Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1936, Page 9

EAGER T0 ATONE FOR EARLY SLIPS Harrismen Believed Ready| to Carry Touring Spirit Into Home Stand. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. IDING the crest of a wave n![ . boundless enthusiasm and | ( high prosperity—spirit that | has been unparalleled since he bright days of 1933—the Na- tionals return to Griffith Stadium to- day to open, of all things, a fight for redemption. Despite the backdrop of a Wash- ington club's best road record in more than two years, there IS a matter of redemption on the schedule for the Griffs. Having bowed and scraped all season to the all-powerful Yankees they find themselves now as leading | challengers, who have done little to| choke off the Gothamites’ 'threat to | walk away with the American League pennant. Eight times this vear the Griffs and | Yanks have faced and that New York | now runs far ahead of the pack partly | | is the fault of the Harrismen, who | | | they are not yet up to the Cubs, Car- won the first two games and then dropped six in a row. Thus, today and tomorrow, is there opportunity for penance. With Joe | Cascarella and Buck Newsom doing | the pitching, Washington today was | to show off its Ben Chapman and | Cascarella in a double-header against | the Yanks, who were to display Joe | Di Maggio for the first time locally. | Tomorrow the series will wind up with @& single game. — | Team Is Good Away. IF THE Griffs are not fit and ready to redeem themselves now, they never figure to be. Two dynamic weeks of invasion seemingly have wrought | & great change in the club. It comes | home to Griffith Stadium with a three-game winning streak and a trip record of 11 victories in 16 games, the final tilt in Philadelphia yester- day being postponed on account of & morning sprinkle. If the Griffs have lacked the ability to beat certain foes, like New Yora and Cleveland, they seemingly have balanced this shortcoming by exhibit- | ing the ability to play good ball on | the road, which is a sign of a winning | team. The record book of Washington | clubs fails to reveal many recent | editions with this same ability. Playing at home this campaign. the Nationals barely have managed to stay above the 500 mark. They have won 18 games and dropped 17 for a | .515 pace. This kind of playing, if not aided by a road percentage far more robust, would get the Griffs nowhere. Fortunately, they have been | better away from home. | The 11 victories that were compiled | on the second long jaunt that ended | yesterday brought the Nationals’ total | of wins to 22. These, against 17 de- | feats for the campaign, have produced | & commendable. 564 average. | | Bluege Top Road Hitter. | JASHINGTON left its stomping grounds on June 15 in fifth place | and with only a single regular, Buddy | Lewis, hitting .300. The Griffs return to Griffith Stadium a bare step behind the second-plage Tigers and with six of the eight regulars above the .300 mark, | The hitting of the club was the | feature of the tour, although there were notable slab efforts by Earl | Whitehill, Cascarella, Jimmy De | Bhong and Newsom. But when a ball club gets 183 hits and 111 runs in 16 games, it is doing a fair amount of slugging. That's the kind of an of- fense the Nats presented—an average of nearly seven runs per game and more than 11 hits per contest. Ossie Bluege, one of the heroes of the climb, was the stick leader. Ossie, in addition to maintaining his usual | fielding perfection, wound up with a 16-game batting record of .389. He needed this kind of an average to top the club, so well did it hit. Only three regulars, Buddy Lewis, Clif Bol- ton and Cecil Travis, failed to bat 300 but, toward the close of the tour, they were far from shy at the dish. The individual batting averages each with three victories, topped the hurlers, although neither was as con- sistently effective as Whitehill or Cascarella. Newsom won three and | lost none; De Shong won three and | dropped one; Whitehill won two of | three; Cascarella won one of three; | Pete Appleton won a decision and dropped one, and Monte Weaver won & game and dropped none. L CHAVEZ RING VICTOR. LO8 ANGELES, July 4 (#).