Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1936, Page 15

NEW OWNERSHP FOR DODGERS 0E Changes in Managers Also! Certain—Ruth Receptive, May Be Spurned. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, October 7.—In the wake of the latest world series earthquake promoted by the hired hands of Col. Jacob Ruppert, major league base ball is due for a series of shake-ups. Casey Stengel's sudden release by the -Brooklyn Dodgers is believed by most insiders to be the forerunner of several managerial changes, particu- lJarly in the National League. At. the same.time a change in the Brooklyn ownership is understood on g00d authority to be imminent. There is basis for revival of the reports that Qol. T. L. Huston's negotiations for the purchase of the club from the Eubets-McKeever estates will go through within & few weeks. ‘Whether Babe Ruth, this year's far- gotten man of base ball, will be given & spot in the Brooklyn picture, pos- aibly as manager under & new owner- ship, remains to be seen. The former home run king is in a receptive mood, after s fidgety year on the sidelines, but major league magnates have shown little interest in Ruth’'s mana- gerial qualifications since his ex- Perience with Boston. Others Are on Griddle. ANAGER JIMMY WILSON of the Phillies, Rogers Hornsby of the 8t. Louis Browns, and Bill McKechnie of_the Boston Bees are others men- tioned in the early “stove league” de- bate over possible changes. McKech- nie's name entered the discussion as o possible cholce to take over the field leadership of the Giants, if and when Bill Terry decided to move into a front-office executive spot. ‘Terry, however, still has two years %0 g0 on a five-year contract as man- ager of the National League cham- pions. Memphis Bill, as well as his old side-kick, Travis (Stonewall) Jackson, probably have played their last games as regulars with the close of the world series. Terry wanted to retire this year from active play. He hobbled through the last part of the season and the series on one good leg. His potential successor is not Sam Leslie, but Long John Mc- Oarthy, obtained near the end of the season from Newark. Bettlement of the case of Bob Peller, sensational rookie strike-out king, ‘'who made -his debut with the Cleveland Indians, is awaited with much interest by big leaguers. Com- missioner Landis has under consid- eration the charge that Cleveland violated the major-minor agreement by pieking up Feller directly from the sandlots, in territory of the Des Moines: club. The decision as to the validity of Cleveland’s possession is Dot expected for-two or three weeks. -It might mean an explosion’if Feller Is taken from the Tribal tent. Ruppert Likes Feller. E'S a feliow I would give plenty of money for,” said Col. Ruppert, owner of the world cham- pion Yankees, when the subject of ball-playing values and current mar- ket possibilities was under discussion. “Pitching makes or breaks any ball elub. It's all right to talk about ‘Yankee power, but don’t forget that it has always been hitched to some pretty good pitching.” Whereas the Yankees are well sit- wated, with player resources, for some time to come, their American League rivals must do a lot of rebuilding this ‘Winter. This applies especially to the gold-plated Red Sox, who have now decided to discard their policy of try- ing to develop a pennant winner ‘with high-priced stars. “No big -headlines in sight, so far s we are concerned,” said Joe Cronin, youthful manager of the Red Sox. “We will rely on our farm system and the development of younger men to produce what we need.” The Cardinal “Gas House Gang” will likely be the club to beat in the National League next year. Injuries broke up the St. Louis club this year, but the chain-store system turned up & flock of promising newcomers. Manager Frankie Frisch’s playing days probably are behind him, but he will have another formidable crew in the race, especially if Paul Dean returns to pitching form to help his -big brother, Dizzy. FURR TO FIGHT LUCAS Local Welter Champion to Meet Jerseyan Monday Night. ‘Washington's indoor fight season will get under way next Monday night with Phil Purr, local welterweight cham- pion, meeting Johnny Lucas of Camden, N.J, in the feature bout at Turner's Arens. On the basis of available records, Lucas should enter the ring & slight favorite over the District title holder, the Oamden lad having defeated two men who won from Furr. "BOASTS FAMOUS NAME DETROIT.