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ROAD TRIP 16-40-Av631| 3 e Foening Stad Sporls WASHINGTON, PGS SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1935. * Myer Chases League Baltling Crown : Homers Deczswe in Five Major Games @ NEEDS TEN POINTS 10 CATCH VOSMIK Road Star Wouid Be Third National to Win Title. Holds Steady Gait. BY FRANCIS E. STA the West begins and beckons to the Nationals after two more skirmishes with the Red ox tomorrow are a couple of ball-| playing fellahs who may be just a little jittery. Not that Hank Greenberg and Joe Vosmik are squeamish, particularly over the forthcoming invasion of the Griffmen as a team Greenberg's | team, the Tigers, have done very well | against Washington this season, win- | 9 of 14 tilts. Vosmik's club, the In-| dians, have grabbed 8 of 11 games | from the Nationals. It is Buddy Myer who might well | have this pair worried. For 10 years | now Buddy has been rated, by fans and players alike, as just “a good | ball player.” That has been all. Al-| ways Buddy has been overshadowed by Charley Gehringer among second basemen in the American League. | And he's never been big enough, nor | is he of the type to put big dents in | the fences and win fame that way. Hits Steadily All Season. \ 'HAT was from 1925 through 1034, though. This is another season, ‘ and pitchers who have been only | vaguely annoyed in the past when | Myer stepped to the plate now are | downright worried. They admit they'd | rather see Heinie Manush or Johnny | Stone or Cecil Travis facing 'em 'm-‘ stead of Myer. | Their fear is shared, with Green- | berg and Vosmik divvying up a goodly | share now. Vosmik, you see, is leading the leading league in hitting and| Greenberg is second. They've been m the race for the batting champmx‘(hlp before, but Myer as a threat is some- | thing new—but a threat, none the less. | ‘When Buddy opened the season »\m\ @ bang, it was regarded as little more | than a good omen. Never before has Myer batted higher than .313, although he has been a .300 hitter during six of his ten seasons in the majors. | But this season Buddy refused to bat in streaks and slumps. All Spring and Summer his yaller bat has been socking base hits. There were no out- | standing streaks, although he hit| safely in 21 consecutive games in June. There were no out:[andmg slumps. He kept his average between | ,330 and .340 most of the year. Bats .387 in West. AS THE Griffs embark upon a 24- game road trip today, Buddy is batting .338. Greenberg, running sec- ond to Vosmik, is hitting .342. Vosmik | himself is exactly 10 points above Myer. Ten points is quite a lead, of course, but if Vosmik knows the 1935 Myer | he might well worry a bit, for this sea- | son, contrary to custom, Buddy has been a “road hitter.” In Griffith Sta- | dium his mark is only slightly better than his previous peak year. Here he is batting .314. But on the road, especially in the West, the doughty Washington field captain has been one of the standout sluggers of the season. On all for- eign fields, for instance, Myer has made 74 hits in 205 trips to the plate for an average of .361, far above | the marks of Vosmik and Greenterg. | For campaigning strictly in the West Myer's batting talent has been even more sensational. In the De- troit, Cleveland, Chicago and St.| Louis parks the crack second baseman has hit at a .387 cllp | Griffs Win Sfil‘k Title Twice. IT WOULD be little short of remark- | able if Myer, after a decade as *just a good ball player,” suddenly should jump out from nowhere and grab the most coveted individual prize in the majors just about the time he ghould be skidding. But in view of his swatting tendencies in out-of-town parks it is anything but impossible. | "This season is too old to regard Buddy &s a batting flash-in-the-pan. He is Just a better batter than ever before. If Myer should accomplish the feat it would be only the third time in the history of the American League that a Washington batsman won the | hitting championship. Back in 1902, ‘ second year of existence for the cir-| cuit, Ed Delehanty of the Nationals finished first with a .376 average.