Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1936, Page 16

Appling Poor Hitter at QOutiset| Carrrav WEAKNESS AT BAT Vaughan, With “Only” .332| Mark, a More Valuable Shortstop, However. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. UKE APPLING, when asked to explain his idea of the reason I why he won the American League batting crown, ex- pressed the same opinion as Arky Vaughan in 1935. Appling was frank enough to admit that luck plays an important part in the matter. A foot one way or the other, and what ap- pears like a sure out goes for a safe blow. Appling has been in the majors six years. Graduating from Ogle- thorpe University in 1930, he took up with the Atlante club and showed sufficient ability to make the jump to the Chicago White Sox in one sea- son. His job was none too secure because of a tendency to be weak with the stick. During the 1935 campaign, when Jimmy Dykes surprised the base ball world by lifting his White Sox into fifth place, Luke made amends by smacking the ball at a .306 clip to assure him a regular place in the 1936 line-up. e Not Always in Game. DYKES was said to have the worst outfield in the majors when the season started. His infield was none too hot, as shown by the fact he took over Tony Plet to play second after ‘Tony had outlived his usefulness in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. At various times throughout the sea- son Jack Hayes filled in for Appling, end the fct that he came through as well as he did proves the honesty of Luke's assertion that he had no desire to take all the credit in be- coming the first shortstop to win the American League batting crown. Appling’s pre-season expectations were unlike those shared by Arky Vaughan. Winner of the 1935 Na- tional League batting crown with an average which threatened to wind up at the 400 mark, Vaughan was looked upon as almost a cinch to repeat. An uncanny knack of pulling the ball on a line into left field had stamped him one of the most dangerous bat- ters in the league. Arky was no sucker for bad balls, and pitchers had to put it over the plate to get the Pittsburgher to go for it. Hits 'Em Where They Are. PUT Vaughan hit them directly into the hands of waiting receiv- ers this year. Arky hit as often and as hard as ever for several months and saw his batting average dwindle as low as .250. During the last six ‘weeks of the season the hustling Pirate infielder regained the knack of hit- ting them out of reach of the enemy and finished up the season with a respectable .336 average. Comparison of the rival shertstops does not give Appling the edge because his batting mark was higher than Vaughan's. The price the latter would command in the open market would be a good deal higher. - Weighing opinion from unbiased eources, Vaughan gets the call over Appling. PORTS. JAN BdARI( S8 % ¥ _an 2 TURE, v al BY ROBERT B PHILLIPS, Jr. 'OUNG Mr. William B Streett of Warrenton once was one I of the most famous and best gentleman jockeys.in Amer- ica. Today he is a very competent trainer of steeplechase horses, a keen fox hunting man, and as a sort of sideline, hunt racing reporter for the Sportsman. Mr. Streett's his- tory and qualifications being what they are in other fields it is rather startling to find him writing as fol- lows in the current issue of the maga- zine which pays money for his valu- able observations: “Really the best job Rod did that day was to almost jump (sic) on five or six photographers at the fence just below the stands. He had men with cameras running every which way. It might do those fellows good to have a couple of bumps some time because they've given plenty of jocks bumps by popping up right in front of fences to take pictures, thereby scaring the horses and making them fall down. Last Spring at Rockaway Rough Diamond threw his rider right into a photographer’s lap; you never saw such a surprised looking man in your life, but that time he had to jump the wing to do it and that's hardly worth while.” Maybe several years of being bumped around in steeplechase falls will develop that sort of sense of humor in a man, but I wonder if Streett has considered exactly how the photographers feel about the whole business. Oddly enough, not one in ten thou- sand of them is panting to go to a steeplechase meet and pop up in front of fences. Most of them feel that the hunt race is a silly sport, conducted for the benefit of a select and some- times snobbish crowd, that they prob- ably will be received with coldest courtesy, if any, while trying to make pictures at the meets. Nevertheless, they have jobs to do, and they try to do them in a way that will produce the best pictures. A good picture, as any person famil- iar with public reaction knows, is worth 10,000 words. Ergo, good pic- tures help to build up popular interest in race meetings, and however much the boys like to blow off about the sport of the thing and all that, there will be few big purses at hunt races unless there also are big crowds. - Hurting Own Business, Tmmnn it would seem that Mr. Streett, who makes a goodly portion of his living from the winnings of his and other people’s horses, is seeking to deliver a kick in the teeth to a group of men who are doing their best to help his business get along. Not, as I say, because they care, but more or less out of professional pride. No one ever takes these men aside before a meeting and makes sugges- tions to them about the best places to get pictures on the course, or urges them to be careful as possible not to interfere with the fair running of the race. They are herded onto the grounds and left to their own devices, and if their skill