Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 39

[ soenen | @he WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Poening Ssfar SEPTEMBER 24, 1936. Features and Ciassified C PAGE C—1 Much Spurned Hurler Griff Star : Sailing Boats Open Big Regatia Out, Was Real Chance. Bucks Beat Bosox. P IN New York next week a flock of assorted major league straws, cut cards, or what- ever they do to determine the destina- out of the minors via the draft, and Clark Griffith is one gent who will They always go through this ritual on the eve of a world series and last emerged with rights reserved on a guy named Pete Appleton from Pete was hot stuff, but his value as a major leaguer was open for debate. Pete, as a big-timer, still is hot stuff. While the Nationals yesterday third place on the wings of a ninth- inning rally against Bosten, our Mr. victory of the season as against nine defeats. Furthermore, Pete proved ‘was difficult to believe that, for the paltry draft price of 7,500 potatoes, and so Appleton sat for long periods on the bench before he got a real Al Pete Needed, It Turns| BY FRANCIS E. STAN. clubowners are going to draw tion of the ball players who come pray that history repeats itself. year it may be recalled that Griffith Montreal. As a minor leaguer in 1935 Now there isn't much doubt but that swooped into undisputed possession of Appleton chalked up his thirteenth himself a winner the hard way. It & winning pitcher could be picked up, chance. Just Needed A Chance. OBODY could blame anybody much for Appleton’'s inactivity for @ great part of the season, for he had been sent back to the minors by the Reds, Indians, Yankees and Red Sox in the past. Now, it develops, all the guy needed was a bona-fide op- portunity and, as a National, he eventually got it. Unless it is as a relief pitcher, Appleton's name won’t be in any more box scores this year. He wound up his starting activities yesterdar when he held the Sox to six hits and walked only one batter. while his Mates staged a rally in the last inning to score two runs and win a 3-to-2 de- eision. It is safe. then. to survey his record as of the season and take ecognizance of a helpful cog in a surprising ball team. | Only two teams hold the edge on Pete for the vear and they are the Indians and White Sox. Appleten dropped three games and won none against Chicago, but two of these were Jlost by one-run margins. Against Cleveland he won one of three games, holding the Tribe to a single run nnd five hits to turn the trick. He's Poison to Tigers. AGAINST Detroit he has been poison, starts. One of these was a two-hit effort and another a six-hit game. Btill a third broke Washington's long- est losing streak. a seven-game affair. Against the Red Sox he took three of five decisions, pitching two five-hit games and two six-hitters. He op- posed the Browns only once and, as ,5( & relief pitcher, got credit for the victory. Against Philadelphia he won three and lost none, and against New | H York he won one and dropped none. He has gone the route and won 11 times and his record while registering these victories has been little short of amazing. He gave up a total of 27 runs, both earned and unearned, for en average of two and one-half ver game. He has given up 63 hits for an average of less than six per game. And this is the guy who wasn't good enough for the Reds, Indians, Yanks and Red Sox. Nats Stage Great Rally. ONE of the runs the Sox made yes- terday was unearned, Red Kress’ wild throw in the first inning helping them to a 1-0 lead. In the third in- ning Boston got its second run by le- gitimate means, but thereafter Apple- ton held the Sox to two measly hits in the last six innings and left it up w. his teammates to come through. This was late in coming. The Nats eouldn’t hit Rookie Emerson Poindex- | 3i/ie" ter, who finally walked himself out of | the ball park in the seventh inning, | ‘with the score standing at 2-1 and two | Funners on base with two down. Jack Wilson took up the Boston | pitching, ended the seventh and eighth | M: innings and ran smack into the Griffs’ belated bid in the ninth. This was | started with Lewis, batting for Apple- ton, drew a walk. Ben Chapman then singled to center and Jess Hill to left, Lewis scoring with the tying run and Chappie taking third. The Same Old Pebble? THIS brought Fritz Ostermueller | PAsc s rushing to Wilson’s. rescue and but for the same pebble that helped ‘Washington to its only world cham- plonship in 1924 Fritz would have turned in one of the great relief jobs of the year. ‘With the infield and outfleld drawn close, Fritz forced Kuhel to bounce to Melillo. Then he walked Johnny Stone, but whiffed the dangerous Cecil Travis. ‘When Ossie Bluege sent a soft ground- er to Werber at third it Jooked to be all over and tied up. e winning three of four | picye: --- AND THE BOOM CAN SCORE A DIRECT HIT |F THE SKIPPER GETS CARELESS...