| Twenty-six years later, or in 1928, Goose Goslin won the batting title with .379. For a time last year it looked as though Heinie Manush would win it | for the first time as a National. In| fact, Heinie was only a few points | behind Lou Gehrig on the final swing of the West, but Manush faltered near the end and Lou took the crown with | .363. Now Myer seems prepared to| make a bid at least equally as prom- ising. INSECTS WANT DATES. Insect teams desiring games with Bunbeam Market's Insects are asked to call North 5417, Griffs’ Records BATTING. H 2h8b Er.RM Pcl %09 ahe S a6 @ 2 * 2 = e %33 e 2L% oo 3283 fefond S £ - COMMEMIIDOWBISNO! was [ 12 A D ORI DR 195D 5 0 2 { 200 194 | 180 | 143 056 - SRS BB D! 000D NI IHROBD ©OSHOSOHORHEOROuIR O, W.L. 10 05030 4 onenes 3§ o535 SnwomaS a3 ¥ onalaweSn ! his tailor took the measurements for | still was in the thick of championship Night Games for Nats Loom Griffith Sees OES Washington want night base ball? Clark Griffith seems to think so and there is more than a possibility that his Nationals will be playing under the lights at the Georgia avenue ball yard next year. That some 10,000 turn-out at the “donkey” game last Thursday just about convinced Griffith that Washington is a night city, so base ball's greatest conservative ex- presses willingness to accept the new order provided the night game might be staged under conditions more favorable than those that now prevail. Griffith is preparing to carry the question of the night game to the Winter meeting of the American League. The Washington club’s president first of all insists there must be improvement in the lighting of parks for night play. He admits that his own ball yard is not now properly equipped for the sport after dark, although it has been used for it by independent teams. Lighting of parks where night league competition is regularly scheduled leaves much to be de- sired, however, Griffith contends. . He would not schedule night games here until after June 15, be- lieving there would be little patronage after dark in the cooler weather before then in the base ball season. Perhaps a night game a week or even one in each series with a visiting club could be played, he thinks. Griffith feeis that the scheduling Possibilites Pastiming—May Seek League Sanction. of night contests would prove an effective means of combating the THE SPORTLIGHT Dempsey, Tunney Are Fine Examples of Keeping Shape BY GRANTLAND RI HE average athlete, champion or otherwise, figures that condi- | tioning and training days are | I over the morning after he quiis | competition and decides to retire. This happens to be the spot where | the tougher job should begin. For | surplus weight builds up quickly, and with the incentive of competition | closed out, any form of training job is pretty sure to be a bore and a grind. If there is one man who should know his share about condition, imm‘ | 15 to 85, it is Keene Fitzpatrick, the‘ | former coach and trainer at Yale, Michigan and Princeton with a back- ground of more than 40 years in this service. “Any man or any woman who starts piling on fat is making a big mistake,” Fitzpatrick says. “The fat man or woman, especially one who has passed 40, is more in- clined to pick up various illnesses— with less resistance at hand. I am not advocating any strict diets that bring about too much loss of weight. I don't believe in quick reducing. I| do believe in watching your weight | from the start. This applies especial- ly to ex-athletes—former foot ball| players, trackmen, oarsmen, etc. If| they get careless they soon begin to put on weight in a hurry, and after that it's not an easy job to bring themselves back.” Leading Examples. 