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A—10 WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1935. | EX NAT INSPRES HORNSBY'S GANG Sudden Stardom of Lary Affects Entire Club. Scores Double Win. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, August 26.—A voice from the American League grave yard rose today in a strange war cry that raised goose-pimples on the hides of the | S Reminiscent By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. subject of base ball's best out- flelders since Speaker is brought up, you still cannot overlook Sammy West, Washington fandom. Sammy made a catch yesterday al- most impossible to describe. Travis hit the ball and it probably was the longest drive the kid ever hit. | 'Way out to center field it went, far | over West 's*head and to the center- field barrier. Nationals. So busy have been the Griffs this | season planning, at different stages, to (a) win the pennant, (b) stay in | the first division, () hold on to sixth | place, and (d) regain that niche, that | they completely overlooked the | Browns. But today, for the first time | in years a Washington ball club stood in acute fear of falling into the American League cellar. Probably the most improved team | in the circuit, the Browns were only four games behind the faltering Griffs today as they were to clash in the | third game of a six-contest series. | Worse yet, the Browns are charg- ing under a new impetus and one that | promises to be hard to stop. Lary Is Responsible. *THE rise of the Browns really is a story of the comeback of one man. | His name is Lyn Lary, who served a stretch with the Nationals and was cut loose in midseason with the | righteous ire of the Washintgon front office upon his head. It is a tale of a ball player who eame into the big leagues midst a fan- fare and .trumpeting few minor lea- guers receive, of a player who for six years was petted and pampered but who couldn’t come through as a reg- ular performer. Then, suddenly, Lyn Lary found himself bereft of the glamorous sur- roundings of New York's Yankee| Stadium, of Tom Yawkey's new Fen- way Park, and even of Clark Grif- | fith's cozy ball park. He was sen- tenced to the Elba of the American | League—St. Louis. And here, with | few fans looking on, very little in- spiration of any sort, cast with a team of playboys, minor leaguers, bad | boys, and never-has-beens, Lary os- | tensibly has found himself. And in doing so, he has pmvldedj the hitherto hopeless Browns with a spark which no longer has them rated | as the doormats of base ball. Name Linked With Big Stars. !‘“ DAY on St. Louls streets, if any member of the Browns is men-| Moned in the same breath with talk of the Deans and Medwick and | Collins he is pretty sure to be Lary. The handful of Browns' fans, a worshipful bunch who pay to watch the Hornsby men because their fathers and mothers did before them, idolize the one-tifne playboy. ‘What formula the two-fisted Horns- 1 by used to make Lary the player he | &7 now is probably only Rogers and Lary know. At any rate, Lyn does not resemble the natty $125,000 beauty e Yanks bought from the Pacific oast League back in 1929 and dis- | covered that he couldn’t hit enough | to hold down a regular job. He had chance enough, so it couldn't| have been that. Bucky Harris patted him on the | back last Spring and said, “Lyn, the shortstop job is yours. Go to 4t.” No, it couldn’t have been short- age of confidence by his employers. Maybe Hornsby brandished a bat tunder his nose, but in any event| Lary is a crack ball player now.lM When he was traded by the Na- | tionals for Alan Strange he was bat- | £57 ting .186. Today his mark is .263. 