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Che Foening Star Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935. Nats Invade West as Trouble-Makers : Tigers Boost Lead While Giants Slip @ & BATTERED OUTFIT MEAN TO BETTERS Not to Be Taken Lightly Even by Leading Tigers These Days. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, August 12.—Between watching Joe Louis and the | champion Tigers, sporfs fans of this village probably only faintly recall the Nationals as holders of an American League franchise, but | it isn't likely that Mickey Cochrane | is taking them so lightly today. Leading the procession by half a dozen games now, the Tigers appear well on their way to a second suc- cessive pennant. Offhand the presence in town~of the Nationals may not Hazard in Defense of HE first maneuvers in one of | sport’s wildest lotteries gets under way Tuesday, when the process of sifting the amateur golf material of the country for the annual championship, starting in Cleveland September 9, begins at San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver. Twenty-nine different cities will put on these sectional shows, the others coming a week later. Something like a thousand golfers, young and old, are set to face the | starter in this grand free-for-all, and out of that list only 200 will, be al- lowed to qualify for the real round- | up at Cleveland. Approximately 80 per cent of the field will be turned back at this first hurdle. There you get some idea of how hectic the bat- indicate much. But if Mickey has been reading the box scores lately he undoubtedly would prefer to wait until after the four-game series with | ‘Washington before counting any | chickens. The Griffs are not going anywhere themselves in the race. At least they | are not going to stray out of the second division. But they certainly | seem bent on making trouble for teams with brighter outlooks than their own. Ask the Yankees, or query the Red | Sox, who accompanied them Wesr‘ last night. \ Griffs Can Be Rough. OT that the Griffs can do any serious blighting of the Tigers' hopes here and now. Even if they were to rise and sweep the set which begins tomorrow, the Bengals still would be at the top. But upsetting | the apple cart would put a dent in the Tigers' lead and unlikely as many | may consider such an upset by the Griffs, it might well be done. Past performances prove this. Three weeks ago the Yanks were sailing serenely along in first place when Bucky Harris herded his down- trodden brigade to Gotham for a four- game series. The Yanks, who had just staved off a Detroit bid. were odds-on favorites fo cnnihilate the Nationals. What happened easily is recalled, especially by the Yanks. The Griffs rose up and slapped down the Yanks three times in four games, and knocked them from the lead, which the Tigers grabbed and have held ever since. | | Red Sox Given Fight. 'HE Nationals’ performance against the Red Sox in the series was, of | course. much less spectacular and less\ successful. They took only one of | three games, but it was enough to cost | the Bostons third place and, more- over, the Griffs easily might have| swept the set. If this be home-town- | ishness, make the most of it, but it/ remains that both of the one-run de-’ feats they suffered ecasily could have been averted by (a) a little relief| pitching and (b) a little more luck. For the Detroit series Harris has available what sometimes is called | his “big four”—Earl Whitehill, Bump1 Hadley, Buck Newsom and Ed Linke. ‘Whitehill and Hadley, suffering from a cold and a sprained snkle, respec- | tively, were held out of the Boston | set and are fresh to open the Tiger series in that order tomorrow and ‘Wednesday. Newsom is slated to pitch Thursday | and Linke, who started his first game | in three weeks yesterday, will go again Friday, according to Harris’' present | plans. Nope, they're not going anywhere, | Mickey, but watch out for the Na-| tionals anyway. | Newsom Stars in Boston. Before a crowd of 35,000 cash cus-| tomers, who braved a light rain and threatening clouds to flock to Fenway | Park yesterday. the Griffs wound up| their Eastern campaigning until Au-| gust 31 by dividing a double-header | ‘with the Bosox \ In the opener Bashful Buck Newsom | proved that he can come pack when | he hurled the Griffs to a 4-to-2 vic- tory over Lefty Grove. Belted out by the Sox in three innings Saturday, | Newsom returned to the rubber and so well lid ne scatter 11 hits that the Sox scored only in one inning. Grove outpitched Buck, giving up only seven hits, but his support was mgged.