Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1935, Page 13

SEES SALVATION OF WEAKER CLUBS Browns Apathetic Toward Light Game in Spite of Home Deficit. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, August 27.—The near S hysteria which accompanied first word of a drive by some American League club owners iIn favor of night base ball seems to have died as suddenly as it was born. Even in St. Louis where the “light game” would seem to be a natural, club officials are rumored to be not as open-minded on the subject as first reported. As a matter of fact, one high-ranking member of the Browns’ front office is believed op- posed to night ball. Clark Griffith, president of the Na- tionals, will be, of course, the leader In advocating base ball under the lights. But the “Old Fox,” no mat- ter how aggressive he proves to be, may have his troubles making other owners night ball consclous without the support of the Browns. Griff may, and doubtless will, stage noc- turnal games in the Capital, but even 30, the St. Louis problem in the Amer- lcan League will be as acute as ever, especially with the Cardinals seem- ingly on their way to another pen- nant in the senior circuit and the Browns still occupying the cellar berth and playing before more ushers than fans. Lose Money in St. Louis, ’I‘O ‘THE Washington ball club, espe- cially, it is a terrific financial blow to invade St. Louis as the two clubs stand as they do. Unlike most other owners, Griffith’s only interest and income is from base ball. If his ball club cannot make money, neither can he. And here, of course, nobody thinks of paying to see the Nationals and Browns play. The average fan probably has little idea of what it costs to run a ball club. In brief, it can be said without fear of error that it has cost Griffith approx- imadely $12,000 to send his team here to play the Browns in the three series this year. The average crowd that pays to see | a game between the Griffs and Browns here probably will number not much | more than 1,500 at the most. The | customers do not average $1 each, be- cause many sit in the bleachers, so| let us assume the average “gate” runs about $1,200. This probably is gh‘-‘ ing the customers of St. Louis the benefit of any doubt. Of this $1,200 the visiting club gets | 40 per cent—less than $500—and if the Griffs play a four-game series their “take” thus would be less than‘ $2,000. *So much for the credit side. Unless ' this correspondent is far off, the ap- | proximate salary of the Nationals for a single day is about $1,225, or $4,900 for a single series. To transport 20- | odd players, the manager, trainer, club secretary, etc., from, say, Chi- cago, would be about $400. Then there is the hotel bill, meals, etc. This would run about $600, mak- ing the total expense for the Wash- ington ball club, or any other club, amount to something like $5,900 for a four-game series here. Miscellaneous expenses, such as doctor bills, practice balls, taxis, etc., are not estimated. Taking a ghance on these figures, then, it has cost something like $4,000 | per series for the Washington ball | club to play here this season on each | of its three trips. Fans Have No Kick. WHE'I‘HER night base ball would J help to remedy this situation is debatable, but the chances are that it would, at least for a time, or until the novelty had worn off. Without being & guy who believes the radio never will supplant the phonograph, it might be said that night base ball has no lasting basis of appeal. Too many astute base ball men, players | among them, declare nocturnal ball | makes the game an exhibition. Yet for all of that it's hard to beat down an owner's viewpoint, especinlly} if he gains his livelihood from base ball and owns a second-division club. The fans can have no kick. If they object to night ball, they are not compelled to go. There will be plenty of daytime games, too, but this source, in view of Cincinnati’s experiment, should not provide a serious problem. The Reds have raised their attend- ance figure by 100,000, which would indicate that Cincinnati fans like | night ball. In Griffith’s