8ince he joined the Browns he has been only one point shy of a .300 = batting mark. Opinion Is Unanimous. [OR has his rise been individual, ‘When Lary took a new lease on life, so did the Browns. Shoved into the background, they have been play- ing better ball, for instance, than the | Yankees and Giants during the last | month. When they defeated the Na- | tionals twice in yesterday's double- | header, they won their twenty-fourth | victory in their last 42 games. That's & percentage of .571. It is not the writer’s opinion alone that Lary has been the chief reason for this improvement. The local press is unanimous in this belief. They cannot understand how Clark Griffith happened to let him get away. Hed he watched Lary yesterday |} QGriff might have wondered a bit him- self. TFor sheer, undiluted flelding skill, Lary gave an exhibition as sen- sational as anything the Washingtons | have seen all seascn. Teamed up with & young second baseman, Tom Carey, the keystone combination of Lary and Carey time after time broke up threatening ~National uprisings to enable the Browns to win the opener, 3 to 2, and the nightcap, 7 to 6. Between them, Lary and Carey handled 31 chances in faultless fash- fon. Most of them were difficult, sev- enl were sensational. In the opener a great double play to i1.1)) a rally in the si¥th inning while in the nightcap he participated in three more twin killings. Somehow, "after what seemed 50 | yards of running, West reached up | and touched it with his glove. He couldn’t catch it; nobody could. But he knocked the ball up in the air again, turned, and caught it with his back to the barrier and his glove a couple of feet from the ground. No wonder West has 60-odd more | putouts than any other outfielder in major league base ball. When you come right down to it, Rogers Hornsby has a pretty good ball club here. The Browns just whipped the Red Sox 3 out of 5 and took 4 of | 6 from the Yanks. Infielder Lyn Lary, a new man now, and Rollie Hemsley, the bad-boy catcher, are two of the best in the business in their positions. Lary even paled West afield, while Hemsley, on one occasion, caught a pop fly by | Manush while standing on the pitch- | ers’ rubber. Young Bill Starr made his debut as a big league starter when Bucky Harris sent him behind the bat in the night- cap. He handled the pitchers in fault- | less style and easily caught Tom Carey attempting to steal in the second in- | ning. Starr would have nabbed West as he stole second in the seventh in- ! ning had Red Kress not dropped his | double-header. throw. The scorer blushingly called | in a stolen base. This Carey is a recent purchase ®y the Browns from Rochester. And what a pain in the neck he was. In| the first two innings of the opener ‘Tom had four assists to his credit, and Sam West’s Remarkable Catch Of Long Fly by Griffman Is T. LOUIS, August 26.—When the one-time favorite of Cecil | of Tris S peaker he carried right on, winding up the day with 17 assists and 6 putouts. When Red Kress and Dee Miles hit successively as pinch-hitters in the ninth inning of the first game, which was lost by 3 to 2, it was a feat un- precedented this year by Washington | pinch-batters. ‘The Griffs turned in two double plays in each game, bringing their total to 22 twin killings in the last | 10 games. Day by day it looks as though Chat- tanooga is calling Leon Pettit. The | elderly rookie just seems to have lost all semblance of a fast ball. No. 13 proved a stumbling block for | Earl Whitehill. The rotund southpaw had won four games in a row and was | seeking his thirteenth win of the sea- | son when he was beaten in yesterday’s | opener. At that it took an error by | Sam Holbrook on a play at the plate | to beat him. Sam missed a perfect | throw from Earl in the second inning | when Andrews tried and succeeded in squeezing home Clift with a bunt. Of all the ex-Brownies now wear- ing Washington uniforms, only Fred | Schulte attracted any attention (mm] | the Sunday double-header crowd of | near]y 2,000. And Fred responded by | | singling on his first three trips to the | plate. Alan Strange, Red Kress and Heinie Manush didn’t get a tumble. Buck Newsom stayed in the dugout, but| went on the radio last night and in- | formed the breathless, unseen audi- | ence that pitching on a broken knee‘ gave him a Wigger thrill than the no-| hit tilt he pitched (and lost) last year. | Newsom, incidentally, is clamoring U,o pitch both games of tomorrow’s| He claimed last nlghh that Bucky Harris had okayed the| | suggestion, but Harris could not be| found to verify the statement. At any rate, Buck will hurl one of them, and if he loses again, and to| FIRST GAME. Schulte. ‘of Strange. ss. Holbrook, ¢ \vhx:emu D *atiier 1Powell Totals . “Batted for Strange in ninth. 