Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 12

The Foening Slar Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936. Yanks Plan to Reserve Ruffing : Griffs Still Ogling Second Place ACEWONT START AGAINST HUBBELL - Papa Di Maggio Is Excited. 5ot Argentine Poloists to Sell Their Horses. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, September 19.— From the factory to you: Joe McCarthy will do his level best to avoid starting his ace pitch- er, Charles Rufus Ruffing, in the first game of the world series against the Giants, when, as and if the Giants get into the series. Joe's scheme is to work Gomez or Pearson against Hubbell in the cur- tain raiser and save Big Ruff for the second game . . . Giuseppe di Maggio plans to freight his family East from San Francisco for a peek at the classic. “I think I expect to begin to get nervous the night before the opening game,” says Giusepp’ . . . Frank “Gab- bo” Gabler, the Giants’ most pro- nounced daffydill, has acquired a set of mechanical squeezing gadgets to strengthen his hands for series com- petition. Some time next month the pampas will quiver beneath the footsteps of | Mistah John Artha Johnson, the old heavyweight champ, who is going down ! to Buenos Aires to referee wrassling bouts in the Luna Park Arena . . Six-day bike racing will be introduced to the defenseless Argentines at th= same time . . . Luna Park is the plant where Luis Angel Firpo's latest come- back campaign was shattered by one Senor Godoy . Argentina, those gauchos are not ex- | actly dumb . . team up here which figures to show a profit, win, lose or draw, because, as soon as the international matches are over, the visitors will sell their hosses to our guys for as much as $50,000 apiece. Perry Set for Pro Career. TREDDIE PERRY'S professional career will begin officially when the Pacific Southwest tournament in California is over ., .. F. P. A, the W. K. colyumist, offers to bet that Perry won't turn pro . . . This de- partment will cover the wager and plead on its knees for more of same . .. The star back on the Amhem‘ Foot Ball Club is a Caucasian youth | named Al Snowball, whose fun-lov- ing schoolmates call him Igloo . . An unidentified felon, possibly a flfthi offender, sanks his fangs into your correspondent’s ear right after the | women's tennis final at Forest Hills | and said: “Miss Jacobs ought to know | by now that she's too big a girl to| play with marbles.” . . And speaking of | . They have sent a polo | & Griffs’ Records fay T e Hill___ 81219 5 Millies_ 74 215 Sington 17 68 Bluege 86 306 86 289 et ez - @ PSRRI Y SIS PEER [UOTeTy -y PSS rE et PESSRUETR Set tertetiet=top s PO e Elatri-Riet bt PITCHING. St ] potepgretet:) ey oosowosomzEaaEaE 8 *Dietrich 5 uss' 18 *Coppola 6 *Eokina b *Chase *Marb'ry *Released. WOKOI= R B AOF 2 OO SOUTH SETS PACE IN GRID OPENERS Nine Conference Contests Carded—Few Games of | Note Elsewhere. By tLe Assoctated Press. | EW YORK, September 19.— The South, which annually violates the tradition that foot ball is & game for chilly Autumn days by opening the season in weather that Northerners would | consider more suitable for swimming, again leads the way into the 1936 ! campaign today. While the curtain-raising games in other sections are limited to a few | widely scattered warm-up contests | and small college clashes, the South- | ern program lists no fewer than seven | Southern Conference teams in action and two from the Southeastern loop. | Davidson, one of six new teams ad- | mitted to the Southern loop this year, | makes its bow by taking on last| | year’s champion, Duke, in a night game at Greensboro, N. C. The Citadel, another newcomer, opens | against Newbverry. A third new mem- ber, Richmond, was slated to start last night against the Newport News Apprentice School, but the game was postponed until Monday because of stormy weather. Two Tilts in Virginia. OTHER Southern_ openers send The Cubs are dickering for Dolph Camilli, whom they crated down the | river to Philadelphia a few years | back in a terrible trade for Don' Hurst . . . Remember Hurst? . . The D. A. subpenaed Randy Moore for selling oil royalties to his team- mates in Brooklyn, but Randy beat | the rap by explaining that it was a private deal and that the Dodgers | were old enough to know their own | minds . . . The latter half of the | alibi was news to Casey Stengel . . .