Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1935, Page 22

@he Foening Stap Sporls Sparkling L2 Manager Contends Law of Average Will Aid Pretty Good Ball Club. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, August 24—You've seen people with the kind of ( ; = look that Bucky Harrls was wearing on his worry-wrinkled face today. Over the breakfast table, unmereifully attacking a defenseless grapefruit, Bucky was sporting an I've-swallowed-the-canary expression, tail feathers an’ all. “Well,” he grinned, “nobody’s asking if Washington’s still in the American League. At least, the White Sox aren’t. Furthermore, if there’s such a thing as a law of averages, we're not through | at three victories in & row. “If we don’t Lave & winning streak | now or before this season’s over it will be one of the few times I've ever known a pretty good ball club to wind up without a streak. How many times | have we won three in a row? Five times? Well. I wouldn't be surprised if we strung this streak out a little more and finished this trip with at least & .500 record.” Socking the White Sox. NDEED, Mr. Harris’ optimism might well be correctly placed, as the Griffs, once again hot on the trail of sixth place, wind up what will be one of their most successful series of the season with the White Sox. If they can whip the Chicagos again, thereby registering sweep No. 1 of the year, the Griffs have a fair chance of feed- ing their streak at the expense of the Browns to be tackled next in a six- game series. Ever since the season opened the base ball world has been, “Oh the ‘White Sox, they can't gtay up there.” No, they “couldn’t stay up there.” But they did. April passed and May came and was gone. Still Jimmy Dykes had his Scx running one-two. June and then July and the legendary Fourth came and those Sox were riding high in the first division. | When August came not a few experts and many more fans visioned the| ‘White Sox replacing the fading| Yankees as public enemies No. 1 of the champion Tigers. Then the Nationals came to town and for the first time the Pale Hose| were knocked “back where they be- long.” Because of the Nationals, the same boys who blasted the Yanks off | their top perch, it looks as if Chicago’s hopes of getting a first-division team in the American League are blasted. Today the Sox are down in fifth place and the division which they've occupied since 1920. Second Baby Streak of Month. INOT to grow hysterical because they've won three gsmes n a row, it nevertheless seems that in spite of | the fact there is Ted Lyons to whip today, Bucky Harris finally is due to| have more to gloat over than five| streaks of this length. As Bucky says, | it is rare when a pretty good club fails | to show at least one sizable streak and, right now, the Griffs are playing good ball despite the loss of Clif Bol- ton and a minor injury to Red Kress. By way of throwing light on their failure to show any kind of sustained winning effort, April found the Na- tionals’ best streak amounting to three games. They didn't even do that well in May. In June they made two of the baby streaks, none in July, but so far this month they have two. In contrast, Washington has un- willingly fostered losing streaks of eight, four (three times), and three (three times) games. Trip Record of .500 Foreseen. ‘HE Griffs still are hitting—as wit- ness trip batting averages of .375 for Buddy Myer, a .333 for Heinie Ma- nush, .308 for Cecil Travis, and .325 for Red Kress—but best of all they're getting spasms of pitching. For instance, day before yesterday Phil Hensiek relieved Ed Linke, fanned Dykes with the bases full, and then capably carried on. Then yesterday Jack Russell, disappointment No. 1 this season, turned in his first good bit of relief work since May to register his third win of the campaign. For six innings