case the set-up seems | perfect. Washington is a town of | Federal workers who knock off too late for an afternoon game. It would give them a chance to see a ball game at least once a week, beside Saturdays and Sundays, which always are “beach days.” Dew and Fog Bothersome. ON’! objection to night ball, cited by such members of the Nationals as Red Kress, Alan Strange and Earl Whitehill, each of whom has played it on the Pacific Coast, s dew and fog. The Capital, fortunately, has little of either. Heavy dew, of course, would necessitate a new ball with every hit that rolls into the out- fleld, but not in Washington, or even in St. Louis. S8trange, who came into the Ameri- can League via the Coast League, de- clares that often Los Angeles fog would make it almost impossible to discern the infielders from the plate. ‘The Capital, as well as St. Louis, is free of this. Still another advantage held by Grifith is that Washington has few other, night attractions, compared, for instance, to New York and Chicago. 1t is not a night club town, nor are there many and important prize fights and other amusements to take the edge off night ball. Ditto for St. Louey. Ball players are unanimous in their opinion that lights will make the game more of a spectacle and add an air of artificiality. Scouts claim they wouldn’t think of looking over a player at night. But as far as fans are con- cerned, what care they for scouting? Whitehill and Newsom declare that the glare illuminates only the top half of the ball, and that low, fast balis A < | { HICH is the best base ball city in the game? This argument has de- veloped a flood of oratory for more than 40 years, and the vital statistics still are being shoveled out. Boston, Detroit, Brooklyn, Chicago and New York all have been entereq, with scattering votes for several other communities. Brooklyn is among the hottest chal- | 1engers, year after year, but, so far as 1935 goes, the old debate settles down to either Detroit or Boston. And these two enterprising citadels always have felt that way about the game. Recently more than 50,000 specta- tors packed the Polo Grounds to see & Giant-Cardinal double-header. But with the race still close, there was a big drop through the next three days, when fewer than 15,000 came out to see Dizzy Dean hook up with | Hal Schumacher in one of the sea- son’s classics. Note the difference in Detroit. More than 36,000 packed the park twice when the Yanks ar- rived. With an eight-game lead at this | point—more than double the margin the Giants had over the Cardinals— | more than 60,000 excited citizens came | contests. And before leaving home, the Red Sox, well out of the running, passed 30,000 counts three days in a row. Under the same conditions, I doubt |that any other city would equal De- troit or Boston figures—especially De- troit, where more han 236.000 specta- tors came rolling in through an eight- | day session against the White Sox and Yankees. — | Paying Crowds. A CCORDING to Ford Frick, the | main mogul of the National League, the majority of big league | clubs can at least break even on a | season’s attendance total around | 400,000. Last year more than a few clubs | fel@ below this mark—some of them | below 300,000. With the exception of the Boston Braves and the St. Louis Browns, there has been a big jump all along the line this Summer. The Cards and Reds have done much better. The Tigers should pass the million mark. The Giants are beyond their 1934 count and the| Yankees are holding their own. The Cubs have drawn much better this season at home than they did in 1934, The Browns have a star manager in Hornsby, but no money to spend for | any helpful material. As a result, the Tigers drew more | out to see the last two Yankee-Tiger | @he Toening Shae Fporls WA THE SPORTLIGHT Detroit, Boston Bést Ball Towns Now; ‘All-Time Honors Difficult to Award. BY GRANTLAND RIK in eight days than the Browns will draw at home all year. Rival Gate Receipts. The Joe Louis-Max Baer hullabaloo is expected to draw close to $800,000. This is more money in one night than 12 out of 16 major league ball teams