—Tony Chavesz, 128, Los Angeles, outpointed Moan Mullins, 128, Vincennes, Ind,, in & 10-round boxing match last night, BATTING PACE SET | Trosky, Jordan,_Boston_ start at 1 o'clock. ] ~ - WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1936. Nats Fighting to Prove Worth : S Yanks A gainst Cubs or Cards In Big Series Called Logical Pick, With Season Half Over BY GRANTLAND RICE. E grand old Fourth is the day set aside for picking pennant winners, The job first opens in April, where it doesn’t mean any too much. But when the halfway mark arrives around the Fourth there should be enough to work on. You already can name the Yankees for the American League. If they're not already in, then Schmeling never tagegd Louls with a right. It wil be the Yankees against either the Cubs or Cardinals. Cubs Strong on Slab. OUTSXDE of the pitching, the Car- dinals have the better ball club. But the Cubs have a big edge in pitching. Dizzy Dean has kept his normal gait. but Paul Dean is far be- hind scheduie and Parmelee has fired and fallen back. The Reds have been one of the main sensations so far, but dinals and Pirates. Yankees and Cardinals would put over one of the most colorful world series ever played, but the Cards never will make it unless they get better pitching. The Cubs can call on five good starting pitchers, and most 3f these have the stuff it takes to keep moving along. Last season they won 21 straight. This season they won 21 out of 23 starts. Once they get under full steam they are something to stop. At this point the Cubs have the edge because their pitching strength outnumbers the Cardinals by two to one. Yanks Well Balanced. HE Yankees today are the best all- around club in base ball. They carry even more thunder than the Cardinals can show. In Dickey, Gehrig, Rosett! and Di Maggio they have four of the best ball players in either league—four stars who are well backed up by a flock of hard-hitting mates. Their pitching hasn't been any too consistent, but they haven't needed any better. When you keep giving pitchers seven or eight runs a game, or even more, there is a tendency to loaf and not throw away an arm. The Yankees can get better pitch- ing if they heppen to need it. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) BY JORDAN, GEHRIG Bees’ Star Wrests N. L. Lead From Martin—Yank Slips, but Hits .399. Ey the Associated Press. setting pressure began to tell on rookie Stu Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals during the past week and the youngster lost both his National League hitting lead and 20 points from his hitherto fat batting average. While Baxter Jordan of the Bees was setting a fast pace to move into first EW YORK, July 4—The pace-| place, with an average of .357, ani Gus Suhr, the Pirate slugger, was doing about as well to pull up from | fifth to a tie for second, Martin sank into the four-way deadlock with Suhr and the two Philly belters, Dolph | Camilli and Johnny Moore, each with | 349. Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ clouting | first baseman, also felt the strain of midseason, and slowed up in his pell- mell batting dash in the American | League, dropping under the 400 mark | to .399. The Chicago White Sox’s lead- | ing hitters, Rip Radclif and Luke| Appling, closed up some of the distance | between them and the rest of the pack, | the former holding second place with | .375. while Appling got 10 hits in 25 times at bat to replace Gehrig’s team- mate, Bill Dickey, in third place with .370. Gehringer Moves Fastest. | 'HE biggest advance for the week | among the leaders was made by Charley Gehringer of the Tigers, who batted at a near 500 clip to take fourth place away from the Indians’ slipping Billy Sullivan with a mark of .362, deadlocking Dickey. The 10 leading hitters in each league: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Gehriz New York_ Radcliff. Chicago. Appling_ Chicago Gehringer.~ Detroi Dickey. New York ul Cleveland_ Di Masgio. New York Bell. St. Louis Averill. Clevelan Cleveland__ NATIONAL LEAGUE. 54 2 BE Martin. St J. Moore. Philadelphia P. Waner. Pittsburgh Medwick _St, Louis. Collins. 