it looked as though Carl Fischer was to chalk up another victory over the Nationals, who prob- ably have kept him in the league. The score was 3-0 in favor of the Sox going into the seventh. Then, out of a clear sky, Travis doubled and Strange singled after Powell's out. Holbrook also singled | and Kress batted for Bump Hadley ! and delivered a fourth hit to reduce the score to 3-2. Kuhel flled out but Dee Miles, the rookie opportunist, drilled a fifth hit to tie the score. The pitching from then on was up to Russell and he did a good job, the Nationals finally pushing over the winning run in a hectic tenth. ‘The triumph brought the Wash- ington record for this jaunt ‘up to seven wins as against nine losses. And if their play of the last three days is any inkling as to future form, they're going to emerge from their first long road trip of the year at least with a +500 average. . 9 Griffs’ Records BATTING. . AB. R. H_2b.3b.Hr. & B LW 87 160 31 40 9315 701 ald ) 3 Fma3u asts10 COOCOOHIEHO IR BHOHE DR DB COORHIIDII RS MBS DERZRES SEEL o 253332 291 TS 28 130 3! <3 cozsams i EouasSE - SERRRERIEE joeest =% 225 a..p CR T TR L SARRERERERS OB DN i ORHANCBIRDS csommisD SBaRERERSE ™ .. COOOHOOOIIHISmIIS O O SR ST o stea 4 STEERSSIZSE=EN RO STmnoDor a0 - - [IOSRRINS SDiuiieisicisis] o0y g = & SR FER R % EEET &t czuradual oy 25 P St B o om s tualD P oo ERSERs H o N onoaebinst iE * WASHINGTON, D. C, Myer Evicted for Third Time PR'ZED ENEM'ES This Season as Umps Dineen Calls Play Two Minutes Late By s Staff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, August 24—For_ the third time this season Capt. Buddy Myer walked into the Washington club house today not knowing whether he could plav ball because he was thrown out of the game by an umpire. Yet if he never had a good excuse before in his young life, Buddy had one yesterday when he argued so T vehemently with Umpire Bill Dineen that the crimson-faced arbitrator ordered him away after a plate de- cision in the tenth inning. Thanks to timely hitting by Cecil Travis, Alan Strange, Sam Holbrook, Red Kress and Dee Miles, the Griffs | scored three runs in the seventh to | tie the White Sox, 3-3. Dineen a Wooden Indian. N THE tenth Myer opened by getting to first base on an error by Luke Appling. Manush, hitless all day. singled Buddy to second and Travis laid down a neat sacrifice. Manager Jimmy Dykes ordered Les Tietje to walk | Powell to get at Strange, who hit a roller to Jack Hayes. Myer, off with the crack of the bat, | slid into home simultaneously with | Hayes' throw to Catcher Luke Sewell, arose from the ground, and trotted gleefully to the dugout. There was no motion by Dineen. Most of the crowd took it for granted that Myer was safe. The scoreboard didn’t change and Sam Hcb-ook, next up, stepped to the plate. Collectively sm: a mouse, the| press box chorused, “Give us & clue, Dineen,” but not until Sewell, fully two minutes after the play, held uv two fingers to his mates did any one suspect the definite decisicn. Fighting mad, Myer, Manager Buck Harris and the rest of the Nationals poured from the dugout to contest the strange action, with the result that Myer, who was sending little but jolt- ing jabs into Dineen's anatomy, was ousted. The decision caused Harris to send Johnny Stone to the plate in place of | Holbrook and Stone drew a walk to force across the winning run. “When I slid into the plate,” de- clared Myer afterward, “I asked Di- neen right away for the decision and T'd swear he said: ‘You were safe.’” Holbrook, who was within 15 feet| of the plate at the time, backed up Myer's statement. Bucky Juggles Line-up. MYER‘S eviction forced Harris to do plenty of juggling when the Nationals went out to hold their lead. Already having used Ossle Bluege and Red Kress ir pinch-/ running and batting roles, respective- ly, Bucky had