and ingenuity result in a six-column layout of pix on the sports page the next day they never hear a word of thanksfor that either— not from the racing management, Purthermore, it probably is stretch- ing a point to say that horses accus- BARKS 4o DOGDOM UCH of the pleasure of the dog show to the true addict comes from the “bull ses- sions,” or post-mortems, which follow the show. It is in these ses- &ions that the success or failure of the show and the show-giving club finally is settled. And it was at a series of such sessions that the Alexandria show of October 17 was judged and pro- nounced good. Both the show and the club were handcapped severely by the lack of a suitable building, but the very faults of the locale were respon- sible in some-measure for the spice of the show. Everybody was amused at the strange fruit which all the trees in the neighborhood suddenly sprouted. Oaks, maples, willows and sundry others which surround the lawn on which some of the larger breeds were judged all sprouted grinning pickaninny heads. A visit to the show grounds on the morning after the show, and before the tents and benching had been removed, disclosed the whole neighborhood gang, complete with every mongrel in the neighbor- hood, busily engaged in playing dog show. It is of such stuff that dog fanciers are made. The obedience test classes al- ‘ways draw a good audience, and at this show, where the entry was topped by the breed that is most interested in obedience tests, the German shepherd, the interest in this class was most intense. . Dr. willlam E. Compton’s Jill of Garasstana gave a flawless perform- ance and netted a neat 100 per cent in this, her first test since the new A. K. C. rules and degrees were in- augurated. But as if to prove that intelligence and trainability are not the prerogative of any one breed, sec- ond place in the class of 13 was taken by a Chesapeake Bay retriever, Bay Bum, owned by Mrs. A. W. Owens, jr., ©of Baltimore. ing. As Nan is only 8 months that is a record of which botl 2§ WER 1B it i 1o, g2 Promising puppies and show-type grown dogs continue to be stolen from the suburbs of all large cities. The lost and found columns of all city mewspapers abound in cries for pedi- greed dogs that are lost, strayed or stolen, and too often they are stolen. Dr. R. P. Rogers of Greenwich, N. Y., has been putting much constructive thought on the subject and has drawn up a set of laws of dog registration which, if adopted and enforced, doubt- lessly would aid in apprehending many dog thieves. However, dog thieves often operate in interstate, and some- times international, gangs. Therefore, to be truly effective, uniform laws would have to be adopted in all States. Dr. Rogers would be glad to hear from anybody who has given this problem any thought, and can make suggestions to aid in coding a set of usable, non-cumbersome laws. Tlml! well-known, American, woman fanciers recently traveled to London to judge at the big English Kennel Club classic. Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, the former Genevieve Rocke- feller, who yearly sponsors the great Morris and Essex show in this country, Chows, judged Dalmations. And Mrs, Lewis Roessler of Merriedip fame, whose specialty is Old English sheep- ¢ i gl i i ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. tomed to running year after year over courses where scores of people cluster around the fences or along the rails will for some reason suddenly take fright at the sight of a photographer and fall down in a frenzy of fear. I have seen several prominent sportsmen and race officials whose mugs were mo prettier than the front end of a Graflex camera, and horses went right on looking at them without do- ing a single somersault. It also is exceedingly doubtful that “it might do those fellows good to have a couple of bumps some time.” I know of only one case of & man who got jumped on while taking horse pic- tures and holding a Graflex to his face. Both his eyes were gouged out by the camera. It did him no good at all. A man falling off or with a horse has 10 times better chance than a man hging jumped or fallen upon, as the Sportsman’s ace reporter knows. Two Sides to Affair. DO NOT intend this as & personal attack upon Mr. Streett, as he evi- dently was being facetious or plain thoughtless in a rather disagreeable way. Mr. Streett knows what the steeplechase jocks have to contend with and he sympathizes with them, in this instance a trifie more than they need it. In newspaper offices we learn a good deal about the trials and tribulations of photographers. Also of the courage they display to get pictures which, fundamentally, mean little or nothing to them, and I think Bill Streett has overlooked their side of the question entirely. He and every hunt race official in America ought to think that over a bit. Altogether, it was a peculiar com- mentary, embodied in an article il- lustrated by five pictures, of which the largest was proudly captioned, “A Double Spill at the Adjacent Hunts Meeting.” That was the place where the horse Rod did such good work against those enemies of sport—the photographers. BY BILL DISMER, JR. STOR CLARKE was hoping to- A day that most of the head- pin splits were out of his sys- tem for his 20-game clash with Meyer Jacobson, Baltimore star, at Convention Hall, Saturday, follow- ing a night full of the disheartening breaks at Arcadia. But despite his constently going through the middle, Clarke contrived to shoot a creditable 363 to lead his Bureau of Investigation quint to a three-game sweep over National Cap- ital Parks, defending champions of the Federal League. The rout shoved