| Ed Heusser, the Cardinal pitcher who | aimed a punch at Joe Medwick the | other day, formerly was a boxer . . . But to watch him miss with that | roundhouse right, you would think | he’'d been a ball player all his life. | 'HE current world series odds favor { the Yankees over the Giants by 9 to 5, with Hubbell a 6-to-5 favorite to cop the opener. . . . Van Lingle Mungo, ' ‘with 16 wins, and Buck Newsom, with | 17, are locked in a feverish duel for ! the pitching championship of South Carolina. National League hitters say that Mungo is the fastest hurler in their | circuit; that Dean and Warneke have | the most all-around stuff, and that | Hubbell is the hardest to beat. . . . ‘While the pitchers in the same organ- ization tell you that Paul Waner is the | steadiest, most scientific batter, and | that Medwick, on account of his power, | 1s the most dangerous. i An undercover poll of big league managers indicates that Bill McKech- | nie is a popular choice for the best in ! the business. | No-Foul Rule Revoked. i 'HE members of the New York Box- | '™ ing Commission quietly, and for no very good reason, have revoked big | James Farley's famous no-foul rule, which made it illegal for a pugilist to win his fight on the floor . . . Maybe they were influenced by Max | Schmeling’s posthumous screams of “foul!” following the Louis fight, but I don't think they could be so silly « . . Joe’s low blows had no more effect than a snowflake falling on the Dead Sea . . . Abe Feldman's demand for the December shot at Louis has been junked in favor of the winner of a slightly meaningless con- test between Bob Pastor and Leroy Haynes . . . Outside Philadelphia, the :dd': ;m Louis against Al Ettore are IP POWEL CROSLEY doesn't think Chuck Dressen is a good manager, where will he find a better one? . . And if Larry is right, 150 ball players are wrong ... The very peculiar Frenchy Bordagaray is incensed by rumors that Don Gutteridge, Cardinal rookie, is the fastest runner in the National League ... “He don'’t start fast enough,” yells Frenchy. “I could beat him running with a potato in my mouth.” Frisch says that the loss of Stu Martin hurt the Cards more than all the rigor mortis in Paul Dean's right erm. . . . Mickey Cochrane, sick and weak, was practically pushed off the fleld by his former teammate, Jimmy Dykes. in a recent Chicago-Detroit game. . . . “Do you want to kill your- self, you dafly so-and-s0?” said Mr. Dykes indignantly. BmAUSE of his remarks about Avery Brundage and the A. A. U., 8 lady in Cleveland rises to remark that your correspondent is in the pay of the Communists. ... If so, the comintern is going to have a h—— of & suit for back salary on its hands . . . ‘Mickey Walker stays away from his cosy saloon as much as possible to I:or:;l’ z!ugi:gbdnnh on the house (one o abits) and gggting in fights with strangers. /s . South Carolina against Erskine, Clemson against Presbyterian, Virginia | Tech against Roanoke and Virginia Military against Wofford in the | Southern Conference and Kentucky against Maryville and Mississippi | against Union University in the| Southeastern. With the postponement of last night’s Temple-St. Joseph game, the | East was left with only one game of | importance today, West Virginia | meeting Waynesburg. In the Midwest Xavier of Cincin- nati encounters Transylvania, South | Dakota meets Sioux Falls and South | Dakota State plays Gustavus Adolphus for -the best games on the list. Rice | is the only other “big” college listed, facing Texas A. and I at Corpus Christi, Tex. — SCRIMMAGE TODAY | WILL TELL AT NAVY| Hamilton to Pick Eleven After| Varsity Squad Has Tussle With Plebe Gridmen. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS. Md., September 19.—‘ playing the strong plebe team| this afternoon, Tom Hamilton will en- deavor to pick the eleven which will| be relied upon for the opening game with William and Mary a week lnwnl He has hinted that there may be some surprises when the final selections are made. Three players Sneed Schmidt and Prank Case, veterans, and Bob Antrim, 190-pound back last year, seem certain to be in the first string backfield and | everything points to the selection of | Charlie Reimann as the fourth man. Reimann is a fine running and passing back and has the special quality of never getting hurt. John Brown seems certain of the center berth, with Capt. Rivers Morrell and Ray Dubois at the guards. Dick Gunderson will take Morrell’s place if the latter is not in shape. Zeke Soucek is a certainty at one end, while Irwin Fike will be at the other if he gets in shape. Heber Player seems the most probable alternate. No first string tackles are likely to be picked now or later from the abun- dance of stalwarts trying for those positions, but they will be used in relays through the season. Duke .