Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1935, Page 14

‘{Zfl]e ?;’nming Stae Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935. @ | HARRIS IS MILED ASTOLAD'S TRIM Thinks Estallella in Need of More Bush-Leaguing Despite Big Week. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OHN (BUDDY) LEWIS, who won't reach 19 years of age for several weeks, is going to be tried at third base by the Washington Ball Club after all. Chattanooga's likeliest contribution, supposedly, will crash the line-up any day now following a belated decision of possibly much significance by Man- ager Bucky Harris, Up until today the National bosses had intended to limit Lewis’ activities this season to light practice, i defer- ence to the boy's run-down condition when he reported to the Griffs two days ago, but two publicly-named rea- gons were responsible for the change in plans. The first is that reports made Lewis' condition sound more serious than actually it is: the second is Bucky is inclined to believe that Roberto Estallella, his other rookie third sacker, needs another year in the minors. Esty's Fielding Needs Polish. “'HAT may be a third reason, and one that only is suspected, has to do with Cecil Travis, the reformed third baseman who has been playing the outfield and showing worlds of promise. Anywhere from one to four outflelders will be placed on the trading block this Winter and the number may depend on whether Travis is Washington's left fielder next Spring or the third baseman Harris was surprised pleasantly when Estallella, the sawed-off Cuban &hotgun, put in a week of sensational | play at third base after migrating here from Harrisburg. But in spite | of Roberto’s meteoric rise, Bucky Is | inclined to believe a year with Albany, for instance, is what Estallella needs. *He may be a big league hitter by nmext yvear.” speculated Harris, “but he won't be a good fielder. He'd have to hit at a terrific pace to offset his fielding.” Although Lewis is one of the young- est playvers ever to wear a Washing- ton uniform. he has advanced con- siderably farther than Estallella in | the fleld. But even Buddy, highly- | touted as he is, is a question mark as | far as next year is concerned Lewis 10 Pounds Underweight. EWIS can't miss making the grade, | in my opinion,” declares Harris, *but whether he'll be a big-leaguer next season is problematical. His throws are a little ‘scattery’ right now. but he's a fair fielder and at bat Buddy's got a great swing. He swings like Bill Terry, but with more “pull’ than Terry. “Of course. Lewis probably is good enough to gamble with on third base. He'll finish next season greatly im- proved, but in the early part he may cost a couple of games or so Wwith his inexperience.” Harris' observations on Lewis are based strictly on his practice per- formances in his two days as a Na- tional. When he reported, Buddy. a rangy type on Travis' lines except that he’ll be larger than Cecil in a year or two, was 10 pounds under- weight. The sun-baked diamonds of the Southern Association took their toll on the boy. But his condition has improved so much and the weather has been so inviting that Harris has decided to try him in formal compe- tition. Nothing will be held against Lewis because of his lack of shape, but Bucky i in hopes of discovering enough about his “action” so that he won't have to depend entirely on what the kid shows next Spring in training camp. Trade Plans May Be Affected. 'HIS seems natural enough, because if Buddy needs a bit more polish- ing in a high-class minor league it will mean that Travis must be pulled out of the outfield and placed back on third base for another year. And this well might affect current trading plans which. rumor hath. include the transfer of Outfielders Fred Schulte, | Heinie Manush and Johnny Stone for | hoped-for pitching strength as well as at least one gardener, who may be Gerald Walker of Detroit or possibly Roy Johnson of Boston. “If Travis must be called back to the infleld,” Harris philosophizes, “at least we've the satisfaction of know- ing that he can play the outfield and do a great job. He'll make a really good outfielder some day. just as Lewis eventually will be a third baseman and a good hitter. It's just a question of time.” That time question, however, is big enough. There isnt much doubt that | Harris again will manage