will draw through 77 home games. A big fight still is the top draw in sport. But in the way of general averages, big-time foot ball still is in front. You won't have many fights in & year that will draw more than $200,- 000. Last year Army and Navy, Army and Notre Dame, Alabama and Stan- ford and one or two others beat this mark with crowds that ran above 75,000. Foot ball is the big crowd collector, even with a short season. When you take in all the college games, the high and prep school games, with pro at- tendance packed on, the total is some- thing terrific. This total may run as high as 40,000,000, Perhaps a good bit more. Any number of the leading colleges draw from 200,000 to 400,000 a year each. Big Grid Leaders. N PAST seasons Notre Dame, Army, Navy, Stanford, Southern California, Michigan, Minnesota and Pittsburgh have been among the leaders for an | all-season count. On October 5, Pennsylvania will play to capacity at Princeton—above 50,000-—and a week later Pennsyl- vania will entertain Yale at Franklin | Field before 70,000 or more. Philadelphia is one of the best of all the foot ball cities. Give this city something to look at in a foot ball way, and the multitude starts pouring in. 1 recall only a few years ago when a crowd of 8,000 was a big gathering at & Southern game. There were few 10,000 foot ball crowds. Later I saw 33,000 at a Georgia- Tulane game in Athens, with several thousand turned away. Tennessee and Alabama played to capacity last Fall. There are more | than a dozen big games in the South each Fall that will flll any stadium at hand. Southern California turned in some- | | thing like $800,000 to the big municipal | stadium at Los Angeles in less than 10 years, You will find around 80,000 people watch an August game in Chicago next week when the all-star collegians meet the Chicago Bears. Foot ball's general pull is fer and away the biggest thing that sport has known—on this continent at least. (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaver Aliance. Inc.) 3-1 SOFT BALL TILT LASTS 47 MINUTES Sport Center Ten Upsets R. F. C. Bookkeepers in Near Record Time in Title Series. PLAYINO in almost record time for a soft ball game, the Sport Cen- | ter ten upset the R. F. C. Bookkeep- ers, 3 to 1, in 47 minutes yesterday soft ball championship. In the other game of the day, the Arlington Pres- byterian Church League team smoth- 16 to 3. ‘Today the Johnson ten will meet the | Ceramists at the Chevy Chase Play- ground at 5 o'clock, while the Ma- chine Tabulations and Records teams are clashing on No. 10 diamond at the same time. ‘The Arlington Church team, which plays a highly-favored Department of | Agriculture ten tomorrow, has un- covered a “find” in Pitcher Jack Bradford who let the Engineers down with but two hits. While his fast ball is not quite as speedy as that of Abe Rosenfeld, the “Walter Johnson of local soft ball circles,” it is fast enough to rank him near the top of the city’s hurlers. Al Wellens’ first-inning triple, which was turned into a run when the Book- keepers’ catcher missed the throw to the plate, accounted for all of the runs in the Sport Center's 3-1 victory yes- terday. Hoy and Beck were on base at the time of the blow and scored e to continue in the fight for the city's | Lk, ered the Navy Department Engineers, | Hadl ahead of the former Tech High player. will make it easier for pitchers. What of it as far as fans are concerned? " Makes Players Seem Faster. )N THE other hand, lights would fall far short of making base ball a joke, a mere show in a class witn flea circuses and walkathons, “You'd be surprised what a good game it is from a spectator’s view- point,” says Bucky Harris, who has seen several from the stands. “The players look faster under the lights. They seem to throw faster, run faster and field faster than they actually do.” Cecil Travis, who played under lights in the Southern Association, can't see where the hitters are terribly handicapped. “As a matter of fact,” drawls Cecil, “I hit even better at night than in the day time, it seemed. “The fault I found with it in the Southern Association