| Ferrar, Ned Hessel, Frank Lynch, Dave Sloan, George Woodside and Ben Jarvis are the outstanding candidates. | the five-game lead of the idle Giants, REDS IN SPOTLIGHT AS NPPHAIL QUITS iGiles, Cards’ Farm, Men- tioned as Successor. Rickey May Buy Club. BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE base ball spotlight was drilled today on the Cardinals and Reds, and the possible changes in their organizations, to the virtual exclusion of the Cubs in second place in the National League, and Lou Gehrig's 1,800th consecutive game with the New York Yankees. ‘While the Giants maintained an al- most unbeatable lead of five games in the hot National League race, and Gehrig put on his spikes and glove to add another milestone to the greatest of all iron-man records, the diamond public was asking these questions: 1. Will Branch Rickey, the man who played a major part in the suc- cessful run of the Cardinals during the last 10 years, buy a controlling in- terest in the Cincinnati Reds, along with Merrill Russell, a director of the Columbus (American Association) Redbirds? 2. Will Warren Giles, president of the Cards' International League farm at Rochester, N. Y., be named to suc- ceed Larry MacPhail, resigned vice president and general manager of the Reds? Issues Appear Interlocking. ‘The two questions—and their an- swers—appear interlocking. Denials | were the only replies to the published | report that Rickey and Russell would buy the Reds. One source emphasized that Powel Crosley, jr., president of the club, is too rabid a fan to sell his interests. However, it was pointed out in some quarters that the mention of Giles as successor to MacPhail, the man who introduced night base ball to the big leagues, may be in line with the report that Rickey is buying into the Reds. For Rickey's job with the Cards un- doubtedly have acquainted him with Giles' ability, from the standpoint of boss to employe. MacPhail resigned yesterday just the Cardinals 3-0 in the only Na- tional League game of the day, to take second place in the league away from the staggering gas house gang. The victory, however, failed to disturb who are just about “in” for the pen- nant. The American League also put on a curtailed program, with the Tigers knocking: off the Indians 6-3 in one game, and the Browns belting the White Sox 6-5 in the other. Bridges Posts His Twenty-second. Tommy Bridges stopped the Tribe with four hits in posting his twenty- second win of the year, as Detroit's ex-world champions pinned back the | ears of young Bob Feller with a| game-clinching, four-run rally in the | sixth and moved into a virtual tie with | the White Sox for second place. A five-run spree in the third fea- | tured the Brownies' victory over the | ‘White Sox, but just to put the clincher on “Sunny Jim” Bottomley belted a homer in the seventh for what turned out to be the winning marker. They'll present a scroll to Gehrig at Yankee Stadium today in recog- nition of his endurance record. His| appearance in the battle with the ‘Washington Senators will mark his 1,800th straight game since he took Wally Pipp's first basing job away way back in June, 1925, Major Leaders By the Assoclated Press. American. Batting—Appling, White Sox, .382; Averill, Indians, .375. Runs — Gehrig, Yankees, Gehringer, Tigers, 137. Runs batted in—Trosky, Indians, 153; Gehrig, Yankees, 144. Hits—Averill, Indians, and Gehr- inger, Tigers, 217. Doubles — Walker, Tigers, Gehringer, Tigers, 54. Triples— Di Maggio, and Averill, Indians, 15. Home runs— Gehrig, Yankees, 48; Trosky, Indians, 41. Stolen bases—Lary, Browns, 34; Powell, Yankees, 25. Pitching—Hadley, Yankees, 13-4; Pearson, Yankees, 19-6. National. Batting—P. Waner, Pirates, .380; Phelps, Dodgers, .372. Runs — Vaughn, Pirates, J. Martin, Cardinals, 118. Runs batted in—Medwick, Cardi- nals, 132; Ott, Giants, 129. Hits—P. Waner, Pirates, Medwick, Cardinals, 208. Doubles — Medwick, Cardinals, 59; Herman, Cubs, 53. Triples—Camilli, Phillies; Good- man, Reds, and Medwick, Cards, all 13, Home runs—Ott, Giants, Camilli, Phillies, 26. Stolen bases—J. Martin, Cardi- 161; and ‘Yankees, 121; 210; about the time the Cubs, behind Lon | Warneke's three-hit pitching, toppled | ] {minor injuries, nals, 21; S. Martin, Cardinals, 17. Pitching—Hubbell, Giants, 24-6; Lucas, Pirates, 13-4. HURRICANE WARNING | | COLLEGE COACHES