Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1936, Page 16

A. Nats Go Ahead With Whitehill : U. S. Olympic Budget @ Club Rallies as Veteran Regains Effectiveness HOSE who help to guide or fol- low the destinies of Mr. Bucky Harris' Nationals awoke today sbout to face a new crisis, and (c) apparently as ready to meet it as it ever will be. of the Boston Red Flops and sneaked phead of the Fenway Millionaires on the wings of & 9-to-3 victory over the told, will be reached tomorrow after the St. Loueys leave town. Following the Browns' footsteps into Griffith | none other than Chicago’s White Sox. The chief reason for anticipating | & National preparedness during the good a pitcher as he's been since 1933, | thereby furnishing assurance that he’s good enough. In February he had a sore arm. | In April he hurt a finger. A more recent ail- ment was a sprained ankle. All these | combined to make it tough on the feisted on Harris. As late as last month Earl was plowing a so-so course in his four- ing record. with four wins and as @any defeats, and, worse, he had been beolted out of the box three straight ailon to sell the Nationals’ stock a go=d deal shorter than it is likely to be sold now. tory of the season and it's hegmnmg‘ o look as though Harris can count on | Whitey's winning 15 games. He won on Pitching Peak. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. I to find the Washington ball elub (s) in third place again, (b) To achieve a return to third place the Griffs again capitalized on a flop poor Browns. The crisis, as near as can be fore- Stadium comes probably the hottest ball club in the American League— forthcoming days is the fairly definite proof that Earl Whitehill is just as| Rallies After Poor Start. EARL got off to a bad start this year. In March he caught a cold. temperamental southpaw, to say nom_- | ing of the pitching difficulties it | teenth voyage over the Amcncani ZLeague slab seas. He had a .500 pitch- times. People were beginning to worry and, at the time, there was an inclin- | Today Earl, on the strength of three straight wins, holds his seventh vic- No. 7 yesterday, beating the Browns | by a 9-to-3 ccunt Wins Three Games In Row. WHITEHILL started his string in Chicago on June 27, holding the Sox to six hits and winning, 2 to 1. In Philadelphia on July 2 he sco a 4-to-3 triumph by limiting the A’s to eight hits. Pitching in Griffith Sta- dium last week Whitehill was forced to drop out after six innings of toil in | & 104 temperature. The score at the | time was 3-3, so he was not charged with the subsequent defeat. Neither | may the fact that he was taken out ot, the box be held against him because | of both the weather and the incident | that in his last two innings Earl set | down six straight batters. Unless the White Sox go into an unforeseen tailspin before tomorrow it looks as though the Griffs will | need all the pitching they can get, | which makes Whitchill's recent record | particularly gratifying. For one thing, Chicago has represented a lot | of flies in the Nationals' ointment | all season, having won 7 of 11 games. | Secondly, the White Sox will invade with a great road record for the cur- rent trip. Sox Win 6 Out of 7. B‘I TAKING two in a row from the Yankees in New York the Pale Hose now have won six out of their last seven starts and all were against good teams. They started by sweep- ing a three-game series from Cleve- jand. Next, the Dykesmen invaded Boston and grabbed two out of three | ‘before hitting New York and hum- | bling the Ruppert Rifles. Whitehill, according to Harris’ slab | schedule, will be called upon to turn | back the Chicagos in one of the three games. Jimmy De Shong will ‘open the set tomorrow, and in the sec- ond game Pete Appleton will take over Joe Cascarella’s turn and try again to clinch a starting assignment. ‘Whitehill, then, will clean up the series, leaving Buck Newsom, who was ‘to work today, to open the four-game Cleveland series at the end of the ‘week. The Indians’ invasion, too, prom- 1ses to be a trying series for the Griffs. Like the White Sox, Cleveland's Tribe has a big edge over Washington with % wins in 11 games. And. also like the White Sox, the Indians are raising cain on their current trip. Bluege Stars in 9-3 Victory. 