Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1936, Page 15

SPORTS. THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, - 1936. SPORTS Schedule Gives Giants Big Break : Canzoneri Sought as Scott’s Foe 11 GAMES INWEST MAY DECIDE FATE Terry’s Men Reverse Custom | by Speeding Tempo as Finish Nears. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, August 18.—After peering intently through my fourth dimension spectacles, 1 am minded to send word to Ford Christopher Frick to have tie Polo grounds readied up for the Na- tional League's share of the world series. Unless there is an unsuspected flaw in my lenses, Manhattan is going | to have a five-cent world series to g> with its nickel cigars. The Giants are coming, my friends. Col. Will Terry’s men have reversed their customary route of march and i may just win them the championship. For the last two seasons the Giants started with great speed and then col- lapsed as they turned into the three- quarter or home stretch. This year | they blew early and then recovered to get back into the battle when the Cubs end Cardinals became wobbly. Wear Begins to Tell. (‘HICAGO and St. Louis are showing 4 the wear and tear of sliding in and out of first place and the strain of defending the too rung is not easy at this stage of the season; not even for | the hard-bitten gas house gang. Card-| inal pitching is becoming more and | more ragged as the season moves along | and the Cubs are getting an inconsist- ent brand of batting that has lost them many well pitched games. New York | is finally enjoying good hurling and it ‘will improve if Hal Schumacher shouid | happen to get back into competition. | The Giants are not a powerful hitting club, but they have the faculty of | making hits count, as they did in 1933. What is more to the point, the schedule has been very favorable to | the Gilant drive and will give them an advantage down to the finish. | ‘While Chicago and St. Louis were | slashing away at each other and standing off the bothersome Cincin- | nati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates, New | York was knocking over the tumbling toms on the Eastern front and cut- ting the legs from under the Cubs end Cards. New York starts its last Western trip of the season next week, and that Journey will have a very important bearing on the championship. On the 11-game junket, New York plays two games with St. Louis and three with the Cubs, and if Terry can herd his players through those series, he may start giving an occasional thought | to the world series. Pennant Bee Is Potent. YHICAGO and St. Louls each has | 4 two games remaining to play on the Polo Grounds, but if the Giants can take the lead on their Western | trip, they should be able to defend | it at home. The Cubs and Cards are | booked for six games in September, | which will dispose of the chances of | one or the other and they will be | battling the last two days of the season, at which time the Giants play Brooklyn. And this year you may | be sure Bill Terry will know *Brook- Iyn is still in the league.” Late drives have won the last two National League championships. The I Cardinsls started their charge for the maintained a winning pace to the | finish, and last year the Cubs roared | through the final weeks of the race | with 21 straight victories. So prece- | dent and present position are favor- | able to the Giants. in the West, partciularly when play- | ing the Cubs and Cardinals, in which case I favor St. Louis, for the simple reason that the gas house gang has | the number of the Bruins. However, | 1 do not look to see the Glants trip. Right now they are quite a ball team | and the pennant bug is buzzing loud- | ly in their wallets. When the pen- | nant bug starts buzzing, it can do | strange things to ball players. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. New York vs. Washington, G fith Stadium, 3:15. TOMORROW. Base Ball. New York vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadtum, 3:15. THURSDAY. Wrestling. Gino Garibaldi vs. Ivan Mana- goff, feature match, Griffith Sta- dium, 8:30. FRIDAY. Base Ball. - Washington at Philadelphia, :15. Tif- SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington at Philadelphia (2), 12:30. POOL YOU SWIM IN CLEAN WATER AMID SANITARY SURROUNDINGS EVERY DAY 9A. M. to 11:30 P. M. Adults 40¢, Kiddies 15¢ PRICE_INCLUDES PRIVATE LOCKER, FREE CHECKING AND USE OF SAND BEACH < . d Lightweights Provide Action at Griff Stadium Ten rounds chockful of fisticuffing pleased the customers, but left Cowboy Scoit and Lew Feldman just where they started, a draw decision resulting. In this eighth round shot Scott (left) is seen just after having delivered a right to Feldman’'s head, with the latter countering with a left to the body. —Star Staff Photo. NO LONGER FUSSY, DIZ IS TEAM MAN Card Pitcher Never Is Idle, Even When Not on Slab. Is Tough Loser. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, August 18.—Meet “Ol' Diz” Dean, the workingest ( man in base ball. When “OI' Diz” is not pitching, which is about every third game the St.| Louis Cardinals play, he's likely warming up and, when he’s not pitch- ing or warming up, he’s stall walking. Dean wants to be in the 1936 world series. He wants the gas house gang to win every game and he’s as tough a loser as ever there was in the busi- ness. It's a show to watch Dean when he's not pitching or down in the bull pen. He's never quiet for more than two consecutive minutes. Up and down the Cardinal beneh he paces. Sometimes he pauses to shout some- | thing to the players on the field. Diz Great Team Man. umpires. Occasionally, when the gas house gang is batting, “Ol' Diz” nervously will pick up a bat and bang it on the steps or the rack. “Dean is the best team man on the | club and that's saying a lot for they | Of course, the Giants may stumble | all are team men and fighters,” re- | marks a Cardinal follower. “He has not shown the least sign of tempera- ment this season. The Cardinals wouldn't be any place without him. He's not only the greatest pitcher, but the greatest player in base ball.” Call them Gas Housers or whatever you wish, but those Cardinals are all ball players. They play John McGraw base ball; the kind of base ball you like and even hostile fans cheer them for their daring. DUNBAR TEAM WINS. Two of Dunbar Community Center’s | %2, athletic teams were victorious yester- | day, the midget soft ball team de- feating the Briggs teh, 12-7, and the tennis squad blanking the Banneker netmen, 3-0. Dunbar’s junior ten lost to the Briggs soft ball juniors, 8-7. RANGERS NOW IN LINE. ‘The Rangers, a newly organized un- limited base ball team, would like to book crack clubs in their division. Call Manager Joseph Brennan at North 1892-J between 5 and 6 p Above: Val-A-Pek open for use. At right, closed for carrying. $8.95 and up Orders Filled T MAY be encouragement to the | mate on the mound, some jibe at | 1934 pennant early in September and | @1 opponent or an admonition to the | | 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR DE.’I'ROIT took both ends of a double-header to bury the Nats deeper in seventh place, win- ning 11-6 and 8-4. The first game was one by the Tigers in the tenth inning when three hits and two walks accounted for five runs. The visitors made 20 hits off four ‘Washington pitchers in the opener, Ty Cobb, Bobby Veach and Sam Crawford getting 11 among them. Two golf records have been broken by local professionals with- in the past week. Howard Beckett smashed the first and now Dave Burgess has set a new low, playing the nine holes of Bannockburn in 36. Despite the fact that Burgess was playing with Dick Beattie, the club champion, that pair lost to Jimmie Spencer and H. A. Mc- Kinney. Six racketers—Binley, Daidy, Tse, Morgan, Greene and Robinson— gave Land Office a clean sweep over Survey in a Home Club Inter- bureau Tennis League match, {HEFFNER MISSES TITLES By the Associated Press, ERIE, Pa., August 18.