‘ and between three errors and the in- evitable hitting of Buddy Myer, the lean left-hander failed in his try for victory No. 15 | In the nightcap the Sox won a 5- to-4 decision, thanks to an error by Clif Bolton, a doubtful piece of third- basing by Cecil Travis and Wes Fer- | rell's almost unbelievable luck. It was Ferrell’s nineteenth victory, incident- | ally, and his fifth over the Griffs this‘ season. Ed Linke hurled for the Griffs and went into the eighth with a 4-to-3| lead. Then he walked Werber and | Travis messed up Melillo’s intended sacrifice, which went for a cheap hit. A sacrifice by Dahlgren moved Werber and Melillo up and then Wes Ferrell grounded to Travis. The throw to| Bolton had Werber out by 12 feet, but | the runner knocked the ball from the catcher’s grasp A double by Cooke scored Melillo with the winning run. | events, a short time ago. tling will be. The rush of young blood is ram- pant in the field of golf, and that means a new flow from year to'year. At Brookline last year something like | 20 per cent of the field never had | quahfied for the championship be- | fore, and out of this list came the runner-up for the title, Dave Gold- man, of Dallas. Up From the Cradle. YOU can gamble that each successive championship will produce its quota of youngsters still in their teens to be in there unceremoniously knock- mg over their better known elders, although the difference in years at that is no more than three or four. These youngsters are coming up from the cradle with a mashie in their clutch, from all sections of the coun- try. They are coming up with good, sound golf swings that wield the club | with all the unconcern of a young duck swimming in a mill pond. They | have yet to learn just how hard this game of golf can be. Many of them | are better than fair putters and, when the ball happens t be rolling for them, they are a match for anybody. The Changing Scene. UST to show how rapidly the order of things can change in this most baflling of games we might call at- tention to a few details of the niay in the trans-Mississippi championship, one of the most important sectional Among the entries one recognized right away the names of such stars as Gus Moreland, | | Zell Eaton, Western champion; Johnny | Goodman and Reynolds Smith, a semi- finalist at Brookline last Fall. Out of that list Goodman alone survived the first day of match play and even he had a very close call in his first match. THE SPORTLIGHT Unknown Youngsters Are Little’s Biggest U. S. Amateur Crown. BY GRANTLAND RI Jimmie Miller, a Drake University sidelines with a string of pars and birdies that terminated the match on the twelfth green, Moreland losing, 7 and 6. At the $ame time Dave Goldman was being erased by a bespectacled youngster, Dave Davis, whose only claim to distinction prior to this cham- pionship was the winning of the Des Moines junior championship. Both Smith and Eaton were ushered out by Bob Conliff of Oklahoma City, the latter in the morning and the former in the afternoon round. And to add to the sum total of achievements of the infant class, Billy Cordingley, & 17-year-old student at Phillips Exeter, knocked out the medalist, Denmar Miller, also in the first round. Balancing the Equation. THE Country Club of Cleveland is sure to mark the debut in the percentage of youngsters. Yet there | will be a fair sprinkling of veterans. Out of consideration for