Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1935, Page 20

B—4 CRACK BATSMAN REFUTES GRIFFITH Nationals’ Captain Finds Links Game Keeps His Muscles Loose. EY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btafl Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, August 23.—A set of | golf clubs, the last imple- | ments in the world that/ would be suspected, is what converted Capt. Buddy Myer of the Nationals from a steady .300 hitter into the biggest batting surprise of base ball. Biting the tip off a cigar he never | lit, the doughty Griff captain brokel down and confessed all today in a hotel lobby. A sports page news item | was responsible for the revelation | which surprised even the closest of | Myer's teammates. “I see,” remarked Buddy, “where | Lawson Little outdrives Babe Ruth by | 20 yards on every tee shot. I guess | that Little baby can hit a golf ball 800 yards every time.” “What d'ya know about golr,‘ Myer?” jokingly snarled a teammate, | who feigned an I'll-get-you-for-that | attitude because Buddy dropped the queen of spades on his four-spot of | clubs in yesterday's dressing room hearts game. *“All you can do is plunk that blankety, blank queen on a guy trying to stay in the game.” It's Grift’s Pet Peeve. *] DON'T know as much about golf | as I'm gonne,” shot back Wash- ington’s nominee for the American League batting championship. “My fine, feathered friend,” he continued, borrowing Buck Newsom's special ad- dress, “golf is now my Winter sport. | It's done more for me as a ball player than anything I've ever tried.” Kidding ceased abruptly. For years Uncle Clark Griffith’s No. 1 peeve has been golf shooting during the base | ball season by his ball players. Griff | even begrudged them their brassi and niblicks between seasons although the old gentleman, after hauling 8 hireling on the carpet and lecturing him ca the evils of tee and green, | would sneak out himself to Indian Spring or Columbia. And here was Myer, who for 10 years as a ball player never touched | s golf club, talking about shooting pars and benefiting on the ball fleld. Here was a man who tried it for the first time last Winter and then bobbed up with by far his greatest season in base ball. “No, I'm not kidding,” answered Buddy. “I honestly believe I owe | most of my good year at the bat w' golf. I don't say it should be played | during the base ball season but for years I've done everything else during the Winter to keep in good shape. I hunted, fished, hiked and all that stuff. And still I was fatter around the walst every time I reported to| training camp. Last Winter I tried golf. I bought some clubs and never missed playing three or four times| a wee.. We've got a swell layout at Laurel, Mit and, believe me, | you shoot around that course all| Winter you're in good shape. Got Flying Start. #] THINK it's the best exercise, be-‘ cause golf kept me swinging all | the time. The muscles in my arms and shoulders and waist were kept loose and when I showed up at Biloxi | last Spring I didn’t have any trouble meeting the ball right from the start. “Usually I get off to a slow start. I remember one year I was batting only .195 on the Fourth of July and had to hustle like the devil to make .300. Early this season I knew I was due for my best year and I knew “How about your quitting smok-| ing?” “Well, that helped my wind, T guess. | but playing golf really is responsible for the batting improvement, I think. By the way, do you ever throw away | golf clubs or bust 'em up? By gosh, I smashed up & brand-new set of woods last Winter. But finally I'm breaking 100 and my tee shots, etc.” It is doubtful if many of his by- standing teammates heard much of | Buddy's description of his golf game. Probably more than one of the boys was wondering whether Griff, after he hears about Myer from Myer, will buy each of them a bag and a set of clubs and prescribe golf a “must” ex- ercise. Certainly Griff couldn’t be blamed