'St Louls - maree. c: Cuyler. Cincinni BATTLE AT HERNDON. Herndon A. C and Reed’s Pharmacy were playing a doubleheader at Hern- don today, the first game slated to Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. New York vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, two games, 1:30. Running. Playground Department—Tako- ma Park Citizens’ Association an- naul 10-mile race for District A. A. U. championships. Starts 1 p.m. on Mount Vernon Boulevard below railway bridge; finish in front of Takoma Park swimming pool. ‘Tennis. “ District of Columbia tournament men’s singles and doubles, Colum- bia Country Club, 3 p.m. BENGALS SEE RE, CRAB 7 STRAIGHT Gehringer Leads Champs to Win Over Browns—Chisox Nose Out Tribe. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HAT Tiger's been eating raw meat again. It seems that all was needed to make those Detroits see red was to tell them they were a one- two-man ball club. So now no - good - without - Cochrane” and “Greenberg's-your-only-hitter” stuff can League first division apart for | the first time in weeks. Wtih a marked form reversal for the better in the pitching department the Tigers are riding a seven-game winning streak, just one short of their longest of the season and have pulled up from fifth place to second in 10 days. Lawson Yields Seven Hits. THEY tight:ned their grip on the runner-up berth yesterday at the expense of the St. Louis Browns, club- bing out a 9-5 win, with Charley Gehringer leading the attack. Giv- ing the overworked Schoolboy Rowe, Elden Auker and Tommy Bridges a rest, the Tigers threw Roxie Lawson against the Brownies in his first start since April 30 and he turned in a seven-hit performance. In the only other major league game played yesterday the clubbing Chicago White Sox came from behind to nose out the Indians, 6-5, which pulled the Boston Red Sox out of the second division and into a fourth- place tie with the Tribe. Italo Chelini, the White Sox’ rookie por- tion of the big-league Italian trend as represented in the line-ups of the Yankees and other outfits this year, made his second start and turned in his second win, holding the heavy- hitting Indians to seven hits. Cubs, Reds Show Fine Records. IAMOND DUST—Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds turned in the best records in the major leagues for month of June . . . Former with 21 wins and 5 losses; Reds with 17 and 7 - . Poorest marks posted by Brooklyn and Phillies . . . with 4 wins against 21 defeats and 4 vic- tories and 19 setbacks, respectively . . . Best in the American League: The Yankees, with 13 won in 22 starts Ben Chapman, traded from the Yanks, is getting a large share of the credit for the Nationals’ drive in recent weeks . . . Manager Bucvky Harris calls the deal for Ben the “best made by any major league club this year” . . . While Jimmy Foxx still is the big gun of the Boston Red Sox, the base ball writers are beginning to raise eye- brows ‘about his fielding slump. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Charley Gehringer, Tigers—Hit ‘homer, double and single in 9-5 win over Browns. Luke Appling, White Sox—Drove in three runs against Indians with homer and two singles. | they're about fed up with that “you're- | the last remaining survivors in singles | | with both Welsh and Mitchell destined C » []_ [} TENN|S HE'_B Finally Annexes Wimbledon Net Title ISDOWN TO FOUR Welsh Plays Latona, Lynch Faces Mitchell in Play for City Crown. BY BILL DISMER, JR. ARNEY WELSH or 'I'ony Latona vs. Dooly Mitchell or Hugh Lynch. . That's the set-up for the singles championship of the District of Columbia tennis tournament at Co- lumbia Country Club, the identity of tomorrow’s finalists to be revealed by the results of this afternoon’s matches involving the above pairs. And should Welsh upset Latona and Mitchell take Lynch, a tournament would, for once, have run true'to form, for the city's first four ranking stars were seeded in that order—Welsh and Mitchell at the top of their respective halves and Latona and Lynch at the bottom. There also was the little matter of doubles