past per- formances, all former champions are exempt from taking the sectional elimination tests. This means that something like 10 or a dozen former champions will go to the post. Francis Ouimet, Chick Evans Chandler Egan, Max Marston, Jesse Guilford, among the veterans, and | George Dunlap, jr.. and Ross Somer- ville are expected to take a hand, and. of course, Lawson Little will defend his title in an effort to set a new rec- ord of winning both this champion- ship and the British amateur two years in sucession. Latest advice is| | that Jess Sweetser will pass up the | | show this year. While the youngsters are furnish- ing the spice for the program, heroes | of earlier days will be in there con- | tributing notably to the show them- selves. The meeting between Evans and Egan at Brookline last Fall, a renewal of a previous duel in the championship dating back more than 20 years, was one of the highlights of. that tourna- ment. ‘Taking a squint this far in advance, | Little looks to be a good bet to hold | on to his title. There is no other sin- gle entry who figures on past per- challenge. But there is always the chance that some ambitious youngster may catch him a bit off his stride and take him over in an 18-hole tussle. It's all a part of the game called golf (Covyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) |{ANOTHER JOHNSON STARS ON DIAMOND ‘Walter Watches Son, Eddie, Hit, Field Well as Kensington Beats Germantown. ALTER JOHNSON, idol of Wash- ington base ball fans and until recently the manager of the Clevehnd Indians, saw his son, Eddie, star for | | the Kensington A. C. yesterday as that nine wallcped the Germantown A. C. by 12 to 3 on the latter’s diamond at | Germantown, Md. Eddie clouted a triple with the bases | loaded in the second inning and played a star game afield. Tom Saxon, man- ager of the winners, is seeking more games and may be reached at Ken-| sington 273 after 7 p.m. Colesville Cardinals made it three straight over Dayton A. C., champion of Howsrd County, with a 4-to-2 tri- umph at Colesville. Wesley held Gaithersburg A. C. to four hits and Rockville A. A. got a 12-to-0 decision. Fitzgerald and Begil divided the losers’ blows. ¥ Gaithersburg Independents trimmed Bethesda Fire Department, 11 to 8, at Gaithersburg. Meridian A. C. downed Dickerson (Md) A.C, Tto 2. Bethesda Bears nosed out the Sub- urban Marker nine, 10 to 9. Bird Is Bagged By Ball Player By the Associated Press. BIRM!NGHAM, Ala., August 12.— Eddie Rose, New Orleans left- fielder, bagged a pigeon today dur- ing a double-header with the Bir- mingham Barons. In the second inning of the first game, Rose hit a high infield fly and the ball struck one o1 several pigeons flying over the field. The bird fell dead and Eddie Moore, Birmingham shortstop, by some fancy footwork avoided being struck by the pigeon. The hit went for a single. Major League Statistics MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935, American ashington, 4—4: Boslon rmudtu'p:ug 5 New ¥ ~ Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY. 2: New York. 0, Bosten, 5—2. Chic Lot Plbuhurlh b—"i Cincinnati, 4—4. H l gle E "§§§§’= Et[— 61 8 8[15] 71 Nl'llmfl(fltflll NY[—[ 8/ 7[11110]_n]_8[1A[A7AR63R( NY| 71— 5 8l 811[12] 8/501421.581] H StL| 41—[12] 8| 7110/11711163140/.612( 3 _ Chil 71 _5—I12[11/ 6/13113/67/431.6001 & Chil 8| 51— 7/ 7 5] 9/111521471.525/12 Bos! 5| 8] 7I—| 6112[11] 5541401524112 Pit| 41 8 8l—| 7/10111/12I581511.532/11 Clel 51 5101 7k—I 5| 8111/51/511.500114% Bkll 61 5] zl SI—1 91 61121481571 457/10 PhI 41 6/ 4] 6] 81— 71 8143541443120 Phl: 91 4| 71 3| 8I—[ 6/11148]581.453110% Wal 51 71 61 71 3| 8i—I 01441591.427I22 StLI 31 51 81 6/ 41 6 31—[35(65.35020% Cinl 6/ 61 71 7] 81 7i—| 6147601439121 21 31 21 2/ 6/ %1 BI—[27/781.25740 L._|37/42147140151 /541601651 —I—I | L._138(40/43]51157158160/ 78 —I—I___| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. w-;n at Det. 3. . rml. Lowis: < New ork ai Cleve, GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Cinn. at Pittsburgh. Others not scheduled. No games fl1m Records for Week : In Major Leagues The week's record, with games won | and lost, runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs and home runs: American League. ¥ 5L B B EORHR 0 17 33 2 @ 99 T 46 55 4 25 89 14 45 61 11 37 - 66 14 46 | Philadelphia 3 82 15 63 | Chicago .1 6 49 6 27 *Played one tie game. National League. St. Louis._. 