—University of Detroit's freshman team has a rival for the res and Longfellows of foot ball fame at other colleges in Benja- “min Franklin, Ben has a good chance of winning & tackle position if he sticks to the gridiron and doesn’t go out to fly & kite in a thunderstorm. 2 Mat Matches By the Assoclated Press. NEW HAVEN, Oonn—Yvon Rob- ort; 222, Montreal, threw Rudy Dusek, 220, Omaha, two out of three falls. NEWARK, N. J—Ernie Dusek, 325, Omaha, defeated Ed Meske, 313, Ohio. . PROVIDENCE, R. 1-—Dr. John Murphy, Alabama, and , drew, 90 min- tes. : LINCOLN, Nebr.—Jose Dusek, 219, Omahs, defeated Ernie Ponn. 223, Omaha, threw AM Johnson, 317, ‘Mindeapolis, one fall. GHICAGO ~—Dean Detion, 303, Satt City, threw Chief Little Wolf, BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, October 7.—Alvin Jacob Powell, who became 80 disgusted with base ball three years ago that he wanted to quit the game for a policeman’s beat, was hailed today as the world series hero of 1936. Base ball experts, almost unani- mpously, rated the hustling outfielder who came from. Washington in the deal for Ben Chapman last June, as the hero of Yankee heros. Not only did the graduate from Washington's sandlots lead both teams in batting with a .455 average and top all the sluggers in runs scored, but his per- fect fielding, brililant base running and hustle were big factors in the Yankee drive to the world champion- ship. Powell got 10 hits in 22 chances, drove in 5 runs and scored 8. He handled 11 chances, 2 of them tough ones, perfectly. Giant pitchers classi- fied him as one of the hardest men to pitch to they ever had encountered. 4 Persuaded to Change Mind. T WAS while playing with Dayton, Ohio, in 33 that Powell decided base ball wasn't his line. Discouraged and disgusted, he took the first exam- ination for a policeman’s job, telling his friends: “I'll be a good patrolman for the law, if I can't be one in base ball.” But his friends dissuaded him, sug- gested he try again, and Powell got & job next season with the Albany Senators. Since that day he has been a star of the first dimension. Manager Joe McCarthy liked him so well that he went against good base ball advice by swapping him for Chap- man, Back- cnckm: th Giant hm)—dimmy mpple. the slugging rookie freshman from Mon- treal. Jimmy kept the Giant hopes alive as long as they flickered with & vital four hits, good for a .300 batting average. Greatest surprise—The hitting by the pitchers. Foremost was Lefty “Goofy” Gomez, who drove in three runs with two hits—almost as many as he got all season. Gamest player—Col. William Terry, pllot of the Giants. Bill's knee hurt like & boil all week, but he stayed in from the first to last out. Greatest boner—It was pulled three times by Terry. Some one told him Bill Dickey had a bad throwing arm. Powell Now Is Mighty Happy He Didn’t Forsake Base Ball To Pound a Policeman’s Beat Terry sent three men down to steal second on the strength of that advice and Dickey nailed them all with feet to spare. Biggest disappointment—The same Mr. Dickey, one of the American League's greatest hitters. He got but three hits in 25 chances, & world series batting average of .125. Lightest hitter—Burgess Whitehead, Giant second baseman. “Whitey” got one single in 31 tries. His average was 048, Greatest catch—Ripple's rolling catch of Red Rolfe’s line drive in the second inning of the fifth game. Best infield play—Dick Bartell's running bare-hand pickup and toss- out of Frankie Oroum in the sixth same. Hardest hit hlk—flm Leiber's | 475-foot line drive to Joe Di Maggio for the final out in the second game. Worst jam—Hal Schumacher got in and out of that one in the third inning of the fifth game when he loaded the bases for “murderers’ row” and came out alive. ‘Wildest throw—Travis Jackson's peg to Terry in the third game. The ball almost landed in the box seats. Biggest heartache—Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons was the victim when he ruined a great four-hit pitching per- formance, the best of the series, by trying to spear Prank Crosetti's hard smash—one that ricocheted off his glove and lost the game. SHOT-TOSSING TRID ON LS. UL ELEVEN S. M. U. Boasts Exceptional Intersectional Record. Owens Grid Scout. TON ROUGE.