Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 42

C—2 = PORTS. THE EVENI NG STAR WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. SPORTS. Chapman Spurs Griffs’ Spirit : Juniors Start Net Doubles Play < BEN INSPIRATION 10 ENTIRE TEAM Nationals Are Impressive | Winning Three in Row. Pull Triple Play. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btaft Correspondent of The Star. LEVELAND, June 19—If you must see to believe, you can | pigeon-hole this item for 10| more days. In the meantime, | by taking the words of the Nationals, you can credit Clark Griffith with having swung another great deal| when he swapped Jake Powell for | Ben Chapman. | The fleet-footed former Yankee, it becomes more apparent, has done | things to the Washington ball club. | The sheer obviousness of the Na-| tional's metamorphosis in the last | three days today is hitting attaches | of the club squarely between the eyes. The team, now riding high in third' place and bent on keeping that sta- tion, bears no more resemblance to the Washington club of a week ago than the Yanks resemble the Browns. Victories, of course, always make a team look good, but the Harrismen have won three straight games before without looking the part of the club they seem to be today. Chapman has added a balance, a polish and a spirit to the team that seemingly is sum- ming wp to an invaluable injection into the very veins of the entire out- ft. Still Unbeaten With Ben. HE Nationals started winning when Chappie first pulled on a uniform and Ben in turn began to live up to all the promises he made to Bucky Harris. He has hit far over the .266 pace he showed when com- ing from New York. Afield, he has played sensationally and, best of all, seems to have affected Johnny Stone and Cecil Travis, his running mates. On the base paths he has stolen three times in three games, or three times as many bases as he stole| for the Yanks in two months. He really meant it when he said he was going to catch Powell and win the | American League base stealing cham- ionship again. With Chapman playing prominent parts. the Griffs rode to three straight triumphs in Detroit and they open a | three-game series here today, con- vinced that Washington belongs just where it stands today in the team standing, if not higher. If there were any regrets among the Nats when the Powell-for-Chapman deal was an- nounced, they are removed now. Bubbling with enthusiasm, there is a | get-up-and-go spirit to the Griffs that | heretofore has been lacking. | Behind it all can be traced the fine | hand of Chapman, who was smart | enough to step into the line-up of a club that at the time was a second- | division outfit and yell: “Let's catch the Yanks. This is one club that can give them a fight.” He followed it up by playing like he talked. And if he keeps it up, Griffith may well take credit for swinging a second profitable deal this year with the Yankees, Big Help to Travis, BY WAY of pointing out a concrete example of Chapman's spirit, Bucky Harris drew him aside when he first put on a Washington uniform and said he would appreciate it if Ben would help Cecil Travis learn the finer points of outfield play. “You know, of course,” said Buzky, “that Cecil, like yourself, broke into base ball as an infielder.” Chapman was_delighted with the responsibility. “Just let Travis know that I'm not trying to nlay ‘big shot.’” he replied, “and I'll be glad to do it.” Travis was smart enough to accept graciously tine advice of Chapman, and, overnight, an attachment seems \ to have sprung up between the high- strung Ben an the phlegmatic Cecil. An opposing hitter doesn't come up to bat but that Travis glances toward Chapman for a possible signal to move back, or in, right or left. When the Griffs get back home, you may see a better right fielder in Travis for it. Griffs Make Triple Play. OTH of them, Chapman and Travis, played leading parts in yesterday's 12-to-4 victory in Detroit. With Joe Kuhel, they shared the spot- light in an exhibition of defensive and offensive play that exceeded any- thing the Nationals have shown this season. Buck Newsom was credited with his eighth victory, but it was one of the poorest games Buck has