'WO of the best examples I know in watching weight and condition after retirement are Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Dempsey weighed around 193 the night he fought Tunney in Chicago. Eight years later Jack tips the scales at 203 pounds, only a slight gain. I was with Dempsey one day when a suit and found almost no changes | to make in the figures dating from | the last of Jack’s fighting days. The same is true of Tunney. Gene weighed close to 190 in Chicago when he met Dempsey for the last time. Tunney today is around 200 pounds, but Tunney, like Dempsey, is over six feet and heavily muscled. I asked Gene the type of setting-up exercises he follows. “The important ones,” he said, “are those that affect the stomach and the stomach muscles. It is necessary to have the stomach covered with muscular protection to keep out any flabbiness. You can see the shape I'm keeping in. Take a good poke with right or left if you care to.” After observing Gene's ab- dominal development, with a muscular, covering fike rhino leather, your correspondent de- cided not to risk breaking a hand. Tunney’s stomach de- velopment was just about as it was when he quit the game. Dempsey still is the same high- strung, nervous type he was back in his early and his championship days. He still is as restless as the west wind.: Tunney moves along at a much calmer pace, with a working philosophy that could be a big help to high and low alike. Other Stars. 'O or three years back Bobby Jones decided that he had to look after his increasing weight. Bobby always has had a battle to face along this line. Through dieting and exercising he took off 18 pounds in 20 days, a rather hurried process, but he has kept his reduced weight ever since. Bobby Jones today weighs less than he weighed 10 years ago, when he golf. But they all haven't been like | Dempsey, Tunney and Bobby Jones. After his last stand, or his last fall, Jess Willard allowed his weight to run from 260 to something like 350. Firpo fought Dempsey at 221 and from last accounts the wild bull of the far-away pampas had moved up to well over 300, which is many pounds over par. Firpo and Willard together on the scales would tip the beam at 700 pounds, which borders on what you might call the excessive side. One of the greatest shocks an eld- » in After - Dark synthetic Sunday double-header, something he has considered a prime evi! of the game ever since its introductioi by the Cardinals in St. Louis several years ago. With night games permissible, there would be no need of backing up engagements to Sundays to benefit club coffers he argues. ‘When the night game was given major dignity by the National League last Winter, Griffith led the American League owners in their derisive as well as bitter criticism of the move. But the unqualified success of the Reds' experiment with the after-dark pastiming and the meager attendances at daytime games In the'r own parks appears to have brought about a change of heart in some of the junior major leaders. There is every likelihood that Griffith would have some support should ne advocate the adoption of the night game in the American League when he goes to the Winter meeting. The Browns in St. Louis and the A's in Philadelphia as well as the Nationals have felt the pinch of poverty this year. But there will be opposition, too. Eddie Collins. perhaps as spokes= man for the Red Sox, has come along with a blast against the night game. Frank Navin, Detroit owner, not so long ago reiterated his dislikz of major league play under .ghts and other owners have gone on record against it. But if Grifith comes around to wanting it, he will make a great fight for the a2doption of the after dark pastiming by his circuit. After Retirement. | weeks | timer