Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1937, Page 13

@he Foening Stap Spofls Sub-Par Punch Hinders Griffs, Sharing in Yank Starte & Puny Attack Disappoints Record Gathering. BOY,OH BOY, WE'VE HAD Btaff Correspondent of The Star. T'GREASE TH' EW YORK, April 20.—The one TURNSTILES FIVE TIMES!- granted as an asset of the Na- | tionals—plate power—today | As far as Bucky Harris can recall, | the only consistent power at the plate dinner table. In the last two weeks, | except for a notable slugging bee in | exhibition games. They again failed to hit yesterday game to the A’s, 4 to 3. PFurthermore, | it is to be doubted whether they will | series here with the Yanks, what with Gomez, Pearson and a fair aggregation. action. Nobody seems to know just what is | line-up—Chapman, Lewis, Kubhel, Simmons, Stone, Travis, Myer and plenty. Each is recognized as a peren- nial 300 hitter. And yet the club Leave 12 Runners Stranded. MAYBE 1 the Nats never was better illus- SHOULD CROOg trated than yesterday, when 32,000 A LITTLE WHIL to watch the opener. Lefty Ed Smita SOUND MOVIES and Almon Williams, rookie Athletic . GOW'! Cascarella Hurls Well, but | BY FRANCIS E. STAN, item which was taken for looms as their Achilles heel. this Spring has been shown at the | Baltimore, the Griffs haven't hit in | and lost the opening American League | do much hitting during a three-game | of other New York pitchers primed for the trouble. Right down the regular | Hogan—there appears to be power in isn't getting runs. HE current offensive weakness of | customers jammed Griffith Stadium THEY GOT THEM pitchers, gave up 11 bases on balls during the course of the 10-inning battle. The A’s infield helped with an error and Catcher Earl Brucker was guilty of several miscues in judgment. Yet the Nats scored only three runs and two of these were direct gifts, inasmuch as Smith walked them across while the bases were filled. Pitching was supposed to be the ‘Washington's big question mark. Yet t ave been getting plenty of good hurling, including that rendered by Joe Cascarella yesterday in the Capi- tal. Defensively the club is as sound as its most optimistic followers imagined. But at bat it has been soft prey. Twelve base runners were left on | the paths in the course of yesterday's | VCTOR VANTS 18 & « Bere, opening-day crowd in Washington base ball history. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, in front of whom the Na- | tionals never before had lost, was powerless to bring one or two of these runners home. As a result the Griffs today are behind the 8-ball, tem- | porarily, and Roosevelt's victory spell has been broken. and Child, Would Get Off Relief Rolls. Tr: ’ Bat Is Missed. T WAS a surprisingly good Phila- delphia team which defeated the | Young Canadian, With Wife! but the A's are not the Yanks any stretch of imagination, and only improved hitting seems capable of getting the Washington firm out of here with the series edge. The Yanks, to all outward appear- ances, still are the same old maulers. Joe Di Maggio is out, but the club still refains more than ordinary power and definitely looms, from start to finish, as the team to beat. Cecil Travis is to be rushed back into the line-up as soon as possible, maybe today. Harris held him out of | By the Associated Press OSTON, April 20.—If cheers | B could drown financial wor- ries and a laurel wreath and a silver trophy defy the hunger that threatens his family, jobless ‘Walter Young, lanky 24-year-old win- ner of the fortieth Boston A. A. mara- thon, would be superlatively happy today. But the transitory rewards of vic- tory, although sweet, are far from adequate and he hopes that his proud townsmen of Verdun, Quebec, will give the opener, except as a pinch-hitter, | him & chance to get off the relief rolls and his absence was noticed. Bluege did a superb fielding job in his place, but Travis, after all, has been the only consistent National at the | plate all Spring and his bat was needed. His spike wound in the left knee, sustained last Saturday, is not healed. ‘With any fielding motion he is likely to reopen the injury. But if Cece says the word he will bounce back into the game. Brucker Hero in 4-3 Win, FOR three innings yesterday it was * & joke game. As soon as the presidential ball-tossing act was com- pleted and the flag had been raised to the