no alternative but to send Johnny Stone to center fleld, put Jake Powell on second base, and in- stall young Bill Starr behind the bat. It was Starr’s debut in the big show. | “Sharkey.” an elderly boy at Comisky | Park claims the world championship |an infield out. Powell and Starr did right nobly. Radclift the tenth with & sharp grounder to Jake, who threw him out, and then Travis tossed out Simmons. Successive singles by Dykes and Appling, however, made the sit- uation tense again, but Russell forced Hayes to ground to Powell, who again handled an infield chance perfectly. IME marches on. In a conversa- tion regarding base balls, Secre- tary Eddie Eynon, jr., recalled that in the minutes of the 1913 meeting of the Washington club stockholders Clark Grifith was rebuked for using up 68 dozens of balls that year. Now, Eynon estimated, the Nationals use approximately 630 dozens of balls per season and more than 68 dozens in Spring training alone. Heinie Manush has been & flelding fort during this series. He made a catch on Appling yesterday that was sheer cruelty, Heinle raced far for the line drive and snagged it with one hand by leaping high into the air. Known only to visiting players as for cleaning and polishing base ball shoes. “Since 1914 revealed “Sharkey,” “I've been polishing these blankety, blank shoes. But I like it.” “How many pairs do you clean and shine a day?” he was asked. Tae an-: swer was, “About 20.” Let's see. There are 77 games a year when the White Sox entertain. Seventy-seven multiplied by 20 wouid be 1,540 pairs of fhoes a year. At the end of this season “Sharkey” will | have completed 21 years and will have | handled approximately 32,340 pairs of shoes or 64,680 brogans of every ball | player from Cobb and Ruth to Bill | Starr. Strange Again Stars. LAN STRANGE played another great game for the Griffs yester- day. In addition to handling nine | difficult chances, Alan pumped out two hits, one a double, scored a run | and batted across another in the big | game-tying rally in the seventh in- ning. Alan is going to play shortstop again today. Alan made one play that was great, racing in to the edge of the pitcher’s box to make a bare-handed pick-up of Hayes' tricky bounder and then throw out Jackie by inches. He also started the daily double play. The Griffs now have made 17 twin killings in the last seven games. Ri,. Radcliff furnished a throw back to the kind of base ball Cobb used to play when he scored from second on With Dykes at bat, Rip broke for third and kept right on going when Jimmy sent a slow grounder to Myer, who momentarily fumbled, but recovered in time to throw out the batter, F.E. 8. PARKINSON JOINS RING COMMISSION Successor to Vandoren,’ Lawyer, Has Lifelong Interest in Sport. NE thorough sportsman suc- ceeds another on the Dis- trict Boxing Commission as Kenneth N. Parkinson takes | over the post left vacant by the death of Maj. Lucian H. Vandoren. A trackman and basket ball player in his high school and college days, | an assistant to high school coaches and in recent years an enthusiastic golfer, Parkinson will carry to the position to which he was appointed yesterday by the District Board of Commissioners & Wholesome interest in all sports, particularly in boxing to which he has given keen attention since it was legalized here. As was his predecessor on the board, Parkinson is a lawyer. He graduated from George Washington University in 1923, passed the bar the same year and since has practiced in Washington. He is a past president of the Barristers’ Association. Came to Capital in 1920. PBORN 41 years ago in Pranklin, ‘Idaho, Parkinson later attended high school in Blackfoot of the same State where he starred in basket ball and with the track team. He was/ prominent in these sports later at Brigham Young University in Ytah. After seeing