Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1935, Page 11

>>| @he Foening Htad Sporis WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1935. Nats’ Cuban Rookie Impresses ESIA[MS BAI } A Prize Winning Swimmer Debut, but Pass He Gets | Beats Champions. ' BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ’ PAIR of contrasting circum- A of surprise as the only bond, | today caused Third Baseman Cecil Travis to don sun-glasses and hasten his preparation for a near- ficlder. Strangely enough, young Buddy Lewis of Chattanooga, widely hailed as his successor and the Griffs' next the slightly premature conversion of Travis. Two other ball-playing gents fur- nished the chief reasons for Manager today Travis seriously would bend efforts toward becoming an outfielder. They are Senor Roberto Estallella, late of Harrisburg and Cuba, and Herr in batting. Originally Travis was not to be shifted until Lewis' arrival, but now he may be expected to move into left Newcomer Hits Soundly in stances, with the element of | future debut as Washington's left third sacker, had nothing to do with Bucky Harris' announcement that Heinie Manush, late of the .300 class field any day. Heinie Pitiful at Bat. ESTALLELLA'S part in the picture: is a source of unexpected joy to Harris and President Clark Griffith The squatty, powerful little Cuban nof only has captured the fancy of the °* REVIVED BROWNS DESERT CELLAR Shove in Athletics With Double Victory—Giants . Gain on Leaders. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. HE National League pennant battle was as keen as ever to- day with the Cardinals and Cubs setting a pace that the Giants were finding hard to follow: the Tigers, despite & setback, still had a clear path to the American League flag; but the real news of the day was that the Browns were out of the cellar. Few teams have had more dismal prospects than Rogers Hornsby's team did early this season, but by dint or | persistent trading on the manager’s | part and hard work by the players the Browns have been built up into & quite formidable organization. They stepped out yesterday to belt over the fading “Athletics in a double-header, 9 to 4 and 7 to 5 to move a half game ahead of Philadelphia into sev- enth place. Washington conquered Detroit’s league leaders, 4 to 3. ‘Terry's Batting Tells. TH!: New York Giants, safely out of Cincinnati, began a new effort to get out of third place in the Na- tional League by trimming Pittsburgh, | 3 to 1, on the combination of Carl | Hubbell's - six-hit hurling and four| straight hits by Manager Bill Terry. | The victory enabled the Giants to |1 FOR GRID HONORS Maryland Also Considered Formidable by Coaches of Southern Group. BY JOSEPH E. NETTLES, Associated Press Staff Writer. ICHMOND, Va., September 9.— Southern Conference foot ball coaches turned soothsayers to- day and picked Duke's Blue Devils to win the championship. The “nomination” wasn't altogether unanimous, however, since North Carolina, Clemson, Maryland and North Carolina State were conceded a chance to oust the favorite. No coach picked Washington and Lee’s defending champions to repeat. Indicating a pretty definite belief that | the Generals will fall before the Blue | Devil onslaught in Richmond on Oc- tober 5. At the same time several of | the coaches said they believed the Generals would show another first- class eleven. While his colleagues were putting him on the spot, Wallace Wade de- clined to predict. Jess Neely at Clem- son echoed his silence and Text Tilson at Washington and Lee also declined to commit himself. Sees Generals' Defeat. N THE opinion of Hunk Anderson of N. C. State, Washington and Lee | forfeited its title chances when it ! scheduled that game with Duke. “As Duke’s powerful team will play both Clemson and Washington and Lee| this year,” he said, “I predict the| Washington public in two eventful days, but also has gained the un- adulterated respect of his new team- pick up a half game on both their | Bjye Devils will win the Southern Co: n- | rivals and place one game behind | ference foot ball title. Clemson and | the Cubs. whose game with Boston washington and Lee will have two of mates. Senor Roberto, whose lengthy last tag means “Little Star” in Spanish. | looks to be so rich in promise that Harris has decided not to wait upon Lewis' reporting. Manush's case borders on the tragic. For days now Heinie, a dozen years one of the game's greatest batters, has been little short of pitiful at the plate. ‘Worse yet, he has been realizing it as well as his severest critic and the -upshot of it all came yesterday, when after going hitless on his first two trips to the plate, Manush walked to the dugout and said to Harris: | “You might as well take me out of the game. I'm through.” CHARLOTTE ACRES, Trim Vancouver, Canada, lass, who gained fame and $1.000 award for winning 5-mile race in the cold waters of Lake Ontario. Fifteen competed. