Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1935, Page 12

A—12 Kress o Play So Long as Griffs Win : Cubs Shines in Attack as Even BY FRANCIS E. STAN. IFE has been one base ball prob- lem after another for Bucky and was glad of it. Thanks to nearly a week of rest, Cecil Travis has recovered from his thread of their local campaigning | tomorrow against the Red Sox, the| kid third baseman will be ready. infielding in his system. Thus the| problem. This the answer: Kress| sticks in the line-up. play of prowess his club flaih“d duri n their triumphant invasion of but in no way does Bucky flnure !hnl club which gained a 3-to-1 decision in games over the Yankees, the same team will stand for the time being. Break Is Had With Yanks on New York Lot. I Harris this season, but today he ran into a new development annual “charley-horse” in his legs, | and when the Nationals pick up the But also it begins to appear (hxfl Red Kress still has some big league | Like the rest of the world, Harris may have marveled a bit at the d\s- the Griffs were anthing but deserving. Bo, inasmuch as it was a rejuvenated And that means that Kress, the Cin- derella shortstop, will stay on the job. To Keep Winning Combination. AVED from the minors by his dra- matic back-to-the-wall perform- | ance last week against the Indians, | Kress originally was installed at, ghortstop only for as long as Travis was out with his bad leg. But now, in the light of the sensational recent development, it is up to Kress, not Travis, to prompt the next move. “I'd be all wrong if I broke up a winning combination,” declares Har- | ris, who has been as amazed as any | one over Kress' play since he was handed and then stripped of his release to Chattanooga Wwithin a few hours. “Red not onmly is hitting to suit me, but the combination of Kress and Bluege on the left side of the infield is just as strong, defensively, as Travis and Bluege. ‘As a matter of fact, if Kress con- tinues to play good ball, I'm going to forget all about shortstop for a while and alternate Bluege and Travis. First, though. I'm going to be sure Travis' legs are all right. He may not even get into the Red Sox series.” i \ Stars Against Yankees. TO JUDGE by Kress' play since his ‘release.” Capital fans need have little fear about the shortstopping the Nationals will receive. Handed the job last Wednesday, Kress, then bat- ting only .140, has since siugged at an even .500 clip. In five games Red has been to the plate 20 times and rapped out 10 hits, including a double and a home run. Moreover, the hits have been anything but meaningless, accounting, as they have, for six runs driven across. Kress scored four himself. Afield the only difference between the present Kress and the brilliant | youngster of half a dozen years ago, | when he played for the Browns, is a ! little lack of speed. Red is not so fast as he was, of course, but he lsg quite as sure. The manner in which | he accepted 22 chances during the‘ Yankees series backs up this state- | ment | Tamulis, Broaca, Gomez Beaten. | FTER winning the first two games | the Griffs dropped tlie first half of a double-header yesterday, 7 to 6. and struck again at the Yanks in| the nightcap. 7 to 1, behind the capable hurling of Bump Hadley. There was nothing fluky about the | Nationals’ conquest of the Yanks either. The McCarthymen may be | slipping, but even when a team is on the shute it is pretty tough to beat with hurlers like Vito Tamulis. Johnny Broaca and Lefty Gomez. And the Griffs beat all three of them.