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Can Gain Record Streak of Five Games by Repeating on Yankees Today. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. UR currently rampaging Na- tionals, only 10 days ago willing to settle for fifth place in the American League derby and call the race run, began to drag some old ambitions out of the moth-“ balls today. | Once upon a time—on the morn of | July 4, to be exact—Washington's base | ball firm cast covetous eyes on the| place or show position. Then they stumbled across one of the most com- plete slumps ever bumped into by & National outfit. Now, by virtue of a spurt. that must be surprising even to themselves, the Griffmen find them- selves still very much in the stretch | run. This department long #go has given up trying to figure out Bucky Harris’ | entry, but in the wake of their latest | conquest—a 7-t0-5 victory over the| league-leading Yankees—the Nats must | be conceded a chance to run in the| money. They may not be playing bet- } ter ball than when they first attracted | attention as a “dark horse,” but théy | are playing a luckier game. And where | is the man who would rather be good than lucky? | Gain on Idling Tigers. OP‘ THE last 11 games the Grlfls‘ have won 8 and all of this| eampaigning was against Eastern foes. | They held today a four-game winning streak and, going into the second game | of the current Yankee series, they have & chance, by winning, to increase the streak to proportions unprecedented since the pennant-winning vear of 1933. No Washington team has won five games in a row since. bility, prior to the spurt, Washington | now trails the fourth-place White Sox by only one game, the third-place | Tigers by three, and the second-place Indians by five. Both the White Sox and Griffs gained on Detroit yesterday. the Tigers idling. Cleveland, hitting the road, was the victim of the Chisox. It’s been a long time since people last took the trouble to see how far the Nats were trailing a top-flight club. Two especially delightful habits have | eropped up of late to tickle the hearts of Mr. Griffith’s clients. First and foremost is the habit of beating the ‘Yankees, who tyranny at the start ol the season was almost enough, in it- gelf. to &poil any extravagant hopes. Remember the beatings of July 4? ‘The second is the habit of getting the jump on the opposition. The Griffs | are doing it frequently these days and ~vith good results. Yesterday, in win- ning their third decision of the last four games with the New Yorks, both habits were in evidence. ‘Win Game in First Inning. EFTY GOMEZ, the “forgotten pitcher” of base ball, started the @ Sam Breadon's nose wasn’t affected by the work of the umpires. The St. Louis owner just registered anguish and chagrin as his Cardinals dropped both ends of a double-header to the second division Reds to temporarily lose the National League lead- ership. They licked the Cubs a few days later to bounce back to the top. —Wide World Photo. A.A.U. DOESN'T HIT JESS AS COLLEGIAN Eligible if He Meets Scholastic Requirements, Stays Amateur, Griffith Declares. Br the Assceiated Press. 'HICAGO. August 18.—Ma)j. John L. Griffith, Western Conference | athletic commissioner and president | just three years before when he Counted out as a first-division P(\‘-‘i-l of the National Collegiate Athletic | played his 1,308th consecutive game Association, sald today that the sus- | pension of Jesse Owens by the Ama- | major teur Athletic Union would not dis- | qualify the Ohio State Negro star from intercollegiate competition, pro- vided he remains “otherwise eligible.” “If the A. A. U. suspended Owens for failure to compete in barnstorm- ing meets in Europe.” Griffith said, “he would still be eligible for Big Ten and national collegiate A. A. com- petition, provided he remains other- wise _eligible. “By ‘otherwise eligible’ I mean eligible scholastically, and. of course, remaining an amateur,” he explained. Griffith declined to comment further on the A. A. U. action against the Ohio State triple-Olympic champion and world record holder in the sprints and broad jump. YEARLINGS NET $7,750 Burch Gets One at Buckley Sale of Five at Spa. