Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1936, Page 10

@he Foening Staf Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936. Bucky l?esperate F igliting Slump : Ideas Differ on All-Time Nine MYER RETURNING, BLUFGE TO SHORT Shake-up Follows Griffmen’s Worst Beating of Year. Sox Sweep Series. l days ago was regarded far and wide as a surprising pennant contender moved for a three- game series that will wind up the cur- BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HE wreckage of what only a few sight Manager Bucky Harris surveyed as Cleveland’s second-place gent home stand. Hurled back to the very brink of | gixtia place by their worst beating n® the season, ihc Guviously need a near-miracle to pull them out of a slump that enabled the White Sox to run roughshod in three straight games and bid for fifth place. The pitching, as a whole, seems well shot. The batting attack, generally speaking, has been meaningless. The defense now has reached a stage where it borders on Three-Eye League speed. Casting about today for ingredients to shake up the club, Harris has an- ncunced that Capt. Buddy Myer will return to the line-up for the first time | since June 3 and that Shortstop Red | Kress will be benched temporarily. Ossie Bluege was to move over to short today. It isn’t much of a shake-up and its possibilities are doubtful. place Myer merely agreed to play, when asked. He did not volunteer end it is doubtful if Buddy is in shape to last a full game. The whole idea seems to be a matter of experimenting | to see if Myer’s presence in the line-up will have any effect on the club. Something must be found to affect the Griffmen. White Sox Are Merciless. 'HE 16-to-5 trimming the White Sox . rammed down the Nats’ throats yesterday to sweep the series was a merciless thing that gnawed to the | very innards of the Griffith A. C. No club could be as bad as Washington tas yesterday and be rated a big- Jeague outfit. The Griffs really aren’t # terrible, either, but unless they snap out of it shortly they are doomed. As they stand today the White Sox wrc the better ball club. That was | Chicago’s tenth victory in 14 games | &gainst Washington and while the Dykesmen probably aren’t that much better than the Nats the fact remains | that they are charging upward and the Jocal athletes are slipping downward. “Chicago now is only a game behind the Nats and while the Sox today were in Philadelphia the Harrismen face the uninviting prospect of meeting the Indians today and twice tomorrow. For his pitching Bucky has Buck | Newsom ready. After him Harris probably will choose from among ¥rankie Baxter, the club house maestro; any sandlotter who is spotted | he stands, and Phil Furr. Soft music, professor. ‘Whitehill, Cohen Soundly Walloped. VERYTHING about yesterday’s debacle was a joke except the | lay the White Sox slugged the ball. 'A 21-year-old rookie southpaw from | Keokuk, one Ttalo Chelini, breezed the youte for the Chicagoes and won his second victory in a row over the Griffs. He limited Washington to 11 hits, 6 in the last three innings when he could have drop-kicked the ball | up to the plate and won. The Sox blasted Earl Whitehill #om the start and made merry with his immediate successor, Rookie Syd Cohen. When the smoke had cleared the Chicagoes held a 14-to-1 lead at $he end of the fourth inning. Pete WAppleton came in the box to finish the game in creditable fashion but, po what? Behind Messrs. Whitehill, Cohen and Appleton the Nationals made an error for every run they counted— five. Ossie Bluege, of all people, was oharged with two errors in the space @ 60 seconds. They were his first boots since he took over second base n June 3, which might give some lea of how this crack-up is spreading. Kress booted a couple of balls to bring his total of errors for the last 20 games to 15. Cecil Travis, in right feld, gave a swell imitation of a beer- giddy Elk in the annual picnic game. ’'Nooga Pitchers to Be