was that at some parks, Memphis, for instance, the lighting system was bad. You hardly could see the outfielders. Then again the night air cools you off be- tween innings and makes it tough. As far as lighting is concerned, though, it would be better in the big leagues.” No, the excitement over night base ball in the American League has sub- sided but it is no mere pipe dream. It is the second division clubs’ financial salvation and Griffith might be able to drive home this fact at the Winter meeting. In the light of the slim crowds drawn here oné can't blame him for trying. New York-Pennsylvania. Binghamton, §; Wilkes-Barre, 8. Williamsport, 10—9; Harrisburg, 5. Griffs’ Records 5y _:g 3% 1 -5 -] weno~o~osauss? 0 _19—ioies CocAMNESI AL B RO SRES 8 s Do o DR SREBRNEECERRRSS.0 BEPATREESETE b S e R =) 9 oS R e B D fere [T ol » o SRSSS! 03804 DB ID® eSS B IRBE SRZSERT ¥ o®mun oy ERROMRD SRR DS B B S p 2D 3 ©DOOOHOII - IO IO A DT St S, ©oos00m 8 orn E:‘H a o5t 3 &l 3 c. bt 2o couaTSea: Whitehill t. o-—uns 1933, 3 DB 33 4 ey goooSolin- 1 - T seaSame: “won 3: n 2. lost 4; Burke won 2, I Hayes won 2, Stewart lost 1. LEE SIGNS PRO CONTRACT. NEW YORK, August 27 (#).—The Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Professional Foot Ball League have re- ceived the signed contract of Bill Lee, former Alabama tackle. One of the greatest linemen ever developed at Alabama, Lee is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 225 pounds. - ‘Western. 8t. Joseph, 16; Sioux City, 5. Cedar Rapids, 7; Davenport, 5. Council Bluffs, 10; Des Moines, 7. 2 o=, CLEVELAND, August Va., yesterday scored a 95 to win ',uvemh. after getting his SHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935. Magnates Cooling Toward Night Ball: Big Train, Busy on Farm, Again Happy . 4 MAILED FIST FALS Warned Jobs at Stake, They Bow to Pirates, Lose Chance to Lead. BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE mailed fist has been substi- tuted for the kid glove in the Giants’ camp. Bill Terry sat down to con- sider the situation after the Cards had wrested the lead from the New York- ers the other night. He remembered his own prophecy earlier in the season, that the Giants would wind up about 20 games ahead of the second place club, and he began to wonder if the turbulence of the St. Louls bad boys hadn’t something to do with their base ball success; if the honey and roses atmosphere he tried to main- tain in his own dugout wasn't con- ducive to defeat. | He strode into the club house to lay down the law. “If I'm going to lose I can lose with nine men as well as 23. From now on the issue isn’t the pennant. It's your jobs. If you play winning ball, the pennant will take care of itself. If you don’t, not many of you will be here for another chance next year.” Traynor Leads Attack. TH! boys apparently understood. but they went out yesterday and | dropped another to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-2. Manager Pie Traynor led a 15-hit attack on four pitchers, collecting & homer with the bases loaded to send the Bucs away in the | initial frame. Then he added four singles. He drove in six runs. slip back into the favored niche, too, for the Cards were defeated at Phila- delphia, 4-3. Orville Jorgens held the Cards to nine scattered hits, but Bill Walker, on the mound for the champs, gave way to Jesse Haines after allowing nine hits in six innings. The Reds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-2, Babe Herman's ninth- inning homer providing the winning margin. Lengthy Twin Bill Split. TH! Yankees and the Chicago White Sox played five and a half hours of base ball yesterday to no avail as far as league positions were concerned. Chicago took the first game, 9-8, but | the McCarthymen came back to cop the nightcap, 7-5. The first game went 15 innings. with Zeke Bonura stealing home with the run that won a hectic game. Lou | Gehrig hit two for the circuit in the first game to run his season total up to 26. Darkness halted the second | game after seven innings had been | played. h The Philadelphia Athletics broke even with the league-leading Detroit Tigers, the