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. August 18 (P).—Mrs. David A. Buckley, jr.. of Virginia, sold five head of year- New York throwing and lasted one lings here last night and they brought inning. When the smoke had cleared | §7750. The start of the sale was the after everybody in the line-up had | brown colt by War Hero-Comice and batted, Washington was ahead by 5 10 was sold to Walter Cox, former trot- 0. The Nats won the game right there ting horseman, for $2,450. Shelby for after this frame they spent e Burch of Washington, D. C. paid afternoon fumbling so many oppor- | §1500 for the son of War Hero-Toscin. tunities that Rookie Kent Wicker, who Mrs. J. H. Whitney paid $2,000 for relieved Gomez, left 11 men on the bases. | Earl Whitehill, who was credited with his ninth victory of the cam- | paign, was something short of great. | The rotund southpaw was in trouble constantly, New York getting two runs | in the second, another in the third and | a fourth run in the fifth inning. Earl | was wild, walking five men in his seven innings and giving up eight hits, | ‘Wicker, also & southpaw, was wild but the Griffs found his change of | pace hard to hit, with the result that | it always was a ball game. Twice Wicker loaded the bases with only one | out, but the Washingtons got only a| total of two runs, one in each of the frames. Cohen Adequate as Rescuer. JHITEHILL retired after seven in- nings and Bucky Harris had little alternative but to trot out Sydney Cohen. With the score 7 to 4—Wash- Ington scored a run in each of the sec- ond and seventh innings—5,000 cus- i'c-a tomers groaned audibly but young Syd | did himself proud. He set the Yanks down in 1-2-3 | style in the eighth and was scored | upon in the ninth only when Signor Joseph Di Maggio wound up and hit the season's longest home run. It came with two down and traveled almost on | & dead line to a place far up in the | center-field bleachers. The ball must have traveled 450 feet before finding a | landing spot in the empty pews. Syd | then forced Gehrig to pop up, however, | ending it all. | It was a well-balanced batting at- | tack the Griffs flashed. Everybody except Stone, who walked three times; | Bolton. Whitehill and Cohen (who | didn't bat) got at least one hit. Chap- man, Lewis, Reynolds and Bluege got | two apiece. Di Maggio represented, roughly, one- third :of the Yanks' power. He made | three of the nine hits, scored three | runs, and drove across another. i the gray colt of War Hero-Circe and W. E. Barlow got the brown colt “y Boot to Boot-Belle of Kentucky for a $700 bid. DRANGINIS ON PRO GRID Pete Dranginis, erstwhile quarter- back of Catholic University's great 1935 eleven, will be given a trial with the Boston team of the newly formed American Foot Ball League. Now an employe at Tech High School's swimming pool, Dranginis re- cently refused an offer with the Pitts- burgh team of the same league, Official Score °x EE R Y. Rolfe, Di Mag; Gehrig. Powell " 1. zeri. Johnson, Jorgens, e SO DHmu— ez, p. Wicker, *Heffner “Totals = WASHINGTON. Chapman. ef.___ Lewis. 3b uhel, " 1h Stone. 1f._ Revnolds. rf. Kress, 2 B amRnsTAY Somous3353> 223325~233~~N Bluege, Bolton. c. Whitehill. Cohen. fTravis - Totals _ *Batted for Gomez in second. tBatted for Whitehill in” seventh. New York__ 021 010 001—5 Washingtpn 510 000 10x—7 Runs batted in—Kuhel. Reynolds, Kress, Bluege. Bolton. Jorgens. Heffner. Di_M; gio. Powell. Travi ase hits—Kres Jorgens, Gehrig. Wicker. Three-base hit— Rolfe. 'Home Tun—Di Maggio, Double play—Lewis to Kress to Kuhel. ses—New York. 8: Washi Bases on balls—Off Gomes. 