—Harry Heff- | ner of Washington, D. C., lost two ! bids for tennis championships here | yesterday, losing in the finals of the Great Lakes singles tournament to | Gordon Robinson of Stamford, On- | tario, i—5, 6—3, 6—3, and bowing to Dick Tindall of 8t. Louis in the junior | tournament, 6—1, 6—0, 4—6, 6—2. PETWORTH WOULD PLAY. Any strong unlimited team seeking a game for Sunday should contact the Petworth A. C. through Fones at | North 1370-R after 6 o'clock. Criffs’r Records BATTING. G AB. R. H. 2b.3b. 4 R GL 0 23> 0 Se N T T T e g | { | Dbt & 348 oo Qs DBy e: PITCHING. (3 o i Q 0 :.;..Eb o ©O00W-Co DD § 1919 i —ip e HOmORAOHE S Dok S AR 1300 2 <y 2RER- Biom DI2HAN I IBE SocommoDLE: SRR S us F ke e PECICET E wowsnmma B uaF Dlstrict 1454 1314 F Street N.W. STEFFE WILL PITCH IN SOFT BALL TILT | “Find” to Hurl for Procurement as It Tackles Surprising Ceramists Team. JJAROLD STEFFE, the newest soft ball pitching “find” of the city, was to make his debut in the city- wide championship series on the West | Potomac Park polo fleld this after- noon as his Procurement Division ten took the diamond against the Ceram- ists, surprise conquerors of the strong Navy Yard team yesterday. It was one of four games scheduled to start at 5 o'clock. Steffe had a high mark to shoot at, inasmuch as Bunker Hill set a top standard for pitchers in the opening day’'s play when he hurled a perfect game for Ehrlich Poultry Co, not allowing a batter of the Adjusted | Compensation team to reach first Hill further aided his team when | he smacked a home run to boost the score to 8-0 in the faature game of the day. His work overshadowed that of his foremost rival, Abe Rosenfield, who pitched only two innings after his top-seeded Aggies had scored seven times in the first frame to start a 14-1 rout of Treasury. The closest game found the Cera- mists scoring in the last inning to | nose out Navy Yard, 1-0. George- town Playground and Agriculture Di- vision had the next stiffest jobs, re- spectively, beating Arlington Presby- terian Church, 7-5, and Station A of the Pepco League, 4-2. ‘Three other victors won going away, ‘Works Division blanking Audit Divi- sion, 9-0; Clearance A. A. A. doubling the score on Diamond Cab, 8-4, and Labor Construction trouncing Reset- tlement, 9-4. In addition to today's Procuremen Division-Ceramists game, the Aggies were to play Georgetown Playground. the Ehrlich Poultry Co. the Construc- tion Ten and the Clearance team the Surplus team. MaAtfl Matches By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me.—Chuck Montana, 178, Detroit, defeated Cement O'Neil, Portland, two out of three falls. PENNSAUKEN, N. J—George Dus- | sette, 195, Boston, defeated Jose Man- | in & preceding six-rounder. | uel, 193, Portugal, two straight falls. fastest, and one of the best bouts of COWBOY EARNS 60 INFELDMAN DRAW {Puts on Fiery Finish With | Brooklyn Boxer—Raymond Gets Decision. ONVINCED that Cowboy How- ard Scott has hit the peak of his 10-round draw with Lew Feldman at Grifith Stadium night, Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn to- day opened negotiations in earnest in Texan against Tony Canzoneri, world here. on September 3, later will meet Jimmy McLarnin, probably in November. ‘While the champion’s pilots havq in- formed Ahearn that the polished Ital- ian mittman will be available for a non-title match here on September crown. Ahearn will journey to New York in an effort to persuade Sammy Gold- man, Canzoneri'’s manager, to import the lightweight ruler for a title tussle. Goldie already has offered Tony $10.- 000 or an optional 37!, per cent of the gate receipts to place his crown on the block. Scott dropped little prestige in re- cording a stalemate with the hairy Feldman. at times unleashing some of the most savage blows he has dis- played since he made his local ring debut eight months ago. Although Judges Charley Dunn and Dr. O. U. Singer called the bout a draw and Referee Eddie La Fond conceded Scott a slight edge. The Star's score sheet showed the Cowboy one even, Lew’s Style Baffling. ATED as one of the greatest spoil- ers in his division, Feldman justi- tifled his reputation. His dancing, bobbing and weaving tactics, coupled with accurate left jabs and straight rights, made Scott a it subject for St Elizabeth's during the early stages of the battle. After taking the first round by stag- gering Lew with a solid smash to the face and a stiff right