'HE Griffs’ victory over the Browns yesterday particularly was sweet fnasmuch as it evened the series, Sent Washington ahead of Boston and provided the medium for getting re- | yenge on Chief Hogsett. The Chief, lti may be recalled, was one of the two | Bt. Louis pitchers to beat Washing- ton this year. For four innings it looked as though ‘Hogsett might repeat. He held a 3-to-1 lead going into the Nationals’ fifth frame, but they began to tee off ‘on Elon. and when the smoke cleared the Washingtons were out in front by 8§ to 3 as a result of a double by Jesse ill. singles by Buddy Lewis, Ben hapman and Cecil Travis, a wild grow by Hogsett, himself, and & big uble by Ossie Bluege. In the sixlth fnning the Griffs clinched the game By scoring three more runs. ", Whitehill was hit freely, the Browns getting 12 blows, but Earl was tough hen men were on base. The 14-hit ashington attack was headed by uege and Chapman, each of whom d perfect days. Old Oss made wr-l’or-rour and was hit on the pants a pitched ball. Chappie made three-for-three and drew a walk. Bluege, like Napoleon brandy, defi- mitely gets better as he grows mel- lower. . ARLINGTONS CHALLENGE. . A diamond for night games is avail- sble to teams wishing to play under arc lights at Ballston, Va., on Wilson ulevard. J. Roy Spitzer, president the Arlington Athletic Association, will arrange details. W Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. St. Louls vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:15. Swimming. ‘Men's junior national diving and District A. A. U. 220-yard free- style championships, Glen Echo pool, 8:30. ‘Tennis. Girls’ playground singles tourna- ment, Chevy Chase, Takoma and Rosedale playgrounds. TOMORROW. Base Ball. Chicago vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Girls' playground singles tour- nament, Chevy Chase, Takoma and Rosedale playgrounds. ‘THURSDAY. Base Ball. Chicago vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. ‘Wrestling. Ernie Dusek, vs. Ivan Managoff, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Tennis. Girls' playground singles tour- nament, Chevy Chase, Takoma and Rosedale playgrounds. FRIDAY. Base Ball. Chicago vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Cleveland vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. SLUMPING YANKS ARE PUT TO TEST Meet Rejuvenated Tigers in; Next Series—Cubs Go to Van as Cards Rest. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR,, Associated Press Sports Writer. HILE it doesn't show in the]: standing — especially if | youre busy watching that furious batle the Cards and Cubs are staging in the National | League—trouble seems to be lurking | Just around the corner for those bludgeoning New York Yankees. Since their stride was broken a week ago by the three-day lay-off for the all-star game, the Yanks have had trouble regaining the form that put them far out in front in the American League. They wound up yesterday with a short count against the White Sox when “silent” John Whitehead held them to five hits for a 6-t0-3 triumph. Counting out their 18-0 rout of | Cleveland, the Yanks have scored only 14 runs in five contests and four of them were homers by Lou Gehrig, | °°8 by | Jack K who apparently won't be stopped by anything. Their opponents tallied | 36 times in those same games. Gehrig Is Carrying On. EHRIG smacked his twenty-fourth | homer of the season yesterday with Red Rolfe on base to account for two of the Yanks' runs as he pulled ahead of Jimmie Foxx to take the ! major league lead. | Just to make the prospect look | darker, the Yanks, starting tomorrow, i have {o take on the Tigers, who are beginning to look like the team that won last year's world series. | Detroit, which has climbed 1r0mi fifth place to second inside of three weeks, hung up its twelfth victory in | 15 starts by routing the Athletics, 5 to | 2, yesterday. Young Roxie Lawson scattered nine Philadelphia hits, while Charley Gehringer led the attack on | Ross and Gumpert with two doubles | ham) and a single, scoring three runs. Cleveland’s Indians moved up to tie | Boston for fourth place by routing the | Red Sox, 11 to 3, while Washington | tightened its hold on third with a 9-3 decision over the Browns. In the senior circuit the woes which | (pe have been besetting the Cardinals| since Dizzy Dean got his head in the| way of a line drive Saturday kept| right on coming even though they had no game scheduled and old Diz | continued to improve. Bruins Win Slab Duel. ‘\mec a pitching duel, the| Cubs defeated the Giants, 1 to 0,| and moved into the lead a few per-| centage points ahead of St. Louis. Big Bill Lee set the Giants down with four hits, while Carl Hubbell gave/ Chicago onply half that number. | Tiny Jim Chaplin of the Bees