Duke leads the 2-year-olds with $16,750, and then comes Maeriel, sur- prise winner of the Juvenile Stake at Belmont Park, with $12,930; Del- phinium with $12,620 and Coldstream with $11460. The richest juvenile races have yet to be decided. Official Score Hayworth, Owen. b Bridges. p Sullivan, Hogsett, *Shelley Cochr: tWhite §Clifton Totals sonesiom sz s o0 cossoinum ________ - > 5 > = Srromene Ml SORDTBIIIR A *Batted for Sullivan in elghth. tBatted for Hayworth in ninth. tBatted for Hogsett in ninth. §Ran for Owen in ninth. Detroit __ Washington - Runs batted in—Myer :2), Travis Powell (). Bluege (4). Owen (%). Fox Goslin. Shelley, Gehringer. base hits—G. Walker, Stone. Hayworth, Fox (3), Greenberg (3). Owen. Sullivan. Home run—Gehringe; Sacrifices—Sullivan, Powell. Left on bases Detroit, 11: Washington, 9. Pirst base on balls—Of Sullivan. 6: off Whitehill, 1; off Linke 1. Struck By Sullivan 1: - s o . : off Newsom. 2 in 1 inning. itcher—Whitehill. Losing pitch- Umpires—Messrs. MoGowad, Bummers, Time—32:10. no_inning Winning pl er—Bridges. Marberry i <> man, L i “HIGGINS: OF TE ATHLETICS i SPORTScopE BY FRANCIS E. STAN. AU Righis Kesarved by Tue.Amociated $ress -JUST ABOUT HE BEST THIRD BASEMAN /N THE AMER/ICAK LEAGUE > Expects to Atone for Poor| BY BURTON S. HAWKINS. league diamond satellites, the mental League well fortified at sec-| | Manager Homer E. Pryor is looking six in first-half play. Showing in First Part of League Race. TUDDED with an array of former E collegiate, minor and major Department of Agriculture faces the second half in the Depart- ond and third base and considerably | strengthened on the mound, and for a sharp reversal of form from the Aggies, who won four and dropped Willie Wolfe, who would be named on any all-time all-high base ball | ¢ £ WS EYE ON 2T RE BALL AGAIN ~WATCH HIS AVERAGE = <emB d Griff Rates A’s, Nats One, Two, Leaving Out Pitching. LARK GRIFFITH lit one of | pitchers almost kick away a ball game his flat cigars and peered | again at the pile of base ball averages on his desk. “You know,” quoth the old gentle- “I've never secen a base ball season quite like this in one respect That is the lack of pitchers by half the clubs in the American League. “The Yanks have plenty of ‘em, gosh knows and so is Cleveland “But the two best teams in the league are around the bot- tom because they don't get honest-to-goodness curves more'n once a week.” What are the two best teams? “Why, Philadelphia and Washing- ton, of course,” answered Griff. “The Athletics are the best, not counting pitching. And, doggone it, weTre next.” Introducing Mr. Dublinsky. H workout at the Sportland Gym and wanted to know something about Bobby Wilson, whom he fights next Monday for Joe Turner at Griffith Stadium. “Honest,” he declared, squinty eyes lighting with amusement at himself, “I came down here thinking it was Phil Furr 1 was gonna fight. I didn’t know any- thing about this Wilson bird until I started training. “What's he like? What's he got? Is he a real fighter or a southpaw?” Young Mr. Dublinsky, who last year licked Tony Canzoneri from here to Siberia, was told that Wilson was a turned-around southpaw with all of his wallop in his left hook. Some- | times he switches midway the scrap and fights southpaw style, but he is | too slow to continue that way. He— “Well” interrupted the Chi- cago welterweight, “it doesn't make any difference. If he's slow that's all I want to know. I don't care if he switches every other round.” While There's Life, Etc. BUCKY HARRIS was emptying s bottle of beer and trying to re- cover from the shock of seeing his Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday — Berger, Braves; Gehringer, Tigers: Werber, Red Sox; W. Ferrell, Red Sox; Her- man, Reds. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 25; "l ott, Giants, 18; J. Collins, Cardinals, 17; Johnson, Athletics, 17; Camilli, | Phillies, 17; Berger, Braves, 17. League totals-—National, 374; Amer- ican, 366; total, 740. Sports Program For D. C. Fans ‘TODAY. Base Ball. Detroit at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Boxing. Mike Belloise vs. Joe Rivers, main bout, American Legion Arena, Fifth street and Florida avenue. ‘Wrestling. Joe Savoldi vs. Irish Jack Dono- van, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. TOMORROW. Base . Detroit at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. SATURDAY. ‘Tennis. Washington vs. Army Leech Cup leam, Columbia Country Club, 2. Canoeing. Middle Btates Regatta, Washington Canoe Club, 1:30. Horse Show. Second Summer event, Riding and Munt Club, Rock Creek Park, Beach drive and East-West highway, & “ The Tigers are all right ARRY DUBLINSKY finished a | in which his Nationals made 12 runs. “No, I haven't given up on Dee Miles. If we were playing anybody but the Tigers now I'd have Miles in right field every day. you see, we just got ng the Yanks and waut any possible squawks about mot having our strongest team against Detroit. “I made a mistake with Miles. I had no business putuing him in the final game with the Yanks. 