strains of “The Star Spangled Bannner,” it seemed a question of which club would crack wide open first. The Griffs opened with the jitters and the A's, capitalizing on an error of judgment by Stone and an error | afield by Myer, held a 2-0 lead in| the second. Then the A's took a turn at kicking the ball around and the Washingtons cut the score to 2-1 in their half of the second frame. In the third Bob Johnson hit a home run with nobody on, but the PHILADELPH Nats scored twice in their half, tying | B - the score at 3-3. This it remained until the tenth, when Brucker threw aside the mantle of “goat” and won himself a halo. Brucker it was who missed a pop by Stone in the second, giving Johnny another chance. Stone then produced a triple and a run. Brucker it was who collided with Dean, as he was to catch a pop, and this boner aided in the two runs Washington €ot in the third. But Brucker it was who, with two out in the tenth, doubled to center and scored Johnson with the winning |10, run. The gentleman seems quite as adept at playing hero as at acting the bum. Meanwhile, as far as hitting 8oes, the Nats have yet to prove they Ossie | | after four years and become a police- | man. “A job is what I want most,” said Young after he had beaten Arling- ton’s great Johnny Kelley, the 1935 | winner and the outstanding favorite. Would Be Policeman. “'THE Verdun citizens financed my trip here for this race and prom- ised they would provide me with work if I won,” he explained. “I haven't had a job since I got married, about four years ago, but I have passed the police examinations and I hope I can get a speedy appointment. My wife and 3-year-old son ocan't eat cheers, laurel wreaths or silver cups.” ‘Young won the Boston in his third attempt. He and Kelley ran side by side until 3 miles from the finish line of the 26-mile course the Canadian unleashed a mighty spurt that en- abled him to pick up almost five min- utes in less than 3 miles. Leslie Pawson who set the course record of 2:31.0135 in 1933, never threatened and finished third. . Walkatho AB. N sarentomn ssonen Smoo~Neod0W oucirRNoRY HowuaSuner0 BoRRNODSDIOM oosmeaossoM Smith. p. Williams, p. Totals WASHINGTON., P | SoususaDRg S SouswsmeoooR @ ss0ssmacs020M K 1Travis Totals *Ran for Hogan in eighth. +Batted for Cascarella in tenth. Philadelphia 021 000 000 1—4 Washington 012 000 000 0—3 Runs batted in—Cissell. Bluege. Johnson, Stone. Myer. Brucker. Two-base hits— Cisseli. Pinney. Brucker. Three-base hit— Stone.” Home run—Johnson. len_bases —Chapman, Bluege. Double plays—Hogan to Bluege. ‘Williams to Dean, Cascarella (unassisted). Left on bases—Philadeiphia. ; Wash| . First base on @ - . 6. Struc) Oascarells. 3: by Williams, 4. Hi Smith. 3 in 2% innings; off Williams. 4 in 7% inni . Winning pitcher—Wiliiams. Losing _pitcher—Onscarells. Umj § , can play the part of heroes, res— Messrs. Dinneen, Moriarty and McGowan. Time—2:45. WASHINGTON, D. C, CLOSE-UP OF THE TOSS-OUT. T4 TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937. ¥ A—13 THAT'S ONE THING HE Y DONTCHA THINK GRIFF OUGHTA CONTRIBUTE To FUND FER ALL THIS STUFF ONE OF OUR BOYs,KIN WE SUE TH'U.S. GOV'MINT, FRANKIE 2 AW, HE AIN PUTTIN'NUTTIN i ON (T, MIKE! OUR GUYs 1S TOUGH ANYWAY !/, NS\ YASSUH,JIM, AN’ FURNISH — ME A RIDE 7> (W OUT To THET ,&0 THAR FLAG 2 € PoLE Too! ¥ OH,FLUB DUB, FRANKLIN, THIS 1S A BALL GAME- NOT A “FIRESIDE LAK T'GIT ‘AT BAWL T'GIVE LIL JUNIOR MYER Special Dispatch to The Star. no intruder. an opening game. grinned. walked over. games he won during the course of his big-league career. They were glad, before the game, to find somebody who could take their minds off the affair. And Sam’l could do that. He walked over to the scales and weighed in at 178. “Four pounds over my pitchin' weight,” I'll have to do something about that.” “Could Help Some Club.” AD SAM, by his own admission, is though there are those who swear he was 42 or 43 as far back as 10 years ago. According to most of the Nats, he was pitching professionally since Lincoln’s Gettysburg address and some of them suggested he still could get by. “Sure I could,” modestly admitted the Woodsfield, Ohio, farmer. “I could help some team right now. Why, by gosh, when Chicago let me go I had won four games in a row and I never pitched a better game in my life than one day when I beat Detroit in 1935.” Somebody said