cele- | brated his twenty-ninth birthday by giving Boston a six-hit pitching job | and a 4-to-1 victory over Pittsburgh’s Pirates, while a heavy hitting barrage |in the fifth and sixth innings drove Bucky Walter to cover and enabled the Reds to defeat the Phillies, 6-4, in other National League games. It was the fifth straight triumph for the Bees and Cincinnati’s second win in eight games. @he Foening Stap Sporls WASHINGTON, DRAWSFIELD OF 11 LEVEN aspiring young men, six national junior men’s high diving U, in which three records already ning's activities, which start at 8:30 the 130-yard medley swim for men indoor and outdoor diving champion. Five of Capital to Seek Crown Tonight—Records Made at Glen Echo. of them hailing all the way from New York City to Colum- bus, Ohio, will plunge after the championship in Glen Echo's crystal pool tonight as the two-day swimming meet, sponsored by the District A. A. have been broken, comes to an end. The competition for the national title, the piece de resistance of an eve- o'clock, will climax preceding events, which include the 60 and 220 yard free style, the 150-yard backstroke and and the 60-yard free style and 120- yard breaststroke for women. While Johnny Broaddus, retired local will return to competition to head the Washington entrants, strong opposi- tion is expected from the following: Fine Field in Dive. of New York, Harry Cranston of Princeton University, Albert Patnik of Columbus, Ohio; Bernie Goldberg of the Baltimore Y. M. H. A, Paul Hines of Louisville, Ky., and Fred Stieber of Towson, Md. Further local touches will be given by the competition of Johnnie Marshall, Gene Davis and George Williams. The latter two will represent the Washington Airport. Only one of the trio of new marks established at the pool last night was credited to a Washington Harvey Deering of the Northeast Boys’ boys' 60-yard free style in the time of 33 seconds flat. The two other records became the possession of out-of-town girls, Mar- garet Russell of Baltimore and Dor- othy Campbell of the Penn A. C. Miss Russell broke her own record in the 180-yard medley swim by 2-5 of a sec- ond, establishing a new time of 2:44.3. to nose out Muriel Campbell of Penn A, C. Bacxstroke Mark Nipped. OROTHY CAMPBELL clipped 1-5 of a second off the 60-yard back- | stroke record, hanging up the new time of 424 in the first heat of the event she later won. In the only title event of the night for women, Rita Augusterfer retained her 220-yard championship, with a time of 3:09.6, beating Ann Bono, local sprint champion, for the honor. Miss Augusterfer was eight seconds behind her own record for the event. Summaries: Boys’ Events. B0-yard free style—Won by Harvey Deering (Northeast Boys' Club): second. E. Blumbers (Baltimore ¥. M. H.'A): third. . E. B. C.). Time. 33 sec- (New pool record.) ard breast stroke—Won by E. Blum- Baltimore Y. LA “second. ramer (Northeast Bovs' Club)., third. H. Zukerbers (Baltimore Y. Time, 45 seconds. Gir 80-yard back Events. oke—Won by Mildred Aronson (Ambassador): second. Gertrude Thennisse1 (Shoreham): third Jean Ar- nold (unattached). Time. 52 seconds flat. Men's Events. 00-yard free style—Won by Robert Jor- dan (Ambassador):_second. William Me- Ginnis (Baltimore Y_ M. C. A third. J. Riesser (York. Pa.. Y. M. C. A). Time. 49 8 seconds. 120-vard breast stroke—Won by Y. M. C. A Y. M. C. A): Spaneler (York. Pa ond. Knox Moncure | Harry Nielson (N. E. B. C)). Time_ 1:10R 440-vard free stvle—Won by D. Adler (Baltimore Y. M. H. A): second. William Stephenson _(Washineton _Canee _Club): third. 1. Sowbel (Baltimore Y. M. H. A. Time 6128 180-yard medlev relay—Won by Yor Pa. Y. M. C. A._(Rieser. Spaneler. Sch berle):_second. Baltimore Y. M. H._ A third. Washinston Jr. Y. M. C. A. Time, R. ‘Women's Events, 200-yard_free style—Won by Rita Au- gusterfer (Shoreham): second. Ann_Bono (Shorehsm): third. Leonora Taube (Shore- e, 3:09.6. (District A. A. U. am). Time. champlonshin.) 60-vard back stroke—Won Campbell (Penn A. C.. Philadel ond. Florence Farwell (Shoreham) 0 Muriel Campbell (Penn A. C.). " Time. 43.4 seconds. (Miss Campbell set a new D00l record of 424 in her hest: former d. 43 seconds, held by Dorothy Forbes of Camden. N. J.) 90-yard free style—Won by Ann Bono (Shoreham): ' second. Dorothy Campbell C.): third' Ann Aronson (Am- Time, 1:02.4. 180-yard ~medles—Won by Margaret Russell (Baltimore): second. Murlel Camp- 11 (Penn >): third. Leonora Taul (Shoreham) me. 2:44.3. (New Dool record: former record. 