19 41 Brooklyn 28 60 Philadelphia 71 Cincinnati_. 48 | Pittsburgh.. 58 Chicago.-... 61 | New Work 68 52 WEST’S NINE VICTOR Club. ‘Washington. 3 New York... 5 1 5 Boston 3 3 5 2 4 3 3 5 NN O 4 | Tops East's, 11-8, in Negro Loop All-Star Contest. CHICAGO, August 12 (#).—The ‘West defeated the East, 11 to 8, in 11 innings at Comiskey Park yesterday in the third annual all-star base ball game of the Negro National League. A crowd of 22,000 saw Mule Suttles of the Chicago American Giants hit a home run with two in the eleventh to give the West its second victory over the East. The Fast won last year and the West ook the inaugu- ral of the series in 1933. Minor Leagues AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Milwaukee, 10—3: Columbus, 0—9. Kansas City. 6—13: Toledo. . Paul. 13-—2: Louisville, 12— Minneapolis. 11: Indianapolis. 10. !TANDING or THE CLUBS. Min'polis 0K 36 5ot 8t Paul Columbus 63 50 .558 Milw 63 51 353 Toled Kan. City 63 52 548 Louisvilie SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION, Knoxville, 1—4; Chattanooga, 0—5. anta, 5 Nnh ille. 3. Me Dhi Little Rock. 2—86. New Orieans, 130 Birmineham, 7—5 HANDXNO OF THE ULUBS W. L. Pc Atianta__ 6648 5 Hemnhli e 513 s 81 5;1 Lit 55 Nashville 8 70 o3 Chat'ooga dfl BG 511 Knaxv!ue QS 2 .385 PACIFIC $OAST. Portland, 11—0: Missions. 6—0. B B Francizes, a—7. Seattle. 10—1: Los Angeles, 4—5. STANDING OF THE CLUBS W.L. Pet. San Pran. 3123 574 Oakland Missions " 33 35 561 Portlan, w. L. 5653 .514 58 57 Pet. Silveston. 4: Dallas. 3. Oklahoma'City. 8—5: San Antonio, 7—2. Beaumont. 6—10; Tulsa, 1—8. !TANDD'O D‘P THE CLUBS. L3N W. L. Pet. 8 B%5 Houston 6465 456 mt 71 b7 883 8, finton. 60 68’470 Galv'ton 881 ga ‘Tulsa. 3 Pt. Worth 54 72 rnn-n:. 1 3—2; Bloomington, 9—4. E{‘a"nm“ B 7 Fort Warne g Fia. 2; Terre Haute. 1. - NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA. Rioshamton, 14 Allentown. 0—3. Eimira. J—4; Harrisbure, o1 Hazleton. 7—1; Wilkes-Barre, 6—7. 19 22 463 0 e SRR R B W.L. Pet. Binatvton 1820 474 PIEDMONT. Norfolk, 8; Portsmouth. ) freshman, catapulted Moreland to the | championship of better than a fair | formances to offer him any formidable | l | 09 | TMiller - Dallss __ 55 73 430 | GrO) 429 O MEXIGAN TOUR FOR YANKS' STARS Club Frowns on Planned Junket—Farm for Grid Pros—Reds on_Toes. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, August 12.—The sports round-up: Latest re- ports say Jersey Joe Stripp is ticketed for the Giants . . Mack probably wouldn't trade Athletics, man for man, for any other club in the American League. Both Lefty Gomez and Bill Dickey are wanted for that barnstorming | tour to Mexico. But Yankee higher- ups are frowning on the idea . Gomez and Lou Gehrig were on the junket to the Orient last Winter and | neither has been the same since . . . Earl Mack, Connie's oldest son, will | be head man on the Mexican tovr. | Professional foot ball is going in | for the farm system . . . The Detroit | Lions have contracted to send their | young players to Louisville in the | American Foot Ball League for de-| velopment. Gehrig Far Ahead of Scotf. OU GEHRIG'S consecutive game streak, which reached 1,605 yes- terday, is 297 games better than the former marathon record set by Deacon | Scott of the Red Sox and Yankees at |1,308 . .. mark was 618, made by Eddie Brown of the Dodgers and Boston Braves. Wally Moses, Athletic outfielder, is | counted one of the real finds of 1935 . The Yankees brcke a custom | lhen they sent for Blondy Run .o d been a strict rule at the sta dlum nmc the Yanks were w steer | clear of cast-offs [rom the other | metropolitan