the Na-| tionals in 1936 and, with the champion ‘Tigers showing signs of wearing weak | in two or three spots, the American | League likely is to be a free-for-all, | with not an outstanding team in the race. And Bucky would like to be in that flag chase. Griffs’ Records BATTING. ‘ b.3b. Hr Rbi.Pct 2 aynp= Beniurnssald s R POt £ e [olbrook Starr Smnn, nd Whiteniil Russel! Sasams Coppola.. Pettit arion . wis_ gers AR > -] ©0355301C AR D= DDDSIE B S n s o Pettit | Whitehill | Linke_ _ Above are the mauling mainstays of the National League’s pace- setting Bruins, catcher all hitting over third base; Frank Demaree, outfielder. shown with Manager Charlie Grimm. Since Paul began to human horseshoe they have won Dominick, function as the Cubs’ Rames. 300. Augie Galan, left field: Billy Herman, second base: Stanley Hack, Left to right: Gabby Hartnett, At the right is rotund little Paul 14 consecutive —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Grimm Exudes Joy After Giants Bow in Cubs’ 14th Straight; Sees Card Series as Deciding BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer HICAGO, September 18 (#).— “Youse guys are all gentle- muns. Great, big gentlemuns.” It was Charlie Grimm, proud manager of the inspired Cubs. hollering at the top of his lungs to his players after they registered their fourteenth straight victory sterday in conquer- ing the Giants. 5 to 3, and knocking them back five and one-half games behind the leading Chicagoans. The genial, smiling Grimm was im- mensely proud and pleased. His face was streaked with dust and perspira- tion. house, pulled off his sweaty pants and shoes and drew his legs up under him Praises Individuals. \XCE going, boys; nice going. every- . Grimm bellowed. Then he bflrzan complimenting individuals on their work. yelling to Shortstop Bill Jurges. “Hey, Bill, that was a great play you made out there on Leiber. After you flopped down on your belly I thought you were coming up with your pants off.” Grimm’s players had achieved their fourteenth consecutive victory, their longest winning streak since 1932, and he was beaming with smiles. Mean- while, his players were whooping and hollering like youngsters. Larry French, the victorious pitcher, strode over to | Freddy Lindstrom, who had driven in two of the Cubs' runs, shook his hand | and lhanks‘d h|m He drew up a chair in the club | | . Championship honors of the Na- | tional League will be decided in the five-game series between the Cubs and Cardinals starting at St. Louis 2 week from tomorrow if Grimm is correct in his calculations. Grimm who sold soda pop in the St Louis ball park 25 years ago. was deter- mined to go back to his old home town to win the National League championship for Chicago. There will be no fear in the hearts of the Cul players when they go against the rough gas-house gang either. Doesn’t Fear Cards THAT series will settle it.,” Grimm said. “We respect the Cardinals, but we don’t fear them. We have been having great pitching and the fielding behind our pitchers has been pheno enal. Boy, I'm telling you we're the hottest team in the game. Everybody has plenty of guts and we are going to tear into those Cardinals just as we belted the Giants around.’ By that remark Grimm meant tha* the Cardinals were in for a lacing, as the Cubs walloped the iGants in 9 of their last 10 engagements. Not overlooked in the Cubs’ furious stretch drive was their newly-acquired mascot, whom the Cubs regard as a good-luck charm. He is Paul Dominick. a 15-year-old | youngster, weighing 119 pounds but only 4 feet tall. Since Grimm bought him a uniform two weeks ago and let him sit on the bench the Cubs haven't | lost a game. W hitehill, Conquered in 14th Round of 7th Overtime Tilt, Loses Hope ITH only 12 games in 8 days left on the Nationals’ schedule, Earl Whitehill's hopes of winning 17 vic- tories virtually are blasted, but the | veteran pitching gamester may be in line to gain distinction in another channel. When Earl was beaten by the White Sox yesterday, 3 to 1, in 14 innings it was the third time in his last four games that Whitehill was forced to pitch into extra innings and his seventh time this season. He has broken even on overtime battles. Back in June Earl dropped a 9-8 decision to Detroit in 14 frames and won a 5-4 game from Boston in 10 | innings. The Browns beat him, 3 to | 2. in 11 innings