finalists to be decided today. to participate in two other matches, | besides their singles, should they win quarter-final doubles affairs, At 10:30 o'clock this morning, Welsh and Ralph McElvenny met Hugh Trigg and Max Kay and, if vic- torious, were to face Lynch and La- tona in the semi-finals this afternoon. Also at the same hour this morning, Mitchell and Tom Markey encount- ered Larry Phillips and Red Mather for the right to play Price Colvin and | Alex Keiles of Baltimore later in the | day. Four “Foreigners” Default. BY NIGHTFALL the two singles finalists and the two doubles teams will have been determined. with nething more to do than wait for the championship matches in both events at 2 and 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. And should Colvin and Keiles fall before the winner of the Mitchell and Markey-Phillips and Mather match, the last of the out-of-town con- testants would be out of the picture, for Colvin and Lieut. John McCue, play were eliminated yesterday. Col- sets, 6—0, 5—7, 6—4, while McCue | became another of Welsh's victims in | straignt sets, 6—3, 6—2. Mitchell was the last to reach the | semis, when a recovery of his form which local fans delighted in watch- | ing several years back enabled him to | rally to trim McElvenny, 7—9, 6—1, 6—2. | The exits of Colvin and McCue | completed the ‘domination of. the non- | resident stars by Washington players, although, to be perfectly fair with the | visitors, four of the éight seeded were forced to default. Sterling Williams, Paul Pollard. Ed Greipenker] and Jack | Talbot all left town before they were beaten. Frank Goeltz fell before Mc- | Elvenny and Keiles was eliminated by | Deane Judd. Welsh Strong Faverite. ON the face of what was shown yes- terday, Welsh remains a prohibi- | tive favorite to win his third succes- | sive District championship and be- come the only man to retire the Dum- | barton cup, the winner’s trophy which has not been won more than once by any other champion. The Rockville | Rambler is in the best shape of his career and his condition enables him to cover a court like no other man in the tournament. At one stage of the match with McCue yesterday, he ran off 14 straight points in a row. He figured to receive a stiff fight | from Latona today, as the District playground instructor has been play- ing & different brand of tennis than he showed in 1935. Few were his| errors yesterday as he turned back the last of the invaders, but his physique does not enable him to stand up under a long set as Bamney can. Odds on the Mitchell-Lynch match were quoted at 5-4, and take your choice. Dooly, in his last two matches against Judd and McElvenny, has! been cracking them like the Mitchell | of old, and his back-hand drives down the sidelines are carrying plenty of steam. Whether he can cope with Lynch, who, like Welsh, is in superb condition, remains to be seen. Lynch has one weakness, & tendency to run around his backhand, but his forehand drive carries more power than that of any other man in the city, with the possible exception of Welsh. — CELTS PLAY AT EUSTIS. St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria left for Fort Eustis today to play two games there over the week end. The following players are with the team: Benson, Cabell, Hamilton, Brenner, Chilcott, Godfrey, Kidwell, Langford, Ludlow, Shu, Printz and Lacey. ——— SOUTH ATLANTIC, Jacksonville, 4. Ehfimbus. 5: Bavannan. . Fight Film Business Gives Mike Jacobs Jitters He Sold $1,000,000 Show for $27,500—N o Money in Open Golf Title for Manero. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 4—What's this about Pepper Martin and Daffy Dean brawling in the club house at Bos- ton 'tother day? ... As the dope comes to us, a lusty right to the Jjaw from the “wild hoss of the Osage” ended things before the rest of the delighted Cardinals had a chance to chime in . . . You can look for an extra fine percentage of winning favorites when the race mob shifts Trom Aqueduct to Em- 1 pire City today . . . For some reason the nags seem to run true to form at Empire . . . Mebbe it's because ¢ shipping money to Saratoga has . to be produced. + Mike Jacobs gets the jitters every time he thinks of the Schmeling- Louis movie rights, which he was glad to unload for $27,500 . . . They are worth a cool miltion right - i H { H L mnow . . . Like almost everybody else, Mike figured the fight would go no more than four heats at the most . . . They say Tony Manero isn't making spending money out of his national open title . . . Gene Tun- ney corresponds regularly with George Bernard Shaw . . . And it it must thrill Tunney no end to know he is one of the few Ameri- cans “G. B. 8.” bothers to write to ... Jack Dempsey’s “white hope™ tournament went right up the old creek with Joe Louis. Carn Snavely wishes he had some of those North Carolina linemen at Cornell . . . New York fans have soured on the Giants and pick them to finish just where Sara- 2en wound up in the British open— fourth . . . The Harlem number players cleaned up two days after the fight by betting on 198, which was Joe Louls’ weight , . . Red- headed Don Budge is apt to ‘?‘ T Bryan Grant in turning pro right after the coming nationals . . . which news will make Bill O'Brien feel 30 pounds lighter. ilxrjart Gestring (pronounced yes-string) 13-year-old national in- More than one big league manager is wondering what the Winter will bring forth . . . We'd give you three guesses, but you couldn't cover the field in that number. The fans’ popular cholce for the National League all-star team didn’t make a hit with some of the smarter base ball writers . . . ‘They can’t understand why Gus Buhr of Pittsburgh, who is hitting only 347, had to get & belated in- . vitation . . . Neither can they agree with Manager Charlie Grimm logical choice over Johnny Moore of the Phillies, Who i# hitting 350, or Paul Waner, Another Pirate, with 345 . . . Certainly Grimm gave his Cubs none of the worst of it in choosing Galan and Curt Davis . . . In addition, he'll have Lon Warneke, Gabby Hartnett, Billy Herman and Frank Demaree from his own outfit. Z A | terrier; a “Westie” is a West Highland California lass who today beat HELEN HULL JACOBS. firau Sperling, Danish net ace, in the final of the All-England tennis championships. Four times previously Helen had sought the so-called world title, only to Jail. —A. P. Photo. AMERCAN PUBLIC GETTING DOG WISE Average Citizen Now Can Call Breeds by Their Correct Names. ’ POPLEXY among dog breeders | is on the decline, according | to the American Kennel Ga- zette, because the American public is learning the right names of the recognized breeds of dogs. A decade ago the number of dog fanciers who succumbed from hearirfg such things as “police dog” and “Bos- ton bull,” was appalling. In fact, many misnomers, such as “Scotch | collie, Scotch terrier, English bull dog and French poodle,” practically have | vin fell before Latona in three hard | disappeared from common usage. | they're proceeding to take the Ameri- | Almost any man in the street, or on the farm, now knows that the | dog he once associated with “police” is really a German shephegd. He also | knows that there are a dozen other | recognized breeds that have been | trained extensively for police work. The same man now speaks of the “Boston terrier,” says merely “collie,” | and makes it “Scottish terrier,” and drops the “English” and “French” from “bull dog” and “poodle,” re- spectively. Breeds Have Nicknames. OG breeders are rather punctilious that the proper names, as recog- nized by the American Kennel Club, Man Whe Came Back. HOSE who should know whereof they speak are saying that Joey Kuhel is a better ball player today than he was in This, they say, is Joey’s big T 1933, year. This is interesting because in 1933 the sprightly first baseman, for whom Clark Griffith paid $65,000, was quite a ball player. Many were called to fill the shoes of Joe Judge when old J. Ignatius‘started to slip but only Kubel filled them. And, up until um] year, he did it only in 1933. Nobody on the Washington club—and the Griffmen, after all, should be in a good position to judge—profess to know ex- actly what has come over Kuhel. In 1934 and 1935 the American League second baseman had a grand time scooping up the