teams. The big disappointment in Boston is the failure of Joe Cronin and Bill | Werber to live up to last year's per- | formances. ‘ The betting is that Fred Perry, Brit- {ish tennis ace, will not join the pros | | for at least two more years . Johnn) | Mackorell, just signed m‘th !he New ‘Yurk foot ball Giants, made a repu-| tation as a forward paser at David- son College last season. Reds Peppery Ball Club. HE Cincinnati Reds are the best hustlers in either major league - . Connie Mack's voung twirlers have plenty of stuff, but they don't know what to do with it . . . Many | base ball men think a top catcher would make a lot of difference in | that ball club. Babe Ruth is playing in an ace golf tournament . , . He has been offered & leading role .n Billy Rose'’s | forthcoming musical circus. Joe Louis® made his managers and | treiners swear they wouldn't drink for X months if he finisned Levinsky in cre round . . . That's just what he | did, and now there is a little gloom :mlxed with the joy in the Louis camp. WINS ON GERMAN COURT ‘Von Cramm Disposes of Szigeti in Straight Sets. HAMBURG, Germany. August 12 (#).—Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Germany's ace tennis player, yester-| day defeated the former Hungnrmn' in the German championships, professional, Szigeti, international tennis Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling of Ger- many defeated Fraulien Cilli Aussem, 9—7, 6—1, in the women’s singles, | while in the women's doubles Frau Schneider-Peitz of Germany and Mile. Rollin Couquerque of Holland defeat- | ed the English team of Miss R. M. | Hardwick and Miss Susan Noel, 5—17, 8—6, 6—3. In the men’s doubles Heiner Henkel and Hans Denker of Germany defeat- In the mixed doubles Henkel and Fraulein Aussem defeated Miss Noel and Frank Wilde of England. Official Scores First w. ASHINGTON A [y = <] Ferr Williams. Dahlgren, Bishop Grove. ib. PO ORI coehnermaimr %l Eleazsscomanss e ;Batted for Melillo in eighth, tBatted for Dahlgren in ninth. iBat'ed for Grove in ninth Washington 003 001 000—4 Bost 00 mmu batted in—Myer (2). Cronin, R. Ferrell. _Two-base hlu—-)‘!!r. Powell, Bluege, Cromm, Dahlgren. Sacrifices— Miles. 'Almada = Double phn——!lue,e to llyer to Kuhel. Kl‘zsl to Myer. bases—Washington. 7: Boston. 8 B el 08 et X —By Ne Pistes SRR, Ferrell, Umpir Messrs. Moriarty and Summers. Time—1:44. iy s bR o sorwscorcl ml oncreorrosn | crsomoumemat chcmpuronid | o [E-TEICIETEEN HREREEE] « POGRIASS 3. { P ancssusss? ol =.-=.=~,==.=H=.> oo SRR 000—4 Tonsten 018 268 9=5 @), vfi 3 \ab. Three- -Werbe ns batted In—-lhn\uh polion” Cooks. Cronin. i nldlu ‘Werber, k| Leave out the pitchers and Connie | his | the best National League | ed the Polish Davis Cup team of L.| Hebda and Tarlowski, 6—1. 6—1, 6—1. | 0 | | Holland' " Sower 000 000—2 | R. | Ferrell, Red Sox—Myer drove in two | RYE. N. Y, August 12—"“David,” otherwise Bryan (Bitsy) Grant, diminutive Atlanta net star (right), | being presented with Eastern grass court singles tenris championship trophy by Francis Hopkins (left), fol T | dress l]ETR[]IT REGORDS. NINTH WIN N Rw Auker’s Good Hurling Halts Chisox—Terrymen Shut Out—Yanks Lose Two. BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Detroit Tigers have taken'a pattern from the files of ves- teryear and are cutting them- selves a brand-new pennant One year ago today the men of Mickey Cochrane had won 11 games in succession and were due to move ) on in this happy parade until 14 con- | secutive victories were lowing his victory over “Goliath,” Frank Shieids of New York (center), at the Westchester Country Club here yester- | day. tS!ory on Page A- H ) THREE SWINNMING TITLES AT STAKE Small Flelds Seek District A. A. U. Honors Tonight in Crystal Pool HREE championships are at stake tonight in the last out- | door swimming meet of the | season scheduled to start in Glen Echo’s Crystal Pool at 8:30 | 0'clock, but in only one of them will | more than three contestants vie for the 1935 distinction of being the