in July. August found | him winning a 4-3 tilt from the Tig- ers in 10 innings. Earl started this month by beating the Red Sox, 3-2 in 13 frames and then pitching a 4-4 tie against the | He shut out | Browns in 10 rounds. Cleveland to win in regulation dis- Lanrt and then yesterday battled 14 Irames before losing. Whitehill Unfortunate. T WAS a tough game for Whitehill to lose. He pitched shutout ball | for 10 innings—from the third on. The Sox used two hurlers. Rookie | Monte Stratton and Carl Fischer. Earl gave a beautiful exhibition in | the tenth, when two hits put Chisox | | runners on third and first with none out. Whitehill made Hayes foul to | Kuhel, Bonura foul to Bluege, and then whiffed Appling. THE Griffs will get two days of rest in a row as a result of moving up Thursday’s game with Chicago and | making a double-header today. Fri- day is an open date. They play the A’s in double-headers Saturday and Sunday. When Johnny Stone flied to Al | Simmons in the fifth inning yesterday | {1t marked the first time in the last for 17 Victories 14 innings that a White Sox outfielder was given a chance. THE recruit who hns attracted least attention in print so far has been | Johnny Mihalic, 22-year-old second baseman from 'Nooga. But he's the | best, of the lot right now and prob- ably the surest to stick with the Griffs next year. Buck Newsom, the eccentric right- hander who, pitches one of today's games, received permission to drive | to his home in Hartsville, 8. C., over | the week end. Buck is to become a Pappy soon. To show his appreciation for the vacation, Newsom brought back an \ 18-pound country-cured ham and pre- sented it to Bucky Harris. Miles Weak on Ground Balls. EE MILES will have to do some- thing about flelding ground balls. He fumbles 9 of 10 of ’em it seems. Yesterday he picked up only one | cleanly, but that was important. It was Luke Sewell's single with George | Washington on second base. Dee threw out Washington at the plate ‘nlh a great pe( ‘ Buddy Lewis, at a distance, is & dead ringer for Bozie Berger. They walk alike. It's okay with Harris if Lewis apes Bozie in the field, but it will be just | too bad if Buddy can't hit any better | than the ex-Maryland University ath- | lete. F.E.S. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday: Terry, Giants, | 1; Camilli, Phillies, 1; Berger, Braves, 1; Bordagaray, Dodgers, 1; Green- berg, Tigers, 1 The leaders: Greenberg, Tigers, 36; Foxx, Athletics, 34; Berger, Braves, 32, League totals: American, 632; Na- | tional, 620, TEMES FIGHTS QUARLES A. G. 0. LEADS IN SERIES D. C. Featherweight Richmond Bout Monday. in League Play. General Accounting leads the N. R. A. Blue Eagles in the three-game series being played to de- cide the cham p of the Govern- ment League. tory in the first Joe Eggers. who every time he came to bat, helped the Accountants to overcome a 3-run defi- cit with a single, double and triple. Fresh from a victory over Eddie Reed, Joe Temes, local featherweiht will travel to Richmond Monday nigr to battle Norment Quarles, crafty Carolina collegian, over a scheduled 10-round route. Quarles was the only man to de- feat Bobby Goldstein, former Univer- sity of Virginia boxing captain, during his collegiate career. ove in a run ‘5110 1:15, Figures in Beats N. R. A. Blue Eagles, 53, | teams will move back to the American | DETROITIS PICKED FOR-SERIES START Only A. L. Club Considered as Three in National Figure in Plans. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 18 —With the National League pennant race still wide open, Detroit, barring a miracle, will play host to the senior circuit flag winner in the opening | game of the world series on October 2, it was decided here yesterday at a | meeting of representatives of five clubs still having & mathematical chance of victory. | Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, acting as chairman of the meeting, arranged the schedule and named players of four teams eligible | to participate in the series—the Car- dinals, Cubs and Giants in the Na-| tional League and the Tigers in lhe American. Scheduled to open in the city win- | ning the National League title this vear, the weries shift was made due to the complicated National League | race, which may not be determined | until the last day of the season, as it was a year ago. | American. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Chicago. 3: Washington, 1 New York. 4: 8t Louts, Boston. 5" Detroit Cleveland. 5: Fhiiadeiohia 3w T “-X10X MIN = /=~ puwpasaro uoBurgsY M [ — i ——T GAMES TODAY. SLLatN Yot ai Bosion. Sevelind' st Fniia: Detroit_at National. RESULTS YESTERDAY. B . Boston —1: Cincinnat ais B oatmies * Phiiadelphia League Statistics 401333 Shi;at Wn. (1) 1:30 St L at New York Bogion Cleveland at Phil Gthers mot' scheduled BERSERK BRUINS WINT4TH N ROW Boost Margin to 21/, Games. Dizzy Fails as Relief. Tiger Edge Shaved. BY ANDY CLARKE, Associated Press Sports Writer HE Chicago Cubs sweep on, leaving behind the riddled Gi- ants, gathering steam fo: the Cardinal jousts that lie ahead. They made it 14 straight wins yes- terday, these madcap Cubs who have come from the rear to gain a 2:,- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935, GAMES TOMORROw, | 88me lead on the Cards and 5'; on the Giants. | They play two more with the New Yorkers, two more with Pittsburgh | then on to St. Louis, where they will | play five games with Frisch's naughty | boys in the series that probably will decide where the pennant shall wave. The Giants proved | pressure yesterday as the Cubs beat them 5-3. Hal Schumacher hogtied them for five innings. He injured his shoulder, however, and on his retirement Joe Moore a Hank Leiber made a pair of error that handed the game to the Cubs jittery under Gets First Two Games. JIRST and second games Wwill be played in the American League | city. with the next three in the home park of the National League winners. If two more games are needed, the 111410 =}V ITES W eI1—11 110 AT 9111160 League city. There will be no open dates for traveling unless the Yankees nose out the Tigers. Ticket prices will be $6.60 for box et $5.50 for reserved grandstand. 30 for general grandstand and | for bleachers, tax included. Seats may be purchased in blocks | of e; that is, for three games. No | tickets for single games will be sold. All games will start at 1:30 p.m. | (standard time). If rain forces a | postponement the clubs will remain to play the game the next day, so the schedule will not be disrupted. Commissioner Landis was to decide the question of commercial broad- casting of the games. New York at Chicago. New York at Bkiyn. at St Louts. Bkin at St Boston at_Pittsburgh. Boston at_Pit Phila. at Cincinnati. Phila. at C CHICAGO. Taubey. If Simmons_cf Hayes. =b Bonura. 1b & < Sports Program ~ For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Chicago at Washington, Stadium, couble-header, first Piet tRadclift - - Totals - 54 *Batted for Hookins in nin Ran for Piet_in ni Batted for Stratton in ninth, K WASHINGTON R e Moo o Myer. * 8 Stone. Bolton Powell, Grimlh game, Tennis. Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts. TOMORROW. Base Ball. Washington, Batted for Stone in ! Ran Tor Borton in"t0 Chicago Washington Runs batted Drkes. Two-base 11 el. Dy Chicago at Griffith Stadium, 3:15. | Wrestling. | Jack Donovan vs. Dick Daviscourt, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30 Tennis. nura, Mver Ki Department of Playgrounds open | LIt on bases—Chic tournament, Potomac Park courts. | off Pischer FRIDAY. Foot Ball. National Training School for Boys t Alexandria High School, 3:30. ‘ Tennis, Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts, | SATURDAY. Base Ball. Philadelphia at Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:00. 001 000 600 (0 Three-Eye. (Playoff.) Western. (Playoff.) Sioux City, 12; St. Joseph, 2. 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ST LOUIS split a double-header wi the Brooklyn Dodgers, as only oue of the Dean brothers came thr as relief hurlers. Paul went to ine mound in the final inning of the fist game with one run in and none out = |to stop the Stengel boys and give the Cards a 4-2' victory. Dizzy, called to duty with the Cards one run ahead in the seventh frame of the nightcap, failed where brother succeeded and lost, 8-7, as | the Dodgers hopped on him for three _Pittsburgh _ Pirates collected of their game with the innocuous Braves and then coasted home to a 6-4 victory. Philadelphia scored a total of four runs to take both ends a double- header from Cincinnati, 3-2, and 1-0 o ! Camilli smacked a homer for the lcue o tally in the second Ferrell Trips Tigers. 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