1Batted for Holbrook in ninth. iBatted for Whitehill in ninth. COOHSNOROWE P Batens, B Colemln. - Bemitey. Carey. Ardrews, Totals _ Washington St. Louis____ - 000 010 001—: 1104100 000— Runs batted in—Solters, Charey, Kuhel, tor Two-base —Carey,' Kress. Bouble _plays Sivanee. Myer and Kuhel: | Lary. Carey” and "Burhs: Kuhel. Strange | and Kuhel. Left on bases—Washington, 10: St. Louls. 6, FPirst base on balls—Off WhlteHill. 2: off Andrews, 1. Struck out Whitehill Wild pitch—White- Umpires. ssrs. Quinn and Mori- Time—1 SECOND GAME. WASHINGTON. Bill, arty, & | romsoomorossomRT Smer B Siomn MRS FEETETETCT St osocosmssomaumnE omo! oo220 iBluege Totals _ *Batted for Starr in eighth tBatted for Hensiek in eigh $Betted for Russell in ninth. ST. LOUIS. Lary, sS Burns. 1 Solters 1 | Col 5 © > =] 'l = SoomMooDMIe? oo SuwwisemmewO Y EFERTEHNAA o 7 100 000 014—4 202 002 10x—7 Rum bnmd in—Coleman, West (4), Walkup. Carey. Myer. Kuhel, Stone (3). Two-base _hit—West. _ Three-base hit— Stolen rmse—Weu Double plays—Burns to Lary Myer to Bress to Kuhel: Kress Lary to Clr!y to_ Burns (2). ® © ¥ B - ® - By ekl & B ety S Tantnus: o, “Hensiek, 2 in 1% irinings: off Walkup. 9 in 8% inninas. Winning pitcher—Walkup. Losing pitcher Pettit, ’Umvlru—Monnny and Quinn. Time—3: -~ Piedmont. Norfolk. 20: Wilmington, 0. Asheville, Charlotte, Richmond. 4: Portsmouth. can his comeback be appreciated. It's hard to believe this was the dajected playboy who received his release in the lobby of the Hotel New Yorker last July and remarked: “I've certainly been kicked around enough in this damn game. I've got Only by watching the fellow now a good mind to chuck it all.” coomooscssM Sacrifices— | the Browns of all people, Griff might | | have $40,000 worth of pitcher jumping into the Mississippi. F. E 8. B . {Picked Tribe, but Declares Bengals Likely to Stay Up Several Years. | By the Associated Press. ! ETROIT, August 26.—Connie | D Mack, who picked Cleveland to lead the American League race this year and then changed his mind in favor of the New | York Yankees, hasn't been won over whole-heartedly yet to the idea of the Tigers repeating, but he's weakening. “Those boys down there sure fooled | everybody, but themselves this year,” Connie confessed Sunday as he perch- ed high in the Navin Field grand- stand with a group of cronies and | watched Manager Mickey Cochrane | put his Bengals through a warming- | up performance. | “At the start of the season I dldn't; figure they could repeat, but here they | are again, and it looks as though no- | body will stop them now.” Are Like Old Red Sox. “HOW do you think Mickey's team would do as it is today against some of your great clubs—the team of 1910 to 1914, or the three-time | pennant winners of 1929?” the tall, | | lean sage was asked. | “It’s always hard to compare teams,” said Connie, scratching his thinning gray hair. “Maybe Mickey could do a better job of it than I. He played on the last great team I had. “I wouldn't try to compare the | Tigers with any of mine,” he went on, | “nor would I try to make a compari- son between the Yankees of the early 20s or the old Cubs or White Sox. They were teams of different types. “Let me see now,” he mused, “I | think the Tigers as they are today are | the nearest thing to the Boston Red | Sox of 1915 and 1916 that has come | along in the last 20 years. you why—the Tigers are a well-bal- anced - ball club—the best in the league—just as were the old Red Sox. More Tiger Pennants in Offing. | ““THERE really isn't an outstanding | § star who takes the play away from the other fellows. Sure, Green+ berg, Mickey and Gehringer are good, but they don't dominate the club like some of the stars in recent years. “Look back over the'last 20 years and you'll see that this is seldom true of pennant winners. And the best part of this team is its youth. Unless something happens to upset it or some can’t see now, Mickey should keep his gang going for a few more years. | September set-to. | weights. T tell | ¥ team comes up with new talent I |Bing'ton LOUIS T0 BE BUSY DURING VISIT HERE Bow at Colored Ring Show Program for Fighter. ASHINGTON is a wonderful '\; \’ the little he has managed to see of it, but the youth- weight boxing championship of the world fears he will be too