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. School for Nat Rooks Opens, O Bt s e With Esta.llella Giving Time Of LtanitRbs et icveiihe | To Engllsll as Well as Game team would do better in that particu- | lar game with him out. In any event, it served to emphasize his struggle through this, his worst year in base ball. | EPTEMBER is back - to - school | “That Petey Fox for Fred Schulte month not only for kids with | deal, you know.” arithmetics and geographies ‘ ‘The “deal” he had reference to was was rained out, and 2'; games behind | the strongest teams in the circuit and the Cards. Duke will whip each. If Duke did not | St. Louis divided an odd double- |play W. & L. I would pick the Gen- | header with the Phillies. Dizzy Dean | erals to repeat, but I think Duke will | pitched a four-hit shutout in the take the Generals.” opener for his twenty-fi{th victory of | the season, winning 11 to 0. Then | five more hurlers combined on another four-hit job only to have the Phils ! win it, 4 to 2, by bunching two of | the blows with a walk and two errors in the second inning. Poor base run- ning and Orville Jorgens’ effective- | An entirely different line of reason- | ing was employed by Gus Tebell of the University of Virginia, who said the new champion will be either Mary- land or North Carolina. depending on which of them wins their game in | Baltimore on October 12, with the 4 1 Old Liners “almost a sure bet if they | ness in the pinches left 16 Cardinals |can get by the Tar Heels on that on the bases. o date.” Tebell's co-worker, Butch The Boston Red Sox regained fourth | Slaughter, however, said he'd string | place in the American League by |along with Duke. | taking a bargain bill from Chicago's| Neither Maryland nor North Caro- White Sox, 6 to 2 and 5 to 2. lina coaches, n}’mwe\'er. wouldh &figz? The Yankees managed to reduce |the nomination. Jack Faber and Detroit's lead to 8! games by taking | Frank Dobson at Marviand said it | | two last-minute decisions from Cleve- | looked like Duke to them, with North | |land. They won the opener in the | Carolina a close second, while Carl[ | tenth, 3 to 2, and the afterpiece Snavely, starting his second year as| in the ninth, 5 to 4. Two were out Tar Heel tutor, picked either Duke | s - Jimmy Braddock (left), ringworms this week. that kingpin of the Danno O'Mahony, ruler of rassledom, both Braddock, seen here displaying the potent right lifted Max Baer's crown, appears in A—11 ilot : Braddock’s Pal Is Autograph Stooge ° SLIPS FOR CHANP IMMY BRADDOCK is a great will make his bow to the Capital in a not pen or pencil his name on pro- flower during his Washington visit me too much. and T'll take a crack at him.” three-round exhibition featuring the Contract to Defend Title Is Only Paper Jimmy guy, but autograph hounds bore him. He is something unique three-round exhibition at the Turner- Ahearn fight show in Griffith Stadium grams, cards and what not “Just a year ago I was signing every- “and I didn't know when I could pay What a lot of headaches those relief “The only paper I'm always ready to put my name to is one for a fight Jimmy has found a way to ward | off autograph seekers. He has with | six-bout boxing card at the ball yard tonight. Jack is almost a double of Would Autograph. BY JOHN B. KELLER. J among sports champions, this heavyweight boxing crown-wearer, who tonight. There is not a trace of ego about him. But Jimmy rather would thing in sight for eats” explains Jimmy, who is stopping at the May- sgency slips gave me. I'm through signing stuff now if they don't press in defense of my championship. Pro- duce the fighter that's worth while | him a great pal in Jack McCarthy, the sparmate who will oppose him in the | Braddock's so far as appearance gnes |and often subs for the champ whe | the persistent ones come around wit the bits of paper. Signatures Costly. “JACK can write Jimmy's name t ter than Jimmy him: > £ world's fistic fraternity, and will be on view to Capital an exhibition against Jack McCarthy at Griffith Stadium this evening, while his fellow Irisher, who has flopped Londos and all the other bigwigs in the groan and grunt game, will tackle George Zaharias a t the ‘ball park Thursday