| Only Walter Brown was able to gain | a decision over the rejuvenated Har- rismen and Walter was lucky he drew Earl Whitehill as his slab op- ponent. Pitching yesterday's opener, White- hill gave up 10 hits when most of them were important and had the| misfortune of getting spotty support. But at that the Griffs made it a ball game and not until the final out did the 21992 customers settle back and chalk up a Yankee victory. Bluege Fails This Time. BIG second-inning gave the Yanks Allen, who opened for the Yanks. was | a 4-0 lead, and though Johnny | forced out early when he hurt his| arm, Brown capably carried on until the final two innings. Going into the eighth the Yanks were ahead, 7 to 2. A home run by Jack Red- mond with Manush on base made it 7-4 in the eighth, and then with two away in the ninth the Griffs threw a scare into the Gothamites. | Buddy Mver doubled and Powell | singled him home. Then, as Jake raced around to third unmolested, Manush singled him across to mak= it 7-6. This left it up to Kress and | the redhead was equal. He, too | eingled, sending Manush to third and Brown to the showers. Pat Malone ceme in to pitch to Bluege, who broke up Saturday's game under similar cir- cumstarices. It was not in the books for Ossie to do the trick twice in a row, though, and he went away, Malone to Gehrig, ending it all. . Powell Star of Nightcap. TB! nightcap found New ‘York out- hitting the Nationals, eight safe- ties to five, but Hadley, paradoxically, outpitching El Goof Gomez. This | was done without the aid of mirrors. The Griffs merely hit when the blows | were important. Kress gave the Griffs a 1-0 lead in | the second inning when he parked a | home run into the left field lunda‘ and then, after the Yanks had tled | 1t up in the same inning, Jake Poweil iced the game. With Hadley and Kuhel on base by virtue of walks, and Myer filling the sacks with a single, Powell also planted a Gomez fast ball into the left field stands, making it 5-1. The other two runs came in the eighth on Myer’s walk, Powell's safe bunt, s wild throw by Red Rolfe, and an infleld out by Kress. | ! X 1 | four laps in the thrilling final of the | place in the meet held at Clifton Park | | By the Associated Press. ‘McLean Is Harris | the three-game Red Sox series here | the Bosox, Yanks and A's, the Griffs | will make another tour of the circuit | may have permanently ruined their | Allen pitch to Capt. Buddy Myer & | that he hurt his right shoulder and \won 26 and dropped 5: in 1933 he | The Foening Star %pnfifi W. — SARATOGA MECCA OF TURF THRONGS 0ld-Time Color, Pageantry Expected for Big Meet Opening Today. By the Associated Press. - ARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, July 29.—Crowds surged here today for the opening of 30 days of racing in this mecca of the sport of kings. Indications are that Saratoga, emerging from leaner years, will flour- ish again in its old-time color and pageantry. Broadway, quiet for a year, has| | sprung to life. The racing crowds | | have flooded in, filling the rambling hotels, reading the racing charts in | Sports Program For Local Fans ‘TODAY. Boxing. Joe Temes vs. Roger Bernard, 10 rounds, main bout, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. TOMORROW. Base Ball. at Washington, Griffith 3:15. ‘WEDNESDAY. Base Ball. at Washington, Grifith 3:15. THURSDAY. Base Ball. at Washington, Griffith 3:15. FRIDAY. Base Ball. New York at Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:15. SATURDAY. Base Ball. New York at Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. Boston Stadium, Boston Stadium, Boston Stadium, | drinking places. Banners flutter from the roof of the track pavilion and sleek horses pound around the oval. The stables hold an imposing array of thoroughbreds, | trained by men who have their eyes on more than $700.000 in purses. 38 Stakes on Card. MARYLAND TITLE 10 BAGLEY BOAT pumeisiz it o —_— | the thumurghbred}.1 i ity [ ty-four es, six o em | Outspeeds Crawford Entry stee;‘;:?hiseo per(oorrr;ers. were named in Principal Contest of | for the six races today. Heading the list are 15 2-year-olds Tri-City Regatta. By the Associated Press. nominated for the sixty-first running | of the $4,000 flash stakes over 5! fur- ‘ longs. Postage Due, Delphinium, Gal- | | sac, Triumphant end Gleeman lrej R. CECIL BAGLEY of Balti- more climaxed the closing program of the eighth annual Tri-City Regatta at Herald | probable starters. Eleven sprinters are entered in the Harbor yesterday by carrying off top honors in two of the principal events. American Legion Handicap of 7 fur- In the 225-cubic inch hydroplane longs for §2,000. For days the pounding of hoofs has resounded over the track at sunrise as the horses were worked out. clash—the