1t was too tough a spot for a kid breaking in. He had played double-headers in Chattanooga last Friday and Saturday and then traveied all night on a train, Furthermore, the train was an hour late and he s'ili was out of breath when he got hcre Sunday. “I don’t think the kid can miss being & good ball player. Sure, he looked bad, but how about Jake Powell and Sam Hol brook in training camp? Powell was terrible and I wouldn’t have given a nickel for Holbrook’s chances. “But they've Ccertainly right since.” done all tral and who later proved an impor- tant cog in winning University of | Maryland nines, holds down the key-i stone sack, and Bob Love, another | Terp standout as a catcher and out- | fielder, is taking care of third base while leading the team in hitting. Love, who has connected safely seven straight times in his two games, also will take a regular turn on the hill, Has Star Outfielders. OHNNY JONES, formerly with Hollywood of the Pacific Coast League and the Philadelphia Ath- letics, roams right field. Jones went to training camp with Dayton. Ohio, this year, but was forced out of league | base ball for several weeks when spiked on the arm and decided to re- turn to Government service. | Willis Benner, another Maryland | ace, who shines equally as well on| the gridiron, covers center and sports | a perfect fielding average in addition | and a dangerous man on the bases. Headed by Walter Murphy, who used to plunk them plateward for the Boston Red Sox, and backed up by Ralph Ruble, Maryland's star | moundsman in 1934, the Aggies’ pitching staff need make no npologm[ to any team. Troubled with a ligament in his tossing arm, Murphy recently respond- ed to treatment and he now is able to take his regular turn in the box. Against P. W. A. in the first half | Walter fanned 13 men to win his | game, 2-1. He usually is an excellent | batter and can play the pasture posts when called upon. Ruble was the leading intercollegiate pitcher on the | East Coast last year when he won the great majority of his frays. Three Catchers Battling. 'OE BERTILINI, regular catcher for the past several seasons, is fighting hard to keep his backstop post away | from Jack Hussey, who caught for | several seasons with Minneapolis in the American Association, and Ed Heflin, former Tech and Central star. | Dick Fox, University of Montana, | has proved himself one of the most | capable first basemen in the District, | while Johnny Bradley and Henry | ‘Weigle stop the hot ones at shortstop. Jack Caspar, who plays left field, is an old sight to sandlot fans, having | played with the Aggies for a number of years and still is one of the leading | hitters in the departmental loop. Newsom Appears to Be Griffs’ 113 BASHI"UL BUCK” NEWSOM Washington’s pitching staff but not merely in the role of one of admittedly is ready to Bucky Harris' starting pitchers. Best Bet as prove himself the ace of Loquacious Louie, of the fast line | of gab and even faster delivery, also has designs on proving to be the Na- tionals’ ace relief hurler. Buck wants to grab the fire hat regularly, now that his fractured kneecap is healed completely, in addition to taking his regular turns. In this request he has found, and will discover frequently in the near future, that it is okay by Bucky Harris, “WHY not?” typically asks Harris. | “Buck’s a big, strong fellow with an arm of rubber. He loves to be in the game every day and he is ome pitcher who can be used both as a starter and as a relief man. He can do it on successive days, if necessary. “Apparently I haven't any one of the second string lot that can be de- pended upon regularly to save close ball games. Hadley and Whitehill strictly are starters and they, along with Newsom, will take regular turns. The fourth starter will depend upon which of the rest—Coppola, Russell, Linke and Pettit—seems fittest. “Of course, we're not going to let Newsom do all the relieving and let the other fellows just sit in the bull pen. But the way he stopped the Tigers yesterday has convinced me that Buck’s our best bet as a relief pitcher in a “clutch.” 