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WASHINGTON, D. C, l‘ IONDAY, JULY 6, 1936. ““Dream Game” Players’ Big Party : Win Over Yanks Enthuses Nats STARS ARE TENSE WITH EXCITEMENT Ready to Work Shirts Off | to Win—Simmering Egos Boil Over. BY JOHN LARDNER. OSTON, July 6—Do you think the ball players care what happens in these all-star games? Well, I've been shop- ping around and I haven't found one who can take it or leave it. It's an important and breathless experience | for all of them In fact, there is nothing in the life of a good ball player, from one end of the year to the other. that means more to him than the all-star game— except maybe the sizning of his con- tract and the result of the world series, if he happens to be in it. And even the world series fails to give him the same sort of thrill the series he is thinking more about a slice of the winners’ money pool than anything else. If you feel that's an unfair statement, ask any ball player. He'll tell you plainly and straightforwardly that it’s the dough they're hustling for in the October classic. The all-star game is different. For one thing, the players get no cut of | Dizzy Dean, surveying the customers said with the gate. 75000 rabid all-star Cleveland last Summer, mock wistfulness “Ain't there no way we can get our | piece of that gate But It's Not Only the Money. DXZ probably would have been glad to have a piece. but money wasn't foremost in his mind at that moment. He was quivering with excitement. He was straining to get at those American Yeaguers, to fog his fast one past Gehrig and Foxx, to slam a hit off *that dizzy dumb left-hander with the high kick.” Senor Lefty Gomez. And Gomez, getting ready to warm up. was capering excitedly in the dug- out. chattering and cussirg and vow- ing to smack a triple off Willie Walker =for Lefty likes his hits Even hard-shelled. taciturn per- formers like Joey Vosmik and Bill Terry and Arky Vaughan and Charlie Gehringer were tense with excitement and eagerness. The stern-jawed Rog Hornsby, coaching for the American League squad. shouted joyously at a passing base ball writer “We're gonna paste 'em again!” Maybe it seems to those of you who take no great interest in all-star games that I am laying it on too thick. I'd better explain that these games mean even more to the players than they do to the fans. Base ball is a highly individualistic game, with a sort of stove-lid of teamwork that keeps the stewing, simmering egos of the players from boiling over. There is just one day in the year when those egos are permitted to pop, when individual per- formances count for everything, or al- most everything. That’s all-star day. So the excitement of the players is & perfectly logical thing, and not jus & sentimental notion in the mind of Jyour correspondent. American League Stronger, ANS and sports writers have tried to explain why the American League whips the National League so consistently in this Midsummer classic, and most of them lay the blame on the lackadaisical tactics of National League managers to date—Grimm, ‘Terry and Frisch. Well, they deserve @ share of blame. Then there is the fact that the strength of the American League. till very recently, has been more evenly distributed ameng its clubs. There were always one or two or three teams in the National League which stood on @ par with the best in the junior oop, and then half a dozen weak sis- ters, any one of which would have finished in the American League cellar. | ‘When you boiled the facts down, you | discovered that the three poor show- ings of the National League were not | entirely the result of coincidence and | bad management. The American | League was really a little stronger. I| think it still is. But the all-star squads are close enough in quality to make it unlikely that one of them will keep on winning year after year. The law of averages points to a National League victory along about now. I think the Natlonal | League will win if Grimm uses his best pitching combination. which is Hubbell for five innings and Dizzy Dean for four. Dizzy, Hub Seen Best Bets. ’I‘HIS isn't meant to be a reflection on the other members of his all- star pitching staff. It is simply the best combination for a single game of this sort, against strange hitters. Hubbell is a pitcher who works best egainst batsmen who haven't seen his stuff before. He demonstrated that in 1934 by striking out five of the Amer- In| at | | teammates, ¢ Sports Program For Local Fans TOMORROW. Bexing. Petey Sarron, world feather- weight champion, vs. Bobby Dean, 10 rounds (non-title). Griffith Stadium, 8:30. THURSDAY. Base Ball. Detroit vs. Washington, Stadium, 3:15. P Wrestling. Ernie Dusek vs. Ivan Managoff, feature bout, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Griffith FRIDAY. Base Ball, Detroit vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Detreit vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3. Horse Show. Riding and hunt meet. Meadow- brook Saddle Club, East-West Highway. Grimm's Moundsmen to Win Ev the Associated Press. points in batting to the Amer- for their annual all-star base ball disposal an array of American League Manager Charlie Grimm's senior cir- | | Must Check A. L. Outfit Hitting About .334. | OSTON, July 6.—The National B League ‘will concede about 22 | ican League sluggers when the pick of both circuits line up tomorrow game. Manager Joe McCarthy has at his sluggers hitting the ball for about .334. The question seems to be whether cuit representatives, batting for .312, have the pitchers to subdue such SEE-SAWING LEAD Cards Take Pair to Oust Losing Cubs—Tigers Save Second Place. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HERE must be something about that National League lead to give a ball club the jitters as soon as it gets into first place. Ever since the season started it hus. besn more or less the custom for a team to start faltering almost from | the moment it landed in the driver's | seat. First it was the Giants, and now | | the Cardinals and Cubs. | At the moment the Cubs and their | ‘gas house gang rivals are putting on | the old “Alphonse and Gaston" act in the front-running berth. A week ago the Cubs climaxed a long | uphill haul and took over the top. They lost immediately and were back in second place again. But the gas house outfit no sooner was holding the lead than it, too, start- |ed slipping. The Cubs pulled out in | front Saturday. Cards Take Two, Go to Top. FOR the second time in a week the lead lasted just a day. Yesterday the Pirates knocked Chicago off the top again with a 4-2 victory, while | the Cardinals slugged the Cincinnati Reds, 8-6 and 17-7, to move in. With the Cards’ double victory stop- | ping at least momentarily the forward surge of the rampaging Reds, the sup- something else to talk about but enter- ing their longest victory streak of the season, stretching their run to five straight yesterday over the Boston Bees, 7-6. As if that was not enough, those | daffy Brooklyn Dodgers apparently forgot they were in the Polo Grounds, | where they are supposed to be jinxed, and clubbed the Giants, 3-1, despite { Mel Ott's fifteenth homer. | Red Sox Remain Third. 'HE Naticnals, too, did some for- getting. It must have slipped their minds that they were facing the | posedly lowly Phillies gave the loop | Barney Welsh (foreground) hold the public parks crown, Mitchell and Bud Markey at C retiring the Dumbarton trophy, for nearly a decade. and Ralph McElvenny, who also yesterday annexed the D. C. championship for the third straight time by defeating Dooly 'olumbia Country Club. Earlier Welsh vanquished Mitchell for the singles scepter, thereby which had been in competition —Star Staff Photo. 'WELSH SEEKS MORE NET HONORS AFTER D. C. WINS Spring Lake Tourney Lu BY BILL DISMER, JR. ECURE in the knowledge that his mastery of District tennis circles is as unquestionable as is Fred Perry's of the world Barney Welsh hit the trail again to-| day. continuing his quest for greater national recognition than ever has be- fallen a Washington netman. En route ot Spring Lake. N. J.. where clubbers as Lou Gehrig. young Joe ' murdering New York Yankees, that tomorrow he will begin the fight for Di Maggio and Bill Dickey of Yankees, Jimmy Foxx of the Red Sox, Earl Averill of the Indian: and Charley Gehringer of the Tigers. Bridges Out of Game. 