the G-Men two games out in front, a sthe runner-up Veterans' Administration, lost one game to Government Printing Office. Charley Stephenson, with top indi- vidual set of the night, a bang-up 387, paved the way for United States Senate rollers to hang the bee on P. W. A. twice, which deadlocked the two clubs for third place. Navy De- partment moves several notches up the ladder by claiming a forfeit from Dis- trict Building, which will be replaced by a new team next week. Carroll Daly, Navy's redoubtable veteran, shot 367 to hold an even 123 average, the second highest in the crack govern- mental loop. Labor rollers grabbed two tilts from Civil Service, with George Vail the feature pin-toppler with a string of 147 and set of 361. Willlams was high for the losers with 330. The big game of the night, 155, went to Freddie Moore, who saved War Department from a washout at the hands of the I. B. E. W., No. 121, boys, as Roger (Never Gets a Flyback) Brust pounced on the maples for 142 and 382 to lead the wining charge of the Electricians in the first and last skirmishes, that totaled 580 and 583. Investigation’s 620 was top team game, with Veterans’ Administration hanging up 607. Although topping every club in the loop, G. P. O. is just holding its head above water to a .500 winning percentage. SO)(I heavy pin rattling developed in the Navy Department League when almost simultaneously Hal Phil- DEAN FINDING LIFE BOWL OF WORRIES Wife Takes Car, Taxes, Golf Annoy, but Diz Leaves Base Ball to Rickey. BY the Associated Press. RADENTON, Fla., October 27.— Life is just a bowl of worries for Jerome Herman Dean, but he’s gradually getting bhis affairs in hand, he confided today. Chief problem that confronted the St. Louis Cardinals’ star right-hand pitcher when he arrived here to spend the Winter revolved around his canary- colored convertible sedan. The problem was that Mrs. Dean wanted the car herself. Ol Diz solved that one by buying himself a light truck that he could bat around Bradenton in at nearly the same speed his big yellow car will go. Mrs. Dean didn’t care about driving the truck, so Dizzy. has that for his exclusive use. Uncle Sam Inquisitive, TH!:N there was a little matter about an income tax return. The Gov- ernment wanted more information than Dean had put down about certaia exemptions he claimed. A lawyer fixed that up. But just when it looked like clear sailing, Dizzy went up to Sarasota to play golf and found the sums at the end of the round were in the 90's, instead of the lower 80's the way thay used to be. So he fixed that up by junking his old bag of clubs and buying himself & whole new outfit. He needed the truck then to carry them—there even were cleeks and baffies and tools like that. Now there’s only one worry left, but one’s on Branch Rickey, his boss— Dizzy says he's not going to Daytona Beach, where the Cards train next Spring. He's going to stay right here in Bradenton, where he has a home— also canary-colored. Has Own Training Plans. BUT how will you get your arm in shape?” a fan inquired. “Chuck rocks at the signboards, I guess.” “How about batting practice?” “Pitchers don't need any.” “And you'll be in shape to join the team when it leaves for the North?” “I'm always in shape, but I probably won’t join them. I won’t have my con- tract signed by then.” 76/ R. F. C. leads the Ladies’ Federal League by two games, Agriculture No. 2 and Treasury No. 1 being tied for second. Bob Braden's second big night in & Tow is the reason why, the Sunday school team continues to lead the Central Presbyterian Intrachurch League with a 1.000 percentage for two matches. As he did last week, Braden shot the high set of the night, a 320, to turn back Les Femmes in all three games. Had it not been for Elzie Moyer's 130, the contending Pitzer Class would have lost all three games to the C. E.-League combination which rallied from the Sunday school rout of a week ago to advance to within one game of second place. Moyer's work saved the middle game for the Pitzers. GRIDDERS WANTED Teams in the 135-pound class de- sirous of joining a new foot ball league are asked to attend a meeting at police precinct No. 5 on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. The league has five teams—Centennials, Virginia avenue, Petworth and precincts Nos. 5 and 11. TAKOMAS BOOKING. A game for Sunday is wanted by the Takoma Fire Department eleven. Call Adams 4821 between 6 and 7 o'clock. FLOOR FOR BASKETERS. Practice periods for basket ball practice are available {n the Langley Junior High School gym, First and T streets northeast. Reservations can be made by calling North 3173. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR REAL!ZING that it has an ex- ceptional coach, the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh has re-signed Glenn (Pop) Warner for another four-year term. Although Ware ner’s contract does not expire un- til the end of the 1917 season, his new one will keep him at his pres- ANY #% AUTO GLASS PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE Taronto & Weasman, Inc. 1321 L St. N.W, NA. 2966 C., Tuesday, October 27, WRC 950k | WMAL 630k | WOL 1310k WISV 1460k | AFTERNOON PROGRAMS PM. 12:00 12:15 12:30 Red River Valley Days e Dan Harding's Wife Happy Jack 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936. (Copyright, 1936.) Salon Music News—Music s Rapio PROGRaAMS. Luncheon Concert. Church of the Air Eastern Standard Time. PM. The Gumps 12:00 Happiness Talks 12:15 Romance of Helen Trent | 12:30 Rich Man's Darling 12:45 John and Norma. Dorothy Mayfield Newark Orchestra. Palmer House Orchestra. 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