night. ['FROM THE PRESS BO Promoters Face Task of Baer Build-Up After Overdoing Louis Part of Battle. Bats 061 in Last 11 Tilts. ANUSH, with a lifetime Ratting average of .337, promised to shake off his nerve-wracking batting slump during the last Western trip. He did slip into the .308 class, but then his batting tailed off to a new low. When he grounded weakly to Gehr- inger and popped to Pitcher Roxie Lawson in yesterday's game against the Tigers, Heinie increased his string of hitless trips to the plate to 14 in & row. Recently he had a streak of 21 hit- less times at bat and, as a result, he has batted for only .061 in his last 11 games, making three hits in 49 times up. His average for the season has dropped to .273, striking an amaz- | ing parallel to the case of Al Simmons of the White Sox, who also is experi- encing a disastrous year. The forthcoming transfer of Travis to left field long ago was taken as a “sign that he probably will succeed Ma- nush, whose services will be sought this Winter by at least two clubs in the American League, but not until the last two days did Estallella fit into the picture. El Senor Has Keen Eyes. SE’NT to the Griffs from Harrisburg, the 21-year-cld Cuban, whose English vocabulary is limited to per- haps 100 or 150 words, promptly ex- hibited tremendous power at bat. In his debut Sunday Estallella socked two long drives which would have been home runs in six other league parks, while a game-winning single was taken away from him by a great catch. Esty's ability to power the ball was emphasized still more when it was discovered that all year he had been using a bat made of soft wood. With this flail, however, he hit 18 home Tuns with Harrisburg to lead the New York-Pennsylvania League. under their arms. Starting to- day, Manager Bucky Harris is going to open a base ball “school” for the Nationals’ younger set. Bucky rang the first bell for classes this morning at 10:30 o'clock at Grif- | fith Stadium and instruction will be continued until the end of the Ameri- can League season. elective—only Harris is doing the electing. Listed among Bucky's star pupils right now are Cecil Travis, who'll start l'arning to play the outfleld; Roberto Estallella, who must brush up on his inflelding; Bill Starr, whose hitting could stand a little bolstering: Dee Miles, whose bunting and flelding must be improved, and two or three young pitchers who are not under contract. In a few days the class will be in- creased with the arrival from Chatta- nooga of Buddy Lewis, third baseman; Dick Lanahan, southpaw pitcher, and Red Marion, outflelder. PEAKING of school, Estallella is going to real classes, too. As soon as the base ball season is ended, Senor Roberto is going to buy himself some | text books and study the English | language at a local school this Fall | and Winter. Born of Spanish parents in Media, | Cuba, the 2l1-year-old prospect was picked up on the island early last year by Joe Cambria, owner of the Harris- {burg and Ajbany clubs. Estallella { spoke not a word of English and an | interpreter was used in signing the | contract. | The picturesque third baseman has | picked up a few words of English | since, but most of them come under base ball jargon—and a few aren't | exactly shining examples of what | should go into this family newspaper. | | His greeting to Earl Whitehill, dean lof the slab staff, when introduced | Saturday, was: | “Hallo, boy.” Yesterday the heavy-set, bowlegged | recruit was presented with a new bat by Travis, but it was the senor’s knack of not hitting the ball that won him ‘the respect of Harris. » Exhibiting a coolness uncommon in & rookie of such limited experience. “Estallella enabled the Griffs to down ,the Tigers, 4 to 3, and, in the process, ‘1dm1nlster Rookie Lawson's first ma- Jor league defeat. Griffs’ Rally Beats Tigers. “JRACING Lawson five times, Estallella | drew four bases on balls and whacked a sizzling single when he Anally found & pitch to his liking. | His fourth walk decided the game, Forcing over the winning run in the ‘pinth inning. The Tigers held a 3-to-2 lead going Anto the last inning, but here they eracked wide open. Singles by Joe Juhel and Buddy Myer and errors by Rogell and Cochrane tied the score with one out and two runners on base. Lawson then purposely passed Dee Miles to fill the bases and {get at Estallella. Roberto, placed right on the spot, calmly fought down any impulse to swing after a l-and-! count and swaited out a walk to end the game. While Lewis will in no way be ‘glighted when he finally reports, Har- ¥is is going to test Roberto quite the loughly the remainder of this year. “1d say he’s got the makings” de- ielares Bucky. “Frankly, I'm surprised. He's much better than I expected. » “The boy's not a good fielder, but from now on he's going to practice every morning. At bat he's got lenty of power and, just as impor- f.nt.. he's got & great eye.” = To the list of things to watch for, Put down a little competition for vor between Estallella and Lewis. 