Scouted. /JF, WHEN and how it ends is some- thing that's purely a matter of conjecture. The Washington club, humiliated as it stood on the thresh- hold to second place, now faces its scid test, an exam that will test every heart hidden by a Griffith A. C. uni- form. If it cannot come back Owner Clark Griffith has intimated that ex- perimenting might be in order with & view to next year. When the Nationals leave for their third Western trip next week Griffith will leave for Chattanooga to Yook over what the Lookouts are showing in the box. Advance reports are not highly colored but Griff may take a fiyer on one or two slabmen rather than continue to swallow the kind of throwing his present pitchers are per- * petrating. Support or no support, there is lit- tle exCuse for pitchers getting their ears pinned back to the extent of ellowing the opposition to make a dozen hits in the first three innings. was the unlovely | In the first | 3 Stirring Bit of Action as Polo Tourney Gets Under Way in Capital | | In mad pursuit of the ball, two Maryland players (center), flanked by a pair of Cavalrymen, here are seen staging a rally that helped thrill a sizable throng at Potomac Park yesterday as the Southeastern tournament got under way. The Fort Myer outfit, known as the Cavalry Yellows, triumphed by a count of 13 to 5. The tournament continues today with a double-header, War Department vs. Cavalry and Quantico vs. Field Artillery. Star Staff Photo, YANKEES, GIANTS TIESWATRECORDS | |Bottomley to Retire—Stu | Martin, Al Simmons IIl. | Diz Saves Cardinals. | BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HILE the relative slugging ] merits of the 1927 Yankees | and the current murderers’ | row remain a choice point | for argument, no ore can deny that | the present pounding outfit comes close to being as great as the previous collection. | "In a day that saw headline de- | velopments on nearly every big league | diamond, the 1936 homicide squad equaled an American League home run record and set an assortment of other marks yesterday with a 9-to-4 the world champions down to fourth place in the American League. In other big league sectors, the New York Giants also did some record equaling; the St. Louis Browns in par- ticular, and the base ball world in general, learned that “Sunny Jim” Bottomiey planned to retire in a few days: Rookie Stu Martin of the Car- fdinals and Veteran Al Simmons of the Tigers were laid up with stomach ailments. Dizzy Dean, with only 24 hours’ and not yet recovered from a week- old injury. saved the Cardinals from their third straight defeat, and the gold-plated Boston Red Sox moved into third place in the American League. Three Homers in One Round. ED ROLFE, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey poled out homers in the third . inning of the Yanks-Tigers game to equal the league record for homers in one inning, set by the Senators in 1902, but equaied several times since. ‘The performance brought the Yanks' homer total for the season to over 100, making them the only club in the big leagues to turn that trick 12 times in a row—from 1925 through 1936—and 15 times in its caree® Joe Moore, Mel Ott, Hank Leiber three-baggers in the first inning against the Pirates to deadlock the one frame. Defeated the Pirates, 6-0, as Carl Hubbell, in top-flight form for the first time in a month, allowed only five hits. Bottomley, who has a strained back and $100,000, chose Boston to an- nounce he would take care of the for- mer and live on the latter at the end of the Browns’ current road trip. His announcement, ending a 14-year first-basing career, came as the Browns were dropping a 2-1 decision to the Red Sox on Jimmy Foxx’s two-run single with the bases loaded in the ninth. Stu Martin, sensational Cardinal rookie, went to a hospital with acute indigestion and Manager Frankie Frisch went to second base. conquest of the Tigers, which sent“ rest from his last pitching assignment | and Ed Mayo of the Giants belted | National League mark for triples in | Official Score CHICAGO. RHO A !