to the midsec- tion, Howard dropped the next four rounds as Feldman flicked tantalizing lefts to the local champion's head. Feldman, unveiling the most un- or straight right to Howard's puzzled face as he flitted past. In the sixth round, Scott finally | nicked the elusive' i | fists to the body impressively. Howard stopped Lew in off the ropes. Scott Scores to Stomach. | rounds to take both heats. stood toe-to-toe on clever infighting. | Scott retaliating with stiff body blows. | The round was even and the fight on | & whole was so close that a draw was entirely justifiable. Lou Raymond, despite & broken in the third round, pounded out an eight-round right hand received decision over Jay McCadon, welter- weight, in a slow semi-final. Perhaps the reason why the semi- final seemed slow was due to the tor- | rid pace set by Tony Ciaccio, & stable- | mate of Canzoneri and Feldman, and Young Raspi. Baltimore welterweight, and fests show that most men prefer the mellow mildness of Vintage Tobacco Copyright, 1936, by General Cigar Co., Inc. his pugllistic career, despite last an attempt to match the transplanted lightweight champion, in a title scrap Canzoneri, who fights Lou Ambers in a championship bout in New York 28, providing he hurdles Ambers, Goldie will insist on Tony risking his voted for Feldman, most spectators two points in front, with five rounds | going to Scott, four to Feldman and orthodox ring style since Petey Sar- | Ton vacated this noggin-knocking sec- | tor, at times would dance from one | corner to the other, tossing a left jab | his tracks with a hard right to the midsection as the Brooklyn battler tore |in during the seventh session and then planted one of his most per-| | suasive punchs of the scrap, a sizzting | | right to the face, as Feldman bounded LSCO‘FI‘Y continued his midsection assault in the eighth and ninth The 1,200 fans went slightly insane during the | ninth round when Scott and Feldman and slugged away, with Howard gaining a slight edge ‘The tenth round nearly was a repi- | tition of the ninth, with Feldman con- iecting with short right uppercuts and In the @ Will Return to Game Any Time He Gets a Chance, Says Famed Vet. By the Associated Press. LBANY, N. Y, August 18— Johnny Evers, middleman of base ball's immortal double- play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, refuses to believe that he’s through with his one great love— organized base ball. “I'm ready to go back into base ball | any time I can,” he said, but at toe| same time admitted he didn’t know | how he was going to get back. “There’s nothing in the world that | compares with it,” Johnny said. There’s | something about it that gets you.” | When Evers, Joc Tinker and Prank | Chance made their double-killings, major league fans of 30 years ago| | roared their approval. | Today Johnny is superintending activities at Bleeker Stadium, scene of Albany’s athletic events, and super- vising his sporting goods store, Quit Albany Club. JOHNNY resigned as general manager of the Albany International League base ball club last Fall, but gave no reason for his action. It was last year that Evers was suc- cessful in a fight for the right of | Edwin (Alabama) Pitts to step from Bing Sing Prison into organized base ball. Judge Willlam G. Bramham, president of the National Association of Base Ball Leagues, refused Pitts| permission to play on Evers’ team, but | Johnny took the fight to Kenesaw | Mountain Landis, base ball’s high com- missioner, and was successful. “It was a great thing,” Evers said, | “not because of the player, but be- | | cause of the principle involved.” | “Pulling a Merkle,” the base ball player's way of describing a glaring | error, can be laid directly to the lan- | tern-jawed, fighting Irishman, who | staged the famous Merkle play in the | €hicago Cubs-New York Giants game | in New York September 23, 1908, Merkle's Mistake Described. 