—Three shot- A putters, all of whom placed in the 1936 Southeastern Con- ference track and field meet, are on the Loulsiana Btate foot ball team. ‘They are Bill Cross, 200-pound half- back; “Big Ben” Friend, 245-pound tackle, and Gordon (Lefty) Lester, 195-pound tackle. DALLAS, Tex.—The Southern Meth- odist Mustangs, who invadle New York for a game with Fordham Saturday, boast an enviable intersectional grid- iron record during the last 10 years. ‘The Mustangs have played 19 inter- sectional games, winning 10, tying 3 and losing 6, against such powerful outfits as the Army, Notre Dame, Navy, 8t. Mary's, Fordham, Stanford, Nebrasksa, Louisians State, Indiana and Syracuse. ETROIT.—It's rather an unusual coincidence, but both of the Uni- versity of Detroit's regular tackles— Dave Crotty and Joe Cieslak—come from East High School of Erle, Pa. Still another Erfe boy on the Titan team is John Krkoska, who alternates at left end with Roy Larson. WORCESTER, Mass—For the first time in the history of foot ball at Holy Cross, newspaper men are barred from practice as the Crusaders pre- pare for their important test with | Dartmouth Saturday. The Orusaders were undefeated last year and have won the first two en- counters this season. COLUHBU! Ohio.—Jesse Owens, Olympic sprint and broad jump champion, has turned foot ball scout for his alma mater—Ohio State. He saw Pittsburgh play West Virginia last week and has told the Buckeyes what he learned of the Panthers, who travel to Columbus to meet Francis Schmidt's powerful outfit Saturday. PHILADELPHIA. — Pennsylvania's gridders see & good omen in their 35-0 victory over Lafayette Saturday. It was their first opening game victory since 1933. The Quakers meet Yale at New Haven Saturday. DIAMOND CHAMPS PLAY LIKE CHUMPS Boners on Both Sides Mark Series—Scribes to Fete BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. late world series will go down in the books as producing two pennant-winning clubs ever were guilty of . . . (both sides were guilty York writers will pitch a party tonight for Casey Stengel, released from the choice over Ohio State and if you want a red-hot lorig shot, take a flyer cuse . . . Cleveland scouts report B-W is loaded for bear. Yankees Still Riled. THI 'Yanks scattered last night, still boiling at Umpire Cy Pfirman for not calling & third strike on Bill Terry Monday . . . What's all this about Casey Stengel joining the Yankee farm system? . . . Headlines say Columbia fears Monk Meyer of Army . . . Well, it had better . . . There is one kid who can go to town with a pigskin under his arm . . . Mel Ott bats left- handed, but hits all his tee shots from the right side. Despite the efforts of 30 North Carolina neighbors, who hollered their heads off, Burgess Whitehead (Phi Beta Kappa) emerged from the series with & batting average of exactly .048, or 1 hit in 31 times at bat . .. Jake Powell, who clouted at a .455 gait, was just 407 points ahead of Burgess for the six games .. . Cincinnati scribes say Chuck Dressen can man- age the Reds just as long as he wants to, if he doesn't get unreasonable about salary demands. Mine of Grid Talent. 'AKE a look at their rosters and you'll wonder what leading ocol- lege grid squads would do without good old Pennsylvania . . . One referee wanted to bet the other day that Allegheny County, Pa. contributes more college grid stars than any other county in the country . . . They say Connie Mack made so much dough with his last-place Athletics he is AT NEW ROOSEVELT AUTOMOBILE RACEWAY 400 miles—16 turns—12 straight= aways. 9 fersign and American drivers— One-Day Excursion COLUMBUS DAY Monday, October 12 $4.50 fouN ThiP to Raceway w:w-un,u b S ::l-v at II.HP."'.