-:‘ | Radent. It 3 e n’ 0 0| 1 ol Dyvios 0 Sewell 35 0 Chelini, . 0 ' Totals XRan for Kreevich | WASHINGTON. | Hill, 1t ]‘Ll‘ul( ib ==t szmD % Kuhel 1b. Chapman. cf. Travis, rf. b, Millies. ¢ | Whiteninl Cohen. p Avpleton | zReynolds 22092 ! tted for Appleton in ninth Chicago ______ - 318 200 020—16 Washington __ ~ 100 000 112— 5 Runs batted in—Bonura. Appling (4). | Chapman. Radcliff (). Rosenthal, Sewell. | Hill._Kuhel, ~Reynolds, Lewis. s _Kreevich, Kuhel. Radeliff. s.__Three-base hits—Appling, Rosen- Home run—Kuhel. Sacrifice—Rosen- Eo- | {t on bases—Chicago. 12: Washingt Pirst base on_balls—Off Chelini. K T Whitekill. 4: off Cohen, Struck ot Appleton, oft — Whitehill Ormsby and Geisel, Time- .- Batting Leader’s Edge to Two Points. EW YORK, July 18 (#).—An- | major league batting races this | | week, with only the leaders, Lou Gehrig of the Yanks and Paul turnover in both loops. Gehrig, found his American League lead endangesed for the first time in than five safe blows in 23 times at bat, to lose 13 percentage points and drop to 377, while Rip Radcliff of the White |Slashes American League other shake-up featured the Waner of the Pirates, escaping the weeks. He was unable to get more Sox came up from fourth with .375. ‘Warner Increases Margin. ANER hit at a near .500 pace, get- ting a dozen safeties in 26 times up to increase his lead with a .364 average, clouter, came back and took second place with .358. The leading 10 in each league: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Sullivan, Cleveland- Beil. 8t. Lou Di Maggio. N. York 6 Trosky, Cleveland. - NA’I'IDNAL _LEAGUE. jedraner, Pittsb'gh 77 308 ick. ' St. Louis 341 Bosto: Scarsella, J ! march, along with the Cleveland and | brushes bearing the Legion emblem. | Ducky Medwick, Cardinal & AMERIGAN LEGION HONORING LEWIS Big Turnout Planned Today for Youngest Griffman Ever Singled Out. OHN (BUDDY) LEWIS, 19-year- | old third baseman of the Na- ticnals, today was to become ' the youngest Washington ball player to have a “day”. The American Legion, sponsor of the annual base ball tournament that pro- duced Lewis, was to honor the rising | young star in ceremonies to be con-| ducted before the Griffmen and Cleve- | land Indians oppose in the opener of a three-game series. Shortly before the Tribe and Nats were to take the field, a parade of four | junior Legion teams and led by a| band and three drum and bugle corps were to form at home plate and ‘Washington clubs, to the flagpole in center field. Lewis then was to be presented with a set of military Comdr. Joseph J. Malloy was to maks the presentation on behalf of the| Legion. Prior to the Lewis day ceremony, eams representing the Police Post and the Nash Post were to play a game a’, Griffith Stadium, starting at 12 o'clock. Lewis got his start in base.ball while playing with the American Legion | team of Gastonia, N. C. A delegation of fans from his home town, as w! as his parents, were expected to W ness the youngster's big day. Griffs’ Records BATT'\G. AB. = '!1 3b HR Rbl Pct. W cesosem £ PITCHING. H.B.B. 5. s 20 oo 80 3 e o € SERES-m o oy It 3030 1 \ son Griff will put the craft in drydock ‘IN the 16-to-5 debacle committed 1| frankest X-ray sort of an examination LARK GRIFFITH'S dream of | ( electrifying the realm of base | ball with a bargain-counter | aggregation seems to be in a| fair way of being gpoiled. The good ship Washington is springing leaks | and listing. The water is fast rush- ing into the hold. Nobody is taking to the lifeboats yet but you know what will happen if the Nationals sink | much more. At the end of the snu and start making repairs. Recounting the disappointments Griff finds several more bitter than the case of Cecil Travis. The 22-year- ! old Georgian, he wants it understood, | still has his faith and it's pretty cer- tain that regardless of what may hap- | pen to the Washington ball club