Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1936, Page 12

The Foening Star Sporls A-—12 WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936. Nats Need Extra Ounce ofPun'ch :Malone Hailed as Chief Yank Hero DOOMED T0 TRAL BY T-RUN LOSSES Drop 11 of Last 12 Close Ones to Fritter Away | Second-Place Chance. | BY FRANCIS E. STAN. N SPITE of all the nice favors the Browns have done for them by whipping the White Sox, your | Nationals were home from their | final road trip of the year today with second-place chances about as big as Hitler's mustache. | Lurking somewhere in the make-up | of the Washington ball club is & | weakness that Clark Griffith must ex- i pose and remedy before next season if | he hopes to have a team that will go | places. The current edition, it has | shown definitely in the last couple | weeks, simply lacks what it takes to make the most of an opportunity. They booted their chances all season, beginning in April and reach- | ing their first peak on July 4, when they had second place locked up, but blew their chance by folding in front of the Yankees. They had their big- gest chance little over a week ago in | Chicago, but again they folded. Over the week end in New York, they had another opportunity to go places. | ‘While the Browns were walloping the x the Griffs could have moved up, but they lost two games by one-run margins and the series, 2 to 1. | Can't Win the Close Ones. | ']‘HAT Mr. Griffith’s firm needs & little something extra is shown particularly by the alarming number of one-run decisions it has been in the habit of losing. A high-class club | wins its share of these, but the Griffs after a good start, haven't been doing it. | For the campaign they can show | & record of 17 victories by a one-run margin as against 22 defeats. This, ! however, is only due to an earl penchant for winning the close ones. Lately their record has been nothing &hort of pathetic. When they dropped the nightcap in New York yesterday by a 3-to-2 count it marked the eleventh one-run game they have lost in the last 12 of this kind and the sixth in a row. The lowly Athletics started the Nats on their streak of losing one- run games when they won two games late in August, 3 to 2 and 7 to 6. Cleveland came along to grab another by this margin and then Chicago grabbed two more. The only one-run game the Nats won during this string of close battles was from the Browns because the Tigers, A's, Red Sox, White Sox and Yanks came along to - win after that St. Louis victory, with the Yanks grabbing two games of this kind on Friday and yesterday. Whitehill Great in Opener. A! THE picture looks today, Wash- ington's chances of winding up in second place are slim. While St. Louis has been walloping the White Sox and the Griffs have been tread- ing water, Detroit has slipped into second place and now holds it by a two-and-one-half-game-margin over the Nats and by a two-game margin over the Sox. ‘Washington has five games in which lo overtake the Tigers and this is a irombmve job. Ear' Whitehill staked the Griffs to a fiying start in the opener yester- day, coming through with probably his best effort of the season to win & 6-to-1 decision. Red Ruffing, seek- ing his twentieth victory of the season, opposed Earl and started like a whirl- wind, but the Griffs began to find the range in the late going and won going away. Overcoming Yankee threats in the first three innings, Whitehill was pre- sented with a 1-to-0 lead in the fourth when Kuhel singled with one down, moved to second on Stones infield out, and scored on a single by Travis. In the Yanks' half of the fourth Jake Powell hit & home run to tie it up, but after that blow White- hill was in command while the Griffs pounded the ball freely. [AT Warren C. Giles (left), shown with Powel Crosley, jr., pre. dent of the Cincinnati Reds, after accepting position of vice president and general manager of the National League club. Giles will give up his twin post of