gets is meeting Packey McFar- | land, the once great lightweight. ! g Packey let his once slender system Tun up to 200 pounds before trying to build up a barrier. Piling on 60 pounds was one of (he few dumb things Packey ever rolled into. What about old-time ball players? Rube Marquard looks about as slender and willowy today as he did when piling up 19 straight. Nap Rucker, now mayor of & Georgia town, has taken good care of himself—which Nap always did. 1 played golf a few months ago with | Ty Cobb. The Georgia Peach has| moved up from 185 to 200, which isn't so much. Tris Speaker has changed but little. One athlete who has a battle ahead is Babe Ruth. The Babe still likes his food. On one of our last meetings | in the South he consumed 12 stone- crabs, which are about the size of | a lobster. | But the Babe weighed 251 when he hit his 60 home runs, and he still 1s well below the weight that helped to | break a record. But few rules go for | } the Babe. He makes his own as he | ha goes along, so far as condition 1s con- cerned. He moved around 220 to 250 pounds, set up on slender ankies,| for 20 years. But swing back to Keene Fitzpat- rick’s advice. I'm telling you that if Keene doesn’t know, then no ohe knows. Don’t put on too much sur- plus flesh. Don't get too soft. Don't over-diet and get too thin, There still is such a thing as being normal, as being temperate—as not overdoing or underdoing. A man who never took a drink can be as intemperate—at eating—as a near drunkard. One of the great words in the dic- tionary is in the H's. It happens to be—Health. (Copyright, 1935.) GRIFFS ARE BARRED FROM MEXICAN TRIP Kress, Whitehill, Manush Can't' Go With Mack's All-Star Team, Says Griffith. THERE will be no member of the Washington Club with the Amer- ican League all-star team Earl Mack will take on a month’s exhibition tour of Mexico, following the world series in October. Mack, oldest son of the veteran Connie Mack and coach of the Ath- letics, had announced that Earl Whitehill, Heinie Manush and Red Kress of the Nationals would be with the squad, but Clark Griffith declared this morning that no player under | contract to his club would be given permission to make the trip. Kress, Washington shortstop, who was released to Chattanooga and re- called in a few hours late last month, was to have played right field for the tourists. Whitehill was to pitch, and Manush take care of an outfield job. Griffith’s refusal to permit his play- ers to barnstorm leaves Mack with only eight actually signed for his all- star squad, with others tentatively se- lected. According to the Associated Press, Ted Lyons of the White Sox and Rube Walberg, Red Sox, will be taken along to pitch. Luke Sewell, Chicago, will do the backstopping, with others lining up as follows: First base, Hank Greenberg, Tigers; second base, Char- ley Gehringer, Tigers; shortstop, Eric McNair, Athletics; third base, Pinky Higgins, Athletics, and center field, Roger Cramer, Athletics. Bing Miller, Red Sox coach, will travel with the team as coach and utility player. The squad will play 11 games in Mexico City and two each in Monterey and Laredo, —_— NOTED TURFMAN DIES. PETWORTH, England, August 9 (#).—Lord Woolavington, wealthy dis- tiller and prominent race horse owner and breeder, died today after a long iliness. Hes was 85 years old, [ GIRLS BETTER OWN D. C. SWIN MARKS Ann Bono, Margaret Hoff- | s | man Speed to A.A.U. Titles. | Men Set Two Records. D as Old Glory at sundown, took another . trimming last night in the District A. A. U. outdoor championships at Takoma Pool when four new marks were written into local books. Ann Bono, the Shoreham’s spritely | speedster, broke her _two-week-old | record in the 50-yard free-style event | by sprinting the distance in 3045 sec- onds, one-fifth of a second better than the old mark. Margaret Hoffman, former