2:45. held by Miss Russeli.) Penn A bassador). Minor Leagues International. Buffalo, 7; Albany, 6. Toronto, 5; Baltimore, 4. Rochester, 14; Syracuse, 13. American Asscciation. Minnezpolis, 9; Louisville, 6. St. Paul, 7; Toledo, 6. Milwaukee, 4; Columbus, 3. Kanses City, 4; Indianapolis, 3. Southern Association. Birmingham, 7; Atlanta, 3. New Orleans, 7; Knoxville, 2. Piedmont. Richmond, 12; Rocky Mount, 6. Norfolk, 4; Asheville, 0. Durham-Portsmouth, wet grounds. Texas. All games postponed, rain. OHN TUOMI and Carlos Fernandi | entrant. | Club raced to a new record in the | D. C, MARGARET RUSSELL Of Baltimore, stroking her way to the 100-yard medley title. Her time, 2:44%s, is a new record for the pool. | | | | | Bolsters Club—Durocher Also Is Developing. | HICAGO, July 14.—National League pitchers cannot make Jurges, the Cub shortstop. In five previous campaigns with the brother at the plate. He batted .269 back in 1933, but his lifetime per- ! and whenever William approached the | plate, a pitcher well could figure he Jurges suffered an arm injury early | this season and was out for quite & fleld, Bill began bashing the day- lights out of the ball and shows no rate him with a .307 percentage and he's getting his hits in the pinches. ito do with the Cubs’ solid charge for | first place in the National pennant New-Found Batting Power | BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. out what has come over Bill Bruins, Jurges always was a weak centage in the National is only .245, | was out of danger. run of games. On returning to the |sign of letting up. Recent averages 1 Jurges’ new brand of hitting has a lot | race. Jurges Flash Afield. EV!N as a .245 batter, Jurges was one of the Cubs’ most valuable cogs. There’s no shortstop in the business who can outfield him; not even Lippy Durocher of the Cardi- nals, who is a sweet fielding machine. Jurges has a stronger arm than the St. Louis star and some of his throws from deep short and when out of po- sition are nothing short of miracu- |lous. Bill has no equal in traveling | to his right. ‘When Jurges was injured this Spring | | the club medico declared he might be out for the season. But not William; | his bones are of tough material and | | he's not only as good as ever, he’s | better. | Jurges and Billy Herman undoubt- | edly form the best second-base com- | bination in the big leagues. Herman | {1s a fast, handy fielder, who covers {an immense amount of ground. | Smooth on a pivot, he handles Jurges’ heavy throws with superlative skill, and the pair are responsible for the majority of Chicago's double plays. | | Herman Handy With Bat. HE’RMAN is having a grand season at the plate, and is leading the | league in doubles. All of which keeps wrinkles from the noble brow of Charles John Grimm. Durocher, by the way, also is having a grand Summer at batting. For eight seasons, Leo was kept in -the | majors by his fielding and when with | the Yankees on the American League | side he generally was known as the all-America out. For a considerable time this season, Durocher was over the .300 line and is hitting a .290 pace at the moment. You don't account for the increased batting power of Jurges and Du- | rocher any more than for the im- | provement of Dolph Camilli, the Philly first baseman. Chicago swapped Camilli because he could not supply the batting punch Charlie Grimm | wanted at first base and last year he did only .261 in the Phillies’ Tomi Thumb Park. This season, Camilli began hitting | with unexpected ferocity and there has been no slump in his work. His .356 average makes him top man among National League regulars and many of his hits have been for extra bases. Giants Could Use Camilli. PERHAPS Camilli has just adjusted | his sights to the short fences of Baker Bowl, but it is just as likely the Cubs quit on him too soon, and that only now he is coming into his real stride. At any rate, Camilli with his smooth fielding and newly found bat- ting power would be a distinct asset on the Cub infield. TUESDAY, JULY 14, * Of the Northeast Boys Club, who handily accounted for the 60-yard free stroke race for boys. |the Randalls Island meet. |money is raised, the women'’s swim- 1936. ]UNmR ]T"_E DIVE They Swim to Championships in A. A. U. Meet at Glen Eo HARVEY DEERING | | —Star Staff Photos. “CRUTCHES” FAIL 10 SLOW GrlISOX Feasts on Tribe, Bosox and Yankees in Capturing 8 of Last 11 Tilts. BY the Assoctated Press. HICAGO, July 14—Presenting the Chicago White Sox play- ( ers, direction of James Jo- seph Dykes, in a new