president of the International League and chief executive of the Rochester club. Cincy Reds_‘_Get New Boss —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | Powell. Cubs and Cards Kil | Each Other Off. { Associated Press Sports Writer. HIS National League pennant | ing for weeks is just a cut- and-dried affair now. The the flag to their mast, should clinch the championship tomorrow or Wed- Of course, they could blow up com- pletely and lose all of their remaining have happened in the diamond game— but it seems impossible, with Carl calamity, These last few days things have ry's troupe. They swept their three- game series with the Dodgers. wind- hind fat Freddy Fitzsimmons' six-hit pitching job. THE same time, the Cardinals and Cubs have been killing each alternating in their series in Chicago. It was Chicago's turn again yester- four-hitter and Joknny Gill coming through with a three-run, eighth-in- Dean and the gas house gang, 4-3, to regain second place. games in front of the Cubs and 6% ahead of the Cards, with the situation Rushing Toward Goal as BY SID FEDER, chase that had the boys guess- Giants, needing but two games to nail nesday, at the latest. eight games—and stranger things Hubbell on tap to stop any such been breaking just right for Bill Ter- ing up with a 5-0 win yesterday be- Cards, Cubs Hurt Each Other. other's chances of catching up by day and with Bill Lee pitching a ning homer, the Cubs bested Dizzy All this left the Giants six full lined up this way: Games To Club. W. L. back. play Giants _ g0 By Cubs X4 A4 B 8 Cardinal 3 64 6% 7 The Pirates, apparently trying to get in position to slip past either the Cubs or Cards, or both, clubbed the Reds in both ends of a double-header to| take a spot only two games back of | the Gas House Gang. Cy Blanton's four-hit pitching featured a 5-1 vie- | tory in the opener, and Red Lucas hurled effectively to take the night- | cap, 6-4. Tigers Tighten Grip. \ ’T'HE Tigers tightened their grip mi second place in the American League by sweeping their series with the Indians. with a 5-3 win in yes- terday’s finale, stretching their win- ning streak to seven games. Lefty Gomez snapped back into form | | Crosetti | Rolfe. Official Scores Base Ball Patriarch’s Daughter Is Bride . Rita Theresa McGillicuddy, 19, daughter of Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Ath- letics, Saturday became the bride of Raymond J. McLaughlin, 30, associated with a Philadelphia | bank. The bride and bridegroom here are seen with the former’s famous dad. —Wide World Photo. First Game. WASHINGTON. AB. R. b isIm 310 O —asesmes > an. ‘¢ Whitehill, p._ Totals NEW YORK. 58 b Maggio. ef. b . 13 | Woeluszzsss22M —zss3ey @ Di Gehrig, Dickey. IO Seeds. Tf Lazzeri, Ruffing. Totals Washington _. New York - Runs _batted in Lewis (2 Sington Three-base Powell Lewis Kuhel Travis. Mihalic and Kuhel b D= 2 Sacrifices— Double piavs—Hogan_and Rolfe Washington Travis: and Gehrig. Left on_bases— ¢ York 6 New 6. Bases on balls—Off Whitehill. 1; off Rufing. 2. Struck out— By Rufing. f: by Whitehill Passed ball—Hogan. Umpires— Me: Summers, Time— Quinn and Dinneen. Second Game. WASHINGTON. Chapman, cf Hill. 1t 1b L4 Kuhel Sington. Kress. Blucge Mihalic *Revnolds Totals 29 2 *Ran for Hogan in ninth inning. +Batted for Newsom in ninth inning NEW YORK. AB. Crosetti. ss 3 Rolfe. b Di_Maggio_ ef s Gehriz. Selkirk, Powell Saltzzaver, Glenn. ¢ Gomez, p_ 0 H 0 1 s kD) PST Torals Washington New York Runs batt ! in—Gehrig. DI Maggio (2), Bluege (2). Stolen bases—Hill. Kuhel Selkirk. ~Double plays—Newsom. Hogan and Kuhel: Bluege. Mihalic and Kuhel: Mihalic. Kress and Kuhel. Lefi on bases =: New York, 10. Bases on Balk—Gomez. Pas: pires—Messrs. Quinn, Dinneen and Sum- 0, Time—2 mers. League Statistics MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1936. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Washineton. New York. 1.-3. ¢ HEEERETE: 2 = & 3|8 5[5‘5‘17:"?’