Olympic ace, wiped out her own record set two ago in the 100-yard breast stroke by covering the century in 1:23, | three seconds better than the previous | record and more than 12 seconds bet- ter over all former District marks. ISTRICT swimming records, lowered almost as frequently “Y” Entries Set Records. ROBERT CLARK, Y. M. C. A, a newcomer to local tanks, set an- other record in the 200-yard breast stroke by swimming the distance in 2:48%;, while the fourth mark was recorded by the Y. M. C. A. team of Orme, Clark and Toulmin in the 300- yard men’s relay, which went on rec-| ord as a new mark solely because the | distance had not been swum before in District competition. ! Johnny Broaddus proved himself best of the local divers in easily de- feating Buddy Hodgson and Forrest Harding. Summaries: Men's Events. 50-: )ard !ree 5!)1!—“’0" by Harry Toul- C. : second. Alex Mar- third. Bryan Carioll A th. Sam Pusco (N. E. Bct Prime. seconds. 200~ \M’d bre¢~L stroke—Won by Robert Clark (Y. M. C. A): second. Lew Clay P & A5 Shird ‘martiers Ewell (M. | Cliib mm»m Jourth Knox Moncure [} A 2148 Dis- lrlr! rfl‘ord {DYmtr I!rord 200- d__free style—Won Bf):(‘ ‘Y M. C Av second. Ewell 4‘\!(3 Chib ‘Gardens) : Ed Murrhy (Y. M C. A): fourth, Blll ilcnht‘nsnn (Washing- Won by Ciub) Jer B | A.): second, S -yard back third Orme (¥ M (11d.” Club Gar- on by John Broad- .m i Ehu'vhnm ) B four Ma M. C. Pitzhugh {Shoreham): A Ewell A). Won hy Toulmin Fmrur, Harding poi! T00-vard free style M. C. A): second. Joe LaSalle (Shore- ). third. Harvey Deering (N. fourth. Bill Stephenson (W. C. C.). | 55 6 seconds 00-yard medley relay—Won by Y. M No, 1 team (Orem, Clark, Toulmin) d. Mo. 2 Y. A. team: third. ¥ M.C “tourth. Northeast Boss® Ciud. Firn . (New record.) womon Events. 50-yard free stvle—Won by Ann_Bono (Shoreham): second Betty O"Soole (Shore- ham): third. Ann _Aronson (Ambassador): fourth Gertrude Theunissen (Shoreham) Time 8 (new District record: former reco held by Miss Bono). 63.70 | A l(lm 10 d breast stroke—Won by Mar- garet Hoffman (unattached): second. Helen Richardson (Maryland Club Gardens) third. Mars Alley '(Shoreham): fourth: Mary’ Zanelotti (Shoreham). Time—1:23 {new District record: former record. 1:26. held by Miss Hoffman) 100-yard back stroke—Won by Leonora Taube " (Shoreham): second. Lydia Cort {Snoreham): third Ann Argnson (Ambas- sador:fourth. Florence Farwell ~(unat- tached). Ti )6, H0ovard Tre stale- - Won by (Shoreham): second. Margaret (unattached): third. Lydll Cort ham): fourth Gertrude — Theunissen (Shoreham) Tir | Leonora second points: oreham). | 1 ourin. Ann" Bono (Shore: points. T50-vard. medley swim—Won by Betty | O'Toole _(Shoreham): second. Leonora | Taube (Shoreham): 'third. Helen Rich- ards (Maryland Club Gardens): fourth, Lydia Cort (Shoreham). Time—2:25. TITLE 1S RETAINED BY D. . TYPO NINE Holbrook Heads Attack as| Detroit Is Beaten, 11-9, in Printers’ League. By the Associated Press. LEVELAND, August 10.—Wash- ington Union Printers, de- | feated in their first game | and facing elimination with | another loss, climaxed an uphill fight here yesterday by successfully defending their Union Printers’ In- ternational Base Ball League title in Ann Bono Hoffman (Shore: Detroit. Led by Charley Holbrook, who cracked out three hits, including a triple, in five trips to the plate, the Capital City typos smashed out 16 hits off three Detroit pitchers. De- troit staged a six-run rally in the eighth inning on four hits and three errors. Fred Waple, Washington first base- man, was spiked on the right heel by Numbers in the eighth and was forced to retire in favor of Al Mc- Alwee. Summary: Wash. Al D'glish.cf Sch.der.rf Detrott AN 1 IS L Soooonwoon® Buchtac 4 Martin,3b 4 P 8l meswmorwons 5l - ©lw wmooonecos? Totals 381124 9 Washington 200 035 20x—11 Detroit - oou 01 060— 9 ‘Runs—Dalgiish 2 neider, Edws (23 "Hobrook (2). McPhenon (2). Mose. dale.