'HE consensus of newupai;‘r men traveling with the Tigers is that Detroit will avenge its defeat in the | 1934 world series by whipping the Cardipals, if it is Dean & Co. whom the Detroit club will meet. The scribes point out that Green- berg, Fox. Rogell, Rowe, Auker and Bridges all are improved players. Goslin is holding up well and so are Gehringer and Crowder. Roxie Law- { son rcunds out the best pitching staff in’ the league. “Who helped you most?” one of the aDetrolt typewriter pounders was asked. “Clark Griffith,” was the answer. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, September 9.— Expert sparts writers are divided sharply on the out- come of the Baer-Louis fight . . . If you think Louis is a cinch, just wait for that Associated Press poll later this week. . . . The betting is even Lawson Little will turn pro if he wins his fourth major championship at Cleveland this week . .. He needs the dough and likes golf . . . Regulars at the all star-pro games are hollering for excitement . . . TWo games now and nary & touchdown . . . Prof. Arch Ward will have to give the boys & pep talk. Jack Doyle says it's & 6-to-b bet 4 The courses are | a proposed trade of Fox for Schulte | each time when the odd run scored. or N. C. State to cop the flag. | Mickey Cochrane suggested' it last May. Griff was in favor of it, but | tried to press his luck and have Cochrane throw in Eldon Auker, the underhand pitcher. Detroit then dropped the deal and the next day Fox made four hits in as many times up in a game here. Ever since Petey has been a wiz. He |has had consecutive-game hitting streaks of 29. 17 and 12 and currently is batting .325. | Jake Powell bounced into the run- {ning for the most-frequently-chased- | by-umpire championship yesterday ! when Bill Summers gave him the |thumb in the seventh inning. Jake }renewed an argument which began | earlier in the game on a decision at | first base. Three more thumbings and Powell will tie Buddy Myer. The leader is | Bucky Harris, who gets thrown out every week. That was Roxie Lawson's first de- feat yesterday. The pitching sensa- | tion from Toledo previously had shut out Boston and Philadelphia in his ‘olh!r starts and saved a game as a relief pitcher for Tommy Bridges. F.E 8 Official Score =] B ] Dawed YTV [FOEYEY = | ko oiizmmam | ssnossnse> s =5 & >3] ‘otals *On WA]EHINGTON. ssnzomm, 921980 ssasas s35~m30m Totals - *Batted for Hadley in seventh. tBatted for Pettit in ninth. Detroit ‘Washington 277000 000 2 Runs __batted In—Greenberg, Travis, Kuhel, Myer. Estallella. Two-ba hit—Gehringer. ~ Three-base hit—Travis. Btolen base—Miles. Sacrifices—Fox. Stone. Double plays—Myer to Kress to Kuhel: Rogell to Gehringer to Greenbers: Kress to Myer to Kuhel. Left on bases—De- troit. 11: Washington. Pirst on_ball z Pettit. son. 8. ut—By Hadley. 3; by n. 1. _Hits—Off Hadley. & in nings; off Petyt. 4 in 2 _innings. pitches—Hadley. Lawson.” Winning pitcher —Pettit. Losing pitcher—Lawson. Um- Ppires—Messrs. umi nd Marberry, oo 12 base oft S McGowan. Time of game: the Gilants won't see first place again this season...(P. 8.—This is not the Jack Doyle who sings “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.”) Joe Louis has opened a 3-to-1 favorite over Baer...10 years ago Bill McKechnie won the National League pennant with the Pitts- burgh Rirates...and look where he is now. Bo McMillin has succeeded “Old Man” Stagg as the Big Ten’s No. 1 “fearer”...he’s going around moaning his Indiana team won't win a game...Mike Jacobs and Brooklyn protected fifth place in the | | National from Cincinnati’s threats | with a double victory over the Reds, |8t 4and 6 to 4 YALE ERRORS COSTLY. By the Associated Press. OSAKA, Japan, September 9.