champions taking the first game, 13-7, and Philadelphia the sec- ond, 3-2. Tommy Bridges allowed but four hits in the second game, but errors by Owen and Rogell in the ninth let in two Philadelphia runs. Jimmy Foxx had hit his twenty- eighth homer of the season in the twenty- | seventh in the opening stanza of the | first game. Hal Trosky's twenty-second home | run of the season emabled the Cleve- and Indians to defeat the Red Sox, 413, and go into third place ahead of | the Boston club. Minor Leagues International. Buffalo, 5; Montreal, 1. Rochester, 5; Toronto, 1. American Association. Minneapolis, 19; Columbus, 7. Indianapolis, 11; Milwaukee, 4. St. Paul, 4; Toledo, 2. Southern Association. Nashville, 5; Little Rock, 0. Texas. Galveston, 3; Tulsa, 0. Dallas, 4; Beaumont, 2. Oklahoma City, 2; Houston. 1. San Antanio, 4; Fort Worth, 3. Three-Eye. Bloomington, 16; Decatur, 7. Fort Wayne, 11; Terre Haute, 9. Springfield, 5; Peoris, 3. Middle Atlantic. Beckley, 6—2; Charleston, 3—4. Johnstown, 8; Akron, 1. Zanesville, 8; Dayton, 2. Portsmouth, 5; Huntington, 4. Piedmont. Richmond, 13; Asheville, 3. 27.—Esther Abble Ingalls, 17, Hot Springs, the women’s national skeet crown. Max Marcum, 16, Loulsville, Ky., scored 98 to annex thg national junior title. Here they are shown exchanging congratulations. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. e 10 AROUSE GIANTS. It was the Giants’ opportunity to| Back Close Noi “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” but “Over Beyond Those Woods” s the chant of Walter Johnson as he gets ready to “ride the bounds” on his large farm at nearby Germantown, Md. K * to the Soil HANKEN RETURNS 10 G. W, ELEVEN Changes His Mind, Assures Colonials of Complete Veteran Backfield. EORGE WASHINGTON UNI- VERSITY is assured of a| complete veteran backfield this year as a result of word | received today that Ray Hanken, the Colonials’ best blocking halfback, has changed his mind about quitting | school and keeping & position in| Peoria, IIl. Hanken, according to Line Coach| Len Walsh, who sent the news in a| | special delivery letter, definitely has | given up a previously expressed in- tention of transferring from G. W. | to another institution near Peoria, | where he might have continued his | studies while working. The burly back will report, Walsh said, Labor | day at Camp Letts, Md., where Head | Coach Jim Pixlee expects to greet a | varsity squad numbering nearly 50. Leemans Lone Senior. ITH Hanken in the fold Pixlee can place on the field again the | 1934 backfield of George Jenkins, quar- terback: Tuffy Leemans and Hanken, | halfbacks, and Frank Kavalier, full- | back. All but Leemans, who is about to start his final year, are juniors. Walsh also stated that he has ob- | tained leave of absence from his | legal positicn with the P. W. A. per- mitting his arrival in camp the open- ing day. A vanguard of G. W. players under the direction of Harold H. Dufloll,] former professor in the engineering school, will start erecting the elabo- rate Colonial training equipment at/| the camp on Friday. SEEK BOWLING TEAMS New members will be accepted to- night by the East Washington Church Bowling League in a meeting at the Rendezvous Alleys, at 8 o'clock. Cap- tains of last year's teams are urged to be present. Teams desiring a franchise in the Federal Bowling League are asked to communicate with Charles E. Barnard, 1016 Taussig place northeast, or call Potomac 1016. The league rolls Mon- day nights at Arcadia. | | League Statistics TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Detroit, 13—2: Philadelohis. 7—3. Chicago L g )lnnln second game, 7 innings. eveland. 4 i ‘Washington-! i : Boston. 3. . Louis, wet grounds. FE Deti—[ 8[16] 8/12] 9111113/76(43.6301 ___ NY| 9—[10] 7] 8111]12/10/67/511.568] 8'3 le| 5/ 7I—I101 8 8113111/621581.517/14% ©hi| 8] 7] 7/—[ 81 9110/1160/571.513]16 Bos| 6/ & 810/—i12111] 7/62|69].512/15 Phil 5[ 6101 6 6/—I 711151164.443123 GREENBERG DUE FOR TOP RANKING Gets Big Vote as American| League’s Best—Vaughan | Leads in National. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, August 27.