grounders he hit at them and throwing Joey out. He had no average to speak of and, worse in Kuhel's case, he was not batting across many runs. That is i | plications on this acore by moving him down in the batting order. Bucky | never had cause to regret the move, | Next to Johnny Stone, the first| | baseman packs more sheer power in his batting stroke than anybody on | the Washington club. In 1933 he | drove across 108 runs. Not until this | campaign has he resembled the same batter. Now he’s shooting to better his record of 108 runs driven across and it looks as if Joe is going to score a bulis-eye. Less than half of the campaign | has passed into the records and Kuhel today is ahead of his 1933 runs- batter-in mark with 58 driven across. In this department he easily tops the Nationals and, to show his ver- | satility, Joey is second in scoring runs, second in making most hits, tied for | second in doubles, second in belting | triples and tied with Stone in the manufacture of home runs. Those who care to fling posies to Mr. Griffith’s athletics for their noble A9 hmeling Target, Says Braddock CHAMP UNAFRAID OF UALAN' RIGHT Holds Gameness Max’s Main Asset—Regrets He Didn’t Get Louis Fight. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, July 4—A year ag» the regular routine in the prizefighting stable of Jim Braddock and Joe Gould was as follows: Gould talked and Braddock didn’t. Mr. Gould. being a singularly un- bashful bloke, even for a fight man- ager, would fill all ears within a radius of six kilometers with a steady stream of wordage, ranging from the shrill tenor of protest and chagrin to th | medium-boiled baritone of self-con- | gratulation. Joe liked to talk, and F did it well. His chest notes were round |and full and his throat tones wer pear-shaped | While Mr. Gould clenched the m: | crophone to his bosom, or buried h fangs in the nearest available ear, hi meal-ticket, Mr. Braddock, sat by a: o S2id nothing. Jim didn't fiaget, being a calm man by nature, but he lcoke:l a shade uncomfortable. He would rather have been home with the w | and kids. He didn't take kindly to t social engagements which all | weight champlons of the world are ex- { pected to fulfill as a sort of occupa- tional penalty for success, IS Braddock Speaks a Piece, THAT was Braddock a year ago. Tha champ has changed in 12 month: | He has changed physically. being fa broader of beam and rounder of jon! and wider of shoulder than formerly Also he has picked up the knack of conversation. When detached from Mr. Gould, who leaves no openings fer rival orators. Mr. Braddock scmetime will say 20 or 25 words at a time, pro- | vided that his listener is a cop or a fight writer or some kindred sou! who speaks’ Jim's language. | He talks about Schmeling. for in- stance® “He'll give me a good fight.” say. Jimmy, “but he's only got one punc & right hand, and that's the easio: punch 1n the deck to keep away from Those punches he hit Louis with were sucker punches. He couldn't hit any | experienced fighter with punches like that. “Look at his fight with Baer. Bacr is one of the widest-open fighters you ever saw, but Schmeling couldn't hit him with a right. Why not? Becauso even a wide-open target like Baer had experience enough to keep away from Joe's forte, batting in runs. This | feats of late will misaim badly if a|a sucker punch. column of the batting records, more than the average. will tell you how well Kuhel is hitting. Handicapped by Mental Complex. | sprig doesn't land into Kuhel's lap. b | stained wretch in the local press Joe, Press Smoke Peace Pipe. T 15 to be hoped by every ink- | | e, | Has Schmeling “Figgered." 