overseas service with the Army in the World War he came to Washington in 1920. He was an instructor in mathematics at Western and Business High Schools while taking his law course at George Washington. Parkinson assisted the late George Green, then Western coach, in handling track and basket ball teams. For two years at Business High School, he was faculty athletic adviser. Board Meeting Planned Today. ARKINSON is & member of Wash- ington Golf and Country Club, where he serves on the Golf Com- mittee. He was to assist at the club this afternoon in the opening of the new swimming pool, but before going there expected to attend his first meet- ing of the Boxing Commission. ‘The ring body planned to elect a new chairman today. Maj. Ernest Brown, superintendent of police, was expected to succeed the late Maj. Vandoren to the post. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Gehrig, Yankees, 2; Trosky, Indians, 1; Vos- mik, Indians, 1; Simmons, White Sox, The leaders—Greenberg, ‘Tigers, 33; Berger, Braves, 27; Ott, Giants, 27; Foxx, Athletics, 26; Johnson, Athletics, 23; Gehrig, Yankees, 23. New Ring Solon KENNETH N. PARKINSON. Idaho born, educated in Utah, this 41-year-old lawyer, former president of the Barristers’ Asso- ciation here, succeeds the late MaJ. Lucian Vandoren &s member of the District Boxing Commission. CHANNEL EFFORT FAILS DOVER, August 24 (#).—Eva Mor- rison, 25-year-old Boston hospital librarian, who was attempting to swim the English Channel from England to Prance, abandoned her attempt 4 miles from Cap Grisnés, France, today because of rough sea. She gave up at 12:30 p.m., Green- wich time (7:30 a.m., Eastern stand- ard time), after having been in the Appling. water 14 hours and 52 minutes and returned to Dover. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 2. Swimming. District A. A. U. 3-mile cham- plonship for men, Washington Ca~ noe Club, 2. Exhibition meet, Wi Golf and Country Club, 4:30. Embassy tournament, 2435 mmm'nm | splashes in the Washington Golf and MAY HELP GIANTS Hope for Dodgers to Hold Cards While Terrymen Struggle With Cubs. BY HUGH FULLERTON, JR, Associated Press Sports Writer. New York Giants, who were beaten out of the National League pennant last season largely because their neighbors, the Dodgers, resented a now-famous wise crack by Bill Terry, were forced to turn to those same Dodgers for help today as they faced dangerous attacks from two sides. After two straight defeats by Chi- cago, the Giants had their hands full trying to turn back the Cub assaults and it was up to Brooklyn to check the Cardinals, who were only one game away from the top. The “Gas House Gang” from St. Louis chopped the Giant lead to one contest yesterday by belting over the Dodgers twice, 6 to 1 and 11 to 5, while the Cubs were trouncing the Giants for the second straight time, 7 to 4. That laid the battle lines for a stirring week end struggle for the lead today and tomorrow Wwith the Cubs and Giants meeting twice more and the Dodgers and Cards engaging in three contests. Hartnett Hurts Ankle. Cards slammed Watson Clark for 15 blows while Rookie Ed Heusser checked the Dodgers with 8. They connected 17 more times to win out on a seven-run rally in the sixth after Phil Collins checked a Dodger uprising. The Cubs meanwhile hammered away at Clydell Castleman and finally drove him out in the sixth inning, scoring two runs to break a tie, and continued at the expense of Allyn Stout. In all they made 16 hits and drew seven passes. Gabby Hartnett, Cubs’ catcher and leading hitter, hurt his left ankle slightly sliding for home in the fifth and will be handicapped for the rest of the series. The individual performances of Schoolboy Rowe and Lou Gehrig stood out in t-e day's work of the American League as the Tigers and Yankees marched along ‘seven games apart. Rowe