Dis- trict’s “best” in the event. While the men's outdoor highboard | championship and the women's 220- | ! yard free style is destined to go to one of three competitors, the men’s 220- | yard free style will be fought out | ‘among five. Of the quintet making the splash in this event, four come from two organizations. Washington Canoe Club and the Y. M. C. A. are entering two apiece, while the fifth ' a comes the Club. from Northeast Boys' STEPHENSON and Eric Larsen are the canoe club’s entrants E. Boggs and E. Murphy come from |the “Y,” while H. Dering is a mem- | ber or the Northeast Boys' Club. Johnny Broaddus, Buddy Hodgson |and John Marshall are slated to wage a stern battle for the men's diving | title with odds favoring the first- mAmed who has come out ahead in | previous meets this year. The trio to compete for the women's 220-yard free style are all from the Shoreham—Ann Bono, Betty O'Toole and Lydia Cort. Miss Bono, & prod- uct of the District’s playground pools, a distance longer than the 100-yard | route for the first time. Ruggerio Flocco, feature diver from Brooklyn, will give an exhibition from the high board between the regularly- | scheduled events. | The entries: ard free ydia Cort. Ann Bono (Shoreham 8. C.) 180-yard _medley (individual)—Betty O'Toole. Lydia__Cort. Leonora _Taube Shoreham (S. C.): Margaret Russell and Jerry Williamson (unattached). 60-yard free style (16_years ani der)—Ann B Mary Zanelotti. Gertrude ' Theunissen : Margaret Russell. Margaret Mur- By sersy o Williamson’ Arnold, athleen Bolanx (unattached). Dive—Leonora _Taube. G. Theunissen (Shoreham): A. Biaser, Margaret Arnold (unattached) ard fres style—W. Stephenson . €. . Eric Larsen (W. C. H. | Dering (N.'E. Boys' Club). E. Bons. E Murphy (Washington ¥, M, C. 60-vyard_free style —H. hyaer. M. Parden. W, McOinnis iunattached; N: Vandenberg. Joseph Chesonis. Prank Cum- mings, L. Boyer, x. Kmsley g Cowman (Baltimore Y. M. Louis Adler, S Holland. 1. Sow berger ‘M. Abrahams (Baltimore Y. 180 yard mediey—Chesonts. Summings, | Kinsley (Baltimore ¥. M. C. Kre: Bering. Henagas. Carold, Michael Blombers. _Weinberger, | Abrahams (Baltimore ¥, Dive n Marshall (unattached), John Broddus,, Buddy Hodson (Shoreham S. C. style—Betty _O'Toole, T Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Buddy Myer, Senators, and Wes of Washington’s four runs in opener, while Ferrell kept Senators well scat- tered in nightcap for nineteenth vic- tory. Bucky Walters and George Wat- kins, Phillies—Former held Giants to six hits and latter drove in Phillies’ two runs. 1 Arky Vaughan, Pirates, and Babe 0| Herman, Reds—Vaughan’s triple with | two on decided first game. Herman's homer furnished Reds with margin in second. Charley Root, Cubs—Hurled seven- hit ball to snap Cards’ eight-game winning streak. Sox to four hits to run Tigers’ win- ning streak to nine straight games. Bill Knickerbocker, Indians, and latter connected with four in second. Jimmie Foxx and Roger Cramer, Athletics—Foxx hit nineteenth and twentieth home runs and latter con- tributed timely hits and great fielding phyl as A's down Yanks twice. ‘Walter Berger, Braves, and Frenchy is the youngest and will be swimming | G Blombeu w. Wen" uh Elden Auker, Tigers—Held White éu | . '‘Newsom A gain 'As Griffmen D Proves Courage wide With Sox; Bunt Makes Travis Look Dumb By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ETROIT, August 12.