busy to his first visit here. The 21-year-old ring marvel arrived | bit for the colored Elks in convention here before settling to the more seri- with Max Baer in New York late next month. ring at Grifith Stadium tomorrow night during the Lincoln Athletic sored by the Elks, and with Jesse Owens, great colored track star, will by the fraternal organization. May Confer With Jacobs Here. Black, Itis manager, and his legal ad- | viser, John Roxborough. The mo ure during the visit to the Capital. Mike Jacobs, New York promoter, who | battle, is expected to join the Detroit | group here today or tomorrow for a | Tomorrow to End Heavy city thinks Joe Louis from ful colored contender for the heavy- look it over thoroughly before he ends this morning from Detroit to do his ous business of training for his fight Joe will be introduced from the Club’s all-colored boxing show, spon- be the recipient of honors conren-edI The fighter is acompanied by Julian probably will mix business with pleas- | has Louis under contract for the Baer | conference concerning details of the ‘While here Louis will be the guest of Dr. W. A. Goodloe at 1836 S street. The fighter’s Capital program, in ad- dition to his apeparance at tomorrow night’s fights, called for a conference | with sports writers this afternoon, a | reception at Howard University and a presentation before the Elks’' conven- | tion. He will leave early Wednesday for | New York for a brief visit before going | into training for his fight with Baer, Heavies Top Fight Card. HIRTY-EIGHT rounds of fighting are scheduled for' the ball yard ring tomorrow night with the 10.heat affair between Willie Reddish of Phil- adelphia and Jack Rose of New York, heavyweights, topping the card. Red- dish boasts a record showing no de- feat and among his victims have been such sturdy battlers as Al Ettore, Don Petrin and Eddie Houghton. Rose, in an appearance here not long ago, scored a spectacular knockout over Battling Mimms. In the eight-round semi-final, Tommy Cross of Philadelphia and Meyer Rowan of New York, junior welters, will clash. A special eight- rounder will bring together Phil Mc~ Quillan, undefeated lightweight pro- tege of Louis, and Billy Eley, Capital clouter, making rapid progress in pro- fressional ranks since winning a Golden Gloves title., Six-round scraps pair Johnny Free. man and Tommy Mollis, welters, and K. O. Clark and Bobby Green, light- Minor Leagues International. 8—10: Baltimore. 3—8, Syracuse, 6—=: Albany. 1 Montreal, 7—3: Rochester, 2—1. Buffalo, i1; Toronto. K. STANDING OF THE CLUBS ot Wontrel! fin Newark. ‘Kansas City. BTAN‘D\'NG OP THE CLUB! W W. L. Pet. | Min'apolis 'fl Milga'kee 67 o Ind'apolis 7 80 8 Columbus 65 5 Totedol- 5992 4ra | Kan.City. 70 3 Louisville 43 85 .336 Southern Association. Chattanoga, phis, ' 0—4. SasvTe s 25 e Roek. 38 Knoxville. 5—3: New Orl . 4—0. Atlanta, 8; Birmingham, STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W.L. Pet. W.L, Pet. Atlanta__ 7051 .608 Chat'ooga 64 64 500 N.Orleans 78 54 591 L. Rock__ 60 69 469 | Nashville R Birm'ham 52 R0 394 6 Knoxvllla 49 81 .380 83 83 65 561 74 69 517 b 73 72 503 Ft. Woi Three Eve. ‘Terre Haute. 6; Decatur, 2. Springfleld. 0; Fort, Wayne. Bloomington, 1—0: Peoria. 0—8. New York-Penna Allentown, 4- Arri o 10, Hazleton, 4—2: Binghamton, 3—3. Williamsport. Elmira, 7. ces. : Scranton, 3—3. 3 ot 24 h’ll Hazleton_ 24558 Allentown 24 545 W'm: 338 Harriebw 9 33 411 Middle Atlantic. Jnhnstowm 1" chnlemn. 0. 5- 1-6. Surely, at this time there is nothing in our league that can stop them.” nununmm 10-0, Zanesville, 9 8. n, 7-11: Portsmouth, 5-2. Colonials Leaders Since 1930 as Gridiron Ramblers Tom Oliver of C. U. Holds Record With 84-Yard Punt—Von Cramm Spites U. S. Tennis. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, August 26 (#).