Travis | will have a job when the 1937 season rolls around. The question, though, is where Travis is best fitted to play when it's the other team’s turn to come to bat. Not even Griff is ready to answcr that question but in case anybody is worrying it might be interesting to hear that Ye Olde Foxe has not given up hope on Travis developing into as | fine a defensive player as he is an offensive threat—or figures to be. Griff Pleads His Case. yesterday at Griffith Stadium the rangy Dixie lad was subjected to the to be focused on him since he became an outfielder. Out of the 45 balls of assorted potency that were slapped back at the Nats by the White Sox in | the rout, enough went into right field to disclose that Travis has marked deficiencies in what base ball men call “breaking”. It wasn't an impressive per- formance Travis gave, by any means, but neither was it any- thing as serious as some critics are wont to paint it, according to Griff. For those who may be unfamiliar League Statistics | make a better shortstop., SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936. American RISULTS YESTERDAY. Qhicago. 16; Washington. G. ¥ fork. 9; Detrol l"mhdtbhu. 1. [t R RS oo e RS RSk PO TN HoHoRan ©o0omHNE s ©050uHHS ot WOWSHN - Srcn-ian 1 *Released. HOMER STANDING. By the Associated Press. Yesterday's homers — Goslin, Tigers, 2; Gehringer, Lazzeri, Rolfe, Gehrig and Dickey, Yanks; Hale, Indians; Kuhel, Senators; Berger, Bees, and Mize, Cardinals, one each. 8t.” Louis, I g ~SIMoT 18 g B (560§ nosuusEA | -e8wjuedIag. ST LECIO LW T P 1 71 6| 1\50!"fl\fl07l o Clel 4/—I 0 41 7| 6| 8/ D1471381.553] 9% Bosl_3 51— 71 510/ 8/ 9|471401.540110% Det| 5 51 5/—I_7I_81101 5145130 536111 |-~ uojsom 2 2| The leaders—Foxx, Red Sox, 26; Gehrig, Yanks, 25; Trosky, Ine dians, 22; Dickey, Yanks, 18; Ott, Giants, 17. * Dime-a-Dozen Bees Pressing Gold-Plated Red Sox Yawkey’s Club Drawing Poorly—Olympic Body Finds Venzke’s “Pro” Check Acceptable. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, July 18.—Hot tip: Don't sell those Detroit Tigers short. ); Suppose you noticed that the Boston Bees, who didn't cost a dime, are almost even with the gold-plated Red Sox in the stand- ings . . . Mebee that explains why the Sox are playing to congrega- tions of 2,500 and 3,000. Is this one for the W. K. book, or 't it? . . . Some time ago Gene Venzke, the runner, wrote a maga- zine piece for which he received $400 ... the A. A. U. told Gene if he accepted the check he would be ruled a pro .. . Now, according to a Philadelphia story, Gene, at the suggestion of Dan Ferris, secretary of the A. A. U, has turned the check over to the Olympic fund . ., what we'd like to know is this: If the check made Gene a pro, what does it make Ferris? . . . Confine your answers to 50 words, please. Boston papers say the fans there are riding Jimmy Foxx because he looks too pleasant after failing to deliver at the plate . . . They want him to snarl, spit terbaccer juice plumb across the field, hurl his bat \ at the dugout and shake his fist at the umpire . . . and in 100-degree weather, too! Tom Yawkey has definitely made up his mind that he can’t buy a penpant and will go on no more spending sprees next Winter . . . Not that we want to throw cold water on the well-laid plans of some of his brother magnates, but those are the facts. Smooth sailing: ing: Porrest Towns, the Georgia hurdler, doesn’t get hot until he’s three hurdles from home . .. Then he turns on the juice and goes to town . , . Rival coaches blasted Kitty Rawls, the Miami eye- full, for entering (and winning) so many swim events, thereby knocking other deserving gals out of a trip across the pond. The wise boys certainly called the turn in the 1,500-meter run—Gene Venzke was counted out as early as 1st Friday and Bill Bonthron’s old coach, Matty Geis of Princeton, thought so little of Bill's chances he didn’t even attend the trials «..ouch! Jack Medica, the swim- mer, will retire immediately after the Olympics and start looking for 8 job. 5L 21 11 51561.300129% 120139 40140163156 —1—1__| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. S{ev! at Wash.. 3:00. Cleve at Wash., 1:30. Louls at N, t Ne ¢ York. Shii- 3t Phila (2. Ghic Beliolt at Boiton,” Detrolt st Bovion. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York, 6: Pittsbu: Brool . lekn"flfl 5, Cincinnati, 3. B e 5 HB 8| El H Ohil—1_3| 41 6] 8(12| 7\11I51l30\!\80l___ StL_6I—[ 1 6/ 9( 4/12] 6/511321.614] 1 Pit| 5| 41— b1 51" 7| 9] 9/441391.530 8 Cinl 6/ 5| 4i—1| 5I_3|_7111141|391.513] 9% NYI 61 5111 4I—I 61 7 bl431411.512( 9% Bos| 31 6] 6[11] bI—I 3| 6/40/441.476/12% Phil_2| 4] 41 41 3| 8I—| 7/321501.390/119%5 BEll 3| 5| 1| 41 6] 41 5I—I28I551.337124 _ L._130132|39139/41144150/85|—I—I| ) GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. York AI Cincl. m- !ork at B PAE n Touls s 4RO, . » p5) a third baseman. He played two sea- | | sons at third but when the current season was in its embryonic stage 1t was decided that maybe Travis would | After sev- | eral weeks at short he was moved to right field. Now. because he isn't a Speaker afield, there has been heard the baying of the wolves. Goose Once in Same Boat. play right field,” speaks up Griff. “But even if I were sold on the theory 1 wouldn't give up on Travis. Shucks for all we know, left fleld may be Travis' real position and we haven't| realized it yet. “Remember when he was put in left field at the close of last season? Well he looked great out there and left fleld in the Washington park is the toughest in the league toward the end of the Summer. It's hard to play any time on account of the sun but in Au- gust a left fielder gets the sun directly in his eyes so much earlier in a game. Yet, in spite of thi Travis looked like a high-class outfielder. “There are plenty of cases similar to Travis. How about Goose Gos- lin? When he joined the Washington | | club he was & bad right fielder, 50| | equally hopeless. CAVALRY BOOSTS D. C. POLO STOCK Fort Myer Malleters Ring Up Smashing Victory Over Star Maryland Four. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. | HE stock of local mallet wielders I in the Southeastern polo tour- nament soared dizzily yester- day when a perfectly co-ordi- nated quartet from the 3d Ca\a!r\ of | Fort Myer handed out a first-class lacing to the highly touted Maryland Polo Club four on Potomac Park Field. | Away winging from the first toss-in, the cavalrymen never slackened their chavge until the final bell, when the tall# board read 13-5 in their favor. \o first period alone they piled three goals on top of the single counter | allowed them by handicap ratings and from then on they galloped and hit circles around the visiting combina- tion headed by Cyril Harrison, the in- | ternational star whose 7 goals bespeak a mighty slugger in the realm of mounted swat. Harrison found little | support from his teammates in the crucial moments of the match yester- day. Playing at No. 3 and attempting | more or less to mobilize himself into a one-man defense against the cavalry onslaught, he consistently fed forward to his colleagues, only to have the | passes muffed or disregarded. His efforts to block the local attack were Opening Rush Effective. | 'HE opening rush of the Fort Myer horsemen seemed to stun their op- | otherwise. MODERNS APPEAL TOPILOT MCARTHY ‘Mathewson, Johnson, Grove, Waddell Are Hurlers on Composite Team. EW YORK, July 18.