f he did. TImproves Stick Average. NCIDENTALLY, while the Griffs were winning their second straight victory over the White Sox yesterday, Myer continued his phenomenal bat- ting pace of the Western tour. In the 15 games the Nationals have played | on this swipg Myer has batted at a 385 clip. He made two safeties in five trips yesterday, batted across two runs and scored anothsr in a 7-to-4 triumph. Ed Linke gwas credited with his sec- ond straight win, but Fatso needed | the National | championships as | the other. | and the West's final surviving singles | Hugh Kaiser of the Washington Lions forced to step lively at home place circle to avoid becoming the steed instead of the rider. It happened while the Capitalites were defeating the Alexandria Lions, 2 to 0, in the Virginia city yesterday. INNET SEMIFINAL Advances by Victory 0ver: Bayon—McElvenny Loser in Parks Tourney. By the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, August 23— The East was assured of a representative in the finals of the men's singles division of Public Parks tennis the tournament swung into the semi-final round m-, day. Barnard Welsh, lanky defending champion from Washington, and Wil- | liam Lurie of New York were brack- | Schommer, Minneapolis, and Arnold Simons, Louisville, Ky., were paired in W!.'LSH who has impressively tossed off every atempt at his crown in straight-set fashion, trimmed Maurice | Bayon, New Orleans, 6—1, 6—1, 6—1 yesterday. Lurie eliminated Ted Drewes, St. Louis, Mo., star with al- most as little trouble, 6—3, 6—2, 6—0, | Simons outgeneraled Ralph McEI- venny, Washington, in the longest | match of the tournament, 12—10, 3—6, 6—3, 9—7 by playing to ha‘ backhand. Schommer was pressed to win Irom Dave Gillam, Pasadena, Calif., star| contender, 6—4, 6—4, 3—6, 6—3. CHOMMER teamed with Charles Britzius today to defend their | doubles title through the semi-final | round. They were matched with Wil- liam Hughes and Cecil Metz, Memphis, Tenn., while Welsh and Ralph McEl- venny, Washington, played Hudson Hamm and Roswell Lee, Miami, Fla. Mrs. Ruth Bailey Prosser of St. Louis, women’s singles champion, had to defend her title today in a semi- final match against Lydia Kayser, Buffalo, N. Y., while Helen Germaine, New York, faced Elizabeth Seike, | Pasadena, Calif. LISTING FOR QUANTICO. Newton Bourne 1s booking games for the Quantico Indians at Quantico 73. help, Phil Hensiek providing it in the seventh inning with the bases loaded, the score 5 to 3, two out and Manager Jimmy Dykes at bat. Hen- slek fanned Dykes to end the inning, squeezed through a hard eighth frame and capably protected the Griffs’ lead in the ninth. ‘Washington made 15 hits off Sam Jones and Johnny Salveson, bringing their total for the two White Sox games to 33. Every man in our side’s line-up, including Linke and Hensiek, made hits. Homer Standing By the Assoclated Press. Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants, 2; Greenberg, Tigers, 1; Mancuso, Gi- ants, 1; W. Herman, Cubs, 1; Hart- nett, Cubs, 1; F. ml:{' 3 :: Kampouris, Reds, 1; Cuyler, Reds, 1; Simmons, White Sox, 1; Dahlgren, Red Sox, 1; Williams, Red Sox, 1. ‘The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 33; Jetics, 23. _League totals — National, 548; American, 539. '1\7.0‘1, 1,087 BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Bports Writer. EW YORK, August 23.—Hot foot ball dope from the South: Scouts say Duke is the team to watch next season . . . Rival coaches are telling, wiring and writing each other that “Wal- lace Wade's got 'em.” ‘Wade only wishes he had a big intersectional game on his sched- ule . . . to make up for this he's inviting all the first-string critics to be at the ringside when Duke plays the Tennessee Vols in Octo- ber. Except for red-haired Don Budge all positions on the 1836 Davis Cup team are wide open . . . P. S-~The line forms at the right. Charlie Dressen, Cincinnati man- ager, says Pepper Martin of the St. Louis gas house gang is the most picturesque bell player in the majors . . . Maybe Pepper can't field s grounder withous blocking it with his chest, but he’s all broke out with the old this, that, those and thems. Ho hum, D-nno. O'Mahoney and Foening Fhd Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, Bernice Henderson, perched on the donkey, is the mascot of the Alexandrians. Her “maids of honor” Armistead. eted in one semi-final, while William | — Doyle-Baer Scrap Inside Thursday NEW YORK, August 23.