—The twin batting heroes of the major league races, Arky | Vaughan, Pirate shortstop, and Big Hankus Pankus Greenberg, first sacker of the Detroit Tigers, are | headed for honors as the most valuable | players of the 1936 seacon, base ball writers believe. The final month of campaigning may | cause some switches in judgment, but the powerhouse clouting of Greesnberg, who is ieading both leagues in home | runs and runs batted in, has gained | him a sweeping indorsement so far. Wes Ferrell Second. AN ASSOCIATED PRESS poll or} the big league experts showed 30 | of 46 experts naming the Tiger thumper as the No. 1 American Leaguer of the year. | His closest rival, Pitcher Wes Per- rell of the Boston Red Sox, collected 10 votes. Opinion is more divided in the Na- tionsl League, although it appears ting king with one of ihe Lighest marks eitaer league has known in years. The Pirate star gathered 16 votes, six more than his nearest rival, Joe Medwick, the clean-up clouter of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals and Vaughan's closest pursuer in the hitting race. Last year's winners of the most valuable player awards, Manager Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers and Diszy Dean of the Cardinals, each received two votes in the sentiment- sounding poll. If Dean continues his current streak and hits the 30-mark in victories again he will gather a lot | of ballots between now and the end of September. Meyer Gets Two Votes. THE awards are made annually by | the Base Ball Writers' Association of America and are announced after the world series. Here are the results of the Asso- ciated Press poll: American League—Hank Greenberg, Tigers, 30; Wes Ferrell, Red Sox, 1 Mickey Cochrane and Charley Gel inger, Tigers, and Buddy Myer, Sena- tors, 2 each. National League—Arky Vaughan, Pirates, 16; Joe Medwick, Cardinals, 10; Bill Terry, Giants, 6; Gabby Hartnett, Cubs, 3; Hank Lieber and Mel Ott, Giants; Pepper Martin and Dizzy Dean, Cardinals, 2 each; Wally Berger, Braves; Mark Koenig and Joe Moore, Giants, 1 each. HEURICHS NOSED OUT. Special Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, August 27— Heurich's Brewers almost upset & team of former Blue Ridge League players here yesterday when they lost to the Frederick Hustlers, 9-8, after a stir- ring battle. They had the tying run on third in the ninth when Fee i ¢ill ent Ini- Vaughsn will gain recogaition ae bat- | basket ball player, will enter the Uni Collier popped up to end the game. DECLARES RURAL LIFE BEST HE’S EVER KNOWN Children Are Pride and Joy to Walter as Ouce Great Pitcher Cheerfully Carries Big Burden on 500-Acre Tract. (Twenty-eight years ago, from a Kansas farm, a shy rawboned boy, Walter Johnson, came to hang up base ball pitching records that never may be equaled. Today the “Big Train” is back in the fields. Resigning recently as manager of the Cleveland Indians, he is a farmer again, This is one of three writings by or about “Base Ball's First Gentleman.”) OMETHING about the bigness ot° Walter Johnson’s farm reminds one of the man. He’s a whop- per physically and everything he's ever done has had size. “Yes, I like a lot of room, and here T've got it,” he said, sky-blue eyes affectionately roaming the 500-odd acres of terrain near Germantown, Md, in which the mightiest pitcher in base ball history has invested his heart as well as a life’s savings—a true son of the soil come back. Walter hoisted his bulky chassis on to the end of a hay wagon, tired, but | happily so, from hefting 150-pound | bales of straw into the barn. His big feet, one of them pigeon-toed, dangled | luxurjously. “Once in a while,” he said, “you have to bear down, but this is the best life I've ever known.” Walter Johnson, the farmer, father of a large family, provider for nephews and nieces galore, pholosopher, for the moment forgot Walter Johnson the diamond immortal—and that recent unpleasantness at Cleveland, when he resigned as manager of the Indians. He's not through out there, you may know. A Washington newspaper re- cently published in a copyrighted plece that Johnson will succeed Billy Evans as general