both pitched and batted Detroit to a 6-to-0 triumph over the Red Sox, allowing only four hits and socking & homer and double to drive in three tallies. Gehrig's bat hoisted the Yanks to a 13-inning 6-to-3 triumph over the Browns. He hit two home runs, the second coming with two aboard in the thirteenth to break up the game. That brought his season's total to 23. Washington won its third straight over the White Sox, 4 to 3, in 10 in- nings. That put Chicago in fifth| place and out of the first division for the first time this season. The In- dians jumped from fifth to third with & 10-to-1 triumph over the Athletics. Boston went into fourth. = Pittsburgh’s Pirates opened their series at Boston with a 7-to-5 victory over the Braves. The Reds and Phil- lies had an off day, their game being moved back for today's double bill. OPEN SWIMMING POOL Champion swimmers and divers of both sexes were to make the first| Country Club’s new pool at its formal opening this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. Most of the District’s foremost aquatic stars were to appear. Johnny Broaddus, who recently won the men's local diving crown, and Marie Duvall, who excels in diving in feminine circles, were to give exhibi- tions from the springboard, while Rita Augusterfer, middle-distance cham- pion of the District, and Ann Bono, local sprint champion, were to flash the speed that has made them con- sistent winners. Max Rote, former George Washing- ton tank star; Robert Shipley, diver; Buddy Hodgson, diver and sprinter; Gertrude Theunissen, Betty Everett and Betty O'Toole were listed in the supporting cast. MIDDIES SCRIMMAGE ANNAPOLIS, August 24 (#)—The Naval Academy’s plebe foot ball squad faced its first scrimmage of the sea- son today. ‘The squad of nearly 300 has been practicing since August 14. ‘Today’s scrimmage marked the be- SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935. Finish by Nats Foreseen : Medicos Completely Okay Baer’s Hands > oGV N =< . “Olympic” Oath for Kid Tracksters GEORGE SHORB, Of Garfield Playground, snapped yesterday in the act of subscribing to the clean sportsmanship tenets of the District playgrounds in behalf of himself and the 2,000-odd other juveniles who competed in the title finals at Central Stadium. This was Shorb’s thirteenth consecutive year of competition in the playground meets. He finished second in the 1-mile unlimited unrestricted run, in which & new record was set by John Leese, Eckington. ‘Boy With Earache, Doing His Bit for. Track Team, Displays Spirit of Playground Lads BY BURTON S. HAWKINS, ILBERT BOVELLO goes to the hcspital Monday for a mastoid operation, but he| doesnt mind now. Despite | an earache that made him wince, Gilbert showed up yesterday to run| Ty, anchor on Hamilton Playground’s 100- pound relay team. His quartet didn't win—it didn’t even place—but the plucky little Itallan lad doesn't feel too bad about it. He gave his best and has no alibl. Gilbert's spirit was 8 cross-section of the stout-hearted exhibition given by more than 2,000 of Washington boys yesterday at Central Stadium when Joe Mitchell's Sherwood ath- letes triumphed in the thirteenth an- nual playground track and field meet by scoring-3625 points to win out over last year's champion, Virginia Avenue, 5“ which tallied 28 points. Two Lads Disqualified. EARLIER in the day Richard S. Tennyson, assistant supervisor of playgrounds, gave Virginia Avenue's title hopes a severe jolt by disqualify- ing two of its athletes for residence in Maryland. Howard Mizell had leaped to & new record in the 100- pound high jump and his brother Jerry, had placed second in 115- pound event to give their team 8 points. Virginia Avenue would have repeated with 36 points, edging out Sherwood by 13 points, had not Ten- mixture of men in the making. Out- standing among these was the 