—Not much rain and not many paying customers caused post- ponement of the Jack Doyle-Buddy Baer fight listed for last night at Madison Square Garden’s Bowl, and caused Jimmy Johnston, Gar- den matchmaker, to shift the fight to next Thursday night, August 29, in the Garden where, as he says, “it never rains.” Doyle and Baer weighed in yes- terday at the New York State Building and the younger Baer had a 30-pound advantage over the good-looking Gael, 236% to 206%. ' They will have to go back into training now and repeat the weigh- ing-in ceremonies next Thursday afternoon. D. C. LIONS BRAY LOUD ‘Washington Lions were braying loud today as & result of their 2-to-0 win over the Alexandria Lions in a donkey ball game last night at Baggett's Sta- dium, Alexandria, Va. More than 1,500 fans saw Don La- throp and Hugh Kaiser, manager of the local Lions, score the winning rups. Don George are going to do it all over again in Boston September 9. Primo Touchy chy About “Dogs.” PRMO CARNERA is very wuch'y about the size of his dogs . He always tells boxing wrlterl goes except Satchel Feet” . . . Tarzah Parmelee of the Giants has failed to finish 10 of his last 15 starts. Jack Coffey, Fordham graduate manager, is back from an automo- bile tour of Europe, but with no halfbacks or tackles in tow . . . Two full brothers, Chancing It and Chancery, finiched one-two at Sar- atoga the other day. Wally Berger of the last-place Boston Braves has batted in & bigger percentage of his team’s are Ellen Miles and Margaret —Star Staff Photos. Official Score Y 1 T [UORENY" coarmrwct o HrmaoBe®oR B comccocese W » *Batted for Jones In seventh. ‘Washington .. 200 100 211—7 Chicago . 100 001 200—4 Runs batted in—Miles. Myer (2); Travis, Strange, Hol Simmons (2). Piet. Bpiety, eoiue il Three base = un—sSimmons. Stolen base—Conlan. Fifice—Powell. Double plays—Strang Myer to Kuhel. l#v to Travis to o : mes. 1. %: 'y Hensick, 3: by Jones. 3. Linke, 8 in fl'a Dinfagss off Hensiek, mmnn of Jones. © in 7 innings, Hit by wnu rook. in- Ditcher— Donnelly and 2 in 2% 6 mwn?fi blu‘By unn l?im tek. Passed Hol Dinnéen.” Time—a:0 Gossip Rife in Sport’s Hot Spots Duke's Grid Outlook, Carnera’s “Dogs,” Yanks’ Flop Stir Up Interest. last year, will coach Wake Forest College next season. Quits Cooler Just in Time. LBERT “SCOTTY” CAMPBELL, who paced the metropolitan dis- . trict in the qualifying round for the national amateur golf cham- pionship, got out of the Hempstead, Long Island, hoosegow just in time to qualify . . . he was pitched into the coop for speeding. The seven-man defensive line in foot ball—used by Knute Rockne— is gradually losing its popularity ... in the Rose Bowl last January Alabama used a four-man line . . . a far cry from what Coach Frank Thomas, an old Notre Damer, was taught as a player. 3 Walter (Good Time Charlie) Friedman, who is responsible for several fistic importations, includ- ‘heavyweight championship . mfi:u.mmmmmn salls next week on his quest . . . hnhunchh-t & Russian and & Spaniard in hiding, ready to pop M“PWM& Joe Tunis, another Washington Lion, is supposed to be on his way to first base, but his main objective for the time being was to keep from tagging the ground. | i FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935. Playing Golf Improves Myer’s Hitting : Cubs Get Flag Chance in Giant Set . Strange Handles Seven Tough | Chances as Kress’ Substitute; Yawkey and Harris in Huddle By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, August 23.