1; hill, 5; Wi Gom hi 5 innings: off Cohen. i in 2 innings. Win- ning piicher—Whiiehill. Losing pitcher— Gomez. ~ Umpires—Messrs. Dineen, Me- Gowan and Johnston. Time—32:25. e e Foening Sttt Sporis WASHINGTON, D. C, GOMEZ SLABBING PAINS MARTHY ‘Has Not Won Since July 4. Chisox Protect Yanks’ Lead, Beating Tribe. EY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr,, Associated Press Staft Writer. T'S hard to find a reason why Joe McCarthy should be having any serious headaches with his Yan- kees leading the American League by eleven and & half games and ac- | claimed as almost certain pennant | winners, but if Joe ever suffers from | migraine the cause probably is Vernon | (El Goofy) Gomez. ©On the other hand, he seems to have | a sure cure in Iron Man Lou Gehrig. Gomez, who once seemed destined | to supplant Lefty Grove as base ball's’ | outstanding southpaw, has been belted off the hill with almost monotonous | regularity since the early part of the | season. | His record now shows only eight victories and seven defeats, while his earned-run avergge must be painful to McCarthy’s eyes, The slim senor, who hasn't won & | game since July 4. lasted just one | inning against Washington yesterday | | and he gave way enough runs to let the Senators win, 7-5, | ‘White Sox Beat Allen. TH‘E only reason that shellacking didn't decrease the New York lead was that the White Sox, in hot pur- suit of third place, teed off against Johnny Allen and belted over the runner-up Cleveland Indians, 7 to 3, in the day's only other major league game. While Gomez was failing, Gehrig. ! who was hailed as the new iron man to surpass Everett Scott's former | league record, kept rolling | along. | He eased off his week end pace | | when he hit three homers in as many | games to bring his total to 38. But | Lou, playing despite an injured finger | and a lame back, got his daily hit. a | double. He failed, however, to keep | | up with young Joe Di Maggio, who | socked his twentieth homer and two | | singles. The White Sox victory was largely | & result of Allen’s wildness. He and Thornton Lee gave only seven blows, but Johnny handed out seven free | trips to first and Lee four. The In- | | dians’ main effort to connect with Ted | Lyons' delivery were circuit drives by Hal Trosky, who hit his thirty-fifth | of the year, and O'Dell Hale, BY BURTON HAWKINS. Staff Correspondent of The Star. | EW YORK, August 18—Like | Tom Yawkey's expenditure of | $3.000,000 on the Boston Red | Flops, Joe Louis’ efforts prob- | connect with Jack Sharkey's wagging chin tonight in his 10-round argu- | ment with the portly bartender at | Yankee Stadium. Unless the bombed bomber disposes of the Boston tulip fancier before those 10 rounds flit by, he will be rele- gated to the fistic scrap heap. Should Louis lose, or even win by decision, he would pave the way for the return to | major bouts, among others, of Max | Baer and King Levinsky. __The thing has unlimited pes- sibilities for fallen fighters if the 33-year-old Sharkey dupli- cates Schmeling’s feat. Baer already has hit the come-back trail, bowling over mediocre mittmen nightly. Levinsky, who also has been heart- emed by Louis’ defeat at the hands of the German, holds a decision over Sharkey, as does Tommy Loughran. Primo Carnera, who knocked out the robust gob, probably will recon- sider his retirement if Sharkey wins tonight. And there are others—too many of them., Sharkey’s Comeback Mild. HARKEY'S dark-skinned opponent is eager to prove he has bene- fited by the solid rights Schmeling planted on his jaw. It is doubtful, however, that Louis will gain much prestige by a victory over ringdom's ranking enigma. If it happens, fistic fans will want Louis to meet a greater test before passing judgment. Consider Sharkey’s record since he decided to come out from behiad the bar. He knocked out Unknown Win- ably will be wasted even should he LEAGUE TITLE TIE HE second decision in four games clashed in their series for the Indus- Joe Freschi, Heurich’s pitching ace, hurling for the furniture lads. Mil- Have Yet to.Beat Millers in Industrial Set—Pepco between the Heurich Brewery and Miller Furniture nines was trial League championship. Two of the games have ended in ties, with was expected to be on the West El- lipse mound when the teams started ler’s victory, the only one scored over Heurichs in nine games between the HEURICHS SEEKING Surprises Peogles. T awaited today as those rivals Miller holding the lone victory. play at 4:30 o'clock, with Joe Porter two this season, was by a 6-3 score, Pepco Springs Upset. CONTENDING teams in the Na- tional Capital League were breathing new hope as Peoples Drug Store's crack nine was trying to re- cover from its first defeat, admin- istered yesterday. Pepco, which pre- viously had won but one-third of its games, was the upsetter by a 