something about finishing in the minors. “Hell, no,” answered Sam. “I wouldn't pitch in the miners for & big league salary.” “I believe you could help some club, t00,” said Al Simmons. “I could never understand why Detroit didn't grab you last year when the Gen. (Crowder) called it quits. Shucks, you had more stuff than Crowder. I can’t under- stand base ball. Look at the bums they keep in the league and look at some of the guys who aren’t wanted.” “Well, they all figger I'm 43,” ex- plained Sad Sam sadly. “None of the fellows who do the hiring think of the fact that my arm’s in great shape and that it ain't how old you are as much as it is how old you feel.” Hug Said “Old Man.” JOHNNY STONE butted in. “Lissen, Pond,” he said, “10 years ago I heard you say at the end of a season, ‘Well, Jack, you ain’t gonna hit me no more. This is my last year’ And you allus came back the next Spring and stayed the next Fall to say the same thing. Now you're talking about pitch- ing some more.” “Well, there’s some pretty old guys still hanging around,” said Sam. “I enly spent 23 years in base ball. Losk arcund you—" “Yeah,” spoke up Ben‘nnpmln. "POPPING. OF F i Sad Sam, the Melancholy Man. EW YORK, April 20.—You were sitting in the Nationals’ dressing room underneath Griffith Stadium, waiting for something to happen. Then, o and behold, a man with a sad face came walking into the room. He sniffed at the odor of perspiration, liniment and leather gloves for a moment and he looked as if he liked it. Joe Kuhel “Hello, Pond,” he said, and Ossie Bluege wrung the man's hand and said, “Good gosh, aren't’ you dead yet?" You could tell that Samuel Pond Jones loved it. Jones, of course. He did a stretch with the Washingtons a few years ago and passed on to the White Sox, who released him at the end of 1935. Sam, they called him, and if you ever4: You remember Sam Sad stopped to look up his record, you | would be amazed at the number of | He did nothing to hurt the Na- | tionals yesterday when he turned up.' he said. ! pressing the 45-year mark, al-| “you're right, Pond. I remember back in 1928, when I was a kid third base- man with the Yanks. One day Hug- gins said to me: ‘Lissen, punk, you wanta learn how to play third? watch that old man out there’ I looked ‘out there’ and he was pointing to Ossie Bluege. ‘Old man’ he called ya. Ossie. Haw, haw!” Bucky Harris laughed with the rest. “Can you still throw that buggy-whip curve, Sam?” he wanted to know. “Gosh, I'll never forget one day in ‘Washington when you were pitching for the Yanks. The game was tied, the winning run was on base, and I was at bat. You threw me that thing and I just stuck out my bat. I didn't expect to hit, but the ball went sailing out to center for & double and we won the ball game. He Left With Regrets. "I REMEMBER you caught hell for throwing it,” continued Bucky. “Didn’t Hug say something about your being dumb for letting a punk hitter like me break up a game?” Sad Sam grinned and started to say something in the same spirit. But then a club house boy stuck his head in the dressing room and yelled, “The A’s are hitting their last round. Git hustling.” There was & sudden tighten- ing of jaws. The air of gay eamaraderie was gone. Harris, tight-lipped, ocalled his club teo order and announced a pre- game, pre-season meeting. Sad Sam slipped off the trunk on which he was sitting and started for the door. After all he was out of base ball and had no business in a meet- ing of ball players. You thought, as you followed Sam out, that he wanted to stay very much, though, and pull on a uniform. “I could help some team right now,” he had said, and you felt he included ‘Washington in his statement. Nor were you sure he was wrong. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Morris Arnovich and Bucky Wal- trs, Phillies—Arnovich hit eleventh- inning homer to beat Bees in first game; Walters pitched four-hit shutout for 1-0 victory in second. and Earle Brucker, Athletics—Williams held Benators to four hits in 7} in- drove Well, | He was, you decided, | There was something familiar about that face. “Well, I'll be——!” yelped Mike Martin, when he caught sight of the stranger. “I knew nothing could keep you away from C'mere, lemme look at ya.” Bucky Harris looked up from his job of writing the batting order and “Well, this IS good luck for us. How are you, Sam?" | r Today —By JIM BERRYMAN. MY FRANs! 