Maryland State champion- | ship—Dr. Bagley turned the tables on an Eastern rival, Andy Crawford of Washington, world record holder for the distance, and beat him decisively in two consecutive heats. Crawford ran second to Dr. Bagley Omaha Is on Scene. MAHA, the 3-year-old champion, is here to keep his engagement in the $20,000 Travers on August 17 and the Saratoga Cup on the final day, August 31. | Cavalcade and Peace Chance are in both heats. The Baltimorean aver- | working out daily and Discovery is due aged 45547 miles per hour in the |from Arlington Park early this week. final—a mark about 2 miles under | There are many 2-year-olds, including Crawford’s own record. some fast juveniles yet to spring from Bagley Takes Another. s barrier. R. BAGLEY got his second win | when he pushed the Wilmer in| D, C. BICYCLISTS FAIL ahead in the free-for-all event. | BALTIMORE, Md., July 29.—None After battling neck-and-neck for!of the 11 Washington cyclists could class B event, Frafk Vincent of Tulsa, | track yesterday. The meet was held Okla,, gained the advantage over Bob | under the auspices of the Century Myer of Evanston, Ili, at the last buoy | Road Club of America and every to win. He averaged 43.945 miles per | event but the 5-mile handicap test hour. | was won by the Spangler brothers, | Vincent scored another thriller in | Bill and Donald. the class C race, nosing out Milford Scull of Ventor, N. J., by a 5-foot o 9 margin. Vincent averaged 47.974 . | Griffs’ Records miles per hour. C ] Friends Line Up For Werber Day LTHOUGH the matter has re- ceived scant publicity, Bill Werber day, at Griffith Stadium tomorrow, promises to be quite an occasion. A host of the Red Sox star’s admirers from Prince Georges County will be joined by many an old schoolmate from Tech High, where Bill first earned his spurs as a ball plaver. A large block of seats on the third-base line has been reserved for them. T. Raymond Burch of Berwyn .s chairman of the Werber Day Com- mittee. Clark Griffith, president of the Nationals;- Bucky Harris, their manager, and Joe Cronin, Red Sox pilot, will take part in the cere- mony at home plate when Bill 18 presented with a token of his friends’ esteem. LR mLaIeD wE33R25353 0w [ oD avennae DI D DRI DI =R NODT | Biramee - Redmond rhiteniil 050 Sheu midsans e PITCHING. I'!B BO lll P G% CF 74 e am 2 | Coppola whl:fn il Hadley_ | Linke Russc Kress Mcum A feon 239 o = meREAn R sowamSeamat * souumBeMg = won i Burke "won :. um | ASHINGTON, |First Three-Times Winner ! cylinder motor outlasted the modern- | at Detroit in 1933. YOUNG BLOOD FRANKIE FRISCH ANO CHARLIE GRMM HAVES FOUND YOUNGSTERS To “FiLL IN® CONCENTRATE ON HANOLING THE IR~ restaurants and talking horse in the | WHILE ®EY D. C, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935. Step Fast in Pursuit of Giants * GARNER 20 0F 23 GAMES AT HOME Wallop Reds as New Yorks . Take Pair—Tigers Boost ‘ Their Loop Lead. BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, Jr,, Associsted Press Sports Writer. HE Chicago Cubs were consid- | ered “dark horses” in the Ni tional League pennant race even when in fifth place, but | now they have come out in the open - TE FORNER) COLUMBUS "FARM #AND ” )\ _¥AS BEEN PLAYING \ FINE BALL FOR TiE \ CARDINAL'S AT .\ SECOND. REIS' £L LEGARTO SETS RACE RECORD of Gold Cup, Classic Motor Boat Event. OLTON LANDING. N. Y., July 29.—The El Legarto, appar- B ently as sound as when she took to the water 13 years| ago, is the first three-time winner of | the ancient gold cup, emblematic of supremacy among power boats of 625-inch piston displacement. Piloted by George Reis, Lake George and Pasadena, Calif., sportsman, the | smooth-running boat with its six- ized craft of increased power and | superchargers in the thirty-second an- | nual 90-mile test on Lake George Saturday with a total time of 1 hour | 38 minutes and 243 seconds. | Only El Legarto and Hotsy Totsy | 11, driven by the gray-haired veteran Vic Kliesrath of South Bend., Ind, were left to battle it out when four | other entrants either did not get in shape to get to the starting line or else were forced out along the zruel- ling test. El Legarto's avemage speed for the> 90 miles was 55.056 miles an hour, compared to the record 60.866 it set THOMAS LEADING AGAIN. CHICAGO, July 29 (#).