~ Homan, 2y, Numbers (2. Dodwig. - Fingstad: aunu- narr, Simmon. Errors—Washington, 6; Two-base hits—Dalglish. tamvm. 'rhree |Et h“hflomlh. 0- erson. ports Program For Local Fans* TODAY. Base Ball ‘Washington at Boston. Tennis. Finals, Women’s League tournament, Columbia Country Club. Federal employes’ tournament, Po- tomac Park. Embassy tournament, 2435 Massa- chusetts avenus. ) : MAJOR LEADERS | Terry, Giants pounding out an 11-9 victory over | Buc ‘The Central Y. M. C. A. entrants came close to making a clean sweep of the men’s events in the D. C. championships last night in the Takoma pool. Shown, from left to right, are a quartet of the prin- cipal winners, Robert Clark, Ernie Boggs, Harry Toulmin and Bill Marmion. AT BAT PRESSED Greenberg, Medwick Close In on Vosmik, Vaughan During Week. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 10.—Con- tinuing their consistent work at the plate, Hank Green- berg, the Detroit Tigers' rlnutmg first baseman, and Joe Med- | wick, the St. Louis Cardinals’ No. 1 | hitter. closed in last week on Joe Vosmik, of the Cleveland Indians, and Arky Vaughan, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, in the battle for the batting leadership of the major leagues. Greenberg had a batting average of .344, es compared to Vosmik's .347, while Medwick was hitting at .379 clip in contrast to Vaughan's average of .395. Greenberg came up with nine hits in 18 times at bat for a weekly aver- age of .500 and a gain of seven points. Medwick’s 10 safe blows in 24 times at bat boosted his total hits to 156 and gave him an increase of three points. The leading batters in each league | with total games, at bats, runs, hits and percentage: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Vosmik. Indians_ 8 5 14 | Greenbers. Tigers. | | Indians_ Gehringer. Tigers. Foxx. Athleti Cochrane. Ti: NA Vaughan, Pirates Medwick.. Cardin Hartnett. Cubs. Minor Leagues International. Albany, 9; Rochester, 6. Buffalo, 7—14; Newark, 2—5. Montreal, 10; Syracuse, 2. Toronto, 13; Baltimore, 7. American Association. Indianapolis, 11; Minneapolis, 8. Kansas City, 17; Columbus, 6; Milwaukee, 3. Southern Association. Little Rock, 4; Knoxville, 3. Chattanooga, 12; Birmingham, 10, Atlanta, 5; Memphis, 4. New Orleans, 1; Nashville, 0, Pacific Coast. Oskland, 3—8; Hollywood, 2—1. Los Angeles, 6; Seattle, 0. Portland, 7; Missions, 4. San Francisco, 10; Sacramento, T. Texas. Houston, 5; Dallas, 2. Galveston, 9; Fort Worth, 2. . Tulsa, 10; San Antonio, 7. Oklahoma City, 6—2; Beaumont, 5—2. . Three-Eye. Decatur, 4; Bloomington, 2. Terre Haute, 7; Fort Wayne, 4. Springfield, 8; Peoria, 2. ‘Western. Sioux City, 8; Davenport, 6. Council Bluffs, 4; Keokuk, 3. New York-Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, 2—3; Hazelton, 1—2. Piedmont. Norfolk, 4; Portsmouth, 0, Middle Atlantic. Dayton, 10; cnnmm 2. Purh‘nollfll 8. MARGARET Former Olympic swimmer, unattached, as she raced to victory in the 100~ yard breast-stroke event. FROM THE Neusel, Disdainful of Louis’ Scowl, Seems Eager to Fight Brown Bomber. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, August 10—Did | you ever wonder how a fellow | feels who's going to fight Joe Louis? Well, Max Baer could tell you, but his story wouldn’t make sense. Take a better specimen. Take | young Walter Neusel, who is just back | from Europe and probably will face | Detroit’s one-man firing squad in the next few months, before or after the | Baer fight. Let’s follow Walter through the day, observing his pulse, blood presure, | knee reflex, appetite, reaction to kind- | | ness, reaction to cruelty, and state of mind, if any. The condemned man ate a hearty breakfast. When in- formed by his manager that he likely was to fight Louis, ‘Walter ordered another rasher of eggs and drove it to the ropes. Then he lit a cigar. “Louis