“ uu' u-u'-..h.m to'race- Race starts ot lirNa_cAm PENNSYLVAN(A RAILROAD Rice (Continued Prom Fourteenth Page.) by their first and seventh innings in the final game. In the first inning Moore singled, Bartell walked, Terry sacrificed, Leiber walked and Ott dou- bled. Here were two runs over, two on bese and only one out. That was all In the seventh inning Bartell opened with a double and Terry rip- ped off a single to center that slipped through Di Maggio's open legs. On this play Bartell scored and Terry should have loafed to third. But his bum underpinning just got him to second. 8o he had to use Leiber for a sacrifice bunt. Ott walked and Ripple walked, but Terry's pinch hitters at this vital spot, with Clyde Castleman rolling the Yankes back, couldn't hit an elephant with a ma- chine gun at four paces. Leslie fouled out and Mark Koenig took the three- strike count with the bases full with his bat still resting on his shoulder blade. Lucky to Win Twe Games. 'I‘Hl ‘wonder is that the Giants ever won two ball games from a team that in the course of s season would have beaten them by at least 15 games, or even more. Their one hope was Oarl Hubbell, s great pitcher, who ‘proved his place on opening day. But you can't take ome star pitcher and beat & far better ball club in six or seven games. Outside of Hubbell there are only one or two men on the Glants who could make the Yankes team. Man- cuso is good—but he couldn’t supplant Bill Dickey, who batted .362 during the season and drove in 106 runs. Bill Terry couldn’t step into Lou Gehrig's spot. Whitehead can out- field Tony Lazzeri, but he can’t hit with him. Bartell and Jackson cer- tainly wouldn’t be picked over Cro- settl and Roife. There isn't a Giant outfielder, barring Mel Oott, who could make the Yankee team. - Young Joe Di Mag- glo, who batted well over .300 in his first series, is a standout. But Sel- —— afraid to make out his income tax report ., . . That mean trumpeter in the Palace Theater Orchestra in Chi- cago is the son of George Barton, sports ed of the Minneapolis Tribune . Alan Gould, A. P. sports ed, cov- ered his eighty-sixth world series game yesterday . . . Hasn't missed one since 1922. kirk hit for 16 bases, and Jake Powell was 8 keg of dynamite. He batted 455 and he was one of the main actors from atart to finish. Giants Are Outciassed. Giants were outclassed in al- most every department of base ball—when you figure in 154 games. Hubbell and Ott could have made the Yankee roster—on a 154-game sched- ule—but who else? The Yankee pitch- ing wasn't any too hot—in .fact, it was moth-eaten a good part of the way—but who needs any pitching when you can average seven runs a game? Yankee pitchers might just as well be charged admission to the ball park. Their slugging mates give them six, seven, eight or nine runs to work on. They gave Gomez 18 runs in one game and they gave Gomez and Murphy 13 runs in an- other—where Murphy stopped the Giants with a thud you could hear all around Manhattan Island. When you look over this series in & cold, unbiased, analytical mood, the Giants never belonged in the same park with the Yankees. This doesn’t include Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott. Bartell in the closing game gave a brilliant exhibition on both offense and defense. He was one of the last stars, with & pair of bare- handed stops that lffted 40,000 fans to their feet. But Joe McCarthy, on & season’s run, wouldn't trade Cro- setti for Bartell. Never Had & Chance. OOKING it all over, the Giants deserve credit for winning two ball games from a club that had them outclassed in speed and power— the two main ingredients. And you can add all around to this list. The Giants fought to the limit—they gave all they had—they scrambled and scraped their way along on fine cour- age—but they never had a chance, barring one of those sporting miracles. They had ¢oo many bad legs and weak hitters around to beat a club that had youth, speed and power— a club good enough to win the Amer- ican League pennant by 10 games and lead the Giants or any other National League club for 1936 by the same margin. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alllance, Ine.) MITES PREFERRED. Most cities like to watch heavy- weight boxers in action, but Baltimare is partial to the little fellows, accord- ing to Paul Menton of the Baltimore Sun. Unusual Values Now on Display at Our USED TRUGK PARK mtmmumhfim-aumam.umumam many other genuine iruck bargains Dodge Chev: Chev. Chev. Chev. G. M. C. " i 1934 %-Ton Penel; tires. 