—Frank Thomas, Alabama, has regained the | | lead in the all star foot ball coaches poll with 169,926 points. ENERALLY pleased with the work of Washington's recruit talent lately, Manager Bucky Harris is willing to gamble | . . . 50 Elden McLean, the swarthy youngster from Harrisburg, may open tomorrow . . . incidentally, after nine more local games equally divided with | that will not land them back in the Capital until August 31. Not only did the Nationals kaock the Yanks out of first place during the series just endeds but they also pennant plans . . . so hard did Johnny the third inning of yesterday's opener was forced to retire . . . this is the same injury which kept him out of the game most of 1934 . . . and with- | | out Allen for any leng'.h of fime|' what have the Yanks? Gomez’s Flop Blamed on Tour. JOHNNY BROACA isn't as hot as he was last year, Vito Tamulis is not s0 good as his record indicates, Joha- ny Murphy has been having his troubles and Goofy Gomez will take no more Japanese tours . . . when El Goof was beaten by the Griffs yester- day it was his eleventh loss of the season, which has a long way to go yet . . . and never before in his big league career has Gomez lost more thea 10 games a year .. . in 1934 he won 16 and lost 10; in 1032 he finished with 24 and 7, and in 1931 Gomez's | record was 21 and 9. New York scribes blame last Win- | ter's tour of Japan for Gomez's slump .. . which is not entirely 'illogical, because seemingly the trip took some- thing out of Earl Whitehill as well. Eddie Linke, who was injured Fri- day by Jess Hill's terrific liner, was released from Roosevelt Hospital yes- terday in time to accompany the Na- tionals home . . . unmarked except for a red spot on the side of his fore- head, Ed immediately got & black eye when he began wukm . but it didn't amount to much, b 4 ELDEN MCcLEAN. result, probably, of increased blcod circulation. Stone Near Whiffing Record. JOBNNY STONE, whose six consecu- tive strikeouts provided one of the Pttchmg Selection for Nats As They Open Stand Against Eastern Clubs | gals to be the league's strongest . . the only trouble was that he wasn't hitting anything . . . Stone closed the first game by whiffing against the right-handed Walter Brown twice in a row . .. then he fanned on each of his four appearances against Gomez. The record for whiffing in a single games is six times . . . set in 1913 by Pitchér Weilman of the Browns in & 15-inning game . . . it is doubtful, however, if any other player has ever fanned six times in a row. Add reasons why the Yanks are out of first place: Batting averages of Dickey, Lazzeri, Selkirk and Rolfe in | the National series . . . Dickey batted | .153; Lazzeri, .153; Selkirk, .125, and Rolfe, 240 . . . New York fans reached the booing stage vesterday . .. turning against the Yanks in the nightcap and cheering. the Griffs . . . in fact, the Washingtons were cheered more | throughout the entire series than were | the Yanks. Tigers in All Niches. 'HINGS I'd like to see: Chapman, Hill, Wally Moses, Jake Powell Dee Miles and Bill Werber in a sprint- ing race . . . I'd pick Hill over 100 yards . . . nominating, however, Moses as the fastest going down to first base and Chapman as the speediest going around the bases, Babe Ruth, the golfer, watched his ex-mates from a box . . . but he seemed particularly interested in Powell's work . Brown, the Yank pitcher, weighs 265 pounds . . . he doesn't get enough work to train down much. The Tigers, whom the Griffs helped into the lead, have occupied every niche in the league standing this sea- son from the cellar upward . . even the Gotham scribes concede the Ben- and by far ... ‘The Nationals’ output of home runs | during the Yank series (5), has been more than they've gotten for months .. .31992 fans saw the Yankee Sta- dium twin-bill . . . but more than 30,- 000 went over to Brooklyn for the Ghnts—Dadml double-header St | Othen not lchedulefl gle' Week End Sports Given in Briefs By the Associated Press. Racing. CHICAGO.