'I FIGGER Schmeling licked Louis for three reasons—he wasnt scared, he had a green fighter in front OU wonder about Kuhel's come- | box that Kuhel's current punching ©f him and he threw his right hand. back and you recall the day he first worked out in training camp at Orlando last Winter. From his | of American League pitching has no connection, other than being a coin- cidence, with the June episode when i Vi to humanity be applied to their dogs, but there are | home in Kansas City, before, during, | Joe Was all for rendering nity plenty of abbreviations and nicknames | 30d even after the annual mid-Win- | 2 great favor by punching the city’s that are accepted in the dog show ter meeting of the major leagues game. | For instance: A “bob” is an Ol | English sheep dog; a “Dobe” is a Doberman pinscher; “Sam” is a Samoyede; a “Shell sheep d a “Szint” is a St. Bernard; a “dachs” is a dachshund; a “Dandie” | is a Dandie Dinmont terrier; a “wire” | meetings cleared and Kuhel found | is & wire fox terrier; a “smooth” is a smooth fox terrier; “Kerry” is a Kerry blue terrier; a “Scottie” is a Scottish terrier; a “Sealy” is a Sealy- ham terrier; a “Welshie” is a Welsh white terrier; a “griff” is a Brussels griffon; a “Jap” is a Japanese spaniel; a “Peke” is a Pekingese; a “Pom” is a Pomeranian; a “Boston” is a Bos- ton terrier; a “Frenchie” is a French bull dog: “skip” is a schipperke; a | “curly” is a curly-coated retriever, and | & “golden” is a golden retriever. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .399; Radcliff, White Sox, .375. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 90; Geh- | ringer, Tigers, 76. Runs batted in—Foxx, Red Sox, 12; Goslin, Tigers, 69. . Hits—Gehrig, Yankees, 110; Geh- ringer, Tigers, 103. Doubles—Rolf and Di Maggio, ;Gmkees, and Gehringer, Tigers, Triples—Gehringer, Tigers, 9; Clift, Browns, 8. Home Runs—Foxx, R8d Sox, 22; Gehrig, Yankees, and Troeky, In- dians, 20. Stolen bases—Powell, Yankees, 13; Piet, White Sox, and Werber, Red Sox, 12. Pitching—Malone, Yankees, 8-2; Pearson, Yankees, 11-3. National League. Batting—Jordan, Bees, 357; Suhr, Pirates; Camilli, Phillies; J. Moore, Phillies, and 8. Martin, Cardinals, 349, Runs—J. Martin, Cardinals, 62; Vaughan, Pirates, 57. Runs batted in—Medwick, Car- dinals, 71; Ott, Giants, 65. Hits—Jordan, Bees, 107; Jensen, Pirates, 100. Doubles—Herman, Cubs, 29; P. ‘Waner, Pirates, 24. Triples—Camilli, Home runs—Ott, Giants, 14; Ca- milli, Phillies, 11. Stolen bases—S. Martin, Cardi- nals, 13; J. Martin, Cardinals, 12. Pitching—Lucas, Pirates, 7-1; Gumbert, Giants, 7-2, and J. Dean, Cardinals, 14-4. Phillies, and Sports Mirror Today & year ago—Helen Wills Moody, making comeback, and Helen Jacobs reached final round of all-England tennis championship. ‘Three years ago—Pat Nolan, Irish professional, won British open golf medal with 71-67, 138, at St. Andrews. BERRES HAS GOOD ARM. Ray Berres, Brooklyn catcher, nipped 41 base runners last season 1 ~ there had trickled to Kuhel's ears rumor that he was to be traded. Rogers Hornsby was the most per- sistent seeker of Joe's services. is a Shetland | although the White Sox were believed | interested. would go. Joe probably felt he Then the smoke of the himself still a National. Down in Orlando Kuhel was saying, with a set jaw, that he had to make good this year. High strung, sensitive, Joe did not relish the lead-off position to which he was assigned dur- ing most of the 1935 campaign. “I let it get me down,” he explained. “It became a mental complex. convinced I couldn’t hit up there. “This year I understand I'm not going to lead off. I'm glad, of course, but even if I were to lead off again I'd go about it a different way. I'd walk up to the plate and swing like I meant it instead of trying to poke the ball through the infield.” Shooting to Better '33 Mark. HETHER Kuhel's comeback road would have been studded with more obstacles had he been left in the lead-off position is a moot ques- tion. At any rate, Manager Bucky Harris spared him any mental com- I was | sportswriters. Lest some may think this department is dragging skeletons | from closets, let it be said that Kuhel and the typwriter bangers long since have smoked the pipe of peace. Joey, it was, who graciously | took a drag and passed it | around to end a chapter as it thould have ended. | Hence it's all in fun, this estab- | lishing the time of Kuhel's spurt above | the .300 mark in batting. At least the local press, without pointing an accusing finger at anybody, should hope it's in fun. For before the feud Kuhel was hitting .291. Since the | feud that's dead Joey has hit a cool | 355, It has to be a coincidence, though. | In the first place, even when the | season opened, it was evident that | Kuhel was a new ball player—more determined and willing to strike out oftener if it meant putting everything he’s got into a longer, more-powerful swing. The spurt from .291 to 307, his present pace, was inevitable, In the second place a sportswriter flatters himself to think he could hold any such influence as to produce a .355 batting average. If he did he wouldn't have to beat on a set of keys to make a living. League Statistics SATURDAY. JULY 4. 