.;%5 g s R tilwit | 141131981491.667 1111131 81 _8117/81168I. 116/11130/11115/78169 ) | called attention to this agreement and .| In the face of such objections, es- | - | pecially if the Argentine players accept | . % s in Opener, Won’t Permit Foe to Bolster. Astociated Press Sports Editor. ESTBURY, N. Y, Septem= \[ v defeat by the largest score ever recorded in interna- States forces looked around today for some means of checking the galloping For various reasons, the prospects were none to bright. | arf of international fleld at the | Meadow Brook Club and the rain contest, the Argentines ran wild yes- terday to whip Greentree, United | opening game of the series for the | cup of the Americas. The largest | | rout. Hitehcock, the present Greentree ace: | Devereux Milburn, Watson Webb Great Britain, 16-5, in the opening | game of the 1924 Westchester Cup | made in an international series. Even then it was nothing like the rout of | yesterday's clash. THE first half was an even affair with the sharpshooting of George keeping the North Americans in the o0 1936 {86 sy Take running. But after the intermission | Posil’ otan i Taviorias halted Bostwick and joined wri'l‘hdlhe R b i e L young Roberto Cavanagh in heading | i, vanvees and into the world series e S away at Montreal, his future ostensibly There was a possibility that either | confined to the bushes until Myril tree by the United States Polo Asso- | Myril was laid up for the season. ciation last week, Winston Guest and | Without any question, however. this Argentina, 21-to-9 Victor BY ALAN GOULD, ber 21—Srfrting under a tional polo competition, the United Gauchos from Argentina. Apparently unhampered by the sog- | which fell through the last half of the States representatives, 21 to 9, in the | | crowd of the season, 35,000, saw the Not since the “big four” of Tommy | and Malcolm Stevenson, whipped | series has a comparable score been | Greentree in the last four periods of | Bostwick Hold Up Yanks. (Pete) Bostwick, pint-sized No. 1. Burly Manuel Andrada, veteran back, | W s Senator prompted an attack that piled up 13 goals to 1 lSomeuy BeliGecdi 4ho Wit plitEin of the star subs named for the Green- | Hoag collided with Joe Di Maggio and Stewart Iglehart, might be sent into | department nominates Dick Coffman the line-up for Wednesday's game. for the title. The series is on & two-out-of-three | To followers of the American basis, and unless the North Americans ' League the one-time Senator was can win the second, the cup will g0 t0 | easy to overlook, but as his old ball Argentina for the first time. If &l club departed from New York last third game is necessary it will be night the tall, blond young man from played next Saturday. | Alabama was at the depot, saying From Argentina, however, came good-by for the year to Red Kress word of objections to such change | and a few of his more intimate and Lieut. Col. Enrique Padilla, presi- | friends. dent of the Argentine Polo Association. | He looked well satisfied with said the agreement had called for the | .= 0" y South Americans to play only the | % you; rocahed Ooffuan | of a year ago and the thought winner of the United States open title, struck home that here was the not an international team. L luckiest guy of the season. The last time the American League heard of Dick he was laying in the aisle—an aisle in a Pullman car that was bearing the St. Louis Browns eastward. A punch by Rogers Points to Agreement. | N A cable of felicitation to Jack Nelson, Argentine captain, Padilla | asked Nelson to see that “if the team is changed, it is not bettered.” He ex- | plained that in his opinion Guest and | Iglehart were not eligible as Greentree ! reserves since they had not held those | positions when Greentree won the | open. | the same attitude, it is not likely the | United States Polo Association will| | make the substitutions. Likewise the | Airst likely change would mean the dropping of John Hay (Jock) Whit-| | ney, Greentree captain and back, who | { was no match