1932 1%-Ton good tires. new peint job, good 1933 ‘/x-‘l‘u‘u Panel; new paint, new tires. 1936 1%-Ton Cab.and Chessis; ditien. exceliont con- 1934 1%-Ton Cab end Chessis; good peint, new tires. Cool Dump Body; nmew paint, Bedy; new tires end paint; G M.C. un:k Canopy Top; mew tires, good years, habits? It doesn't logical. Other species hAve their migrations and living habits %o well mapped that anglers almost can tell the date by their actions, and there is no reason to believe that blues are not as egually well set in their ways. Last year really good catches were made right up until the first week of October and fair catches continued long after that. They have been striking good st times when it was 80 cold that fishermen had to bundle up in mackinaws and do every- thing but chip frozen salt spray from their faces. Even excepting -last year—which every one admits was an unusually good year—blues in previous seasons have been oaught until it was too cold even for the most enthusisstic and hardy anglers. Granting that the best part of the season is behind us, past performances show that there are still blues to be caught in Chesapeake Bay at spots rea- sonably clese to Washington. For the last several weeks storms and no'easters have plled one upon the other so frequently that anglers have been hard put to find two good days in each week, and this, to & large extent, may be accountable for the few reports of blue catches. JFOLLOWING two days of steady, cold northeast winds and rain, s group of four Washington anglers went out last Thursday and brought back a string of blues which would have looked good at the height of the season. ‘The lJucky fishermen were Louis Kousen, James Kousen, M. L./ Bailey and Ralph Haigler. With nothing more in the way of bait than a supply of bloodworms, they went out off Cedar Point almost to the ship channel. There they found spot biting with $h§ usual rapidity when bloodworms * offered. The smaller ones they aci and eut up for bait, and dropped them over on the off chance that & blue or two might be Jurking around. They certainly were lurking around, and in two hours 40 had been pulled in and about an equal number lost. These fish weigi between 2 and 4 pounds each, were caught at & time of day generslly considered to be the poorest for any kind of fishing— between 1 and 3 o'cjock in. the after- noon. Fifteen troutialso were hauled over the side. AN INCREASING . supply of rock- fish is doing its best to make up for the disappearing blues. We have previously reported them n the Pa- If the cigar you wm Middles, mdmvtheyhnu-mm cality until the battleships started tar- &et practice. With the first boom of the heavy guns the blues sank and have not been heard from since. Now that the ships have finished, Skipper Spriggs believes that the blues will show up for awhile at least before departing until next season. Trout are being caught still fishing, but only an occasional eroaker is found. Those which are caught are very large and fat. 150-POUNDERS CHALLENGE. Two 150-pound foot ball teams are looking for opponents for Sunday. They are the Palace A. C., which may | be contacted at Potomac 3596, and the Delta Phi Sigma eleven, which is book- ing games at Decatur 3545. Open Play R_ule On East’s Grids BY ANDY KERR, Coach, Colgate University. AMILTON, N. Y., October 7.— The early season foot ball games in the East already show a decided tendency to the open game. ‘That the forward pass still pro- vides the balance of power between the offense and defense was well illustrated in Temple's win over Mississippi. Dartmouth, Princeton and Col- gate, among others, used the lateral pass type of open play repeatedly. 