fought last night, didn’t he?” said Walter politely. “Yes,” said manager Paul Damski. “With Levinsky?” “Yes.” “The fellow that I softened up?” “The fellow that you softened up,” agreed Mr. Damski fervently. “Good- ness you almost broke him in two.” “And Levinsky hun‘t won a fight “Then,” said Mr. Neusel, calmly en- | of nervousness, or curiosity, gulfing the last fragment of scrambled egg, “Louis must have knocked him out in one round. If he didn’t, he's no good.” Scowl Can’t Scare Him. YOUR correspondent, feeling that this dialogue might have been worked up for his benefit, decided to put Mr. Neusel to a sterner test. Your correspondent does not appear unlike Joe Louis, though a member of the so- called Caucasian race. He suddenly scowled at Neusel in the Louis manner. “What's the trouble?” said Walter with & smile. “Feeling sick? These ships rock quite s bit, even in the harbor.” Then Mr. Neusel went ashore. His blood pressure remained at par as he strolled through the city streets. His pulse was normal. His face was calm. He asked about this German ball player, Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who has played so many games in 8 Tow. “He must be like me,” said Walter. “Always in there, al ‘ways punching.” ‘Then Mr. Neusel paid a call .| 7% inches, which had been set by on Mr. James J. Johnson, the sinister genius of Madison Square Garden. It Mr.|Ohio, LONG DRNVES AID LEAGUE LEADERS LGreenberg Clouts Tigers to Win—~Giants Ahead on Jackson’s Four-Baser. BY ANDY CLARKE, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. T'S still a good way to win ball games, this business of belting | one out of the park [ Of seven games played in the | major leagues yesterday, five were | won by the simple strategem of hit- | ting the ball over the barriers and | trotting around with the winning margins. Hank Greenberg hit his thirty-first | circuit blow of the season, clean over | the scoreboard with Gehringer on | base to give the Detroit Tigers their | margin of victory over the Chicago White Sox. The final score was 4 |to 3 | At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh Rookie Bud Hafey, who is batting .143, hit one over the scoreboard too, and | the Pittsburgh Pirates rode on that {ltmr smash to a 1-0 victory over Cin- | cinnati. The hit, by the nephew of | the once great Chick Hafey, came in | the eighth in g to break up a | pitching duel between Bill Swift of the Pirates and young Albert Hol- | lingsworth, Red portsider. Jackson Clouts Giants to Win. | RAVIS JACKSON assumed the hero | role in Philadelphia when he stepped to the plate in the ninth in- | ning with Hank Leiber on base, smote | one mightily and gave the league- ‘leadmg New York Giants a 3-2 deci- | sion over the Phillies. The triumph, [ coupled with the defeat of the Chi- cago Cubs by the Cardinals, increased the Giants' lead over Chicago to three games, Tony Cuccinello provided the homer that climaxed a four-run rally in the ninth and gave the Brooklyn Dodgers |2 6-5 win over the Boston Brhves The Dodgers had led until the eighth, when Johnny Babich weakened and then "went to the showers as the | Braves sent three runs across the plate. Ryan Starts Yank Rally. ED ROLFE was the man of the | hour as the Yankees shaded the Philadelphia Athletics, but sharing the laurels in this contest was John (Blondy) Ryan, who came back to the city of his first triumphs to touch off the rally that led to a Yankee vic- |tory. The former Giant shortstop | made his debut as a Yankee by slapping a clean single to right. Ruf- fing followed Ryan with a single which, with the help of errors, allowed Blondy to score and then Rolfe banged out his homer. The St. Louis Cards defeated the | Cubs, 3-1, behind the six-hit pitch- ing of Paul Dean. Joe Medwick hit | a homer in this game, but it was made with none on and the Cards would have won without it. | Dean