HERE ARE SMILING Terp, Hoya and Card Tutors Pleased Over Advance of Their Squads. NDICATIONS that the District’s three major college foot ball squads, now practicing on their own fields here, rapidly are rounding into shape, appeared today as Coaches Frank Dobson, Jack Hag- erty and Arthur (Dutch) Bergman dismissed their Maryland, Georgetown and Catholic U. lads for well-earned week-end rests. All three mentors had reason to believe that hopes carried over from last year might be fulfilled. Out at College Park, Dobson espe- cially was elated over the great broken-field running of Coleman Headley, track star, who scored two touchdowns yesterday in scrimmage, one on a dash of 92 yards. Headley, with Bill Guckeyson out with a minor injury, has been the star of the Terp scrimmages. Mike Surgent’s blocking from the running guard position also has made Dob- son smile. In such great physical shape is Georgetown’s squad, save for the that Hagerty an- nounced that the Hoyas will practice but onc: a day, beginning Monday. The rest of the time between then and G. U.’s opening game will be spent in perfecting plays. Bergman had his eyes opened on the Brookland stadium as Steuart (Spec) Foley, former Tech High star, got off a couple of kicks, sailing 70 yards through the air. Foley's boot- ing, together with a continuation of Irish Carroll's brilliant ball-carrying, put Bergman in a pleasant frame of mind for the Sunday lay-off. e NINES IN DOUBLE BILL. Virginia White Sox will play a double - header tomorrow on the Bailey's Crossroads diamond, meeting the White Haven nine at 1:30 o’clock and the Annandale A. C. at 3:30 o’clock. | This Is the Year of Backfires. Specic! Dispatch to The Star. EW YORK, September 19.—As far as base ball is concerned, this year should go down as the year of the big backfires. Rarely in the past have the eccentric- ities of the industry acentuated as much as during this waning season, when Gotham gained its first Yan- kee-Giant series in 13 years and its fourth of all time. The Giants will reach the classic because they plugged from start to finish, especially at the finish. the experts said the Giants were front-runners and that they would fold in the stretch, as in 1934 and 1935. Their prophesies backfired when the Terrymen broke from the barrier like a milk-wagon horse and started running like Gallant Fox in the stretch. ‘The Yankees were helped in-- to the series because the very blessing which graced their every effort in 1934 and 1935 was conspicuously absent this year. That blessing was the lack of injury to any of the Tigers, and after the amazing luck held for two years it began to look as if the Bengals were destined to have a monopoly on Lady Luck. Many of the experts sald as much, predicted a third straight pennant, and even be- £an to compare the Tigers with the great teams of history. Then, out of a clear sky, Hank Greenberg's wrist was broken at the start of the season, Mickey Cochrane began to see spot in front of his eyes, eyes, and Schoolboy Rowe began to complain of a sore arm and take days off. And, poof, went the Tigers’ chances. The Cubs, They Played Poker. THE Cubs did not get into the series because the very virtue to which was attributed their success in 1935 exploded and reduced them to & rip-roaring gang of stay-yp-at- nighters who took their whisky straight and their poker losses with Gehrig’s World Series Record Bodes Ill for Giants McLarnin Is Golf Winner—L. S. U. Has 240-Pound Tackle—Majors in Trading Moed. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, September 19.— Bad news for the Giants: Lou Gehrig always hits bet- ter in a world series than during the regular season . . . Back from Florida, Jimmy Braddock re- sembles a million dollars. Every- body was glad-handing him along Broadway yesterday . . . On August 26 a baby girl arrived at the home of Henry Helf, New Orleans catcher. Henry celebrated by poling a sin- gle, double triple and home run in tackle on the Louisiana State eleven, weighs only 240 pounds . .. Jimmy McLarnin, boxer, won a golf Lakeside, Calif., recently, with a last round of 72 . . . The Yankees will vote Saturday on how they’ll split up their world series dough. Ladies and gents: Playing center for North Dakota State this season is Tim Yam Jim On . . . Wallace were sports celebrities on the air the other night. Tony’s wife prom- ised he’'d regain the lightweight championship . . . The Yankees are “definitely” off the market for mental . . . Joe Di Maggio hic three All | |a