-. Ofiiclal Score -3 Sousmace el >53950500mmoR Sossias e Sooramrssnon0 D, Ostermueller, p. Totals LY £ Row0 &l ssswmsgzcsss> © 31 s somm o 6l 353300430058 o ®»| 20=203.0ms ! Ly ‘ed o7 Appleton. In the ninth out when winining run was scored ) Bost Washington” Runs_batted in—Ci ner. — & el (3 mu Double plaveerhinalic to Kress to. Kub Kroner to Dickey, Let on Eases—Bosion: 8 ston. i3 Bases on ballsoff Polm’i'exg.r 6: off ‘Wi A, Heon 3 8 315 Ostermueller, 1 in % inning. Wild pitch— Poindexter. ' Passed ball—Dickey. Win- ning pitcher—Appleton. Losing pitcher— Wilson. "Umpires—Messers. Quinn, Owens and Summers. Time—2:20. Griffs’Records BATTING. G, AB. 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To think that, uurumnol groundkeeping, foot ball, rassling and fights the pebble stood its ground. APPLING VOTED BEST Patting Leader Tops Herman in Chicago Balloting. who apparently is headed for the American League batting champion- ship, has been voted Chicago's most valusble major letnnt hli l;:ly.!l‘ by participants in & four-weel con- ducted by a Chicago business con- cemn. Appling received 61,378 votes, to Billy Herman, the Cubs’ napolis October 31. SMALL BUT AMBITIOUS. | THE LITTLE COMETS CAN BREEZE ALONG ° IE THEY GET ANY KIND OF A PUFF. ..o JusT A MATTER OF BALANC THE COMMANDER OF A COMET IS USUALLY OUTFITTEP LIKE A MOVIE THEATER USHER... © THIS TINY WIND-POWERED CBAFT IS RAPIDLY FINDING A PLACE IN THE SUN, AND WILL OCCUPY A PROMINENT PLNCE IN THE COMING REGATTA THIS WEEK END.virve "POPPIN SOfF 3 Maybe the Old Fox Is Another Cardini. UR Mr. Joey Kuhel, who also first bases for the firm, is sup- posed to be the ranking ma- gician of the Washington ball club, having made an extensive study for several years of pulling cards from behind your ear and turning the queen | of spades into a deuce of diamonds. But somehow, as the American League campaign forges to its close and the Nationals not only stay but climb in " the first division, you wonder if there {s not another magician on the loose within the outfit. 1t 50, he would be Clark Griffith, who has sat back and pulled the front-of- fice strings on probably the most sur- prising major league ball club of the year. When the Nation's leading poll last Spring picked every team in the circuit. except the A's to beat out the ‘Washingtons the reason advanced was that Griff had no pitching. " His outfield and infield were rated adequate and nobedy ques- tioned the power, which bowed enly to the punch of the Cham- pion Tigers in 1935. But every- body wondered what Griff was going to turn over to Bucky * ‘Harris for pitching purpeses. Today the Nationals were in undis- puted possession of third place. They also boasted victory No, 80 for the sea- son, and if anybody had suggested they would win that many last April e would have been given the hee-haw. And the reason, unless you have kept pretty close tab on them, will knock your eye out. It is, of all things, pitching! Here Are Figgers Worth a Gander. COLD figures digest dryly, but the Wi staff, which only & couple months ago was a laugh- ing stock, has produced a few numerals that might well bear inspection. In the last month the Nationals have won 16 out of 26 games for a pennant-win- ning percentage and it was not fielding nor hitting that played a chief part. It was pitching, real honest-to-good- ness hurling the like of which a Wash- ing team has not seen since 1933. In these 26 games 19 of the starting pitchers went the route. Only seven times was it deemed wise to use more than one hurler. Jimmy De Shong thrice needed aid and Buck Newsom, Joe Cascarella, Pete Appleton and Rookie Ray Phe- bus were relieved once each. In these 26 games the opposition has scored a grand total of 98 runs, earned and unearned. This is an average of slightly more than four runs per game, which is a great figure when it is considered that all mem- bers of the staff were involved and not just a few chosen pitchers of known caliber. To get thes¢ runs the opposition, embracing every club in the loop, slammed 203 hits, but this is an average of less than 8 hits per game. Only seven times did they make 10 or more hits to offset these off- days the kers responded with such gems as Buck Newsom's one-hit game against the Browns, a four- (This is one of a series of stories dealing with the world series Pprospects.) BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, September 24— ‘The more or less nerve-wrack- ing approach of the New York Giants to the world serfes with the neighboring Yankees finds the dramatic outlook somewhat reminis- cent of the last of three base ball wars fought out on opposite banks of the Harlem River in 1923. Then, as