—Yale University's base ball team, on a tour ' from the United States, stopped here | long enough yesterday to drop a 9-3 | decision to the Os1ka nine. Four Yale errors contributed to the downfall. ‘Sports Program "For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington, Detroit at Griffith Stadium, 3;15. Boxing. Exhibition by James J. Braddock, ihnvywelghc champion of the world, | preliminary to 36-round card, Griffith | Stadium, 8:30. | Tennis. Playground mixed doubles tourna- ment, Chevy Chase Playground courts. TOMORROW. Base Ball. | Detroit at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. ‘Tennis. Playground mixed doubles tourna- ment, Chevy Chase Playgraund courts. Archery. | Playground tournament fer juniors, | West Potomac Park, 4. WEDNESDAY. Base Ball. Detroit at Washington, | | Griffith o Stadium, 3:15. “Tennis. Playground mixed doubles tourna- | | | o ment, Chevy Chase Playground courts. | Archery. Playground tournament for seniors, West Potomac Park, 4. THURSDAY. Base Ball. Cleveland at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Wrestling. Danno O'Mahony, world champion, vs. George Zaharias, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Tennis. Playground mixed doubles tourna- % | ment, Chevy Chase Playground courts. FRIDAY. Base Ball. Cleveland at Washington, Griffith | Maryland, with Clemson second, while BY JOHN EW YORK, September 8—It will take a flood of ballyhoo Wade Remains Silent. HE Virginia Tech board of strategy | couldn’t agree. Head Coach Puss Redd said it looked to be Duke to him, from the training camp of with Clemson second; Many Younger Maximilan Baer to reduce the predicted the champion would be betting odds on the Baer-Louis fight to some point in the vicinity of normal. Tex Tilson spoke up with the pre- | Right now the odds are quoted by diction that Clemson would win the John Tecumseh Doyle, the dean of title and Maryland take second honors. | Broadway pricemakers, at 3 to 1 Making due allowance for the fact against Baer and 2 to 5 azainst Louls. he hasn't seen recent conference play, | These odds are long—probably too Don McCallister, newcomer at the long. Mr. Doyle admits 1[_.» With one University of South Carolina, predicts ‘hnnd rufing his sparse hair and one Duke will win. “Duke has the first | eve cocked shrewdly in the direction team man power and the reserve |of California, whence most of the LARDNER Baer supporters. Another Louis bet- | tor gave no better than 7 to 5, and his opponents, betting on Baer, seemed satisfled with their investment The odds against Baer belong in _the neighborhood of 8 to 5. There is no wide discrepancy in the talents of the two fighters—at least, we don't know for sure that there is. | Louis hasn't proved himself & great fighter yet. Baer hasn't proved himself a bad one. | Maybe you suspect one or the other of those hypotheses to be true, but | clares Joe Gould, personable I manager of the champ. “He's so goc at it that Jimmy never understan | where all those bills for the big steal come from.” Braddock has no greater boost than Gould. “Jimmy hasn't any sec | retary. valet and only a few plai | sensible suits of clothes.” says J “He trains in gymnasiums rather th: |n-.ght clubs and prefers buttermilk | champagne.” I don’t know about the buttermilk | but I am going on record that Brad- | dock likes his eats. I saw him pu |away two good-sized steaks in hi hotel suite last night after his drive from New York. And with McCarth: at the wheel the big boy had breezec to the Capital in less than six hours | which was some driving over traffic- crowded Sunday roads. { Jimmy's looking forward with plent interest to the Louis-Baer battle i New York the latter part of th month. It will be his first glimp: of Madcap Maxie since he beat hin for the title in June. And Jimm is picking the man he beat to take the measure of the Brown Bomber of Detroit in the fight. [ According to Jimmy, Louis will suf- fer a “mental” defeat in the scrap lwuh Baer. “I know this Louis can hit with both hands” Braddock ad- mits, “but I'm telling you this Bae: can take about anything any fighter can hit him with. After Louis lands a vou'd have a hard time winning your | couple of his Sunday punches and | Alexandria Nine Beats Richmond power,” he reasons. “It has a won- the conference title, although I am not in a position to judge from first- hand observation.” Bill Raftery at Virginia Military Institute thinks the new champion probably will be North Carolina or | Duke. If these falter, he says, Mary- | land and Washington and Lee should have the best chances. | Meanwhile, Wallace Wade, cn the spot again, “would not like to under- take to make a prediction.” Tex Tilson, at Washington and Lee, | saying it is too early accurately to judge the strength of the teams, com- | | mented that he believes Duke very strong and predicted a tough battle when his Generals clash with the Blue Devils. He said, however, that the Generals will show a strong team themselves if they can develop reserve strength, particularly in the backfield. e CELTS STILL IN RACE in Virginia Title Series. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September 9.—St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria, still are in the Virginia State semi-pro base | ball tournament here today after yes- terday's 10-inning, 5-4, victory over the Richmond Richbraus. The Celtics | rallied in the ninth, scoring two runs | to tie, they won with one out in the tenth. Zimmeran and Brewer led the vic- tors’ attack, each pounding out three hits. After a shaky first inning in which he allowed the Richbraus two runs, A. Lacy settled down to pitch scoreless ball for six inniogs, the losers' last runs coming in the eighth and ninth innings. Craddock-Terry of Lynchburg, West Point and Culpeper are the other Stadium, 3:15. Sports Writers Keenly Divided Over Louis-Baer Serap Lawson Little Figures to Turn Pro If He Wins This Time—Phillies Grab Barnstormer. zines soon...Pie Traynor never goes to the plate without kissing the haadle of his bat. Prankie Parker, who wanted to quit school to specialize in tennis, figured he doesn’t need chemistry and algebra nearly as badly as he does a fore] d...he may be right, at that...he certainly can use & forehand...his sad showing against Fred Perry has Mercer Beasley talking to himself. Joe Sweeney reports from Wor- cester that Joey Wagner, the jock we were telling you about, col- lected $504 for six days’ riding at nines still in the tournament. their spectacular second sacker, off & Mexican barnstorming team ... and put him in the line-up the next day . . . St. Louis will try to crash its way back on the big- time fight circuit with a Bob Olin- John Henry Lewis light-heavy- welght title match . . . Jack Cur- ley wants Roderich Menzel, the glant Czech tennis star, to turn wrassler, Charlie Dressen won a suit from Bill Terry. for beating the Giants oftener than he did last season . and a hat from Jim Tierney, Giant secretary (that one hurt) on a similar bet . . . Joe Jacobs kicked & picture of Max Schmeling off his desk the other day to make room for his feet. LN Baer money will have to come, Mr. derful coach in Wallace Wade and I | Doyle observed to your correspondent |, .. | would not be surprised to see it win | that the current situation is just one zueéa‘mg. of those things. “I have to base my price on what the experts say.” he ex- plained. “Later I'll base it on the amount of money that comes in both ways. “But the money isn't coming in yet. It's too early for the real betting to start. The odds I'm giving now are just a feeler. The experts call Louis a cinch. So do I, until the bettors begin to back Baer. Then Baer will go up in my book and Louis will go| down. I can't afford to think for myself.” Wants to Bet $500. 1\112 DOYLE confessed that a sharp- shooter from Texas has already | offered to bet $500 on the fight. “But he don't say who he wants to bet on. He's being cute. Until I know I can't give him a price. After all, 8 bet of $500 so early in the month can just about fix the odds by itself. If it's on Louls, up goes Louis. If | it's on Baer, up goes Baer.” It's funny how the theoretical, or paper, odds on a fight are established. Last year, a person betting on Baer, the champion, the destroyer of Carnera, against the unknown semi- pro fighter, Louis, would have had to | N, seven, eight, or even ten Since then, each man has And the give six, to one. nad one important fight. odds are 3 to 1 on Louis. The market is affected by things like this: Baer is transformed from a ruth- less killer to a fumbling, incompetent bum by one hour's demonstration against James J. Braddock. Baer’s hands are said to be in good shape, then bad shape, then good shape. - Baer gets married. Baer admits he is a rotten fighter. Baer says he will marder Louis, but they believed him the first time. Louis defeats a procession of stumble bums. Louis knocks out the very terrible Carnera. Louis scares Levinsky horizontal in the first round. Louis is described, on the strength of this, as a perfect, invincible fighter. Must Build Up Baer. ND so the odds go to 3 to 1 on Louis, and the promoters of the fight, having built up the Black Threat sufficiently, or even too much, must turn around and build up Baer. They'll do it all right. Two weeks from now Baer's splendid physical condition, high highly moral attitude, and his prowess sgainst sparring partners will be so thoroughly ad- vertised that the odds will be & scanty 7 or 8 to 5 against him. As & matter of fact, most of the