—Discovery wins $10.- 000 added Arlington Handicap, smashing track record. BOSTON.—Black Highbrow wins $3,500 added Bay State feature at Suffolk Downs. NEW YORK—E. R. Brld]evl Bien Joli whips four other 2- year-olds in East View Stakes. Tennis. WIMBLEDON, England.—British take first two Davis Cup matches from the United States. Perry beats Budge, Austin defeats Alli- son. SEABRIGHT, N. J—Gregory Mangin and Mrs. Ethel Burkhardt Arnold win men’s and women's Seabright invitation crowns. Golf. MELVIN VILLAGE, N. H— George Voigt defeats Mark Stuart, 1 up, to win Bald Peak invitation golf tournament. EASTERN POINT, Conn. — Bobby Grant of Wethersfield, Conn.,. defeats Max Marston of Philadelphia in Shenecossett in- vitation golf. Track. GLASGOW, Scotland.—Harvard- Yale track and field athletes win only two first places jn track care nival. LUXEMBOURG.—Traveling American track team headed by Peacock and Lyman take all first places but one in meet with Bel- gians and Luxembourgers. , General. PORT DALHOUSIE, Ontario.— Canadian Oarsmen sweep fifty- third Canadian Henley Regatta, turning back United States forces for first time in years. BOLTON LANDING, N. Y.—El Lagarto, 13-year-old speedboat, races to Gold Cup triumph on Lake George. WILL HOLD HORSE SHOW. WESTMINSTER, Md. July 29.—/ Arrangements have been completed | for the horse show to be held here next Saturday. There will be many and varied events. League Statistics MONDAY, JULY 29, 1933, American RESULTS YFS"IHAY Washinston. 67; New York, 7—1. , 11 Phll-delngu 3. puvpaaD | Brudiepeirug m§ ! Det/—T 6/ 41 8112/ 7 1..135136/37/44/43147153150/—I—]| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Det. at Cleve. Boston_at_wi C Mull at Detroit. Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY New, York. 8—1; Brooklym, 0--0. Louis. 4—4: Pittsburgh, 3—5. Cincinnati, 7. 4—10; Boston, 1—11. - _‘3 g &° 5 usmasnd, Tl gg. ozwoy 43 ukooig _neuumg| vuatepeing *‘R10% MmN NYI—| 7] 91111 oI 8| 6] BINISIIBGGI . Chil 7|—| 4| 81111111 6113160135/.632 1% StL[ 4110/—/ 6] 7| 8110111/551361.604] 4% Pit]_41_3|_ 71— 7] 9110112152142.663' 9 _ BRI 5/ 2 5 B[ 61 7| 71401511440119% Cinl_61 4| 4| 5| 8i—I 7 6/40|53|.430/20% Phll 3| 7| 41 31 5| 6l—I10I38I52].422121 Bosl 21 21 31 2| 41 5 BI—-IMIGSIMHBG L..131/35/36/42/51 (53152168 |—i—| GAMES TOPAY. GAMES TOMORROW. . N %4 | ning ' pitcher—Brown. as dangerous contenders for the flag. | In a spectacular home stand which | began just after the all-star game early this month, they won 20 out of 23 games. They displaced the Car- dinals as chief challengers for New York's top place and cut the Giant | lead to 1'; games. | Chicago extended its latest winning | | streak to nine consecutive triumphs | | yesterday by belting over the Reds, | |11 to 7, in the last home game before | & week’s road tour. ‘ ‘While Charley Root pitched effect- | ively in the clutches for his sixth | | strgight triumph, the Cubs pounded | Gene Schott out in one inning and | rolled up nine runs in the first three. | | Giants Come to Life. | and storerooms” | for work in Ethiopia . . L FROM THE BY JOHN U8 MANCUSO has & bet with Jim Collins that Gus' boss, Bill Terry, will ripper by 15 points in batting | this year . . . Right now it looks to | be & good bet, but worry and woe may {cut into William's average before long . . . Bob Quinn, the Dodgers’| business manager, control of the club . . . Speaking of Brooklyn business methods, the seats at Ebbets Field were counted officially | for the first time last Summer . . . | The total was 35,000-odd . . . It must be nice to know, after all these years. Primo Carnera is leaving his dough tied up in this country, but still he has several large hunks of real estate in Italy to fall back on if the courts take his cash away ... One item is described as a “100- room house with cellars, subcellars . Another is a 000-acre tract of land. known as Villa Settima di Soresi, at Settima di | Gossolengo, with cattle, mules and fowl” . . . But if the Preem returns to the fatherland he may be drafted . And he’s had his fill of Ethiopians for good and all Interest in N. L. Exclusively, TH! Giants, however, did