skit | entitled “Don’t Let Our Crutches Fool You.” The White Sox troupe, by all rules and regulations, should be giving a very bad performance at this date on base ball's American League stage. A team which originally fig- ured to be none too good amnd then ran into one bad break after another in the form of injuries has no busi- ness embarrassing such clubs as the league-leading New York Yankees. Sock Leading Teams. UT that is what Director Dykes | and his crew of cripples have been doing for the past 10 days, in which | they won exactly 8 out of 11 starts, including two out of three games from the haughty New York club. Start- ing on July 3, the Sox took four out of five games from Cleveland, two out of three from Boston's Gold Plates | and then hooked the series from the Ruppert Rifles at Yankee Stadium. Consider some of the blows the scrappy Sox have taken this season: “Mule” Haas suffered a fractured finger, a charley horse and was hit by a pitched ball; Luke Appling was out of several games with an injured leg, as Mike Kreevich is now; Dyke hurt his leg, and the reserve who took his place, Joe Morrissey, suffered a broken jaw when hit by a ball; Larry Rosenthal was purchased from St. Paul and then was forced out with a leg injury; Ray (Rip) Radcliff crashed into a wall and was forced out for a time. Radcliff Comes to Life, UT individually, as well as col- lectively, the Sox haven't stayed down after those breaks. Appling is among the league’s leading hitters, while Radcliff, who warmed the bench last May and almost despaired of ever getting a regular job, is hitting .378, just six points behind league-leading Lou Gehrig of New York. Before the season started Dykes promised he'd have a club that would make trouble for every other outfit in the league. If his crew keeps going it's a cinch to win the 1936 “giant killer” award. SANITARY’S HURLER GOOD. Kissinger pitched good ball yester- day as hic Sanitary Grocery nine stopped the Police Boys’ Club, 5—3. Randalls Island Standards All U. S. Needs at Berlin Owens Is Standout Performer—High Jump Thrills—Towns Clings to Tattered Track Pants. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 14.—Ber- lin is the next stop . . . all we ask of our American track and flelders is that they do their stuff as they did in the final Olympic trials at Ran- dalls Island . . . they won't come home empty-handed if they do . . . records fell just like that as the boys hitched up their trousers and went after that boat ride. Jesse Owens, Ohio State's great Negro athlete, goes down in this book as the meet's outstanding in- dividual performer . . . he rang up his daily double by capturing both the 100-mster dash and the broad jump . . . then made it a triple next day in the 200 . . . Califor- nians were all over the place .., 6 they swept through the pole vault, then bagged the first four places in the 400-meter run . . . It will be a long time before these lads sing “California, Here I Come” nd then it probably will be in German. ‘Two other Negro lads, Dave Al- britton of Ohio State and Carne- lius Johnson of Compton Junior College, gave this corner its big moment . . . all they did was to collaborate in a tie for & new high jump mark . . . first the lanky Johnson cleared the bar at 6 feet 9% inches—higher than any man ever before had leaped . . . but his administration as a world champ was short, if sweet , . . they were not through patting him on the back when along came Albritton to duplicate the record-shattering (\ feat . . . both later tried it at 6 feet 10% inches, but it was no dice. As the athletes were being ferried across to the island from Manhat- tan, onz competitor wisecracked: “Well, boys, here’s one boat ride we get, anyway.” . Glenn Cun- ningham and Archie San Romani put on & red hot finish in the final of the 1,500 meters, which the Kan- sas veteran won by 6 inches. ., , Forrest (Spec) Towns, the hur- dling star from Georgia, furnished the color . .. he came to New York with a rabbit's foot, presented by a freshman admirer . . . kept it with him, too . .. Also, he would run in nothing but the same pair of tattered and unwashed track pants he has been wearing since the Sugar Bow] games last January .. . A [y “I'll wear 'em in Berlin, too,” he promised . . . Well, he had better take along plenty of safety pins ... Weems Baskin, Towns’ coach, says he will be doing the 110-yard hur- dles in 13.9 before he leaves school. Fritz Pollard, jr., of North Da- kota U, who wound up right be- hind Towns in the hurdles, is