manager of the In- dians, & story promptly and force- fully denied by Alva Bradley, presi- dent of the Cleveland Club. But Walter still is on the Tribe pay roll and, to quote him: “That's a pretty nice thing they have for me.” He passed up the detals. At this writing Johnson's interest in base ball is passive. He's occupied with his crops. Children His Big Interest. Tfl! farm, however, isn't his No. 1 interest. First come his mother- less youngsters. Mrs. Johnson died several years ago. Eddie is 17, Bobby, 13; Carolyn, 12; Barbara, 9. Walter, | jr, 21, married a while back and left the family hearth, to his dad's deep regret. He may wander back some | day, even as did Walter, sr., for these | Johnsons patently are of the soil. | Walter tilted a battered straw hat from a perspiring brow. The lid once | was a fashionable panama. This and a faded green silk shirt, pants that be- longed to a tailor-made suit and shoes of tan and white, all ravaged by farm wear, singularly linked the ball player and the farmer. “See those sheep over yonder?” | Johnson pointed to 80-odd woohes} grazing on a hillside. | “When I bought this farm last year,” he disclosed, “I didn’t want the sheep. But the owner said, ‘no theep, no sale’ Well, there's a break a farmer seldom gets. They haven't cast a dime to keep and the wool and lambs have brought in $200.” Eddie breezed up to the barn astride a tractor. Eddie, a gangling youth, base ball and versity of Maryland next Fall. H= wants to be a pitcher and his dad al- {lows he has the makin's, but in any | event Eddie figures to be a big ‘heaguer, if not as a base ball player, | then as a farmer. And to tell the | truth, the “Big Train” would ratner have the latter. “He’s like me,” said Walter. “Likes the farm. Darned good worker, £0o.” In the space of two minutes Eddie did five little chores in the barn and | was on his way—with a bucket of minnows—to—you guess where. All Take to Horses. A STURDY lass of 12 dusted by on & horse, waving merrily. | _ “That’s my daughter Carolyn,” said Walter, “Which reminds me. There's a lady down the road who has a pony I want to buy for Barbara. She’s §. I reckon I'll drop over there this evening and see if she’s decided to sell.” “What about a pony for Bobby?” Walter smiled. “That kid can ride | anything,” he said, “even me.” Walter Perry Johnson may be through with base ball. But are ms | children annoyed that dad no longer |18 in a diamond spotlight? Are they | pleased to have him to themselves? | And is Walter happy to have mis | youngsters constantly about him? You | know the answers! It's by choice that Walter Johnson | comes back to the farm, but it might | easily have been of necessity. His neighbors joshingly say that nothing | smaller than a bus can accommodate | the Johnson kids at school time. Besides his own four, there are the | orphaned children of a sister, and his mother to care for. Walter's brother | helps with the farm. Lots to Care For. TH.E requirements of the Johnson flock are many and varied and caring for them would tax the income of a big league star or manager. But with the gang on a farm, many problems are obviated. And Walter is a willing provider. The job of rearing all those youngsters he has accepted with the same grace and efficiency that marked his career in base ball. A giant in spirit as well as in body is this Johnson fellow. Base ball may get him back, but | surely not all of him. The “Big Train's” heart always will be down on the farm—with the little Johnsons now, and, in years to come, one hopes with the children of his children. You'll agree the world could stand a lot of the Johnson breed, but probably there never will be another Johnson quite like the present head of the clan at Germantown. Yet that boy Eddie, 6 feet 1 at 17, and with a lot of his dad's physical characteristics, even the pigeon toe, is showing signe The pride in Walter's eves was un- | °f 80108 places. mistakable as he regarded the boy. | (Copyright. 