20-foot 9-inch leap of Jesse Willlams, Eck- in the restricted unlimited 20 feet 3% inches in 1930. ay brothers,” Douglas and ginning of the rough work as Lieat. Doug! Howard H. Caldwell, head plebe coach, gets his charges in condition for the first game, with Dean Academy as the opponent, September 28. Official Score % »lesccornonnacosn > 19068 Vs NS V| | eonoormonnamest | woorssmsnoonani | e, 8l cooccumrruonni0 ol oscocos0000000M @ * - s - ® i F i B ] " e e | cormonossremm | Wi | cosescocoresst sl @| omcoscsoancos> 1 g2 1Batted for Hopkins B | conossesssormy Fo I 82 £l cccomoonuntinad £ ‘Thompson of Thomson and D. Men-| & kin, Truesdale, made in 1983. ‘Wilbur , Bud Davis, Melvin Inscoe and Harold Speith gave Vir- gir's Avenue a record when the flashy four sprinted 400 meters in the re- | Tim stricted unlimited class in 48.1, break- lic address system to the assembled mass previous to the meet. Mention- turn, fl's 4!:3_ 1934 by George Cleveland. Johnson, Oni Leese. 8. fadden): Time. 3 Valentine. H. Ma: Garfield: by Ralph sedale) . second, Ignatius Keane ( :“LY,I’IG. Tom Henley (Hamiltor rch. B. second, third. Eaton. Bucea v AQ-meter dath—Won by Jack Stewart (Sherwood): John Leese (Eckington) third. Leon Wiseman (Kenllworth). Time. 6.3 second. (New event). Unlimited Unrestricted. Team Scores. Bekington, 13: Garfield. 6: Rosedale. § Sherwood. 5: Virginia Avenue. 3: Hamil- ton, Kenilworth, Eaton, 1 point each. Unlimited Restricted. Running broad jump—Won by Jesse Wil- m): second. T. Boggs (Sh . Glen Ferguson _(Johnson). tance. 20 feet 9 inches. (New record: former record, Tom Sweeney. Jjohnson. set in 1630, 20 feet 3% inches.) 100-meter dash—Won by George Minton (Johnson); second. Bill Thompson (Thom- son); third, H Sappersiein (Burroushs). ime, 11.3 seconds. h‘l’;e: rg;&l;:rz\:; . 12 seconds. held by Brec'set by B Mankin. Truesdale, in 19:: f-mile run—Won by Leo Wall (Eck- ndon) second. B. . Chappelear (Sher- wood): third, Warren Btewart (Sherwood). Time, 2:10.10 R ve- 400-meter relay- it nue 115-Pound Class. 80-meter run—Won by Charles Hughes (Buchanan); second. Emanuel Servator (Macfariand); third, James Carrick (Va. Ave). Time. 7.1 seconds. (New ruordu former record. 8.8 seconds, set by Bi Va. Ave) Baldwin. 8 . broad jump—Won by Howar ur‘fgfl‘;‘-" Sherwood); second. Norman Baulsir (Johnson): . Duckey James (Sherwood). Distance. 18 feet 4 inches. (New 'record: former fecord, 17 feet § inches, set by G. Ferguson. Johnson, 1934. inni; high jump—Pirst. tie between P.i:lflx‘%u (Johnson) and Robert Nicely (Sherwood); third, tie among Hyman Lan- caster (Barnard), Marjon Goodwin (Ta- koma Park) and Bud Howe (Buchanan). Height, 5 feet 5 inches. 240-meter relay—Won by Rosedale (F. Kaslia, Sears, F. Pusco); FIAnAn. L Nason; =~ hird. Sherwood. Time, 38.6 seconds. 100-Pound Class. -meter Tun—Won by Howard Edwards (cggv?chue): second, John Fealy (Brook- land); third, George Ortel (Georsetown). 6.6 second: Time, 5. broad jump—Won by Leslie (Rosedale); second. Raymond ohnson): third. Busby Artes .). Distance, 17_feet 2 inches. bigh Jump—Won' by Howard . "&ve.): "second. Joe foan L% mey (K engworth) . ourth, ames. e record. but_disqualified for non-residence in_District.) 200-meter_relay—Won Nelson, G, Cruitts. J. Poston. second, Eckingto third, Time, 27 second! 85-Pound Class. Running broad jump—Won by Gilbert Sondheimer (Sherwood); second. Bill Cross (Georgetown): d. ‘tie_ between Don Moore (Corcoran) and Bob _Crittendon (Cooke). “Distance. 15 feet 7 inches. Running high jump—Won by John Way 2 Grigsby (Va. J. Gilroy): Georgetown. ams ( e. 5.0 seconds. 160-meter relay—Won b{ nue (B, Osteen, B. Brinsfield. B. A Seott); . Johnson; third, Rosedale. Time. 28 seconds. 70-Pound Class. 