12-6 count. The defeat left Peoples but one and & half games ahead of Thompson's Dairy, which did not play, and two and a half games ahead of the idle Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy. In the only other league contest, Washington Gas Light walloped Cen- ter Market, 14-3, hauling that team down into a tie for the cellar berth. Top Slab Feats, "THREE pitchers applied the white- wash brush, Preston of Procure- ment Division turning in the most impressive performance with a two- hit shutout of the Federald in the Federal A. A. League, Procurement winning, 11-0. Adair of Mount Vernon, however, shut out Metropolitan Baptist with four hits as his mates pounded out & 4-0 decision in the National Metropolitan blanked Amer- ican Security. 6-0. with five hits in a Bankers’ League battle. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Prees. Earl Whitehill and Sid Cohen, Senators—Checked Yankees with nine hits, ‘Ted Lyons, White Sox—Kept In- dians’ 10 hits well scattered. never has managed to rise above mediocrity. In his best bout he won a decision over Phil Brubaker, a promising Pacific Coast lad. ‘Thus, with but one creditable show- ing on his record since he launched | his comeback campaign, Sharkey ciless fists have battered 24 out of 28 opponents to the canvas. Brubaker favored Sharkey in the first round, then cut his eye and lip over the route. { Tt is conceivable that Louis will in- | flict more damage on the aging sailor. Fifth Round K.O. Foreseen, BVIOUSLY, Sharkey is not the reason why more than 40,000 fans will file through Col. Jake Rup- pert's turnstiles. ‘They want to see if Louis has per- fected a defense against s right hand. They want to see if the Schmeling bout has taken the sting from the deadly blows that sent him neariy to the top within the short span of two years. ‘Will Louis cringe and clinch if Sharkey slips over a hard right to the chin, or will that blow serve as a spark to ignite the dynamite that once was Louis? You'll have the answer about 9:30 o’clock if the unpredictable Mr. Sharkey makes up his mind to fight. T'll take Louis by a knockout in the fifth round. He may not be the Louis I thought him to be two months ago, but I don't believe he's slipped to the fistic plane of Sharkey as yet. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. ‘Today a year ago— Schoolboy Rowe shut out Yankees with three hits and hit homer as Tigers stretched lead to eight games. Three years ago—Ellsworth Vines beaten in straight sets by Frank Shields in Newport Casino tennis semi-final. Five years ago—Lou Gehrig played game No, 1,000 in succession ston with an unseen punch. He drew * Kingfish to See Fight, in streak beginning in June, 1925. But Not Challenging Has Had Enough of Louis, His Pick—Bud ge:Rates Riggs, Sabin Best Young Netmen. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, August 18.— Kingfish Levinsky (wear- ing a bright red shirt) is in town for tonight's fisticuffs . -+ But not to challenge the win- ner . .. No, sir! . . . The Kingfish picks Louis, and having had one session with Joe wants no part of him . . . The betting gentry isn’t as sold on Louis as it once was . . . The 7-to-5 odds on him are the shortest of any of his big fights here + .. The gamblers have come around to realizing that anything can—and ~ probably will—happen in the heavy- ‘weight division. Don Budge, red-headed ace of the Davis Cup squad, thinks Bobby Riggs and Wayne Sabin are the best cup team prospects in the country . . . Well, we can use a few . . . Everett Marshall is burned up because Dave Levin, the Jamaica butcher boy. is rated the heavy- weight wrestling champion in the July and August releases of national wrestling ratings by Jimmy Amann of Cincinnati . . . The Yankees are drawing up a new long-term con- tract for Joe McCarthy, who is de- livering the goods , . o 1f any other ‘\ big-league ¢lub wants a good man- ager, Rogers Hornsby probably will not be with the Browns next sea- son. Sunny Jim Pitzsimmons may de< cide to send Granville against Dis- covery in the Saratoga Cup, August 29 . . . what & race that will be. . . . The Graham plan is due for a terrible shellacking when the Southern Conference meets in December . . . The only schools m.finhnmumolmmhr:h Carolina N. C. State (he’s e President. tention to requests that Bill Terry be ousted as manager of the Giants. Why should he? George Nolan, jr, and L. N. Stenzas had to play 44 holes be- fore Nolan won the Upper Penin- sula Michigan golf championship + . . The title match was sched- uled for 18 holes . . , but they were still tied at the end of 27 and had to go at it again the next day. . . . He doesn’t know it, but Ralph Metcalfe, the Marquette and Olympic sprinter, has & nice job waiting for him at Xavier Uni- versity, New Orleans, when he gets ‘Washington | Church League, while Hoffman of | with and won over Tony Shucco, who | | stacks up against a fighter whose mer- | JOSEPH LOUIS BARROW, Otherwise Joe Louis, whose legend of invincibility began over a year ago when he trimmed Washington's Natie Brown and later stopped Car- nera, Baer, Levinsky and Uz- cudun, but who was battered into a coma last June 19 by Mazx Schmeling. Facts About Big Bout and Rivals By the Associated Press. JEW YORK. August 18.—Salient facts on the Jack Sharkey-Joe Louis heavyweight fight tonight: Principals—Jack Sharkey, Bos- ton, vs. Joe Louis, Detroit. Length of bout—Ten rounds. Place—Yankee Stadium. Time of main bout—9 pm. (E. 8 7). Estimated attendance—45.000. FEstimated receipts — Around $200,000. Promoter — Twentieth Century Sporting Club. Fighters’ share—Louis, 30 per cent of receipts; Sharkey, 25 per cent. Referee and judges—To be named by New York State Athletic Com- mission. Betting odds—ILouis favored to win at 7 to 5. The measurements: 41 in. ‘44 In. 76 1n. 11%; in.___Fist - League Statistics TUESDAY. AUGUST 18, 1936. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. ‘Washington. 7: New York. 5. Chicago. 7: Cleveland. 3. Only games scheduled. CFEEEE E 3108 g ® K] i ] WYF—|13110110] 9[11/10/111741301.6551 ___ Clel 41— 7| 9I1311111011016415621.55211v; Det| 7| 9/—12| 9| 6] 6113/62(52].544/12% Chl 7] 7] 31—I13] 811/12/60156.517/16% Wni_6[ 4] 9| bI—i10{14[10/5856|.508116% Bos| 31 6l12[111 7I—i10010/5M671.504117 StLi_7|_BI 8| 41 3( 7I—I| 8M42(711.372132 Phil 5| 8] 4 51 3| 4/10/—I39/741.345135 L._[39152152/66/66167171 [Tal—F—I__| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. N.¥.at wash, 3:15. N.¥. at Wash, 3:15. Boston ton at Phila, & E Detroit at 8t. L. {2), Detroit at 8t. Louls. Cleve. at cago. Cleve. at Chicago. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. Brooklyn-New York. rajn. Only game scheduled. i i i i ~-XI0K MIN --puwpA -e3miuaotag TP <EEEERE LHEREE i titls! StL| 0111111 61 71101131681441.607 NY!|_7I—I_7113/10 8| 7/141661461.580 2 Chil_B| 91— 7| 7I13113111165/461.5861 2%; Pitl 51 6] 5—110/10/11111I57I551.508i11 Cin[ 71 71 9| 61— 5111110/55157.491i13 Bos| O/ 5| 6| 7112k 7| _6511601.450116% BkI|_6]_7|_41_6] 6_dl—I_7I451661.405|22% Phll 51 3| 51 5| 61 8 71—I391721.351128% L_|441461461551571601661721—I—1__| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. ;u‘n: at New York, Brookiyn at N. ¥, X N fla. at Boston. BRAE BRSi Louis at Cinn. - EH i 8 ot -~ qsanad| H g ¥ 4 R Nats Again Have “Money’ Hopes : Shaky Experts Make Louis Choice SPURT PUTS FIRST | L] Both Essaying Comebacks in Ring Tonight JOHN COCCOSKEY, The Lithuanian better known as Jack Sharkey, the garralous gob and former world heavyweight champion, whose iatest bid for consideration since quitting his Boston bar to return to the fight game was his victory over Phil Brubaker, the Californian. Sharkey once licked a Negro fighter with a great reputation, Harry Wills, when every one else, including the redoubtable Jack Dempsey, carefully sidestepped him. The last time he met Mazx Schmeling, Louis’ recent conqueror, in 1932, Sharkey won the heavyweight crown. —A. P. Photos. "POPPING OFF O n Everybody’s Happy but Goofy. Y AND large, the Yankees are having a lot of fun this year. Nothing short of a miracle can keep them from winning the American League pennant. They have 41 games to play and an 111,- game lead over their feeble chief con- tenders, Cleveland's Indians. If New York only wins 21 and loses 20 of their remaining games, the Tribe must win 32 of their 38 games to win out. ‘Then, too, the Yanks are geiting a great kick out of the fight the