pitched this season., He was nicked for 10 hits and he walked 11 batters. Yet so great was the support he received that he wasn't in much trouble. Singles by Johnny Stone, Clif Bol- ton and Newsom coined a run in the second inning. A homer by Kuhel, with Stone on base, made it 3-0 in the third. In the seventh frame, with ‘Washington leading by 5-1, a seven- run uprising iced the game for the Nationals. Prior to that, however, Messrs. Chapman and Travis and the Wash- ington infield did their bit. In the second inning the Nationals pulled their first triple-play in years when | Kress snagged Reiber's liner, pegged to Bluege to double up Owen, and Ossie threw to Kuhel to triple up Burns. In the third, Travis pulled a sensational backhand catch off Jo-Jo White while on the dead run to take s triple and a possible homer away | from him. Buddy Lewis made two| great plays and so did Chapman. Washington was a club that, de- spite Newsom's spotty pitching, had winner written all over it. POLO GAME IS CARDED ‘War Department Four Is Taking | on Fauquier-Loudoun. ‘War Department’s polo team was to seek its first victory with the Fauquier-Loudoun riders today when it played host to the Virginians on the West Potomac Park field at 4 o'clock. The soldiers lost two hard-fought| games to the same team last week end. | e SWIMMING ACES CLASH. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 19 (#).— Jack Medica, the Seattle husky, and Ralph Flannagan, Florida schoolboy, two of America’s hopes for honors in the 1,500 meters at the Olympics, match their powerful strokes in the mile event, feature attraction of the TEACHING THE TIGER TRICKS. —By JIM BERRYMAN QGLARKmRKEY 0 OVER YOU GO KITTY ! -- AND THIS IS THE FINAL LESSON FOR THE MONTH! "POPPING OFfF < Staft Correspondent ot The Star. LEVELAND, Ohio, June 19.— The well-founded belief that Detroit's champion Tigers | were Joe Cronin’s Nationals at this time of the 1934 campaign is the talk of base ball these days. The Nationals were dwelling on it en route to Cleveland last night. hav- ing a special interest in the Tigers’ collapse for a couple of reasons. First, | if Detroit flops. their own chances of winding up in the first division are so much better. Secoridly, in the Tigertown collapse, there is struck a strange parallel to the Wash- ington club of two years ago. In one section of a Pullman car they were discussing, after running the gamut of Detroit figures, a possible individual collapse. The central fig- ure was little Frank Reiber, a catcher on the Tiger club. Maybe you've never heard of him. He isn't well known throughout the American League, and therein, lies a sad tale of of a kid with sensitivity and imagina- carelessly hopped off one day in a fit of anger. Cobb’s Words Hurt. ‘J'TS a shame” Bucky Harris was | saying. “I saw Reiber come up as a kid. I was managing the Tigers then and without qualification I'll say | he was the best-looking young catcher | T've ever seen.” This was a surprise statement. You want to know, naturally, what hap- pened to him. And when the facts are told the injustice of it all rises and smacks you in the face. Because Ty Cobb once passed a remark he prob- ably did not mean, he is charged with ruining the kid with a little help from a queer mental twist of Prank’s. Reiber was a bat boy for the Tigers when a little shaver. He idolized Cobb and his ambition, naturally, was to be a ball player some day. Then one afternoon Cobb flew into a rage and the great man, then manager at Detroit, spied little Reiber practicing on the fleld and tock it out on him. “Get out of this ball park,” he stormed, *“and never come back. You'll never be a ball player.” Reiber, puzzled and disillusioned at this outburst from Cobb, beat it. But. regardless, he resolved to be a ball player. Years later, when Harris was piloting the Tigers, he came back to Navin Field, not as a bat boy but as a rookie. Harris saw potential catching greatness in him. He looked great behind the bat. He could hit, run well, throw beautifully, and handle the glove. Bucky Forced to Remove Him. UCKY signed him and although Frank was was only a kid, Harris was bent on making him Detroit's regular catcher. Then, on the eve of the