—Little Alan Strange never may be- come & regular major league shortstop—and thereby fur- nish one of base ball's little tragedies —but the blond kid from California is some shucks of a “fill-in” infielder. This is a fact which the Nationals discovered to complete satisfaction yes- terday as Alan played for Red Kress, whose bad ankle still is giving him a little trouble. By sheer defensive play alone the stocky former Brown kept Ed Linke in yesterday’s game with the White Sox, handling seven chences ranging from “difficult to impossible” in the first five innings. Twice he broke up potential Sox rallies. After making two nifty plays earlier in the game on Jocko Conlon and Tony Piet on slow bounding balls, and then starting & double play in the fourth frame to nip a budding rally, Alan warmed to his job in the fifth with | one of the snappiest stops made by & Washington infielder all season. Weak With Willow. CONLAN had walked to open the fifth, and then Luke Sewell smote what seemed to a a sure single past Cecil Travis. Strange never seemed | close to the ball until at the last split- second, when he stuck down his gloved hand on the dead run, came up with the ball cleanly and whipped an off- balance throw to Buddy Myer for a forceout. The play took all the sting | out of the Sox in that inning. If only he could hit, Strange well might be just the boy that Bucky Harris needs to complete his infield. FROM THE PRESS BOX Grimm Might Have Told About Cubs’ Chances if Hartnett Had Kept Quiet. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, August 23.—On foreign flelds with Charles J. Grimm; or, he’s up! Hes down! He’s up! | _“You can't win ‘em "all,” said Mr. Grimm. A couple of his followers nodded | their heads at this sage observation. A couple of others acted as though they'd heard it before. “But you gotta win some of 'em,” | continued Mr. Grimm. “If we can stay just a few games from the top, we'll have a good chance to win when ‘we get back homg.” “What's the matter with your club on the road?” “That's a good question,” said Mr. Grimm. “I always liked it. I wish I knew what the answer was. Maybe it's just as good as the question.” “My, my,” muttered Mr. Gabby Hartnett. “What's the matter with Hartneti?"” Average Fascinates Hartnett. THATB a long story,” began Mr. “I guess it started -bout the time he was born. That's 50 years ago, before they had rail- roads—" “Two for four, one for two,” mut- tered Mr. Hartnett. “He's figuring his hittin’ average,” explained Billy Herman. “He can't get over how good he can hlt " said Jurges. “It always sur- him.” “Hartnett must have a hell of an average.” “He must be over .300 by now.” “I see in the papers where it says he’s hittin’ .345.” “That's s whatcha-call-it,” said Mr. Grimm. “A typo- error. If Hartnett M;‘ hittin’ over .500 he’d re- “Maybe he’ll resign anyways,” sald Billy Herman. “Maybe if we asked him very po- litely——" Mr. Hartnett stopped babbling sta- tistics and looked around the field. “Say,” he said, “look at them Giants. That's a funny club. ’rhey never have more than two guys hittin’ at the same time. When Terry and Ott is goin’ good, the rest of 'em flop, When this whats-his-name, Lieber, is hittin’, Moore don't hit. How do they win?” “Well, they got a couple of pitchers.” “They're shot with luck.” “They play it's Christmas all the year around. The other clubs give ‘em presents every day. Whken they need a run some fella boots one and they get it.” Kind Friends Warn Gabby. “Yeah. Say, thinkin'—." “Don't do it, Gabby.” “Watch your step, Gab. how easy you get headaches.’ I was just series with Deetroit, I'll probably hit a million home runs. Look at the way that Greenberg hits ’em in that park. He’s a fiy-ball hitter. If a fiy-ball hitter like that can hit ’em in that park—." Griffs’ Records 3 e S e S o o & eomossres A R-oR RS BovoT 330! ooty o TR, wasast wux Haosaae wesomeraeSEissidR s 20 i BaZ- s e *3 osuraSual: 4 i o I - Soroont My PEECR oo 3 weliRaaRys 25zl ae3eH [T > o e R alt® e ome b Bt 22 suane! : H & 4 EAH,” sald Mr. Gabby Hartnett. | I You know “I was just thinkin',” said Mr. Hart- | 5 nett firmly, “that if we get in the|I “What are you gonna do with your series dough, Gab?” “Have you spent it yet? “Series dough,” said Mr. Grimm. “We gotta get second-place dough before we start talkin about series dough. Do you suppose you fellas | could win & couple of ball games for me?” But the boys were thinking nbout something else. Nobody answered. “I think the Glants will have a hard time coming through this year, said Mr. Grimm. “Their pitchers! are tired. St. Louls and us have got better hittin’, we don’t have to! rely on the pitchers so much.” “That’s lucky, t00,” said Mr. Hart- | nett. “What did you say?” inquired Mr. Lonnie Warneke from the other end | of the ‘dugout. “Nothin’,” said Mr. Hartnett “Then you must be sick,” said Mr. Warneke. Silence fell on the Cubs again, and they watched the rain. (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Bill Dietrich, Athletics—Blanked Indians with six hits, fanning five. ‘Woody English, Cubs, and Mel Ott, Giants—English drove in winning run with pinch hit in eleventh; Ott made four of Giants' eight hits, including two homers. Buddy Myer, Senators—Made two hits and drove in two runs in victory over White Sox. Harland Clift, Browns—Led attack on Yankees with three hits and uhree runs. Dusty Cooke, Red Sox—Smacked | Detroit pitching for double and two singles. Major League Statistics FRIDAY, AU American RESULTS YESTERDAY, Washington, 7: Chicago, 4. Boston, 10: Detroj| 1>mx-d-lmux H evel . g | But, though rightfully rated as one of the game's finest fielding short- stops, Alan’s chief hope of remaining in the majors seems in a utility ca- pacity only. He is head and shoulders above Kress as a fielder and on the bases, | and even outranks the aging Ossie Bluege defensively. Both, however, are better hitters than Alan, who must | pay the little man's penalty it seems. At that he managed to insert a| timely triple to score a run yesterday. | Speaking of Strange brings to mind | one of base ball's real Damon and | Pythias relationships. Strange and Buck Newsom are roommates, always | have been. Neither ever has a good word for the other—while the other | is listening—but what & pair of pals! they really are “Listen, my fine-feathered friend," | quoth big Newsom the other day when | somebody jokingly criticized Strange for a play, “if anybody’s gonna roast that squirt, Il do it, an’ remember that always.” Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, passed up the St. Louis series for Chicago and its cool lake breezes and is a guest at the Griffs’ hotel. The | personable Yawkey and Bucky Harris have been putting their heads together | two days and nights in a row, and you can bet all the talk hasn't been |about Tom's experiences shooting ars, | Don't be surprised if Eddie Ain-‘ | smith, the old Washington catcher, is an American League umpire next year. What with the umpiring at a new all- | | time high for lousiness this season, | and glowing reports on Ainsmitii | coming from the Southern Associa-| ‘!lon‘ it is rumored that Umpire-in- | chief Tommy Connelly wiil “scout” Eddie in the next few days. Sam Jones Still Spry. R a 43-year-old, Sad Sam Jones | still is a spry fella and by way of proving it he took a hit away from Joe Kuhel yesterday in the third inning « . . Kuhel rapped a hot grounder to Dykes at first and the ball bouncéd off Jimmy’'s shoulder and into the air | near the pitcher’s box . . . Jones, run- ning toward first on the play, grabbed it with one hand and beat Kuhel to the bag by 10 feet . .. A rookie catcher | named Condon is w r)ung out with the | | Nationals here . . . until the Griffs | learn his first name, he will, of course, | | be tagged “Jafsie” . .. An inning for | the books was the Chisox eighth . . They made two