1935.) (Tomorrow: Walter Johnson writes his own story of the high lights of his ! base ball experience.) = Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington at St. Louis, 2:30. Boxing. Colored sll-star card, featuring personal appearance of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, Griffith Sta- dium, 8:30. TOMORROW. Base Ball ‘Washington at St. Louis, 4. Horseshoes. Inter-playground tournament, Eckington Recreation Center, 7:30 pm. THURSDAY. Wrestling. Abe Coleman vs. Gus Sonnen- burg, feature match, Griffith Sta- dium, 8:30. Track. Girls’ city playground meet, Cen- tral Stadium, 10. SATURDAY. Base Ball, Boston at Washington, fith Stadium, 3. Grif- Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Foxx, Ath- letics, 2; Gehrig, Yankees, 2; Sim- mons, White Sox, 1; Johnson, Ath- letics, 1; Trosky, Indians, 1; Herman, Reds, 1; Traynor, Pirates, 1; Padden, Pirates, 1; Jensen, Pirates, 1. ‘The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 33; Ott, Giants, 29; Foxx, Athletics, 28; Berger, Braves, 27. League totals—National, 565; Amer- ican, 556. Wnl 7| 7] 4| 8] 7| 8i—I 9/560/60/.420/26 StL 31 8/ 41 8110 7| 6/—I45/721.385130 L._|43[51168/57|50164160/721—]—| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMOI ¥:§' -\‘&lcn‘; m.{‘,}" fla. at Detroit (2). it. oston at Cleveland. Boston at Cleve. Naticnal RESULTS YESTERDAY. Fimien % v xonk 3 hetanatt, : Brookivh. 2. EHEE Il s £ BL—[ 7113 anzmmuial_u_\.ggx_': NY[11|—| 8111/10] 9/13113|741451.632( Chil 5/10/—I12113] 9/13/1375/491.6051 Pisl 8| | —|_8|14[13(16169]65.557] 8 1 51 6/ BIiLll—| 9| 6112154/66/.450121 Bl—I | % PIB51861A8I70 8T I—I—1 | GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Nl AR et vt Balvn. (3. Shnct ot Brookiva: Newsom May Toe Slab in Both Tilts With Browns Tomorrow By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. T. LOUIS, August 27.—By spe- cial request of his own, Breezy Buck Newsom tomorrow may do an iron-man pitching stunt never tried by a Washington hurler since the palmy days of Walter Johnson. A long, hard rain postponed yes- terday’s game with the Browns, and the third double-header of this series thus was arranged for tomorrow at Sportsman’s Park. Newsom, knowing Manager Bucky Harris' pitching shortage, begged for a chance to pitch both of tomorrow’s games. “He'll probably start the opener,” declared Harris today, “and if that game is fairly easy on him Il start him in the second. Why not? The fellow loves to work and it won't hurt | him.” Newsom was elated over what he termed a “promise by Harris.” “Ah figure it'll give me two chances to win a ball game,” quote bashful in his South Carolina drawl. “Buck and ah'd like to know how it feels to win once. Its been so long since ah've won that kinda been getting out of practic Today’s pitching in the second double-header with the Browns was to be done by Ed Linke and Bump Hadley. The former hurt his shoulder in a fall during the Chicago series, but he” was expected to be ready. Russ Van Atta and Jack Knott were to do the Brown’ pitching. Opposing Newsom in tomorrow's Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting — Vosmik, Indians, | Myer, Senators, .342. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 104; Green- | berg, Tigers, 100. Runs batted in—Greenberg, Tigers, | 145; Gehrig, Yankees, 104 Hits—Cramer, Athletics, 173; Vos- mik, Indians, 172. Doubles — Greenberg, Vosmik, Indians, 38 Triples—Vosmik, Indians, 17; Stone, Senators, 14. Home runs—Greenberg, Tigers, 33; Foxx, Athletics, 28. Stolen bases—Werber, Red Sox, 25; Almada, Red Sox, 17 Pitching — Allen, Auker, Tigers, 13-5. National League. Batting—Vaughan, Pirates, .400; Medwick, Cardinals, .373. Runs—Galan, Cubs, 104; Medwick, Cardinals, 103. Runs batted in—Berger, Braves, 104; Medwick, Cardinals, 103. Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, 181; Her man, Cubs, 175. Doubles—Herman, Cubs, 43; Allen, Phillies, 38. Triples—Goodman, Reds, 15; Suhr, Pirates; Medwick, Cardinals, and L. Waner, Pirates, 11. Home runs—Ott, Giants, 29; Berger, Braves, 27. Pitching—J. Dean, Cardinals, 22-7; Lee, Cubs, 14-5. 347; ‘Tigers, 42; Yankees, 12-4; Erratic Steering More Dangerous Than Bad Brakes! DOES YOUR CAR SHIMMY e WOBBLE?—WANDER? 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