start of the season, Cobb's words came back to Reiber. “You'll never be Official Score ‘WASHINGTON. AB. Bl Chapman. cf._ % 3 Lew Travis, Stone. Kuhel s> Bluege, Newsom, izmananaag | cmone SHoMoRoRmoanaR b Goslin Fox, Owen, Sullivon TWalker Totals o *Batted for Kimsey in sixth. tBatted for Crowder in fifth. Washinzton 012 101 Detroit 2000 001 030— 4 Runs natted in—Chapman_(3). Newsom (2), Kuhel Travis (%), Bluege, Lewis, White. Gehringer. Rogell. ' Three-base hit —Travis. Home run—Kuhel. Stolen bases ~—Coapman, Blueze. Double plays—New- som. Bluege to Kuhel: Kress, Bluege to Xulel; Gehrinzer, Rogell to Burns. Triple play —Kres.. Bluege to Kuhel. Left on bases—Washinzton, 10; Detroit. 1:3. Bases on balls—Off Crowder.' 3; off Sullivan, 3; off Newsom, 11. Struck out—By Crowder 1; oy Sullvan, 1: by Newsom, 3. Hits— Off Crowdes. 7 in 5 innings: off Kimsey, 3 in 1 inning: off Sullivan, & in 3 inrings. national A. A. U. swimming meet oday, s Losing pitcher—Crowder. Urpires—Messrs. s‘usn;mln. Owens and Johnston. Time— ) currently are as washed up as | tion, and a diamond immortal wha! | throwing it i fan. a ball player,” he remembered Ty say- ing. Frank began to think what Cobb might have seen that nobody else saw. Just about that time, so the tellers of the story think, Reiber must have made a bad throw. “He must have figured,” Harris was saying, “that it was throwing that was From that day he never has been a good thrower while catching. If he Cobb had said Reiber might just as | completely have been convinced that he couldn't hit “Anyway, m the second game of the season, Fred Marberry pitched |and Reiber caught. And went over his head or on the side | of him, he must have thrown 22. “He hit a home run and a triple the first two times at bat but six men stole bases on him in three innings and I had to take him out. Cure Now is Tested. IT SOUNDS silly, doesn’t it? Never Never has it lost strength. became an obsession — to bases Harris took him to a famous peychiatrist in Detroit. a woman doctor who confirmed in her diagnosis the fears of Reiber's friends. She began a cure of what probably is a case unique in base ball history. When Mickey Cochrane succeeded Harris at Detroit, the kid had no chance to catch and so the cure was not tested. Now Cochran is 1l leaving Reiber and Ray Hayworth to do the catching. And with the Tigers floundering, Rieber is getting his chance because Detroit probably will need a new and younger catcher than Hayworth in the future. When the Griffs pulled out of Detroit last night the outlook for Reiber’s cure wasn’t bright. In two games that he caught, Ben Chapman stole two bases and Ossie Bluege and Cecil Travis swiped one each. The only man who was thrown out was Chapman on an attempted soreness It merely lost his footing on the “break,” he would have made that base. If it is any solace to Reiber he is the only catcher on whom Washing- ton players, who know his story, hate to steal. But base ball is war, with no quarter asked and none given, 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR ASHINGTON ended a rather cisastrous Western trip in fine siyle by defeating St. Louis, 6-1, with Walter Johnson pitch- ing great ball. By the victory, the Nats picked up a whole game on the league-leading Indians, who again were defeated by New York. The District junior tennis championship started this morn- ing at the Princeton Tennis Club with 28 of the city’s leading young racketers in action. Deane C. Howard, defending champion, has been playing exceptionally well this Spring, as has Harold Selden of the Central High School team. They meet in a first-round match. The “blue” law which went into effect in Virginia did not stop three amateur base ball games from being played, the Clarendon nine winning a double-header. It is understood, however, that mem- bers of the Clarendon nine have been summoned into court. Made 1o su A e CAPITAL CIGAR & TOBACCO = going to hold him back. | had struck out when he recalled what | if Frank | threw one ball back to Fred that either | red him by a | hiss Susianm Fooihers R oS [ WHEN Buck Newsom took the steal of third base and if Ben hadn't | Wade o5t Ty astes LA PALIN D OF FI i €0., Vashingtos, D. CASCARELLA GETS | SLABASSEAET - Makes His First Start as:" Griffman Tomorrow in Tilt With Tribe. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. LEVELAND, June 19.—Joe Cas- carella, right-handed pitcher recently obtained from Boston in a trade for Jack Russell, will be given his first starting chance of the season tomorrow by Manager Bucky Harris when the Nationals play their second game against Cleveland | in the current series. The former Athletic and Red Sox hurler, who made his debut in Detroit | as a relief pitcher and was credited with a victory, made a favorable im- pression. Bucky thinks that Casca- rella, if given a real chance, will help the Washington ¢lub. In the Detroit game, Joe showed a nice fast ball and, better yet, a sharp- breaking curve ball. Pete Appleton, another curve-ball specialist, was to pitch today in the Indian opener, Newsom Works Overtime. mound yesterday in Detroit, the Washington bench, to a man, pected the wildness to come. So they began a count of the number of balls that Buck threw. In the first inning he threw 31 pitches. In the eighth he threw 30. At the end of the game, when the figures were compiled, Newsom was | found to have thrown exactly 175 pitches during the game. His low inning, the ninth, was eight pitches. The average number of pitches that are thrown by a hurler in a nine- inning game, it is said, is 95. By that you can get an idea of just how wild the Hartsville Harlequin was yester- day. | Triple Play Is Decisive. NOBODY on the Washington club could recall the last time a triple play was pulled by the Nationals, so that flelding classic the Nationals staged yesterday must have been the = first in a long time, It was about as decisive a triple play as base ball ever saw. To open the second inning, Newsom walked Owen and then gave Burns a pass. Frank Reiber, hard-hitting little | catcher of the Tigers, then picked out a good pitch and rammed a liner directly into Shortstop Red Kress' hands. Owen and Burns, for some reason, put their heads down and began run- ning, so it was an easy matter for Kress to flip the ball to Ossie Bluege and for Oss to whip to Joe Kuhel. The base runners were too far off the bags to make much of an attempt to get back. Minor Leagues International. Newark, 3; Syracuse, 1. Buffalo, 6-4; Montreal, 5—11. American Association. Columbus, 5; Indianapolis, 4. Only game played. Southern Association. New Orleans, 6; Atlanta, 2. Memphis, 9; Chattanooga, 0. Knoxville, 11; Birmingham, 10, Pacific Coast. San Diego, 6; Oakland, 3. Misslons, 10; Sacramento, 0. Portland, 9; San Francisco, 4. Seattle, 7; Los Angeles, 5. Sally. Augusta, 12; Columbus, 8. Macon, 3; Columbia, 0. e A Cigar C.; Distributors £ Griffs’ Records BATTI Ab R H c s T FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington. 12: Detroit, 4. New York. 6: Cleveland, 5. Chicago. 1; Boston, O St. Louls, 7; Philadelphia woor uoiausem | “puy P ~X10X N NY GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Clev., 3:15. Wash. at Clev.. 3:15, New York at Detroit. New York at Detroit. Boston at St. Louis. Boston at St. Louis. Phila. at Chicago. Phila. at Chicago, National RESULTS YESTERDAY. Boston. 4: St. Louis. 0. Other games postponed. rain. - '=~03w214D)| Lt | -~ ysanasnid| ST esvIu0Ied (T --sno7 g uiyaq neauRu ~xi0x maN |=----uoysog GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. St. Louis at N. York. 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But 2| Smith and either David Johnson or AMERICAN STORAGE BUILDING—Sale by CONSOLIDATED SALES CO. WIN MIXED TITLE Robinsons Bow in Marathon Battle—March, Channing Are Seeded No. 1. BY BILL DISMER, JR, With Allie Ritzenberg and Harry March, the first two seeded players, one bracket ahead of the fleld and awaiting the outcome of today's early matches in the hope of playing quarter- | final rounds this afternoon, the city of Washington tournament, being spon- sored by The Star, was to enter an- other phase at Edgemoor Club today with the opening of junior doubles competition. Provided another pair of boys sign up to play as a team, & doubles tourna- ment for boy® also will be held, the first for the youngsters in years and marking the first complete tournament ‘Washington has seen in a long time. But even as the kids continued to look forward to the start of the dou- bles play and the more important sin- gles rounds with increasing excite- ment, there will not be many to forget yesterday's winning of the first mixed doubles championship here in five years by those grand doubles players, Edith Clarke and Tom Markey. Not in the memory of the oldest ob- server on the grounds had any cham- pionship match been fought with the grim determination and unyielding | stubbornness that marked Miss Clarke’s | and Markey's victory over the crack husband-and-wife team of Capt. Stan and Margaret Robinson. Scores of 16—14 and 6—2 are sufficient testi- mony of the battle waged. Robinson’s Put Up Fight. FOR nearly two hours, the quartet battled through those first 30 games, with never a set point being reached until Markey's service in the last game. The Robinsons put up a splendid fight even then, with the score 15-14 and Markey leading at 30-15 and 40-30. Three times they succeeded in deucing the score until Bud finally passed them with a place- ment for the point which ended the { marathon. After that, it was all over, but the presentation. Although Stan won the | first game of the second set on his took the next four in a row, not losing a game until, ironically, Markey lost his service in the sixth game. The Clarke and Markey pair broke Marge's service, however, for a 5-1 lead and then Edith assured herself and her partner of the first prizes with her service. The match brought out some of the greatest tennis seen on the club's courts all year. Both teams rose to “gets” | while all four, at one time or another, | participated in evoking the applause, | it was Markey who stamped himself as the great one of the match. Bud | just reveled in showing that those “‘can't-be-reached” balls were made to his special order, and his racing around the court for back-hand pick- ups and unerring returns defy ordi- nary description. Youngsters Take Over Calcium. DAY, however, boys and juniors again took over the tournament spotlight, as pre-tournament dope continued to run true to form. Of the two contenders, March and Ritz- enberg, the former apparently has the easier path to the final round. | Ritzenberg must face a potential gantlet of Charley Channing. De Witt Sherman Lee—the latter a member of | ’Amencan University's team, just un- der the junior age limit. March, on the other hand, faces the winner of today's Miguel Nunez- Billy Turner match and then, if successful, will meet either John Hatch or Buddy Adair. The latter two must play John Bruns and Jimmy Hardey, respectively, before meeting each other. But, judging from the way the big, strapping Tech High athlete has marched through his first three matches, nothing should daunt him until he reaches the final. In elimi- nating three opponents, Harry has dropped only seven games, Bernie | Blankin carrying him to two scores of | 6—3 yesterday. Ritzenberg has drop- ped only two games, but he has play- ed but one match, recelving a de- fault and not forced to play & pre- liminary round, as was March. Just as spirited competition looms in the doubles tournament, once that | class of play gets under way. March and Channing, who have teamed to- gether longer than most any other young pair, have been pronounced the team to beat, receiving the No. 1 ranking by unanimous vote. Ritzen- berg and Johnson, pairing for the first time, were seeded No. 2, with Adair and Turner No.3 and the Hatch brothers, John and Mac, No. 4. MANILI IN SLAB FORM. Mike Manili pitched three-hit ball yesterday as the Thiel Garage team | trounced the Blue Stréaks, 8-1, on| the Rosedale diamond. 