1 TAKE GREAT PLEASURE IN ToSSING ONE =« QY SAY, THEM N YANKS WOULD THIS ACT ON UP THERE! \ NATS PICKED OVER SENATORS BY VOIE {Only Two A. L. Teams Keep ! | Original Nicknames—How Others Resulted. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 20.—Thousands of | fans will attend opening major league | base ball games today, but few will be | able to tell where their favorite teams | got their nicknames. In the American League but two teams—8t. Louis and Philadelphia— retain the names they had when they entered the circuit. The St. Louis club began as the Browns and the Browns they remain. Last year fans in that city voted an| | emphatic “no” to a proposal to change | the team’s name. The club was named | ! after a crack St. Louis American Asso- | ciation seam of the late 80s. | Athletics and Philadelphia have gone hand in hand since the dawn of base ball. At one time there were three base ball clubs in that city, all Ath-| letics. Live “White Elephants.” ’I‘HE late John McGraw is responsi- ble for the team’s white elephant | insignia with his comment iny 1902 that Ben Shibe, the owner, “had a white elephant on his hands” But| that year the club won its first pen- nant. Charley Comiskey brought his St. Paul team to his home city, Chicago, in 1900 as an American League unit. The name White Stockings, formerly used by the National League team, was revived by two Windy City base ball writers, Carl Green and Irving E. Sanborn, and soon shortened to White Sox. Boston's Red Sox owe their name to a newspaper man. When the club was formed in 1901 it was known as the Somersets, after Charles W. Somers, the owner. Later names included Puritans and Plym- outh Rocks. Grabs Discarded Red Sex. N 1907 Fred Tenney, manager of the Boston Nationals, announced he intended to abandon the club’s tra- ditional red stockings to reduce the danger of dye infection. Next day John I. Taylor, president of the American League club, said, “I'll grab the color for my team and call them the Red Sox.” He did. An official vote of fans decided upon the name Nationals as against Senators for Washington. But in many cities the team is still known as the Senators. Also frequently used are the names Griffs, after Owner Clark Griffith, and Nats. Another club which owes its name to base ball scribes is the New York Yankees. Originally the club was known as the Highlanders: First, because it played at Washington Heights, and, second, because the name of the first president, James Gordon, suggested the famous British regiment, the Gordon Highlanders. Needed Yankees for Short. UT Mark Roth, s New York Globe base ball writer, now the club's road secretary, and T Crane, the ‘N'NEWSOM OR. LANAHAN RIG”T, YEAH, AL THA'S wHY ats Even Lose Roosevelt ‘Luck’ ‘A S far as the Washington ball club is concerned. Franklin D. Roosevelt's status as the “luckiest President” is in doubt today. Until yesterday, when the Griffs bowed in the American League opener by a 4-3 count, Rocsevelt had never seen a Washington team beaten. In 1917. as Assistant Sec- HOW MUCH HE'D SIGN FER T'DO THIS ONCE A WEEK ? "MAJOR CAVPAIGHS GETINFULL SWING More Than 200,000 Are Ex- pected at Games, With New " York Leading Turn Out. | | By the Associated Press 1 WONDER. riladelphia teams, NEW YORK, April 20.—The as- unanimously chosen 1ing spectacle of the two | cellar berths, lead the r leagues anything today as t for the “real” openin liminaries at Wa: | Given good base ball weal | around, an outpouring of morc 1200,000 fans was a cities to top off around 67,000 New York, with all three metropo | tan teams performing w | of the greater city mous opening day for the biggest ¢ least 000 were expected at the Yankee | Stadium to see the world champions | open against Washington's Nationa | vesterday's 4-3 victims of the Phi | delphia Athletics. Some were looked for at Brook Field to see Burleigh Grime: | Dodgers against ti the Giants, for the first yesterday's total of At 50.- Tares AN WASTIN', MAN, QUIT STALLIN OR I'LL SEND YUH T TH' SHOWERS! 