'SOM played both starting and finishing roles with the Browns in 1934 and during the Spring of this season, but yesterday marked his de- but as & pinch pitcher with the Na- tionals. And he did & good job. ‘When Earl Whitehill was lifted in the ninth with two Tigers on base and nobody out, Ed Linke was sent in. Promptly the fat boy fell into an old habit. He walked Hayworth, his first opponent, and Harris yanked him pronto. Meanwhile Newsom had thrown only four balls in the bull pen and consequently was “cold” when he went into the box. Marvin Owen connected for a single, scoring two runs and making it 12 to 10 in favor of the Griffs, and then Newsom forced Pinch Hitter Hugh Shelley to fly out. But Petey Fox followed with an- other single, scoring Hayworth and leaving Owen and himself on the bases. Truly it was a ticklish spot for Newsom, but, warmed up by then, he was ready for it. Gerald Walker popped to Kuhel for the second out and then Charlpy & Relief Pitcher Ace of Starters Gehringer, who had opened that big ninth inning with a home run, flew weakly to Fred Schulte in left fleld. OBBY BURKE is kicking about going to Chattanooga . . . and us- ing the same argument that Belve| Bean used about 10 days ago . . . claiming that he has not been in shape this season and couldn't win anywhere . . . which seems to be a late date for the boys to be confess-! ing . . . also like Bean, who finally was shipped to 'Nooga, Burke is talk- | ing of retiring , . . and becoming a commercial artist or a sports car-| toonist. | Those Tigers were doing plenty of | two-timing yesterday. . . . Ten of their 18 hits were doubles . , . and one more would have tied the American League record for two-base hits by a single club in one game . ., incidentally, the Bengals set this mark themselves last year, ‘Washington’s victory snapped De- troit’s win streak at 10 in & row . , . and enabled the Nationals to regain sixth place by .005 of a point, the Athletics losing accommodatingly to the Browns . . , that was the Tigers’ second loss in their last 15 games . . . and Tommy Bridges, ace of the Ben- gal staff, lost both of these games . . . losing to, of all people, the Browns and the Griffs. Petey Fox doubled and singled to boost his consecutive game hitting streak to 29 games . . . and Hank Greenberg, leading run-batter-in of the league, doubled three times, but failed to drive across a single tally. F.E. 8. BRAKES 4 Wheels Complete FREF ADJUSTMENTS Plymouth Essex Chrysler « De Soto Dodg € pp.-DH Other Cars Proportionately Low ENERAL BRAKE SERVICE 903 N ST. N.W DE.5483 s <75 an at the plate | toRbelugis nEAt T P'4€ | ish open down the stretch, who hooked | Callous to Victory or Defeat, Hagen Is Unique Figure in World of Sport. ( BY GRANTLAND RICEe The Captain Reports. E HAVE been told officially, s & ) unofficially and otherwise that the great simoon of golf has been picking up & new force in the last 10 years. Young stars from the East and West, from the North and South, are supposed to be coming on with a new technique, with better swings, with sounder methods. ‘The caddies of 10 or 15 years ago, steeped in the mimic memories of cor- rect swinging—thousands of them— have come on to rule the field But in the meanwhile the captain of the United States Ryder Cup team is looking over his forces. Most of them came along when he was a veteran, supposed to be all | through. He was hot on the trails of team as & result of his play at Cen- | Ouimet and Vardon and Ray at Brook- | line in 1913, before the World War broke. But he still is the captain who will lead the United States against Great Britain in September—and his name is Hagen. He won't take anything in life seri- ously —including death, taxes—and golf. He found a playground and refused to turn it into a cemetery. Makes Good on Threat. E WAS the man—the American champion — who finished fifty- fifth at Deal in the 1920 British open with a caddie and a scorer—posted his score in front of a big gallery— and offered just one remark—"I'll be back.” He came back to win four British opens and give the British a lesson in taking a game in one’s stride with a greater casualness than they had ever known. ‘This is the same Hagen. in a Brit- his ball into heavy rough. “You're in a terrible spot,” some bystander remarked. “After the way I hit it, that's where it belongs,” Hagen said. a And still he won. “If you had been willing to pay the | could have won a dozen champion- ships.” “A dozen championships?” he said with a half smile. “Is that all there is in life2” I had forgotten at the time that he had won a dozen championships. including the P. G. A., probably the hardest of them all to win. When Hagen stepped into the rain and wind at Oakmont on his third | price,” I said to Hagen recently, “you | 3 am, the morning