for the speedy South | | Americans once they got started yes- } terday. A third consideration is that | | the Argentines, superbly mounted, | might be able to outride the cup de- | fenders no matter who was up on the | North American horses. The only other possibility is for the United States to pin its hopes on the ability of the 10-goal star, Hitcheock, to rally his Greentree team and pro- | | duce the same sort of spirit and team- work that won the open title, even | though he was outplayed by Cavanagh all through the second half of the Hornsby. manager of the Browns. de- posited Coffman in this embarrassing position, He Ran Into Hornsby's Fist. THEE days, though, Dick has re- versed conditions, and instead of laying in the aisle himself he is lay- ing the Giants’ customers in the aisles, as the saying goes. At St. Louis he did not like the way Mr. Hornsby ran the Browns, he did not like Mr. Hornsby, and he was not pleased with the guys Hornsby managed. He started to drown his woes one after- leave, 50 the story goes, and the first thing he knew he bumped into Rajah in the Pullman. Hornsby sniffed. Coffman smirked, they clinched and Dick took quite a beating. Lewis Ts Big Howitzer. and virtually assured himself of & opening clash. L8 immediately - vas fired by UDDY LEWIS, emerging from & ' word series pitching berth with the e | Hornsby, who certainly would do no slump, led the Washingtons to Yankees by holding the Senators to G . “ ,R (l such thing if he thought Coffman was victory when he led off the sixth|two hits in the nightcap of their = 1 riiis’ hecoras any good, for the Browns' pitching is inning with a line-drive home run in | twin bill, for & 3-2 victory. The Nats (68169170 /721761901961 —i— Bl practemly nit Dick picked hi the right field bleachers. Singles by | gained an even break by taking the | gamEs TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. e bi.Pet y rate Dicl el m- Kuhel and Stone, a sacrifice by | opener, 6-1, as Buddy Lewis walloped | Nl ae | aemGiEe I o o Eee Y self up, brushed himself off and Travis, and Sington's long fly pro- | two homers. scheduled. Phiia. at N. Y. © 18 R 92142 24 s quickly proceeded to recuperate duced another run, making it 3 to 1.| The St. Louis Browns did it again oo Bevroit. 1104 156 43 A3% from his beating. Maybe he was In the eighth Lewis started with a | to the White Sox, taking a double- o ey ] used to them. All the Brown double and moved to third base on ' header, 8-5 and 9-3, with the aid of a Nati 1 74215 26 66 11 2 0 4 pitchers get that way. Kuhel's sacrifice, but when Stone | 23-hit attack and some costly Sox | ationa 13501 95113 1813 & 3 {:‘"Y‘;'Y_g:kmf:mw‘mk around grounded to Rolfe he was nipped at | errors. | RESULTS YESTERDAY. 87308 43780 1271 1 B¢ & holdfl wjox'fl :"ner wdn Le;sue rll\;bs the plate. Travis, however, tripled | The Red Sox fell apart before Un-| wew vork. 5: Brooklyn. 0. o 4 %855 gi e, vec.on Auin And 80 he dech led Rocky across and when Sington sin- | usually fine pitching, and the Athletics | Pittsburgh. h—6: Cincinnati. 1—4. 108383 50119 20 8 8 3N start anew in a diffedent league gled Cecil also scored, boosting the | grabbed off & twin win, 3-1 and 5-4. g depus el 90 203 s 81 17 2 4 43378 andmperau:‘ded Bill Terry that he still count to 5 to 1. The final run was ~ Danny MacFayden and old Bob — 2o v o & o % % R sl 12119 836 :O\I Du-'h. a ball up to the plate. scored when Lewis socked his second | Smith led the Bees to a double-header | Ol sl B §' '8" Elgl2 H g5 n 43108 1 2 2 r]l 9 l'i"- 17 h“ b“" 1l they rarely look a gift home run of the day into the bleach- | triumph over the Phillies, 5-3 and 6-5. MEBER R R R 1§ 160 41 orse in the mouth, and so Coffman ers in right field with two down in — —_— 2| 8| g EIE o 5;:-_ H | & 3 78 13 13 % ie 2158 went unnoticed for a long time, but he the ninth. | ,wl: B ;lg ik “; HHHE 1% 2% 380 odon| kept crashing the box scores as a re- The nightcap found Buck Newsom | FOO[ Ball Scores L R A 9 § 0 0 000 0000 lief pitcher and earning his daily and Lefty Gomez trying to determine NMIJ“—__W!::;W:{%:_E_ PITCHING. . £ bread. 