'HE starting pitching berth for the National Leaguers seems to rest between St. Louis' Dizzy Dean or Chi- cago’s Curt Davis. Manager McCarthy has two stellar southpaws available—Lefty Grove and Vernon Gomez—but whether he will open with one of them against the Na- tional League’s many right-handed batters is uncertain. Until this merning McCarthy had two righthanders he could have start- ed, but Tommy Bridges of the Detroit Tigers passed up the game because of a cold which forced him from the mound at St. Louis yesterday. He re- turned to Detroit with most of his leaving Mel Harder of Cleveland the American League’s most eligible righthander. Base Ball Moguls at Hand. COMMISSIONER KENSAW M. LANDIS was the first of the game’s high officials to appear in this city, which is assuming a world series atmosphere. “I hope that the game will continue to be an annual affair for many years,” he said. < Ford Frick. president of the Na- tional League, and William Harridge, chief of the American circuit, also were on hand. The game will be played under world series rules at 12:30 p.m. (E. S. T.) at Boston Natiohal League Park. The park seats 42.000. All the re- served seats have been taken up. can League’s greatest sluggers in suc- cession. Dean is the best finisher in the | business, with confidence, poise and great speed over a four-inning span. If the National Leaguers play to win, Dizzy and Hub are their best bets. The senior league’s advantage lies in pitching. anyway. Grimm can't hope to start even and outslug McCarthy's dynamiters. The Dean-Hubbell program is a leaf horrowed trom the American League's bock, the A. L. having achieved great success in past years with the team of Gomez and Harder. Goofy and Mel were used in exactly the same way Hubbell and Dean should be used. Assuming that Grimm will harder to win than his immediate | predecessors, my hunch for this game |is the National League. And remem- | ber, whatever the managers do, the players will be in there working their shirts off. It's the ego’s big day. (Copyright, 1936. by the Not*h American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) try | Tr betting boys had just made the odds on the Yanks 1 t3 4—highest in his | tory—to take the pennant. They | turned in a 93 victor The Red Sox, finding the Athletics easy, came through with a double- header decision, 16-2 and 8-2, to hold onto third place. The aroused Detroit Tigers stayed in second by walloping the Browns, 18-9. The up-and-down Cleveland Indians were up in the first game of a twin bill with the White Sox, 11-4, then lost the nightcap, 4-2, before Johnny Whitehead's seven-hit pitching. S Records for Week In Major Leagues Standings of the two major leagues for the past week. showing games won and lost. runs, hits, errors, oppo- | nents runs and home runs for each | club: AMERICAN LEAGLUE. W. L HE O |New York 6 | Detroit 8 Washineton _ Chicago Boston “Cleveland - *St. Louis Philadelphia 7 ved one tie gam Sronn s s D SPBRRALE o [ 5 [l 18 14 El 10 8 NATION Phiiadelphia 3 St. Louis 3 Cincinnatt Boston (Pittsbursh Chicago New York Brooklyn | Official Score WASHINGTON. H. TR ] 0 0 0 0 A e e 535531295550k = | womimsmi-! EEEICE NPT < nans in seventh. 015 030 00x—9 000 010 0 (3). Kuhel (2 Washington | New York__ Runs batted avis, Kleinhans. Kress o Cros Three-base hit—Bolton. Stolen bases—Selkirk. _Crosetti, Stone. _Kress Double plays—Chapman to Xress. Crosetti fo Hefiner to Genrig. Left on bases—New York. 8: Washington. 6. Bases on ball Off Kieinhans. i: off Bro nings: off De : by Kleinhans. I Ruffing. 7 in Kleinhans, 3 in 315 innifies” Wild pitch— De Shong. Winning pitcher—De Shong. Losing pitcher—Ruffing. Umpires—Messrs. Kolls. Moriarty and Basil. Time—2:10. E | 0 s3sms9303M | oomssas the ' Red Ruffing was pitching, and that the the title now held by Frank Parker, seventh ranking player of the ccuntry, Barney left a home further perma- nently adorned by the Dumbarton | Bowl—a decade’s goal of other local players, none of whom had won it | more than once, but which Welsh won for the third straight time yesterday. It wasn't as easy as it was in 1934 and '35, for the champion dropped his first <et in those three years of play in the District of Columbia tournament | to Dooly Mitchell, probably Washing- ton's second best player in years and certainly one of its most popular. But a superior physique, and experi- ence gained in his wide travels of the | past two years gave Welsh a clear edge | over one of the many men who has his r name on the Dumbarton Bowl, after | Dooly had tied the match by winning the second set. The final scores were 6—4, 2—86, 6—2, 6—3. Welsh’s Stamina Tells. OW much Welsh has progressed in one year was further evidenced in the doubles match. in which he proved an equal half of a champion- ship team. hitherto dominated by his partner, Ralph McElvenny, to out- class completely in three sets a team that formerly had provided as much stubbornness as a pair of mules stand- ing in molasses. Mitchell and his