—We were spieling about all-time all- star base ball teams. I guess there is a strong undercurrent dustry, because, sooner or later, in any gathering of base ball mugs, the talk swings around to all-star teams. You can’t get a nickel's worth of some class to it, like the League of Nations or the constitutional inter- pretations of the Supreme Court. Anyway, we came up with the fol- Gehrig, first base. Gehringer, second base. Wagner, shortstop. ‘Traynor, third base. Speaker, oytfield. Cobb, outfield. Hartnett, catcher. Bresnahan, catcher. Cochrane, catcher. Mathewson, pitcher. Johnson, pitcher. Grove, pitcher. BY JOHN LARDNER. of feeble-mindedness in the ivory in- conversation on a topic that has lowing composite line-up: Ruth, outfield. Schalk, catcher. ‘Waddell, pitcher. Every One has Favorites. I CALL this a “composite” line-up. because every one had ideas of his own and it was only after con- siderable bickering. shouting, ing and threats of jamming those words down somebody’s throat that we reached a comprmoise ticket. Your correspondent practically was shut out at the polls, landing only one of his own personal nominees on the party slate. You will detect a strong note of modernity in the infield listed ahove. That’s the fault of Mr. Joe McCar- curs- | thy, the scholarly manager of the New York Yankees. In fact, Mr. McCarthy was the guiding spirit of the meeting, and jammed many candidates home by the sheer force of his spellbinding oratory. It seems that Mr. McCarthy had been picking an all-time all-star team for the Sporting News “I am picking guys I have seen in | action myself,” barked Mr. McCarthy, “and I will not be d Hartnett catcher on this club.” A roar of protest swelled about speaker’s ears. “Cochrane has it over Hartnett like a quilt!” “What about Bresnahan? “What about Johnny Kling?” “Gimme George Gibson an’ Dickey!” And your correspondent added feeb- “What about Ray Schalk?” This was the only respondent’s suggestions favorable reception Mr. allowed magnanimously that Schalk was a right pert catcher. “But I am sticking to Hartnett,” he announced. “I managed him, and I should know. He could hit and th and handle pitchers, and he was th: best throwing catcher of them all.” McCarty Reverses Theory. AT THIS point Mr. McCarthy in- serted a theory which may start you somewhat. He said the catcher does not make the pitcher, as is gen erally supposed. The pitcher makes the catcher. “Look at Bresnahan and Cochrane and Archer and Schalk,” he said “They got famous by catching a lot of great pitchers. Hartnett never had ded into doing nas gotta be the the Bill | that kind of pitching. He worked his way up by himself.” The debate on our pitching selec- tions was not quite so warm. Mr. McCarthy picked Grove because he bad we had to bench him. But Goose | Position, for only in one period did the | saiq he had to have a left-hander in came up and asked for permission to| practice in left fleld with a view| toward moving over. He was given | Marylanders exhibit any real polo. | That was the fourth stanza, when they | | put over two goals and kept play in there somewhere. His first choices were Matty and Johnson. Someons else told him that, if he had to picdk & pair of sun glasses and told to ”’tfi: enemy territory & good part of the | 3 Jeft-hander, he was dafly mot to to it. “Goose wasn't the best left fielder in base ball when he was switched a few days later, but he was good enough and be improved. Nobody has been able to find fault with Goslin as a left flelder in years and years. And| the whole thing was that Goose could ‘ ‘break’ better in left field. He got| started after a fly ball much quicker | Capt. Don Galloway, mounted on | Kitty O'Shea and the flashy Ben Gali. was a lightning streak of power for the | Cavalry Yellows, scoring a majority of | his four goals on brilliant individual runs, while Capt. Harry Stadler put over an equal number of bull's-eye shots with some deft stickwork at hard angles. The Fort Myer mal- in left than in right field. The samed leteers outrode their opponents at may go for Travis.” Add Points for Defense. "I‘BOSE who are inclined to sell Travis short on the strength of yesterday’s disappointments will find many cases other than Goslin's to re- buke the argument. Buddy Myer’s is one. Buddy entered the big show as a shortstop and flopped. He was tried at third base and his flop there, if anything, was more complefe. Yet, belatedly moved to second 'base, he blossomed into one of the finest de- fensive players in the American League. The process, incidentally, took many more Years than Travis has been in the big leagues. Joe Cronin was a foul ball on third base but he found himself on shortstop and wound up with a price tag of $250,000 and a buyer willing to pay it. Ben Chapman, like Travis, broke in as an infielder and wasn't nearly as good in the infield as Cecil. When the Yankees moved Chapman into the outfield they developed one of the smoothest-flelding fly chasers in the business. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that Travis never has been given & trial in any position. There | Nash: thorough were plenty of big league third base- men worse than Cecil when he was shifted to , & Pposition for which he failed to apply. He didn't demand a shift to the outfleld, either, and deserves at least a chance to square away. This department is betting on him. He can’t miss even- tually. BEER TEAM TRAVELS. Old Milwaukee Beer’s base ball team goes to Frederick, Md., tomor- row to play the Prederick Hustlers. Members of the local nine will meet st Tenth and H streets northwest st 11 o'clock. \ [ every turn, and even the chief de- fensive man, Lieut. George Grunert, | shot up front often enough to whip | three tallies between the goal posts. | While their spectacular debut marked them as prime favorites to | (See POLO, Page 11.) e el : Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL. Rochester, 12-4; Baltimore, 4-5. ‘Toronto, 4; Syracuse. L. Albany. Montreal, Buffalo, 7; Newark. Standing of the Clubs. W.L. Pet.| 44 46 4R 448 | t Montreal Standing of the Clubs. W.L. Pet. | St Paul _ %%Pw kl( 50 KERoMS 842552 Loutsvine 36 38 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Knoxville. 4; Chltt:me Birmingham, 4: Nashville, New Orleans, 5; Atlanta, Standing of the Clabs. P 52: % 1644 311 Memonis PACIFIC CGAS’I Portland, 4; San Dieg 1 Sln Pnnc\:co. 0-2. e, Oakland. 8-2. San Fran. 52 58 . ARt 3167 380 TEXAS. (}llvutun;"l Fort Worth. Ban “Antonio. 1¢ 0 AN 8y 7T Betuitiont. 4. Standing of the Cllh. Oakland_. 50 4! Portland_ 55 50 Missions_ 58 53 W.L. Pet. 5730 594 Okla. City 51 Hn -wn_ fll 40 560 S.Antonio 38 Tl 541 Pt. Worth in\mwnt 60 ifl 538 Galveston X | take Rube Waddell. Mr. McCarthy stoutly denied the charge of daffine: and all hands agreed to change subject when your correspondent men- tioned that he would like to see big Ed Walsh on an all-star team. Picks Another Team. MR- McCARTHY railroaded §ehriz and Pie Traynor into his in- field, but the opposition overruled him at second base, electing Gehringer over Lajoie by a short head, with Eddie Collins a length behind. Your correspondent whispered something about Hornsby, ‘““the greatest right- handed hitter of all time,” and added a word for Sisler at first and Buck Weaver at third. He was defeated by acclamation, and the boys rounded out their ticket with the unanimous selec- tion of their obscure outfielders named Ruth, Cobb and Speaker. They went away thinking they had baffled your correspondent and shut him out. But truth cruched to earth will rise again. Little did they know that I would dash off, lock myself in a secret vault, and com- pose an all-star team that gives the facts to the public in their true light, as follows: Sisler, first base. Hornsby, second base. Wagner, shortstop. ‘Weaver, third base. Cobb, outfield. Speaker, outfield. Ruth, outfield. Schalk, Cochrane, ctachers. Johnson, Walsh, Waddell, Pitch- ers. Maybe Mr. McCarthy knows more ;| about base ball than I do (cries of “what do you mean, maybe?”), but this is a country of free speech and that includes you customers, too. e NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA. Williamsport. 14: Binghamptor, 3. imira, 22; Hazleton, Standing of the Clubs. Bin'mton 10 8 .600 Bcrlman 7.563 Trenton_ wxs'r!lN Des Moines. 11: Bl Hastast s Towells. 7. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Columbus, 9; Macon, 4 PIEDMONY, Norfolk. 7: Durham. 2 Richmond. 12; Portsmouth 0. \