2 p—! LY 1y e Ploscdate): ‘second. Frank Parks ) with Parker Scott (Va. ‘Rinning highi jump—Won by Douglas sy (Hamilton); second. ell ¢ View); third. " Jack perton (Bherwood). ' Height, 4 feet 9 inches. (New record: former , feet 6 12‘?5‘ ;mu by M. Quigley, Hamilton, se{ 40-meter dash—Won by William Hite ) 3 ter Li (Sher- O K X T60.etér reiay—Won by Cooke (E. Lea- vell, R. Zellerman, B. Benson. W. Johns); Rosedale T Crasen | by Sherwood (J. | Ha —Star Staff Photo. GREENBER T YR WITH FLAL it relay—won by Bekinston okn | Yig€r and Griffman Trail| 'h. B. Gold- | Vosmik for League Lead. Vaughan Gains. By the Associated Press. | EW YORK, August 24—Hank Greenberg, the 1935 home run king of the major leagues and leader of his circuit in scoring, batting in runs and two-base hitting, ican League batting title during the past week when he moved into a tie for second place in the close race. Greenberg, adding just one point to his average, jumped up from fourth place into & deadlock with Buddy Myer of Washington, who was on top a week ago. They both had .343 averages | after yesterday’s games and were six points behind Joe Vosmik of Cleveland, who regained the lead after yielding for one week to Myer's’ hitting spurt. Can’t Hold .400 Pace. IN ‘THE National League the brief spurt which carried Arky Vaughan, the leader, well above the .400 mark for a few days provided the week's big news. But Vaughan couldn't quite hold the pace and dropped back to for the week. His leading rival, Joe Medwick of St. Louis, dropped two points to .370. ‘The first 10 regulars in each major league follow: Q Vosmik. Cleveland G Detrof Foxx. Philadelphia_ Moses, Philadelphia Campbell, Cleveland Gehringer. Detroit. Johnson. Phila. Fox, Detroit. PR AB. 388 G Vaughan, Pittsburgh 108 38 167 Medwick. St. Louis. 114 Hartnett, Chicago_ & | Ott. New York____ | Lombard!, Cincini E Yorl Moore, Philadel Allen. Philadelp ck, Chicago. gaNaRawEns oy p-EB R b American Association. Kansas City, 7; Indianapolis, 2. Columbus, 4; St. Paul, 1. Toledo, 5; Minneapolis, 4. Milwaukee, 5; Louisville, 0. Southern Association. Atlanta, 8; Birmingham, 0. Nashville, 4; Little Rock, 3. Chattanooga, 4; Memphis, 1. continued to challenge for the Amer- | .399 Friday, showing a two-point guin| TURN OUT IN FORCE T0 EXAMINE PAWS |Max Worries Over Sparring Partners He’ll Have to Cripple for Life. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, August 24—The medical profession turned out in force for the inspection of Max Baer’s hands. Doctors from the East, doctors from the West, gay doctors, sad doctors and chiropractors were present at this his- toric ceremony, jostling and shoving in ‘a dignified way for a seat in thc | front row. I always thought that when you've seen Maxie’s hands once you've seen | all there is to see, but the doctors felt otherwise about it. They examined those dukes from every angle—right | profile, left profile and ful face. One | of the physicians wanted to get a | sort of airplane view of them by | swinging from the chandelier, but there was no chandelier avilable, so he compromised by peering over the transom through a periscopg ‘When the curtain fell on the tenth kunckle there was a breathless hush and then a burst of applause. Maxie's hands were a hit. It looks as though they’ll run a year, To show their appreciation of the entertainment, a pair of tenor doctors and a pair of baritones stood shoulder to shoulder and sang the familiar, stirring chords of the old college song, “Completely O. K.,” as follows: “The man is completely O. K. With twenty-one species of ray, With X-rays and Y-rays And square root of PI-rays, ‘We find him completely O. K.” Good for the Kiddies, Too. DID not count all the doctors in th. | ° house, but there was a passel of | them. One noble-looking old medico | said he had come from “way down yonder,” wherever that is, to see the show. “I like it because it's clean,” he expiained. “It’s something I can take my grandson