partner, | Markey. put up a great fight in each of the 30 games, but lacked the fin- ishing power to annex a single set. Barney and Mac won the first two at 6—2 and the last at 8—6. | | | i | the early afternoon Mitchell gave Welsh all he was looking for, the | greatest exponent of the drop-shot in | Washington continually drawing the | champ out of position. | tiring, as would have any ordinary | man chasing Mitchell's tantalizing strokes, Welsh’s condition stood him {well and when intermission was | called at the end of the third set he | was fresher than his opponent. | For Welsh had begun to return | drop for drop midway of the second | set and Mitchell was tiring fast. He | had enough stamina left, however, to smash one past the champion for the deciding point that Welsh's racket barely touched and which cost him | his first set in the District tourney since 1933. Mitchell Overdrives. F DOOLY had thought he was giv- ing Barney a devil of a time with those drop-shots, he probably imagined —O’Doul, Mails Regarded “Tops” as Base Ball Clowns Favorites \'.Vith Coast League Fans—New Mexico State Golf Rivalry Is Exceptional. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 6.—Sports Writers’ Exchange: Ken Bojens (San Diego Union) reports Lefty O'Doul no longer wears his famous green suit, but still is partial to a green hat . . . Lefty, Bojens says, has the biggest fan following on the Pacific Coast . . . When his San Francisco Seals go to bat, he func- tions on the third base coaching lines with the redoubtable Walter (the great) Mails on first . . . When in stride, this pair can out-clown all the diamend clowns, Nick Al- trock and Al Schacht included. Marcel Mackel (Las Vegas, N. Mex,, Optic) nominates Vernie (Spec) Stewart, New Mexico State Henry Clay Poe of Duke . & Mackel says the kid will get some- where if he can learn to control his iron shots. And Dee C. Blythe (Clovis, N. Mex., Evening Journal) reminds you that Stewart and H. T. (Shorty) Hornbuckle of Clovis will renew one of the most unusual rivalries in golf in the New Mexico State tournament at Clovis, August 20-23 . . . Stewart has won the crown three years in succession, with Hornbuckle runner-up each time . . . Last year Stewart won by the ccmfortable margin of 10 and 9, even though Hornbuckle was 10 strokes under par for the Raton course when they finished on the 26th green . . ., Stewart, at the time, was 26 strokes ‘under golf champ, as the longest driver among the amateurs . . . Stewart, & Stanford student, averages well over the 240 yards claimed for n i par . . . Gosh, what golf they shoot out there! Robert Gamszey (Denver Post) claims the champion high school A ) hurdler for Denver . . . He is Paul Cope, and he steps the '120-high hurdles in 14.9, just like nothing had happened . . . Also, he does the 220-yard low hurdles (shortened 20 yards) in 229 . . . If any high schooler can beat or tie these marks, let him step right up and broadcast same through this bureau . .. John Degange (New London, Conn., Day) tells you of the tight- est four-club base ball race in the country” . .. The New London City League started a week with four teams tied for the lead . . . Elec- tric Boat and Robert Gair Co, played a 10-inning 0-0 tie on Tues- day, and the next night. Kacey's and the Port Trumbull Stars tied at 3-3 , , . Another one for the book. The East Texas oil fields, ayl; Joe Hornady (Longview, Tex., News) sre the Southwest's train- 2y ing ground for foot ball stars . .. Following the example set last Summer-by Sammy Baugh, Texas Christian’s star quarter, no less than eight T. C. U. aces are work- ing there this Summer . Lem Houston (Fredericksburg, Va., Free Lance-Star) tips you off that Vir- ginia Military may upset Columbia at foot ball next Fall ... Keep an eye on Columbia's track team next season, advises Ed Hill (Asbury Park, N. J., Press) . . . not only will the Lions have Herb West, a freshman who does the century in 9.8, but Dick Ganslen, who set a yearling pole vault mark of 13 feet 2 inches; six quarter milers who consistently break 51 seconds; Danny Taylor, former holder of the world interscholastic shot put rec- ord, and Vincent Grasso, Harry Over Mitchell in Singles and Hi Triumph With McElvenny. Tom | ‘Throughout the first two sets in | Instead of | res Barney After Victory Doubles the devil himself was facing him after a spill of the winner in the last set. Racing madly to get hold of one of the satanic drops, Welsh sprawled the | full length of the court. A generous application of mercurocrome to his left leg, which was skinned by fall, left Welsh's underpinning with a most devilish appearance. In the last analysis, it champ’s all-around game that gave him victory, Mitchell not having the depth, power or speed to match the | was the one who is going tennis in a big way. | As the match neared its end, the loser continually was over-driving his oppenent’s baseline and his recovery of position, so splendid in those first two sets, was not quick enough. Although the scores indicate a faster-played match than ordinarily prevails between the rivals, the | Welsh-McElvenny conquest of Mitchell | and Markey was filled with sparkling tennis, traditional to spectators of that rivalry. For once no one man domi- nated play, although Welsh and Mit- chell allowed their teammates to do most of the hitting. McElvenny’s Service Wins. ‘NIARKEY first set, on his serve and the winners than ran out the set s for a 2—1 lead in the over and -outside the courts for re- their only two games by Welsh's service in the fou eighth games The deciding encounter was tied at 2—2, 3—3, 5—5 and 6—6, but Markey dropped his service in the thirteenth game and McElvenny won the championship with his own in the next. Louis I. Doyle, who fulfilled the usual arduous duties of the tournament in grand style, received tangible appreci- tion of his services from the com- mitiee when he was presented with a ssed up Mark Koenig and Rogers | sterling comb and brush set. Two en- paq.e = graved words—"In Appreciation pe. | HOTRsby, the latter having been de. spoke the sentiment of the entire Major .Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, .389; Ap- pling, White Sox, .377. Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 92; Gehr- inger. Tigers, 82. Runs batted in—Foxx, Red Sox. 74 E:;)oslm. Tigers, and Trosky, Indians, | 70. Hits—Gehrig. Yankees, and Gehr- inger, Tigers, 112. Dohbles—Di Meggio, Yankees, 28; | Rolfe, Yankees, 27. Triples—Gehringer, Tigers, 9; Clift, Browns, 8. Home runs—Foxx, Red Sox. 22; g’ehrig‘ Yankees. and Trosky, Indians, Stolen bases—Powell, Yankees, and erber, Red Sox, 13. 2 Pitching — Malone, Yankees, 8-2; Pearson, Yankees, and Grove, Red Sox, 11-3. | W National League. Batting—Jordan, Bees, and Camilli, Phillies, .348. Runs—J. Martin, Vaughan, Pirates, 58. Runs batted in—Medwick, Cardinals, 76: Ott. Giants, 66. Hits—Jordan, Bees, Pirates, 107. Doubles—Herman, Cubs, 31; Med- wick, Cardinals, 24. Triples—Camilli, Phillies, 10; Good- man, Reds, 9. Home runs—Ott, Giants, 15; Berger, Bees, 13. Stolen bases—S. Martin, Cardinals, 15; J. Martin, Cardinals, 13.4 Pitching—French, Cubs, and Lucas, Pirates, 7-1. Cardinals, 69; 109; Jensen, Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Helen Wills Moody staged uphill battle to defeat Helen Jacobs for all-England tennis championship. Three years ago—American League defeated National League, 4-2, in first all-star game. Five years ago—Bill Burke won United States golf championship by cne stroke from George Von Elm after second 36-hole play-off. Quinlan and John Carderey, all of whom better 1:58 in the half mile « « . Sounds impressive. ~ | and Mitchell wen their | but Welsh evened the score | The champs took a 5—1| lead in the second as they raced all g tournament as well as the committee. | SHAKY N I_ B'_UBS Public Parks Champs Retain District Net Doubles Title 1 OSTON. like a ing of the grudge element in their sports dishes can look forward to this kind of a side order with considerable as- surance tomorrow when the cream of the American and National Leagues July square off for the fourth annual all~‘_ star game in the Boston Bees’ park. The participants in this particular battle of dignified leers will be Charley Grimm, boss of the National League team. and Marse Joe McCarthy. wno will direct the destinies of the Ameri- can Leaguers. The feud dates back to 1932, a vear that produced one of the easier world series to recall. A Dbarbed-tongued Yankee team, piloted by McCarthy, <ailed into a cowed Cub club. managed by Grimm, and scored a complete rout. t was an easy series to remember ause it was in this classic that T 3 Babe Ruth, answering a verbal re- turns, Mitchell and Markey winning pyuttal from the Cul;s'g 3 | bench, stepped cracking | out of the batters' box and pointed, rth and gith his bat, to the centerfield bleach- ers at Wrigley Field. The next mo- ment he planted a home run in that spot. Fate Plays Up to Grimm. 