1936, . American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washington-Philadelphia. rain troit. 9: 8t. Louis. 3. Chicago. 6: Cieveland. . Only games scheduled. ] EES P! = s 8 - -="a0139q] 9snunIg -uoysuuTE M — 2 £ H | wjqaRpeIud. T e | 71401221.6901 ___ B1301321.540/10 91391331.542110% 91 6] 6] 518 8 V 51 4110/ Clel 2 4 7I—| 6| 5l bl Bos|_3|_71 5/ 5/—I O 41 Chil 51 3[_7| 2/ 3I—I 5l Phil 321 11 61 3] 47— L. [2232133/34134/37/44/45|—1—I | GAMES IOI;A!. GAMES TOMORROW. 1:30 N. Y. at Wash.. 3. 2). " Phila, at Boston. Detroit at St. Louis. Cleveland at Chicago. RESULTS YESTERDAY. No games scheduled. =| HHEHEE | fl-l-l—.l 6] 91 61 31 41111 5/44[261.628 Chil_3i—[ 3| 6| 8110 7| 8/42(25.627] ‘e Pitl 4] 31—| 41 b|_6] 81 0391321.5401 Bt NY| | 4| 8i—I 4 6| 7| algslgml.uel: [ Cin[_3|_6| 4| BI—| 3[ 5/10/361311. Bosi_6] 21 4| 4| 8/—| 3| 613339458112 Phil_2[ 2 31 31 3| 71— 5/2446].34320 BKI 31 2| 11 81 31 4] 5I—I231481.32431% L. 126125132/32131]39/46148] —I—1 ] e GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. ¥, (2), Bkiyn st New York. mat Phila (3. n ile at cinn (2) chicaso at #;n at Pitts (3) PIEDMONT. Michmond, &; Portamouth. 8. » % H g " f In Semi-Finals DOOLY MITCHELL, Veteran racketer, who downed Ralph McElvenny yesterday. If successful against Hugh Lynch today, Dooly will meet the winner of the Barne; Welsh-Tony Latona matc) for the District of Columbia tennis championship, which Welsh is delend!ng. —=Star Staff Photo. Those things counted against Louis, but how can they count against me? | I'm not green and I know how to keep (away from a right. That leaves | Schmeling with nothing but his game- ness. He's got plenty of that, but he can't lick me on gameness alone.” Then Mr. Braddock talks about Mr. Baer: | “Yeah, I hear he wants to fight m~ (again,” says Jimmy. “He must ‘hflrd up for dough. Weli, Gould tend | to all that stuff. It doesn’t bother m>. T'll fight anybody. “Do I think I could lick Baer again® | Why not? I beat him when he was at |the top of his form, fighting steady 'and I didn't have any trouble doin: |it. Why shouldn't I beat him now when he’s older and staler and fatter | He's the same Baer. only worse.” And he talks about Louis “I sure wish I could of had that | fight instead of Schmeling,” says | Jimmy wistfully. “Schmeling caught him when he was ripe and hell never be so ripe again. I've got a | 8ood right hand, same as Schmeling |and I was figgering to fight him ju: | like Schmeling did—step in and sock his chin over that low left guard, after he led. Praise for Louis. JON'T get Louis wrong. He's a good fighter, got a lot of stufl | For one thing, he don't waste punch- es. He wasted a lot on Schmeling, ‘because he couldn’t get behind Ma | shoulders and elbows, but that’s t first time I ever seen him throw a ]punch that didn’t do some good. “The mistake all you fellas mace about Louis, writing in the papers, | was to figger that this boy was differ- ient from all the other fighters that | ever lived—that he didn't have to go | through the mill, that he could learn { all his fighting out of story bocks and | never make no mistakes. “There never was a fighter born like that. You have to learn your lessons in that ring and Louis didn't know the lesson about a right hand on the chin. He' knows now. Well, had to go through the same thinz Cepyright 1936, by the Nor:h American Newspaper Alliance, (nc.) Griffs Records e Tt T Rttt .- 3b HR Rbi ) 213 Veave: 8'r'lla "hill De Sh'g Cohen Starr___ Yeaver DR'ton De 8Bh's FIGHT FILMS ONE WEEK BEG. TODAY Continuots m. 1 night. Eve Last st CAMEO THEATRE g wer RArnieRr b, A" Gr Gaee