before, and yet he was the only one who survived that blast of gale and water, to fight | his way home in 34. I still recall his remark when I| caught him in the midst of the storm | as he went out in 42. “Tough luck, | j old timer,” was all T could think of. | “Tough luck?” he replied. “What's | & little wind and water?” | Hagen is one of the few competitors 1 know—almost the only one—who actually relish tough going. The harder the scrap, the broader his smile seems to be—and the more he rises to the occasion. And when they tramp on him—as Archie Compston did = few years ago— 18 and 17, a terrific beating—he comes | back next week in the British open to | shoot & 67 in & gale—and win, 1 Callous to Victory, Defeat. AGEN is almost the only man in | sport I know who can take a heavy beating and forget it in 10| minutes—who can win a champion- ship and forget it in 5 minutes. You can put a knife in his heart | or a crown on his head and his| answer still is the same—"“what of it?” | He has one of the finest swings golf | has ever known, one of the soundest heads and one of the stoutest of all hearts. As Tommy Armour wrote about him recently: “Hagen never has had an excuse or an alibi in his life—for one main reason—he doesn't give a damn” —"he will give you the shirt off his back—if you will take the glass from his hand and take the shirt off, for Hagen can’'t be bothered by that de- tail.” Just figure this out—Hagen was open champion of the United States before Babe Ruth ever hit a home run— He was open champion two years | | before Bobby Jones played in his first | national tournament— He was open champion five years befors Jack Dempsey arrived at Toledo— He was open champion six years| before Bill Tilden won his first big | start. Yet he still is captain and one of the leading stars of the United States Ryder Cup team, representing the pick of American home-bred golfers. (Copsrieny. 5. by the North American 1935. by wspaper Alliance. Inc SADDER HEURICHS HOME. | Heurich’s Brewers are home today. a bit sadder over their 3-to-7 loss in the Valley League at Staunton yes- | M ONTIGERS MARGH Browns Finally Win Game. Schumacher of Giants Gets 11th Straight. By the Assoclated Press. AJOR league base ball's long- est winning streak of the season stood ended at 10 games today, but the lead- ing pitcher's unbroken chain of vic- tories had a new link. Washington halted Detroit's tri- umphant march yesterday. defeating the Tigers, 12 to 11, while Hal Schu- macher of the New York Giants forged his eleventh consecutive vic- tory at the expense of Pittsburgh, 10 to 3. Another long streak—one of fail- ure—also was broken, the St. Louis Browns defeating the Athletics, 7 to 2 after dropping nine games in & row The 8t. Louis string of losses has been exceeded only by the Browns them- selves, Schumacher is Stingy. Schumacher earned the top place on the day's honor roll, allowing only five hits in his tenth straight com- plete game. It was his thirteenth tri- umph of the season against two de- feats. He allowed the Bucs to bunch four of their hits with an error to score their three runs in the third, but he retired the last 16 men in or- der after the Giants took the lead. The league leaders, getting 15 solid blows, increased their lead over the idle St. Louis Cardinals to 7'; games. The Browns got to work early and routed Johnny Marcum to score four runs in the second inning while Dick Coffman did a good job of scattering eight Philadelphia blows. Ferrell in Double Role. BIG Wes Ferrell, who has won more games than any big league pitcher except Schumacher, pitched and batted the Red Sox to & T7-to-0 triumph over Chicago’s White Sox. He allowed only two hits, both by Tony Piet, and banged a home run and single to account for two tallies. Charley Root, Chicago Cubs' vet- eran, who relieved Lon Warneke after Wally Berger's seventeenth circuit swat and a few other hits had given Boston a 4-1 lead. pitched four-hit ball for six frames while the Cubs rallied to win, 6 to 4. Scoring eight runs in the third inning. the Cincinnati Reds turned back the Brooklyn Dodgers, 15 to 2, in a night game for their second round he was 43 years old, with 23 | terday. The Brewers battled on even | victory in four games under the major campaigns behind him. He was still with some friends at | terms for six innings, but lost in the | | last three frames. lights. The Yankee-Indian affair was shed out. TRADE-IN SAL MOST ASTONISHING TIRE OFFER WASHINGTON HAS EVER SEEN DRAWS THOUSANDS OF BUYERS! Choice of ALL FIRST 7 'lBg LINE GOODYEAR 63 IRESTONE GOODRICH 6th & Mass. Ave. N.W. 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