'HE Babe's calling of that shot was only accidental. Before, during and after that 1932 series the Yanks hurled charges of “cheapskate” and er” at the Cubs because when they ivvied” the world series shares they posed as the Chicago manager less an two months before the series. It was a bitter tongue-lashing and defeat for the Cubs and Grimm to swallow. Next Fall there is a chance that McCarthy and Good-Time Char- ley will meet again as world series managers but, in the meantime, Timm tomorrow will be offered a chance to get even. ‘The gods of base ball have smiled on Grimm. Originally, because his team had won the 1935 American League penant, Mickey Cochrane w to manage the stars of Mr. Harridge’s circuit. Cochrane’s nervous system blew a fuse, however, and Har- ridge named McCarthy to sub- stitute, inasmuch as the Yanks finished second to Mickey's Tigers. Grimm has not as much to lose as McCarthy, either. If Charley doesn't pilot the National Leaguers to victory he will not have been the first to fail. None of the three preceding pilots has managed to beat the American League, either. McCarthy, however, will be known as the first junior cir- cuit manager to fail—and Grimm and | his Cubs probably will be the first and most persistent to remind Josephus of the fact. Six Cubs On His Team. RIMM has been criticized for picking, in addition to the four Chicago players voted on his team by the fans, another pair of Cubs. This makes six of Grimm’s own players on the National League squad—Harnett, Herman, Warneke and Demaree, who were voted on—and Davis and Galan, who were picked by Grimm. This is taken in some quar- ters as a sign of Mr. Grimm's determination to win. He knows that his own men will give everything they've got. The Iaw of averages is against the | W Americap Leaguers and those adher- f, pe ents of the junior league squad are worrying over what kind of per- formance some of the all-star new- comers will make but, nevertheless, Will Harridge's stars will be favored. This is indicated in the majority of unbiesed discussions. The National | ) Leaguers, with Hubbell, Dean, Wa neke, Davis and Mungo as pitchers, | Sitrich have a pitching edge. The American C Leaguers, with Gehrig, Foxx, Di single game, On the Dot. BEN CHAPMAN, Washington's lone representative, did not make the trip to Boston last night with the Griffith family and Capital newpaper {men ... Ben will not leave Washington | until tonight, arriving a few hours | before the American League squad will | start batting practice. A half-starved black kitty walked into the Washington ball club office vesterday before the final game with the Yanks . . . in view of the Na- tionals’ victory after two crushing de- ¢ ¥ ~ | feats the cat now has a permanent | home—unless. of course, the Griffs run into another losing streak . . . then it will have to look out for itself again. Despite the fact that Washington will have less representation at the fourth all-star game than any time in | the past, Chapman may play a bigger part than the Griffs chosen last vear . . . Infielders Buddy Myer and Ossie Bluege “made” the all-star team but Myer did not get into the game and Bluege was used on third bese only in the final inning for defensive purposes. 'YANKS AT 1-4TOWIN, | RECORD SHORT PRICE | No Second, Third Quotations on New York—Nats Rated 10-1. Cubs Still Favored. By the Associated Press. | | N!.'W YORK, July"6.—The New York | Yankees are the shortest-priced | midseason pennant favorites in base ball history, as far as Jack Doyle, well; known Broadway commissioner, is concerned. | In announcing his midseason odds | today, Doyle quotes the Yankees as 1 to 4 to take the American League | flag and offers no odds on their finish- | ing second and third. The Tigers, Red Sox, Indians and Nationals follow in that order, closely bunched. Detroit is 6-1 to win the 1‘fllg. 7-5 to take second and 1-4 for third. The odds on Boston are 7-1| jand on Cleveland and Washing- ton, 10-1. The Cubs, Doyle's preseason favorites in the National League, retain that place by a slight margin over the Car- dinals, being quoted at even and 1 to 3. The Cards are 7-5 to win and 1-2 to place. The Pirates are rated third at 6-1 + to win, followed by the Giants and the Reds at 10-1. . Griffs l.{ecords BATTING. LR 2 28 i5 3 5 o om0 | G e 2 B2 et Eftetet e BRRG 13900k i3 B B TP b - h Ty 22300~ StM- BB I M= DA EEETPRRITES - g2 522001 oNHR DD DB 9.1 a3 Sore BT A A S RS -} Z o @ So5cHOomHONIN S AR a o , 0. 