1 i Professional. Chillll—| 7| 911011611511 164! G. H. BB, 80. 1P.GSCG.W. L. St he wildest pitcher In the league.| @ @ o @ e 30: Green Bay Pack- | StLIZIT2I—i3] 9 DI13115183164L.5651 6% 5948 "h4 56208% 2818 17 10| _ Joins Wilyum's Advisory Dept. Newsom won the title and the Nats g0 , 30; Green Bay | 33303 78 1100w 191112 9 Jost the ball game. Buck walked 10 | €rs. 3 Pitl 71101 9—IT4/14!18115I82I67L80] 83 B85 % BIGRT8 3 4 4| JFINALLY, when the Giants discov- men and gave up 7 hits while Gomes | Boston Reaskins, 236; Philadelphia | S e oo St snvione asaais RS RPRER MR | orodiother amasment that they walked 7 and held the Griffs to 2 hits. - BEIl_71 7] 9] 01 9I10/—I11162(841.425!27 1132 1t 02261 1 8 ¢ Both of them were lucky to get away Boston Shamrocks, 14; Syracuse | pni| 3( 6] 7/ 7| 91 8] 9—I501971.340129% =12 % 111854 1 8 3 ] Mgle began to take cognizance of with what damage was repdered. Braves, 4. L. I57164164167177/781841071—\—1 | Cohen 10 45 14 ’% 3% & i Slo ““n'n’l‘}:’;‘:A‘lfls"h‘:ht:x Plul:i - = College. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMOREOW, | (Russ] 18 68 28 8 49% & g tmes, e Buck’s Wildness Ruins Him. San Prancisco, 6 St. Mary’s|y y. at phil. g ey oppols 4 18 12 li& 2 9 | Gabler and Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons JN THE first inning Newsom gave up | (Texas), 6. Bkiyn. at Bos. Bkivn at Bes. (). | ichase ] .3 $ 1.3%¢828 ¢|and all the rest except Hubbell, who two walks and two hits but a dou- | La Salle, 27; Niagara University, 6. | Stpl, 5 CBL 410a I8 L Skt b MR eused. Deeds no relief. Now he, has been in ble play helped him emerge with only, a 1-t0-0 deficit. In the second inning he walked three men and pitched singles to Gomez and Di Maggio for two more runs, making it 3 to 0. ‘The Nats’ big chance came in the fourth inning when Gomez walked Hill and, after Kuhel went out, also walked Sington and Kress to fill the bases. Ossie Bluege here inserted the first Washington hit to score two runs but Mihalic and Hogan went out after a wild pitch had advanced the tying and winning runs into scoring position. : In the fourth the Griffs were given their only other chance to win the game when Chapman singled with but one out and Kuhel and Sington walked after two were out. Kress, however, popped up and thereafter Gomez strictly was unhittable, facing only 13 men in the last four innings. Newsom, too, pulled himself to- gether after his bad start, but the horse was stolen by that time. They Just can't win the close ones. b3 Any Jibe at Ettore Arouses Philadelphia Ring Fans Al Succeeds Loughran as Quaker City Idol—New York Tickets Transferred to Host City. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. HILADELPHIA, Scptember 21.—This town hasn’t been 50 steamed up over a fight since Gene Tunney licked Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight title just 10 years ago this week . . . and in the same arena where Al Ettore, the pride of Philly, under- takes to spill Joe Louis tomorrow night . . . those of you who were here that night will remember how it rained cats and dogs . . . some of the scribes had to dictate their stories from under the ring. Quickest way to get in dutch here is to tell Philly fans Ettore ~ / hasn’t got a darned good chance of upsetting Louis’ apple cart . . . Al is the No. 1 fighting man around these parts . . . he has stepped right into the niche for- merly occupied by Tommy Lough- ran and before him by Left-handed Lew Tendler, once one of the best of the lightweights. Tendler, a lot fatter than when he was fighting those memorable battles with Benny Leonard, is & prosperous tavern keeper now . . . his place is just across the street from press headquarters in the Walton Hotel, and needless to say, does a rushing business (after working hours, of course) . . . it «+. Cleveland may be the next city __to get a