to see, as soon as he gets his degree.” And I can tell you in corroboration that Maxie’s hands were very clean indeed. So was Maxie. He had mooched all the way down from his training camp in Speculator, N. Y., | to make this appearance. He gave a great performance, from the moment | he laid his dukes on the table till | the moment he took them off. He followed the comment closely. “That’s a lovely capular thicken- ing,” said one of the docs. “Where?” demanded Max, looking around with interest. “Right there in the second knuckle of the third finger of the right hand.” “Oh, glad you like it,” said Max shyly. “It's nothing, really.” | When the congress of physicians | had set the stamp of their approval on Baer's mits with a small tack- | hammer, the fighter admitted that | he felt the same way about it him- self. | “I had a hunch they were in good | shape,” he said. “If they weren't, how could I punch so hard? I am worrying already about the sparring partners I will have to cripple for life as soon as the real training gets under way.” Not Even Louis Worries Max. !BUT Maxie is not worrying about | anything else—particularly not about Joe Louis, the gentleman on whom he will lay his four-star, smash- | hit hands with as much violence as | possible & month from now. | “I'll keep laying them in the basket,” | said Max, with reference to Mr. Louis’ body. “I'll hit him so hard down there that he won't have time to think about throwing a punch at me.” ‘While the doctors were panting with | rapture, and while Max was signing | Louis’ death certificate, Mr. Mike Jacobs was delivering a brief and sordid monologue on the commercial aspects of the coming fight. “I don’t predict anything sensa- tional,” said Don Miguel, “but we | may have a million-dollar gate. It'll go over $750,000 anyway. It's scaled for $25 tops, down to $3, and with the amount of interest there is in these two fighters the crowd might go as high as 80,000.” Mr. Jacobs rolled these digits and ciphers off his tongue with consider- able relish. This, naturally, was of- fensive to the physicians, who cared | for nothing but the scientific and aesthetic pleasure of studying Baer's hands. They had to admit that Mr. Jacob’s interest in the matter of cash was inevitable, but they deplored it. “The hands are the important things,” said one beauty-loving croak- er. “They might have been moulded by a Greek.” “I can lick any Greek that ever lived,” said Maxie Baer. “Pour times six is twenty-four and carry two,” muttered Mike Jacobs with a beautific smile. In fight business, everything de- pends on the point of view. (Copyright. 1935. by the North Newspaper Alllance. Tne.) merican SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 4; Chicago. 3. nnn}'e" n‘no.c‘d 25 5. .4 st L, 0. Cleveland, 10; I’gllldfinhll. 1. Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY. Chicago, 7: New York. 4 Phissouren. % Biatpro g 13- Other clubs not scheduled. Deti—] BI15/111 8| 7I11113/731421:6361 ___ EEEEEEEFE £l _fil—lll( 7111110/ 911 1431620/ ... NY| 0/—I10]_8I 5I11112110/651481.5761 7 StLI 7—[12( 8 #/10/11(14/7114: 1 Clel 51 7/—) 7/10] 7/131111601661.5617/13% Onil 0] 51—[12113|_9I131131741481.6071 2 _ Bos/_6/_8_6/—|10/12111 7/801671.513114 Piti_41 81 61— 811412/13165/551.542/10 Chil 81 61 7| 8i—I ] 9/11167/65/.5609114% Bkl 6] 5/ B/11/—| 0| _6/12i54/621.466/19 Phil_ 4] 6110/ 6]_6i—| 7/11|50161].450/31 Phll ) 41 9| 4] 8I—] 6111/51661.436/227% Wnl 7| 7 41 71 8] 8/—| 9I50/661.431i23% Cinl 61 6/ 71 71 8 8i—I_8I50/69| 420124% StLI 3| 71 41101 8| 7| 3/—[42172/.368]30% Bos' 2| 4] 3| 3| 61 7| 0l—I32/841.271 1._/42/4R156157155161166172|——1 L._143/43/148155/6268169/84 | —|—! 1 GAMES TODAY. ‘Wash,_at Chicago. 3. New worn at 8 L +Boston ~t Detroit, Phila, & “leve. Phil st Detrait: Boston st Cleveland. TODAY., GAMES TOMORROW. . L. # itts. et Ciaci. at Phila,