—Buck Newsom may not be base | ball's best pitcher by a long . shot, but when President Clark Griffith handed over $40,000 to the Browns for the talkative right- hander he received his money’s worth in gameness. Of course, this was pretty evident earlier in the season, when Earl Aver- | ill's line drive broke Newsom's knee- cap in the third inning of a game and Buck continued to hurl, lasting the | route and losing to the Indians by | only 5 to 4. This was courage to the | nth degree. But so was Buck's performance yes- terday as he pitched the Nationals to | | their lone victory over the Red Sox | in Boston. Batted cut of the box the day before in three innings, Buck willingly, even happily, welcomed an- other crack at the Sox. And in a grueling tussle which may have caused less courageous hurler to fold, New- | som came back to score, 4 to 2, over Lefty Grove. | Gets Out of Tight Spots. BUCK probably gets into and out of more tight spots than any other pitcher in the league. He certainly | example, three straight hits filled the | bases with none out. Yet the Sox | didn't score because Cronin popped up and Rick Ferrell hit into a double play. | stranded on second by getting two |out and in the fourth frame Cooke reached third with only one out and was left. Dahlgren was left stranded under identical conditions in the sev- | enth. Buck topped off his performance |in the eighth, when three successive | hits with one-out filled the bases. The | runner on first base represented the winning score, for the count at the favor. But Buck again turned ‘em back scoreless when he forced Pinch- hitter Wes Ferrell to hit into a double play. | Manager Bucky Harris, who thought Cecil Travis had the makings of a good third baseman earlier in the | season, was inclined to wonder a bit | day’s second game in Boston, 5 to 4. After Bill Werber had led off the| fatal bunted to Travis—a hard bunt that was almost a pop—Cecil came charg- ing in. He had a very slim chance to get it on the fly. There was a | better chance that the ball would | roll foul. His alternatives either were | to play back and take it on the safe | bounce, or let it go and pray for it to roll foul. Instead he tried for a catch on the fly and this doomed to failure, he attempted to get it on the pick-up. He failed and Melillo was safe at first. He scored on Cooke's double | with the winning run. “Travis,” sorrowfully admitted Har- ris, “is all right except for bunts and weak taps. Then he seems to lack the action of a first-class third base- man.” Asked whether he was considering Griffs’ Records BATTING. G. AB R H. ib!bnrflm?e Myer_— 101 409 St me. oot res CoIRBATSS 198 i D Ittt et ComiTTt e woSamnians S22 ©BSCOOHOSIIMIIHESDDBINE cooroowMOSHINE I conrempoesTw Covpol Pettitt__ 8 5 2l «._ow... ] ] .. cumsonaBeq Eok Bttt Newso! e oDl a: & * - - olirmiet] PRI Surrisa! g g g | did yesterday. In the first inning, for | In the second Buck left a runner, time was 4 to 2,in Washington's | | today following the loss of yester- | eighth with a walk, Melillo | | trying_Travis at any other position soon, Bucky said no. “But when we finish this Western trip,” he said, “I may put him in the outfield and see how he goes there.” Griffs Have Day Off. TODA\ was an off-day for the Griffs And most of them spent it across ! the river in Canada, where the ponies are running at Devonshire. There was a distinct rustling of form sheets in many Pullman berths last night en route here. \ Red Kress doubled to open the third inning of the second game and after [ sliding into second base he found Jake { Powell isn't the only gent afflicted with muscle cramps . . . Red had a mild attack. recovered, but finally | went out in the fifth inning in favor of Alan Strange . . . showers ruined what undoubtedly would have been a better than capacity crowd at Fenway Park . . . it rained all around Boston and many fans from nearby towns stayed away . . . at that 35,000 were | in the stands when play began in a | light drizzle. It isn't difficult to guess what's back in Heinie Manush’s mind . . . back- ward, even to the point of seeming sulkiness in Washington and other parks, Heinie is a veritable cut-up in Boston . . . kidding with the customers |in the left field pews, pretending to throw them a ball after he catches a fly and drawing big hands with every appearance at the plate . . . he's a better ball player in F‘enwa} Park too. Ed Linke hasn't forgotten that sock on the head he took from Jess Hill's liner in New York three weeks ago Instinctively, he flinched | when grounders were hit near him . In the nightcap yesterday