first-hand look at Louis. Joe Jacobs, Schmeling, talk Louis’ managers out of suing crossing $200,000, which will be Der Moxie for $500,000 for that doing all right in the way of & gate. recent . . . Joe Mike Jacobs, who is co-operating didn’t get to first base with John with the Philadelphia firm of Roxborough and Julian Black . . . Taylor and Gunnis in staging the ‘The last time'this bureau visited show, has transferred almost his Philadelphia was when Pepper entire New York office force here Martin ran wild in the world's ... The demand for tickets is so series of 1931 . . . The Giants are vy all those remaining unsold due today for their last visit of the in New York have been brought to season . . . The base ball situation Philly in here is normal—both the Phillies town . . . He was up and out at the and Athletics are wallowing around Municipal Stadium at 7 a.m. today in the cellar. A the | noon while waiting for the train to | | | The Luckiest Guy—Dick Coffman, HO is the luckiest ball plaver 40 games and proved himself far and away Terry's best relief pitcher. As the leaves begin to rustie and turn brown, and punts and talk of the world series fill the air, blond Richard from 'Bama finds that he is becoming an increasingly vital member of the Giants. Every now and then Terrv beckons to him and they put their heads to- gether and Dick tells Bill what he knows of the Yankees. In fact, this might be Coffman’s chief aid to the Giants in the big series—that as a new member of the Advisory Com- mittee. Nobody else on the Giants knows quite as much about the Yankees as Coffman, who used to pitch (and duck) against them as a Brownie. Terry would be interested to know what is thrown to Gehrig, for in- | stance, Yo hold his batting average down to a measly .358. He would like to know the little characteristics of Bill Dickey and Red Rolfe and Tony Lazzeri and George Selkirk. All this Coffman knows, or should know. Only on Joseph Di Maggio does he draw a blank. Di Mag (lucky Dick) did not come into the league until after Coffman left. ! Do You Remember Luque? SIDE from his part in the Giants’ pre-series masterminding, Dick. too, is likely to be given a chance to put his theories in practice. The | Yanks have too many guns for Terry to hope to escape without calling a relief pitcher or two. { Terrv has had remarkable fortune in picking up relief pitchers. Back in 1933, it will be recalled, Wilvum kept waving old Adolph Luque from the bull pen and the Giants not only won the pennant but won the world series from the Senators. | Washington isn't likely to | forget this wand-waving of Terry’s in a hurry., Still vivid is the picture of the superan- | nuated Senor Lugue shedding | his leather coat in left field and \ waddling from the bull pen in the final game of the series. Washington, too, had called a re- | lief pitcher—Jack Russell, them the king of all rescue hurlers. Even if the Griffs were trailing in games, 3 to 1. people felt a little sorry for the Giants at.the time and shook their heads. ‘Then Grandpappy Luque began to pitch and his curve and sinker mowed down the Senators inning after in-| ning. Finally, in the tenth inning, | Mel Ott hit a home run and the | Senators were behind the eight ball. In their half of the tenth they rallied, however, and put the tying and win- ning runs on base. Joe Kuhel. who was having a great year, was at bat. Senor Luque roused himself i | and began to throw that curve ball again and before anybody knew it Kuhel had struck out— the series was over and Terry was hugging Luque. | Now Luque has been pensioned and is a coach and Coffman is the relief pltcher. And Dick, too, has been | hugged, but not by Terry. Coffman | was hugged by Hornsby once but he | undoubtedly would have liked to have | Terry get his paws on him—Ilike he did on Luque in October, 1933. Stars Yest;arday PERRY ENCOUNTERS PUBLIC PARKS STAR Wetherell Enélishmun's Foe in' Second Round of Southwest Pacific Tournament. Br the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, September 21— Fred Perry of England led 32 netmen into the second round of championship play today in the tenth annual Pacific Southwest tennis tour- nament. Perry. after dropping a love set to ) | young Julius Heldman of Los Angeles, national junior singles tithist, won nis first-round match, 0—6, 6—u. b—4. His opponent today was Lewis Weth- erell, holder of the national public parks singles crown. Wetherell moved into the secona round at the expense of Harry Kime, Los Angeles, 6—1. 