betting now in progress is fixed at a more reasonable and conservative ratio than 3 to 1 or 2 to 5. Lee Tracy, the screen actor, .laying close to $2,000 on Louis, was able to get an average of § to 5 from the . £\ case before a jury of your peers. No- knows anything. WeTe all I don't say this in order to build up interest in the fight and help the promotors in their financial scramble. The promotors are doing all right for themselves anyway. I think they were somewhat foolish to allow Louis | to be so wildly inflated in the news- | papers and Baer to be so freely kicked around. It just makes their task of build-up a little bit harder. Theyll have to sweat these next two weeks to restore the balance. ‘When the money begins coming in Mr. Doyle and his colleagues will let you know how matters actually stand. Cash bets make the best indicator. | They speak six times more loudly than | propaganda. * (Copyright. 1835. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) SASSY LANDS FOURTH. PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—Sassy, owned and skippered by D. Verner Smythe of Washington, placed fourth in the national comet class cham- | pionship here yesterday in the Rari- | Daniel, also of Washington, sailed as | crew with Smythe. The race was | won by Roger Wilcox of Great Hills, [ |Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Gehrig, Yan- kees, 1; Lazzeri, Yankees, 1; Hale, Indians, 1; Cramer, Athletics, 1 The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 34; Berger, Braves, 31; Foxx, Athletics, 31; Ott, Giants, 29; Gehrig, Yankecs, 28. League totals—National, 600; Amer- ican, 595. American. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 4: Detroit. 3. New York. 3—3: Cleveland. 2—4. Boston. 6—! 2. tan Yacht Club Regatta. Cushing| sees that they don't stop this Baer, why that colored boy will begin worry- | ing. | | Sees “Curtains” for Lous. “HJELL begin backing away. and when he does that it will be too bad for him. Max will throw that right of his and it will be curtains for Joe.” But Braddock isn't particularly con- cerned as to the winner of the fi “T'll be ready to meet either of them I'm sure I can beat Baer again, and as I'm picking Baer to win this one I shouldn't be bothered much by Louis,” figures Jimmy. He is & modest, unassuming cham- pion, this Braddock. Regular in every way. And sincere, too. His heart | interest is centered around the wife and three youngsters. He is making every effort now to provide them with the niceties he could not give after the depression hit him—and it hit him | hard, for he went back for more than $70,000. He is particularly interested in providing his bables with the one thing he sorely misses, a good edu- | cation. Six Bouts on Card. PBACKING the Braddock exhibition at the ball yerd tonight will be a | talented array of club fighters. The | main go will bring together Kirk Burk | rising Washington heavy, and Joe | Lipps, Georgian who has been in the | Aighting game more than three years | Other bouts will find Eddie Burl and Billy Landers, feathers, swapping punches; Perry Knowles and Joe Doty, lightweights, meeting in a grudge bat- tle, and Frankie Blair and Cary Wright, weiters, battling. Two bouts involving colored fighters are on the card. Gene Buffalo and Meyer Rowan, welters, are back for a scarp and Sid Harvey, lightweight, will tackle Baby Kid Chocolate. The tilting will begin at 8:30. [ Major League Statistics MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1935. National. RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York, 3; Pittsbureh. 1. B 0 S aaeohis, 04 Youis s, 0— Boston-Ghicaro. rain. o B0 Konits, o7 Ph EEHEEE souren Zmmensg “xi0x & — -~-purusq EE ] nenupuL wdppenud) P ~-uom arwquargaq -----uoisog ~=-sinot 18/ =-y10% Moy Deti—1_81151121101111156/1 NY| 9I—I12] 8111121011 Clel 8 718110113112/ SI6BI641.5151% Bosl 6] 8] 8i—I12(12] 7/131671671.500120 tI101_7) 71—I11112/14116/7715 Chil 8/ 91 9] 8I—I10111/_9/641651.49612073 BkIl 51 6/ 6/111—I10] 91 Wnl 81 7/ 8110] 8/—I11_856/75.427129% Cini 71 81 _8_7(10/—[10 815 Phll_6] 91101 4| 81 7—i11 l mg 41 8| 5/10| 8I10/— 0154177141231 610! 8 6 7111—I51/75/.405132 Bosi 41 31 21 21 6/ 9] 71—[33195/.358148 2 P L._14553/64/67/65/75/77/75|——1 [} L._148152150159/71/78/7 6, GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Det. at Wash., 3:15. st Wah. 3:15. ‘ot New Yor! on: jeve. at New York. Louis st Phils. Louls o 3 — GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMOREOW. . Y. at Pittsburgh. N. . Toats Barte. St Bt Loun p ton at ot scheculed. BRIy, at Cincinnati.