'HE score was tied in the last of | the ninth inning, with the Giants | t bat, one man out and the bases loaded. Al Bridwell, Giants’ third baseman, singled. Merkle, who was on first base, saw Moose McCormick cross the plate with what would have been the winning run and trotted | toward the club house, believing the | game over. But Evers saw that Merkle hadn't touched second to complete the play, | as the rules required, and tagged the sack. Umpire Hank O'Day called | Merkle out. | “The play was the most important | and most effective of my career” | Evers said. “It decided the cham- | pionship of the league and we went on to win the world series.” | | Evers was in base ball from 1902 to 11918 as a player. Forced out by a | series of injuries, climaxed by neuritis {in his right arm, he later became a soach, scout, manager and club presi- | dent. | o= e = . MARY COOTES ADVANCES | —_— i Special Dispatch to The Star. | MANCHESTER - BY - THE - SEA, | Mass, August 18—In company with | some of the country’s leading net- i | women, Mary Cootes, District of Co- | lumbia tennis champion, found herself | | in the second round of the annual Essex | Country Club invitation singles tourna- ment for women today. Miss Cootes’ brilliant 7—5, 6—4 vie- tory over Mrs. N. I, Winthrop of Man- | chester was among the features of the | opening day’s matches, which saw Alice | | Marble of Pasadena continuing her | comeback with a straight love-set de- feat of Isabel Lawrence of Topsfield. the year, Ciaccio captured the deci- sion. In other bouts, Buddy Scott, How- ard’s brother, scored his Afth knock- | out in as many professional fights by | chilling Red Loughlin, a game Balti- more light-heavyweight, in the fourth round, and Sammy Williams, colored middleweight, earned a four-round de- | cision over Young Kid Norfolk. Fights Last Night By 1he Associated Press. UTICA, N. Y.—Bushy Graham, 131, Utica, knocked out Joey Zodda, 134, New York (2). MIAMI, Fla.—Young Bobby Brit- ton, 140'%, Miami, outpointed Johnny Dean, 138}, Kannapolis, N. C. ((8). PITTSBURGH — Red Bruce, 175, Pittsburgh, outpointed Bob Olin, 179, New York (10). CHICAGO—Milt Aron, 145, Du- buque, Iowa, and Harold Brown, 142, Chicago, drew (10). LONDON, England—Ben Foord, | South Africa, stopped Jack Peterson, Wales (3); won British and empire heavyweight titles, ATLANTA—Ben Brown, 160, Atlan- ta, knocked out Bob Allison, 158, ‘Roanoke, Va. (4). NEWARK, N. J.—Izzy Singer, 182, Paterson, N. J., and Al Delaney, 178, | Detroit, drew (10). [ SIOUX CITY, Iowa— Everette (Young) Rightmire, 1253, Sioux City, outpointed Henry Hook, 119, Indian- apolis (15). S LU BROWNS IN FUNDS FOR TEN SEASONS Club for Sale, Says Weise, ! but Can Carry On With | Past Profits. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, August 18 —The rext 10 years may be the hardest, | but the Browns are ready to | carry on. Louis B. Von Weise, president of | the St. Louis American League Club, got his first look at the 1936 team on its home grounds during the cur- rent series here. At the same time | he declared the Browns’ situation un- changed. “Sure, the club is for sale” he said. “I don't think an estate own- inz a ball club is an ideal situation and if we could get the right people and the right price we would sell But we are not going to give the property away. “How much do you want for the team?” he was asked. Have Had No Offer. "AS WE have never had a definite offer, I couldn't answer that question, as it would all depend on how the sale was to be made. “There 1s one thing I would like | to make clear, though.” Von Weise | continued. *“The sheriff is not at our ‘ heels. While Phil Ball was alive we had a number of real good years and | built up a fine surplus. For the last five years we have been living off | that accumulation of profits. “Our losses during the lean years | have been considerable. but we have | reduced them to a minimum and are | prevared to go ahead another 10| years if need be under the present conditions.” ‘The club’s showing this season has disappointed the owners and Von ‘Weise is no exception. Hornsby 0;; One Man. Yrs we feel very keenly our po- sition in the race. We thought at the outset that we had a 500 per centage ball club and I still think so.’ Von Weise was asked if he thought Managr Rogers Hornsby to blame for | the team’s showing. “Hornsby has a three-year con- | tract,” he replied “and, as he says. he can't take a bat and bat for everybody, and he can't pitch for everybody. And in addition, we have | had our share of bad iuck.” TITLE TO QUANTICO. The Quantico Indians clinched the Tri-County League championship when they nosed out the Warrenton Wan- derers, 2-1, thus ending their league season with a record of 10 victories and one defeat. Only two other games | | were lost all year, the Indians splitting a double - header with Warsaw and losing to West Point. EASY FOR KENSINGTON. Despite the absence of several first- string players, the Kensington A. C. easily defeated the Chevy Chase Grays, 10-4, at Garett Park. (N BRADDOCK'S HURT THREATENS BOUT Ring Board Investigates Hand Injury That Stops Champ’s Training. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 18.—James J. Braddock, world heavyweight cham- pion, was called today to appear be- fore the State Athletic Commission for examination of an injury to his left hand which threatened cancel- lation of his title bout with Max Schmeling of Germany next month. Joe Gould, Braddock’s manager, said he would make an “important statement” at the meeting. The ex- amination was to be made by Brig. Gen. John J. Phelan, chairman; Col. D. Walker Wear and Bill Brown. May Be Idle Four Months. T WAS learned from a reliable source that the champion con- sulted a physician about his injury and made tentative arrangements to enter a local hospital for an opera- tion that might keep him idle four months, the New York Pimes says. The injury to the champlon's hand is a development of the training siege he launched quietly two months ago, shortly after Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis. A bone enlargement of a joint in the little finger of his left hand, which, in itself, is a character- istic development with fighters’ hands because of the pur.ching they must do, has become sggravated to an extent where the title holder's arm becomes practically paralyzed up to the elbow whenever he closes his fist. Braddock has not worked at his quarters at Loch Sheldrake for the past two weeks. His inactivity was not particularly noticed because of the ex- citement attending the approaching Louis-Sharkey battle. Secrecy Maintained. OT until recently did the serious- ness of the complaint become known. Even then secrecy was main- tained in the hope the trouble would disappear. It has not responded to ordinary treatments of massaging and rest. ‘The bout was tentatively set for Sep- tember 26, with a likelihood it would be advanced to September 22 because of the Jewish holidays. HAWKS AFTER PREY. Games with peewee teams are sought by the Y. M. C. A. Hawks, who may be booked through Dave Tobin at the Y. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. Batting—Averill, Indians, Weatherly, Indians, .382 Runs — Gehrig, Yankees, Gehringer, Tigers, 117. Runs batted in—Trosky, Indians, | 116; Gehrig, Yankees, 115. | Hits—Averill, Indians, 180: Geh- rig. Yankees: Gehringer, Tigers, | and Trosky, Indians, 164 : Doubles—Gehringer, Tigers, | Walker, Tigers, 39. Triples—Averill, Indians, 13; Di | Maggio and Rolfe, Yankees, 12. Home runs— Gehrig, Yankees, 38: Trosky, Indians, 35 Stolen bases—Lary, Browns, 27, Werber, Red Sox, 19. | Pitching—Hadley, Yankees, 11-1; Pearson, Yankees, 15-5. National League. Batting—Mize, Cardinals, 378 Demaree, Cubs, and Medwick, Car- dinals, .365. Runs—J. Martin, Cardinals, 96; Ott, Giants, 87. Runs batted in—Medwick, Car- dinals, 113; Ott, Giants, 100. | Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, 169; | Demaree, Cubs, 160. Doubles — Medwick, and Herman, Cubs, 43 Triples—Camilli, Phillies, and | Goodman, Reds, 11. | Home runs— Ott, Giants, 25: Klein and Camilli, Phillies, and Berger, Bees, 20. Stolen bases—J. Martin, Cardi- | npals. 18: S. Martin, Cardinals, 16 | Pitching—Lucas, Pirates, 10-3; | Gumbert, Giants, 9- 383; 137; 43; Cardinals, Now Shave-Without Touching Razor to Skin New-type shave cream forms a thin film between raozer edge and face...allows blade to shave closer without touching the skin... 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