Giants | are making for the National League | pennant. A subway series would create a huge financial melon to slice. Yes, by and large, the Yanks are having fun. But there is one exception. Gnawing away at his very innards, bedeviling his every oconscious moment, there hangs over the head of Vernon (Lefty) Gomez the dis- tinction of being base ball's No. 1 flop of 1936. He can't win a ball game and, while | the Yanks don't need him now, there is close at hand the world series and, after that, the little business of sign- ing a contract for 1937. Highest paid of all American League pitchers, Go- mez is due to take a cut that you, and you. and you would like to have for a year's salary. Bloodhounds Called Off. Gom provides the great mystery of base ball. Not until next No- vember will he reach 26 years of age, when a pitcher ought to arrive at his peak. His health is good and playing behind him is the classiest and hard- est-hitting team in the league. And yet— In an effort to solve the solution, New York's swivel-chair brigade set private detectives on his trail earlier this season. They put their noses to the ground and hounded him, night | New York. That was in 1931 and day. Recently the dicks were called off. There was no use in hiring people to shadow people who didn’t do anything to warrant it.. Apparently, after studving the detectives’ report, the Yan- kee ‘When tomorrow rolls around ‘t will be two months to the day since Gomez last went the route and won a ball game. He beat the Browns on June 19.. He has.won only a single game since, getting a - close decision over Washington on July 4. He needed re- lief- near the finish, too. Bucky Neglects His Couriesy. Yanks don't count on him any " more, much as they'd like to bank on the Gomez who two years ago repre- sented the best pitcher in Will Har- ridge’s league. Just before invading Griffith Stadium the Yanks played a four-game series against the Athletics and didn't use Lefty. The reason ad- vanced was that Washington figured to be easier for Gomes than the lowly A's on account of s wealth of left- | He did not even receive from Bucky | Harris the courtesy of a switched | | National line-up calculated to present | | right-handed hitting strength. Bucky left his 10p-sided south- paw line-up intact and not even Gomez's natural advantage helped him. In one inning he was blasted out of the box, leav- ing a 5-0 deficit for the Yanks to overcome as best they could. ‘Today his record is 8 wins and 7 defeats. against 15 defeats. This is the same brilliant young left hander who won 21 and lost 9 in his first full year with The next year he won 24 and lost 7. In 1933 it was 16-10, and he led the league | in strikeouts. Only two seasons ago he won 26 and dropped 5 to lead the circuit in games wan, winning percentage, earned-run percentage, most innings and most strike-outs. Ah, sweet mystery—. In Short. OU GEHRIG, the iron horse, is playing with a chipped bone in the middle finger of his left hand . . . but they say he’s all the more danger- ous because of it . . . Lou hit for a .700 average in Philadelphia with the bum digit. . . Jake Powell was fined $50 the other day in Philly for throwing dirt on Umpire Jack Quinn and jost- ling him arodnd . . . the American League plastered it on him. Apparently, though, thé les- son hasn't made the Yanks cautious . . . Art Fletcher was chased by Bill Dineen yesterday and Bill Dickey and Pat Malone barely missed getting the thumb. Bucky Harris might well order bunt- ing practice for some of his Nats . . . Kuhel, Bolton and Kress attempted to sacrifice, in that order, yesterday and each fouled out . . . New York has hit 141 home runs so far this year and is almost certain to break the record established by another Yankee team in 1932 . . . the current edition needs only 20 more in the remaining 41 games . . . Joe Di Maggio's clout yes- terday, incidentally, was far and away the longest hit in Griffith Stadium this season, at least . . . it sailed 12 rows high in the farthest corner of the centerfield bleachers and almost on a dead line. RACKETS RESTRUNG @ $2.00 ANDUP o O 2 1019 15th St. N.W. Net. 5165 Last year it was 12 wins as | WRITERS, LIKE JOF. ON SPOT TONIHT Fearful in Making Him 7-5 Over Sharkey—Interest in Battle Booms. BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer, EW YORK, August 18.