highly-developed degree of dismay. ‘When the Cubs roared down the stretch a year ago to win the pennant everybody began to wonder and it developed that essentially the Grimm Reapers, as the writing boys called them, were a bunch of youngsters who pulled for each other, got eight hours sleep every night, and did nothing except think base ball. = ‘This year something happened to the Cubs. They went high-hat, say those who follow their fortunes close- ly, and the first thing that Charlie Grimm knew they were playing poker for pretty steep stakes and forgetting = to go to bed. Young Phil Cavaretta, the rookie sensation of the year, tailed off miserably. Augie Galan, who was credited with much of the Cubs’ success, also proved an A-1 flop. Not even Grimm’s deal for Curt Davis could help the Wrigleymen. So Pepper and Daffy Rassled. TBE Cardinals did not get into the series because their vaunted Gas House Gang spirit backfired in their faces. They were a happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care lot. All St. Louls rev- eled in thir antics. They hustled and they fought and they were a rip-roaring, two-fisted gang that felt as if it could whip the world. Maybe they couldn't find enough opponents on the ball field to fight or maybe they were so filled with energy that they were inveigled in- to horsing around among themselves. At any any rate Pepper Martin felt in a Man Mountain Dean mood one bright afternoon early this season and found that Dafly Dean, younger of the Deans, was in a similar mood. wristlock on Daffy and the Dean kid was saying that if i e HilH make up for L i be- the that didn’t help help encugh. ', shut-out yesterday by Lon E g TEERTEE ppEdgti, fli ! ¢ TESTS TECHTEAM | INGAME TONIGHT Hardell Takes Green Squad to Baltimore to Meet City College. INGING his hopes on a green, but nevertneless determined and promising young squad, Coach Hap Hardell will gain a definite line on Tech High School's foot ball prospects tonight when he | sends his charges into action against | Baltimore City College at Baltimore. With seven regulars missing from last season’s line-up, the wiry Tech | mentor will bank heavily on lads who ! have seen little gridiron action to date. | Only Stan Wells, quarterback, and Jake Fleischmann, 200-pound tackle who cavorted at fullback for Roosevelt | 1ast year, are veteran performers. | Tech has lost such crack men as Prancis Crimmins, fullback, who has taken his ball-toting talent to Minne- | sota; Moe Schulman, center; Bill Hart, | who shared signal-calling duties with | Wells last year; Lee Nichols and Louis Nowlin, backs, and Dutch Preller and Gilbert Schroth, guards. Wiseman on Injured List. EON WISEMAN, who was slated to take over one of the guard berths, is confined to the sidelines with a knee injury and probably will be out for the | | season, while Carl Sachs, fullback, is ! injury. Charley Pallas and Norris Ball, | stocky 145-pounders, will start against the Monumental City eleven at the guard posts. ends; Fleischmann and Whitey Raw- lins, tackles, and Roddy Clay, center, will gain the other forward wall start- | ing assignments. Wells, Ludwig Kroutil, Henry Ras- Street, Kurby Foans and Johnny Wil- liamson, all are slated to work in the backfield, with Wells taking care of the kicking and passing. League Statistics SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1936. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. St. Louis. 6; Chicago, 5. Detroit. 6; Cleveland. Other clubs not scheduled. 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Chil11—]| 6l 9110/16/16/16(831631.5687 6 StLI12(111—I13] 0| 9113115/82(631.566] 5% Pitl 71101 9l—I11]14113/15/79167].541 & Oinl_9i12] ] 6l—| BI1313/71/741.480116% Bos|_81_6/13] 8/18I—| 8| 8I64(78|.451122 Bkil_71 7] 9|_9l_910/—|11162/82[431125 Phil_31 6] 71 71 9 9] 0/—I50/04.347137 L._157163163167/741781821041—I—I __| GAMES TOMOREOW. York st Bklyn, New York at t Chicago. St. Louis “efi"?li R SN | temporarily disabled with an identical | Jimmy King and Walter Connelly, | sier, Nick Zuras, Jack Belote, Frank | HAVEHITHOTPACE INLAST )X WEEKS Yanks, Current Foes, Due Vote of Thanks for Adding * Strength to Club. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. EW YORK, September 19— Reveling in anticipation of his first “subway series” in 13 years. Pop Knickerbocker pretty thoroughly overlooked your Nationals today as they squared off against the Yankees in their final road series. The talk is centering around the Yanks and Giants, but if Joe McCarthy’'s new champs want to really look forward to the future they might well dwell a moment on the Griffith A. C. As far as this year is concerned, the current series is a holiow affair for the Yankees, but in the very fact that it is crucial for the Nats lies reason for attention. Notably among the McCarthymen's rivals, they man- aged virtually to keep pace with the pennant winners during the last 45 days, and not even the prospect of playing the Yanks in five of their remaining eight games this year has materially dimmed their hopes of fin- ishing in second place. Looking back over the Griffs’ Au- gust and September campaigning, there is found ample reason to sus- pect their current bravado is more than a “front” Going into today's opener of a three-game series the Griffs are showing a .643 percentage since August 7. They have won 27 games and lost 15. In their last 15 | series they have won 10, lost 2 and broken even in 3. Review of Year Pleasant. FOR all of the Griffs’ lack of or portunism and eccentricitie earlier in the season. Bucky Harr. might well feel cause for rejoicin: these days, win, lose or draw, in hi fight for second or third place. And. on the other hand, McCarthy migh well feel cause for alarm if his eye are looking forward any farther than the world series. Marse Joe had saic last Spring that he feared the Griff- men, but it is doubtful if he suspected they would be battling to run next to his own club. Reviewing briefly the assets accumu- lated by the Washington base ball firm this season, it would seem that McCarthy is due a vote of thanks. From Joe was wooed Ben Chapman. and around him is laid the Nationals’ 1937 outfielding plans. Also from McCarthy came Jimmy De Shong, who has hung up 16 pitching victories so far in his first season as a major league starter. Around him is laid next year’s slab plans. The come-back of Joe Kuhel un- doubtedly ranks near the top of this year's pleasantries. Since 1933 Kuhel had been a distinct disappointment, but, lengthening his swing in a don’t-give-a-hoot mood last Spring, Kuhel has been setting a terrific pace all season to re-establish himself as one of Clark Griffith’s better pur- chases. Lewis Fulfills Expectations. ESPITE a long slump that has cut into his batting average, Buddy Lewis has more than lived up to expectations as a third baseman, and there isn't much question but that he is the best infielding prospect of the year in the American League. Right now the kid is tired and run down, which is natural in & boy of 20 years. With no qualms Bucky Harris has put him down as a tre- mendously vital asset. From a prime disappointment to one of the other prime pleasantries has been Cecil Travis as a shortstop. For a while it looked as if Travis lacked what it takes to be a short- stop. In the outfield he was worse. Then, given a last crack at short, he has come through in a manner which definitely raised hopes. Johnny Stone’s big year has not | hurt the Griffs’ prospects. Fred Sing- |ton has shown signs of developing !into a good run-driver-inner. Joe Cascarella and Pete Appleton have surprised with their pitching prowess. ‘When and if he trims down his bulky | frame, Shanty Hogan may be & help | behind the bat. Myer's Loss Big Blow. 'HE sour notes, comparatively, are negligible. Buddy Myer's failure to be of any value hurt deeply, but | Buddy is likely to be on hand next | year, and, in good health, he should be nearly as good as ever. Myer's trading value, of course, has dwindled considerably by his lay-off this year, but there is nothing chronic about his ailment. Clif Bolton's so-called “run-out® probably ranked second to Myer as Q| a disappointment, and the stocky lite tle catcher’s status is dubious. How= ever, the Nats have shown they can get along without Bolton, if neces- sary. Eddie Linke's failure to live up to expectations was another blow which still might be remedied if the roly- poly pitcher gets another chance. In his last relief appearance he looked good. Buck Newsom has won almost as many games as expected, but he has lost too many. Still, there is no way of telling when the big guy will “arrive.” If he ever does, and capi- talizes on his natural “stuff,” Buck could be a valuable asset. ‘McCarthy probably is not thinking of 1937 just now. The Giants are directly ahead, and Marse Joe's chief thought now is to grab the big share of the series pool. In that case s0 much the better for the Nats in the future. Forewarned still is forearmed in any league. Races Today Havre de Grace .