— Foot ball is on the way and you can’t keep the gridiron dope from sneaking in . . . It will interest you to know that in 1034 “Harry the Horse” Mattos of St. Mary’s tossed the longest completed pass over the goal line— 64 yards. Luther Berrin of South- west Louisiana State and Walter by reports that Jim Collins of the Cardinals will take over the first basing job for the Giants next year . . . Bill Terry, whose dogs are barking, will do his master minding from the shade of the dugout . . . Jimmy Johnston says Max Baer is a leadpipe cinch to flatten Joe Louis . . . Was the British collapse on the final day of the Wightman Cup matches due to a too big ‘celebration of first day’s victories? Since beginning her $20,000 American tour, Joyce ‘Wethered, the British golfer, has shattered 23 course records. Two former Georgia Tech bridge stars—Father Lumpkin and Doug ‘Wykoff—rassle for a living . . . and Shanty Hogan, former heavyweight catcher with the Braves, now with b Minneapolis, starts burping next ‘Winter . . . George Washington University plays the most inter- sectional foot ball games—27 out of 54 contests—since 1930 . , . Max Baer, who cares for cigarettes, has switched to a pipe while he trains for Louis The guy must mean business, at that . . . Earl Harbes, 200-pound guard at Texas A. and M., hiked 800 miles to Pittsburgh to land & job with the Pittsburgh pros . . . Leo Diegel makes it tough on the caddies . . . he totes 36 clubs in his bag . . . Harry Vardon, him- self a pretty shotmaker, gets along with 8. Foot ball season hasn’t started yet, but already Penn has been thrown for a loss . . . Smyth, fiashy halfback; Ober, treshman’ tackle r sensation, and Steele, speedy end, won’t beback. Coach Harvey Har- man is mumbling to himself . . . ‘When Hank Lieber kissed two into the stands in one ‘nning at the Polo Grounds Saturday he was the first National Leaguer to turn that trick since Hack Wilson, then with the Giants, blasted two -in one heat on July 1, 1925 . ., Bill Regan of the Red Sox last delivered for the American League on June 16, To back up the contention his hands are fit for all sorts of use against Joe Louis in their ring battle a month hence, ex-Heavyweight Champion Baer (left) mixes with Tony Cancells, Florida sparmate, in a train- ing test at his camp at Speculator, N, Y. Tribe Fans Say It With Pop Bottles Near Riot at Cleveland Park Follaws Umpire Owens’ Decision Reversal. cision in the seventh inning of the second game was given, the trouble started. With one out Oscar Melillo of the Red Sox bunted and Phillips threw the ball to first to beat Melillo by a step. Owens, on the bases, waved the runner out, but Manager Joe Cro- nin of the Sox protested to Um- pire Kolls that the ball had struck Melillo while he was in the bat- ter's box, which is foul territory, end that the play on the bunt was therefore illegal. Kolls appealed to Owens, who then upheld Cronin’s contention and sent Melillo back for another chance at the plate. —Copyright, A, P. Wirephoto. ‘That brought in most of the Cleveland team for a vigorous argument around the umpires, while the crowd hooted and yelled ity disappointment. One of the umpires waved Phillips out of the game, and a moment later the shower of bottles began. One bottle hit a railing and broke into pieces near a woman spectator. Then a hundred or more fans walked onto the field. Pifteen minutes went by before enough order was restored for the game to be resumed. The game ended with the Tribe’s second de- feat by a score of 8 to 2. By the Assoclated Press. LEVELAND, August 26— ing up pop bottles on the Cleveland Indians’ base of fans, who were angered by am umpire’s decision in yesterday's At one stage the uproar of the fans was so0 threatening that after Umpire Lou Kolls to his dressing room. game, 5 to 4, with one unpopular decision of Umpire Brick Owens and when another unpopular de- Bowie Is Called Upon to Handle Overflow of Thoroughbreds. Special Dispatch to The Star. ARLBORO, Md., August 26.—Not Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Grounds today as more than 300 land's second lap of Fall racing sea- son tomorrow. After inspecting the ‘Workmen still were pick- ball field today after a near riot double-header with Boston. the game three policemen escorted Cleveland had lost the first an important factor in the result, PACKED FOR MEET Start Racing Tomorrow. an empty stall remained on the horses awaited the start of Mary- thoroughbred colony this morning, | General Manager Joseph B. Boyle and Track Supt. Dick Pending expressed | g the belief that the week’s racing would be the finest this course has seen since opening & quarter of a century ago. At 2 pm. tomorrow the first of the seven daily races will start. Unable to get accommodations here, close to 100 additional horses are stalled down at Bowie, 6 miles away. Pari-mutuel wagering, featuring the popular “daily double” in each day’s first and third races, will be held each day. The field in each race will be limited to eight starters. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting — Vosmik, Indians, .346; 9 | Myer, Senators, .342. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 99; Chap- man, Yankees, 98. Runs batted in—Greenberg, Tigers, 141; Gehrig, Yankees, 99. Hits—Cramer, Athletics, 171; Vos- mik, Indians, 170. Doubles — Greenberg, Tigers, 43; Vosmik, Indians, 37. Triples—Vosmik, Indians, 16; Stone, Senators, 14. Home runs—Greenberg, Tigers, 33; Foxx, Athletics, 26. Stolen bases—Werber, Red Sox, 25; Almada, Red Sox, 17. Pitching — Allen, Yankees, 12-4; Auker, Tigers, 13-5. National League. Batting — Vaughan, Pirafes, .401; Medwick, Cardinals, .370. Runs—Galan, Cubs, 104; Medwick, Cardinals, 102. Runs batted in—Berger, Braves, 104; Medwick, Cardinals, 102. Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, 178; Her- man, Cubs, 175. Doubles—Herman, Cubs, 43; Allen, Phillies, 37. Triples—Goodman, Reds, 15; Suhr, Pirates; Medwick, Cardinals, and L. ‘Waner, Pirates, 11. Home runs—Ott, Giants, 20; Berger, Braves, 27. Stolen bases—Martin, Cardinals, 18; Galan, Cubs, 15. Pitching—J. Desn, Cardinals, 23-7; Lee, Cubs, 14-5, L} League Statistics MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1935, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. 8, Louls, 37 Washinston, Chicago, 6—1: New Yok, 3—8. Deunfl. "6: Philadelphia. 3 ., 5—8; Cleveland. 4—3. 2—8. 71 7110/— 8113/111611581.5126/15 Phli4] 6] 6] 6/10/—I 7i11150/631.442 (23 71 81 41 81— 9150691.420 126 T 81101 8| 4| 7| 5/—I45/721.385 130 58I56158163169172—I—I____| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wosh. at St L. 4, Weth. st St L. 4. nom‘n st Cleveland, Bosto Nahoml RESULTS YESTERDAY. York, 4. Chlum 5 Ie' %okyn -t Boston. '2—5. * Rocianatt, 10. stu_r 71"\_1110‘10!11»14\.4\13‘6&2».._ NY[11—I 8/11/10/_9I12/13[74/441.627] % Chil_510/—I12113/ 113/13(75/491.605 2% Pit] 8] 4] 6/—I 8/14/12(16681551.553] 9 Bkl| 5| 6/ 5/11I—I 0| 612/54/65].454/21 Phl|_4| 9] 0| 4] 8I—I 7i11/52/681433123% Cinl_61 6| 7| 7| _8/10l—I 8I5270.426124% Bos/ 4| 2| 2| 21 61 7| 9I—I321871.260/43 L. 149155165168170187I—I—I___1| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Pitts. at New York. Pl::ell. at New York. t Brool Ginel. at Brooklyn. iy 8t. Louts Sinera ot scheduled. Clitcaro st Bosto Nat Trio’s Tour Gets Landis O. K. Nationals may barnstorm in Mexico after all when the American League cam| is finished. D::p’g the aversion of Clark Grifith, Washington club presi- dent, to post-season play by his men and his recent announcement |OHI0 STATE PICKED T0 GO UNDEFEATED Grid Statistician Sees National Championship for Buckeyes. Rates Stanford Second. By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, August 26.—Deke Houlgate, foot ball statistician, came out today with the selection of Ohio State as the potential intercol- legiate national championship team of the impending grid season. He rated Standford second, Prince- ton, third; Tennessee, fourth; Temple, fifth; Alabama, 1935 Rose Bowl win- ner, sixth; Minnesota, seventh; Uni- versity of Washington, eighth; Illi- nois, ninth, and Fordham, tenth. “If any team,” said Houlgate, “will go through the forthcoming season undefeated and untied, it appears to be the Buckeye eleven. Stanford and Princeton, with senior teams, definitely must be counted in the running.” He adds that Temple is apt to be the surprise of the season. Houlgate's second 10 includes Rice, Pittsburgh, Columbia, Tulane, Louisiana State, Notre Dame, Santa Clara, Colgate, Nebraska and California. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington at St. Louis, 4. TOMORROW. Base Ball ‘Washington at St. Louis, 4. Boxing. Colored all-star card, featuring personal appearance of Joe Lopis and Jesse Owens, Criffith Sta- dium, 8:30. 