—They've made Detroit'’s Joe Louis a 7-to-5 favorite to beat Jack Sharkey, the aging Boston tavern keeper, in their 10-round boui at the Yankee Stadium tonight, But the experts who have fixed those odds or agreed that they are about right already are wondering if they may have made another mis- take. There is the possibility that the Brown Bomber may be a bit “punch shy” after the beating he took at Max Schmeling’s hands last Spring, but he can’t be any more shy than those experts who made him a 10-to-1 favorite or predicted he would knock out the German schlager inside four rounds. Now, wondering and hesitant, they are coming back to see if Joe can come back. The fans, a bit slow to | show interest in the bout, have be- | gun to buy tickets at a good clip. Expect 45,000 Crowd. WITH the top price the lowest it has been for any of the Dark Demon’s New York appearances, Proe moter Mike Jacobs predicted the sta- dium will be filled to about half its 90,000 capacity, producing a gate of about $200,000 at 9 pm. (Eastern standard time). On the Louis side, because of his re« markable performances before Schme- ling blasted the legend of his invinci- | bility, there are more angles to cone | sider than there are in a labyrinth. For example, there is the question whether Louis, in a short but in- tensive tutoring session, has learned | how to defend himself against the | “sucker punch.” the right-nand wale | lop that laid him low before. Also the fans are asking if he will go out with the same deadly eager ness to mow his rival down or will hesitate and try to keep from being hit and if he has been returned to the ring too soon after that beating just as he apparently was brought along too fast in his professional ca= reer, which began a little over two years 8go. Difficult to Figure. ‘SHARKEY. the 33-year-old fomer " champion, offers some angles of his own. He retired a couple of years ago with plenty of money and a de- sire for peace and quiet after a ca- reer marked by strange ups and downs, bad fights when he should have made good ones and vice versa. Now the faithful are wondering whether he can stage a real come- back. His preliminary bouts have not shown much one way or another. Sharkey has endured the training grind with somewhat better grace than he used to and has worked him- | self into fine physical condition. He | i¥ confident he can prove what he always maintained—that Louis is no great shakes as a fighter—and re- gardless of the 12 years difference in their ages he can whip any Negro | hoxer, Look for Short Bout. HE loquacious Jack also contends Louis has tried to return too soor after the Schmeling bout. Schmeling showed Joe can be hit and Joe showed he didn't like being hit,” Sharkey commented. “I'l hit him and I'll beat him.” Either way, the fight experts are expecting a quick finish to the bout. Although Sharkey is the more ac- complished boxer, few believe he ean last the full 10 rounds, and he alresdy has indicated he plans to start punch- ing with the opening bell. If Louis is the same fighter he was against Max Baer and Primo Car- nera he probably will follow similar tactics. With two such punchers in there firing, something is bound to happen. CLOSE FOR MARIETTAS. Jimmy Robertson's throw to the | plate from deep center field, nipping the tying run, saved the game for the Marietta Juniors yesterday as they nosed out the Brookland Merchants, 7-6. Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Di Maggio. Yankees, 1; Hale, Indians, 1; Trosky, Indians, 1. The leaders—Gehrig, Yankees. 38; Trosky. Indians, 35; Foxx, Red Sox, 32; Ott, Giants, 25. League totals—American, National, 463. Total—1,050. BASE BALL /4, Washington vs. New York AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—New York. 3:15 p.m. 887; Stop Shimmy, Rebush sG Seientific McDERMOTT'S GARAGE SPECIAL—THIS WEEK Front End. Any Car___ MOTOR TUNED IR e i 50c Wateh for Weekly Specials 3280 M N.W. WEst 3040 Repairing—Painting—Bedy Work 4 WHEELS RELINED ovier: AS S 4.50 Low GUARANTEED ‘LININGS AS Clift's Brake Service 2002 K St. NW. WE. 1678