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Shake-Ups in Major Clubs Near : British Women Hockeyzsts Invade | IPLAY PCKED TEAM HERE ON SATURDAY {Game at Cathedral School Grounds Will Present Best in World. ASHINGTONIANS will have the chance to see the best women's amateur fleld hockey team in the world on Saturday when 11 young women from Great Britain play an all-star team of local hockeyists in a game at the National Cathedral School fleld, starting at 3 o’clock. Now in America to attend the con- ference of the International Federa- tion of Women's Hockey Associations which will be held in Philadelphia, starting October 20, the British lassies will test their skill against some of the country’s best teams before acting as delegates to the business sessions. It is the first time that the United States has played host to the inter- national conference to which will come delegates from Ireland. Scotland, Wales, Australia and South Africa. Called World's Best T THE last of the international | hockey tournaments, which are | held once every three years, the British | team which will play here Saturday was proclaimed the best in the world, a title which it still holds. ‘The team of 12, including the man- ager, arrived this morning, but was to go to Baltimore for a’contest with | the best players of Baltimore this afternoon. Returning tomorrow, the girls will be entertained at a tea in the afternoon at the Mount Vernon | Seminary, where they will formally be presented to local hockey leaders. After the game here on Saturday, the Britons will make & tour of vari- ous Southern states, playing in Rich- mond, Sweet Briar and other places before going to Philadelphia. It will be under the direction of Mildred M. Knott, who was on the last English hockey team 1o come to Amreica, in 1928. On Miss Knott's team will be found Phyllis Cariebach, Audrey Cat- tell, Marjorie E. Collins, Christina Goodman, Kathleen Harrison, Edith M. Higgins, Joan Law, Margaret J. Lodge, Margaret Mackintosh, Rose- mary Marriott and Phyllis Bryant, manager. All-Stars Formidable FOR the game with its English col- leagues the Washington Hockey | Association has named the 11 girls whom It considers the best exponents | of the sport in the city, including one | who was an all-America selection the 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR RECORD 'crowd is expected to attend the first of the world series at Bos be- tween the Red Sox and the, Brooklyn Dodgers. More . than 45,000 have applied for setts ta the opener, which will be payed' at Braves Field. Either Jack Coombs or Rube Marquard will pitch for Brooklyn against Dutch Leonard of the Sox. Georges Carpentier, heavy- weight champion of Europe, has | turned down all offers to fight, in America, claiming he was too. busy on the French battle front. He has refused 200,000 francs for two 22-round bouts in San Pran- cisco, but stated he would be | glad to come after the war. Chicago’s White Sox made it three straight over the Cubs in the city championship series in Chicago, Claude Willlamson shut- ting out the National Leaguers, 3-0. Joe Jackson's great batting was an important contribution to the victory. BIKE DEADLINE HERE. Entries for the second annual Nae tional Capital Bicycle Sweepstakes ta be staged Sunday in Potomac Park will close at midnight tonight. Until | that hour, Winfree Johnson is takirig applications at room 1052-A of the Navy Building. Ten different races are on the program, which is sance tioned by the Amateur Bicycle League of America. and Alice Deal Schools each having two members. The line-up, with the school affilia~ tion, follows: Left wing—Betty Craiz (American University). left inner, Ethel 8ham= berger (University of Maryland); cens ter forward, Lucy Sanborn (Madeira School) : right inner, Elizabeth Plimp- ton (Alice Deal Junior High): right wing, Mgry Sproul (Priends); left half- back, Ethel Shamer (unattached): center hafback, Jenny Turnbull (George Washington); right halfback, Doris Hannon (Hood College): left halfback, Elizabeth Cooper (Alice Deal); right fullback, Hazel Sayre (Madeira School); goal, Betty Sands (Marjorie Webster). Miss Turnbull, center halfback, is the All-America. Four girls have been named as re- serves, Miriam L. Spaulding and Betty Gilbert of Mount Vernon School and M. Bennett and Clara Tarbutt, unat- tached. Miss Spaulding. incidentally on the executive committee of the United States Field Hockey Association while Jean Pearson, also of Mount Vernoft Seminary, is one of the association’ national umpires. 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