the son of Brown’s famous Negro all- America halfback of 20 years -ago . . . the kid not only goes to town on a cinder track, but is quite a foot baller . .. in one traek meet this year he turned in five firsts— high and low hurdles, broad jump and pole vault . . . It took so long to get through the traffic conges- tion after the Randalls Island meet,’ some of the athletes were afraid they would miss ‘s boat. { Mid-Summer Daze. mad American League flag chase, when the winning hab- its of the Cleveland Indians on the road would have been an event. Now the victorious Eastern invasion of the Tribe seems to be quite natural. | What isn't upside-down in Will Har- ridges circuit? Out at Griffith Stadium, for exam- ple, you find the Nationals reaching | for second place in the team standing i and the guy who was supposed to bz Clark Griffith’s best ball player, Buddy | Myer, hasn't been helping a lick. Ably plugging the gap vyou find Ossie Bluege. Everybody- knew Ossie would field, but who expected him to be one of the club’s batting leaders? worth of base ball talent poised for a leap into the second division. In Philadelphia you are stunned to dis- cover that Connie Mack's collection of cast-offs, has-beens, collegians and fugitive plowboys actually are out- recent years. In New York you find what was supposed to be the best pitching staff in the league a riddled corps of guys who can’t go nine innings. Also a batting attack, on which was | blamed Yankee failings for three years, has ruthlessly murdered rival pitching and kept the McCarthymen at the top. I DOUBT whether weeping with base ball club owners ever will become | & popular American sport, but if it is possible to muster widespread sym- pathy for these august gents, it would seem that now the time is ripe. Let's go back to Buddy Myer. Last year he won the American League bat- ting championship and all base ball cast covetous eyes on him. Jake Rup- pert of the Yanks openly came out during the Winter meeting and made So Myer Remained Here. | Lazzeri, for him. Several obstacles were in Grifftn's path. First, the Old Fox was rebuilding and he wanted to make sure his nucleus was a good ball player. Thus was Myer nominated to fill the bill. Secondly, he may have feared vio- lent reaction on the part of Capital fans, especially if the Yanks breezed the reason why he pinned the prepos- terous price tag of $500,000 on Buddy. Think of how Griff would be sit- ting if he sold Myer to Ruppert, who seemed willing to give $250,000. Buddy has been ailing since the season opened. There's no telling when he'll get back into the line-up. And, with- out Lazzeri, where would New York have been? And Griff Eyed Solters CONSIDER. if you please, the case of Outfielder Julius Solters of the Browns. When Solters was traded to St. Louis by Boston and began to hit, Rogers Hornsby was hailed as a genius. At the close of the season there were plenty of bidders for the big Hunga- rian. Among them was Griffith, who vainly used his wiles on Hornsby last Winter in an attempt to lure him away. Today Solters’ value has dropped to almost nothing. There are a lot of 270 hitting cutfielders in base ball. Connie Mack was more fortunate in unloading talent at the right time. In 1935 Roger Cramer was the best cen- ter fielder in base ball and astute dia- I "POPPING OF‘F" i tan HERE was a time, earlier in this | | Up in Boston vou find $2,000,000 | drawing the mightier Athletic team of | an astounding offer of cash, plus Tony | home with the flag. That's part of | N | \ mond folk thought highly of Johnny | Marcum. They haven't done much to earn their pay with the Red Sox, much | ssee less to pay dividends on the wads Tom | Yawkey turned over to Mack. Connie, however, didn't get all gravy. Pinky Higgins had a big price | tag on him and it's considerably lower | now. Ditto for Bob Johnson. Then There Was Linke. As LATE as April 15 you would | have wagered that Washington | had one of the truly up-and-coming pitchers in the league in roly-poly | Eddie Linke. He finished the 1935 | campaign with eight straight victories and Griff and Bucky Harris enjoyed looking forward to Linke's conquests while they played pinochle throughout the Winter. | Nothing happened in Spring train- ing to disturb the belief that Linke would be a winner. Griff and Bucky hinted that Ed would be the ace of | the Nationals' pitching staff. Harris once entertained the idea of starting | Linke in the opening game. There was no way of knowing what was to follow. What did follow, of course, is too recent to bear much repeti- tion. Linke won only a single game and that as a relief pitcher. He couldn’t start and he couldn’t finish games. ‘When June 15 and the trading dead- {line rolled around he was offered to the Browns and Hornsby didn't even want him. So he was shipped to Chattanooga and another bubble was blasted. Any day now you might expect Griff to send Ossie Bluege to Chattanooga for more seasoning or Connie Mack to buy a ball player from Tom Yawkey. . League Satistics TUESDAY. JULY 14. 