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City of Washington boys and juniors tournament, Edgemoor Women’s District championships, Columbia Country Club, late aft- Edith Clarke, Mary Cootes| HE rivalry between Edith Clarke and Mary Cootes, in- ment when the latter was eliminated by Margaret Robinson, will be re-| of the women's District of Columbia tournament are held. | her second victory of the season over the defending champion when play of the Old Dominion tournament at Richmond last month. reach the title round yesterday. Op- posed to Sara Moore, perennially one sets of 9—7 and 10—8. Edith, on the other hand, had little more than courts, morning and early after- ernoon. to Battle for District terrupted last week in the sumed tomorrow afternoon at the Co- Seeking the title now held by her| is started at 2 o'clock. Miss Cootes Not without the toughest kind of of the best women players of the Dis- a workout in subduing Mary Ryan, noon. KEEN NET RIVALS Championship. T City of Washington !ourm-‘, lumbia Country Club, when the finals opponent, Miss Clarke will go after | bowed to Miss Clarke in the final of fight did the seeded No. 1 plaver trict, Mary won only after two long 6—2, 6—2. Both Display Heart. WITH a 5—2 lead in the first set, Miss Moore was only one game away from first blood when Miss| Cootes won a love game on her own service and went on to tie the score at 5—5. Miss Moore subsequently had leads of 6—5 and 7—8, but, al- though she was only 2 points from the set in the twelfth game, Mary's cour- age pulled the det out of the fire each time. Almost a reverse situation arose in | the second set, when Miss Cootes started out under full speed to take an advantage at 5—2. This time it was Sara who rose to the occnsloni tying the score at 5—S5. Six games| later, with Mary leading, 8—7 and 40—15 on her own service, Sara again exhibited a fighting heart to deuce| the set. Weakening rapidly, however, she fell prey to the better condition| of the champion, who won the set | and match on her own service. GOES TO PENN STATE. NORTHFIELD. Minn., June 19 () Ray M. Conger, track coach and zoo- logy instructor at Carleton College here for the past five years. with the | start of the new school year next Fall will take a post in the physical educa- tion department at Penn State College. GIRL GETS TWO LETTERS. WEBSTER, Mass.. June 19 (#)— Nellie Twardzik, pretty Bartlett High Junior, is & two sports athlete now. She was awarded letters by the Ath- letic Council in both girls' basket ball and base ball. Fans Tuning to Sing Swan BY SID FEDER, songs of the Tigers' reign in agreed now that even if, as and when working order, only the mightiest kind title for the badly-beaten Detroit year. They've just lost their sixth with the Yankees' pounding power and proaches it seems a miracle Is nece MIRACLE NEEDED Song of Champs—Yanks Associated Press Sports Writer. the big league base ball jungle. Mickey Cochrane’s glands and Hank of putsch can save either the Amer- clan, straight start, equaling their longest the Red Sox’ million-dollar line-up essary to bring the Detroits in. 10 SAVE BENGALS Increase Margin. THEY'RE tuning up the swan ‘The experts are pretty much Greenberg’s wrist are once again in ican League pennant or the world's The Tigers are at a low ebb for the losing streak in three seasons, and hitting their stride as July 4 ap- Tigers 11 Games Behind. THE surprising Washington Sen- ators made it three straight over Detroit yesterday, with a 12-4 win, to put the Tigers 11 games off the pace of the New York Yankees. And a three-game with the New Yorks and another with the Red So | in the immediate o the outlook is anything but rosy. The Yankees are in Detroit start- ing today, with three fresh wins over the Cleveland Indians in eir bags The last was chalked up yesterday by a 6-5 count. as Slugger Lou Gehrig hammer a homer, two doubles and a single to go to the head of the big- league batting parade with & average. wi series Yankee Lead Grows. THE Yanks' victory boosted their league lead to 4'; games over the who were handed a Whitel the Chicago left the but sank Red White Sox. Senators in th the Tigers to just one percentage point above the fifth-place deadlock between the Indians and White Sox The St. Louis Browns drew near to their exit from the league cellar by outclubbing the Athletics, 7-2.° Meantime, the St. Louis Cardinals’ lead in the National League was put on the fire. The Boston Bees who have had their stingers working this week, made it three out of four over the Cards with a 4-0 shutout. With the second-place Chicago Cubs rained out in Philadelphia, the Cards’ edge was ed to & mere game and a half. 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