4—6, 6—2. Don Budge of Oakland, top seeaed of American contestants, had little difficulty defeating Bob Braly, Los Angeles, 6—2, 6+—0. yesterday, and was matched against Frank Stewart, Los Angeles collegian. In women'’s singles, Alice Marble of Los Angeles, national women s singies titlist, who breezed through her first- round match, drew young Jane Stan- ton, Beverly Hills, as her next op- ponent. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Tennis. Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. e TOMORROW. Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Playground Department's Fall tournament, courts, 4 open Potomac Park WEDNESDAY, Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Playground Department’s Fall tournament, Potomac courts, 4. open Park Thursday. Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. ‘Wrestling. Ernie Dusek vs. Ivan Managoff. feature match, Turner's Arena 8:30. Swimming. President’s Cup Regatta, off Shoreham Hotel, 8 % Tennis. Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. FRIDAY. Foot Bal George Washington vs. Emory and Henry, Griffith Stadium, 8 Tech vs. George Washington High, Alexandria, Va., 3:30. Gonzaga vs. Central, Central Stadium, 3:30. Sailing. President’s Cup Reggatta, Hains Point, 9:30-2:10. Tennis. Playground Department’s open oft Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. SATURDAY. Base Ball. New York vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. Foot Ball. Buddy Lewis, Senators, and Bt John's of Annapolis * v Lefty Gomez, Yankees—Former hit two homers in double-header open- er; Gomez pitched two-hitter in nightcap. Cy Blanton and Arky Vaughan, Pirates—Former limited Reds to four hits in first game of double bill; Vaughan had three singles, driving in two runs in nightcap. Al Simmons, Tigers—His single batted in winning runs against Indians. Bill Lee arid Johnny Gill, Cubs —Former stopped Cardinals with four hits, while Gill's homer with two on won game. Herman Pink and Pinky Hig- gins, Athletics—Fink pitched five- hit ball to down Red Sox in twin bill opener; Higgins had homer and single, driving in three runs, in second game. Baxter Jordan and Bob Smith, Bees—Former singled in two runs against Phils in double-header first game; Smith’s relief pitching and single, driving in winning run, took nightcap. Lyn Lary and Jule Solters, Browns—Former drove in three runs with two singles in first game against White Sox; Solters trippled with bases loaded in nightcap. Maryland, College Park, Md., 3. Shippensburg, Ps., Normal vs. Wilson Teachers' College, Central Stadium, 2:30. Eastern High vs. Episcopal, Alex- andria, Va., 3. Devitt vs. Mercersburg Prep, Mercersburg, Pa. Sailing, President’s Cup Regatta, off Hains Point, 9:30-10:10. Power ting. President'’s Cup Regstta, off Hains. Point, 1:15-5:30. Tennis. Semi-finals, Playground Depart- ‘ment’s open Fall tournament, Edgemoor courts, 2. * . Minor Leagues PLAY-OFFS. Birmingham, 5; Nashville, 2. Atlanta, 5; New Orleans, 3. American Association. Milwaukee, 5; Indianapolis, 1. Pacific Coast. San Diego, 7; Oakland, 1. Texas. Dallas, 4; Oklahoma City, 1 Tulsa, 5; Houston, 3. PLAYS STAR ROLE AS RELIEF HURLER {“0ld Blubber,” in 32 Games, Annexes 11 and Saves Dozen Others. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. VERY pennant - winning base ball team must have its hero. On the New York Yankees there are several eligible for the nomination. You might pick Lou Gehrig or Joe Di Maggio, the sensa- tional rookie outfielder, or even Don Antonio Lazzeri. But I'll take Pat Malone—"0ld Blubber” they call him down on the field. “Old Blubber” will celebrate his 34th birthday anniversary come Fri- day, and has been pitching profes- sionally since 1921, which makes him an old guy in a business that gives preference to youth. *“Old Blubber” was cast off by the Cubs after seven seasons of excellent service, and the Cardinals, which took him off Chica- go's pay roll, couldn't find a place for him among the Gas Housers. It looked for a time, in the Spring | of 1935, as though “Old Blubber” might be heading down the minor league trail, but Joe McCarthy snatched | him for the Yankees. When McCar- | thy managed the Cubs, “Old Blubber” was one of his ace pitchers and Joe gambled there still was some rubber | left in the Malone arm. Justifies McCarthy's Faith, “'OLD BLUBBER"” did not perform | any great deeds for the Yankees last season, but McCarthy kept him | around. Joe’s faith in the man was | Justified, for this year “Old Blubber” has paid off a huge accumulated div- |idend to Col. Jake Ruppert, McCat | thy and the Yankee boys. Through- | out the season Malone has been the first aid to a pitching staff that was | erratic, to say the least. He pitched | only four complete games, but worked in 32, and it was a rare day when you did not sight “Old Blubber” down in the bull pen awaiting the call to warm up. In his relief role, Malone won 11 games for the Yankees and saved 12 others: only four times was he charged ’wuh defeat. That figures 33 games “Old Blubber” put on the right side for New York, and that appears suf- ficient to name him the No. 1 hero of the Yankee troupe. New York might have won the pennant without | “Old Blubber,” but it would not have | won so easily or so early. J The Cubs could have used “Old | Blubber” to advantage this Summer iand so could the Cards. Had either |club kept him around, the Giants | probably would not be anchored in first place and Manhattan would not be making ready for a 5-cent world series. Joe McCarthy knew his Malone. | Pitching Deals Help. MCCARTHY was very successful in “"7 the pitcher deals he made last Winter. “Bump” Hadley, obtained from Washington in a trade, has won 12 and lost only 3 for the new Amer- ican League champions, and Monte Pearson, obtained from Cleveland, has tacked up 17 victories against 6 defeats. Those two, along with “Old Blubber” Malone, made the Yankee pitching staff when “Goofy” Gomez failed to show bis anticipated and regular form. The Yankees won with one of the spottiest pitching staffs on record. “Red” Ruffing was the only one of seven hurlers to go the route in more than half of his games. The Yan- | kees’ table of complete games reads: Ruffing, 22 of 30; Hadley, 7 of 27: Pearson, 14 of 28: Murphy, 1 of 20: Broaca, 11 of 31; Malone, 4 of 32, and Gomez, 9 of 27. The Yankee hitting was the thing that won the championship, and in game after game an avalanche of |mm compensated for ordinary and erratic pitching. I'll take “Old Blub- ber” Malone as the outstanding New York pitcher, for he seldom was called until the going became rough or a game was in balance, and seldom did he fail the manager who saved him from the minors. “Old Blubber” still is quite a fellow with that base ball 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR Two costly wild throws by Ray Morgan gave Cleveland a 3-2 vic- tory over the Nats, depriving Doc Ayers of a triumph over Joe Boeh- ling, the erstwhile Griffman. Boeh- ling pitched his head off to beat his former mates, holding them to six hits, three by Elmer Smith. John T. Graves providsd the sur- prise of the District tennis tourna- ment when he eliminated Dudley Morgan in the semi-final round, 4—8, 6—4, 7—5. Graves now plays R. C. Van Vliet for the champion- ship. e — e e | I SEE THE 1937 AT OUR New Sales Room NOW LOCATED T A 5019 Conn. 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