Bill Werber slapped a shot on the ground to Linke's left and Ed fell on his | face . . . Buddy Myer converted the ' ball into a force play. Miles Is Slow Starter. IT‘S a good 1{ = otherwise he probably -wuuld have a tough time sucking around, because he fails to “break™ on fly balls as a good outfielder should He helped the Sox to | | score their first run in -the ‘nightcap by waiting until Werber’s looping fly had almost touched the ground . . | Then he ran for it, but too late, and | Bill got a cheap double. After singling his first trip to the plate Saturday, Travis has gone hit- less seven straight times Joe | | to get in the series, but it's hard to | visualize the Bosox as champs . . | they're too sievey, if you get what I | mean . Boston fans are plenty | fickle . Before the first game | was even in the late innings they | were booing Cronin & Co. . . . Then, when Umipre Summers called out Holdbrook on a close play in the | disapproval at the decision. F.E.S. 2 S - AR INTERNATIONAL. Buffalo. 5—16; Newark. 4 | Rochester. 6—5: Albany, 1 Syracuse, 8—b5; Montreal, 7—0. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. Pet. Montreal 68 53 .53 Svracuse 70 55 .56 Baltimore 65 56 Buffalo__ 65 w. Toronto_ 68 Newark_ 62 Rochester 4 1bany- - are used “Blue Blades” never thing Dee Miles is rast‘ Cronin says his Red Sox have a chance | seventh, they raised another roar of | reached. At that time they were leading the YM\- kees by four games. Today finds the Tigers skippi along on a nine-game victory streak but the more salient factor is that they lead the Yankees by six & Detroit defeated the Chicago Whige Sox, 4-1, yesterday behind the four- hit pite of Elden Auker. Auker gave walks to four men. but he bare down with good results when men oc- cupied the base paths. Vernon Ken- nedy, the losing pitcher, allowed only six hi but issued passes to a hall dozen men. Three of them scored A crowd of 33,000 witnessed t "THE Yankees “saw the life a game and a half throus fingers when they dropped bo of a double-header to the Philadel- phia Athletics, 8-4 and 5-4. Jimmie Fox hit his nineteenth and twentieth homers of the and Pinky Higgin. D rookie first game. Roger Cramer was tke star of the second ga riving in two runs with a double and a single and making three brilliant running catches, one in the ninth with the bases loaded. The Cleveland Indians St. Loufs Br and won the header 10-7, but over a nip-and-tuck bat:l erpiece. It was called nings with the score hurler, treated four unkindly after 11 in- all. Phils Blank Giants. THE rejuvenated Phillies chopped another chip off the Giants in the National League them out, 2-0. It was their victory in the six-game se Walters, infielder turned pit the leaders to six blows. The _Chi Cul Louis Car lead Bucky cher, held and the St tooth and nail as they advance on the Giants, played a tight game, with the Cubs winning, 3-2. A crowd of 23.560, the large: to storm Wrigley field for a single game this season, saw Charley Root keep seven hits well scattered. Th Pirates and the Reds split a double-header, Pittsburgh winning the first 5-4 and Cincinnati the second 4-3. Arky Vaughan hit a triple with two on to win the first game, but his seventeenth homer of the season wa: enough to turn the tide in the second. The Brooklyn Dodgers regained fift} place in the senior league by pinnin: a double defeat on the straggl Braves, 7-5 and 3-2. Sports Program | For Local Fans TODAY. | Boxing. Joe Temes vs. Petey Sarron, 10 rounds. main bout, Griffith Sta- dium, 8:30. Swimming. District A. A. U. 10-foot diving championship for men, C Pool, Glen Echo Park, Md., 8. Tennis. Federal employes Potomac Park. Embassy tournament, 2435 Mas- ! sachusetts avenue. i TOMORROW. | Base Ball. ‘Washington at Detroit, 3. Tennis. Federal employes’ Potomac Park. Embassy tournament, 2435 Mas- sachusetts avenue. YEDNESDAY. [ Base Ball. ;| Washington at Detroit, 3. | tournament tournament Horseshoes. 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