fust a| trifie better against Brooklyn, winnlng two shutout games, 6 to 0 and 1 to 0, on superb pitching per- formances by Carl Hubbell and Clyde Castleman to add a half game to their slender margin. Hubbell pitched five-hit ball. Castle- man, out since July 6 with a cracked hand, followed with a four-hit white- washing and won when Mel Ott belted his twenty-third home run of the sea- son off Dutch Leonard. The third-place Cardinals cracked Pittsburgh’s nine-game winning streak by taking the first game of the first Sunday double-header in PittsBurgh history, 4 to 3, giving Dizzy Dean his sixteenth victory of the season. | The Bucs took the afterpiece 5 to 4 when Paul Dean walked in the win- ning run in the ninth. That left the Cards three games behind the Cubs The mighty Detroit Tigers increased their American League lead to three full games over the Yankees when they pounded out a 14-to-6 triumph over | Cleveland, scoring enough runs in the | early innings to resist a five-run rally | that drove Schoolboy Rowe to cover | in the second. | Browns, Chisox Divide. TH!: drooping Yanks could get no better than an even break with Washington. Like Detroit, the Chicago White Sox 1 pounded out 20 hits and a 14-to-6 | victory. That came in the first game | of their double bill against St. Louis, | when they scored 10 runs in the sec- | ond inning. The Browns took the afterpiece, 4 to 3. on a ninth-inning rally started by Julius Solters’ drcul! swat. The Red Sox moved into Iounh place ahead of Cleveland when they starting with a rookie, Wedo Martini, for 15 blows and won 11 to 3. double-header. Philadelphia took the opener, 4 to 1, behind Sylvester John- son, and the Braves pulled out an 11-t0-10 decision when the last two of six Philadelphia errors supplied the winning run in the ninth. VIRGINIA FOUR AHEAD. BALTIMORE. Md., July 29—The veteran Fauquier-Loudoun four of Middleburg, Va., working like a piece | of well-oiled machinery, clicked off goals in every chukker yesterday be- fore a good-sized crowd at Stevenson to defeat the Maryland Polo Club by | 8 13-to-7 score. The Marylanders started with a 4-goal handicap. Official Scores E 1 0 0 0 1 x>u—»-= o ol o 0 ol | Whitehil *Miles Russell, - Totals “Batted for Whitehill in eighth PR RS Sommommos® Sssmom w0 Soummsouss > ] o ] ] =] B SUShAiARS A Somismammemsl Malone, Totals . S (] 000 110 022 040 120 00x— Runs batted in_—Crosettl, Jorgens, ., Brown, Kress. Redmond_(2). ush. Two-base hits—Kress, O hitehill, bases—New York. Pirst base on_ ball hill. 2: off B Hit. L Brown. 9 in Bl nain 3 in %3 ‘inning: off Whi nin. 6 a7 nings: off Russell. none in 1 inning. Win- unehn— inn, 2:08. Whitehill. arty and Summers. WASHINGTON. Umpires—Messrs, Time—32 L ins ce K almansemas! ] 9 Hadley, Totals | K| oa50uaamond I Huwas~ae: ol somususosusy Bl vousssussy . § e - et 1| s ac o 3 H 35 g attacked four Philadelphia pitchers, | The Phillies and Braves split a; E | o §1 jabbing a chip shot just off the green. ©l eos00r055-M | consssoaM Ford Frick, president of the National League, left Yankee Stadium in the middle of the crooshal double-header the other day because they weren't posting the score of the Giant-Car- dinal game fast enough to suit him . The ,Prick is strictly a one-league guy . . . Lefty Gomez's wife, the | gorgeous June O'Dea, has turned cop- per . . . She watches like a hawk to see that Lefty doesn't take a drink until he breaks his current spell of sour pitching . . . George Selkirk an- noyed Umpire Ormsby no little last week by nudging him in the spine with his knee when the imperial and fair-minded ump called a third strike | on George. Ogden Reid, owner of the New York | Herald Tribune, was one of the best and toughest water polo players in the history of Yale . You have to be tough in a sport where they penal- ize you 10 yards, or something, for self-defense In several recent pool room raids the police have found large bottles of aspirin as well as the usual equipment of wires, slates and charts . . . Tom Shaw, oldest and richest of the Broadway bookmakers, | is having a bad season .. . It's all | the tougher for Thomas, since it comes