'WEDNESDAY. Base Ball, Washington at St. Louis, 4. Horseshoes. Inter-playground tournament, Eckington Recreation Center, 'I:M_ p.m. THURSDAY. ‘Wrestling. Abe Coleman vs. Gus Sonnen- burg, feature match, Griffith Sta- dium, 8:30. Girls’ city phuraund meet, Cen- tral Stadium, TWICE PUTS SKIDS . UNDER TERRYMEN {Deans Pitch St. Louis to Top—Indian Fans Rave as Bosox Win Two. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. P the Cubs don't accomplish any= thing else this season, they can ] claim credit for being the club that knocked the Giants out of | the National League lead. Right now | it looks as if the New Yorkers would have a very tough time trying to get back to the top. | It was the Cubs who put the skids under the Terrymen when they took four straight out in Chicago last | month. They completed the task yesterday by knocking off the Giants | for the third time in four starts, 5 to 4, to put the erstwhile leaders a half game behind the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards did their share by trim- ming the Dodgers twice, 10 to 3 and | 6 to 1 behind the Dean brothers. | It was the first time since April 27, with the ‘exception of the interval between games of a doubleheader last | month, that the Giants have been out |of first or the Cards have been that | high. The Giants next take on the | faurth-place Pirates, then Brooklyn thile the Cards have a chance to in- | crease their margin at Philadelphia’s | expense. Chicago only two games be- | hind New York, goes to Boston. ‘ Deans Pair for Wins. THE Giants made a fine effort to avert yesterday's defeat. Hal | Schumacher was wild and the Cubs |built up a 5-1 lead with Mel Ott's | twenty-ninth homer as the only New | York run. Then the Giants got busy |and drove Bill Lee out, but failed to | get the tying run. Meanwhile the Cards belted Johnny | Babich for five runs in the second inning of the opener and went on to give Jerome Dizzy Dean his twenty- second mound victory. They followed up with 11 more blows while Paul | Daffy held the Dodgers to eight. The American League action again | centered around the three-way strug- | gle for third place. A series of double- headers ended with the Boston Red Sox jumping from fifth to third and Chicago and Cleveland winding up in a virtual tie for fourtn. The Red Sox beat the Indians twice, § to 4 and 8 to 2, winning the opener with a two-run rally in the ninth and the nightcap with a 17-hit barrage while the Cleveland fans staged a near riot in protest over a reversed decision. Umpire Brick Owens called Melillo's bunt foul, then after consulting with Lou Kolls at first changed the ruling. Some of the 28,000 fans—the season's largest crowd—heaved pop bottles and dashed out on the fleld and the umps got police protection when they went | home. E Combs Again Injured. CHICAGO split a bargain bill with the Yankees, winding 6 to 3, be- | hind John Whitehead's three-hit hurl- | ing, then losing 6 to 1 as Lou Gehrig | struck the keynote with his twenty- | fourth homer. The split put the Yanks eight and a half games behind the league-leading Detroit Tigers, who | walloped Philadelphia, 8 to 3. Earle | Combs, veteran Yankee outfielder, suf- | fered his second serious injury in as msny seasons as he crashed into Red Rolfe in the first game and tore the ligaments of his shoulder Tuning up for the Giant serfes, | Pittsburgh defeated the Braves twice, 9 to 2 and 6 to 5, going 11 innings before Manager Pie Traynor drove in the odd run of the second game. The Browns swept a double bill with Wash- ington. The Phillles withstood an eight-run Cincinnati rally to pound | out & 12-to-10 victory over the Reds and save sixth place in their circuit. SEEK SUNDAY GIME A game for next Sunday is sought by the Burroughs A. C. Call North | 1848-W. Homer Standing Byrthe Ascociated Press. Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants, 1; Gehrig, Yankees, 1; J. Collins, Car- dinals, 1; Herman, Reds, 1; Young, Pirates, 1; Higgins, Athletics, 1; Dahl- gren, Red Sox, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 33; Ott, Giants, 29; Berger, Braves, 27; | Foxx, Athletics, 26; Gehrig, Yan- kees, 24. League totals—National, 561; Amer- ican, 54 Total, 1,110. IllIDDlnG up’ YOUREOUT! OF GLEN ECHO CRYS- TAL POOL AT 11:30 P. M. EVERY NITE UN- TIL LABOR DAY NITE, WHEN THE POOL AND PARK CLOSES FOR THE SEASON SWIM&DIVE UNTIL THEN. FROM 9:30 A. M.