chalked up his thirteenth vie- tory of the season as the Cards took |second place by a margin of three points, .614 to .611. . | Cleveland defeated the St. Louis HOFFMAN, Browns, 5-3, as Brown rallies went | for naught in the eighth and ninth | 1nnings. —Star Staff Photos. PRESS BOX ROMANS SEEK GAMES. The Roman Insects want games. | Call Joe Urciolo at Metropolitan 4941. Stars Yesterday By the Assoclated Press. Travis Jackson, Giants—Cracked | out ninth-inning homer with two on to beat Phillies. Tony Cuccinello, Dodgers—His | ninth-inning homer climaxed four- | run rally against Braves. Bud Hafey, Pirates—Drove out nomer for only run of game with Reds. Paul Dean, Cardinals—Held Cubs to Johnson can’t scare a guy, nobody can. He mentioned Louis. a, Louis,” said Mr. Neusel, yawn- | ing. “What time is it?” “Have you ever seen<him fight?” “No,” said Mr. Neusel. “Has he ever seen me?” | Hopes Joe Won't Dodge Him. THE observation party still was dlS- six hits, } satisfied. A man who is going to| Hank Greenberg, Tigers—His 31st fight Joe Louis should show some sign | home run with Charlie Gehringer on or some- | bas furnished margin over White Sox. thing. Maybe Neusel didn't really| Red Rolfe and Charley Ruffing, think he was going to fight Louis.| Yankees—Former's hom'r was decid- Did he? | ing blow while latter held A's to six “What!” | hits. dignantly. “Certainly I am going to| Mel Harder, Indians—Held Browns fight him. Unless he dodges me. I|at bay in pinches. want to fight Mim. My manager asked the commission what I would have to do to get a fight with Brad- dock, and they said ‘Beat Louis.” Well, that’s what I'm going to do unless he runs away from me. Not fight Louis!"” repeated Mr. Neusel, smacking his chops with annoyance. “That's ri- diculous!” “He's pretty tough, Walter.” “Tough, hey?” said Mr. Neusel. “Paul, you tell 'em. “Certainly, I will tell them,” said Manager Damski. “Louis never has been crowded. He never has met & fighter who keeps on top of him all the time. But that's what Walter will do to him. That's the kind of boy he is. Why, let me tell you—" After letting Mr. Damski tell a great deal, we glanced at muel again. He seemed to go to sleep. His cigar out. His pulse was still , and his blood pressure n-! normal than his exclaimed Mr. Neusel in- League Statistics SATURDAY. AUGUST 10, 1935, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York. 3: Philadelphia. 2. Detroit. 4: Chicago. 3 Cleveland. 5: St. Louis. 3 Other clubs not scheduied. [eradrepuiug| 2 | nrsTTTII M NY cgu Bos| Clel L1 71 71 5! D 11 5“ 451.536/10 8| _7I—| 6(12] 9| 5/5621481.520111% 510! _7I—I 5/ _8110/50/50/.500" 13% Phil 4] 4 6] 8I—I 71_8141/521.441118 Wnl 5/ 71 bI_61 3| 8/—I 9143/571430120% StLI_ 3/ 5] 81 6 31 6] 31—I34/64].347/28 L._137140/45/48/50162157/641—I—I GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Bos. Wash. at Bos. (2). 3 lfi [!trul‘!. Chi t Det. Eleveiaba st Bt L. Clove. 't Bt. L National RESULTS YESTERDAY, New York. 3: Philadelphia, 2. Brooklyn oston. 5. Putil:lrlh 1: Sincinnatl, 0. other words, the con- demned man was resting easy. He probably will continue to do copy. (conymht lD’lH by the North Amm:.n A liance. Inc.) osworud nynnn-uu u4ry0018 *'RI0% -au sno 43| 2 !mqlw_s!ma E53 NEW CANADIAN JUMP MARK ‘WINNIPEG, August 10 (). —Sammy Richardson, Negro athlete from To- ronto, broke the Canadian record for the running broad jump at the Do- minion track and fleld championships here last night, with a leap of 24 feet 11 inches, to wipe out the Canadian native record of 23 feet 8, inches and the Canadian open record of ‘24 feet 87110 7 4I—[12/111 611 Chil Pitl B[ Phll Cin] K Bos! 2/ 3| ZF "'\ 5l 7| _5/—I26/76/.255 /41 L._136[3914214056/6769/76/—I—I I __ GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. gGion, at Pltteb Ginp. at Pl bura. Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland, t -