on top of two straight wal- lopings in the Kentucky Derby . . . Cavalcade's victory last year cost him $26,000. Walter Rothenberg, the Tex Rickard of the Rhine, is reliably reported to have a working lead the | will ‘g0 back 1o Boston if the McKeever mob loses | PRESS BOX Columnist Goes Far Afield for Salt and Pepper to Spice Sport Fans’ Diet. LARDNE! bankroll of half a million skins + + . Nobody knows where he got it or why he spends the money the way he does. An_agent for Jeff Dickson, the | Tex Rickard of France, is coming te ‘mu country with Martinez, the blonc Porto Rican, who is Europe's leading lightweight . . . Martinez wants t see the American lightweights at worl |+ « « Bo does everybody else . . | Jimmy Bronson is sure that Gustavt Eter, welterweight champion of the Old World, can whip Barney Ross. Floors 'Em With His Clothes. SPEAKING of fighters’ wardrobes | which we did a couple of week | ago, it's been called to our atten tion that Joe Beckett was one o the classiest dressers of them all . . | Swooning Joe used to follow the horse. at Epsom in a rich brown ensemble Trilby hat, blue-checked tle, blu striped shirt, and blue handkerchie (in sleeve) . . . Mickey Walker wa and is a noted dude . in hi best days Mickey wore $90 bathrobe. and $12 shirts and raised polo ponie . . The ponies have been replacec by two or three of the most hard hearted dogs that your corresponden has ever been pinned to a wall by | Tn Russia July is Derby month . . the horses run on a track at the Hip podrome, outside Moscow . . . the gov ernment handles the pari-mutue and the prices are very, very shor . last Derby day they had a carc of 27 races, mostly trotting, and i crowd of 40,000 tried to beat the gam from noon till dusk . . . Citizen Pia nov won the grand all-union trottin; stakes with Evening, a horse with a American grandpappy . . . the gov ernment says that racing is usefu . . . “without horses we can't work 15 the slogan . . . that's a better alib than the one we use over here, John T. Cavanagh, the Judge Landis of the bookmaking racket, used to sell programs at the old Brighton Beach track in New York. Jack Redmond, the big chocolat fighter, is getting King Levinsk ready for the Louis fight . . . Red mond was one of the recent victim ot Jack Deyle's dry tank tour ant they had a lot of trouble getting hin to stey down . .. Tommy Walker, a1 inside right, is the most valuable soc cer player in Great Britain, possib in the world . . . the Hearts of Mid lothian team will not sell him for le: than $60,000 . . . Nat Pendleton, for mer rassling champion of Portuga has a bona fide engineer's degree fron Columbia University . . . which doe him no good at all in Hollywood | where he is now beating off the chal | ienge of another ecatch-as-catch-ca: | Hamlet, Man Mountain Dean. 1 (Copyright. 1835.) THE SPORTLIGHT Spoons in Place of Straight-Faced Irons Declared Golf Stroke Saver. 6 HE hargest shot for the | | average golfer to play,” I suggested to Gene Sarazen, “ijs a straight-faced iron— aNo.1l,20r3" | “That is the hardest shot for any | golfer to play,” Sarazen said. “I have | little faith in a No. 1 or a No. 2 iron. Both have cost me too many strokes.” “What is your suggestion, then, for | the average golfer along these lines?” | I asked. “In the case of a No. 1 or No. 2 jron I would suggest a spoon—a No. !4 spoon. For a 3 iron or an easy 2 iron, I think it's a good idea to carry another spoon laid back just a trifie more—one that is just a little shorter. This will be a much easier club to play and will save more strokes than you might think. Paul Runyan, | for example, has something like five | spoons for different distances and ! they have helped his accuracy a lot, as against the longer iron shots.” This happens to be a suggestion well worth taking up. If most of | the pros have trouble with the longer jrons, what show has the average golfer? Why not select the easier club to handle? Chip Shot Trouble. NE trouble most golfers have at | various times is stabbing or Billy Burke, now pro at the Cleve- land Country Club, next battlefield for the amateur championship, has a good cure for this