now, in a manner of speak- ing it was “brains versus brawn.” In other words,, the record-smashing power in Yankee bats will be pitted against the resources of the best de- | fensive club in big league base ball. Instead of the battle of wits be- | tween the most famous of all master | hitter against the A's by Phebus and Monte Weaver, by Earl Whitehill. Pete Stepped Into Breach. THIS kind of a sustained per- formance by 8 pitching staff ought to qualify Griff for some sort | of a membership in the United | Magicians of America. When the curtain rose on the current season Manager Bucky Harris was certain | of only two big league pitchers, Newsom and Whitehill, and the former was rated an in-and-outer while the later was nearing his thirty-sixth birthday. For his so-called “Big Four,” Harris had Eddie Linke and De Shong te help out, but this Pair batted only .500. Linke - failed completely and was shipped away. De Shong, how- ever, made good in his first real trial as a starter and has eontributed 16 victories. ‘This left Harris with a gap to fill and he looked in the direction of Pete Appleton picked up via the draft for $7,500 Pete was supposed to be only a “flll-in” pitcher but once he got his chance and bearings, Appleton went to town. Today he owns 13 victories and it might just as well have been 18 if he had been used more frequently from the start of the season. *37 Prospects Are Good. IN ‘THE middle of July Griffith proved again that the hand was quicker than the eye, or something, and Signor Joseph Cascarella suddenly appeared in a Washington uniform. To the sur- prise of all Signor Joe began to pitch great ball from the start and with any kind of an even break he would have won at least & dozen games as a Sen- ator. As it 1s Cascarella owns nine victories and will get another shot dur- ing the Yankee series at the end of this week. During the course of pulling pitchers from under the noses of people like Tom Yawkey, Griff picked up a few duds. There were f'rinstance, Joe Bo- kina and Ken Chase and Henry Cop- (See POPPING OFF, Page C-2.) Quaker Clty Sports Bet Yanks Will Cop in Six Games Figure Hubbell as Gmnts‘ Only Tough Pitch er-—G BY EDDIE BRIETZ, . Associsted Press Sports wm. EW YORK, September 34. Down in Philly the Broad street are betting the Yanks will take the Giants in six games . . . t baby face? Coach mam.fimmm for his Manhattan College foot EEEE THe : i ia Tech Se;n as Grid Surprise. ‘Wade Ison, sports ed of the and three 6-hitters | —By JIM BERRYMAN. | Brawn Against Brain Aspect “AR L | | Of Yank-Giant Rivalry That Marked Series of 1923 Same minds, John Joseph McGraw, and the greatest of all sluggers, Babe Ruth, titls year’s affray finds a pupil of the old master, William Harold Terry, de- vising strategy to meet the slugging ensemble led by Larruping Lou Geh- rig, the new home-run king. | Methods About Same. | "T'ERRY and his infield mate, Travis | Calvin Jackson, were just two young fellows being ripened for reg- |ular duty when the last “subway series” was played. Jackson pinch-hit against Herb Pennock one afternoon, | but other-ise he and Terry were just | 80 muck. background in a series that | saw Ruth and company blast their way to triumph after two successive | setbacks in 1921-22. | The complete shift in regular play- | ing casts since those glamorous days | | has not been accompanied, however, by much alteration in rival methods. The Yankees, with Joe McCarthy di. recting maneuvers from the bench the late Miller Huggins did, still op- | erate on the theory that a home run/ is the best strategy. They have broken all records for circuit clouting this| year, with Gehrig setting the pace Im" a new batting order that swings from’ the heels, from top to bottom. The Giants, possessing a brand of power that fades somewhat by com- | parison, still play “McGraw base ball.” | They aim for the breaks, feature a | tight defense, and rely upon the re- | sources of a pitching staff headed by | the great Carl Hubbell. Under Terry's | | scheme of operation, Hubbell occupies much the same role the talented Art | Nett did for McGraw. Both rank with | | the great southpaws of post-war days. | Hubbell, rated off his marvelous 1936 | season, belongs among the all-time ' flinging craftsmen. | Hubbell Has Little Help. i T REMAINS to be seen whether one great moundsman can carry the Giants to victory in the world series. Except for the veteran knuckle-baller, Freddy Fitzsommons, the National Leaguers have no other pitcher who now appears capable of giving the cele- brated exponent of the screwball much support. Hubbell, if he holds his cur- | rent form, may not need a great deal | of help, but the series would have to be prolonged to six or seven games to give the Oklahoman a chance to carve three winning performances. ‘The