30,000 more land Indian | hooked up Louis in « openers. Manager Frank Francis the St. Louis Cardinals his loquacious star start the gas house gar at Cincin- nati, where a capacity 34,000 was expected. A p division prospects, Pittsburgh and the Cubs, met in Chicago. The Philles, with Manager Jimmy Wilson posing as the most contented man in base ball a! he Boston Bees, 2 Frisch of called 1 Dizzy Dean {and 1 to 0 in yesterday bill at Boston, drew a day off with their opponents. Two of the were on the side rather notable casua | out both leagues. | Red Sox first basen from sinus trouble and Joe Di Ma Yankee center fielder, tion for removal of adenoids. Some Worries for Tigers. NiANAGER MICKEY COCHRANE of Detroit had a few worries over the illnesses of Pitchers Tommy Bridges and Schoolboy Rowe, but was consoled by the knowledge of his own good health and by the return of Hank Greenberg to job, as well as the day of hard-hitting Babe Herm: The Cubs also were two men sh the mound departmen and Curt Davis both | sore arms. Third of the NEW SON, NEW COACH GIVE LAYDEN BIG DAY Notre Dame Mentor Caps It All by Scurrying to Chicago for Radio Address. , By the Associated Press QOUTH BEND, Ind, April 20—Al together it was a pretty busy day for Elmer Layden, Notre Dame’s lean black-haired athletic director and head foot ball coach. In the midst of Spring training | practice, Mrs. Layden, at St. eph's Hospital, presented him with a | new baeckfleld prospect, a T'z-pound baby son, third child born to the Laydens. Anxious about the condition of Mrs. Layden and the baby, Layden divided his time yesterday between the hoe- pital and the foot ball fleld. Then, in the afternoon, Joe Benda Notre Dame’s new end coach. arrived from Minnesota to take up his new | duties. He succeeds the late Johnny retary of the Navy, Roosevelt saw a National club win the opening game. When he became President he not only watched the Griffs win the 1933 opener, but witnessed their only victory in the world series with the Giants that year. In 1934 the Nats lost but Roose- velt was called from the park in the fifth inning and did not see the defeat In 1935 and 1936 the Washingtons won. Yesterday was a different story. F. D. remained until the bitter end, but even his victory spell wasn't sufficient. F.E B | newspaper | O'Brien, who was killed in an auto accident at Chicago recently. In between times, Layden posed for photographs with Benda and members of the squad Then, after practice, he left Chicago to speak during a broadcast. New York Journal's base ball writer, decided they needed a shorter name They came up with “Yankees.” Detroit's fust team played in the National League and later in the In- ternational League as the Wolverines. About 1898 or '99, Philip J. Reid, a man, pinned the present name, Tigers, on the club, and George | for radio Jos- | | who wasn't greatly missed | remained as the No. 1 ho: {only players unsigned on the open- ing day. | In contrast to these various miss= |ing links in the base ball machines, Lou Gehrig, the indestructible Yankee, turned up with a painful injury of a finger on his right hand and every | intention of playing in his 1809th | consecutive game in spite of it. outs—the | Phils Sure of Lead. UNDER these conditions, virtually the only certainty was that the Ph n atop the Na- tional League for at least one more day. They won eir first ¢ t vesterday when Morris Arnovi played with Hazleton. Pa last season, hit a home run in‘the eleventh. Sylvester Johnson limited the Bees to four nits in eight innings of this contest, while both his successor, Bucky Walters, and Danny McFayden Stallings, manager at the time, said it was because of the stripped stock- ings he designed. Cleveland has been known as the Indians since 1915. Originally in the National League, the club was called the Spiders, later the Wanderers, then the Naps, when the great Napoleon Lajoie was manager, and for a short time the Molly Maguires. AQUA VELVA FOR AFTER SHAVING—Williaiis | NOT GREASY famous after-shaving preparation—closes ekin pores—fights off pimples, sore _— KIN turned in four-hitters in the after- LEAGUE SEE G TEAM. Inmn. Errors by Tony Cuccinello and Another team is desired by the | Rabbit Warstler gave the Phils their | 8ports Center Government Base Ball | run. League. Interested teams should com- municate with Mike Sklar at District \ 299, extension 775, between 9 and 4 | 1DA’'S NINE WINS AGAIN. o'clock for further information. Sklar | I#a’s Department Store base ball may be reached at Randolph 2855 in | team won another game when it wale the evenings. | loped the Brooklyn A. 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