fault. “The thing to do here,” Burke says, “is to take the blade of the club far- ther back. This fault usually comes from a short, hurried back stroke— due to tension. I always make a point of taking my club head well back on the first two or three chip shots I This is a good place, too, to decide just how hard you want to play the stroke and then keep your head in place until the ball has stopped. “There is always a great temptation on the chip shot to lift the head quickly.” The Problem of Turning. O golfer writes, throwing in my right side. too soon. There is no particular hook to my approaches, but the ball sails off to the left. What causes this?” This, also, happens to be one of the more common golfing faults. A good part of this fault is due to the failure to let the left side turn far enough on the back swing. The left shoulder is left behind—or it gets only part of the way around. Two things can happen here. In the first place, the right shoulder nat- urally is going to whip too far toward the left side, since it has only a half or quarter circle to cover. It has little distance in which to turn—and s0 the turn takes place before the hands can get to work. In the sec- ond place, a half turn kills off any feeling of power, so the right shoulder in to help play in any tournament—until I get | 1. | the feel of the stroke and my con- | G| fidence is established. NE of my main faults,” another | “is turning or | BY GRANTLAND RI It is a good idea to get a menta picture of swinging the club hear out toward the right. If vou watch most divots they are leading or run ning from right to left, acr.ss th line of flight. This proves the clul head has been brought to the bal from the outside—not from the in side. Mac Smith once told me tha every golfer should try to develop the habit of having his divots poin slightly toward the right of the lin of flight. “And to do this,” he added, “yo must turn more. If you dont turn the left side far enough you ar sure to lift the club outside the ball— and bring it down the same way And as you get older you will fine this tendency more and more com mon. Don't leave the left shoulde behind.” Advice From Ernest Jones. N THE search for tips, I then looket up Ernest Jones, professional a the women's national, who has hat phenomenal results with his pupils Ernest Jones shook his head some what sadly. “The trouble with most golfers | he said, “is that they think onl | in terms of their faults or bad habit | and not in terms of correct swinginz I have only one tip or suggestior in connection with the game of golf— that is to use the two hands ant swing the club head. Never min about the feet or the hips—the shoul ders or the body. If you use you | two hands correctly in a true swinz ing motion, these other factors o elements will all take care of them selves. “It is really quite simple if the aver age golfer only would take enoug) time to think it over. The hands ar the controlling factors—the hand and wrists and arms. I still insis that, when they are doing the job— the rest of the body will take care o itself. You can't swing and hit at th same time. “You can't swing and lurch at the same time. You can’t swing correctly and not have the main fundamentals take place in a natural way. “The main idea is to have the clul head reach the ball near maximun speed. With most golfers this maxi mum speed either has been restrictes or it has lost its pace too quickly You can get this maximum speed dnl: with a swinging motion where hand and s are handling the job. Her you have only one thing to thinl about, and that is enough for mos of us. “Just concentrate on swinging th club head, and you will be surprise: at the results you obtain. The troubl is, all this sounds too easy and to simple. But golf is not nearly as dif ficult or as complicated as so man; millions make it. It really isn't. I is the hufan equation that runs u) uures—not the mechanics of the gol swing.” (Coyrisht by the North America litance. Inc.) # per Al . COLESVILLE 2.3 LOSER. Colesville Cardinals, who droppec |8 3-to-2 decision to Gaithershur A. C. yesterday, will visit Rockvilli A. A. next Sunday.