presence of Hubbell in the box, however, will make the Giants fa- | vorites for the opener next Wednes- | | day at the Polo Grounds. If he meas- | ures up to expectations, the occasion {also may see the end of the Yankee | winning streak in world series compe- tition. | Col. Jacob Ruppert's rifiemen have ;nm been stopped by opposing sharp- { shooters since 1926, the year the Yan- kees dropped the verdict to Grover Cleveland Alexander and the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh game. They won four straight the next year from the Pittsburgh Pirates, re- peated against the Cardinals in 1928, That ended the old regime, the only survivors of which are Gehrig and ‘Tony Lazzeri. Under McCarthy the 1932 Yankees walloped the Chicago | Cubs four in & row. If they can beat Hubbell, they may blast their way to | another quick triumph but base ball men will be astounded by any such eventuaiity. Was Griffmen’s Nemesis. AMER.!CAN LEAUGE experience | against Hubbell has offered noth- ing to bolster hopes of subjecting him {to any indignities. The screwball | southpaw beat the Washington Sena- tors twice in the 1933 series. Still | memorable is his exploit of fanning | Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin in succession, in the 1934 All- Star game at the Polo Grounds. It should be not only an interesting but a closely contested series, for sev- eral reasons. Throughout their pen- nant drive the Giants have done their best against toughest opposition. They have a better double play combination | and a harder-hitting outfield than the Yankees. They lack the speed or the all-around power of the American League champions. They have fewer pitchers who seem in effective shape for the series, but they have the key man in Hubbell. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3. Wrestling. Ernie Dusek vs. Ivan Managoff, feature match, Turner's Arena, 8:30. Swimming. President's Cup Regatta event, Shoreham Hotel, 8. Tennis. Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. TOMORROW. Foot Ball. 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 Regatta, Hains Point, 9:30-2:10. SATURDAY. Base Ball. New York vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. Foot Ball. St. John's of Annapolis vs. Maryland, College Park, Md., 3. Shippensburg, Pa., 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, Hains Point, 9:30-10:10. Power Boating. President’s Cup Regatta, Hains Point, 1:15-5:30. Tennis. Semi-finals, Playground Depart- ment’s open Fall tournament, Edgemoor courts, 2. off off off TIENOW 15 LEAST TERRIERS CAN GET New York Victory or Loss' by Cards Today Would Decide Pennant, BY SID FEDER, Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Giants can't miss now. After | stalling it off as long as pos- sible, they finally got in a posi- tion to sew up the ional League flag, most likely today, sim- ply by calling on Carl Hubbell to | demonstrate once again that he’s the experts’ biggest “headache” this sea- son. One win for Bill Terry's Terriers, or a loss for the second-place Cardi- nals winds up the pennant chase. Even if they lost all their remaining five games and the Cards take the rest of their schedule, the Giants are assured of a tie. Going into what may be the final day of pennant fighting. here’s the way the situation shapes up: Games Games Club. w. L. Back. to P]IY Giants .___ 90 59 Oardinals .. 85 64 5 fi Another for Hubbell. THE Giants took their commanding spot yesterday, after being in po- sition since Sunday to put the | “clincher” on, by sending Hubbell up | against the troublesome Phillies. The result, as expected, was a decision for “King Carl"—5-4. Yanks Score 100th Win. PHILPS had three hits to shoot out in front, leading the Dodgers to an 8-t0-6 win over the Boston Bees as Van Mungo pitched his seventeenth victory of the season. The Cards and | Reds were rained out. The Yankees won their 100th vic- tory of the season, walloping the Ath- letics, 12 to 5. The White Sox split with the Indi- ans, Bob Feller fanning 10 to hurl a 17-t0-2 Cleveland win in the opener and Luke Appling belting a homer to help the White Sox take the nightcap, 8 to 3, in six innings. HE following art the entries who will compete for The Eve- ning Star trophies in the nine sailing races of the President’s Cup Regatta which had been received up to a late hour this morning. Ex- cept where the home towns are listed in parenthesis, the contestant is a Washington man. Numbers to the left of the boat’s name are the num- bers which will be found on the craft’s sail. arriet 50 555 Pancy Card for Sailing In President’s Cup Regatta Contests igiaie ozmq;w "Slddle. N. Moore es. bert._ir., exandria. Va. tie Dipper__ Ar\l 305 Pummy Diddle_G. B. Ariingtor 304 Bink Quick__._G. A, Danken, & Lucille .-._.-.1. 