1936. American RISULTS YESTERDAY. Washington, 9: St. Louis, 3. ghiea Ve bk e L, : SLO) _lzeuulz Philld!lh“ | | | -~ pu¥[IAID. 01190 Z-2i0% aN uosuIsEA - oaworuy wjudrapenud GAME! :15.Chi. at Wash., 3:15. on. Detroit at New York. Detroit at Phila. Cleveland at Boston. Only games scheduled. St. Louls at Phila. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. n't:'bymfi 5 6: Phfin‘delnhll‘ 4. hedule 3 a wudppenud| & =) onl = | - s -~ penumpud. 130016 =) Pit | cinl GAMES TOMORROW. York at Chicago.New York at_Pitts, New 8t. Louis. Chi ‘Boston at Pittsburgh. Phila. at Br yn Boston TODAY BASEBALL A% Washington vs. St. Louis AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK l Temorrow—Chicase 3:15 ».m. Balanced @ BIG YANKEE TEAW SAILS TOMORROW Girls of Swimming, Track Squads in Last-Minute Drive for Funds. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 14.—The United States Olympic budget was virtually balanced foday, and the largest team Uncle Sam ever sent to the games was ready to sail tomorrow for Hamburg Around 375 athletes, their trials finished, their bags packed, their dol- lars transferred into German marks, were looking longingly at the Liner Manhattan. The passage of all these athletes may not be paid when the liner safls, but it will be by the time the ship touches shore again. The cash on hand today was $21,447.57 short of the amount needed to pay the ex- penses of the American group, but re- ceipts from the final track and field trials at Randall's Island last week end have not been counted. They arec estimated at $25,000. Gustavus T. Kirby, treasurer of the American Olympic Committee, gave the members of three of Uncle Sam's teams a restless night last night. He found that the field hockey team still needed $3,223; the women's swimming team, $3,500, and the wom- en’s track team, $3,328. Must Pay Up—Or Else. HE INSTRUCTED the officlals of these teams to come up with thosc amounts by noon or cut their squads. Half a field hockey team is no good, so the boys on this outfit offered to give a note to the committee for the full amount. Kirby would not accept it. They then went hunting for some one whose name would assure & loan | from a New York bank. ‘The fate of the other two teams de- | pended principally on their ingenuity and the size of the gate receipts from It this ming team will have 17 members. it is not, only 10 will go. Though the committee’s immediate concern is in getting the best and th> most athletes possible on the Man- hattan, it also has to concentrate on raising about $50,000 to pay the run- ning expenses of the Olympic Com- mittee and the committee’s $25.000 obligation to the permanent America: Olympic Association. Kirby would like to take in enouc! money to pay the boys who had to ¢ into their pockets to finance their ov way to Berlin. It Torrance Too Heavy. NOTHER Olympic subcommitt is working on details of housin the team on shipboard. Several rule were set down. First, there will be 110 o'clock curfew; second, there wil be the closest scrutiny of the ath- letes’ food: third, there will be a much deck walking as possible. The weight of Jack Torrance, th- policeman from Baton Rouge, La.. i causing more concern than anyth: else from the coaches’ viewpoint. The big fellow weighs 325 pounds and is not in the best form. ‘When he was well below this mark in the Spring. he was pushing th shot around 55 feet, but he missed this considerably in the finals Sunday. Officiaigcor WASHINGTON. HUL M, Lewis | Kuhel | Chapman, Travis. rf._ R. 31, is DR o LW RO T ° Sras333020> & ary, Clift Salter: Bell. West Bottom Hem rf Care: Hogs Kimbe tPepper | Totals 37 3 tBatted for Hogsett in eigh St. Louis___. Washington e L L th, 110 010 000— 101 043 01x— ns batt Whitehill. We il hapr Y to Washington. 11. Bases ett. 4: off Kimberlin. Struck out—By Hogsr balls—off H off Whitehill ¥ 'y < {Bluege). ‘Winning pitcher—Whiteh: | Losing pitcher—Hogsett. Umpires—Mexs | Quinn. 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