hits, drew a walk, profited by a two-base wild pitch, and yet didn't score . . . Jack Hayes led off | with a single and Conlan followed with & drive which struck Hayes as he was running . . . thus Hayes automatically | was out and Conlan was credited with | a single . . . Conlan then was thrown | out stealing . . . Sewell walked and | raced to third on a wild pitch by| Hensiek . . . Salveson whiffed to end the frame. F.E.8 | PLAY IN TITLE SERIES. Heurich Brewers and Southwest Market teams were to battle it out in the second of a three-game series for | the Industrial League championship today at 5 o'clock on the South Ellipse diamond. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. DAY a year ago—Mel Porter won Cleveland marathon in 2:31, with Clarence Demar second. { ‘Three years ago—Charley Grimm re-engaged as Chicago Cubs’ man- ager at reported salary of $30,000. | Five years ago—Paul Jessup set new world discus record of 169 feet 87; inches in national championships. PFrank Wykoff suffered fractured ankle | when kicked by horse. GUST 25, 1935, Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY. go. 4; New York. 3 clncmnm 9: Philadeiph! 8t. Louls-Brooklyn. ra Other clubs not scheduled. ‘R10X MON neaupuo GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash, at Chicago, 3. Wash_at Chi New York at 8t L New York at Bt I Botton at Detroit.” Boston at Betroit. ila. at Cleve. Phila. at Cleve. CASH DISPOSAL 5:5. 50 TIRES PAY CASH—SAVE 25% 'ro 50% In American Storage Co. Warehouse Sale by Consolidated Sales Co. 2801 Georgia A Open Sundays. 8 AI. to 1 P.M.—Open Evenings Untll 8 P.M. UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE Of 1 YEAR ON ALL TIRES FIRST QUALITY TIRES—EVERY SIZE IN STOCK 440x21 ... 16.75 6.00x18 WAREHOUSE AND SALESROOM, 2801 GEORGIA AVE. Chica me Cinci. at Phila. AND TUB CO, 4138 SAVE ON GOODYEAR GOODRICH U. S. ROYAL All Sizes, Including Truck Tires, at Tremendous Savings. TRUCK TIRES }595 w4 995 “""}8 95 | s3:6...15.95 o -30.95 . .83.48 10 CHIGAGO GREW Gain Third Place. NLY three games behind the O to show whether they are good club. an exciting 11-inning battle, What comparatively soft visits to Boston and of 1934. If they can do that they'll Chicago had the edge from the start Only 3 Games Back After BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, league-leading Giants, the real contenders for the 1935 National The Cubs put up a great exhibition they have to do now is win two or Pittsburgh, t go home for an at- need a great deal of beating by either yesterday and only Mel Ott's clouting SCHEDULE IS HELP Beating New York—Bosox Associated Press Sports Writer. Chicago Cubs have a chance League championship or just another yesterday to beat the Giants, 4 to 3, iz three more of the serfes, get through tempt to (‘Jpll-(‘a‘(‘ their last stand the Giants or the Cardinals. prevented & dec the season, to offset boundary beits by Billy Herman and Ge Hartnett The second tied the score w two ou 3 Gus Mancuso’s ho brought another run in regulation time, English’s Pinch Blow Tells. IN ‘THE tenth, the Cubs loade sacks, but missed the winning They got it in the next frame, when a walk and a wild pitch put Frank Demaree on second and a pinch hi* by Woody English off Al Smith, thirc Giant flinger, brought him home, As the second-place Cardinals were rained out at Brooklyn, the defeat reduced New York’'s lead to two and | one-half games. The only other National League contest saw Cincinnati trounce the es, 9 to 1, behind Al Hollings- worth's three-hit flinging. Babe Her- man, Kiki Cuyler and Alex Kampouris hit for the circuit. Pittsburgh and Boston had an off day. The Red Sox hopped from fifth place to t in the American League ‘(See SCHEDULE 1S HELP, Page B-5.) -Sport Center GOLF and TENNIS SALE Open Saturday ’'til 10 P.M. Here's another group of Saturday Specials that will make value ory! Better get in early for yours! 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