95. , ' 0 Myrey oo RS ™ 308 Vanity .__..m 5 'RACE TONGRROW N NINE CLASSES 'Swimming Meet Tonight Is First Competition in Annual Classic. BY BILL DISMER, JR. AUGURATING the 1936 Presie dent’s Cup regatta on the Poe tomac River in exactly the same manner that man first started to travel on the water, Washington’s greatest annual water classic begins | tomorrow, when two sailing races will | keep nine classes of skippers on the | waves around Hains Point from 9:30 o'clock in the morning until late toe morrow afternoon. The course will be from a point east | of the Railroad Bridge down around a bell buoy off Hains Point, up the channel almost to the Corinthian bYacht Club and return. All but the | moth and dinghy classes will race | two laps. | Although the regatta receives iis | official opening tonight at the Shore- | ham Hotel, where a swimming meet | will feature some of the leading mer« | men and mermaids of the East, it is | the old Potomac that will become the | objective of every water sports-minded | fan for the next three days, starting tomorrow. Sponsored by The Evening Star, iwhmh again will present trophies to successful contestants in each event, | the sailin} races promise to start | the regatta off with an enthusiasm that will continue unabated until Sunday evening. Forced to Add Classes. MORE than twice as many entrants this year have been received for the wind-propelled craft than in 1935, and the demand for representation of | more kinds of sailing has resulted in five more classes being added to this portion of the regatta. | In addition, officials have decided to | extend the competition over a series | of three races instead of one, as last year, with the program calling for a race tomorrow morning, another tomorrow afternoon and the final on Saturday morning. Each class—moth, canoe, dinghey, snipe, comet, alba- tross, 20-foot open, A handicap and B handicap—will have three races, therefore, for its own competitors. The winner, and recipient of The Star’'s championship trophy, will be determined on the total of points won in all three, victory in one by no means assuring that boat of the ti- tle, should it falter in the remaining races. A point is counted for each | boat beaten, plus one point for fin- | ishing, plus one-quarter of a point for first place in each race. While the majority of the con- | testants are Washingtonians, who have taken to sailing this year as never befere, an out-of-town fleld, | making up in quality what it lacks in quantity, presents serious threats to local bids for triumphs. Comet Champ Competes. OmTANDINO among them may be the national champion comet, Aquila, owned and piloted by A. O'Brien of Perth Amboy, N. J. Al- though there was some doubt this | morning as to O'Brien’s presence here, | spectators may look for the gold star {on his sail which would bear the number 68. The star is the emblem of national supremacy given by the | National Comet Association. Incidentally, Dr. John Eiman, pres- ident of the comet class Yacht Racing Association at the Stone Harbor Yacht Club, New Jersey, and founder of the class in 1933, will be here for the re- gatta and has been placed on the ; Sailing Race Committee. Another patch of white, new to Washingtonians, will be the snipe, Chase Me, present high-point scorer of that class in the country, piloted by Charles A. Gabor of Lake Mo- hawk, Sparta, N. Y. The Chase Me, | competing in a class whose 15-foot 6- inch length makes its members ex- | tremely hazardous to sail in heavy | weather, will be marked by the num- | ber 117. Agility of the crew alone | determines victory in this class. Many Other Invaders. THER out-of-town entrants will come from New York, Providence (R. 1), New Rochelle, Port Washing- as well as places closer such as Norfolk, Baltimore and Annapolis. But Washington is not without its contenders. D. Verner Smythe has his Sassy primed for the race of its life |in the comet class, while Osborne Owings is putting his Vanity in the 20-foot open class. Smythe's Sassy recently won eighth place in the na- tional race for comets, while Owings has been cleaning up this yvear in the Chesapeake Bay area. In fact, Capital representatives will have two of the events entirely to themselves, no outsiders Leing entered in the Class A Handicap and the Alba- tross races. Nationally known figures of the sail racing game will serve on the Race Committee. Herbert L. Stone, ecitor of Yachting magazine; W. F. Crosby, editor of the Rudder, in addition to Eiman, mentioned above, are the three most prominent, but several others well known in the city have cone sented to sarve. STOP! Your 1930 or 1931 Ford or Chevrolet will be ac- copted “as full_down payment on a famous Thoro-proofed 1934 or 1935 Ford V-8. Low monthly payments. SRR MRS @ 6th & N. Y. Ave. N.W.