13m0, S, ) S 1 s o s 22 233 13 ms Maggio, et al, have the extra batting | punch. The bat, apparently, i reckoned ss | 2 [PEREPS Pt ©o03=m=z a3 e ©239u=r>! oo n i 7R RS Chance to Climb Seen in Tilts With Westerners Starting Thursday. ITH the satisfaction of 7 knowing that New York's supremacy is not a perma- nent bugaboo, the Nation- als sat back today to start the season's longest lay-off before they open thei second home stand against the West and renew their drive to & higher bracket in the first division. With a single exception, Ben Chap- man, the Griffs are free to take lif easy until Thursday, when the second- place Tigers will invade the stad for a three-game series. Sandwiched between the lay-off is an exhibitior game tomorrow at Trenton, N. J., bu: the New York-Pennsylvania Leaguer hardly are to be regarded as test Chapman, chosen to represent W: ington in the fourth annual all-sta game tomorrow in Boston, leaves to- night for the classic. Despite the sting of dropping bot! ends of the July 4 double-header to the Yanks and slipping into fourth place, the Griffs are far from dow and out. They partially proved thi yesterday by routing the league lead- ers 9 to 3, and they will have oppor- tunity galore to prove it still more when the thread of American Leag campaigning is picked up against Tigers. Tigers Next Invaders. E and one-half games behind the third-place Red Sox, who virtual, are tied for the runner-up niche with Detroit, the Griffs will be in a position to carry the fight for a higher posi- tion in the team standing. The last time they encountered the Tigers ther swept a three-game series, and while they again are playing the world champs the Red Sox. in Boston, wi be entertaining Chicago. The White Sox may have been bad medicine for the Nationals this season but s0 have they been tough on Tom Yawkey's expensive outfit With a little help from the White Sox, plus maintainance of their own pace of the last couple weeks, Washington might well re-establish itself as the 6.—Those who | mightier than the curve, even in & chief contenders of the Yanks by the end of the week. Despite yesterday's victory, the first scored by Washington over the Yanks since April 1 here dofsn’t seem to be any way of preventing the Yanks from winning the flag this season. Joe. McCarthy's outfit rather proved this observation Saturday, when it won that double-header from Wash- ington. It may not have been a ¢: of the Griffs looking so bad as it was the Yanks looking so good. New York, with probably the best team it's had since 1927, seems to stand far out over the rest of the American League clubs this season. Following the Tiger series at the end of this week, St. Louis’ co-opera- tive Browns will invade for another three-game set. Visits by the White Sox and Indians. for three and two games, respectively. will wind up the stand in Griffith Stadium. De Shong Registers Eleventh Win, IT WAS an ex-Yank, Jimmy De Shong. who broke the New York- ers’ spell over the Griffs vesterday before nearly 15,000 fans. Making his first appearance against his old mates De Shong registered his eleventh tri- umph of the season by limiting the far-famed ‘‘murderers’ row” to eight hits, The Griffs, driving Red Ruffing from the box in the third inning. continued their assault on Ted Klein- hans and Walter Brown, winding up with 11 hits. De Shong also led the attack with three safeties. A two-base muff of Cecil Travis' fly by George Selkirk helped the Griffs to grab a 1-0 lead in the second in- ning, for CIif Bolton followed with a single. In the third the Nationals batted around to scoré five runs and clinch the affair. Kleinhans was nicked for the other three runs in the sixth inning. Syd Cohen and Bill Dietrich prob- ably: will divide the hurling tomorrow in the exhibition game at Trenton. The Nationals will hop a train in the morning and return tomorrow night to await resumption of championship campaigning. League Statistics MONDAY. JULY 6, 1835, American LTS YESTERDAY. on. 9: New York. 3. 16-K. Philadel, Cleveiand. 11-2. C Detroit. 18: St. Lo GAMES TODAY. None scheduled. GAMES TOMORROW, All-star game at Bos. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. Brooklyn. 3; New York. 1. Philadelphis. 7; B 8. 1 8t. Louis. §. Plitsburgh, m— _ni0x f-=-- -ysnasnig —neuwuiy wudpapeg| 2 il > o z'q | GAMES TODAY. None scheduled. TEXAS, Oklahoma Gty 8- Otl‘vulo;.cl.’ g 5" Adionio, 8,